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alj Five Star Member
Number of posts : 9633 Registration date : 2008-12-05 Age : 80 Location : San Antonio
| Subject: THESE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT AILCY FOSTER Fri Jan 09, 2009 9:14 pm | |
| THESE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT AILCY FOSTER
I was named for my great-great grandmother, Martha Ann Richardson.
I was told that she was an excellent horsewoman, who always rode sidesaddle, even into her eighties.
I was told that when a cowboy named Perry Thorne saw her riding a steamboat down the Red River, he turned around, and followed her into Texas.
I read that Martha Ann was born in Missouri in 1854, that her father’s name was David Felder Richardson and that her mother’s name was Ailcy Foster.
I found a few recorded facts about Ailcy.
Her mother, Elizabeth Anglin, was born in 1804 in Virginia, married William Foster in Tennessee, when she was about 18.
Elizabeth’s father was Adrian Anglin.
On a deed recorded in Virginia in 1802, is a mention of “Sarah, the wife,” of Adrian Anglin. No maiden name has ever been found.
Ailcy was born in Tennessee in 1825, the first born of William and Elizabeth.
She married David Felder in 1850. She was 25. He was 19.
Their first child, James Daniel, was born on April 3rd in 1851. He died on August 5, 1868; he was 17. (I was born 75 years later, to the day.)
Their second child, Rachel Elizabeth, was named for David’s mother, Rachel Young (rumored to be Cherokee), And Ailcy’s mother, Elizabeth.
Rachel was born on the 12th of November in 1852; she died on the 21st of May in 1883, at 31, in childbirth.
My Martha Ann was their third child, born on the 7th of November in 1854.
In 1854 Congress passed The Kansas-Nebraska Act And the Border War Between the Kansas Jayhawkers and the Missouri Bushwackers began.
Between 1854 and 1856, David Felder moved his family 30 miles westward to a farm just outside Osceola, Missouri, on the Osage River.
Then came daughter Delilah Ruth, born on the 29th of March in 1856; Died on the 29th of October, In 1857. She was twenty months old.
Frances Young, born on December 19 in 1858; died in 1880, at 22, in childbirth.
William Adrian was born on Dec 13, 1859. He died died on March 11, 1861; he was fifteen months old.
Sarah Jane, August 13th – 27th, 1861.
On September 13 of 1861, Jim Lane’s Jayhawkers sacked and burned Osceola, Missouri.
Then David Felder enlisted in the Confederate Army. And Ailcy’s brothers enlisted in the Union Army.
Lerelda Adeline was born and died on Oct 19,1862
On July 4, 1863, David was captured at the Battle of Helena, in Arkansas, and furloughed home.
Some records say Ailcy gave birth to an unnamed son, born and died some time in 1864.
On the first day of March in 1864, David Felder Richardson married Mercy Baker Smith.
By 1868, David’s family was in Paris, Texas, near the Red River.
Two years later, in 1870, they had settled a farm in Trinity County, Texas, on Alabama Creek, when Martha Ann married Perry Thorne. They had 13 children together. The oldest, Laura Euna Thorne, was my great-grandmother.
Martha Ann lived ninety years, dying a month after I was born.
She was loved by her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. My mother loved her so much, she gave me her name.
There are many stories about her.
No one remembers Ailcy. She was likely buried in an unmarked grave, which would now be at the bottom of the man-made Truman Lake, outside Osceola, Missouri.
I am compelled To find and tell her story.
Ann Levingston Joiner
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| | | alice Five Star Member
Number of posts : 15672 Registration date : 2008-10-22 Age : 76 Location : Redmond, WA
| Subject: Re: THESE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT AILCY FOSTER Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:11 am | |
| Do you mean to say women were having children at 50? Quite amazing! |
| | | Carol Troestler Five Star Member
Number of posts : 3827 Registration date : 2008-06-07 Age : 86 Location : Wisconsin
| Subject: Re: THESE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT AILCY FOSTER Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:23 am | |
| Ann,
Very nice. I love it. Did Alicy and my great-grandmother also born in Missouri, know each other? I wouldn't be surprised.
Alice's question has merit. I've been going into genealogy records on ancestry.com and found records of women who had babies when 50 and wondered if this was accurate info.
Oh, how I know of that compulsion to write about a woman who has gone before. I'm working on Hannah Sluman Ames right now, a woman who became despondent and committed suicide after the death of her young child. How sad those children who died. I don't think it was any easier because it happened oftener. Just another argument for not going back to the "good old days." I notice how often a mother dies in the year of a child's birth also. So sad.
Enjoy the writing, and those people standing over your shoulder, entering your dreams, I believe, are giving you truths not found on any site or in any public information.
