_Name Withheld_______
| m 1958
_Name Withheld_______|
| m 1977 |
| |_Name Withheld_______+
| m 1958
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|--Name Withheld
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|_Name Withheld_______|
m 1977 |
|_____________________
_Oscar David PARSON __+
| (1890 - 1933) m 1910
_Ebert(Eber) Allen(Alem) PARSON _|
| (1911 - 1991) m 1931 |
| |_Violet E KLING ______+
| (1890 - 1968) m 1910
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|--Name Withheld
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| _Edgar Thompson LONG _+
| | (1878 - 1967) m 1908
|_Sarah Jane LONG ________________|
(1913 - 2004) m 1931 |
|_Bessie Mae MAUK _____+
(1883 - 1951) m 1908
_Balthaser Pauley BORTNER __
| (.... - 1746)
_Philip Jacob BORTNER __|
| (1735 - 1786) m 1760 |
| |_Maria Elisabetha MERRILIS _
| (.... - 1750)
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|--Christina BORDNER
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| ____________________________
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|_Maria Elisabetha VELT _|
(1741 - 1800) m 1760 |
|____________________________
Date of Import: Apr 10, 2000
_William M. ERWIN ___
| (1800 - 1869) m 1838
_Robert Gracy ERWIN _|
| (1851 - 1932) m 1876|
| |_Isabella VAUGHN ____+
| (1811 - 1890) m 1838
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|--Laura Belle ERWIN
| (.... - 1932)
| _____________________
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|_Hannah Jane MORGAN _|
(.... - 1926) m 1876|
|_____________________
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_William Wesley HENSEL _|
| (1869 - 1951) m 1894 |
| |__________________________
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|--Mary W HENSEL
| (1899 - 1990)
| _Levi WOLFE ______________+
| | (1836 - 1901) m 1857
|_Adda Savilla WOLFE ____|
(1874 - 1954) m 1894 |
|_Christina Matilda LANTZ _+
(1836 - 1917) m 1857
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M.W.H. Initials put on correspondance to all her friends and relatives. This lady would write in margins, inside envelope flaps and outside on the back and end up with the initials M.W.H.
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From Anna Belle Fisher - Mary Hensel took a correspondence course in candy making. She could make caramel and wrap them just like the good store bought - even better. Another candy was the fudge she could make. Gayetta passed the fudge making down to Phyllis.
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This is a letter to Gayetta Foxworthy - written 1956
R.F.D 5 - Fremont Ohio - Thanksgiving Day - 1956
Dear Gayetta -
"Thank you", for your fat letter, which came right on my Birthday, on Friday, together with another fat envelope from my Aunt Myrtie in Michigan - She was my first visitor 58 years ago, and our grandmother Wolfe and Carrie Carnicum were here on the job, then Carrie stayed for three years. A couple of days after my Birthday, Betty came towards evening, she had been in town, with a picnic supper for herself and Penny dog and me. I looked forward to having a quiet day to-day to write to you and have a fat envelope ready to send to you. Now, our first snow and Winter weather give me new jobs to do, as it always does, but we have had a wonderful fall - the first dry weather for this year.
While Mom was still here, I knew that the Kansas farm was supposed to go to you. but she said, "We'll keep it as long as Mr. Huckstep is willing and able to look after it. Now, on the first day of November, as he has been doing for many years, he paid the full year's taxes, again no one at any age could have been more prompt that that. Then, as usual, he sent me the tax receipts for two 80 acres, (160 acres - $133.80, which is a little lower this year, so the little wheat more than paid it). Then I sent him a check to pay the taxes, and a little extra for his service. This is the way we have been doing for many years - he has been so faithful for so long, some forty years, and the tenant Milton Spinke, has been doing very well - I wish they could continue so - he has all of the work and expense for two-thirds of the crops, and he owns the grain bin that is on the land. He is to continue through next year - 1957, which means that he will still have the wheat to harvest in 1958, and you are to receive one third and he gets two thirds - that is the way it has always been rented. I truly hope it can do as sell for you as it has for us - the good years have more than balanced the off years, and this year is one of the worst, still it has more than paid its taxes,(being they were a little lower this time). You can give the oil-men the credit or the blame for this change, while Mr Huckstep is still able and willing to look after the place for us. This is the only land around there, which is not leased - I knew the time was too short for me to get into new complications way out there.
While I am sending this to you, I'll include my Thanks and congratulations to your son, Aaron, for having the gumption to do what he is doing - I surely do wish him well in every way, throughout the whole four years.
When the Colorado farm was sold, your brother, William, got the house - "Home Sweet Home", while your mother was there without any land. Now you get the Kansas farm without a house. Ever since 1917, Mom believed that it was our duty to buy Government Bonds - Now, if you do not want to keep this farm, please buy Government Bonds, half in your name with Aaron's name, and half in your name with Phyllis's name. They mature in ten years, but will continue to grow for another ten years.
What your brother, Robert, and your Mother did for us, more than paid it all, long ago.
Wishing you well - yours, as ever, Mary
P.S. I want to get this mailed this week, so will try to write more some other time. M.W.H.
P.S. This Deed was signed with Mom's gift pen, some sixty years old. M.W.H.
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Mary had deeded over 160 acres of land near Lewis, Kansas to Gayetta at this time. After Gayetta had her stroke in 1994, this land had to be sold to help with the cost of the nursing home she was in. So Gayetta had this land for nearly 40 years and rented to Farold Fox for the same one third/two thirds plus putting the land into government grass plus having the oil and mineral rights paying income for drilling lease. There were some bad years at times but for the most part after listening to Mom talk about the amount of money she received from her share of wheat or milo (maze) or the oil lease money and there at the last, the amount of money per acre for just raising grass, the land was good. The acreage was to the south and east of Lewis, Kansas and was a long quarter section, meaning that it was a mile long and
1/4 of a mile wide running east to west.