THE COLEGROVE FAMILY

The Colegrove Family

How we are related:

Francis Colegrove (1667-1759)

Stephen Colegrove, Esq. (1695-1787)

Nathan Colegrove (1734-1807)

Nathan Colegrove, Jr. (1769-1814)

Clark Tracy Colegrove (1793-1853)

Harley Ingersoll Colegrove (1838-1881)

Minnie Colegrove Ashby

Geneva Ashby Speakman

Daniel Vaughn Speakman

Most of the information on the early Colegroves comes from this website and is undocumented
http://www.simonhoyt.com/colegrove.html
COLEGROVE / COLGROVE REGISTER PAGE 
Credit Source File: Contact: Terry Colegrove <TColegrove1@msn.com> at http://www.ancestry.com
John Edward Hoyt <jeh493411@chartermi.net>, found at http://www.ancestry.com
http://www.simonhoyt.com/colegrove.html

“The Colegroves in America are of English descent.  The earliest records of people with the name Colegrove in Britain can be traced to the 16th century and were found in the Oxfordshire area of England. The name is supposed to be derived from a Grove on the little river Cole.  This river forms the boundary for some distance between the Counties of Wiltshire and Berkshire, and is the most western of the southern tributaries of the Thames which are called Rivers.  The grove was probably at or near the present town of Coleshill in Berkshire.”
“The history and genealogy of the Colegrove family in America : with biographical sketches, portraits, etc.” 1894 by William Colegrove (public domain)



Francis Colegrove
Francis Colegrove (c. 1667 – c. 1759) was an English colonial immigrant, born most likely in Oxfordshire or London, England (although others have suggested Glamorgan, Wales), who settled in Warwick, Rhode Island, in about 1688. He is the first known Colegrove in America. His immigration is important in the fact that most people that bear the surname Colegrove in the United States can be traced back to him.


In Colonial Rhode Island
Records can be scantly put together that seem to imply that Francis Colegrove came to America from England between 1680 to 1688. He had a daughter named Elizabeth around 1688. Francis married a woman named Ann in Rhode Island. A likely reason Francis moved to Rhode Island from Britain, was that many separatists and Baptists from the Swansea area of Wales were moving to the American colonies for religious and political freedom.

Francis, who was a farmer, and his wife joined the Newport Sabbatarian Baptist Church of Newport, Rhode Island, which was the first Seventh Day Baptist group in North America in August of 1698, being baptized as adults. Stephen Mumford came to the colonies in 1665, and formed the Newport Church, where Francis and Ann attended, in 1671. During the 17th century, many Baptists, as well as many non-conformists and separatists, found refuge from persecution in Britain and other colonies such as Massachusetts, in the colony of Rhode Island, which had been set up by Baptists Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson in the 1630s and 1640s.

Sabbatarian Meeting House, built in 1729 by Richard Munday 

PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17123156



Family
Francis and Ann Colegrove had at least six children: 
1.  Elizabeth: their eldest 
2.  Jeremiah Colegrove, who died in 1710 at Port Royal, Nova Scotia during Queen Anne's War.
3.  Eli Colegrove (in 1689)
4.*Stephen Colegrove (1694)
5.  Francis Colegrove, Jr. (about 1697)
6.  John Colegrove (1714)

A Sons of the American Revolution Application implies that there was a son named William (1688-1728) whose mother was a second wife Hannah, but this is likely Ann - the names are related and sometimes interchangeable.  

Later life
Francis was a farmer in the new world. There is record of his owning land in the "Narragansett Country", which was an area of Rhode Island named after the Narragansett (tribe) of Native Americans. He was given the land to recompense the loss of his son, who helped him with farming. Here is an excerpt on Francis, known by some today as "The Patriarch," from William Colegrove's Book :

"He was evidently an active, enterprising, pioneer farmer, who attended to his own business and kept out of politics, --- thus setting an excellent example --- which has been followed by his descendants. The death of his oldest son seems to have been a severe blow to him in respect to his business, compelling him to ask a little relief from the Legislature of the Colony, --- which relief, it is pleasant to know, was readily granted. The following is from The R.I. Colonial Records, V. 4, p. 136; ‘Proceedings of R.I. and Prov. Plantations at Newport, 27 February 1711-12.’"

