Notes: Hibbard Family

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1251	Resided in Ashland, Nebraska. Occupation: Built mills all over the country	DEAN, Dennis (I1212)
1252	Respected citizen of Milton, Massachusetts. Sunday School Superintendent. He studied medicine with Dr. Freeman of Sandwich, Mass., settled in Truro, Mass., where he practiced untill the commencement of the Revolution, when he entered the army as surgeon and served his country six years. After he returned from the war, he practiced in Ipswich, Mass. until 1796 when he moved to Bath (then in the district of Maine) where he continued his practice until his death on March 6, 1819.	ADAMS, Dr. Samuel Douglas (I202)
1253	Retired Industrial Chemical Salesman. Graduated 1958 Texas HighSchool,Texarkana, Texas. Class officer. Served in U.S. Army from 1962 to1965 at Ft.Benning, Georgia. Graduated from University of Texas May, 1971with BBA. President of College Fraternity, Delta Sigma Delta. MemberTexarkana Junior Chamber of Commerce. Salesman of year.	POWERS, James Bethel (I67)
1254	Reuben Westfall Cudney was uncle to Mary "Polly" Ann Cudney. Her husband, Charles E. Hibbard probated the estate of Reuben after his death in 1903 in Lewiston, ID.	CUDNEY, Reuben Westfall (I2461)
1255	Rev. and Mrs. Dal N. Walker are from Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.	WALKER, Rev. Dalraith Nelson (I2238)
1256	Rev. and Mrs. Mervyn Walker were pastors of Kauai Bible Chruch in Lawai, Hawaii for many years.	HIBBARD, Darlene (I514)
1257	Rev. J.C. Hibbard, Jr. was born January 16, 1931 and weighed 12 lb. 8 oz,the largest baby ever born at that particular Houston, Texas hospital. He was nicknamed "Sonny" and "Jay". He was educated at Sunset High School, Dallas, Texas. In 1942, along with his father, Rev. J.C. Hibbard, Sr. and sisters, June Marie and Dee, he sang and played violin on KSKY radio with The HibbardFamily. He played golf like a pro and was an exceptionally gifted singer and musician who recorded numerous albums. Like many of his ancestors, he was also a creative builder and constructed many homes and church buildings.	HIBBARD, Rev. J.C. 'Jay' Jr. (I511)
1258	Rev. John Hibbard and Abigail Cleveland moved to Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont from Connecticut. After John's death in 1800, she remarried Samuel Denison.	CLEAVELAND, Abigail (I724)
1259	Rev. Jordan Carl (J.C.) Hibbard, Sr. was one of the most prominent Pentecostal preachers that God has ever called to the ministry. He was the Founder and Pastor of the Gospel Lighthouse Church, Dallas, Texas. For over 50 years, he fulfilled his calling to spread the Gospel throughout the world. Thousands of lives have been touched and redirected through his ministry, including worldwide mission projects throughout the world. He also carried the Gospel of Jesus Christ to thousands through his programs on KSKY radio and KXTX-TV in addition to numerous books and tapes. J.C. loved to dance, and he and Lillian won several prizes for their dancing as they enjoyed this very much. Soon after their marriage, he became a Christian. God began to call him to preach the Word of God, but J.C. was hesitant. When their first daughter, June Marie was born, she became ill with double bronchial pneumonia. After a while of soul-searching, J.C. told God that if He would heal June Marie he would obey God's call for him to preach. June was healed and J.C. obeyed God's call. There's more information on his website: http://jchibbard.com	HIBBARD, Rev. J.C. Sr. (I341)
1260	Robert Hibbard (son) lists birth date as Jan. 18, 1908. Daughter Barbara lists 2 different dates, Jan. 18, 1907 and Jan. 11, 1908. After checking with her brother Robert, Barbara states (per 1996 note) her mother was born on Jan. 18, 1908. Town Clerk shows husband, Hoyt, Jr. birth as 1909. We've always known Florence was a year older than her husband; therefore her birth date is 1908.	BURNS, Florence Agnes (I3869)
1261	Robert Hibbard I and wife Joanne "Joan" Luffe (or Luff) were admitted to communion on 3 May 1646.	HIBBARD (HEBERT), Robert I (I650)
1262	Robert Hibbard III was made a townsman in 1698. He was the first Hibbard in Connecticut Colony.	HIBBARD, Robert III (I668)
1263	Robert Hibbard was born in Maine and then found his way to the St. George area of New Brunswick, Canada. This area was settled in about 1784 by a flood of loyalists who left the U.S. in the wake of the Revolutionary War. He married Ellen/Elleanor/Elinor Bampton, daughter of Paul Bampton, who was one of the colonists who fought in a regiment for the King against the Colonists. It is thought that these Hibbards were loyalists who went to New Brunswick from Maine, although there are no records to support such.	HIBBARD, Robert (I2248)
