Mostly Angels in the Sky

Barbara Jean Luke¹

Family

TMG ID:102401, (25 Sep 1927 - 8 Nov 2007)

Relationship:

6th cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

Winfred Hersey Luke¹ B: 15 Jun 1909, D: 22 Aug 1982

Mother*

Thelma L. McCorkell¹ B: 29 May 1908, D: 11 Jul 1996

Primary Birth & Death

Born: Barbara Jean Luke was born on Sunday, 25 Sep 1927, at Grandville, Kent County, Michigan^G.¹
Died on Thursday, 8 Nov 2007 at Columbia Falls, Flathead County, Montana^G, at age 80 years, 1 month and 14 days.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Thursday, 21 Jun 1945, her married name became Mrs. Mitchell (née Luke).¹
Name-Married: on Monday, 18 Sep 1950, her married name became Mrs. Thomas (née Luke).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Thursday, 21 Jun 1945, Barbara, age 17 years, 8 months and 27 days, and Harry Eugene Mitchell, age 18 years, 11 months and 8 days were married at Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai County, Idaho^G.¹
Marriage	Monday, 18 Sep 1950, Barbara, age 22 years, 11 months and 24 days, and Merle Venoy Thomas, age 26 years, 3 months and 19 days, son of: Fourth Freedom Thomas and Ruby Ilene Thrasher, were married at Idaho^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Thursday, 21 Jun 1945, Barbara, age 17 years, 8 months and 27 days, and Harry Eugene Mitchell, age 18 years, 11 months and 8 days were married at Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai County, Idaho^G.¹

Marriage

Monday, 18 Sep 1950, Barbara, age 22 years, 11 months and 24 days, and Merle Venoy Thomas, age 26 years, 3 months and 19 days, son of: Fourth Freedom Thomas and Ruby Ilene Thrasher, were married at Idaho^G.¹

Citations

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

Reference

LB24-7WJ

Last Edited

4 Dec 2024

Harry Eugene Mitchell¹

TMG ID:102402, (13 Jul 1926 - 8 Oct 2012)

Primary Birth & Death

Born: Harry Eugene Mitchell was born on Tuesday, 13 Jul 1926, at Omak, Okanogan County, Washington^G.¹
Died on Monday, 8 Oct 2012 at Yakima County, Washington^G, at age 86 years, 2 months and 25 days.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Thursday, 21 Jun 1945, Harry, age 18 years, 11 months and 8 days, and Barbara Jean Luke, age 17 years, 8 months and 27 days, daughter of: Winfred Hersey Luke and Thelma L. McCorkell, were married at Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai County, Idaho^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Thursday, 21 Jun 1945, Harry, age 18 years, 11 months and 8 days, and Barbara Jean Luke, age 17 years, 8 months and 27 days, daughter of: Winfred Hersey Luke and Thelma L. McCorkell, were married at Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai County, Idaho^G.¹

Citations

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

Reference

GJLW-KCS

Last Edited

4 Dec 2024

Merle Venoy Thomas¹

Family

TMG ID:102403, (30 May 1924 - 23 Dec 1970)

Father*

Fourth Freedom Thomas¹ B: 4 Jul 1902, D: 24 Apr 1970

Mother*

Ruby Ilene Thrasher¹ B: 22 Apr 1904, D: 18 Jan 2000

Primary Birth & Death

Born: Merle Venoy Thomas was born on Friday, 30 May 1924, at Princeton, Latah County, Idaho^G.¹
Died on Wednesday, 23 Dec 1970 at Seattle, King County, Washington^G, at age 46 years, 6 months and 23 days.¹
Interred after 23 Dec 1970 at Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Spokane, Spokane County, Washington^G.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Monday, 18 Sep 1950, Merle, age 26 years, 3 months and 19 days, and Barbara Jean Luke, age 22 years, 11 months and 24 days, daughter of: Winfred Hersey Luke and Thelma L. McCorkell, were married at Idaho^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Monday, 18 Sep 1950, Merle, age 26 years, 3 months and 19 days, and Barbara Jean Luke, age 22 years, 11 months and 24 days, daughter of: Winfred Hersey Luke and Thelma L. McCorkell, were married at Idaho^G.¹

Citations

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

Reference

9V7V-NSF

Last Edited

4 Dec 2024

Fourth Freedom Thomas¹

Family

TMG ID:102404, (4 Jul 1902 - 24 Apr 1970)

