Feb 2021 BioBuilders Challenge - People born in February

Question

This month’s Bio Builders Challenge theme is People Born in February.

Thank you for your support.

Here's our checklist:

Data Section:

• birth date/place
• names of parents
• marriage date/place and spouse name
• names of children, if any
• death date/place

Biography Section:

• Written (full) sentences stating the facts above, adding inline sources to each fact.
• Is the profile '''Genealogically Defined?'''
• As a general rule biographies should be in your own words. Paraphrase and rewrite, don't copy/paste.
• Baptism, burial, military, and other life events with inline sources.
• Something to "humanize" the person, such as career or avocation with sources.
• List of children with at least one pertinent fact.
• Some list siblings. (I think this takes up real estate.)
• Explanatory remarks, if needed (e.g. disputed persons information, Research Notes, whatever needs extra explaining).
• Photos or pictures, background. Not a must, but nice (you need to own the copyright unless they are in the public domain).
• Categories.
• Connection to the Global Tree.
• All duplicates merged or initiated.
• Links to persons and events, perhaps from Wikipedia.
• Historical context as related to the person's life.
• Sources, Sources, Sources.

You can see some ideas on where to find some of this information on the Biography Builders space page.

Use "comments" below to ask questions.

NOTE: Biography Builders will not show on the tracker. Please add a list to your answer.

Answer 1

Completed:

1.   Raymond Porter Williamson  (He and his young wife died the same day during Spanish Flu pandemic, leaving a two-month-old.)

2.   Loran Ocle (Shaw) Hamilton 

3.   William Laurence Prior 

4.   Walter Jennings McGhee 

5.   Henry C. Chilcote 

LEPPO (orphaned)

6.   Aaron Robert Leppo 

7.   John Aaron Leppo 

8.  Robert Lewis Leppo

BLAUSER (orphaned)

9.   Edward Sylvester Blauser 

10.  Stewart Victor Blauser 

11.  Thelma Frances (Blauser) Ruck 

 

YOHE (orphaned)

12.  Paul E. Yohe https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Yohe-229

13.  Sarah E. (Yohe) Lescalleet https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Yohe-227

 

MUMMERT (orphaned)

14.  Gilbert Rahmin M. Mummert https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mummert-246

15.  Catharine Elisabeth (Wildasin) Mummert https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wildasin-102

 

ORPHANED MISCELLANEOUS

16.  Aaron Smith Werner https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Werner-2116

17.  Amos Wade Hendrix https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hendrix-2751

18.  Anna P. Butcher https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Butcher-3147

19.  Charles Cletus Boggs https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Boggs-3200

20.  Earl E. Trace https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Trace-140

21.  Edward James Swartz https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Swartz-846 (orphaned)

22.  George William Albright https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Albright-2055

23.  Henry Horace Bentz https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bentz-512

24.  John Elijah Robertson https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Robertson-6792

25.  Mary A. Groesbeck https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Groesbeck-291

26.  Paul James Barley https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barley-358

 

RABENSTEIN

27.  Bertha May (Swope) Rabenstein https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Swope-845

28.  Harvey Ruben Rabenstein https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rabenstein-49

29.  Elizabeth (Robenstine) Brittain https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Robenstine-25

 

ROHRBACH / ROHRBAUGH (orphaned)

30.  Elias Snyder Rohrbach https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rohrbaugh-282

31.  Walter Paul Rohrbaugh 

32.  Thomas Kervin Rohrbach 

Answer 2

I'm in again..

#1 William Obray b. 3rd February 1866

#2 Elizabeth Mary Short nee Hughes b. 22nd February 1910

#3 Alice Lapwood nee Fenwick b. 6th February 1901

#4 Eiluned (Lena) Walker nee Jones aka Hughes b. 11th February 1920

#5 Samuel John Cambridge  b. 10th February 1797

#6 Alfred Tucker b. 5th February 1818

#9 Frederick James Lawrence b. 9th February 1878

#10 Frederick Charles Owers b. 11th February 1875

#11 Hetty (Hethabel/Hettable) Smith nee Ogles b.16th February 1789

Comments

Very professional bios, very well done! Scott

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Thanks! Still not as good as I would like, as I would like to be a bit more creative and have some more pictures. I keep meaning to go back and and more description about their location, jobs etc...but then I get distracted!

Answer 3

Will do what i can for this month

1.  John Messerich (1875 - 1956)

Answer 4

I have quite a few I can do this month.