1264	Rothwell Parish	Family: (Major) William SOWDEN / Maria (Mary) Louisa VARLEY (F9)
1265	Russ Snow, Benjamin's third son, was ready to make almost any sacrifice to get his children away from the taint of the cold. As it was, although he moved from Maine to Ohio in 18350, he did not get into the more equable climate of Ohio soon enough to shake off the winter clutch absolutely, for two of his daughters died of the tuberculosis touch, one in maidenhood and one in young womanhood. The subsequent general health of the other members of his family and their children would seem to indicate that the benefits he expected to derive from the western climate were not purely imaginary. This was the impulse that moved him, rather than the hope of greater worldly prosperity, for he gave up a comfortable and convenient frame dwelling with substantial buildings and appurtenances to lodge his wife and children amid the inconveniences of a log home, where they were forced to live for about ten years before he was able to erect the commodious brick house, where his children's children were born and which has since become the happy "homeing spot" of all of Benjamin's Ohio descendants. Russ Snow, Benjamin's third son. was the first one of four brothers—all of whom moved West but the youngest— to sever his connections with the neighborhood of his birth and boyhood, and move into the western woods. In the spring of 1835 he started with his brother-in-law, Amos Stocker, husband of his sister Louise, and Mr. Stocker's son Newell, to locate a new home in the then comparatively new Ohio country. After proceeding as far as Buffalo, New York, they separated for a time, the Stockers remaining in Buffalo to work at the mason's trade. Mr. Snow. "Uncle Russ" as he was afterwards known to all the Ohio Snows, then went on alone to Cleveland, Ohio, which was but a straggling village, and gave but slight promise of being the future teeming metropolis with half a million inhabitants. At Cleveland he ran across a gentleman by the name of Bayley, a neighbor from his old home in Bath. New Hampshire. Mr. Bayley was then living at Brecksville. Ohio, about eighteen miles south from Clever land, and where Russ later purchased and settled, and he urged Russ to make him a visit, which the latter did. although he was intending to go to Indiana before settling. While staying with Mr. Bayley, Russ bought a piece of Brecksville land on speculation and a horse with which he started for Indiana at the end of his visit. The accident of his horse going lame changed the whole course of his plans, however. Finding himself unable to proceed with the lame beast, he returned to Mr. Bayley's and having been favorably impressed with the situation, bought more land in the neighborhood and at once set about clearing away the timber and establishing a home into which he could introduce his family— which came in the fall of the year. The Stockers came on from Buffalo and joined him in the summer of 1835. buying and clearing land in the neighborhood for themselves. Russ built a log house before the arrival of his family, and made everything as comfortable as he could amid the pioneer roughness of woods and new land, probably feeling a compelling need to do this since his family was leaving behind in the old home more actual comforts and conveniences than they could find in the new for a decade at least. Russ' new land was substantially all covered with timber when he purchased it,' and by the time his family joined him, he had succeeded in clearing but little more than four acres around the log house which he erected. The highway which passed in front of his home was nothing but a rough wood road through the forest. Russ' family consisted of his wife and five children, Charlotte, Jane, Owen, Orpha and Holland. We have an account of their long journey from Maine to Ohio in a covered carriage in a letter written by Russ' eldest daughter, Charlotte, to her niece, Ida M. Snow, in 1895, sixty years after the journey was made, and the same will be found printed hereinafter. Russ had the greater property in Maine and naturally was the one to come first. His brother Henry came the following year and located on lands adjoining his own. Henry's family at the time consisted of his wife and nine children, Louise, Alexander, Payson, Harriet, Angeline, Selina, Augusta, Charles and Carroll. All of Russ' children, with the exception of Charlotte, who married her cousin, Alexander Snow, son of Henry, either died or remained in Ohio, and that State has always been the home of their children. Henry's children, on the other hand, with one exception in the case of those who lived to maturity, left Ohio, and their children are now scattered all over the United States, in California. Florida, Iowa, Michigan and Dakota. Russ and Henry and their wives died in Brecksville, Ohio, and are buried in the adjoining township of Richfield.	SNOW, Russ (I5929)
