Mostly Angels in the Sky

Hildegard Kremer¹

TMG ID:101321, (14 Aug 1937 - 9 Apr 2008)

Vital Statistics

Born: Hildegard Kremer was born on Saturday, 14 Aug 1937, at Mannheim, Baden, Germany^G.¹
Died on Wednesday, 9 Apr 2008 at Braddock Heights, Frederick County, Maryland^G, at age 70 years, 7 months and 26 days.¹
Interred after 9 Apr 2008 at Cedar Lawn Memorial Park, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. McNamee (née Kremer).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Hildegard and Graham Harrison McNamee, son of: William Harrison McNamee Jr. and Gladys Irene Palmer, were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Hildegard and Graham Harrison McNamee, son of: William Harrison McNamee Jr. and Gladys Irene Palmer, were married.¹

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person Page.

Reference

GZ1X-518

Last Edited

7 Oct 2023

Luther David Palmer¹

Family

TMG ID:101322, (22 Nov 1914 - Dec 1985)

Relationships:

3rd cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
3rd cousin 4 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

John William Palmer¹ B: 5 Apr 1878, D: 25 Nov 1957

Mother*

Mary Eva Rickard¹ B: Mar 1882, D: 1 Sep 1950

Vital Statistics

Born: Luther David Palmer was born on Sunday, 22 Nov 1914, at Washington County, Maryland^G.¹
Died in Dec 1985 at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G, at age 71 years.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Luther David Palmer was the son of: John William Palmer and Mary Eva Rickard.¹

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person Page.

Reference

G49X-WP2

Last Edited

7 Oct 2023

George Clayton Rickard¹

Family

TMG ID:101323, (29 Dec 1883 - 20 Jan 1968)

Relationships:

2nd cousin 2 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
2nd cousin 5 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Francis M. Rickard¹ B: 1857, D: 4 May 1922

Mother*

Mary Catherine Palmer¹ B: Apr 1856, D: 2 Aug 1938

Vital Statistics

Born: George Clayton Rickard was born on Saturday, 29 Dec 1883, at Williamsport, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹
Died on Saturday, 20 Jan 1968 at Clear Spring, Washington County, Maryland^G, at age 84 years and 22 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

George Clayton Rickard was the son of: Francis M. Rickard and Mary Catherine Palmer.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	George and Laura Lee Keplinger were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

George and Laura Lee Keplinger were married.¹

Children of: George Clayton Rickard and Laura Lee Keplinger

George F. Rickard¹ B: 14 Jul 1910, D: 18 Aug 1977
John Franklin Rickard¹ B: 4 Nov 1910, D: 16 Dec 1976
Lola May Rickard¹ B: 1917, D: 10 Mar 1982
Clayton Edward Rickard+¹ B: 16 May 1923, D: 14 Dec 1982

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person Page.

Reference

LVSC-YGB

Last Edited

8 Oct 2023

Laura Lee Keplinger¹

Family

TMG ID:101324, (Apr 1885 - 21 May 1941)

Vital Statistics

Born: Laura Lee Keplinger was born in Apr 1885, at Tilghmanton, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹
Died on Wednesday, 21 May 1941 at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G, at age 56 years and 1 month.¹
Interred after 21 May 1941 at Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Rickard (née Keplinger).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Laura and George Clayton Rickard, son of: Francis M. Rickard and Mary Catherine Palmer, were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Laura and George Clayton Rickard, son of: Francis M. Rickard and Mary Catherine Palmer, were married.¹

Children of: Laura Lee Keplinger and George Clayton Rickard

George F. Rickard¹ B: 14 Jul 1910, D: 18 Aug 1977
John Franklin Rickard¹ B: 4 Nov 1910, D: 16 Dec 1976
Lola May Rickard¹ B: 1917, D: 10 Mar 1982
Clayton Edward Rickard+¹ B: 16 May 1923, D: 14 Dec 1982

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person Page.

