Individual Details
Jerome Waverly DeWitt
(4 Sep 1845 - Mar 1922)
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Apr 8 1910
Dear Bro Lafe & family
Your letter of 5th with two notes to sign to hand, I am busy packing up so I can ship our Remnents of Household Goods
hope to get off next week to Melrose N. Mexico Glad to hear all is well
Lafe be careful & don't get out two many notes or we may have trouble. I am in no shape to pay any thing in cash I do hope your business will be profitable & you can make some money as you are attentive & work awful hard. Give my love to Olive Lafe Minnie & Clarence(?) & all.
Excuse -- Now 11 PM - will mail letter tomorrow
good night - write soon your bro
J DeWitt
add -- Melrose New Mexico
I fear I have spoilt the signites(?) to one note forgot what I was doing,
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On stationary from : The Alamo Hotel, The popular hotel of the Pikes Peak region.
Colorado Springs, Colo. Nov 1st, 1921
Mr Lafe DeWitt
216 ------ Bldg
Los Angeles, California
Your nice letters also one from Dear Olive also (1) from sister Annie Hall; and one from sister Luella Birch - received a few weeks back so glad to hear all was well : I had another slight attack of ____ & pneumonia last week and had to keep my bed for (2) days but felt much better to day - I have a dandy good woman that under stands just how to handle a sick man : Harolds wife Bessie went down here to visit - her father and mother and she is undecided & make her home at Melrose , New Mexico for a while. Weather past 8 weeks had been awful fine but - we are beginning to look and expect some bad weather. Pikes Peaks and other tall mountains are covered with snow & have been for a time the air & water here is fine we have an awful nice clean little City up about 40,000 Lafe; I have no news with ______ - Alice Jones me in ? lots of love & best wishes to you & wife and all other relatives excuse last ----
Lastingly your old brother
J W DeWitt
331 So Nevada Ave
Colorado Springs, Colo.
I sent you a Kodack picture of Alice & my self in former letter also Wm Ed and sister Annie
Events
Families
Spouse | Mildred J. "Minnie" Herndon (1847 - 1920) |
Child | Lizzie DeWitt (1870 - 1900) |
Child | Jerome Leo DeWitt (1877 - 1880) |
Child | Chester Herndon "Harold" DeWitt (1883 - ) |
Father | John Henry DeWitt (1822 - 1892) |
Mother | Mary Jane Hawkins (1828 - 1905) |
Sibling | John Hardin DeWitt (1851 - 1921) |
Sibling | Mary Belle DeWitt (1853 - 1884) |
Sibling | Lafayette DeWitt (1857 - 1948) |
Sibling | William Chenoweth DeWitt (1859 - 1861) |
Sibling | Sarah Parthena "Sallie" DeWitt (1862 - 1947) |
Sibling | William Elliston DeWitt (1864 - 1933) |
Sibling | Angelina Hawkins "Annie" DeWitt (1867 - 1949) |
Sibling | Henry DeWitt (1870 - 1870) |
Sibling | Louella DeWitt (1871 - 1961) |
Sibling | Edward Andrus DeWitt (1874 - 1965) |
Notes
Marriage
Groom's Name: J.W. DewittGroom's Birth Date: 1845
Groom's Birthplace: Hardin County, Ky.
Groom's Age: 22
Bride's Name: Mildred J. Herndon
Bride's Birth Date: 1848
Bride's Birthplace: Anderson County, Kentucky
Bride's Age: 19
Marriage Date: 05 Sep 1867
Marriage Place: Anderson County, Kentucky
Groom's Marital Status: Single
Bride's Marital Status: Single
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00916-4
System Origin: Kentucky-EASy
Source Film Number: 1550673
Reference Number: p 100 & 101
Census
Jefferson County KY 4 Ward Louisville, 16th June 1870 pg 364Dewitt, Jerome 24, is living with his parents, see under John Henry DeWitt.
