|
a.
|
Note: Find A Grave Memorial# 35304072
-----
www.familysearch.org: CO, Larimer Co., Marriage report #2254; L.T. Vigar, 50, and C. A. Jones, 36, married in Ft. Collins, Nov. 09, 1903 by Judge J.M. Mills.
-----
Howard Stude: Cynthia moved to Hutchinson, KS after Friend died. Then moved on to Stafford, KS from there.
-----
Alice Widner: Cynthia ran a restaurant after the death of Friend in 1902. She had a cripple hand. She couldn't straighten out her fingers because she cut her hand washing windows and it cut a nerve. It never stopped her from doing was was necessary however. She cooked and made pies. I think it was gooseberry that June was so fond of. Charles Magill was a very handsome man. No wonder Grandma set her cap for him. Of course she was pretty special too.
-----
Cynthia Fischer:
By the time Philip and Sally Holloway's eleventh child, Cynthia Ann, was born, three siblings had died in infancy (Elija, William, and Mary). When Cynthia was a toddler of three, Noah died at one month of age; by another year, Oscar at two weeks.
In l873 Philip moved to a farm in Milford, about ten miles west of Stockland. n l875, her sixth year, this child Cynthia was to witness extreme tragedy at the birth and loss of baby Irean, her young mother, and older sister, 22 year-old Rachel. In the 26 years of her marriage, Sally was to give birth to l5 children, dying six weeks after her last infant was born. That baby, Irean, was to follow her in death two months later. One can only imagine the cause. What was going on that year, l875, in Iroquois County, Illinois?
The 50 year old farmer, Philip, was left with older sons Cyrus and Zimri, who no doubt had left home and were on their own at ages 25 and 17. Betty and Ella were l8 and l6. They married and went to the Hastings, Nebraska, area, date unknown.
Twelve and ten year old Martha and Nancy perhaps looked after Cynthia, 6, and Frank, 4. After baby Irean died it was only another year until Philip married Miss Levina Hix, August 20, l876.
Cynthia Ann spent the next thirteen years of her life thus: her father died in l881, Cynthia now 12. What became of her step-mother or step siblings? An uncle William Dawson, (Doc) and his wife Emma Jane were like parents to her.
Doc was a much younger brother to her mother Sally. He lived in the Milford area. Her grandmother Polly Dawson lived in the area also and no doubt helped with the grandchildren.
Cynthia Ann traveled to Hastings, Nebraska area to visit her older sister Ella (Jake Kestler) and her cousins. Her sister Betty was also there, married to Jacob Hemminger. It is known that Betty and Jacob died while young of consumption leaving four children. One son, Wilbur Hemminger became the grandfather of Jean Tillman. While there she met her future husband, Friend Jones.
Friend lost his battle with tuberculosis April 2, 1902. One supposes Cynthia's bakery in Berthoud was already in operation by the time she became a widow, and now it would with the assistance of young Grace, nearly eight who told of learning to bake bread, and the help of the oldest son, l3, provide for her seven children.
She carried another handicap; a right hand was severely injured when she was sixteen. While washing a window, the fingers of her right hand were cut on a broken glass. Without proper medical attention, her fingers curved into the palm and she was unable ever to straighten them. Blanche told of those fingers becoming entangled in her long hair when she was a child.
-----
Leola Roberts:
Cynthia had a crippled hand because she was washing a window and it broke and cut the tendon on her hand.
|
