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🕵️‍♀️Family History blogger~2009
👩‍💻 WordPress designer~2017
🔎Encouraging you to find & share your family's story
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This is the generation of Haydens that produced 46

This is the generation of Haydens that produced 46 grandchildren, 24 surnames, and more than a couple tangled twigs. 😂 There were 27 family members in the 1892 family photo. In this 1907 photo, there are 59. My, how we've grown!

We are fortunate that our small town newspaper had a column in which they featured an old photo and, in the caption, identified everyone. Back in the day, you could contact the newspaper and they would come to your house to photograph a special event. These featured photos came from the newspaper's files. ❤️

Along with a scanned copy of the newspaper article, I have a numbered list of everyone thanks to Pete, my double 2nd cousin 1x removed. (Just had to get that double 2nd stuff in there 😂 )

➡️ My grandmother, Rowena, is sitting on her grandfather's lap.
➡️ Her grandfather, William Edward, served as a bodyguard for General Thomas for two tours of duty with the Ohio 1st Calvary during the Civil War.
➡️ Rowena's sister, Ruby, is standing between her and their mother, Mayme.
➡️ Mayme is holding her youngest son, Fred (the cowboy in a previous post)
➡️ Ed, Mayme's husband, is standing behind Mayme holding their daughter, Johnnie.

➡️ Also in this photo is the grand matriarch of the family, Mary Ann "Polly" Wheatley.
➡️ Mary Ann's daughter, also named Mary Ann, married William Edward, the former Union bodyguard.

Looking over the list of names is kinda like a pop quiz. After all the time I've spent untangling twigs, I am thrilled to report that most of these names are now familiar.

Hmmm....if 9 children had 46 grandchildren, how many great-grandchildren did they produce??? Let's see.... If each child had an average of 4 children....46 x 4 = 184.....then if those 184 children had an average of 4.... Good golly, Miss Molly! No wonder I'm related to just about everyone in our hometown! 😂
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For years, I had lamented that this original photo

For years, I had lamented that this original photo was so faded that it looked as though ghostly apparitions had been captured by the photographer. Through the years, I had tried editing it to recover that which was lost and although it was improved, there's just not enough detail to create a quality image.

This photo was important to me because the ghostly woman, back row far left, is my very young grandmother.

Back row L to R¹:
Rowena Hayden, Willie Hayes, Nanny Cannon, Johnnie Hayden (Rowena and Johnnie are holding...Babies? Dolls? Sigh. Can't tell.)

Middle row L to R¹:
Mabel Doom Southard, Boyce Yates, Robert Sexton

Front¹:
Gifford Hayden, Hugh Cannon, Carl Smith

In my recent "Who the Heck Are All These Cousins" quest, I was scrolling through my cousin Pete's scans looking for photos labeled with newfound family surnames. All of a sudden, I see an unlabeled photo I had not noticed before. After all, I've *only* scrolled through these files a few hundred times. 😜

Stopped me in my tracks!

I recognized Grandmother immediately! I saw those dimples, and I knew...I just knew it was her! (And yes, those are dolls. 😊 )
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Photos:
1 My original
2 A new print of the *new* photo
3 Pete's original scan
4 and 5 My notes connecting cousin dots - just a few of the 46 Hayden cousins. ❤️
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¹Names from my cousin Pete's notes.
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"Practice makes perfect" my great-grandmother used

"Practice makes perfect" my great-grandmother used to say. And I tell you, I have practiced this generation's connections until I can recite them without looking - almost. 😂

This is a collection of information about my great grandfather's siblings - the generation that produced 46 grandchildren. These grandchildren connect us to so many familiar surnames in our hometown that I decided to take the time to document the entire extended family.

Because it's possible that future generations will disassemble and reassemble these family history chapters, I am listing this generation's parents and siblings on each page.

