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in these times
Someday, my memory of these days of pandemic will have faded. But there is value in lessons learned, so I will describe my experiences here.
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My situation is that of a retired person, used to working on my writing at home and going out to do errands and some volunteer work. For my husband and I, staying home is not too different from normal life.
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1. Food. Before the pandemic, we had already shifted to getting curb-side delivery of our groceries from the Atlantic Superstore. For that reason, no shift was needed. During this time, we make an order every two weeks, ordering early to get a convenient delivery time. My husband also goes to Sobeys once every two weeks for milk and a few needed items. Both stores have good distancing measures in place and the few substitutions any store has made have not been significant. As for take-out food, we have continued to order pizza and other take-out food as before.
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2. Passing Time in Isolation. I am so lucky that my husband and I have been able to face this time together. I have not really been isolated, since there is always someone there to talk to. We do small household projects together, read a bit together in a mystery series we both enjoy, watch some TV and plan our meals.
I am a writer and my writing life is managed by working on several projects at once, each project in a different stage. I have been very productive in the last two months, completing drafts of three new poetry books, completing work on the next book in my science fiction series, and launching two books, one science fiction and one mystery. I have seen a little spike in readership in the last few weeks, as people turn to reading to pass time alone.
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3. Contributing to Local Businesses. At the best of times, we are not big consumers. But during the pandemic, I have tried to support local businesses. I have bought plants for the growing season from Scotts, art supplies and toys from Endeavours and Think Play, fabric from Fabricville and so on. These businesses have gone above and beyond to give safe and friendly service. When parcels arrive, I put them in Quarantine for three days, to minimize any risk.
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4. Getting Out and About. During the pandemic, we have taken short drives, to bird watch, check on our cabin (about 3/4 of an hour away) and deliver sold books. In a stroke of luck, I had ordered author copies of my four newest books before Amazon cut delivery service to Canada, so I have books to sell. I do what I call ‘drive-by-bookings,’ making arrangements with those who want to buy my books, hanging a bag of books on the door handle and leaving to maintain social distancing. I have also put copies of my books in some of the little free libraries in town.
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5. Staying in Touch. I am so grateful to live in the age of the internet. I am able to keep in touch with family and friends by way of email, Facebook and my blog. My two writer’s groups have held their meetings on Facebook Messenger and I have taken a writing course twice a week on Facebook. I have family members not on social media and we have kept touch by way of telephone.
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6. Staying Healthy. Our days are very routine. We focus on getting lots of sleep, keeping our intake of fruit and vegetables high, keeping in touch with our physician and diabetic health care folk. As usual, I fall short on exercise. I have mobility problems and always do a half hour program of stretches each morning. Other than that, my success in the area of exercise is rather pitiful. I say I will do better.
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7. Adaption to new standards. We are lucky in New Brunswick where I live. We have had few cases, have no new cases (according to testing) and no deaths from COVID- 19. We are in the Yellow Phase of our re-opening plan which means most business can open with social-distancing and other measures in place.
Social distancing is hard. Not because I am a huggy sort of person, but because I find confronting people difficult. If someone is getting too close, I find it hard to confront, to say back off, even in a nice way. So when the delivery fellow comes to the door and tries to pass me a box, I take it, getting nearer than I should.
As our province tries to return to ‘normal’, I know mask-wearing will become part of our culture. So I dusted off my sewing machine and scanned the many videos showing mask-making. By the end of making ten washable masks, I could do them with my eyes shut, but my back hurt and I think I sewed through my finger at least once.
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The other day, as I went through some poems I have written, I came across one about getting the H1N1 vaccine. I have almost no memory of that time in my life. Of course, our lives were not affected in quite the same way. Perhaps I will look back on the time of COVID-19 and know some things changed for the better.
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All my best.
Stay safe. Wash your hands. Stay home as much as possible.
Find a safe way to talk to and be with those you love.
Jane
final touches
So, after a month of organizing and sorting the poems in my ‘forty-years-of-writing bone pile,’ I have three illustrated books of poetry ready for the next step:
‘niche’ – poems about the spaces occupied by plants and animals, including humans, as they search for home. A good friend of mine has written the Foreword for ‘niche’ and I am looking forward to adding his name to the cover.
‘blueberries and mink: summers on my grandfather’s farm’ – poems about life on the farm and the changes over the years.
‘ghosts are lonely here’ – poems about abandoned buildings and other elements of the countryside.
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Now that I have everything sorted, I know I have more collections to work on, but this is enough for now. My computer is more organized than it has been in years..
The next step in the process is to request Proofs. Once I get these proofs, I will do one more round of edits and make a few final decisions on formatting. Then I will publish them, using KDP. I have no intention of marketing these. I will get enough copies for family and friends who would like to read them.
