William HART [Parents] was born in Jun 1590 in Enstone,Oxfordshire,England. He died in Enstone,Oxfordshire,England. He married Jemma WEST in Aug 1613 in Enstone,Oxfordshire,England.
DEATH: DATE BET. 1591 - 1680
Jemma WEST.Jemma married William HART in Aug 1613 in Enstone,Oxfordshire,England.
TAYNTON. married Elizabeth HART.
Elizabeth HART [Parents] was born in Jun 1601 in Kiddington,Oxfordshire,England. She married TAYNTON.
John LUCAS was born in 1601. He married Ann UNKNOWN.
Ann UNKNOWN.Ann married John LUCAS.
They had the following children:
F i Susanna LUCAS
Thomas RUSH was born in 1593 in Guilsboro,England. He died in Mar 1633/1634 in Boram,Essex,England. He married Thomasine STANSTED.
Thomasine STANSTED was born in 1597 in Guilsboro,Essex,England. She married Thomas RUSH.
They had the following children:
F i Jane RUSH was born in 1620. M ii Frances RUSH was born in 1622. M iii John RUSH F iv Mary RUSH was born in 1625.
John BROUGHTON was born about 1660. He died on 24 Mar 1720/1721 in Somerset,Md. He married Elizabeth BRADSHAW on 26 Feb 1684/1685 in Stepney Parish,Somerset,Md.
Elizabeth BRADSHAW [Parents] was born about 1660 in Va. She died after 1720 in Somerset,Md. She married John BROUGHTON on 26 Feb 1684/1685 in Stepney Parish,Somerset,Md.
They had the following children:
F i Sarah BROUGHTON was born about 1686 in Stepney Parish,Somerset,Md. M ii John BROUGHTON was born on 20 Dec 1688 in Stepney Parish,Somerset,Md. He died on 17 Feb 1755 in Somerset,Md. M iii Bruff BROUGHTON M iv William BROUGHTON was born on 26 Feb 1691/1692 in Pocomoke,Md. F v Mary BROUGHTON was born after 1694 in Md. F vi Elizabeth BROUGHTON was born about 1696 in Md. F vii Rachel BROUGHTON was born about 1698 in Md. F viii Anne BROUGHTON was born about 1700 in Md.
William BRADSHAW was born before 1640. He died after 1685. He married Anne before 1660.
Hart, Donald C. DESCENDANTS OF HENRY HART 1750-1986.
Skorda, George, EARLY SETTLERS OF MARYLAND : William Bradshaw immigrated from
Virginia 1672 with his wife and Elizabeth, their daughter.
Anne was born before 1640. She married William BRADSHAW before 1660.
They had the following children:
F i Elizabeth BRADSHAW
Robert Koch SCHELKE was born on 30 Jan 1901 in Madison,Indiana. He died on 13 Apr 1988 in Portage,Indiana. He married Hollis Edith WHITTAKER on 15 Jun 1929 in DeKalb Illinois,Illinois.