A prominent land holder, Francis Colegrove owned land in other places. On June 28, 1709 a committee that had been formed by the Rhode Island general assembly, sold a large tract of land known as the 'Shannock Purchase' located near Richmond, Rhode Island. Francis was among the recipients of the land.

Ann and Francis ended up in Westerly, Rhode Island by 1712, as there are records of Anne being involved in the Sabbatarian congregation there. Ann Colegrove died sometime after 1718, before Francis. No one knows for sure when Francis Colegrove died, but William Colegrove believed he may have died around 1759 or before in Hopkinton, Rhode Island. Previously, more conservative researchers suggested that he may have died sometime between 1725 and 1729. More recent research shows Francis Colegrove, Sr. still alive in 1728, when he was summoned to appear at a Church meeting in regard to a dispute between his son Francis, Jr. and a William James over payment for an ox that Francis Jr had given Mr. James. The committee found in favor of Francis Jr. In the Seventh-Day Baptist Memorial of 1874, which mentions the dispute, Francis Colegrove is listed still living and attending the Westerly congregation, with a second Francis Colegrove, probably Jr., in 1740 in "a list of members made up by a Committee of the church in 1740".
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Stephen Colegrove, Esq. was born 1695 in Warwick, Rhode Island, and died 14 June 1787 in Heartford, Oneco, Connecticut. He married Welthian Taylor 1721 in Providence, Kent, Rhode Island. She was born 1694 in Foster, Providence, Rhode Island, and died before 1740 in Oneco, Connecticut. He married Phoebe Millard on 7 June 1740 in Providence, Rhode Island, daughter of Nehemiah Millard and Phoebe Shore. She was born 1707 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, and died 2 December 1776 in Heartford, Oneco., Connecticut. 

Children of Stephen Colegrove (Esq.) and Phoebe Millard are:

1. *Nathan Colegrove was born 1741 in Foster, Rhode Island, and died 1831 in Middletown, Rutland, Vermont. 
2.   John Colegrove, Esq. was born 1744 in Foster, Rhode Island, and died 21 March 1817 in Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island. 
3.  Jonathan Colegrove was born 1745 in Foster, Rhode Island, and died 1812 in Norwich, New York. 
4.  Isaac Colegrove was born 1747 in Warwick, Rhode Island. 
5.  Phebe Colegrove was born 1749 in Foster, Rhode Island, and died 1839 in Bridgewater, New York. 
6.  Charlotte Colegrove was born February 1751/52 in Sterling, Connecticut, and died in Fairfax, Vermont. 

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Nathan Colegrove married Miriam Fillmore 28 September 1761 in Norwich, Connecticut, daughter of John Fillmore and Dorcas Day. She was born 1738 in Norwich, Connecticut, and died in Middletown, Rutland, Vermont. 

Children of Nathan Colegrove and Miriam Fillmore are:

1. *Nathan Colegrove, Jr. born 18 August 1769 in Norwich Connecticut, and died in Fairfax, Franklin, Vermont. 
2.  John Colegrove was born 17 September 1781 in Middletown, Rutland, Vermont, and died September 1807 in Sullivan, Madison, New York. 
3.  Uri Colegrove was born 16 December 1772 in Norwich, Connecticut, and died 1 November 1842 in Erieville, Madison, New York. 
4.  Calvin Colegrove was born 1774 in Middletown, Rutland, Vermont, and died 1810 in Sangerfield, Oneida, New York. 
5.  Polly Colegrove was born in Middletown, Rutland, Vermont. She married Gillette. 
6.  Eunice Colegrove was born 22 May 1778 in Middletown, Rutland, Vermont, and died 7 April 1872 in Ellisburg, Jefferson, New York. 
7.  Daughter Colegrove was born in Middletown, Rutland, Vermont, and died in Middletown, Rutland, Vermont. She married Jonathan Griswell. 

A letter written by Nathan Colegrove to his son Uri is published in William Colegrove's book.
It was written after the death of Nathan's son John in 1807.  

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Nathan Colegrove, Jr. was born 18 August 1769 in Norwich Connecticut, and died in Fairfax, Franklin, Vermont. He married Olive Tracy about 1887. She was born about 1760 in Charlestown, Washington, Rhode Island, and died in Fairfax, Franklin, Vermont. 

