February 2019 Biography Builders - Married in February

Question

This month’s Bio Builders Challenge theme is people who got married in February. (See Anniversaries for those on your own Watchlist.)

Thank you for your support.

Here's our checklist:

Data Section:

• birth date/place
• names of parents
• marriage date/place and spouse name
• 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.

Comments

I would like to do this.  I never have before. I am trying to understand. Am I supposed to put a list of profiles I WILL work on here? Do I answer this after I complete each profile? Do I make a list at the end of the month? Can you clarify a bit the tracking part?

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Hi Sara, Welcome. I start an answer usually with the first profile I finish. I put the URL of the profile in the answer, Then as I finish more profiles I edit my previous answer and add the profiles. Others do it in slightly different ways.

There is no need to make a list of the profiles you think you might work on. You could keep track on your own and just enter at the end of the month, but you might forget or get waylaid, so entering them as you finish seems to work well.

Only one answer needed.

Answer 1

 After reviewing my anniversary list, I have only 18 who meet the criteria.  I may need another challenge to keep me going.  Done so far:

1. Alfred Baldinger m. 25 Feb 1906  (2) Edith (Hyde) Baldinger

3. William Terry Colquitt m. 28 Feb 1836 (4) Ann (Stringer) Colquitt

5. Sarah Jane Griest married 25 Feb 1897 (6) David Cadwallader

7. Hortensia Glenkler married 3 Feb 1876 (8) Ferdinand Peter Brausch

9. Florence A. Diemer married 4 Feb 1903 (10) James Michael Huggard and two of their children: Edwin Huggard and Unnamed son

11. Arazelia Gray (Greene) van Zandt married 12 Feb 1863 (12) Charles Collins Van Zandt

13. Mary A. Brenneis married 28 Feb 1878 (14) Andrew C. Rode ---Grandparents of the creator of Double Bubble bubble gum.  Also completed some of their children: Unnamed infant Rode, Henry Rode, and Eva Rode Young.

15. David Lash marriage solemnized 16 Feb. 1919 to (16) Florence Levin

17. Peter Torbert married 13 Feb. 1861 (18) Mary Warner Harris

19. Hepsibah Husted married 29 Feb.1832 (20) William Mulford with bonus bios for son Reuben W. Mulford and brother Jeremiah Mulford 

21. Nehemiah Westfall married 8 February 1817 (22) Sarah (Simpson) Westfall

23. Elmer Husted married 16 Feb. 1857 (24) Matilda Mulford 

25. Lotta Marie (Robenstine) Taylor m. 28 Feb 1914 (26) Charles D Cain

All these profiles will be going up for adoption if anyone is interested, please let me know. 

Comments

Beautifully written biographies.  Thank you.

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Thank you!

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Good heavens,these profiles are stellar, Kathy. I admire your work.

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Thank you, Maggie!  Not as well thought out as those I hope to create for my family, but the best I could do.  All these are going up for adoption.

Answer 2

I will do this since being out business since the Source - A - Thon.

Answer 3

Lets go for it.

1. Dale Lloyd Robins married 1 Feb 1954 https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Robins-1402

2. Mary Husar married Feb 11, 1950 https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Husar-18

3. Clifford R Stukenburg married Feb 11, 1950 https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stukenberg-11

Answer 4

Sounds fun.  Count me in.

Answer 5

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hotchkiss-741 married 2 Feb 1732

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hotchkiss-525 married 2 Feb 1732

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Alling-179 m. 8 Feb 1722

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mix-66 m. 8 Feb 1722

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mix-358 m. 8 Feb 1877

Answer 6

1. Merry Alice Cox: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cox-23581
2. Connley James Hartsock: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hartsock-282
3. James Nelson Price: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Price-17602
4. Winnie Belle Wasson https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Wasson-1414
5. Matilda Price https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Price-17576
6. Claudius Spencer https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Spencer-7914
7. John F Ray: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ray-7842
8. Margaret Ann Robinson https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Robinson-22570
9. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bonner-1839
10. Henry A Womble https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Womble-306
11. Ethel Mattie Golden https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Golden-2518
12. Carol Crooke https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Crooke-255
13. William Gilbert Watson: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Watson-22089
14. Drucilla Burkett https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burkett-1180
15. Temperance Grimes https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Grimes-3278
16. Solomon Hamilton https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hamilton-19374
17. David Bonner: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bonner-1832
18. Venita Jones https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jones-73719
19. Virgil Addison Price https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Price-17664
20. Vesta Anderson https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Anderson-42180
21. Elizabeth Taylor https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Taylor-53788
22. Jesse Daniel Robinson https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Robinson-27507
23. JT Thrower https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Thrower-146
24. Inez Maher https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Maher-1057
25. Eugene Bonifay https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bonifay-15
26. Pearl Blackwell https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Blackwell-3576
27. Alaire June Nelson https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nelson-17906
28. Romero Fivas https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Fivas-2
29. Brodgen Coolidge Daughtry https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Daughtry-317
30. Alma Narvil https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Narvil-1
31. Susan Gladys Adams https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Adams-38921

I've completed all these to date

Comments

Lots of research and a great job!

