fam Thomlinson James_Harrison.300 + Turgeon Myrtle.301 beg - h James_Conway.200 Tomlinson 1922 2001 - h Bruce.201 Tomlinson 1926 0 #dp Alive end notes Tomlinson James_Conway.200 beg
Feb. 14, 2002 Wapello Republican.
James Conway "Red" Tomlinson of Juneau, Alaska, died May 28, 2001, at his home. He was born on Aug. 20, 1922, in Wapello, where he grew up and was a 1940 graduate of Wapello High School. On at least two occasions he won the Louisa County Spelling Contest and competed in the state spelling contest in Des Moines.
In 1940, he joined the U.S. Navy and served as a signalman during World War II.
He attended the School of Mines in Socorro, N.M. and graduated from Tulsa University in 1954, with a bachelor of science degree in chemistry. He married Virginia Smith on July 9, 1955. In 1958 he began working for Philco as an electronics technician. He worked for Philco on government contracts at Fort Bliss, NASA's New London tracking site, Langley Air Force Base, and the Newport News shipyard. In 1969, he began working for the FFA in Alaska, and lived in Unalakleet, Moses Point, Sisters Island, Kotzebue, Fairbanks, Cold Bay, Anchorage and finally Juneau. He retired from Federal service in 1986 and went to work for the State Ferry System as an oilier and engineer until he retired in 1994.
He attained the Highest Honors in Scottish Rite of Free Masonry by receiving his 33rd degree in 1996. At the time of his death he was a member of the Washington Lodge of Research, the Maritime Lodge No. 239, in Seattle, Wash., Juneau Scottish Rite Bodies, Nile Temple for Shriners, Order of the Eastern Star Juneau Chapter No. 7 and was the Rainbow Dad in Juneau Chapter No. 3. International Order of Rainbow for Girls.
He is survived by his wife Virginia; his brother Bruce and wife Barbara Tomlinson and their two children, Alan and Karen, all of California, his daughter, Nina Tomlinson of North Pole, Alaska; his son Nels and wife Susan Tomlinson of Indiana and their children Conway and Constance Tomlinson. end notes fam Turgeon John.401 0 + Pike Abi.400 0 beg - f Myrtle.301 1888 1951 #buri #rp Wapello,_Iowa - h Bertrand.302 end notes Turgeon Myrtle.301 beg
October 4, 1951 The Morning Sun News Herald. FORMER RESIDENT DIES SUNDAY Mrs. Myrtle Tomlinson, former Morning Sun resident, died suddenly at her home in Wapello some time Sunday. Mrs. Tomlinson, who suffered from a heart ailment, attended Sunday school but became il and was taken by friends to her home. Later when neighbors went to her home they could not gain entrance and Sheriff Robert Lewis was called. Mrs. Tomlinson was found dead and the county coroner ruled that no inquest was necessary. Mrs. Tomlinson is survived by two sons, Bruce and James Tomlinson. end notes notes Turgeon John.401 beg John Turgeon was my father's maternal grandfather. Family legend has it that he was in the 1st Iowa Cavalry during the Civil War. On the internet, I've found that he was in the 8th Iowa Cavalry. He married Abi Pike, and had two children: Mary Turgeon, my paternal grandmother, and Bertrand Turgeon, who had three children. end notes fam Tomlinson James_Conway.200 + Smith Virginia_Mae.202 beg - h Nels.1 1961 - f Nina_Lisa.2 1966 end fam Turgeon Bertrand.302 + Sellers Margarite.304 0 beg - f Peggy_Ann #bp Eldest - h Tommy #bp middle - f Little_Girl #bp youngest end fam Tomlinson Nels.1 +1991 #mp Fairbanks Huang Susan.3 1965 #bp Taiwan beg - h Conway_Quai 1994 - f Constance_Mae 1998 - f Candace_April 2003 end fam Tomlinson Bruce.201 + ? Barbara beg - h Allen.6 1963 #bp oldest - f Karen.7 #bp youngest end fam Smith Amble_Edwin.210 + Davis Bessie_Ella beg - f Marion.205 {Mame} #bp Oldest - f Virginia_Mae.202 1924 #bp Fairview_Village,_Cleveland_Ohio ? - h Nels.206 #bp middle end fam Thomlinson James_W +17/10/1890 #mp Daviess_County #ms Marriage_found_on_http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~livcomo/davimarr/bridesp.html -0(Was_divorced_by_1910_Census.) Phillips Mary cbp MO beg - h Joseph_B 1891 ? - f Dora_M 1893 ? - h James_Harrison.300 4/1896 #bp Joplin_Missouri 1975 #dp California - h Jesse_W 1899 ? end notes Thomlinson James_Harrison.300 beg We know from my father and uncle that their father, James Harrison was born in 1896 in Joplin, Missouri, married Myrtle Turgeon (probably early 1922), left the family c. 1931, died in California in 1975, at 78 years of age. He worked in a lead mine in Picher, Oklahoma before he married. The Picher