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5th Generation from John Provine 1751-1792
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FIFTH
GENERATION
GEORGE ELLIOTT PROVINE
(5), son of William Steele
and
Ada V. (Purdum)
Provine,
was born November 9, 1880 in Scotland Twp., McDonough County, Illinois. On
January 29, 1903 he was married to Margaret
I. Hammer
in
Macomb, McDonough County, Illinois. She was born August 28, 1879.
George
died August 20, 1957. Both are buried in Pennington Point Cemetery, McDonough
County, Illinois.
180.
ROSS HARVEY PROVINE
(5),
son of William Steele
and
Ada V. (Purdum)
Provine,
was born January 30, 1883 in Illinois. He married Bernice
Laughlin
on
September 5, 1906.
181.
ETHEL MARGARET PROVINE
(5),
daughter of William
Steele
and Ada V. (Purdum)
Provine,
was born April 19, 1888 in Illinois. She married Francis
Allison
on
February 8, 1910.
182.
ZELLA MARY PROVINE
(5), daughter of William
Steele
and Ada V. (Purdum)
Provine,
was born January 9, 1891 in Illinois. She married William
Barclay
on February 19, 1920.
183.
NINA BELLE OWEN
(5),
daughter of Thomas G.
and
Sarah Isabel (Provine)
Owen,
was born November 15, 1861. She married Henry
Atchison.
184.
LINA MAY OWEN
(5),
daughter of Thomas G. and Sarah Isabel (Provine)
Owen.
She married, first, Frank Nash.
186.
HALLIE OWEN
(5),
daughter of Thomas G.
and
Sarah Isabel (Provine) Owen,
married twice, the second time being to Jack
Tainsh, Canadian born but a resident of the
U.S.
188.
BERTHA PROVINE
(5), daughter
of William Martin
and
Mary (Murray)
Provine,
was born January 27, 1871 in Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois. She graduated
from Oxford College of Miami University at Oxford, Ohio in 1891. The following
year she attended the graduate school of English at the University of Chicago.
Bertha traveled abroad extensively and afterward taught history for nine years
at Oxford College, then taught English for one year at Fairmont Seminary in
Washington, D.C. and afterwards taught English at Taylorville High School. In
1903 she organized the Study Class, an organization of women graduates of
Taylorville High School, in which she was active until her later years. She was
a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Taylorville, and the Taylorville
Woman’s Club.
Bertha
died on January 16, 1958 in Taylorville, and is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. She
never married.
189.
WALTER M. PROVINE
(5),
son of William Martin
and
Mary (Murray) Provine
was born November 23, 1873 in Taylorville, Christian, Illinois. He was a
lifelong resident of Taylorville, becoming a prominent local attorney, and one
of their esteemed citizens. He attended Cornell University, was admitted to the
Illinois Bar in 1897, and practiced law in association with his father. He was
mayor of Taylorville from 1913 to 1915, served as a state representative from
1926 to 1931, was president of the Illinois State Bar Association in 1918 and
1919, among many other accomplishments. He never married.
On
January 25, 1955, while on a business trip, he died of a sudden heart attack in
the New Jersey Central Railroad Terminal at Jersey City, Hudson County, New
Jersey while waiting to board a train to return to Taylorville.
191.
EDWIN ROY WINANS
(5),
son of Aaron
and
Mary Katherine (Provine)
Winans,
was born November 4, 1874 in Albany, Whiteside County, Illinois. He married Maud
R. O'Loughlin
on
October 26, 1904 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Roy
was a lawyer for a time with the law firm of Kitteridge, Winans, & Scott. He
was also an Indian agent for the Oglala Sioux, in Pierre, South Dakota. He was
very highly regarded by the Indians and was always called to settle disputes.
He
died June 17, 1921 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in a car accident.
192.
RALPH LEWIS WINANS
(5),
son of Aaron and
Mary Katherine (Provine) Winans,
was born January 4, 1876 in Illinois. On March 12, 1898 in Albany, Whiteside
County, Illinois he married, first, Elsie
V. Day. Ralph was a teacher.
Elsie
died March 29, 1902.
He married, second, __________. He died in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin.
