Category: Starr
This is a main branch in my family tree, Kenneth and Clema Starr being my grandparents. All ancestors of Kenneth and Clema are included in this main category.
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The Brent Women
The photo above is of Phoebe Ann Moore Brent and daughters Vesper, Eva, Jessie and Ida circa 1885. Ida Brent Married Emory Starr in 1898 and raised Ernest Starr from the age of 3. Emory is my 2x great grandfather and Ernest is my great grandfather. After Emory was killed by a lightning strike in…… Read more
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Almeda Noakes
Almeda Noakes was born in 1870 in Ellison, Illinois to William and Minerva Wilcox Noakes, the fourth of 8 children William had with Minerva after fathering 6 children with a previous wife. William was a farmer. Almeda married Emory Starr in 1892 at the age of 21. Two years later in Stronghurst Illinois she gave…… Read more
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Amelia Billings- the start of it all
Amelia Annette Billings was my 3x great grandmother, my paternal grandfather’s father’s father’s mother. We have cabinet photos of her and her family taken around 1890. It was trying to date these photos that inspired me to create a family tree on ancestry.com and so began the project that has brought me to creating this…… Read more