Fearless Females Mother's Best Friend

  Mother's Best Friend  Margaret Zimmerman

 I remember Margaret Zimmerman and she was truly Mom's best friend and her husband Everett was Dad's best friend after their move to California.

 We moved to California from Wyoming and Dad worked at his brother in laws Dairy ranch.  Dad and Mom met many nice, neat friendly people.

  In the development of creating new friends they met Everett and Margaret Zimmerman who also had a dairy ranch. I was probably 7 years old when I remember the first distinct  visit to their ranch. I had been there before but this was different. Their oldest son had contracted a very serious illness and was in bed for many months. We  were allowed to go visit with him and read to him a wee bit to pass the time.

  The other visits we had played on a swing and chased the cats and fed the chickens and went out and at times got to bottle feed new calves.  John's sister loved to read and we got along really super great.
We went often after he was well enough so that he would not get bored is what our parents said.

 They had three lovely children whom I thought of as cousin's. We actually saw more of them than our cousins sometimes but they were friends with our cousins and that is how we originally met them.

 The young man that was so ill was at my Mom's Memorial and it made my heart sing. We had buried his parents a long time ago in 1966. A tragic ending to a awesome couple.

 Margaret hosted my first baby shower. She was a stand in Aunt and a super one to pass questions to and to tell me how to share some information with my MOM.

 Ironic as this may sound, they came back and visited MOM after their death and told her not to grieve so,  for they were okay. Mom talked of this in December, hoping she would soon see her again.

 I used to ride with her to see her Sister's family that lived some distance away. Of course her daughter would go with us. We made it a three some. I am hoping to reconnect with the daughter now that I have her address.  They were extended family to us.

 The oldest boy became a Animal Doctor.  His sister a  year or so older than I worked on the newspaper in the city and then married and moved to another state. The youngest boy has passed on long ago.

 But seldom a day goes by that they are not in my thoughts or were in my Mom's thoughts. We did
so much as a family together.  We went to their house to watch Sputnik pass the first time around the
world since we lived so close to ocean thought fog would block the view.  First TV I saw was in their home.  Dad worked in the fields with Everett at hay time and the ladies did the cooking, we children took the food and water to the fields  or called them in for a set down meal. Depending on work conditions as to which happened.

Mom I do not feel ever developed that type of friendship with others. She did have other close friends and one in particular her last 8 yeas of life, but non like the sister that Margaret (Peggy) as her husband called her was.
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Fearless Females Education - Immigration Story

Fearless Females- Education

 O but we all are educated, whether we went to school or learned via the school of doing, or hard knocks.
 I had almost completed my college degree and husband said to expensive would not recoup money spent
 since I was going after a Teaching Degree and the state was laying of teaches left and right.
 Ironic, years later the state is still employing and laying off teachers.  The seasoned educated ones with
 a great sense of what is happening are retiring early and the new young ones are coming in attempting to
 fill their shoes.  By the way some do a terrific job of filling them shoes.

 I do not know of any ancestress that went to college though one may have, some went to high school.
 Remembering that High School  of the 1930's and before were equivalent to a college degree of today.
 Same applies for an Eagle Scout in 1970s was classed as same as college degree.

 Have you tried to pass the  8th grade exam for the 1920's  or before?

I think the school of living sometimes is more important and you learn more values than a book learning
one.  Dr's learned that way so did Nurses and most others prior to the late 1800's. Hands on is a real viable way of learning.

Fearless Females  - Immigration Story

Aha, my Mother in law dcd family came to the USA after the 1850's. Sad to say each time the ship pulled into port a storm shoved it back out into the bay.  Her husband was ill and died before they finally got tied up.  She raised their children on her own here in the USA.  She endured the stress of the immigrant inspectors and they horrid ways of inspection.

I am glad she survived and down the line I have a very fine husband from  her lineage. I do not want to say more about the horrid things she endured. We American's can be so cruel it always takes my breathe away.

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Fearless Females #23 Women and Children

Fearless Females   Women and Children

Now that is a topic, without women no children, albeit a young girl with child to soon.
Mothers interaction with their daughters, can be varied and complex.
Some female relatives have a very close relationship with their daughters. Some daughters have a closer
relationship with their father.

