DAISY SANSOM - LEFT
ETHEL SANSOM HOBBS - RIGHT
Showing posts with label Sansom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sansom. Show all posts
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Daisy Sansom and Ethel Sansom Hobbs
WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - A PICTURE OF MY GRANDMOTHER AND HER SISTER
DAISY SANSOM - LEFT
ETHEL SANSOM HOBBS - RIGHT
DAISY SANSOM - LEFT
ETHEL SANSOM HOBBS - RIGHT
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Surname Saturday - More Sansom Ansectors
This is Jennings Sansom, a brother to my Great Grandpa Millard Sansom.
Uncles
Uncles
Friday, October 14, 2011
CORA SANSOM ADKINS
Cora Sansom Adkins was my great Aunt. Her brother Millard Sansom was my great grandpa. Both are children of Greenville Sansom and Adalaide Gilkerson Sansom.
I don't know a lot about Cora other than that she was a twin sister of Nora Sansom, and this small amount of info about her, her marriage and children:
Birth:
Cora was b. 27 Nov 1886 in Wayne County, West Virginia.
Marriage:
Cora Sansom m. Jasper Adkins (b. 23 Dec 1873) on 2 Apr 1874 in Wayne County.
I know of 3 children of this couple:
David, Jasper (Jr.) and Inez.
Would love to know more about Cora, and whether or not her sister Nora survived. I know that Green and Adalaide had 17 children altogether, but only 11 survived until adulthood.
Here is a picture of Cora in later years:
I don't know a lot about Cora other than that she was a twin sister of Nora Sansom, and this small amount of info about her, her marriage and children:
Birth:
Cora was b. 27 Nov 1886 in Wayne County, West Virginia.
Marriage:
Cora Sansom m. Jasper Adkins (b. 23 Dec 1873) on 2 Apr 1874 in Wayne County.
I know of 3 children of this couple:
David, Jasper (Jr.) and Inez.
Would love to know more about Cora, and whether or not her sister Nora survived. I know that Green and Adalaide had 17 children altogether, but only 11 survived until adulthood.
Here is a picture of Cora in later years:
Monday, June 21, 2010
More From The Life and Times Of Hibbert Hobbs
Another excerpt from the history about my Dad and his family!
"Ethel had her hands full trying to care for twin babies in a crowded coal camp. They lived in a company built duplex, sharing a common porch and central walls with a colored family next door. Laundry was done on a metal washboard. The gritty coal dust form the colliery, or processing plant, coated everything in the area each day. Monroe would have come home black from head to toe, needing his clothes cleaned and a hot bath in the big metal washtub each evening. Ethel's wood floors had to be scrubbed by hand with lye soap. Water was available at the well and the family's only bathroom was a privy in the yard.
Imagine Ethel's predicament when another new baby was added to the family on February 11, 1921. Reginald Herman Hobbs was born at home just as the twins had been less than a year and a half earlier. She remembers having to wash a huge washtub full of dirty diapers every day for her three young sons. Photos from that time show her as very thin and work worn with such a heavy load."
"Ethel had her hands full trying to care for twin babies in a crowded coal camp. They lived in a company built duplex, sharing a common porch and central walls with a colored family next door. Laundry was done on a metal washboard. The gritty coal dust form the colliery, or processing plant, coated everything in the area each day. Monroe would have come home black from head to toe, needing his clothes cleaned and a hot bath in the big metal washtub each evening. Ethel's wood floors had to be scrubbed by hand with lye soap. Water was available at the well and the family's only bathroom was a privy in the yard.
Imagine Ethel's predicament when another new baby was added to the family on February 11, 1921. Reginald Herman Hobbs was born at home just as the twins had been less than a year and a half earlier. She remembers having to wash a huge washtub full of dirty diapers every day for her three young sons. Photos from that time show her as very thin and work worn with such a heavy load."
