Malona Barden

Joseph Fosha

Alexander Taylor

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Ephraim Rew

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Isobel Robson

Agnes Taylor

John Taylor

Andrew Taylor

Violet Taylor

Isobella Taylor

Barbara Taylor

Alexandrina Taylor

Janet Taylor

William Taylor

Mildred Pettit

Elizabeth Cheely

Joseph Ezra Kabakoff

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i just looked up Emily J Stearns in my Stearns 1901 genealogy book. Shemarried Dr. FF Hoyt o f New Orleans in 1856. She is from the Sixthgeneration of Nathanial Stearns, the brother of C harles Stearns. MyStearns family comes from Charles, yours comes from Nathanial. BothNathania l and Charles are the sons of Isaac Stearns who came from Englandin the 1600s. Emily Josephin e had 5 other sibs. Emily had 2 daughters: Elizabeth Hall Hoyt b 1/11/1859 in Red Wing, MNand Carrie Stearns Hoy t (b 12/30/1861) in Red Wing, MN. Elizabeth marriedHenry C. Shepard of Nashua, NH in 1878 .. . Carrie married George M Gibsonin New Orleans in 1887. Carrie had 3 children. Emily's the daughter of Charles T. Stearns (b 1807) and he is the son ofDaniel and Elizabet h Hall Stearns of Stearnsville, Pittsfield, MA.Charles was a machinist and moved to the Terri tory of Michigan in 1835and in 1836 moved his family to Iowa which was then a part of theWisc onsin Territory. Eventually he bought property and moved to PeoriaILL and became the 2nd mayo r of that city . He eventually moved toSt.Cloud, MN and built a hotel there and moved to Ne w Orleans n 1864,built a hardware business in Mobile Alabama. Charles had 6 children,amongthe m Emily Josephine Stearns. (Source: Genealogy and Memoirs of Nathanial and Charles Stearns and theirDescendents by Avi s Stearns Van Wagenen, Syracuse,NY: Courier PrintingCompany,1901) I'll make copies of these pages from the books to send you if you'reinterested. love P 4. From: patricia watkins To: John E Hoyt Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 12:29 PM Subject: Re: Famous People Related to Robert H Watkins hi John: thanks for this, will look @ it once i get some time, headingout on vacation right n ow to California... hey i located a book about the Stearns ancestors from 1901 -- it detailsthe beginnings of th e Stearns line from the 1600s coming over on theArabella, landing in Salem, then onward to Wa tertown, MA. it's called"Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and nathaniel Stearns and theirDesc endants" by Avis Stearns Van Wagenen. I got it thru ILL @ brighhamYoung University library. as you may have found, some Stearns married Hoyts in teh family line:Emily Josephine Stearn s b 1839, St. Louis, MO married Dr. FF Hoyt of newOrleans - 2daughters: Elizabeth hall Hoy t b 1859 @ Red Wing, MN andCarrie Stearns Hoyt b 1861 in Red Wing Mn, married George M. Gibs on inNew Orleans 1887. Maybe they're relatives? Meanwhile, can you run a check on a long lost great aunt? She was aKabakoff - Ethel Kabakof f Korbel. She married Harry Korbel. As of 1930,they were listed on the census of Shelby Cty T N living there. But therewas a family falling out and she moved away with her "harrykins" . I haveletters from her in San Antonia c 1928, threatening to change her name sothe family c ould no longer find her. And indeed despite my looking forthe names (we may have tried this o nce before?), can't locate,. A search in SS Death Index finds Harry Korbel's (born in Milwaukee --they were students @ th e Un of Wisconsin in the 1920s where they likelymet) death location in California? Their wed ding announcemnt again inthe 20s lists their address as in Chicago, Illinois. but after thefa lling out in the early 1930s, can't seem to locate her. Wondered if youmight be able to try a nother search this time trying to find where HarryKorbel might have been living, perhaps the y moved to California --perhaps she did indeed change her name ... but i think the trail migh t bebetter following him than her.. oh, well worth a try