Requesting Proofs is tricky right now. Amazon has turned its efforts to making and shipping Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). I don’t mind being patient.
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Sample drawings from the three poetry books:
All my best
Staying in my bubble!
Jane
imagination
When I was little, I lived in Alberta, in a house built by my father and mother. At the back of the house was a veranda. Below the veranda was a big vegetable garden, full of corn and pumpkins and mint. At the end of the garden, was a power pole, used by my mother as a clothes pole.
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my mom and I in the garden … the clothes pole is in the far left of the photo, at the end of the garden
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On laundry day, my mother hung the wet clothing on a line stretching between the house and the pole. As she hung the laundry, I would play at the end of the garden, under my mother’s watchful eye.
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But I was not where she supposed me to be. Instead, I was off on some imaginary adventure. One place I would go — into the cave beneath the rocks around the base of the clothes pole. In my imagination, the cave led to a tunnel, running under the garden and weaving between roots of pumpkin and mint. I don’t remember what I ‘saw’ in the world I entered or any of the adventures I must have had. Imagination can take you anywhere!
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laundry day
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mint splashes, fresh
against the wall
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her mother pins
clothes to the line
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shirts dance towards
pole at the end
of the garden,
a pole covered
in pumpkin vine
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where a small girl
skips, turns her chin
towards blue sky
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where rainbow begins
and ends,
on the green hill,
entry to cave,
hidden from sun
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and the girl skips
slower, slower
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follows tunnel
under garden
between tendrils
of ripe pumpkin
and root of mint
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and above earth,
her mother pins
clothes to the line
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All my best,
Jane
Pokiok Falls
Pokiok Stream, about 2011
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On one of our family summer excursions across Canada, my parents stopped along the highway in New Brunswick to see the Pokiok Falls near Nackawick. I remember the white churn of water below me, so steep it looked like the water was falling into a pipe. In 1967 the Mactaquac Dam submerged the falls and now they are only a memory, visible on old post cards and in photo albums.
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For a fictionalized account of the changes resulting from the building of the Mactaquac Dam, read Riel Nason’s excellent coming-of-age book ‘The Town That Drowned‘ (Goose Land Editions, 2011).
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Pokiok Falls
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my mother held me at the railing
to see the Pokiok
plunge
from highway
to river
granite pipe
roiling water
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later, when the dam went in
they moved the churches
to higher ground
so the church bells
wouldn’t gurgle
when they rang
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now the river slips sideways a notch
to fill the round drowning of the falls
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water cannot fall within water
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I cried when I left
I hadn’t seen the pokioks
I said
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Copyright Jane Tims 2018
time on the shore
On this Father’s Day, I remember times spent with my dad.
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When I was a kid, he would take us to the shore near Port Maitland, Nova Scotia, to look for chunks of iron pyrite (fool’s gold) in the rocks.
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time on the shore
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spit of sand
grains in an hourglass
poured through gaps
in a cobble sea
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waves advance
try to tangle me
wash me, turn me
like a sea-smooth stone
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but I know about tides
I move myself inland
each hour
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he watched whales blow here
saw sea horses dance
filled his pockets with sea glass
pitied the sandpiper
sprinkling tracks the waves erase
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I hear the hiss of air
the echoing wail
small stallions prance on my toes
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I close my eyes
forget to move
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he takes us prospecting
we wedge into crevasses
keen for pyrite gold
cube within cube
embedded in stone
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we always forget the hammer
we chip and scratch with fingernails
reach across rock
dare the waves
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a sanderling cries
quit quit!
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shorebirds
befriend me
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a dowitcher sews a seam with her bill
bastes salt water to shore
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the sanderling shoos back the tide
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terns
plunge into the ocean
and complain they are wet
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Published as: ‘Time on the Shore’, Canadian Stories 16 (89), February/March 2013
Part of manuscript ‘mnemonic‘ winner of the Alfred G. Bailey Prize, Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick 2016 Writing Competition
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Copyright Jane Tims 2017
playing alleys
Kids in the school yard have played marbles since the late 1800s, when glass marbles were first produced for the mass market.
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When my mom talked about marbles, she always referred to them as alleys, no matter what material was used in their construction. According to Wikipedia, alleys were a specific type of marble. Almost every kind of marble has a specific name. When my son played and collected marbles in the 1980s, some of these terms were regularly heard in our home.
aggie – made of agate
alley – a marble made of alabaster
bumblebee – a yellow and black glass marble
cat’s eye – a marble with a eye-like inclusion
crystal – a clear glass marble of various colours
galaxy – opaque marble with coloured dots
oily – an opaque marble with a sheen or oily finish
onionskin – a marble with surface streaks of colour
ox blood – a marble with a streak of dark red
pearl – opaque marble of single colour and a mother of pearl finish
plainsie – a clear glass marble with inclusion of two or more swirled ribbons of colour
swirly – glass marble with a ribbon inclusion of a single colour
tiger – a clear marble with orange and yellow stripes
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There are lots of other marble types and names.
