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Note: 1870 US Census
Illinois, SHELBY, Roll 277 Book 1, Page 195b
Name: Martha Severe
Age in 1870: 4
Estimated Birth Year:
Birthplace: Illinois
Home in 1870: Prairie, Shelby, Illinois
Race: White
Gender: Female
Value of real estate: View Image
Post Office: Sigel
Roll: M593_277
Page: 195
Image: 390
Year: 1870
Living with half-sister Angeline and her husband John Manhard and their son Henry.
1880 Census:
Martha SEVERE Household
Female Other Information: Birth Year <1866> Birthplace IL Age 14 Occupation At Home Marital Status S <Single> Race W <White> Head of Household J. C. HANEY Relation SDau <Stepdaughter> Father's Birthplace OH Mother's Birthplace NY Source Information:
Census Place Lane, De Witt, Illinois Family History Library Film 1254203 NA Film Number T9-0203 Page Number 359B J. C. HANEY Self M Male W 66 OH Farmer NC NC Jemima HANEY Wife M Female W 52 NY Housekeepi Daniel HANEY Son S Male W 36 OH Farm Labor Martha SEVERE SDau S Female W 14 IL At Home OH NY Living with widowed step-mother Jemima King Severe Haney and her new husband.
Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763�1900
Groom Bride Date Vol./Page County
EDWARDS, CALEB SEVERE, MATTIE J 01/27/1884 001/0079 DE WI
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CARPENTER, CHARLES EDWARDS, MATTIE J (SEVILLE) 07/02/1892 00J/0290 MC LEAN
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October, 29. 2003
...After Grandad Carpenter died, Grandmother Carpenter, age 70, moved to the city and into a small apartment in Mason City, Iowa. I didn't really get to know Grandmother until she was 72 and she came to live with us in Marshalltown. What a mixed household! Grandma Mac (my Mother's mother) and June lived downstairs in a bedroom, living room, and dining room Mother, Daddy and I lived upstairs with two bedrooms and our own living room. We all shared the kitchen downstairs. When Grandmother Carpenter (Daddy's mother) arrived, I got moved into Mother and Daddy's bedroom, where I slept on an army cot. A new and very strict rule went into effect: a place for everything and everything in its place, no exceptions I could no longer put my books, etc. , on the stairway. Grandmother Carpenter had been asked to move from her little apartment because she was considered strange, and the other people in the apartment building were afraid of her. What did she do? She never turned on her lights at night, so that she cooked her meal in the dark. She carried a double coin purse with her change on one side and her dollars, neatly folded one-by-one in different ways, on the other side. She taught me many things during the months she lived with us. I watched her thread her needle and sew her rags, each 3 inches wide, together, and then she taught me to crochet them into rugs. I learned to braid her waist length, heavy, white hair to her satisfaction. Daddy brought her home many books to read. She tried very hard to teach me to read them, but I never could. Her job in the kitchen (Grandma Mac did all of the cooking) was to fill the water glasses one inch from the top. She was very picky when she fixed her plate: meat at the top, potatoes on the right, and vegetables on the left, leaving room for jello or cottage cheese at the bottom One of her most important lessons was a tolerance of people who were different. Perhaps by now, you have guessed why my Grandmother Carpenter was strange to the people in the apartment. She wasn't strange, but totally blind.
My Grandmother Carpenter had needles with a small slit in them, so that the thread slipped into the eye Lights at night didn't help her to see any better. The books I couldn't read were written in braille. She used her "magic ruler" to measure. A finger put into a glass or bowl up to the first knuckle is one inch from the top when the liquid touches the tip of your finger. Three fingers side-by-side is 3 inches wide. A yard is from the tip of your nose to the tip of your fingers, when your arm is extended. I think she often saw more blind than may sighted people ever see. Her parent's knew at age three that she was nearly blind...
from Marjories Edwards Norman letter to Laura Snyder December 1991
MARRIAGE LICENSES - DeWitt County, Illinois, Volume 1, page 78 and 79
No. of License: 1025
Date of License: January 18, 1884
Full Name of Groom: Caleb Edwards
Place of Residence: Lane, DeWitt County, Illinois
Occupation: Carpenter
Age next Birthday: 24 years
Color or Race:
Place of Birth: Ashland County, Ohio
Father's Name: Samuel Edwards
Mother's Maiden Name: Catharine Burg
Number of Groom's Marriage: 1st
Full Name of Bride: Mattie J. Severe
Place of Residence: Lane, DeWitt County, Illinois
Age next Birthday: 19 years
Place of Birth: Shelby County, Illinois
Father's Name: Jesse Severe
Mother's Maiden Name: Jane Woolf
Number of Bride's Marriage: 1st
Married at Lane in the County of DeWitt and State of Illinois, the 27 day of January 1884
Witnesses to Marriage: Martha Bennett and Daniel Haney
By whom certified: name and office: James H. Crowder, Protestant minister (probably Presbyterian)
Date of return:January 27, 1884
Date of register: January 27, 1884
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1920 United States Federal Census
about Mattie Carpenter
Name: Mattie Carpenter
Home in 1920: Oberon, Benson, North Dakota
Age: 53 years
Estimated birth year: abt 1867
Birthplace: Illinois
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Spouse's name: Charles
Father's Birth Place: Illinois
Mother's Birth Place: Illinois
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Sex: Female
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Image: 874
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Household Members: Name Age
Charles Carpenter 48
Mattie Carpenter 53
Olive Clouse 5
July 2007 1930 United States Federal Census
about Mattie J Carpenter
Name: Mattie J Carpenter
Home in 1930: Oberon, Benson, North Dakota
Age: 64
Estimated birth year: abt 1866
Relation to Head of House: Wife
Spouse's name: Charles A
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