309, 454, Dewitt John 47 MW Tavern Keeper 4000 Real Estate, 4000 Personal, Indiana, citizen
Mary J 41 FW Keep house Kentucky
Jerome 24 MW Grocer Ret 2000 personal, Kentucky
John H. 19 MW At home Illinois
Mary B. 16 FW At home Texas
Lafayette 12 MW At School Kentucky
Sallie P. 8 FW Kentucky
William 5 MW Kentucky
Angeline 3 FW Kentucky
Nieman Anna 25 FW Dom. Servant Hanover
Wise Mary 18 FW Dom. Servant Indiana
Hawkins, Flora 17 FW At home Kentucky
Hawkins, William H 18 MW At home Kentucky
Lauthourst Henry 30 MW Bar Keeper Hanover
Fehring Benjamin 33 MW Street Sprinkler Hanover
Bulker Theodore 28 MW Hack Driver Hanover
Morgan James 28 MW Street Sprinkler Ohio, citizen
Above on this same page were enumerated the Reuve's and Hollenkamp's. See under Augusta Hollenkamp.
Census (family)
D 300 KentuckyDeWitt, Jerome W. vol. 15, E.D. 123, sheet 25, Line 48
White, Male, 34, birthplace Kentucky
Jefferson Co., Louisville, Second St., 150 (house #)
DeWitt, Minnie J. wife 32 Kentucky
---- , Lizzie daughter 10 KY
---- . Leo son 3 KY
150, 150, 265, Jerome W. DEWITT Self Married, MW 34 KY Grocer IL KY
Minnie J. DEWITT Wife Married FW 32 KY Keeping House KY MO
Lizzie DEWITT Dau S Female W 10 KY KY KY
Leo DEWITT Son S Male W 3 KY KY KY
Census (family)
Lakeview, SD 1, ED 785, sheet 6, line 90. Precinct 8 Lake View, Ward 26,Lincoln Ave., 786, 62, 121,
DeWitt, Jerome W., Head WM, Sept 1845, 54, married 32 yrs, KY KY KY, Saloon Keeper, rent house.
Minnie J., Wife, WF, Nov 1847, 52, m-32, 5 child 1 living, KY KY MO,
Harold C., son, WM, Dec 1883, 16, single, KY KY KY, at school 9 mos.
Murphy, Edward, boarder, WM, Mar 1865, 35, single, IL Ireland, Ireland, Fireman,
Census (family)
S. Nevada Ave. 331, 4, 4DeWitt, Jerome W. Head, Own mortgage, MW 74, Married, KY KY KY none
Mildred, Wife, FW, 69, married, KY KY KY
Harold H. Son MW, 34 Married, KY KY KY, Stock salesman oil company OA
Bessie A. daughter-in-law, FW 25, married, MO KY MO
Burial
Plot: Block 00064 000046 - 0000SEEndnotes
1. DeWitt family records written by Lafe DeWitt and Olive DeWitt, 1938 (Santa Rosa, CA: Family records held by Charles DeWitt Prouty.).
2. 1850 Census, Illinois, Pike Co., Griggsville Twp. (US GenWeb census lookup volunteer. 31 May, 2000
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3. "Kentucky Marriages, 1785-1979," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org: accessed 12 March 2015), J.W. Dewitt and Mildred J. Herndon, 05 Sep 1867; citing Anderson County, Kentucky, reference p 100 & 101.
4. Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/ Copyright © 1998-2000, MyFamily.com Inc. and its subsidiaries.).
5. US Federal Census of Kentucky, Jefferson Co. Louisville, 4th Ward. 16th day of June 1870 (read by Nancy Prouty, March 17, 2001).
6. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1880 > KENTUCKY > JEFFERSON > 6-WD LOUISVILLE Series: T9 Roll: 423 Page: 377 .
7. Soundex - 1880 Kentucky, D263 - D524, reel 20; DeWitt - D300 (read 6/8/2000, N. Prouty).
8. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1900 > Illinois > COOK > 26-WD CHICAGO Series: T623 Roll: 276 Page: 312 .
9. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1920 > Colorado > EL PASO > COLORADO SPRINGS; 23-PCT Series: T625 Roll: 163 Page: 192 .
10. DeWitt family records written by Lafe DeWitt and Olive DeWitt, 1938 (Santa Rosa, CA: Family records held by Charles DeWitt Prouty.).
11. , "Evergreen Cemetery," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 October 2011), Dewitt.
12. , "Evergreen Cemetery," database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 15 October 2011), Dewitt.