Sunday, May 16, 2010
The Life and Times Of Hibbert Hobbs
My newly graduated college son has been helping us clean out our basement this month, and I was happy to run across a copy of a personal history I wrote about my Dad, Hibbert Hobbs, for a genealogy college class I took some years ago. It was typed into a computer we no longer own, and embarrassingly I have to admit that I don't have a backup copy anywhere online. It's time to remedy that.
So here is an excerpt from THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HIBBERT HOBBS
Two For The Price Of One
The year was 1919. The coal industry in West Virginia was young and healthy. Storng and heavy set, MOnroe HObbs the miner proudly awaited the birth of his first child. His wife Ethel was only 17 years old. They had been married 8 months when, on September 13th, the time for the birth came suddenly ahead of schedule. "It's a boy the country doctor might have said, and then - it's another boy!"
HIbbert was born first, then Herbert. Tiny and frail though they were, both twins survived. Together they weighed but seven pounds at birth. Both had the same flaming red hair as their mother, the same bright blue eyes. They were "as alike as two peas in a pod." as Hibbert liked to say. It was a miracle that they made it, and an indication of the stamina they would show later in life.
Being the first born of identical twins meant a lot to my father. Throughout his life he fulfilled his role as eldest son. He gave advice and took charge in times of crisis. His name was unusual. According to Ethel, she let Monroe's mother Victoria McCoy Hobbs name the twins. She named them Hibbard and Herbert. For some reason Dad's name was recorded wrong on the birth certificate, and Hibbert he became.
So here is an excerpt from THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HIBBERT HOBBS
Two For The Price Of One
The year was 1919. The coal industry in West Virginia was young and healthy. Storng and heavy set, MOnroe HObbs the miner proudly awaited the birth of his first child. His wife Ethel was only 17 years old. They had been married 8 months when, on September 13th, the time for the birth came suddenly ahead of schedule. "It's a boy the country doctor might have said, and then - it's another boy!"
HIbbert was born first, then Herbert. Tiny and frail though they were, both twins survived. Together they weighed but seven pounds at birth. Both had the same flaming red hair as their mother, the same bright blue eyes. They were "as alike as two peas in a pod." as Hibbert liked to say. It was a miracle that they made it, and an indication of the stamina they would show later in life.
Being the first born of identical twins meant a lot to my father. Throughout his life he fulfilled his role as eldest son. He gave advice and took charge in times of crisis. His name was unusual. According to Ethel, she let Monroe's mother Victoria McCoy Hobbs name the twins. She named them Hibbard and Herbert. For some reason Dad's name was recorded wrong on the birth certificate, and Hibbert he became.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Monroe Hobbs
Monroe Hobbs was my grandfather. He worked for West Virginia Coal & Coke Corp. in Omar, West Virginia. He worked as a tippleman and later as an assistant foreman. He was b. 1900 and d. 1957 and was married twice, first to my Grandmother Ethel (Emma Jean) Sansom and second to Mae Hall. My Dad, Hibbert, was from the first marriage along with his twin brother Herbert and a younger brother, Herman.
Here is photo of Monroe by an old car:
Here is photo of Monroe by an old car:
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Welcome To My Genealogy Blog
A few weeks ago a friend of mine asked me to teach a class on genealogy blogging. The only problem? I haven't done any genealogy blogging! Now I've blogged plenty for my business, but genealogy - nope. So began some internet research time on what kind of blogs are out there, and just how people are using them to share their genealogy with other researchers.
I found a myriad of blogs to choose from - some big, some small, some started and forgotten. Some that have photos and document images, some that contain travel logs of genealogy trips, some that just contain the ramblings of excited genealogy addicts that want a place to share their latest find.
It got ME excited too, and I realized I had been missing out on a great way to share my own research and to keep myself motivated to work harder on genealogy.
Now that you're here, what can you expect to find in my blog?
So hang on to your hats and stay with me! I promise you'll find out all kinds of great stuff about Nina's genealogy as I blog away and share my years of research with you.
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