Descendants of
Alexander Watson and Elizabeth Bain
Roy C. Leggitt
184 Rainbow Drive #8448
Livingston, TX 77399
(916) 799.2783 [email protected]
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1. Alexander Watson was born of Peterhead, Aberdeen, Scotland.
General Notes: Peterhead is a relatively small village about 35 miles north of Aberdeen on the eastern
shore of northern Scotland. The parish records are well documented in various LDS microfilms.
The LDS International Genealogical Index has an entry of the marriage of Alexander Watson and
Elizabeth Bain on 21 DEC 1828 in Montrose, Angus, Scotland. The map shows that it is 70 miles from
Montrose to Peterhead. I asked a correspondent if he was aware of a migration of people from Montrose
to Peterhead. He replied no, but there had been migration from Peterhead to Montrose. However, it is
possible that Alexander and Elizabeth and their family did migrate north to Peterhead. Based on that
assumtion, I will include the following:
The IGI also shows a son JAMES WATSON Birth: 27 SEP 1829 Montrose, Angus, Scotland with
parents Alexander Watson and Elizabeth Bain.
The IGI shows an Alexander Watson born 27 JUN 1811 in Montrose, Angus, Scotland with parents as
James Watson and Janet Lindsay.
The IGI shows the following as children of James Watson and Janet Lindsay:
1. GEORGE WATSON - Gender: Male Birth: 23 SEP 1820 Montrose, Angus, Scotland
2. JOHN WATSON - Gender: Male Birth: 09 FEB 1807 Montrose, Angus, Scotland
3. JAMES WATSON - Gender: Male Birth: 26 JUN 1813 Montrose, Angus, Scotland
4. ALEXANDER WATSON - Gender: Male Birth: 27 JUN 1811 Montrose, Angus, Scotland
5. AGNES WATSON - Gender: Female Birth: 28 NOV 1809 Montrose, Angus, Scotland
6. JESSIE BROWN WATSON - Gender: Female Christening: 23 NOV 1823 Montrose, Angus,
Scotland
1841 Scotland Census
about Alexander Watson
Name:Alexander Watson Age:20 Estimated birth year:abt 1821 Gender:Male Where
born:Aberdeenshire, Scotland Civil parish:Peterhead County:Aberdeenshire Address:Back
Street Eastside Occupation:Shoem J Parish Number:232
Household Members:Name Age
Alexander Watson 20
Jane Watson 15
John Watson 55
Mary Watson 55
Alexander married Elizabeth Bain on 21 Dec 1828 in Montrose, Angus, Scotland. Elizabeth was born of
Peterhead, Aberdeen, Scotland.
General Notes: The LDS International Genealogical Index contains an entry for Elizabeth Greenhill Bain,
born 16 Dec 1810 and christened 5 Jan 1811 at Maryton By Montrose, Angus, Scotland. Her parents were
listed as James Bain and Mary Watson.
Children from this marriage were:
2 M
i. James Watson was born on 27 Sep 1829 in Montrose, Angus, Scotland.
+ 3 M
ii. David Bain Watson was born on 12 Jun 1842 in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, was
christened on 6 Nov 1842 in Peterhead, Aberdeen, Scotland, died on 19 Nov 1903 in Guelph,
Wellington, Ontario, Canada at age 61, and was buried in Woodlawn Cem., Block K - Lot 90.
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3. David Bain Watson (Alexander 1) was born on 12 Jun 1842
in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, was christened on 6 Nov 1842 in
Peterhead, Aberdeen, Scotland, died on 19 Nov 1903 in Guelph,
Wellington, Ontario, Canada at age 61, and was buried in Woodlawn
Cem., Block K - Lot 90.
General Notes: 1851 Scotland Census
about David Watson
Name:David Watson Age:5 Estimated birth year:abt
1846 Relationship:Son Father's name:David Mother's
name:Christian Gender:Male Where born:Peterhead,
Aberdeen Parish Number:232 Civil parish:Peterhead
Town:Peterhead County:Aberdeenshire
Address:Merchant St Occupation:Scholar At Home
ED:5 Page:21 (click to see others on page)
Household schedule number:91 Line:3
Roll:CSSCT1851_50
Household Members:Name Age
Agnes Watson 14
Christian Watson 37
Christian Watson 10
David Watson 39
David Watson 5
Flora Watson 12
Jane Watson 2
John Watson 7
Lachlan Watson 9 Mo
1851 Scotland Census
about David Watson
Name:David Watson Age:7 Estimated birth year:abt 1844 Relationship:Son Father's
name:John Mother's name:Isabella Gender:Male Where born:Peterhead, Aberdeen Parish
Number:232 Civil parish:Peterhead County:Aberdeenshire Address:Rose Street
Occupation:Scholar ED:2 Page: (click to see others on page) Household schedule
number:31 Line:10 Roll:CSSCT1851_50
Household Members:Name Age
William Cowie 13
Alexr B Watson 11
David Watson 7
Flora Watson 18
Garden Watson 14
Isabella Watson 46
Jean Watson 1
John Watson 45
Mary A Watson 13
1861 Scotland Census
about David Watson
Name:David Watson Age:15 Estimated birth year:abt 1846 Relationship:Son Father's
name:David Mother's name:Christian Gender:Male Where born:Peterhead, Aberdeenshire
Registration Number:232 Registration district:Peterhead Civil parish:Peterhead
Town:Peterhead County:Aberdeenshire Address:1 Tolbooth Wynd ED:5 Page:21
(click to see others on page) Household schedule number:119 Line:19 Roll:CSSCT1861_32
Household Members:Name Age
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Christian Watson 46
David Watson 47
David Watson 15
Flora Watson 22
Isabella Watson 6
Jemima Watson 11
Lauchlin Watson 9
1861 Scotland Census about David Watson
Name:David Watson Age:18 Estimated birth year:abt 1843 Relationship:Son Father's
name:John Mother's name:Isabella Gender:Male Where born:Peterhead, Aberdeenshire
Registration Number:232 Registration district:Peterhead Civil parish:Peterhead
Town:Peterhead County:Aberdeenshire Address:4 Longate St Occupation:Teacher
ED:10 Page: (click to see others on page) Household schedule number:30 Line:1
Roll:CSSCT1861_32
Household Members:Name Age
Alex B Watson 21
David Watson 18
Isabella Watson 56
Jane M Watson 11
John Watson 55
Mary A Watson 23
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
about David Watson
Name:David Watson Year:1871 Age:28 Estimated birth year:abt 1843 Place:Ontario,
Canada Source Publication Code:1823.11 Primary Immigrant:Watson, David
Annotation:Date and place of census. Census records extracted from microfilms at the National
Archives of Canada. Sex of the immigrant, place of birth, religion, ethnicity, occupation, and district,
subdistrict, division, and page number of record in census are also Source Bibliography:ELLIOTT,
BRUCE S. Index to the 1871 Census of Ontario: Haldimand, Norfolk. Toronto: Ontario Genealogical
Society, 1988, 257p. Page:241
Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1857-1922 about David Bain Watson
Name:David Bain Watson
Birth Place:Aberdeen CO Scotland
Age:27
Father Name:Alexander Watson
Mother Name:Elizabeth Bain
Estimated birth year:abt 1846
Spouse Name:Mary Ellen Jordan
Spouse's Age:21
Spouse Birth Place:Maryborough Township
Spouse Father Name:William Jordan
Spouse Mother Name :Rosana Evenor
Marriage Date:24 Feb 1873
Marriage Place:Wellington
Marriage County: Wellington
Source:Indexed by: Ancestry.com
1871 Canadian Census Index
Head of Household
WATSON, DAVID; Sex: Male; Age: 28
Born: 1843 @ SCOTLAND - Unknown code Position
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in home: Has surname other than head of house
Religion: Church of Scotland/Kirk/Scotch Presb., etc.
Ethnic Origin: SCOTCH - Unknown code
Occupation: Labourer Electoral District Code: 033
Electoral Sub-district Code: B
Enumerator's Division: 2 52 Enumerator's Page Number: 00
Electoral Sub-district Name: Guelph
Household:
Name
Marital Status
Gender Ethnic Origin
Age
Birthplace
Occupation
Religion
David WATSON
M
Male
Scottish 38
Scotland
Brewer
Mary WATSON
M
Female Irish
36
Ontario
David WATSON
Male
English 5
Ontario
Helen WATSON
Female English 3
Ontario
Charles WATSON
Female English 2
Ontario
Elizabeth WATSON Female English Born: Mar Ontario
(All have religion as Presbyterian.
Source Information:
Census Place
Guelph, Wellington South, Ontario
Family History Library Film 1375894
NA Film Number C-13258
District
151
Sub-district
B
Division 2
Page Number
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Household Number 28
Census of Canada, 1881
Name: Watson, David
Sex: M
Age:38
Place of Birth: Scotland
Religion: Presb.
Ethnic Origin: Scotch
Occupation: Brewer
Province: Ontario
District: Wellington South (151)
Sub-district: Guelph (B)
Page: 7
Microfilm:C-13258
1901 Census of Canada
about David Watson
Name:David Watson Gender:Male Marital Status: Married Age:58 Birth Date:12 Jun
1842 Birthplace:Scotland Relation to Head of House:Head Spouse's name:Mary
Immigration year:1870 Racial or Tribal Origin:Scottish (Scotish) Nationality:Canadian
Religion:Presbyterian Occupation:Gardener Province:Ontario District:Wellington
(South/Sud) District Number:126 Sub-District:Guelph (City/Cité) Sub-District Number:D4 Family Number:111 Page:16 Neighbors:View others on page
Household Members:Name Age
David Watson 58
Mary Watson 45
Elizabeth Watson 20
Mary Watson 15
Thomas Watson 13
William Watson 12
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Anna Watson 11
Grace Watson 16
Freda Watson 2
Edwin Watson 1
William Truckle 22
THE WATSON FAMILY
as remembered by Thomas Watson
16 Jan 1965
This is near as I can remember, I am 77 years old. David Bain Watson came to Guelph Ontario
Canada from Peterhead Aberdeenshire Scotland in his twenties. Later he met and married my mother,
Mary Ellen Jordan, when she was about 17 years old. They bought a small house on Waterloo Road,
third house from the Sleeman residence. They later bought the Rock Maple home and moved into it in
the 1890's. I do not remember the exact year. The former owners of Rock Maple were the Chadwick
family who were reasonably wealthy and built the tower to the house for observation purposes as it was
rumored that they gambled considerably.
Father died Nov 19, 1903 and from this marriage there were fourteen children, eight boys and six girls.
The property was left in trust for my mother as long as she lived. George Sleeman was the Executor. It
was then sold and the moneys divided between the living children. After father died, on advice of my
brother Albert, my mother built the large building attached to the old house for a pickle factory which
turned out to be a dead horse as mother married again about that time and all the older children which was
all the help she had namely, Mary, William Bain, Anna and myself, Tom, deserted the lines. We four left
home to go on our own way and the balance of the family were left with mother. I believe September 1,
1907 mother sold out and rented the property and moved to the state of Nevada, U.S.
Shortly after that her second husband died and she (again) remarried and moved to Alberta, Canada. She
took up a homestead there. Later, about 1933, she came to Guelph, Ontario, Canada and lived with my
sister, Mrs. William Pinder, until her death.
(signed) TOM WATSON
Information supplied by other members of the Watson family to supplement Tom Watson's account.
Grace Watson Osborne Dini was a member of a family of fourteen children. The birth and death records
of the family is taken for the most part from Grace' bible.
David Bain Watson worked as a brewer in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He also played the violin. His
musical talent and love for music has been passed on for generations.
Source: Watson family bible prepared by Grace Watson and now in the possession of Earl Osborne.
This source identifies the birth dates of the parents and 14 children. It also identifies the death dates of
the parents and most of the children (up to her own death).
The Guelph (Ontario, Canada) Public Library provided me the following in 1994:
Cemetery Information
"Woodlawn Cemetery"
Block K - Lot 90
David B. Watson
DP-18 Jan. 1900
DI-GR.4 - 19 Jan. 1900 - Henry Watson, 7 yrs.
GR.1 - 19 Nov. 1903 - David B. Watson, 63 yrs.
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GR.2 - 7 Jan. 1944 - Mary Ellen Laiture.
97. Front - In living memory of/David B. Watson/who died
Nov. 17, 1903 aged 63 yrs. Native of Aberdeenshire
Scotland/His wife/Mary Ellen Jordan/who died Jan. 4,
1944, aged 88 years.
Right side - Henry/son of/David B. and Mary E./Watson
died Jan. 17, 1900/aged 7 years.
On base - WATSON
David married Mary Ellen Jordan, daughter of William Thomas
Jordan and Rosanna Hebner, on 28 Nov 1872 in Probably Guelph,
Wellington, Ontario, Canada. Mary was born on 20 Feb 1855 in Poss.
Peel Twp., Maryborough Twp., Ontario, Canada, died on 4 Jan 1944 in
Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada at age 88, and was buried in
Woodlawn Cem., Block K - Lot 90.
General Notes: Was an orphan.
The Jordan/Stanchfield Family History written by Linda Von
Rueden Troolin & Jan Jordan Lokensgard, 1994, Chapter II has:
MARY ELLEN JORDAN was born February 8, 1855 according
to the bible entry and February 20, 1855 according to her family.
We have conflicting information as to her place of birth. Some
say it was in Guelph, her daughter Freda said Peel Township,
others say it was Maryborough Township. She was the third
child of William and Rosanna Jordan.
Like her brothers before her, we have very little history of her early years. Her daughter, Freda, with
whom Linda Troolin corresponded for ten years, said when the Jordan marriage ended her mother, Mary
Ellen, was placed with a family named Nolan. She was about six years old at the time. The family was
alcoholic and abusive to Mary Ellen so at the tender age of eight she ran away. She supported herself by
working for different families. She probably did not have time for school, since she supported herself
from such an early age, because she could not read or write.
When she was a teenager, working at the home of a brewery owner named Sleeman, in Guelph, Ontario,
she met her future husband, David Bain Watson. He was very ill and staying at the Sleeman home. Mary
Ellen helped to take care of him. During his delirium he thought Mary Ellen was his mother. The couple
fell in love as she nursed him back to health. He was born June 12, 1842 and was from Peterhead,
Aberdeenshire , Scotland . David worked for Mr. Sleeman as a cellarman. He played the violin and had a
great love for music. David was also a Scottish dance master.
Mary Ellen married at age 17, March 4, 1873 according to the bible, or February 24, 1873 according to
a record of Grace and Leslie Young. She and David became parents to fourteen children, twelve of whom
survived to adulthood.
The following information was given by Mary Ellen's son, Tom Watson, and granddaughter, Freda Fox:
They first lived in a small house on Waterloo Road, third house from the Sleeman residence. In the 1890's
they bought Rock Maple or the Chadwick Farm as it was sometimes called. Rock Maple was built by a
man called Gentleman Jackson and it was copied after his former home in England.
It was also on Waterloo Road. The former owners of Rock Maple, the Chadwicks were fairly wealthy
family and built the tower as an addition to the large fourteen room, six bedroom house. It has been said
that they gambled a great deal and wanted the tower for observation purposes. The handsome Watson
family picture was taken at Rock Maple, Christmas of 1902, less than a year before David Watson died.
Ralph Edie wrote the following about Mary Ellen and it has been paraphrased here. Mary Ellen was a
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wonderful seamstress. She also hooked rugs and was an extraordinarily fast knitter. She could even knit in
the dark! She hand knit wool sweaters, stockings, scarves and mittens for her children and underwear for
her husband. When the seventh child arrived Mary Ellen told her husband she could no longer knit
underwear for him. After that, much to his disappointment, he had to wear "store bought" ones.
David had heart problems and fainted easily. However, his death came as a result of blood poisoning
caused by either the scratch of a rusty nail or by a blister on his toe that became infected. Both stories
have been given as the cause. Freda Edie had written, " David Watson died from blood poisoning which
started from a blister on his toe and got infected from a colored sock. The Dr. put cuts in his leg to bleed
him, but they couldn't stop the infection so he died 17 days after he first got the infection". The doctors
in those days believed that releasing the bad blood would help to cure people. Unfortunately in David's
case they bled him to death. He died November 19, 1903. His obituary follows:
DEATH OF MR. DAVID WATSON
On Tuesday morning occurred the death of Mr. David B. Watson, who passed away at the General
Hospital at the age of 63 years. He was a native of Aberdeenshire, Scotland and had resided in this
country for nearly forty years.
He was in the employ of Mr. Sleeman as cellarman for thirty three or thirty four years. Retiring three or
four years ago, he has since lived on the Chadwick farm, Waterloo Road. He leaves a widow and a family
of six sons and six daughters the youngest being four weeks old. *This must be a mistake because Edwin,
the baby, was born in 1900. Mr. Watson was a man of the strictest integrity and in the words of an old
friend, "honest as the sun"; quiet and genial in disposition, had not an enemy in the world. He was a
member of Reidance (blurred so may not be the correct spelling) Lodge and Wellington Encampment,
I.O.O.F., and was a charter member of the local lodge of the K.O.T. M., in which his is the first death.
The cause of death was blood poisoning, from which he had been ill for a little over a week.
After David's death the property was left in trust for Mary Ellen as long as she lived. George Sleeman,
David's former employer, was the executor. The Watson's owned some houses that they rented and other
land. Some of their properties were sold and the money divided between the children.
At the advice of her son Albert, Mary Ellen started a pickle factory. She was well known for her
delicious pickles and even hired people to come to Rock Maple to help her can them for sale. Thinking
she would be able to support herself and the children this way, she had a large building erected which was
attached to the house and enlisted some of her children as help, Mary, William Bain, Anna, and Tom. The
factory was a white elephant. Freda Fox remembered, "Grandma lost the money grandpa left her because
she invested it in the pickle factory. Never made a pickle, and the equipment was seized and all that was
left was the four walls and a huge hole about one third of the first floor, where they took out the boiler.
She did receive the rent from the house and the lot in town, the small farm at the edge of town and Rock
Maple. When Uncle Will died she received a monthly allotment from the government." Relatives have said
that Mary Ellen did not have a knack for business and invested poorly. The children left to make their
own lives in the world after the pickle factory closed. Apparently it really never even got started in the
new building, before it folded. However, because she had sold so many pickles from Rock Maple,
previously, it was dubbed "The Pickle Factory".
Freda Fox said the people who rented Rock Maple did not take care of it so Mary Ellen's daughter,
Nellie Pinder and her family, moved in. Later Lizzie Ball, another of Freda's daughters lived there. Lizzie
was Freda Fox's mother.
After the pickle factory closed, Mary Ellen had fallen in love with a Guelph man by the name of Jack
Holly. Because of a dispute with his children he left Guelph for Rhyolite, Nevada. Mary Ellen followed
him there taking her youngest three children with her, Grace, Freda and Edwin. This was September 1,
1907. Some relatives say she married Jack Holly in 1906, before she left Guelph, others say it was after
she went to Nevada.
The following history was written by Grace Watson: We lived in Rhyolite, the metropolis of the
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Bullfrog District, from 1907 until 1911. The big silver boom had quieted down and Rhyolite was just a
dusty, placid town of hard-working miners.
On the main street were several blocks of businesses. The bank was an impressive concrete building
with apartments upstairs. The Porter Brothers had general store in another concrete building. We bought
dress material and groceries there, and also got groceries from Cook's grocery store. There was one ice
cream parlor and many saloons. There was a telephone- telegraph office, a bookstore, hotels and boarding
houses. The red light district was one block off main street. A two story concrete school house was built
within a year of our arrival. Houses were small but many people had planted trees and quite a few had
lawns struggling in the dry desert sand.
The small house my step-father had rented for us had porches front and back a cellar, and an outhouse.
We were pretty crowded when everybody was home.
Mama and Jack Holly slept on a roll- down bed in the front room. Eddie had a cot in the kitchen. Freda
and I shared a cot in the clothes closet. I wouldn't have minded the smallness and in the summertime
having the heat, but having clothes hanging right above us in there did make it an oppressive place to be.
I stayed out of school our first year in Rhyolite, helping Mama with the washing and taking care of the
younger kids. I specialized in ironing. Mama said I was awfully fast at it. My ironing board was a plank
covered with cotton batting, balanced between a table and a chair. I used six irons at a time, pressing with
one while the other five heated on the stove.
I did housecleaning for neighbors at two bits an hour. For awhile I worked regularly at Mrs. Wieburg's
boarding house, helping her with cooking and washing up after meals. I didn't like the job for a couple of
reasons. She never used leftovers, so each evening she threw out enough food to have fed my family. It
went into a garbage pit in the back yard that attracted cats. Some of them had their kittens in the yard or
the cellar, handy to this wonderful source of food Mrs. Wittenburg made me drown them by putting them
in a ten gallon can of water
Jack Holly died while working at the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Yard, lifting heavy machinery
off freight cars. The exertion was too much for him.
We were so bad off at that time we had to belittle ourselves and borrow money from a neighbor lady to
buy me a pair of shoes so I'd be presentable at the funeral.
Thereafter Mama had to work harder than ever. She got a job as a janitor at the bank. A little later she
took over the Miner's Hospital. She did well enough to let the bank keep her janitor's wages in a savings
account. That little nest egg never hatched. The bank closed up and she lost all that she had saved.
I quit school to work too. We always did washing and ironing. I did housecleaning and I guess that is
how I got my job at the telephone company working for Mrs. Munger. Her husband managed the AT &
T office and she was the switchboard operator. She recommended me when the job got too heavy for her
alone.
I was paid $45 a month when I began, at age 15. I worked four or five hours each afternoon-sometimes alone sometimes with Mrs. Munger. The phone office was nn a one story concrete building. In
back was the telegraph office, a store room, and a place for the telephone system's power supply. The
telephones were powered by huge electrical batteries. On a hot day, and we had plenty of them, we'd
open the doors front and back, and let the wind sweep through.
My mother's hospital workday routine was long and tiring. Mornings she collected and delivered
laundry. In the afternoon she heated water for washing.
In between times she was nursing the patients, making beds and shopping. Mama made dinner while I
worked at the phone company. We bought vegetables from Los Angeles, lettuce, tomatoes, radishes and
potatoes. We had a standing order for
once a week shipment. Meat, bread, dry goods and canned things we bought in town. Sometimes we
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made our own bread.
My days were busy too. In the morning I did housework around the hospital. In the late morning I
began making lunch for the patients. They usually got a hot meal, meat, potatoes, a vegetable and dessert.
For dessert I made cakes or jello or served fruit. I worked in the telephone office until six or seven
o'clock. When I came home I ate dinner and then ironed for several hours.
One July fourth was clouded. My girlfriend Marie Wexelburger and I took a train at 6 am to a picnic at
Springdale. Getting up before dawn to dress Freda and Ed in the dark had given me a sick headache. Marie
realized on the train that the shoes she had put on in the dark didn't match. So she hid out all day and I hid
with her. There was a dance after the picnic lunches were eaten. I learned to dance while I was
babysitting. I had gone to a schoolhouse dance as nursemaid for the babies and children too young to
leave home. One of the bookstore woman's sons talked me into a few minutes away from the nursery, and
showed me how to do a little two step dance.
My only other social activity was church. I taught Sunday school, sang in the choir, and played Piano
at services. I never felt quite at ease with the preacher because he seemed awful anxious to get me alone
somewhere.
The most common animals were burros. Miners left them at the outskirts of town when they came in
for the day, and these burros got pretty lively in mating season. A bunch of them, 18 or 20, would come
roaring through town, trampling of porches, leaping low fences, and knocking pedestrians aside.
Maude was a burro who stood out from the rest because of her unusually sociable ways. She'd poke
her head through the swinging doors of the saloon and wait until some animal lover bought her a beer.
Trouble was, she made the round and the saloons were full of animal lovers. When she got drunk she
would lie down in the street and sleep it off.
I had a few bad times at the hospital. One winter we had a portable coal-oil heater in one fellow's room.
I heard him yelling and found the whole machine in flames. Somehow I grabbed it and ran outside without
getting burned.
There were several other calamities too. Once there was a big cloudburst over Rhyolite and the rain
swept everything loose before it. On one of the more prosperous streets, water came in the back doors
and out the front, leaving mud on the carpets and ruining the wallpaper. It filled our cellar. We had canned
goods stored down there and when the water went down the labels had come off the cans. We had to
guess the contents and had some quite interesting mealtime combinations that way.
Mama's laundry business got her another husband, Richard Fisher. He dealt faro at the Sixty-Six Club
and was a sharp dresser. I admired the clothes mama washed for him, pastel-colored, silk, knit underwear,
and silk shirts.
In 1910 he married Mama and joined us at the hospital. Maybe Mama didn't approve of his job as a
gambler, anyway he quit the club and signed on at the Shoshone Mine processing ore.
Our four years at Rhyolite came to an end when Mr. Fisher decided to move to Tonopah. I was happy
with my job as chief telephone operator at $75 a month, so I stayed, boarding with a family I knew.
