The Near Complete History of Oakdale United Methodist Church, thanks to Karen Sunderman and others

A image of Oakdale United Methodist Church, taken from the church's website, as it stands today

This is a quick easy blog to write. It is almost all scans of work done by others. I want to thank all those who have helped in one way or another with helping me obtain all of this information. For Karen Sunderman, I will be checking to see where Tom stands with getting a hold of Jennifer Rayle again soon. Karen, the provider of most of this information, sent me a giant package through the mail out of the goodness of her own heart. Thank you again, Karen for your help. To find out more on the Oakdale United Methodist Church, I suggest you contact the Church itself:

http://greaterleipsicparishumc.org/our-churches/oakdale-umc/

The 125th anniversary of Oakdale Methodist booklet from 1999

provided by Karen Sunderman of the Henry County Genealogy Society

news clipping from The Deshler Flag, published August 23, 1901, provided by Karen Sunderman of the Henry County Genealogy Society

picture provided by Thomas A. Jameson, taken abt 2008

A quick funny story Tom told me about obtaining this picture. Tom said one time he was down visiting our cousin, Joy Rayle in Deshler. She insisted he go find the original Oakdale Church. Tom said after an afternoon driving around the open county side of Henry County and with the help of a number of locals, he was able to find the Old Church. Today is stands as part of an old barn.

copy of the article from The Deshler Flag, printed February 26, 1904, provided by Karen Sunderman  of the Henry County Genealogy Society

The 50th Anniversary of Oakdale Methodist Church

published in The Deshler Flag, May 29, 1924, provided by Karen Sunderman

news clipping from The Deshler Flag, published June 9, 1949, provided by Karen Sunderman of the Henry County Genealogy Society

The 100th Anniversary of Oakdale Methodist Church

news clipping from The Deshler Flag, published July 20, 1950, provided by Karen Sunderman of the Henry County Genealogy Society

Completing the Story of Two Little Jameson Girls, Thanks to the Henry County Genealogy Society

Today I can happily say I can close a mystery of the lives of two little girls from my direct line of the Jameson family. Last February, I first touched on these two, Avis and Lois Jameson, and told why they were such a mystery to the descendants of Carl and Jennie (Walker) Jameson. In August, Tom Jameson out of nowhere, found a picture that most likely is the only remaining picture of these girls. The picture total knocked me off my feet. He said he was going through some of his father's old possessions and came across the picture. Tom had totally forgotten about the picture. The picture surely added to the story.

Earlier this week I received a group of almost unbelievable old obituaries from Jim Rebar of the Henry County Ohio Genealogy Society. I cannot thank Jim and the Society enough for their help with these wonderful new to me (old) sources. Over the next few postings, I will share all of these new findings.

To give the full story, I start with the first part of February's post 'Jesus Loves The Little Children':

The Family of Carl Woodward and Jennie Leuretta (Walker) Jameson
Back in the early 1980's my great grandfather, Hugh Edward Jameson passed away. Hugh was the second son of Carl and Jennie Jameson. Hugh had been working on his and his wife's genealogy for a number of years. Having put together a nice package, almost like a book, to be passed to each of his heirs. When my mother, Karen Ann (Jameson) Traggorth and aunt Marilyn Sue (Jameson) Jones received the package, they quickly found a listing of Carl and Jennie's children. Within the listing, there were two daughters that they had never heard of. Both were shocked, being the family was pretty close and they had never heard of these two little girls. They call their father, Richard Lee Jameson to inquire. My grandfather told them that he knew of the girls and said they died from a childhood sickness that was common in those day (not remembering which one). When my aunt and mother asked why he or my great grandfather had never told them, he responded, that there just was not much to say about the girls.