👫Parents:
William Edward Hayden and
Mary Ann "Polly" Wheatley¹

Children (Spouse surname):
👧 Mary Ellen 1868 (Hayes)
👦James Henry 1869 (Krone)
👧 Cornelia "Neal" Josephine 1871 (Chandler)
👦 Charles Louis 1873 (Kuhn)
👧 Rhoena/Rowena Francis 1874 (Wake)
👦 William Edward "Ed" ❤️ 1876 (Cannon)
👧 Kitty Anderson 1879 (Sexton)
👧 Nellie Garfield 1882 (Cannon)

Yes, writing this segment of the family tree 9x is redundant, but ... "Practice makes perfect"... I think I've got it! 🌳
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¹Just when I got all these surnames documented, I noticed a discrepancy(?) with the last name of the matriarch of this family. I reached out to a fellow researcher and she tells me she has tried to sort that out for 20 years. Sigh....I think I'll save that quest for another day, or week, or month. 😵‍💫😂
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What a fun photo to kick off a new week of family

What a fun photo to kick off a new week of family history!

This is Fred Hayden, my granduncle. I didn't know Uncle Fred. He moved away from home when he was young and when his mother died, so did his reason for visiting.

I haven't been able to pinpoint exactly when Fred left home, but since he didn't go to high school (his siblings did), and since I now know more of his father's unfortunate story, I'm guessing Fred moved away about 1923.

➡️ In 1930 He was in Akron OH working for the railroad and marrying the lovely and talented Sally. (Fred's older brother, Gifford, also lived in Akron)
➡️ When the 1930 census was taken, Fred and Sally were living in Madison, Illinois where he worked construction at an oil refinery.
➡️ 1932 They lived in East St. Louis and had their first child. (Fred's older sister, Ruby, lived in East St Louis.)
➡️ 1940 They farmed in Wyoming.
➡️ 1946 Fred and Sally settled in Ohio where he was an iron worker - walking steel beams in the new construction in Cleveland.

In a recent phone call with my newly-found relative, he told me that while Fred and Sally lived in Wyoming, Fred worked with wild horses! He followed up our phone call by texting this photo.🤠

Of course this is a staged shot, but what a fun photo! My little girl career goal was to be a cowgirl, so to learn that for a time, my granduncle Fred wrangled wild horses, well, it tickles my little girl heart. ❤️
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Isn't she lovely? This is a photo of my grandaunt

Isn't she lovely? This is a photo of my grandaunt Sally Glasgow - a photo my newest-found relative shared with me¹. ❤️

Even before I saw the photo, a picture of Sally was developing from the information I pieced together from research.

She was born in 1908 in our hometown and out of 5 children was the only girl. While the boys helped on the farm, Sally practiced playing the piano. 🎹

In 1926 Sally's family was living Akron, OH, and in 1930, she married my granduncle Fred. Fred had moved to Akron where his brother Gifford lived. At the time of his marriage to Sally, Fred was employed by the railroad.

Two years later, Sally and Fred lived in E.St.Louis close to Fred's sister, Ruby, and step-nephew, JD. This is where their first child was born. Named after his father, Fred Eugene Jr, died when he was only 20 days old and is buried at Macedonia Cemetery alongside his grandparents, Ed and Mayme.

By 1935 Sally and Fred were living in Wyoming where their daughter, JoNeal, was born. And in 1943 they moved back to Ohio, permanently settling in Cuyahoga Falls.

Sally and Fred lived on a farm and she taught music in Akron. She is listed in the yellow pages under music teachers with the home address of her brother-in-law, Gifford, and his wife, Lucille. I'm assuming Sally taught piano at Gifford and Lucille's home to be more accessible to her students.

Once I saw this photo of my grandAunt Sally, I recalled some photos my cousin, Pete, shared with me. A quick flip through the digital images turned up two photos² Pete had labeled Fred and Sally. However, Pete had a different maiden name...an incorrect name...that is a first!

If only I could text Pete and arrange a time to get together. I would love to share all this new-to-us info with him. ❤️
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Photo credits:
¹ Sally's grandnephew.
² My cousin, Pete.
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