Sumner Houston Blair [Parents] was born ¹ on 31 Oct 1884 in Kansas. He died in Sep 1947. He was buried ² in Gypsum Hill Cemetery, Salina, Saline County, Kansas, USA. Sumner married ³ Elma Rhoda Siebel on 20 Dec 1908 in Fort Scott, Bourbon, Kansas.

Elma Rhoda Siebel was born about 1886. Elma married ¹ Sumner Houston Blair on 20 Dec 1908 in Fort Scott, Bourbon, Kansas.

Thomas Blair [Parents] was born ¹ on 5 May 1789 in Bourbon County, Kentucky, USA. He died ¹ on 6 Dec 1875 in Des Moines County, Iowa, USA. He was buried ² in Kossuth Cemetery, Mediapolis, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA. Thomas married ^{1, 3} Margaret Job on 9 May 1816 in Fayette County, Ohio.

Thomas Blair husband of Margaret Job represented Des Moines county in the first session of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature and also in the second session of that body which assembled at Burlington He was also a member of the first Iowa Territorial Legislature David E Blair was a member of the Fifth Territorial Legislature and of the First General Assembly of the State of Iowa

He was born at the fort at Cane Ridge and died on his homestead farm at Round Prairie, which was located near Mediapolis. He moved with his parents to Chillicothe, Ohio about 1798. He served in the military in the War of 1812, defending the northern border. He married Margaret Job on 9 May 1816 in Fayette County, Ohio (formed from Ross County in 1819). They migrated to Flat Rock, Indiana and in 1812, they moved on to Morgan County, Illinois and then Pike County in the same state. He was a commissioner for the organization of Schuyler County, Illinois. He and his family were "staunch supporters of the anti-slavery movement." Their last move was in 1834 to Des Moines County, Iowa, where they settled the following spring in Round Prairie. In 1838, he served as a member of the Iowa Territorial Legislature and was an anti-slavey Whig and with the organization of the Republican party "to prevent the extension of slavery", he became a stalwart advocate. He was a farmer according to the various census records.

Margaret Job [Parents] ¹ was born on 15 Oct 1788 in Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland. She died ¹ on 26 Nov 1877 in Kossuth, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA. She was buried ² in Kossuth Cemetery, Mediapolis, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA. Margaret married ^{1, 3} Thomas Blair on 9 May 1816 in Fayette County, Ohio.

Found in 1870 Des Moines County, Iowa census data. Living next to sister and brother-in-law: Sarah and David Blair.

Caleb Huston [Parents] was born ¹ on 24 Jan 1778 in Lyndeborough, Hillsborough, New Hampshire. He died ² on 5 Oct 1855 in Rushville, Schuyler County, Illinois, USA. He was buried in Sugar Grove Cemetery, Rushville, Schuyler County, Illinois, USA. Caleb married Elizabeth Purdy on 10 Aug 1815 in Mifflin, Pennsylvania.

Elizabeth Purdy was born on 5 Nov 1787 in Mifflin, Pennsylvania. She died on 15 Jan 1876 in Rushville, Schuyler, Illinois. Elizabeth married Caleb Huston on 10 Aug 1815 in Mifflin, Pennsylvania.

Tillman H. Strickler. Tillman married Mary Eveline Blair on 26 Mar 1868 in Dickinson County, Kansas.

Mary Eveline Blair [Parents] was born ¹ on 22 Sep 1842 in Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, USA. She died ² on 22 Nov 1880 in Kansas, USA. Mary married Tillman H. Strickler on 26 Mar 1868 in Dickinson County, Kansas.

Charles Norris Blair [Parents] was born ¹ on 8 Dec 1845 in Kossuth, Des Moines County, Iowa, USA. He died on 1 Mar 1909. Charles married Lamoille Parish on 30 Jun 1870 in Manhattan, Kansas.

He served during the Civil War with the 45th or 49th Iowa Infantry, depending on the source. He married Lamoille Lucy Parish on 30 June 1870 in Manhattan, Kansas.

Lamoille Parish. Lamoille married Charles Norris Blair on 30 Jun 1870 in Manhattan, Kansas.