Children of Nathan Colegrove, Jr. and Olive Tracy are:

1.  Esther Colegrove was born 2 OCT 1788 in Charlestown, Washington Co., RI. 
2.  Jenny Colegrove was born 14 DEC 1789 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., Vt. She married Learnard. 
3.  Lura Colegrove was born 25 AUG 1791 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., Vt. She married Pary. 
4.*Clark Tracy Colegrove was born 21 FEB 1793 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., VT, and died 1852 in Blue Island, Cook Co., IL. 
5.  Olive Colegrove was born 24 APR 1796 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., Vt, and died 1893 in Wauconda, Lake Co., IL. 
6.  Dilla Colegrove was born 30 JUL 1797 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., VT. She married Danial Morse. 
7.  Nathan Colegrove was born 19 DEC 1799 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., VT, and died in Wolcott, Lamoille Co., VT. 
8.  Miriam Colegrove was born 12 APR 1802 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., Vt. She married Wright. He died in Centralia, WA. 
9.   Lucretia Colegrove was born 15 AUG 1804 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., Vt. She married Harvey Scott. 
10. Jairus Colegrove was born 31 JUL 1806 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., VT, and died 24 AUG 1862 in Lew Orleans, LA. 
11.  Hampton L. Colegrove was born 14 OCT 1808 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., VT, and died 9 JUN 1891 in Wauconda, Lake Co., IL. He married Polly Purmort. She died in Wauconda, Lake Co., IL. 
12. Stephen Colegrove was born 11 SEP 1810 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., VT. 
13. Silas Colegrove was born 27 AUG 1812 in Fairfax, Franklin Co., VT.

Olive and Nathan Colegrove are buried in the Mudgett Cemetery in Fairfax, Vermont

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Clark Tracy Colegrove was born 21 February 1793 in Fairfax, Franklin, Vermont, and died 1852 in Blue Island, Cook, Illinois. He married Permilla Ingersoll. She was born 22 February 1792 in Middletown, Rutland, Vermont, and died 14 October 1853 in Blue Island, Cook, Illinois. 

Children of Clark Tracy Colegrove and Permilla Ingersoll are:

1.  Calvin Chauncey Colegrove was born December 1815 in Plainfield, Will, Illinois, and died 1894 in Benton Harbor, Berrien, Michigan. 
2.  Lester G. Colegrove was born 23 April 1818 in Jericho, Chittenden, Vermont, and died 24 November 1903 in Plainfield, Will, Illinois. 
3. Hannah Colegrove was born 17 May 1820 in Blue Island, Cook, Illinois, and died 5 April 1914 in Los Angeles, California. 
4. Olive Colegrove was born about 1824 in Blue Island, Cook, Illinois, and died in Plainfield, Illinois. She married Robert Wright. He died in Plainfield, Illinois. 
5.  Caroline Colegrove was born 3 February 1829 in Fairfax, Vermont, and died 14 January 1922 in Urbana, Benton, Iowa. 
6.  Lavius F. Colegrove was born October 1829 in Franklin County, Vermont, and died 2 February 1912 in Plainfield, Will, Illinois. 
7.  Marida Anne Colegrove was born 26 February 1832 in VT, and died 15 September 1909 in Plainfield, Illinois. 
8. *Harley Ingersoll Colegrove was born 3 October 1837 in Fairfield, Vermont, and died 12 October 1881 in Fillmore, Millard, Utah. 



Harley's first appearance in a census is in 1850 in Illinois.

I have been unable to locate Harley in the 1860 U.S. Federal Census.  His parents are reported to have both died in 1853 when Harley was 18, so it would not be unusual for a single young man to be missed in the census.  But in the "Report of the adjutant general of the state of Illinois," he is listed as being from Champaign, Illinois, when he enlisted in the Union Army in 1861, a county about 125 miles south of Wheatland Township where he was listed with his parents in the 1850 U.S. Federal Census.  He belonged to “Company A” in the 20th Illinois Infantry. 

Harley served until July of 1864 when he was discharged at Chattanooga, Tennessee. His discharge paper describes Harley as being 5' 11" and gives his occupation when he enlisted as butcher.