1266	Sailed on the ship Wanata in Sept. 1860 with his parents from Somerset to Australia.	HIBBERD, Reuben (I16265)
1267	Samuel and his brother Horace married the Stone sisters from Branford, Connecticut before moving west. Samuel was the first migrant, arriving in Catharine, NY with his father Noah in 1809, though two years earlier he had contracted to buy land there. They actually took title only in 1814, to a piece of virgin forest land which Samuel sold off some 15 years later . He bought a farm at Dix, New York with a small sawmill connected with it and removed there. Sally died 1813 in her 29th year; there was no issue from the marriage. Samuel married second wife Lydia Hibbard of Dummerston, VT in 1819. According to Louise Huntington Harvis, Lydia went to Catharine to visit her brother, Dr. Hibbard, and there she was seen at church by Samuel Agard, who fell in love with her and married her.	AGARD, Samuel (I2989)
1268	Samuel Butts was a man of note in his state. He was elected thirteen times to the Colonial Assembly from Canterbury, Connecticut, during the period from 1715-1729.	BUTTS, Samuel (I3252)
1269	Samuel Porter Hibbard and three of his sons, Lemuel, Peleg and King all came to Oregon. Samuel took care of Levi Bennett after Levi's mother, Rosamond died. Levi came to Oregon with Samuel and Peleg, and walked all the way.	HIBBARD, Samuel Porter (I3397)
1270	Samuel Porter Hibbard took care of Levi after Levi's mother, Rosamond died. Levi and his brother, John, came to Oregon with Samuel Porter Hibbard and his son, Peleg, and walked all the way.	BENNETT, Levi (I16151)
1271	Sarah Martha "Mattie" Cunningham was born in February 1872 in Nashville, Tennessee. Her father was Scotch-Irish and Cherokee Indian. Mattie had black hair, fair skin and blue eyes. She married Lorenza Dowden "Bud"Hibbard in 1891. According to some of the stories told about her, she was the most beautiful lady around. Her beauty caused many problems within the family as one of Lorenza's sisters was extremely jealous of her. Mattie had deep Christian convictions and was a born again believer in Jesus Christ. She was what the secular world would call a "Fundamentalist Believer". She was a Spirit-Filled, tongue talking Christian who prayed daily for each of her children. She felt especially grateful for her prayers being answered when her son, Rev. J.C. Hibbard,Sr., was called by God to become a preacher in December of 1928 after seriously contemplating suicide. Lorenza and Mattie lived for some time in Navasota, Texas as work was good there. Everything indicates a happy wholesome life except that Lorenza was away much of the time working and Mattie and the children missed him terribly. If Mattie is the same "S.M. Hibbard" listed in the Texas Death Index, she died November 21, 1915 in Galveston County, Texas [Record #24431]. However according to family members, she "felt especially grateful for her prayers being answered when her son, Rev. J.C. Hibbard,Sr., was called by God to become a preacher in December of 1928". The actual date of her death has not been confirmed. Lorenzo and his wife Mattie can be found in the 1920 Texas census in Harris County, ref: ED 30, pg 113B, Ln 91, which means she died after 1915. According to the 1930 census, Mattie is living with Sidney Easton, age 38, divorced, b. NC, occ church Sexton, had served in WW1 and his daughter, Beatrice, age 5, born TN (not TX) and Mattie is age 61, widowed, relationship to Sidney, Mother-In-Law, born TX, her father b. NC and her mother b. TX. They are living at 1015 Holman Ave., Houston (Page 5A, #15-15, Census T626-2347). This confirms her death as after 1930.	CUNNINGHAM, Sarah Martha "Mattie" (I336)