Dr. David Livingstone Fletcher [Parents] ¹ was born ^{2, 3} on 9 Nov 1884 in Tilbury East Township, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1964. He was buried ⁴ in Orchard Hill Cemetery, Orchard, Antelope County, Nebraska, USA. David married ² Anna Eleanor Bowen ² on 21 Feb 1911 in Orchard.

David resided ⁵ on 28 Jul 1914 in Ontario, Canada.

FLETCHER, DAVID LIVINGSTONE: Physician & Surgeon; b Fletcher, Ontario, Canada Nov 9, 1884; s of William Fletcher-Elizabeth ___; ed Fremont Normal; Sioux City Ia Coll of Med, MD 1908; Phi Delta; m Anna Bowen 1910 Orchard; d Ruth Ann; prac with brother William Gordon & specializes in children's diseases; FACS, life mbr Surgeons Club, Rochester Minn: AF &AM; Shrine; hobby, golf; brother Dr Archie is med missionary in Korea; res Orchard. [http://www.fletcher-kent.ca/Links.htm]

Juna M Fletcher may have been his daughter.

Anna Eleanor Bowen ¹ was born about 1890 in Illinois, USA. Anna married ¹ Dr. David Livingstone Fletcher ² on 21 Feb 1911 in Orchard.

Likely daughter of Charles and Laura M. Bowen (per 1900 census).

Lewis Goode Gillett [Parents] was born ¹ on 13 Aug 1878 in Iowa. He died in Jul 1961 in California, USA. He was buried ² in Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. Lewis married ³ Helen B. Ayers ³ on 20 Feb 1917 in Toledo, Ohio, USA.

Lewis worked ³ as Mining Engineer in 1925 in Virginia Louise Mining Co, Pioche, Nevada, USA. He resided ⁴ in 1955 in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, USA.

Obituary, Colorado Springs Gazette, Wed. July 6, 1961 page 8:7:

"Lewis Gillett Dies Suddenly in Santa Barbara

"Lewis Gillett, youngest of the three well known Gillett brothers of Colorado Springs and last surviving one, died Wednesday of a heart attack in Santa Barbara, Calif., where he resided. The word was received this morning by Miss Dora Foster, 1624 W. Cheyenne Rd. Funeral services are to be held in Santa Barbara Friday. Cremation will follow. The ashes will be brought to Colorado Springs for burial in Evergreen Cemetery. Mr. Gillett was in his eighties. His brothers were the late Omer Gillett, who was long city physician of Colorado Springs, and Phillip Gillett, a misionary to Japan and Korea, whose widow, Mrs. Bertha Gillett, resides at 119 E. St. Vrain St. Mr. Lewis Gillett was graduated from the Colorado Springs High School in 1897 and was a graduate of Colorado College. He was a mining engineer. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Helen Ayers Gillett, of Santa Barbara, and a younger sister, Mrs. Susie Blair who lives near Santa Barbara."

Colorado Springs Gazette, Monday, July 24, 1961 page 14:9:

"Burial Rites Tuesday for Lewis Gillett

"Burial services for Lewis G. Gillett, who died recently in Santa Barbara, Calif., will be held at 10 am Tuesday in Evergreen Cemetery. Dr. Bea F. Lehmberg, pastor of the First Methodist Church, will officiate. The Law Mortuary has charge of arrangements. Mr. Gillett was a former resident of Colorado Springs."

Helen B. Ayers ¹ was born ² on 11 Jan 1880. She died ² on 4 Jun 1976 in California, USA. She was buried ³ on 18 Jun 1976 in Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. Helen married ¹ Lewis Goode Gillett on 20 Feb 1917 in Toledo, Ohio, USA.

obituary
Gazette Telegraph
Colorado Springs, CO
Thursday, June 17, 1976 page 4A

Gillett - Mrs. Helen A. Gillett passed away in California on June 4. Memorial services 8 pm Friday at Evergreen Cemetery.

Rev. Samuel Trumbull Gillet [Parents] was born ¹ on 19 Feb 1809 in Chenango Valley, New York, USA. He died on 23 Aug 1877 in Windsor, Connecticut, USA. Samuel married ¹ Harriet Ann Goode on 10 Feb 1831 in Madison, Indiana, USA.

