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Source Notes: |
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[1] Mariah’s Journal was transcribed by Marjorie (McA.) Waggoner, 7757 Beltane Drive, San Jose, California 95135, and Betty Jo (McAninch) Barker, 1627 La Jolla Ave., Las Vegas, Nevada 89109. |
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[2] Betty Jo’s parents Ebon and Bertha Overholzer McAninch lived with his father, Cyrus Clark McA., in the “new house in town”, Mt. Ayr, Iowa, until 1930. Mariah’s Journal … was in the house when Grandpa died [C.C. died 1928]. After Ebon died suddenly, in 1930, Bertha and her children moved to another house in Mt. Ayr, and Betty Jo kept Mariah’s Journal, which has moved with her through Oklahoma, Idaho and Nevada. Working from separate copies, Marjorie and Betty Jo individually transcribed the Journal and compared the results, which were almost identical (73 written pages, 23 pages typed); the comments and clarifications in ‘(‘)’s were added by Marjorie and/or Betty Jo. |
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[3] Selections for this article made for McAninch family content, keeping some of the pioneer stories, and notes added in ‘[‘]’s by Frank McAninch (full Journal is available from Marjorie and Betty Jo). |
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[4] On Nov. 11, 1854, Jacob Case bought 40 acres, Lot 4, Section 28, (Lott’s Creek) Township 67, Range 29 West, Ringgold County, for $50. Rosalie Schack wrote: “This land in Sec 28 is about three miles straight west of Joseph McAninch's farm. ... I believe this would be where Mariah grew up, right west of Ringgold City and close to where Ringgold Cemetery is located.” [land research by Rosalie Eben Schack, 714 Mineral Springs Road, Owatonna, MN 55060, schack@hotmail.com] |
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[5] Marjorie (McA.) Waggoner wrote: “When Cyrus and Mariah were married Nov. 9, 1870, they lived a short time in her Father’s home until they got things arranged, ‘Then we went to our home, one large room.’ [Journal, pg. 20] [est. time 1871-1898 /Frank] This must have been Riley Twp., Sec. 19, a mile east of Joseph McAninch’s farm in Lotts Creek Twp. [Sec. 23, 24], and about 4 miles east of Jacob Case’s farm [Sec. 28]. Mariah wrote that they needed a fence to keep the cattle away. Rosalie Eben Schack wrote: ‘I would guess it was the farm in Riley Twp. -- about 4 miles from her father’s farm. This farm in Riley Twp. would be where probably all twelve of Mariah's children were born’” [Oscar Lyle McA., b. 5 Aug. 1871 … Bertha Faye McA., b. 11 Sept. 1894]. |
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[“first six”? or “all twelve”? additional information in next issue, pg. 1999-36; Nov. 1999 /Frank] |
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[6] Cyrus Clark McAninch’s farm was south-east of Caledonia, southern Ringgold County, very close to Missouri (C.C. also owned land in Sec. 25, [Lott’s Creek] Twp. 67: Lot 4, 40 acres, 1878-1910; Lot 3, 40 acres, 1878-1899; and Lot 2, 40a, 1889-1897; land research by Rosalie Eben Schack). |
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[7] The “new house in town”, Mt. Ayr, north-east corner, 5 acres (Sec. 6, Poe Twp.), adjacent to the McQuigg farm (parcel No. 13 on 1915 map of Poe Twp.; land research by Rosalie Eben Schack) |
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[8] (pg. 47) three weddings on Christmas day, 1906, Marjorie has newspaper clipping – “The News has already recorded the fact that there was a double wedding in the family of C.C. McAninch of Mt. Ayr, his two daughters being married on Christmas day [Anna Permelia to George Ed. Clark and Clara Melvina to Charles Wroughton]. It now transpires that there were three Christmas weddings in the family, the coincidence having been arranged in advance by Clark McAninch of Neodesha, Kan., with his sisters here” [first marriage, Peter Clark McAninch, ended circa 1913]. |
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[9] (pg. 69, and pg. 73) two boys and two grandsons -- Marjorie (McA.) Waggoner wrote: “I believe Mariah must have visited Neodesha, Kansas, after 1906. … The boys would have been [her sons] Joe [Charles Joseph McA.] and Clark, my father [Peter Clark McA.]. I think the grandsons were Uncle Joe’s sons, Joseph Estal, born July 27, 1904, and Homer Alven, born April 20, 1906.” |
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[10] When was Mariah’s Journal written? There are few clues – (pg. 47) three children married on the same day, December 25, 1906; (pg. 58) her grandson Owen Wiggans was 4 when his mother, Mary Elizabeth, died in Jan. 1903, and “now he is nine years old in this month, December” [Dec. 1907] |
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[Owen Drury Wiggans, b. Nov. 23, 1898, age 9 in Dec. 1907; Owen died 16 Mar. 1991, Colorado] |
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Mariah could have started writing in Iowa, early 1900's (her early 50’s, if she had stopped sewing), and then may have finished it during “almost two months” in Neodesha, Kansas, in 1907, while visiting her sons and their families; if so, she finished writing in her late 50’s. /Frank McAninch |
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Journal of Mariah Case McAninch (5 of 6), transcribed by Marjorie Waggoner and Betty Jo Barker |
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McAninch Family History NL, VII-3 July 1999 Copyright Frank McAninch page 1999-23 |