Hosea Ausbrooks
Peden Genealogy
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This site is dedicated to Hosea Ausbrooks Peden, his daughter
Georgia Estella (Peden) Churchill and her daughter Wenona Billee
(Churchill) Clark. The three of them had a sense of ancestry that moved
them to save all of these pictures and memorabilia and pass them down
generation to generation.
The family lived in Simpson County, KY, El Dorado Springs, MO and San Diego, CA.
29 Oct 2003 -
I've updated the Family Tree
with new
information. It is from a handwritten note to Stella from Florence
dated 16 Dec 1944. "Dear Stella, this is what you had wanted
long
ago.
Hallie took this from the Old
Bible."
Could the Florence be Mary
Florence Peden Lewis, daughter of James Tompson Peden and
Josephine
McNeil
Bryant? That would be Stella's cousin. And the
Hallie must
be Hallie Lewis,
Florence's daughter.
7 Nov 2003 I've
added some
photos all around.
19 Nov 2005 -
Prompted by a question from Tim Healy, I went through all of the photos
again looking for photos of Lillian Huntley Boyer and her Healey
decendents. She married Chester Healy (one of at least 5 husbands).
Chester is Tim's GGF to another of Chester's wives. I've gathered all
those scans into two files. The first is
about a 5MB ZIP file. Click HERE
to download it. The second file is also about 5MB. Click HERE
to download it. You can also see a photo of Lillian on Frank Churchill's web
page.
20 Nov 2005 -
Here are some more letters and photos that I found. I have not had time
to document them and add them to the web site. I've gathered those
scans into two files. The first is photos,
mostly of Frank and Stella Churchill. It is about a 2MB ZIP file. Click
HERE
to download it.
The second are letters to Hosea Peden. It is about a 5MB ZIP file.
Click HERE
to download
it.
22 Nov 2005 - Here are more letters from the
Healey's. Its about a 4MB ZIP file. Click HERE
to download
it.
1 Dec 2005 -
I've updated the Family Tree
with new
information about Lillian Huntley Boyer.
4
Jan 2007 - Just a note to let you know that I'm still here. Nothing
much new to report. I'm still looking for close relatives of the people
who are listed on my pages. Also here is a web site about the Paden/Peden
family.
9 Jul 2007 - I scanned many
newspaper articles and postcards about Frank
Churchill and his contracting business in El Dorado Springs,
MO
1 Sep 2007 - John L "Jack" Taylor died in an aircraft accident in Hawaii during WWII.
15 Sep 2007 - Three semi-famous people who all somehow touched the lives of Frank and Stella Churchill in El Dorado Springs, MO : George Allan England (science fiction writer), Janet Malbon (opera singer) and James Eads How ("millionaire hobo").
2 Nov 2007 - Peggy Norcross sent me a bunch of photos, mostly unidentified, of her family descendent from Price Snider.
13 Nov 2007 - I've taken all the information about Frank and Stella Churchill's Honeymoon trip to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and put it on this web page.
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Mar 2011 - Another note to say I'm still here. 99% of the stuff saved
by the Peden's has been given to relatives and historical societies as
I list below. I'm still looking for relatives of John L "Jack" Taylor , Bette Frank Churchill's first husband who died during WWII.
19 Apr 2011 - After receiving an email from Richard Churchill Leroy, I've learned more about the Churchill Family.
Summer 2013 - I've located the only 1st cousin of John L "Jack" Taylor . His name is Gene Taylor, the son of Jack's uncle. Gene now has all of Jack's memoribilia.
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Hosea Ausbrooks Peden
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Georgia Estella (Peden) Churchill
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Wenona Billee (Churchill) Clark
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My goals for this web page are two fold 1) to honor the memory
of
Hosea, Stella and Billee and 2) to find their nearest living relatives
to give all these photos, notes and other memorabilia.
Who am I?