Letters from Mama said the high altitude in Tonopah made her sick. After six weeks I quit my job to join
Mama in Tonopah. I'd been in Tonopah about six weeks when we moved to the Morris Ranch in Mason
Valley. Mama wanted to get back to farming. *Mason Valley is now known as Yerington.
*Grace was married in Mason Valley in March of 1912 and remained in Nevada all her life.
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On April 22, 1912 Richard Fisher filed for land in Alberta. The following exerpt was written by Ralph
Edie: Two brothers of Mary Ellen Watson Fisher, Tom and Dan Jordan had already settled in the
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Sprucefield district and encouraged the Fishers to come north and file on nearby homestead land. The
family was met at the Fort Saskatchewan railway station by Dan Jordan with a wagon drawn by a team
of oxen.
Two days were required to travel by ox team from Fort Saskatchewan to Sprucefield. Along the way
the road gradually deteriorated to a mere trail through the bush. The road was characterized by numerous
mud holes in which at times the wagon wheels became mired in mud and water up to the axles. Progress
slowed to a standstill and the oxen were obliged to strain every muscle to inch forward. Commonly the
road detoured around sloughs but along certain boggy stretches, where it was impossible to detour, the
road had been made passable by surfacing it with logs laid together across the trail.
At Sprucefield the summer of 1912 seemed to be unusually cool and Edwin wore his sheepskin coat
most of the time to keep warm. A neighbor, Emmilia Flaska remembered, "While their new log house was
being built on the homestead, four posts were set up with a canopy above, under which Mary Ellen
cooked for the men who were building the house." While neighbors were helping to build their two story
log house - still standing on NE 24-60-20-4, a log slipped and broke the neck of Richard Fisher, and he
died within hours.
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Mary Ellen's fourth husband was Mr. Heyland. Since Richard Fisher died the summer of 1912, she
probably married him in 1913 or 1914. Emilia Flaska Warak recalled, "Mary Ellen later married Richard
H. Heyland who was related to the Pete Knight family and had a homestead not far from Knights. They
met when Mary Ellen attended Mrs. Knight at the birth of one of her babies." Heyland lived at Mary
Ellen's homestead after they were married. He was described as red-faced and bow legged. Edwin Watson
used to tease his step-father by bowing his legs and walking behind Heyland in that fashion when he
wasn't looking.
Emilia Flaska Warak wrote, "The couple broke up when Mary Ellen and her husband were on their
way to a dance at the home of Beryld Hemphill's mother. (This would have been after August of 1915 or
before Edwin's 16th birthday in 1916) They stopped at Levin's where a group was gathering to go to the
dance together. While there, Mary Ellen learned that her husband was instrumental in getting Ed Watson
who was only 15, to enlist. The couple had a falling out and he went home, (next farm north) while Mary
Ellen went on to the dance. He gathered up all his belongings, including some sheep, and left, returning to
his own farm, probably SW 59- 20-4. He must have died not too long after that."
After Richard Heyland's death, she married Matt Laiture, August 8, 1918. Matt could speak no English
and was 52 years old. Matt was a bachelor, hunter and trapper from Finland. He built a log cabin several
miles north of the homestead where Mary Ellen lived. The cabin was built without a single nail. The logs
were all put together with wooden pegs. The door was on wooden hinges made from lumber hewn by axe,
as was the floor, wooden bedstead and table.
Matt had tanned furs sewn together as blankets on the bed. Neither Matt or Mary Ellen wanted to leave
their own homes so after they married they never lived together for any length of time.
Mary Ellen was 63 when she married Matt, her fifth and final husband. Her daughter Freda made her
wedding dress and stood up for her at the wedding along with grandma Flaska. Rev. Artemas Seller
married the couple.
Emilia Flaska Warak said, "Matt left Mary Ellen some time later, Mary Ellen thinking the Finns had
lured him away. She being thoughtful and kind used to invite Finnish families to visit, just to make Matt
feel more at home. They always remained friends. He would stop at her house to or from a trip to the
store or P.O. and she'd give him a good meal or lunch and walk part way home with him. She liked and
missed him but would not humiliate herself by asking him to come back. He died at Bragges and Mary
Ellen sent Ed Watson and Colin Edie to Bragges to bring his belongings to her. She sold them and his farm
and sent the money to his children." Years later one of Mary Ellen's grandchildren asked if she would ever
get married again. Her reply was, "No! The darn things just die anyway." Mary Ellen had married and
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buried her last four husbands in a period of eleven years. She probably felt it was enough heartache to last
anyone a lifetime.
Although it was reported in Dorothy's book, by Lela Robinson, that Dan Jordan was killed by being
cut in half by a saw blade, recently uncovered information disputes this. Other people thought it may
have been one of Mary Ellen's last two husbands who met their demise this way, but this doesn't seem to
be the case either. Earlier, Mary Ellen mentions her husband Mattie Laiture being ill and not able to do
much, so he may have died from natural causes.
The most likely explanation for the mix up comes from Ralph Edie who wrote, "I am sure that if any of
my mother's step-fathers or uncles had died being cut in half in a saw accident, I would have heard about
it. There was a man by the name of Henry Van Manen who was cut in half by a buzz saw near
Waskateneau, Alberta in the 1930's, but it was no relation to us."
The next paragraph is taken from a piece written by Ralph Edie: Early years on the homestead were a
lesson in survival. The family always had a large vegetable garden, a few cows and some chickens, and
together with wild berries and meat from wild rabbits, deer and fish, and moose they eked out a living.
One of Mary Ellen's prized possessions was a large Singer sewing machine with foot pedal, ordered from
Eton's catalogue from Winnipeg and transported by boat up the North Saskatchewan River to Pine Creek
Landing. In later years Mary Ellen gave this sewing machine to Freda Edie who continued to use it many
years after she married.
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Life on this frontier was not all work. Freda Edie said that Mary Ellen had weekly dances at her home.
The family greatly enjoyed the music, fun, and food that became a regular event.
The last years of Mary Ellen's life from about 1923 until her death of pneumonia, January 4, 1944 she
spent living between two of her daughters, Grace in Nevada and Nellie in Guelph. It was during one of her
stays, in Guelph, in the mid 30's, that her brother James' two children, Mary Jordan Linehan and Jim
Jordan along with Jim's wife Lena and daughter Bertha, came to visit. We have several pictures from their
trip. Mary Ellen also made at least two trips to Minnesota by train to visit her brother James. One visit
must have been about 1929 because James had already had his stroke and died within a year. By the
pictures taken during that trip it is obvious that James has had a stroke.
Freda Fox wrote, "Grandma loved working in the soil, had a green thumb and grew beautiful flowers
and the best vegetables, even celery. She loved being outdoors - was out as much as possible. Could knit
anything without patterns, socks, sweaters, caps, even children's dresses. She drove my mother (Lizzie)
crazy keeping her in wool pieces, like men's longjohns, dresses etc. as she would cut them into strips and
braid and hook rugs. The underwear had to be dyed so it seemed the boiler was always on the stove,
dying these strips for the rugs."
MRS. MARY LAITURE PASSES IN HOSPITAL
Following a brief illness Mrs. Mathew Laiture 88, passed away at St. Joseph's Hospital yesterday.
The former Mary Ellen Jordan, Mrs. Laiture was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Jordan,
and was born in Guelph where she resided the greater part of her life. For a period of about ten years she
lived in Nevada U.S.A. but she returned to Guelph some years ago. The widow of the late David Watson
who predeceased her 40 years ago. Mrs Watson married again and her second husband Mathew Laiture
predeceased her about 20 years ago. *This is incorrect as Mary Ellen did have five husbands.
Surviving are five sons and six daughters of her first marriage; David, Kansas City; Charles, Chicago;
Albert and Thomas of Detroit; Edwin U.S.A.; Mrs.
William Pinder, Guelph; Mrs. Albert Ball, Windsor; Mrs. John Seiler, Detroit; Mrs. John Martin, Sask;
Mrs. George Bamauer, Nevada, and Mrs. Colin Edie, Vancouver. Also surviving is one great-great
grandchild, and a number of great- grandchildren and grandchildren.
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The remains are resting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. William Pinder, R.R. 6, Guelph. Puslinch
Twp., where the funeral service will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be made at
Woodlawn Cemetery.
For those with access to Ancestry.com, there is a very detailed genealogy for Mary Ellen Jordan and her
family at http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/2999237/person/-1790455409
Children from this marriage were:
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i. Charles Albert Watson was born on 14 Nov 1874 and died on 24 Dec 1874.
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ii. David (Jordan) Watson was born on 29 Jan 1876
in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada and died in
Apr 1951 at age 75.
General Notes: David took his mother's last name,
Jordan, as his last name as an adult.
The Jordan/Stanchfield Family History written by
Linda Von Rueden Troolin & Jan Jordan
Lokensgard, 1994, Chapter III has:
2. DAVID WATSON who later changed his name to
DAVID JORDAN was born January 29, 1876. He
married Mary Jane Grey, March 16, 1898, possibly
In the Thunder Bay area, since their first child was
born there. They had two children Mary Helen
(Nellie) and Lee. The marriage ended and David
remarried a woman named Alice. The children were
placed with other families. She was about fifteen
years older than David. She celebrated her 100th
birthday in August of 1956 and lived to be 101! She
died in 1957. They lived in Kansas City, Kansas and had one adopted son.
David worked in Kansas City as a foreman in a steel mill. He also was a mason.
Earl Osborne wrote of David, "His hobby was polishing rocks and cattle horns He would be
polishing a horn as I chatted with him. My mother, ( Grace), had one of his polished horns."
Very little information has been found about David because he did not raise his children,
himself. So the grandchildren did not know him or have data. Also the adopted son, was not
located.
David married Mary Jane Gray on 16 Mar 1898 in Possibly, Thunder Bay.
David next married Alice.
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iii. Ellen (Nellie) Watson was born on 26 Sep 1877 in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada and
died in Sep 1954 at age 77.
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iv. Charles Watson was born on 14 Dec 1878 in
Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada and died on 24
Jul 1955 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan at age 76.
General Notes: The Jordan/Stanchfield Family
History written by Linda Von Rueden Troolin & Jan
Jordan Lokensgard, 1994, Chapter III has:
4. CHARLES (PA) WATSON'S birth date was
December 14, 1878 according to the family and
December 15, 1878 according to the records Bill and
Lorraine Young found. H was born in Guelph,
Ontario.
Charles married Caroline Ellen Beaver Watson,
who was born January 27, 1878 in Hespeler,
Ontario. The couple had three children.
Charles was a butcher and served the Gold Coast
of Chicago, which was a wealthy section of the city. He worked with Mr. Temple, Caroline's
step-father and his brother. Grandson Bob Grover, recalled his grandparents Watson and
Temple would alternate Sundays to have the family over for dinner. He remembers leg of lamb
or chicken and dumplings as some of the dishes served. His grandfathers would play pinochle,
drink wine and smoke after dinner. The women insisted that they smoke their pipes and cigars
only in an upstairs bedroom.
Bob said his grandfather was a handsome man with a great head of hair. He always wore a
flower in his lapel. Bob added with a chuckle that his grandfather thought professional
wrestling was legitimate. Bob spent a lot of time at his grandparent's house because his
mother worked, so Caroline took care of him.
On July 24, 1955, Charles was riding with his sisters Nellie and Lizzie, with brother Tom
driving, when they were involved in a car accident. The following is a letter that Caroline
Watson wrote, to her husband's sister, Freda Edie soon after the accident:
"Charlie left Chicago on July 9, and took a Greyhound Bus to Detroit. On Sunday, he and
Tom left for Canada in Tom's new Nash station wagon. They picked up Lizzie in Windsor
and she went with them. They stayed at Ella's in Hespeler for two weeks and had a wonderful
time visiting all of our relatives - the four of them even drove to Niagara Falls for a day.
They got back to Detroit on Saturday, July 23, and when they got there learned that Mary,
Tom's wife, had gone to the hospital the day before because of a leg condition.
Ella returned to Detroit with them because she planned on spending some time with Lizzie
in Windsor. Sunday evening they left Tom's to drive Lizzie and Ella back to Windsor, when
they had a collision with another car. The other car was driven by a 21 year old girl - it was a
1955 Ford.
Tom was on a through street, Porter Avenue, and the girl was on 25th Street which crosses
Porter. The girl stopped at Porter, but then continued across without waiting until the traffic
was clear. Tom said a car to the left of him had stopped at 25th street, probably to make a left
turn, at the same time blocking his vision and it apparently kept the girl from seeing Tom's car
because no one would deliberately pull in front of another car. The girl was held in jail for a
couple days on a charge of manslaughter, but was released on bond.
Charlie was sitting in the front beside Tom, Lizzie was directly behind Tom.
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Charlie hit his forehead against the windshield and must have hit his chest against the
dashboard because we just received the Medical Examiner's report a few days ago and it gave
the cause of death as "fractures of ribs and sternum (breastbone) massive intrathoracic
hemorrhage." We think he died instantly - we certainly hope he didn't have to suffer. He was
taken to the hospital with the rest of them but the hospital reported that he was dead on
arrival.
Lizzie isn't good at all. Her kneecap was injured and they operated on it last week. We had a
letter from Freda Ball Saturday and she said it would be months before they would know the
outcome of the operation. Ella and Tom were bruised but no bones broken. The accident
occurred at 8:45, Sunday night, and Tom and Ella were detained at the hospital until after five,
Monday morning - they took x-rays and examined them for injuries. Lizzie was kept there,
but a few days later they moved her to a hospital in Windsor.
At 1:30 A.M. Monday, July 25, we got a phone call - it was a newspaper reporter calling
to ask if "the Charles Watson who was involved in the automobile accident in Detroit lived at
that address." He said he got it over the international news service, not knowing that we
hadn't heard anything about it yet.
Maine was on the phone from then until after five in the morning trying to get more
information. We couldn't understand why we hadn't heard from Tom because the Detroit
police told Maine that their report didn't show that anyone else was injured. They did tell him
that there would be an inquest at 9 o'clock Monday morning, in Detroit, so Maine left about
5:30 to catch a plane at 7 A.M.
Tom and Ella got home about 6 A. M. and the long distance operator finally got them for us.
Then we knew why we hadn't heard from Tom. It must have been a awful night for him. He
was probably suffering from shock and near collapse, knowing about Charlie, and not
knowing how badly Lizzie or Ella were hurt, besides being bruised himself.
Maine met Tom at the inquest Monday morning, then went home with Tom and flew back
to Chicago, Monday evening, bringing Ella with him. The coroner ordered an autopsy after the
inquest was over. An undertaker in Detroit then took care of the body, and it was sent back to
Chicago, Tuesday.
Except for a mark on his forehead, which the undertaker fixed up very well, Charlie didn't
have another mark, he looked wonderful, just like he was sleeping.
Ed Buttgen drove Tom to Chicago on Wednesday and the funeral was Thursday, July 28.
Charlie was a Mason and it was always his wish to have Masonic burial.
So we had the Mason's service, and also had our minister. There were so many beautiful
flowers, which he would have liked because he loved all kinds of flowers. We didn't have any
cemetery lots, so we bought some lots in Acacia Cemetery, which is a Masonic Cemetery,
and takes about twenty minutes from where we live by car.
Tom, Ed, and Ella left after the funeral to drive back to Detroit. Tom was anxious to get
back because of Mary. She was in the hospital another week or so and is home now. She is
still very weak, and as far as I know Ella is still there.
My brother Ed Beaver, and his daughter Marge, who lives in New York City, flew here for
the funeral too, and stayed until the following Sunday.
Carrie Watson
Caroline died November 30, 1963 of pneumonia complicated by a cerebral thrombosis and
arteriosclerosis.
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Charles married Caroline Ellen Beaver.
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v. Elizabeth (Lizzie) Watson was born on 14 Mar
1881 in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada and
died on 17 Jun 1964 in , Windsor, Ontario, Canada at
age 83.
General Notes: The Jordan/Stanchfield Family
History written by Linda Von Rueden Troolin & Jan
Jordan Lokensgard, 1994, Chapter III has:
5. ELIZABETH (LIZZIE) WATSON was the fifth
child of Mary Ellen and David Watson She was born
March 14, 1881 in Guelph, Ontario. She married
Albert Stanley Ball July 11, 1907. He was born
December 22, 1884 in England the son of William
and Mary Ball. He was a moulder, farmer, and
electrician. Lizzie was a housewife. The couple lived
in Barrie, Guelph, and Windsor, Ontario. When in
Guelph they lived for a time at Rock Maple after
Nellie and William Pinder left there to move to a
larger farm.
Albert died in Windsor, on June 20, 1954. Lizzie died June 16, 1964 in Windsor and is also
buried at Windsor Grove Cemetery.
New message sent to you on Ancestry.com in Nov 2010 From: farmerjoan48301, To:
Roy Leggitt, 2 of 2 messages, Subject: RE: David Bain Watson/Mary Ellen Jordan
Hi Roy, My Grandmother was Elizabeth Watson, aka Lizzy, She was one of the older children
and stayed on the farm after Mary Ellen went west.
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Elizabeth married Albert "Bert" Stanley Ball on
11 Jul 1907. Albert was born on 22 Dec 1884 in , , ,
England and died in Jun 1955 at age 70.
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vi. Albert Watson was born on 14 Sep 1882 in
Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada and died on 3
Sep 1951 at age 68.
General Notes: The Jordan/Stanchfield Family
History written by Linda Von Rueden Troolin & Jan
Jordan Lokensgard, 1994, Chapter III has:
6. ALBERT WATSON was born September 14,
1882. By exaggerating his age, he was admitted into
the service at age 14. In 1896, he was on a ship
heading to Africa, to fight in the Boar War, when
peace was declared. His grandson Albert Deslippe
said, when the ship reached the International
Dateline, he was required to go through the King
Neptune initiation. Anyone who hadn't crossed
before had to swim around the boat and do other
rituals. He was also bitten by a tarantula spider
during his time in the service.
Albert Deslippe also reported that his grandfather had wrestled professionally at one time.
He married Margaret (Maggie) Bauldry, August 10, 1904 in Toronto. She was from Toronto.
The Watson's had four children in Toronto, but only two lived, Helen and Freda. On Freda's
birth certificate in 1906, Albert's occupation was listed as silk maker.
Albert and Maggie decided to move to the United States. They came to Detroit Michigan
and rented a home from Frank Ternes, who ran a coal business and was also into real estate.
The following story was submitted by Albert's daughter, Edith (Freda): "Albert Watson got
a job as a motorman on the city streetcars and Maggie became pregnant with her fifth child.
Maggie was on her way to the Ternes home at 273 Twelfth Street to pay the rent. She
tripped on the sidewalk. Mrs.
Ternes saw he and ran out and put a pillow under her head and called Frank Ternes at his
office which was just two and a half blocks away. He came home called the ambulance and
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took her to Providence Hospital. There she gave birth to her child. She died that afternoon,
and the baby died three months later.
Albert had two little girls, Helen and Freda, but there was no one to take care of them. The
only relatives he had were unable to help and Albert did not want to go back to Canada. He
decided to give them up for adoption.
A family by the name of Ford took Helen but for some reason or other it did not work out
and they brought her back to her father.
Frank and Madeline Ternes lost three children so they adopted Freda and renamed her Edith
Mary Madeline after one of the children they lost. They had two boys, Norman and Orrin
and now they had a girl."
---------Maggie Watson was buried May 17, 1911 in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Albert was reunited with Edith when she was about thirteen. Edith remembered "A girl
came to my home and told me she was my sister Helen Watson. She told me my father Albert
wanted to see me. She wanted me to go with her the next Sunday to meet my father. I asked
my mother and she said I could go. The following Sunday Mother pinned a small corsage on
me kissed me good-bye and said, "Don't forget to come home."
"We had lunch and Helen and I were taking care of the dishes when a lady and a little girl
came in. The lady I found out was my dad's second wife and the little girl his daughter
Gertrude. Dad and Margaret, his wife were separated. I don't know what happened and I
didn't ask any questions, and Dad never told me. Eventually they got back together."
---------Albert's grandson Albert Deslippe writes, "Albert Watson, my grandfather, was a very
strict man. As you know he was born in Guelph, Ontario. He married Margaret Blase, his
second wife, from Essexville, Michigan, near Bay City, around 1912. He had a daughter, my
mother Gertrude, on May 8, 1915.
Something happened around 1922, his wife and daughter left him at his request. Margaret,
his wife, took a job as a live in housekeeper for a millionaire family in Detroit and for the next
eight years neither she or Gertrude saw Albert Watson. In 1930 Albert came for them and
they went home.
By now Helen, his daughter from his first marriage was married and lived in a house next door
to him with her husband Paul Sherer. One night in 1933 or somewhere around that time, Paul
came home from work. while hanging up his clothes he noticed all of Helen's things were
missing. From that time till the present, to my knowledge, no one in the Watson or Deslippe
family have ever heard from her. shortly after her disappearance, her husband Paul moved and
remarried.
In 1936, Albert Watson introduced his daughter Gertrude to Clifford Deslippe They were
married that same year. Clifford and Gertrude lived in the same house as Helen and Paul had,
next door to Albert. I, Albert C. Deslippe was born April 12, 1939. Even though my grandpa
was tough on his wife and children he was very good to me, in short, I could do no wrong. As
far as grandfathers go my "Gramps was the best."
-----------Albert Deslippe also remembered as a young boy, he and his grandfather played many
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games of checkers together. His grandfather always beat him.
At one time Albert was employed by the Kelvinator Company. He was also worked as a
motorman on a streetcar line.
Albert died September 3, 1951. He is buried in Grandlawn Cemetery, Livonia, Michigan.
His second wife Margaret Blase who was born February 25, 1882, died 1 February of 1957,
and is buried in the same cemetery.
Albert married Margaret Bauldry on 10 Aug 1904 in Toronto, , Canada. Margaret was born
of Toronto, , Canada and was buried on 17 May 1911 in Forest Lawn Cem..
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vii. Mary Marie Watson was born on 4 May 1886 in
Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada and died on 18
Mar 1956 in Findlay, , Ohio at age 69.
General Notes: The Jordan/Stanchfield Family
History written by Linda Von Rueden Troolin & Jan
Jordan Lokensgard, 1994, Chapter III has:
7. MARY MARIE WATSON was born May 4,
1886. Marie, was the name she went by.
Her first husband was a man named Gail Jones. He
was born in Schenectady, NY. They had two
children, born in Detroit, before they divorced. Gail
remarried and lived in Grosse Point, which is in the
east Detroit area.
GAIL JONES, 89, DIES AFTER
ILLNESS
Gail L. Jones 89, of 232 North Street, died
Thursday, after a long illness.
Born in port Byron, he lived in the Auburn area most of his life. Between 1936 and 1956 he
operated his own electrical business in Detroit, Michigan.
He was a life member of the Odd Fellows in Detroit. He was a member of the Auburn and
Port Byron Senior Citizens Clubs.
Surviving are his widow Mrs. Adelaide March Jones; a son David Jones of Detroit,
Michigan; three granddaughters; seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Scott and Mann Funeral Home in port
Byron. Burial will be in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Port Byron.
Friends may call 7 to 9 tonight t the funeral home.
------------Her second husband was John Sieler and they lived in Findlay, Ohio and may also have
lived in Toledo, Ohio. The couple had a farm and may have raised trotters (horses) at one
time. Elnore McNatt, Tom Watson's step-daughter remembered, "Aunt Marie was a hoot."
She said Marie had goats and would walk them up on a ramp to milk them and would let
Elnore help. Elnore did not remember Marie marrying after John died, although she did have a
"significant other" in her life. Elnore has a picture of them together. The name in her obituary
was Sieler so it would bear this out. Freda Fox thought that Marie had married one of her
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boarders, possibly before John and had four marriages. This information is being added in
case anyone else decides to do research on Marie.
Marie was very close to her brother Tom Watson. Tom traveled a lot to see his family. One
of his favorite destinations was his sister Marie's home.
Marie died March 18, 1956 in Findlay, Ohio.
FINDLAY WOMAN TAKEN BY DEATH
Services Tomorrow For Mrs. Sieler
Mrs. Marie Sieler, 69, died in Blanchard Valley Hospital yesterday of a cerebral
hemorrhage. Her home was at 710 Trenton Avenue.
She was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, May 4, 1886. Her husband, John Sieler is dead.
Surviving are a son, David Jones, of Detroit; a brother, Thomas Watson, Detroit; four
sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Ball, of Windsor, Ontario, Anne, Grace and Freda Watson all of
Saskatchewan; five grandchildren and eight step-children.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Dubbs Funeral Home, Deshler, the Rev.
Emerson Iles officiating. Burial will be in Richfield Township Cemetery.
The body is at the funeral home.
Mary married John Seiler.
Mary next married Gail L. Jones.
