Adella Grace Scott Scribner Part 6 of 9, 1910s

Adella Grace Scott Scribner 1910s

1910

19 April 1910 age 50; Census

160 Franklin Street, Franklin Ward 2, Merrimack NH.  Living with husband and daughter Gertrude.

This is what Google Maps shows about this residence.  I suspect the house is bigger than it was at the time, but probably is essentially the same.

160 Franklin Street, Franklin NH
Scribner family residence 1910
Google Maps

The red circle is Adella Scribner's residence.  The blue is both her nephew Clarence and Cecelia Scott, and the place their son Chester was born and died.  Clarence was her brother Marshall's son.

160 Franklin Street, Franklin NH
Google Maps Satellite

160 Franklin Street, Franklin NH
Side view, Google Street view as of 2013

The street views are where you can see the potential addition on the back. Cute little house!

24 September 1910, her husband Morrill D. died in Franklin NH at the age of 53.  
They had been married 33 years.  He is quite young.  Did he die of the heart attack known as "The Widow-Maker?"  I can't find cause of death for him, yet.

Morrill Scribner Find a Grave record
from Ancestry.com

1910 Historical Insight -- Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Circus

The foreign performers, trained animals, and incredible stunts of the Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Circus probably awed Adella Grace Scribner in 1910.

1911 Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Circus
Credit:  Library of Congres
Adam Forepaugh was born into poverty, but he eventually created
one of the most famous circuses in the United States
(Ancestry.com Historical Insights, 2019)

1912 Red Fairy Book by Lang, Illustration 1

In other news:  Japan annexes Korea; Halley's Comet shows off; King George V (Windsor) begins his long reign from 1910 to 1936 (OurTimelines.com, 2018).

1911, age 51

Historical Insight -- The New England Heat Wave of 1911
During the summer of 1911, Adella Scott Scribner might have been living in Franklin, NH when a deadly heatwave killed more than 2,000 in the northeastern United States.

1911 New England Heat Wave
Credit:  Library of Congress Photo Collection, 1840-2000/Ancestry.com
(Ancestry Historical Insight, 2019)

Fourth of July celebrations across New England and New York City were interrupted in 1911 by a deadly heat wave.  Record highs were set during the week-and-a-half scorcher that sent temperatures soaring into the 110s in some areas.  Eggs could be cooked on the sidewalks and tar streets melted, trapping cars and pedestrians.  The 11-day hot spell took the lives of 2,000 in New England and 211 more in New York City before thunderstorms coold down the Northeast (Ancestry Historical Insights, 2019). 

1912 Red Fairy Book by Lang
Title Page Front piece

In other news:  Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole in 1911.  What's next? (OurTimelines.com, 2018).

1912, age 52

Residence 160 Franklin Street, Franklin NH per City Directory

Franklin City Directory
Sister in Law Emma; son Charles; Daughter Gertrude

160 Franklin Street, Franklin NH
front view, Google Street View as of 2013

I searched, but cannot find a realty listing for this property.  I did find that it was built in 1890, so it is now a very old house.

1912 19526_redfairybooklang_title

In other news:  Alaska is organized as a territory while Arizona becomes the 48th state, and New Mexico becomes the 47th state.  The Titanic sinks causing world-wide consternation (OurTimelines.com, 2018).

1913, age 53

Mother Mary Jane Bacon Scott Hamm died 5 January 1913 in Salisbury, Merrimack NH.  She was 80 years old.

Mother Mary Jane Bacon Scott Hamm died
(Ancestry Find A Grave, 2019)

1913-1920 -- Woodrow Wilson becomes the 28th President of the United States

1913 President Woodrow Wilson
He was a Democrat, President of Princeton University, and the New Jersey Governor. 
He lead the US during World War I (Wikipedia -- Wilson, 2018)

President Woodrow Wilson Quote:  "You are not here merely to make a living.  You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision with a finer spirit of hope and acievement.  You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand" (Wilson, 2018).

1914

Residence Franklin NH

Adella Scribner lives with her daughter Gertrude
(both red indicators) at 17 East High, Franklin NH
Sister in law Emma and Emma's son Arthur (yellow stars)
both live on the farm on Smith Hill
(Ancestry, 2011)

This record shows what I suspected, that Charles Scribner is a clerk at the Sulloway Mills, which makes hosiery at this time.  See previous post for information on this mill.

