• [S57] Chalman E. Green and Mae Chinn Green, Cemetery Records of Independence County Arkansas (314 Vine Street, Newport AR 72112: Morgan Books,, 1980). Hereinafter cited as Cemetery Records of Independence County Arkansas.
  • [S207] Marriage Certificate, unknown repository, unknown repository address.
  • [S416] "Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 27 June 2008), entry for H W Johnson and Ella Rankin, 6 February 1886, Douglas County; based on Missouri Marriage Records, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.
  • [S426] 1920 United States Census, Arkansas, Pleasant Plains, Fairview Township (ED 31) Independence County, p 8A (Image 189), Household 139, H W (Henry Wood) Johnson; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 28 July 2005) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication T625.
  • [S484] 1920 United States Census, Missouri, Clinton Township (ED 64) Douglas County, p 9A (Image 837), Household 174, M. H. Baldwin; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 24 August 2009) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication T625.
  • [S503] 1880 United States Census, Indiana, population schedule, Lockhart (ED 172), Pike County, p 19 handwritten (249 stamped) Image 501, Household 159, Wallace Baldwin; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields March 2008), based on NARA Microfilm Publication T9.
  • [S672] "News of Other Days", Batesville Guard, Bateville Arkansas, Spring 2012, various issues and pages. Henry Johnson's efforts on behalf of the Dollarway Road were mentioned several times in these "News of Other Days" articles reprinted from various 1916 issues of the newspaper. The 1916 information appeared in the "96 Years Ago" section of the column during 2012. Specific examples of Dollarway items published in 2012 had originally appeared in 12 June 1916, 21 July 1916, 28 July 1916, and 1 Sept. 1916 issues of the newspaper (this may not be a complete list of items published either in 1916 or 2012. The "News of Other Days" items are themselves re-runs. For example, the 2 June 1916 item had previously been published on 26 June 1992. By 2012, the reprinted "New of Other Days" items had gotten somewhat out of phase with the calendar, so they were not appearing near the annivesery of the original publication. For example, one item from 1 Sept 1916 (an item not associated with the Dollarway) appeared in the 12 March 2012 issue of the Guard.
  • [S697] 1940 U. S. Census, Pleasant Plains, Independence County, Arkansas, population schedule, Enumeration District 32-13, page 1A, Line 15, Household 4 (visited 24 April 1940), Henry W Johnson -- informant was Henry W Johnson; digital image, National Archives 1940 Census, Official 1940 Census Website (http://1940census.archives.gov : accessed by Carl Fields June 2012), citing National Archives microfilm publication T627, roll 143, image 193.
  • [S719] 1940 U. S. Census, Avenal, Kings County, California, population schedule, Enumeration District 16-1C, page 4B, Line 68, Household 91 (visited 15 April 1940), Rollie Gault -- informant was Julia Gault -- wife; digital image, National Archives 1940 Census, Official 1940 Census Website (http://1940census.archives.gov : accessed by Carl Fields June 2012), citing National Archives microfilm publication T627, roll 217, image 66. The location seems to be the unincorporated community of Avenal, which is within Avenal Township.
  • [S759] "California Death Index, 1940-1997 ," database Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 4 Feb 2012), Miles Baldwin, 1 Apr 1956, San Diego County; based on "California Death Index, 1940-1997," State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics, Sacramento.
  • [S780] Sanger Cemetery, database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 10 Sep 2012), Lovie J Baldwin, Memorial No. 19949240.
  • [S790] "Mrs. Johnson, 100 years old, services said," Sanger (California) Herald,15 Oct 1970; microfilm, Fresno County Public Library, Sanger Branch Library, a secondary image was created by photographing the article from the display screen of a microfilm viewer using a digital camera (this image was later edited to improve contrast and to remove nearby articles not of primary interest).