Primary Birth & Death

Born: Fourth Freedom Thomas was born on Friday, 4 Jul 1902, at Echo, Stevens County, Washington^G.¹
Died on Friday, 24 Apr 1970 at Pullman, Whitman County, Washington^G, at age 67 years, 9 months and 20 days.¹
Interred on Monday, 27 Apr 1970 at Mendenhall Cemetery, Latah County, Idaho^G.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Saturday, 22 Apr 1922, Fourth, age 19 years, 9 months and 18 days, and Ruby Ilene Thrasher, age 18 years were married at Princeton, Latah County, Idaho^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Saturday, 22 Apr 1922, Fourth, age 19 years, 9 months and 18 days, and Ruby Ilene Thrasher, age 18 years were married at Princeton, Latah County, Idaho^G.¹

Child of: Fourth Freedom Thomas and Ruby Ilene Thrasher

Merle Venoy Thomas¹ B: 30 May 1924, D: 23 Dec 1970

Citations

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

Reference

LW7N-1MR

Last Edited

4 Dec 2024

Ruby Ilene Thrasher¹

Family

TMG ID:102405, (22 Apr 1904 - 18 Jan 2000)

Primary Birth & Death

Born: Ruby Ilene Thrasher was born on Friday, 22 Apr 1904, at Atlanta, Phelps County, Nebraska^G.¹
Died on Tuesday, 18 Jan 2000 at Princeton, Latah County, Idaho^G, at age 95 years, 8 months and 27 days.¹
Interred on Friday, 21 Jan 2000 at Mendenhall Cemetery, Latah County, Idaho^G.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Saturday, 22 Apr 1922, her married name became Mrs. Thomas (née Thrasher).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Saturday, 22 Apr 1922, Ruby, age 18 years, and Fourth Freedom Thomas, age 19 years, 9 months and 18 days were married at Princeton, Latah County, Idaho^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Saturday, 22 Apr 1922, Ruby, age 18 years, and Fourth Freedom Thomas, age 19 years, 9 months and 18 days were married at Princeton, Latah County, Idaho^G.¹

Child of: Ruby Ilene Thrasher and Fourth Freedom Thomas

Merle Venoy Thomas¹ B: 30 May 1924, D: 23 Dec 1970

Citations

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

Reference

LW7N-1M1

Last Edited

4 Dec 2024

Elda May Kramer¹

TMG ID:102406, (18 Sep 1910 - 19 Mar 1977)

Primary Birth & Death

Born: Elda May Kramer was born on Sunday, 18 Sep 1910, at Hickory Grove, Grant County, Wisconsin^G.¹
Died on Saturday, 19 Mar 1977 at Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota^G, at age 66 years, 6 months and 1 day.¹
Interred after 19 Mar 1977 at Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota^G.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Thursday, 14 Jul 1927, her married name became Mrs. Grubbs (née Kramer).¹
Name-Married: on Saturday, 15 May 1937, her married name became Mrs. Luke (née Kramer).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Thursday, 14 Jul 1927, Elda, age 16 years, 9 months and 26 days, and Elwood Freeman Grubbs, age 18 years, 2 months and 11 days were married at Nevada, Story County, Iowa^G.¹
Marriage	Saturday, 15 May 1937, Elda, age 26 years, 7 months and 27 days, and Winfred Hersey Luke, age 27 years and 11 months, son of: Wallace Alec Luke and Katarina Louisa Quist, were married at Northwood, Worth County, Iowa^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Thursday, 14 Jul 1927, Elda, age 16 years, 9 months and 26 days, and Elwood Freeman Grubbs, age 18 years, 2 months and 11 days were married at Nevada, Story County, Iowa^G.¹

Marriage

Saturday, 15 May 1937, Elda, age 26 years, 7 months and 27 days, and Winfred Hersey Luke, age 27 years and 11 months, son of: Wallace Alec Luke and Katarina Louisa Quist, were married at Northwood, Worth County, Iowa^G.¹

Citations

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

Reference

G3ZH-59L

Last Edited

4 Dec 2024

Elwood Freeman Grubbs¹

TMG ID:102407, (3 May 1909 - 19 Jan 1958)

