Michael T. Bornemann

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CALENDAR


JANUARY

January 2, 1868. My great-great-grandfather William David Weaver married Marie Louisa Hamilton. She was 19 and he was 22 years of age. Among their 12 children was my great-grandmother Addie Lou Rosencrance (born Weaver).

January 5, 1940. My great-great-uncle Ezra Rosencrance died at age 76. He was an older brother of John Schoonover Rosencrance, my great-grandfather.

January 9, 1822. My great-great-great-grandmother Sarah Ann Frances Hamilton (born Edwards) was born. She would become the wife of John J. Hamilton and mother of my great-great-grandmother Marie Louisa Weaver (born Hamilton).

January 12, 1870. My great-grandfather John Schoonover Rosencrance was born. He was the youngest of four children who lived of the ten who were born to John M. Rosencrance and Sophronia Maria Rosencrance (born Meeker). John S. Rosencrance was the father of my grandmother Sara Marie Bartlett. There are several photographs of him in the Bornemann family album. I have the walking stick which great-grandfather Rosencrance cut from an orange tree. The length of the stick reminds us that great-grandfather Rosencrance was a big man.

January 13, 1813. My great-great-great-great-great-uncle Lot Hearn married Frances McClendon. The minister who performed the service was Reverend Flourney. Lot was an older brother of my great-great-great-great-grandfather William Hearn.

January 13, 1935. My second cousin Lillian Marlene Davis (born Towle) was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. She is the daughter of my great-aunt Lillian Towle (born Rosencrance) and Harry Kenneth Towle.

January 16, 1860. My great-great-uncle Frank B. Rosencrance was born. He was an older brother of John S. Rosencrance, my great-grandfather.

January 17, 1861. My great-great-great-great-grandfather William Hearn married a second time to Cintha Catherine Callaway. He was 58 years old, she was 38. They had no children together. (He had children from his previous marriage to Amma Pennington - including my great-great-great-grandmother Lucinda Amanda Hearn.)

January 24, 1907. My great-aunt Lillian Towle (born Rosencrance) was born at 3:00 a.m. on a Thursday in North Germantown, New York to John S. Rosencrance and Addie Lou Rosencrance (born Weaver). She was the youngest of their five children and the sister of my grandmother Sara Marie Bartlett.

January 24, 1957. Lynda Marlene Davis was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. to my second cousin Lillian Marlene Davis (born Towle) and Robert Leon Davis. She was the first of their four children. She is the granddaughter of my great-aunt Lillian Towle (born Rosencrance) who was born on this day in 1907.

January 30, 1950. Angela Jean Bornemann (born Skruch) was born who became the wife of Michael Thomas Bornemann and mother of Isaac Joseph Bornemann. Angela was the fifth of six children born to Harry and Agnes Skruch (born Urbanski).

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FEBRUARY

February 3, 1983. Christopher Bornemann was born to Paul Edward Bornemann and Kathy Bornemann (born Welch). He is the second of their three sons.

February 7, 1869. Ada Jeffiesonia Weaver died. She was an older sister of our great-grandmother Addie Lou Rosencrance (born Weaver), however, she lived only four months and died years before Addie Lou was born.

February 12, 1957. William Blewitt was born to my second cousin John C. Blewitt and his wife Edithe. William is the grandson of Nellie Clyde Blewitt (born Rosencrance) who was my grandmother Sara Bartlett's sister. Mom notes that William Blewitt was very bright and could read and write at the age of three.

February 14, 1892. My great-great-aunt Mary Anna Weaver died at age 22. She was an older sister of Addie Lou Rosencrance (born Weaver), my great-grandmother who was 16 years old when Mary Anna died.

Februar1 15, 1848. My great-great-grandmother Marie Louisa Weaver born Hamilton) was born. She became the wife of William David Weaver and mother of Addie Lou Rosencrance, my great-grandmother.

February 17, 1889. My great-great-uncle Myrtle Clyde Weaver was born. He was a younger brother of my great-grandmother Addie Lou Rosencrance. He was still living in 1967 at the age of 78.

February 20, 1824. My great-great-great-grandmother Lucinda Amanda Hearn was born to William and Amma Hearn (born Pennington). She became the wife of Thomas Jefferson Weaver and mother of my great-great-grandfather William David Weaver. After the death of Thomas J. Weaver, she married a second time to Dr. James Hamilton who was the brother of John J. Hamilton who was the father of Marie Louisa Hamilton who would become the wife of William D. Weaver. Our family history records that William Hearn was so opposed to his daughter marrying Dr. Hamilton that as Lucinda Amanda ran to get into the buggy which was to take her to her wedding, "he grabbed her by the foot and her slipper remained in his hand. She was married in only one shoe." (from great-aunt Audrey's account of the Hearn family.)

