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[pg. 35] [Martha Manara Jane McAninch, “the youngest of the (oldest) four (daughters)” /Marjorie] ... She was only 18. Married 1894 to Mr. Cambel (William Campbell – Martha Manara Jane McAninch) |
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[pg. 37] [1896] Mr. McAninch discovered there was a cancer on his nose … painful and there had to be something done. So he employed a cancer doctor to come to the house. He was a young man. He took the cancer off all right and while he was at our house he took a notion for one of the girls. We could not do anything to get rid of him till we had to give up the next youngest girl at that time. We thought she was too young. ... it was no use for us to try to make any excuse. He was bound to take her anyway, so Mr. Hoaglan and Minty was married (George S. Hoaglin and Sarah Arminta McAninch). |
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[pg. 38] Mr. McAninch had a sister (Sarah Esther McAninch married William Sharpe 1866) living in Kansas and one of her girls came to see my girls and they had a nice time. So my oldest girl (Mary Elizabeth) thought she must go home with her (Etta Elizabeth Sharpe) to Kansas so I let her go. Thought she was old enough [pg. 39] to see some of the new country as I never had saw. |
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Those two girls surely had a good time for two years. They got acquainted with two brothers and all chummed together. So that took my girl away from my home. She was a good Christian girl so I could trust her in God’s care. So the time soon past on when her cousin took a notion to settle down in married life (with Enoch Wiggans). So she (Etta) took one brother from the other and my girl was left to decide what to do. So she came home and stayed one summer. (She) was so lonesome without those three friends she thought she would go back to Kansas. The other brother came and was married. Mr. (Drury) Wiggans and Mary Elizabeth in 1897. [Mary Eliz. died 6 Jan. 1903, Journal, pg. 58, below]. |
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[pg. 41] In eighteen ninety-eight we begun to build our new house in town [Note 7]. We bought our home in Mount Ayr in the county seat of (Ringgold County) Iowa. So we moved out of our old log house. It was the first frame house I had ever lived in. So our son (Oscar Lyle) thought it best for him to put a new house where the old one stood. So he put up a house before he moved in. When he got his (house) ready he found (that) a house with (out) some one to keep it was not very pleasant. So he soon hunted himself a cook. So Oscar L. McAninch was married to Ida Sullivan in 1899. |
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[pg. 43] It seemed like in spite of all that we could do the boys and girls would leave us. When the oldest boy (Oscar) was married and gone, the next one thought he (Joseph) would take a trip to Montana. He went there, stayed a short time and was called home on account of his sister (Elizabeth’s) death. So he went to Kansas to look at that country. He liked it fine because he found a girl that he thought more of than he did of Iowa. So he just stayed in Kansas for his home. So Joseph McAninch married to Zella Merriweather in 1903. |
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[pg. 44] [children] Some went to Montana, one went to New Mexico, one went to Oregon to Portland, one to Saint Paul, Minnesota, then another to Wenatchee, Washington, and another in Oklahoma, while I had lived in the same county. I had never been anywhere only where I was raised! One of the girls went to Nebraska. When she got back she thinks [pg. 45] Iowa is the place for them to live. The one that went to New Mexico came back to Iowa. She (Adda Mariah) had traveled around more than the rest as she was older than the others was when they settled down. We thought most of the children had gone away from home to work – all scattered out. She thought it was time that she was looking for a home of her own. It did not take long for her to find some one that wanted a housekeeper for she was a steady girl (and) had lived a good Christian life since she was fifteen years old. Miss Adda McAninch and Mr. Frank Shidler were married in 1904. |
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Journal of Mariah Case McAninch (3 of 6), transcribed by Marjorie Waggoner and Betty Jo Barker |
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McAninch Family History NL, VII-3 July 1999 Copyright Frank McAninch page 1999-21 |