Donald Lusby/Horace Brooks

I don't know why I choose these two to work on, but they were just staring me in the face. Donald is Cousin Jim's Dad, Mary Jane's husband. I was able to locate his mother, dad, and sister. Plus his enlistment record and a census which put them together as a family.

Horace is Grandma Edna Bishop's uncle. And her diaries she calls him and "outlaw"
Just what she meant by that I don't know. I find him in IL, KN, and MT. Married at one point and single or divorced at other times. But by 1925 he living with a lady and son in Kansas. In 1930 he is in California. Another mystery to solve.

Wonderful reading-Grandam Bishop's Diarys

It has been a long time since I have been on this site. I really have been researching, just not my family. I have been doing work for RAOGK (Random Act of Genealogical Kindness) and for Find-a- Grave. Since my last post, I have finished editing all the pictures that Doug Crabtreee and I took at the Chandler Memorial Cemetery and placed them on Find-a-Grave and made memorials for family members. I still have several that need work. Recently I started reading my Grandma Bishop (Edna)'s diary's. What A wonderful find. In the very near future I hope to transcribe them and maybe publish them. I wish I could get other family members to help. I learned of my Gr.Grandmother's middle name-Esther Maude Sturdevant. The also appears to be an outlaw, Horace Sturdevant. Evidently he was involved with the Perry Gang. (Illinois/Montana?) There were storied about my dad's and Mary Jane's birth. And lots of stories of every day living. I am placing some of the stories in the note section of my FTM. the 1943 book would be a history buffs dream. Grandma wrote daily of WWII as seen through the eyes of this new Texan, the happening in Dallas and how it affect their lives. It seems money was tight, little work, but some how they managed to go to the show (movies) several times a week.

Karl Henry Bishop

Today I did some work on Karl Henry Bishop, my grandfather. I was able to locate a copy of the 1915 State Census for North Dakota. It really didn't hold any suprises. It only confirms other data. I also found WWI Cicilian Draft Registration and Draft Cards. Again no suprise.

The Texas Department of Health pg 211, 1945 births, lists Robert Henry Bishop, my brother, as being born 7 Oct 1945, County 57, born to Frances Violet Nelson and Karl Allen Bishop. Again no suprise, just confrimation.