My name is Mark DiVecchio. My wife is the trustee of the
Estate of the late Fred B. Churchill, the last person to descend from
Hosea Ausbrooks Peden. The line died with Fred. He saved all the stuff
I now have that was originally saved by his sister Billee and mother
Stella. Fred's wife, Betty, gave us access to all of their memorabilia
and my wife and I started this web site in 2001 in order to find
an appropriate person
or organization to inherit all the photos and other memorabilia. Billee
died in 1997, Fred in 2000 and Fred's wife Betty died in 2008.
At this point (mid 2013) we have found homes for all of the memorabilia:
The majority of the stuff has been sent to the
Preserve Our Past
Society (P.O.P.S.) in El Dorado Springs, MO. This includes all of the
stuff from about 1878 to about 1940. This period covers when Hosea and
Mary Peden moved to El Dorado Springs from Kentucky up until their daughter,
Stella, and husband Frank Churchill moved to San Diego, CA. This includes the photos of
George Allan England (science fiction writer) and the newspaper articles about
James Eads How (the "millionaire hobo").
For the period before 1878, I've sent the memorabilia to the
Simpson
County Kentucky Historical Society in Franklin, KY. This covered the earliest
memorabilia from before the Civil War (stuff from Hosea's father
Andrew Peden) up until Hosea and Mary moved
from Kentucky to Missouri.
Memorabilia from Frank Churchill's involvement with the El Dorado
Springs Opera House was sent to Troy Allison, who with his brother, Davin, is
renovating the Opera House. This includes the letters from
Janet Malbon.
All of
Fred Churchill's memorabilia from his time working for Ryan
Aeronautical in San Diego have been donated to the
San Diego Air &
Space Museum which now has a special research area dedicated to Fred.
All
Delpha Fain (Fred Churchill's first wife) photos to Dean Whitesitt, Delpha's son.
All Aunt
Nancy Bonaparte Owings Rogers stuff to Brec Morton, Nancy's great great grandson.
All the
Bryant Photos were sent to Betty Bryant Barker, granddaughter of one of the Bryant brothers.
All
Dorothy Loraine Lorenz (Fred's girlfriend before he met Betty) stuff to Rachael Barlow, Loraine's granddaughter.
All
Korabek (Betty Frank Churchill's parents and ancestors) photos, quilts,
stitching, misc to Betty's cousin, Ruth Louise Weiss Buckner (via her
daughter Judy Buckner Hughes).
All the
Healy-Huff-Trammell stuff to Gene Dana, whose great grandfather
was Chester Healy, one of five(?) husbands of Lillian Boyer.
Stella's
Hair Booklet to Jane Eason (granddaughter and grandniece of women whose hair was in the booklet).
The memoriabilia about
John L "Jack" Taylor
, Betty Frank's frist husband who died in an aircraft accident in
Hawaii during WWII, was sent to his only 1st cousin, Gene Taylor. This
was in 2013, it took me almost 10 years to find Gene.
General Information
I entered all the genealogical information in the Personal Ancestral
File v 5.0 (PAF5) downloaded from the LDS site http://www.familysearch.com.
The photos you will see on the main pages are thumbnails. They
have
been reduced in size and resolution so that they can be quickly
downloaded. I actually scanned the photos at 1200 dpi, the best my
scanner can do.
My original goal was to put high resolution scans of
the
photos up on this web site for anyone to download but I quickly
exceeded my Disk Quota at my ISP. Until I get that fixed, the high
resolution scans won't be here. BUT if you are relative of Hosea or
anyone I mention here or in the GED file, I will be happy to send you
this web site as well as scans of all the photos on a DVD. Send me your
relationship and name/address. Email me : markd@silogic.com
My Sources
The main source of information for this web site is a set of
handwritten notes and photos handed down from Mary A. Peden, her
daughter Georgia Estella Peden and her daughter Wenona Billee
Churchill. I tried to mark each piece of information that came from
these notes as coming from "Stella's and Billee's Handwritten Notes"
sometimes shortened to "Notes".
Also in Billee's stuff is Henry C. Peden Jr's book "Genealogy
of the
Pedens of Kentucky 1756-1986".
