Health alert - Not ground beef this time!

Each year tens of thousands of lobsters find their way from the waters of Penobscot Bay to plates all around the world.

Imagine that this is your plate of lobster... Looks good, doesn't it?



You will notice the claws of your lobster have been banded. These should be removed before the lobster is eaten, but not before the live lobster is steamed. The bands are placed on the lobster for two reasons: The first is to protect whoever handles the lobster from the powerful claws. The second is to protect the lobster from other lobsters.


Lobsters are carnivorous and will eat anything that crosses their paths, including another lobster. If the bands were not in place, the lobsters would eat each other while in pounds or holding tanks. One might say that shows that even lobsters think lobster meat is delicious.

Penobscot Bay lobster fishing might still be doing o.k. but a little farther south things are not so great. Nearly 12 million pounds of lobsters were taken out of Long Island Sound each year up to the late 1990s. The catch, though, has dwindled to between 2 million and 3 million pounds annually.

The water of the sound has warmed slightly the last few years but the change is just a little over one degree Fahrenheit. Although some warmer water species seem to be showing population increases in the sound no one is sure that the lobster decline is temperature driven.

Whatever the cause, an increasing number of lobsters are being imported from Canada to supply U.S. demand. In fact, even in New England, a sizeable portion of the lobster served in restaurants is not of U.S. origin.

Now there is another issue rearing its ugly head to confound the lobster gourmet.

Don't eat lobster tomalley!

Maine and New Hampshire officials are advising consumers not to eat lobster tomalley after tests have shown high levels of toxins in some lobsters.

The Maine Center for Disease Control said Friday that lobster meat is perfectly safe but that people should not eat the tomalley, a soft green substance found in the body of the lobster which is considered a delicacy by some...

High levels of toxic algae known as red tide have been recorded along Maine's coast this summer, forcing the state to close many areas to clam and mussel harvesting.

Tomalley functions as the lobster's liver by serving as a natural filter for contaminants that are in the water, unfortunately the contaminants become concentrated in the tomalley tissue.

People that eat oysters or other shellfish containing red tide toxins may become seriously ill with neurotoxic shellfish poisoning (NSP). Once a red tide appears to be over, toxins can remain in the shellfish for weeks to months.



The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has advised consumers for some years not to eat tomalley. Now some of the states where the lobsters are caught are joining in with FDA...

A note to the dog....

Dear Dog...



I am soooo sorry about you being sent to the
dog pound for the broken lamp which you
did not break; the fish you did not spill;
and the carpet that you did not wet; or the
wall that you did not dirty with red paint...

But things here at the house really are calmer
now, and just to show you that there are no
hard feelings between us, I am sending you a
picture, so you will always
remember me.



Best regards,
The Cat

Grandpa Bateman's military service part 1

The Mexican Campaign

166th Infantry Regiment (Ohio 4th) in 42nd (Rainbow) Division
1916 - 1919

Merrill Bateman
Serial Number: 92982
Race: White
Residence: Columbus, O.
Enlistment Division: National Guard
Enlistment Location: Columbus, O.
Enlistment Date: 29 Jun 1916
Birth Place: Pleasant Corners, O.
Birth Date / Age: 21 Years
Assigns Comment: Co B 4 Infantry Ohio NG (Co B 166 Infantry) to 26 Dec 1918;
Co A 53 Pioneer Regiment, Infantry to 14 March 1919; Co B 166 Infantry to Discharge
Private, first class 1 Sept 1916; Private 10 Sept 1917;
Private, first class 17 Aug 1918. Champagne-Marne; Aisne-Marne; St Mihiel; Defensive Sector.
American Expeditionary Forces 18 Oct 1917 to 25 Apr 1919. Honorable discharge
17 May 1919.

The 166th Infantry was part of the 42nd Infantry Division, also known as the
"Rainbow Division" because it included one regiment from each state.
The 4th Infantry Regiment of the Ohio National Guard was chosen to become
part of the 42nd and re-designated the 166th Infantry Regiment. Prior to the war,
the 4th Ohio was sent to keep the peace at strikes and riots and stop
revolutionary insurgents on the U.S.-Mexico border.






Book:
Cheseldine, R. M.. Ohio in the rainbow : official story of the 166th Infantry,
42nd Division in the World War.

Columbus, Ohio: F.J. Heer Print. Co., 1924.

The call-up June 1916

After receiving the mobilization instructions on the afternoon of June
18, Hough and his small staff immediately went to work preparing and
issuing the necessary orders to mobilize the selected Ohio Guard units.
At 4:00 A.M. on the 19th, the Governor's office released to the press the
Adjutant General's General Order Number 12 of 1916, outlining initial
instructions to the Ohio Guard for mobilization. In addition to detailing
the units that had been called for federal service, Hough's order
charged regimental and battalion commanders with the responsibility
for feeding their enlisted men once they mustered. In addition, the
order authorized a subsistence allowance of 75 cents per day for each
man actually present. Commanders also had to provide bedding for
their soldiers (most units used local armories when available) and
forage and shoes for their horses. If suitable facilities for bunking
soldiers were not available, commanders had the authority to allow
enlisted men to sleep at home.

General Order Number 12 devoted considerable attention to medical
concerns. The directive admonished commanders to examine carefully
their soldiers to detect any sign of contagious diseases, especially
typhoid fever, measles, and mumps. The order specified that if an
office of the Ohio National Guard Medical Corps was unable to
conduct such inspections, commanders were to have local health
officials and physicians make the inspections. The order bluntly stated
that "no infected soldier will be brought to the mobilization camp."
Equally important, the order directed that "no recruit will be accepted
until he has been given a thorough physical examination by a Medical
Officer and has been found to conform to the physical standard
prescribed for the Regular Army."38 Hough's orders appeared clear
enough, but the Ohio Guard would run into significant problems as a
result of inadequate compliance with this directive.

Each regimental or separate battalion commander assigned one
officer to be accountable for medical property, another officer to
account for quartermaster property, and a special accountability
officer who was responsible for any ordnance, engineer, or signal
equipment within the command. In his order, Hough reminded ac-
countable officers and local commanders of the requirement during
mobilizations to inventory and inspect all property belonging to the
state or the federal government which the Ohio National Guard would
take into federal service. In addition, the order directed that as soon as
a unit had been raised "to the maximum practicable [strength] at its
home station," had at least reached its prescribed peace minimum
strength, had conducted its property inventories, and had made
suitable arrangements for "caring for the armory and property to be
left behind," it should notify the Adjutant General's office and await
further instructions.

For most units, the "maximum practicable" strength level was full
wartime strength, and the Ohio Guard units selected for service on the
Mexican border sought to fill their rolls to meet that level. The
peacetime strength of the mobilizing Ohio Guard units was 7,295, little
more than half of the desired wartime level of 13,541.40 Recruitment
began almost immediately throughout the state, beginning from the
Governor's office. Willis' next press release after the mobilization
order was a call to arms that appealed to Ohio patriotism. He urged
Ohioans to enlist immediately "to fill up every Ohio organization to its
war strength." Willis then released a series of press statements
designed to stir up support for the Mexican venture.41 His office
printed letters from eight-year old boys and seventy-six-year old men
volunteering for service. One old man who claimed to have lived in
Mexico for thirty-five years urged people to volunteer in order to "go
into Mexico and clean it up once and for all," the implication being that
since he had lived in Mexico he knew the importance of sending
American units down to fight in Mexico.

On June 26, Willis released for the newspapers another letter from a
large group of Civil War veterans that volunteered for service despite
the fact that "some of [us] physically are a little shaky."

While the appeals for volunteers based on patriotism were nothing
new, the 1916 mobilization was different from past efforts in one
important respect. When an interested citizen and ex-officer of the
Austro-Hungarian army named M. Wall wrote to the Governor re-
questing the authority to organized a company of fellow Austro-
Hungarians, Willis politely acknowledge receipt of the request and
referred the matter to General Hough. He also advised Mr. Wall that if
he really wanted to serve his adopted country, he ought to consider
instead enlisting in an existing unit.

Clearly, volunteer units formed by ambitious citizens desiring quick
commissions and immediate high rank were a thing of the past by 1916.

Governor Willis was not the only one who used the newspapers to
attract volunteers to fill existing units. Local newspapers were perhaps
the primary recruiting tools for the company commanders and their
recruiting officers to enlist new members into their units. These papers
often were even more open and enthusiastic than the Governor had
been about using patriotic ideals to stir up enthusiasm and encourage
the young men in their towns to join the local military unit. The June
29th Kenton Graphic News Republican (home of I Company, 2nd Ohio
Infantry) had a headline proclaiming, "Men, show your patriotism
now!" Other towns across Ohio had newspapers that offered similar
sentiments.

Ohio National Guard recruiting officers, of course, encouraged and
supported this form of advertising. They also worked with local mayors
and officials (more often than not they might be personal friends or
acquaintances) to gain further help in making Guard services appealing
to the local citizenry. Many communities responded by organizing
social affairs and meetings to support their local Guardsmen and to
influence others to join the Guard. Recruiting officers also pointed out
the financial benefits of serving in the Guard during federal service.

Second lieutenants earned $4.72 per day, sergeants $1 a day, and
privates $.60 a day plus meals after being mustered in, amounts that
were not insignificant in 1916.