193.
ELLIS FRAYNE PROVINE
(5),
son of Albert Gardner and
Sarah Ann (Frayne) Provine,
was born March 4, 1883. He was married on January 18, 1911 to, first, Maybelle
Murphy, in Chicago. They later moved to
Seattle, Washington, he being in the lumber business.
Maybelle died at the birth of a daughter in February 1920.
He married, second, in June
1921, Frances Murphy, sister to
Maybelle. Frances was born September 20, 1897 and died August 12, 1992.
Ellis
died in May 1978 and is buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Seattle.
194.
NELLIE PROVINE
(5),
daughter of Albert Gardner and
Sarah Ann (Frayne)
Provine,
was born February 5, 1885. She was married in Seattle, King County, Washington
on June 16, 1909 to Arnold Morley Horder. He was born in London, but became a
naturalized American. They lived first in Seattle, and Vancouver, B.C., then in
Japan and China and finally settled back in Seattle.
Nellie died in
August 1978 in Mercer Island, King County, Washington.
195.
LOIS PROVINE
(5),
daughter of Albert Gardner
and
Sarah Ann (Frayne)
Provine,
was born August 2, 1887. She married John
(Jack) Locke Platt
in
Seattle, King County, Washington.
Lois
died in 1972 in Seattle and is buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Seattle.
196.
RUSSELL ALBERT PROVINE
(5),
son of Albert Gardner and
Sarah Ann (Frayne)
Provine,
was born in Kansas on October 5, 1890. He married Olive
Kuehler
in
Seattle, Washington. She was born Jun 18, 1898 and died May 5, 1989. He died July 7, 1959 at the age of 69 years, in Seattle.
197.
ELINOR PROVINE THOMPSON
(5),
daughter of Ellis
and
Margaret Caroline (Provine)
Thompson,
was born June 6, 1885 in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. She married Charles
Addison Cantrell
at
the home of his parents in Benton, Franklin County, Illinois on April 6, 1906.
Charles was born in Benton on December 11, 1882, son of William Scott and
Jane (Burnett)
Cantrell.
Charles and Elinor settled in Benton and had five children. They later moved to
Dallas, Texas. As a young girl Elinor won the State prize as pianist. She
studied music in Chicago under Rudolph Ganz and was accompanist for Madam
Schumann Heink, a famous singer. Elinor was active in the Red Cross during World
War I.
Charles
died February 10, 1939 in Dallas, Texas. Elinor died October 10, 1961 in
Hinsdale, Illinois. Both are buried in St. Charles cemetery, St. Louis.
198.
DELL LESTINE NELSON
(5),
daughter of Edmond B. and Martha Ellen (Provine)
Nelson,
was born June 25, 1875 in Vermont, Fulton County, Illinois. She was known as
“Aunt Bob” to her nieces and nephews. On June 18, 1901, in Vermont, she
married Rev. William James Leach, a native of Canada. William was a
Methodist minister in Peoria, and also was a reporter for the Peoria Evening
Star newspaper. The circumstances under which he died were very peculiar. He had
spoken out and written against the Chicago Mafia who were running booze down the
river to Peoria from Chicago. He had received several threats but did not pay
any attention. He went to speak in Morton one night (April 12 or June 17, 1922)
and never came home. Three days later they found his body in the Illinois River.
Following his death, “Bob” studied and became an ordained minister. She
served as pastor of a small mission church in Peoria for four years and later
was pastor of the Community church in Morton, Illinois, for several years. She
and her daughter Martha moved to Delaware, Ohio where she acted as house mother
at Ohio Wesleyan University until Martha graduated. The University had a group
of players called the Wayfarers who traveled around in the summer putting on
plays. Aunt Bob traveled with them as chaperone. Ewart Turner and Martha were
both part of the troupe. The day after Martha graduated from Ohio Wesleyan,
Martha and Ewart Turner were married. Aunt Bob came home to Vermont, Illinois in
1929 and lived with her mother, and her sister, Eily. She also completed a year
in the Vermont Methodist church when the pastor died.
199.