4 Dec 2003 :
I got this email from Henry:
Date
sent:
Thu, 04 Dec 2003 08:01:29 -0500
From:
HENRY PEDEN
<pedenroots@msn.com>
Subject:
Re: Peden ancestry letter
Hi Mark,
My 1986 book has been out of print a long time and I have since
accumulated more Peden information, often thinking of, but never
getting around to, doing an update. Perhaps some day I will do it, so
in that regard I don't mind your putting my e-mail address on-line.
Also, keep me in mind for any updated information on Hosea's family
line.
Best regards,
Henry
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Also in Billee's stuff is an address book which appears to
date from
the 1940's or 1950's. It appears to be Stella's address book because it
has Billee's address in it as a regular entry.
I found a lot of information on the web, at the LDS web site, genealogy.com and ancestry.com.
I tried to mark each piece of information with the source, but
I was
probably not 100% successful.
In my GED file, I started by putting everything in the Notes
that I
found. I marked all entries as coming from the Notes. I filled in some
holes by downloading several GED files from the net. Those may or may
not have source attribution. I tried not to put information into my GED
file that was already common knowledge available on the Web or in Henry
Peden's book. That information which is not from the Notes consists of:
John Carpenter Peden's Descendants (to
get
information on his daughter Gusta Peden)
Price Snider's Descendants and Ancestors
(to get
information on Charles Price Snider who married Gusta Peden)
Nancy
Bonaparte Owings ( I have a sewing needle
owned by "Aunt Nancy", this must be her)
Ben R. Peden Descendants (I have a
picture of his
daughter Faye Peden)
Doris Ellis had
a chance to transcribe the notes in the old Peden
Bible owned by Hallie Lewis. Hallie was the only child of
Mary
Florence
Peden and "Jay" Leonard Lewis. Doris sent her transcription
to me
on 12 June
2004.
Family Tree
Here is a small portion of the Peden family tree. Just to give you an
idea of where the main characters fit in. All the details are in the
GED file and in the GED4WEB Family
Tree.
Andrew J.
Peden
Rebecca Owings -----> Hosea
Ausbrooks Peden
-----> Georgia
Estella
Peden - Betty Jane Frank
Allen Boone
Bryant -> Mary
Angeline Bryant
|--> Fred
Bert Churchill
Sarah Snider
|--> Wenona
Billee Churchill
Frank
Bert Churchill -- Walter
Rothwell Clark
New Information
Here is some information that may be new from the Notes, at least I
could not find it on any of my web searches.
1. Hosea and Molly apparently had twin sons. In Molly's obit,
it
refers to their 'three children'.
From the El Dorado Springs (MO) Sun
Thursday, December 6, 1928
She was married to Hosea A. Peden at
Franklin, Ky.,
November 16, 1873 and
to this union were born, twin brothers, Daniel and Charles,
having preceded
their mother in death. Surviving is the daughter, Mrs. F.B.
Churchill of this
place, also two grandchildren, Wenona Billie and Fred B.
Churchill.
Molly had twin brothers Daniel and Charles and her twin sons were most
likely named after her brothers. I have not been able to find any other
reference to them and there was nothing more in the Notes. A copy of
that obit is here on Molly's
page.
4. The Notes contain a lot of nicknames for many of the
relatives.
The most interesting one I found was that Pamela Augusta P. Peden who
married Charles P Snider
(a
cousin via Molly's mother Sarah Snider) had
a nickname of "Gusta". It took me a while to figure that out. Of
course, Hosea Ausbrooks was "Hosey", Mary Angeline was "Molly" and
Georgia Estella was "Stella".
5. Stella Peden is "Georgia Estella Peden". I've seen all
sorts of
different variations of spelling on the web and in the Notes.
6. There is a connection to the Bell family. It appears the
Mary
"Polly" Peden (one of the two daughters of Benjamin and Mary Peden
named Mary) born about 1805 married George Bell. I found a
reference to this in Henry Peden's book, page 176B. In Hosea's Pocket Photo Album,
I found a
picture of a George Bell. I'm pretty sure this is not the
George
Bell that married Mary "Polly" Peden but must be a descendant. The
photo is only marked "George Bell". My guess is that it was taken about
1870-1880 as most of the other photos were taken during that era.
