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Amanuensis Monday – Stocking & Hitchcock Family Reunion
This winter was one for the records books for nasty little flu ‘bugs’ going around! But whenever I found myself down and out, I logged onto the digital newspaper site at KSHS.org and began typing in family surnames as keywords!
Below is just one of the many fun little family tidbits that I found:
Stocking – Hitchcock Family Reunion
Wellington Daily News
21 May 1913
Pg 1, Col. 2
Family Reunion
The home of Ralph Stocking, 612 North F, is the scene of a happy party being a family reunion. The guests are Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Stocking, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Stocking and children, Mr. and Mrs. Porter Stocking and son, John Stocking all of Mayfield, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hitchcock, of Chicago.
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Treasure Chest Thursday – Roderick & Frances “Fanny” Stocking 40th Anniversary
Fortieth Anniversary – Mr. & Mrs. Roderick Stocking
Wellington Daily News
4 May 1916; Page 2
A happy gathering was that at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Stocking last Wednesday when the fortieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Stocking of Mayfield, parents of Mr. Stocking was celebrated..
Mrs. and Mrs. Stocking were married at Crescent City, Illinois and came to Sumner County in 1878. They are now living in the town of Mayfield. For many years after taking residence in this county they lived on a farm near Mayfield and it was there that they raised their fine family. As Mr. Stocking said he came to Sumner “when Wichita was the jumping off place.”
Those present at the celebration Wednesday were Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Stocking, Mr. and Mrs. Porter Stocking and son Wilmer, John Stocking, Mr. and Mrs. Wm Mitchell, Miss Nell Mitchell, Miss Julia Holland, Mrs. Lizzie Marshall and Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Stocking.
More Roderick & Frances Stocking Links:
Roderick Stocking with His Family
Roderick Porter and Myrtle Nyberg Wedding Photograph
Roderick Remine Stocking Photograph
Roderick Remine & Frances (Hitchcock) Stocking’s tombstone
Scrapbooking My Family History – Roderick & Frances “Fanny” Stocking Family
How Many Descendants Do Roderick & Frances “Fanny” Stocking Have?
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Ancestral Name Roulette
by Sherry Stocking Kline
February 19, 2012
It’s Saturday Night! (well, an hour ago it was!) Time to play the Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Game with Randy Seaver at GeneaMusings.com
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Ancestral Name Roulette
It’s Saturday Night again – time for some more Genealogy Fun!!Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!):
1) What year was your paternal grandfather born? Divide this number by 100 and round the number off to a whole number. This is your “roulette number.”
2) Use your pedigree charts or your family tree genealogy software program to find the person with that number in your ancestral name list (some people call it an “ahnentafel”). Who is that person?
3) Tell us three facts about that person in your ancestral name list with the “roulette number.”
4) Write about it in a blog post on your own blog, in a Facebook status or a Google Stream post, or as a comment on this blog post.
5) If you do not have a person’s name for your “roulette number” then spin the wheel again – pick a grandmother, or yourself, a parent, a favorite aunt or cousin, or even your children!
My paternal grandfather, Elmer Leverett Stocking, was born in 1879. Divide that by 100, and you get 18.79, rounded up to 19.
So, I went to my family tree program, used the Ahnentafel program, and there she was, my #19.
19. Hannah “Juline” BROOKS: born 29 May 1839 in Williamstown, MA; died 4 Jan 1899 in 6712 Wabash, Chicago, Cook Co., Il..
Hannah “Juline” Brooks married Edward Hitchcock 18 Sept 1856 in Davenport, Scott County, IA, and died in Chicago while visiting her son. Juline was my Great-grandmother, Frances “Fanny” Hitchcock’s mother.
Fanny married my great-grandfather, Roderick Remine Stocking in Crescent City, Iroquois County, Illinois, on 3 May 1876, and they moved to Kansas shortly afterwards where they homesteaded in Sumner County, Kansas. My paternal grandfather, Elmer Leverett, was Fanny and Roderick’s first born. Frances, Roderick, and Elmer are all buried in the Osborne Cemetery near Mayfield, Sumner County, Kansas.
Wordless Wednesday – Myrtle (Nyberg) Stocking Family
19 October 2011
Shown below is a copy of a photograph that my cousin, Larry, shared with me from their family’s collection. It shows my great-aunt, Myrtle (Nyberg) Stocking (Larry’s grandmother), with her mother, Mary, her father-in-law Roderick Remine Stocking, and her children, Wilmer, and the twins Max and Maxine.
- Back row: Max Stocking, Roderick Remine Stocking, Wilmer Stocking, Front Row: Marie Stocking, Mary Nyberg, Myrtle (Nyberg) Stocking, and Alice Maxine Stocking
I can’t begin to tell my cousin Larry how grateful I am that he shared these photographs with me, and allowed me to add numerous photos of our shared ancestry into my own family tree!
Roderick Porter and Myrtle Nyberg Wedding Photograph
