 There's history here. And here. There's history there. History is everywhere. I'm on the Jackson County Genealogical Libraries Quilt Committee. One of the, well, a little background, when the Jacksonville Museum quilters had to leave their long-time location, they had to get rid of some quilts. They didn't have storage enough for all their quilts. And so they donated about 12 of them to the Genealogy Library. One of those quilts was this particular one that we're going to talk about today. And the background on it, Helen Pore made the quilt. She went to an antique show at the Horton Plaza. And here was this pile of 31 signed blocks. Well, as a quilter, we have a weakness. We can't stand to have unfinished quilts laying around. I mean, we all have dozens of them. But we just hate the thought that all the work that went into this beautiful little blocks are sitting there not complete. And Helen is a quilter. And so she's looked at those blocks, and she just couldn't stand it, and so she bought them. And she put the quilt together. And if you go up and look at it later, you'll see some wonderful hand quilting. She just did a really nice job. But she didn't know anything about those people. And there's 31 blocks. Actually, there's one on the back. It didn't fit into her quilt, and so it's on the back. And she didn't know who they were. It didn't matter. She liked the blocks. So she made the quilt. She took it to the Jacksonville Museum quilters when they were still doing their annual quilt show, which they don't do anymore, which makes most quilters just really cry. And she said, hey, would you mind displaying this and see if anybody can recognize any of these names? I don't know who these people are. And so they showed it at the 2010 quilt show. This quilt was displayed with a sign on it saying, do you know who these people are? And nobody did. And the Jacksonville Quilter show usually pulls in, what, 500,000 people over the time they've had their show. And so that's a lot of people to look at this quilt and not know anybody. And so anyway, so when they donated the quilt, she donated it here to the library. And they asked, well, can you figure out who these people are? I mean, you're a genealogist. This is what you do, right? And, well, I volunteered. And then I grabbed my friend, Betty, and I said, OK, we're going to do this. And so we started. But the key to finding out who these people were, for us at least, was the cemetery. And we, I don't know how many of you genealogists, but headstones can have an awful lot of good information if you just get out there and look. Well, just before I came here, I had worked with the Jacksonville Boosters and we had done an inventory of the Jacksonville Cemetery. And if you've never been to the cemetery, it's a really cool cemetery. It has a lot of, that's one picture right there. It has just a lot of really fun headstones. There are all those flat ones that you have to see, all the modern ones. You have a lot of really old ones. It goes back to 1859. So it's one of the oldest cemeteries in the state of Oregon. Anyway, now why do you want to know what's in the cemetery? Well, let's see. There's a murder victim. This is the Jacksonville Cemetery, of course. He was running a house and the man wouldn't move. And so he went down with a gun and said, you're going to move. And he said, no, he wasn't. And so rifles came out and people shot. And James Menken died. He's in the Jacksonville Cemetery. Right up the hill from him is the Bodhi Monument. The Bodhi family. All the males were killed in the start of the war, the Modak Indian War in 1872. They're all there in Jacksonville Cemetery. There's stories there, lots of stories. This young person was only one year, six months old, 21 days. And also, this is one of the first monuments that the Friends of the Historic Jacksonville Cemetery repaired. This one laid flat on the ground for years. One of their first jobs was to put this stone back up. They've done a lot since then. Anyway, so here's our puzzle. Who are these people? There's 30 of them. Why are they there? They're all dated between 1932 and 1940, which is helpful, but not all that much. So of course we came to our handy-dandy genealogical society. Okay, what did we know? Helen made the quilt. She used an interlocking heart design, which you'll see when you go up and take a look at the hand quilting. I mean, she did a really, really nice job. Okay, I said all that stuff already. Sorry. Okay. The first one that looked like it might be helpful. The lady signed it, Mrs. H.J. Cousins. Well, happily Cousins is not Smith Jones Robinson. It's a name that you can maybe find a few of instead of thousands. So, okay. Well, in the 1930s, it was very common for women to use their husbands' initials. They didn't very seldom use their own initials when they wrote their name out. So I assumed it was her husband's name. But was he a hairy or a herald? What was his name? So I went to find a grave. Nothing. Family search. No, Mrs. H.J. Cousins. Well, fiddle. So, on the same quilt is one with Bertha