7. In Hosea's Pocket
Album,
there is a photo of a woman identified as Miss M. J. Butt. It also took
me a while to figure out who this was. I searched for the Butt name. I
found that, in many sources, Moses R. Peden, son of Andrew J and
Rebecca
Peden married a women only identified as Marinda J. PEDEN. I figured
that that meant Peden was her married name. On the web I found a Butt
family that had two daughters Marinda J. and Nancy J. That Marinda was
identified there as married to Moses Peden. I've also seen the name spelled as Malinda. Newer
info: going through more of the Notes, I found a direct reference that
Moses married Marinda Butt.
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May 2003 - I just got an email from a descendent of Moses Reed Peden.
He confirmed that Moses married "Murinda Isavilla Butts" in 1867. She
died in 1912 in Quincy MO. He had a yet different spelling of her first
and middle names. He also said that Moses ended up in Idaho. This
information from Darrell Peden.
All of this information is in the GED file that you can
download
from this site.
Unanswered Questions
1. Middle names - I wonder if Ausbrooks (Hosea's middle name) or McNeil
(Josephine Bryant's middle name - that is, Molly's sister, husband of
James Thompson Peden) were family names. I didn't find anything to
substantiate that.
Update: I found one Wlliam
Clay "Buck" Ausbrooks, a member of the Ellis Harper
Raiders
during the Civil War. Harper was active in KY and TN.
I have found several web sites with the family name Ausbrooks from the
Sumner County, TN area.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~shill957/pafg1199.htm#32634
http://user.txcyber.com/~jholmes/d5/i0001020.htm#i8728b
Reference here to William C Buck Ausbrooks
http://mytree_too.tripod.com/gedcom/wga2.html
Here as well.
Here is an email I received:
On 4 Feb 2004 at 13:23, Linda
Chesser wrote:
Date sent:
Wed, 04 Feb 2004
13:23:54 -0500
From:
Linda Chesser <lchesser4@insightbb.com>
Subject:
Ausbrooks and
McNeil
To:
markd@silogic.com
Mark,
I don't know if this will help or not, but several of your names were
in my database from Sumner County, TN which borders Simpson County, KY.
First: You have a great Peden website and I have no Pedens in
my
database. The Pedens were living among my ancestors Perdue,
Brown, Butt, Ausbrooks/Ozbrooks and others. Re: "McNeil", I
have
Jonathan McNeil married Catherine Perdue b. 1820 VA. Re:
"Bryant" John Bryant married Mary Kimbrough, sister of my 5th
great grandmother who was married to Leonard Brown. Leonard Brown was
bondsman or witness to the marriage of Sterling Ozbrooks and Polley
Barker on Aug. 11, 1804 in Sumner Co.
The Browns intermarried with Perdues and Ausbrooks. My
great grandmother Flora Brown married George A. Perdue. His
sister was Queen Louisa Elizabeth Perdue who married William Clay
Ausbrooks. His father was William Crisley Ausbrooks who married Irena
M. Adaline Brown b. 28 July 1832, dau of Jeremiah and Nancy Hodges
Brown. Also, in the June 1838 District 17 Sumner Co. TN
School
Inhabitants list are: Moses Peden, Nancy Butt, and Hosea
Pedue
(misspelling of Peden--He wasn't a Perdue).
My Butt connection is a son of Arthur Butt marrying a daughter of a
Perdue, both still living. Most of my relatives in Sumner Co.
had
middle names of neighbors as frequently as family names. (Thomas, Bush,
Ewing, Witham, Bell, Pope, Anderson, Dudley, etc.) Good luck in your
continued research.
Linda
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2. I found one reference in the Notes to "John married Miss
Pruitt".
I don't know who that refers to.
3. There are several pictures in Hosea's Pocket Album that I
could
not identify:
Dr. Jno White
Lulu Bell (Mrs. Dr. Douglas)
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson
Those pictures are on this site
in Hosea's Pocket Album
Page.
