Joseph Ware Tapp part 5 1890s

Joseph Ware Tapp 1890s

So, I don't have much information for this decade.  There was a census taken in 1890, but there was a major fire that took out almost all of that census information.  

(Gibson City Courier, Gibson City IL, 1895)

1890

Federal Census taken but that information is burned up

In Other News:  Battle of Wounded Knee happens.  Oklahoma organizes as a territory, while Idaho becomes the 43rd state and Wyoming is the 44th state (OurTimelines.com, 2018).

1895_clip_art__medical__swamp_root

(Gibson City Courier, Gibson City, Illinois, 1895)

1891

Daughter Sadie Esther Tapp is born.
I don't have an primary evidence of her birth.  What I do have are five censuses, Iowa State Census of 1905 and Social Security death index.  Her Ancestry Profile is here.  Her Find a Grave memorial created by ZBonnie in 2006 is here.



In other news:  -- Mormon prophesy of coming of the Lord by 1891 is unfulfilled (OurTimelines.com, 2018).

1895 Clip Art, Women's Fashion, Capes

(Gibson City Courier, Gibson City, Illinois, 1895)

1892

Birth of son Harry Bushrod Tapp.
Once again, no primary source for this birth date and place.  No birth certificate.  However, again, I have five Federal censuses, Iowa State census of 1905, Social Security Death Index, and Draft records for World War I and World War II.  Those are secondary sources.  There is also a tertiary source, which would be Find A Grave.  His Ancestry profile is here.  His Find a Grave memorial created by Charles Bast (Tapp) is found here.


Death of father Bushrod Tapp
He died 16 April 1893 in Toulon, Stark, Illinois.  Some records show he died in Wyoming, Stark County, Illinois.  He is also buried in Toulon Cemetery, Toulon, Stark County, Illinois.   His Find a Grave memorial can be found here.  This is an orphaned memorial, having been added by Alice Wehmhoener.  I have requested management of this memorial.  His Ancestry profile is here.


Death of mother Mary Jane Essex Tapp.
The only source I have for this death is Find a Grave.  She died 14 August 1892, and is buried in Toulon Cemetery, Toulon, Stark County, Illinois.  Her Find a Grave memorial, added by Alice Wehmhoener in 2008, is here.  [As of this date (November 2019) it is an orphaned memorial, and I have requested to maintain it, since she is my direct line ancestor.]   Her Ancestry Profile is here.

1896 Clip Art, Aunt Jemima's Pancake Flour

(The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa, 1869)

Grover Cleveland elected (again) as the 24th President of the United States.

1893 Grover Cleveland Portrait
(Wikipedia -- Cleveland 2018)

1893 Grover Cleveland, 24th President
(Wikipedia -- Cleveland 2018)

Quote: -- "I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind" -- Grover Cleveland (Cleveland, 2018).

In other news: -- United States is in financial panic and depression lasting four years.  New Zealand is the first to grant women the right to vote;  Movies beome a thing; and Nikola Tesla (Not Marconi) invents Radio (OurTimelines.com).

1896, Clip Art, Female Figure 1
(The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois, 1896)

1894

Birth of daughter Clara Edna Tapp, 1 July 1894 in Penn, Stark County, Illinois.

Once again, no primary source, but five Federal censuses, one Iowa State census of 1905, and tertiary source in Find a Grave.  Her Ancestry profile is here.

1896, Clip Art, Female Figure 1
(The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois, 1896)

1895

Birth of daughter Olive Eleanor Tapp.

Born 18 November 1895 in Wyoming, Stark County, Illinois.  Same secondary sources, but there is also Social Security Death Index, Marriage record, and Wisconsin Death Index.  Her Ancestry profile is here.

1896, Clip Art, Female Figure 1
(The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois, 1896)

1896

William McKinley campaign poster (Wikipedia -- McKinley, 2018)

1896 William McKinley Campaign poster
Wikipedia -- McKinley, 2018)

In other news:  -- Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation;  Utah enters the Union as the 45th state (OurTimelines.com, 2018).