CAUS Heart failure
DATE 1923
PLAC Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
PLAC Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana
DATE 1966
PLAC Belden Manufacturing Company, Richmond, Indiana
Suffered from a non-maglignant brain tumor which caused the lost of use of one
leg in his later years.Robert was born and raised in Madison, Indiana which is a small town on the Ohi
River. The family home was a two story brick building on Main Street in the
business district of town. Robert attended and graduated from the Madison
Grammar School and the Madison High School. He attended Purdue University in
Lafayette, Indiana and graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in
1923--his major study was in Steam Engineering.After graduation, he was employed by the Illinois Bell Telephone Company as a
student engineer. He left this job two years later to accept a position with
the Heywood-Wakefield Furniture Manufacturing company as Plant Engineer. He
worked for this company, which was located in Massachusetts and Chicago, for
seven years. This job ended during the depression when the company closed some
of its facilities. He was unemployed from January 1932 to September of 1933
during which he and his family had to live with various relatives. After
sending out 1200 letters to all parts of the country, he was hired in September
1933 by the Sawyer Biscuit Co. supervising the installation of oil burning
apparatus in their boiler plant and on their baking ovens. Following this job,
he worker for Best Foods, Inc. in Chicago installing refrigerating apparatus an
the investigating the handling methods in their margarine packing and shipping
plant. His salary was about $50 per week. His final employment was with Belden
Manufacturing Company in Richmond, Indiana where he worked until his
retirement.On one occasion, Bob wrote to a friend about interviewing for a job as foreman
in a punch press plant. He said that after the person doing the hiring gave hi
'washed up appearance' the one over, he told Bob that he did not look as if he
had ever worked in a factory before. Bob's comment to his friend was "That's
one score against the 'well shaved and clean shirted' rule for job applicants!"His hobbies were tinkering with radios and building furniture for his home. He
was also interested in the family genealogy and most of the information which i
included about his families' lines came from his efforts. He was not a very
active person, but was an avid reader of magazines and newspapers. He liked to
talk to anyone who would listen and had a keen memory of events in his life.Bob's wife, Hollis, started a ceramics studio after his retirement and he helpe
her with the advisory and technical aspects of producing the pottery. He loved
to experiment using the kiln to melt glass bottles to make glass window
ornaments and he liked to make pots for his cactus plants. He had a window
garden in his dining room in which he grew his cactus plants and also African
violets.In his later years he lost most of his hearing and also loss the use of one leg
It was later diagnosed as a brain tumor and at age 76 it was successfully
removed. His leg did not improve, so he spent the last ten years of his life
struggling to get around with a walker. He died at the age of 88 at his
daughter Jane's home in Portage, Indiana where he and Hollis went to live. He
had three daughters and 24 grandchildren at the time of his death. His body wa
cremated and the ashes placed in the Springdale Cemetery in Madison, Indiana.
Hollis Edith WHITTAKER [Parents] was born on 16 Aug 1904 in Loveland,Colorado. She died on 15 May 1990 in Portage,Indiana. She married Robert Koch SCHELKE on 15 Jun 1929 in DeKalb Illinois,Illinois.
_MDCL: Had problems with gall bladder; stomach ulcers; hiatial hernia and
dementia.Hollis, 'Holly', graduated from DeKalb Township High School and attended
Northern Illinois State Teachers College. She worked for School District #97 i
Cook County, Illinois from 1924 to 1929. Her salary was $100-$120 per month fo
ten months per year. She taught 2nd grade at Hatch School in Oak Park,
Illinois.In the summer of 1927, she made a trip with her friend, Helen Hanson, to
Yellowstone National Park driving a model -T Ford and camping out along the wayShe volunteered as the leader of the Riley 4-H Club in 1940 and was recognized
for ten years of service as a leader at a banquet held at the Leland Hotel on
November 15, 1951. All three of her daughters were active members of the club.
She also organized a boys 4-H Club, The Dopey Dough Boys, which taught them ho
to bake.In 1946 she was appointed temporary Home Demonstration Agent for Wayne County,
Indiana and was in charge of the girls 4-H Club program.In 1948 she tutored crippled children at the Joseph Moore Elementary School in
Richmond, Indiana.In 1949, she was chairman of the Board of Directors of the Wayne County 4-H Clu
Agriculture Association.In 1950, she served as first vice president of the Richmond Garden Club.
In 1954, she volunteered as a Red Cross Gray Lady at the Richmond State Mental
Hospital where she was chairman of the sewing therapy classes.In 1966, she started a pottery business, Holly Potter,) in her home. She
converted two bedrooms into a studio and students came every week from Monday
through Wednesdays. Her husband, Robert, helped her with the advisory and
technical aspects of producing the pottery. She took lessons from Carlie Tate,
Dayton, Ohio potter. In 1971, she attended the Arrowmont School of Arts and
Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Upon completion of the course, she received a
handwritten certificate from her instructor, Paul Rerensohn, stating " Her
participation, interest and performance were such that if she were taking the
course for credit her grade would have been A+". (At this time she was 67 year
of age and the oldest student in the class). Arrowmont School is a year round
educational facility with scholastic accreditation through the University of
Tennessee College of Home Economics.She was commissioned by the Indiana State Museum to create a group of nine
pieces of pottery simulating the pottery that was part of the Indian culture
that once flourished near the mouth of the Wabash River in Indiana.She died at the age of 86 at her daughter Jane's home in Portage, Indiana where
she and Robert went to live in 1986. She had three daughters and 24
grandchildren at the time of her death. Her body was cremated and the ashes
placed in the Springdale Cemetery in Madison, Indiana and also spread on a
mountain top in Colorado.
