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READ ABOUT YOUR ANCESTORS
READ ABOUT YOUR ANCESTORS
This tree (in fan view and horizontal view) is a visual representation of the 16 family surnames I am currently trying to cover (my great-great grandparents on all sides.) Siblings are included where possible. If you'd like to explore the tree on ancestry.com, click here.
Below is the list of ancestors whose pages have at least been started.
Below is the list of ancestors whose pages have at least been started.
The goal of this wiki for each ancestor (within reason) to eventually have a page, and every family name should eventually have an overview page.
Most of these are works in progress. This process takes a lot of time. Your contributions can help.
Alvarez
Victor Alvarez (1921-2005) Alvarez
Benson
Benson
Bruns
Archie Bruns (1930-2011)Bruns
Delgado
Delgado
Eberlein
Eberlein
Hayden
Hayden
Hilton
Hilton
Jackson
Jackson
Jones
Jones
Peniza
Peniza
Raymer
Betty Raymer (1925-2019)Raymer
Sanchez
Sanchez
Scoville
Sir Ralph de Scoville (1160)Hector Scoville (Captain) (1817-1866)Nora Scoville (1875-1973)Hector Scoville (1876-1928)Elizabeth Scoville (1878-1957)Hallie Scoville (1889-1992)Magnolia Scoville (1882-1972)Scoville
Shelnutt
Ninna Shelnutt (1899-1978) Shelnutt
Wessels
Wessels
Wright
Wright
SHARE WHAT YOU KNOW
SHARE WHAT YOU KNOW
SHARE YOUR TREASURE! WE'LL MAKE SURE IT ISN'T LOST.
SHARE YOUR TREASURE! WE'LL MAKE SURE IT ISN'T LOST.
Every ancestor page will have a Remembrance Wall where you can add in your own memories.
facts
artifacts
documents
remembrances
jokes
nicknames
public records
newspaper articles
academic articles
links
anything and everything that offers color, context, and knowledge about our ancestors (family members who have passed away)
Images of maps, pictures of memorabilia, recipes, etc., video or audio can be emailed to Nina for uploading to the page.
CURRENT QUESTS
CURRENT QUESTS
Want to go on a quest for us?
Here's what's got us scratching our heads right now:
find the name of the grocery store John Shelnutt ran in Georgia (Bruns Line)
find the records of Francisco Alvarado and/or Juana Gomez, the parents of Antolin Alvarez who first came to Puerto Rico from Spain (Alvarez Line)
What happened to Ella Scoville, Hector Scoville's third wife? They were living together in Saba Llana, PR as of 1920.
Can you solve the mystery of exactly where 11 Comerio Street in San Juan was when Hector Scoville worked there?
PAST QUESTS
PAST QUESTS
found the ancestry.com tree of J.W. Reed, the Bell School trustee who helped Elizabeth Scoville take the Fayette County School Board to court.
figured out where Elizabeth Scoville ran her school in Kentucky during the 1910s. Still standing today, now a church.
FEATURED PAGES
FEATURED PAGES
Elizabeth Scoville
Elizabeth Scoville
She helped improve schools in the poorest county of Kentucky, where they were so grateful, they named a town after her. She took a school board to court when it denied her a position without good reason. And she was referred to as: "Probably one of the best-known educational figures in Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky.
Magnolia Scoville
Magnolia Scoville
She was a very popular teacher for many years in Bowling Green, Kentucky at the teaching college there, now Western Kentucky University. She had a graduate degree in School Supervision from Columbia, was very active in women's clubs, traveled far and often, and spoke on women's issues. She also taught, for a time, in Puerto Rico.
Hector Scoville
Hector Scoville
He was influential in development Puerto Rico's fruit trade with the continental U.S. in the first three decades after the U.S. acquired the island.
FEATURED MEDIA
FEATURED MEDIA
Profile on Elizabeth Scoville in the Courier-Journal as principal of the Buck Creek School, Kentucky's First Consolidated School, 1911
Audio reproduction of the transcript of Elizabeth's Scoville's case against the Fayette County Board of Education, 1926
From a letter written in 1860 by H.H. Scoville of Kentucky, performed by Daniel Herd.
Betty Frances Raymer in her college yearbook, senior year at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, 1945
FEATURED DOCUMENTS
FEATURED DOCUMENTS
census
census
All the Scovilles still living together in Raccoon, Laurel County, Kentucky in 1900 census.
recipe
recipe
"Nana Raymer's" (Daisy Gladys Jones) Pineapple Dessert Recipe (1930s-1940s?)
Fayette Co. 11187 Scoville vs County Board of Education.pdfcourt transcript
court transcript
PDF of Elizabeth Scoville's Court Case Against the Bell School Board of Education, 1926
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