Person:Phebe Palmer (27)

1836 March 27, Phebe PARMER md. Evan W. JONES, Fountain Co., IN.

1840 census, this family was probably in Illinois but has not been located 1850 census, this family was in Illinois but has not been located

1860 Titus Co., TX, census, p.142B, Precinct #7, P.O. Grey Rock, July 5, 1860: 22/22, E. W. JONES, 66 M, farmer, $300 real, $700 personal, OH; Phebe, 45 F, KY; Thomas J., 26 M, day laborer, IN; Lucy E., 13 F, IL.

1870 Graves Co., KY, census, p.120A, Haynes Precinct, P.O. Kansas, August 2, 1870, W.H. Miller: Phebe Jones, 55 F W, keeping house, KY; with 267/266, John Palmen [sic], 53 M W, farmer, $2000 real, $315 personal, KY; Lucien M., 19 M W, works on farm, MO; James T., 14 M W, works on farm, MO; Brice, 12 M W, works on farm, MO.

no date [ca. 1873], Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I had a letter from Ella last week / she is well and doing well / aunt is getting better,"

no date [ca. 1876 between Sept. 18 and Dec. 10], Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "You asked me about aunt Phebe / she is at Lizzie Mercers / has been there 4 years. Her P.O. address is Delaware City, Delaware. Care Henry Mercer, / Luella is there now"

1876 Dec. 10, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Luella Jones wrote her niece Jane Love: "I received letters from my mother and sister Lizzie every other week. They regretted very much, that our cousins were near, and then not know it. Some of them would have gone to the city to see them, had they known they were there."

1877 March 25, At Home. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin, Jane Love: "Jane can you tell me Seraphena Bohns P.O. address / aunt Phebe wants to know. I wrote to her once a long time ago but she did not answer."

1877 July 17, Delaware City, New Castle Co., DE. Lizzie Mercer wrote her niece Jane Love: "we are milking fifty seven cows and it takes your uncle the two boys Ella and me to milk them and it keps ma buisy doing the chores a bout the house for she is cripled in both hands so that she cant milk atall"

1877 Oct. 22, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I also had a letter from Luella too weeks ago / they were all in their usual health / aunt Phebe is talking some of coming to spend the winter with us. I will be so glad / she will be so much company for mother."

1877 Dec. 16, Delaware City, New Castle Co., DE. Lizzie Mercer wrote her niece Jane Love: "ma is very livily now weaveing carpet / she has peice a ? of 45 yards in the loom / she has ten yards to weave yet / if this weather continues it will not take her long to get it out"

1878 Dec. 8, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Zillman Jones: "Aunt Phebe is with us / came the first day of November / is going to remain all winter. / She was at Allens* and Will Beelers / they are well." and to her cousin Jane Love: "Your Grandma is with us this winter. She says cousins Lizzie and Ella have both written to you and were wondering why you did not write and the last letter I recived from Ella she asked me when I had heard from you."

• John Allen Jones, son of Jonathan Jones; William Beeler was John Allen's son-in-law.

1880 March 9, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousins Jane Love, Lillice Jones, and Zillman Jones: "I would have written sooner but I was waiting for a letter from Ella as I wanted to know their address as they intended moving but she says direct your letters the same as before 200 Canal St, / that is the number of the store she is in. Auntie is very well satisfied and likes New York city very much and she is not exposed at all as, Bath, room, coal closet, water, are all along their Hall, all she has to do is to go out of the kitchen and across the hall, the coal closet will hold half a ton of coal, and every room on the flat has a closet in it. I sent Ella your address"

1880 New York (Manhattan), New York City-Greater, New York, census index, p.339C: PHOEBA JONES, head, widow, F W 64, keeping house, KY SC KY; Ella, dau, single, F W 28, mattress maker, IL OH KY.

1882 Jan. 2, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I received two handsome silk and velvet standing frames [for Christmas]. I put aunt Phebes photo in one and President Garfields in the other and they look beautiful"

ca. 1883 May 14, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Had a letter from Luella a few days ago. She and auntie have broken up housekeeping for a while and auntie is thinking of coming to Ohio and Kentucky to spend the summer / thinks her health will be better. Lizzie Mercer is still living in Philadelphia / aunt Phebe intended going there the first of this month / we will be glad to have her come."

1883 June 9, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I had a letter from Ella / Auntie is in Philadelphia / intends going to Kentucky the middle of this month and Ella expects to meet her here on her return trip."

