New Bell Pictures

Mom and I did a quick trip to Chattanooga to see Aunt Jean Bell Poe a few weeks ago. She will be 100 in November. She has been tell us for more than 10 years she is the 11 (of 13) child , born in the 11th month (Novemeber) of the 11th year (1911). She is still doing well health wise and mobility-fair, but has trouble seeing. We had a nice visit . We got to see her pictures and she allowed me to bring them home to copy on the computer. While there we also visited to cemeteries for some of the families' final resting places. The picture below is Susie Tatum Bell having over Jean's bed. Then Charlie and Susie's cemetery- "Duck Pond" as the locals call it..Chattanooga Memorial Park. On Top are pictures of Jeanette Tatum Delk, her son Ernest and Neice Gladys Tatum(Susie's twin brother John Dugan's daughter). The ceneter is an OLD School picture, unmarked and I can not identify anyone in it. I'll need help over Labor Day........ Top Right I THNK MIGHT BE NANEE--THELMA BELL RUSTEMEYER but need a vote from others......And there are more...

Found Guardian Angel

Now I have a name and picture to put with the letter of my "helper" to connect the generations of Rustemeyers recently connectly with the single letter found in the files. She is Theresia Rustemeyer only child of Joseph Rustemeyer, first son of Frederick Rustemeyer, all born in Germany, who immigrated from Germany, Joseph as a 9 month old baby with the parents. The letter from Mrs. John A. Long , postmarked in 1942 gave the genealogy of their family and helped connect 5 generations and still growing.
(I am still connecting decendents to the tree.)
With the help of: (and sometimes with 5 screens at the same time) ......

German Birth Records 1558-1898 (recently indexed and added to Family Search)
German Marriage Records 1558-1929 (recently indexed and added to Family Search)
Find-A-Grave ( with posted pictures* volunteer submitted)
Ancestry.com
new.Familysearch
maps
google
+family file on Paf

Now the mystery continues.....I have to find out more about Theresia Rustemeyer Long of Beverly Hills, California.

Such A Puzzle

Those Rustemeyers
Just like a zigsaw puzzle , the genealogy puzzle is SUPPOSE TO eventually fit together in a nice orderly organized way. Or .....one day ......one can hope
We had been lead to believe from ...way back that "all" Rustemeyers are related, and they may turn out to be....some time, some how, but maybe not "CLOSELY related"
Flaw 1. German Rustemeyers came to America at diferent times in history
Flaw 2. they settled in differnt locations- if they were closely related, shouldn't they/wouldn't they want to be close by for support,etc.
so here is what I have connected this month:

Rose Mueller Long wrote a letter to Uncle Joe Rustemeyer in 1942 laying out her recollection of her Rustemeyer roots:ALL OF IT HAS PROVEN TRUE TO FACT: EVEN HAVE FOUND TOMBSTONES ONLINE Mother Rosina Rustemeyer daughter of William Rustemeyer immigrant. Her letter allowed me to firmly establish her line and link her uncles as connected to the family for sure. The Germany records has the father of William, her grandfather listed. He may be the grandfather of the whole bunch, or not.......have to confirm later. But the puzzle is getting closer to geting done.
Her one letter CONFIRMS Rustemeyers in California ,Illinois, south Dakota, Minnesota, Canada, Idaho. ALL EXCEPT THE MISSOURI GANG! One curious thing from this trip, one of the South Dakota marriages was to a wife who had been raised on an indian post/orphanage so their Rustemeyer children, though white, have claim to indian heritage.....never know what you will find in the history books. and the one who went to canada changed the spelling of the name t RESTEMAYER, so they will be easy to track downward.....anyway......fun stuff.....

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