DANA (Dane) GREEN NELSON
(5),
son of Edmond B. and Martha Ellen (Provine)
Nelson,
was born on September 28, 1885. He was named after Samuel Dana Green, who was
the executive officer on the “Monitor”, although he never learned what the
connection was to that family. As a young man, Dane worked for his father in the
hardware store his father built. He traveled and worked many places in the west
for over 10 years, such as San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco both before
and after the big earthquake. He said the hotel where he had stayed went down
like a stack of cards. He also worked in Portland, Oregon and Seattle. He worked
at a gold mine in Idaho which is still there. Dane’s father, Edmond, came and
took him out of that job as he had heard it was very dangerous. Dane always said
he would work a while in the hardware store in Vermont and save his money and
then take a train and go west again. When he was 32 years old he married Stella
May Smith on
November 17, 1917. She was born July 10, 1896 to Henry Ayers
and
Mary S. (Horwedel)
Smith.
Since she was 21 to his 32 he always laughed and said he was waiting for her to
grow up. After they were married he stayed with the hardware store in Vermont,
Illinois. When his father retired Dane took over the store and his sister, Eily,
kept the books. In 1947 Dane retired and sold the store to Gerald Ross Wilson, who later married Dane’s daughter,
Lorena.
Dane was a great hunter and fisherman. He also shot a lot of blue rocks
or trap. He was very good.
After he retired, he and his wife, Stella, went to Florida in the winter.
Stella’s health went bad and she had to live in a nursing home. Dane went to
live with his daughter for 2-1/2 years. He was also a member of the
Masonic lodge for 70 years.
200.
EILY
EDMOND NELSON
(5),
daughter of Edmond B. and Martha Ellen (Provine)
Nelson,
was born October 28, 1888 in Vermont, Fulton County, Illinois. She was an
accomplished pianist. She was taken out of high school and sent to Knox College
in Galesburg, Illinois. She graduated in piano and organ. She gave piano lessons
in her home for many years, teaching the whole countryside around Vermont and
Ipava. She was known as “Miss Eily”. She also kept books for her father’s
hardware store for many years. She was a member of the Vermont Methodist Church
where she served as organist.
Eily
died November 28, 1961 in Vermont. She is buried in the Vermont, Fulton County,
Illinois cemetery. She never married.
204.
PAUL
LEVIS PROVINE
(5),
son of Henry Fillmore
and
Phebe Ann (Levis) Provine,
was born August 10, 1881 in Burrton, Harvey County, Kansas. On September 10,
1903 in Seattle, he married Amelia
Tetzloff. She was born July 10, 1882 in
McPherson County, Kansas. Her son, Phillip, tells a little bit about
Amelia:
“With respect to my mother’s background I know very little, I am
sorry to say. Mother and her brother “Eddie” and their parents left
Hutchinson, Kansas by wagon train bound for San Francisco.
Then via boat to Seattle where Mother and Eddie were placed in a German
school. Grandmother Tetzloff had
died en route. Grandad Tetzloff had had some training in mining engineering in
Germany but couldn’t seem to earn enough to support himself and his two
children. However, things changed for the better. A Mrs. Louis Haller took a
liking to mother and even though she had three daughters of her own, she took
mother in and raised her as another daughter.”
Her brother Eddie took the Haller name.
Paul and Amelia were later
divorced. Amelia died December 1, 1936 and is buried in Washelli Cemetery in
Seattle, King County, Washington
Paul married, second, Edna Luella
Ott, on July 4, 1937. They were later
divorced.
Paul
died September 1, 1973 in Des Moines, King County, Washington. He is buried in
Kent, King County, Washington.
205.
ADA LOUISE PROVINE
(5),
daughter of Henry Fillmore and
Phebe Ann (Levis) Provine,
was born April 24, 1884 in Fergus Falls, Ottertail County, Minnesota. She
married George Frederick Leighton on
October 28, 1903 in Seattle, King County, Washington. He was born in Republic
County, Kansas on May 17, 1883 to George Mitchell and
Anna Frances (Small)
Leighton.
Fred
died May 4, 1963 in Seattle. Louise died on March 16, 1968 in Seattle. Both are
buried in Acacia Cemetery, Seattle.