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Milo Lee WHITTAKER [Parents] was born on 17 Feb 1879 in Atchison County,Missouri. He died on 14 Feb 1942 in DeKalb,Illinois at St.. He married Maude Elma SWAIN on 18 Jul 1901 in Denver,Colorado.
Other marriages:CUMMINGS, Charlotte Marie
Supply (student) minister at John Collin Church near Denver Univerity campus.
Milo Lee Whittaker was born in Atchison Co., Missouri. He moved with his
parents at age 18 to Loveland, Colorado. He attended College Springs Adademy
and received a BA degree from the University of Denver in 1910. He was a
Methodist minister, teacher, principal and superintendent of schools in Pueblo,
Canon City and Del Norte, Colorado. He established a settlement house, called
the Whittaker House, in Pueblo which was still used by boys and girls at the
time of his death. In 1917, he received the degree of Master of Arts. His
master's thesis, entitled Pathbreakers and Pioneers of the Pueblo Region, was
subsequently published by the Franklin Press.He moved to DeKalb, Illinois in 1920 where be was principal of the McMurry
Training School. Mter a year in this position, he joined the faculty of the
Social Sciences at Northern Illinois State Teachers College( now called Norther
Illinois University). In 1930, he was named head of that departmnt.
In 1933, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in character
education research by the Department of Sociology of the University of Iowa.
The field of character education was relatively new, and Dr. Whittaker was one
of a small number of students to attain a doctorate in this area of scholarship
While teaching at Northern Illinois State Teachers College, Dr. Whittaker was
interested in character education, child welfare, faculty participation in
school administration and he was instrumental in introducing a propaganda
analysis course in the curriculum before such a subject was common.He wrote numerous articles that were published and one textbook for classes in
community civics entitled, Experiences in Citizenship (1933).Milo Lee Whittaker married Charlotte Cummings upon death of his wife, Maude. H
died a short time after this marriage. Charlotte died on 5/1989.Served as a teacher, principal and superintendent of schools in Canon City, Del
Norte and Pueblo between 1910 and 1920. While principal at Pueblo, he founded
settlement house known as Whittaker House, which was still in existence in 1942
In 1920, he was principal of McMurry Training School in Dekalb, Illinois. Fro
1921 to 1929, he taught at Northern Illinois State Teachers College. From 1929
to 1930, he was head of the Sociology and Economics Dept. He was also Dean of
the College Faculty.His second wife, Charlotte Cummings died in May 1989 in St. Petersburg,
Florida. Milo Lee died at St. Mary's Hospital in DeKalb, IllinoisMilo Whittaker was a Methodist minister at the time of his marriage. His
wedding was witnessed by Ada Whittaker( Milo's sister) and Frank E. Swain
(Maude's brother). The minister was John B. Gullette. Guests at the wedding
were Robert Swain, Ada Whittaker, Ione and Virginia Skinner, Cyrus Swain, Lizzi
Howard, Mrs. O.P. Boggs, Charles Ralph, Howard Loullair, Mary Kendall and
Harriet Howard.
Maude Elma SWAIN was born on 8 Sep 1877 in Gage County,Nebraska. She died on 24 Jun 1937 in DeKalb,Illinois. She married Milo Lee WHITTAKER on 18 Jul 1901 in Denver,Colorado.
DEATH: CAUS Heart failure
1900 Denver city directory lists Maude E. Swain of 3278 Newton Street as a
dressmaker.
They had the following children:
M i Ralph Swain WHITTAKER F ii Hollis Edith WHITTAKER M iii Living F iv Living
Milo Lee WHITTAKER [Parents] was born on 17 Feb 1879 in Atchison County,Missouri. He died on 14 Feb 1942 in DeKalb,Illinois at St.. He married Charlotte Marie CUMMINGS on 22 Dec 1938.
Other marriages:SWAIN, Maude Elma
Supply (student) minister at John Collin Church near Denver Univerity campus.