1272	Sarah's first husband, Stephen Rowe Bellows, died 7 months after they were married. She remained a widow for 4 years and returned to Keene, NH to live. There she met Harry Hibbard and they married in 1848. Harry was a proficient attorney, and Sarah moved with him to his home in Bath, New Hampshire. Another untimely tragedy occurred, when their only child Alice died at a very early age. When Harry Hibbard became active in politics, she supported his efforts, and they spent several happy years together. As a young attorney in 1844, before his marriage to Sarah, Harry Hibbard had been involved as a prosecuting attorney in the murder trial of William F. Comings, for killing his wife. The jury found Comings guilty of murder in the first degree, and he was sentenced to hang. In June 1853, after being in prison for nine years, William Comings was finally pardoned by the executive authority of the State of New Hampshire. Mr. Comings went on to marry a second time, and to move "out west." While still a fairly young man, Harry developed a "painful and protracted illness," and eventually was admitted to the McLean Asylum For the Insane at Somerville MA. Harry died there in 1872 at the age of 56 years, of "brain disease." Sarah grieved for her husband, but continued to live in their home in Bath NH where she collected a variety of historical documents. These papers, which she donated to the New Hampshire historical society, included the signatures or handwriting of many famous politicians and writers. Seven years after her husband's death, in 1879, she died suddenly, and was buried next to Harry, under a red granite cross. During her funeral, it is recorded that Rev. William O. White, a twenty-five year pastor of the Unitarian Church in Keene repeated these lines at her grave: "Here, in an inn a stranger dwelt, Here joy and grief, by turns, she felt, Poor dwelling! Now we close the door, The sojourner returns no more. Now of a lasting home possessed, She goes to seek a deeper rest, Then open to her, gates of peace! And bid the pilgrim's journey cease." The preachers words would be prophetic, in that Sarah's home would later become an inn (or at least a B&B) for a time. But is it Sarah who produces the smell of cigar smoke that is sometimes reported in her former house? It is said the house is haunted.	HALE, Sarah K. (I11339)
1273	School: Alfred University Occupation: Minister	HIBBARD, Rev. Theodore James "Ted" (I1979)
1274	School: Antelope Union High School Occupation: Mechanic	HIBBARD, Elmer L. (I1884)
1275	See family notes.	HIBBARD, Davidson (I2516)
1276	See family notes.	TILTON, Sarah (I2517)
1277	self	HIBBARD, deane (I1)
1278	self	HIBBARD, deane (I54905)
1279	Sep 21, 1757 he lived in Amelia County, Virginia, Jun 22, 1769 in 1797 inCampbell County, Virginia, and between 1800 and 1820 in Jessamine County,Kentucky. Military service in Revolutionary War in 1776 at OrangeCounty, NC.	HIGHTOWER, George H. (I315)
1280	Served In the Union Army as a Sergeant during the American Civil War in the 7th Kentucky Vol. Infantry under Theophilus T. Garrard. Was injured in the head in 1863 at or near Vicksburg, Mississippi, but survived. Claimed goverment pension in 1882.	HIBBARD, Felix Gilbert (I8087)
1281	Set sail with 2 brothers Robert & Thomas to America aboard the ship "Angel Gabriel" which crashed at Pemaquid Point , ME. Source: Email from Pamela Burnham 14 Jun 1996	BURNHAM, Deacon John (I3281)
1282	Several other of David Hibbard and Leah Cronkite Hibbard children are buried at Christ Church Cemetery, Manlius, Onondaga County, New York, including I.V.V. Hibbard, Ruth and others. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSfn=Leah&GSiman=1&GScid=732367&GRid=12912627	CRONKITE, Leah (I3360)
1283	She (Mrs. J.K.P. Hiller) lived in Genesee, Michigan in 1900.	HIBBARD, (Daughter) (I1302)
1284	She and her husband Daniel lived in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont.	HIBBARD, Mary Polly (or Holly) (I731)
1285	She and Joshua (Josiah) Hutchinson moved to Cherry Valley, Otsego County, New York.	HIBBARD, Abigail (I716)
1286	She and Lemuel J. Harris lived in Richfield, Michigan.	HIBBARD, Jane M. (I1293)
1287	She appears in the 1920 Soundex Brazoria County, Texas 6-10-14-90.	YOUNG, Cuba (I883)
1288	She attended Louisiana Tech, Ruston, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana and Northeast Louisiana State University, Monroe, Quachita Parish, Louisiana. She was a 3rd grade teacher in 1961 at Highland Elementary School, West Monroe, Quachita Parish, Louisiana. She had been a member of Ridge Avenue Baptist Church, Monroe, Quachita Parish, Louisiana for more than 50 years. Her last known residence according to the Social Security Administration was in Cardova, Shelby County, Tennessee.	HUMPHRIES, Ruby Idell (I866)