Primary Birth & Death

Born: Elwood Freeman Grubbs was born on Monday, 3 May 1909, at Ames, Story County, Iowa^G.¹
Died on Sunday, 19 Jan 1958 at Multnomah County, Oregon^G, at age 48 years, 8 months and 16 days.¹
Interred after 19 Jan 1958 at Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon^G.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Thursday, 14 Jul 1927, Elwood, age 18 years, 2 months and 11 days, and Elda May Kramer, age 16 years, 9 months and 26 days were married at Nevada, Story County, Iowa^G.¹
Marriage	Saturday, 22 May 1937, Elwood, age 28 years and 19 days, and Thelma L. McCorkell, age 28 years, 11 months and 23 days, daughter of: George Gifford McCorkell and Hester Crandall, were married at Northwood, Worth County, Iowa^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Thursday, 14 Jul 1927, Elwood, age 18 years, 2 months and 11 days, and Elda May Kramer, age 16 years, 9 months and 26 days were married at Nevada, Story County, Iowa^G.¹

Marriage

Saturday, 22 May 1937, Elwood, age 28 years and 19 days, and Thelma L. McCorkell, age 28 years, 11 months and 23 days, daughter of: George Gifford McCorkell and Hester Crandall, were married at Northwood, Worth County, Iowa^G.¹

Citations

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

Reference

LYLY-K58

Last Edited

4 Dec 2024

Samuel Pugh¹

Family

TMG ID:102408, (Oct 1859 - )

Primary Birth & Death

Born: Samuel Pugh was born in Oct 1859, at Virginia^G.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage License	Saturday, 20 Jun 1885 Samuel Pugh at age 25 and Mary Adeline McCorkell at age 20 obtained a marriage license at Sedan, Chautauqua County, Kansas^G.²
Marriage	Tuesday, 23 Jun 1885, Samuel, age 25 years and 8 months, and Mary Adeline McCorkell, age 20 years and 11 months, daughter of: George Riley McCorkell and Jane Oleva Gifford, were married at Sedan, Chautauqua County, Kansas^G.^1,2

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage License

Saturday, 20 Jun 1885 Samuel Pugh at age 25 and Mary Adeline McCorkell at age 20 obtained a marriage license at Sedan, Chautauqua County, Kansas^G.²

Marriage

Tuesday, 23 Jun 1885, Samuel, age 25 years and 8 months, and Mary Adeline McCorkell, age 20 years and 11 months, daughter of: George Riley McCorkell and Jane Oleva Gifford, were married at Sedan, Chautauqua County, Kansas^G.^1,2

Children of: Samuel Pugh and Mary Adeline McCorkell

Arthur Blaine Pugh+¹ B: 2 Apr 1887
Harry Gifford Pugh+¹ B: 24 Jan 1889, D: 20 Dec 1918
Edwin Chambers Pugh+¹ B: Jan 1893, D: 26 Dec 1982

Other Major Events

Saturday, 20 Jun 1885 Samuel Pugh at age 25 and Mary Adeline McCorkell at age 20 obtained a marriage license at Sedan, Chautauqua County, Kansas^G.²

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1895 KS	1 Mar 1895, Post Office: Kepple, Edwards Twp., Wichita County, Kansas^G	Mary Adeline McCorkell, Arthur Blaine Pugh, Harry Gifford Pugh and Edwin Chambers Pugh³
Census-1900	8 Jun 1900, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado^G	Mary Adeline McCorkell, Arthur Blaine Pugh, Harry Gifford Pugh and Edwin Chambers Pugh⁴

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1895 KS

1 Mar 1895, Post Office: Kepple, Edwards Twp., Wichita County, Kansas^G

Mary Adeline McCorkell, Arthur Blaine Pugh, Harry Gifford Pugh and Edwin Chambers Pugh³

Census-1900

8 Jun 1900, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado^G

Mary Adeline McCorkell, Arthur Blaine Pugh, Harry Gifford Pugh and Edwin Chambers Pugh⁴

Occupation(s)

Date	Location	Occupation/Industry
circa Mar 1895	Edwards Twp., Wichita County, Kansas^G	farming mining³
circa Jun 1900	Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado^G	miner⁴

Date

Location

Occupation/Industry

circa Mar 1895

Edwards Twp., Wichita County, Kansas^G

farming mining³

circa Jun 1900

Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado^G

miner⁴

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person page.
[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911.
[S657] Various, 1895 Digital, Kansas, Ancestry.com, unknown repository unknown repository address.
[S117] 1 Jun 1900, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y8l8gl3a Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900.

