John Curtis Kennedy

I found a photograph of John Curtis Kennedy!





















I have several of his beautiful wife Annabelle. http://mygrandmasoldfamilyphotos.blogspot.com/2010/02/annabelle-van-horn-kennedy.html
I've been longing to see him. This photo is on the cover of The Darrow-Kennedy Debate: Will Socialism Save the World? that I found at an online used bookstore. http://www.betweenthecovers.com/btc/item/285433/ . The page won't allow "save picture as" and $350.00 for the pamphlet seems steep. So, I've been searching for a cheaper copy.

Luckily, this site popped up in a search recently http://darrow.law.umn.edu/photo.php?pid=349 -- so at least I have an electronic copy.

Jay Van Horn and Stella Rood Van Horn

Jay Van Horn and Stella Rood Van Horn with sons Dale, Ross, Everett.
Likely taken at Edwin Van Horn's funeral 1907.












Joseph "Jay" Van Horn married Edna Estelle Rood 27 Sep 1892, North Loup, Valley, NE. Children Dale Rex Van Horn, Ross Rood Van Horn, George Everett Van Horn

Sources:
Title: The Thorngate-Rood Family 1798-1977
Author: Margaret Lowther Smithley Burdick
Publication: Self-published, Milton, WI 1977

Courtesy: Jon Saunders, They Came to Milton
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jonsaunders&id=I43520

Skating Party on North Loup River 1909

Skating party on North Loup River about 1909. Uncle Lloyal, sisters Bertha and Anna, cousin Ruby, brothers Ernest, Billy, and Harry, cousin Rua. I was with the party but one skate had come unfastened and I was out of the picture. -- Leah Van Horn Barnes Rindlesbach

Seventh-Day Baptist Church in Heber Utah

The Sabbath Recorder, Volume 78
































http://books.google.com/books?id=aSZEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA634&lpg=PA634&dq=%22Leah+Van+Horn%22+Heber&source=bl&ots=lyGI-L2Ovf&sig=njyh2D0InKcO51AV55WCAtYsfFU&hl=en&ei=oL6IS8XlEIOesgPiwZGGAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Leah%20Van%20Horn%22%20Heber&f=false

Baptist Church in North Loup, Nebraska

"I was born 9 August 1895 when my family lived at Deadwood, South Dakota. Later we lived at Preston (Ragged Top) and when I was about six years old we moved to an isolated place in Little Spearfish Canyon.

We had a school of 8 pupils (7 from my father's family) -- just enough to justify the appointment of a teacher . . . my father and brothers [built] a one-room school house. Our beloved teacher, Miss Young shared a room upstairs with us three older girls. Miss Young taught us how to pray as we had never been taught to pray vocally. This has always been a mystery to me because of my family's devotion to the Seventh Day Baptist Church and their strict adherance to the keeping of the Jewish Sabbath. Many of our ancestors were ministers of that faith and date back to the organization of the church by Roger Williams in early American history. According to my memory, my mother's membership was eventually transferred from the church at Milton, Wisconsin to the church at North Loup, Nebraska. My Father's membership, to my knowledge, was never taken from the files of the Seventh Day Baptist Church at Welton, Iowa. I remember asking my mother at one time why she did not say prayers. She replied, 'Lelie, I always have a prayer in my heart.'

When I was ten years old my family moved back to North Loup, Nebraska as our parents felt that we needed a wider association of friends as well as the influence of The Church. It was difficult to keep our Sabbath in a community where there were no other people of our faith. In North Loup, there were many Seventh Day Baptists, who, by the way, were known as "Sabbieites" by people of other religious denominations.

I had never been taught church doctrine and when I asked questions I was never given any definite idea of the principles of belief of the Seventh-Day Baptist Church, but was baptized in the North Loup River by Pastor George B. Shaw and given the "Right Hand of Fellowship" in a church service which made me a member of The North Loup Church. Other members of the family became members by the same method. This membership was given to use while Mother was still with us."

--Leah Van Horn

Merrill & Alice White Van Horn with Youngest Sister Jane Van Horn

Merrill Van Horn and Alice White were married 27 Dec 1910. They cared for the youngest sister Jane Van Horn Barnes Johnston.





















"Their family of ten unmarried children were left alone to mourn the loss of both parents and to face the problems of life with no wise counseling.

Four members of the family, Earnest, Merrill, Harry, and Bertha were married during the next year and were able to help the younger members of the family. Until this time after Mother's death, my brothers had paid different people to care for the two little girls. Merrill and Harry leased the Van Horn cattle ranch which was at Davis Creek some twelve or so miles from town. Billy lived with the brothers there. After leaving the Black Hills, Beecher spent some time at Berkley California with a Reverend Burdick and his family. He also spent time in Utah were he obtained a homestead from the United States Government in the Uintah Basin. He did not marry until after his term of service in World War I.

My sister Ana and I did domestic work during summer vacation, then found places to work for our room and board during the long winter months of the school years. It was not easy going to school for nine months on the small amount that we could save at three dollars a week for three months. We managed to keep ourselves clothed and fed but there was never the fullness of joy that should be with young adults during the tender years. It seemed to me that our newly acquired church associates had the "salt of the earth" attitude and lacked the spirit of compassion that one would expect in such devout Christians. "

-- Leah Van Horn Barnes

Earl Barnes, Charles Barnes, Richard Barnes

Three youngest children (fourteen total) of William Henry and Margaret Ellen Clegg Barnes. Earl (left), Charles (center), Richard "Dick" (right). Likely prior to 1915.