17 East High, where Adella Scribner lived in 1914

(Google Maps Adella Scribner 1914, 2013, 2019)

17 East High, where Adella Scribner lived in 1914, Satellite View
(Google Maps Adella Scribner 1914, 2013, 2019) 

17 East High, where Adella Scribner lived in 1914
Street View as of 2013

(Google Maps Adella Scribner 1914, 2013, 2019)

World War I nurse

In other news:  World War I starts in 1914, while women are uplifted by the invention of the bra.   Einstein presents his Theory of Relativity in 1915.  In 1916, the Irish Easter Rebellion rises, while Sonar begins making sound waves (OurTimelines.com, 2018).

1916

5 January 1916 Marriage certificate for daughter Gertrude to Albert Manuel, both of Franklin NH.  Both are older, over 35 years old.  First marriage for them both, Albert is a farmer.  The reverse of the document has a wealth of information, which is unusual for New Hampshire.  We see ages and occupations, birth places and residences for all four parents.

Scribner Manuel marriage certificate
Side A

Scribner Manuel marriage certificate
Side B

1917 

Historical Insight -- America Enters World War I

When the United States declared war on Germany in 1917, Adella Scott Scribner was probably living in Franklin, New Hampshire.

2 April 1917.  Washington, D.C.

Credit:  Universal Images Group/Getty Images

(Ancestry Historical Insights, 2019)

"On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson addressed the United States Congress, asking for a declaration of war.  Four days later, the U.S. Senate voted:  82 for and 6 against.  In the House of Representatives, the decision was endorsed again 373 votes to 50" (Ancestry Historical INsights, 2019).

1910 Heureux Noel

In other news:  Russian Revolution begins, and the US enters WWI (OurTimelines.com, 2018).

1918

Historical Insight -- World War I -- U-156 Attacks on New England

During World War I, Adella Scott Scribner was living in Franklin, New Hampshire, when German U-boats attacked the shipping industry.

New England residents experienced the horror of World War I directly
when Germany's U-156 attacked during the summer of 1918. 
Credit:  Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
(Ancestry Historical Insights, 2019)

"World War I is known in the United States as a conflict that was fought 'over there.'  However, people who lived along the New England coastline during the summer of 1918 experienced the war on their home front when German U-boats attacked ships in the Gulf of Maine.  The primary target of U-156 was the fishing industry.  Tourists were vacationing near Nauset Beach, Massachusetts, and watched as U-156 surfaced and attacked several ships nearby.  The German submarine sank 21 fishing vessels from Cape Cod to the Bay of Fundy during July and August of 1918.  One attack near Cape Cod by U-156 on 21 July 1918, destroyed five vessels, including a tugboat and several barges.  Citizens participated in rescue efforts and aided fishermen who had been attacked, paying close attention to their war stories.  The navy produced propaganda posters that explained how it was fighting back with 'depth bombs.' (Ancestry Historical Insights, 2019).

1911 clip art Gould's St Louis MO directory, automobile

In other news:  The Flu epidemic wipes out 25 million people 1918-1920 [nothing to sneeze at]; Prohibition leaves people with no legal alcohol from 1918-1933 (OurTimelines.com, 2018).

1919

Historical Insight -- 1919 Paris Peace Conference

Adella Scott Scribner probably read newspaper accounts about the Paris Peace Conference while living in Franklin NH

1919, Paris, France.  Credit:  Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain
(Ancestry Historical Insights, 2019)

"The Japanese delegates represented the fifth major Allied power, but their influence was minimal compared to the 'Big Four' leaders" (Ancestry Historical Insights, 2019).

1911 clip art goulds St Louis MO directory
Interesting how it doesn't list ingredients

Historical Insight -- The "Red Scare"

In 1919, Adella Scott Scribner may have witnessed one of the "Palmer Raids" while living in Franklin NH during the first "Red Scare."  [Was she afraid of her neighbors?  Remember, they'd just gone through World War I, and they knew communist sympathizers were living in the US.  Was it someone she knew? -- editor].

1919, Boston, Massachusetts
Anarchist, communist, and socialist books and magazines
were discovered and confiscated by the police in Boston.
Credit:  Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
(Ancestry Historical Insights, 2019)

Historical Insight -- Women Gain the Consitutional Right to Vote

in 1920, Adella Scott Scribner may have voted for the first time while she was living in Franklin NH.

