March on Washington

 

Library of Congress. March on Washington, 28 Aug 1963.

Today marks the anniversary of the March on Washington, on this day 28 August 1963, when over 250,000 people gathered along the Mall from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument. Many civil rights leaders spoke that day, and it is known for Martin Luther King Jr's historic I Have a Dream speech. Fifty-seven years later, we're still dealing with civil rights issues in this country. Another march is planned for today.

Library of Congress. Bayard Rustin & Cleveland Robinson.

Maybe we're at a turning point in our history. This week athletes from the NBA, WNBA, Major League Soccer and Major League Baseball refused to play to call attention to these social and racial justice issues. Perhaps change is coming. 

Celebrating 100 Years

 

Source: Library of Congress. Suffragettes, 1917.

Today marks the 100th anniversary of addition of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution. It reads: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." 

Because the states granted women the right to vote at different times, some of the women in my family tree and related branches were able to vote in their states before 26 August 1920. When Arizona was admitted as a state in 1912, women were able to vote. Maria Esther Suastegui voted in 1914. Josefa Vasquez voted in 1918, the first election after her naturalization in 1917. Josefa's sister Francisca voted in the same election.

Ancestry. Arizona Voter Registrations, 1866-1955.

Mariana Campuzano Freilinger voted in the same 1918 election. Her sister Rosaura Dobson voted in 1914.

Ancestry. Arizona Voter Registrations, 1866-1955.

Joaquina Contreras, wife of Frank Campuzano, voted in the 1914 election in Los Angeles. Nellie and Antonia Campuzano, daughters of Jose Maria Campuzano, voted in 1914 and 1920.

There may be others in my tree who voted before 1920, but so far there are few states that have made their historic voter registration records available for viewing. I'm lucky I have so many connected to Arizona and California and can see this history.

One Year Ago

 

Photo by Patrick Jones. Armaçao de Pera, Portugal. 23 Aug 2019.

This time a year ago we were enjoying a day at the beach in the Algarve. That trip seems so long ago now.

Secretary of Altar

 

Source: JSTOR. Kroeber & Fontana, 1986.

The letter above was drafted by my 5th-great-grandfather Francisco Suastegui on 1 October 1832 in Altar, Sonora to the Vice Governor of the State of Sonora in Arizpe. This translation appears on pages 112-113 of Massacre on the Gila by Clifton Kroeber and Bernard Fontana (U. Arizona Press, 1986). The report describes attacks between local tribes nearby. This also places Francisco in the position of secretary to the Town Council of Altar in 1832, mentioned in his statement quoted in Narciso Botello's Annals of Southern California in 1835.

Rosaura

 

Source: Irene C. Wagers. Rosaura Campuzano.

The photo above is of Rosaura Campuzano Dobson, sister of Mariana Campuzano. I mentioned her previously as she married Edward Dobson, brother of John Dobson (first husband of Concha Campuzano). They were married on 10 September 1906 in Tucson.

Ancestry. Arizona Marriage Records.

She passed away in January 1947.

Ernest

 

Source: Ancestry. WWII Draft Cards.

After sharing the photos of Annie Campuzano and Ernest J. Freilinger, I thought it would be good to look back at the available records on Ernest. He was born in Biwer, Luxembourg in 1883, and arrived in the US in New York in 1893 with his parents John, Marie and brothers Bernard, Ferdinand and Mattias. Ernest listed his brother Ferdinand (Fred) in his World War II Draft Card (above).

In 1909, Ernest married fellow immigrant Minnie Gross in Multnomah, Oregon, and they settled in Tucson, Arizona. Minnie passed away in 1914. Ernest and Annie Campuzano appear on a marriage license in April 1915, but they were not married until 10 February 1916. Annie's sister Rosa served as a witness on the marriage certificate.

Source: Ancestry. Arizona Marriage Records.

Ernest worked as a blacksmith and later operated mines.

LA Times, 11 Mar 1929.

More on Mariana and family

 

Source: S. Bergt. Ernest J. Freilinger & Mariana Campuzano.

Picking up from yesterday, here is another photo of Mariana "Annie" Campuzano and Ernest J. Freilinger. Seeing this shot reminded me that I had a 1943 photo from Irene of Annie with her mother, Elvira Felix Campuzano, daughter Margaret, and her daughter.

Source: Irene C. Wagers. 

 

The family appears in the 1940 US Census living on South 4th Avenue in Tucson.

Ancestry. 1940 US Census, Tucson, Arizona.

Mariana and Ernest

 

Source: S. Bergt. Mariana Campuzano Freilinger.

This lovely painting is of Mariana "Annie" Campuzano Freilinger, oldest daughter of Jose Jesus Campuzano and Elvira Felix. Earlier in July, a granddaughter of Annie reached out to me over Facebook. Unfortunately I didn't see the message until two days ago. We've traded information and she has been very kind to share photos of Annie and her husband Ernest J. Freilinger. I am now revisiting my research on Annie, Ernest and the family of Jose Jesus Campuzano.

According to Susan, the paintings were made based off of photos of Annie and Ernest while in the Philippines. These are great and a real treasure to have in the family.