lead field ```extends from southwestern Missouri across southeastern Kansas and encompasses Ottawa County, Oklahoma.'' James Harrison shows up in Franklin County Kansas in the 1920 census, and that was probably when he was working in the lead mine. We also know that James Harrison's father was a James W. Thomlinson, and that his mother was a Phillips. end notes fam Phillips Brice + _??? Sarah #bp OH cbp MO beg - f Joahna 1868 #bp OH 0 - f Mary 1873 #bp MO? 0 - h Dan 1876 0 - h Llewellyn 1879 0 end notes Phillips Mary beg Mary Phillips was the daughter of Brice Phillips and Sarah ???. She was born in Missouri, probably in Daviess County, in 1873. She married James W Thomlinson and became my great-grandmother.Daviess county is where Dora's mother Mary Phillips came from, and where James W seems to have been in 1920.
His probable appearance in the 1920 Census suggest that he lived at least into 1920. Uncle Bruce said that he remembered meeting his grandfather (James W) briefly, while he was young, so that suggests that he survived into the late 1920s or early 1930s. end notes notes Thomlinson Joseph_B.600 beg Joseph B enlisted in the 46th Regiment Volunteer Infantry on 13 August 1864, at Mount Vernon, Missouri. He mustered in on 25 August, 1864, at Springfield, Missouri. He was appointed fifth sargent. He mustered out on 6 March 1865, after 6 months and 23 days service. By 1870, he was in Granby township, Newton county, Missouri. The 1870 Census lists him as having six children, including James W, and one wife, Mary, age 24. Records on the web show that Mary E Meadow married Joseph B Thomlinson on 4 April 1870, so Mary was almost surely not the mother of those six children. Missouri birth records on the web show that Mary Meadows and Joseph B Thomlinson had a female child on 12 April 1884, the ninth child by that mother. We don't yet know who was the mother of the six children alive in 1870. Laura ?, a kind soul in Missouri, has looked and found no record of an earlier marriage in Missouri, so it seems plausible that the earlier marriage may have taken place elsewhere (or may not have been recorded). The 1900 Census shows that his sons Harris M and Jessie R were reporting their mother as having been born in Tennesee. That suggests that we should look there, as well as in Virginia, for Joseph B in earlier years, and for marriages, et cetera. On 4 September 1890, Joseph B applied for a pension for his Civil War service. The pension application tells us that he applied from Missouri, and that he had served in D company. There are no later records of Joseph B so far. Where was he during the 1880 and 1900 censi? When did he die, and where? Where did his widow and her children go? end notes fam Smith Niels_Madson 12/3/1841 #bp Little_Nurstrip,_Schlesswig,_Denmark,_near_Grasten 21/11/1926 +3/6/1869 Shriek Frances_M #src Name_from_Amble_E_Smith's_birth_certificate. 4/2/1851 7/12/1919 beg - f Anna 1/6/1870 #bp Sanilac_cty_MI 25/6/1935 - f Carolina 27/2/1872 7/1875 - f Marie 12/7/1874 #bp Twin_with_Louise 0 - f Louise 12/7/1874 #bp Twin_with_Marie 7/1875 - f Lina 19/5/1876 26/5/1932 - h Mads_F 3/8/1878 0 - h Niels_J 15/3/1881 22/1/1943 - h William_M 2/10/1886 1/9/1981 - h Amble_Edwin.210 26/9/1888 #bp Juhl_(abaondoned_town)__in_Elmer_Twp,_Sanilac_Cty,_MI 5/1980 #dp Tulsa,_OK_(Osage_County?) end notes Smith Amble_Edwin.210 beg SSN 441-09-4972, issued in Oklahoma. The youngest in his family. See the Smith family notes for details on his siblings. The family lived in the town of Juhl, which is now gone. Today, there is only a Juhl road in Elmer township to suggest where it once was. Amble was named after Ole Amble, an itinerant preacher who sometimes preached at the church in Juhl. The 1900 Census shows Amble (age 12) living with his parents and four siblings. The 1910 Census shows him gone. We know that he left home and followed the harvest for a while. He went to Wisconsin and Minnesota, and was there (in one of those states) for ``the coldest winter ever''. He had left the family farm because he didn't like farm work, and wound up working his way across country doing farm work. He then worked his way Southeast, toward the coast, getting as far South as Memphis, Tennesee. He worked his way North along the coast to Pennsylvania and New York. He met Bessie Ella Davis in upstate New York, and they were married around 1915. His daughter Marion was born in 1916 in Akron, Ohio. Amble was