Mostly Angels in the Sky

Gary L. Woodward¹

Family

TMG ID:77461, (c 1934 - )

Relationships:

6th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis
6th cousin 3 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Fred Willard Woodward¹ B: 7 Oct 1905, D: 2 Jun 1961

Mother*

Gladys Lillian Stoddard¹ B: 7 Aug 1907, D: 6 Feb 2006

Vital Statistics

Born: Gary L. Woodward was born circa 1934, at South Dakota^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Gary L. Woodward was the son of: Fred Willard Woodward and Gladys Lillian Stoddard.¹

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1940	10 Apr 1940, Itasca, Clearwater County, Minnesota^G	Fred Willard Woodward, Gladys Lillian Stoddard and Gail Woodward¹

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1940

10 Apr 1940, Itasca, Clearwater County, Minnesota^G

Fred Willard Woodward, Gladys Lillian Stoddard and Gail Woodward¹

Known Address(es)

Address: on Monday, 1 Apr 1935, Gary L. Woodward was living with Fred Willard and Gladys Lillian (née Stoddard) Woodward, at Polk County, Minnesota^G. Also living at this address: Gail Woodward.¹

Citations

[S1004] 1 Apr 1940, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y7ojnd8p Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940.

Last Edited

5 Nov 2014

Alvin Lorren Stoddard¹

Family

TMG ID:77462, (4 Jan 1909 - 19 Jan 1996)

Relationships:

5th cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
5th cousin 4 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Lorren Ervin Stoddard¹ B: 22 Dec 1879, D: 22 Dec 1959

Mother*

Harriet Eliza Smith¹ B: 12 Jul 1882, D: 9 Oct 1960

Vital Statistics

Born: Alvin Lorren Stoddard was born on Monday, 4 Jan 1909, at Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹
Died on Friday, 19 Jan 1996 at Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas^G, at age 87 years and 15 days.¹
Interred after 19 Jan 1996 at Hurley Cemetery, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Alvin Lorren Stoddard was the son of: Lorren Ervin Stoddard and Harriet Eliza Smith.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Tuesday, 6 Aug 1935, Alvin, age 26 years, 7 months and 2 days, and Lydia Eckstein, age 26 years, 2 months and 11 days, daughter of: Gottlob Wilhelm Eckstein and Emilie Neher, were married at Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Tuesday, 6 Aug 1935, Alvin, age 26 years, 7 months and 2 days, and Lydia Eckstein, age 26 years, 2 months and 11 days, daughter of: Gottlob Wilhelm Eckstein and Emilie Neher, were married at Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Child of: Alvin Lorren Stoddard and Lydia Eckstein

Jo Ellen Stoddard+¹ B: 2 Jan 1938, D: 2 Nov 1988

Memorable Moments & Stories

Other: Alvin Lorren Stoddard Alvin Lorren Stoddard was the third of four children born to Lorren Ervin and Harriet "Hattie" Eliza (Smith) Stoddard. He was born 4 January on the home farm northeast of Hurley, South Dakota.

He attended Sioux Falls College, where he played on the basketball team and ran track. He married Lydia Eckstein of Hurley at Hurley on 6 August 1935. After graduation from Sioux Falls College, he taught and coached in several schools, including those at Farmer, Viborg, and Vienna, South Dakota. In addition to teaching, he was Superintendent of Schools at Vienna, Selby, Humboldt, and Wakonda, South Dakota. He attended summer school at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, and received a M.A. degree in education in 1956. He served a term as president of the South Dakota School Administrators Association.

After retiring in 1973, he and Lydia moved to Granite Falls, Minnesota. He suffered a stroke in 1986, after which they moved to the Trees Resort near Cass Lake, Minnesota, to be near their daughter, Jo Ellen (Stoddard) Helm. Later, in 1992, they moved to Prairie Village, Kansas.

Alvin loved sports. Besides playing basketball and running track in college, he played town team baseball for many years. He also loved to hunt and fish.

Alvin died 19 January 1996 at Delmar Gardens Nursing Home, Overland Park, Kansas. Lydia, died 9 January 1998, also at Delmar Gardens Nursing Home in Overland Park. They are buried in the Hurley Cemetery south of Hurley, South Dakota.

