Cousins

Ida Elizabeth Sawyer

Ralph E. Huntzinger — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:30:33 +0000

In 1865, Father Bernard Donnelly, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church at 11th and Broadway, wrote to the motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, near St. Louis, requesting the Superior send some sisters to open a convent school for girls.

Father Donnelly promised the Sisters that a school built in 1859 from bricks made in Father Donnelly’s brickyard would be ready for the Sisters’ use. Sister Francis Joseph Ivory, described as “a strong, enduring, educated woman with interpersonal skills and the ability to speak English,” by STA President Nan Bone, arrived first, and quickly procured free railroad passes for five of her fellow Sisters. They found the promised building empty and had to scramble to acquire the necessary beds, desks and chairs. They purchased a cow and threw a party, raising enough money to furnish St. Teresa’s Academy, which was opened and dedicated by St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick, Sept. 1, 1866, under St. Joseph’s patronage.The curriculum during its early decades included Analytical Grammar; Mythology; Sacred History; Botany; Criticism of English authors, and Mental and Moral Philosophy. According to the Prospectus of St. Teresa’s Academy, c. 1866, “Whether in class or recreation, when permitted to converse at table, or during their walks, the pupils must endeavor to improve the purity of their language and cultivate urbanity of manners. A few years in an Academy would be well-employed if nothing else were learned than to converse with the dignity and propriety of a lady.” And Kansas City is called a “cow town!”

Students wore black alpaca dresses with red-trimmed black hats in winter and buff chambray dresses with blue trimmed white hats in summer. The Sisters wore the floor length habit, wimple and veil, and Kansas Citians weren’t used to nuns in habits. In fact the Sisters from Carondelet were the only religious order in the region to wear the habit. Sister Francis Joseph recalled later that people thought they “were the circus.”

As the city grew, it grew wilder. The neighborhood surrounding the church and Academy had been nicknamed Quality Hill when Kersey Coates and other elite families began building homes in the area in the 1850s. But following the Battle of Westport in 1864, the still unpaved Broadway, Pennsylvania and other streets around Immaculate Conception Church and St. Teresa’s Academy became home to numerous saloons, other businesses and frequent shootouts. In 1880, the Sisters had iron gates set into the stone wall surrounding the Academy; they were locked nightly at 8 p.m., to keep out bad guys like Jesse James.

https://catholickey.org/2016/01/21/st-teresas-academy-celebrates-sesquicentennial/

Jenny Allen

Ralph E. Huntzinger — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 20:01:30 +0000

What is the Family Group page for the Family Contact

Ralph E. Huntzinger — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 17:00:36 +0000

Ivon & Evelyn Huntzinger family

The family group page is a quick and “social way” to introduce your family to visitors. “My parents are”, “There are so many kids in this order”, and “Here are brief comments on that. ” Pictures and words.

Family Tree genealogical details are fascinating but often are too dense, confusing, challenging to navigate, and so forth. Genealogy charts are not always a quick introduction to a family. Therefore we offer a more informal way — the genealogical detail is always somewhere for those who are interested.

You, as Family Contact, generally decides what is in this page since you provide the pictures, descriptions, and an idea of how to present those. Arranging, deciding, and providing material on the Family Page is a obvious task for you. (At present you send the pictures and text to us and we fill in the blanks. However, if you are comfortable with editing the page we can make you an EDITOR so you can do the work instead of us! — Oh the power to screw things up –)

Some families are easy to describe while others get complex, Try clearly and simply explaining my Grandfather, Joseph Schutz, with his six consecutive wives — one with several kids from a previous marriage. Luckily figuring previous generations may be left to the “Ancestors Group”. Individuals can address how to present their parents, if they wish.

Deciding how to present a quick graphic overview of a particular family may be challenging because families today are often merged groups with varying organization. We suggest you work on your own family and delegate related individual pages to another contact, someone very close to that related family. Parents are a good choice since they have opinions and thoughts, they probably have pictures, and it promotes more sharing by spreading out “the load”.

The Ivon & Evelyn Huntzinger group (above) is easy to describe since it is a simple marriage with kids. Irene Barton’s group is a little more complex with one marriage, divorce, two kids, and then a second marriage with no attached kids. HGH had a marriage with one son, then a marriage with eight children. Hubert Gilead Huntzinger had one marriage with three children, another marriage with two children, and a third with no children; the spouses remarried and “step children” connected to this extended group increases. My own case is a modern example, a marriage and divorce with no children and a life commitment with a divorcee with one child and two grandchildren. The complexities of describing the possible arrangements is what makes this exciting and challenging. And this may be more interesting if there was or still is conflict and/or confusion about different events. How do you explain your extended family “clearly” to a new friend? (As builders of this website, we will not decide for you — the content decisions rest with you, the Family Contact.)

