Can you help name these people?

Feel free to email either Hampton Wilmot at:
hleewil@mac.com


or the Quilt directly at:
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Somebody snapped this photograph of an Engelhardt family reunion in 1926!

[Click the underlined or differently colored text above to see it.  When you get to that site just “scroll” down to see the photograph!]

Dorothy Reincke Groth of Postville, Iowa found it in her grandmother's bible.

Mr. and Mrs. Asa Candee are listed as being there at the reunion...
We might be able to use some clues we've discovered about "Asa Candee" to help us identify who they might be in the photo.

But before we can do that, we've had to sort through a stack of Asa Candees in census records, family tree mentions, and other family archives and mem-more-ah-beel-EEah.



It could be...
Asa M. Candee
born 26 June 1859
died 6 June 1940

who married Eva Hinman in September of 1887.

Asa M. Candee's father was Asa C. Candee (born 1826 in New York) who had died in 1903 in Clayton, Iowa.  Clayton was on the banks of the Mighty Mississippi where the border between Iowa and Wisconsin was in the water.

There is a Clayton cemetery and this may help us wade through the muddy and gain clarity.

Asa M.'s mother was Cordelia Tinney (or Tinny).


History hunting tip...It is in the Tinney family that we find an Englishman who made his way to Montana!

And while we're up in Montana we can peek in on some other Candees (1920)...up in Lincoln, Montana...there we find five year old Marshall G. Candee and five siblings and his parents Marshal G. Candee (Sr.) and Bertha E.

We'll wonder if Harry B. and Elizabeth M. are twins?!

We'll get there...

Asa C. and Cordelia Tinney had been married in Dundee, Monroe, Michigan in November of 1850.

There seem to be records of the marriage listing Candee as being spelled with a "K"--Kandee.

And Asa C. seems to have been living in Clayton, Iowa--southeast of Postville, by __________.

Their child Asa M. Candee was born 26 June 1859, in Allamakee, Iowa.

Asa M. Candee married Eva ("Evie") Hinman (also HINNAN) in September 1887.

We find their gravestones...IN IOWA.

Asa M. Candee died 6 June 1940.

And we find Asa M. in the Hinman family tree posted here:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/o/n/Phyllis-J-Montour-IA/GENE2-0006.html

Asa M. and Eva had the children:
Lance V. Candee
& Roy Earl.  Roy Earl married Hazel Leete in 1919.

And there are records of an Asa Candee who married Cordelia Warden.  They seem to have been living in Alma Key, Nineveh Township, Iowa.  They had children Florence, Dora, Daniel, and  another Asa.


Eventually we find an ACE M. CANDEE.


But we're certain that OUR ASA was the eighty year old Asa in the household of Seldon and Eleanor Candee and he seems to have been getting on very well with Eleanor's mother Ms. Jane.


We explore earlier Candees more fully in some of the other Quilt websites which you can get to by clicking the destinations listed below...