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245. |
i. |
Harriet Mae LEIGHTON, b. 7 Mar 1905; d.
25 June 1989 in Anchorage, AK; unmarried.
Buried at Acacia Memorial Park, Seattle. |
|
246. |
ii. |
Winifred Jean LEIGHTON, b. 29 Nov 1910; d. 30 Jun
1999; unmarried. |
206.
MARGARET CAROLINE PROVINE
(5),
daughter of Henry Fillmore
and
Phebe Ann (Levis) Provine,
was born March 20, 1893 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. On September
9, 1913 she married John (Jack) Alexander
Strang Ross
in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His parents were John Peter and
Annie Mary (Swenerton) Ross.
He was born on January 17, 1889 in Exeter, Ontario, Canada.
Her story:
I was born March 20th, 1893 at 4 o’clock p.m. in Salt Lake City. We
moved to Seattle, Washington when I was a very small child. My first memories
were of the waterfront and boats. Second Avenue had board sidewalks, a steep
hill was at the north, a large hotel was built on top, a cable car ran up to it
from the street. A very special treat was going up there on Sunday afternoon for
dinner.
My father worked for a while in a large lumber company, then after a year
or two started his own business. He bought some acreage about two blocks from
Green Lake. It had a stream running though the back of it. He built a home,
rather small, on it and we lived there until I think I was about 4 years.
He sold it and on another piece built a large place.
I started first grade at the Green Lake school where I went until third
grade. Then my father sold the home and bought one on Capital Hill. I entered
St. Roses Academy which was at that time on Madison and Twelfth. When Holy Names
Academy was built on 21st I went there, it was not far from our home.
My father bought five acres on Lake Washington, we built a summer house
on it; named it Briercrest. The
name is still used out there. He sold the home and we lived in an apartment in
the winter. My Uncle Martin
, father’s oldest brother and Aunt Mary
came out to visit us late in the
summer and they persuaded my parents to let me go visit with them that winter. I
had other Aunts and many cousins around in Illinois. My uncle was a lawyer in
Taylorville, near Springfield. I had a wonderful winter there. I came back in
the spring and was not interested in going back to school. Only finished 3 years
of high school, too bad, I regretted it later.
My father had a chance to invest in a hardwood and inside finish of all
kinds at Vancouver B.C. He was to
manage it for a Calgary, Alberta company. He sold all his properties including
the summer home on Lake Washington and invested everything in the Vancouver
project. That was in late 1910. Everything went very well until World War One started and
eventually Canada was drawn in. Business gradually stopped as far as building
was concerned. In the meantime I started dating John (Jack) Alexander Strang
Ross, he came out on holiday from Calgary but never went back. My father got a
job as bookkeeper for him at the Eburn sawmill. We were married September 9th,
1913.
Jack and I came down by boat to Seattle for a few days, then back to
Vancouver. We took a small apartment in Eburn, stayed there several months. I
became pregnant and very ill. My father rented a large home out on Larch Street.
We moved there and stayed until Leighton
was about eight months old. Mother
and Father rented an apartment in the west end and Jack and I one on Nelson. In
the meantime, the company said they could not carry on so things were closed
out. Could not get any money from the stock as nothing was being bought in any
line. My father lost a great deal of money, his health was getting very poor so
decided we would all come back to Seattle where my father was well known and
could start in again. He started buying from mills and bringing lumber in to a
yard he had started and selling it to contractors. He did very well, started a
fuel business around Green Lake, too. The United States started preparing for
war so business began to fall off, too. He sold the fuel company but continued
on with the lumber. Jack got a job as bookkeeper in the big saw mill at
Snohomish (later burned). We moved there where we lived for about three years.
Mother and father bought a home for themselves on (looks like “bq”) and we
bought on near them. We lived there until Leighton
was about four years old. Then my
father bought several acres out on Aurora Avenue about 105th. He built a home
for himself. Next Paul
(my brother) built a house for his
family. Then Jack and I had a small place put up. Jack had a chance to start in
as Salesman for Oriental rugs at Gate Rankin Furniture Co. Then he was offered a
better chance with Carlozian Bros. in Thrades Co. He worked there for a number
of years.
