TRACING THE FAMILY HISTORY Part 6

I'll start this part with the 9th person in line in the Children of William Clarence and Olga Dow Burch Tabler.

I've added three pictures for Helen Elizabeth, 10-30-1926.  Aunt Helen became a Sister of Charity with the name Sister Gabriel Maria.  As you can see the picture on the right, at age 17, she was a lovely young lady.  She died 5-2-1977.


Next in line was:

Thelma Ruth, 7-3-1928.
I found it amazing that I didn't have a good picture of Aunt Thelma by herself.  As of this writing, she is the only one of Dad's siblings still living.  Bob and Thelma Jecker added two more children after this picture was taken, for a total of 10.

















11th on the list is Herman Louis (Hank)  8-5-1929.  Uncle Hank made a career out of the Army and lived in the Washington D. C. area.  Thus accounting for my 2 cousins up on the east coast.

12th in line is Ethel May (Teedle) 12 -14- 1930.  This is the best picture I have of her, and it's a nice picture.  Her and Bill Clemerson were married at our house on McCloskey Avenue in 1954.  I remember that wedding well.  Aunt Teedle died at an early age of 45 on 10 - 23 - 1976, leaving 6 young children.

Last in the line of 13 is Charles Leo 3 - 22 - 1933.  He was in the Army but I don't have a picture of him in uniform.  Uncle Charlie died at the age of 61 on 8 - 7 - 1994 in Washington State.








The next installment I'll switch over to the Bibb side of the family.

TRACING THE FAMILY HISTORY Part 5

We continue with the children of William Clarence and Olga Dow:

Mary Catherine "Skeets" 1-12-1920 (Skeets will also show up later in the Bibb section, as she married my mother's brother, William.  Thus my many "Double Cousins")
Aunt Skeets was one of those  I really didn't know her real name for many years.

Francis Louise 2-12-1921.  I met Aunt Francis several times, but she lived in Tennessee when I was growing up and didn't see her very often.

James Edward 2-27-1922.  I like to show all the Tabler men in uniform, if I can.  For one thing, I'm proud of them and their service, and it also catches them at the right age I want to use.  Young Adults.









The next in line was Chester, born in1923.  Chester either died at birth or died very young.  There are no pictures of him and no exact birth or death date.

8th in line was Philip Wesley (Bolie).

 Uncle Philip moved to Washington state when I was young.  He had 4 children and accounts for my West Coast Cousins.  I have a cousin in Washington, California,2 in Colorado.
 









I think I'll stop this entry here and continue with the 9th in line on the next blog.

FAMILY HISTORY

Well, You'll need to read my posts in order.  They've gotten mixed up and I don't know how to get them back in order.  Also, the photos and text won't go where I want them to go.  So, I'm sorry.

TRACING THE FAMILY HISTORY PART 2

We have now arrived at Nicholas Clinton Tabler.  I wish I had a picture of him.  He is buried only about 200 yards from my former home on Goddard Avenue, in St. Louis Cemetery.  He is my Great Grandfather, but I never met him.  He died in 1913, a little before my time.  However, I do have a picture of his wife, Sarah Logan Thompson Tabler Cox.
 

Nicholas Clinton eloped with Sarah Logan Thompson and were married in Jamestown, TN in 1870.  Family stories say that Nicholas was in the Union Army the last 3 months of the Civil War.

There Children:
Cora
George Elmore
Mary Dorinda (Molly, Marie)
Caroline (Carrie)
John L.
William Clarence (My Grandpa)
Joseph Austin

Sarah, having outlived Nicholas by some 23 years, dying in 1936, remarried a man half her age, Clint Cox.  Clint Cox was killed in an auto accident.  Sarah is buried in Corydon, IN
I can remember meeting my Grandpa's brothers George and Joseph.  George didn't live far from us when I was growing up, and I went with my Dad to visit him several times.  Joseph (Uncle Joe) lived at a time on the farm.  And, if I remember right, wasn't thought very highly of by the family.  Maybe know as the family "Black Sheep".

I have many pictures, so now we'll talk about my Great, Great Grandparents on my Grandmother's side.

These are 2 of my Great, Great Grandparents, parents of Lucinda Green Burch, who is the mother of my Grandmother, Olga Dow Burch Tabler.  I have no idea what year this picture was taken.











Next, we'll talk about my Grandmother's parent's, because I have a lot of pictures to choose from.

TRACING THE FAMILY HISTORY, Part 4

William ClarenceOlga Dow

                                                                                                                                                                    
We have arrived down the Tabler line to my Grandparents.  Now that we are here, I'll ho ahead and talk about both sides of the family.  For me that's the Tabler and Bibb side.