I do not know when or why Harley came to Utah.  Perhaps it was for work.

I also do not know how he met the widow, Helen McBride Brown, but Harley was baptized by Reuben McBride, his wife's father, on 28 March, 1868.

He married Helen Venera McBride on 12 December 1869, the ceremony performed by Joseph F. Smith.  Helen had been a widow raising two children for 13 years, her first husband having been killed by Indians in 1856.

Harley was endowed in the Endowment House 20 December 1869.

In the 1870 U.S. Federal Census the two Brown children are listed with the Colegrove surname.

1870 - Fillmore, Millard, Utah Territory

By 1880 Harley and Helen's three children have been born.

1880 - Fillmore, Millard, Utah

Both census records list Harley as a farmer.


Death Notice in the Deseret News

Fillmore, Utah, Cemetery

Sources:
https://archive.org/details/historygenealogy00cole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Colegrove
http://www.simonhoyt.com/colegrove.html
https://colegrovefamily.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/origin-of-the-colegrove-family/

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tcolegrove1&id=I753&style=TABLE

Mary Ann Anderson McBride

Mary Ann Anderson McBride (1815-1896)

How we are related:

Mary Anne Anderson McBride

Helen Venera McBride Colgrove

Minnie Colgrove Ashby

Martha Geneva Ashby Speakman

Daniel Vaughn Speakman

Mary Ann Anderson McBride

          The youngest of 10 children, Mary Ann Anderson was born on March 25th, 1808 at Stafford, Genesee, New York, to parents who had recently come from their native Chesterfield, Massachusetts. She married Reuben McBride on September 23rd, 1830 at Villenova, Chautauqua, New York. Reuben's deceased father had been a Cambellite minister and his mother Abigail Mead McBride led her entire family into the L.D.S. church in 1833 after they were taught the gospel by William Cahoon, Amasa Lyman, and Evan Green.

Reuben and Mary Ann A. McBride

            In the spring of 1834, on March 4th, Joseph Smith and Parley P. Pratt came to the McBride home and held a meeting.  At the close of the meeting, Joseph called for volunteers to go up to redeem Zion. Reuben was the first who volunteered to go. He and his brother-in-law Vinson Knight arrived in Kirtland, Ohio, on April 21st.  The pregnant Mary Ann and one-year-old Helen V. waited in New York. Following his release from Zion's Camp, Reuben returned home, probably arriving in August, perhaps in time for the birth of his second daughter, Harriet on August 31st.  Mary Ann joined the "Mormons" over the protests of her family and left them all behind as she followed the Saints west.
       
          Reuben was ordained a member of the Second Quorum of Seventy on 14 February 1835.  In the spring of that year the McBride clan sold their farms and traveled to Kirtland, Ohio, to gather with the saints.  The trip was made by stagecoach and canal boat and took about 6 days.
The McBrides donated liberally to the building of the city of Kirtland and to the temple. With six of her children, Abigail - the matriarch of the McBride clan - enjoyed the heavenly manifestations given at the dedication of the Kirtland Temple on March 27, 1836.

          In Kirtland Mary Ann was left alone with her children much of the time because Reuben was considered by the church authorities as a minute man and did a great deal of missionary work.  While at Kirtland, the following children were born to them: Reuben, Louisa, Roy, Emma, Newton, and Laura. Some family trees list a son James who was born in 1848 and died in 1851, but if he existed, he is not enumerated with the family on the 1850 U.S. Census.  Unfortunately for our record keeping, Mary Ann died a few years short of the 1900 U.S. Census which would have listed how many children she had borne.



          In 1850 Reuben traveled to Utah in company with President Brigham Young in whose family he made his home the following year.  He returned to Kirtland in 1851 to prepare his family for the move West.  Reuben again entered the Salt Lake Valley in 1852 with the Isaac Bullock company, this time with his wife Mary Ann Anderson and their 8 children: Helen Venera, Harriet Eliza, Reuben Augustus, Mary Louisa, Hyrum Roy, Emma Jerutia, John Newton, and Laura Abigail.  They spent the winter in Farmington and Springville. Some time later, after moving to Fillmore, their baby Alice came, making a family of six girls and three sons.  Records show that a daughter Anna was born in 1857 in Fillmore and died in 1865.