It is important to note that while many Guard members looked
forward to federal service and to deploying to the Mexican border,
others were far less enthusiastic. Every regiment designated for
movement to the border had a few officers who resigned their
commissions to avoid service or who submitted resignations prior to
the order to mobilize. The reasons for avoiding service varied. Some
apparently found Guard service inconvenient for their personal busi-
ness interests, while others felt distaste at having to serve so far away
in the hot climate of Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico itself. It is
unclear as to what, if any, penalties this small minority of Guardsmen
may have received; probably few regiments wanted to retain such
unenthusiastic leaders by forcing them to stay on. As a result, the
Special Orders that the Adjutant General's office issued regularly were
full of names of new officers elected by their units to fill the vacancies,
and listed the results of state review boards that determined whether
they were suitable for commissioning.

Equipment shortages also plagued the Ohio National Guard mobili-
zation. The Chief of the Militia Bureau's report to the Secretary of War
for 1916 noted that, as of June 18, the Ohio National Guard was short
large quantities of field equipment in numerous categories and thus
could not completely equip its minimum authorized strength for
wartime service. The Ohio Guard was also short some weapons,
including thirty-two pistols and 268 pistol magazines. Unlike several
other states, Ohio was not short of rifles, a significant change from
1898.

The blame for equipment shortages also belonged to the War
Department, which had the responsibility to provide the weapons,
equipment, and supplies to make up the difference between normal
National Guard strength levels and the wartime level that the federal
government required. The War Department too had difficulty in
adequately fulfilling its requirements to arm and equip those soldiers
that the Ohio National Guard could not equip. The major problem
appeared to be that one depot stored the reserve equipment and
supplies for all of the National Guard units in the country.

The War Department was unable to appropriate enough transportation to pro-
vide every state's Guard units with the equipment that they needed. As
a result, most of the Ohio National Guard's units were unable to fully
equip all of their soldiers until well after they had been mustered into
federal service. Since the Ohio units remained in Ohio at Camp Willis
(the mobilization site) for several weeks after the muster, most did
manage to acquire the needed equipment by the time they moved to the
federal mobilization site in late August and early September of 1916.

General John (Black Jack) Pershing took command of the Eighth Infantry
Brigade at the Presidio of San Francisco on January 13, 1914. At that time
the political situation in Mexico was tumultuous. Several attempts at
revolution had resulted in a state of anarchy. Americans living on the
border were growing concerned and the Eighth Infantry was transferred
to Fort Bliss, Texas, to patrol the border. The political tensions did not
improve, and Pershing made plans to relocate his family to Fort Bliss.

Mrs. Pershing and the children had remained at the Presidio residing in a
large two story Victorian house located next to the Main Post parade ground.
Frances apparently was enjoying her stay in San Francisco despite being
involved in the first automobile accident in the Presidio, when an out-of-control
automobile struck her carriage. A warm and vivacious woman, Frances kept
up many friendships with old classmates, public figures and other Army wives.
She and the children attended the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition
just a short walk from their quarters. As an advocate of woman's suffrage,
Frances Pershing had already made plans to attend the 1916 Republican
convention. On Friday, August 27, 1915, there was a tragic fire at the Pershing
home. Frances had been entertaining guests the previous evening. Around 4:20
am hot coals spilled onto the highly waxed floor. Frances and the three young
girls, aged 8, 7, and 3 perished in the blaze. Only the son, Warren (5) survived
after being rescued by Johnson, Pershing's long-time black orderly. Visiting
the site, Pershing could only comment, "They had no chance."

After the funeral, General Pershing returned to Fort Bliss leaving Warren in
the care of his sister, May. He turned all of his attention to his work.
The Mexican bandit Pancho Villa was leading raids along the border.

From March-June 1916 the United States mounted an armed expedition
to Mexico to quell raids initiated by prominent Mexican leader
Pancho Villa into the U.S.

Allegedly sponsored by the German government Villa launched a
raid into the State of Chihuahua on 11 January 1916, capturing and
killing 19 U.S. citizens. This was followed on 9 March with a raid upon
Columbus in New Mexico, killing 11 citizens.

Following U.S. protests Mexico's President Venustiano Carranza undertook
to deal with Villa but insisted that the U.S. not interfere. However with the
U.S. rapidly losing patience with Carranza, General Frederick Funston -
U.S. commander along the border - was ordered to despatch an armed
U.S. column into Mexico in pursuit of Villa (to be taken dead or alive).
To that end Funston placed General John Pershing in command of the expedition.

Pershing led 4,000 U.S. troops into Mexico on 15 March 1916, remaining there
until early 1917. On 29 March 1916 a U.S. force of 400 men defeated a larger
number of Villa's followers. Nevertheless U.S. troops remained to mop up the
remnants of Villa's supporters; these troops increasingly came into contact -
and armed conflict - with official Mexican troops sent by President Carranza
to deal with Villa, the first of which took place on 12 April 1916.

Increasing clashes led to a very real threat of war between the U.S. and
Mexico; on 18 June 1916 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson called out the
National Guard to deal with the Mexican problem. As these were gathering
along the Mexican border President Carranza backed down, releasing a
group of captured U.S. troops and despatching a note of apology on
4 July 1916, in which he suggested convening a conference to prevent
future issues.


Doroteo Arango, alias Francisco “Pancho” Villa, was born in 1877
(1879 according to some sources) in San Juan del Rio, State of Durango,
Mexico. During his lifetime, he was a ruthless killer (killing his first man
at age sixteen), a notorious bandit (including cattle rustling and bank robbery),
a revolutionary (a general commanding a division in the resistance against
the 1913-14 Victoriano Huerta dictatorship), and despite his bloodthirsty nature,
an enduring hero to the poor people of Mexico. In their minds, Villa was
afraid of no one, not the Mexican government or the gringos from the United
States. He was their one true friend and avenger for decades of Yankee oppression.

In late 1915 Pancho Villa had counted on American support to obtain the
presidency of Mexico. Instead the U.S. Government recognized the new
government of Venustiano Carranza. An irate Villa swore revenge against
the United States.and began by murdering Americans in hopes of provoking
President Woodrow Wilson’s intervention into Mexico. Villa believed that
American interevention would discredit the Carranza government with the
people of Mexico and reaffirm his own popularity.

Villa and his “pistoleros” launched raids along the U.S.- Mexico boundary to frighten the Americans living in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona border towns. Concerned for the safety of Americans, President Wilson ordered the War Department to begin deploying troops to Texas and New Mexico. In April, 1915, Brigadier General John J. Pershing and his 8th Infantry Brigade were sent to Fort Bliss, Texas with the mission of guarding the U.S.- Mexico border from Arizona to a bleak outpost in the Sierra Blanca mountains ninety miles southeast of El Paso.

While the presence of American troops served to deter Villa on the north of the Rio Grande, the murder of U.S. citizens in Mexico continued. One of the most heinous atrocities occurred January 11, 1916, when Villa’s bandits stopped a train at Santa Ysabel . The bandits removed a group of 17 Texas business men (mining engineers) invited by the Mexican government to reopen the Cusihuiriachic mines below Chihuahua City and executed them in cold blood. However, one of those shot feined death and rolled down the side of the embankment and, crawling away into a patch of brown mesquite bushes, escaped. The train moved on, leaving the corpses at the mercy of the slayers, who stripped and mutilated them. After the escapee arrived back at Chihuahua City, a special train sped to Santa Ysabel to reclaim the bodies. When the people of El Paso heard of the massacre, they went wild with anger. El Paso was immediately placed under martial law to prevent irate Texans from crossing into Mexico at Juarez to wreak vengeance on innocent Mexicans.

Despite outrage in the United States and Washington over the Santa Ysabel massacre, President Wilson refused to intervene and send troops into Mexico. Two months later, Villa decided to strike again. This time he would invade the United States. At 2:30 a.m., on the morning of March 9, 1916, he and 500 “Villistas” attacked the 13th U.S. Cavalry at Camp Furlong near Columbus, New Mexico . Despite prior knowledge that Villa and his men were pillaging, raping, and murdering their way toward the border, the cavalry was caught completely by surprise. One reason for the cavalry’s sluggishness was because some of the troops had been drinking, but perhaps more importantly, all of the troops’ rifles were chained and locked in gun racks. Still, the cavalry managed to get organized and fought off the “Villistas” killing many of them in the process. During their retreat, however, the “Villistas” stopped at Columbus, New Mexico for a looting and window-shooting spree that left several U.S. civilians dead. For three hours, bullets struck houses and shouts of “Viva Villa! Viva Mexico! Muerte a los Americanos!” (death to americans) were heard in the streets. The town was set afire, though Villa’s men realized nothing beyond a few dollars and perhaps some merchandise from the burntout stores. The terror continued until about 7 a.m., and when Villa finally rode off, the smoke-filled streets of Columbus were littered with the dead and wounded. Fourteen American soldiers and ten civilians were killed in the raid.

Although Villa’s losses from from his American incursion were high, he had achieved his aim of arousing the United States. Now, he and his men headed due south from Palomas seeking the safety of the mountains of the Sierra Madre. However, the 13th U.S. Cavalry was now in hot pursuit. Colonel Frank Tompkins had managed to gather 32 cavalrymen and was nipping at the heels of the fleeing Mexicans. His troops sighted Villa’s rear guard and killed over thirty men and horses. Colonel Tompkins kept up the chase for eight hours and killed a number of stragglers as well as more of Villa’s rear guard. Lacking supplies, Tompkins and his cavalrymen were forced to return to Camp Furlong. On their way back, they counted 75 to 100 “Villistas” killed during their hastily organized pursuit.


