75 Years Ago This Week - August 16, 1938

75 Years Ago This Week

August 16, 1938

75 Years Ago This Week began March 1, 1938 - my mother and father were preparing to get married later in the month.

Over in The KINNICK Project blog, we recently posted a series of daily entries regarding "threshing" from Mom's - that is Eileen Kinnick's - diary, starting here

This week, in the Coon Rapids Enterprise, 75 Years Ago column, dated 29 Jul 1938, was this excerpt:

"Roy Greenlee narrowly escaped being injured seriously Wednesday morning while helping thresh at the Robert Kinnick home. One of his horses skipped a wire, became frightened, and scared the colt he was driving. The team bolted towards the threshing machine, broke the neck yoke and line, hit a post and broke loose from the rack. Roy was knocked to the floor of the rack badly bruised and shaken up. Robert Kinnick and Howard Lewis took after the team in a car and caught them before they had run clear home."

My comments: Robert Kinnick was my great-uncle, brother of Paul Kinnick, Mom's father. This was near by to where Mom and Dad were threshing… likely some same crew members. Small world.


Bonus family item
From the local newspaper in Coon Rapids, Iowa, the Coon Rapids Enterprise, in the 100 Years Ago column, dated August 1, 1913:

"Lem Williams has bought the Booth blacksmith shop tools and employed a blacksmith to work for him."
 
My comment: Lem Williams was an uncle of Robert and Paul Kinnick; brother of their mother. He was very active in construction activity, and other business ventures, in Coon Rapids. It is much fun following his reports in the Enterprise.



Families are forever!  ;-)

Treasure Chest Thursday - 5 Kinnick Siblings

Treasure Chest Thursday - 5 Kinnick Siblings

January 1, 1948

At Family New Year's Day Dinner, Bayard, Iowa

This post complements last weeks post: 5 Kinnick Sibling Couples

These five are children of Alonzo and Nettie (Williams) Kinnick, as noted last week.

From left:

Lucile Kinnick Herron (1894-1956)
Lillian Kinnick Ford (1908-1993)
Paul Kinnick (1892-1968)
Gertrude Kinnick Brideson (1902-1988)
Robert Kinnick (1896-1953)

Note: Thanks to 'cousin sharing' on Facebook for the date of the photo!!  ;-)

Now, after additional research, the story becomes more clear, though not totally, of course. First:

Further research: Jan 9, 1948 Bayard News, p. , Coon Rapids Enterprise (from archive online!):
http://coonrapids.advantage-preservation.com/document/coon-rapids-enterprise-1948-01-02-page-3

"Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kinnick, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Herron, Mr and Mrs. Delbert Ford of Coon Rapids and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Brideson were New Years dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kinnick."

New Facts: In searching the newspaper archives, I have also found that Brideson's actually left for California in December on 1948, nearly 12 months later... I think I've recognized a new Treasure Chest source of information for this weekly feature - articles from the hometown paper, perhaps with photos to match... For now, I'll leave it here.

Request: When descendants of Everett and Gertrude Brideson read this, I request they share with me/us the stories they remember of the move to California. Perhaps, share with me via email, and I'll add to these posts... or, simply write in the comments... which ever works best. THANKS!



Families are Forever!  ;-)

Wordless (nearly) Wednesday - Early Marriages

Wordless (nearly) Wednesday - Early Marriages

Two more photos from Ellen, thanks, again!

My great-grandparents wedding

Mr. & Mrs. A. P. Kinnick

July 6, 1891

[Lon and Nettie!]

Their 2nd son's wedding

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Kinnick

December 2, 1914

[Robert and Edna]

Families are Forever!  ;-)

Wordless (nearly) Wednesday - Paul, Lucile, Robert with Aunts Etta and Grace

Wordless (nearly) Wednesday

Paul, Lucile, Robert with Aunts Etta and Grace

Grace & Etta Kinnick with Paul, Robert & Lucile

In recent days, I have been so pleased to re-connect, on line, with a Kinnick cousin, out in Colorado, Ellen DeVilbiss, daughter of Roberta (Ford) and Bill Keister, granddaughter of Lillian (Kinnick) and Delbert Ford, great-granddaughter of Alonzo and Nettie (Williams) Kinnick.

The photo shared, above, is from Ellen from the collection left to her by Lillian. I had not seen this photo before, and it may to youngest photo I have seen of my grandfather, Paul Kinnick (1892-1968), left front. The Caption is as provided by Ellen. Center front is Paul's brother, Robert Kinnick (1896-1953); on the right front is their sister, Lucile Kinnick (1894-1956). They are three oldest children of Alonzo and Nettie (Williams) Kinnick. I date the photo to about 1899. The girls in the back are the youngest sisters of Alonzo: Grace (1887-1945) and Etta (1885-1939). The girls lived in Bureau County, Illinois.

My comment: Paul looks very much like his two sons, Leo and Edward, did when they were that age; as well as others of his descendants, even me, a little bit.  ;-)


Families are Forever! ;-)

Wordless (nearly) Wednesday - Kinnick Family Gathering in 1928

Wordless (nearly) Wednesday - Kinnick Family Gathering in 1928





A Kinnick family gathering, it appears, in Stuart, IA, where Uncle Robert lived at the time, in honor of a visit by a Kinnick cousin, from Illinois, the gentleman on the right, in the photo.

[Click on photo to see bigger image]

Robert was younger brother to my Grandpa, Paul Kinnick. In the photo, Paul is the taller one in the middle, back. To his right in the photo is Everett Brideson, husband of Paul's sister, Gertrude (she is far left lady). From the left, the ladies are: Gertrude, Dorothy (my Grandma, Paul's wife), Nettie (Paul's mother), then Edna, Robert's wife. Robert is the other flat hat, second from the right! ;-)

Kids are, from left: Eileen Kinnick (my mother, Paul's daughter, not quite 10), and four of the five children of Robert and Edna (likely the oldest, Lyle (11), is taking the photo); Ila Jean (also not quite 10), Burdette (3-4), Gretchen (8), Betty (6).


Families are Forever!  ;-)

Wordless (Nearly) Wednesday - 5 KINNICK Siblings

Wordless (Nearly) Wednesday

5 KINNICK Siblings

Left to right (dates late 1940s):

Robert (1896-1953)

Gertrude (1902-1988) {Brideson}

Lillian (1908-1993) {Ford}

Lucile (1894-1956) {Herron}

Paul (1892-1968) - my maternal grandfather

Families are Forever!  ;-)