Duel Family

One of the biggest problems with getting sick...well besides the sick part...is my inability to function and write.  I love my work and love writing about it.  But when you are not well, that all gets put on the back burner.  I have a ways to go till I am fully well but I am going to work on being better at getting some work done on the computer even while I am down. :D No worries though I will be up and at 'em in no time at all.

So that is this week's excuse on why I haven't posted in a while.... lol ;)

Two weeks ago, after my last post on William Tribble and his murder, I heard from a "cousin" that I have not met before or even knew of.  His name is Rick Hall and he contacted me with some information on the murder of William Tribble.  He is related through Margaret (Duel) Tribble's brother George Alvin Duel.  George Alvin is his Great Grandfather.  This makes us third cousins. Rick was able to provide me with some more newspaper articles on the death of William Tribble and the following trial of V.H. Albright.  Such a sad tale. Mr. Albright was found guilty of the murder of William Tribble and sentenced to just 4 years! That is crazy to me, for the murder of another person but times were different then.  I think Mr. Albright might have appealed his verdict and it might have gone to the Supreme Court but more research is in order, for me to tell you how much time Mr. Albright really did serve in the en.

Rick has also been so generous in sharing some amazing photo's with me.  And we are planning on working together to break down brick walls.  One of the photo's he shared with me I already had BUT I had a photo copy of a photo copy.  That picture was posted on ancestry.com by another cousin related through George Robinson Duel's first wife.  They had two daughters together and then for some reason George left her and she remarried his brother.  There is more work for me to find out what happened there.  Well, so the photo I have was a good photo just not very clear.  Then I received the one from Rick and it is very beautiful. 

Beautiful! Right....  George and Amy Duel are front right side.  Above them are their daughters Margaret (second from the right back) and Bertie (far right), George Alvin Duel is back far left.  I am not sure which one is which of the other three boys but they are Dexter, Heenan and Manford. 

While researching Dexter, I met one of his descendants and am hoping that she will be able to tell me eventually which one is Dexter.  She is working on getting some family photo's that her Grandma had.  I hope that she is successful, as she wants to preserve them.  I am a full believer in sharing family photo's so that no matter what happens, there is always a copy floating around.  See a photo I have posted and want a copy? Feel free to take it or email me and I will send you one. :D  Preservation is key to these precious gems.

When I did have time, I have been working on George Robinson Duel's children.  I did spend a little bit of time on his first two daughters with his first wife Sybilla.  And I had just moved on to Dexter (while waiting to hear from the Stillwater Library) when I heard from Rick.  In what little time I have had on the computer that has been the focus of my research, Dexter and his children.  Tonight, I got a little side tracked but I will tell you all about that in another post. :)

Working again whoo hoo!!

I really don't know what happened to all this free time I was supposed to get when my youngest started Kindergarten....but I think it took sail and left me on the shore.  I have been so busy the last two months, that I am still reeling that it's already the middle of October.  Ok, my rant is over on being too busy all the time....lol.

So yesterday, I get an email from a cousin asking if I knew when my 2nd Great Grandparents George R. and Amy Duel became members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints? Before or after they moved to Oregon??  Well, I was quite surprised by this as I didn't think they were members at all.  I got this surge of excitement as I am the only member (besides one beautiful Aunt) in my family.  YES!! I am a "mormon"! And I love it!! Anyways, I thought oh, I just have to know more about this.  As it is something near and dear to my heart....imagine that! :)  So I emailed her back and said I would look into it...and I immediately dropped everything and hopped on the computer.  So glad I didn't have anything important that needed to be done, because I haven't been able to stop working since then.

I didn't right away go look to see if they had been baptized members of the church before death.  Instead, I wanted to take a look at what I had on them in my family tree on ancestry.com.  I quickly realized that I had work to do, as it was a mess.  I have talked before about how when I first started my research, I was so excited to see that others had been working on my lines, that I started adding ancestry family trees to mine, thinking that it was all correct.  But as I quickly learned, those trees are made my humans....and well you know us humans we ALL make mistakes. :) Lesson learned but I am still finding problems from adding those well intentioned but misleading leaves to my precious tree.  So here were some I have not looked at since then.  So I started working on verifying all the information that was attached to George Robinson Duel and his second wife Amy Adkins, my biological line through my Dad and his mother Wavel, and her mother Bertie (Duel) Pattee.

Oh, and I have loved every minute that I have got to work on these great people and their family in the last two days. I did late last night, go look and see that neither George nor Amy were baptized before death.  So I emailed my cousin back and she said she had just figured they were members, since some of their children were members.  This I didn't know either.  I know that Bertie Free Duel Pattee their daughter and my direct line was not a member of the church.  She was "christian science" and I don't think it was the same as what Tom Cruise now practices.  My Mom said that my Grandma Wavel was christian science to and that she had mentioned that she learned it from her mother.  To them christian science was that they didn't believe in going to doctors to be healed.  Although, towards the end my Mom was able to talk my Grandma into going to see a doctor. Or so the family story goes....

After, emailing with my cousin, I decided to check George and Amy's children to see if any of them were baptized before death.  And there was one to be found...Heenan Duel b. 29 Jul 1860 St. Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri d. Jun 1939 possible in CA.  So far I haven't found any of his brothers and sisters that could have been members but I am not ruling it out.  I don't think that George and Amy were members though I will still have to prove it.  Even having one Great Grand Uncle be a member is pretty cool to me.  I can't wait to learn more about him.  Though I will wait to do more in depth research on him in particular until I make sure that I have all the vitals and census work done.  I will work on all the children though. 

Today, I have been mainly working on George and Amy's daughter Amy Margaret (Duel) Tribble and her family.  I keep getting pulled away from the computer so I haven't gotten far.  But I know one of Amy's descendants, who got in touch with me a couple years ago.  And we are friends on facebook also.  I love her tons.  This really is one of the best parts of genealogy is meeting all the new "cousins" I have that I had no idea that existed.   I will keep working throughout the weekend, though I have a busy day ahead of me for tomorrow.  I will try to squeeze in a little work.

George Robinson Duel my 2nd Great Grandfather

 

 

George & Amy Duel, Margaret (Amy) Tribble, Bertie Oxford & Virgie Oxford

 

This photo was given to me by my cousin Shelly.