  • [S830] "Death Records," database Washington State Archives -- Digital Archives (http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov : 13 Aug 2012), Easter E Fortune, 1917, Spokane, Spokane County; apparently based on records filed with the Center for Health Statistics, Department of Health, Olympia. Information on the web site indicates the state took over responsiblity for collecting death records on 1 Jul 1907. The website indicates the database contains several information from several other sources, many of the containing information on deaths prior to July 1907 (but these earlier records are not comprehensive).
  • [S831] "Birth Records," database Washington State Archives -- Digital Archives (http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov : 13 Aug 2012), Austin W Fortune, 1897, Whitman County; citing "Birth Records, 1873-1907," Whitman County Auditor. Information on the web site indicates the state took over responsiblity for collecting birth records on 1 Jul 1907. The website indicates the database contains information from several other sources, many of the containing information on births prior to July 1907 (but these earlier records are not comprehensive).
  • [S864] "California Voter Registrations, 1900-1968," database with images Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : unknown cd; based on State of California, Great Register of Voters, Sacramento, California: California State Library. The title of this database is somewhat misleadiing; for most counties information is available only for even-numbered years (election years) and only through 1944. Information is missing for certain even-numbered years (including years prior to 1944) for some counties. Apparently information later than 1944 is included in the database for only Kern, Imperial, San Bernadino, and Los Angeles Counties. Names of individual registered voters within an election district or precinct are listed approximately in alphabetical order, not necessarily in strict alphebetical order. The "database" (i.e., the "index") associated with these images appears to have been constructed using Optical Character Recognition. Also, in some instances, it is unclear just what year the information represents (differences between the year printed by the search software and the year printed on the underlying document image -- for example, the image may indicate a single year but the search software indicates a range of years). Some of the information in this collection (the database and images together) may have previously been on Ancestry.com in other databases (for individual years or for shorter sequences of years). If so, these earlier Californiia voter databases seem to have been merged together.
  • [S887] C&P * LePlante Files, Pleasant Plains Cemetery (Pleasant Plains, Independence County, Arkansas), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 May 2013), Ella Johnson, Memorial No. 18756343.
  • [S889] C&P * LePlante Files, Pleasant Plains Cemetery (Pleasant Plains, Independence County, Arkansas), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 May 2013), H. W. Johnson Jr., Memorial No. 18746754.
  • [S890] C&P * LePlante Files, Pleasant Plains Cemetery (Pleasant Plains, Independence County, Arkansas), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 May 2013), Henry W. Johnson, Memorial No. 18746738.
  • [S901] Mary Jo Freeman, Mount Ararat Cemetery (Topaz, Douglas County, Missouri), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 May 2013), Moses Johnson, Memorial No. 45413520. The Find-a-Grave memorial includes a photograph of the grave marker, which is inscribed: "Moses Johnson, 1869-1924". Assuming this is the "correct" Moses Johnson, it appears the year of birth given on the stone is incorrect; it should be 1859.
  • [S909] Mirriah, Fairview Cemetery (Ann, Douglas County, Missouri), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 May 2013), Infant Daughter Johnson, Memorial No. 19760357. Inscription: Daughter of M. F. and L. Johnson.
  • [S910] Mirriah, Fairview Cemetery (Ann, Douglas County, Missouri), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 May 2013), Infant Daughter Johnson, Memorial No. 19760387. Inscription (according to memorial web page): "Daughter of H. W. and M. E. Johnson", but the memorial page also includes a photograph, where the second set of initials is clearly "E. R.", not "M. E." The initials "E. R." probably refer to Ella Rankin (Johnson). The memorial also indicates birth date is unknown, but the inscription on the marker (legible in the photograph) indicates the child was born and died on the date given on the marker.