Ratification of the 19th Amendment in August 1920 was the
culmination of several decades of work by woman suffrage organizations.
Credit:  Underwood Archives/Archive Photos/Getty Images
(Ancestry Historical Insights, 2019)

"The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."  To gain this brief addition to the U.S. Constitution in August 1920, woman suffrage movement leaders had met for 72 years to discuss their goal of gaining full voting rights throughout the United States.  There were victories during this quest.  Wyoming granted full suffrage to women in 1869, and every state from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast had extended full voting rights to women before 1920.  When the 19th Amendment was ratified, only seven states remained where women had no voting rights at all.  In the 1920 election, women did not vote as a political bloc, and a New York Times report estimated that one-third of the eligible female voters in the state cast ballots in the presidential election" (Ancestry Historical Insights, 2019)

1911 Nurse Ad

In other news:  League of Nations is instituted, while the Shortwave Radio is invented (OurTimelines.com, 2018).

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Ancestry Historical Insights. (2019). America Enters World War I. Retrieved from Ancestry.com: Ancestry.com

Ancestry Historical Insight. (2019). New England Heat Wave of 1911. Retrieved from Ancestry.com: Ancestry.com

Ancestry Historical Insights. (2019). The "Red Scare". Retrieved from Ancestry.com: Ancestry.com

Ancestry Historical Insights. (2019). Women Gain the Constitutional Right to Vote. Retrieved from Ancestry.com: Ancestry.com

Ancestry Historical Insights. (2019). World War I -- U-156 Attacks on New England. Retrieved from Ancestry: Ancestry.com

Google Maps; Google Maps Satellite; Google Maps Street View

Google Maps Adella Scribner 1914. (2013, 2019). 17 East High Street, Franklin NH. Retrieved from Google Maps 2019, Satellite 2019 and Street View 2013: https://www.google.com/maps/place/17+E+High+St,+Franklin,+NH+03235/@43.441913,-71.6469735,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89e20becdf5d8a8d:0xf60501d593864731!8m2!3d43.441913!4d-71.6447848

OurTimelines.com. (2018). TimeLines. (Timelines courtesy of www.ourtimelines.com. Timeline formatting and technology copyright © 2000-2018 ourtimelines.com, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED under the Pan-American Conventions.) Retrieved from OurTimeLines.com: http://ourtimelines.com/

Wikipedia -- Wilson. (2018). Woodrow Wilson, 28th President. Retrieved from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson

Wilson, W. (2018). Woodrow Wilson Quotes. Retrieved from BrainyQuotes: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/woodrow_wilson

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Adella Grace Scott Scribner Part 1 of 8 -- 1860s

Adella Grace Scott Scribner 1860-1944

daughter of Harvey and Mary Jane Bacon Scott

1860s

Adella Grace Scott Scribner LifeStory from Ancestry

4 February 1860 

Birth

Adella Grace Scott was born in Salisbury, Merrimack County NH.  Below is her birth certificate.  The frustrating thing about New Hampshire vital records is that they rarely filled in anything more than the absolute necessities.  But at least it provides evidence of her date and place of birth, her father's name and place of birth, and her mother's maiden name.

Adella Grace Scott 1860 birth certificate

1860 Census 

19 July 1860, age 4 months, living with her parents, older brother Marshall, and her father's sister, Aunt Lucretia M. Scott.  They all lived in Salisbury NH.  This image is the second part, since Harvey's name starts on the previous page.  You can find the entire thing in a previous post.

Adella Grace Scott 1860 census

Screen shot from Google Maps showing Salisbury NH in relation to some other major areas, including Vermont, New York, Ontario.

Salisbury NH from Google Maps 2019

1861 age 1

Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States

1861 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President

(Wikipedia -- Lincoln, 2018)

“Lincoln led the nation through the Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis.”  In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the Federal government and modernized the economy (Wikipedia -- Lincoln, 2018).  

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."  -- Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln, 2018)

Historical Insight -- Northern Life in the Civil War

Adella Grace Scott was in the North as the United States was torn apart by the American Civil War.

1862. Credit: Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images  – Ancestry.com Historical Insight

"More than 360,000 Union soldiers lost their lives during the Civil War; a notification of death was usually delivered to families by telegram or a fellow soldier." – Ancestry.com Historical Insight

1862, age 1

sister Silia was born  -- it is difficult to find anything about her.  I'll have to blog about her later, if I can find anything.

(Newspapers.com -- A Mormon's Opinion, 1866)

1864 

Lincoln runs for President with Johnson

1864 Lincoln Johnson campaign poster
(Wikipedia -- Lincoln, 2018)

1865 age 4

Father Harvey Scott died, 30 January 1865 in Hampton Virginia at the age of 39.  You can find my research on his death here.  She was only 4 years old, but her father was gone fighting in the Civil War for much of her life.  How much did she know about him, or remember about him?  What was life like before he died, and how much did their life change afterwards?  She had an older brother and a younger sister.  Harvey had purchased a couple pieces of land before he died, I think the family lived and farmed there.