Joint tombstone of Avis Pearl and Lois Ashley Jameson, McComb Union Cemtery, McComb, Hancock County, Ohio, courtesy of findagrave.com

A few years ago my aunt and mother took a trip together out to northwestern Ohio to visit a number of places from their youth. One stop was to Deshler, Henry County, Ohio. Upon visiting Oakdale Methodist Church, one of the churches that Thomas Jameson had built and where Carl Jameson had preached in for many years. They by chance, ran into a kind lady, Joy Verneil (Dangler) Rayle in the church. Upon talking to Mrs. Rayle, she told them that she too was a Jameson and that she was the daughter of Prudence Vestelva (Jameson) Dangler. Her mother was Hugh's first cousin. My aunt asked her if she know anything of the girls when talking about Carl and Jennie. She told them that her mother had told her this:

"Carl and Jennie had had a very tough time getting over the girls. In those days it was very common to lose children. But the fact that Carl had lost his two daughters in just the course of two days, was unbearable for him. Carl went into a great depression. It was Jennie, that had to sit him down and straighten him out, to get their lives back together. It took her strength, to make the family move on."

The cover page of Jennie Leuretta Jameson's bible

The little girls genealogy information:
Avis Pearl Jameson born September 20, 1896 in Jackson Township, Wood County, Ohio; died December 31, 1900 Continental, Putnam County, Ohio; buried January 3, 1901 McComb Union Cemetery, Pleasent Township, Hancock County, Ohio
Lois Ashley Jameson born August 9, 1898 in Deshler, Henry County, Ohio; died December 30, 1900 Continental, Putnam County, Ohio; buried January 3, 1901 McComb Union Cemetery, Pleasant Township, Hancock County, Ohio

The Picture

The picture sent by Tom Jameson in August, taken shortly before the death of Avis Pearl Jameson and Lois Ashley Jameson with their mother Jennie Leuretta (Walker) Jameson in about 1900

 The Obituary

Publish on January 11, 1901 from The Deshler Flag 

Thou I am not sure who the initials (S.J.C.) was at the bottom of the obituary, the writing shows how devastated the family truly was.

diphtheritic croup-  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croup

There is a bright lining to this very sad story in the lives of Carl Woodward Jameson and Jennie Leuretta (Walker) Jameson. If these two little girls had not so tragically passed away, Carl and Jennie may not have continued their family with having their two youngest children, Hugh Edward Jameson and Robert Berg Jameson.

 

The children of brothers Hugh Edward Jameson and Robert Berg Jameson; right to left, Thomas Alan Jameson, Nancy Susan (Jameson) Edminster, and Richard Lee Jameson  

Charlie and Fred, Two Brothers with an Obituary and a Biography

Today when checking the blog's administrative side, I saw that someone was searching for the obituary of Charles Jameson. I am not sure if that was our family's Charles W. Jameson, but I wanted to answer that search. I came across the fact that in the blog, 'Writing Charles W. Jameson's Memoirs' I had already published the obituary. Looking at what I had posted, I saw that I had missed a picture that went along with the obituary. Along with that, I came across another scan that I had must have sent to Tom Jameson month's ago. Tom had asked about any biography that I had on any of the Jameson brothers of the Thomas and Mary Jameson family. This biography, I don't think I have ever posted. As far a can tell, these two brothers were the only two college educated man from the family of the time. I hope you enjoy this bit of insight on these very interesting man.

THE OBITUARY OF CHARLES WILLIAM JAMESON

THE BIOGRAPHY OF FREDERICK BURTRAM JAMESON

written by Prudence Vestelva (Jameson) Dangler

Great biography, Prudence! What better source can you have, but from the memoirs of his very own daughters.