1883 Aug. 10, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Aunt Phebe has been gone from here two weeks last tuesday. Went to her brother at Crawfordsville Indiania / she only spent two weeks with us. She intends visiting friends in Graves Co Kentucky"

1883 Oct. 30, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "The last I heard from aunt Phebe she was still in Kentucky and was drying peaches"

1884 Jan. 18, New York City. Luella Jones wrote her niece Jane Love: "Ma left New York the first of May [1883] and has been visiting ever since. Went to Phil. first, then to Ohio, from there to Indiana, from there to Kentucky, and is now back to Phil. with sister Lizzie. . . . Ma intends returning here in the Spring, and I presume we will begin housekeeping again. / I have been boarding with a friend since she went away."

1884 Aug. 31, New York City, 79 E. 10th St. Luella Jones wrote her niece Jane Love: "Ma is away again this Summer. We did not commence housekeeping again. She stayed with Sister Lizzie in Philada. all Winter, and has been visiting a sister of hers in Iowa, since May. I had a letter some two weeks ago from her. She was not feeling very well, said she thought of leaving there about the first of Sept. but thought she would go to see aunt Mary Voorhis while she was there, if the distance was not too great / She had written to them, but up to that time, had received no answer. She intends visiting her brothers in Missouri, before she returns to New York / I shall be glad when she comes back, and I think it will be about her last trip alone. She is getting too old to do so much traveling, and I shall feel easier in mind when she is back again, or with my sister, which is all the same."

1884 Dec. 3, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I am better than when Ella wrote you . . . Aunt Phebe only remained a few days with us / she arrived home safely and was feeling quite well."

1885 Jan. 27, New York City, 7 Waverly Place. Luella Jones wrote her niece Jane Love: "When I wrote to you last, ma was away and in Iowa, and I though it just possible that she might stop in Illinois, on her way home, but she did not. I did not hear from her for some time, and when I did hear from her, she had been to St. Louis, and was in Ind. on her way home. She stopped in Ohio two weeks, and in Philada two weeks, then came on to New York, and now we are housekeeping again. / They had a family reunion in Missouri. Three brothers, and two sisters, all that are living, met there, for the first time [in] fifty years, and most certainly, for the last time in life. / Ma also visited aunt Mary Vorhis while she was in Iowa, said she never had such a pleasent time. She enjoyed her stay there so much. She says she would have been delighted to have seen you, and all her old neighbors, and she thinks she passed near your place. / She went through Gre[e]nup, she thinks that is near you, but her brother that lives in Ind. was with her, and she had a through ticket to his place. / She was glad to get back, and get settled once more. We are housekeeping on a grand scale now. We have taken a whole house of seventeen rooms, we occupy three of them ourselves, and let the rest, we have the whole house furnished, and have done very well so far. Have been in it since the last of Nov. / I am still employed at the store, and have a girl to help ma with the house work."

1885 April 12, New York City. Luella Jones wrote her niece Jane Love: "Ma has been quite well except an occasional cold, and rheumatism in her shoulder. She is lying down now, having a comfortable nap on the lounge. The weather was so bad that neither of us could get out to church to day. She regrets as much as you do, that she could ot have stopped at her old home, to see you, and all the old neighbors, that are left. It is not probable that she will ever have another such opportunity, not if we continue to keep the house. We have had a good deal of trouble with it lately, and did not know, in fact do not yet know, whether or not we shall remain. The house changed hands, and that broke our lease, and the new landlord raised our rent. We thought of moving right away, but it is so much trouble and expense, and would be such a long time before we become settled again, we finaly decided to try it a few months longer, and see how we get along, if we can meet expenses, we shall stay a year at least, if not, we will give it up. . . . I am sorry I could not send you Ma's picture. She has had none taken for a long time. I have one, but could not think of giving that up. When she has more taken, I shall not forget you. / Times are very hard here yet. Business is dull, does not seem to pick up this spring, at all. . . . We find it hard enough to get along too, just Ma and I, but of course, our work is different. We could not get along without a girl to do all the heavy work. I am still employed at the store. / Now I must close, as it time for tea, and after tea, church. / Ma joins me in love to all, says she wishes it was so you could make us a visit."

ca. 1885 Dec. 28, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "The last we heard from Ella auntie was not very well"

1886 Aug. 30, Sixteen Mile Stand, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I have not heard from Aunt Phebe nor Ella since I wrote you last, as I wrote you they were both sick then."

1887 June 6, Box 259, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I had a letter from Ella / she and auntie were well and their address is still the same 42 east 12th street."

