February 2nd

Happy Ground Hog Day and Happy Birthday.  Was there six more weeks of winter when these children were born?

1621 Sarah Hill baptized England, died 1653, CT.  She married Joseph Loomis in Windsor, CT in 1646.

1662 Hannah Loomis in Windsor, CT the daughter of Joseph & Mary (Chauncey) Loomis

1881 John Robertson in Wayne Co., IL son of James & Mary (Maulding) Robertson, died 1967 Wayne Co., IL.  He married Rose Moore in 1907 in Wayne Co., IL and they had 13 children.

1908 Ruby Erkman in White Co., IL daughter of Joseph & Laura (Bingman) Erkman.  She married James Sanders in 1932 in Carmi, IL.

1910 Clara Fitzgerald, daughter of Wakeman & America (Wilson) Fitzgerald, died 1981.  She married ? Morgan.

1911 Mary Edmison in Wayne Co. IL daughter of Harrison & Margaret (Clark) Edmison, died 1997.  Second and third wife of Henry Erkman.

1913 Ray Osborn in Wayne Co. IL son of Louis & Idella (Robertson) Osborn.  Ray died at age 15 in Wayne Co.

David &  Karen (Devault) Porter

David Porter son of Eshmal & Betty (Lathrop) Porter

Isabella Richardson daughter of Cody & Heather (Owens) Richardson

Anniversaries:

1697 Joseph Lathrop & Elizabeth Waterhouse in Norwich, CT.  Joseph was the son of Samuel & Elizabeth (Scudder) Lathrop.

1950 DeEtta Withrow & Bill Smallwood.  DeEtta was the daughter of Franklin & Mary Emma (Dove) Withrow.  She first married Bill Smallwood in 1910 in Sequoyah, OK, they had five children and divorced in ca. 1921.   

Edmund Shaw & Gerie Holsinger in Lombard, IL

Gerald Bond & Pamela Odum in Manhattan, KS