The Newcomer, Or, Not So Newcomers To Our Jameson Family

Back left to right: William Jameson 'Bob' Newcomer, Marcia Ann (Newcomer) Schrader, Franklin H. 'Bud' Bock, Elizabeth Ann 'Betsey' (Bock) Gyengo, William Lewis 'Billy' Newcomer, Barbara Sue 'Barbie' (Bock) Carlis, front left to right: (legs only) Michael Jameson Newcomer, Elizabeth Jean (Gerkin) Newcomer, Kevin Lee Newcomer, Lynne Marie (Newcomer) Davison, Grace Annabelle 'Ann' (Newcomer) Bock, Franklin Daniel 'Frank' Bock, Grace Leverne (Jameson) Newcomer, Karol Grace (Newcomer) Applin; taken in about 1966

I've wanted to write this post ever since I found this picture above in my Great Grandmother, Florence Opel (Mark) Jameson's picture collection. On the back of the picture, Grace clearly labeled all of the people in the picture. It appears that this picture was in a Christmas card or something from the mid 1960's sent to my great grandparents. It also appears by the cuts on the sides of the picture (young Michael only has his legs left today), that my Great Grandmother had this picture in a frame at one time.

Never the less, it appears that Grace and her sister Karis were held as pretty special cousins within the Jameson family. If you look at the side pictures of the blog, there are two difference picture that content Grace and Karis as young girls. The interesting thing about these two old pictures are that they are from two different sides of the Jameson family. The picture that contents Carl Woodward Jameson and his family and part of Charles William Jameson's family comes from my side of the family. The picture which is only of Grace and Karis came from Joy Rayle which came down from her grandfather, Frederick Bertram Jameson's side of the family. Grace and Karis are the only cousins in which I have pictures such as this.

What helped help me with putting this post together, were these obituaries. A few months about, I found that the Monroe County Historic Society collected and listed obituaries from their local area http://www.co.monroe.mi.us/egov/searchobituaries.aspx. Interestingly in Grace's obituary it states that towards the end of her live, she volunteered doing exactly that. The only obituary that the Society could not find from the Newcomer family was that of Patricia Newcomer. I hope you enjoy this blog, as I highly enjoy putting together blogs such as this (putting faces to the information and updating information passed down to me).

The Newcomer family; The Family of Grace Laverne (Jameson) Newcomer:

Grace Laverne Jameson was born May 26, 1895 in Deshler, Barlow Township, Henry County, Ohio; she died July 21, 1975 in Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan; she was buried July 24, 1975 at Roselawn Memorial Park, LaSalle, Monroe County, Michigan; she married Stanley Jacob Newcomer, Sr. (son of Lewis Warren Newcomer and Ada Belle Rauch) on October 17, 1923 in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio; he was born December 25, 1897 in Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan; he died March 10, 1963 in Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan; he was buried March 12, 1963 at Roselawn Memorial Park, LaSalle, Monroe County, Michigan.

Obituary of Grace Laverne (Jameson) Newcomer, publish in the Monroe Evening News July, 22, 1975 

Stanley Jacob Newcomer, Sr. and his brother Irving Albert Newcomer taken about 1898; courtesy of Paul Coffelt from ancestry.com

Obituary of Stanley Jacob Newcomer, Sr. published in the Monroe Evening News March 11, 1963



Children of Stanley Jacob Newcomer, Sr. and Grace Leverne (Jameson) Newcomer:
Stanley Jacob Newcomer, Jr. born 1922

Grace Annabelle Newcomer born August 28, 1925

William Jameson Newcomer born May 18, 1928





Stanley Jacob Newcomer was born in 1922 in Michigan; he died December 6, 1937 in Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan; he was buried December 8, 1937 at Roselawn Memorial Park, LaSalle, Monroe County, Michigan.