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Thank you, Kathy! I'm new to this, so it's been a bit of a curve for me. I appreciate the feedback.

Answer 7

I may be able to do a few of these. Managed to get two in...lots of issues with the children of this couple (also trying to get them done for what is now a late entry for the #52Ancestors Challenge):

Husband: Manasseh Miner: married 14 Feb 1779, whole bio, gedcom clean up.

Wife: Hannah (Haley) Miner: Most of the biography.

Answer 8

Other projects intervened and I didn't get much done for this challenge, but I did manage to complete two:

1. James Perkins and Mary Hooper were married 14 Feb 1771.
2. Violet (Hinds) Johnson Miell and Richard H Miell were married 16 Feb 1899.

Answer 9

I do like a challenge.  This month throws up two of my great great great grandfathers: both born in 1798, one a preacher and another a plantation builder.  Both will take me some days to do justice to, so I will post their links as I complete them.  Stephen

Comments

First couple are done!  Some pioneer families end in terrible tragedy...

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Thompson-47065 and https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/McKee-4023

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What a treasure to have the book!  Very interesting read.

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Thank you.  I wish more folks back then had written their own personal books.

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Okay, that was a struggle...  The next couple are done.  The rise and fall of a great Louisiana plantation.

William Peter Welham: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Welham-158

Reine Seraphine Theriot: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Theriot-219

And their plantation on the Mississippi: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Welham_Plantation

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And since it seems to be great x3 grandparents month (all married in February) here are one final couple, this time crofters from the northeastern tip of Scotland.

Hugh Stewart: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stewart-31215

Elizabeth Margaret Murray: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Murray-14742

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Let's hope the next challenge isn't "write bios for your 3X great grandparents."  If it is, you can write the bios for mine 

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Your reply did make me think.  We have 16 sets of great x3 grandparents.  I can identify 14 of mine (two are lost somewhere in the Alsace/Rhineland region).  Still gives me a lot of folks to write about! Quakers trekking from Carolina to Indiana to get away from slavery, Quebecois loggers caught up in the Aroostook War, refugee French newspaper editors fleeing to Louisiana and unhappy Loyalists living in Canada having fought for the losing side in the War of Independence.  There's no rush...

Answer 10

Count me in!

1. Alzire Rivette Coles - m. Earl Coles 08 Feb 1925  
2. Earl Coles - m. Alzire Rivette 08 Feb 1925

Answer 11

Please count me in again!

If I forget to update this post at the end of the challenge, please check my challenge log: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Rosser-226%2C_Challenge_Log#Feb_2019

Answer 12

I’m in.

1. Elizabeth (Harrington)(White) Cutler married Feb. 12, 1767 AND Feb. 2, 1786

2. Jeremiah Swain married Feb. 9, 1715

3. Elijah Harrington  married Feb. 8, 1758

4. Francis Kennaston married Feb. 8, 1892

5. Beriah Bemis 1st marriage Feb. 10. 1702

6. Joseph Grout married Feb. 11, 1755

Answer 13

My first is Terry Bunce

2. George Dampier Mitchell

3. Frederick C Borgwardt

4. Joyce Audrey Wagner Schatzki

5. Nancy Hancock Adams

6.Gwendolyn (Rice) Gipp

7.Mary Nell Sillmon Tully

8.Elena Henrietta Zana Milano

9. Peter James Milano

10. Theresa Mary Zana Harris

11. California Sisk Forehand

12. William Rice

13. John Bright Garrison

14. Edward Rice

15. Lydia Dunbar Rice

Answer 14

Will try to do a few  this month

1 https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Newman-5970

2 https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Yates-3963

3 https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clear-81

4 https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Yates-2855

Answer 15

Hope to do this I will add my profiles I have more than 20 to choose from for this month.

Answer 16

What a perfect challenge for the month with Valentines Day - I'm in!