The populace of Columbus was in a state of hysteria. The American cavalry troops collected the bodies of the “Villistas” that had been shot in the streets and on the outskirts of town and piled them on funeral pyres and cremated them. For a day or more the fires smoldered and the odor of burning flesh permeated the air. Columbus lay virtually demolished, so completely burned and pillaged that it never recovered its former vitality.

To prevent repetitions of the Columbus outrage, President Wilson called out 15,000 militia and stationed them along the U.S. - Mexico border.
Wilson also informed President Carranza that he intended to send a military expedition into northern Mexico to capture Pancho Villa, and Carranza reluctantly agreed. President Wilson then appointed Brigadier General John J. Pershing to lead 4,800 troops (mostly cavalry), supported by aircraft and motorized military vehicles (the first time either were used in U.S. warfare) on a punitive expedition into Mexico to capture Villa.

However, there was a catch to Pershing’s mission orders from Wilson that would be decisive in the end. Pershing was to pursue and punish Villa, but not to upset the Carranza government by firing on any of his troops. The futility of Wilson’s orders was plain even before the expedition began, when the local Carranzista commander at nearby Palomas threatened to attack the Americans. Pershing was only able to stave off an incident by hiring the man as a guide for his troops. Carranza would take advantage of Wilson’s restrictions to make life miserable for the Punitive Expedition throughout their mission.

In 1916, the Signal Corps Aviation Service only had a few crude aircraft. The 1st Aero Squadron which was assigned to support Pershing was equipped with six Curtiss JN-2 “Jennies” which had a reputation of being unstable deathtraps. In addition, the airservice was handicapped by inexperienced pilots. Pershing was barely a month into the expedition when he lost all six of his aircraft. Two crashed within the first week of the expedition.

Pershing’s expedition also provided an opportunity for one of the Army more headstrong members. . . George S. Patton, then a young lieutenant. Fearing he would be left behind on mundane border patrol with his unit, Patton pleaded with Pershing to take him along as a replacement for one of his two aides that was absent when the expedition was ordered into Mexico. Pershing agreed at the last moment and took him. The thirty year old Patton was convinced that he would now be able to fulfill his destiny as a great warrior.

Villa had a nine days headstart before Pershing’s Expedition crossed into Mexico at noon on March 15, 1916. By that time, Villa and his men were well hidden in the mountains. To cover the uncharted terrain, Pershing divided his force into East and West columns and proceeded methodically into the unfamiliar Mexican interior.

Basically, the two American columns of the expedition got nowhere in their pursuit of Villa. Northern Mexico was a vast wasteland with few towns and dominated by the barren and rugged Sierra Madre Mountains with peaks averaging ten to twelve thousand feet and honeycombed with deep canyons providing excellent hiding places for Villa and his men. The few roads were little more than dirt trails, dusty in dry weather and muddy quagmires in the rain. Villa’s men were on their home ground while Pershing was moving into unfamiliar and largely unmapped territory depending on Mexican guides whose loyalty was always questionable.

Pershing’s soldiers, mostly raw recruits, encountered every imaginable mishap during their eleven months in Mexico. President Carranza had promised assistance, but when, for example, Pershing’s men were on the verge of capturing Villa, the “Carranzistas” attacked them. Another time, Pershing’s Indian scouts misinformed him about the location of Villa’s lair. On other occasions, the scouts brought in blood-filled boots and bullet-riddled shirts as “proof” that he had been killed.

Pershing’s East column fanned out from Columbus through cactus and desert, pueblos and small settlements, Ascension and Corralitos. The West column meandered about among hills and plains to Culbertson’s Ranch, one hundred miles west of El Paso, near the New Mexico - Arizona - Mexico border, and the Ojitos to the south. After some months, both columns converged at Casas Grandes only to split again a little later, with one heading south for Pearson, Cumbre, and Madera, and the other marching southeastwardly for Guerrero, Agua caliente, Ojos Azules, and Carrizal.

At Colonia Dublan, Pershing established his permanent command post where he began to plan how he would snare Villa. Everywhere U.S. Troops went, men, women, and children cheerfully provided them with misinformation about his (Villa’s) whereabouts.

As in past American invasions (e.g., the Mexican War of 1846-1848), the Pershing Expedition was a financial “boon” to Mexico. The American soldiers’ wants were catered to and satisfied everywhere they went. Prices skyrocketed. If they so desired, soldiers could submerge themselves in Mexican beer. Cantinas were open all night. In many restaurants soldiers devoured “deer” meat that once ran in the streets barking. Life was hard only when the Americans marched or rode along the dirt roads and were eating their dry ration crackers and looking for water. Dublan was transformed into an enormous military encampment complete with a railhead where tons of supplies were unloaded by a thousand civilian workers. The soldiers and civilians worked by day and brawled by night in the saloons and bordellos that had sprung up in the once sleepy town.

Villa’s men mingled with the populace at will by simply removing the cartridge belts they normally strapped across their chests. They even mixed with the Americans and attended Western “cowboy” movies with Pershing’s officers.

In May, 1916, Lieutenant Patton saw combat for the first time. Based on information about the location of Julio Cardenas, one of Villa’s most trusted subordinates and commander of his personal bodyguard; Patton, accompanied by ten soldiers from the 6th Infantry Regiment, and two civilian guides traveling in three Dodge open top touring automobiles, conducted a surprise raid on a ranch house at San Miguelito near Rubio. During the ensuing fire-fight, Patton and his men killed three men. One was identified as Cardenas. The other two dead Mexicans were an unnamed Villista captain and a private. Patton’s men tied the bodies to the hoods of the cars, while Patton put Cardenas’ silver-studded saddle and sword into his vehicle. The spectacle of the three cars with the bodies tied on the hoods caused a great commotion along the road, but Patton and his party sped through the countryside to their headquarters at Dublan without incident.

At around 4 p.m., Patton arrived at Dublan with the three bloody corpses strapped across the blistering-hot hoods of the automobiles. War correspondents crowded around to get a first hand account of his adventure. The stories they filed made Patton a national hero for several weeks. His photograph appeared in newspapers around the United States. Pershing was pleased that someone had enlivened the hunt for Villa and actually taken out a key member of his band. He even permitted Patton to keep Cardenas’ sword and silver saddle as trophies of his first fight.

In June, Pershing was informed that Villa could be taken at the small village of Carrizal, northwest of his command center at Dublan. When the Pershing’s troops assaulted the village on June 21, they quickly realized they had been hoodwinked for they found themselves fighting “Carranzistas,” not Villistas. Scores of “Carranzitas” were killed or wounded. Villa was reported to have watched with much delight — from a safe distance — as his two enemies battled each other in total confusion.

The unfortunate American attack on Mexican government troops became known as the “Carrizal Affair” and created a such a rowe that war with Mexico seemed possible. The situation led President Wilson to call 75,000 National Guardsmen into Federal service to help police the U.S. - Mexico border. In fact, hostilities with Mexico probably would have erupted then and there, but for the bitter war raging in Europe. Wilson, anxious not to become involved in Mexico at a time when relations with Germany were deteriorating, agreed to submit Mexican complaints arising out of the punitive expedition to a joint commission for settlement. Some time later the commission ruled that, among other things, that the debacle at Carrizal was the fault of the American unit commander.

For the remainder of 1916, the intensity of the hunt for Villa waned and replaced by the tedious routine of life in a temporary bivouac. Boredom spawned drunken shoot-outs between troops and local Mexicans. In an attempt to keep his men busy, Pershing initiated a tough new training program that included cavalry maneuvers. It was clear by this time, however, that given President Wilson’s restrictive orders and the growing intransigence of the Carranza regime that the Pershing led Mexican incursion was doomed to failure.

Meanwhile, back in the United States, National Guard units were being called out to secure the U.S. - Mexico border. Units of the Georgia National Guard were mobilized at Camp Harris, Macon, Georgia during July, 1916 and sent to Camp Cotton, Fort Bliss, near El Paso, Texas in October.

Company H, 3rd Separate Infantry Battalion and 2nd Company, Coast Artillery were mustered into Federal service on August 10 and September 26 respectively, but remained at home station and were not sent to Texas.

The aggregate strength of the Georgia units that were sent to Camp Cotton, Texas was 3,892. The units were mobilized on June 18, 1916 and mustered into Federal service, most between July 2-31 and one as late as September 26. After some mobilization training at Camp Harris, they departed for duty on the U.S. - Mexico border.

An example of the service of one of the Georgia National Guard units deployed to the border is revealed in the reports of the 2nd Squadron Cavalry. The unit departed Camp Harris at Macon, Georgia on October 25, 1916 and arrived at Fort Bliss, Texas (Map 2) on November 1, 1916. At Fort Bliss, they underwent a month of mounted training until Then, the squadron left on December 1, 1916 for field duty at Fabens , Texas (Map 2) with three officers and 70 men, 79 horses, 2 transport wagons, and eight mules. The group marched 32 miles to Fabens finally reaching there at 1:40 p.m. on December 2, 1916. They performed border patrol with the 1st Kentucky Infantry and from December 16 on with the 2nd Kentucky Infantry. The squadron left Fort Bliss, Texas at 1a.m. on March 22, 1917 with three officers and 77 men, two wagons and full equipment. They arrived at home station, Atlanta, Georgia at 1p.m., March 27, 1917. The distance traveled was 1,700 miles.