My
Father died July 28th, 1922. We lived at North Park as Leighton
was to go into Jr. High. We bought
a home at 39th and Ashworth, near good schools. My mother sold her home and
moved to an apartment not far from us. Leighton started in school and soon made friends. We had nice
neighbors around us and were very content.
War clouds became apparent once more. We had friends Blanche and Lou
Starr, who bought a piece of property on Beaver Lake and built a cabin on it
where they spent all their weekends. Had us up quite often, the girls loved it.
We were driving back from there on Sunday night (Dec 7, 1941) when we heard over
the radio that Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor. We were stunned that such a
thing could happen. Everyone’s life seemed to change. Jack quit his selling and went
into the shipyard as timekeeper; they needed help. I applied at Seattle General
Hospital with my nephew Edward Provine’s wife’s help. She introduced me to the Nurses administrator, Miss
Soper. She wanted me to get in the Diet Kitchen but there was not an opening in it so
she offered me a place on the floors. I was glad to take it as we had
school expenses to meet. I had never had any experience working outside of my
home and the first few weeks were something I had never dreamt of going through
and my feet just got so they moved by themselves. The nurses were all so nice to
me and the head nurse on the floor I was to work on very understanding and made
it pleasant for me. I never regretted working there. I think I really grew up
and for the first time had more understanding of the world around me. I blessed
every room I worked in, hoping the occupants would all get well. I worked on the
floors almost a year then had a chance to be assistant in the linen room at more
pay. Was pleasant work and not as hard. The manager of the linen room wanted to
quit for several months so I had charge of it. I worked there for six years.
I was offered a place at the American Linen Co. in the sewing department.
I had thought I would stop working but it did not seem the right time. So I went
to work in the sewing room. The machines were all power machines. It wasn’t
really very hard work and a nice bunch of women were working in there so
altogether, I was happy, stayed with that company eleven years.
Jack
and I had a chance to rent a small apartment at Alki Beach. We sold our home on
Ashworth Avenue and moved what furniture we needed and divided the rest with the
children.
We loved it there, could look right out on the (Puget) Sound and had full
view of the Olympic Range. Had wonderful neighbors. We lived there 11 years.
My mother passed away in a nursing home before we sold our place. The
nursing home was close enough so I could walk to visit her every day.
Jack and I took a number of trips down to California
and several to Salt Lake City and to Yellowstone Park.
Jack’s health began to get somewhat bad and he had to give up selling
rugs, the lifting of rugs became too much for him. We moved to
Redmond. Jack liked to put in a garden and work around the place. He burnt old
stumps on the back acreage. Was content on the place.
Jack had a heart attack on October 1st, 1961. The ambulance did not get
out soon enough to get him under oxygen. A little damage resulted in his brain.
He recovered and was able to get around and do things in the yard. The doctor
had told me that he had a blood clot, as long as it didn’t reach a vital spot
he was all right. He lived until the first of December, then went very quickly.
I stayed on in the mobile, it seemed the best thing for me to do, as of now
lived in it for eighteen years.
Margaret moved back to
Seattle and resided in a Masonic retirement home where she died on December 18,
1981. Jack died December 1, 1962 in Redmond, King County, Washington. They are
buried in Pratt Cemetery, Alta, Wyoming.
207.
MARGARET ETHEL DEAN
(5),
daughter of Homer G.
and
Ada Louise (Provine)
Dean,
was born on October 21, 1885 in Burrton, Harvey County, Kansas. On February 22,
1921, in Seattle, King County, Washington, she married James
Kerr McDonough
. He was born in 1874 and died February
10, 1947. Ethel died November 30, 1939. They both died in Seattle.
208.
DWIGHT PROVINE DEAN
(5),
son of Homer G.
and
Ada Louise (Provine) Dean,
was born July 26, 1888 in Lyons, Rice County, Kansas. On December 6, 1910 in
Seattle, King County, Washington, he married Edith
Taylor, daughter of William
and
Elizabeth Caroline (Cannon)
Taylor.
She was born September 5, 1887 in Seattle.
Dwight
died October 1968 in Media, Pennsylvania while living with his daughter.
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