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The language of marbles extends to the various moves in the game:
knuckle down – put hand in position to shoot
keepsies – to play for keeps
quitsies – stop playing without consequences
firing – to shoot a marble
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Such interesting possibilities for the language of a poem!
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Writing about a game of marbles will include all the senses (I think my poem will be from the point of view of a boy playing marbles):
sound – clinking of dishes in the sink; grinding of marbles together in the marble bag
taste – grit of sand stirred by wind across the playground; grit of raspberry seeds
feel – the cold smooth feel of a marble; a chunk of icicle from the roof in December
smell – stirred dust; girls watching the games, smelling of Ivory soap and well water
sight – bubble rising through the glass of the marble; bubbles with rainbows sliding; dew drops on Lady’s Mantle in the garden
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I can hardly wait to write a poem about playing marbles in the school yard!
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Copyright 2016 Jane Tims
dancing around the daisy pole
Perhaps strange to talk about a Maypole in July but Maypoles have been used for summer celebrations throughout the years. In the old stereoscope photo below, published by a company in Meadville Pennsylvania and St. Louis Missouri, the Maypole is referred to as a Daisy Pole.
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A rather blurry scan of a stereoscopic photo, blurry because it is curved for the viewer. The title of the photo is ‘A June Carnival – Dancing Round the Daisy Pole’ 1900
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When my Aunt Jane was young, attending a small school in Nova Scotia, field days were held in June. In her book, she recalls participating in a field day:
… I was in grade 1 … we had a “field day”. My dress was made of blue and white crepe paper and, holding on to the end of a white paper streamer, I danced around a May pole. I remember my great embarrassment as a gust of wind took the streamer out of my hand and sent it high in the air to flutter in the breeze …
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The decorative Maypole we made years ago to celebrate May 1 every year. Through the years, when I needed ribbon, I occasionally snipped a length from the pole, so there are a few short ribbons!
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sketch for ‘dancing around the daisy pole’ … in some ways more lively than the final drawing
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Copyright Jane Tims 2016
early schools – the exotic and the common
In my Aunt’s book about early schooling in Nova Scotia, she tells an amusing story about field days at school:
… I recall another field day when Dr. DeWolfe, Miss Harris, and Miss Baker came with shrubs to our school. The shrubs were ten cents each. My mother had always longed for a weigela and a snowball and we were delighted that at last she could have her wish, for both these varieties were among Dr. DeWolf’s collection. They were duly planted at my home on the bank of the French River. One turned out to be a high bush cranberry and the other a spiraea, but today we still refer to them as the “snowball” and “weigela” and, I may mention, they have many an offspring throughout our province.
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I must have seen the high bush cranberry and spiraea many times at my mother’s old home, but I don’t remember them in particular. I do remember the gardens, lush with rose bushes, tiger lilies, and grape vines.
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Copyright 2016 Jane Tims
Norman Families Living in Missouri in 1870
In my search for my Great-Grandfather Frank Norman, I became interested in where Norman families were living in Missouri in 1860 and 1870. Frank was born around 1855, so it is likely his family was still in Missouri for the 1860 Census and may have been there in 1870. Locating all the Normans in Missouri also helped me be certain I have not missed any possible Frank Normans in my search.
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In a previous post, I located the Norman families living in Missouri in 1860 on an 1856 map. Today’s post shows the Norman families in Missouri in 1870. Each black dot represents one to three households living at that location in 1870. I have included the table of households at the end of this post, in case this information would help other Norman families in their genealogy searches. I have double-checked the information but please be aware, there may be households missing or incorrect. My next genealogy project is to map the Norman families in Missouri in 1880.
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In 1870, there were 148 households in Missouri with people having the surname Norman (in 1860, there were 92). Some of these were families, some with more than one generation in the household, some with as many as nine children. Some were young men or women living or working as servants or laborers with other families. Some were young children, living with foster families or in one case, in an orphanage (Lucy Norman, 12 years old).
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To see the change in the Norman families, compare the 1860 and 1870 map below. The numbers of Norman families have increased due to migration from other states, or because older children have established their own families. Some families or their members have migrated to the cities of Saint Louis or Kansas City.
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By comparing the family lists, the whereabouts of various families can be traced. For example, in Laclede County in 1860 there were two Norman families, including Moses and Betsy Norman who I think may be Frank’s parents. By 1870, this family is no longer in Laclede County or anywhere else in Missouri. Also, I know from other records that their son Benj has died. The other 1860 Norman family (Moses and Lucinda with eight other family members) is now represented by Lucinda and four other family members (Moses died in 1873, so it is unknown why he is not with the family at Census time). I can trace remnants and descendants of this family through to 1880 (Lucinda died in 1891). There are two other Norman families in Laclede County in 1870, Newton Norman and William Norman. Newton Norman is Lucinda’s son and has his own family. I do not know the relationship, if any, of William Norman to the Moses and Lucinda family.