Source: Jim Stoddard.¹

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1940	10 Apr 1940, Viborg, Turner County, South Dakota^G	Lydia Eckstein and Jo Ellen Stoddard²

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1940

10 Apr 1940, Viborg, Turner County, South Dakota^G

Lydia Eckstein and Jo Ellen Stoddard²

Occupation(s)

Date	Location	Occupation/Industry
circa Apr 1940	Viborg, Turner County, South Dakota^G	principal public school²

Date

Location

Occupation/Industry

circa Apr 1940

Viborg, Turner County, South Dakota^G

principal public school²

Known Address(es)

Address: on Monday, 1 Apr 1935, Alvin Lorren (age 26) Stoddard lived at: Turner County, South Dakota^G.²

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
[S1004] 1 Apr 1940, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y7ojnd8p Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940.

Last Edited

6 Nov 2014

Lydia Eckstein¹

Family

TMG ID:77463, (26 May 1909 - 9 Jan 1998)

Father*

Gottlob Wilhelm Eckstein¹ B: 19 Nov 1873, D: 22 Dec 1952

Mother*

Emilie Neher¹ B: 9 Feb 1880, D: 21 Jul 1913

Vital Statistics

Born: Lydia Eckstein was born on Wednesday, 26 May 1909, at Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹
Died on Friday, 9 Jan 1998 at Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas^G, at age 88 years, 7 months and 14 days.¹
Interred after 9 Jan 1998 at Hurley Cemetery, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Lydia Eckstein was the daughter of: Gottlob Wilhelm Eckstein and Emilie Neher.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Tuesday, 6 Aug 1935, her married name became Mrs. Stoddard (née Eckstein).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Tuesday, 6 Aug 1935, Lydia, age 26 years, 2 months and 11 days, and Alvin Lorren Stoddard, age 26 years, 7 months and 2 days, son of: Lorren Ervin Stoddard and Harriet Eliza Smith, were married at Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Tuesday, 6 Aug 1935, Lydia, age 26 years, 2 months and 11 days, and Alvin Lorren Stoddard, age 26 years, 7 months and 2 days, son of: Lorren Ervin Stoddard and Harriet Eliza Smith, were married at Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Child of: Lydia Eckstein and Alvin Lorren Stoddard

Jo Ellen Stoddard+¹ B: 2 Jan 1938, D: 2 Nov 1988

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1940	10 Apr 1940, Viborg, Turner County, South Dakota^G	Alvin Lorren Stoddard and Jo Ellen Stoddard²

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1940

10 Apr 1940, Viborg, Turner County, South Dakota^G

Alvin Lorren Stoddard and Jo Ellen Stoddard²

Known Address(es)

Address: on Monday, 1 Apr 1935, Lydia (age 25) Eckstein lived at: Turner County, South Dakota^G.²

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
[S1004] 1 Apr 1940, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y7ojnd8p Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940.

Last Edited

6 Nov 2014

Jo Ellen Stoddard¹

Family

TMG ID:77464, (2 Jan 1938 - 2 Nov 1988)

Relationships:

6th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis
6th cousin 3 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Alvin Lorren Stoddard¹ B: 4 Jan 1909, D: 19 Jan 1996

Mother*

Lydia Eckstein¹ B: 26 May 1909, D: 9 Jan 1998

Vital Statistics

Born: Jo Ellen Stoddard was born on Sunday, 2 Jan 1938, at Viborg, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹
Died on Wednesday, 2 Nov 1988 at The Trees Resort, Cass Lake, Cass County, Minnesota^G, at age 50 years and 10 months. Details as recorded: Cause of Death: cancer.¹
Interred after 2 Nov 1988 at Calvary Cemetery, Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minnesota^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Jo Ellen Stoddard was the daughter of: Alvin Lorren Stoddard and Lydia Eckstein.¹

Alias(es)