1289	She donated some of the land for the Hibbard Memorial Baptist Church in Houston, Texas provided it would carry the Hibbard name. There were no children of Percy Hibbard and Ella Mae Anderson.	ANDERSON, Ella Mae (I844)
1290	She graduated from El Dorado High School one year early in class of 1930and attended Galloway College, Searcy, Arkansas. (Now merged withHendrixCollege, Conway, Arkansas). She was an active member of the Methodist Church, serving on theAdministrative Board, Board of Trustees, and Chairman of the EvangelismCommission. She was the first woman appointed by the Texas Bishop toserve on the Texas Conference Board in Houston, Texas and the TexasConference of Evangelism. She was an active member and past officer of the Opti-Mrs. Club andChamber of Commerce. She moved to Lufkin, Angelina, Texas April 1994 to be with her daughterPollyann Garris Powers.	MATTHEWS, Mildred Pauline (I65)
1291	She had previously been Mrs. Madora Emily PAGE BROWN.	Family: James Lee TATE / Madora Emily PAGE (F00229)
1292	She had previously been Mrs. Madora Emily PAGE BROWN.	Family: James Lee TATE / Madora Emily PAGE (F08113)
1293	She is a Supervisor.	HIBBARD, Mary (I621)
1294	She is found in the 1870 Illinois census, Warren county, Kelly township. According to the Portrait and Biographical Album, she was the daughter of Samuel Presson and Esther Wiswell. They lived in New York after their marriage but come to Warren county to Kelly township in 1844. She had eight children: Scolville, Fannie, Lucy, Clark G., Charles L., Edwin L., George and Henry Samuel. Henry Samuel died 27 February 1883 in Warren county, book A, page 85.	PRESSON, Esther (I2866)
1295	She is said to have gotten sick with pneumonia around 15 or 16. Her daddy, Lorenzo "Bud" Hibbard told her that when she got well he would take her to get a new pair of shoes to replace the old ones that had holes in them. Pauline became sicker and sicker until she died. Loron (Lorenzo) would lose control every time he would look at Pauline's old pair of shoes as he was never able to fulfill his promise to her. This always hurt him deeply.	HIBBARD, W. Pauline (I507)
1296	She lived in Burr Oak, IA about 1878. She lived in Walnut Grove, MN before 1879. She lived in De Smet, Dakota Territory between 1879 and 1901. She was educated about 1887 in De Smet, Dakota Territory. She was educated at Redfield Collage about 1895. Before 1901 she was a Teacher in Manchester, SD. She lived in Manchester, SD between 1901 and 1924. She lived in De Smet, SD after 1924. She died on November 10, 1941 in Manchester, SD. She was buried in De Smet Cemetery, De Smet, SD. She was Scotch, English, and French. Active in the Ladies Aid and club work and was a local writer.	INGALLS, Grace Pearl (I3353)
1297	She lived in De Smet, Dakota Territory between December 5, 1886 and 1890. When her parents were very ill with diptheria, she was sent to live with her maternal grandparents for several months. In the Summer 1889 she was "helping" her mother in the kitchen, when a fire started, destroying the family's home. She lived in Spring Valley, MN in 1890. With her parents, she lived with her paternal grandparents after the birth and death of her brother, the destruction of their home by fire, and several crop failures. She lived in Westville, FL between 1891 and 1892. She later wrote a fictional short story entitled "Innocence" in 1922, based on her family's stay in Westville. She lived in De Smet, SD between 1892 and July 17, 1894. The family lived in a rented house in town. Her parents worked and her maternal grandmother took care of her during the day. She began school in De Smet, and learned to read and write very quickly. She lived in Mansfield, MO after August 31, 1894. She was very intelligent and thought school was boring because the work was far too easy for her. Because of this, her mother consented to let her study on her own at home much of the time. She graduated in 1904 in Crowley, LA. The Mansfield school only went through the tenth grade, so she lived with her aunt Eliza Jane Wilder in 1903 and 1904 to complete high school. Between 1904 and 1907 she was a Telegraph Operator in Kansas City, MO. Western Union. Between 1907 and 1908 she was a Telegraph Operator in Mount Vernon, IN. Western Union. She lived in San Francisco, CA after 1908. She lived in Kansas City, MO after April 1909. Before 1910 she was a Writer in Kansas City, MO. Kansas City Post. She lived in San Francisco, CA after 1910. She became involved in selling real estate as one of the first female real estate agents in California. Her career flourished, and slowly, she and her husband found less and less in common with each other. When World War I decreased land sales, she returned to writing. After 1915 she was a Feature reporter in San Francisco, CA. Wrote serial stories and columns for the San Francisco Bulletin. During the next three decades, she would write numerous short stories and articles for major magazines, including Sunset, The Ladies Home Journal, Harper's Monthly, Asia, Country Gentleman, and The Saturday Evening Post. After 1917 she was an Author in San Francisco, CA. 