Reference

LTSJ-263

Last Edited

7 Dec 2024

Arthur Blaine Pugh¹

Family

TMG ID:102409, (2 Apr 1887 - )

Relationship:

5th cousin 2 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

Samuel Pugh¹ B: Oct 1859

Mother*

Mary Adeline McCorkell¹ B: Jul 1864, D: 6 Aug 1902

Primary Birth & Death

Born: Arthur Blaine Pugh was born on Saturday, 2 Apr 1887, at Leoti, Wichita County, Kansas^G.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Arthur and Bertha Edna Allen, daughter of: Edward G. Allen and Minnie Belle Robertson, were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Arthur and Bertha Edna Allen, daughter of: Edward G. Allen and Minnie Belle Robertson, were married.¹

Children of: Arthur Blaine Pugh and Bertha Edna Allen

Roy Edward Pugh¹ B: 18 May 1917, D: 23 Apr 1972
Agnes Bell Pugh¹ B: 13 May 1919, D: Sep 1978
Ralph Eugene Pugh¹ B: 16 Jan 1925, D: 31 May 2001

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1895 KS	1 Mar 1895, Post Office: Kepple, Edwards Twp., Wichita County, Kansas^G	Samuel Pugh, Mary Adeline McCorkell, Harry Gifford Pugh and Edwin Chambers Pugh²
Census-1900	8 Jun 1900, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado^G	Samuel Pugh, Mary Adeline McCorkell, Harry Gifford Pugh and Edwin Chambers Pugh³

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1895 KS

1 Mar 1895, Post Office: Kepple, Edwards Twp., Wichita County, Kansas^G

Samuel Pugh, Mary Adeline McCorkell, Harry Gifford Pugh and Edwin Chambers Pugh²

Census-1900

8 Jun 1900, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado^G

Samuel Pugh, Mary Adeline McCorkell, Harry Gifford Pugh and Edwin Chambers Pugh³

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person page.
[S657] Various, 1895 Digital, Kansas, Ancestry.com, unknown repository unknown repository address.
[S117] 1 Jun 1900, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y8l8gl3a Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900.

Reference

LTSJ-B6Q

Last Edited

5 Dec 2024

Harry Gifford Pugh¹

Family

TMG ID:102410, (24 Jan 1889 - 20 Dec 1918)

Relationship:

5th cousin 2 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

Samuel Pugh¹ B: Oct 1859

Mother*

Mary Adeline McCorkell¹ B: Jul 1864, D: 6 Aug 1902

Primary Birth & Death

Born: Harry Gifford Pugh was born on Thursday, 24 Jan 1889, at Monagaw Springs, Saint Clair County, Missouri^G.¹
Died on Friday, 20 Dec 1918 at Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona^G, at age 29 years, 10 months and 26 days.¹
Interred after 20 Dec 1918 at Douglas, Cochise County, Arizona^G.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Thursday, 30 Oct 1913, Harry, age 24 years, 9 months and 6 days, and May Linda Arnett, age 19 years, 9 months and 27 days, daughter of: Ahijah Arnett and Loucinda A. Norton, were married at Cochise County, Arizona^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Thursday, 30 Oct 1913, Harry, age 24 years, 9 months and 6 days, and May Linda Arnett, age 19 years, 9 months and 27 days, daughter of: Ahijah Arnett and Loucinda A. Norton, were married at Cochise County, Arizona^G.¹

Child of: Harry Gifford Pugh and May Linda Arnett

Beth Arnetta Pugh¹ B: 5 Feb 1918, D: 4 Nov 1995

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1895 KS	1 Mar 1895, Post Office: Kepple, Edwards Twp., Wichita County, Kansas^G	Samuel Pugh, Mary Adeline McCorkell, Arthur Blaine Pugh and Edwin Chambers Pugh²
Census-1900	8 Jun 1900, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado^G	Samuel Pugh, Mary Adeline McCorkell, Arthur Blaine Pugh and Edwin Chambers Pugh³

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1895 KS

1 Mar 1895, Post Office: Kepple, Edwards Twp., Wichita County, Kansas^G

Samuel Pugh, Mary Adeline McCorkell, Arthur Blaine Pugh and Edwin Chambers Pugh²

Census-1900

8 Jun 1900, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado^G

Samuel Pugh, Mary Adeline McCorkell, Arthur Blaine Pugh and Edwin Chambers Pugh³

Occupation(s)

Date	Location	Occupation/Industry
circa Apr 1910	Wichita City, Sedgwick County, Kansas^G	delivery boy grocery⁴

Date

Location

Occupation/Industry

circa Apr 1910

Wichita City, Sedgwick County, Kansas^G

delivery boy grocery⁴

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person page.
[S657] Various, 1895 Digital, Kansas, Ancestry.com, unknown repository unknown repository address.
[S117] 1 Jun 1900, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y8l8gl3a Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900.
[S243] 15 Apr 1910, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y9glogje, Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910.