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Six of the 1870 Norman families had sons named Francis/Frank. There is also a Frank L (born 1836) in St. Joseph, Buchanan County who is too old to be my Frank, and an ‘F. Norman of uncertain age in St, Louis. I think my ancestor was Francis M. Norman, son of Moses and Betsy Norman, living in Hooker, Laclede County in 1860. In 1870, he is 18 years old and if his parents have died, he could be anywhere. Sad sentence for a family historian!!!
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Copyright 2016 Jane Tims
| Family Number (for my own reference) | Male (usually husband but also father or son) | Age | Female (usually wife but also mother or daughter) | Age | Number Other Normans in House-hold
(* son Francis) |
Township | County | Living with another family |
| 135 | Salina | 26 | Rochester | Andrew | Cook | |||
| 139 | Laura E. | 20 | Lincoln | Andrew | Jackson | |||
| 124 | Alexander | 16 | Nancy | 57 | 1 | Deer Creek | Bates | |
| 47 | Caleb | 37 | Josephine | 35 | 4 | Boone | Bates | |
| 110 | William | 29 | Julia | 19 | 2 | Capps Creek | Barry | |
| 80 | Marion | 24 | 1 | Fristoe | Benton | |||
| 7 | W. L. | 59 | Mary | 60 | 4 | Cedar | Boone | |
| 35 | James | 41 | Armina | 23 | 5 * | Cedar | Boone | |
| 138 | Maj | 21 | 2 | Cedar | Boone | |||
| 22 | Enos | 48 | Nancy | 47 | 6 * | Jackson | Buchanan | |
| 121 | Charlotte | 63 | Center | Buchanan | Smith | |||
| 41 | Charles | 39 | 4 | St. Joseph | Buchanan | |||
| 42 | John | 39 | Mary E. | 21 | 9 | St. Joseph | Buchanan | |
| 55 | Frank L. | 34 | Stacy J. | 26 | 2 | St. Joseph | Buchanan | |
| 68 | James | 30 | St. Joseph | Buchanan | ||||
| 69 | Jas | 30 | St. Joseph | Buchanan | ||||
| 115 | B.F. | 27 | St. Joseph | Buchanan | Thompson | |||
| 141 | Mary | 16 | St. Joseph | Buchanan | McClean | |||
| 144 | Josephine | 13 | St. Joseph | Buchanan | Cunningham | |||
| 32 | Smith | 44 | Hannah | 41 | Hamilton | Caldwell | ||
| 71 | Fayett | 29 | Elen | 26 | 4 | Warren | Camden | |
| 48 | Caleb | 33 | Josie | 26 | 4 | Dolan | Cass | |
| 9 | George W. | 57 | 5 | Cedar | Cedar | |||
| 131 | Hillina | 32 | 1 | Twnshp 53 | Chariton | |||
| 15 | Hiram | 52 | Juda | 52 | 4 | Polk | Christian | |
| 62 | William | 33 | Sarah | 30 | 3 | Polk | Christian | |
| 91 | William | 26 | Elisabeth | 22 | Wyaconda | Clark | ||
| 143 | Mary | 14 | Jackson | Clark | ||||
| 54 | A.M. | 34 | Fannie | 26 | Saline | Cooper | ||
| 113 | William | 28 | Eleanor | 20 | 1 | Greenfield | Dade | |
| 27 | Eldridge | 46 | Julia | 40 | 2 | Benton | Dallas | |
| 57 | William | 34 | Lucy | 30 | 8 * | Benton | Dallas | |
| 107 | Thomas | 21 | Adeline | 20 | Benton | Dallas | ||
| 24 | Joseph | 47 | Phoeba | 43 | 3 | Jefferson | Davies | |
| 117 | John F. | 27 | Sherman | Dekalb | Tenneson | |||
| 99 | James M.P. | 23 | Mary F. | 23 | Findley | Douglas | Ellison | |
| 31 | Henry | 44 | Emilie | 24 | Boles | Franklin | ||
| 72 | James T. | 11 | 1 | Miller | Gentry | Setzer | ||
| 82 | William J. | 23 | Miller | Gentry | Sutzer | |||
| 94 | Louis C. | 25 | Martha F. | 25 | 2 | Cooper | Gentry | |
| 16 | James | 52 | Sarah | 40 | 4 | Pond Creek | Greene | |
| 25 | William | 47 | Mary | 41 | 6 | Center | Greene | |
| 56 | Robert | 34 | Mary | 30 | 2 | Wilson | Greene | |