Milo Lee Whittaker was born in Atchison Co., Missouri. He moved with his
parents at age 18 to Loveland, Colorado. He attended College Springs Adademy
and received a BA degree from the University of Denver in 1910. He was a
Methodist minister, teacher, principal and superintendent of schools in Pueblo,
Canon City and Del Norte, Colorado. He established a settlement house, called
the Whittaker House, in Pueblo which was still used by boys and girls at the
time of his death. In 1917, he received the degree of Master of Arts. His
master's thesis, entitled Pathbreakers and Pioneers of the Pueblo Region, was
subsequently published by the Franklin Press.He moved to DeKalb, Illinois in 1920 where be was principal of the McMurry
Training School. Mter a year in this position, he joined the faculty of the
Social Sciences at Northern Illinois State Teachers College( now called Norther
Illinois University). In 1930, he was named head of that departmnt.
In 1933, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in character
education research by the Department of Sociology of the University of Iowa.
The field of character education was relatively new, and Dr. Whittaker was one
of a small number of students to attain a doctorate in this area of scholarship
While teaching at Northern Illinois State Teachers College, Dr. Whittaker was
interested in character education, child welfare, faculty participation in
school administration and he was instrumental in introducing a propaganda
analysis course in the curriculum before such a subject was common.He wrote numerous articles that were published and one textbook for classes in
community civics entitled, Experiences in Citizenship (1933).Milo Lee Whittaker married Charlotte Cummings upon death of his wife, Maude. H
died a short time after this marriage. Charlotte died on 5/1989.Served as a teacher, principal and superintendent of schools in Canon City, Del
Norte and Pueblo between 1910 and 1920. While principal at Pueblo, he founded
settlement house known as Whittaker House, which was still in existence in 1942
In 1920, he was principal of McMurry Training School in Dekalb, Illinois. Fro
1921 to 1929, he taught at Northern Illinois State Teachers College. From 1929
to 1930, he was head of the Sociology and Economics Dept. He was also Dean of
the College Faculty.His second wife, Charlotte Cummings died in May 1989 in St. Petersburg,
Florida. Milo Lee died at St. Mary's Hospital in DeKalb, IllinoisMilo Whittaker was a Methodist minister at the time of his marriage. His
wedding was witnessed by Ada Whittaker( Milo's sister) and Frank E. Swain
(Maude's brother). The minister was John B. Gullette. Guests at the wedding
were Robert Swain, Ada Whittaker, Ione and Virginia Skinner, Cyrus Swain, Lizzi
Howard, Mrs. O.P. Boggs, Charles Ralph, Howard Loullair, Mary Kendall and
Harriet Howard.
Charlotte Marie CUMMINGS was born on 26 Mar 1902. She died in May 1987 in St. Petersburg F. She married Milo Lee WHITTAKER on 22 Dec 1938.
Frank WHITTAKER was born on 13 Jul 1853 in Aledo,Mercer County,Illinois. He died on 3 Dec 1921 in Mt. Harris Color. He married Martha Amanda PUNTENNEY on 25 Mar 1874 in Nodaway County,Missouri.
Farmer in Loveland, Colorado?
Town Marshall of Loveland, Colorado
Buried lot 2, block D, Lakeside cemetary, Loveland CO
Joined the Clarinda IA Methodist church by certificate (meant transfer).
22 MAR 1897
Removed from church by letter (transferred).
Martha Amanda PUNTENNEY [Parents] was born on 16 Sep 1853 in Oh. She died on 20 Jan 1930 in Loveland,Co. She married Frank WHITTAKER on 25 Mar 1874 in Nodaway County,Missouri.
Buried, lot 2, block d, Lakeside cemetary, Loveland Co.
They had the following children:
F i Essie Alma WHITTAKER was born on 10 Sep 1874. She died about Mar 1898 in Loveland,Colorado.
Died of tuberculosis. Nodaway Democrat, 31 March 1898M ii Delbert Livingston WHITTAKER M iii Milo Lee WHITTAKER M iv Frank Lester WHITTAKER was born on 10 Oct 1880. He died in Jan 1881. F v Ada Irene WHITTAKER