Nick-Name: her nickname was "Jody"¹
Name-Married: on Tuesday, 29 Dec 1959, her married name became Mrs. Helm (née Stoddard).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Tuesday, 29 Dec 1959, Jo, age 21 years, 11 months and 27 days, and Herbert Helm, age 26 years and 10 days were married at Congregational Church, Humboldt, Minnehaha County, South Dakota^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Tuesday, 29 Dec 1959, Jo, age 21 years, 11 months and 27 days, and Herbert Helm, age 26 years and 10 days were married at Congregational Church, Humboldt, Minnehaha County, South Dakota^G.¹

Memorable Moments & Stories

Other: Jo Ellen Stoddard Jo Ellen "Jody" (Stoddard) Helm was born 2 January 1938, at Viborg, South Dakota, to Alvin and Lydia Stoddard. She moved with her family to Selby, South Dakota, and later to Humboldt, South Dakota, where she graduated from high school. She attended Northern State College in Aberdeen, South Dakota, graduating in 1960. She married Herbert Helm at the Congregational Church in Humboldt on 29 December 1959, with whom she had three children, Michael Paul (adopted), Emily Martha, and Richard Alvin. She taught in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Palatine, Illinois, Bloomington, Minnesota, and as a substitute in Bemidji, Minnesota. They also lived for a while in Greenwald, Minnesota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, and Granite Falls, Minnesota. In 1979 they moved to the north shore of Cass Lake, Minnesota, where they owned and operated the Trees Resort and where Jody died. She was active in her church as past president of its ALCW and as a Sunday school teacher. She was a past president of the Granite Falls American Cancer Society and an active member of the Minnesota Resort Association, Congress of Minnesota Resorts, Cass Lake Resort Association, Cass lake Chamber of Commerce and the Leech Lake Alliance Association.

Jody died of cancer on 2 November 1988 at the Trees Resort. She is buried in the Calvary Cemetery southeast of Bemidji, Minnesota. Herbert died 12 July 2010 in Phoenix, Arizona. He was cremated. His ashes have not been spread or permanently placed at the time of this writing (May 2013)..¹

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1940	10 Apr 1940, Viborg, Turner County, South Dakota^G	Alvin Lorren Stoddard and Lydia Eckstein²

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1940

10 Apr 1940, Viborg, Turner County, South Dakota^G

Alvin Lorren Stoddard and Lydia Eckstein²

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
[S1004] 1 Apr 1940, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y7ojnd8p Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940.

Last Edited

15 Mar 2022

Herbert Helm¹

TMG ID:77465, (19 Dec 1933 - 12 Jul 2010)

Vital Statistics

Born: Herbert Helm was born on Tuesday, 19 Dec 1933.¹
Died on Monday, 12 Jul 2010 at Arizona^G at age 76 years, 6 months and 23 days.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Tuesday, 29 Dec 1959, Herbert, age 26 years and 10 days, and Jo Ellen Stoddard, age 21 years, 11 months and 27 days, daughter of: Alvin Lorren Stoddard and Lydia Eckstein, were married at Congregational Church, Humboldt, Minnehaha County, South Dakota^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Tuesday, 29 Dec 1959, Herbert, age 26 years and 10 days, and Jo Ellen Stoddard, age 21 years, 11 months and 27 days, daughter of: Alvin Lorren Stoddard and Lydia Eckstein, were married at Congregational Church, Humboldt, Minnehaha County, South Dakota^G.¹

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

15 Mar 2022

Gottlob Wilhelm Eckstein¹

Family

TMG ID:77469, (19 Nov 1873 - 22 Dec 1952)

Vital Statistics

Born: Gottlob Wilhelm Eckstein was born on Wednesday, 19 Nov 1873, at Germany^G.¹
Died on Monday, 22 Dec 1952 at Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G, at age 79 years, 1 month and 3 days.¹
Interred after 22 Dec 1952 at Zion Cemetery, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G. Plot: Section 2 row 1 plot 5.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Tuesday, 17 Apr 1900, Gottlob, age 26 years, 4 months and 29 days, and Emilie Neher, age 20 years, 2 months and 8 days were married at Centerville, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Tuesday, 17 Apr 1900, Gottlob, age 26 years, 4 months and 29 days, and Emilie Neher, age 20 years, 2 months and 8 days were married at Centerville, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Child of: Gottlob Wilhelm Eckstein and Emilie Neher

