On this date in history my 3x great grandmother Phoebe Ann Moore was born in 1836.
Phoebe was the only child of Andrew Moore and Margaret “Peggy” Jane Kleckner Moore. She was born in 1836 in Cumberland Ohio. Her obituary says her parents brought her to Western Illinois at an early age and she grew to womanhood on a farm located near the site of the village of New Lancaster, four miles northwest of the present village of Roseville. Her father died in 1942 when she was just 6. Her mother remarried a widowed farmer, John Brown. Phoebe married Paul Brent in 1857 at the age of 20. They had twelve children between 1857 and 1880. She lived to bury six of those twelve children. The lived on a farm in Ellison township. Their first born was my great great grandmother, Ida Brent Starr. Ida isn’t my biological grandparent, but she raised my great grandfather, Ernest Starr. After Ernie’s mother died when he was just one year old my great great grandfather Emory married Ida in 1898. In 1880 Phoebe and Paul moved to Abingdon in Knox county and then to Tompkins in Warren County in 1900. In 1906 Paul died in Kirkwood and Phoebe began living with her children, moving to Louisa county Iowa with her son Elias’s family for a time, and then returning to stay with Ida and Ernie in Monmouth in 1922. She died in their home on 3 Dec 1922.
Also on October 9th my 2x great grandmother, Ida (aka Addie) Belle Godfrey died in 1930. Yes, I have two 2x great grandmothers, both on my paternal side, named Ida, Ida Brent Starr and Ida Godfrey Myers.
Ida Belle Godfrey was the 6th of 7 children born to Eleazer Godfrey and Cordelia Elizabeth Hatton Godfrey in Knox County Indiana. Eleazer was born in Brazil, Indiana, his father also called Eleazar, had moved to Indiana from Connecticut around 1818. Cordelia was also born in Indiana, her father, Marshall D. Hatton brought his family from West Virginia about 1821.
At 19 Ida gave birth to her son Raymond Jasper Myers, my great grandfather. She married his father, Sam Orlando Myers a week after his birth. There’s no doubt Sam is the father of her baby as I have several DNA matches through his relatives. Sam and Addie moved to Bear Creek Illinois by 1910. Bear Creek is in Christian County, near Taylorville, 30 minutes south of Springfield. Sam worked several jobs in Bear Creek and Palmer, including carpenter and constable. I have another blog entry detailing Sam’s life. And there is another blog that explains what happened to their descendants. After 1924 Sam and Ida moved to Haverstraw, New York where Sam died in May of 1926. Haverstraw is a village 30 miles North of the Bronx borough of New York City, on the other side of the Hudson. Their son Raymond abandoned his family and also moved to New York at the same time, eventually settling in Queens where he worked as a carpenter and boat builder. After Sam died Addie may have travelled to California to visit her youngest sister, Ethel, who lived in San Diego. There is a record of an Addie Meyers, the same age, cruising from Los Angeles to Honolulu in June of 1929. The December 11th edition of the Vincennes Sun-Commercial reports her death in 1930. It says she died in Rockland, Maine and was buried in Bicknell cemetery next to her husband. It’s more likely she died in Rockland, NY the county Haverstraw is located in, though I have no record to confirm that.
