#2-2021. Legend. Albert Gallatin Lloyd

 #2 Family Legend.  52 Ancestors in a Year

Albert Gallatin Lloyd or A. G. Lloyd

Albert Gallatin Lloyd was born in 1836 in St. Joseph, Missouri.  His family emigrated to Oregon when he was 9 years old.  Growing up in Oregon he joined the Munson’s  Co. “I”, “1st” Oregon Mounted Volunteers, First Regiment under General Nesmith in 1855 to fight in the Yakima Indian Wars.  Serving as Corporal, A. G. traveled in southeast Washington discovering Walla Walla County.  In 1858 he married Lois H. Jasper who was 16 years old at the time of their marriage.  A. G. was 21 years old.  They took up a homestead near Waitsburg, Washington on 9 August 1859, Albert and his brother Calvin trailed 180 head cattle from the Williamette Valley in 1859 to claim the land, quickly building a crude hut, with a door but no windows.  He went back to Oregon to fetch his wife and baby boy, John Calvin.  

Albert Gallatin and Lois Jasper Lloyd

Albert G. Lloyd trailed the cattle from the Williamette Valley, driving them over the Cascade mountains by the Barlow route, south of Mount Hood.  Of this band of cattle, 34 were full-blooded Durham cows.  The hard winter of ’61 and ’62 and froze the ground to a depth of a foot and three to four feet of snow fell.  Feed became scare and only 11 head of his cattle were saved.  

His legend began when he allowed the Palouse Indians to camp on his ground as they traveled back and forth to the mountains.  The friendship with the Indians developed throughout the years.  In return for being allowed to camp and well as being a friend of the Indians; they gifted Albert and his family with many items.  Gifts of baskets, purses, bags, and clothing.  The Lloyd”s often gave them food.  They lived peacefully among the Indians as their farm and family grew.  The Indians respected the Lloyd family for their generosity.  

The collection of artifacts can be seen at the Fort Walla Walla Museum in Walla Walla, Washington. Or online at https://www.fwwm.org

Albert G. Lloyd was elected to the Washington Territory Legislature in 1874.

President Cleveland appointed him as Register of the Walla Walla Land Office.  He was appointed in February of 1894 and confirmed by the Senate.  He took office in April of 1894.

RETIREMENT OF REGISTER LLOYD - Hundreds of citizens of Columbia County will be sorry to learn of the contemplated retirement of Albert G. Lloyd as register of the U. S. land office for this district.  Mr. Lloyd probably has fewer personal enemies in Eastern Washington than any other man in public life, and how the charges against him came about is not known.  The dispatches from Washington only state that the charges have been sustained to the satisfaction of the commissioner of the general land office, and that they are based principally upon the statement that Mr. Lloyd is not actively engaged in the performance of his duties, having left it to his clerks, one of whom, - Mr. E. C. Ross-is a republican.  It is understood, how truthfully we do not know, that a land office inspector visited Walla Walla recently and reported unfavorably.  The office pays $1778.65 per year.  Mr. Lloyd is one of our oldest pioneer citizens, having arrived on the Pacific coast fifty years ago and a resident of Walla Walla county for thirty-six years.  He fought in the Indian wars of 1855-56, and has always been noted for bravery, liberality and enterprise. (Original newspaper clipping). I have no idea which newspaper this article came from but I have found similar stories in The Seattle Post Intelligence on 20 January 1896 as well as the Spokesman Review.

All pictures and documents are from the Lloyd genealogy collection, Sydney Gabel

#28-2020 Multiples Lloyd twins

Lloyd Twins

Albert G. Lloyd and his wife Lois Hammond Jasper Lloyd had a set of twins in 1877 in Waitsburg, Washington.  Clara and Fredy were born 6 October 1877.   

Fredy died first on 12 November 1877. The next day Clara died on November 13th.

Lois planted a rose bush besides the grave.  The one that was carried in a prairie schooner from Missouri to Oregon.  And then transplanted to Dillon, Montana and then to Huntley, Montana.

The twins are buried at the City Cemetery in Waitsburg, Washington in Block 56, Lot 2, Space 1.

I do not know if the twins were born premature or if they were sick.  There maybe a newspaper mention of the funeral but there was no information in the family file.

Sydney Gabel at the graves in Waitsburg

Rose Bush

The rose bush at Sydney's in 2020

#24-2020 Handed Down. Shoes!

#24. Handed Down. Shoes from my Great Great Grandmother

In my collection of family artifacts are a pair of shoes!  And also a dress or two!


They belonged to Lois Jasper Lloyd.  Her nickname was Tiny Weenie Grandma.

Lois was born in Kentucky in 1841 and died in Waitsburg, Washington in 1930.  She had interesting life, heading west on the Oregon Trail in 1854, moving to Waitsburg in 1859.  

I believe the shoes say it all!

They are very small & dainty.  

But the shoes required lots of lacing!

I wonder which dress she wore them with!

A black dress?

Or a blue/gray dress?

Or the black dress located at the Bruce Memorial Museum in Waitsburg, Washington?

https://www.waitsburgmuseum.org

The Bruce House-Memorial Museum is owned by the Waitsburg Historical Society

#18. Where there's a Will. John McHenry Jasper

#18. Where there's a Will.  Or Not!