Th suggested basic structure follows a guideline of:

name of the group,
a group picture with
description,
the parents with pictures and
names and
dates and
description, then
kids with
picture and
name and
dates and
description leading to their individual pages, and
a button that links to that page.

Figuring how to do this is actually rather simple: sit down jotting ideas with a pencil on paper while you pretend you are describing your family to someone.

Robert Huntzinger decided to present the Ivon & Evelyn Huntzinger family with pictures of the children taken when they were growing up; the parent’s pictures are as grandparents (Ivon and Evelyn are deceased so you would not meet them today). He followed the same idea on his own family page, Robert and ej Huntzinger group — his and ej’s pictures show them as you would meet them today (his teenage picture was “up a page”on his parent’s family page).

How do you send the pictures and details to us so we can put them in your family group?

It’s rather easy. Call us (206-356-3649 Ralph Huntzinger) and we’ll talk through the process. Find the pictures, copy them so you can send them. Compose the email with details. Then attach pictures to the email that has the details and send that to us. (There is probably a very generic page with a password that you can look at and check the progress.)

As I get an idea of how you would like the page to look, I’ll change the look of the generic page and fill in with what you send me. Then we’ll talk back and forth so the page looks the way you want — when you agree, we’ll remove the password and publish it. The way the page looks and what is included on the page is up to the Family Contact!

a simple email link

Share art

We don’t share email addresses outside of “The Directory”

This quick link pulls up a form that at the bottom has a “browse” button which allows you to attach up to five pictures to the message.

Homestead description

Ralph E. Huntzinger — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 17:20:08 +0000

A one room Adobe house built on the bank of the seasonally flowing Polecat creek was home for eleven years Bert and Louise Huntzinger pioneered a unique life style in the Southern Wilds of Cochise County, Arizona. Homestead ammmenadees included a corrugated tin roofed lean-to kitchen cum children’s sleeping area, a rustic corral with attendant blacksmithing shed, a well and windmill some twenty feet from the creek which provided water throughout the year. Bert and Louise raised their family close to the earth, with the goal of self-sustenance in a location many considered ill-suited for the purpose.
A number of family members helped establish the homestead. Louise’s Uncle Solomon Sessions lived with the couple for the better part of a year. Her father, Edgar Sessions, her step-brother, Ralph Lucas, and his wife, Alva, all spent time during 1910 and 1911 getting the homestead established. House construction, well digging, clearing the land of mesquite trees and stumps was all hard work, but the ranch slowly took shape. Orchards and farming were to occupy thirty acres and the remaining 290 acres was for grazing.
In the summer of 1910 when Bert and Louise moved to the future site of Echo Ranch, as Bert called it, the family lived in rather fancy wagon and tent arrangement. The elaborate ‘travelling home’ was ready at hand as they had sold their home in Globe, Arizona, the previous year and had outfitted a the new wagon with Bert’s photographic gear and living quarters for travel though towns of Southern Arizona and Western New Mexico. Their two sons, four year old Hubert and Edgar who was almost two years old, were with them. Edgar was not well. He was born with a medical condition, hypoencephalitis, in which fluids build up around the brain. His illness had in fact prompted Bert and Louise to consider establishing a home far from the prying eyes of curious neighbors. Bert was familiar with the Northern foothills of the Dos Cabezos Mountains having worked a small placer claim in the area with his maternal uncles in the late 1890s.
Their third child, Ivon, was born in Thatcher, Arizona. Point Echo became his home eleven days after birth. Shortly thereafter a Mexican family moved onto the homestead to help clear the orchard land, removing heavy growths of Mesquite from the plowable land. They stayed for a number of years and their children coincided in age with the Huntzinger children and they all grew up together. For the Huntzingers, four children were born on the ranch, one every two years: first Irene, then Sylvia, next Ralph and finally Lucille. Neighbors were few and far between. A goat herder lived up the canyon above the homestead, and occasionally cowboys would drive cattle through the area. Extended family would often visit for a few days at a time, and monthly the parents would travel to town (either Bowie or Thatcher) for supplies.
The older boys lived with relatives for short periods so they could begin school: Hubert stayed with Grandpa and Grandma Sessions in Thatcher, and Ivon with Ralph and Alva Lucas in Pima. Bert, Louise and their neighbors decided they needed a proper school for the children. All together there were eleven children of school age. The final location selected was five miles from the homestead. The children rode either the horse or burro to school, though usually it was the burro.
Mother Louise raised the children, teaching, tending and mending, labored in the home. Food storage and preparation was difficult with no ice box or cold storage hole or cave. Father Bert worked the land, growing the garden and orchard and tended the livestock. Bee hives were moved onto the ranch. Bert had a lively correspondence and working relationship with the state university agricultural extension personnel, even receiving saplings to test in the desert soil. The association ended abruptly when after a couple years a visiting extension service representative wanted Bert to top-out all of the peach trees and graft in walnut tree branches. Bert wasn’t about to destroy his peach trees. To supplement family income, Bert opened a photography shop in Wilcox, Arizona.
Just eleven years old, Edgar died and was buried on a rocky hillside at the ranch in November 1919. His death and the remaining children’s educational needs prompted Louise to move the family to her parent’s home in Thatcher one year later in early December. Bert and Louise’s eighth child, Esther, was born 26 May 1921 in Pima, Arizona. Contributing to the decision to move was Bert’s “unreasonableness”, as characterized by Louise’s brother, Ralph. He was ill. He stayed at and continued to work the ranch, but by late summer jaundice and other increasing symptoms prompted him to disposed of the stock and seek medical consultation and possibly an operation in Southern California. First thought to be gall stones, later surgery disclosed terminal liver cancer. Staying at his brother Don’s home in Ontario, California, he died on 6 Nov. 1921.
After Bert’s death Louise made final proof on their place in the hills and later sold it to a cattle-man. Hubert, the eldest son, left for California around 1924 and was employed by Southern California Edison Company. Louise, her parents and the remaining six children moved to Los Angeles, California, August 1926.