1896, Clip Art, Female Figure 1
(The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois, 1896)

1897

William McKinley becomes the 25th President of the United States

He served from 4 March 1897 until his assassination six months into his second term.  He was the last president to have served in the Civil War, and the only one to have started that war as an enlisted soldier (Wikipedia -- McKinley, 2018).

1897 William McKinley, 25th President
(Wikipedia -- McKinley, 2018)

Quote:  -- "In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest" -- William McKinley (McKinley, 2018)

1896 Clip Art, Food, Van Camp's Boston Baked Pork and Beans

(The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union, Rock Island, Illinois, 1896)

Historical Insight -- Dr Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter

Joseph Ware Tapp of La Prairie, Illinois may have eargerly read the daily news hoping to hear more about Dr. Barnum Brown's fantastic fossil discoveries in 1900.

Dr Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter -- Historical Insights (3)
1911.  Credit: AMNH/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain
(Ancestry Historical Insights, 2018)

Dr Brown's worldwide travels gave him important geographic information, which he provided to the U.S. government during World War II.  Dr Brown's work made him a kind of scientific celebrity, and people flosked to see both him and the fossils he had unearthed (Ancestry Historical Insights, 2019).

1899 Clip Art, Buildings, The Chicago Federal Building as it will appear

(The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois, 1899)

1899

Birth of daughter Grace Elizabeth Tapp

Again, no primary source such as birth certificate.  But we have secondary sources in Federal censuses, Iowa State census of 1905, Social Security Death Index and Florida Death Index.  There are also other tertiary sources, such as Newspaper obituary, and Find a Grave.  Her Ancestry profile is here.

1899 Clip Art, President William McKinley

(The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois, 1899)

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Resources

Ancestry Historical Insights. (2018). Dr Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter. Retrieved from Ancestry.com: Ancestry.com

Cleveland, G. (2018, December). Grover Cleveland Quotes. Retrieved from BrainyQuote: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/grover_cleveland

Gibson City Courier, Gibson City IL. (1895, July 26). Clip Art, Farm Equipment. Retrieved September 4, 2017, from Newspapers.com: Newspapers.com

Gibson City Courier, Gibson City, Illinois. (1895, July 12). Clip Art, Medical, Swamp Root. Retrieved September 4, 2017, from Newspapers.com: Newspapers.com

McKinley, W. (2018, December). William McKinley Quotes. Retrieved from BrainyQuote: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/william_mckinley

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/

The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa. (1869, January 11). Clip Art, Aunt Jemima's Pancake Flour. Retrieved March 29, 2017, from Newspapers.com: Newspapers.com

The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois. (1896, August 30). 1896 Clip Art, Female Figure. Retrieved March 29, 2017, from Newspapers.com: Newspapers.com

The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois. (1899, October 9). 1899 Clip Art, Buildings, The Chicago Federal Building as it will appear. Retrieved March 29, 2017, from Newspapers.com: Newspapers.com

The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois. (1899, October 9). 1899, Clip Art, President William McKinley. Retrieved March 29, 2017, from Newspapers.com: Newspapers.com

The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union, Rock Island, Illinois. (1896, November 19). 1896 Clip Art, Food, Van Camp's Boston Baked Pork and Beans. Retrieved March 29, 2017, from Newspapers.com: Newspapers.com

Wikipedia -- Cleveland. (2018, December). Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President. Retrieved from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland

Wikipedia -- McKinley. (2018, December). William McKinley, 25th President. Retrieved from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley

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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.

McGuffey's Eclectic Primer Page 8

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).

Christmas-Holly-Tag-GraphicsFairy

(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)

rosegarlandgfairy003b

(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)

Vintage-Christmas-Ornamental-Image-GraphicsFairy

(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)

wingedhorsegfairy002

(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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Grace Elizabeth Tapp Part 1.1 1899-1909

About Grace Tapp before her marriage to August Paul Wenkel sometime between 1930 and 1933.