  • [S912] Laura Jones Gray, Clifty Hall Cemetery (Douglas County, Missouri), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 May 2013), Isaac Monroe Johnson, Memorial No. 53085129. Inscription readable on stone in photograph on memorial site gives I. M. Johnson, 1864-1921, plus four lines of verse. Specific dates that are shown in the memorial are not engraved on the stone (other than the years).
  • [S915] Laine Sutherland, Clifty Hall Cemetery (Douglas County, Missouri), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 May 2013), Infant Son Johnson, Memorial No. 74984830. Inscription indicates this is an infant child of I. M. and E. D. Johnson.
  • [S922] "Missouri Marriage Records, 1805-2002," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 4 Aug 2013), entry for Monroe Johnson and Lizzie Dobyns, 6 Nov 1893, Douglas County; based on Missouri Marriage Records, microfilm, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City. The image of the marriage record is difficult to make out, but it seems to indicate the marriage ceremony was performed in the residence of John Dobyns.
  • [S927] Laine Sutherland, Clifty Hall Cemetery (Douglas County, Missouri), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 May 2013), Infant Daughter Johnson, Memorial No. 74984830. Inscription indicates this is an infant child of I. M. and E. D. Johnson.
  • [S956] Missouri Secretary of State, "Missouri State Library/Missouri State Archives/State Historical Society of Missouri," digital images, Missouri State Archives: Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 – 1957, (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/ : accessed by Carl Fields, May 2013), Alfred Lee Johnson, (9 Mar 1939). State File Number 10681, Registration District 276, Primary Registation District 5393, Registered Number 4. Alfred Lee Johnson, died on 9 Mar 1939 (8:00 AM) at Bryan Township, Douglas County, Missouri. Not listed. White male, husband of Ireta Johnson, date of birth 3 Dec 1907 in Greene County, Missouri, age 31 years, (usual) occupation: school bus driver, parents Moses Johnson and Sarah Cole. Informant is Mrs Ireta Johnson (Vanzant, Missouri). Death from pneumonia; apparently no autopsy was performed. Burial in Mount Ararat Cemetery, Douglas County, Missouri.
  • [S965] 1900 United States Census, Washington, Diamond Pricinct (ED 97), Whitman County, 13, Household 229, James W Fortune; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 25 May 2013) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication T623, Roll 1753 (FHL Microfilm 1241753). The Ancestry.com transcriber took the year of James's birth to be 1879. However, Carl Fields reads it as 1874, which is probably inconsistent with the stated age of 28. As of May 2013, the date of birth has been listed as July 1872, assuming the month on the 1900 census is correct, but "adjusting" the year to be more consistent wiith the year based on the age in this census and in the 1920 census.
  • [S966] 1910 US Census, Washington, Spokane (Euclid Precinct), Spokane County, 12B, Dwelling 210 Household 218, James W Fortune; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 28 May 2013) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication T624 (Roll 1671, ED 198, FHL Film No. 1375684).
  • [S970] 1930 US Federal Census, California, population schedule, Sanger (ED 10-85) Fresno County, p 14A, Household 331 (Dwelling 328), Miles Baldwin; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 25 May 2013), based on NARA Microfilm Publication T626 (roll 118, image 168, FHL microfilm roll 2339853). Ancestry.com transcriber lists ED as just 11.
  • [S1100] "e-mail address", Sanger Cemetery, database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 4 Aug 2013), Sarah F Johnson, Memorial No. 37282145.
  • [S1168] Easter E Fortune, Certificate of Death Spokane County, Record No. 1139 (no entries for file and registered numbers) (4 Dec 1917), unknown repository, State of Washington, Department of Health, Center for Health Statistics, Olympia, Wahsington. The first agency name listed (Washington State Board of Health, etc.) is on the actual 1918 certificate. The second agency name (Department of Health, etc.) is apparently the current name of the organization as of August 2013. The certificate is type with not actual signatures on it. It may be a typed transcription of an original handwritten document, or it might have been typed from dictation, possibly by telephone.
  • [S1184] Carl Fields, "Notes on Isaac Monroe Johnson" :