| 60 | Josiah | 33 | Sarah A. | 34 | 1 | Taylor | Greene | |
| 108 | Jesse | 29 | Susanna | 23 | Taylor | Greene | ||
| 123 | Daniel | 17 | Malinda | 58 | Taylor | Greene | ||
| 112 | Olon | 28 | Trenton | Grundy | Hansen | |||
| 147 | Hattie | 12 | Marion | Grundy | Johnson | |||
| 77 | Milton S. | 25 | Lewis | Holt | Prie | |||
| 88 | Andy | 20 | Richmond | Howard | Patterson | |||
| 2 | Thomas | 64 | 3 | Kansas City | Jackson | |||
| 45 | Thomas | 38 | Kansas City | Jackson | ||||
| 63 | Henry | 32 | Laura | 21 | Kansas City | Jackson | ||
| 95 | A.J. | 24 | Kansas City | Jackson | ||||
| 96 | Thomas | 64 | 3 | Kansas City | Jackson | |||
| 105 | James | 21 | Kansas City | Jackson | Madison | |||
| 118 | Joseph | 27 | Mary J. | 23 | 3 | Kansas City | Jackson | |
| 3 | Thron | 62 | Mary A. | 55 | 3 | Marion | Jasper | |
| 20 | Aaron Vanormond | 49 | Sarah | 44 | 4 | Benton | Knox | |
| 5 | Lucinda | 52 | 4 | Hooker | Laclede | |||
| 46 | William | 38 | Mary | 33 | 3 | Lebanon | Laclede | |
| 111 | Newton | 28 | Virginia A. | 35 | 3 | Hooker | Laclede | |
| 102 | Joseph | 22 | Buck Prairie | Lawrence | Cummings | |||
| 109 | Milford | 29 | Mary | 23 | 3 | Buck Prairie | Lawrence | |
| 132 | Amanda | 30 | 2 | Monticello | Lewis | Howard | ||
| 33 | William | 44 | Mary | 32 | Chillicothe | Livingston | ||
| 51 | Minnie | 12 | Chilicothe | Livingston | Reugger | |||
| 140 | Namie | 18 | Chillicothe | Livingston | ||||
| 142 | Basha | 15 | Chillicothe | Livingston | Bargdoll | |||
| 65 | Henry | 31 | Alice A. | 25 | 2 | Medicine | Livingston | |
| 129 | Elizabeth | 35 | 2 | Blue Mound | Livingston | |||
| 83 | George | 22 | Warren | Marion | Hanley | |||
| 134 | Nancy L. | 26 | Somerset | Mercer | Duree | |||
| 28 | J.B. | 45 | Rosan | 38 | 7 * | Pilot Grove | Moniteau | |
| 86 | James M. | 21 | Anna | 66 | Pilot Grove | Moniteau | ||
| 64 | J.W. | 32 | Mary J. | 31 | 2 | Willow Fork | Moniteau | |
| 92 | Joseph W.T. | 25 | Louisa A. | 20 | 2 | Clay | Monroe | |
| 122 | Eliza | 58 | Jackson | Monroe | Vaughn | |||
| 18 | Allen | 50 | Catherine | 40 | 4 | Danville | Montgomery | |
| 90 | Robert | 19 | Melissa | 23 | 1 | Danville | Montgomery | |
| 29 | William | 45 | Sarah | 35 | 6 | Mill Creek | Morgan | |
| 13 | Thomas M. | 53 | Julia A. | 37 | 5 | Oak Grove | Oregon | |
| 100 | John | 23 | Nancy | 25 | 1 | Oak Grove | Oregon | |
| 120 | George | 26 | Mary | 23 | 2 | Oak Grove | Oregon | |
| 127 | Hester | 49 | Oak Grove | Oregon | ||||
| 38 | M.G. | 40 | Mary | 38 | 6 | Piney | Oregon | |
| 11 | A. | 54 | Roda | 36 | Marion | Ozark | ||
| 67 | James | 30 | Bowling Green | Pettis | ||||
| 74 | Jas | 26 | Mary | 24 | 5 | Bowling Green | Pettis | |
| 75 | John D. | 26 | Calumet | Pike | Kissinger | |||
| 116 | C.N. | 27 | Carroll | Platte | Adams | |||
| 61 | Thomas F. | 33 | Mary | 28 | 4 | Madison | Polk | |
| 85 | William T. | 22 | Lucretia | 52 | 5 | Looney | Polk | |
| 1 | Stephen | 64 | Mary A. | 38 | 2 | Sherman | Putnam | |
| 43 | L.M. | 39 | Susan | 34 | 4 | Sherman | Putnam | |
| 101 | Eph | 22 | Sherman | Putnam | Neff | |||
| 14 | George | 52 | Eliza | 46 | 5 | Center | Ralls | |
| 73 | Harry | 17 | Margaret | 14 | 1 | Jasper | Ralls | Brasher |
| 79 | Johnithan | 24 | Saline | Ralls | ||||