In January, 1917, the ill-fated attempt to capture Pancho Villa ended with the recall of the Punitive Expedition from Mexico. On January 27, the first of 10,690 men and 9,307 horses embarked for Columbus. It took over a week to assemble the full expeditionary force back at Fort Bliss, where, on February 7, 1917, with General Pershing at the head, they marched into El Paso to the acclaim of cheering crowds. That officially ended Pershing’s campaign. The expedition had gone as far south as Parral, but Pershing had not captured Pancho Villa. Therefore, the expedition was only notable as the last U.S. Cavalry expedition in U.S. military history. Although Villa had once been nicked in the knee cap by a Carranzistas bullet, he was now completely mended and feeling well. However, many of his best men had either died or deserted him. But, with the gringos gone, he was now free to continue his struggle with his arch foe Venustiano Carranza.

Unabashed by his failure to capture Villa, General Pershing claimed the expedition was successful as a learning experience. However, in the minds of Mexicans, Pancho Villa was the clear winner. He had emerged triumphant from battle with the United States led by the great General Pershing. No doubt, in the eyes of the Mexican people, Pershing’s withdrawal from Mexico added to Villa’s myth of invincibility.

But, a few years later, on Friday, July 20, 1923, Villa’s luck ran out. Accompanied by his entourage of Dorades (“Golden Ones”), which was what he called his bodyguards, Pancho Villa frequently made trips to Parral for banking and other errands. This day, Villa had picked up a consignment of gold with which to pay his Canutillo ranch staff and was driving through the city in his black 1919 Dodge roadster when a group of seven riflemen fired 150 shots in just two minutes into his car. In the fusillade of shots, 16 bullets lodged in his body and four more in his head. Villa was reported to have killed one of the assassins before he died. Truly, Pancho Villa had lived by the gun and died by the gun.

It was never determined who ordered the killing. However, the assassins were given light prison terms leading to general speculation that someone in the Mexican government must have given the order simply because Villa had become an embarrassment to post-revolutionary Mexico.

But even in death, Pancho Villa was not at rest and still stirred controversy. Three years after he was buried in the Cemeterio Municipal at Parral, it was alleged that an ex-Villista officer, Captain Emil L. Holmdahl, had opened the tomb and removed Villa’s head to sell to an eccentric Chicago millionaire who collected the skulls of historic figures. Despite the rumors of a headless Villa, his sons prevented examination of the remains to see if the head was still attached. Three years later, the Federal government ordered Villa’s body, reported to be headless, moved to Mexico City to be interred in the Tomb of Illustrious Men.




Armored machine gun trucks in review, March 6, 1917, El Paso, Tex.

USS Paul Revere APA-248

USS Paul Revere

USS Paul Revere
(APA/LPA-248) was
an amphibious
transport ship in
the United States Navy.
She was named for
the early patriot,
Paul Revere.

  
Paul Revere was originally laid down as MA hull 27 on
15 May 1952 by the New York SB Corp.,
Camden, New Jersey; launched 11 April 1953 as
SS Diamond Mariner; sponsored by
Mrs. Franklin Ewers; delivered to MARAD
22 December 1953; operated by the
Prudential Steamship Corp. for MARAD; placed in
the Maritime Reserve Fleet
24 July 1954; acquired by the Navy 14 September
1956; classified APA-248 and
named Paul Revere 4 June 1957; converted by
Todd SB Corp., San Pedro, California;
and commissioned at Long Beach, California
3 September 1958,
Capt. Robert Erly in command.
Displacement:     16,828 tons
Length:     563 feet 6 inches (171.8 m) 
Beam:                 76 ft (23.2 m) 
Draft:                 27 ft (8.2 m)
Propulsion:     single screw, geared 
turbine powered, 19,250 hp. 
Two B&W WT boilers, 620 PSI 
Speed:     20 knots 
Complement:     414
with accommodations for 1500 more combat troops
Armament:     4 × 3in (127 mm)/50 guns
Aircraft:     up to 8 helicopters 

U.S. Navy service  After shakedown, Paul Revere
spent the next full year participating
in amphibious training operations: “Rock Shoals”
at San Diego in November 1958,
“Twin Peaks” at Camp Pendleton in February
1959, “PACNAMIDLEX” at Del Mar, California
in August, “Clear Ridge” off Calif. in September,
and “Totem Pole” at Kodiak,
Alaska during November.  During 1960–1961,
she was assigned “Ready APA” duty,
in which she maintained on board, at all times,
a fully equipped and reinforced
battalion of landing troops to be put ashore on
short notice at any trouble spot
in the Pacific. On 21 March 1961 trouble flared
in Laos, and Paul Revere
commenced patrolling the waters off the coast
of Southeast Asia. She remained
in the area in a ready status for a total of fifty-four
days until tensions eased,
then resumed her normal South China Sea patrol.

In January 1962, after returning to the U.S.,
Paul Revere accomplished a most
dramatic rescue, when one of several helicopters
engaged in ASW exercises
plunged into the ocean. Operating several hundred
yards from the scene,
she launched a manned boat which returned the
three crewmen of the helicopter
to the ship for medical treatment, all in the space
of six minutes.
Following overhaul, she spent the remainder of 1962 in coastal amphibious
training operations in the San Diego area. The year 1963 saw her complete a
successful WestPac deployment and another rigorous schedule of training operations.
Departing San Diego on 28 January 1964 for her fourth WestPac deployment en route
to Pearl Harbor Paul Revere participated in “Coco Palm”, a merchant convoy sailing
exercise. From Pearl Harbor she sailed to Buckner Bay in preparation for one of the
largest amphibious operations since the end of World War II.   
This exercise, called “Back Pack”, involved over 50,000 American and Nationalist
Chinese personnel and over 125 ships. It was conducted off the southwestern coast
of Taiwan and terminated 12 March.   Paul Revere also participated in “Ligtas”,
a combined SEATO exercise in the Philippines during May, and operation “Minute Hand”,
conducted at Numazu, Japan in July. Returning to the states, she joined another
convoy exercise,
“Mad Bull”, and arrived San Diego 6 August.   During 1964 the "Peter Rabbit"'s crew
saw action in N. Vietnam, as they destroyed
communications and fought their way back to the landing craft. These men were
part of the fire control tech team. They saved a lot of Marines as they fought their
way back by calling in fire support to take down the V.C.  Paul Revere spent the first
seven months of 1965 conducting training operations
off the coast.  Actually this is not quite correct: in March 1965 The Rabbit was
sent to Camp Pendleton, loaded Marines and went to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii for a
couple of weeks, then was sent to Yokosuka, Japan and to Okinawa to
offload troops. She returned to San Diego in late June - just in time for my
first daughter to be born on July 2nd 1965.    
In August she lifted elements of the 1st Marine Division to Okinawa and during
October and November she transported personnel of South Korea’s famed
Tiger Division to Qui Nhon, South Vietnam from Pusan.  It sounds pretty quick
and simple, actually it was neither.  Quy Nhon or Qui Nhon (both: kwē nyôn)
, city (1989 est. pop. 201,972), SE Vietnam, on the South China Sea coast.

Quy Nhon is a growing commercial
and industrial center that produces textiles, processed food, and seafood; it
has a deepwater port and airport. On the railroad and coastal highway, it was
a naval station and military base during the Vietnam War. Its small fishing port
was dredged and improved by the United States military in 1965 and again by
the Vietnamese government in 1977.   

The surrounding area was the scene of heavy fighting during the war, because
highway 1 (the coastal highway) ran
right past the city and the Hanoi Express
used to try to run the highway most nights causing numerous firefights and
some serious battles.  The city was greatly swollen by refugees.
The peninsula just north of the city was Viet Cong territory (what was then
called Indian Country)in late 1965 and  there were continuing operations
in that area as well.    The neighboring city of An Nhon (formerly Binh Dinh)
was an old Annamese
capital. Ruins of the ancient Cham center of Cha Ban are nearby.  
From 7–18 November Paul Revere conducted her first actual combat assault
as a unit involved in operation “Blue Marlin”, with Marine battalions embarked.  
She was involved in a similar operation called “Double Eagle” at Quang Ngai
Province in January 1966 with Marines.  She continued lift support for Marine
units in Vietnam through March and then
returned to San Diego 19 April.  Paul Revere resumed coastal operations on
her return, until May 1967 when
she again deployed to the Far East. As a unit of the Amphibious Ready Group
off the coast of Vietnam she engaged in operations “Belt Drive”, “Fortress Sentry”,
“Formation Leader”, and “Knox”. She returned to San Diego 16 December and
commenced coastal operations. For meritorious service from 17 August 1967
to 11 November 1967 during sustained amphibious operations against communist
insurgent forces in the Republic of Vietnam, Paul Revere was awarded the
Meritorious Unit Commendation, the first ship of her type to receive the award.  
During 1968 she participated in training cruises for Naval Reservists and Midshipmen,
including a special familiarization cruise for Sea Cadets. She also continued her
upkeep and training preparations for her next coming deployment in January 1969.  
Deployed on 30 January 1969 , departing San Diego as part of ARG "Bravo"
(TG 76.5)in company with Tulare (LKA-112), Belle Grove (LSD-2), Alamo (LSD-33),
Cook (APD-130), Tortuga (LSD-26), and Valley Forge (LPH-8), bound, via Pearl Harbor
and Okinawa, for Southeast Asia. She arrived in her operating area off Vietnam
on 7 March and delivered her cargo in DaNang . Ports-of-call: Subic Bay, Buckner Bay,
Yokosuka, and Hong Kong. Participated in a series of "Keystone" operations
redeploying Marine Corps units beginning with Operation Keystone Eagle on 14 July
1969, when the 1st Battalion/9th Marines boarded the USS Paul Revere and sailed
for Okinawa in the first increment of America's withdrawal from South Vietnam.
Relieve of duty with ARG "Bravo" (TG 76.5) by USS Vancouver (LPD-2) on
29 August 69 at Subic Bay RPI before returning to San Diego.
Crossed equator on 9 Sept. 1970 and initated 'polywogs' into the Solemn
Mysteries of the Ancient Order of the Deep while in route to Singapore.
In 1972 participated in the Easter Offensives.  Castillia (L-21)  
Paul Revere was decommissioned and struck from the Naval Vessel Register
on 1 January 1980, and subsequently sold through the Security Assistance
Program to Spain on 17 January 1980, renamed Castillia (L-21). The Spanish
Navy decommissioned the ship on 6 June 1998 but her final disposition is unknown .  
This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of
American Naval Fighting Ships.  