    Isaac Monroe Johnson seems to have been born in 1864 and to have died in 1923. He seems to have married Elizabeth (Lizzie) Dobyns in Douglas County, Missouri on 6 Nov 1893. There was apparently a second Isaac Johnson who lived in Douglas County at about the same time.

    Both of them appear in the 1880 census: Isaac Monroe Johnson in McKinley Township and Isaac Johnson in Richland Township. The Richland Township Isaac Johnson (for whom no middle name seems to have been recorded) is the older of the two by about a year. Both McKinley Township and Richland Township are on the eastern edge of the county, with Richland Township in the southeast corner of the county and McKinley Township immediately north of it. Both Isaac Johnsons probably both appear in other censuses, in addition to the 1880 census.

    The older Isaac Johnson (the one from Richland Township) apparently married Liza Foster (sometimes called Eliza Foster) in Douglas County on 30 August 1887. The similar commonly used married names of the two women, Lizzie Johnson and Liza Johnson, further contributes to the difficult in distinguishing the two families. The word “apparently” is used above because it is not impossible that it was Isaac Monroe Johnson who was marred to Liza Foster (and the marriage to Elizabeth Dobyns was a second marriage for him -- after the death of Liza Foster or after that first marriage ended in some other way). At least one source in the TMG data base used to generate this web site seems to list Liza Foster as being married to Isaac Monroe Johnson.

    A Lewis Johnson who is buried at Mount Ararat Cemetery (Find-a-Grave Memorial 48950485) is apparently a son of Isaac and “Eliza” Foster Johnson. It is possible that some other “Johnsons” who appear in Find-a-Grave memorials for Douglas County, Missouri are also children from this Johnson-Foster marriage (or they could be descendants of John Johnson who have not yet been connected to his other descendants). A. H. Johnson (1894-1907), who is buried at Mount Ararat Cemetery, is an example of one of those “Johnsons” whose parents are not known (as of May 2013). Lewis Johnson's death certificate indicates was born 1 Aug 1890, died 23 June 1914, and was "crippled all his life".

    In addition, Missouri death certificates also list woman whose married name was Lisa Jane Johnson (born 4 May 1890, died 27 Nov 1918). Her maiden name was apparenlty Collins. The informant on her death certificate was John W Johnson, who may have been her husband.

    The possibility that I may have confused certain information about the two Isaac Johnons (and possily the three women called Liza or Lizze Johnson) is a subject of planned future research (well, hoped-for future research – I hope to someday get the time to do this).
  • [S1220] James W Fortune, Certificate of Death City of Spokane, Registrtion District No. 2, Record No. 644 , Registered No. 676 (30 April 1920), unknown repository, State of Washington, Department of Health, Center for Health Statistics, Olympia, Wahsington. The first agency name listed (Spokane Health Department, etc.) is on the actual 1920 certificate. The second agency name (Department of Health, etc.) is apparently the current name of the organization as of November 2013. The certificate is typed with no actual signatures on it. It may be a typed transcription of an original handwritten document, or it might have been typed from dictation, possibly by telephone. The informant listed on the death certificate is A. Fortune (his son, Austin Fortune).
  • [S1221] Opal Henry Johnson, Certificate of Death Local Registration District 2400, Local Certificate Number 00597, State File Number 83-112576, Merced, Merced County, California (12 Aug 1983), unknown repository, unknown repository address.
  • [S1244] Austin J Fortune, Certificate of Death Washington State Department of Health, Registrtion District No. R-12, State File Number 19860, Registrar's No. 26 (23 Nov 1950), unknown repository, State of Washington, Department of Health, Center for Health Statistics, Olympia, Wahsington. There is one known error on this death certificate: it states his military service was in World War 2, it was really in World War I.
  • [S1255] Sinotte Woodrow Johnson, Certificate of Death Local Registration Number 3-88-24-000350, State File Number 88-044769, Merced, Merced County, California (19 April 1988), unknown repository, unknown repository address. This death certificate contains an amendment indicating his death has occurred at 10:22 AM, not 11:22 AM, as recorded on the original certificate.
  • [S1293] Missouri Secretary of State, "Missouri State Library/Missouri State Archives/State Historical Society of Missouri," digital images, Missouri State Archives: Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 – 1957, (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/ : accessed by Carl Fields, July 2014), James Edward Hines, (12 Feb 1951). State File Number 14438, Registration District 378, Primary Registation District 4552, Registered Number 25.

  • [S1297] Missouri Secretary of State, "Missouri State Library/Missouri State Archives/State Historical Society of Missouri," digital images, Missouri State Archives: Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 – 1957, (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/ : accessed by Carl Fields, July 2014), Lewis Johnson, (23 June 1914). State File Number 18970, Registration District 957, Primary Registation District 5396, Registered Number (Blank).

  • [S1298] Missouri Secretary of State, "Missouri State Library/Missouri State Archives/State Historical Society of Missouri," digital images, Missouri State Archives: Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 – 1957, (http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/deathcertificates/ : accessed by Carl Fields, July 2014), Lisa Jane Johnson, (27 JNov 1918). State File Number 38098, Registration District 957, Primary Registation District 5396, Registered Number (Blank).