• 1899, birth; William McKinley is president
• 1900 Census LaPrairie, Marshall County, Illinois
• 1901, birth of twins; brother Harold Alfred Tapp and sister Helen Alice Tapp
• 1905, birth of brother Glen Reyburn Tapp, Iowa

1899 - 1909, ages 0-10

Grace Elizabeth Tapp mini pedigree
from Ancestry.com

1899, age 0

Grace was the fifth child born to Joseph and Laura Grant Swope Tapp

born 20 April 1899 in Wyoming, Stark County, Illinois.

Wyoming, Stark County, Illinois
in relation to Chicago
Google Maps

President William McKinley
from Wikipedia

William McKinley is the 25th President at the time.

Aspirin, Felix Hoffman, a German Chemist who worked for Bayer, investigated using a new acetylsalicylic acid as a less-irritating replacement for standard common salicylate medicines and together with other chemists created Aspirin for pain relief. Aspirin has been replaced by paracetamol and ibuprofen over recent years for pain relief but is widely used as a preventive treatment for heart attacks and strokes. -- http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1890to1899.html#1899

1900, Census, age 1

Farm, La Prairie, Marshall Illinois

1900 Census, LaPrairie, Marshall Illinois

Line 14.  Tapp family farm in Marshall County Illinois.

• Joseph W. Tapp, head, white male, born May 1857.  Age 43, married for 10 years.  Born in Illinois, parents born in Virginia.  Occupation is Farmer working on his own account, able to read, write, speak English.  Renting the home.
• Laura G. Tapp, wife, white female.  Born August 1866, age 35.  married for 10 years, 5 children born, all still living.  Born in Illinois, father born Virginia, mother born in Illinois.  able to read, write, speak English.  
• Sadie E. Tapp, born February 1891, age 9.  Born Illinois.  At school, able to read, write, speak English.  
• Harry B. Tapp, son, born May 1822, age 8, born Illinois.  at school, able to read, write, speak English.  
• Clara E. Tapp, daughter, born July 1894, age 5, born Illinois.  
• Olive E. Tapp, born November 1895, age 4, born Illinois.  
• Grace E. Tapp, born April 1899 age 1, born Illinois.  

La Prairie Township, Marshall County, Illinois

It is important to note the proximity to Wyoming, and to Toulon.

I searched the plat books from here -- https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4103mm.gla00104/?q=La+Prairie&st=gallery

La Prairie Residences and Farms, Atlas of Marshall Co, LOC

La Prairie Twp, Marshall Co Illinois

I've looked at every land owner before I realized something.  The reason you won't find a Tapp name is because Joseph Tapp was a Tenant Farmer.  He rented the farm from someone who is on this plat.  So far as I can tell, I cannot find out who he rented from, therefore, this is as close to finding the farm as I can get.  If you have some idea, let me know.

1901, age 2

Birth of brother Harold Alfred Tapp and sister Helen Alice Tapp (twins) 24 August 1901, LaPraire, Marshall Illinois

Antique Baby Carriage
from GraphicsFairy

Theodore Roosevelt
from Wikipedia

Theodore Roosevelt, is elected as the 26th President

1901-1905, age 2-5

moved to Iowa sometime in this timeframe.  This is over 430 miles away.  Why did they move?  What incentive did they have to go that far away?  I know they were farmers, was there a natural disaster?  How did they get there?  Probably not by car, perhaps by wagon with horses or by train? How long did that trip take them?  Traveling in modern cars on modern roads is still a long trip, over 6 hours.

Trip from Randolph Illinois to Albert City Iowa
Google Maps 2017 

Boy Reading
AntiqueClipArt

1905 age 5

Birth of brother Glenn Reyburn Tapp, 2 January 1905, Albert City, Buena Vista, Iowa

Albert City Iowa
Google Maps 2017

Below is the Census index and page for Grace Tapp living in Albert City.  These are the Iowa State Census for 1905

1908  ad
The Levenworth Times,
 Levenworth KS, January 1908
from Newspapers.com

1905-1910, age 5-11

moved to Randolph, McLean County Illinois

William Howard Taft
from Wikipedia

1909 age 10

William Howard Taft is elected as the 27th President