PETERSEN - BATEMAN 1920- 1930 Census

- both lines need more work -


1920 United States Federal Census

Name: Louis(e) Bateman
[Louise Bateman]
Home in 1920: Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo, Ca
Age: 22 years
Estimated birth year: abt 1898
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Father's name: James I (Or James C.)
Father's Birth Place: Wisconsin (Or Denmark)
Mother's name: Anna (Kristiana)
Mother's Birth Place: Denmark
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Sex: Female
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Household Members:
Name Age
James I Petersen 53 (James C.?)
Anna Petersen 51 (Kristiana)
Walter J Petersen 24 (son of James & Anna)
Louise Bateman 22 (Louise Wife of Merrill)
Talice Petersen 15 (Aunt Alice)
Olea Petersen 13 (Aunt Olga)
Ethel Petersen 8 (Aunt Ethel)
Berton James Petersen 10/12 (10 1/2 months) (Son of Walter J and Ruth)
Ruth Petersen 24 (wife of Walter J)
Merrell Bateman 24 (Merrill Carl husband of Louise)

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1930 United States Federal Census
about James C Peterson
Name: James C Peterson (Petersen?)
Home in 1930: Hawthorne, Los Angeles, California
Age: 63
Estimated birth year: abt 1867
Birthplace: Denmark (Or Wisconsin see 1920 census)
Relation to Head of House: Head
Spouse's name: Hristiane K (Kristiana aka Anna)
Race: White
Occupation:
Education:
Military Service:
Rent/home value:
Age at first marriage:
Parents' birthplace: Denmark
Household Members:
Name Age
James C Peterson 63 (Petersen?)
Hristiane K Peterson 62 (Kristiana)
Myron E Bateman 9
Ruby M Bateman 8
Marcel V Bateman 6 Marvel
Arleen M Bateman 5 Aileen (Mom) born Nov 14, 1924

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1930 United States Federal Census
about Louise Bateman
Name: Louise Bateman
Home in 1930: Inglewood, Los Angeles, California
Age: 30
Estimated birth year: abt 1900
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Relation to Head of House: Sister-in-law
Race: White
Occupation:
Education:
Military Service:
Rent/home value:
Age at first marriage:
Parents' birthplace:

Household Members:
Name Age
Curtis Morgan 33
Olga Morgan 23 (Aunt Olga)
Junior Morgan 4 4/12
Louise Bateman 30 (Grandma)

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Our branch of the Lytle family

Earliest verified ancestor:
1.Christopher Little(Litle, Lytle) was born 1680 in N. Ireland, and died 1770 in Carlisle, Cumberland Co., Pennsylvania.
He was married in 1702 in Pennsylvania or Northern Ireland to Mary. They probably were married in Ulster as their elder son was born there the following year.
She was born Est. 1663-1691 in N. Ireland, and died prior to 1779.

Note:
There are ample verifications to the fact that Christopher Little and Christopher Lytle are one and the same person.
His sons John Litle/Lytle and James Little/Litle married Jane McConnell and Martha McConnell who were sisters.
Note:
The interchange of the spellings LITTLE, LITLE, and LYTLE is of little consequence and probably due to the interpretation of the person who recorded the fact. This varied from type to type as the heavy Scottish/Irish accent and the lack of the ability of many to spell correctly at this period in history led to misspelling as each record keeper interpreted the pronunciation. The three different spellings eventually prevailed differently in the descendants of Christopher Little/Lytle.

Immigration and ships records indicate that the first visit to America was in 1690 by his mother and father and 5 more passages take place before they settled in Pennsylvania. Ports of entry for those visits were NJ, NY, MD, and (3) PA. Christopher's father may have either worked on a ship or been a government employee during this period.

Children of Christopher Little and Mary are:
John Litle, born 1703 in Ulster Co., Ireland; died August 24, 1777 in Carlisle, Cumberland Co., PA.
James Litle, born 1720 in Pennsylvania or N. Ireland; died 1783 in Westpennsbro Township, Cumberland Co., Penn..

2.John Litle married Jane McConnell in 1727. She was the daughter of William and Mary McConnell.
Jane McConnell was born 1712, and died October 04, 1797 in PA.

Note: John and his brother James married Jane McConnell and Martha McConnell who were sisters.

Children of John Litle and Jane McConnell are:
Joseph Lytle.
Captain William Lytle, born October 15, 1728 in PA; died August 14, 1797.
Robert Lytle, born Abt. 1730 in PA; died 1779 in Carlisle, Cumberland Co., PA.
John Lytle, born 1733; died 1799.
Eleanor Lytle, born 1734 in PA.
David Lytle, born Abt. 1735.
James Litle, born Bet. 1746 - 1750; died Abt. 1808 in Anson Co, NC.

3.James Litle (son of John, son of Christopher Little) was born Bet. 1746 - 1750, and died Abt. 1808 in Anson Co, NC.
He married Nancy. She was born Bet. 1746 - 1750.

Children of James Litle and Nancy are:
John W. Litle, born 1774; died 1853 in TX.
James Litle, born Bet. 1775 - 1785; died Bef. 1817.
Agness Litle, born Bet. 1775 - 1785.
Sarah Litle, born Bet. 1775 - 1785.
William Litle, born Bet. 1775 - 1785. He married Elizabeth

A will for JAMES LITLE was recorded in Anson County NC in October 1792 reporting a wife, NANCY, and the following children:
JOHN, WILLIAM, JAMES, HOSEA, AGNESS, SARAH.

4.John W. Litle (James, John, Christopher Little) was born 1774, and died 1853 in TX.
He married Edith. She was born 1781 in Mississippi, and died Aft. 1850.

Notes for John W. Litle:
He appeared as a single man on the 1810 LA census but not again
At that time he was Litle later he changed spelling to LITTLE then to LYTLE

Shows on 1840 TX census as :
Lytle Jno 54605 (land designation)
with sons Lytle Harvey and Lytle Erastus

John W. Lytle, sometimes spelled Litle or Little, emigrated to Texas in
November 1829 from Louisiana as one of Austin's Colonists.
He was a farmer with a family consisting of himself fifty five (55) years of age
Wife Edith 49 years of age and four children.
Erastus Litle born Dec. 25, 1815 FL or LA
Harvey N. Litle born 8-5-1818 in FL or LA
Edith
Rebecca Litle born June 15, 1825 in Chocolate Bayou, LA married Andrew Watt Scobey the brother of Mary Jane Scobey who was the first wife of her brother Harvey Newton Litle.

John W. Lytle was granted on 23 Jan. 1833 one-league in what later BECAME Galveston County . Much of Galveston was created from lands that had for over a decade been part of the "Municipality" (under Mexican law, bigger than a county of the English and American system) of Brazoria. He later applied for and received an augmentation of one labor from the Brazoria County Board. of Land Commissioners

1850 Brazoria Co., TX Census
#28 173
H. N. Litle 32 M farmer $ 2000, Born: Louisiana
Edith Litle 69 F Mississippi (his mother)
Erastus Litle 34 M $ 800. Louisiana (his brother)
Eliza (Adkins) Litle 18 F Georgia (his second wife)
Mary E. Litle 2 F Texas (his daughter by his first wife)

5.Harvey Newton5 Litle (John W.4, James3, John2, Christopher1 Little) was born August 05, 1818 in FL (1850 census says LA).
Harvey N. Litle was a single man on Jan. 21st, 1838 when he was granted 1476 acres in Brazoria Co.
He had served in the Texas Mexican War.
He married Mary Jane Scobey on July 22, 1846.
Issued licence to celebrate the rites of matrimony between Harvey N Litle
and Miss Mary Scobey, this 22nd' day of July 1846 signed M B Williamson, Clerk C C B C
Mary was born Abt. 1829 and died in 1848 or 1849.
They had one child: Mary Edith Litle

He was re-married to Elizabeth Adkins of Galveston Co. on August 08, 1849 in Brazoria Co. TX. She was born Abt. 1832 in FL.
Issued licence to celebrate the rites of matrimony between Harvey N Litle
and Miss Elizabeth Adkins, this 8th day of August A D 1849 (signature unreadable)

They had three children:

William Thomas Lytle, born April 07, 1853 in Brazoria Co. TX;
died January 20, 1915 in Sand Grove, Milam Co. TX.
Shelby Lytle, born Abt. 1854 in TX. He married Kate.
Susan Lorene Lytle, born March 04, 1855 in Houston TX;
died May 27, 1936 in San Angelo, Tom Green Co. TX.

