Mammy Ida Mae Fox

Mama Sherry says Ida Mae used to clear that old hill of hers with a sickle in her bare feet.

2010
We've been reading Census records again!

And we found an important nugget of information about Pearl's Mammy, Ida Mae Fox.

On that census Isaac Delan-ay is living with Mammy and Pappy Fox and is listed as Ida Mae's father/Elias' father-in-law.

That'd be MY great, great, great Grandpa Isaac.
--Lara

Now we have to figure out who he'd married.  He was widowed by that 1910 Census.  And that seems to go along with Mama (Sherry) remembering that Pearl told her that Ida Mae raised up her four siblings before she married Elias.



Reading through some older records that may be associated with Grandpa Isaac brings us to Matilda.


The CALVERT.


For instance, in the 1880 Census, we seem to see Isaac being 28 years old living with his widowed mother--Matilda.  Born around 1810 (in what would become WEST Virginia) Matilda is listed living near tons of Barr family.  And in addition to her son Isaac, there's her daughter Malissa (who is 23) and a granddaughter--Adda J.  In this 1880 Census the spelling of the family name is: DELANA, which could very well be a phonetic spelling of Dulaney/Delaney.


2013
We were awash in all the excitement and trembling before the annals and we had a key back in 2010.  But we were also tending to other parts of the Quilt.  So I got tumbled.

We ended up putting our Grandmother Matilda (Calvert) DELAN-A in our Mount Morris, Pennsylvania webplace in the Quilt webcluster for sanity's sake.  It's just over the State line, Mount Morris, and you can get there from here by clicking on a travel destination IN Mama's Quilt below.

We're fixin' to eat some supper and then spend the rest of the weekend (June 2013) on the Miracle Run site, so tarry-a-bit and/or check back later.

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So it wasn't until we investigated Ida Mae's Death Certificate that we realized her parents names pretty much for sure.  And these were confirmed by the names on her sister's and a brother's Death Certificates.

John Delany/Delaney and Rebecca Blaker

Meanwhile we joined a Genealogical Society for a year and enjoyed their Quarterlies and got some obituaries and some pointing in direction clues.

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13 JUNE 2011
"According to the book Dulany-Furlong & Kindred Families by Roland Dulany Furlong, B.S., M.S., John Dulany and Rebecca Blaker had the following six children:  Thomas Dulany; Columbus Dulany; Ida Dulany, m. Elias Fox; Ada Dulany, m. William Fox; Flora Dulany, never married; Sarah Dulany, m. Frank Lemley."
--from Cornerstone Genealogy Society
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By the time we got around to seriously pursuing all the information in the letter our subscription had run out.  But we were getting better at thinking genealogy and with the help of FamilySearch and wvculture.org we got busy.

It might have been difficult to find much on Columbus Dulany but for the ability of a person to punch different combinations of names into searching tools.

So...

In the U.S. Census of 1900 (Battelle Township, Monongalia County) we find Milvin C. Dulany in the household of John Dulany.  Milvin is defined as son in relation to head of house.  Milvin is about four years younger than Thomas Arlington.  The boys are big brothers to Ada J. and Flora.  Flora's thirteen and though it's summer she probably took it badly when the enumerator put a big slant mark in her father John's Married for how long column.  John had to put widowed for his marital status, because Rebecca is not with the family.

John owns his farm free and clear and we can check out schedule #157 for more details about that.

These Dulany's are in between Rezin and Rebecca Fox and William and Sarah Core on the Census.

Flora's in school some or had been before summer farming time.  Milvin's a farm laborer and Thomas, a teamster.  Both Flora and Milvin's birthdays are coming up in July.  Ida Mae's been married to Elias Fox for two years already.  And Ada's seventeen.  She knows how to read and write already just like her brothers and their father John.

In three years from the 1900 Census snapshot, just after his birthday Melvin C. Delaney gets married to Melia Hartley.  The County Records don't list his parents and hers are recorded as: W.A. and _________ Hartley.  Melvin's 23 years old and Melia's nineteen.  The Methodist Episcopalian Minister last name of Meredith married them at William Tuttle's.

The following June of '04 Columbus and Amelia have a baby on Miracle Run.  This is a baby girl who is named Lilly Belle Dulaney.  And the birth is reported in the records of Grant District in Monongalia County.

Something else had happened in the spring of 1904.  Flora died.  Thomas Arlington had to let them know so the record is in the Register of Deaths for Monongalia County.  Flora was only 18 years old.  And the official cause of her death is CONSUMPTION.  When we look at the register for Monongalia County, 1904 we see all kinds of painful and fevery and wasting diseases causing peoples' deaths...

Grandma Pearl was only about two years old at the time of Ida Mae's sister Flora's death.  Still in that most susceptible time for young-ins.  She might've stayed with her Pappy--Elias if Ida Mae went to see about Flora.

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By the time Grandma Pearl was eight years old, Mammy's brother Melvin Columbus Dulaney had moved up to Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.  So Melvin and Millie's daughter (who'd been born at Miracle Run), Lillie, Grandma Pearl's cousin, that Lillie, she was five.

And the next time we find Uncle Melvin in the records is in the WWI Draft Registration Cards.  He registered on the 12th of September.  He was of medium height and had a slender build, he was 38 years old.  This was on a card for the Melvin Columbus Delaney of Eighty Town, Washington County, Pennsylvania.  He was a farmer according to Registrar's Report 37-3-24C.  And the nearest relative is listed as Permealie Delaney.

His card is a different card from Melvin Dulany's.  On the same day, 12 SEP 1918, Melvin Dulany whose permanent address was 227 College Street in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania registered.  His nearest relative is Ellis Dulany, same address in Waynesburg.  Melvin's made an "X" as his mark.  He was a medium-sized guy with black hair and gray eyes.  And when you flip that card over, virtually, the answer to #29 tells us that he didn't pass muster.  He was "mentally deficient."  But he was a thirty-eight year old laborer at the American Steel Company.

We can see the records of the Draft Registration through FamilySearch, index and images, (/K6KB-85L &  /K6VN).

Which we can put with the U.S. Census, 1910 for Waynesburg, Greene County, PA for Millie Dulaney in entry for Melvin C. Delaney.  And the record of Lillie's birth in West Virginia; "West Virginia, Births, 1853-1930.

The Census of 1900 for Monongalia County puts Melvin in his father's household in 1900.  "United States Census, 1900," index and images FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M9ZS-BJ1: accessed 12 JUNE 2013), Flora Dulany in entry for John Dulany, 1900.

"West Virginia, Marriages, 1853-1970," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch,org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FYJ2-FJB: accessed 12 JUNE 2013), Melvin C. Delaney and Melia Hartley, 1903.

There are even records giving us Melvin Columbus Delaney's Social Security Number--online!  At FamilySearch.


But in a curious crossing of the paths in the Census records we don't find Melvin Columbus and Ida Mae Delaney in their parents' house at the same time.  By 1900 Ida Mae's married to Elias Fox.  And in 1880, over in Greene County, Pennsylvania we only see Thomas A. Dulany and IDA MAE when she's a toddler.  John and Rebecca are both thirty four years old.  And Rebecca's keeping house and minding the children while John does laboring.

"U.S. Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:MM9.1.1/MWFF-CJD: accessed 12 JUNE 2013), Rebecca Dulany in entry for John Dulany, 1880.