Lydia Eckstein+¹ B: 26 May 1909, D: 9 Jan 1998

Memorable Moments & Stories

Other: Gottlob Wilhelm Eckstein Gottlob W. Eckstein was born to Matthaus and Fredericka (Haug) Eckstein on 19 November 1873 in Grosingersheim, Germany (about 20 miles north of Stuttgart). Gottlob and his sister Fredericka came to the United States, arriving in New York City on 10 May 1890 (before the immigration services at Ellis Island opened). Gottlob married Emilie Neher on 17 April 1900 in Centerville, South Dakota. They had eight children, not all of whom lived to adulthood: Barbara K., who died in 1901 at age 10 weeks, Emma L. born 6 June 1902, Barbara A. born 22 March 1904, William born 4 May 1906, Mary F. born 3 September 1907, Lydia F. born 26 May 1909, Ruth K. born 16 March 1911, and Christian born 17 July 1913. There is a wedding photograph of Gottlob and Emilie, and a photo of their early home, on page 373 of the Hurley Centennial book.

Gottlob Eckstein died 22 December 1952. Gottlob is buried in the Zion cemetery, west northwest of Hurley, South Dakota, along with Emilie and two of their children, Barbara K. and Christian, who both died young..¹

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

6 Nov 2014

Emilie Neher¹

Family

TMG ID:77470, (9 Feb 1880 - 21 Jul 1913)

Vital Statistics

Born: Emilie Neher was born on Monday, 9 Feb 1880, at Germany^G.¹
Died on Monday, 21 Jul 1913 at Turner County, South Dakota^G, at age 33 years, 5 months and 12 days.¹
Interred after 21 Jul 1913 at Zion Cemetery, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Tuesday, 17 Apr 1900, her married name became Mrs. Eckstein (née Neher).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Tuesday, 17 Apr 1900, Emilie, age 20 years, 2 months and 8 days, and Gottlob Wilhelm Eckstein, age 26 years, 4 months and 29 days were married at Centerville, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Tuesday, 17 Apr 1900, Emilie, age 20 years, 2 months and 8 days, and Gottlob Wilhelm Eckstein, age 26 years, 4 months and 29 days were married at Centerville, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Child of: Emilie Neher and Gottlob Wilhelm Eckstein

Lydia Eckstein+¹ B: 26 May 1909, D: 9 Jan 1998

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

6 Nov 2014

Ardell Mabel Stoddard¹

Family

TMG ID:77472, (17 Sep 1911 - 26 Jun 2003)

Relationships:

5th cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
5th cousin 4 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Lorren Ervin Stoddard¹ B: 22 Dec 1879, D: 22 Dec 1959

Mother*

Harriet Eliza Smith¹ B: 12 Jul 1882, D: 9 Oct 1960

Vital Statistics

Born: Ardell Mabel Stoddard was born on Sunday, 17 Sep 1911, at Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹
Died on Thursday, 26 Jun 2003 at Turner County, South Dakota^G, at age 91 years, 9 months and 9 days.¹
Interred on Monday, 30 Jun 2003 at Hurley Cemetery, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Ardell Mabel Stoddard was the daughter of: Lorren Ervin Stoddard and Harriet Eliza Smith.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Saturday, 7 Feb 1931, her married name became Mrs. Benson (née Stoddard).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Saturday, 7 Feb 1931, Ardell, age 19 years, 4 months and 21 days, and James Ralph Benson, age 21 years, 8 months and 19 days, son of: James Whiting Benson and Lucy Rebecca Kellar, were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Saturday, 7 Feb 1931, Ardell, age 19 years, 4 months and 21 days, and James Ralph Benson, age 21 years, 8 months and 19 days, son of: James Whiting Benson and Lucy Rebecca Kellar, were married.¹

Children of: Ardell Mabel Stoddard and James Ralph Benson

James Lorren Benson+¹ B: 31 Jul 1934, D: 20 Aug 1999
Karla Kay Benson+¹ B: 16 Sep 1937

Memorable Moments & Stories

Other: Ardell Mabel Stoddard Ardell M. Stoddard was born on September 17, 1911 near Hurley, SD to Lorren and Hattie (Smith) Stoddard.