My family is no different. I  had a good relationship with my Mom and a good one with Dad. It was generally easier to talk to  Dad.  I never figured out why that was.

My Aunts were a great sounding board for me in life. Both on my Mom and my Dad's side.

Grandma's were far away and we shared some in letters but nothing like my relationships with my Aunts.

I heard great stories about some of our Great Grandmothers and their adventures.
I would say the Great Great Grand mothers that made the trip west in wagons and on foot were probably the most to be admired and the children were taught to be strong and resilient. Rachel Plants Hoffman,
from Greene Co. Pa to Monroe Co. IA, with three children at least, GGGGrandmom Lydia Trowbridge whom moved from Edwardsville, NY  born 1841 to Waterloo, IA, Sarah E.(Jane) Foulk b 1813 Perry Co PA to Troy Grove, ILL., Katherine Myers b 1845 Perry Co. PA to Blackhawk Co. IA d 1922,(1865) moved De Kalb, Co. Ill. and lastly Harriet Lewis Scott who was born in VA probably Halifax Co. and moved to Cumberland Co. KY then moved to ILL then moved to IOWA.  Harriet's birth was about 1790 and her death was after 1850 in Henry Co. IA.

This was a lot of changes and children watching and teaching and adjusting.
Granted some females were born and died in the same state, and  had very difficult stressed lives but the moving and adjusting I can relate to since I married a serviceman and we moved about the country and had to adjust to weather, people, food, not necessarily in that order either.

This I hope helped them to be more grown and mature when the went out on their own.


Fearless Females , Yes they truly had to be  fearless to survive.

Birthday, Birthday and more Birthdays

 Friday we celebrated a young man turning 20 no longer a teen, Fred told him, with a great big grin.
 Friday night we went to eat with all the family that was free and had a great social event. We even had
 food we liked and enjoyed.  The company was the best.

 Today is my love one's day, tomorrow our oldest child and then the next day, our youngest grandchild.
 That is to say, we started the month of with our oldest daughter's day. A few relatives in between so
  we could call this Birthday month.

  A genealogist friend/cousin said count how many names you have in your program but I think it would
  be more fun to find out which month has your most birthday's.

  August used to be the month but with death March now stands alone.
  

Fearless Females #21 to end.

Fearless Females -  This is Her Life.
Samantha Abigail DuVall b in Greene Co. (?)PA  was the daughter of  Robert DuVall and Harriett DuVall.  Harriett is the daughter of Jacob DuVall b 1789 in Washington Co. PA d 1864 and Jane Patterson, her father was Rev. Joseph Patterson d in Pittsburg area. Robert DuVall was the son of Eli DuVall and Elizabeth Richey.  Jacob DuVall and Eli DuVall were brothers and their parents were: Alexander DuVall 11 and Abigail Elizabeth Powell.  Alexander DuVall 11 was son of Alexander DuVal   and he was the son of Capt. John DuVall and Elizabeth Jones, who was the son of Maureen DuVall of Middle Plantation.  YES. we found him and it's documented.
I have pictures of them and she was a tiny petite woman and GGDad was  6 '4" and large man went through doors sideways.  She died I am told by family in child birth.  She had only 3 living children: G Uncle Bob, Granddad Cecil Lee and G Aunt Grace whom married Daniel Scott, Cecil's wife's brother.
I have learned she had a heart of gold. She so wanted children and died when Granddad was young.

Fearless Females - Time Line
Well attempted two timelines and did not like either. Much to cluttered to put in a blog.

I wanted to run Elizabeth HIGGINS HOFFMAN's life between birth and death.



Fearless Females - Shared Traits
Seamstresses,  yes many were seamstresses, some were hat makers, some made crocheted quilts, table covers and doilies.  It seems that on Mom's side of the family they were very handy with the hands for crafts and creating and designing things.
 Poets, Authors, Speakers, Singers and Painters  yes we have our share of those too. We inherit those traits from my Dad's side of the family I suspect more so than Mom's but they really all tie in together.
Almost all of my children can write poetry and tear jerking odes.