1. John Oram, m. 1 Feb 1922
2. Madge Jackson Oram, m. 1 Feb 1922
3. Frances Schorr Richards, m. 7 Feb. 1936 (husband's profile was done in a previous challenge)
4. Lucy Wright Rodda, m. 28 Feb 1836 
5. James Harris Rodda, m. 28 Feb 1836

Answer 17

Please let me know if this bio for my Sarah Frances Gilcrease Atchison which I have spent the better part of the last couple of days researching and writing qualifies for this. She and her husband Eli were married in February.

Comments

Nelda,

Looks good to me.

Bob

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Thank you, Bob.

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Great job, Sarah!  It should be easy now to write the bios of her husband and children now that you've done so much research.  This is a treasure for your relatives.

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Thanks, Kathy.

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What a masterpiece of research.  Many congratulations.

My one suggestion would be that when I write a biography I only write the county and state the first time I mention the place.  And I never put in the United States bit.  Even non-Americans know Texas is in the United States.  It just makes it that bit easier to read.

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Thanks for the compliment and the constructive criticism. Yes, I get what you're saying. There have been discussions with conflicting and strong opinions on this in the last week. One really doesn't know which is most appropriate.

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How about this:  Put the full place, including United States, USA, or whatever in the DOB/DOD fields, then reference the place without country the first mention and just the town if no change in any repeats.  That way everyone is sure the Connecticut you are mentioning is in the US.  And the Allegheny County you mention later is in Pennsylvania, etc.

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Nelda, in the end it is your choice in the biography.  Wikitree sets rules for how we fill the fields so that there is consistency.  The Biography section is where we can do our own thing (as long as we're not fibbing).  Some folks like images, others not so much.  Some like speculation, others just want the hard, cold facts.  I like that this is the space where I can be creative and tell a story.

Answer 18

It's so hard to find a good stopping point on some bios. Here's one of mine so far. Still seems like tons to do!

Sylvanus Bolin (1848 - 1910)

Joseph Samuel Fogle (1882 - 1974)

Comments

Great biography. I'd love to know more about what he was doing in the Dakota Territory.

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Thanks a lot, Stephen. I hope to find out more about that time in his life too. It looks like I had the wrong dates of service, so just corrected that. It's my understanding he was discharged at the new Fort Sully in 1870, so he spent some time there for sure...just not sure what types of conflicts with Native American forces he was involved in, if any.

Answer 19

I just found out that my aunt (who I haven't seen since childhood due to a complicated family history) died 2 weeks ago. Her husband died last year. They were married in February, so I will be working on their profiles next. Any ideas on how to make a special tribute to them on their profiles?

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How about lots of photos of them in their various stages of life?  Infant, youth, young adult, wedding, with their children, and in old age.  Perhaps one of the photos would show them doing what they loved (cooking, gardening, golfing, or such).  Any humorous incidents that you can remember?  Or generous, loving ones?  How did they interact with each other?  You are lucky in that you can convey first-hand information that will add color to their profiles (but still try to maintain the third person voice).

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I love this idea. Unfortunately, I haven't seen them in almost 40 years. And, we've got a complicated family relationship, so there isn't anyone I can really ask. I did have some various photos of my Uncle David (high school year book photo, a photo from his church, etc), and he took me shrimping in his shrimp boat a few times. They were both always kind to me. I wish family issue hadn't gotten in the way of knowing them better. I made their profile already as I posted this days ago and this was the first reply I got. I would love your feedback if you have a minute, though.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bonner-1832 He loved fishing, so I used fish as his background

She loved birds, so I used cardinals on hers: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jones-73719

She just died a few weeks ago, shortly after what would have been their 58th anniversary.

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Nice!  Personally, I would not have the same photo on the page three times and would put research notes below the biography.  Under Occupations for David, you are missing an end parentheses (I would have fixed it, but the profile is locked).  Reread the line beginning "In 1958, David . . ."  I think you changed and didn't complete your thought.

Do you remember the house he built?  I'd like to know more about it (material, how many stories, bedrooms, or such)?  How did he manage to build it while working full-time?

Overall, the biography leaves me wanting to know more about him.  Lots of personal details add the color that make it personal.

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Thank you, Kathy. I don't know how his father managed to build it. I just know that he built to accommodate my grandmother's small height. It was a small wood frame house, so I added that. Unfortunately, I don't know much else about them since I haven't gotten to see them since I was 16 (about 30 years ago).  I also realized the background images weren't showing up. I don't like how the background images show up as an image of the person in the left-hand side, so I "removed" the people from the image and set it as a background. Then, I discovered this meant they don't show on a profile at all and become private images.

I closed the ). So, thanks for that, too.

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You are very welcome!

Answer 20

I had to take a bit of a break but back again!