Reference

LKLD-1WT

Last Edited

8 Oct 2023

George Washington Gifford^1,2

Family

TMG ID:101325, (10 Dec 1825 - 29 Apr 1911)

Relationships:

5th cousin 3 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
5th cousin 6 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Ebenezer F. Gifford¹ B: 4 Mar 1797, D: 8 Jan 1867

Mother*

Betsy Loveless¹ B: 6 Sep 1800, D: 27 Jun 1891

Vital Statistics

Born: George Washington Gifford was born on Saturday, 10 Dec 1825, at Montgomery County, New York^G.^1,3
Died on Saturday, 29 Apr 1911 at Logan County, Oklahoma^G, at age 85 years, 4 months and 19 days.^1,3

Obituary & Other Vital Info

George Washington Gifford was the son of: Ebenezer F. Gifford and Betsy Loveless.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Wednesday, 15 Feb 1854, George, age 28 years, 2 months and 5 days, and Mary Elizabeth Elithorp, age 19 years, 9 months and 14 days, daughter of: Halsey Cutler Elithorp and Waitstell Reynolds, were married at Livingston County, Illinois^G.^1,2,3

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Wednesday, 15 Feb 1854, George, age 28 years, 2 months and 5 days, and Mary Elizabeth Elithorp, age 19 years, 9 months and 14 days, daughter of: Halsey Cutler Elithorp and Waitstell Reynolds, were married at Livingston County, Illinois^G.^1,2,3

Children of: George Washington Gifford and Mary Elizabeth Elithorp

Arthur Franklin Gifford⁴ B: 7 Apr 1855, D: 19 Dec 1921
Henry A. Gifford+⁴ B: 7 Mar 1858, D: 30 Aug 1907
Cora Ellen Gifford+⁵ B: 28 Oct 1860, D: 15 Sep 1943
Etta Mae Gifford⁵ B: 1861, D: 8 Feb 1946
George Albert Gifford⁵ B: 19 Apr 1867, D: 29 Aug 1889

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1855 IL	3 Oct 1855, Livingston County, Illinois^G
Census-1860	28 Jul 1860, Post Office: New Michigan, Amity Twp., Livingston County, Illinois^G	Mary Elizabeth Elithorp, Arthur Franklin Gifford and Henry A. Gifford⁴

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1855 IL

3 Oct 1855, Livingston County, Illinois^G

Census-1860

28 Jul 1860, Post Office: New Michigan, Amity Twp., Livingston County, Illinois^G

Mary Elizabeth Elithorp, Arthur Franklin Gifford and Henry A. Gifford⁴

Occupation(s)

Date	Location	Occupation/Industry
circa Jul 1860	Amity Twp., Livingston County, Illinois^G	farmer⁴

Date

Location

Occupation/Industry

circa Jul 1860

Amity Twp., Livingston County, Illinois^G

farmer⁴

Citations

[S4176] MyHeritage: Genealogy and Family History Website, online <https://tinyurl.com/3xx6y94j>, Petersen Family Site: Family tree. Hereinafter cited as MyHeritage.
[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940.
[S4176] MyHeritage: Genealogy and Family History Website, online <https://tinyurl.com/3xx6y94j>, Jara Family Web Site: Family tree. Hereinafter cited as MyHeritage.
[S96] 1 Jun 1860, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/yayf9d52 Eighth Census of the United States, 1860.
[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Last Edited

26 Mar 2024

John Franklin Rickard¹

Family

TMG ID:101326, (4 Nov 1910 - 16 Dec 1976)

Relationships:

3rd cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
3rd cousin 4 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

George Clayton Rickard¹ B: 29 Dec 1883, D: 20 Jan 1968

Mother*

Laura Lee Keplinger¹ B: Apr 1885, D: 21 May 1941

Vital Statistics

Born: John Franklin Rickard was born on Friday, 4 Nov 1910, at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹
Died on Thursday, 16 Dec 1976 at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G, at age 66 years, 1 month and 12 days.¹
Interred after 16 Dec 1976 at Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

John Franklin Rickard was the son of: George Clayton Rickard and Laura Lee Keplinger.¹

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person Page.

Reference

GSFH-M1D

Last Edited

8 Oct 2023

Lola May Rickard¹

Family

TMG ID:101327, (1917 - 10 Mar 1982)

Relationships:

3rd cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
3rd cousin 4 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

George Clayton Rickard¹ B: 29 Dec 1883, D: 20 Jan 1968

Mother*

Laura Lee Keplinger¹ B: Apr 1885, D: 21 May 1941

Vital Statistics

Born: Lola May Rickard was born in 1917, at Pinesburg, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹
Died on Wednesday, 10 Mar 1982 at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G, at age 65 years.¹
Interred after 10 Mar 1982 at Rest Haven Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Lola May Rickard was the daughter of: George Clayton Rickard and Laura Lee Keplinger.¹

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person Page.