+ 11 M viii. Thomas James Watson was born on 6 Dec 1887 in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada
and died on 7 Sep 1974 in Spring Valley, San Diego, California at age 86.
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ix. William Bain Watson was born on 7 May 1889 in
Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada, died on 28 Jan
1927 in Us VA Hospital, Rutland, Massachusetts at
age 37, and was buried in Rural Rutland, ,
Massachusetts.
General Notes: The Jordan/Stanchfield Family
History written by Linda Von Rueden Troolin & Jan
Jordan Lokensgard, 1994, Chapter III has:
9. WILLIAM BAIN WATSON was born May 7,
1889. Almost nothing is known about William,
because he never married so had no descendants. His
death certificate listed his occupation as laborer.
Informant for the certificate was listed as hospital
records. He was in the Canadian armed forces and
fought in World War I. He was tragically exposed to
poisonous gas. When he came back from the war, he
didn't want his family to know how ill he was. He
contracted tuberculosis which finally hospitalized him in 1923. Maybe this accounts for his
living away from the rest of the family.
William's death certificate said he had lived in Rutland three years, four months and 5 days.
The Dr. said he had been treating William since September 5, 1923. Perhaps then William
was in the hospital with his tuberculosis the entire time he was in Rutland. His mother Mary
Ellen was the beneficiary of his military benefits. He died January 10, 1927. at the U.S.
Veteran's Hospital, in Rutland, Mass., of tuberculosis of the lungs and amyloid degeneration
of the kidneys. An autopsy was performed. Grace and Leslie Young told me he was buried in
rural Rutland, Massachusetts and this was confirmed by his death certificate No obituary
was found by the Boston Historical Society when they checked several newspapers in that
area for it.
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x. Anna Watson was born on 8 Mar 1890 in Guelph,
Wellington, Ontario, Canada, died on 17 Dec 1976 at
age 86, and was buried in Assinboia, Sask..
General Notes: The Jordan/Stanchfield Family
History written by Linda Von Rueden Troolin & Jan
Jordan Lokensgard, 1994, Chapter III has:
10. ANNA WATSON was born November 7, 1894,
according to records researched by Bill and Lorraine
Young, and November 8, according to her family,
After leaving home, she worked in Guelph, for the
Sleemans, the same family her mother had worked
for as a girl. She married John Seele Martin, June
23, 1909, in Guelph
He was the son of John Seele Martin and Margaret
Mathilda Mitchell. John was born in Arthur,
Ontario, March 15, 1880. He served in the Ontario Militia from about 1896 to 1898.
Anna's story was written by her daughter Hazel. Hazel wrote, "John, known a Jack, went
west to Limerick, Sask., Canada in the spring of 1913, where he worked for a machinery
business. In the summer of 1913 he sent for Anna and baby daughter, Vera. They lived in
Limerick until 1914. The Martins moved to a farm to assist a sister of Jacks who was a
widow and had just lost her son in 1914. Second daughter Hazel was born here in 1922. Here
they farmed until 193_ when they moved to the Vantage district.
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The work on the farm was very hard for them. Jack had lost an arm in a threshing accident,
before he and Anna were married, in Ontario. Earl Osborne said Jack had a way of levering
the shovel under his partial arm and could shovel grain faster than most men with two arms.
They both worked the fields and had cattle, poultry and etc. They moved to the town of
Vantage in 1942. Here they ran the local post office and spent many happy years. They
retired to Pioneer Village in Assiniboia, Sask. in 1958. During their retirement they enjoyed
trips back home to Guelph, to Vancouver to see Freda and family, to San Diego to see Tom
and Mary, and to Nevada to visit Grace and family.
They enjoyed playing cards, the fellowship of many friends and were always young at
heart. John loved the "West" and although he enjoyed going back east to visit he never wished
to move back to Ontario. John was a life long member of the Orange Lodge. Both were
members of the United Church.
The couple celebrated their 60th anniversary in 1969. They had 64 years and two months
of marriage which ended when John died August 8, 1973. He was 93 years old. Anna died
December 17, 1976 at age 86. Both are buried in Assiniboia, Sask.
Anna married John Seele Martin. John was born on 15 Mar 1880 in Arthur, , Ontario, died
on 8 Aug 1973 at age 93, and was buried in Assinboia, Sask..
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xi. Henry Watson was born on 23 Sep 1892 in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada, died on
17 Jan 1900 in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada at age 7, and was buried in Woodlawn
Cem., Block K - Lot 90.
General Notes: Henry was kicked by a horse and died at aged 8.
The Jordan/Stanchfield Family History written by Linda Von Rueden Troolin & Jan Jordan
Lokensgard, 1994, Chapter III has:
11. HENRY WATSON started his brief life on September 23, 1892. He died after being
kicked by a horse, January 17, 1900, according to his obituary and January 19, according to
his gravestone. Perhaps the 19th was the day he was buried. He is buried beside his parents in
Woodlawn Cemetery in Guelph, Ontario. The newspaper clipping on his accident and death
were in the possession of Grace Young who gave them to Ralph Edie before her death.
PROBABLY FATAL ACCIDENT
Henry Watson, A Youth, Kicked By A Horse
Last evening Henry Watson, son of Mr. David Watson, residing below Sleeman' brewery,
on the Chadwick Farm, had the misfortune, while attending a horse, to be kicked in the
abdomen by the animal. The unfortunate lad was taken to the General Hospital and operated
on. It was found his condition was of precarious nature, and little hopes are held out for his
recovery.
-----------DIED
WATSON - At the General Hospital, Guelph, on the 17th January, Henry, son of David B.
Watson, aged 7 years. Funeral on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, from his father's residence,
Waterloo Road. Service at 1:30.
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xii. Grace Watson was born on 28 Jul 1894 in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada, died on 7
Jun 1970 at age 75, and was buried in Valley View Cemetery, Lyon, Nevada.
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xiii. Freda Watson was born on 28 Feb 1898 in
Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada, died on 15
Sep 1988 of Vancouver, , British Columbia at age
90, and was buried in Forest Lawn Mem., Burnaby,
British Columbia.
General Notes: The Jordan/Stanchfield Family
History written by Linda Von Rueden Troolin &
Jan Jordan Lokensgard, 1994, Chapter III has:
13. FREDA WATSON was born February 28,
1898. When she was nine years old she moved from
Guelph, to Rhylolite, Nevada, with her mother and
new step-father Jack Holly, and her two siblings
Grace and Edwin. Freda's son Ralph Edie wrote,
"Through teachers in both Rhyolite and Guelph,
who identified wild flowers for her, she developed a
life long interest in flowers. Also in Rhyolite,
Freda's teacher took her and the rest of the class up
the side of a mountain to view Halley's comet in
May, 1910." In 1979, Freda wrote in a letter to Linda Troolin about what was blooming in
her garden. Freda penned these lines, "I don't grow vegetables but we have two fruit trees,
two pear trees, two cherry and one apple tree. I have a lovely flower garden, mostly
perennials, have a lovely magnolia tree and two camellia trees. The yard is real pretty right
now with daphne, sedum, forget-me-nots, tulips, euphorbia, wallflowers, bleeding hearts,
liver wort, and primroses."
Jack Holly died and her mother married Richard Fisher in 1910. Freda, her parents, and
brother Edwin moved to Tonopah, Nevada briefly. Her mother, Mary Ellen didn't like it
there. Grace who had stayed in Rhyolite because she had a good job there with the phone
company, joined the family about six weeks later.
They moved to Mason Valley, now Yerington, Nevada, in about 1911.
The spring of 1912, the family moved to Sprucefield, Alberta to homestead land. While in
this area Freda went to school in a horse drawn bus.
Quoted from Ralph Edie, "Early in 1914, At the Sprucefield Post Office, on Neeland's
farm, Freda met a gentleman with long black hair from Ontario, Colin A. Edie. When Colin
went away to the First World War, he and Freda corresponded with each other and in one
letter Colin asked for her photograph. This request required a trip all the way from
Edmonton to a photographer's studio, and to earn money for this trip, Freda, with the help
of her brother Edwin, trapped and skinned muskrats. After waiting five years Colin returned
from overseas. Freda married him in McDougall Methodist Church, Edmonton, on December
7, 1920 A wedding dance was held at Freda's mother's home after the couple returned to
Sprucefield."
The following paragraphs have been extracted from a piece written by Ralph Edie: "Colin
Alexander Edie was born on January 6, 1890 at South Cayuga, Ontario. Colin lived on a farm
along Grand River, near Dunnville, Ontario where he attended a country school. During
several autumns, beginning in 1911, he took a harvest excursion train to western Canada to
work on threshing crews near Oban, Saskatchewan. In 1913 he filed on a homestead at
Sprucefield, SW21-60-19-4, and built and lived in a cabin there during the winter of 19131914".
"In November, 1914 Colin joined the 20th Infantry Battalion in Toronto and went overseas
early in 1915. He fought in the trenches in France, was awarded the Military Medal and the
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Distinguished Conduct Medal and then was promoted to Lieutenant".
"On the homestead Colin and Freda built a two story frame house whose exterior was
sheathed with vertical rough lumber boards. The house was later modified by its present
owner Nick Zinyk and still stands on the original location."
"Like other pioneers in the area, Colin worked hard with axe, horses, plow and dynamite to
clear land. To earn extra money he often was away from home for the months of October and
November on threshing crews as far away as Fort Saskatchewan."
"When Colin was away threshing, Freda was always concerned about leaving the children
alone when she went to the barn to milk the cows. On one occasion, when left alone, Ralph,
age two, poked most of the knives, forks, and spoons through the small hole in the top of the
air tight heater. On another occasion Ralph was caught stuffing buttons into baby brother
Colin's mouth. So, thereafter, as a precautionary measure, Freda used to tie Ralph's ankle to
the bedstead with a certain length of rope whenever she had to leave the children alone."
"In the summertime when meat was scarce Colin often rode a horse to Whitemud Lake,
camped overnight amongst millions of mosquitos, and brought back a gunny sack of jack
fish."
"Colin and Freda often went to dances in the old Sprucefield Hall. As there were no babysitters, it was common practice for young married couples to bring their children to dances
or whist drives and put the children to bed on blankets in the corner of the hall."
"In the fall of 1925, the family moved to Waskatenau, where Colin was postmaster,
telephone agent, and later justice of the peace".
"While the family lived in Waskatenau, Freda, besides doing her numerous household
chores, helped in the post office. She was active in the United Church Ladies Aid and
because of her artistic abilities, was often asked to design the invitations to the annual Easter
Tea. Freda curled with an afternoon ladies' group. Freda and Colin were avid bridge players,
occasionally playing until the wee hours of the morning with George and Lela Robinson, Will
and Nettie Wookey and Clarence and Elzetia Calvert".
In the fall of 1941 Colin, Freda, Donald, George and Grace moved to Vancouver. In 1942,
Colin joined the Veteran's Guard and was promoted to lieutenant, before getting his
discharge, in November 1945. He worked in Vancouver selling real estate periodically, until
1955 when he retired. He died in Shaughnessy Military Hospital, Vancouver, on January 16,
1962.
Linda Troolin, after discovering her Canadian cousins through her genealogy hobby,
corresponded with Freda for about ten years. Freda was so generous with her time,
answering many, many questions about the family tree. Linda had recently lost her last
grandparent, and when she got to know Freda, felt almost as if Freda were her grandmother.
Freda was one of those rare individuals who made a person feel warm and at ease. Her
genuine interest in family made her so endearing to everyone. Freda always had a compliment
or a kind word.
Freda adored children and she spent much of her later years traveling to see her offspring,
grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She would often write of her excitement over a new
baby born or her feeling of contentment after just having returned from a trip visiting her
beloved family. Freda was blessed with a long and full life, which she used to spread her
message of love to all those fortunate enough to know her.
FREDA EDIE
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Of Vancouver, B.C., formerly of Waskatenau, Alberta, on September 15, 1988, aged 90
years.
Freda was predeceased by her husband, Colin A. Edie in 1962. She is survive by her
daughter, Grace of Vancouver; four sons and three daughters-in-law, Ralph and Beth of
Calgary Alberta, Colin and Doreen of Abbotsford, BC; seven grandchildren and ten greatgrandchildren.
Funeral services were held September 19, at South Hill United Church, Vancouver.
Interment; Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Burnaby, B.C.
Freda Edie's excellent qualities included honesty, diligence, thrift, humility, a loving
willingness to serve others and a grateful, happy, and uncomplaining attitude even when
faced with pain and suffering. She had many true and lasting friends including women with
whom she worked closely in United Church Women's groups. Freda encouraged her children
in education and music. Throughout her life she loved and knew the names of various
flowers, both in the wild and those she cultivated in her garden. Her high principles and
cheerful, selfless philosophy represent an exemplary legacy for all who knew her.
Freda married Colin A. Edie. Colin died in 1962.
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xiv. Edwin Roy Watson was born on 15 Aug 1900 in
Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada.
General Notes: Edwin Watson eloped with his neice,
Hellen, in 1928. Hellen was the daughter of Edwin's
brother Albert, and left a husband. Edwin was never
heard from by the family thereafter.
The Jordan/Stanchfield Family History written by
Linda Von Rueden Troolin & Jan Jordan
Lokensgard, 1994, Chapter III has:
14. EDWIN WATSON was born August 15, 1900.
Edwin was the youngest of the Watson clan. The
next paragraphs were written by Ralph Edie.
"Edwin was quite musical and with enormous
persistence on his part and considerable forbearance
on the part of his mother and sister Freda, learned to play the violin by ear, without any
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formal instruction.
He was talked into enlisting in the Army by his step-father Richard Heyland, at age fifteen.
Edwin joined the Canadian Army and served in the 218th Overseas Battalion. After the war,
Edwin bought a car. Because of bad roads he had to be content with driving the car along a
half-mile stretch of road, back and forth between two mud holes.
About 1926, Edwin moved to Detroit. He was mechanically inclined and learned how to
maintain and repair elevators in department stores and hotels. In the early 1930's Edwin
moved from his Detroit residence and no one heard from him afterward."
Edwin was a family favorite and his disappearance was a great loss to his family. Earl
Osborne mentioned in one of his letters how his mother Grace longed to see her brother again
and always held out hope he would return.
Edwin was living with his brother Tom Watson when he left. It is assumed we have the
following information because Edwin confided it to Tom, hoping he would use his discretion
to use it as he saw fit. Tom must have shared it with some of the relatives to assure them
Edwin was alright. Edwin and his niece Helen Watson Sherer were very close to the same age.
They fell in love and wanted to be together. Helen disappeared at the same time as Edwin.
Their love was deep enough that both left their families forever, to be together. Perhaps they
felt their plan would spare what they must have perceived as a shadow on the family. After
hearing this story, Helen's sister and nephew both felt this information should be told to
answer the mystery to Edwin and Helen's disappearance.
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Third Generation (Grandchildren)
6. Ellen (Nellie) Watson (David Bain 2, Alexander 1) was
born on 26 Sep 1877 in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada and died in
Sep 1954 at age 77.
General Notes: The Jordan/Stanchfield Family History written
by Linda Von Rueden Troolin & Jan Jordan Lokensgard, 1994,
Chapter III has the following:
3. ELLEN (NELLIE) WATSON came into the world in Guelph
Township, Wellington County, Ontario, on September 26, 1877.
She married William Pinder, September 1 1897, in Galt, Ontario.
William was born August 4, 1864 in Guelph, Ontario.
Nellie's House in Guelph
The following biographical sketch on Nellie and William Pinder was given by Bill and Lorraine Young.
"They bought a 150 acre farm in Puslinch Township from James Laird. It is now an industrial basin in the
city of Guelph. When they lived there the land was used for general farming. There was a large maple bush
every spring they would make maple syrup and sell it along with the vegetables from their large garden.
Their one son Stanley and daughter Ellen lived with them and helped with the operation. William played
the violin for dances and entertainment at various gatherings. They moved from the farm in the late 1940's
and bought a house in Hespeler, Ontario. They had a small garden to look after. Ellen lived with them until
they both died in 1954."
Nellie's mother, Mary Ellen Laiture, lived with them in her later years until her death in 1944. Many of
the pictures we have of Mary Ellen were taken on Nellie and William's farm.
William died July, 14, 1954 and Nellie died October 2, 1954, both in Hesepeler, Ontario.
Ellen married Will Pinder on 1 Sep 1897 in Galt, Ontario, Canada.
Will was born on 4 Aug 1864 in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada
and died on 14 Jul 1954 in Hesepeler, Wellington, Ontario at age 89.
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The child from this marriage was:
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i. Stanley Pinder.
Stanley Pinder - Nellie's only son
(1965)
Bain 2,
Alexander 1)
11. Thomas James Watson (David
was
born on 6 Dec 1887 in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada and died on 7
Sep 1974 in Spring Valley, San Diego, California at age 86.
General Notes: The Jordan/Stanchfield Family History written by
Linda Von Rueden Troolin & Jan Jordan Lokensgard, 1994,
Chapter III has:
8. THOMAS JAMES WATSON was born the winter of 1887,
on December 6th. His birth certificate listed his parent's address
at this time as Keatings Survey. One of his nephews described
him as "a dear, gentle, man". Everyone interviewed concerning
Tom described him with words of endearment and love. His first
wife was Bell. No one remembered her maiden name. The couple
had one son Thomas Herbert. Tom and Bell were divorced, it has
been said that Bell had a vile temper.
Marietta Maust was Tom's second wife. Her maiden name was
Solomon. Mary as she was called, left her first husband in about
1934, she had five children. She moved into the same apartment
building that Tom lived in and that is how they met. After they
were married, the couple lived with Tom Watson's nephew and wife, Tom and Violet Jones, (Marie's son)
in Detroit, until they could find a place of their own. Mary's children were living with other family
members before she married Tom. Elnore McNatt, Mary's daughter, went to live with Tom and Mary
when she was thirteen. She adored her step-father. Elnore said, "When they made my dad [Tom] they
threw away the pattern. He was precious, such a doll, I thought he could walk on water." Elnore's brother,
Wally Maust, echoed her sentiments and said Tom treated his step-children very well. Ironically, he and
his son Tom were not close.
Tom became a citizen of the U.S., June 3, 1942. His naturalization papers describe him as 5' 10 3/4" tall,
174 pounds, brown eyes, dark brown hair, and fair complexion. He had a birthmark on the back of his
right hand that resemble an eye. An inside dark ring and an outside ring of whitish grey, raised about 1/8
inch. He wore glasses. His address was 2526 West Grand Blvd., Detroit, Michigan.
The following is an article on Tom's birthday in 1964.
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TOM WATSON HONORED GUEST AT SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY
A surprise birthday party, honoring Tom "Dad" Watson, was held December 6 at Sweetwater Lodge
recreation hall. It was Tom's first birthday party although he celebrated his 77th birthday. Hosting the
affair were Vera and Wally Maust of El Cajon, Pat and Jerry Maust of Spring Valley, Elnore and Lewis
McNatt and son Lewis, Jr. of Santee.
The centerpiece on the gaily decorated table was a cake with one candle. After Tom opened his gifts, the
group enjoyed card games.
Guests present were the R. H. Bonhams, Roy and Lois Bernhardt, the H.R. Darnells, Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Gay, the Hank Gandenburgers, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kunkle, the Ernest Marshalls, Mr. and Mrs.
Delno Williams, the Clarence Wilsons Jennie Boudreau, Pearl Diddams, Grace Leathers and Evelyn May.
Tom Watson and his brother Albert always played cribbage when they got together. They used a
handmade cribbage board that Elnore McNatt still has.
Tom worked at GM and later he and Mary ran a family gift shop, in Detroit, at 12th and Ferry Park.
Mary's son Jerry worked for them. After their retirement the Watson's moved to Spring Valley, California
near San Diego. Tom had a stroke and Elnore moved to Spring Valley to help care for him and her mother.
They lived in the same trailer park. Tom died September 7, 1974. Earl Osborne wrote, "Mary died a few
years after Uncle Tom. They were very close and Aunt Mary didn't want to live after Uncle Tom died".
Mary had diabetes and went blind. She died February 27, 1977.
The Social Security Death Index indicates THOMAS WATSON 06 Dec 1887 Sep 1974 92077 (Spring
Valley, California) (none specified) 362-10-6930 Michigan.
Thomas married Bell.
The child from this marriage was:
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i. Thomas Herbert Watson.
Thomas next married Marietta "Mary" Maust . Marietta was born
on 1 Jul 1903 in Probably, , Michigan and died on 27 Feb 1977 at age
73.
General Notes: The Social Security Death Index contains:
MARY WATSON 01 Jul 1903 Feb 1977 92077 (California)
92077 362-10-6928 Michigan
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15. Grace Watson (David Bain 2, Alexander 1) was born
on 28 Jul 1894 in Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada, died on 7 Jun
1970 at age 75, and was buried in Valley View Cemetery, Lyon, Nevada.
General Notes: THIS IS THE EULOGY OF GRACE
(MOMDA) WATSON OSBORNE DINI AS PREPARED BY
TOMMI OSBORNE
MOMDA
Grace Watson was born July 28, 1894, one of fourteen children
born to David B. Watson and Mary Ellen Watson (nee Jordan) at
Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Grace's father, David B. Watson, was
a Scottish dance master from Aberdeen, Scotland and a brewer
by trade.
After the death of her husband in 1903, Mary Ellen remarried in
1906 and moved to the boom town of Rhyolite, Nevada. Grace,
Freda and Edwin, the three youngest children accompanied them.
Grace, as a young girl worked as an operator for the telephone company at Rhyolite. (In the mid 2000's
Grace's grandson Daniel Osborne, his wife Haydee, granddaughter Darlene and her husband Roy Leggitt
visited Rhyolite. The part of the Cook Bank building that contained the telephone exchange had long since
eroded away. However, scattered about the area were part of the batteries used in the telephone exchange.
The Internet site for Rhyolite is http://www.rhyolitesite.com/)
When the Rhyolite boom was over the family moved to Tonapah, then to Mason Valley, Nevada and
lived on what was known as the Morris Ranch at the southern end of the valley.
In Mason Valley Grace met and married a prosperous valley rancher Sidney Phelps Osborne. Children
from this union were Ellen L. Osborne (Scierine, Large), Roy E. Osborne, and Earl R. Osborne. In later
years, after a remarriage and divorce, Grace married Edward Dini, a local farmer. She cared for him
through many years of multiple sclerosis. Grace died June 7, 1970.
These are the facts and figures of Grace's life; but they cannot reveal the life of Grace. She was truly the
"blithe spirit" of the poem. He happiest moments were playing the piano. With no formal musical
training Grace really brought life to any music she played. In her last years, and ill herself, she spent
hours playing for those "poor old souls" (her words) at the convalescent home in Carson city. Momda
(as all of her children called her) never acknowledged that her stay in the home was necessary, or
permanent. With that attitude of course, she soon could come home to Yerington. She continued to visit
and play for the people in the convalescent home as long as she could.
Momda was a singularly uncomplicated person. Direct, and loving, she didn't need to look for the best in
people .. that was all she truly saw.
To see and hear Momda laugh was a joy in itself. As her grin grew wider her eyes disappeared and her
laugh was so infectious that you found yourself joining her in laughter, even if you didn't know the joke.
Momda loved people and parties, but she was also a dedicated homemaker, caring for and serving those
she loved all her days. Even in the worst times there was joy in living around Grace.
She loved and worked for the church in Yerington even though her attendance was irregular in her later
years.
Momda died July 1970, but her loving joyous spirit lives on in her children.
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Family lore has it that there is Indian background in the current Osborne generations. There are several
photographs of Grace in which there is a striking resemblance of Grace's facial structure to that of an
Aleut or Eskimo (in the eye of the author, RCL). In a family photograph taken in about 1901, Grace is
the only one with this appearance, but there is no question of the resemblance. Grace's son Roy shares
this striking resemblance, especially in his earlier photographs. Even at the age of 76 there is no question
as to the genetic influence. To a certain extent, her daughter Ellen also had this appearance. Her other
son, Earl, has a slight American Indian appearance.
Surprisingly, photographs published in The Jordan/Stanchfield Family History, written by Linda Von
Rueden Troolin and Jan Jordan Lokensgard in 1994, show both of Grace's parents have Indian facial
appearances. This is especially amazing because David Bain Watson was born in Scotland
The Jordan/Stanchfield Family History written by Linda Von Rueden Troolin & Jan Jordan Lokensgard,
1994, Chapter III has:
12. GRACE (MOMDA) WATSON was born in Guelph, July 28, 1894. The information on Grace was
written by her son Earl Osborne, and will be paraphrased or quoted in the following sentences. After her
father's death her mother remarried a man named Jack Holly. She was one of three children who migrated
from Canada, with her mother Mary Ellen and new step-father, to Rhyolite, Nevada, September 1, 1907.