The obituary of Stanley Jacob Newcomer, Jr., published in the Monroe Evening News December 6, 1937

Grace Annabelle Newcomer was born August 28, 1925 in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio; she married Franklin H. Bock (son of Franklin D. Bock and Lillian G. Guncheon) on December 27, 1947 in Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan; he was born October 21, 1918 in Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan; he died June 27, 1992 in Tecumseh, Leawee County, Michigan

Grace Annabelle Newcomer and Franklin H. Bock's wedding announcement from the Toledo Blade December 29, 1947

Obituary of Franklin H. Bock, publish from the Monroe Evening News June 28, 1992

Children of Franklin H. Bock and Grace Annabelle (Newcomer) Bock:
Elizabeth Ann Bock- born December 6, 1951
Barbara Sue Bock- born July 18, 1953
Franklin Daniel Bock- born September 30, 1956



Elizabeth Ann Bock- born December 6, 1951 married Peter Paul Gyengo born August 21, 1952
        Children:
        Joseph Peter Gyengo- born October 23 1982
        Michael W. Gyengo- born October 4, 1983
        Gena Renee Gyengo- born April 12, 1985 married Stacey Mathis


Barbara Sue Bock- born July 18, 1953 married James Peter Caralis born February 1, 1954
        Children:
        Peter James Caralis- born about 1981 married July 14, 2007 to Kendra Suzanne Waldrep
        Dena G. Caralis- born November 16, 1983
        Katherine Anne Caralis- about about 1986


Franklin Daniel Bock- born September 30, 1956 married July 19, 1986 to Gloria A. Green born January 15, 1958
        Children:
        David J. Bock- born about 1990 married Kaitlynn Taylor born about 1988



William Jameson Newcomer was born May 18, 1928 in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio; he died Jun 8, 1987 in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio; he was buried June 11, 1987 at St. Joseph Cemetery, Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan; he married Elizabeth Jean Gerkin (daughter of Theodore Gerkin and Mary Kuebler) on July 15, 1951 in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio; she was born July 28, 1928 in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio; she died October 26, 2007 in Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan; she was buried October 31, 2007 at St. Joseph Cemetery, Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan.

Obituary of William Jameson Newwcomer, publish from the Monroe Evening News June 9, 1987

Obituary of Elizabeth Jean (Gerkin) Newcomer, publish in the Monroe Evening News Oct 28, 2007

Children Of William Jameson Newcomer and Elizabeth Jean (Gerkin) Newcomer:

Marcia Ann Newcomer- born April 11, 1952

Patricia Lynne Newcomer- born May 7, 1953

William Lewis Newcomer- born January 15, 1955

Karol Grace Newcomer- born January 21, 1957

Michael James Newcomer- born July 22, 1959

Kevin Lee Newcomer- born October 20, 1960

Lynne Marie Newcomer- born about 1963

(In William Jameson Newcomer's obituaryin 1987 it says he has 7 granchildren at the time of his death; in Elizabeth Jean Newcomers obituary in 2007, it says she has 15 grandchildren. I have only 9 listed at this time.) 

Marcia Ann Newcomer- born April 11, 1952 married William Lewis Schrader born February 28, 1950

        Children:

        Kurt William Schrader- about about 1979

        Paul M. Schrader- about about 1981

Patricia Lynne Newcomer- born May 7, 1953 in Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan; she died July 23, 1958 in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Michigan

William Lewis Newcomer- born January 15, 1955 married Kathy Lynn unknown born June 23, 1957 they are divorced

        Children:

        Ryan Newcomer- born about 1981

        Cory Newcomer- born about 1987

        Erin Newcomer- born about 1989

Karol Grace Newcomer- born January 21, 1957 married Patrick Dale Applin born Nov 30, 1956

        Children:

        Lauren Michelle Applin- born about 1980 married Daniel Scott Vukcevich

        Scott William Applin- born about 1983 married Gail Renee Cousino born about 1981

Michael James Newcomer- born July 22, 1959 married Karen Sue Bogie born October 20, 1961

        Children:

        Brett Suzanne Newcomer- born about 1989

Kevin Lee Newcomer born October 20, 1960 married Anne V. Meier born July 9, 1962

        Children:

        Alexis Meier Newcomer- born about 1996

Lynne Marie Newcomer born about 1963 married Willard Christopher Davison born Jun 23, 1960