1887 Sept. 22, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I received a letter from cousin Ella last week / she and aunt Phebe are well."

1888 May 10, Madisonville, Hamilton Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Ella and aunt Phebe hae moved to Brooklyn New York / no 20 E Washington Avenue"

1889 Jan. 9, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote Jane Love: "Have you heard from aunt Phebe and Ella lately / they have broken up housekeeping / Ella has gone back to New York and aunt Phebe lives with Lizzie Mercer this winter"

1889 April 22, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Aunt Phebe has been with Lizzie all winter and is going to remain with her this summer"

1889 July 15, Philadelphia, PA. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "You will no doubt be surprised to receive a letter written by me from here . . . Aunt Phebe is here / has been since last October."

1889 Sept. 11, New York City. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I am now in New York City with Ella and aunt Phebe . . . Aunt Phebe thinks she will go back with me to Lizzies"

1889 Dec. 11, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Here I am back in Ohio once more. Did cousin Lizzie Mercer write to you after auntie and I started to Ohio, / She said she would, / Auntie came with me as far as Cincinnati and then she went on to her brothers at Crawfordsville Indiania, / She got back to Philadelphia thanksgiving day / I dont know whether she kept well or not. Lizzie didnt write."

1890 Jan. 2, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I had a letter a monday from cousin Lizzie Mercer. . . . Aunt Phebe is at Lizzies, / Her address is 2641 North 27th st / Philadelphia Penn"

1890 Feb. 25, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I had a letter from Ella this week . . . She had a letter from Lizzie / aunt Phebe is in very poor health failing fast Ella says"

1890 Aug. 7, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Aunt Phebe and Luella are at the seashore, Seabright N.J. where I was last summer. I would love to be with them."

1890 Dec. 25, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Where is Aunt Pheba / we havnt heard from her for some 3 or 4 yrs."

1891 Jan. 28, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I heard from Luella last week . . . Aunt Phebe is in Philadelphia taking care of Lydia, she has a little girl. / she calls it Ella May"

1891 Jan. 29, Troy, Iowa. Ada Tharp wrote her cousin Jane Love: "Do you hear from Adda and Aunt Pheba."

1892 March 21, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I had a letter from Luella and one from Lizzie a short time ago. Aunt Phebe has had Rheumatism all winter / she is in Philadelphia with Lizzie"

1892 July 1, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I have not heard from Ella for a long time / I wrote to her this morning. Aunt Phebe was real poorly the last letter I had"

1892 Nov. 22, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Jane Love: "I have been waiting so long for Lizzie Mercers address so as to send it to you for Jane they have gone so very far away that I never expect to see them again. The 12th of September Henry, Lizzie, aunt Phebe, Evan, John, and Johns little girl left Philadelphia for a ranch on Can[y]on Creek Wyoming."

1893 Feb. 5, Canyon Creek Ranch, Vermillion P.O., Sweetwater Co., WY. Lizzie Mercer wrote her niece Jane Love: "ma has been feeling badllly but looks right well & sais she feels well . . . ma joins me in love to you"

1893 May 7, Vermillion P.O., Sweetwater Co., WY. Lizzie Mercer wrote her niece Jane Love [Jane died March 18th]: "Ma is looking right Well & seems well / she is quite smart for a woman of her age / she is on the go nearly all the day at some thing"

1897 Dec. 23, Mason, Warren Co., OH. Ada Wyckoff Hopkins wrote her cousin Lillice Jones Harper: "I had a letter from Cousin Ella last week. Aunt Phebe / Lizzie Mercer and Evan are in Whatcom, Washington, Luella and John and his family are still in Rock Spring. Wyoming." Correspondence from the family letters and papers of Jane Love and her cousin, Lillice Jones Harper, courtesy John, Danny, and Dave Harper in 2001 and 2004, transcribed by Brenda Boyer ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Evan Jones, his 2nd [actually 3rd] marriage to Phebe Parmer, and 2 children, Elizabeth and Ella, in [S246] Howard Hurtig Metcalfe, Forty north; lineages of some early settlers along the fortieth parallel: being the ancestry of Barbara Leonore Snowbarger, including her parental lineages of Snowbarer, Paul, Brumbaugh, Metzger. Covalt, Gustin, Cory and Davis and her maternal lineages of Barnes, Lee, Wagoner, West, Lippicott, Keaffaber, Haupert and Schultz (Decorah, IA: Anudsen Publishing, 1997). Hereinafter cited as Forty West. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nranck/colt-p/p797.htm#i21560