After attending rural school she graduated from Hurley High School in 1929. She received her teaching certificate from General Beadle in Madison. On February 7, 1931 she was united in marriage to J. Ralph Benson. They had two children, Lorry and Karla.

Ardell taught rural school for many years in Districts 90, 32, and 22. Later she received her BS degree in education from Sioux Falls College and taught elementary school in Hurley for 17 years, many of them in the first grade. She and her husband Ralph retired from the Hurley school in 1977. Her husband died in 1982.

She was an active member of the Hurley Community having been a member of the United Methodist Church, the Rebekah Lodge, the Senior Citizens, and the Historical Society. She enjoyed attending Hurley school activities.

She died 26 June 2003. She and Ralph are buried in the Hurley Cemetery.

From Ardell's funeral obituary, Hurley Methodist Church, Hofmeister Funeral Home, Parker, South Dakota, 30 June 2003..¹

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1940	27 Apr 1940, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G	James Ralph Benson, James Lorren Benson and Karla Kay Benson²

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1940

27 Apr 1940, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G

James Ralph Benson, James Lorren Benson and Karla Kay Benson²

Known Address(es)

Address: on Monday, 1 Apr 1935, James Ralph (age 25) and Ardell Mabel (née Stoddard) (age 23) Benson lived at: Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G. Also living at this address: James Lorren Benson.²

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
[S1004] 1 Apr 1940, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y7ojnd8p Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940.

Last Edited

6 Nov 2014

James Ralph Benson¹

Family

TMG ID:77473, (19 May 1909 - 16 Aug 1982)

Father*

James Whiting Benson¹ B: 1871, D: 1930

Mother*

Lucy Rebecca Kellar¹ B: 1881, D: 1929

Vital Statistics

Born: James Ralph Benson was born on Wednesday, 19 May 1909, at Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹
Died on Monday, 16 Aug 1982 at Turner County, South Dakota^G, at age 73 years, 2 months and 28 days.¹
Interred after 16 Aug 1982 at Hurley Cemetery, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

James Ralph Benson was the son of: James Whiting Benson and Lucy Rebecca Kellar.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Variation: He was also known as Ralph¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Saturday, 7 Feb 1931, James, age 21 years, 8 months and 19 days, and Ardell Mabel Stoddard, age 19 years, 4 months and 21 days, daughter of: Lorren Ervin Stoddard and Harriet Eliza Smith, were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Saturday, 7 Feb 1931, James, age 21 years, 8 months and 19 days, and Ardell Mabel Stoddard, age 19 years, 4 months and 21 days, daughter of: Lorren Ervin Stoddard and Harriet Eliza Smith, were married.¹

Children of: James Ralph Benson and Ardell Mabel Stoddard

James Lorren Benson+¹ B: 31 Jul 1934, D: 20 Aug 1999
Karla Kay Benson+¹ B: 16 Sep 1937

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1940	27 Apr 1940, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G	Ardell Mabel Stoddard, James Lorren Benson and Karla Kay Benson²

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1940

27 Apr 1940, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G

Ardell Mabel Stoddard, James Lorren Benson and Karla Kay Benson²

Occupation(s)

Date	Location	Occupation/Industry
circa Apr 1940	Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G	trucking custom hauling²

Date

Location

Occupation/Industry

circa Apr 1940

Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G

trucking custom hauling²

Known Address(es)

Address: on Monday, 1 Apr 1935, James Ralph (age 25) and Ardell Mabel (née Stoddard) (age 23) Benson lived at: Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G. Also living at this address: James Lorren Benson.²

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
[S1004] 1 Apr 1940, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y7ojnd8p Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940.