Harvey N. Litle served as a 2nd Lt. in the 17th Regiment, Texas Infantry (Allen's) F Co.
He died August 25, 1863 in Bastrop Co TX (cause of death not known).
Note: there was a yellow fever outbreak in the area at that time and the 17th Regt. was involved in a battle in Louisiana in May 1863. He might have been wounded and sent home?

Harvey N. Lytle died August 25 1863 without leaving a will disposing of his estate and left his widow Elizabeth and four children, Mary Edith the child by his first wife, and William T., Shelby and Susan all very young children, except Mary Edith.
He left a large estate consisting of lands, cattle, horses, and his homestead in Bastrop Co. and a one third interest in his brothers estate (Erastus died August 12, 1862 and had never married.)

He had no debts. All he died possessed of was disposed of by an Administrator shortly after his death, leaving his widow and minor children with no means of support. (The document of probate is on file and shows that M Mc Master transferred 165 acres in MC county, 36 quarter sections and 180 acres in Guadalupe, 19 horses and 35 cattle - to Stephen Cole and Sam McKinzie creditors. The sale of 3 "negro women" for $797 was used to pay the probate fees) You have to wonder how something like that could happen...



6.William Thomas6 Litle (Harvey Newton5 Litle, John W.4, James3, John2, Christopher1 Little) was born April 07, 1853 in Brazoria Co. TX, and died January 20, 1915 in Sand Grove, Milam Co. TX. He went by TB Litle

He married Della Morris.
One daughter, Mary Alice Litle. After Della died, T. B. Litle married Mary C. Joines

He married (2) Mary C. Joines 81 May 23, 1879, daughter of Albert Joines and Cassilla Dotson.
Mary C. Joines was born August 09, 1863 in Washington Co. TX, and died June 16, 1912 in Deanville, Burleson Co. TX.

Children of William Lytle and Mary Joines are:
Nettie Lytle, born February 1880 in Jeddo, Bastrop Co., TX; died 1890 in Jeddo, Bastrop Co., TX. Died from a mule kicking her in the head.
Stillborn Lytle, born Bet. 1880 - 1886. Mary C. Joines is buried near infant
William Alvery (or Alvey) Lytle, born November 24, 1884 in Jeddo, Bastrop Co., TX; died January 06, 1957 in Corpus Christi, Nueces Co., TX. (The Family called him "Alvy")
James Earl Lytle, born October 11, 1886 in Jeddo, Bastrop Co., TX; died June 05, 1974 in Caldwell, Burleson Co., TX. "Uncle Earl"
John Henry Lytle, born April 18, 1888 in Jeddo, Bastrop Co., TX; died January 18, 1966 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., CA. "Henry"
Arthur Lee Lytle, born November 23, 1890 in Jeddo, Bastrop Co., TX; died December 04, 1958 in Ft Worth, Tarrant Co., TX. ("Uncle Arthur")
George Dewey7 Lytle, born August 22, 1898 in Birdsong, Burleson, TX; died May 19, 1977 in Hanford, Kings, CA. ("GRANDPA")

The first Lytle family came to Burleson County about 1892. They were Tom Bully Lytle, his wife Mary C. Joines Lytle and their four sons: William Alvey, James Earl, John Henry, and Arthur Lee.

They came here from Bastrop County by way of the Old San Antonio Road. James Earl Lytle was six years old at the time of remembered the trip well. It was winter time and took many days of travel by wagon. Along the way Tom showed his boys the farm where he had lived as a boy. This was the last time they were to see the old home place in Bastrop County.

Near Deanville, Texas is a community called Birdsong and this is where the Lytles were to settle. The first night of their arrival, they camped near the Chriesman Chapel. A hard snow came down all night. In order for his wife and four little boys to survive, Bully Lytle stayed up all night shoveling the snow off the tent in which his family was sleeping. As soon as the storm was over, Bully began clearing land and built a log cabin. Earl Lytle lived to be eighty-seven years old and remembered many small details of their first home in Burleson County, even his father's making shingles with a froe.

The Lytles lived in Birdsong many years. Their youngest son, George Dewey Lytle, was born there on 22 August 1899. From there Bully and Mary Lytle moved to Sand Grove in Milam County, but the older Lytle boys remained in Birdsong. "Early" Lytle as James Earl was called lived with the Bob Webb family.

When Mary Lytle became very sick in 1912, she came back to Burleson County which she considered home. She spent her last days with Earl and Nellie Lytle who had been married on 7 June 1910. Mary Lytle died on 16 June 1912 and was buried beside her infant in the Chriesman Chapel Cemetery.

Bully Lytle never returned to Burleson County. He died at Sand Grove on 20 January 1915 and is buried there.

note: In error some thought Tom Bully's name to be Walter Thomas. His name was William Thomas, according to his marriage license. As a boy he had been the town bully and the nickname "stuck". When he signed his name he always went by T. B. Litle.

William Alvey Lytle married Odie Collins and lived in Corpus Christi, Texas.
James Earl Lytle was the only Lytle to remain in Burleson County.
John Henry Lytle married Melvina "Mel" Langham and moved to Los Angeles.
Arthur Lee Lytle married and lived in Fort Worth, Texas.
George Dewey Lytle married Julia Gladys Adney and lived in Armona, California.

7.George Dewey7 Lytle (William Thomas6, Harvey Newton5 Litle, John W.4, James3, John2, Christopher1 Little) was born August 22, 1898 in Birdsong, Burleson, TX, and died May 19, 1977 in Hanford, Kings, CA.
He married (1) Ora Strong in TX.
Child of George Lytle and Ora Strong is:
Vernon Garwood8 Lytle, born November 06, 1918 in Deanville, Burleson Co., TX; died December 21, 1929 in Kennedale, Tarrant Co., TX.

He married (2) Julia Gladys Adney April 20, 1921 in Fort Worth TX, daughter of William Adney and Louvenia King. She was born February 05, 1899 in San Angelo, Tom Green, TX, and died March 24, 1984 in Fresno CA.

Children of George Lytle and Julia Adney are:
+ 439 i. William George8 Lytle, born February 02, 1922 in Fort Worth TX; died February 28, 1994 in Fresno CA.
+ 440 ii. James Earl Lytle, born . (5-10-1929) in Kennedale, Tarrant, TX.
+ 441 iii. Max Rais Lytle, born. (2-26-1937) died May 22, 2007 in Seattle, WA
+ 442 iv. Julia Nadine Lytle, born(10-7-1940)
+ 443 v. Kenneth Bruce Lytle,born October 15, 1924 in Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., TX ; died June 28, 1999 in Hanford CA.
+ 444 vi. Mary Jean Lytle, born February 05, 1927 in Kennydale TX; died September 28, 1994 in Santa Rosa CA.
+ 445 vii. Cora Valerie Lytle, born October 08, 1932 in San Angelo, Tom Green, Tx; died November 07, 1999 in Petulama CA.
446 viii. Margarite Lytle, born October 03, 1934 in San Angelo, Tom Green, TX; died November 10, 1934 in San Angelo, Tom Green, TX. Burial: Fairmount Cem.

Kenneth Bruce Lytle:

8.Kenneth Bruce Lytle (George Dewey7 Lytle, William Thomas6, Harvey Newton5 Litle, John W.4, James3, John2, Christopher1 Little) was born October 15, 1924 in Fort Worth TX. The Lytles moved to Lemoore, CA from San Angelo, TX in the late 30s. Bruce attended Armona Academy until quitting school in 10th grade. Bruce married Aileen Mae Bateman of Inglewood, CA (daughter of Merrill Carl Bateman and Louise Petersen) in Sept. 1942 at Yuma, AZ. They set up housekeeping at Lemoore, CA. Kenneth Bruce (always called Bruce)Lytle worked at Swift and Company in Hanford, CA icing boxcars and driving trucks. Aileen Mae (Bateman) Lytle was born 11-14-1924 in Maywood, CA. She attended Huntington Park High School.

Children of Bruce and Aileen Lytle:

Donald
Timmie

In Feb. 1944 Bruce volunteered for the US Army, training at Camp Fannin, TX then Ft. Benning, GA Airborne school.
Then his unit was shipped to England for further training. A member of the 513th Parachute Infantry Regt. of the 17th Airborne Division,
he was inserted into the battle of the bulge at the Bastogne perimeter on Christmas Eve 1944. After hard fighting the combined Airborne and Tank Corps along with several infantry units broke the seige of Bastogne and sent the German Army into retreat. The Division entered the Ardennes campaign, 4 to 9 January, at the Battle of Dead Man's Ridge. It captured several small Belgian towns and entered Flamierge, 7 January, but enemy counterattacks necessitated a withdrawal. However, constant pressure and aggressive patrolling caused the enemy to retreat to the Our River. On 18 January, the Division relieved the 11th Armored Division at Houffalize, pushed enemy remnants from the Bulge, and seized Wattermal and Espeler, 26 January. Coming under the III Corps, the 17th turned toward Luxembourg, taking Eschweiler and Clervaux and clearing the enemy from the west bank of the Our River. Aggressive patrols crossed the river to probe the Siegfried Line defenses and established a limited bridgehead near Dasburg before being relieved by the 6th Armored Division, 10 February. The men of the 17th were moved to various places in France and Belgium as the continuing assault on Germany's western front continued into the spring of 1945.