John McHenry Jasper


John McHenry Jasper, my 3rd Great Grandfather, has been a mystery to me.  Although the family kept scraps of paper on everything and everybody as well as numerous stories, John was not documented other than he died in 9 August 1845 in Whitesville, Missouri.

He was married to Mary "Polly" Heath in Kentucky and they had migrated  to Missouri in 1841.  When he died, he left a widow and eight children; the oldest was Elizabeth at age 16 and the youngest was Minerva at age 14 months.

There is no family information as to where he was buried.  It was in 1854 that Polly's son, Andrew
came back from Oregon and took his mother, her spinster sister Lois and the remaining siblings (Gilla, Lois, William, Thomas & Minerva) west to Oregon.

So when one is interested, one has to research!

The first information discovered was the Letter of Administration given to Thomas P. Jasper to administrator the estate since John McHenry Jasper died intestate.  His son, Thomas P. Jasper was 9 years old at the time so he couldn't be the administrator.  Although some people have attributed the administration of the estate to the son, it was obvious he was too young.  Further research led to a Thomas P. Jasper, living in the 1850 census at Platte, Andrew County, Missouri.  He was 35 years old at that time.  In the 1850 census, Mary Jasper and her 6 children were living in Tremont, Buchanan County, Missouri.  All of this information was found at Ancestry.com.

Further research at Familysearch.org led to the probate records of Andrew County, Missouri.  These records were not indexed, so I flipped through 43 images for the details of the probate.

Even though John Jasper died without a will, his estate was intestate, and probated.  Thomas P. Jasper was appointed as the administrator of the estate and thus had to follow the laws of the Andrew County, Missouri.

One of the tasks of an administrator is to make an inventory of the estate.  From this information there is a certificate of preemption for land. Which meant as settler he had the right to purchase public lands at a federally set price.  The land description is provided:  the Northwest quarter of Section 26 in township 6 of Range 34.  There was also a day book of accounts for smithing from February 25th to August 9, 1845.  The family story is that he died August 9, 1845; no further proof has been found.

Smithing...he was a blacksmith!  That information was new to me.  The inventory list includes blacksmith tools, guns, a shot pouch, a cary plow, drawing chains and hames, one red steer, one white cow, one red heifer, one brindle yearling heifer, one black cow and calf, one yoke of oxen, one lot of hemp.  But there were also debts; one from William Heath given on 25 May 1842 for $15.50 at six percent (6%) interest.  Who is he?   There is also a promissory note due A. C. Jasper dated 5th October 1847 for A. C. Jasper.  (I have yet to figure out who A. C. Jasper is).

The inventory also includes who he owed money to as well as who had not yet paid him for smithing.

The inventory tidbit was the sale of the land.  There is receipt signed by Mary Jasper on the 21st of January 1848 which states that she received from Thomas P. Jasper thirty dollars ($30) in part of my dower of said estate. (Since women could not own property, the dower right was the right of a non-owner spouse in real property). There is also a paper selling the property to William Combest for $100.75 in March of 1847.  (William Combest was married to John Jasper's sister, Gilla Ann Jasper)
Some of the money had to be used to pay off the debts.  Mary did receive money after the sale of the cattle and guns.

 I have transcribed most of it but follow the money does need to be finished!  Besides figure out who is A. C. Jasper.  The note from William Heath is also interesting since he died in 1829, is the note from her brother?  She did have a brother by that name.

Needless to say, I need to do further research on John Jasper's estate.

#19. Nuture A Rose. 52 Ancestors in a Year

#19  Nurture. A Rose came west!

 Nurturing a rose for 216 years.        A legend or a family story!

When visiting the city in Waitsburg where ancestors are buried, my mother always told the story of the rose bush. That it was carried west on the Oregon Trail by my 3rd great grandmother and her family in 1854.  The story began with her father William Heath who “slipped” the rose in the Carolina's and brought the rose to Kentucky in the between 1803-1807.   Kentucky is where  Mary (Polly) Heath married John Jasper in 1828.   They moved to Missouri in 1841 where John died in 1845.  In 1845 Mary and her family went west to Oregon carrying the rose.  Her daughter, Lois married Albert Gallatin Lloyd in 1858 moving to Waitsburg, Washington in 1859.  And rose came too!  After losing her twins in 1877, the rose was planted besides their graves at the City Cemetery.  

I used the year I believe William Heath moved to Kentucky (1803) making the rose 219 years old.  (Give or take a few years!)

My mother “slipped” the rose and brought it to Dillon, Montana after her marriage.  It flourished there and the story repeated again as we weeded the flower beds.  A few years after I married, I received a “slip”.   The rose now flourishes in Huntley, Montana.  It has survived numerous human attacks in Huntley, notably burned when an irrigation ditch was burned.  It is known as the “family rose” and “Do Not Touch”.

The first story on the left was written by Norman Olsen and was in the Walla Walla Union Bulletin, 21 August 1968, page 22

The story on the right was written by Eric N. Aldrich, grandson of A. G. and Lois Lloyd. 

It was published The Times, Waitsburg, WA, 30 September 1965

Morgan & Jace Kuntz standing beside the rose in Waitsburg.

They are great great great great grandchildren of Lois Jasper Lloyd

The blooms on the rose are beautiful.

The rose in Huntley, Montana

  In the story written by Norman Olsen about the rosebush he wrote:

"The rosebush shows a continuity of things to the people who care to look at it.  It has outlived the people who planted it more than a century ago.  It is a line with the past.