Carol |
| | | alj Five Star Member
Number of posts : 9633 Registration date : 2008-12-05 Age : 80 Location : San Antonio
| Subject: Re: THESE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT AILCY FOSTER Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:36 am | |
| - Alice wrote:
- Do you mean to say women were having children at 50?
Quite amazing! I didn't mean to. I may have put a wrong date down. Where did you see it? |
| | | alj Five Star Member
Number of posts : 9633 Registration date : 2008-12-05 Age : 80 Location : San Antonio
| Subject: Re: THESE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT AILCY FOSTER Fri Jan 23, 2009 7:30 am | |
| Alice,
Ahh, I found it. I think I've corrected it. Elizabeth was born in 1804. Her daughter, Ailcy, was born in 1825. Her granddaughter, Martha Ann, was born in 1854. I was using too many pronouns.
BTW, Ailcy is probably a nickname. Her mother's sister was named, get this, Alice. That Alice was sometimes listed as Alcy or Ailcy on the old records.
Carol,
It is hard to trust some of the records. I was thrown for a long time because the 1850 Missouri census, which said, quite clearly, that Elizabeth was born in Pennsylvania. I kept trying to trace her parents with no luck. Moving from Pennsylvania to Tennessee just didn't happen in the early 1800's. When I finally found the rest of her family, I learned she was born in Pittsylvania County in Virginia. That census taker must have been hard of hearing.
Ann |
| | | Dick Stodghill Five Star Member
Number of posts : 3795 Registration date : 2008-05-04 Age : 98 Location : Akron, Ohio
| Subject: Re: THESE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT AILCY FOSTER Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:18 am | |
| You wrote that in an interesting way, Ann. Good idea. |
| | | alj Five Star Member
Number of posts : 9633 Registration date : 2008-12-05 Age : 80 Location : San Antonio
| Subject: Re: THESE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT AILCY FOSTER Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:07 pm | |
| Thank you, Dick. It is a stark story, and seemed to deserve stark treatment. Ann |
| | | Betty Fasig Five Star Member
Number of posts : 4334 Registration date : 2008-06-12 Age : 81 Location : Duette, Florida
| Subject: Re: THESE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT AILCY FOSTER Sat Feb 14, 2009 6:07 pm | |
| "Enjoy the writing, and those people standing over your shoulder, entering your dreams, I believe, are giving you truths not found on any site or in any public information." Carol Troestler. A while back, Carol searched for my family of old and found most of them, pictures and all. My memories of that family and those old times made me not want to look very far back. I found no good memories there. Somewhere on this computer, those pictures may still be. I do not know where. I found that i seemed to dissolve, I could not look back into those faces that I no longer knew. It seemed a sham that they should be smiling when I was so hurt and invisible. Out of that, I did find my sister, Nettie. She was almost as invisible as I.
Funny how the past of long ago is. Like a dream that takes on many facets and always with some hope to color it. We are human after all, and hope is the name of the game. Rose is a good color. Love, Betty |
| | | Carol Troestler Five Star Member
Number of posts : 3827 Registration date : 2008-06-07 Age : 86 Location : Wisconsin
| Subject: Re: THESE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT AILCY FOSTER Sat Feb 14, 2009 6:54 pm | |
| Betty,
You are not invisible to us.
Our families are what they are. Each of us is an individual, a part of and a part from our families of old. Those families we did not choose.
And we have families of today, families we have chosen to be part of, lives we have chosen to live in a certain way.
You have become visible and I'm glad you met your sister.
Love, Carol |
| | | alj Five Star Member
Number of posts : 9633 Registration date : 2008-12-05 Age : 80 Location : San Antonio
| Subject: Re: THESE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT AILCY FOSTER Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:08 pm | |
| Betty wrote; - Quote :
- Funny how the past of long ago is. Like a dream that takes on many facets and always with some hope to color it. We are human after all, and hope is the name of the game. Rose is a good color.
I think Ailcy had hope. I hear from everyone who knew her that her daughter, Martha Ann, my great-great grandmother, whom I am named for, was beautiful as a young woman, and kind and generous as she grew older. This picture of her wth her beloved husband Perry, was taken in 1918. She was a year younger than I am now. She looks so much like my mom did at 78, just before she died. Look at Martha Ann's hands. She had the family condition. They called it rheumatism. Mom's doctors called it rheumatoid arthritis. Perry died a few years after this picture. Martha Ann lived to be 90, dying a monh after I was born. There is a wonderful family story about her stiil rding sidesaddle in her 80's. She was surely a woman with Betty's hope. She was only eight or nine when Ailcy died, in the middle of the Missouri Civil War with its terrorist "ruffians" fighting just miles from her home. If not Ailcy, maybe it was her grandmother, Elizabeth, who, incidentally, was also known as Betty, who gave her that hope. Ann |
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