'Henry Ford's Own Story.' Wrote 'Diverging Roads,' a fictional novel based on her separation and eventual divorce. She wrote early biographies of Henry Ford, Charlie Chaplin, Herbert Hoover and Jack London. During the 1920s and 1930s, which represented the peak of her professional writing career, her short stories and novels were often nominated for O. Henry Awards and other literary honors, she was frequently anthologized, and was regularly featured in leading publications such as Harper's, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping and Ladies' Home Journal. After 1919 she was an Author in Greenwich Village, NY. Ghost writer for Frederick O'Brien's 'White Shadows on the South Seas.' She also wrote 'The Making of Herbert Hoover' under her own name. After World War I, Rose became a reporter for the American Red Cross, and was assigned to write about the conditions in war-torn countries. During this time, she met two women who would become her closest friends, Dorothy Thompson and Helen "Troub" Boylston, who wrote the "Sue Barton" nurse series for girls. Her job took her throughout Europe, but of all the countries she visited, Albania quickly became her favorite. She wrote 'The Peaks of Shala' about Albanian life, and informally adopted Albanian boy Rexh Meta after he saved her life. Many years later, she provided money for Rexh to come to America and get a college education. She lived in Greenwich Village, NY after 1919. She lived at Rocky Ridge Farm in Mansfield, MO after 1924. She wrote two of her most enjoyable novels, 'Cindy' and 'Hill Billy.' She lived in Albania before 1928. She and Helen Boylston returned to Albania; their journal of the trip was published as 'Travels With Zenobia.' The unstable situation in Albania forced her back to Missouri. She lived at Rocky Ridge Farm in Mansfield, MO after 1928. She and her friend Helen moved into Rocky Ridge Farmhouse, and she had a modern rock house built for her parents on another part of the farm. Felt financially stable at last, and she freely spent money on the new home for her parents, as well as making major updates on the farmhouse. She lost most of her money in the stock market crash of 1929, however, and returned to her pen to earn a living once again. She lived in New York after 1938. She lived in Danbury, CT after 1939. Became heavily involved in politics, as she wrote about in The Discovery of Freedom. In 1943, she met Roger Lea MacBride, teenage son of one of her editors. Roger admired her and she taught the young boy much about her political beliefs over the years. Roger called her "Grandma" and later became her attorney and heir, as well as the Libertarian Party's 1976 candidate for President of the United States. In 1965 she was a War Corespondant in Vietnam. She died on October 30, 1968 in Danbury, CT. She was buried in November 1968 in Mansfield Cemetery, Mansfield, MO. She was a Writer and Author. Many article and magazine serials, as well as many books, including Let the Hurricane Roar, Old Home Town, Faces at the Window, Home Over Saturday; and Free Land, a Story of Homesteading. She was English, Scotch, and French. Her mother Laura Wilder tells of her birth and early childhood in her book 'The First Four Years.' In an autobiographical piece for the Federal Writers Project, she described her varied experiences: "I have been office clerk, telegrapher, newspaper reporter, feature writer, advertising writer, farmland salesman. I have seen all the United States and something of Canada and the Caribbean; all of Europe except Spain; Turkey, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq as far east as Baghdad, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan." She traveled the United States extensively with her husband, and worked as a reporter for the San Francisco Bulletin. Her first novel, Diverging Roads, was serialized in Sunset Magazine and then published in book form in 1919. She also authored several biographies -- her first book was a life of Henry Ford -- including the first ever written about Herbert Hoover, in 1920. Her work