   
Mary Ann's granddaughter wrote of her:

          "Grandma McBride was a woman of culture and skill. She was Poetic, contributing many poems to the public. For many years she contributed to the "Womans Exponent," the first Relief Society magazine published in Utah, each issue of which she prized very highly, keeping them filed for future reference. She was full of benevolence and kindness to the poor, contributing much of her time and talent without solicitation or compensation. God blessed her with a talent to bring and save souls. By her kind hand, many souls were brought into the world under various critical conditions. God being her guide, she achieved great success. For several years she was counselor in the Millard Stake Relief Society and later President of the Fillmore Ward Relief Society. She was very skillful in needle-craft. As a child I remember seeing some of her excellent work, which was sent to the State Fair.
          I well remember a beautiful bed spread which she wove of navy blue and white fine yarn. The design was a real piece of art. She would put her spinning wheel up stairs where she thought it would be safe, but on the contrary, the grand children would find their way to Grandmothers spinning wheel and try their talent at making yarn from rolls.
           Grandmother's loom was an ideal hiding place for the children to seclude themselves while deeply engaged in study. Grandmother used to make a variety of dyes with which she would color pieces for quilts and rags for carpets. She also made soap from hard wood ashes. Grandfather made her what they called a leach which was composed of slats of wood, then filled with hard wood ashes and a trough for a drain. About once a day she would pour a bucket of water over the ashes. When sufficient liquid had accumulated she would add a certain amount of grease and make soap which served for washing, scrubbing, etc.
          Besides rearing her family of nine children she raised the youngest son of her daughter Laura who died at the age of 26 years, leaving six small children. Although the family did not suffer for food as some of the early pioneers did, yet they indulged in all the labor incidental to pioneer life, spinning yarn, weaving the cloth from which she made clothing for her family.
          Grandma was always true to her faith. Not only did she desire to care for the living, but also for the dead. She and Grandfather did much work at the St. George and Manti Temples. After the death of grandfather, grandmother remained in their own home for some time.
When her health began to fail, she went to live with her youngest daughter, Mrs. Alice Callister, where she remained until her death, August 18, 1896 at Fillmore, Millard County, Utah."


Patriarchal Blessing
given to Mary Ann Anderson McBride

Fillmore, Millard, Utah
March 16th, 1895  (age 80)


Fillmore, March 16th, 1895. A blessing by John Ashman, Patriarch, upon the head of Mary Ann McBride, daughter of Alanson and Priscilla Anderson, born at Stafford, Genesee County, New York.


Sister Mary Ann McBride, by virtue and authority of the holy priesthood vested in me and my high and holy calling, I lay my hands upon your head and seal upon you a patriarchal  blessing by which your lineage shall be made known unto you. Thou art of Joseph through the loins of Ephraim and are entitled to all the blessings pertaining to the new and everlasting covenant. Thy Father in Heaven blessed thee to come forth in the dispensation of the fullness of times and had your name written in the Lamb's book of life, and because of thy faithfulness, it shall remain there through all eternity. Thou hast passed through many scenes of trouble and persecutions but thy Father in Heaven has sent his angels that have guarded thee and sustained thee and thou hast kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for thee a crown of celestial glory. I say unto thee, sister be comforted in thy mind, for thy children shall be saved through thy faithfulness in the Kingdom of God. Thou shalt stand upon Mount Zion with thy husband and thy children shall gather around you, and not one shall be lost. Thy last days shall be thy best days and when thine hour is come, thou shalt depart in peace, surrounded by thy family and friends. And holy angels shall guard thee to the realms above, when thou shall meet with thy loved ones and be welcomed by the prophets of God that have preceded thee. And I seal thee up to eternal life to come forth in the morning of the first resurrection, clothed with immortality and eternal life. And I seal upon you all your former blessings and a crown of celestial glory, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Fillmore, Utah, Cemetery

How we are related:

Mary Anne Anderson McBride

Helen Venera McBride Colgrove

Minnie Colgrove Ashby

Martha Geneva Ashby Speakman

Daniel Vaughn Speakman

BIOGRAPHICAL WIKI (on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140401161129/http://biographicalwiki.com/index.php/Mary_Ann_Anderson_%281814-1896%29

FINDAGRAVE.COM
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=McBride&GSiman=1&GScid=77228&GRid=25781247&

Many details are taken from an article in the Territorial Statehouse State Park in Fillmore, Utah.