  • [S1365] Sarah F Johnson, Certificate of Death Local Registration District 1017, Local Certificate Number 2871, State File Number 70-123464, Fresno, Fresno County, California (6 Oct 1970), unknown repository, unknown repository address. This death certificate incorrectly lists his place of birth as Arkansas.
  • [S1371] "News of Other Days", Batesville Guard, Bateville Arkansas, 11 March 1935, various issues and pages. This article appeared in the "79 Years Ago" section of the column published 26 Aug 2014. The article refers to an event that occurred "Sunday". Since March 11 was a Monday (determine by a perpetual calendar web site), the event was on 10 March 1935. The "News of Other Days" items are themselves re-runs. This item had previously been published on 17 March 1995. By 2014, the reprinted "New of Other Days" items had gotten somewhat out of phase with the calendar, so they were not appearing near the anniversary of the original publication.
  • [S1413] "News of Other Days", Batesville Guard, Bateville Arkansas, 18 Jan 1913, page number from original publication not available. This article appeared in the "101 Years Ago" section of the column published 31 Dec 2014. The article refers to an event that occurred "yesterday" in an article in an issue of the newspaper originally published 18 Jan 1913, the event was on 17 Jan 1913. The "News of Other Days" items are themselves re-runs. This item had previously been published on 21 Jan 2003 (and perhaps at least once on an earlier date).
  • [S1474] Carl C Fields, Aiken SC, to Natalie Goff (and many others), e-mail, "Deaths of Isaac Monroe and Moses Johnson -- 1920s -- Douglas County Missouri Fields-Johnson-Jarman-Stephens-Dodson Family History" (text of e-mail cites specific issues of The Douglas County Herald where articles appeared), 27 May 2015; privately held by Carl Fields, Aiken, South Carolina, Computer Files (e-mails, Genealogy, or "Gene," section of Local Folders, and also in TMG Note-FTM for Eleanor Siegel).

    Images of two news clippings are attched to this e-mail. Both are articles from The Douglas County Herald, published in Ava, Missouri. It's a weekly newspaper.


    The text of the e-mail follows:

    "This is another e-mail related to my trip to Missouri earlier this month.

    I visited the Missouri State Historical Society Reading Room in Columbia MO on 19 May 2015 (that may not be the exact name of the organization). It is located in the main library of the University of Missouri on the university campus (it's in sort of a basement and has a separate entrance from the "student" portion of the library). They have a file room with something like 54,000 reels of microfilm containing back issues of newspapers published in Missouri. (And they have very cool microfilm viewers too -- each one seemed to be linked to an individual personal computer; it was type of setup I'd never seen before.)

    I looked for items dealing with six separate people, but found the searched-for information for only three of them. Two of these were articles concerning the deaths of two of my dad's uncles (his mother's brothers): Isaac Monroe Johnson (17 April 1864 - 15 Dec 1921) and Moses F Johnson (21 Nov 1859 - 20 April 1924). I'm almost certain the "F" in Moses's name stands for Francis, but I haven't found definite confirmation of that -- his father was named Aaron Francis Johnson.

    The two images attached to this message are news articles dealing with their deaths. Both are of articles from The Douglas County Herald, published in Ava, Missouri. It's a weekly newspaper.

    The Isaac Monroe Johnson item is from the 22 December 1921 issue (35th year of publication, Issue No. 47, page 1). The Moses F Johnson item is from the May 8, 1924 issue (38th year of publication, Issue No. 15, page 8).

    It's interesting that the "first name" listed for Isaac Monroe in the article is "Monroe", which is really his middle name. This might be because there seems to have been another Isaac Johnson who lived in the area, who was about the same age (and their wives may also have had similar names, if I recall correctly). The article provides some interesting details about the circumstances surrounding his death.