| 81 | Thomas | 24 | Mary | 23 | 1 | Salt River | Ralls | |
| 78 | Jas B. | 24 | Sarah | 19 | Polk | Ray | ||
| 104 | Jack | 21 | E.D. | 45 | 2 | Current River | Ripley | |
| 26 | Albert | 46 | Mary | 39 | 6 | Fabius | Schuyler | |
| 37 | James | 40 | Hannah | 66 | 3 | Fabius | Schuyler | |
| 39 | Minor | 40 | Ellen | 34 | 5 | Fabius | Schuyler | |
| 50 | Doctor | 35 | Martha | 25 | 4 | Independence | Schuyler | |
| 6 | James | 60 | Kelso | Scott | ||||
| 128 | Caroline | 37 | 1 | Kelso | Scott | Hankerson | ||
| 23 | Charles W. | 47 | Mary E. | 41 | 4 | Moreland | Scott | |
| 53 | William | 35 | Diana | 45 | 2 * | Moreland | Scott | |
| 70 | John C. | 30 | Ann E. | 23 | 2 | Moreland | Scott | |
| 84 | Reuben | 22 | Harriet | 25 | 2 | Moreland | Scott | |
| 89 | James K. | 20 | Altha | 24 | Moreland | Scott | ||
| 145 | Mary L. | 13 | Commerce | Scott | Archer | |||
| 12 | Birkett | 54 | Carlonie | 54 | 3 | Tiger Fork | Shelby | |
| 40 | Thomas | 40 | Sally | 24 | 1 | Osceola | St. Clair | Barth |
| 8 | Daniel | 58 | Bonhomme | Sr. Louis | Campbell | |||
| 17 | John | 52 | Mary | 38 | St. Louis | St. Louis | ||
| 19 | Pat | 50 | St. Louis | St. Louis | ||||
| 21 | Daniel | 49 | Lucy | 39 | St. Louis | St. Louis | ||
| 49 | David | 35 | St. Louis | St. Louis | ||||
| 66 | F. | ?? | St. Louis | St. Louis | ||||
| 87 | Saml | 21 | St. Louis | St. Louis | ||||
| 93 | Leslie R. | 25 | Mary | 26 | 1 (Eliz 49) | St. Louis | St. Louis | |
| 98 | Henry | 24 | St. Louis | St. Louis | ||||
| 103 | Michael | 22 | St. Louis | St. Louis | Heinsey | |||
| 119 | Dennis | 26 | St. Louis | St. Louis | ||||
| 126 | Lizzie | 50 | St. Louis | St. Louis | Washington | |||
| 133 | Angeline | 30 | St. Louis | St. Louis | ||||
| 136 | N. | 25 | St. Louis | St. Louis | ||||
| 137 | Louisa | 22 | St. Louis | St. Louis | Nayler | |||
| 148 | Lucy | 12 | St. Louis | St. Louis | Winter Orphanage | |||
| 10 | Christ | 56 | Catherin | 56 | 3 | Ste. Genevieve | Ste. Genevieve | |
| 4 | William | 62 | Sarah | 38 | 2 | Castor | Stoddard | |
| 30 | Wm | 45 | Sarah | 38 | 8 | Castor | Stoddard | |
| 44 | Matthew J. | 38 | Christian | 35 | 6 | Castor | Stoddard | |
| 106 | Levi | 21 | Missouri | 21 | 3 | Castor | Stoddard | |
| 58 | Andrew | 36 | Martha | 34 | 6 | Liberty | Stoddard | |
| 36 | Eli | 40 | Eliz | 40 | 4 | Liberty | Stoddard | |
| 125 | Elizabeth | 42 | 3 | Liberty | Stoddard | |||
| 146 | Elizabeth | 42 | 3 | Liberty | Stoddard | |||
| 97 | Enos W. | 24 | Mary E. | 20 | 1 | Clay | Sullivan | |
| 59 | John A. | 33 | Margaret | 23 | 4 (Louisa 53) | Cass | Texas | |
| 34 | Alfred R. | 43 | Cornelia | 39 | 6 | Henry | Vernon | |
| 52 | Jacob F. | 35 | Eliza | 33 | 3 * | Henry | Vernon | |
| 76 | George | 25 | Nellie L. | 29 | 1 | Osage | Vernon | |
| 130 | Henry | 17 | Nancy | 33 | 3 | Warrenton | Warren | |
| 114 | W.S. | 28 | Sarah C. | 22 | 2 | Various | Wright | |
Norman Families Living in Missouri in 1860
In my search for my Great-Grandfather Frank Norman, I became interested in where Norman families were living in Missouri in 1860. Frank was born around 1855, so it is likely his family was still in Missouri for the 1860 Census. Locating all the Normans in Missouri also helped me be certain I have not missed any possible Frank Normans in my search.
