July 22nd

Birthdays:

1647 – Sarah Loomis in Windsor, CT the daughter of Joseph & Sarah (Hill) Loomis. She died in 1654 at age 7.

1660 – Elizabeth & Mary Judd the daughters of Sgt. William & Mary (Steele) Judd were baptized.  They were not twins.

 

1684 – Elizabeth Janes the daughter of Abel & Mary (Judd) Janes

1839 – Eliza Clark daughter of Samuel & Phebe (Sayre) Clark

Megan Zirkle the daughter of Robert & Karen (Fink) Zirkle

Anniversaries:

1856 – David Erwin & Eliza Fitzgerald.  This was a second marriage for both.  Eliza born 1832 in Indiana was the daughter of Derritt & Mary (Slaven) Fitzgerald.  She and David had two sons.  David died in 1866 and Eliza died in 1891.

1911 – Charles Godfrey & Helen Lathrop in Clayton, MO. Helen born 1893 in Allenton, MO was the daughter of Ezra & Nancy (Boly) Lathrop.  She married 2^nd John Rucker in 1913 and 3^rd Joseph Moore in 1925.  Helen died in Missouri in 1944.

Lyman & Cora Gurley on their wedding day

1928 – Lyman Gurley & Cora Baldridge at Elston Gurley’s home in Wayne City, IL.  Lyman's niece Rosalie Gurley and nephew Harold Erkman stood up with them and were allowed to sign the marriage license even though they were thirteen years old.  Lyman was born 1907 in Wayne Co. IL the son of James & Lou (Speer) Gurley.  Cora, the daughter of George & Phoebe (Lane) Baldridge was born in Jefferson Co. IL in 1909.  They had no children.  Lyman served in the army between 1943 to 1945 in Ft. Sill, OK at the 6^th Battalion Field Artillery School.  In December 1958, Lyman gave my mother away at her wedding.  He died in a tractor accident on his farm in February 1959.  Cora married 2^nd Clarence Miller in 1969.  Cora died 1982 at her home in Wayne City, IL.  She is buried with Lyman in Thomason Cemetery, Wayne City, IL.