Fearless Females #11- 21

Fearless Females  Tragic or Unexpected Deaths
 Grandfather Lee HOFFMAN's sister Grace Hoffman SCOTT died young, it affected everyone at that time.  I am told Cancer took her. I later learned cancer took more of the family down line. Some very recently.
Please do your Medical Genealogy and save a life.

Fearless Females: Working Girl
 Rachel Plants Hoffman made hats for a side work.  She taught this trade to her daughters.
 Inez Scott Hoffman worked in a Line and Twine in NE when young.
 Mom (Dorothy Inez Hoffman JONES) worked in school cafeteria making sandwiches and sharing time with the students. She loved doing this.

Fearless Females: Moment of Strength
This is tough to choose whom.  I could write a book on the tough females in my lineage.
 Mom for her not dying every time a Doctor told she was going to starting in 1979. 1980 she had a five bypass in four. Was told she had five years to live.  She endured many years beyond with another pass maker changed and other things done.  Doctors would say you are going to die and she kept on living.
Loneliness and disappointment finally took away her strength to continue to live, this Jan 10, 2011.

Grandmother Inez Hoffman for enduring a child hurt playing and after many years of watching him regress, had to put in a home and they lost him when he was 16 or 15.  Mother never allowed us to jump on beds or trampolines due to the injury that caused her to loose her little brother.

Fearless Females: In the News
My Aunt Etta JONES MORELLI MORETTI for having poems and short stories printed in magazines and the Readers Digest.  Also we had a Opera Star and a famous painter in this line of family.

Fearless Females:  Six-Word Tribute.
Victoria Mae (Ida) FOULK JONES NORRIS, Grandmother:  Housekeeper, seamstress, led an interesting life.

Fearless Females: Let's Do Lunch!
 Elizabeth Higgins HOFFMAN ie HUFFMAN, descendant of Pocahontas, and wife of Henry Huffman later changed to HOFFMAN in 1860's. She lived a very interesting life with her sons going to war in the CW and some of her family fighting on the south side. She had apple orchards, and pigs and animals and
She lost four children young or babies.  One son died the day after Christmas preparing to go and propose to his bride to be. After fighting in the CW, saddling a horse had heart attack and did not survive.
 Letter written by his Dad whom was there when it happened gave full account.
 Very hard to loose a child, especially semi grown.
 I suspect we would eat what ever was prepared as I was taught. I learned this family ate many Germanic Dutch English foods.

Fearless Females: Social Butterfly?
 O dear,  Margaret Mae Eastman Foulk, Grandmom's mother. Gadded about more than expected.
 Her daughter IDA, did much social church work when older and retired from working also. Especially since she married a WYOMING Senator.

Fearless Females:  Shining Star
Hannah OEN JONES who was born in Germany and came to America with two sisters and landed in NY and came to ILL. Here she met and married Abraham D Young JR from Maine. She raised his previous children and had more of her own. Brave lady.

Fearless Females: Surprising Fact
 Teague JONES wife was an Indian lady as Granddad had told me. Rahamana found in early Town Council minutes and other sources. Yes, it is sourced.

Fearless Females: Elusive or Brickwall Ancestress
 O,  that is so easy, Susan Madison or Mattison wife of Noyes JONES, b Mass, VT. or ? mar ? in MASS and died in Chickasaw Co. IA area.  One son b in Mass and died around 1855 in NY?
Apparently had a brother George Madison/Mattison. b NY lived one census near them in IOWA.

Fearless Females: Tender Moments
 Distant cousin in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Eva Patterson nee Huffman, sharing time and home with me and family records and pictures. Introduced me to many other sibling down line of Henry and Elizabeth Higgin's Hoffman.  May she rest in peace.
 Distant cousin Helen Huffman Durbin for picking me up at the airport sharing her family and home with me and sharing the development of our web pages.  Our Family Histories  May prayers be offered that she can win the cancer battle she just learned of.

Documentation for data is on this and companion page but needs updated and repaired.

Huffman / Hoffman Link Page  Much information here to share