Shortly after they arrived there Jack Holly died. While in Rhyolite, Grace worked very hard to help her
mother support the family. She stayed out of school the first year she was there to assisted her mother
with her laundry business, by ironing. Grace helped to care for her two younger siblings Freda and Edwin.
She also worked at the Miner's hospital her mother ran and was one o the first telephone operators in
Rhyolite.
When her mother married a third time the family moved to Mason Valley and soon after Grace joined
them. In Mason Valley Grace met and married a prosperous valley rancher, Sidney Phelps Osborne,
March 28, 1912. He was born in Burlington, Michigan September 9, 1877 to Charles and Emily Osborne.
Phelps' mother returned to Michigan to give birth to Phelps as she preferred to have he firstborn child
born in a more civilized environment than existed in Nevada at that time.
Ranching was Phelps' primary occupation, but he enjoyed prospecting for gold but never did strike it
rich. Phelps was a Methodist and enjoyed attending church. He was involved in the social activities of the
Mason Valley Improvement Club, a group of relatives, friends, and neighbors, who got together on
Saturday nights to entertain and enjoy each others company. Phelps joined in many a skit or play and also
loved the dancing.
Grace and Phelps divorced, and Phelps continued to ranch until WW II.
During that time he worked at the Hawthorne Munitions Ordinance Station. He retired after the war but
continued prospecting as a hobby. He died on Halloween of 1948, at Hobart Wray Hospital, Fallon,
Nevada. He is interred at the Valley View Cemetery in Mason Valley, Nevada. He left a legacy of love for
the land and particularly for Mason Valley.
Grace married Edward Dini, a local farmer. She cared for him through many years of multiple sclerosis.
Those are the facts and figures of Grace's life, but they cannot reveal the life of Grace. She was truly the
"blithe spirit" of the poem. Her happiest moments were spent playing the piano. With no formal musical
training, Grace really brought life to any music she played. In her last years, ill herself, she spent hours
playing for "those poor old souls" (her words) at the convalescent home in Carson City. Momda as her
children called her, never acknowledged that her stay in the home was necessary, or permanent. With that
attitude, of course, she soon came home to Yerington. She continued to visit an play for the people in the
convalescent home as long as she could.
(After Grace;s death her son Earl took possession of her piano. In the 1990s Earl sold his house and
moved into smaller abode. His son Danny then took possession of the piano. When Danny sold his house
in 2006, Danny passed the piano on to his nephew Jess Osterberg. There is a picture of Grace playing the
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piano in the mid-fifties with granddaughters Darlene and Kathleen looking on. The picture is in the picture
section of Grace;s record.)
Momda was a singularly uncomplicated person. Direct and loving, she didn't need to look for the best in
people, that was all she truly saw. To see and hear Momda laugh was a joy in itself. As her grin grew
wider, her eyes disappeared and her laugh was so infectious that you found yourself joining her laughter
even though you didn't know the joke.
Momda loved people and parties, but she was also a dedicated homemaker, caring for and serving those
she loved all of her days. Even in the worst of times, there was joy in living around Grace.
She loved and worked for the church in Yerington even though her attendance was irregular in her later
years.
Momda died June 7, 1970 but her joyous spirit lives on in her children.
Grace married Sidney Phelps Osborne, son of Charles Barton
Osborn and Emily Barton, on 28 Mar 1912 in So. Mason Valley,
Lyon, Nevada. The marriage ended in divorce. Sidney was born on 9
Sep 1877 in Burlington, Calhoun, Michigan, died on 31 Oct 1948 in
Fallon, Churchill, Nevada at age 71, and was buried in Valley View
Cemetery, Lyon, Nevada. The cause of his death was Blockage in his
intestinal track.
General Notes: The 1920 Federal Census for Lyon County,
Spragg Precinct, West Mason Valley, Mason Town, enumerated
on 31 Jan - 2 Feb 1920, lists Phelps Osborne with his wife Grace
and children Ellen, Roy, and Earl. Phelps' occupation is farmer.
(Interestingly, his mother listed as Emma Osborne is enumerated
in the previous entry with her son-in-law Frank V. and daugher
Alice Perry with their children George, Francis, and Grace - all
three children were born in California.)
File written by Adobe Photoshop¨ 4.0
Source of children's birth and marriage: Family records
maintained by Earl Richard Osborne.
According to Tommi Osborne his nickname was Pops. (Grace's was Momda.)
Sidney Phelps Osborne, known as Phelps or S.P. Osborne, was born in Michigan 9 September 1877 to
Charles and Emily Osborn. Emily returned to Michigan to give birth to Phelps as she preferred to have
her firstborn child in a more civilized environment than existed in Nevada at that time. (RCL note: for
years I have tried to find the reason he was named Phelps. The only rationale I can find is that Phelps was
a prominent family name in the Tekonsha area where his grandfather Cornelius lived in the mid 1800s. In
fact, the 1850 census shows Cornelius lived very near a Phelps family. Sidney, of course, comes from his
gradfather William Sidney Barton.)
Ranching was Phelp's primary occupation, but he did enjoy prospecting for gold. However, he never did
strike it rich in that field.
Phelps and Grace Watson were married on 28 March 1912 and Ellen, Roy and Earl were born of this
union.
Phelps was a Methodist and enjoyed attending church. He also enjoyed the social activities of the Mason
Valley Improvement Club, a group of relatives and friends and neighbors who got together on Saturday
nights to entertain and enjoy each others company. Phelps joined in many a skit or play, and also loved
the dancing. The Mason Valley Improvement Club was unique in its time. No liquor was to be consumed
in the building, a rule that was strictly enforced.
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After Grace and Phelps were divorced, Phelps continued to ranch until WWII. During that time he worked
at the Hawthorne Munitions Ordinance Station. He retired after the war but continued prospecting as a
hobby.
Phelps died on 31 October 1948, leaving a legacy of love for the land and particularly for Mason Valley.
He died of a blockage in his intestinal track.
Vernon Pursel provided a newspaper obituary dated November 4, 1948.
Valley Pioneer Dies Saturday
Yerington. Phelps Osborne, a pioneer resident of Mason Valley, died Saturday morning in the Fallon
hospital where he underwent an operation the preceding day. He had been seriously ill only a few days.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon from the Pioneer Merthodist church, with Rev. Marvin
Quattlebaum officiating. Phelps joined this church on October 5, 1894, and had been an active worker.
He was born in Michigan on Sept. 9, 1877, the son of Charles and Emily Osborne and came to this valley
with his parents when an infant. He had made his home here since, with the exception of the past two
winters which he had spent in California.
In 1912 he was married to Grace Watson, and three children survive: Roy of Mason Valley, Earl of
Sacramento, and Mrs. Ellen Scierene of Bridgeport. He is also survived by four grandchildren, two sisters,
Mrs. Loren J. Pye of Reno, and Mrs Emma Batchelder of Yerington, four nephews and six nieces. The
husbands of the six nieces acted as pallbearers.
The funeral was at the Freitas Funeral Parlors and interment was in the local cemetery.
Children from this marriage were:
+ 20 F
i. Ellen Lucinda Osborne was born on 7 Jan 1913 in Osborne Ranch, Lyon, Nevada, died on
27 May 1987 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada at age 74, and was buried in Valley View
Cemetery, Lyon, Nevada.
+ 21 M
ii. Roy Edwin Osborne was born on 27 May 1917 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada, died on 20 Mar
2005 in Reno, Washoe, Nevada at age 87, and was buried in Valley View Cemetery, Lyon,
Nevada.
+ 22 M
iii. Earl Richard Osborne was born on 20 Jun 1919 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada, was
christened on 10 Jul 1921 in Methodist Church, Yerington, Nevada, died on 1 Apr 2006 in
Yerington, Lyon, Nevada at age 86, and was buried on 4 Apr 2006 in Valley View Cemetery,
Lyon, Nevada.
Grace next married Wildord Bauman about 1931 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada. The marriage ended in divorce.
Wildord was born about 1907 in , , Utah and died about 1985 in Probably Yerington, Lyon, Nevada about age
78.
General Notes: After he married Grace, he sharecropped on several ranches, including the Wise and Van
Fleet ranches. Phelps Osborne even gave them several heads of livestock to get them started, but George
was never was successful in Yerington.
Roy Osborne lived with his father and Ellen had married. Earl lived with his mother and George.
In about 1933 George and Grace moved to Montana after they sold their worldly possessions for $525.
They made a down payment on a farm in Pleasant Valley. Unfortunately, before planting, all of the trees
would need to be cleared before a crop could be planted. George didn't have time to do this and worked as
a sheepherder. Earl cleared some of the trees for fuel. Later, George and Earl worked gathering and putting
up hay. They used this money to move on to Logan, Utah where Earl went to high school for one
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semester. By mid-winter time, the family had moved back to Yerington.
Earl graduated from high school in Yerington in 1938. After working in the area for about a year, he
moved out to start his own life.
George and Grace worked for Jack Sceirine (Ellen's husband) for some time and lived there on the ranch.
After Earl had married, George and Grace joined them in Fresno, California. Shortly thereafter, in about
1942, they separated. George and Grace separately returned to Yerington. They runited for a time, but by
1950 they had divorced.
George wandered around California following the fruit crops.
George remarried and had children. In fact, Drew Osborne married his daughter Rose.
There is an entry in the Social Security Death Index as follows:
GEORGE W BOWMAN 21 Aug 1906 09 Mar 1991 (not specified) (none specified) 530-05-2715
Nevada. However, Earl Osborne recalls George died while he was working at the Anaconda Mine that has
been closed since at least the 70s, so this in all probability not the same person.
Grace next married Edward Dini about 1957 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada. Marriage status: spouse died in Aug
1965. Edward was born on 28 Jan 1900 and died in Aug 1975 at age 75. They had no children.
General Notes: Social Security Death Index: EDWARD DINI 28 Jan 0000 Aug 1965 (not specified)
(none specified) 530-01-2397 Nevada. However, the Osborne family recalls he and Grace were married
about 18 years, making his death in about 1975.
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20. Ellen Lucinda Osborne (Grace Watson 3, David Bain 2,
Alexander 1) was born on 7 Jan 1913 in Osborne Ranch, Lyon,
Nevada, died on 27 May 1987 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada at age 74, and
was buried in Valley View Cemetery, Lyon, Nevada.
General Notes: The November 2nd, 1929 edition of the Reno
Evening Gazette contained an article entitled Yerington News in
Brief Form. It mentioned the Masonic Ladies' Aid Society held
their regular social at the church last Friday. The spirit of
Hallowe'en was carried out in the games and decorations and the
refreshments. Those enjoying the afternoon were Mesdames
George Batchelder, A. J. Van Fleet, H. A. Van Fleet, Earl
Wilson, S. O. Dykes, I. S. Dickson, H. Forbush, C. Fanning,
Grace Osborne, Rev. and Mrs. Marston, and the Misses Ellen
Osborne and Isabelle Moore.
Earl Osborne said Ellen was the book keeper and a good
business person in her own right, therefore at Jack's death she
was able to manage the ranches.
Her hobbies were painting ceramics especially antique collecting.
Her house had the appearance of a small museum or antique
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In the March 5th, 1949 edition of the Reno Evening Gazette, an article entitled Textile Painting is
Demonstrated at Club Meeting. Yerington - Textile painting featured the recent meeting of the Home and
Arts club held at the home of Josephine Manha recently. Mrs. Winnie Ricci was co-hostess, and during the
business meeting the group contributed to the March of Dimes Drive. Refreshments were served to
Mesdames Marion McKenzie, Rolene Guild, Rose Minister, Ann Black, Florence Bucknam, Louise Burr,
Helen Rosaschi, Mary Aiazzi, Ruth Baker, Enid Menesini, Grace Bauman, Beula James, Corrine Wastun,
Jessica Miller, Jeannie Osborne, Ellen Scierine, Florence Tamangi, Margaret Bonino, Elsene Dominici,
Gertrude Dini, Gertrude Pursel, Zera Marquiss, Mary Ann Morgan, Polly Page and Miss Madge Elder,
county extension agent, who gave the demonstration on textile painting.
A 1958 article in the Nevada State Journal discussed the displaying of rugs made by Mrs. Jack Sceirine of
Yerington Shosonean, similar to Navajo weaving, and made of discarded wearing apparel. Darlene recalls
her Aunt Ellen making many quilts for charity auctions. Darlene still has one of them.
A 1964 article in the that newspaper indicated that Mrs. Jack Sceirine was the vice president of the
Western Nevada CowBelles, an organization of women interested in the welfare of the beef industry.
While Stanley and Jackie were in their teens the family band played for dances at Bridgeport, California,
Ellen on guitar, Jack on banjo, and both boys played accordions.
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Ellen married Ceges Jack Sceirine, son of Joseph Sceirine and
Nellie Scossa, on 22 May 1931 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada. Ceges
was born on 17 Sep 1906 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada, died on 8 Feb
1977 in Sweetwater Ranch, , Nevada at age 70, and was buried in
Valley View Cemetery, Lyon, Nevada.
General Notes: Earl Osborne said:
Jack had cattle ranching in his blood. He had no interest in
traveling and was always anxious to get back to the ranch. It
seemed that his main purpose was to expand the ranch and his
cattle herd.
Perhaps he had inherited this tendency from his father Joseph,
who as an emigrant, worked for $0.50 per day as a ranch hand,
but with the help of his large family who for the most part
stayed on the ranch into adulthood, amassed thousands of acres
of land and thousands of cattle. This land consisted of lush
meadows for the most part.
At Joseph's death these ranchers were left to the family but this was not a workable partnership.
Therefore an agreement was made to divide the ranches among individual heirs. Jack and Ellen's portion
consisted of several thousand acres and a large herd of cattle.
The Social Security Death Index contains: CEGES SCEIRINE 17 Sep 1906 Feb 1977 89444
(Wellington, Lyon, NV) (none specified) 530-20-5818 Nevada
Children from this marriage were:
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i. Stanley Dale Sceirine was born on 5 Apr 1935 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada.
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ii. Jackie Duane Sceirine was born on 15 Jan 1939 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada, died on 8
Nov 1997 in Washoe Med Cen, Reno, Nevada at age 58, and was buried on 14 Nov 1997 in
Valley View Cemetery, Lyon, Nevada.
21. Roy Edwin Osborne (Grace Watson 3, David Bain 2,
Alexander 1) was born on 27 May 1917 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada,
died on 20 Mar 2005 in Reno, Washoe, Nevada at age 87, and was buried
in Valley View Cemetery, Lyon, Nevada. The cause of his death was Roy
died of liver and kidney failure related to long time urinary track problems.
General Notes: The Reno Evening Gazette (Reno Nevada) June
2, 1934, had an article "Birthday Party Given for Boy":
Yerington, NV., June 2 - Honoring her grandson, Lowell, on his
sixteenth birthday, Mrs. Bertha Hillygus entertained Mr. and
Mrs. F. A. Hilligus, Dr. and Mrs. Rathbun, Mrs Nelly Logan,
Mrs. Grace McGowan, Mr. and Mrs. Ted McGowan, Roy
Osborne, Phelps Osborn, Ed Hilligus, Frank Robinson, George
Chnurchyard, Joe and John Gomi, Andrew Rosachi and Louis
Menesisn.
The Reno Evening Gazette May 29, 1937, had an article
"Dashiell Speaker at Graduation in Mason" said that the program
included "remembrance," saxaphone duet by Dell Farrell and Roy Osborne.
His archived service record indicated:
ARMY SERIAL NUMBER 19052763 19052763
NAME OSBORNE#ROY#E########### OSBORNE#ROY#E###########
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RESIDENCE: STATE 94 NEVADA
RESIDENCE: COUNTY 019 LYON
PLACE OF ENLISTMENT 9175 SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA
DATE OF ENLISTMENT DAY 10 10
DATE OF ENLISTMENT MONTH 06 06
DATE OF ENLISTMENT YEAR 41 41
GRADE: ALPHA DESIGNATION PVT# Private
GRADE: CODE 8 Private
BRANCH: ALPHA DESIGNATION AC# Air Corps
BRANCH: CODE 20 Air Corps
FIELD USE AS DESIRED # #
TERM OF ENLISTMENT 0 Undefined Code
LONGEVITY ### ###
SOURCE OF ARMY PERSONNEL 0 Civil Life
NATIVITY 76 NEBRASKA
YEAR OF BIRTH 17 17
RACE AND CITIZENSHIP 1 White, citizen
EDUCATION 4 4 years of high school
CIVILIAN OCCUPATION 999 Undefined Code
MARITAL STATUS 6 Single, without dependents
COMPONENT OF THE ARMY 1 Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, and
Enlisted Men)
CARD NUMBER # #
BOX NUMBER 0303 0303
FILM REEL NUMBER 3.25# 3.25#
After Roy was discharged from the Army Air Force in 1946 he wrote the following:
Roy enlisted in the Army Air Corps in the summer of 1941. He was NCO in charge of aircraft refueling
until he entered pilot training in early 1943. He graduated pilot training in January 1944.
Jean met Roy in Los Angeles in January 1944 after he had graduated from Williams Field at Chandler,
Arizona. He went overseas in May 1944. During WWII, Roy flew P-38s and P-51s in the European
Theater. He had a total of 38 combat missions in France and Belgium flying the P-38 and 21 combat
missions flying the P-51 in Germany. As can be seen from the photo above, Roy received many medals
and awards, including the Air Medal with seven oak leaf clusters and the French Croix de Guerre with
Silver Gilt Star. He returned in November 1945. After brief assignments in California, Arizona, and
Texas, Roy returned to civilian life in June 1946.
Here is what Roy wrote about his experiences in World War Two:
Left U.S for England 27 May 44 arriving June 10 at Liverpool. Assigned to 370th Fighter Group at
Andover, England. About the 25th of June we moved to the first landing strip on the French coast. We
flew P-38's in close support of the Infantry and held our end in St. Lo and the Falaie Gap. While Paris
was being taken we flew long range wrecking missions deep into Belgium, Holland and the out skirts of
Ruhr Valley. By winter we had a hard surfaced field in Belgium within easy reach of all German
communications east of Berlin. The German Air Force paid us several visits and succeeded in keeping us
pretty much on the alert.
We were at Florennes, Belgium when Von Runstead made his drive and got within artillery range of our
base. But for the weather he would have cooked our goose. After eleven days of fog we got a break and
36 P-38's knocked out over 400 of his machines in two hours. I got well acquainted with our tanks during
the next 30 days up front directing the fighter bombers. January in Belgium in 4 feet of snow is not a
pleasant time. Getting back to the outfit I lost an engine near Berlin and spent 2 hours dodging the
German Air Force trying to get back. Thanks to my radio and our radar I lived to lose an engine tho two
following days.
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I was so weary of war they sent me to the Mediterranean for a rest and a view of real sunshine. After a
week I returned to find we had a flock of P-51's. I lived through the trial period and the fourth hop was
escorting British Lane's dropping Block Busters on the Ruhr. Jerrie's jets kept us pretty busy. With the
capture of the Ruhr and Central Germany, we moved to Gutersloh in the central part of Germany where
we were when the end came. We later moved to Manheim where I saw Lowell Hillygus for a short visit.
We later moved to Fritzlar, then Stuttgart. Here the 370th broke up and I was flown to England to board
the Queen Mary for New York arriving 6 Oct 1945. Two days later was flown to the West Coast to
marry the girl who waited for my return.
Jean met Roy in Los Angeles in January 1944 after he had graduated from Williams Field at Chandler,
Arizona. He went overseas in May 1944. During WWII, Roy flew P-38s and P-51s in the European
Theater. He returned in November 1945.
The Reno Evening Gazette November 23, 1945 in the Yerington Social Notes of Interest section said:
Yerington, Miss Genevia Collier and Lt. Roy Osborne were married Saturday afternoon at the home of
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Bann. The Rev. Halsey Carstens officiated at the double ring ceremony
in the presence of close friends and members of the family. A reception was held that evening at the
South-end community hall.
Roy and Jean were married November 17, 1945. Roy remained in the Air Force until November 1946.
Jean traveled with him from base to base.
Roy and Jean moved onto the old Osborne homestead he had inherited in March 1948. When hay got
down to $17.00 a ton, Roy began working at the Anaconda mine in Yerington, NV. For the last fifteen
years he operated a ten yard capacity clam shell gantry. While Roy worked at the mine, Jean took over
the irrigating and bucketed hay bales by hand and drove the tractor on the farm. Roy did the bailing hay
and corrected Jean's mistakes.
In the May 6th 1953 edition, the Nevada State Journal reported in the Yerington Social Notes that Roy
Osborne was installed as the junior vice commander for VFW Post 1094.
In the September 13, 1955 edition of the Reno Evening Gazette, in the Weed Heights section, "Mr. Roy
Osborne has returned to his job at Weed Heights after being in the hospital."
They sold the ranch in 1967 but kept the house and out buildings on 3.7 acres.
Roy retired on July 28, 1978 when the mine closed down.
For at least twenty years after his retirement, Roy ran a log-splitting operation from his home, south of
Yerington on Osborne Lane. (According to his wife Jean, Osborne Lane was laid out in the 1860s and it
was still not paved in 1998.)
Roy's obituary is as follows:
A service for Roy Edwin Osborne, 87, a lifetime Yerington resident, will be at 10 a.ma Saturday at the
Yerington Senior Center, 177 Tilson Way.
Mr. Osborne died March 20, 2005, at Washoe Medical Center. He was born May 27, 1917, on a ranch in
Yerington to Sydn ey Phelps and Grace Osborne.
He Married Genevia Leora on Nov. 17, 1946.
Mr. Osborne was an electrical engineer. He was a member of the Hall of Fame National P-38 Association.
He read the encyclopedia for fun, and had a quest for knowledge. He served in the U.S. Air Force during
World War II and attended flight school.
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Among his survivors are his wife, son, Drew A.; and brother, Earl, all of Yerington; seven grandchildren;
eight great-grandchildren; and numerous extended family members.
Freitas Rupracht Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
The Mar 26, 2005 Mason Valley News had the following:
Roy Edwin Osborne passed away Sunday, March 20, 2005 at Washoe Medical Center in Reno. He was
87.
Mr. Osborne was born in Yerington on May 27, 1917 son of Sydney and Grace Osborne. He has lived in
the same house since his birth. He graduated from Yerington High School. He was a P-38 and P-51 pilot
in the United States Air Force during WWII. He had received numerous medals from the U.S., and earned
the highest medal from France. He was a member of the Hall of Fame National P-38 Association. After
the service, he was an electrical engineer. After retirement, he cut and sold firewood. He read
encyclopedias for fun and a quest for knowledge. "He was the most intelligent man you'll meet."
He is survived by his wife, Genevia; son, Drew; brother, Earl Osborne, all of Yerington. He is also
survived by seven grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; numerous nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles.
Memorial service will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, March 26, 2005 at the Senior Center in Yerington.
Cremation arrangements were under the direction of Freitas Rupracht Funeral Home, 25 Hwy 208 in
Yerington, Nevada, (775) 463-2911.
ROY E OSBORNE 27 May 1917 20 Mar 2005 (V) 89447 (Yerington, Lyon, NV ) (none specified)
530-07-5494 Nevada
Roy married Genevia Leora Collier, daughter of Emmett Collier
and Ida May Carder, on 17 Nov 1945 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada.
Genevia was born on 26 Nov 1919 in Belle, Maries, Missouri, died on
23 May 2005 in Gardnerville, Douglas, Nevada at age 85, and was
buried in Valley View Cemetery, Lyon, Nevada.
General Notes: According to Jean, her family only lived in Belle
for a month after her birth before they moved to Colorado. Her
father died when she was four and her mother put the three
children in an orphanage. She remarried a year later and took her
brother, sister, and her home.
Jean drove a school bus for 25 years for the Lyon County Schools
and retired 10-6-90.
GENEVIA L OSBORNE 26 Nov 1919 23 May 2005 (V) 89447
(Yerington, Lyon, NV ) (none specified) 522-14-7713
Colorado
Children from this marriage were:
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i. Lowell Richard Osborne was born on 14 May 1950 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada, died on 19
Jul 1999 in Severn, Anne Arundel, Maryland at age 49, and was buried on 23 Jul 1999 in
Military Grave Site.
+ 26 M
ii. Drew Allen Osborne was born on 29 Jul 1952 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada, died on 19 Dec
2006 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada at age 54, and was buried in Valley View Cemetery, Lyon,
Nevada.
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22. Earl Richard Osborne (Grace Watson 3, David Bain 2,
Alexander 1) was born on 20 Jun 1919 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada,
was christened on 10 Jul 1921 in Methodist Church, Yerington, Nevada,
died on 1 Apr 2006 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada at age 86, and was buried
on 4 Apr 2006 in Valley View Cemetery, Lyon, Nevada. The cause of his
death was Leukemia.
General Notes: Source of children's births and marriages:
Osborne family records.
