Category: Noakes

Almeda Noakes married Ernest Starr connecting the Noakes family to the Starr family

US Presidents in my Family Tree

Connie Kelly

December 27, 2025

Billings, Carroll, Griswold, Hatton, Hendricks, Holden, Hoots, Killian, Longwell, Noakes, Perry, Phillips, Radcliff, Richardson, Starr, Taylor, Thompson, Webster, Wishon, Woodruff

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
July 24/ July 25th Noakes family history

Connie Kelly

July 15, 2025

Billings, Noakes, Starr

July 24, 1825 is the birthday of my 3x great grandfather, William Noakes. William was the father of Almeda Noakes who married my 2x great grandfather Emory Starr in 1892 in Warren County, Illinois. July 25th is the date in 1789 when his granduncles Ben and William Noakes were killed and grand aunt Elizabeth Noakes…… Read more
Almeda Noakes

Connie Kelly

March 31, 2025

Noakes, Starr

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