Source: S. Bergt. Ernest J. Freilinger.

Sunflowers

 

Photo by Patrick Jones. Sunflowers, Alexandria, VA. 13 Aug 2020.

A shot from my afternoon run around the neighborhood last Thursday. While we're still in mid-August, there are signs of a transition underway. We have a few more weeks of carefree summer for the kids before back-to-virtual school. The temperatures have dropped under 70 at night for the first time in 50 days (on Sunday), so that's something too. Perhaps we might even go a few days without drenching rain. Smoked salmon is on the menu again for the grill this evening.

Poking at Brick Walls

I'm looking again into the records for traces on my 3rd-great-grandmother Nancy Jane Flatt between 1878 and 1884. First I returned to the Metcalfe County, Kentucky Court Orders, where I previously found Nancy as a pauper in the Metcalfe County Poor House in 1878. I know she later moved to neighboring Barren County, Kentucky, where she married Pleasant Morgan on 1 October 1884. I've started going page by page through the Barren County Order Books from 1881-1890. I don't recall seeing the record below, dated 2 March 1882.

Ancestry. Barren County Order Book Vol. 13, Pgs 186-187.

The record lists the children of Pleasant Morgan by his deceased first wife Mary Elizabeth, who died in May 1880. They had at least the following children:

- Polly A. Morgan

- Sally Baker Morgan

- Lucy Jane Morgan

- Annie Eliza Morgan

- Samuel A. Morgan

- Jesse H. Morgan

- John W. Morgan

- Ileva Morgan

The family appears together in the 1880 US Census in Barren County.

Ancestry. 1880 US Census, Barren County, Kentucky.

It is curious to see the children had been turned over to a guardian by March 1882. Pleasant's oldest, Polly, had turned 15. In the order above, Polly requested her father be named as guardian and he declined.

After going through nearly 400 pages of Barren County Court records through January 1885, I have not seen any mention of Nancy Flatt or her children, or other references to Pleasant Morgan between 1882-1885. I'll look next at neighboring Adair County to see if anything is there.

Summer Cooking

 

Photo by Patrick Jones. Corn & tomato salad. 13 Aug 2020.

It's been awhile since I've posted any of our cooking at home. This is yesterday's lunch adapted from the Six Seasons cookbook by Joshua McFadden, corn and tomato salad with homegrown basil. I am going to be working through this book for the near future, trying out vegetarian recipes with local ingredients from our farmers market.

The bowl was brought back from Marrakech, Morocco in 2016.

Closing out the story on Mary

After the death of William Irvine, Mary Cox Irvine remained in St. Joseph, Missouri for several years. She remarried in 1951, to widower Charles H. Martin. She retained her love of travel. A news article below describes a vacation that she and Charles took in late July 1964 to the Seattle area to go deep sea fishing. They made an earlier trip to the Pacific Northwest, attending the 1962 Worlds Fair in Seattle, with its landmark building, the Space Needle.

St. Joseph News-Press, 7 Aug 1964

Charles passed away in 1966. As posted previously, Mary eventually returned to Dandridge, Tennessee. There's quite the gap between the obituary for Charles in 1966 and her own obituary in 1996. Perhaps more will surface at a later date.

It has been interesting looking back at Mary's travels - luxury liners to Hawaii, around the world twice for months at a time during a gilded age of travel before the common use of intercontinental flights. In this day of COVID restricted stay-at-home orders and travel bans, I've been a little envious of how she managed to see the world. Here's to Mary and her many adventures.

Huntington Library. SS Malolo, 1928.

End of the Voyage

 

St. Joseph News-Press, 21 Jul 1948

Since the start of August I've been following the journey of William G. Irvine and Mary Cox. William's story came to an end in July 1948, after suffering a stroke at home while Mary was visiting family back in Tennessee. The obituary above notes that William sold the Shultz Studio in April 1948 and the couple had planned for future travels. He was 67.

Thinking of Dad

 

Photo by Patrick Jones. Dad at Mothers Beach, 30 Aug 2008

This would have been Dad's birthday. I'm thinking back to better times. The photo above is from Marina del Rey, California. I was at the same spot in January, which seems so long ago, before COVID-19.

An offer to adopt

 

St. Joseph News-Press. 7 Jul 1940.

Following their last around the world trip, William and Mary Irvine appeared in the St. Joseph newspapers in a July 1940 article noting they had taken steps to adopt a child displaced by World War II in Europe. As far as I can tell, they didn't complete the adoption process, and they never had children of their own. At the time, Mary was 43, William was almost 60. While they may have seriously considered bringing a child into their home, perhaps they realized parenting was not for them.

Within a week of this article, Mary drove by herself for a two-week visit to family back in Tennessee.

In December 1940, the Irvines purchased a home at 1202 North 25th Street in St. Joseph. According to the newspaper article, they planned to spend a month doing extensive interior renovations before moving into the home in early January 1941.