On March 24th 1945 the 17th participated in the largest Airborne operation of WWII, Operation Varsity, in which nearly 4000 aircraft from the British 6th Airborne Division and the 17th US Airborne Division dropped fighting men behind enemy lines, into Westphalia in the vicinity of Wesel which was east of the Rhine River.

Covered by some eight hundred fighters, 1,696 transports and 1,348 gliders flew over the landing zone, a long line of aircraft that took two and one-half hours to complete their paratroop drops and glider deliveries. During the day, another two thousand fighters provided air cover for resupply sorties that included 240 Liberators which dropped more than 580 tons of supplies. The initial glider landings provided assault troops with 695 vehicles and 113 pieces of artillery. Despite fierce resistance from some German units and comparatively high casualty rates among the attacking Allied forces, most objectives were taken within a few hours. By nightfall, British ground troops had made contact with the airborne forces and the attack on Wesel had succeeded.

Forty-four transports and fifteen Liberators were destroyed in VARSITY operations, attempting to resupply the airborne troops. The 17th Airborne lost 159 men killed with 522 wounded; the British 6 Airborne listed 347 dead and 731 wounded. By comparison, two U.S. infantry divisions that crossed the Rhine in the same operation had 44 dead and 450 wounded. Airborne assaults remained highly vulnerable to effectively directed enemy fire. At the same time, the sight of so many airplanes in the air and the effective concentration of airborne forces in a visibly successful attack against an entrenched enemy position generated great enthusiasm from Allied observers. Taking place beyond the Rhine, along with additional Allied thrusts across the river, Operation VARSITY underscored the accelerating collapse of Nazi Germany and a rising confidence in victory for the Allies in western Europe.

Their mission was to capture key points and so assist the advance of the ground troops. Having learned the lessons from the Arnhem battle, the gliders and paratroops landed close to their targets and achieved total success.

Operation Varsity was the first airborne invasion over the Rhine into Germany itself. On the 25th, the Division had secured bridges over the Issel River and had entrenched itself firmly along the Issel Canal. Moving eastward, it captured Haltern, 29 March, and Munster, 2 April. The 17th entered the battle of the Ruhr Pocket, relieving the 79th Infantry Division. It crossed the Rhine-Herne Canal, 6 April, (I remember dad telling me, when I was a kid, about trying to get across this canal at night and that the Germans had set floating lines of tin cans connected with codline out in the water and if you made contact, the noise would alert the German sentries and get you shot.) and set up a secure bridgehead for the attack on Essen. The "Pittsburgh of the Ruhr" fell, 10 April, and the industrial cities of Mulheim and Duisburg were cleared in the continuing attack.

Military government duties began, 12 April, and active contact with the enemy ceased, 18 April. The Division came under the XXII Corps 24 April.

It continued its occupation duties until 15 June 1945 when it returned to France for redeployment. In September, 1945, the 17th Airborne Division returned home and was disbanded.

It's funny how you can sum up so much in a few paragraphs, I guess it's mostly due to lack of information with which to flesh out the person.
Still it's better to know their names and at least a brief outline of their lives than never to have known that they lived at all. And never to know that you are their child, after all.





U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
about Kenneth B Lytle
Name: Kenneth B Lytle
Birth Year: 1924
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Texas
State: California
County or City: Sonoma

Enlistment Date: 22 Jan 1944
Enlistment State: California
Enlistment City: San Francisco
Grade: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War
or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion
of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life

Education: 2 years of high school
Civil Occupation: Tractor Driver* or Truck Driver, Heavy or
Chauffeur or Truck Driver, Light An asterisk (*) appearing after
a job title indicates that a trade test for the particular occupation
will be found in the United States Employment Service Manual, Oral Trade Test
Marital Status: Married
Height: 69
Weight: 155

U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006
about Kenneth Bruce Lytle
Name: Kenneth Bruce Lytle
Service Info.: PFC US ARMY WORLD WAR II
Birth Date: 15 Oct 1924
Death Date: 28 Jun 1999
Service Start Date: 22 Feb 1944
Service End Date: 3 Nov 1945
Interment Date: 22 Aug 2001
Cemetery: San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery
Cemetery Address: 32053 West McCabe Road Gustine, CA 95322
Buried At: Section C-6 Site 893


U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006
about Aileen May Lytle
Name: Aileen May Lytle
Service Info.: PFC US ARMY
Birth Date: 14 Nov 1924
Death Date: 1 Aug 2001
Relation: Wife of Lytle, Kenneth Bruce
Interment Date: 22 Aug 2001
Cemetery: San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery
Cemetery Address: 32053 West McCabe Road Gustine, CA 95322
Buried At: Section C-6 Site 893

King Family - Gandma Lytle's mother's family

1850 Census; Jasper County, Texas:

1.  Willliam King   49 M Mechanic NY
 Laurana King   34 F wife FL
 Joseph Herrald 19 M bro-in-law FL
 Olive Herrald  54 F mother-in-law GA
 Nancy Herrald  16 F sis-in-law GA
 Junior King    7  M son FL (William Leamon King)
 Nicholas King  3  M son TX
Frederick King 1  M son TX

Notice that the wife's siblings and mother are here 
     but their last name is spelled wrong

    KING, William                                                
Born: 1801      New York                                   
Died: Bef. 1880

Married: HARRELL, Lorena or Laureney
   or Lurana, or  Laurana
   She was born: Aug 1816 in Florida
   They married:  Abt 1841  in Jackson,FL,USA
   She died:      11 February 1903 San Angelo,TX
   Her father: William HARRELL
   Birth place not reported
   Death: 1840 in Mt.Vernon,Washington Co. FL,USA
   Marriage 1 Olive FOWLER born: Abt 1796 in GA/NC,USA
   Married: Before 1816 in Florida, USA

Children of William King and Lorena Harrell

2. William Leamon KING b: 15 MAR 1843 in  FL,USA
Nicholas KING b: 1847 in TX,USA
Frederick KING b: Abt 1849 in Caldwell Co TX,USA
Cornelia KING b: 18 MAY 1853 in Beaumont,Jasper Co.,TX,USA
Louise M. KING b: Abt 1854
Cora Luana KING b: 12 MAY 1858 in Jasper,Jasper Co.,TX,USA

Name: William Leamon KING
Birth: 15 MAR 1843 in FL,USA
Death: 20 AUG 1909 in San Angelo,Tom Green Co.,TX,USA
Burial: Fairmount Cem,San Angelo,Tom Green Co.,TX,USA
Census: 12 JUL 1870 Subdivison 23,Jasper Co.,TX,USA

He was railroad shopman, Locomotive engineer.

Marriage 1 Amanda Elizabeth PHELPS
Name: Amanda Elizabeth PHELPS
Birth: 22 MAR 1846 in ,Caldwell Parish,LA,USA
Death: 26 Feb 1875 in Franklin, Robertson, TX
MAR: Oct 27 1861 Texas

Children of William Leamon King and Amanda Elizabeth Phelps

Taphena Elizabeth KING b: 12 SEP 1864 in Franklin,
Robertson Co.,TX,USA
Belvedere "Bellvey" KING b: 19 AUG 1867 in Franklin,
Robertson Co.,TX,USA
Julia Saphronia KING b: 11 JUL 1869 in Franklin,
Robertson Co.,TX,USA
William Downing KING b: 30 NOV 1871 in Franklin,
Robertson Co.,TX,USA
Louvenia Amaryntha (Ama) KING b: 21 DEC 1873 in Franklin,
Robertson Co.,TX,USA
(our great grandmother)

William L. King
Enlisted 12-21-1861
24th Texas Cavalry Regt. (Confederate)
Company E
Soldier's Rank_In Private
Soldier's Rank_Out Private
Film Number M227 roll 20

24th Regiment, Texas Cavalry (Wilkes') (2nd Texas Lancers)
24th Cavalry Regiment [also called 2nd Texas Lancers]
completed its organization during the late spring of 1862.
Men of this unit were recruited in Mueces, Comanche, Waller,
Montgomery, and Karnes counties.

It was soon dismounted and sent to Arkansas. Here the
regiment was captured at Arkansas Post in January, 1863.

Grandpa King was held at the Union Prisioner of War camp at
Camp Butler, Illinois until exchanged at City Point, VA on
May 26, 1863. On June 30, 1863 he was reported as "absent,
in hospital at Petersburg, Virginia"

After being exchanged, it was consolidated with the 17th, 18th,
and 25th Texas Cavalry Regiments (dismounted) and assigned
to Deshler's, J.A. Smith's, and Granbury's Brigade.

This command fought with the Army of Tennessee from
Chickamauga to Atlanta, endured Hood's winter operations in
Tennessee, and ended the war in North Carolina.

The 24th was organized with about 900 men and reported 54
casualties of the 587 engaged at Arkansas Post.

The 17th/18th/24th/25th reported 200 disabled at Chickamauga
and totalled 690 men and 520 arms in December, 1863.

Few surrendered on April 26, 1865. The field officers were
Colonels William A. Taylor and Franklin C. Wilkes,
and Lieutenant Colonels Robert R. Neyland and
Patrick H. Swearingen.

Grandpa King's unit was transfered to the 1st Regt. Texas
Infantry then serving in Virginia.

1st Infantry Regiment was assembled at Richmond, Virginia,
in August, 1861, with ten companies from Marion, Cass, Polk,
Houston, Harrison, Tyler, Anderson, Cherokee, Sabine,
San Augustine, Newton, and Nacogdoches counties.