Homestead

Ralph E. Huntzinger — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 18:59:58 +0000

On the left is a metal disc that resides on a patio in Salt Lake City. When flipped to the “back side” it becomes an antique from the end of the 19th century. Not too interesting unless its inner character is filled with life. It is, of course, a “cover” or “plate” for a hole in a wood burning kitchen stove that cooked meals for a family. But what stove, what family?

What peaks our interest is that it was picked up in Arizona at [add GPS location] in the later part of the 20th century seventy years after its significant use. It had laid ignored and rusting in a simple “shack” in a desolate valley about twelve miles southwest from Bowie AZ. (Nine and half miles in straight line on map, eight and half miles down freeway and then 12 miles on “ranch road”, or following an adventure of “local ranch road connections” which cuts out the “highway” it is only 12 miles. Journal entries from the beginning of the 20th century describe “the ranch” as about “eleven and half miles from Bowie by wagon.”

On the right is the stove in Jan 1969 ten years before the stove “cover/plate” was picked up. “Looking in the north door at stove and out west window.” The stove is on the other side of this falling down west facing wall. It’s located in a little “shack” in a desolate valley about eleven miles southwest from Bowie AZ.

Placer claims were staked on this land and later when it opened for homesteading 30 acres we claimed for farming and 290 for grazing. [family of four lived in covered wagon, until house built about 1910.] [land cleared of stumps

January 1969 trip

rounded corners on print — note on back of (#73, no back for #72 & no image for #73) says: “Jan 1969 Huntzinger Homestead Looking northwest from side of Maveric Mt. behind homestead. Light area was orchard Present sagebrush area was the plowed field with house in it.” processing stamp on back has May69PA

“well and water trough to the southwest of house.”

North ~~South~~west corner of house. Jan ’69 and Kodak May69PA

“East side of the house I think this was the front or approach to the house. Flower garden would have been on these sides.”

“west side of house”

North ~~South~~west corner of house.”

Aan ’69 “Looking south into POlecat Canyon where the Huntzinger homestead is located. Dos Cabezas Mts in the background.

“looking northwest across old orchard and plowed field toward the house.”

“Remains of bee hives in edge of orchard.”

“Southeast corner of house (few minutes before a rain storm)”

“looking east across the dry creek bed.”

“Looking northwest from side of Maveric Mt. behind homestead. Light area was orchard Present sagebrush area was the pllowed field with house in it.”

“corral to the south of the house”

May 1972 trip

Ron Huntzinger (probably Carol Huntzinger at left, same clothes as photo with Randal)

back has note of “May 1972”, looks like the back of Ron, printed with square corners

Ron has same outfit as May 1972 photo with date. Ivon, Randal, Ron Huntzinger.

probably May 1972 trip (Randal & Carol in picture)

edge of photo has May 72 processing/printing date] “Carol Huntzinger, Randal Hess”

Ivon, Evelyn, Craig

back labeled “May 1972 cornfields” [however – rounded corners and lack of black stripe on edge (looks like dirt instead of stripe).