Sunday, June 8, 2008

2008 History sent to William Thomas descendants

Of all of William's children, only three lived to adulthood, Elizabeth Ann born in Nauvoo, William Thomas born in Smithfield, and Cordelia Therisa born in Smithfield. Elizabeth had three children, two died as infants. Cordelia Therisa died at age 28, married though having no children. William Thomas, had a large family, 7 lived to adulthood, Mary Elizabeth, William George, Elmer Earl, Lewis Franklin, Lillian Hortense, Stanley, and Charles Owen.
I called my mother, Ardath Ainscough Broadhead, this week, now in her 85th year of age, and told her I had 10 copies of the new history left and asked her who I should send them to.  She suggested that her cousins would be interested. So I sat down and made a list of the children of William Thomas and tried to find one person from each of the children of William Thomas.
Yesterday, saturday, I packaged 6 histories to send them to Joan Francis in Taber Alberta Canada, granddaughter of Mary; Grant Ainscough, in Vancouver, British Columbia, son of William George; Bob Ainscough in British Columbia, son of Elmer Earl; Joan Anderson in Milwaukie Oregon daugher of Charles; Noreda in Vancouver, British Columbia, daughter of Stanley; Carol Palmer in Idaho Falls Idaho, daughter of Charles.  I do not know of any descendants of Frank or Lillian.  If any of you do, please let me know.
Wayne

3 comments:

Sean and Janet Eyring said...

Dad, I read William's history. Great job! Very interesting. I actually used a part of it in my Relief Society lesson last Sunday. -Janet

Wayne Broadhead said...

Thanks for reading it Janet. I really tried to make the history accurate and interesting by explaining the conditions and circumstances William was living in, particularly in Nauvoo. I am convinced that he wrote some of those stories down, so I am on the look for a journal or letters he may have wrote.

DAD

Sean and Janet Eyring said...

Hi Wayne,
I just found a neat feature on Blogger that allows you to create a slide show from your picasa albums. I accessed one of your albums (fishing with the boys) and added it to our family blog on the top right. So if you keep on taking pictures, I can make a slideshow out of them for the blog!!
-Thanks!
--Sean