Earl was born and raised on a farm in Yerington, Nevada. In his
early teens, after the separation of his parents, he lived with his
mother and stepfather. (His sister Ellen was already married and
his brother Roy lived with their father.) Earl's mother and
stepfather moved often and at the age of 14 he went with them
to Montana and later to Logan, Utah before returning to
Yerington where he finished high school. He was very shy as a
young man. He was interested in school sports but wasn't
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allowed to participate because he had lost a kidney from a fall
from a horse. This was a blow to his ego. As the old song goes
"You Gotta Be a Football Hero to Get Along with the Beautiful Girls."
The May 10th 1937 edition of the Reno Evening Gazett had an article entitled Roll of Honor Given at
Lyon. The honor roll for the Yerington High School for the past six week period was announced as
follows: Eighty-five to ninety - ... Earl Osborne.
While at Yerington High School Earl played in the band. Darlene still has his band letter.
The June 1st 1938 edition had an article entitled Yerington Class to Graduate Friday. Thirty-five seniors
will receive their diplomas from the high school here on Friday evening at commencement exercises to be
held at Rink Hall. This is one of the largest classes ever to graduate from the local high school. The past
weekend has been taken up with student activities which began Saturday evening with the junior - senior
banquet and the senior ball. The banquet was held at Spangler hall and members of the junior and senior
classes and the faculty were guests... The following seniors will receive their diplomas: Roy Alazzi, Fred
Barrett, Charles Booth, Frank Booth, Jim Borge, Victor Bernard, Ray Charlebols, Joy Chiantelli, Mario
Dini, Eleanor Fabri, Norma Fabri, Claude Farrell, LaVerda Fitzgerald, Pat Gallager, Bernice Gastman,
Marie Gomes, Easter Hanson, Ruth Hansen, Etalo Lommori, Bill Mathews, Frank McGowan, Gerald
McGowan, Florence Malonchi, Leona Osborn, Stanley Osborne, Earl Osborne, Idanne Perry, Gene
Powers, Louie Romani, Peter Rosaschi, Lela Sciarani, Florence Strosnider, Anne Wagoner, Frances Willis
and Arthur Warken.
On Feb.13, 1940 the Nevada State Journal carried an article entitled Birthday Fete Held on Friday.
Dayton - A birthday dinner was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kraai Friday evening honoring
Mr. Kraai. A birthday cake was the center of attraction and dinner was served to Mr. and Mrs. Al
Lungrum, the Masters Lyle and Douglas Stoner, Max McCallum and Mulligan from Como, Earl
Osborne, Sidney Kraai, Miss Wanda Kraai and the host and hostess.
He became involved in the Roosevelt NYA (National Youth Administration) where he met his first wife
Sibyl. The military wouldn't accept him because of his kidney condition. However, he spent most of his
working career as a civil servant with the military. He started as an aircraft carburetor mechanic and later
became an aircraft engine inspector. At approximately age 35 he began studies of electronics and then
worked at the Sacramento Signal Depot as an Electronic Technician. He continued his civil service career
at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California where he was employed as an Atlas Missile
Inertial Guidance Systems Analyst (trouble shooter.) Much of his time was spent at various missile
sites throughout the USA.
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In 1965 Earl began working for Naval Operations at Point Magu Naval Base as a Communications
Electronic Technician. He was able to take advantage of a federal employee's early retirement program
and retired in 1974 at age 55.
Earl and Tommi built their retirement home in Smith Valley, Nevada where he enjoyed doing church
work and playing the accordion for various occasions. Torn and disconnected tendons and muscles in his
shoulders prevented his playing the accordion any longer. Therefore he began playing the electronic
keyboard. Music is his hobby and he now plays the keyboard for parties at the South Lyon County
Hospital and the saxophone with a band at the Senior Center in Yerington.
Earl has played trumpet and saxophone in various dance bands as a part-time professional musician for
most of his working years.
After living in their dream home for nearly 25 years the maintenance of the vast yard and out buildings
became a major chore. They sold their home in Wellington bought a double-wide manufactured home in
Yerington near the senior center and hospital.
He spent the last half year of his life in a nursing home in Yerinton.
Some of his friends and acquaintances don't know his first name. He is known for the most part as
"Ozzie."
The Mason Valley News published the following:
Earl Osborne
Earl "Oz" Richard Osborne passed away early Saturday morn April 1, 2006, at the South Lyon
Medical Center in Yerington. He was 86.
He was born June 20, 1919 on the Osborne family Ranch in Mason Valley, the son of Sydney and
Grace (Watson) Osborne. He was raised on the farm before leaving at the age of 18. He married Doris
'Tommi' Hansen in Placerville, California June 1955. He worked as an Electronics Technician for over 25
years. He was a musician who played several differ instruments including the Sax, Trumpet, Accordion,
Keyboard and Drums. He played for the residents of Mason Valley Residence, the Senior Center and
Long Term Care at South Lyon Medical Center. He also enjoyed gardening.
He is survived by: his wife, Doris 'Tommi' of Yerington; daughters, Darlene Leggitt of Livingston, TX;
Kathleen Deaton of Huntsville, AR; son, Daniel Osborne of Wellington, NV and step-son, Gary
Thompson of Green Valley, AZ; nine grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and one great greatgrandchild
A graveside funeral service will be held at 2:00p.m. (today) April7, 2006, at the Valley View
Cemetery. A reception and gathering to celebrate his life will also be held on Sunday, April 9, 2006 at
1:00p.m. at the Smith Valley United Methodist Church, 44 River Road Smith, NY. Memorial donations
may be made in Oz's name to the Smith Val1ey United Methodist Church, PO Box 100, Smith, NV
89430.
Arrangements are W1der the direc of Freitas Rupracht Funeral Home, Yerington (775) 463-2911.
The Nevada Apeal published the following:
Earl "Oz" Richard Osborne
April 4, 2006
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A celebration of life for Earl "Oz" Richard Osborne, 86, a
Yerington resident, will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Smith Valley United Methodist Church at 44 River
Road, in Smith.
Mr. Osborne died April 1, 2006, at the South Lyon Medical Center in Yerington. He was born June
20, 1919, in Mason Valley, at the Osborne Family Ranch, to Sydney Osborne and Grace Watson.
He married Doris "Tommi" Hansen in Placerville, Calif., in June 1955.
He worked as an electronics technician for more than 25 years.
He enjoyed gardening and playing music on several instruments, including the saxophone, trumpet,
accordion,
keyboard and percussion. He volunteered to play at the Mason Valley Residence, the senior center and
the Long Term Health Care unit at South Lyon Medical Center.
Among his survivors are his wife, of Yerington; daughters Darlene Leggitt of Livingston, Texas, and
Kathleen Deaton of Huntsville, Ark.; son, Daniel Osborne of Wellington; stepson, Gary Thompson of
Green Valley, Ariz.; nine grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and one great-great grandchild.
Burial will take place with a graveside service at 2 p.m. Friday at the Valley View Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Smith Valley United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 100,
Smith, NV, 89430.
Freitas Rupracht Funeral Home in Yerington is in charge of arrangements.
The Social Securtity Death Index has this:
Name: Earl Richard Osborne SSN: 550-24-0427 Last Residence: 89447 Yerington, Lyon, Nevada,
United States of America Born: 20 Jun 1919 Died: 1 Apr 2006 State (Year) SSN issued:
Medical Notes: Earl died at about 2:00 AM on the first of April 2006 at the South Lyon Medical Center's
long term care unit where he had been since late fall 2005.
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Noted events in his life were:
• His obituary was published.
Earl married Sibyl Milholland, daughter of John Harrison
Milholland and Dorothy Alberta Brabb, on 24 Dec 1939 in
Fresno, Fresno, California. The marriage ended in divorce. Sibyl was
born on 16 Oct 1919 in Buhl, Twin Falls, Idaho, died on 4 Apr 2005 in
Baldwin Park (Vista Specialty Hospital San Gabriel Valley), Los
Angeles, California at age 85, and was cremated on 31 May 2005 near
Sweetwater Ranch, Lyon, Nevada. The cause of her death was
Pneumonia and urinary track infection complicated by asthma and
emphysema.
General Notes: 1930 United States Federal Census
about Syble Milholland
Name: Syble Milholland
Home in 1930: Township 1, Fresno, California
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Age: 10
Estimated birth year: abt 1920
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Father's Name: John
Mother's Name: Alberta
Race: White
Household Members: Name Age
John Milholland 31
Alberta Milholland 30
Arlon Milholland 11
Syble Milholland 10
Eileen Milholland 7
See events for other life events:
Noted events in her life were:
• Early Life:The following is Mama's story by me, Darlene Grace Leggitt, her oldest daughter, written in
the third person, as best as I can recall:
Sibyl Milholland and Earl Osborne met at Hermosa Beach, CA where they were part of the National
Youth Administration program which was started by President Roosevelt to help the youth of America.
They married in 1939 on Christmas Eve in Fresno, CA. They choose Christmas Eve, as the church was
already decorated for Christmas and there was no need to order flowers. Money was tight.
Their home was quite small, one room served as the kitchen, living and dining room. They had to crawl
through a window to get into the bedroom.
• Children: Their first child was born in Fresno, California on January 20,1941. They named her Darlene
Grace. Eighteen months later, July 30, 1942, their second child was born, Daniel Earl.
The family eventually moved to Sacramento where they bought a small home on Bell Street. There was
enough land to allow them to have a milk cow and chickens. Earl worked for the government on
airplane carburetors. World War II was going strong and Earl went down to join the Army. Because of
his government work, the fact that he had two children and one kidney, he was denied. Sibyl was a stay
at home Mom, taking very good care of her family. She was a great cook and also did a lot of sewing.
• Fulton Avenue: In about 1949 they bought a piece of property on Fulton Avenue. The family and their
dog Cinder, moved into a trailer and a single room building on the property. It was a beautiful place to
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raise their family….a big old oak tree in front and a creek full of ducks running through the property.
Sibyl and Earl began work on adding the family room, dining room kitchen and their bedroom to the
existing building on the property. The building was converted into Darlene and Danny's bedroom and a
bathroom. The new addition was made of adobe with a knotty pine interior. The front door to the home
had two large blue windows, one on each side.
Sibyl was a Brownie troop leader, keeping busy creating projects for the girls. She was very good with
children and they all loved her.
She kept them busy with the projects, one making a baby cradle out of the round Quaker Oats cardboard
container. After cutting the box to resemble a rocking cradle, each girl got to choose what fabric they
wanted to cover it with.
One summer Earl decided to go into the insurance business with The Farmer's Insurance Company. He
needed help in the office so Sibyl worked in the office taking calls, making appointments and keeping the
office in order. During this time, they sent Darlene and Danny to a home during the week where they
would be taken care of. Even tho the lady and the home were quite nice, Darlene and Danny hated it,
counting the days until Friday when they would see their Mom and Dad driving up the driveway to pick
them up and take them home for the weekend. The time flew and before they knew it, Sunday night had
arrived and it was time for the trip back to the baby sitter.
This arrangement ended up not working out. It was hard on the whole family so Earl went back to work
for the government.
In an effort to bring addition money into the family, they purchased a male and female Chinchilla. It was
the big thing going then and many people were getting into the business. Just before the crash of the
Chinchilla business, they sold out, breaking even. Darlene still remembers watching her parents dancing
with glee and throwing the money into the air. Many people lost everything.
• Band: Earl started a band and played every Saturday night.
• Kathleen: On August 4, 1951, Sibyl gave birth to Kathleen, Renee. Darlene and Danny waited anxiously
in the car, while their Dad went into the hospital to gather up their Mom and the new baby.
The family vacations were usually up to Yerington, Nevada where they visited Earl's family and down to
Chula Vista, California where they visited Sibyl's family.
Not long after Kathleen was born, the family bought 12 acres in Rio Linda. Earl continued to work for
the government, play in the band and now grow hay on a portion of the land. Sibyl continued to care for
her family cooking great dinners and sewing new cloths for them.
The family got their first television and on many occasions the family would awake very early in the
morning to watch the atomic bomb being exploded in the Nevada desert.
Two years after moving to Rio Linda, Sibyl's life fell apart. Earl had found someone new and had made
the decision to leave his family.
Even tho Sibyl was devastated, she gathered her family and moved them to Fresno California where she
could be near her sister Eileen.
She took in ironing and did housework to help with expenses.
• Yosemite: While in Fresno, Sibyl with her three children and her friend Elva Cole with her daughter and
mother, decided to take a vacation in Yosemite National Park. They rented a tent. This was in the days
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before the pop up's. It was a heavy canvas tent that could sleep six. They also rented cots and a cooking
stove. Sibyl and Elva struggling with the heavy canvas and with the help of the kids finally got the tent
set up. After putting the camp in order they began exploring Yosemite. Darlene and Danny slept in the
car while everyone else slept in the tent. This was a real happy time for her and her children.
• Chula Vista: Sibyl and her children took a couple of trips on the train to San Diego to visit her parents,
John and Dorothy Milholland, who lived in Chula Vista, California.
In about 1954 Sibyl decided that she wanted to be closer to her parents, so the family again packed up
and made the move to, National City, not far from Chula Vista.
Shortly after, the family moved to Nestor, a small community near the Mexican border. The family
settled into their small home, attending church every Sunday. Darlene and Danny began school at the
Southwest Junior High School and Sibyl continued taking in ironing and doing house work. In an effort
to save money, the family would periodically take trips into Mexico to get Danny's hair cut and to fill
the car up with gas. This all came to an abrupt end when she not knowingly parked in front of a house
of ill repute, which was next to the barber shop. She walked Danny into the barber shop and came back
to the car to stay with Darlene and Kathleen. She was shocked to see the activity taking place right in
front of car. As soon as Danny was done at the barber, she headed out of town, never to return.
Sibyl wanted to find a father for her kids remarrying several times. Sadly none of these marriages
worked out and after several moves she and her family returned to the original home in Nestor.
• Nevada visit: On a couple of occasions she took the family to Yerington, Nevada to spend time with
Earl's Mother Grace, who she called Momda. The children enjoyed these visits with their Grandma
Dini. They could sit in the living room by the hour, listening to her play the piano, always with a smile
on her face and a twinkle in her eye. Momda and Sibyl, (she called her button) had a very strong bond
and seeing them together it was clear that they loved each other.
• Hard times: Money was always quite tight but Sibyl would go beyond the call of duty to see that her
kids had what was needed. On one occasion, she sold her accordion to buy a dress for Darlene which
was needed for one of the school functions. Her children were top priority in her mind and actions. She
tried her best to make her kids happy, scrimping to save money so she could take them places. On one
occasion she was going to take them to the circus. The family dressed in their best, piled into the car and
drove to the circus. Upon turning into the parking lot there was something very very wrong. The parking
lot was totally void of cars. It seemed she had gotten the date wrong and the circus was long gone. She
was so devastated. The children did their best to make her feel better.
Sibyl was very protective of her children. This was probably one of the reason's Danny at age 15 left his
mom and sisters and went to live with his dad. At one point, Danny returned to his mom and his sisters.
His mom did everything she could to help make him happy, even giving up her room for him and moving
in with Darlene and Kathleen. He became restless again and moved back to be with his dad. Sibyl was
deeply saddened by this. She had lost her husband and now she felt she had lost her son. Of course she
hadn't lost her son but she didn't realize that then.
• Square dancing: Sibyl loved to square dance and she was very good at it. She made all of her beautiful
outfits. Her parents lived and worked for a household above Mission Valley and they would come to
stay with Sibyl and her family on the weekends. This worked out real well for Sibyl as she did not have
to worry about leaving her kids home alone while she went to the dance. Even tho her daughter Darlene
was 16, she was afraid to leave the sisters home alone. Yes, it did seem she was over protective,
however she feared that someone could take her family from her if she was, for what ever, accused to be
an unfit Mother. Her family was her life and she was not about to put this at risk.
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• Darlene marries: At age 17, Danny got special permission from his Dad and joined the Navy. At age 18,
Darlene married Bruce Osterberg in Yuma, Arizona. Bruce had joined the Army and was being sent to
El Paso, Texas for training. Sibyl scraped enough money together to buy Darlene a new dress for the
wedding, a bouquet of flowers for her to carry and flowers for Darlene and Bruce's reception that was
held in the home of Sibyl's brother and sister in law, Kenny and Karin Milholland.
Bruce went onto El Paso and Darlene remained with her mother and sister until June, 1959 when she
graduated from Mar Vista High School. Darlene went to El Paso to be with her new husband. Sibyl was
not able to keep the home in Nester. She no longer had child support for Danny and Darlene and had to
find a much less expensive home for her and Kathleen.
• El Paso: In the summer of 1959, Sibyl, Kathleen and Danny (who would be leaving for the Navy soon)
drove to El Paso to visit Darlene and Bruce. It was such a great visit for them all. They took a day trip
up to see the Carlsbad Caverns and all were totally taken back by their beauty.
• Spring 1960: In the spring of 1960 Sibyl and Kathleen moved to El Paso to live with Darlene and Bruce.
They had a nice two bedroom apartment with plenty of room for the four of them. However Darlene was
pregnant and soon they moved into two separate apartments in the same complex.
• Bakery: Sibyl got a job at a bakery and was very content and happy at work. She enjoyed being near her
daughter and being able to watch her go through the pregnancy.
• Jess: Darlene gave birth to a healthy baby boy on December 21, 1960. He was named Jess, Howard.
Sibyl so enjoyed helping Darlene care for her new grandson and was so proud to be a grandma.
Kathleen was equally happy to be an aunt.
Three months from Jess's birth, Bruce received his orders and was being sent to Okinawa. After Bruce,
Darlene and Jess set out for California, Sibyl and Kathleen were on her own in El Paso Texas for a
while. After a short time she and Kathleen returned to California. They settled in El Cajon near her
parents. She got a job at J. J. Newberry, in charge of the Men and Boy Department.
• Father dies: On December 9, 1961, her father John Harrison
Milholland died.
• San Diego: Sibyl, Kathleen and Dorothy, her mother, lived together. In the fall of 1962, after Bruce
returned from Okinawa, the family moved to El Cajon. Bruce enrolled at San Diego State. Sibyl quit her
job and recommended Darlene for the position. While Darlene was at work and Bruce at college, Sibyl
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cared for her grandson, Jess.
With San Diego in a major recession in 1963, jobs were at a premium. When Bruce graduated from San
Diego State he needed to take his family to Los Angeles, where he and Darlene could find employment
so that he could continue his education at UCLA
• Valley Hospital: Sibyl was able to get a job at the El Cajon Valley Hospital working in the kitchen. She
was very happy there. She made lots of friends. Unfortunately, the pay was not the greatest and
eventually, Sibyl, Kathleen and her mother Dorothy moved into the only apartment they could afford. It
was located in an alley in down town El Cajon.
• Meets Bob: Unfortunately Kathleen and her grandma did not get along. Eventually, Kathleen decided
she wanted to go live with her dad. This, of course, hurt Sibyl but she knew that Kathleen would
probably be better off with her dad. She would live in a nice house, and would have her own bedroom.
Sibyl being the loving mother that she was gave Kathleen a big going away party.
Falling ill with Hepatitis B, Sibyl was forced to quit her job and was bed ridden for months. After she
got well, she began to go to square dancing again.
Here she met Bob Walsh and they began attending the dances together. She was so happy. Bob was
born on April 15, 1908. He joined the Army but was never sent to war. His early life was spent
working as a cowboy on ranches. He had appreciation for finer things, and had many pieces of fine
crystal and silver that he gave Sibyl when they met.
• Baker: Sibyl was a great baker. She made countless cakes for her family and friends for their birthdays
and weddings. Each cake was full of her love for whomever she was baking and decorating it.
• Marrys Bob: On the thirty-first of May, Bob Walsh and Sibyl Osborne got married at the First Church of
God in El Cajon, California. It was a joyous occasion and everyone was so very happy for both of them.
A week after the marriage, Bob was diagnosed with cancer. That didn't stop them. They lived the next
eight and a half years with gusto, traveling the United States in their camper. Some times, they even
brought Sibyl's mother with them. They shoved more happiness in that time than many people have in a
life time
• Sweetwater Ranch.: They moved to Nevada, to live on the Sweetwater Ranch with Earl's sister, Ellen
Sceirine. They stayed in a little cabin on the property. Bob did odd jobs around the ranch and Sibyl
helped where she could. They still took little trips in their camper; however it became too difficult for
Bob to get in and out of it. They bought a trailer, giving them more room. Unfortunately, Bob became
very ill and they never did get to take a trip in it. They did however go out and sit in it pretending they
were on a trip.
In time, Bob became so ill that he had to be taken to the hospital in Reno. Sibyl stayed in the camper in
the hospital parking lot. On November 18, 1981, Bob lost his battle with cancer and was gone.
• Ashes: Sibyl carried Bob's ashes to the top of a hill near the Sweetwater Ranch. Alone, she opened the
box and released the ashes into the wind. Imagine her alarm when pieces of bone dropped onto the sand
at her feet. Later, her son Danny collected these pieces and placed them in a container and buried it
there.
• El Cajon: After selling the trailer, Sibyl moved back to El Cajon and took an apartment with her Mother,
who was now in failing health. She took on the responsibility to care for her mother who was now
becoming a little difficult to live with. Sibyl ignored the negatives and accepted her responsibility to
make her mother's life as comfortable as it could be. They visited her daughter Darlene, in Poway, now
divorced, on many occasions. During this period, lots of dinners, picnics, attending the Poway Rodeo,
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and of course holidays were enjoyed by Sibyl, her mother and her family.
Sibyl, even with the loss of her love Bob, continued to be a very positive and happy person. All of her
family loved to be with her as her smile made them feel happy and loved.
In 1984, Dorothy became very hard for Sibyl to care for. Eileen, Sibyl's youngest sister decided it was
time to move Dorothy up to Fremont, California to live with her.
No longer responsible for her mother, Sibyl, made arrangement to travel to the Forester's Haven in
Mount Dora, Florida. She sold all of her possessions except the clothes she had. Darlene sent her off to
Florida from the San Diego airport in 1984. She was a very young 65 year old lady, with great
expectations on entering a new life. And that she did.
The Foresters was a retirement home with all of the activities, beautiful apartments for the residents, a
dining room, doctors and nurses, even an allowance. Sibyl had bought the policy many years prior and
boy did her investment pay off. She would be taken care of for the rest of her life. Such a deal.
• Foresters: She was so very happy there, making lots of friends and having so much fun. She joined in the
band, playing the drums, joined into the bells group, joined the crafts class, making beautiful things for
her family. Her most memorable items were the clocks she designed and built from slices of trees, which
she varnished, and decorated with the appropriate numbers and hands. These were prized gifts for the
newly weds. She also became very talented with figurines, many angels and other forms of art that she
matched with her family's interest.
Her visits with each of her children were cherished events. Not only for her but the family she was
visiting. She loved to help, cook, dust, clean and iron. She didn't get the concept of 'wash & wear'. She
missed doing these things and loved being able to do them when she was a guest in her family's homes.
• Mother dies: On January 3, 1986, after a long period of illness,
Dorothy Alberta Milholland passed away. Sibyl never got
over the feeling that she should have been stronger and
remained in El Cajon to care for her mother. Her family
however, knew that this would have been too hard on her.
Sibyl was able to make the trip from Florida to San Diego to
attend her Memorial service.
Darlene and Roy flew her to San Diego, so she could attend
their wedding on April 26, 1987. She arrived early so that she
could help in the preparations. The wedding was held in their
back yard, so there was lots to do before hand.
In October of 1988, Darlene and Roy traveled to Florida.
They got her a hotel room and took her to Epcott Center and
Disney World. She sure did enjoy herself and was almost little
girl like, as we went from one ride to the next. After taking her back home, Darlene and Roy drove to
Miami to catch the cruise ship to the Caribbean.
• Joe: While in Florida, Sibyl met Joe Pufka, one of the residents. She and Joe spent a lot of time together
and eventually got married in June of 1991. Her daughter Darlene traveled back to attend the wedding.
Joe's daughter and husband also attended the ceremony. The Haven put on a beautiful wedding and
reception for them.
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Joe was quite a bit older than Sibyl and soon it became apparent that they needed to move to the
Foresters Haven in San Fernando Valley, California before he become too ill to make the move. The
rule was, if you wanted to join the Foresters in San Fernando, you needed to be well enough to make
the trip. It was very important to Sibyl as she wanted to be on the west coast, closer to her family.
Joe was of the old school, born in Poland. He was a very domineering person, keeping Sibyl on a short
leash. Even tho she loved him, in time this became very hard for her to accept. Her daughter Darlene,
visited from San Diego once a month and tried to help her mother get through the situation, but
eventually it became apparent, Sibyl was so unhappy, it was affecting her quality of life. She had no
say in her life or actions. After struggling with this for many months, she decided to divorce Joe.
Even tho they were divorced and were living in separate apartments, she never stopped caring for him.