Cousins. Are they related? So we did family search, and there was Bertha. And it listed her mother as Hattie J. Cousins. She used her own initials. And her birth date coincided with the one that's on the quilt. Because if you notice one on the quilt, she says she was born in 1856. And Hattie J. was born in 1856. So, where were the cousins? Well, then I could go to find a grave, and good old Hattie and her daughter Bertha were buried in Johnson County, Texas. Grandview. Bertha, her mother and her father are all in the same headstone. So, is that a clue to who all the rest of them were? There she is. Bertha and Hattie. Okay, so who else is there? Well, you know, we're at Johnson County. And I don't know about the rest of you, but Texas is a very big state. And Johnson County isn't, I don't think, right up there with those that are all known like Dallas and all the rest of the places. And so I obviously had to look up Johnson County. And I found it's considered part of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro complex. Metroplex, what do they call it? So, then I went a little farther and got into, and there's Johnson County. And I even put a lovely little yellow arrow there so you know where Grandview is at. The center of the county obviously is Claybourne. And Claybourne put together this wonderful book up here on the table, put it out in 1997. And it's from their historical society and genealogy society. And they combined all the stories for the county in this book. 880 some odd pages. Lots of pictures though. And their index, however, is by last name only. So if you're looking up Julie Smith, you got to look at about three pages of Smith. Which is very frustrating when you're trying to pin down Julie. But anyway, that's a minor difficulty. The book is a treasure if you're in the Johnson County. Okay, so there's the two main Grandview Cemetery and Grandview. And one of them has an index. Which genealogists love indexes because they're all nice and alphabetical and all this stuff. This one was not alphabetical. This one is by Grave Sight. Well the plus of that of course is that with the Grave Sight, it gives you family associations. Who's in the plot. And so sometimes you can make some connections that you'd never make with an alphabetical list. And it really makes a difference when you're trying to, when you don't know anything. And of course here's our Maggie, Margie, Margie, Margie Elliott. And there's Margie. So finally I had, at least I knew I was kind of in the right neighborhood. Because that was three of them from the quilt from Grandview. She's buried very near Eugenia Carruthers, who just happens to be her grandmother. And you know that from looking at the census records. The 1930 census, there was Maggie and right next to her grandmother Eugenia. Eugenia isn't on here, I don't believe. Don't remember Eugenia. There's an Oona, but I don't think that's short for Eugenia. Okay. Let me go to the bowls, obviously, well maybe not obviously, but husband and wife. Found them, they're buried next to each other. And one of the things you notice is the handwriting. How similar the handwriting is. And they're embroidered in the same color. Now why she didn't do the dates the same? I don't know. And I don't know the significance of the date. Whether it was maybe their anniversary date. And you know, that doesn't show up on headstones usually. And those headstones, there's their headstone. So we're tied. I think, no I think the full dates are on there. But again they wouldn't have an anniversary date. Right, but I was just wondering what the range were. And the lighting on that particular, it came from Find a Grave. And their photography is wonderful to have, but sometimes not wonderful. And again, notice the similarity in the writing. And the stitching. So probably those two maybe go together. I did find Frances. And she is living on the same street as Myra and Andy. Andy, yes. And Myra was a Laird. Her maiden name was Laird. And the Lairds came in 1877. Her grandfather came in 1877. I found that in my handy dandy Johnson County book. He settled one mile north of Grandview in 1877. But looking at the handwriting kind of helps make some connections too. You know, you can't just look at just the last names. You gotta check it all out. Then there's Wanda. And bless Wanda's family, they put her maiden name on her headstone. Thank you. It makes genealogy work so much easier when they give those little clues on the headstones. Otherwise, Brown, as the last name, is just a real challenge to try and pin down one Wanda Brown. And there's Winnell. And there was not one Winnell thrift in Texas. We went through every census from 1900 to 1940. And there was no thrifts. I don't know where a thrift comes up from. But there is a Winnell Laird. And she's down there. And the Morgan and Julia Laird lived just down the street from Ardo. I drove. And Winnell married an I drove. So is that the right Winnell? And of course, if you look at the census records, Winnell shows up frequently. But spelled differently each time. So you can't count