Last Edited

6 Nov 2014

James Whiting Benson¹

Family

TMG ID:77474, (1871 - 1930)

Vital Statistics

Born: James Whiting Benson was born in 1871, at Kellog, Jasper County, Iowa^G.¹
Died in 1930 at Turner County, South Dakota^G, at age 59 years.¹
Interred in 1930 at Hurley Cemetery, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	James and Lucy Rebecca Kellar were married at Hurley Cemetery, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

James and Lucy Rebecca Kellar were married at Hurley Cemetery, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Child of: James Whiting Benson and Lucy Rebecca Kellar

James Ralph Benson+¹ B: 19 May 1909, D: 16 Aug 1982

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

6 Nov 2014

Lucy Rebecca Kellar¹

Family

TMG ID:77475, (1881 - 1929)

Vital Statistics

Born: Lucy Rebecca Kellar was born in 1881, at Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹
Interred in 1929 at Hurley Cemetery, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹
Died in 1929 at Turner County, South Dakota^G, at age 48 years.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Benson (née Kellar).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Lucy and James Whiting Benson were married at Hurley Cemetery, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Lucy and James Whiting Benson were married at Hurley Cemetery, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Child of: Lucy Rebecca Kellar and James Whiting Benson

James Ralph Benson+¹ B: 19 May 1909, D: 16 Aug 1982

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

6 Nov 2014

James Lorren Benson¹

Family

TMG ID:77476, (31 Jul 1934 - 20 Aug 1999)

Relationships:

6th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis
6th cousin 3 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

James Ralph Benson¹ B: 19 May 1909, D: 16 Aug 1982

Mother*

Ardell Mabel Stoddard¹ B: 17 Sep 1911, D: 26 Jun 2003

Vital Statistics

Born: James Lorren Benson was born on Tuesday, 31 Jul 1934, at Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹
Died on Friday, 20 Aug 1999 at El Cajon, San Diego County, California^G, at age 65 years and 20 days.¹
Interred after 20 Aug 1999 at Glen Abbey Memorial Park, Bonita, San Diego County, California^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

James Lorren Benson was the son of: James Ralph Benson and Ardell Mabel Stoddard.¹

Alias(es)

Nick-Name: his nickname was "Lorry"^1,2

Child of: James Lorren Benson

Joel Mack Benson¹ B: 23 Sep 1963, D: 31 Dec 1963

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1940	27 Apr 1940, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G	James Ralph Benson, Ardell Mabel Stoddard and Karla Kay Benson²

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1940

27 Apr 1940, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G

James Ralph Benson, Ardell Mabel Stoddard and Karla Kay Benson²

Known Address(es)

Address: on Monday, 1 Apr 1935, James Lorren Benson was living with James Ralph and Ardell Mabel (née Stoddard) Benson, at Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.²

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
[S1004] 1 Apr 1940, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y7ojnd8p Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940.

Last Edited

6 Nov 2014

Joel Mack Benson¹

Family

TMG ID:77477, (23 Sep 1963 - 31 Dec 1963)

Relationships:

6th cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
7th cousin 2 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

James Lorren Benson¹ B: 31 Jul 1934, D: 20 Aug 1999

Vital Statistics

Born: Joel Mack Benson was born on Monday, 23 Sep 1963.¹
Died on Tuesday, 31 Dec 1963 at age 3 months and 8 days.¹
Interred after 31 Dec 1963 at Hurley Cemetery, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Joel Mack Benson was the son of: James Lorren Benson.¹

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

6 Nov 2014

Karla Kay Benson¹

Family

TMG ID:77478, (16 Sep 1937 - )

Relationships:

6th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis
6th cousin 3 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

James Ralph Benson¹ B: 19 May 1909, D: 16 Aug 1982

Mother*

Ardell Mabel Stoddard¹ B: 17 Sep 1911, D: 26 Jun 2003

Vital Statistics

Interred at Hurley Cemetery, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹
Born: Karla Kay Benson was born on Thursday, 16 Sep 1937.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Karla Kay Benson was the daughter of: James Ralph Benson and Ardell Mabel Stoddard.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Parsons (née Benson).¹

Child of: Karla Kay Benson

Joan Adele Parsons¹ B: 7 Sep 1967, D: 1 Aug 1983

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1940	27 Apr 1940, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G	James Ralph Benson, Ardell Mabel Stoddard and James Lorren Benson²

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1940

27 Apr 1940, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G

James Ralph Benson, Ardell Mabel Stoddard and James Lorren Benson²

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.
[S1004] 1 Apr 1940, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y7ojnd8p Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940.