Reference

KCTF-7JN

Last Edited

8 Dec 2024

Edwin Chambers Pugh¹

Family

TMG ID:102411, (Jan 1893 - 26 Dec 1982)

Relationship:

5th cousin 2 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

Samuel Pugh¹ B: Oct 1859

Mother*

Mary Adeline McCorkell¹ B: Jul 1864, D: 6 Aug 1902

Primary Birth & Death

Born: Edwin Chambers Pugh was born in Jan 1893, at Kansas^G.¹
Died on Sunday, 26 Dec 1982 at San Bernardino County, California^G, at age 89 years and 11 months.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Edwin and Mabel Ballschmidt were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Edwin and Mabel Ballschmidt were married.¹

Child of: Edwin Chambers Pugh and Mabel Ballschmidt

Dorothy Dawson Pugh+¹ B: 3 Jan 1923, D: 22 May 1999

Census Records

Census	Date/Location/Comment	Others Same Household
Census-1895 KS	1 Mar 1895, Post Office: Kepple, Edwards Twp., Wichita County, Kansas^G	Samuel Pugh, Mary Adeline McCorkell, Arthur Blaine Pugh and Harry Gifford Pugh²
Census-1900	8 Jun 1900, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado^G	Samuel Pugh, Mary Adeline McCorkell, Arthur Blaine Pugh and Harry Gifford Pugh³

Census

Date/Location/Comment

Others Same Household

Census-1895 KS

1 Mar 1895, Post Office: Kepple, Edwards Twp., Wichita County, Kansas^G

Samuel Pugh, Mary Adeline McCorkell, Arthur Blaine Pugh and Harry Gifford Pugh²

Census-1900

8 Jun 1900, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado^G

Samuel Pugh, Mary Adeline McCorkell, Arthur Blaine Pugh and Harry Gifford Pugh³

Occupation(s)

Date	Location	Occupation/Industry
circa Apr 1910	Wichita City, Sedgwick County, Kansas^G	clerk grocery⁴

Date

Location

Occupation/Industry

circa Apr 1910

Wichita City, Sedgwick County, Kansas^G

clerk grocery⁴

Citations

[S620] FamilySearch.org, online https://tinyurl.com/ycndba9a, Various (Utah), updated as of Various, Person page.
[S657] Various, 1895 Digital, Kansas, Ancestry.com, unknown repository unknown repository address.
[S117] 1 Jun 1900, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y8l8gl3a Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900.
[S243] 15 Apr 1910, Digital, FamilySearch.org, 35 NW Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, https://tinyurl.com/y9glogje, Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910.

Reference

LTSJ-TYC

Last Edited

8 Dec 2024

Mabel Ballschmidt¹

Family

TMG ID:102412, (6 May 1898 - 8 Aug 1958)

Primary Birth & Death

Born: Mabel Ballschmidt was born on Friday, 6 May 1898, at Illinois^G.¹
Died on Friday, 8 Aug 1958 at Riverside County, California^G, at age 60 years, 3 months and 2 days.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Pugh (née Ballschmidt).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Mabel and Edwin Chambers Pugh, son of: Samuel Pugh and Mary Adeline McCorkell, were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Mabel and Edwin Chambers Pugh, son of: Samuel Pugh and Mary Adeline McCorkell, were married.¹

Child of: Mabel Ballschmidt and Edwin Chambers Pugh

Dorothy Dawson Pugh+¹ B: 3 Jan 1923, D: 22 May 1999

Citations

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

Reference

LTSJ-L

Last Edited

4 Dec 2024

Dorothy Dawson Pugh¹

Family

TMG ID:102413, (3 Jan 1923 - 22 May 1999)

Relationship:

6th cousin 1 time removed of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

