We’ve seen some interesting news and family events from the early 1890s. Let’s finish the decade.
W.T. Cheney is appointed postmaster for Groveland post office. Ralph and Mollie Cheney have a new baby boy. And more…
333 – 90s News Continued
Kansas
332 – 90s News
The 1890s are full of Cheney news and family events. Family visits. Crop reports. W.T. Cheney is active in local politics and Sunday School. Ralph and Mollie Cheney moved to Gypsum and are having kids.
Most of the stories are “every day,” but here are some noteworthy and interesting ones:
Continue reading331 – Mary Belle Hestwood
Two events occurred in Garfield, Kansas in the same week in April 1890 that influenced our family history:
- Dr. E.R. Cheney decided to locate his practice in Garfield
- Rev. A.B. Hestwood was assigned to the Garfield Methodist congregation
These two unrelated events led to E.R. Cheney meeting and then marrying Mollie Hestwood.
330 – Doctors
All three boys that grew up in the household of William and Eliza Cheney became doctors.
329 – Cheneys 1880s
William and Eliza Cheney had claimed their homestead in McPherson County, Kansas in 1877. By 1880, they had a house and barn, gardens and an orchard.
The family had grown too. In 1880, William Cheney was age 42. Eliza was 40. Their children were Sarah Margaret, age 14, Enos Ralph, age 9, and James William, age 5.
William and Eliza are our 3rd great-grandparents.
Continue reading328 – Cheney Homestead
In 1877, William Cheney traded a cow for Jack Taylor’s homestead claim for 160 acres of government land in McPherson County, Kansas. That homestead claim gave William the right to occupy the property, and an additional five years to improve it.
327 – Illinois To Kansas
By 1870, the Cheney family had established themselves in Christian County, Illinois. Over the previous decade, several of the children had married and started farms of their own, many within a few miles of the original homestead. The family was closely connected—parents, siblings, and in-laws living nearby and working the land.
310 – Family Nibbles – Volume 11
Family Nibbles – Volume 11 is here! This book is about the lives of our Maninger ancestors from 1700 to 1920.
Continue reading309 – Maningers 1920
We’ve come to the end of this series of stories. We’ve followed our Maninger family from 1700s Germany to 1920 Kansas.
In our previous story, Emily Maninger graduated and became a registered nurse in 1920.
Here’s an update on the rest of the family, and some sneak previews of what’s to come.
Continue reading308 – Wichita School for Nurses
Emily Maninger enrolled in Wichita Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1917. She hoped to go to the front to care for the troops in World War I.
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