Photo Studies

 

St. Joseph News-Press, 7 Feb 1941

I am nearing the end of my recap on the lives of William G. Irvine and Mary Cox Irvine. The article above provides some insight into William's reputation as a noted photographer, and mentions that he took a photo course in Switzerland during their 1939 around the world trip. Perhaps Mary also participated in the course, as she was working in the Shultz Studio alongside William.

I have a few more posts to round out the story on William before covering a bit more on the third act for Mary.

Waves after Isaias

 

Photo by Patrick Jones. Duck, NC. 4 Aug 2020.

We're back from a week at the Outer Banks, which is one reason why I was following the path of Hurricane Isaias so closely. We dodged the brunt of the storm and really only had strong winds and some rain overnight on Tuesday as the storm raced across North Carolina and up the East Coast. By morning Tuesday, we had clearing skies and beautiful weather during the heat of the day all week.

Photos from 1939 Around the World

Upon returning from their second around the world trip in late July 1939, photographs by William G. Irvine were featured in a full page spread in the Sunday St. Joseph News-Press. They arrived back just before the outbreak of World War II in Europe. According to an interview in the News-Press, their favorite part of the trip was in the South Pacific, where they spent a month between Fiji, the Soloman Islands, Bali, New Zealand and Australia.

St. Joseph News-Press, 6 Aug 1939.

St. Joseph News-Press, 20 Jul 1939.

Another trip around the world

 

St. Joseph News-Press, 19 Mar 1939

Globetrotting photographers Mary Cox Irvine and William G. Irvine took another trip around the world in 1939, starting with the Golden Gate Exhibition in San Francisco in March of that year. The news article above captures their itinerary. They ended their trip with a stop at the World's Fair in New York, which was also visited by my Gumpy around the same time.

On this voyage, William brought along a camera with color film to record movies, which he later showed during talks back in Missouri.

I haven't been able to find them in the passenger records for the start of their trip, but I did find them in the arrival record at the Port of New York on 15 July 1939, on the ship SS President Roosevelt from Cobh, Ireland. Perhaps they visited some of William's ancestral lands near Belfast, Northern Ireland. Interestingly, William listed his birth place as Oelwein, Iowa, which is where his parents settled after arriving in America. Mary's birth place is listed as White Plain, Tennessee, a misspelling of White Pine, a town in Jefferson & Hamblen Counties where her family was from.

Ancestry. New York Passenger Lists, Jul 1939.

While I haven't found their departure records from March/April 1939, their published path matches an offering on the Matson Lines from Hawaii to Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand and Australia.

Huntington Library. Matson Lines Winter Offerings, 1936.

Installed as Worthy Matron

St. Joseph News-Press, 23 Jan 1938.

The clipping above shows Mary Cox Irvine appointed as worthy matron of the Areme Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star in St. Joseph, Missouri in 1938. In this role she oversaw annual charitable and fundraising events organized by the chapter. The photo shows her in a fashionable dress. Perhaps her sister Pearl Cox Jones looked similar, although they lived very different lives.

In February 1938, Mary made a return visit to Tennessee to visit her mother, and perhaps was able to catch up with her siblings, informing them about her travels.

St. Joseph News-Press, 20 Feb 1938.

Voyage on the Matsonia

Huntington Library. SS Matsonia print. 

Before Mary and William journeyed around the world in 1935, they vacationed to Hawaii in 1931. The couple departed San Francisco on 11 February 1931 aboard the SS Matsonia luxury liner, arriving in Honolulu on 17 February 1931. Interestingly, the ship manifest notes that William G. Irvine was born in Herkiner, New York, but later in life he acknowledged his actual birthplace as Ireland.

Ancestry. Honolulu Passenger and Crew Lists, 1931.

They vacationed in Hawaii for a week, departing on 25 February and arriving back in San Francisco on the Matsonia on 2 March 1931.

The Huntington Library in San Marino (next to Pasadena, California) has a large print and ephemera collection including prints and cabin plans from the Matson Lines. Below is a copy of the cabin plan from 1928, which would have been the same layout experienced by the Irvines on their voyage in 1931.

Huntington Library. Section from SS Matsonia Cabin Plan, 1928.

Huntington Library. Matsonia Passenger List, Aug 1931.

The Matson Lines advertisement below reminds me of Mary Cox Irvine.

Huntington Library. Matson Lines ad, 1938.

We took our own trip to Hawaii over Spring Break in 2018. Reading about the Irvine's trip brings back memories of our own visit, although via a different and less luxurious mode of transportation.

Isaias Update

NOAA National Hurricane Center, 0500 Update on Hurricane Isaias

Isaias returned to hurricane strength just before making landfall on the North Carolina coast, and is now racing up through Virginia this morning. Stay safe Northern VA & DC friends.

Photos from Shanghai, 1935

St. Joseph News-Press, 18 Aug 1937

Several of William G. Irvine's photos from their trip around the world were featured in the St. Joseph newspaper. A spread in August 1937 had a series from their stop in Shanghai, China.

Tropical Storm Watch

National Hurricane Center, 2 Aug 2020.

This is a break in my family history blogging as we're watching the path of now Tropical Storm Isaias very closely. Four years ago we rode out a similar storm, Tropical Storm Hermine. Fingers crossed for a quick transit from Isaias.