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Stephen — Vesna YODER. [Group Sheet]

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Phillip — Juanita Blanch BUTLER. [Group Sheet]

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Grandpa Yoder had the most amazing collection of tools, wenches, torches which were the envy of any mechanic. He was always in the garage fixing or making something. He was never idle. even at 85 years old he worked for the town of Glen Avon California as the public water mechanic-engineer. His sons and grandsons and even a great granddaughter have inherited this innate mechanical ability. The need to know how it works, to take the gadget apart and make it better and can not rest until the problem is solved.
As a younger man he was a school teacher then a butcher and lastly a mechanic at various places. I was told by my dad that grandpa wanted all of his kids to play some sort of instrument. He bought a piano for his kids to learn but Eleanor was the only one that seemed to keep any interest in it. That tradition resulted with my three brothers Bill, Mark and Paul playing the trumpet through High School and beyond.

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School Teacher, Butcher, Mechanic

Earl married Mary Stella MAURER 1915, Schuylkill Co, PA. Mary (daughter of Lewis F MAURER and Catherine (Kate) H. KUTZ) was born 9 Mar 1895, Pitman, PA; died 18 Apr 1974, Riverside, CA. [Group Sheet]

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I remember grandma's English roses with whitish pink peddles, that intertwined her front porch trellis. Sitting out on the front porch sipping ice tea, smelling the fragrant aroma of roses, and watching the delicate white peddles float to the ground. Grandma always was canning something and storing them in the cellar. When we would arrive at grandma's, she would point to the kitchen and we would run to the bread box as she said, you kids want a pretzel?

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Homemaker: Pennsyvlania

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Mr — Bertha May BRADSHAW. Bertha (daughter of John BRADSHAW and Lottie J. TODD) was born 13 Mar 1913, Wheatland Township, Hickory County, Missouri; died 17 Dec 1999, Banning, Riverside, California. [Group Sheet]

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According to family legend, Bertha's mother, Lottie J. Todd was adopted by the Todd family and raised her as their adopted daughter. Lottie's real father and mother were unknown. Apparently, Lottie's mother was part of a wagon train traveling west and became very ill and left Lottie with the Todd family. It is not known whether Lottie's mother died or whether she traveled on with the wagon train, never to return, but her name was never known.
According to the 1900 St. Clair, Dallas County, Missouri census Lottie J Todd was 15 years old and born in September of 1886, living with her step family Jefferson B. Todd age 44 (Farmer), Mary J. Todd age 38, Walter Todd age 14, Lidda A Todd age 12, Ira J Todd age 8, Harva J Todd age 7 and Maggie M Todd age 3.

The 1910 census for Missouri Hickory County Center Township, Lottie had changed her name to Lottie McKenzie and was living with her stepbrother Walter Todd and his family. She may have married, and had two children, Willis and Nellie, Lottie's husband was not in the picture, he either died or abandoned the family.

The 1920 census for Wheatland township, Hickory County, Missouri shows Lottie remarried to John Bradshaw who is 48 years old, Lottie is 37 years old, Willis is 15, Nellie is 13, Richard Bradshaw is 7, Bertha M is 6 and Jimmie is 3.

The 1930 census for Wheatland Township, Hickory County, Missouri shows John Bradshaw who is 62 years old, Lottie is 45 years old, Richard Bradshaw is 18, Bertha M is 17 and Jimmie is 13.