This is the sort of find that makes my heart go pitty-pat. My husband's grandmother, Beulah Frances (Galt) Graham Kinsey was born in Farmingdale, Sangamon County, Illinois. She was the daughter of Thomas Resin Galt and the granddaughter of James Junius Galt. The Galts were well established in Sangamon County, Illinois by the mid-1830s. Beulah told me that they moved to Appleton City, Missouri when she was young, but I had never found any record of them there. I did find her Galt grandparents there, but they were very much on the move in the last half of the nineteenth century. James J. Galt left Sangamon County, Illinois by 1867, and is found on the Otoe County, Nebraska census in 1870. By 1880, he was in Henry County, Missouri. Meanwhile, his son Thomas Reason Galt, who was still living at home with his parents in 1870 and 1880, married in DeWitt County, Illinois in 1890. One year later, Thomas R. Galt was back in Sangamon County, Illinois where daughter Beulah was born in 1891. Evidently, most of James Junius Galt's family was back in Sangamon County at that point. Other newspaper clippings led me to believe that daughter Sarah Rachel (Galt) DeWeese was already in Appleton City, Missouri when James J. Galt and family decided to remove there. At some point, James J. Galt's father-in-law and mother-in-law, Rezin D. and Rachel (Earnest) Brown, also removed to Appleton City, Missouri. Rezin Brown died there in 1887.
Beulah vividly recalled the family's trip by wagon from Appleton City, Missouri, but at the age of two, she would have been too young to remember their journey from Sangamon County, Illinois to Appleton City, Missouri, which this clipping supplies. Such delightful details as loading their livestock and household goods into four boxcars provide an interesting picture of the family.
While the article details that James J. Galt and his family had come to Farmingdale in about 1883, they had been in residence there decades earlier. This clipping details the three unmarried daughters still living at home - Louie, Jennie, and Georgia. The William W. Ingels who moved onto the Galt farm was James J. Galt's son-in-law, who had married daughter Mamie Galt.
What a wonderful find! I love old newspapers. I found some "articles" about my gg grandmother (her mother-in-law) and g grandmother going "visiting" together. My g grandfather died a year after their marriage, leaving an infant, too and I had never known that the families kept in touch.
ReplyDeleteNewspapers can be used to flesh out so much information about families. Those social pages are rich in detail and provide valuable information about where people were living, especially helpful in the years between 1880 and 1900.
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