In a message dated 1/27/2003 8:21:30 PM Pacific Standard Time,
lorilbriggs(a)earthlink.net writes:
In 1850 Bonus, Boone County, Illinois I found the following listing:
#125-126
Josiah L Chandler 58 M Farmer, $550, ME
Catharine, 61F born in VT
Amanda M 32F borne in ME
Sereno 24M ME
Wm 19M ME
Hi ! Lori,
Thanks for remembering me. I am not sure that my CHANDLER line is
connected to Sereno, but one never knows until the search is complete. As I
mentioned before, Sereno had a son named Midus, who also had a son named
Floyd M. b. 1898. (My father was b. 1899). In those years I am not sure if
they were counting or not. In any case, I once saw on a census film of 1900
Spokane, Washington that Floyd M. was living with an Adoniram CHANDLER family
that also had a son named Floyd. The Floyd M. was listed as a Grandson of
Hiram Taylor, and I have never figured out the connection between the two
families. The strange thing is that I have not been able to find the record
since. As I recall, it was a microfilm and I know I made copies of the
record, but like my father's parents, it has disappeared.
I traced Floyd M. to the point where I talked to his widow and was
convinced that he was not my father, but I still often wonder if this was the
right Floyd M. or not. It gets a little crazier as to Adonirum who also lived
in Story Co. IA before moving to Spokane. His wife Ada (POST) Chandler, was a
matron for the boys dormitory at the HUTTON Home in Spokane, which was an
orphanage. I have always thought of my father, Joe Buster Chandler b.
09/09/1899 as an orphan, as his mother died at his age of two and he left
home at the age of eight. He may have moved in with the Adonirum family or
even lived at the Hutton home for a while. But if this was so, he should show
up on the 1910 census, which so far, there has not been a trace.
Thanks;
Dave Chandler