She visited him every day making sure that he had what he needed. Basically, she continued to take
care of him as a wife….she just wasn't living with him. They got along wonderfully from that time on.
She remained his best friend until he died.
• Washington: Sibyl enjoyed her life at the Foresters. Her family visited and brought her to visit them
many times. In the summer of 1997, Darlene and her husband Roy Leggitt flew Sibyl to Washington
D.C. They rented her a cabin at the RV park they were staying. She was so happy, having her own little
home that she could enjoy. They felt so lucky to get a tour of the White House. She was totally
overwhelmed with the fact that she was actually in the White House, walking the halls where the
President's walked. She got a kick out of watching the men in black suits talking into their watches. The
next stop was the Capital Building. Her eyes widened with amazement as she and the Leggitt's sat in the
gallery of the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives watching speeches from the floor. At the
Vietnam Wall she slowly walked, taking in all of the names she could. At the Memorial for World War
II, she stood, looking for a very long time at the life size men in full battle garb, frozen in time.
• Co-pilot: She so enjoyed being the co-pilot in Roy and Darlene's Motor Home. She really enjoyed being
able to watch the world go by from her front row seat.
She was able to visit her daughter Kathleen and husband Vic Deaton in Huntsville, Arkansas. They live
on 40 acres of mostly virgin land. On one visit, she caught a huge fish out of their pond. After having a
picture taken to prove the catch, they released the granddaddy back to his watery home.
• Acton: It became a tradition in the last several years of her life for her children to gather at Acton,
California to spend several days, with her at the Thousand Trails Camp ground. A couple of trailers
would be rented to house her daughter Kathleen and husband Vic who had driven over from Arkansas
and of course Sibyl. Her son Danny and wife Haydee would drive down from Nevada in their RV. Her
daughter Darlene and her husband Roy would be there in their motor home. Her grandson Jess and
family along with her ex-son-in-law Bruce with Teri would drive up from San Diego. She was the
reason for the gathering and every one enjoyed her so very much. It was a pleasure for all of her family
to be able to enjoy this special time with her.
• 84th birthday: An effort was made to celebrate her birthdays with her family in the San Diego, however,
due to her health not every one was celebrated with a big party. The last big party, October 16, 2003,
her 84th birthday, was celebrated at Bruce Osterberg and Teri's home. Her family and several friends
were able to join in the celebration. It was a wonderful day, and she truly enjoyed seeing her children,
grandchildren, great grandson, nieces and friends.
Four months after her 84th birthday, February, 2004, she fell very ill with lung infections. Darlene and
husband Roy, being retired and living in a motor home, were able to stay in the area, allowing Darlene to
be with her. She regained her strength and was able to return home after Easter.
The Forester's sold their contract to care of their residents to The Kensington located in Alhambra.
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Darlene had helped her pack up many of her things in preparation for big move. Sibyl was looking
forward to her new home and having a new apartment.
In August, 2004, she fell gravely ill. Near death, she was put on a respirator, and put in an induced coma
for over two weeks. It was discovered she had mold growing in her lungs. She fought her way back and
was finally released from the hospital after over six weeks. She was the last resident from the Foresters
to be admitted to The Kensington. She was not well enough to go to her new apartment and was put into
their Health Care Unit, where she had 24 hour nurse assistance. She was anxious to get to her new
apartment, but was aware that she needed to get a lot better before that would happen.
• The end: Her planned 85th birthday party at grandson's Jess and Karin's home had to be cancelled. She
was too weak and sick to travel. Jess's family drove up from Poway. They along with Roy and
Darlene took her out to dinner to celebrate her birthday. She was so very weak but the trooper she was,
managed to enjoy her day.
Between Christmas and New Year, she took a fall, breaking her arm and hip. At the time, it was not
realized that she had broken the hip but on January, 2, she began bleeding internally and was taken to
the hospital.
There, it was discovered that she had a broken hip. Her hip was replaced. Sadly, she was never able to
use it. She was so weak that she would not get the rehabilitation sessions necessary to get her up and
walking.
Darlene was told that her mama was losing ground, not able to eat. Her doctor suggested inserting a
feeding tub in hopes of getting her strength back. After discussing this with her siblings, it was decided
to give it a try. Sadly, Sibyl's immune system was at this point non existent, her quality of life, also
non existent. Soon the infections were coming faster than they could be dealt with. She spent most of
the time sleeping, too weak to awake.
Sibyl fought the good fight. Even tho suffering, she managed a smile or a wink now and then.
Sometimes so weak that her “I love you” was just moving her lips.
She told Darlene that she had dreams that she had passed and was on her way up to heaven when she
would awake.
One day, the nurse came in to administer more antibiotics, and found that the needle was no longer
working and she would have to redo it. Sibyl said, “Guess I blew out another one”. The nurse thought
that was so cute. She began trying to get another needle in place, having success on the third try. Sibyl
said to her daughter Darlene, “I wish they would just stop. I'm so tired”. Darlene asked her, “Mama,
are you ready to go he heaven?” After a pause, Sibyl replied, “Maybe not quite yet.” She was aware
that her son Danny and wife Haydee were coming to see her the next weekend. She was able to say “I
love you” to each of her children before she died.
In one of Darlene's conversations with her mama, Sibyl, she talked about being with her mother, father,
siblings Arlone, Eileen, Kenny and especially her special Bob. She almost seemed anxious to join them.
On April 4, 2005, her heart, growing very tired after trying to keep her body working as it tried to fight
off the infections that were consuming it, finally stopped. She fell into an everlasting sleep, allowing her
spirit to begin the journey into heaven to be with her family and friends who had made the journey
before her.
All of her family and friends know she is with her Lord. She truly believed in her Lord and that she
would be with him one day. She is truly missed by those of us still here on earth.
• Correspondence: This concludes the report celebrating Sibyl Walsh's life and ancestry. Following are
several pieces of correspondence exchanged by various family members shortly before and after her
death.
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• Her daughter Kathleen: It seems that the majority of my happy and interesting Mama memories had to
do with traveling by car from California to Nevada to visit Grandma Dini and the rest of the family
there. Singing was common and I will never be able to hear “My Wild Irish Rose” without thinking of
Mama.
I wanted her to stop at every souvenir shop and roadside attraction along the way. The reptile houses
were cool, but the best ever was the mummified mother and baby supposedly found in the desert and
was displayed for all to see. The mother had her arm around the child, trying to protect it to the end.
That picture has stuck with me all these years.
In the summer of 1959 on a trip to El Paso to visit Darlene and Bruce, Mama may have wondered if she,
Danny & I were going to end up that way too. We drove right into a really bad sand storm. Visibility
was just about zero and Mama had to breathe into a cup of ice just to be able to breathe at all. Thinking
back on how claustrophobic she was, the whole episode must have been nearly unbearable. But she
hung in there and got us through it all safe and sound. I remember Danny & me laughing about how we
could write our names on our sand-covered arms and on every inch inside the car. We thought it was
quite an adventure. It's a wonder she didn't kick us out and make us walk the rest of the way.
Then there was the trip where I woke up in the middle of the night, we were pulled over to the side of
the road and Mama was nowhere to be found. After the initial panic, I saw her outside by a refrigerated
big rig. Our radiator had developed a hole and she and the driver were catching the melting water from
the truck in cups and then pouring it into the radiator. It was enough to get us to the next town where
we were taken in by the mechanic and his wife until the auto shops opened two days later. I cannot
recall their names, but I know that all three remained friends for the rest of their lives.
It seems I have always loved horses and Mama would pull to the side of the road whenever she could so
I could pet them across a fence. And if there were pony rides, no way would I let her go by without my
getting my turn on one. She was so happy a couple years ago when I told her I had bought horses for
Jessica and myself. It really pleased her to know that I could pet my Molly girl whenever I wanted.
Watching Mama square dance was another fun memory. She looked so very pretty and happy as she
whirled around the dance floor. She was quite the dancer. And I loved her square dance outfits with
their poofy slips.
Mama was so proud of being a member of Tony Orlando's fan club, Tony's Troops. She was able to see
Tony perform just once, but what a wonderful time it was for her. During the "Boogie Tonight"
segment, Tony chose Mama to Boogie with up the theater aisle and did not know at that time that she
was my Mom. He said later he could just tell that she would be fun. What a great picture, Tony with
his top hat with Mama on his arm. They were really strutting their stuff! And then backstage when I
started to take her picture with Tony, he picked her up in his arms!! She was such a tiny little thing, but
you should have seen her gigantic smile! I had that picture enlarged and framed, and she had it up in her
apartment at the Haven until her "friends" there made her feel as though she was being too uppity by
keeping it so visible.(I always just figured they were envious of Mama's zest for life and her sunny
disposition. How sad for them.) Tony, who called her Mom for the rest of the evening, and everyone at
the theater was so gracious to her. She told me later, that was one of the most memorable nights of her
life. And when I would call her, she would never fail to ask how Tony was doing. He, his family, and
the Troopers were saddened to hear of her passing.
Mama loved us all so very much, and she did all she could to take care of us the best she knew how. She
worked hard all of her life to make sure we kids had clothes to wear, a roof over our heads and food on
the table. It wasn't until I became an adult that I realized just how much she sacrificed for us. As she
said during one of our talks, she made mistakes, but at the time she did the best she could and what she
thought was right, and she always loved us. Then she smiled and said she must not have done too bad a
job, because just look how well her kids turned out. I pray she realizes now just how much I appreciate
all she did and how much I love her and miss her. The day that I am called home to our Lord, I know
Mama will be there too, with a smile on her face and arms open wide.
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Her loving daughter Kathleen
• Her son Danny: The following are some of my memories of Mom:
I can remember back when us kids were young how she used to go without so we could have clothes on
our back and food in our bellies. She would wear the same dresses and shoes for years, but we would
always have new cloths to wear every year. I can still see her standing at the ironing board all day trying
to make money to make ends meet. She could have gone out and got another job doing something she
liked but she wanted to stay home so she could be home when we came home from school or when we
were out of school.
When I was younger, I could never figure out why Mom would not go bonkers because of all of the
negative things that would happen to her in her life. We kids and even when we were older adults would
let things bother us and act accordingly. But not mom. she has so much faith that she would always give
it to the Lord. I asked her one time in one of her crises, how she could not get angry or complain or
something. She told me that what good did it do and that the Lord will take care of it.
Mom was always there for us. She was there when I went on my first liberty in boot camp, when I
graduated from the Naval Training Center in San Diego, at every orchestra or band recital in school.
Even lined the road when Darlene and I were in the marching bands. I can not think of one time when
she was not there for us.
I can remember the time when all of us lived in Nester in the big white house with the red roof. I was
going through typical early teen stuff with the attitude and all. I really don't remember what it was
about but I guess Mom asked me to do something and I did not think it was my job, and she was
chewing me out and I was so angry I turned away from her and walked away. She told me to stop and I
did not so she tackled me and we both went to the floor. After that I just tried to get away because I did
not want to hurt her. I finally said, ok Mom I give. Later on we laughed about that for years. She we
would say "Danny, remember when I tackled you and made you say I give?"
I don't think there was any better mom then our mom. Her quest for life was to show love and kindness
to everybody so they would be happy. She was always so concerned about hurting peoples feeling
because that was definitely not on her agenda.
Love Danny
• Her niece Ann Barton: Ann Barton, one of hr nieces, sent an email to Darlene shortly before Mama
passed.
Dear Darlene, I'm so sorry about your Mom. I wish she could just get better. She is and always has
been my favorite Aunt. When I was small she would come pick me up and take me to McDonalds for a
hamburger and I can remember when her and Grandma lived on Vanhouton in El Cajon I used to ride
my bike there to visit them before I got my license . I have very good memories of spending time with
your Mom and playing Yatzee, oh yeh and lets not forget the wonderful lemon meringue pie. I continue
to pray for her and all of your family. Please take care. Love, Ann
• Her grandson Jason Osterberg: Hello all,
It is a very sad day today. I feel sad, not for the passing of one of my most favorite people in the world,
but for the loss felt by her kids. Mom, Danny, & Kathleen you have my most deepest sympathy and I
send my best wishes for you to be strong and to remember that what makes you the good people that
you came right from her.
When I woke up this morning I felt her with me, more so than ever before, She is in the air we breath,
The grass that grows and the sun that shines. I have never known anyone with more faith in a higher
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power than Grams, it was inspiring that anyone could believe so easily what she could not see and I
have never known anyone that never seemed to have a bad day, She was also happy and always there
for anyone who needed a hug, a smile, or a simple word of encouragement. God Blessed her and she
Blessed me... I LOVE YOU ALL
jasono
• Her grandson Jess Osterberg: Hi all,
In this sad time I would like to reflect on how Grandma affected my life in a positive way. She
always had a smile on her face and a spring in her step. Sometimes it was hard to keep up with her!
Every since I can remember Grandma was a great baker. In my childhood it was the animal pancakes;
dogs, cats, or anything you asked for. In my teen years it was the bikini cakes and sugar eggs with a
collage inside the Easter egg. The most outrageous cake was for my 21st birthday, she took the bikini off
the cake! My friends were shocked and amazed that my Grandma baked me a naked cake. You can
imagine what was said when everyone ate their piece of cake! When she retired, she went off to Florida
and her baking skills went into her crafts. I will cherish our clock and nativity set forever and our
ceramic angels look over us every day. When she came back to the west coast to visit she was so excited
(beaming) to tell us all about what she did that year. She was very busy doing something different every
day, from playing the drums to making clocks out of a slice of tree. She loved to give to others especially birthdays and Christmas. From the special dollars in the card, to her personalized Christmas
ornaments. One memory I will always cherish was last December when Karin, Eric and I went to visit
her and took her outside. As sick as she was, she giggled as a squirrel bounced up a tree in front of her.
I know everyone has their own special memories of Grandma. I just wanted to share some of mine.
Love Jess
• Her niece Diana Selph: Well, as I opened up my email this evening, I find that we are not the first ones
to share our feelings at the loss of such a beautiful aunt, inside and out. Not everyone can be as lucky as
we were to have a such special person as she was in their lives. I have so many wonderful memories as
a child, as do our daughters and grandchildren. She never missed sending birthday cards, always with a
dollar tucked inside. Many memories swim around in my head right now, but a couple are fairly resent.
In 1998 she took a bus from SAC. CA, where she was visiting a good friend of hers, to come visit with
us in Fremont, CA. This was not long after my Mom had passed and getting a hug from my aunt was
like my Mom was there too sharing that hug. In 2002 Wayne and I went down to visit her at "Forest
Haven" for a few days. We asked where she would like to go and right off the bat she said, the "Getty
Museum". We were there all day, and if Wayne and I hadn't stopped to rest off and on, she would have
just kept going and going. We had dinner at a wonderful restaurant on site, while we watched a beautiful
sunset slipping into the ocean. Before we had to head back home the next day, she insisted on fixing us
breakfast, pancakes of course, which made her so happy (and our tummies too)! In April 2003 Laurie
and I, along with Kai and Brandon, Laurie's two children, drove down to visit for a few days. We
brought her to our hotel each day, went out to dinner, or lunch and just had wonderful visits. She could
not wait to get away for the day and was always ready and waiting the next day for us to pick her up.
We hated to say goodbye that is for sure, but we all went home with more beautiful memories. Sherry
and her family were down visiting Disneyland that same year, and on the way home they stopped off to
visit with Aunt Sibyl. They took her out to dinner along with a good visit, adding a special memory for
Sherry and her two children Kyle and Sarah. The last time I was able to speak with Aunt Sibyl was in
November, when I called to tell her we were about ready for our Big move to Ohio. Our phone visit was
short because she was getting very tired. So, I told her we loved her very much and of course, with her
sweet soft voice said, how much she loved us. We will miss her so very much, her letters, cards, phone
visits and hugs more than anyone will every know. She left a love in all our hearts that will be there for
ever, a very special, aunt, mom, grandma, great grandma and friend. As my daughter Laurie told her
daughter Kai, another angel has been added in Heaven. lots of love, Diana, Wayne and family!!
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• Her niece Shirley Lowe: As a young person Aunt Sibyl was always there for me to talk to and to just
enjoy and over the years she was just a real joy in my life. I just always loved being around her as she
always showed love and she had the greatest smile and laugh. My most recent memories of her though
were the times she came to visit us and would stay with my Mom and then we would spend the day
together. She loved the ferry ride out of Southport, N.C. across the river to Ft Fisher. We took her to a
show in Myrtle Beach twice and it was a joy to see her and Mom having such a wonderful time together.
They shared a lot of child hood memories together. She just had a way with Mom and with people that
not many people have. She and I had a lot of time on the telephone and shared memories together. I
remember also the time that we took Mom to Florida when she was living there. We had rented separate
rooms so that they could spend some time together and I know that they had a wonderful time. The time
that we went out to California to visit we spent the whole day together and it was really hard for the both
of us to say good bye and it was the first time that I had ever seen tears in her eyes. I will always have a
special place in my heart for her for she was very special to me as she was to all of us and all who knew
her.
Lots of Love
Shirley, John and Family
• Her ex son-in-law Bruce Osterberg: Mom was always a giving
person, of things, of love, of warmth, but her most precious gift
was of herself to us.
Bruce and Teri
• Her daughter Darlene: Dear Jess, Jason, Diana and Shirley,
I just want to thank all of you for sending your memories,
thoughts and love for our Mama.
It's very special to read how much she was loved and
appreciated. She had little to give but herself and she gave it
freely. I do not believe I have known a more giving person than she. On our shopping trips together,
she would stand in the card shop and read every card until it said just the right thing. She was good at
picking out the perfect card. After getting it home she would put in a dollar and a pound of her love and
send it off. This made her very happy.
Thank you again for your beautiful thoughts that you took the time express.
Love Darlene and Roy
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• Letter to Mama's Friends: Sibyl “Charity” Walsh - October 16,
1919 - April 4, 2005
Dear friends of Sibyl Walsh,
This letter is to let you know, my Mama, after being so sick
and in and out of the hospital the last 14 months , has gone to
be with her Lord.
In February of last year she became very ill and was
hospitalized for over a month. She did recover enough to enjoy
her family and a few friends at the four day reunion at Acton,
California last June.
In August of last year we almost lost her. She was put on a
respirator and put into induced comma for over two weeks.
One problem was mold in her lungs. She remained in the
hospital over six weeks, this time not bouncing back quite as
well.
Jess, my oldest son and his family were able to drive up from Poway, California so that we could
celebrate her 85th birthday. The big party in Poway had to be cancelled as she was too sick to travel.
The picture is of her on her 84th birthday party held at friends, Bruce and Teri's home in Escondido
California.
As the year came to a close, she became weaker, finally falling and breaking her arm in several spots
and her hip. She was sent to the hospital again. Other than a week back home, she remained
hospitalized three months until April 4, 2005. Her heart gave out, worn out trying to keep her body
running, which now was being consumed with infections. She was able tell each of us kids, Danny,
Kathleen and me, she loved us before she passed. She finally fell into an everlasting sleep allowing her
spirit to make the journey to be with her Lord, family and friends that have made the journey before her.
At last, her suffering is over and she is at peace.
You may or may not know that my husband Roy and I are retired and live in a motor home. Because of
his true understanding, we spent a lot of the last 14 months in the LA area so that I could be with Mama.
I'm very lucky to have him!
Darlene Grace Leggitt, Mama's oldest daughter
• Daughter Darlene's letter to her family: Thank you all for your support these past 14 months. I love
you all so very much. I am so blessed that I was able to be with her as much as I was...thanks to my
very understanding and loving husband. Think I'll keep him!
Mama, even tho she was just a little person, was a very strong lady and she gave it the good fight. Even
tho she was so tired and feeling badly, she managed to bring up a smile and an "I love you" many of the
days.
My comfort is that I know she had the strong belief in her Lord and that she would be with him and her
family that had made the journey before her. She told me once that they (Her Mother, Dad, Arlone,
Eileen and Kenny and her beloved Bob) were waiting for her in Heaven. She almost seemed anxious to
be with them.
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Her Doctor told me she went very peacefully. Her heart just got very tired trying to fight to keep her
body working as her body tried to fight off all of the infections that were consuming her. Her heart just
stopped beating and her body fell into an everlasting sleep allowing her spirit to raise up into Heaven.
She had told me on several occasions that she dreamed she had passed and was on her way up when she
would awake.
Well, my dear family, I love you all so and at this time, that has a very special meaning. To love and feel
loved is the greatest feeling in the world. Mama knew she was loved and no one could love more than
she. Her eyes, as she looked and smiled at you, said it all. Also that wink she would give you made you
feel very special. She gave a couple to Danny when she saw him last.
Well as usual, my short note has turned into a book. Thank you for letting me share. I, as I'm sure all of
us, will really miss her.
Love Darlene and Roy
Children from this marriage were:
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i. Darlene Grace Osborne was born on 20 Jan 1941 in Fresno, Fresno, California.
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ii. Daniel Earl Osborne was born on 30 Jul 1942 in Fresno, Fresno, California.
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iii. Kathleen Renee Osborne was born on 4 Aug 1951 in Sacramento, , California.
Earl next married Doris "Tommi" Hansen, daughter of Iver
Hansen and Hannah Beatrice Patterson, on 29 May 1955 in
Roseville, , California. Doris was born on 8 Apr 1920 in Sisseten,
Roberts, South Dakota, died on 6 Apr 2009 in Reno, Washoe, Nevada
at age 88, and was buried on 11 Apr 2009 in Yerington Cem., Lyon,
Nevada. The cause of her death was Cardiac arrest following hip
surgery.
General Notes: This was prepared by Tommi Osborne in April
1998:
Born 8 Apr 1920 on the "Miller Ranch" - wherever that was.
I've a few sketchy memories of hearing the adults talking of the
Sioux Indians eating our big malamute dog. The ranch was across
from the Indian reservation. I was impressed as only a three year
old could be.
Other memories are of traveling in a huge car - Scripts-Booth I
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think. We left the dairy (and Indians) when I was five to "find a
good climate for mother." Actually I believe we became the first members to the "moving of America"
albeit early.
I have fine juvenile like memories of the hurricane in Alabama - about 1927, the "crash of 1929 when we
became suddenly "poor" and attending several schools in one year. (Gary later correct this to say: the
hurricane was in Florida - her father was managing an orchard at the time - the house was raised for just
such an event and they could hear alligators scraping the underside of the wood floor.)
Gary went on to say: from florida they moved to Texarkana, Texas, Sayre, Oklahoma (mom's mother's
relatives the Pattersons) Texline, Texas and finally Shamrock, Texas where Iver Hansen, her father built
from scratch a farm, ran the concession stand in the local theatre, ran the restaurant in the local hotel.
Mom's oldest brother sold vegetables raised on the farm around town and iver and the sheriff ran the local
still.
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The final move was to California from Texas in 1932. Six kids, two adults, two cars, one dog and one cat,
all arriving safely except the coyote who stayed in the desert.
Gary added: they moved to Grass Valley in `32 because the gold mines were recession proof and mom's
mother's older sister (Grace Wilson) lived there with her husband and 5 children. they lived with the
Wilsons until Iver got enough money from building and painting houses to live on their own.
Graduated 1939 - a week after Joe and I were married. Gary was born 13 July 1940 - 8 lbs 14 oz of joy.
The war came along and Joe was drafted in June 1944. I went to work at De Witt Army General Hospital
at Auburn, California. Joe was killed April 9, 1945 in Germany. (Gary added that his father was killed
during the Battle of the Rhur.)
There were some "hell" years after 1945 but then in May 1952 I went back to work for the government at
McClellan Air Force Base, Sacramento, California. To get my secret clearance I needed a birth certificate
and sent for mine. No problem! Got a certificate saying I'd been born. 24 ½ years later when I retired and
wanted to travel I found I had no name, just "girl baby" on the birth certificate. So, being chicken, I put
"DORIS" on it so I'd not have to take a chance on losing my work record. (Remember, I worked for the
government!!) So now I'm gonna add "TOMMI" as a first name - I've been that (Tommi) since 1945 and
Doris since 1924.
Oz and I were married in 1955 and happiness began.
After Earl died in 2006 Tommi moved into the Mason Valley Residency in Yerington, NV.
On April 5th 2009 she fell and broke her hip. She was transported to the hospital in Reno where on April
6th she underwent surgery to repair the hip. During the operation she suffered cardiac arrest but was
resussitated. Unfortunately soon thereafter she suffered a terminal cardiac arrest.
The following is her obituary published in the Mason Valley News section of the Reno Gazette-Journal
on April 10th 2009:
Doris Osborne
Doris 'Tommi' Osborne rejoined her husband, Ozzie, at Heaven's Gate on Monday, April 6, 2009, just
two days shy of her 89th birthday.
While it will be a great loss for her friends and family, we are comfortable knowing that Tommi's strong
faith and belief are with her and she is no longer in pain.