Later (1863) two companies from Galveston and Trinity County
were added to the command. Part of Hood's Texas Brigade,
it served under Generals Hood, J.B. Robertson, and J.Gregg.

The regiment fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from
Seven Pines to Cold Harbor except when it was detached with
Longstreet at Suffolk,  Chickamauga, and Knoxville.

It was involved in the Petersburg siege north and south
of the James River and later the Appomattox Campaign.

This unit had 477 effectives in April, 1862 and lost eighty-two
percent of the 226 engaged at Sharpsburg and more than twenty
percent of the 426 at Gettysburg.

It surrendered with 16 officers and 133 men. The field officers
were Colonels Frederick S. Bass, Hugh McLeod, Alexis T. Rainey,
and Louis T. Wigfall; Lieutenant Colonels Harvey H. Black,
Albert G. Clopton, R.J. Harding, and P.A. Work; and Majors Matt.
Dale and John R. Woodward.

1863 - A Confederate attempt to rescue Vicksburg and a Rebel
garrison held back by Union forces to the east of the city fails
when Union troops turn back the attack.
By late May 1863, Union General Ulysses S. Grant had surrounded
Vicksburg, the last major Confederate possession on the
Mississippi River. In one of the more remarkable campaigns of the
war, Grant had slipped his army around the city, dove toward the
middle of Mississippi, and then bottled up Vicksburg from the east.
He held off one Confederate army while pinning another,
commanded by John C. Pemberton, in the city.
Grant then laid siege and waited for surrender.
Since Grant's army was holding off Rebel forces to the east of
Vicksburg, the Confederates would have to come from across the
Mississippi to stage a rescue attempt.

General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the South's
Trans-Mississippi Department, dispatched a force under
Richard Taylor to attack Federal supply lines on the western
side of the river. Taylor aimed the assault at Milliken's Bend,
once a key supply point for the Union forces, just north of Vicksburg.
Unfortunately for the Confederates, the Yankees had already
moved the supply point several miles away.
Before dawn on June 7, the advancing Confederates encountered
Union pickets and began driving them back toward the river.

But once the Yankee defenders were backed up to the Mississippi,
U.S.S. Choctaw, Lieutenant Commander Ramsay, and
U.S.S. Lexington, Lieutenant Commander Bache, defended Union
troops, blasting the Rebels with grapeshot and canister.
The Confederates withdrew, while Federal gunboats broke up
nearby attacks before they could materialize.

Confederate losses stood at 44 killed, 131 wounded, and
10 missing; the Union suffered much heavier losses: 101 killed,
285 wounded, and 266 missing. Hardest hit were the newly formed
African-American regiments that were made up of freed slaves from
captured areas in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
The 9th Louisiana lost 45 percent of its force.

Army of Northern Virginia
General Robert E. Lee, Commanding
First Army Corps.
Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet.
Gregg's Brigade.
Brig. Gen. John Gregg.
3d Arkansas,
Col. Van H. Manning.
1st Texas,
4th Texas.
Col. John P. Bane.
5th Texas,
Lieut. Col. King Bryan.

Marriage 2 Clara O. KEATING b: Abt 1862 in Franklin,Robertson Co.,TX,USA
* Married: 28 DEC 1878 in Franklin,Robertson Co.,TX,USA

Marriage 3 Martha A. QUICK b: Abt 1860 in Atlanta,,GA,USA
- this is the lady who on 8-26-1914 applied for Grandpa's Army Pension.
* Married: 17 FEB 1881 in ,,TX,USA

Children of W.L.King and Martha

1. Cornelia Agnes KING b: 29 AUG 1882 in Franklin,Robertson Co.,TX,USA
2. John Hubert KING       b: 15 FEB 1884 in Franklin,Robertson Co.,TX,USA

3. KING, Louvenia Amyrintha                  
b:December 22, 1873     Franklin, Robertson Co, TX
d:April 15, 1960 at San Angelo, Tom Green Co, TX   
M:ADNEY, William Alexander Wilford (WW Adney)
Born: March 17, 1872  Yell Co., Arkansas
Died : 1909 at San Angelo

4. Julia Gladys Adney  1899 

Bateman Clan from 1850 to 1920

From 1850 Federal Census Deer Creek, Pickaway Co. Ohio
Dwelling no. 69
Name          Age   Sex  Color  Occup  State of Birth  Year
John Bateman  72    M    White  Farmer Pennsylvania    1778
Nancy Bateman 54    F     "            Virginia        1796
William "     23    M     "             Ohio
John    "     20    M     "             Ohio
Elizabeth "   15    F     "             Ohio
Margaret  "   13    F     "             Ohio

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1860 United States Federal Census
about John Bateman
Name: John Bateman
Age in 1860: 83
Birth Year: abt 1777
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1860: Deer Creek, Pickaway, Ohio
Gender: Male
Post Office: Williamsport
Household Members:
Name Age
John Bateman 83
Nancy Bateman 57

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1860 United States Federal Census
about Nancy Bateman
Name: Nancy Bateman
Age in 1860: 57
Birth Year: abt 1803
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1860: Deer Creek, Pickaway, Ohio
Gender: Female
Post Office: Williamsport
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
John Bateman 83
Nancy Bateman 57
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Just a little comment here from the gnome: Notice that from 1850 to 1860 he got 11 years older but she only got 3 years older...

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1860 United States Federal Census
about John Bateman
Name: John Bateman
Age in 1860: 29
Birth Year: abt 1831
Birthplace: Ohio
Home in 1860: Deer Creek, Pickaway, Ohio
Gender: Male
Post Office: Williamsport
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
George Wood 36
Hannah E Wood 39
William J Wood 8
Charles Wood 6
John Wood 5
Ella Wood 11.12
John Bateman 29 listed as "Farm Laborer"
This guy is our ancestor...
John H Johnson 52 "Carpenter"
Rachael Johnson 24 "Domestic"
Harriet Haward 18 "Domestic"
John Davison 15 "Farm Boy"
Eliza Davison 14
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find 1870!!
John Bateman Pickaway Ohio

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1880 United States Federal Census
about John Bateman
Name: John Bateman
Home in 1880: Monroe, Pickaway, Ohio
Age: 48
Estimated birth year: abt 1832
Birthplace: Ohio
Relation to head-of-household: Self (Head)
Spouse's name: Elizabeth I. (Isabel)
Father's birthplace: Ohio
Mother's birthplace: Ohio
Neighbors: View others on page
Occupation: Farmer
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members:
Name Age
John Bateman 48
Elizabeth I. Bateman 39
Margaret J. Bateman 18
John Well Bateman 16 -
George Bateman 14 - our great grandfather
James E. Bateman 13
Benjamin F. Bateman 9
Mary E. Bateman 7
Thomas H. Bateman 3
Joseph I. Bateman 1
Gid Fitzgerald 26 (listed as "laborer")
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1900 United States Federal Census
about George D Bateman
Name: George D Bateman
Home in 1900: Delaware, Delaware, Ohio
Age: 35
Estimated birth year: abt 1865
Birthplace: Ohio
Relationship to head-of-house: Head
Spouse's name: Effie A (Nee White daughter of William M White)
Race: White
Occupation:
Household Members:
Name Age
George D Bateman 35
Effie A Bateman 30
Ivan L Bateman 8
Virginia Grace Bateman 7
Karl Merrill Bateman 4 (Known later as Merrill Carl, M.C. & Lucky)
Madge E Bateman 3

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Ohio 1910 Census Miracode Index
about George D Bateman
Name: George D Bateman
Birthplace: Ohio
State: OH
Age: 45
Color: W
Enumeration District: 0180
Visit: 0271
County: Franklin, Columbus
Relation: Head of Household
Other Residents:
Relation Name Color Age Birth Place
Wife Effie A 40 Ohio
Son Ivan L 18 Ohio
Dau Grace B 17 Ohio
Son Merrill K 15 Ohio Grandpa Bateman
Dau Madge E 13 Ohio
Son Earl A 08 Ohio
Son Rodger W 03 Ohio - Uncle Roger
Son George R NR Ohio
Father-in-law William M White 75 Ohio
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1920 United States Federal Census
about Roger Bateman (Roger William Bateman)
Name: Roger Bateman
Home in 1920: Columbus Ward 13, Franklin, Ohio
Age: 12 years
Estimated birth year: abt 1908 (Birth Date: 25 Dec 1907- DIED1 Jan 1963)
Birthplace: Ohio
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's name: George D
Father's Birth Place: Ohio
Mother's name: Effie
Mother's Birth Place: Ohio
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Sex: Male
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Image: 297
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
George D Bateman 54 Great Grandfather
Effie Bateman 49 Great Grandmother
Grace Bateman 26
Roger Bateman 12 Great Uncle Roger
George Bateman 10

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1880 United States Federal Census
Name: John Bateman
Spouse: Elizabeth I.
Birth: abt 1832 - Ohio
Residence: 1880 - Monroe, Pickaway, Ohio

1900 United States Federal Census
Name: John Bateman
Age: 69
Estimated birth year: abt 1831
Spouse: Isabel
Birth: abt 1831 - location
Residence: 1900 - city, Pickaway, Ohio


1910 United States Federal Census
Name: John Bateman
Age in 1910: 79
Estimated birth year: abt 1831
Household Members:
Name Age
John Bateman 79
Isabelle Bateman 68
Residence: 1910 - city, Pickaway, Ohio