Edwin Chambers Pugh¹ B: Jan 1893, D: 26 Dec 1982

Mother*

Mabel Ballschmidt¹ B: 6 May 1898, D: 8 Aug 1958

Primary Birth & Death

Born: Dorothy Dawson Pugh was born on Wednesday, 3 Jan 1923, at Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa^G.¹
Died on Saturday, 22 May 1999 at Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa^G, at age 76 years, 4 months and 19 days.¹
Interred after 22 May 1999 at Sherrill United Methodist Church Cemetery, Sherrill, Dubuque County, Iowa^G.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Friday, 23 Apr 1948, her married name became Mrs. Datisman (née Pugh).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Friday, 23 Apr 1948, Dorothy, age 25 years, 3 months and 20 days, and Sydney Thomas Datisman, age 25 years, 4 months and 25 days, son of: John Leo Datisman and Hannah Hinde, were married at Riverside, Riverside County, California^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Friday, 23 Apr 1948, Dorothy, age 25 years, 3 months and 20 days, and Sydney Thomas Datisman, age 25 years, 4 months and 25 days, son of: John Leo Datisman and Hannah Hinde, were married at Riverside, Riverside County, California^G.¹

Child of: Dorothy Dawson Pugh and Sydney Thomas Datisman

Jane Ellen Datisman¹ B: 23 Jul 1952, D: 26 Mar 2023

Citations

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

Reference

LBCF-32P

Last Edited

4 Dec 2024

Sydney Thomas Datisman¹

Family

TMG ID:102414, (29 Nov 1922 - 8 Apr 2017)

Father*

John Leo Datisman¹ B: Jan 1887, D: 21 Feb 1935

Mother*

Hannah Hinde¹ B: Nov 1889, D: 8 May 1980

Primary Birth & Death

Born: Sydney Thomas Datisman was born on Wednesday, 29 Nov 1922, at Durango, Dubuque County, Iowa^G.¹
Died on Saturday, 8 Apr 2017 at Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa^G, at age 94 years, 4 months and 10 days.¹
Interred after 8 Apr 2017 at Sherrill United Methodist Church Cemetery, Sherrill, Dubuque County, Iowa^G.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Friday, 23 Apr 1948, Sydney, age 25 years, 4 months and 25 days, and Dorothy Dawson Pugh, age 25 years, 3 months and 20 days, daughter of: Edwin Chambers Pugh and Mabel Ballschmidt, were married at Riverside, Riverside County, California^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Friday, 23 Apr 1948, Sydney, age 25 years, 4 months and 25 days, and Dorothy Dawson Pugh, age 25 years, 3 months and 20 days, daughter of: Edwin Chambers Pugh and Mabel Ballschmidt, were married at Riverside, Riverside County, California^G.¹

Child of: Sydney Thomas Datisman and Dorothy Dawson Pugh

Jane Ellen Datisman¹ B: 23 Jul 1952, D: 26 Mar 2023

Citations

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

Reference

L249-WGX

Last Edited

4 Dec 2024

John Leo Datisman¹

Family

TMG ID:102415, (Jan 1887 - 21 Feb 1935)

Primary Birth & Death

Born: John Leo Datisman was born in Jan 1887, at Iowa^G.¹
Died on Thursday, 21 Feb 1935 at age 48 years and 1 month.¹
Interred after 21 Feb 1935 at Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa^G.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Monday, 23 Jun 1913, John, age 26 years and 5 months, and Hannah Hinde, age 23 years and 7 months were married at Dubuque County, Iowa^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Monday, 23 Jun 1913, John, age 26 years and 5 months, and Hannah Hinde, age 23 years and 7 months were married at Dubuque County, Iowa^G.¹

Child of: John Leo Datisman and Hannah Hinde

Sydney Thomas Datisman+¹ B: 29 Nov 1922, D: 8 Apr 2017

Citations

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

Reference

L249-W61

Last Edited

4 Dec 2024

Hannah Hinde¹

Family

TMG ID:102416, (Nov 1889 - 8 May 1980)

Primary Birth & Death

Born: Hannah Hinde was born in Nov 1889, at Iowa^G.¹
Died on Thursday, 8 May 1980 at age 90 years and 6 months.¹
Interred after 8 May 1980 at Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa^G.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Monday, 23 Jun 1913, her married name became Mrs. Datisman (née Hinde).¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Monday, 23 Jun 1913, Hannah, age 23 years and 7 months, and John Leo Datisman, age 26 years and 5 months were married at Dubuque County, Iowa^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Monday, 23 Jun 1913, Hannah, age 23 years and 7 months, and John Leo Datisman, age 26 years and 5 months were married at Dubuque County, Iowa^G.¹