(Newspapers.com -- clip art, millstones, 1866)

President Lincoln was assasinated.

1865

Andrew Johnson becomes President of the United States

1865 - 1869 Andrew Johnson

(Wikipedia -- Andrew Johnson, 2018)

"Slavery exists.  It is black in the South, and white in the North" -- Andrew Johnson (Johnson, 2018).

1866 

Mitchell Walker was elected as the First Black US official in Massacheusetts.

1868 age 6

Mother marries second husband Amos L. Hamm II on 1 May 1868 at Franklin NH.  You can find my blog on this event here.  I still don't have much primary evidence on this event, and I still wonder how they met?  I surmise that, since Amos also fought in the Civil War, that Amos knew this family from that connection.  Or, perhaps it was because they lived in the same geographical area.  Amos had lost his wife, and had a daughter a couple of years older than Adella, so perhaps it was a marriage of convenience?  Hard to say.  You can find the first of my blogs on Amos Hamm here.  His life was pretty amazing.

(Newspapers.com -- clip art, politcal advertisements, 1866)

1869

Ulysses S. Grant becomes President of the United States

1869 Ulysses S. Grant

(Wikipedia -- Grant, 2018)

"In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins" – Ulysses S. Grant (Grant, 2018).

In other news -- this is the decade in which South Carolina cecedes from the Union, Kansas enters the Union as the 34th state, and Colorado, Nevada, and both Dakotas become territories;  Ku Klux Klan was founded by those who hated the idea of blacks living free in 1865;  Lister invents Disinfection (OurTimelines.com, 2018).

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Ancestry -- Adella Grace Scott Scribner. (2019, November 6). Adella Grace Scott Scribner 1860-1944. Retrieved from Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/14582634/person/145967463/story

Ancestry Historical Insight. (2019). Northern Life in the Civil War. Retrieved from Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/contextux/historicalinsights/civil-war-life-in-the-north/persons/145967463:1030:14582634

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Johnson, A. (2018, December 13). Andrew Johnson Quotes. Retrieved from BrainyQuote: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/andrew_johnson

Lincoln, A. (2018). Abraham Lincoln Quotes. Retrieved from BrainyQuotes: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/abraham_lincoln

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Amos L. Hamm part 4, 1860s

• 1861 Historical Insight -- Medicine during the Civil War
• 1861 Historical Insight -- American Civil War -- Military Advancements
• 1864 Civil War Enlistment, NH, age 30
• 1868 Marriage to Mary Jane Bacon Scott age 34

Amos Ham must have farmed during most of the Civil War.  Must have been very stressful.  He volunteered late in the war.

1861 Medicine During the Civil War

Ancestry.com Historical Insight -- Medicine During the Civil War
Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty Image

During the American Civil War, the sheer volume of wounded soldiers forced doctors and nurses to develop life-saving medical techniques.

The vast majority of deaths during the American Civil War were not on the battlefield; they were caused by disease. In 1861 germ theory did not exist, the root of infection remained a mystery, and medical training was crude. Little advancements had been made in the field since the American Revolution; some physicians still championed medieval methods of bloodletting, purging, and blistering to rebalance the body’s humors. However, development in weaponry, namely faster, more accurate rifles and shells killed hundreds of thousands and left many more badly wounded. Thus the war forced doctors and nurses to rethink medical treatments, as tens of thousands of soldiers flooded the ill-equipped field hospitals. The sheer volume of injured men prompted rapid amputations. By 1865, a surgeon could remove a limb in six minutes flat. Anesthetics were common—chloroform and ether were given to patients, along with morphine for the pain. Ambulance service also was born during the Civil War. The fallen were gathered from the field, their wounds wrapped up, and they were shuttled to battle-side hospitals. But for many, these advancements in techniques and sanitation came too little too late—upwards of 500,000 Americans died from disease and infection before the war’s end. from Ancestry.com

1861 Military Advancements

Ancestry.com Historical Insight -- Civil War, Military Advancements
Credit: Buyenlarge/Archive Photos/Getty Image

Advancements in military weapons made the American Civil War a conflict of unparalleled carnage.

During the American Civil War, new weaponry revolutionized battle. The repeating rifle with Minié balls that allowed soldiers to fire seven rounds in 30 seconds without reloading replaced the musket. The repeating rifle increased accuracy, extending the firing range from 80 yards to 1,000. Thus forces were spaced further apart on the battlefield and to protect themselves built extensive fortifications and trenches.