Tommi came to Smith Valley, Nevada in 1973, with her husband, Ozzie and they proceeded to build their
own house overlooking the river. Tommi could be seen on a ladder or on the roof working alongside her
perfect partner. She was always active in the Smith Valley United Methodist Church, singing in the choir,
leading prayer groups, guiding WSCS (now UMW), training as a lay speaker and working with the
children on Sundays and in Vacation Bible School. She was fondly remembered by the District
Superintendent of the United Methodist church as a 'fireball' who was in his early training group.
Tommi loved her home and family, as well as her little dogs. Travel in the motor home with Ozzie and
their dog was always an adventure, as was her trip to Hawaii and to the Holy Land with a group of
friends. No matter how you first met her, Tommi, was full of energy and enthusiasm and reached out to
make you her friend. Tommi was always willing to jump in to help others or just to have fun together. She
was a responsible, loving parent, step parent and friend. When health concerns interfered with their Smith
Valley lifestyle, Tommi and Ozzie moved to Yerington and continued strong friendships with friends and
family.
Tommi is survived by her son and daughter-in-law Gary and Sue Thompson of Arizona; step-son Dan
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and his wife Haydee Osborne; stepdaughter, Darlene and her husband Roy Leggitt, Kathleen and her
husband Vic Deaton; nine grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and 10 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral service will be held 11:00 a.m. Saturday, April 11, at the Freitas Rupracht Funeral Home,
Yerington with Pastor Bart Welsh officiating. Burial will be in the family plot at Valley View Cemetery. A
reception will follow the service at the Smith Valley United Methodist Church, 44 Rivers Road, Smith.
Family and friends may sign the online guest book at www.FRFH.net.
The family would like to thank all staff members at the Mason Valley Residence for their support and
caring of Tommi for the past several years. Donations in her name may be made to the Smith Valley
United Methodist Church, 44 Rivers Road, Smith, NV, 89430
Arrangements are under the direction of Freitas Rupracht Funeral Home, Yerington.
The Smith Valley United Methodist Churchpastor Bart Welsh conducted a wonderful service. He invited
members of the audience to relate their memories of Tommi. Several were very moving. One of her old
neighbors related that she had walked many times with Tommi and Sega, Tommi and Earl's little chitzu.
She told that Sega had also died on April 6th. Now Tommi and Earl have their dog again.
The minister concluded the service by tellling us to close your eyes and imagine you are at a dock and you
are at a railing next to a ship upon which Tommi is standing across from you next to the ship's railing. You
can clearly see her and nearly are able to touch her.
Now the ship slowly departs but you can still clearly see Tommi.
You are both waving goodbye to each other as the ship pulls away.
It move further away and you can only tell that people are standing by the railing of the ship.
Now you can only see the outline of the ship with its three masts.
The ship goes further and you can only see the three masts above the horizon.
Next the ship move further away until you can only see the tips of the three masts.
Finally the ship completely disappears over the horizon.
Now imagine another place where Tommi's previously loved ones and relatives are standing next to a
railing on their dock. Just over the horizon they can see the tips of the three masts of the ship containing
Tommi.
As the ship moves closer the people on the dock can now see the outline of the ship.
Soon they can see there are people standing behind the railing on the ship.
Now they can see that Tommi is one of the people standing behind the ship's railing.
Tommi can see her departed friends and relatives.
Now the ship approaches and Tommi can see Earl is amoug thos standing behind the railing on the dock.
Finally the ship reaches the dock and Tommi is reunited with Earl and her past friends and relatives.
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Fifth Generation (Great Great-Grandchildren)
23. Stanley Dale Sceirine (Ellen Lucinda Osborne 4, Grace Watson 3,
David Bain 2, Alexander 1) was born on 5 Apr 1935 in Yerington, Lyon,
Nevada.
General Notes: The March 18th, 1950 editions of the Reno
Evening Gazette mentioned that Stanley was a member of the
Mason Valley chapter of the Future Farmers of America and was
a member of the dairy and poultry team.
Another article in 1951 mentioned that Stanley presented an
accordion solo at a Neighbor of Woodcraft meeting in Yerington.
A 1952 article indicated he was a manager of the Yerington High
School football team. The article mentioned that the team just
finished the most successful season since they won the state
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football championship in 1936. Stanley was also elected
secretary of his student body group. Likewise, he was elected as
secretary for the Senior Youth Fellowship of the Community Church that year.
A later article mentioned that Stanley was on the honor roll (top ten percent) for his high school class for
the last six weeks in December, 1952.
Stanley was among thirty-four students graduating from Yerington High School in June 1953.
In March 1958 when then Governor Charles Russell was speaker at a meeting of the Smith Valley Rotary
Club, accordion selections by Stanley Sceirine were included in the program.
Earl Osborne said Stanley had no love for ranching and became an electrician. He works as an electrician
for several years for The Anaconda Copper Company at Weed Heights, Nevada.
He worked for a period as an electrician in Reno, Nevada and then became a partner in a large electrical
firm. He is now retired.
After Stanley and Joanne divorced Stanley remarried twice but neither marriage survived.
People Finder lists STANLEY SCEIRINE, 1295 KINGS ROW RENO NV 89503
Stanley married Joanne Linda Buchman, daughter of George Buchman and Florence Beatrice Arnold.
Joanne was born on 16 Nov 1938 in Jamestown, , California.
General Notes: The November 3rd 1971 edition of the Reno Evening Gazette mentioned that Mrs. Stanley
Sceirine made a presentation of astrology at the monthly meeting of Xi Alpha Zeta chapter of Beta Sigma
Phi.
Tommi Osborne said after her divorce from Stanley, Joanne married Russ Corbet but he died in 1995.
Joanne has no hobbies that she knows of, but does like to go hiking as a recreation.
Of genealogical interest, Joanne's paternal ancestry is documented on Ancestry.com. Search for her father
George Buchman.
/UNKNOWN BUCKNAM
/Ezra Taylor BUCKNAM b: 2 Mar 1830 d: 18 Feb 1901
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\UNKNOWN [BUCKNAM]
/John Duane BUCKNAM b: 4 Aug 1875 d: 4 Apr 1959
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/James DALY b: 6 Mar 1750 d: 1836
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/John Lucas DALY b: 2 Nov 1809 d: 11 Jan 1887
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\Sarah DILL b: Oct 1756 d: 1852
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\Madeleine Isabelle Adeline DALY b: 7 Jan 1836 d: 27 Nov 1913
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/Robert MORROW b: Abt 1757 d: Oct 1815
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\Irene (Arremina) MORROW b: Feb 1814 d: 10 Dec 1877
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/William Sample SPARKS b: Abt 1700 d: 1765
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/William SPARKS b: 27 Apr 1738 d: Abt 1801
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\Sarah SPARKS b: 1775 d: 19 Feb 1851
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\Martha MOORE b: Abt 1738 d: Abt 1780
George BUCKNAM d: 1976
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/William Wallace HILL b: 1845
\Cordelia Margaret HILL b: Sep 1877 d: 5 May 1951
\Sarah Mildred HANSON b: 1856
Children from this marriage were:
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i. Katherine Jo Anne Sceirine was born on 22 Aug 1958 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada.
31 M
ii. Kenneth George Sceirine was born on 5 Feb 1960
in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada.
General Notes: Earl Osborne says Kenneth is a
missionary in Turkey. He teaches English at a
university there.
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iii. Susanne Ellen Sceirine was born on 23 Aug 1961.
24. Jackie Duane Sceirine (Ellen Lucinda Osborne 4, Grace
Watson 3, David Bain 2, Alexander 1) was born on 15 Jan
1939 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada, died on 8 Nov 1997 in Washoe Med
Cen, Reno, Nevada at age 58, and was buried on 14 Nov 1997 in Valley
View Cemetery, Lyon, Nevada.
General Notes: Earl Osborne provided the following:
Jackie began roping sawhorses, posts, dogs, calves. etc. when he
was very you and ultimately, along with his cousin Lester
Rosachi, earned his Amateur World Team Roping championship.
In its November 18, 1963 edition the Reno Evening Gazette said:
Another big winner was the roping team of Jack Sceirine,
Yerington, and Lester Rosachi, Sweetwater. They netted
$1,311.15 point money during the season, more than doubling the
second team ... who won $610.05. It also said Jack was number 5
in All-Around with $1,381.15.
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Jackie's father Cages (Jack), although proud of his son's achievements would have preferred that he spend
more time at the ranch rather than go rodeoing so much, but gave in to Jackie's wishes.
Well, as the saying goes, what goes around comes around. Jackie too would have preferred his two sons
Mike and Todd be at the ranch more but they too were into rodeoing. Due to injuries their careers as rodeo
contestants were cut short but they still follow the rodeo circuit as pickup men (assisting riders to dismount
from bucking broncos) and have been publicized as being the outstanding team in the circuit. A newspaper
clipping in 1997 said: "Mike and Todd Sceirine of Mason Valley were voted by the rodeo cowboys as the
International Pro Rodeo Association Western Regional Pick-up Men of the Year."
After Ellen's death Jackie sold both the Point Ranch in the Bridgeport Valley and the Miller Ranch in
Mason Valley. The Miller Ranch was formerly owned by Miller and Lux, pioneer ranchers who owned
many ranches in the west during the 1800's.
Jackie was well known and loved by many. An overflow crowd attended his funeral. As would be expected
at the fellowship in the Convention Hall there was a sea of cowboy hats. The grave site tribute, where on a
knoll above the grave site stood two horses, one riderless was quite touching.
The Social Security Death Index contains: JACK D SCEIRINE 15 Jan 1939 08 Nov 1997 (P) (72) (none
specified) 530-24-9134 Nevada
Jackie married Imogene (Jeanie) Hooper on 25 Jul 1959 in Escalon, , California. The marriage ended in
divorce.
Jackie next married Beverly Anne Nelson, daughter of Phelan
Nelson and Margurite McCarty , in 1959. Beverly was born on 6 Sep
1935 in Grants Pass, , Oregon.
General Notes: According to Tommi Osborne, Beverly along
with sons Mike and Todd now manage the Sceirine Ranch in the
Sweetwater area on the California Nevada border.
Beverly was involved in the International Student Exchange and
had foreign students in her home for 17 years.
She likes to do hand crafts and is active in The Nevada Cattle
Woman's Association, (formally Cowbells).
One summer day in 1997 Beverly was watering her flowers when
she heard a disturbance on her porch. On investigating she saw a
cougar dragging her dog from the porch. The nearest weapon was a plastic wand used for cleaning the hot
tub. She used it to beat the cougar while screaming until it eventually released the dog and retreated.
Neither the plastic wand nor the dog survived.
Children from this marriage were:
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i. Michael Duane Sceirine was born on 28 Oct 1964 in Bridgeport, Mono, California.
General Notes: People Finders lists MIKE SCEIRINE , 3100 STATE ROUTE 338
WELLINGTON NV 89444 (775) 5450095.
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ii. William Todd Sceirine was born on 9 Jul 1969.
25. Lowell Richard Osborne (Roy Edwin Osborne 4, Grace Watson 3, David Bain 2, Alexander 1)
was born on 14 May 1950 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada, died on 19 Jul 1999 in Severn, Anne Arundel, Maryland at
age 49, and was buried on 23 Jul 1999 in Military Grave Site.
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General Notes: Lowell was delivered at home.
His mother said Lowell was in the US Army for 17 1/2 years and was injured. He is now a registered
nurse in Severn, Maryland.
He died of a sudden heart attack in 1999. His mother indicated he died at work, therefore, his death
location is very probably Severn, Maryland.
The Social Security Death Index contains:
LOWELL R OSBORNE born 14 May 1950 died 19 Jul 1999 issued NV (1967) SSAN 530-44-4019.
Earl Osborne indicates the death date as 15 July 1999.
Lowell married Kukcha Lee in May 1973 in Am. Embassy, Seoul, South Korea. Kukcha was born on 26 Mar
1943 in , , , South Korea.
General Notes: Jean Osborne said KucCha works in a store.
Children from this marriage were:
35 M
i. David Phillip Osborne was born on 13 May 1973
in Korea.
General Notes: Jean Osborne said David is a nuclear
attack submariner. He just re-enlisted, but wants to
be a doctor.
36 F
ii. Lee Ann Osborne was born on 19 Dec 1974 in
Yerington, Lyon, Nevada.
General Notes: According to Jean Osborne Lee Ann
is an L.P.N nurse. She has one child, a daughter
Philishia, four years old. Lee Ann is not married at
this time. She is working toward becoming an RN.
26. Drew Allen Osborne (Roy Edwin Osborne 4, Grace
Watson 3, David Bain 2, Alexander 1) was born on 29 Jul
1952 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada, died on 19 Dec 2006 in Yerington,
Lyon, Nevada at age 54, and was buried in Valley View Cemetery, Lyon,
Nevada.
General Notes: Drew was delivered at home.
He was disabled in an industrial accident an now lives on his
parent's property in Yerington.
After his parent's death in 2005 he, his wife and daughter moved
into the old family house.
Drew died of cancer at approximately 11:45 PM on December
19, 2006 at his home.
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Drew married Rosetta Bauman, daughter of Wildord Bauman and Edith Cornelius, on 25 Jul 1971 in
Carson City, Carson City, Nevada. The marriage ended in divorce. Rosetta was born on 5 Nov 1954 in
Yerington, Lyon, Nevada.
Children from this marriage were:
37 F
i. Samantha Mae Osborne was born on 15 May 1972 in 29 Palms, Marine Hospital,
California.
General Notes: Jean Osborne says Samantha is married and has three children. Her divorced
husband has custody of the children and will not allow family contact them.
38 M
ii. Kevin John Osborne was born on 9 Jan 1974 in 29 Palms, Marine Hospital, California.
General Notes: Serving a life sentence for murder.
Drew next married Lori Sorensen, daughter of Larry Keeter and Renata Gomm, on 19 May 1981. Lori was
born on 8 Nov 1962 in , , Utah.
Children from this marriage were:
39 M
i. Roy Allen Osborne was born on 26 Sep 1982 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada.
Roy married Patricia Palasios on 9 Feb 2003.
40 M
ii. Seth Taylor Osborne was born on 20 Dec 1983 in Reno, Washoe, Nevada.
Drew next married Carrie Elskin on 8 Jun 2003 in Yerington, Lyon,
Nevada. Carrie was born on 12 Feb 1963.
General Notes: Carrie has five children from a previous marriage.
Billie, Micheal, Lee, Joshua, and Chrisafer. Her previous husband
died about 2001.
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The child from this marriage was:
41 F
i. Genevia Osborne was born in 2004 in , , Nevada.
27. Darlene Grace Osborne (Earl Richard Osborne 4, Grace Watson 3,
David Bain 2, Alexander 1) was born on 20 Jan 1941 in Fresno, Fresno,
California.
General Notes: Certificate of Live Birth, State of California,
District No. 1001, Registrar's No. 220. Recorded 2-3-1941.
Most of Darlene's early childhood was spent in the Sacramento,
California area. Her fondest and happiest memories are of her
family's home on Fulton Avenue. Her dad, with the help of her
mom, built their home out of adobe bricks. The front of the
house had two large blue windows. There were lot's of trees, a
creek full of Mallard ducks and frogs, farm animals, and of
course Cinder, their coal black springer Spaniel. Cinder
entertained guests by putting out a cigaret by stomping them
with his front paws, finally finishing the deed by lifting his leg.
At age thirteen, her mom and dad separated. They moved to
Fresno and finally to the San Diego area. For the next four years
Darlene attended National City Junior High, Southwest Junior
High, Chula Vista High School, Helix High School and finally, her junior and senior year at Mar Vista
High School, located in Imperial Beach. Darlene joined the band and thoroughly enjoyed the band
functions and the friendships she developed with the other band members, especially her best friend,
Rose Davis. Unfortunately this relationship was frowned upon by many class mates. Rose was the only
black person in the school.
Darlene and Bruce met in his senior year and after Bruce joined the Army, they were married and lived in
El Paso, Texas. She worked as a fountain girl at Swanky Franky's and as a car hop at the Clock Drive In..
When Bruce was sent to Okinawa, she and their three-month-old son Jess, lived with his mom and
brothers, in Imperial Beach. There she took over the responsibilities of he household.
When Bruce returned home, they moved to El Cajon where he attended San Diego State and she got a job
at J. J. Newberry's. In 1965, they moved to the Los Angeles area where he attended and graduated from
UCLA. She got a job at Kroehler Mfg. Co., working her way up from a proofreader for the typist to
secretary to the plant manager.
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After Bruce's company was bought out in 1973, the family, which now included their second son Jason,
returned to the San Diego area where Darlene got a job at Allstate Insurance Co. as the secretary to the
personnel manager.
In 1977 after they separated, Darlene and the boys moved to Poway. After trying to make a living selling
real estate, she realized she needed a steady paycheck and in March of 1997, she applied for a position at
International Graphics, later named Moore Data Management. She was hired as a customer service
representative, dealing with problems reported by Boards of Realtors. During the next several years, she
enjoyed traveling for the company, attending singles dances, dating and most of all, racing her 914-6
Porsche with the Porsche Club of America.
In April 1987, Darlene married Roy Leggitt. They had met in 1977 when they both sold real estate. They
were married in their back yard with family and friends looking on. On her 55th birthday, January 1996,
she retired from Moore Data Management Corporation where she had worked for the past 17 years.
In January of 1997, after buying a new Diesel Holiday Rambler RV, and selling their home in Rancho
Bernardo, they set out on their new adventure, living on wheels and enjoying the United States. In 1999,
they continue to enjoy the freedom their life style affords and hope to be able to continue this life style
for many years to come.
Darlene periodically writes about hers and Roy's great adventure and publishes them onine at
http://royc.cts.com/Great_Adventure.mht. Take a look and share it with them.
Darlene married Bruce Howard Osterberg, son of Brunolf Host
Osterberg and Marjorie Belle Hansen, on 17 Apr 1959 in Yuma, ,
Arizona. The marriage ended in divorce about 1980. Bruce was born
on 21 Jul 1940 in Kenosha, Kenosha, Wisconsin.
General Notes: Source: Osterberg family records.
His parents divorced when he was young. His mother and her
new husband George moved to southern California. Bruce
graduated from Mar Vista High School, Imperial Beach, CA in
1958. He joined the US Army shortly before his marriage and
trained as a Hawk Missile technician. He was stationed at Ft.
Bliss, El Paso, TX and Okinawa. After his military service he
attended San Diego State University and then University of
California at Los Angeles where he graduated cum laude with a
BS in Electronic Engineering. He was elected to Tau Beta Pi
while attending UCLA.
He worked in the Los Angeles area with Western Data
Corporation. In 1973 the company was purchased by Cubic
Corporation and relocated to San Diego. After about four years he left Cubic and started his own firm,
Osterberg Consulting, specializing in digital control devices and embedded controller products.
Bruce and his significant other, Teri Jean Canfield, make their home in Escondido, California.
Children from this marriage were:
+ 42 M
i. Jess Howard Osterberg was born on 21 Dec 1960 in El Paso, El Paso, Texas.
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ii. Jason Earl Osterberg was born on 2 Nov 1968 in
Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, California.
General Notes: Certificate of Live Birth, Local
Registration District 7097, Certificate 097053,
recorded Nov 12, 1968, Los Angeles County, CA.
Jason is currently working as a shipping clerk,
recently being placed in charge of the department.
His dream is to become a disk jockey and he was
able to experience a small taste while attending
junior college. Another passion is music and he
spends time working with his favorite band,
Unwritten Law, whenever possible.
Jason lives in San Diego, California.
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Darlene next married Major Roy Clarke Leggitt USAF (Retired) ,
son of Roy Alonzo Young and Clara Clark Leggitt, on 26 Apr
1987 in Rancho Bernardo, San Diego, California. Roy was born on 6
Apr 1933 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma and was christened
in 1962 in Shemya Island, Alaska. Other names for Roy are Jay Clark
Smith and Samuel James (Jay) Purdy.
Noted events in their marriage were:
• Wedding: Roy and Darlene wed in their back yard at their home
in Rancho Bernardo (northern San Diego.) They were married
by Betty Coplin. There were 156 guests.
Christening Notes: Roy was baptized by the Lutheran Chaplin
while stationed at Shemya Air Force Station near the western end
of the Aleutian Chain.
General Notes: Early Life:
Roy was born during the Great Depression just at the beginning
of the Oklahoma dust bowl His parents were not married.
(In 1994, Mae Leggitt Finney related a story whereas there had
been consideration by Inez Hussey Leggitt, Roy's grandmother,
of placing him up for adoption shortly after his birth. His great
grandmother Elizabeth Capps Hussey put an end to that by
stating there would be no adoption of any of her great grandchildren.) His grandmother, who didn't like the
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name Roy, called him Jay.
In January 1934 his mother and he moved in with the Samuel Purdy family in Carter, Oklahoma. Clara
worked as their housekeeper and finished high school there in 1936. By 1937 the Purdy family could no
longer support themselves in Oklahoma because of the severity of the dust bowl. In September 1937 they
migrated to southern California.
Roy went to first through third grade as Samuel James (Jay) Purdy. After his mother's marriage in 1941
to Leonard Smith, without adoption, his name was changed to Jay Clark Smith. He went to 17 grammar
schools and four high schools, graduating from Modesto High School, CA, in 1951. Roy worked as a
janitor, shoe salesman, operating engineer, and carpenter until joining the United States Air Force in
November, 1952. During that period he and his family lived in Nevada, central, and southern California.
Military Life:
Roy joined the United States Air Force 26 November 1952. He served as an enlisted ground radio
operator and attained the rank of staff sergeant. Just prior to his marriage in 1955 Roy changed his name
from Jay Clark Smith back to his legal birth name, Roy Clarke Leggitt.
Upon completion of officer candidate school he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1959. He
served as a communications officer and later as a communications-electronics staff officer.
Roy attended night college courses until he was able to complete his two final semesters at the Alaska
Methodist University. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in Natural Sciences (Magna Cum Laude) in
1965. In 1969 Roy completed his Masters of Science in Information Sciences degree from the Georgia
Institute of Technology.
During his tour with the USAF, Roy was stationed in California, Mississippi, Japan, Iwo Jima, Iowa,
New Mexico, Azores, Texas, Mississippi, Shemya Island, Alaska, Mississippi, Iowa, Georgia, Belgium,
and Oklahoma. Roy retired from USAF as a major on 31 August 1974.
For a more detailed description of Roy's military service, go to the Internet and select
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dddzcgfd_459hpjwhwhq
Post Military Life:
Two days after retiring from the USAF Roy began working with NCR Corporation in San Diego as a
software quality analyst and later as a programmer analyst. He worked primarily in telecommunications
programming.
In 1976 he became bored with his job and obtained his real estate sales license. He worked mostly in the
Poway, California area. While working there he met his future wife-to-be, Darlene.
In 1978 he went back to NCR as a senior software quality analyst and later as a consulting analyst.
After their children were grown, Roy and his wife of nearly 28 years grew apart and divorced in 1983.
In 1984 Roy changed over from the commercial side to the defense industry side of software quality
engineering with the Cubic Defense Corporation in San Diego. He worked as a software quality engineer
and later as a software quality engineering technical specialist. Again, his specialty was in
telecommunications programming.
In 1987 Roy married his present wife Darlene.
His aim for several years was to retire when he reached 59 1/2 years of age. On schedule, Roy retired in
October 1992.
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Retirement Years:
Roy now pursues genealogy as his principle pastime. After his wife Darlene retired a day after her fiftyfith birthday in 1996 they spent a considerable amount of time each year touring America in their
recreational vehicle from their home base in San Diego. In January 1997, after they decided they enjoyed
RVing so much, they sold their house in San Diego, bought a new diesel powered 37' Holiday Rambler
Endeavor LE, and became full time RVers. Darlene drives and Roy navigates. Using his laptop computer
and a two-way DirecWay satellite Internet connection, Roy still pursues his online genealogical quest.
They spend their winters on the Colorado River near Parker, Arizona. Starting in early spring and
continuing through late fall they travel to a selected area of the United States. They try to visit family and
friends in central Nevada and southern California twice a year. By the end of 1997 they had traveled to
each of the contiguous 48 states and in early 1998 ventured down into Mexico.
They still have the traveling bug. In June 2002 they upgraded their home-on-wheels to a new, custom
built 2002 41' Monaco Windsor diesel pusher with three slide out compartments. Darlene still does all the
driving.
In January 2008, after eleven years on the road, Roy and Darlene purchased a nice RV lot in a co-op RV
park about four miles south of Florence, Arizona. They plan on spending from mid-October to mid-April
there traveling to cooler places during the summer. To see our new RV homebase, look at
http://tinyurl.com/4ytvrs
Great Adventure:
To read about some of their great adventures, go to http://www.royc.cts.com/Great_Adventure.mht. To
see where they are camped now, go to tinyurl.com/6gqsz.