4. Spellings of names change a lot:
Bryant or Briant
Snyder or Snider (the old Peden Bible
confirms the
spelling as Snider)
Rebecca or Rebecka or Rebekah
Billee or Billie (she signed her name
Billee so I'll
use that here.)
Molly or Mollie
5. There were several pictures in Billee's stuff who
I could
not identify. Click Here.
6. The father of Sarah Snyder, Price Snider, married Mary
"Polly"
Holland. He may also have married a woman named Lovelady. I don't have
a first name. I can't find anymore about her except what was in the
Notes. It is also not clear which children came from which mother. The
Notes seem to imply that Mary was the mother of Sarah and Julius and
the rest of the children were from Lovelady. I can't be sure. On the
web I've found references that her name was Sarah "Sallie" Lovelady and
she had two children with Price Snyder, Cinderella and Martha. I
recently found the 1850 census data and found their family. I'm still
working on trying to figure out who is who. Mary Holland (who may have
had 17 children) died in 1833 and Price Snider married Sarah Lovelady
about 1835.
7. Why did Hosea and Mollie move from Franklin, Ky
to El
Dorado Springs, Mo? When did they move?
The Locations
Franklin,
Simpson County, KY
El
Dorado Springs, Cedar Country, MO
El Dorado
Springs Sun
The Stuff
So here are the sub-pages. They don't contain many dates or places of
birth/death, etc. Look in the Family
Tree
for that.
Hosea Ausbrooks Peden
The hero of our story.
Andrew J. and
Rebecca Owings Peden
Hosea's father and mother.
Aunt
Nancy Rogers (Nancy
Bonaparte Owings)
Rebecca's Owings sister
and Aunt to Hosea Peden.
Hosea Ausbrooks
Peden's Pocket Photo
Album
Includes information about George Bell and Nancy J Butt.
Hosea's
Brothers and
Sisters
He had a
bunch but I only have pictures of Ben, Mary and Andrew.
Mary Angeline "Molly"
(Bryant) Peden
Hosea's Wife
Georgia
Estella (Peden)
Churchill Hosea and
Mollie's daughter.
Includes info on Frank Bert Churchill, her husband.
Frank
Bert Churchill - Newspaper articles and postcards
about Frank Churchill and his contracting business in El
Dorado Springs, MO
Frank and Stella Churchill's Honeymoon - Their trip to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Wenona
Billee (Churchill)
Clark
Hosea and Mollie's
granddaughter. Includes info on Walter Rothwell Clark, her husband
Fred Bert
and Betty Jane
Churchill
Fred was
the last descendant from Hosea and Molly. He was their grandson and
Billee's brother.
The Briants
and Sniders
Mollie's mother and father and siblings.
For more information on the
Howell line (who
married into the Perdue's married into the Bryant's), look at Tom
Howell's excellent site.
Cousins
Cousins
of
the Pedens and the Churchills
Friends
Friends
of
the Pedens and Churchills
John Ledbetter Taylor - John L. "Jack" Taylor was Betty Frank's first husband. He died in military service in 1943.
Janet Malbon - One of the performers at the Opera House managed by Frank Bert Churchill.
James Eads How - The Millionaire Hobo paid a visit to El Dorado Springs, MO.
George Allan England - Science Fiction writer paid a visit to El Dorado Springs, MO.
Unknown
These people must have some connection to Hosea.
My notes
These are my web references for information. Contains lots of web
links.
Family Tree as
created by GED4WEB
The Family
Tree as I uploaded it to ancestry.com.
PAF File and GED File
- as created by
Personal Ancestry File from the LDS
site - both in one ZIP file.
Useful technical sites:
Deciphering Old Handwriting
http://www.amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/oldhand.html
Early Photographic Processes
http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_early/1_early_photography_-_processes.htm
Dating Old Photos
http://www.familychronicle.com/dating.htm
http://genealogy.about.com/hobbies/genealogy/cs/photodating/
http://www.city-gallery.com/
Medical Conditions
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas/learningcenter/diseasesold.html
Universal Relationship Chart
http://www.rootsweb.com/~billingh/relation.htm
This site prepared and maintained by Mark DiVecchio
email : markd@silogic.com
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