working in a tire factory there. The family moved to Cleveland sometime before 1924. His daughter Virginia was born in Cleveland in 1924. Sometime between 1916 and 1924, they had a son, Niels, who died quite young, before 1924. Virginia says she thinks he would have been three years older than her, so he was probably born about 1920 or 1921. Amble was too old, too married, and had an enlarged heart and a swollen ankle, so he couldn't enlist for WWI. He tried, but was turned down for medical reasons. In Cleveland, Amble was an insurance salesman, and prospered through the 20s. He was a clever, entertaining man, and very personable, so it's not surprising he did well as a salesman. As the depression deepened, he found work in a gas station. He must have had some contact with the mechanics, if he wasn't a mechanic himself: I remember him talking quite a bit about the internal workings of the old cars. The family didn't have much money (or not much income?), but Amble had contacts among those who did have money, probably from his insurance days. One of these was a Mr. Grumney(1), an inventor who was working on a perpetual motion machine. He must have had some inventions which worked, since he had money. Grandma worked for a Dr. Hastings, and often stayed in invalid's houses. She often took the girls along for these stays, so they got to see how the prosperous folks lived. Late in 1929, after school had started (probably around October) Amble moved his family to Oklahoma. Bessie Ella's sister, Blanche Davis (see the Waite family data page for details)and her husband Robert Fulton were living at Carter Nine(2), and Amble and Bessie joined them there. The Smiths stayed with the Fultons for about a year, while Amble found whatever work he could. Though he was often working, he couldn't find anything steady. Finally Amble found steady work managing a combination gas station, restaurant and tourist court near (about six miles from) Ramona, Ok. Grandma ran the restaurant (and probably did some of the work associated with the eight tourist cabins), and grandpa handled the rest of the business. The Ramona area drew tourists at that time, for fishing and hunting, and business must have been fairly good. There were a number of famous bandits in that area at that time, including John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd. Floyd bought gas there at least once. John Dillinger stopped there at least once, with several men, and ordered a meal. Mom says that he stood in the door where he could see both ways down the road until the meal was ready, while his men sat and talked in the dining room. After they ate, they paid and left. Dillinger went into the kitchen and asked grandma if he could use their phone, but she told him it wasn't working. Afterwards, she told my mother that she had been afraid that the phone would ring (it really was out of order!) and anger Dillinger. These bandits had family in the area, and didn't want to kick up a big ruckus so close to home, so they never did cause any trouble near Ramona. There were other interesting people passing through Oklahoma at that time. A man and his young daughter stopped in one day. They were walking to California, where he hoped to find work. They wound up staying with the Smith family for several months. He was a good worker, and his daughter was about a year older than Virginia (who was about 9 or 10). Virginia enjoyed having company, since they were out in the country, with few other families about. After about three months, the father and daughter went on walking towards California. The next year, they came back. California hadn't worked out; he hadn't been able to get any work there, either. A couple with a car and a small baby came to stay at the tourist court. They were selling something door to door, and would go drive around during the day, then come back each evening. After a couple of weeks, they asked Bessie if they could leave the baby with her for a couple of days while they made a longer sales trip. Bessie enjoyed the baby, and said yes. Apparently that arrangement worked out well for the couple, because they did it several more times. Finally, they went off on one of their several day trips, and didn't return for about three months! Bessie was worried that she would never see them again, and wondering whether she could keep the baby, when they finally turned up again. They had had a lucky break, and had