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.....

More Wood + TRACTOR

Granddaddy Rusty's Creations

373 McDermitt

Continuing from the last post......Granddady kept a picture album of some of the things he built and so here they are. In no particular order. and there are missing things. These are some little toys he made- trucks and wooden horses, pictures frames, jewelry boxes- Nanee would line them.


These are the pulpits he made for the churches here in Shelby Co. Tennessee- Bethany Christian Church, Collierville Christian Church and Decatur Christian Church.

WOOOOOOD........

Over the course of the past 6 generations now WOOD, TIMBER, LOGS, Trees have been involved in the livelihood and hobbies of our family:
Nanee Rustemeyer's grandpa Old man Joe Tatum- sawyer is listed on the census as occupation. His sons Joe and Charlie Tatum worked for the pencil factory in South Pittsburgh,TN. Granville Vaughn's father was reportedly a logger. Granville's livelihood was timber and he had his own sawmill beginning in the 1930s, and later a father-son mill first with Jack, later with Cliff. They cut ballbat blanks which they shipped to the mill for ballbats.
Jack Sr was the first to attend Lumber grading school and was in the 4th class of the school headquartered here in Memphis TN. Cliff later also attend and graduated.
Mark, Jack and David all did the same. Jack Sr worked as a Lumber grader/inspector for a number of companies and then went into business for himself with son Mark.
Jack joined the company later. Now Jack Sr has retire, Mark is in business on his own , Jack has changed occupations.Mark has a son Kevin with him for now.
Another son, MAtt is just graduated from College and practicing "green" construction.

David had his own business selling specialty woods. Dave and Jack both were very good at woodworking and ,as granddaddy Rustemeyer spent hours making furniture and wooden things in the shop. Granddaddy Rustemeyer for years had a woodworking shop and made many furniture items for his home and family members. He could get wood from Jack and others. His occupation was a minister . **Jesus was a carpenter TOO, ya know.*** Well, some of the grandsons did pick up his skill and talents, which gave him joy. David was the one who bought most of his tools from the estate. JAck Jr makes specialty wooden bowls at present.
So we have know about sawdust, wood spaghetti, sandpaper, wood glue, countless amounts of nails and wood screws and projects, taking wood to Granddaddys,how to get sawdust out of eyes..........
how many things do granddady make us that we stilll have?
He made 4 little night stands- one for each of the granddaughters when I was 13 so 1967- told me he sanded it well so it wouldn't snag my hose.For the boys he made a walnut study desk. For Jack and Betty early in their marriage, he made a bedroom suite- triple dresser, double bed and night stand. There was the wormy chestnut stereo cabinet-( and then the stereo died)so it is now used as a TV stand. He made at least 3 church pulpits-one still in use at Bethany Christian Church, Eads, Tn, one for Decatur Christian Church Bartlet, Tn and one for ??mom remind me....
Later there came a small Jewelry box- 3 drawer- Nanee lined the drawers.
there were numerous little picture frames and little easles and little things he also made to sell at the womens exchange in Memphis for a little money.
There was the Huge guncabinet when we were in Normalville.
I know there is more- let me know what I have left out...............

THE Artist Examines The Art

I have wanted to go look at the Germantown decorated horses since they were on display in 2008, but none of my kids would go with me. Then the AHH HAHH opportunity opened up. Niece Kelly Vaughn came to visit this weekend and was excited to go with....It was great to see the horse up close, but more fun watching her examine the details of each one up close. Also this is my favorite, until the next one...... But I have to admit, I have a new favorite after seeing them up close...and my winner is........
and there were 21, we could only find 7 Saturday nite.

1968- where does time do?

NORMALVILLE, PA, about 1968. It was a rainy day, cause we all look like we got caught in a downpour. I don't remember who took the picture.
Where are we all now? Jack and Betty are in Collierville TN retired, 82 and 77 respectively. Patsy Vaughn New (top right) is in Collierville TN married to JT- 2 children, 0 grands working in a pediatric doctors office and doing genealogy most of the rest of the hours of the day.
Deborah Vaughn Sandridge is married to Art and is in Rome Georgia, 5 children, 6 grand daughters, Relief Society President and Busy.
Mark R. Vaughn (dad's right shoulder)is married to Kathryn Lowe and has 5 children and 1 grandson, lives in Salisbury PA, has his own business in the lumber business (3rd generation).
Jack L. Vaughn Jr (dad'd right knee) is living in Salisbury PA as well, paramedic and EMT working many hours at the hospital ER and ambulance (2 or more companies), 3 children, 5 grands.
David Vaughn the little guy (dad's left knee)in the picture is married to Kathy Birch, home based in Denver, Colorado with 2 children. But he is currently working on location building a silo in New Orleans LA and going home every other weekend.
We don't get together often- smaller grouping is more common, but we have a great love of family.