Occupations

For this week's mission (should you decide to accept it), answer the question:

1)  What were the occupations of your ancestors?

2)  Please go back several generations (say parents or grandparents or great-grandparents) and list the occupations that they had in the records you've found for them.  You could do this, say, by ancestor table number.

1. Me

• Teacher
• Librarian
• Technology Coordinator

2. my dad

• Teacher

3. my mother

• Medical Secretary

4. Leon Russel Crawford

• worked for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad in Dodge City, Kansas

5. Winnie Letha Currey Crawford

• Clerk for Eckle's Department Store in Dodge City, Kansas

6. Edward Osmond Briles

• 1918 - ran a threshing machine
• 1923 - Owner Briles Garage in Iola, Kansas
• 1927 - manager of local feed grinding and shelling plant in Iola, Kansas
• 1930 - manager of a picture show in Buffalo, Kansas
• 1932 - owner of Lyric Theater in Emporia, Kansas

7. Pauline Edith Mentzer Briles

• Babysitter after death of husband

8. Judson Foster Crawford

• worked for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad in Dodge City, Kansas

9. Josie Winifred Hammond Crawford

• Homemaker

10. Hiram Miles Currey

• 1900 - Magnetic Healer (according to census) - Delaware Township, Leavenworth County, KS
• 1907 - carpenter - Lansing, Kansas
• 1910 - farmer - Rooks County, Kansas
• 1915 - teamster - Kansas City, Missouri
• 1919/1920 - baker at a cone factory - Kansas City, Missouri
• 1925 - section hand - Logan, Gray County, KS
• 1930 - carpenter - Dodge City, KS

11. Winnie Mae Hutchinson Currey

• Homemaker

12. Edward Grant Briles

• farmer - Coffey County, Kansas

13. Frances Arlissa 'Artie' Ricketts Briles

• homemaker

14. Charles Oliver Mentzer

• farmer - Woodson County, Kansas

15. Nettie Adell Wells Mentzer

• homemaker

16. Washington Marion Crawford

• farmer - prior to civil war
• attempted farming after civil war - but disabilities made this difficult
• built boarding house in Dodge City, Kansas
• "selected to look after soldier's home" at Fort Dodge, Ford County, Kansas

17. Mary Foster Crawford

• homemaker
• caregiver - took care of husband after his return from the civil war
• Boarding House operator

18. Richmond Fisk Hammond

• farmer
• carpenter

19. Sarah Ellen Ralston Hammond

• homemaker

20. Hiram M. Currey

• farmer

21. Angelina Jane Burke Currey

• homemaker

22. Albert Hutchinson

• farmer

23. Julia Harding Hutchinson

• homemaker

24. Noah Washington Briles

• farm laborer
• farmer

25. Sarah Jane Thompson Briles

• homemaker

26. James Marshall Ricketts

• farmer

27. Rachel Elmeda Christy Ricketts

• homemaker

28. George Mentzer

• farm hand
• clerk in grocery store
• helped establish first hotel in Kewanee
• domestic servant
• farmer
• Stockholder - Yates Center Creamery Association

29. Emeline Minnick Mentzer

• homemaker

30. Thurston Kennedy Wells

• carpenter - Madison County, New York
• laborer - Lykins County, Kansas

31. Salome Adell Crandall Wells

• homemaker

32. Nelson G. Crawford

• farmer

34. Zebulon Foster

• farmer

36. Horatio Hammond

• farmer

38. James Barr Ralston

• farmer

40. Hiram M. Currey

• lawyer

42. Henry F. Burke

• likely a farmer -- owned land in Platte County, Missouri before his death

44. Aaron Hutchinson

• unknown

46. William Gillies Harding

• farmer

48. Alexander Briles

• farmer

50. William Taylor Thompson

• farmer

52. John Lewis Ricketts

• farmer

54. Samuel Christy

• farmer

56. Phillip Andrew Mentzer

• unknown

58. John Minnick

• shoe maker

60. Ozias Wells

• Unknown

62. Lewis Crandall

• likely a farmer in Van Buren County, Iowa

64. James Crawford

• farmer

68. Richard Foster

• likely a farmer in Pike County Ohio

70. Dr. Edward Ostrander

• Doctor

72. Jason Hammond

• Unknown

74. Jonathan Fisk

• Unknown

76. David Franklin Ralson

• farmer

78. James B. McCormick

• Unknown

80. Hiram Mirick Currey

• preacher
• teacher
• Ohio state treasurer

82. Peter Harris

• Unknown

84. John Burke

• employed in agriculture

86. Eli Bland

• likely a farmer - Cumberland County, Kentucky

88. Aaron Hutchinson

• engaged in agriculture

90. _____ Merry

• Unknown

92. William Harding

• Unknown

94. _____ Fowler

• Unknown

96. John Briles

• farmer

98. Noah Rush

• farmer

100. John Thompson

• farmer

102. James Evans

• farmer

104. Edward Ricketts

• landowner - likely a farmer

106. John C. Reed

• farmer

108. Ebenezer Christy

• Unknown

110. Isom Gallimore

• farmer

112. Phillip Andre Mentzer

• Unknown

114. Oliver Miles

• Unknown

116. _____ Minnick

• Unknown

118. _____ Jones

• Unknown

120. Green Wells

• farmer

122. John Kennedy

• Unknown

124. Hampton Lillibridge Crandall

• farmer

126. _____ Nafus

• Unknown

This exercise pointed out:

• Many of my ancestors engaged in agriculture
• My use of the 'occupation' fact is too infrequent
• Work is needed to identify all of the 'unknown' occupations

Thank you, Randy Seaver, for this challenge to look at my data in a different way!