Reference

GSF4-2N3

Last Edited

8 Oct 2023

Clayton Edward Rickard¹

Family

TMG ID:101328, (16 May 1923 - 14 Dec 1982)

Relationships:

3rd cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
3rd cousin 4 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

George Clayton Rickard¹ B: 29 Dec 1883, D: 20 Jan 1968

Mother*

Laura Lee Keplinger¹ B: Apr 1885, D: 21 May 1941

Vital Statistics

Born: Clayton Edward Rickard was born on Wednesday, 16 May 1923, at Washington County, Maryland^G.¹
Died on Tuesday, 14 Dec 1982 at Maryland^G at age 59 years, 6 months and 28 days.¹
Interred after 14 Dec 1982 at Rest Haven Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Clayton Edward Rickard was the son of: George Clayton Rickard and Laura Lee Keplinger.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Clayton and Pauline Elizabeth Zepp were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Clayton and Pauline Elizabeth Zepp were married.¹

Children of: Clayton Edward Rickard and Pauline Elizabeth Zepp

Mary Catherine Rickard¹ B: 28 Jul 1942, D: 16 Sep 2012
Charles F. Rickard¹ B: 12 Feb 1959, D: 31 Dec 2010

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person Page.

Reference

GS9D-GRT

Last Edited

8 Oct 2023

Pauline Elizabeth Zepp¹

Family

TMG ID:101329, (1924 - 11 Aug 1974)

Vital Statistics

Born: Pauline Elizabeth Zepp was born in 1924, at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹
Died on Sunday, 11 Aug 1974 at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G, at age 50 years.¹
Interred after 11 Aug 1974 at Rest Haven Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Baden^G.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Rickard (née Zepp).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Pauline and Clayton Edward Rickard, son of: George Clayton Rickard and Laura Lee Keplinger, were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Pauline and Clayton Edward Rickard, son of: George Clayton Rickard and Laura Lee Keplinger, were married.¹

Children of: Pauline Elizabeth Zepp and Clayton Edward Rickard

Mary Catherine Rickard¹ B: 28 Jul 1942, D: 16 Sep 2012
Charles F. Rickard¹ B: 12 Feb 1959, D: 31 Dec 2010

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person Page.

Reference

GS9D-XTG

Last Edited

8 Oct 2023

George F. Rickard¹

Family

TMG ID:101330, (14 Jul 1910 - 18 Aug 1977)

Relationships:

3rd cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
3rd cousin 4 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

George Clayton Rickard¹ B: 29 Dec 1883, D: 20 Jan 1968

Mother*

Laura Lee Keplinger¹ B: Apr 1885, D: 21 May 1941

Vital Statistics

Born: George F. Rickard was born on Thursday, 14 Jul 1910, at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹
Died on Thursday, 18 Aug 1977 at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G, at age 67 years, 1 month and 4 days.¹
Interred after 18 Aug 1977 at Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

George F. Rickard was the son of: George Clayton Rickard and Laura Lee Keplinger.¹

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person Page.

Reference

GSFH-8GF

Last Edited

8 Oct 2023

Mary Catherine Rickard¹

Family

TMG ID:101331, (28 Jul 1942 - 16 Sep 2012)

Relationships:

4th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis
4th cousin 3 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Clayton Edward Rickard¹ B: 16 May 1923, D: 14 Dec 1982

Mother*

Pauline Elizabeth Zepp¹ B: 1924, D: 11 Aug 1974

Vital Statistics

Born: Mary Catherine Rickard was born on Tuesday, 28 Jul 1942, at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹
Died on Sunday, 16 Sep 2012 at Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania^G, at age 70 years, 1 month and 19 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Mary Catherine Rickard was the daughter of: Clayton Edward Rickard and Pauline Elizabeth Zepp.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Mumma (née Rickard).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Mary and Kenneth Jerome Mumma were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Mary and Kenneth Jerome Mumma were married.¹

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person Page.

Reference

LY3Z-JFP

Last Edited

8 Oct 2023

Kenneth Jerome Mumma¹

TMG ID:101332, (3 Nov 1930 - 9 Jan 1972)

Vital Statistics

Born: Kenneth Jerome Mumma was born on Monday, 3 Nov 1930, at Washington County, Maryland^G.¹
Died on Sunday, 9 Jan 1972 at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G, at age 41 years, 2 months and 6 days.¹
Interred after 9 Jan 1972 at Gettysburg National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania^G.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Kenneth and Mary Catherine Rickard, daughter of: Clayton Edward Rickard and Pauline Elizabeth Zepp, were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Kenneth and Mary Catherine Rickard, daughter of: Clayton Edward Rickard and Pauline Elizabeth Zepp, were married.¹

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person Page.