enjoy the rest of the summer 5. From: patricia watkins To: John E Hoyt Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:33 PM Subject: Re: Close proximity oh yeah, the two states are within spitting distance of each other: justover the Mississipp i River and a couple of bridges. When he worked, he was a steamboat pilot along the Mississippi. Likelywhere he met the women . He met Vera in Cape Girardoux, Missouri, alsonot far and along the mighty Mississippi. his father, Sam Kabakoff had real estate all around Memphis and i thinkhe had a store in Arka nsas where he lived for a time with Ethel,hisdaughter. he started out a tailor in Brooklyn N Y after coming to Americafrom Russia in the late 1800s before moving to Water Valley, Mississ ippi,where most of his children were born, except Lillian, his eldest, born inNY. p 6. From: patricia watkins To: John E Hoyt Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:31 AM Subject: Re: Fw: Joseph is listed as son showing your Mother Ann S, inthis 1930 census? eliz died @ age 28 in 1932. she was having financial problems, rememberthis is during the dep ression and women didn't usually work then, so whenshe divorced Joe, she lost everything. he r mother had moved to SanFrancisco and had no means of support either. A society woman in Ala bama,Lillian Cheely was divorced and her wealthy husband refused to pay herthe alimony grante d the court -- he fled to the Bahamas and left herdestitite as well. Elizabeth eloped with Joe kabakoff -- a rare thing to do and even doublyrare given their clas s differences: she a child of privilege, educated insouthern private schools and 'came out' a s a deb at age 18. Joe Kabakoffand she eloped in Marion Arkansas one night according to the l etters ihave -- they just appeared married one night at a friends' house. JoeKabakoff the onl y son and youngest child of Russian immigrants -- hisfather made his money in real estate i n the 'dark side' of town inMemphis, TN. after an acrimonius divorce, Elizabeth took my mom and went to a tradeschool somewhere in Mem phis. to learn typing i believe so she could earna living; left her child in foster care wit h a Cole family friend. Iheard a story from my aging great-aunt, Lillian, the eldest Kabakoff daughter, whom I met her in 1976 when i travelled to Texas on myhoneymoon, that they found t he little girl with cigarette burns on herbody and took her to the kabakoffs. Remember, though, that the Kabakoffs claim that Joe lived with them tothe 1930 census taker e ven he is living with the Larkins. They also listEthel and harry Korbel living there as well : even tho i have lettersfrom Ethel postmarked in 1928, in San Antonio TX , threatening to c hangeher name and divorce her husband is they continued to 'hound her' inTexas. So who knows? the Kabakoffs were a noisy, nosy and messy bunch fromall the letters i've read over the decad es. According to Lillian, the Kabakoffs found my mom in foster care and theytook her home with th em to live. elizabeth committed suicide in 1932. Aletter i found addressed to Sam Kabakoff f rom my grt-grt grandmotherLillian Cheely in San Francisco alludes to the fact that her daught er wasdepressed, tired of trying to earn a living and sole caretaker of thebaby and that's 'w hy she did what she did'. Also Lillian says that "Joewas a spoiled little boy" and not fit fo r her daughter nevertheless shebegs sam kabakoff to let her grandaughter Ann (my mom) write t o heroccasionally so they an stay in toouch. my mom visited Lillian in San Francisco when she was travelling there inthe late 1940s when m y mom was a chorus girl with the Skating Vanities, awartime variety show during the war. b y that time Lillian was elderlyand told my mom a little about her family and her mother. Whe n Lilliandied, my mom went to SF and brought her trunk back complete wiht picturesof the ol d Stearns family as well as her mother's Amos family in Ironton,Ohio. p 7. From: patricia watkins To: John E Hoyt Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:36 AM Subject: Re: Fw: Joseph is listed as son showing your Mother Ann S, inthis 1930 census? thx for finding THIS census record showing Eliz @ the Cole house. itanswers the questions o f who the Cole's were in relation to her, at leastpartly. I have Elizabeths photo album from the 1920s showing Cyril Cole over inIndia around the tur n of the century. He was quite the soldier in hermajesty's army over there. Elizabeth seeme d quite taken with the family.Since they were English, perhaps they were friends of her mothe rs':? p 8. From: patricia watkins To: John E Hoyt Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:40 AM Subject: Re: Fw: Joseph is listed as son showing your Mother Ann S, inthis 1930 census? she would't agree to the divorce. his letters to my mom in the mid50sallude to that fact an d theh he tells my mom about some younger woman(30something) he is living with in Cocoa beac h FLA. no wonder my mohter was mortified at her dad

good thing she didn't live to see the divorce papers: they are quitegraphic -- Joe was a real l idiot

likely drank too much and abused hiswomen .. they were fine women, but he tired of t hem i guess. I thinkEvelyn had money, she worked retail in memphis, but i think she hadorigin s somwehere in Bardwell, Ky. Joe bought a dairy farm there andtried to make a go of it someti me inthe early 50s with Evelyn.. he tried to get my mom and my dad to get in onthe land deals with him butmy mom didn't want t o go back down south, no siree

p 9. From: patricia watkins To: John E Hoyt Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:49 AM Subject: Re: Fw: Joseph is listed as son showing your Mother Ann S, inthis 1930 census? joe and elizabeth eloped to Marion, Arkansas and showd up one night @ afriends' house 1am say ing 'they'd gotten married' .. i just happened upon the Larkin census lising by accident. i don't thinkmy mom knew about La rkin or Vera. She did mention Oma Jean and Evelyn,saying Oma was a friend of her mother's tha t her dad married after hermom died. (my mom was just 6 when she remembers being taken to hos pitalto tell her mother good-bye). and her dad married Evelyn when she was 14 -- my mom and she didn't getalong. Evelyn, not ve ry motherly to a motherless young teen. my mom actedout, started slipping out of the house an d they sent her to a privateschool in Mississippi for her senior year in high school. she nev erforgave them for doing that... p DEATH: Florida Death Index, 1877-1998 about Joseph E Kabakoff Name: Joseph E Kabakoff Death Date: May 1956 County of Death: Brevard State of Death: Florida Race: White Gender: Male

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