gotten some sort of success in their endevours. It had kept them busy (at whatever it was) for the whole time they'd been gone. Now they were flush with money, and took their baby and left, with thanks. The Smith family made money there in Ramona, and saved it. After a few years at Ramona, they moved to Vera, Oklahoma, where Amble managed a Southland Oil gas station. Then it was time for Marion to go to college, so the Southland Corporation arranged for Amble to transfer to Edmund, Oklahoma. They made this move when Virginia was 11 or 12, so about 1933 or 1934. In 1936, Amble and Virginia (and the rest of the family?) took a summer vacation and went back to Cleveland to visit, and to wrap up their affairs there. Amble sold their house in Fairview Village, and they visited all their old friends. They visited Dr. Hastings, who died soon after (strictly a coincidence!), the Grumneys, and many others. Virginia remembers seeing Admiral Byrd's ship, and some of his huskys. The dogs were lying on 100 pound blocks of ice, to keep them cool. Admiral Byrd's ship was in Chicago for the 1933 World's Fair. In 1936, he was back from his second trip to the Antarctic, and on a lecture tour. Around 1938, when Virginia was 14, they moved to Tulsa. The family wound up living in Tulsa for many years. Amble finally retired there, and moved a nice, solid little two-bedroom house onto a pair of lots he'd bought near Sand Springs, on the outskirts of Tulsa. He lived there until he died. Grandpa was in excellent health till the day he died. He died in his sleep, quite suddenly, after being told he had cancer."Edward was alleged to have been quite a "tinkerer" and held some credit for development of the automatic transmission in early automobiles."That tells us that he did indeed have some practical inventions, and perhaps that perpetual motion machine idea was Grandpa's joke on his little girl. On the other hand, many very sensible people had no doubt that perpetual motion was possible, and Grandpa, and perhaps Mr. Grumney, may have fallen into that category.
The fact that the 1900 Census said that she had three children, one living, and that the two children living with her in that year were years older than her marriage to Harrison Thomlinson suggests that she was not his first wife, and that the two children and Leondas were from his earlier marriage. end notes notes _??? Mary_E beg
Mary E was at least Harrison Thomlinson's second wife, and may have been his third. What was her maiden name, when did she die, and what happened to her daughter, Mary E? end notes fam Thomlinson Jessie_R + _?? Julie_E 4/1861 #bp Illinois 0 notes _?? Julie_E beg She first shows up in the 1900 Census. She's 39, they've been married 20 years, and has three children, one living. There is a 7-year-old Minnie M Brown living with them. Could that be one of her relatives? There is no relationship listed, so she might not have been a Brown. end notes fam Thomlinson Leondas +17/3/1897 #mp Daviess_Co.,_MO. #ms History_of_Daviess_County,_Missouri,_Walworth_Publishing_Co.,_Marceline_Missouri_(1985),__p._529,_per_personal_communication_from_Jim_Stout. Youtsey Cora_Ethyl 1/9/1876 #bp Daviess_Co.,_MO 2/12/1957 #dp Daviess_Co.,_MO. beg - h Keith 1898 #bp Missouri #bs 1930_Census,_per_personal_communicatin_from_Jim_Stout. ? - f Winnie 1899 ? - h Kenneth #src Personal_communication_from_Jim_Stout. 1905 #bp Missouri #bs 1930_Census,_Jackson_Twp.,_Daviess_Co.,_MO,_p._168A.__Age_26_in_1930. ? - f Magnolia 1909 22/4/1957 #dp Jamesport,_Daviess_Co.,_MO. - f Mildred_Katheryn 22/2/1909 #bp Daviess_Co.,_MO. ? - f Doris_L 1917 ? - f Margaret 1918 ? end notes Thomlinson Kenneth beg The 1920 Census, in Lock Springs, Daviess Co., MO., page 150A shows Kenneth Thomlinson as being age 15. end notes fam Thomlinson Keith +1918 #mp Daviess_Co.,_MO? #ms 1930_Census,_Jackson_Twp.,_Daviess_Co.,_MO,_p._168A Mooney Thelma 1899 ? beg - h Robert_R 1920 #bp Daviess_Co.,_MO #bs 1930_Census,_Jackson_Twp.,_Daviess_Co.,_MO,_p._168A.__Age_10_in_1930. ? - h Billy_Joe 1924 #bp Daviess_Co.,_MO. #bs 1930_Census,_Jackson_Twp.,_Daviess_Co.,_MO,_p._168A._Age_5_in_1930. ? end fam Thomlinson Kenneth +1926 #mp Missouri #ms 1930_Census,_Jackson_Twp.,_Daviess_Co.,_MO,_p._168A.__They_were_22_when_married. Dyke Virginia 1904 #bp Missouri ? notesMyrtle Turgeon's mother, Uncle Bruce and Dad's Grandmother , was Abi Pike, born c. 1850, (perhaps?) distantly related to Zebulon Pike.