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To do this, I searched the 1860 US Census for the name Norman and located each family on an 1856 map of Missouri. Each black dot represents one or more households living at that location in 1860. I have included the table of households at the end of this post, in case this information would help other Norman families in their genealogy searches. I have double-checked the information but please be aware, there may be households missing or incorrect. My next genealogy project is to map the Norman families in Missouri in 1870.
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In 1860, there were 92 households in Missouri with people having the surname Norman. Some of these were families, some with more than one generation in the household, some with as many as eight children. Some were young men or women living or working as servants or laborers with other families. Some were young children, living with foster families.
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Four of Norman families had sons named Francis. As I have explained in earlier posts, I have eliminated three of these as possible candidates for my Great-Grandfather. I think my ancestor was Francis M. Norman, son of Moses and Betsy Norman, living in Hooker, Laclede County.
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Copyright 2016 Jane Tims
Norman Families in Missouri in 1860 in order of County (from US Census)
| Household Number (for my own reference) | Male (usually husband but also father or son) | Age | Female (usually wife but also mother or daughter) | Age | Number Other Normans in House-hold
(* son Francis) |
Township | County | Family name if living with another family |
| 14 | Jas | 37 | Margaret | 35 | 4 | Jefferson | Andrew | |
| 34 | Lewis | 47 | Martha | 26 | 4 | Liberty | Barry | |
| 35 | Joseph | 35 | Mahala | 33 | 7 | Liberty | Barry | |
| 47 | Joel | 39 | Mary Ann | 26 | 3 | Shoal Creek | Barry | |
| 73 | George | 68 | Rachel | 68 | Liberty | Barry | ||
| 24 | Mary | 31 | 3 | Cedar | Boone | |||
| 74 | Jas T. | 32 | Cedar | Boone | Senor | |||
| 65 | Charlotte | 60 | Center | Buchanan | Smith | |||
| 29 | William | 43 | Eliz | 27 | 4 | Williamsburg | Callaway | |
| 8 | Jas | 22 | Eliz N. | 24 | Wakenda | Carroll | ||
| 54 | C.P. | 26 | Josephine | 18 | 2 | Dolan | Cass | |
| 12 | Louisa | 15 | Jackson | Clark | McMillan | |||
| 31 | Charles | 9 | St. Francisville | Clark | Wayland | |||
| 75 | Jos | 23 | Moniteau | Cooper | Jones | |||
| 53 | Samuel | 34 | America | 38 | 4 | Benton | Dallas | |
| 25 | Joseph | 36 | Phoebe | 32 | 4 | Jefferson | Davies | |
| 66 | Elizabeth | 60 | Jefferson | Davies | Downs | |||
| 30 | William | 9 | Clay | Dunklin | Smith | |||
| 76 | John | 40 | Angeline | 20 | Union | Dunklin | ||
| 9 | James | 14 | 1* (F.) | Boone | Franklin | Brauley | ||
| 44 | William A. | 36 | Mary A. | 30 | 4* (Wm.F.) | Wilson | Greene | |
| 57 | James C. | 42 | Sarah | 30 | 2 | Pond Creek | Greene | |
| 77 | Robert P. | 25 | Mary L. | 19 | Wilson | Greene | ||
| 61 | Aaron (Vanarman) | 39 | Sarah | 34 | 4 | Center | Knox | |
| 38 | Moses | 65 | Lucinda | 35 | 8 | Hooker | Laclede | |
| 39 | Moses | 29 | Betsy | 30 | 2 * (Francis M.) | Hooker | Laclede | |
| 60 | William | 14 | Buck Prairie | Lawrence | Grammar | |||
| 78 | J.B. | 30 | Unknown | 25 | 1 | Twnshp 57 | Linn | |
| 18 | B.F. | 27 | Malinda | 24 | 4 | Chillicothe | Livingston | |
| 79 | Elias | 30 | Lefy | 20 | 1 | Chillicothe | Livingston | |