    The Moses Johnson article is from the 8 May 8 1924 issue of the newspaper (38th year of publication, Issue No. 15). It lists a "first name" for him that I had never previously run across, "Mosey". I believe there was also another Moses Johnson, about the same age, who lived within a few miles of him, a Moses H Johnson (I suspect I have the two of them mixed up in some of my family history records). I previously had that his death date was 20 April 1924, but that was based on information others had given me. I had never previously seen an original or contemporary document containing his death date (I've never been able to find a Missouri death certificate for him and I believe his grave marker in Mt Ararat Cemetery provides only the year of his death).

    The article concerning Moses's death provides some interesting information about the last year of his life. His widow, Sarah Frances Cole Hines Johnson, later returned to California and lived until 1970, when she died at age 100."
  • [S1479] Independence County, Arkansas, Probate Records, records for estate of Henry W Johnson (died intestate 18 Feb 1945), Estate Box J03, County Clerk.

    This file was examined (and digitally photographed) by Carl Fields on 11 June, 2015. The index of estate records was in the office of the County Clerk in the court house in Batesville (the county seat), and the records themselves were in the court house. Nolan E Johnson (a son of Henry W Johnson) was the administrator of the estate. The final papers appear to have been filed in June 1947.

    Carl Fields did not notice a detailed list of actual "personal property" (such as a livestock, a vehicle, farm implements, a pocket watch, and other business equipment), other than one cow. The total net amount that seemed to be distributed to heirs in 1947 seemed to sum to $929 ($640 to his widow and essentially $32.11 to each of 9 children - the $640 to the widow included the cow at its appraised value of $45). The difference between the $819 and $929 values may be the net income to the estate from farming activities between his death in 1945 and the time of the final estate settlement in 1947.

    Presumably, the division of property between his widow and his children (where the widow received about 70% of the total amount that was distributed) was based on the cumulative value of her homestead allowance and her common-law rights of "dower and curtesy". Carl was did not see any documents in the file giving details of how the fractional amounts were calculated.

    Carl did find a document on the internet that contains interesting background information (http://law.uark.edu/faculty/buehler/2012Spring/… : accessed 20 June 2015) giving information about Arkansas inheritance was as it (apparently) existed in 2012. However it is unclear how closely this corresponds to the situation in 1945. In particular, the dollar limits on personal property and sustenance allowances were probably lower in 1945 than the corresponding values given in the 2012 document (assuming the basic form of the law in 1945 was similar to the law in 2012. This 2012 internet document appears to be a handout for a course taught at the law school of the University of Arkansas.
  • [S1589] "Grandma Johnson, 94, Leads Active Life of Fulfilment," Sanger (California) Herald,31 Oct 1963, pages 1B and 4B; microfilm, Fresno County Public Library, Sanger Branch Library.

    A paper version of the portion of this article that appeared on page 1B of the issue was mailed to Carl Fields in the ealry 2000s, but she did not have the continuarion that appeared on page 4B. Carl visited the Sanger CA library and photographed the article of the face of a microfilme viewer in the library. Becase of where the viewer was placed in the building, it was difficult to obtain a photo of the image of the screen without also getting reflections of the ceiling florurescent lights from the v iewscreen (these reflections can be seen on the image that contains the issue date. In order to obtain an image that contained few reflections, the camera had to be held at somewhat of an angle, which, in turn, caused the image of the newspaper columns to be somewhat distorted ("funnel shaped"). In addition, the newspaper columns had to be broken into relatively short sections of text to ensure readability. The secondary images were created by photographing the article from the display screen of a microfilm viewer using a digital camera were later edited to improve contrast and to remove nearby articles not of primary interest..

    Family gathered in Oct 1963 at her home in Sanger to celebrate her 94th birthday. A lavender and white decorated cake was cut and served.

    During her life, she traveled across the western half of the United States by wagon, rail, Model T Ford, and airplane.

    In 1948, at the end of a visit to family members in Missouri, one of her grandsons surprised her with a ticket to return to her home in Calidfornia by airplane. She said of this trip, " ... there was nothing to be scared about. I sat over the wing and I was only sorry that it was night and I couldn't see much."

    At a time when she was the mother of five children, she and her husband left their farm in Missouri on a trip to Iowa. She gave birth to a sixth child during this trip, taking refuge during the birth of her child "in a smalll cabin in a sheepherder's camp." Her sixth child was born during that trip. The sixth child referred to here was probaly her daughter Elnora Alabeth Johnson, born in January 1904.