Geneva in the Beauty Pageant

Geneva in the Beauty Pageant 

How we are related:

Martha Geneva Ashby Speakman

Daniel Vaughn Speakman

“We take the pleasure of enclosing herewith credentialed  ticket and badge issued with the compliments of President. J. T. McNaught.  Mr. J. E. Langford who will have full charge of the pageant requests that you report not later than 7:00 p.m., Monday, October 4th at the Queen’s Quarters when you will receive full instructions as to your part in the pageant.  We have already mailed you detailed instructions and trust you have received same.  We wish you to have no anxiety as to your welfare while on the fairgrounds and we desire you to know, also, that every safeguard will be thrown around you, that nothing may happen to mar your visit.   Assuring you of our desire to make your visit to the fair one long to be remembered.  We are yours respectfully, J. G. Ensign.
Badge will be handed you at the fairgrounds Monday.

Geneva Ashby - 2nd from left

From an audio tape recorded in 1972 by Dan Speakman at the home of his mother
Martha Geneva Ashby Speakman (1895-1981).
Transcribed by Sue S. Lambert











Dan: Didn’t you tell me at one time that you were in
          the state competition in a beauty contest or
          something?
         Tell us about it.
Geneva: You’ve seen the picture of me, haven’t you?
Dan: Well, maybe I’ve seen one, I don’t remember.
Geneva: It was right up at the state capitol.
Dan: Was it just a competition up there, or did you
           represent Millard County?
Geneva: Millard County
Dan: Well, you had a beauty contest here first, then?
Geneva: No, they just chose a queen and four maids of honor from this county.
                          I was one of them.
Dan: Well what did you have to do to compete for that?

Ogden Standard
October 8, 1914

Geneva: Go to Salt Lake.
Dan: But you didn’t compete here before you left?
Geneva: No, went to Salt Lake.
Dan: How did they choose you from the county?
Geneva: Oh, they just picked us.
Dan: They picked you from here and then you were judged up there?
Geneva: Yes.
Dan: What did you have to do up there, just …
Geneva: No, we had to compete.
Dan: Did you have several dresses that you had to wear?
Geneva: We had costumes, new costumes
Dan: Well, what did you have … ?
Geneva: You can see a little picture.  
                          Have you seen that picture?
Dan: Did you have a formal or a swim suit competition or
          what did you have?
Geneva: No, all in the same thing. 
Dan: Just one costume is all that you went out in.
Geneva: All the same costume.  The county did it.
Dan: The county hired it for you?
Geneva: Yes.
Dan: Did you win up there?
Geneva: I was the Maid of Honor.  I won third  prize.
Dan: Third prize.
Geneva:           I got from Orbach’s.  
                        They gave me the best hat they had.  
                        They gave me two of them.
Dan: Is that right?
Geneva:         They sat around this big coliseum outside town.                           
                      You had to walk around a platform around all the people sitting there.  
                      And Dad was there, and somebody said, 
                     “Oh, there’s a beautiful girl!” 
                      and he said, “That’s my daughter!”  
                      And then we had to walk down this big platform to get our prize.  
                      They gave us an envelope. Governor Spry gave it to us.  
                      We had to walk down to get our prize and he gave it to us. Flap, flap, flap, flap.
                       Before we went they had a big, big banquet all decorated just beautiful and  
                       they took us there in a coach that looked like this with four big white horses.  
                       We sat in this curve ..
Dan:  Curves like you see in the movies?
Geneva:         Yes.  
Dad:  Fancy?
Geneva:        Well it curved down the middle with four big white horses.
Dan:  You sat down in the curve and the man sat up in the front on the seat of the dome?
          Well, did Dad drive his team clear from here?  Did you have a …
Geneva:         He used to have this covered …   No, he had one of his cars …
Dan:  He had his car then that he went up
Geneva:         No, I don’t know how he – he went in the parade with us.
Dan:  Oh.
Betty: Was this before you were married, or when?
Geneva: I was seventeen.  Yeah, long before I was married.

How we are related:

Martha Geneva Ashby Speakman

Daniel Vaughn Speakman