researching that book led to a friendship with Hoover which lasted for over 40 years. The extensive travels to which she refers included stints as a reporter in San Francisco and as a Red Cross publicist in Washington, D.C., as well as several months in New York's Greenwich Village, where she became involved in radical socialist politics. After the end of World War I, she was sent to the Balkans by the Red Cross to investigate conditions there; her reports were published in the Red Cross Bulletin. Crucially, she also stayed for a time in the newly formed Soviet Union, an experience that would shake and, ultimately, destroy her sympathy for communism. Finishing her work for the Red Cross in 1922, she toured Europe and the Middle East, with an interlude back at the family farm in Missouri in 1924-25 to write several stories about the Ozarks, including the successful Hill Billy. She repeatedly visited Albania, where she witnessed a revolution and refused a proposal of marriage from Ahmet Zogu, the future King Zog I. Returning more permanently to the United States at decade's end, she became a prolific author of short stories, novels, and magazine articles, writing for such publications as Harper's, Ladies' Home Journal, and the Saturday Evening Post. During this time, she also began a long standing collaboration with her mother, whom she had encouraged to write children's stories about her childhood in the old West. How much she had to do with the writing of these stories, which would become the "Little House" series, is a matter of some dispute. It is generally agreed that she edited her mother's notes and diaries at length, and in his controversial biography of her, Ghost in the Little House William V. Holtz argues that her revisions were so extensive that she ought to be considered not merely editor but co-author of the Little House series. The conclusion can be made that Wilder's strengths as a compelling storyteller and Lane's considerable skills in dramatic pacing, literary structure and characterization contributed to an occasionally tense, but remarkable collaboration between two talented women. In fact, the collaboration seems to have benefited her career as much as her mother's - two of her most commercially successful novels, "Let the Hurricane Roar" and "Free Land" were written at the same time as the "Little House" series, and basically retell Ingalls and Wilder family stories, but in an adult format. She publicly disavowed her youthful socialism in a long 1936 article in the Saturday Evening Post titled "Credo," which was later reprinted as the pamphlet Give Me Liberty. She related her disillusionment -- and that of her Russian friends -- with the new Soviet regime, as well as anecdotes about the bureaucratic red tape she encountered in Parisian markets, and the behavior of police in Budapest sent to enforce mandatory work rules. Economic central planning, her experiences and travels had taught her, was incompatible with both prosperity and individual liberty. In her autobiographical essay for the FWP, she said this about her change of heart: "In 1917 I became a convinced, though not practicing communist. In Russia, for some reason, I wasn't and I said so, but my understanding of Bolshevism made everything pleasant when the Cheka arrested me a few times. I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez faire and the slightly restrained anarchy of capitalism offer the best opportunities for the development of the human spirit. Also I will tell you why the relative freedom of human spirit is better -- and more productive, even in material ways -- than the communist, Fascist, or any other rigidity organized for material ends." Her writing reflected her growing concern with government encroachment on individual liberties. Her 1938 pioneer novel Free Land, the royalties from which financed her purchase of a home in Connecticut, would be her last published fiction. After about 1940, she turned away from fiction writing and became one of the more influential American libertarians of the middle 20th century. She vehemently opposed the New Deal, creeping socialism and taxation, claiming she ceased writing highly-paid commercial fiction in order to avoid paying income taxes. A staunch opponent of communism after seeing it in practice in the Soviet Union, she was the author of The Discovery of Freedom (1943), and tirelessly promoted and wrote about individual freedom, liberty and its impact on mankind. In 1945, she began writing for the National Economic Council's Review of Books. A