    Her father died when she was age 5. Shortly after that, she and an older brother worked farm fields with oxen. She led the animals, while her brother guided the plow.

    She claimed to be able to pick 50 pounds of cotton a day at age 6.

    She and her husband ran a sawmill in Missouri by themselves for two years. This was probably around 1910, based on the occupation listed by her husband at the time of the 1910 US Federal census.

    The family initially moved to California in 1923, settling in Sanger. However, her husband became ill shortly after this time. They returned to Missouri for the remainer of his life. He died in 1924.

    "I've worked hard all my life and I still can't just sit still and do nothing. My health is good the doctors tell me, so I guess hard work doesn't hurt anyone."

    She recalled as a child, playing with worthless Confederate money.

    She suffered a broken hip c1962.

    In 1963, at age 94, she lived alone "in her modest little home on H Street" (in Sanger California). She did her own cooking and housework and had canned her usual supply of fruit for the winter during the summer of 1963. She managed to attend church regularly.

    Quilt piercing had been a favorite pastime for many years prior to the 1963 interview, although arthritis in her hands had prevented her from doing as much quilting as she would have liked. Shortly after the 1963 interview, she had completed 20 hand-pierced quilt tops for a children's home in Bakersfield.

    The 1963 article indicated five of her ten children were still living. One of them, her son "Lenzy" (Lindsey Theodore) lived in Sanger with his family. At that time, she had 30 grandchildren, 87 great-grandchildren, and several great-great-grandchildren.
  • [S1613] "U.S., Northern Pacific Railway Company Personnel Files, 1890-1963 ," database with images Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 18 Sept 2016), Otha L Baldwin, 1916-1950; based on " Personnel Fiiles, circa 1909-1960s, Personell Department records," Northern Pacific Railway Company records, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota

    The page images appear to have been inventoried and counted at some point. Baldwin’s personnel file appears to have been stored in a carton or box that contained “pages” 108044 through 111202. The papers in “his” file appear to have been on “pages” numbered 108164 through 108279, within that carton (suggesting there were approximately 115 pages in the original personnel file). Some of these “pages” appear to have been small (perhaps 3-inch by 5-inch) slips of paper prepared for a limited purpose, such as perhaps documenting that he had passed a periodic examination maintaining his qualification for a steam locomotive Fireman’s position. These 6-digit pages numbers are not visible when individual images are shown on computer display screen when examining the personnel file on Ancestry.com

    Each page image also has a sequential “image number” associated with it. This number differs from the “page number” and IS visible on the computer display screen when accessing the personnel file via the Ancestry.com web site. This is probably based on an image count from the beginning of an Ancestry.com set of page images.

    Finally, when each Ancestry.com image is downloaded, it is assigned a numeric filename. That filename is, in effect, another number associated with each page image from the file that has been captured in the Ancestry.com data set.

    An example of these three numbers is that the first (lowest numbered) page in Otha L Baldwin’s file is 108164. This corresponds to Image Number 572 that appears on the display screen. The file name for this image (when downloaded as a jpg file) is: 41661_320214636_0028-00652. Filenames listed here are the names that existed at the time of the initial download from Ancestry.com. Subsequently, additional text was added to the beginning of the filenames to identify the person to whom the file is related and the type of information in the file. These longer filenames are used in the exhibits attached to the TMG database and web site versions of this compilation.

    Image numbers are consecutive. There are gaps in the sequence of filename nubmers, and presumably also in the sequence of page numbers. Some of the actual pages in the file were skipped (the decision as to which pages would be skipped was apparently made by Ancestry.com at the time the images were placesdon the interment). At least some of the skipped pages appear to be summaries of physical (medical) examinations. In addition to some pages being skipped, it appears that some were photographed twice, possibly to “pick up” a signature in the lower portion of the page (or information information on the reverse side of a page). Thus, despite the skipped pages, the total number of page images is greater than the original number of sheets of paper in the original document. As indicated above, for the first page image in the personnel file, the last three digits of the Filename (with the page image is downloaded as a jpg file or document type) is 652. The final three digits of the final Filename (the highest-number one) are 827. The following File names are skipped in this sequence (listing only the final three digits of each Filename): 724-728, 730, 732, 783, 786, 789-790, 798, 803, 807-808, 815-817, 822-823, and 825-826.