Child of: Hannah Hinde and John Leo Datisman

Sydney Thomas Datisman+¹ B: 29 Nov 1922, D: 8 Apr 2017

Citations

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

Reference

LKDK-3XS

Last Edited

4 Dec 2024

Jane Ellen Datisman¹

Family

TMG ID:102417, (23 Jul 1952 - 26 Mar 2023)

Relationship:

7th cousin of Elsie Dora Lewis

Father*

Sydney Thomas Datisman¹ B: 29 Nov 1922, D: 8 Apr 2017

Mother*

Dorothy Dawson Pugh¹ B: 3 Jan 1923, D: 22 May 1999

Primary Birth & Death

Born: Jane Ellen Datisman was born on Wednesday, 23 Jul 1952.¹
Died on Sunday, 26 Mar 2023 at Gillette, Campbell County, Wyoming^G, at age 70 years, 8 months and 3 days.¹
Interred on Monday, 3 Apr 2023 at Mount Pisgah Cemetery, Gillette, Campbell County, Wyoming^G.¹

Citations

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May Linda Arnett¹

Family

TMG ID:102418, (3 Jan 1894 - 10 Apr 1959)

Father*

Ahijah Arnett¹ B: 8 Dec 1856, D: 14 May 1929

Mother*

Loucinda A. Norton¹ B: 3 Feb 1863, D: 5 Mar 1900

Primary Birth & Death

Born: May Linda Arnett was born on Wednesday, 3 Jan 1894, at Benjamin, Knox County, Texas^G.¹
Died on Friday, 10 Apr 1959 at Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California^G, at age 65 years, 3 months and 7 days.¹
Interred on Monday, 13 Apr 1959 at Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California^G.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Thursday, 30 Oct 1913, her married name became Mrs. Pugh (née Arnett).¹

Union(s)

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Thursday, 30 Oct 1913, May, age 19 years, 9 months and 27 days, and Harry Gifford Pugh, age 24 years, 9 months and 6 days, son of: Samuel Pugh and Mary Adeline McCorkell, were married at Cochise County, Arizona^G.¹

Child of: May Linda Arnett and Harry Gifford Pugh

Beth Arnetta Pugh¹ B: 5 Feb 1918, D: 4 Nov 1995

Citations

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Ahijah Arnett¹

Family

TMG ID:102419, (8 Dec 1856 - 14 May 1929)

Primary Birth & Death

Born: Ahijah Arnett was born on Monday, 8 Dec 1856, at Monagan Springs, Henry County, Missouri^G.¹
Died on Tuesday, 14 May 1929 at Franklin, Greenlee County, Arizona^G, at age 72 years, 5 months and 6 days.¹
Interred on Wednesday, 15 May 1929 at Franklin, Greenlee County, Arizona^G.¹

Union(s)

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Sunday, 27 Apr 1884, Ahijah, age 27 years, 4 months and 19 days, and Loucinda A. Norton, age 21 years, 2 months and 24 days were married at Cooke County, Texas^G.¹

Child of: Ahijah Arnett and Loucinda A. Norton

May Linda Arnett+¹ B: 3 Jan 1894, D: 10 Apr 1959

Citations

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Loucinda A. Norton¹

Family

TMG ID:102420, (3 Feb 1863 - 5 Mar 1900)

Primary Birth & Death

Born: Loucinda A. Norton was born on Tuesday, 3 Feb 1863, at Lincoln, Logan County, Illinois^G.¹
Died on Monday, 5 Mar 1900 at Benjamin, Knox County, Texas^G, at age 37 years, 1 month and 2 days.¹
Interred after 5 Mar 1900 at Benjamin Cemetery, Benjamin, Knox County, Texas^G.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Sunday, 27 Apr 1884, her married name became Mrs. Arnett (née Norton).¹

Union(s)

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Sunday, 27 Apr 1884, Loucinda, age 21 years, 2 months and 24 days, and Ahijah Arnett, age 27 years, 4 months and 19 days were married at Cooke County, Texas^G.¹

Child of: Loucinda A. Norton and Ahijah Arnett

May Linda Arnett+¹ B: 3 Jan 1894, D: 10 Apr 1959

Citations

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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.
— Will Rogers
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.
— Will Rogers
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need.
— Will Rogers
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.
— Will Rogers
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.
— Will Rogers
Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.
— Will Rogers
Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.
— Will Rogers
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.
— Will Rogers
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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