Noted events in his life were:
• AKA: Alternate names:. Roy's birth certificate shows his name
as Roy Clarke Leggitt. His maternal grandmother did not like
the name Roy so he was called Jay.
When he was about nine months old he and his mother were
taken in by the Samuel and Bonnie Purdy family. When he
started school, he was registered as Samuel James "Jay" Purdy.
He used this name in the first through third grades.
When his mother married Leonard Smith, without adoption, his
name was changed to Jay Clark Smith. He completed school
and joined the United States Air Force using this name. During
his early Air Force career his friends called him Smitty.
Just prior to his marriage in 1955 he formally changed his name
back to Roy Clarke Leggitt. However, most of his maternal
family members still call him Jay.
Samuel James "Jay" Purdy
(Cir 1942)
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• Full-time RVing: Roy and Darlene are now on their fourth
recreation vehicle. This is their current home on wheels. You
can see what it looks like on the Internet. Go to
http://www.royc.cts.com/Great_Adventure.mht. While there,
look around and share some of their great adventures.
• DNA: In 2007 I had my Y-chromosome analyzed. Here is
some of that analysis:
Your Predicted Haplogroup: R1b (prediction confidence
100.0%) Haplogroup R1b, defined by the SNP marker M343,
is part of the ancestral R1-M173 of which ancestors first
arrived first arrived in Europe from West Asia during the
Upper Paleolithic period (35,000-40,000 years ago) at the
beginning of the Aurignacian culture. This culture is one of the
first within Europe to leave cave-art and their stone tools were
more refined than previous periods. The Périgordian culture is
also considered by some to have existed at this time. As the
last ice-age began, it became necessary to move down to below
the tree-line to hunt game. At its peak, the ice shelf within Europe extended down as far as southern
Ireland, the middle of England and across northern Germany.
Scandinavia was entirely covered. The sea-ice pack extended as far as northern Spain and tundra
covered much of continental Europe. The tree-line at the height of the ice-age was as far south as
Southern France, Northern Italy, north of the Balkans and across the Black Sea.
People with Haplogroup R1 Y-chromosomes retreated to below these regions where they established
themselves. During this period, the mutation which defines R1b (M343) likely developed within the
Iberian Peninsula. As the ice-age ended and the fauna and flora were able to move northward again,
people in R1b also migrated north. Haplogroup R1 appears in about 50% of the total European
whereas R1b remains by far the most common haplogroup in Western Europe (Spain, Portugal, France,
UK and Ireland). R1b3, one of the most successful clades, has it's origins about 11,800 years ago.
Within the British Isles, a genetic pattern called the Atlantic Modal Haplotype (AMH) features greatly
among the Irish and Welsh. Some researchers consider this haplotype to be representative of the early
Celtic migrations. Haplogroup R1b is prevalent within South America given the influx of Iberian Ychromosomes to the continent over the last 500 years.
The picture to the right shows the probability of my distant ancestral origin.
• Desert Garden RV Oasis: In January 2008, after eleven years
on the road, Roy and Darlene purchased a nice RV lot in a coop RV park about four miles south of Florence, Arizona. They
plan on spending from mid-October to mid-April there
traveling to cooler places during the summer. Roughly. spend a
month in southern California, a month in Carson City, fthree
months roaming around the Pacific northwest, another month in
southern California and then back to Florence.
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28. Daniel Earl Osborne (Earl Richard Osborne 4, Grace Watson 3,
David Bain 2, Alexander 1) was born on 30 Jul 1942 in Fresno, Fresno,
California.
General Notes: The following was prepared by Danny in 1998:
Soon after I was born the family moved to Sacramento until the
age of eleven. My mother and sisters and I went to live in Fresno
until I was thirteen. We then moved to the San Diego area. I
moved back and forth from San Diego with Mom to the
Sacramento area with Dad until I was sixteen years old. My dad,
my step-mother (Tommi) and I then moved to Redlands,
California. After finishing the 10th grade at seventeen, I joined
the US Navy in September 1959. I was assigned to two ships,
the USS Rochester CA-124 heavy cruiser and the USS Ranger
CVA-61 aircraft carrier.
I married Carol Ann Senft in San Diego on 23 June 1962. We
went to Pensacola, Florida where I graduated from CTR "A"
School. The following were duty stations I was assigned to: NAVRADSTA Imperial Beach, California;
NAVRADSTA, Midway Island; NAVCOMSTA Oahu, Hawaii; NAVCOMSTA, Shaggs Island; Ft. G.
Meade, Maryland; NAVCOMSTA, Nazamasec, Turkey; NAVCOMSTA, Edzell, Scotland. I retired from
the Navy in January 1979.
I then worked in the appliance repair business until 1981. I was the maintenance supervisor for
manufacturing companies until 1988. I broke into the hotel business in Reno, Fresno, and Carson City as
the maintenance chief engineer.
I married Haydee in March 1996 and right after that I got a job with the Nevada State Prisons Warm
Springs Correctional Center as an air conditioner refrigeration specialist in Carson City, Nevada.
Danny and Haydee had their new home built in the Topaz Ranch Estates near Wellington, Nevada in
1997.
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Daniel married Carol Ann Senft, daughter of William Howard
Senft and Rose Elizabeth Sellers, on 23 Jun 1962 in San Diego,
San Diego, California. The marriage ended in divorce. Carol was born
on 21 Jun 1942 in Sumner, Bremer, Iowa.
General Notes: Danny and Carol Ann divorced in July 1988.
Carol remarried Walt Nelson and they live near Seattle,
Washington.
Children from this marriage were:
+ 44 M
i. Jeffrey Earl Osborne was born on 23 Jul 1963.
+ 45 M
ii. Robert Howard Osborne was born on 4 May 1965.
+ 46 M
iii. Kenneth Wayne Osborne was born on 26 Oct
1967.
Daniel next married June Ellen Gwaltney, daughter of Lowell
William Gwaltney and Lois Josephine Pence, on 30 Sep 1988 in
Carson City, , Nevada. The marriage ended in divorce. June was born
on 8 Apr 1946.
General Notes: Danny and June Ellen divorced in 1996. She still
resides unmarried in Clovis, California.
Daniel next married Josefa Haydee Chavez, daughter of Manuel
Chavez and Dora Bonsell, on 16 Mar 1996 in Wellington, Lyons,
Nevada. Josefa was born on 8 May 1959 in San Salvador, El Salvador.
General Notes: Haydee moved to the United States because of
trouble in El Salvador. Three of her brothers were murdered
(killed off duty - they were in the army.) She moved to
Hollywood, California in December 1984 and moved to Fresno in
December 1990.
Haydee works as an environmental service supervisor.
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29. Kathleen Renee Osborne (Earl Richard Osborne 4, Grace Watson 3,
David Bain 2, Alexander 1) was born on 4 Aug 1951 in Sacramento, ,
California.
General Notes: Kathleen enjoys reading, Beanie Babies, Betty
Boop, and music.
Kathy is a buyer at LaBarge, Inc., an electronics plant in
Huntsville.
She also performs at The Garden Cafe at The Settle Inn Resort &
Conference Center in Branson, Missouri. Tony Orlando and Moe
Bradly have stopped by to see her, but one of the "regulars" is
none other than Santa Claus himself! He and Mrs. Claus have
become Kathleen's and Victor's very dear friends. Santa is a great
singer and performer! He is a big part of Tony's show and he and
Kathy often perform duets together at the Cafe. His driver's
license may state his name as Dave Thompson, but she knows
better. He is Santa Claus.
Kathleen married Victor Arlis Deaton, son of Elmer Charles Deaton
and Thella Fay Sanders, on 25 May 1975 in Pearl Harbor, , Hawaii.
Victor was born on 21 Oct 1946 in Wenatchee, , Washington.
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Noted events in their marriage were:
• Wedding::
General Notes: Vic enjoys reading, fishing, hunting, Arkansas
Razorback basketball, and spoiling grandkids.
He bought Jessica her first fishing pole on her 4th birthday. Both
of them enjoy fishing at Vic's private pond and going out in the
bass boat on Beaver Lake, or the "big pond" as Jessica calls it.
She hollers to make the boat go "faster, PaPa, faster." That's
usually about the time Kathleen is hollering for him to "slow
down!"
Vic is Assistant Foreman at the Heating and A/C Plant at the
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Vic and Kathleen make their home on their eighty acre spread
southeast of Huntsville, Arkansas.
Children from this marriage were:
47 M
i. Robert Wayne Deaton was born on 18 Sep 1969 in
Russellville, , Arkansas.
General Notes: Source: Deaton family records.
48 F
ii. Michelle Deaton was born on 19 Aug 1971 in Little Rock, , Arkansas.
General Notes: Source: Deaton family records.
Michelle married Jim McKee.
Michelle next married Bill McNeal.
+ 49 F
iii. Lola Irene Mitchell was born on 22 Aug 1975 in Siloam Springs, Benton, Arkansas.
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Sixth Generation (3rd Great-Grandchildren)
30. Katherine Jo Anne Sceirine (Stanley Dale Sceirine 5, Ellen Lucinda
Osborne 4, Grace Watson 3, David Bain 2, Alexander 1) was born on 22
Aug 1958 in Yerington, Lyon, Nevada.
General Notes: Earl Osborne says Katherine is living in Tyler,
Texas.
Katherine married Michael Jean Vintages on 10 Apr 1982. Michael
was born on 26 Dec 1958.
The child from this marriage was:
50 F
i. Christine Michelle Vintges was born on 9 Mar
1988.
32. Susanne Ellen Sceirine (Stanley Dale Sceirine 5, Ellen Lucinda
Osborne 4, Grace Watson 3, David Bain 2, Alexander 1) was born on
23 Aug 1961.
General Notes: Earl Osborne says Susanne is living in Reno,
Nevada.
Susanne married Hardy William Brafford on 12 Jun 1982. Hardy
was born on 29 Mar 1959.
Children from this marriage were:
51 M
i. Jonathan Hardy Brafford was born on 26 Aug
1983.
52 F
ii. Jacuelyne Susan Brafford was born on 12 Nov
1984.
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34. William Todd Sceirine (Jackie Duane Sceirine 5, Ellen Lucinda
Osborne 4, Grace Watson 3, David Bain 2, Alexander 1) was born on
9 Jul 1969.
General Notes: There is an interesting article at
http://espn.go.com/outdoors/fishing/s/f_map_03
_NV_East_Walker_River.html
entitled Slip over Calif. border for East Walker browns.
The article says Todd Sceirine is a third-generation cattle rancher
whose family owns 1,050 acres, including more than 2½ miles of
East Walker River. Although some of the Sceirine-Fredricks
Ranch is in California, most of it is in Lyon County, Nev. The
Sceirines have owned this property since the 1950s.
Todd says that the East Walker on the ranch was stocked three
or four times a year every year since the early '60s so family and
friends would have plenty of rainbow trout to catch and eat.
This heritage of fishing is evident in his youth-friendly fishing policy and the healthy state of the river
here.
In 1997, the Sceirines stopped stocking the river and instituted a catch-and-release, single-barbless-hook,
artificial-lures-only policy.
The fee to fish for a day on the ranch is $80 per adult angler (18 and older), $40 if 13 to 17, and free if 12
or younger (with an adult).
To minimize fishing pressure on the trout, the size of fishing parties is limited.
However, the ranch can accommodate two groups of four anglers each by dividing the river into two
sections, one upstream and one downstream of the bridge approximately halfway down their section of the
river.
The downstream border of Sceirine-Fredricks Ranch is the "Rosachi Ranch" public fishing site, so anglers
can continue fishing if they get that far. That portion of the river is designated catch-and-release by the
state and limited to single-hook artificial-lure fishing.
People Finder listsTODD SCEIRINE, WELLINGTON NV 89444 (775) 5457016
William married Ally Jensen on 25 May 2002.
General Notes: Ally had a son by a previous marriage.
The child from this marriage was:
53 M
i. Jackie Lonnie Sceirine was born on 17 Apr 2003.
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42. Jess Howard Osterberg (Darlene Grace Osborne 5, Earl Richard
Osborne 4, Grace Watson 3, David Bain 2, Alexander 1) was born on
21 Dec 1960 in El Paso, El Paso, Texas.
General Notes: Birth: Certificate of Birth No. 142-60 228882, El
Paso, El Paso County, Texas, Registrar's File No. 12582,
recorded Dec 27, 1960.
Jess moved to Phoenix, AZ after graduating from high school to
attend mechanics school. After returning to San Diego to begin
working as a mechanic, he soon realized that as a profession, this
was not for him. After he and Karin married, he started college
and began working toward his degree in Electronics Engineering.
Karin worked as a hair stylist and Jess worked part time as they
moved closer to the goal of his graduation from San Diego State
University. Three years after the birth of Eric, Jess graduated
with his degree and is currently working in his field. His
passion is car racing and he has a 914 Porsche which keeps him busy using his mechanic’s skills.
Karin continues working as a hair stylist and is taking classes to become a Montessori teacher.
Jess and his family reside in Poway, California.
Jess married Karin Diane Aastrom, daughter of Charles Emil
Aastrom and Donna Arlene Allen, on 18 Jun 1988 in Rancho
Bernardo, San Diego, California. Karin was born on 27 Dec 1961 in
Billings, , Montana.
General Notes: Source: Aastrom family records compiled by
Donna Allen in July, 1990.
Children from this marriage were:
+ 54 M
i. Jeremy Darrell Osterberg was born on 8 Mar 1979
in Yuma, , Arizona.
55 M
ii. Eric Charles Osterberg was born on 2 Jul 1991 in
Poway, San Diego, California.
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44. Jeffrey Earl Osborne (Daniel Earl Osborne 5, Earl Richard
Osborne 4, Grace Watson 3, David Bain 2, Alexander 1) was
born on 23 Jul 1963.
General Notes: After high school (Douglas High), Jeff joined the
US Navy in August 1981. He trained as an electrician (electrician
mate.) He was stationed aboard the USS Camden and USS
Sacramento out of San Francisco, California. He separated from
the Navy in August 1985.
After the Navy Jeff worked as a correctional officer at the Nevada
State Prison for a little over a year before joining the Northern
Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City as an electrician,
phone, and locksmith. He still works there.
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Jeffrey married Margaret (Kelly) McDonough , daughter of Michael
Joseph McDonough and Caroline Joyce Whisler, on 28 May 1988 in
Carson City, , Nevada. Margaret was born on 6 Nov 1966.
General Notes: Kelly has been working for the State of Nevada
since 1985.
Children from this marriage were:
+ 56 M
i. Christopher Neil Osborne was born on 27 May
1984.
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57 F
ii. Amanda Leanne Osborne was born on 13 Dec
1989 in Carson City, , Nevada.
General Notes: Since a child, Amanda has excelled
in soccer.
On June 7th, 2008, Amanda graduated from Carson
City High School. Her scholarships and awards
included: Top Twenty Academics; President's
Award for Educational Excellence; Academic
Honors Diploma; Advanced Diploma; Kern Oxoby
Memorial Scholarship; Carson City High School
Soccer Boosters Scholarship; John and Grace
Nauman Foundation Scholarship; Woodrow Loftin
Foundation Scholarship; Capital/AYSO Soccer Club
Scholarship; Savin Family Scholarship; National
Honor Society Member; Fourth Time Academic
Letter Recipient; Nevada Scholars.
Amanda will be attending the University of Nevada
in Reno beginning in the fall.
45. Robert Howard Osborne (Daniel Earl Osborne 5, Earl Richard
Osborne 4, Grace Watson 3, David Bain 2, Alexander 1) was born on
4 May 1965.
General Notes: After high school (Douglas High) Bobby joined
the US Navy in November 1986. He trained as a nuclear
electronics operator in Orlando and Idaho. He served as an
instructor and served on the USS Texas and USS Holland. He left
the Navy in September 1996.
He is now working in Beaverton, Oregon in the electronics field.
Robert married Laura Estes on 2 Aug 1985. The marriage ended in
divorce.
The child from this marriage was:
58 F
i. Yvonne Holly Osborne was born on 6 May 1986.
Robert next married Marjorie Lynn Jones on 7 Aug 1989. The
marriage ended in divorce.
Children from this marriage were:
59 F
i. Kayla Lynn Osborne was born on 13 Nov 1990 in Albany, Albany, New York.
60 F
ii. Alicia Osborne was born on 21 Sep 1992.
Robert next married Athena (Tina) in Jul 1998 in Beaverton, Washington, Oregon. Athena was born on 30 Jul
1966.
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Robert next married Debbie on 7 Mar 2009 in Las Vegas, Clark,
Nevada. They had no children.
46. Kenneth Wayne Osborne (Daniel Earl Osborne 5, Earl Richard
Osborne 4, Grace Watson 3, David Bain 2, Alexander 1) was born on
26 Oct 1967.
General Notes: After Douglas High School, Minden, Nevada,
Kenny joined the US Navy in 1986. He separated from the Navy
in October 1994. During his Navy tours, Kenny was on two fast
attack nuclear submarines, USS Bremerton out of Hawaii and the
USS Spade Fish out of Norfolk, Virginia. He was also stationed
at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. His rate was intercommunication mate
(IC man.)
He and Melissa were married by candlelight ceremony at the
Storrs Congregational Church, University of Connecticut
Campus North Eagleville Road, Storrs, Connecticut.
They now reside in Storrs, Connecticut. Kenny works in the
electronics industry.
Kenneth married Melissa Audrey Handfield, daughter of Burton
Tenney Handfield and Gloria Ann Wellman, on 9 Dec 1989 in Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England. Melissa was
born on 19 Sep 1970 in Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut.
Children from this marriage were:
61 F
i. Miranda Ashley Osborne was born on 14 Apr
1993 in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii.
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62 M
ii. Trent Sebaistian Osborne was born on 6 Feb 1995
in Storrs, Tolland, Connecticut.
63 F
iii. Jordan Nicole Osborne was born on 18 May 1998
in Manchester, Hartford, Connecticut.
Kenneth next married Shawnette K. Akim.
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49. Lola Irene Mitchell (Kathleen Renee Osborne 5, Earl Richard
Osborne 4, Grace Watson 3, David Bain 2, Alexander 1) was born
on 22 Aug 1975 in Siloam Springs, Benton, Arkansas.
Lola married Toby Sol Beavers on 24 Jul 1993. Toby was born on 19
Sep 1974 in Fayetteville, Washington, Arkansas.
Children from this marriage were:
64 F
i. Jessica Blake Beavers was born on 11 Mar 1993 in
Fayetteville, Washington, Arkansas.
65 M
ii. Colton Mcgregor Beavers was born on 12 Feb
1998 in Springdale, Washington, Arkansas.
Lola next married James.
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54. Jeremy Darrell Osterberg (Jess Howard Osterberg 6, Darlene
Grace Osborne 5, Earl Richard Osborne 4, Grace Watson 3, David
Bain 2, Alexander 1) was born on 8 Mar 1979 in Yuma, , Arizona.
Jeremy married Kiera on 27 Mar 2009.
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The child from this marriage was:
66 M
i. Jaydin Dyer Osterberg was born on 14 Nov 2009
in , San Diego, California.
56. Christopher Neil Osborne (Jeffrey Earl Osborne 6, Daniel Earl
Osborne 5, Earl Richard Osborne 4, Grace Watson 3, David Bain 2,
Alexander 1) was born on 27 May 1984.
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Christopher married Kristin Marie Jenkins, daughter of Ross
Jenkins and Jeanne, on 10 Mar 2007 in Genoa, Douglas, Nevada.
Marriage Notes: Chris and Kristen were married at David
Walley's Resort in Genoa, Nevada.
The child from this marriage was:
67 F
i. Hailey Nicole Osborne was born on 28 Aug 2006 in
Carson City, , Nevada.
General Notes: Hailey was born at 7:33 AM,
weighed 6.8 ponds and was 19 inches long.
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Name Index
(No surname)
Alice, 13
Athena (Tina), 79
Bell, 29
Debbie, 79
James, 82
Jeanne, 84
Kiera, 83
AASTROM
Charles Emil, 77
Karin Diane, 77
AKIM
Shawnette K., 81
ALLEN
Donna Arlene, 77
ARNOLD
Florence Beatrice, 59
BAIN
Elizabeth, 1
BALL
Albert "Bert" Stanley, 16
BARTON
Emily, 32
BAULDRY
Margaret, 19
BAUMAN
Rosetta, 62
Wildord, 33, 62
BEAVER
Caroline Ellen, 16
BEAVERS
Colton Mcgregor, 82
Jessica Blake, 82
Toby Sol, 82
BONSELL
Dora, 71
BRABB
Dorothy Alberta, 43
BRAFFORD
Hardy William, 75
Jacuelyne Susan, 75
Jonathan Hardy, 75
BUCHMAN
George, 59
Joanne Linda, 59
CARDER
Ida May, 39
CHAVEZ
Josefa Haydee, 71
Manuel, 71
COLLIER
Emmett, 39
Genevia Leora, 39
CORNELIUS
Edith, 62
DEATON
Elmer Charles, 72
Michelle, 73
Robert Wayne, 73
Victor Arlis, 72
DINI
Edward, 34
EDIE
Colin A., 25
ELSKIN
Carrie, 63
ESTES
Laura, 79
GOMM
Renata, 63
GRAY
Mary Jane, 13
GWALTNEY
June Ellen, 71
Lowell William, 71
HANDFIELD
Burton Tenney, 80
Melissa Audrey, 80
HANSEN
Doris "Tommi", 56
Iver, 56
Marjorie Belle, 65
HEBNER
Rosanna, 7
HOOPER
Imogene (Jeanie), 61
JENKINS
Kristin Marie, 84
Ross, 84
JENSEN
Ally, 76
JONES
Gail L., 20
Marjorie Lynn, 79
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JORDAN
Mary Ellen, 7
William Thomas, 7
KEETER
Larry, 63
LEE
Kukcha, 62
LEGGITT
Clara Clark, 66
Roy Clarke (Major), USAF
(Retired), 66
MARTIN
John Seele, 22
MAUST
Marietta "Mary", 29
MCCARTY
Margurite, 61
MCDONOUGH
Margaret (Kelly), 78
Michael Joseph, 78
MCKEE
Jim, 73
MCNEAL
Bill, 73
MILHOLLAND
John Harrison, 43
Sibyl, 43
MITCHELL
Lola Irene, 73, 82
NELSON
Beverly Anne, 61
Phelan, 61
OSBORN
Charles Barton, 32
OSBORNE
Alicia, 79
Amanda Leanne, 79
Christopher Neil, 78, 84
Daniel Earl, 56, 70
Darlene Grace, 56, 64
David Phillip, 62
Drew Allen, 39, 62
Earl Richard, 33, 40
Ellen Lucinda, 33, 35
Genevia, 64
Hailey Nicole, 85
Jeffrey Earl, 71, 78
Jordan Nicole, 81
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OSBORNE
Kathleen Renee, 56, 72
Kayla Lynn, 79
Kenneth Wayne, 71, 80
Kevin John, 63
Lee Ann, 62
Lowell Richard, 39, 61
Miranda Ashley, 80
Robert Howard, 71, 79
Roy Allen, 63
Roy Edwin, 33, 36
Samantha Mae, 63
Seth Taylor, 63
Sidney Phelps, 32
Trent Sebaistian, 81
Yvonne Holly, 79
OSTERBERG
Bruce Howard, 65
Brunolf Host, 65
Eric Charles, 77
Jason Earl, 66
Jaydin Dyer, 84
Jeremy Darrell, 77, 83
Jess Howard, 65, 77
PALASIOS
Patricia, 63
PATTERSON
Hannah Beatrice, 56
PENCE
Lois Josephine, 71
PINDER
Stanley, 28
Will, 27
SANDERS
Thella Fay, 72
SCEIRINE
Ceges Jack, 35
Jackie Duane, 36, 60
Jackie Lonnie, 76
Joseph, 35
Katherine Jo Anne, 60, 75
Kenneth George, 60
Michael Duane, 61
Stanley Dale, 36, 59
Susanne Ellen, 60, 75
William Todd, 61, 76
SCOSSA
Nellie, 35
SEILER
John, 20
SELLERS
Rose Elizabeth, 70
SENFT
Carol Ann, 70
William Howard, 70
SORENSEN
Lori, 63
VINTAGES
Michael Jean, 75
VINTGES
Christine Michelle, 75
WATSON
Albert, 17
Alexander, 1
Anna, 21
Charles, 14
Charles Albert, 13
David (Jordan), 13
David Bain, 1, 3
Edwin Roy, 25
Elizabeth (Lizzie), 16
Ellen (Nellie), 13, 27
Freda, 23
Grace, 22, 30
Henry, 22
James, 1
Mary Marie, 19
Thomas Herbert, 29
Thomas James, 20, 28
William Bain, 21
WELLMAN
Gloria Ann, 80
WHISLER
Caroline Joyce, 78
YOUNG
Roy Alonzo, 66
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