correspondence with Ayn Rand that lasted several years began when Rand sent her a letter of thanks for her favorable review of The Fountainhead in that publication. She was not merely a theorist, but an activist as well. In 1945-46, she led a campaign against the introduction of zoning, which she saw as a violation of individual property rights, in her town. She also grew her own food to avoid wartime rationing, and later quit her editorial job with the National Economic Council so as not to pay Social Security taxes. Her prescience regarding the instability of that system was astonishing: throughout the 1950s she would describe it as unstable and a "Ponzi fraud." She told friends that it would be immoral of her to take part in a system that would predictably collapse so catastrophically, as the example of Weimar Germany convinced her that it would. In 1958, a man named Robert Le Fevre who had been strongly influenced by her 'The Discovery of Freedom' asked her to come visit his "Freedom School," which he had founded to promote the individualist principles he said she had taught him. She would become a regular lecturer there for several years thereafter. During the early 1960s, she contributed book reviews to the influential William Volker Fund. At the age of 78, she worked as a war correspondent in South Vietnam for Woman's Day. When she died in her sleep on October 30, 1968, just as she was about to depart on a three-year world tour. HarperCollins Publishers have released a spin-off series to the "Little House" books based on Rose's childhood in Missouri. Seven books have been published so far: Little House on Rocky Ridge, Little Farm in the Ozarks, In the Land of the Big Red Apple, On the Other Side of the Hill, Little Town in the Ozarks, New Dawn on Rocky Ridge, and On the Banks of the Bayou.	WILDER, Rose (I3355)
1298	She lived in Hartford, Windsor County, Vermont and was also known as "Lurenda Sprague".	SPRAGUE, Cerinda (I1178)
1299	She lived in Pepin, WI before 1868. She lived in Chariton County, MO after 1868. She lived within the boundaries of the Osage Diminished Reserve in Independence, KS between 1869 and 1870. She lived in Pepin, WI between 1870 and October 1873. She lived on the banks of Plum Creek in Walnut Grove, MN between May 1874 and July 1876. She lived in Burr Oak, IA between 1876 and 1877. She lived in Walnut Grove, MN before 1879. She lived in De Smet, Dakota Territory between 1879 and 1881. She was ill with Blindness after 1879. After a stroke, what was then classified as brain fever, a general term used to encompass a span of diseases. Some speculate that it was actually scarlet fever that caused her blindness. After she became blind, her younger sister Laura spent many hours reading aloud to her and helping her memorize what was regarded as pertinent material. Typically students arrived in Vinton by train and were met at the depot by a horse-drawn bus. New students would enter the Main Building through a back door which was near a comfortable, well-lighted sitting room used by the Principal. Although steam heat had been installed, its frequent ineffectiveness made the wood stove in that room a welcomed source of heat for the new arrivals. After a conference with Mr. Carothers, new students were frequently presented to Lorana Mattice, the highly competent blind teacher whose warm, friendly manner soon put them at ease. Parents were encouraged to stay with their newly enrolled child the first few days, until the child began to get acquainted with the new surroundings. She was educated Iowa College for the Blind from November 23, 1881 to June 12, 1889 in Vinton, IA. No education for the blind was available in Dakota Territory. She lived in De Smet, SD after 1889. Lived with her parents, then with her sister Grace for her four last years. She died on October 17, 1928 in Keystone, SD. She was Scotch, English, and French. Was a major character in her sister Laura Wilder's books. Her Braille Bible, slate, and other books, beadwork she made following her blindness, her gloves, and a nine-patch quilt she made as a child are all on display at Rocky Ridge in Mansfield, Missouri. Other items belonging to Mary are housed in the Ingalls home at De Smet, South Dakota.	INGALLS, Mary Amelia (I3349)
1300	She loves music and dressing up. When you ask Kaitlyn, "Who lovesJesus?", she raises her hand! She loves the song, The B I B L E, YesThat's The Book For Me. Kaitlyn always ends the song with a very loud,"BIBLE!". She's inquisitive and gets into everything right now.	WARD, Alyson Elizabeth (I563)