Abi Pike married John Turgeon c. 1890 (probably before 1888?), of French Canadian background (left Canada a long way back, perhaps 1790?).
The Turgeon family was in Louisa county, Iowa, for many years. Myrtle's mother Abi married another civil war veteran after her first husband (Pike???) died.
Myrtle Turgeon had a brother, Bertrand Turgeon, who married Margarite Sellars (or Sellers?), and had three children: Peggy Ann, Tommy, and a little girl, from oldest to youngest.
Abi's greatgrandmother told her that her (the ggmother's) family came up from the Ohio country (pre-Ohio-statehood).
James Harrison Thomlinson, my paternal grandfather, born c. 1896 in Joplin, Missouri, married Myrtle Turgeon (probably c. 1920?), left the family c. 1931, died in California in 1975, at 78 years of age. He worked in a lead mine in Pitcher, Oklahoma at some point.
James Harrison Thomlinson and Myrtle Turgeon had two sons: James Conway Tomlinson, born 1922 and Bruce Tomlinson, born 1926. Both were born in Wapello, Iowa, in Louisa county. Their birth certificates were filled out by the same doctor, and their family names were both written ``Tomlinson'', so apparently the doctor was a Cockney. About 1936, they discovered that the family name had been mispelled on the boy's birth certificates, and so Myrtle decided that it would be simpler to change her name to match theirs, rather than changing both their birth certificates. She and her two sons became ``Tomlinsons'' rather than ``Thomlinsons''.
This is all I can find.
In 1920 there was a James H. Thomlinson, born 1896, in MO, single, living in Franklin Co. KS - he was a boarder on a farm. This must have been shortly (i.e., less than 2 years) before he went to Iowa and married Myrtle Turgeon.
Nothing on him in 1910.
1900 census - Grandy, Newton Co. MO, 11 June 1900, sheet 13
Thomlinson, James, born May 1866, 34, married 9 yrs., born in MO, father in MO and mother in MS; Miner Since James Harrison worked as a lead miner for a time, it seems plausible that his father was also a miner. This is the James W. we will see in 1870.
Mary, Oct. 1873, 26, 4 children with 4 living; MO OH OH
Joseph B., Nov. 1891, 8, MO
Dora M., Dec. 1893, 6, MO
James H., Apr. 1896, 4, MO This is my grandfather.
Jesse W., Apr. 1899, 1, MO
Phillips, Brice, father inlaw, March 1841, 59, widower, laborer, born in OH and parents in MD (more on him later)
In 1910 there was a James Thomlinson, 43, divorced, born in MO, father in MO and mother in TN - living in Granby, Newton MO. He was living with the James Stites family.
He was listed as a brother inlaw. He was a miner.
Married at age 25, divorced by age 43, in a time when divorce was frowned upon. It looks as if being a bad father ran in the family. The problem didn't extend past James Harrison's generation: both my father and my uncle remained with their families, and the families liked it that way.
In 1910 - Mary A. Tomlinson, (Note the missing ``h'' from ``Thomlinson''. Did the Census Taker slip up, or had she dropped it?) 36, single, mother of 4, born in MO and parents in OH living with her 11 year old son,Jessie, in Mineral Twp., Jasper Co. MO (page 11B).
