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Mary Adair notebook

Small (3x4) notebook with notes from Mary Bailey Adair. Writings include calendar entries, steam locomotive facts, some family dates, and Old Glory poem.

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Bailey Book

Pages from the Bailey Book

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John Adair, Celebration of Life

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.

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Strawberry Story

Letter from Phyllis Drescher Head dated 070706 to Dorothy Gonick

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Phyllis - Happy Holidays 2004

Year end letter from Phyllis Drescher.

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Quilt from Friends Church

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

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Durham Historical Society

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. 

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Letters from 1986-2011

 1986 letter from Betty Blume, 1997 letter from Vernice Bailey Wood, 2011 letters from Phyllis Blume

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Letters from Vernice & Phyllis

Year end letter from Vernice to all and letter from Phyllis to Margaret & Marv and card from Phyllis to Alice

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Letters from Marian 1957

To Dorothy June 8, 1957

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Letters by Mary Adair 1974

Here is a set of letters written by Mary Bailey Adair in 1974.

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Mary Adair January 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.

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Notes from Ruth Cartland Graham

Ruth and Lucy sent greetings. Lucy was 94 in 1975. Lucy was 101 in 1981.

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Notes from Evelyn Bailey

Evelyn Bailey wrote these notes about Vernice & Howard Wood Thanksgiving visit and how family has scattered from their root locations and Christmas without Earl.

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Letter from Mary Adair

In 1974 Mary was living in Melrose Park with family of her daughter Margaret. Here are details on 12-13 November 1974

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Etheldean news 2/28/1981

Details that Etheldean Bailey provided about family, especially her father "Uncle Arthur (or Cartland)". She was married to Dragia Karabuykova.

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Billy Miller photos

Four miscellaneous photos 1920, 1925, 1949 and 1951 with WBMiller captioning on the backs.

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Mary Adair Funeral Service

Text of the funeral service for Mary Adair November 29, 1975 in Redding, Iowa. Read for details about life of Mary Bailey Adair.

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Christmas 2011 from Broweleit family

Christmas 2011 photo card from Broweleit Family.  Jan Drescher Broweleit is granddaughter of Jennette Bailey Drescher and daughter of Richard and LaMoine Drescher.

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1930 Postcard from Aunt Bess to Margaret

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

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1948 Post card from Edna Bailey

Edna is 1st cousin of Mary Bailey Adair. She has daugther Ginny.

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1998 Phyllis Drescher Head

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.

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Letter from Edith Maria Bailey Wood

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.

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A. C. Bailey and Maurine

Story by Thomas Kruse about Arthur Cartland and Maurine Bailey

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Christmas Cards from Lucy Ruth Marian

Four Christmas cards include one from unknown "Evelyn" mentioning Lucy & Ruth Graham.

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Drescher Christmas Cards

Two Christmas cards from Dreschers. First is Jennette & Christian, second is Eileen, Ken, Kent and Daphne

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Head - December 1961

December 1961 letter re Head household in Canada including Wilson, Phyllis, Norman, Greggie, Renee

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Head - Christmas Letter 1955

1955 Christmas letter by Phyllis Head re Wilson, Norman, Greg

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Jennette and Bruderhof

Letter written by Jennette to sister Mary in 1957 about "Bruderhof" community in Paraguay. I have a transcription at end.

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Earl Adair letter 1965

Earl is giving status on Mary's left arm after Volkswagen accident

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Berry descendants

--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

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The Phosphorescence of Fuzed Quartz

-- Paper published by Arthur Cartland Bailey and J.W. Woodrow From the PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE, vol. vi. December 1928

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The Descendants of Jedediah and Anna Torrey Austin

-- 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.

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Cartland Clan in America

-- 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.

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Cherished Memories (Ella Lydia Cartland Marshall)

-- Cherished Memories booklet remembering Ella Lydia Marshall maintained by her daughter Mary Emma Bailey Adair

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Notes about the Stephen Cartland Family…1925 Cartland Family Notes by Susan Cartland Berry Sisson, re-typed by great-granddaughter Patricia Probert Gott

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In Memoriam Mary Bailey Adair

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Golden Anniversary Earl & Mary Adair

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Mary Bailey (Adair) notebook and diary 1962

Mary Emma Bailey kept a few diaries. Here is one from 1962. I also added descendant charts from Joseph Dixon Adair & Rose Ann Speckman.

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Mary Bailey (Adair) letter 1958

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.

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Trip plan and completion of Mary and Earl Adair in December 1960

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1962-1963 Mary Bailey (Adair) diaries

Mary Emma Bailey kept a few diaries.

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Navy Deck Logs Available in the National Archives Catalog

https://www.archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/navy-online

 

28th Division Shrine

A Park with Monuments Honoring a Famous Pennsylvania Division. Marvin Kruse was in this 28th Division.

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Marvin Kruse and Liberation - Battle of the Bulge

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.

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Marvin Kruse home Interview as related to American Legion Post

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.

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World War II Remembered

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.

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WWII Newsreels

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.’

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The Sycamore Tribune

Sycamore, Illinois - Fri, Oct 26, 1956

  1. At Bloese Farm
  2. Trips by Tom Kruse
  3. Vacations by Tom & Brenda
  4. Letters describing Ettelbruck in 1944

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A collection of short stories by Dorothy Adair Gonick

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Letters that Earl Adair wrote to Mary Bailey before they married in 1920.

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