Widrick Geneology
The story of my family
Monday, September 8, 2014
Saturday, May 18, 2013
I have enjoyed so much, digging into my Ancestral Heritage. To see the people and how I am related to them and when I link a picture with a name it is such a thrill.
When I started this journey I promised I would find truth and believe the truth that I found. I have found that there is in fact no Native or Indian blood in my family line. I say this respectfully as I have great respect for Anishinaabe people. A boy named Ben and a girl named Winona both members of status I call my own children infact. The fact that there was native blood in us was a myth believed by my family and talked about for years. I have a sibling that has based his life on this myth. Alleged my fathers mother was a child of an Native person. They thought her name was Belle Halladay when in fact her name was Isabelle Hollington and her roots were English and Ireland.
So it is that I have discovered some unpleasant things but I must share what I have found. The following is just that and it is in reference to my Great grand father James H Powers.
Below is a record of James H. Powers and Mona Mac Indoes children in an orphanage in Bingahmton area.
Mona had passed away.
When I started this journey I promised I would find truth and believe the truth that I found. I have found that there is in fact no Native or Indian blood in my family line. I say this respectfully as I have great respect for Anishinaabe people. A boy named Ben and a girl named Winona both members of status I call my own children infact. The fact that there was native blood in us was a myth believed by my family and talked about for years. I have a sibling that has based his life on this myth. Alleged my fathers mother was a child of an Native person. They thought her name was Belle Halladay when in fact her name was Isabelle Hollington and her roots were English and Ireland.
So it is that I have discovered some unpleasant things but I must share what I have found. The following is just that and it is in reference to my Great grand father James H Powers.
Below is a record of James H. Powers and Mona Mac Indoes children in an orphanage in Bingahmton area.
Mona had passed away.
Alice Lucille powers Married Jonas Widrick.
Some time later she went and took these children out of the orphanage and they lived with her.
Below is Jim Powers. He is James H Powers first born son. As told to me when he was older he wanted to see his father but only from a distance. He had been 'left' at some point in his life.
This is my grandmother's (Alice Lucille's) half brother and his wife Vera.
This was the writing on the back.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
This section is dedicated to James H Powers my Great grandfather and his 3rd wife
Mona Louise Mac Indoe Powers
These are her parents
Please note as you look at the next few pictures that Mona named a daughter Mona
The following are Mona Powers sisters
Mona Mac Indoe Powers Married James H Powers My Great grandfather in 1914 she was 25. Mona was born in 1889 and died in 1928 at age 39 she was married for 14 years.
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Joseph and Anna Widrick and their daughter Janet. My grandparents and aunt
My Aunt Florence she married a Lyndaker
My Aunt Florence and Mary Boshart
My Aunt Janet and Uncle Josey
Joseph and Anna
Lorna, Josie, Florence (baby)
Aunt Janet. Married Gilbert Zehr
Aunt Janet
Anna with Lorna, Janet, and Josie
Norbert, Sherwood, Lorna, Janet (love the dog)
Jonas and Lucille Widrick and their children. My dad on the far right
Robert, Mona, Jenette, Alice, Walter
My uncle Norbert and Walter Widrick at Chase lake
A very young Walter Widrick at Chase Lake camp.
Norbert and Janet at Croghan Farm
Walter with Mona's children
Jonas and Lucille with their grandchildren. (not my siblings)
Robert M Powers was the son of James H Powers and Mona L McIndoe. He began living with his sister Alice Lucille 'Powers' Widrick when he was 13. He had been living in an orphanage. He was the blood son of James H. In reference to earlier beliefs that Alice was not actually the child of James H. and that Isabelle Holligton his first wife had a child from a native person and James H raised it as his own is quite unbelieveable. Robert M is the half brother of my Dads mother.
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