William Clarence married Emma Robertson on September 19, 1908.  They had 2 sons:
Richard Nicholas "Nick"
William Clinton "Bill"

They divorced (Date Unknown)




Clarence Tabler married Olga Dow Burch on September 17, 1914. They had 13 Children. 13 CHILDREN! Olga Dow was an only child and doted on by her father. He didn't much appreciate his daughter marrying a divorced man 11 years her senior. But, eventually they got his blessing.







My Dad, Clarence Leroy Tabler was the oldest of the 13.  He was born January 23, 1916.  Most of my Dad's brothers and sisters had nicknames.  For many years most of us children didn't know their real  names, just what they were known as.  My Dad was "Deacon". This is the line we'll follow after I get through all these siblings.  I'll try to post a picture of each one.



Marjory, with Clarence Leroy above) was the 2nd oldest.  She was born in 1917 and died in a fire in 1918.  My Dad, telling this story late in life, said that he and Marjory were left alone for a few minutes while his mother ran next door to borrow something, and my Dad said Marjory loved the flames in the cook Stove, so he got a stick, lit it, and let her play with it.  She caught her clothes on fire and died from the injuries.   Of course, he was only 2 and didn't know any better, but had to live with that the rest of his life.

Thomas Harlan (Turk), was 3rd in line.  He was born 12 October, 1918.  My Uncle Turk lived on a farm, and I used to love to go to the farm, sit on the front porch swing late in the evening listening to all the adults talk and tell stories.  I always thought Turk was probably my favorite Uncle.


With 13 siblings to list, I'll continue this in the next installment.  We'll go through these 13 and then list my mothers side.  She only had 2 siblings.  So that can be done on one blog entry.

TRACING THE FAMILY HISTORY Part 3

My Tabler Grandparents are both buried at Calvary Cemetery on Newburg Road.  I'll now talk about my Grandmother, Olga Dow Burch Tabler, as I have pictures to share.  I have many pictures of her Dad, my Great Grandfather, but only a couple of her and her mother.

Here is a picture of them, My Grandmother with here parents, Lawrence and Lucinda Burch.  They are standing outside the buggy.

Here is the first picture I'll show of my Grandfather, with Olga Dow and her parents.  I'm sure this was taken in  Hodgenville, Ky.    They sure look young.  They were married September 17, 1914, so I'm sure this photo must be near that time.

TRACING THE FAMILY HISTORY

My mother, Loretta May Bibb Tabler, wrote a Genealogy book tracing the Tabler name back to 1732, when the good ship Samuel docked at Philadelphia carrying my  Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather (I think that was the right amount of Greats)  Leonhart (Leonard) Dobler (Tabler).  I have no pictures of these people, and can't supply a picture until I get to my Great Grandparents.  So, I'll briefly talk about each person so that we can skip on up to some interesting pictures.

Leonhart Dobler left Germany, sailing from Rotterdam with wife,Anna Maria, and children.  The passenger list had only Leonhart on it, women and children were not listed on the passenger list, but as they showed up on records here in the U. S., they must have also been aboard.

They had 4 children: 
Matthias
Maria Barbara
George
JOHN MELCHOIR (JOHANN MELGIOR)
All of these were born in Germany.

Our line descended through John Melchoir, who married Catherine Elizabeth Dorn in 1747.  Their children were:

Anna Maria
John George
Wilhelm/William
JOHN JACOB
John Adam
Anna Christina
Susannah
Elizabeth
John Michael
Barbara
Eva Margaret
John Peter
Anna Catherine

The line continues through John Jacob.  There is no reliable record of JJ's marriage, but we have a list of his children:

JACOB
William
John

We continue through Jacob.  Jacob married Nancy Ann McMakin on June 24th, 1805.  Their children
were:

Son?
Son?
Joseph L.
Isaac Shelby
Elizabeth
Catherine
Mary Ann
Alexander
William P.
Benjamin M.
JOHN C.
Harris Addison

We continue with John C..  John C. married Dorinda Wiser December 24th, 1848, Christmas Eve.  Their children are:

NICHOLAS CLINTON
Amanda
Henry
Paralee
William Franklin (Frank)
Emmalie
Mary       There is some belief that Emmalie and Mary may be the same person, Mary Emmalie? Records put their birth dates very close together.

We'll continue with Nicholas Clinton in the next installment.  We start getting into pictures of my family from now on.  Don't know if that's good or bad.