I can not locate the older children -- Joseph, Dora and James H. This almost surely my great-grandmother, after her separation.
Now to 1870 and the family of the elder James Thomlinson:
1870 census - Granby Twp., Newton Co. MO, 11 Aug. 1870, page 12
Thomlinson, Jos. B., 40, farmer, born in VA This would be my great-great-grandfather.
Mary, 24, MO ( at least the 2nd wife) Probably not my great-great-grandmother, unless they lived in sin and scandal for years before the wedding.
Harris M., 19, MO
Jessie R., 15 (male), MO
Martha E., 13, MO
George, 8, MO
Joseph B., 5, MO
James W., 3, MO Here's great-grandpa. What does the W. stand for?
Per records on the internet: Joseph B. Thomlinson married Mary E. Meador or Meadow on 4 April 1870 in Newton County MO. Just who was the mother of the above children?? Indeed, even if he'd married her after they'd lived in sin for a while (unlikely in those more sensible times), Mary couldn't be mother to most of the brood.
1880 census -Daviess Co. MO, 14 June 1880, P20B
Phillips, Brice (name was transcribed as Bruce), 39, farmer, OH OH OH Another great-great-grandpa, father of Mary Phillips.
Sarah, 33, OH PA PA
Joahna, 12, OH
Mary, 6, MO This was James Harrison's mother, my great-grandmother.
Dan, 4, MO
Llewellyn, 1, MO
Can not find this family in 1870
1860 census - Pike, Knox OH, 30 June 1860, page 252
Bruce (that is the way the name was written) Philips, 55, farmer, born in MD. Great-Great-Great-Grandpa Phillips.
Hener, 53, MD
Simon, 23, OH, laborer
Mary, 21, OH
Bruce Jr., 18, laborer, OH This is Great-Great-Grandpa Phillips in his younger days, father of Mary Phillips.
Hener, 15, OH
1850 - Pike, Knox OH 18 Aug. 1850, page 319
Brice Phillips, 45, farmer, born MDGreat-Great-Great-Grandpa Phillips.
Honora, 43, MD
among other children was son Brice, age 9, born OH
Hope this helps. It really does help. Thanks, Jean. Jean Hubler - volunteer - not related to the above
Family of Neils M and Frances Smith
Father and mother married June - 3 - 1869
Name Born Died Comments Niels Mads Smith 12 March 1841 Sunday, 21 November 1926 Born in a town in Denmark near the border with Germany. Had changed his name from Schmidt to Smith before 1894, since his name appears as Smith in a Sanilac County land record book in that year. Frances M Smith 4 February 1851 7 December 1919 SAid to be French, though we don't yet know if that was French-Canadian or French, or American with French parents. Anna 1 June 1870 Wednesday, 25 June, 1935 Carolina 27 February 1872 July 1875 Marie 12 July 1874 Unknown. Twin sister to Louise, below. Louise 12 July 1874 July 1875 Twin sister to Marie, above. Died about the same time as Carolina? Lina 19 May 1876 26 May 1932 Death date was originally written as 27, then scratched out and listed as 26, with initial V. (probably Virginia Smith Tomlinson). Mads F(or T?) 3 August 1878 Unknown. This was ``Uncle Matt''. Niels J 15 March 1881 22 January 1943 William M 2 October 1886 1 September 1981, The date and place of death was a later addition, probably by Virginia Smith Tomlinson. Amble Edwin 26 September 1888 18 MAy 1980 My grandfather.
Children of Niels and Frances M Smith
Name Born Died Comments Brother Mads' Family Wife: Pauline 11 November 1883 Unknown Marriage date unknown. Margeret 4 June 1915 Unknown Brother William's Family Wife: Anna 30 September 1897 2 August 1983 Marlette, Mi. Time and place of death added later.
These children were with Mr. Waite.end notes
Name Born Died Comments Albert Pearl 13 August 1875 Unknown Maud May 12 February 1878 Unknown Arthur Ray 10 July 1880 Unknown Eva Bell 2 October 188(9?) Unknown
These are the children by her second husband, Villeroy W Davis, born 29 March 1843.
Name Born Died Comments Blanche ?? 2 September 1893 Bessie Ella 19 October 1898 1984