Joseph Ware Tapp part 3 1870s

Joseph Ware Tapp 1870s

1870 age 13

Brother Alfred Castle Tapp was born on 23 May 1870 in Penn, Stark County Illinois.

Remember last post where I indicated that brother Henry A. Tapp was born 1869?  Well, when we look at the actual census image, rather than the index, we find that his age is 1/12 -- he was one month old when the census was taken in June 1870.  Therefore he was born May 1870.  Now, after this census, there is NO OTHER record for him, none at all.  However, we pick up with the 1880 census showing the youngest boy, Alfred C. Tapp age 10.  Why different names?  Sometimes the census taker doesn't hear the name, writing it down wrongly.  Or, the family had a provisional name, but changed it to Alfred Castle Tapp.

I always wondered about the middle name Castle.  Perhaps it is the mother's name somewhare up the line.  Interestingly, in Toulon, there was a family with the last name of Castle.  Hmmm.  Anyway, he married Mabel Adelman in 1893 in Stark County Illinois, died in Iowa.  His Find a Grave memorial is here.

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By the way, at least one woman used her connection through Alfred Castle Tapp to connect with Revolutionary soldier and thereby gaining admission into the Daughters of the American Revolution -- DAR.  Since he is brother of my great grandfather Joseph Ware Tapp, that should mean I am also eligible to join.

http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_descendants/?action=list&MyPrimary_Seqn=710421&MyLineageCount=1

http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_descendants/?action=list&MyPrimary_Seqn=19921&MyLineageCount=1

http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_descendants/?action=list&MyPrimary_Seqn=18202&MyLineageCount=1

http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_descendants/?action=list&MyPrimary_Seqn=761372&MyLineageCount=1

http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A112782

1878 clip art man on bike, Town of Salisbury NH report

(Town of Salsibury NH, 1878)

In Other News 

US Black men can now vote; Hiram Revels is the first black US senator elected (OurTimelines.com, 2018).

1870 age 13

Sister Martha Ellen Tapp died in Wyoming, Stark County Illinois on 4 June 1870.  She was only 20 years old.  Why did she die?  Why in a different place of residence?  I found her last in a census 1870, living with her husband Franklin Pratt and his family.  It isn't clear that she was married at the time, but she is listed after the 8 year old son.  The Find A Grave memorial for Franklin Pratt includes information that presumably came from a newspaper about Mrs. Franklin Pratt.  She died suddenly.  Was she pregnant?  Did she come down with Sepsis?  or a blood clot?  If she was pregnant, was it Eclampsia?  I can't find anything about her death so far.  If you have anything, give me a hollar using the form on the right (Ancestry -- Martha Ellen Tapp, 2018).

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(Watson, 2018)

1870 age 13

Census Penn, Stark County Illinois

1870 Penn Twp, Stark County Illinois

(Ancestry -- Alfred C. Tapp, 2018)

1871 to 1876 age 14 to 19

In Other News 

1871 -- the Great Fire in Chicago destroys the city.  
1873 -- Colour Photographs are developed.  Depression with banks failing lasted until 1878, for five years
1876 -- America celebrates it's 100th birthday {did the Tapp family join in the celebration?};  Telephones become more commonplace;  The Battle at Little Big Horn happens this year;  and Colorado enters the Union as the 38th state (Our Timelines.com, 2018)

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(Watson, 2018)

1877 age 20

President Rutherford B. Hayes takes office

Rutherford B. Hayes
19th President of the United States

(Wikipedia -- Hayes, 2018)

In 1876, Hayes was elected president in one of the most contentious elections in national history.  He lost the popular vote to Democrat Samuel J. Tilden but he won an intensely disputed electoral college vote after a Congressional commission awarded him twenty contested electoral votes.  The result was the Compromise of 1877, in which the Democrats acquiesced to Hayes' election on the condition that he withdraw remaining US troops protecting Republican office holders in the South, thus officially ending the Reconstruction era. -- (Wikipedia -- Hayes, 2018)

"To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible" -- Rutherford B. Hayes (Hayes, 2018)

In Other News

Wax Cylinder musical recordings started happening  (Our Timelines.com, 2018) (Pendlebury, 2015)

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(Watson, 2018)

1878 - 1879 age 21 - 22

In Other News

The first commercial telephone exchange in the US starts 1878
1879 -- The Zulu war begins in Africa;  Edison's Electric Light Bulb begins lighting up the world (Our Timelines.com, 2018)

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(Watson, 2018)

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Resources

Ancestry -- Alfred C. Tapp. (2018, December). Alfred Castle Tapp 1870-1901. Retrieved from Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/14582634/person/260225780/facts
Ancestry -- Martha Ellen Tapp. (2018, December). Martha Ellen Tapp Pratt. Retrieved from Ancestry.com: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/14582634/person/259667731/facts
Pendlebury, T. (2015, November 9). Thousands of 100-year-old wax cylinder recordings available to stream. Retrieved from cnet.com: https://www.cnet.com/news/thousands-of-hundred-year-old-audio-recordings-available-to-stream/

OurTimelines.com. (2018). TimeLines. (Timelines courtesy of www.ourtimelines.com. Timeline formatting and technology copyright © 2000-2018 ourtimelines.com, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED under the Pan-American Conventions.) Retrieved from OurTimeLines.com: http://ourtimelines.com/

Town of Salsibury NH. (1878). Clip Art Extracted from Ads and other interesting items. (Library University New Hampshire) Retrieved November 24, 2019, from Town of Salisbury New Hampshire Report: https://www.library.unh.edu/find/digital/object/salisbury%3A0004
Watson, K. (2018). Various Graphics and Illustrations. Retrieved from Graphics Fairy: https://thegraphicsfairy.com/
Wehmhoener, A. (2008, February 17). Alfred Castle Tapp. Retrieved from Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24692164

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