| 13 | B. | 46 | Caroline | 45 | 7 | Warren | Marion | |
| 80 | Giles | 27 | Ohio | Mississippi | Knowles | |||
| 20 | A.R. | 32 | C.A. | 29 | 2 | Twnshp 44 | Moniteau | |
| 21 | John | 34 | Rosanna | 29 | 5* (S.F.) | Twnshp 44 | Moniteau | |
| 22 | Alfred | 60 | Ann | 56 | 3 | Twnshp 44 | Moniteau | |
| 63 | Ann | 56 | Twnshp 44 | Moniteau | ||||
| 81 | George | 21 | Twnshp 44 | Moniteau | ||||
| 82 | Jacob F. | 24 | Twnshp 44 | Moniteau | ||||
| 10 | Thomas | 14 | C.C. | 16 | Jefferson | Monroe | Scobee | |
| 11 | Handkerson | 30 | Nannie | 36 | 3 | Jefferson | Monroe | |
| 68 | Clarissa | 45 | Marion | Monroe | Irons | |||
| 27 | Allen | 40 | Catherine | 30 | 5 | Danville | Montgomery | |
| 28 | Barry | 35 | Dulcina | 34 | 4 | Danville | Montgomery | |
| 64 | Susan | 69 | Danville | Montgomery | Whitesides/Armstrong | |||
| 45 | Samuel | 7 | New Madrid | New Madrid | Fluty | |||
| 83 | William | 28 | New Madrid | New Madrid | White | |||
| 26 | Oliver | 26 | Arraminta | 18 | 2 | Nodaway | Nodaway | |
| 5 | Thomas N. | 40 | Julia A. | 25 | 5 | Oak Grove | Oregon | |
| 6 | Benjamin | 52 | Hester | 39 | 1 | Oak Grove | Oregon | |
| 23 | M.G. | 30 | Mary A. | 29 | 3 | Piney | Oregon | |
| 7 | John B. | 17 | Chlany | 32 | 4 | Clarkesville | Pike | |
| 84 | William | 45 | Eliza | 32 | 4 | Pettis | Platte | |
| 40 | Thomas J. | 49 | Lucina | 43 | 8 | Johnson | Polk | |
| 41 | G.W. | 43 | Eliza | 36 | 6 | Johnson | Polk | |
| 19 | L.M. | 29 | Susannah | 26 | 3 | York | Putnam | |
| 85 | Henry | 32 | Spencer | Ralls | ||||
| 1 | Samuel | 22 | Fabius | Schuyler | ||||
| 2 | Hannah | 53 | 3 | Fabius | Schuyler | |||
| 3 | A. | 36 | Mary | 28 | 4 | Fabius | Schuyler | |
| 86 | James | 29 | Anna | 19 | Fabius | Schuyler | ||
| 87 | Minor | 26 | Ellen | 18 | 1 | Liberty | Schuyler | |
| 49 | John | 30 | Mary | 30 | 4 | Mount Pleasant | Scotland | |
| 59 | Hankerson | 59 | Eliz | 50 | 1 | Harrison | Scotland | |
| 15 | Charles W. | 37 | Ally | 72 | 4 | Moreland | Scott | |
| 16 | John | 50 | Diana | 36 | 5 | Moreland | Scott | |
| 48 | Louis | 43 | Permelia | 43 | 3 | Kelso | Scott | |
| 58 | Washington | 23 | Bennetta | 42 | 2 | Kelso | Scott | |
| 69 | Bethia | 43 | 1 | Rickland | Scott | Archer | ||
| 70 | James | 50 | Kelso | Scott | ||||
| 71 | Henry | 35 | Eliza | 30 | 3 | Jackson | Shelby | |
| 88 | James | 26 | Tiger | Shelby | Graham | |||
| 33 | John | 42 | Mary | 30 | 1 | St. Louis | St. Louis | |
| 56 | Robert | 20 | St. Louis | St. Louis | ||||
| 72 | Dan | 45 | St. Louis | St. Louis | ||||
| 89 | Betson | 63 | St. Louis | St. Louis | ||||
| 90 | John | 30 | St. Louis | St. Louis | ||||
| 91 | William | 30 | Anna | 30 | 1 | St. Louis | St. Louis | |
| 36 | W.W. | 53 | Belinda | 40 | 6 | Castor | Stoddard | |
| 37 | William F. | 37 | Sarah | 28 | 6 | Castor | Stoddard | |
| 42 | Eli | 32 | Eliz | 34 | 6 | Liberty | Stoddard | |
| 43 | Elija | 32 | Elizabeth | 32 | 3 | Liberty | Stoddard | |
| 92 | Mathew J. | 30 | Christian | 22 | 3 | Castor | Stoddard | |
| 46 | Thomas | 7 | Mary | 8 | North Salem | Sullivan | Harris | |
| 50 | Joseph | 34 | Virginia | 34 | 5 | West Locust | Sullivan | |
| 51 | George | 35 | Alcinda | 35 | 8 | West Locust | Sullivan | |
| 52 | Stephen | 54 | Frances | 60 | 3 | West Locust | Sullivan | |
| 55 | James | 22 | Mary | 18 | Ozark | Texas | ||
| 32 | John | 38 | Deborah | 38 | 6 | Ozark | Webster | |
| 67 | Martha | 49 | Marshfield | Webster | ||||
| 62 | Peter | 25 | Jackson | Westport | Thoes |