Last Edited

6 Nov 2014

Joan Adele Parsons¹

Family

TMG ID:77480, (7 Sep 1967 - 1 Aug 1983)

Relationships:

6th cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
7th cousin 2 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Mother*

Karla Kay Benson¹ B: 16 Sep 1937

Vital Statistics

Born: Joan Adele Parsons was born on Thursday, 7 Sep 1967.¹
Died on Monday, 1 Aug 1983 at age 15 years, 10 months and 25 days.¹
Interred after 1 Aug 1983 at Hurley Cemetery, Hurley, Turner County, South Dakota^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Joan Adele Parsons was the daughter of: Karla Kay Benson.¹

Citations

[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

6 Nov 2014

All additions, modifications, suggestions and comments are welcome.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
— Will Rogers
A fool and his money are soon elected.
— Will Rogers
A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
— Will Rogers
A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.
— Will Rogers
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
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Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
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Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
— Will Rogers
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
— Will Rogers
America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
— Will Rogers
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
— Will Rogers
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
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An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
— Will Rogers
An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
— Will Rogers
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
— Will Rogers
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
— Will Rogers
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
— Will Rogers
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
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Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
— Will Rogers
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
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Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.
— Will Rogers
Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
— Will Rogers
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
— Will Rogers
Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
— Will Rogers
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
— Will Rogers
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
— Will Rogers
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
— Will Rogers
Even though you are on the right track - you will get run over if you just sit there.
— Will Rogers
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
— Will Rogers
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
— Will Rogers
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
— Will Rogers
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
— Will Rogers
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
— Will Rogers
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
— Will Rogers
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
— Will Rogers
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
— Will Rogers
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
— Will Rogers
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
— Will Rogers
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
— Will Rogers
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
— Will Rogers
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
— Will Rogers
I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
— Will Rogers
If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
— Will Rogers
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
— Will Rogers
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
— Will Rogers
If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.
— Will Rogers
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
— Will Rogers
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
— Will Rogers
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
— Will Rogers
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
— Will Rogers
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
— Will Rogers
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
— Will Rogers
In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
— Will Rogers
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
— Will Rogers
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
— Will Rogers
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
— Will Rogers
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
— Will Rogers
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
— Will Rogers
Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
— Will Rogers
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
— Will Rogers
Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
— Will Rogers
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
— Will Rogers
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
— Will Rogers
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
— Will Rogers
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
— Will Rogers
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
— Will Rogers
Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
— Will Rogers
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
— Will Rogers
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
— Will Rogers
One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
— Will Rogers
One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
— Will Rogers
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
— Will Rogers
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
— Will Rogers
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
— Will Rogers
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
— Will Rogers
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
— Will Rogers
Politics is applesauce.
— Will Rogers
Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
— Will Rogers
So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
— Will Rogers
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
— Will Rogers
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
— Will Rogers
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
— Will Rogers
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
— Will Rogers
The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.
— Will Rogers
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
— Will Rogers
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
— Will Rogers
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
— Will Rogers
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
— Will Rogers
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
— Will Rogers
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
— Will Rogers
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
— Will Rogers
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
— Will Rogers
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
— Will Rogers
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
— Will Rogers
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
— Will Rogers
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
— Will Rogers
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
— Will Rogers
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
— Will Rogers
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
— Will Rogers
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
— Will Rogers
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
— Will Rogers
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
— Will Rogers
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
— Will Rogers
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
— Will Rogers
Things ain't what they used to be and never were.
— Will Rogers
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
— Will Rogers
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
— Will Rogers
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
— Will Rogers
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
— Will Rogers
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
— Will Rogers
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
— Will Rogers
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
— Will Rogers
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
— Will Rogers
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
— Will Rogers
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
— Will Rogers
When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
— Will Rogers
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
— Will Rogers
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
— Will Rogers
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
— Will Rogers
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
— Will Rogers
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
— Will Rogers
Every person you will pass on the street today is going to die. Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
— Sam Harris
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do one thing every day that scares you.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do one thing every day that scares you.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Never allow a person to tell you 'no' who doesn't have the power to say 'yes.'
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Work is always an antidote to depression.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do …
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It's your life-but only if you make it so.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is exhilarating.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
— Eleanor Roosevelt
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The giving of love is an education in itself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
All of life is a constant education.
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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