Hand grenades and land mines also came into use during the war. However, the new explosives were finicky—sometimes Confederate soldiers used blankets to catch the incoming explosives and simply tossed them back to Union lines, where they exploded.

From the skies, passenger balloons spied on enemy lines and from below, Confederate submarines attacked ironclad ships enforcing the Union blockade. Unfortunately, technological advancements outpaced medical innovation.

The wounds caused by these new weapons were often deadly. In battle, modernized weapons proved harrowing. The sheer scale of fatalities and injuries was unmatched and, today, the Civil War remains the deadliest conflict in American history.

from Ancestry.com

1864 Military

Amos Ham 1864 Military Service

This document is entitled "Dispersments in Aid of Families of Volunteers by the Town of __________________"  The town name is left blank.  More than halfway down, we have Amos L. Ham, 18th NH Regiment, Company B.  He started September 17 1864.  He has a wife Mary A and a Child under 10 (this would be the child Nellie).  This aid was from September 30 1864 through April 30 1865, seven months.  The family was paid 56$.  The notation says "supposed to be with Regiment" whatever that means.

WAIT a minute!  His wife is Amelia, not Mary.  What gives here?

1864 Civil War enlistment

I don't have an image of this information.  I found it on Ancestry.com here.  His name is Amos L. Ham, enlisted at age 29 on 13 September 1864.  He was a private when he enlisted in Company B, New Hamspire 18th Infantry Regiment.  He mustered out on 10 June 1865.  It says he was born about 1835.

How to Come Home Safe

I found this story when I entered Amos' name into the Google search field.  Several books were written which included this inspirational story, I chose Incidents of the United States Christian Commission by Edward Parmelee Smith 1871.  Published by J.B. Lippincott & Company, United States.  The information for the book is found here, and the story is found here 

Amos L. Ham, of Co. B, 18th N.H., told us how he was arrested by a message from his little daughter [ed note:  this would be Nellie].  he labored under deep emotion as he spoke.  His wife had written him a letter.  Before sealing it, she turned to her little daughter and asked -- "What shall I write Father for you?"  "Tell him," said little Nellie, "to look to God and trust Him, and then he will come home safe."  The message went to the father's heart, humbling him at the foot of the cross, as a "little child."

1861 Amelia Hart Ham died

I don't have proof of the date of death, yet.  Perhaps never.  However, she had to have died somewhere before 1868 when he marries Mary Jane Bacon Scott, whose husband died a few weeks or days before the end of the war.  Perhaps these two men knew each other?

I have in my files that she died 26 August 1861.  This doesn't jive with the story above, where Nellie's mother was writing to Amos.  Something is wrong, probably my records, since I don't have proof.

1868 Marriage to Mary Jane Bacon Scott

They were married in Franklin, Merrimack NH on 1 May 1868.  She was 30 years old, her father is listed as Henry Bacon.  Her spouse is Amos L. Ham, also 30 years old.  New information!  His father is also Amos L. Ham!  From Ancestry.com. New Hampshire, Marriage Records Index, 1637-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

I found another date of marriage as 20 May 1868, also from Ancestry.com.

But the definitive answer is 1 May as evidenced by the image of the actual marriage record.  

1868 Marriage record for Scott/Hamm front

1868 Marriage record for Scott/Hamm back

Both are aged 30, Amos is a Farmer, and he was born in St. Johnsbury Vermont.  This is a second marriage for both of them, as both spouses died leaving them both widowed.  

Well, here's another record only it is for 20 May.

So, there is evidence for both dates, however one of them is transcribed later and is written in error.  The second one is transcribed in 1906.  The first set has no transcription date.  I suspect the May 1st date is the correct one, and I think the one transcribed 38 years later is erroneous.  

These are just my thoughts on the subject of both dates, I am open to suggestions.  Is this your family?  If you have any clarifications or want to connect, I'm happy to entertain options.  Use the connextion form on the right.

Resources:

• Incidents of the Unites States Christian Commission book details

• https://books.google.com/books?id=cKk8AAAAYAAJ&dq=amos+L.+Ham&source=gbs_navlinks_s

• Story "How to Come Home Safely"

• https://books.google.com/books?id=cKk8AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA345&dq=amos+L.+Ham&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj15rSU6tnYAhVH3mMKHVRUAfcQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=amos%20L.%20Ham&f=false