This book was presented to Elwood S. Bailey by his Aunt. It is dated 1851. Here are a few pages from the beginning.
Small (3x4) notebook with notes from Mary Bailey Adair. Writings include calendar entries, steam locomotive facts, some family dates, and Old Glory poem.
There was a Celebration of Life for John Wesley Adair on Saturday, April 22, 2023 in Omaha, Nebraska.
Here is the program plus speeches given by family.
Letter from Phyllis Drescher Head dated 070706 to Dorothy Gonick
Year end letter from Phyllis Drescher.
Phebe Cartland made this quilt for her Mom, Lydia Tuttle Jones for her 95th Birthday; she was born October 5, 1793.
See more about this quilt on page 2 of Simple Pleasures in Bailey Book. Link here
This is the 2023 calendar from the Durham Historical Society. I found the pictures in December most interesting that showed the Quaker Meeting House and our ancestors.
1986 letter from Betty Blume, 1997 letter from Vernice Bailey Wood, 2011 letters from Phyllis Blume
Year end letter from Vernice to all and letter from Phyllis to Margaret & Marv and card from Phyllis to Alice
Here is a set of letters written by Mary Bailey Adair in 1974.
Mary writes about her return trip with Rich from visiting Dorothy and returning to Melrose Park. Took limousine to Hartford airport from Meriden (just north of Wallingford). Marge & Marve picked them up at O'hare. Read letter for more details.
Ruth and Lucy sent greetings. Lucy was 94 in 1975. Lucy was 101 in 1981.
Evelyn Bailey wrote these notes about Vernice & Howard Wood Thanksgiving visit and how family has scattered from their root locations and Christmas without Earl.
In 1974 Mary was living in Melrose Park with family of her daughter Margaret. Here are details on 12-13 November 1974
Details that Etheldean Bailey provided about family, especially her father "Uncle Arthur (or Cartland)". She was married to Dragia Karabuykova.
Four miscellaneous photos 1920, 1925, 1949 and 1951 with WBMiller captioning on the backs.
Text of the funeral service for Mary Adair November 29, 1975 in Redding, Iowa. Read for details about life of Mary Bailey Adair.
Christmas 2011 photo card from Broweleit Family. Jan Drescher Broweleit is granddaughter of Jennette Bailey Drescher and daughter of Richard and LaMoine Drescher.
I was contacted by a collector of ship postcards, and he sent me one written by Arthur Cartland Bailey's wife Bess when he was teaching in Thailand. Aunt Bess was enroute from Kobe, Japan to Shanghai, China.
Via S.S. Pres. Grant outbound from Shanghai to Seattle - April 18
Dear
When you get this I suppose school will me nearly over for this year. Betty's school in Bangkok begins about May 10th. She has had a good vacation and will be ready to work hard again. Good luck! Aunt Bess
Edna is 1st cousin of Mary Bailey Adair. She has daugther Ginny.
Letter written by my Mom’s 1st cousin, Phyllis Drescher. Phyllis and her son Norman experienced at Koinonia Farm in Georgia that her parents (Christian and Jennette) lived. Phyllis was married to Wilson Head and they had another son Gregory and 2 daughters. This is a letter that Phyllis shared in 1998 remembering The Chattanooga Bus Ride and Rosa Parks in 1954.
1949 letter written by aunt of Mary Bailey Adair. I have transcribed most of it; see below. Edith mentions her daughter Myrtle and her niece Phyllis Blume.
Story by Thomas Kruse about Arthur Cartland and Maurine Bailey
Four Christmas cards include one from unknown "Evelyn" mentioning Lucy & Ruth Graham.
Two Christmas cards from Dreschers. First is Jennette & Christian, second is Eileen, Ken, Kent and Daphne
December 1961 letter re Head household in Canada including Wilson, Phyllis, Norman, Greggie, Renee
1955 Christmas letter by Phyllis Head re Wilson, Norman, Greg
Letter written by Jennette to sister Mary in 1957 about "Bruderhof" community in Paraguay. I have a transcription at end.
Earl is giving status on Mary's left arm after Volkswagen accident
--Here are scanned images from notebook sent by Martha McCourt of Astoria, Oregon to Mary Emma Bailey Adair. The notebook is dated April 1972.
The book is titled “The Descendants of William Drake Berry of Maine” and is aided by notes from S.C. Berry and Annie Kenoyer
-- Paper published by Arthur Cartland Bailey and J.W. Woodrow From the PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE, vol. vi. December 1928
-- Small book compiled by Ann Austin Twomey, 1967. The author’s aunt is Mary C. Austin who married Cyrus Frank Cartland. This booklet has descendants of these Austins and includes names of Cartland and Twomey.
Read more: The Descendants of Jedediah and Anna Torrey Austin
-- Here are scanned images from papers compiled by Arthur Cartland Bailey and Martha Fletcher McCourt dated April 1972
-- Also included are letters to/from Arthur Cartland Bailey in preparation for the papers.
-- Cherished Memories booklet remembering Ella Lydia Marshall maintained by her daughter Mary Emma Bailey Adair
Read more: Cherished Memories (Ella Lydia Cartland Marshall)
Mary Emma Bailey kept a few diaries. Here is one from 1962. I also added descendant charts from Joseph Dixon Adair & Rose Ann Speckman.
Letter written July 27, 1958 talks about July 4 in Milwaukee and Chippewa Falls tornado. Trip continues to Duluth and steam train ride. On to Paul Bunyan Park and the Badlands in South Dakota. Then Wall Drug Store, Mt. Rushmore, Wyoming, and Denver. Visited Maurice & June at Sam Adair home. Visited by Stuart & Helen Hoover. In Kansas stayed overnight with cousin (Barleen) before Mt. Ayr, Centerville, and Muscatine, Iowa. Mary & Earl working in Melrose Park, Illinois; their age is early 60's now. Pompilio family has NOT moved in next door yet; house is empty. Marvin & Tom gone to Comiskey Park to see Red Sox and White Sox. Earl interested in Volkswagen station wagon.
Mary Emma Bailey kept a few diaries.
A Park with Monuments Honoring a Famous Pennsylvania Division. Marvin Kruse was in this 28th Division.
On the Smithsonian Channel there is a show “Liberation: D-Day to Berlin”
S1 E3 is titled Hitler Strikes Back
This episode highlights The Battle of the Bulge
My father has 2 segments which I recorded.
Read more: Marvin Kruse and Liberation - Battle of the Bulge
This interview was conducted at home by Kendal Bishop member of American Legion Post #974, Franklin Park, Illinois on January 16 & 21-22, 2009. This documentary was created for The Veteran's History Project.
If you remember his house, ignore the background sound of the heater.
Read more: Marvin Kruse home Interview as related to American Legion Post
Interview that Marvin Kruse gave to WFSU on March 9, 2007 describing some details of war. The details of the stories are phenomenal.
Unfortunate that the reporter's questions are very, very low volume. But Marvin's voice carries.
I found some United News Newsreels from WWII. U.S. Office of War Information (OWI) was created during World War II (WWII). Part of its role was to oversee U.S. propaganda and promote patriotism. As part of this role, the OWI produced 267 newsreels called the 'United News.’
Subcategories
Christmas cards and Newsletters
This category includes all known Christmas Cards and Family Newsletters
A Kaleidoscope of Memories
A collection of short stories by Dorothy Adair Gonick
Earl courting Mary
Letters that Earl Adair wrote to Mary Bailey before they married in 1920.