Monday, January 23, 2012

Antoine Ouilmette by Frank R. Grover

So jumping a little ahead in the researching process, this week I was able to find a book that was written by Frank Grover about Antoine Ouilmette who was the first settler of Evanston and Wilmette, Illinois. He is also the great-great grandfather of Amelia Crumbo. I found an online site that provides the book online (see related links). You can view it online. I found this site on accident but I also just got it through Inter-Library Loan. It is such an interesting book. It has information about Antoine Ouilmette and his family. But it also gives information about the Ouilmette reservation. I just began reading it and found that it is believed that Antoine was born around 1760 in Montreal, Canada. It is believed that he was French and possible Metis (a Canadian Indian tribe) because of the known variation of Ouilmette. He worked for the American fur company in Canada and later moved to Chicago where he married a French/Pottawatomie woman, Archange.

Photo was provided courtesy of Wilmette Public Library


That is as far as I have read so far. As I learn more about the family I will keep you posted. I am excited to learn more as I read further into the book.

Monday, January 16, 2012

Amelia Crumbo

So I just started to continue my research on Mary Ann Hurd, who was my great-great-great grandmother. I have done research on her family in the past and found quite a few records pertaining to her family. Her daughter Amelia Crumbo is my line. A summary of the information I have found on Amelia is:


  AMELIA ELIZABETH CRUMBO was born in March 1889 in Kansas to Alexander and Mary Ann Hurd. Alexander and Mary Ann moved to Oklahoma during the first years of Amelia’s life. She grew up on the farm with her parents and family all helping out. It is very likely that she learned how to take care of a farm and helped out. She probably helped care for the cattle and the farms.

1900 U.S. Federal Census, Cleveland County, Oklahoma, population schedule, Lexington Township, ED 27, sheet 11A, page 48, dwelling number 188, family number 187, Elie Crumbo; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12 March 2010); NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 1336.

She married Walter Wallace Daniels in 1909. He was born in 1888 in Utah. He was the second child to Aaron Daniels and Rose. Walter died in Roosevelt, Duchesne, Utah in 1956
                  Walter grew up in Utah. He was the second son of Rose and Aaron Daniels. When Walter was around the age of 8 years old, his father Aaron Daniels died. His mother had four children under the age of 11 to care for. She was Navajo but had been adopted into the Ute tribe and lived on the reservation on the land she had gotten. With his father gone, Walter and his brother, Albert, would have had to help out on the farm and be the men of the family. Walter would have learned to work land and keep a farm.

1910 U.S. Indian Census, Uintah County, Utah, population schedule, White Rocks Township, ED Uintah Indian Reservation, sheet 9A, dwelling 86, family 89, Walter Daniels; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 March 2010); NARA microfilm publication T624, roll 1609

                  Walter and Amelia raised stock on a ranch of their own for many years while raising a family. Walter is listed as a ranchman that raised his own stock and a stock raiser in two different censuses. He also was a ranger for the United States Indian Services while Amelia was the proprietor of a hotelThey rented their home in Moffat, Uintah, Utah.

There is still more to find out. I hope to find out more about the tribes and about the families.