Reference

GLLC-TPQ

Last Edited

8 Oct 2023

Charles F. Rickard¹

Family

TMG ID:101333, (12 Feb 1959 - 31 Dec 2010)

Relationships:

4th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis
4th cousin 3 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Clayton Edward Rickard¹ B: 16 May 1923, D: 14 Dec 1982

Mother*

Pauline Elizabeth Zepp¹ B: 1924, D: 11 Aug 1974

Vital Statistics

Born: Charles F. Rickard was born on Thursday, 12 Feb 1959, at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹
Died on Friday, 31 Dec 2010 at Waynesboro Twp., Franklin County, Pennsylvania^G, at age 51 years, 10 months and 19 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Charles F. Rickard was the son of: Clayton Edward Rickard and Pauline Elizabeth Zepp.¹

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person Page.

Reference

GZQ6-B55

Last Edited

8 Oct 2023

Frederick Nickolas Rickard¹

Family

TMG ID:101334, (13 Feb 1885 - 15 Feb 1968)

Relationships:

2nd cousin 2 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
2nd cousin 5 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Francis M. Rickard¹ B: 1857, D: 4 May 1922

Mother*

Mary Catherine Palmer¹ B: Apr 1856, D: 2 Aug 1938

Vital Statistics

Born: Frederick Nickolas Rickard was born on Friday, 13 Feb 1885, at Williamsport, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹
Died on Thursday, 15 Feb 1968 at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G, at age 83 years and 2 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Frederick Nickolas Rickard was the son of: Francis M. Rickard and Mary Catherine Palmer.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Monday, 30 Jun 1913, Frederick, age 28 years, 4 months and 17 days, and Minna Ernestine Münch, age 34 years, 3 months and 10 days were married at Norwich, New London County, Connecticut^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Monday, 30 Jun 1913, Frederick, age 28 years, 4 months and 17 days, and Minna Ernestine Münch, age 34 years, 3 months and 10 days were married at Norwich, New London County, Connecticut^G.¹

Children of: Frederick Nickolas Rickard and Minna Ernestine Münch

William Howard Rickard¹ B: 24 Feb 1915, D: 27 Apr 2004
Clyde Kenneth Rickard¹ B: 3 Sep 1917, D: 11 May 2016

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person Page.

Reference

LVSC-B3H

Last Edited

8 Oct 2023

Minna Ernestine Münch¹

Family

TMG ID:101335, (20 Mar 1879 - 17 Jan 1951)

Vital Statistics

Born: Minna Ernestine Münch was born on Thursday, 20 Mar 1879, at Meerane, Sachsen-Altenburg, Thüringen, Germany^G.¹
Died on Wednesday, 17 Jan 1951 at Keedysville, Washington County, Maryland^G, at age 71 years, 9 months and 28 days.¹
Interred after 17 Jan 1951 at Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Monday, 30 Jun 1913, her married name became Mrs. Rickard (née Münch).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Monday, 30 Jun 1913, Minna, age 34 years, 3 months and 10 days, and Frederick Nickolas Rickard, age 28 years, 4 months and 17 days, son of: Francis M. Rickard and Mary Catherine Palmer, were married at Norwich, New London County, Connecticut^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Monday, 30 Jun 1913, Minna, age 34 years, 3 months and 10 days, and Frederick Nickolas Rickard, age 28 years, 4 months and 17 days, son of: Francis M. Rickard and Mary Catherine Palmer, were married at Norwich, New London County, Connecticut^G.¹

Children of: Minna Ernestine Münch and Frederick Nickolas Rickard

William Howard Rickard¹ B: 24 Feb 1915, D: 27 Apr 2004
Clyde Kenneth Rickard¹ B: 3 Sep 1917, D: 11 May 2016

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person Page.

