Category: Hendricks
The Hendricks family is attached to the Carroll family branch of my tree via Bessie Hendricks, mother of Wannita Radcliff Carroll
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January 30, the day of the birth of my Grandma and the day of the death of her Grandma
Today would have been Grandma Carroll’s 108th birthday. It’s easy math for me as she was 50 years and 5 days older than me. It’s also the anniversary of her grandma’s death. My 2x great grandma, Nancy Hendricks, died on this day in 1967, one year before I was born. I’ve written a few different…… Read more
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US Presidents in my Family Tree
By connecting your family tree to the giant family tree on Family Search . com you can see how you’re related to all sorts of famous people from history. Some of the connections are iffy, but I found several that seem likely, including more than 2 dozen US presidents: Twenty one are via the Starr…… Read more
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Nannie Hendricks
16 October was the 150th birthday of my 2x great grandmother, Nancy Taylor Hatton Hendricks. Nancy was born in Crooked Creek (Rice Station) Estill County, Kentucky in 1875, daughter of Junie and Cynthia Hendricks Hatton. Junie was a farmer, born in Estill County. Cynthia’s only sister was named Nancy and she died at the age…… Read more
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Adam Shipley of Maryland is My 9th and 10th GGF
Ok this is weird. After researching the family origins of the man who “unlawfully seduced” my 17 year old 3x great grandmother, Laura Byars (see previous post) I followed his mother’s line back two generations to the Shipley’s of Maryland. This rang a bell. On my mother’s side I remembered tracing my Grandma Carroll’s mom’s…… Read more
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They Shared Birthdays but Not Much Else
July 9th is the birthday of two of my great grandmothers. On my father’s side, Margaret Evelyn Thompson Myers Hounihan, mother of Dad’s mom, was born 9 July 1903 in Roodhouse, Illinois and on my mother’s side, the mother of my maternal grandmother, Bessie Hendricks Radcliff, was also born on July 9th but seven years…… Read more
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Ray “Cotton” Radcliff lost in WW2
Memorial Day seems an apt day to write about my Grandma Carroll’s brother Cotton who was killed during WW2. Raymond Radcilff was born on the 13th of December 1920 in Mackinaw, Illinois. The fourth of Elmer and Bessie Radcliff’s 12 children, he had bright white/blond hair and was thus dubbed “Cotton” for the rest of…… Read more
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Bessie
Bessie Hendricks Radcliff, my maternal grandmother’s mother, died at the age of 35 on May 14th, 1935 after delivering her twelfth child in two decades. Because her husband Elmer was an abusive alcoholic and unfit to parent, her surviving eleven children were soon scattered to the wind. The newborn died, a still birth. Wannita who…… Read more
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Grandma Hendricks and Deer Creek
I drove through Deer Creek today, as I have hundreds of times, on my way to Washington from Carlock. I like to drive Main Street because I remember Grandma Carroll telling me her grandma, Grandma Nannie Hendricks, lived on Main St. Today I looked up the census records so I would know exactly which house…… Read more
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Ancestral Settlers Hamm and Keim
I previously wrote about my 6th great grandfather, Peter Hendricks, immigrating to America in 1754 from Germany in the origins of our Hendricks ancestors. Another 7th great grandfather who immigrated to America from Germany, or what was Bavaria, is Johan Jacob Hamm, born in Rhine Valley, Miesbach, Bayern, Bavaria, Germany on 1721 to Thomas Ham and Sarah Ann Berry. Johan Jacob Ham married Barbara…… Read more
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Rachel Hatton Estes
This is Rachel Hatton Estes, born in 1803. Her brother Thomas Hatton is our 4th great grandfather, Irvin “Junie” Hatton’s father. Junie is the father of Grandma Hendricks, Grandma Carroll’s grandmother. Rachel was born in Clark County Kentucky and lived in Estil County where much of the Hendricks family settled. In a transcribed letter shared…… Read more