Rev. Samuel Gillet, son of Simeon and Salome Smith Palmer Gillet, was born in New York, 1809. Removed with his parents to Indiana, 1818. Appointed Midshipman, U. S. N., 1826; Passed Midshipman, 1852 ; Lieutenant, 1837. Chaplain, 1841 ; resigned, 1843. Member of Indiana Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1837-1885. Married, Feb. 10, 1831, Harriet Ann Goode, born in Warren Co., O., Aug. 24, 1813.

Dr. Gillet emigrated to Indiana with his father's family in 1818. They ascended the Wabash in a family flatboat, propelled by hand, and landed at old Fort Harrison, near the present site of Terre Haute. Appointed Midshipman in 1826, his first cruise was in the U. S. S. Lexington, in the Mediterranean. He passed his examination, graduating at the head of a class of sixty, Raphael Semmes, subsequently Captain of the Confederate cruiser Alabama, standing second, Admirals Dahlgren, Glisson, Rowan and Briggs, being also members. A second cruise in the Mediterranean, and a visit to the Holy Land, gave rise to religious impressions which changed the whole tenor of his life, and in 1837, being at that time a Lieutenant, he resigned his commission, and became a Methodist Minister, and for nearly fifty years has faithfully pursued his calling. In 1841, he was appointed Chaplain in the Navy, and was stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard for a few months, but soon resigned. In 1848, he was acting president of the Whitewater College, in 1841, declined the presidency of the Fort Wayne Female College to which he had been elected. Has several times been a delegate tu the General Conference of the church.
    
He is a man of deep learning, and refined traits, and his wife is one of the noblest of women.

Dr. Gillet is descended in the sixth degree from Jonathan Gillet who came to America in 1630, in. the ship "Mary and John," and settled first at Dorchester, Mass., then at Windsor, Conn., where he died Aug. 23, 1877. He has published a "Genealogical Record of Simeon Gillet, Sr.," his great-grandfather, in broadside, lithographed, Indianapolis, 1876.

Harriet Ann Goode [Parents] was born ¹ on 24 Aug 1813 in Warren County, Ohio, USA. Harriet married ¹ Rev. Samuel Trumbull Gillet on 10 Feb 1831 in Madison, Indiana, USA.

John Brokenshire [Parents] ¹ was born about 1820 in England. He was christened ² on 10 Sep 1826 in St. Clement, Cornwall, England. He died ³ on 26 Nov 1856 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA. He was buried ³ in Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA. John married ⁴ Huldah Loring Rand "Holda" on 25 Jun 1846 in Milton, Massachusetts, USA.

In Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts for 1850 census.

Marriage found in "Rand Genealogy: Florence Osgood Rand. A Genealogy of the Rand Family in the United States, The Republic Press, New York, 1898".

He was a stone cutter in Milton, Massachusetts. He and his family migrated to Ohio between 1852 and 1856, where he was listed as owning a grocery store.

Huldah Loring "Holda" Rand [Parents] was born ¹ on 3 Mar 1821 in Vermont, USA. She died about 1889. Holda married ² John Brokenshire ³ on 25 Jun 1846 in Milton, Massachusetts, USA.

Holda worked ³ as Grocery Store in 1860 in Cleveland, Cuyhoga County, Ohio, USA. She resided ¹ in 1870 in Quincy, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA.

The 1900 census lists Martha Rand, a single woman, living with two nieces and her grand-nephew. The nieces are both single as well: Elizabeth Frye and Susan R. Brokenshire, the daughter of Holda. The grand nephew was Philip Loring Brokenshire, son of Holda. And note also that Holda's second son is named Omer Rand.

James Watson ¹ was born ¹ in BET 1823 AND 1845. He died ¹ in BET 1873 AND 1934. James married ¹ Helen Fletcher ¹.

Helen Fletcher [Parents] ¹ was born ¹ on 14 Mar 1855. She died ¹ on 14 Jun 1856. Helen married ¹ James Watson ¹.