on that. You know, I'm sorry, headstones are not gospel. They are very helpful, but not always exactly right. And then there's Daisy. And Young's another one of those names that, oh my gosh, you know, where did those come from? The only thing I found out about Winnell is I found her the 1930 census. If she was indeed born in 1909, she got married between 1920 and 1930. Because her child is only a year old. And she's a widow. No idea who her husband was. She's in the gap. And I even looked up newspaper coverage to see if maybe there's a wedding announcement or something like that for her. So I don't know who her husband was. She has a child, so she apparently was married. But interestingly enough, she lived just down the street from two other people that are on the quilt. Nothing showed. Although, I was looking at Genealogy Bank. Excuse me. And Genealogy Bank does not, let's see, has not indexed the Grandview newspaper. So maybe if I had a Grandview newspaper to look at, that'd be different. And then there's Betty. Absolutely nothing on Betty. To not know where Betty is. There's another Gene Grissom, same name. The daughter is Betty a sibling, a cousin, dead. She didn't show up in the newspapers. She didn't show up in the censuses. Nothing. Often. Nothing. I was finding Gene. I was ecstatic when I found Gene. But there was no Betty, no Elizabeth, no Betsy, no corruption of Betty that I could find. Like I say, it was an interesting search, to say the least. Then there's the Edwards family. And I did find them. And again, the fabric and the handwriting are kind of a clue that they might be connected. And if you look at their two Edwards ones and then look at the Aunt Eunice. Yes, Aunt Eunice. The handwriting looks to be, to me, it looks to be very similar. And the fact that it's done in black, the stitching is very similar, leads me to think that maybe Aunt Eunice was a member of the family, but I couldn't prove that. I used historic newspapers. And I had found Irene in the historic newspapers. And she was divorced when she was nine years old. And then she was divorced again when she was 14. And then in 1932, she was working for a newspaper in another town. And she went to cover some kind of a union demonstration. And somebody pushed her. And she fell down and she was hurt. And she was able to sue them. But whether that's this Irene or not, I don't know. Because obviously she probably wasn't married at nine or at 14 to be divorced. And how did she get the Edwards last name? Was that her married name or her single name? Or was she a child of one of these people? I don't know. So newspapers can be really fun because you can find a lot of interesting things. But you can't always make the connections. They don't tell you, oh, that's Mary Jo's son. Okay, thank you. Could some of these names that you can't find anything about, could they be the children that were put on trains and shipped out the orphan trains? Maybe. I don't know. The quilt is pretty much the 30s. And that's a bit of a span that would be probably 50, 60 years from the orphan trains. So my guess would be no. But I don't know where all these people came from in Texas. A few of them show up in the book and they give a little bit of history. But nobody ever mentions the orphan train that I saw. And they seem to have come as family units, the names that I did find. Of course, it could be anything. But we don't have any clue and we have no way to figure it out because we don't have enough information. All we have is Aunt Eunice. She doesn't show up anywhere. But our big coup of the whole research project. Oh, what do you do with that, ladies? I mean, come on. Whose mother? 1932. Well, okay, thank you very much. Okay, but I'm sure she probably, or maybe Oona. Oona was out there, too. But then there's Julia Marie, or Julia Mags, give me. And we found her, and I believe it's in Find a Grave. It's one of those really common names, that Smith name, you know, and you cringe whenever you start looking at it because it's, oh, another Smith. But this time, she showed up in Find a Grave with an obituary and a photograph. So this is Julia May. However, we still don't know why they all put their names on those walks. So, happy Halloween. Check out your cemetery. Yes. Thank you. A question about, these were found in a sale at one of the... Anti-sale? A resident? Nell asked that question. When Helen gave her the quilt, she said, well, gee, gotta get some background. And so she asked her, you know, where did you buy it? Well, I bought it at Horton Plaza. Okay. Do you know who put it in the sale? No, I don't know who put it in the sale. None of the names match anybody at Horton Plaza. And then we're moving towards the end. So today... Yeah, I went to Albertson's and bought groceries. I've been making a list. Everything, the rental down is almost nothing. And it's saving up, you know, adding things to the list. Okay. 15 of them. Okay. And so we have those, and then we have the book from Johnson County. So, come and take a look. Ray has the... about 15 years of Johnson County, Texas...