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Adonriam Judson WEYMOUTH |
| Birth |
20 Aug 1850, Abbot Village, Piscataquis, ME65 |
| Death |
12 May 1923, Havre, MT65 |
| Father |
Robert H. WEYMOUTH (1822-1891) |
| Mother |
Susan WEYMOUTH (1820-1907) |
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| Marriage |
12 Nov 1874, Garden City, MN65 |
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| Notes for Adonriam Judson WEYMOUTH |
65Source: Herring papers - Mr. Weymouth farmed 10 years in Blue Earth County, Minn. He was railroading 13 years in St. James, Minn., and afterward was a grain buyer in the same city. He was a member of AOUW and was an Independent voter.
65From the journal of Dorothy Halverson Morrison: Jud married Lydia Keech in St. James Minnesota. As far as I know, grandpa Weymouth's family lived in St. James and not on a farm. Perhaps they lived on a farm earlier in that vicinity. Anyway, my grandpa had a grain elevator. They had three children, Albin, Estella, and Dora (my mother). Albin married a girl named Minnie and they moved to Pocatella, Idaho where he worked for the Union Pacific Railroad. They had no children. Aunt Stell married Wallace Winch and they lived on a small farm near Bemedji, Minn. They had four children. Judson died in infancy. Robert died of diphtheria at the age of 8. Loren and Lydia are still living. Lydia is about 74 and lives in Bemidje. She never married. Loren married Arlene --- from Tenstrike, Minn. and they had four children, Beckie and Laurie and Sammy and Steven. Sammy was killed when he was 13 -- he was on his bicycle delivering papers and was hit by a car. Loren was widowed and now lives near Ten Strike. For many years he and his family lived in ---- and he taught at Concordia. Grandpa and Grandma Weymouth came to Montana to visit during the summers. When they were with us in 1923, Grandpa had a stroke and died. He was buried in St. James. After that, Grandma Weymouth divided her time between Aunt Stell's farm and our house. She died at the farm in 1946 when she was 94 years old. He was married to Lydia Eschey Keech on 12 Nov 1874 in Garden City, MN. |
| Notes for Lydia Eschey (Spouse 1) |
| 65From the journals of Dorothy Halverson Morrison: When Lydia was a child, her family moved from Wisconsin to Minnesota near the town of Mankato. They lived in a log cabin in the forest, a very primitive life in which the children worked as hard as the adults. They wore shoes only in the winter and those were handed down from child to child until completely worn out. The family was of Dutch descent and had lived in Pennsylvania. Her memories were not cheerful--life was hard. She was the oldest girl in a family of eight and had to help with all the chores. Their clothing was made by hand and she learned to sew at an early age. Her schooling was limited although there was a school nearby; however, she was allowed to go only when she wasn't needed at home to tend the younger children or to sew or bake or clean. She was ten years old when the Civil War broke out but it had little effect on her life; their fair was far from where the battles were fought. It took at least six weeks before any news to reach her home. Things that were close to home were of vital importancae. The most serious and frighteneing were the Indians. As the settlers and soldiers moved west, the Indians were pushed to the North and to the prairies.They hated the whites as bitterly as the whites hated them and raids on the settlers were constant. Lydia's most vivid memory was watching a war party across the lake from their cabin, dancing and singing (screaming, she said) and whooping around a campfire. They were streaked with war paint and waving tomahawks and guns. She and her family hid in the woods for severl days before they dared to go back to their home. Often riders would come by, warning that the Indians were on the war path and urging the settlers to hide. I have no idea of how she moved to town or where she met my grandfather. They lived in St. James, though, and are both buried there. They had three children: Albin, Estella and Dora, all born in St. James. Albin was the oldest and served a short stint in the Spanish American War. My grandmother, Lydia Keech was born in Wisconsin Sept. 12, 1852. Her family had come from Pennsylvania. I think they were part of a religious group known as "Shakers" -- a splinter group from the Quakers. They were Pennsylvania Dutch in origin. They came from Wisconsin down to Minnesota by oxtrain and settled near Mankato, Minn., on a homestead in the woods. My grandmother spent part of each year with us in Montana after my grandfather died -- the other part of the year she would be with my Aunt Stell in Minnesota. I used to badger her with questions about her life in those pioneer days but she didn't like to reminisce too much. There were eight children in her family and she was the oldest girl so she was working at household chores or helping care for younger children or sewing and mending all the time. There were constant Indian scares and she had a very vivid memory of watching Indians across the lake from their cabin, dancing and screaming around a fire, preparing to go on the warpath. More than once her family hid in the forest from Indian raiding parties. She had a vague recollection of Abraham Lincoln but said it was six weeks before the news of his assassination reached their community in Minnesota. She had one brother in the Union Army. And one brother was in a posse that went looking for Jesse James and Cole Younger after their bank robbery of the Bank in Northfield, Minnesota. She died in 1947 at the age of 95. She had lived through four wars -- The Civil, the Spanish-American, World War I and World War II -- from Oxcarts to airplanes! |
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