Reference

9N8H-3B6

Last Edited

8 Oct 2023

William Howard Rickard¹

Family

TMG ID:101336, (24 Feb 1915 - 27 Apr 2004)

Relationships:

3rd cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
3rd cousin 4 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Frederick Nickolas Rickard¹ B: 13 Feb 1885, D: 15 Feb 1968

Mother*

Minna Ernestine Münch¹ B: 20 Mar 1879, D: 17 Jan 1951

Vital Statistics

Born: William Howard Rickard was born on Wednesday, 24 Feb 1915, at New London, New London County, Connecticut^G.¹
Died on Tuesday, 27 Apr 2004 at Washington County Hospital, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G, at age 89 years, 2 months and 3 days.^1,2
Interred on Saturday, 1 May 2004 at Rest Haven Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G.²

Obituary & Other Vital Info

William Howard Rickard was the son of: Frederick Nickolas Rickard and Minna Ernestine Münch.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	William and Evelyn Edith Burger were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

William and Evelyn Edith Burger were married.¹

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person Page.
[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Reference

L8Y3-F76

Last Edited

8 Oct 2023

Evelyn Edith Burger¹

TMG ID:101337, (16 Sep 1919 - 3 Jul 1985)

Vital Statistics

Born: Evelyn Edith Burger was born on Tuesday, 16 Sep 1919, at Maryland^G.¹
Died on Wednesday, 3 Jul 1985 at Duval County, Florida^G, at age 65 years, 9 months and 17 days.¹
Interred after 3 Jul 1985 at Rest Haven Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G.²

Alias(es)

Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Rickard (née Burger).¹

Union(s)

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Evelyn and William Howard Rickard, son of: Frederick Nickolas Rickard and Minna Ernestine Münch, were married.¹

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person Page.
[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Reference

L2G9-BLY

Last Edited

8 Oct 2023

Clyde Kenneth Rickard^1,2

Family

TMG ID:101338, (3 Sep 1917 - 11 May 2016)

Relationships:

3rd cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
3rd cousin 4 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Frederick Nickolas Rickard¹ B: 13 Feb 1885, D: 15 Feb 1968

Mother*

Minna Ernestine Münch¹ B: 20 Mar 1879, D: 17 Jan 1951

Vital Statistics

Born: Clyde Kenneth Rickard was born on Monday, 3 Sep 1917, at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G.^1,2
Died on Wednesday, 11 May 2016 at Homewood Retirement Center, Williamsport, Washington County, Maryland^G, at age 98 years, 8 months and 8 days.²

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Clyde Kenneth Rickard was the son of: Frederick Nickolas Rickard and Minna Ernestine Münch.¹

Union(s)

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

circa 1947, Clyde and Phyllis Aleda Betts were married.²

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person Page.
[S826] Find A Grave, online <http://tinyurl.com/5xkq9>. Hereinafter cited as Find A Grave.

Reference

L2GS-MQC

Last Edited

8 Oct 2023

Phyllis Aleda Betts¹

TMG ID:101339, (21 Oct 1925 - 19 Mar 2019)

Vital Statistics

Born: Phyllis Aleda Betts was born on Wednesday, 21 Oct 1925, at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹
Died on Tuesday, 19 Mar 2019 at Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G, at age 93 years, 4 months and 26 days.¹
Interred after 19 Mar 2019 at Rose Hill Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹

Alias(es)

Nick-Name: her nickname was "The Fudge Lady"¹
Name-Married: circa 1947, her married name became Mrs. Rickard (née Betts).¹

Union(s)

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

circa 1947, Phyllis and Clyde Kenneth Rickard, son of: Frederick Nickolas Rickard and Minna Ernestine Münch, were married.¹

Citations

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

Last Edited

8 Oct 2023

Charles E. Rickard¹

Family

TMG ID:101340, (30 Jun 1887 - 20 Nov 1967)

Relationships:

2nd cousin 2 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
2nd cousin 5 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Francis M. Rickard¹ B: 1857, D: 4 May 1922

Mother*

Mary Catherine Palmer¹ B: Apr 1856, D: 2 Aug 1938

Vital Statistics

Born: Charles E. Rickard was born on Thursday, 30 Jun 1887, at Washington County, Maryland^G.¹
Died on Monday, 20 Nov 1967 at Williamsport, Washington County, Maryland^G, at age 80 years, 4 months and 21 days.¹
Interred after 20 Nov 1967 at Broadfording Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Charles E. Rickard was the son of: Francis M. Rickard and Mary Catherine Palmer.¹

Union(s)

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Charles and Rosa Belle Myers were married.¹

Children of: Charles E. Rickard and Rosa Belle Myers

Clarence Rickard¹ B: 26 Dec 1908, D: 18 Jan 1920
Edith Mae Rickard+¹ B: 4 Oct 1910, D: 17 Mar 1967
Charles W. Rickard¹ B: 28 Oct 1911, D: 13 Jul 1976

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person Page.

Reference

LKMF-Q4F

Last Edited

8 Oct 2023

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— 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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