1. Mary Ann Baldwin b. 2 February 1837

2. Samuel Goodwin Durfee b. 2 February 1829

3. Eliza (Wells) Crandall b. 5 February 1824

4. Harriet (Crandall) Smith b. 3 February 1870

5. Oscar Florence Crandall b. 9 February 1865

6. Elwin H Baldwin b. 9 February 1868

7. Hulda Coe b. 12 February 1823

Answer 5

1. Guadalupe "Wally" Medrano
2. Mary Eleanor (Barclay) Bookstaver
3. Hettie Lee (Gwynn) Oulliber
4. Verlie G. Gwynn
5. Frank O'Neal Heape
6. Alpha Dee (Atkinson) Hoach
7. Maria Porfiria Martinez
8. Mary (Babington) Garoutte <-- I loved working on this one.
9. Concepcion "Conchita" (Carranza) Champion
10. Henry Thomas Gell
11. Bertha (Wells) Gebhart
12. Margaret E. (Wells) Bunnell
13. Raul Zamarripa Jr.
14. Zachariah "Zack" Gwynn
15. Celedonio Zamarripa
16. Simon Carranza
17. Maria de Jesus Aros
18. James Tilford Yeadon
19. Robert William Littlefield
20. Juan Zamora
21. Chris Barnes
22. Pedro Ochoa
23. Eduardo "Edward" Paulino Samora
24. Hobson Monroe Burleson
25. Eudelia Alcala
26. Dolores (Ledesma) Alcala
27. Alvaro Jose Medrano
28. Saul Loya
29. Dorcas Ann Littlefield

Answer 6

I'll do a few this month!

1. Henriette Solidaine Rivet, b. 12 Feb 1825
2. Louis Gabriel Rivette, b. 1 Feb 1874
3. Carmelite Apoline Rivette, b. 16 Feb 1802
4. Lucius Rivette, b. about Feb 1882
5. Edith Ada Fulda, b. 13 Feb 1879
6. Walter Walker Coles, b. 20 Feb 1854
7. Lawrence Emmett Murray, b. 11 Feb 1883
8. Anne Marine Rivet, b. 6 Feb 1778
9. Aurelia Cormier, b. 22 Feb 1831
10. Joseph Numa Cormier, b. 21 Feb 1843
11. Zephirin Cormier, b. 13 Feb 1825
12. Marie Anaise Cormier, b. 26 Feb 1833
13. Elisee Cormier, b. about Feb 1804

Answer 7

I have a few to work on.

1. Celia Lorena Looser (Cushing) Looser-20 b. Feb. 5, 1920 d. 1986 (living children not listed - privacy)  Completed a previously started profile.

2. Cushing-1055|George Oren Cushing b. Feb 13, 1917

3. Woods-15662|Judith Ann Woods b. Feb 23, 1942

4. Woods-15645|Johnson Richard Woods Sr. b. Feb. 15, 1916

5. Allen-49349|Cynthia Allen McKnight b. Feb. 3, 1879

Answer 8

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ward-28023 It turns out I can't prove the Feb birth, but I wrote the bio.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leighton-796

Answer 9

I'll see who I can find.

Answer 10

I will try to do at least 5 this month.

1. Jennie Boyd Meigs

2. Uriah Archer Summerson

3. William Boyd Hopkins

4. Leroy Earl Mansell

5. Amos T. Payne

Answer 11

I'll work on some this month...

Answer 12

Just off my PIP Voyage and I’m climbing aboard the Biobuilders February 2021!

See Scott's BioBuilders ''Free Space Page''.

Comments

Nancy Melvina Tanner 2nd Grandmother 

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Pearl Towsey Miller Grand Aunt 

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Elizabeth ‘’Shepard’’ Sackett  5th Great Grandmother

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Henry Miller  2nd Great Grand Uncle

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Eliza Jane Jolly Miller Wife of 2nd Great Grand Uncle

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Thomas Jefferson Ball 1st Cousin 4x Removed

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Stephen Streeter 6th Cousin 5x Removed

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Roger Hayes Holcomb 3rd Cousin 6x Removed

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Theodocia Holcomb Reed  3rd Cousin 6x Removed

Answer 13

1. Sue Shipley (Born Yellop)

2. Peter John Barnett

3. Jeanne Barnett (Born Eyres)

4. Eliza Hall (Born Rickards)

5. Edward Cockram

6. Thomas Hall

7. Frederick Norgate

8. Ruth Outred (Born Evans)

9. Eliza Brown (Born Smith)

10. Ephraim Smith

Answer 14

I will do a few, my sister was born in February and I have others on my watch list too.

1. Susanna Clarke (1822 - 1902) 1st Feb 1822
2. Eleanor Ann Elizabeth Elgey (1896) 3rd February
3. Roger Bensley Crosskey (1921 - 1942) 2nd Feb 1921 Son of:
4. John Henry Crosskey (1892 - 1951) 20th Feb 1892
5. Annie Wild (abt. 1894) 3rd Feb 1894

Answer 15

Working on my grandmother,  Iva Bordner  b. 17 Feb. 1902

Answer 16

I have been working on Charley Value born February 8, 1931. The checklist is completed with the exception of connecting to the Global Tree. The link is eluding me.

Answer 17

My contribution to the challenge is Hsien-Hsiung Ko, my father.  In the process, I also created profiles for both of my grandparents, so this was very productive!