[email protected] writes: <<...If I ever uncover more substantial evidence or clues about Melina and Elisha and their ill-fated match, I will be happy to share. Carol >> ------------- Carol, that would be great. Loved reading your theory about your branch and you are probably very accurate in how it happened. I don't know if it is true, but Ida was supposed to be a famous opera singer in NY. Have you heard that? Mary
At 09:51 PM 10/18/00 , Mary Chandler wrote: >------------- >Carol, that would be great. Loved reading your theory about your branch and >you are probably very accurate in how it happened. I don't know if it is >true, but Ida was supposed to be a famous opera singer in NY. Have you heard >that? > >Mary Mary, that is what I was told by my grandmother, Jessie Wiess Whittington. ... that Ida went to NY to study music and lived with unknown persons and that no one knows what became of her .... I didn't know that she sang opera, nor do I know that she became "famous" .... would love to see evidences of that. My exact notes about her: "Family lore has it that she was an exceptionally gifted singer and went to New York with a family who promised to see that she got better educated in her talent, with her appearing in concert work about the 1870's or 1880's there." BTW, note that my g-grandfather, her nephew, Dalton Ernest Whittington Sr. was a very gifted musician also ... He taught music with the Thomas Goggin Piano Company in Houston in latter 1800's. Dalton had an older sister named Ida -- apparently after her aunt Ida. This Ida Whittington m. Cesar Hebert, a brother to Dalton's second wife, Lula May Hebert. .... just did (another) internet search on Ida Whittington (This isn't her .... but it's probably one of our cousins ??) http://www.kori-fm.com/yburial98_99.htm http://www.kori-fm.com/xburial98.htm Bartle Funeral Home, 815 Hurst Street, Center, Shelby County, Texas - 1998 Through 1999: Styers, Edna Elizabeth, 01/16/1912 (Shreveport, LA) - 11/10/1998 parents: William S. Johnson/La & Ida Whittington/La spouse: Claude cause of death: Verhitory Failure interment: Oaklawn, reference: 21/98 (this could be her ??) http://hermistonor.com/fincher.html http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/m/y/r/Trudy-A-Myrland/GENE5-0028.html Francis William Fincher b. 1855 married Ida May Whittington ... and this could be her ... Baltimore MD death record 1875-1880 http://archive1.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/stagser/s1400/s1483/html/ssi1483aw2.html Ida Whittington 1875/03/15 01665 CR 48,045 http://jcrogers.com/wpa.htm Arizona WPA records: Douglas, Andrew Ellicott b. July 5, 1867 Windsor, VT m. Ida E. Whittington of LA,CA, Aug 3, 1905 http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/a/r/Michael-A-Barbieri/GENE3-0004.html Porter Francis Biggerstaff b. 9-28-1855 d. 9-28-1907 m. Ida Whittington Tom Cloud <[email protected]>