    The original (paper) personnel file appears to have contained two groups of papers. The papers in each group were somehow bound together. The papers (or, at least, most of them) probably had two holes punched near the top of each page. Some kind of mechanism passed through the holes, serving to attach hold the pages together in a defined sequence. The “mechanism” might have been metal pins or screws, or ribbons, or strings. In both groups, the pages were in reverse chronological order (apparently when something was added to the file, it was placed “on top” of whichever group it was to be associated with.

    Thus the very first page in the file that was microfilmed (the lowest page number), dated July 31, 1950, was the notice that Otha L Baldwin’s employment was (in effect) terminated because he was deceased (died on July 12, 1950 from injuries suffered in an automobile accident near Sanger, California).

    The first group of pages seem to primarily be concerned with times when he was on duty (versus off duty, as a result of being “suspended” or having been granted a “leave of absence”). Most of the pages in this first group are filled-out copies of two standard forms called (1) “Recommendations for Promotion, Transfer, Change fo Pay, and Re-Employment” and "Notice of Suspension, Dismissal, or Resignation" (several slightly different versions of these forms were used over the years). This group of pages “ends” (due to the reverse chronological order”) with what appears to be a portion of his initial employment application (the downloaded filename was: 41661_320214636_0028-00723). This employment application page appears to be the only page that is indexed by Ancestry.com as this is written in late September 2016 (that is, a search for information on Otha L Baldwin, returns only this one page of employment records – one has to “snoop around” among the digital images to locate the other 100+ page-images in the personnel file).

    The other group of page-images contains to be a wider variety of documents. These include reports of investigations of work rule violations and some accidents and (including at least one accident where an engine was derailed, and another where an engine was damaged). The “missing” medical exam summaries were in this second group. Portions of some of the pages documenting the medical exams are visible in a few places where a smaller sheet of paper immediately preceding the exam report (on a larger sheet of paper) was photographed during the microfilming process.

    The final page in the second group (Filename 41661_320214636_0028-00827, which is also the earliest page in the second group, given the reverse chronological order within the group) seems to be another portion of his initial employment application: a list of prior jobs and employers. The page-image in the Ancestry.com data set prior to that list seems to be a reference from a previous employer (this page-image has the file name ending with the three digits 824). Filenames 41661_320214636_0028-00819 and 41661_320214636_0028-00820 contain a concise summary of his military service in the U. S. Marines during World War I. This information seems to have been transcribed from his military discharge papers. The miltary information in the personnel file does not mention that he served in the 5th Regiment of the second Marine Division, which is mentioned on his grave marker.

    One of the job titles mentioned in the file is "hostler". The original definition of this term was related to tending horses. However, in the railroad business, it apparently also us used for someone who "tends" or cares for the engines. The files contain what appear to be transcripts of three or four investigations involving derailings and other mishaps. The discussions in these transcripts suggest Baldwin was primarily involved with steam-powered engines (not diesel engines, which are probably more precisely called diesel-electric engines) during the time he was an engineer.
  • [S1707] R & S Fine, Find A Grave Web Site, database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 11 Feb 2017), Winnie M Johnson Newton, Memorial No. 40150713.
  • [S2041] 1910 US Census, Missouri, Clinton Township (ED 56), Douglas County, 11B, Dwelling 116 Household 117, Miles Baldwi; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 10 July 2021) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication T624 (Roll 773, ED 56, FHL Film No. 1374786).
  • [S2044] 1870 United States Census, Indiiana, population schedule, Lockhart Townships, Pike County, pp 3?, Line 25, digital image is extremely faded) Household 259 (Ancestry transcriber has 255, William Baldwin; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 10 July 2021) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication M593 , Roll 350.
  • [S2046] 1880 United States Census, Indiana, population schedule, Lockart Township (ED 172), Pike County, p 249/19 (two numbers on sheet), Line 35, Dwelling 152 Household 159, Wallace Baldwin; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 10 July 2021) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication T9.