February 22, 1955. Our cousin Victoria (Vickie) Bartlett was born in Mt. Holly, New Jersey to our uncle John Alfred Bartlett and Edythe M. Bartlett (born Penley).

February 25, 1960. Gregory Kent Davis was born in Pittsburgh, Pa. to our second cousin Lillian Marlene Davis (born Towle) and Robert Leon Davis.

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MARCH

March 6, 1926. My great-aunt Audrey May Rosencrance married Robert Earl Britner. She was 24 years old. They had no children and were divorced in April of 1930. She married again in July of 1943 to Ralph Blane Morrison. Great-aunt Audrey was two years younger than her sister Sara Marie Bartlett, my grandmother. We have great-aunt Audrey to thank for compiling much of the Rosencrance and Hearn family histories.

March 11, 1961. Sharon Elena Davis was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., the youngest of four children born to my second cousin Lillian Marlene Davis (born Towle) and Robert Leon Davis. Her parents were divorced August 25, 1962 when Sharon was one year old. Her grandmother was Lillian Towle (born Rosencrance), sister of my grandmother Sara Marie Bartlett.

March 14, 1875. My great-grandmother Addie Lou Rosencrance (born Weaver) was born, the fifth of twelve children born to William David Weaver and Marie Louisa Weaver (born Hamilton). She became the wife of John Schoonover Rosencrance and the mother of Sara Marie Bartlett, my grandmother.

March 14, 1987. My aunt Lois Carol Neal (born Bartlett) married a second time to Larry Davis. She was 45 years old. They had no children together.

March 18, 1790. My great-great-great-great-great-uncle Lot Hearn was born in Sussex County, Delaware to Jonathon and Rhoda Hearn (born Parker), my great-great-great-great-great-grandparents. Lot was an older brother of my great-great-great-great-grandfather William Hearn. Lot moved to Hancock County, Georgia on January 7, 1792, to Jackson County, Georgia in 1800, and to Putnam County, Georgia in 1809. His last will and testament lists Putnam County as his last area of residence before he died between June 1844 (when his will was dated) and January 13, 1845 (when his will was proven).

Lot seems to have been a person of some accomplishment and social involvement in Putnam County Georgia. In his last will and testament, he left bequests to the Hearn Manual Labor School at Care Spring, Floyd County, Georgia and to the executive committee of the Georgia Baptist Convention.

March 27, 1948. Michael Thomas Bornemann was born in New York, N.Y., the first of four children born to Herbert A. Bornemann and Elaine Marie Bornemann (born Bartlett).

Elaine has said that as pleased as she was at the prospect of becoming a mother, she was also very young, far from her family (who had moved to Missouri), and afraid. When she was upset as a little girl, she found great comfort in her father's arms telling him her troubles and feeling his caring hands gently brush her hair back over her ears. Lying on the delivery table, drifting under the influence of the ether which was used as an anesthetic then, she felt the anesthetist's hands brush back her hair and sensed that she and the baby would be all right.

March 29, 1947. My mother Elaine Marie Bartlett married my father Herbert A. Bornemann in Flushing, New York. She was 20 and he 25 years old.

March 30, 1902. My great-uncle Harry Kenneth Towle (Sr.) was born near Ashville, Pa. He married Lillian Rosencrance, my great-aunt who was a sister of Sara Marie Bartlett, my grandmother.

March 31, 1863. My great-great-uncle Ezra Rosencrance was born to John M. Rosencrance and Sophronia Maria Rosencrance (born Meeker). He was almost 7 years older than his brother John S. Rosencrance, our great-grandfather.

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APRIL

April 6, 1926. My great-aunt Audrey May Rosencrance married Robert Earl Britner. She was 26 years old. They had no children and were divorced in April 1930. She married a second time in Harrisville, Pa. in July 1943 at the age of 42 to Ralph Blane Morrison who was 51 or 52 at the time. He died on July 14, 1946.

April 9, 1877. My great-great-great-grandfather John J. Hamilton died one day before his birthday. He would have been 57 or 61 years old. He was the husband of Sarah Ann Frances Hamilton (born Edwards) and the father of my great-great-grandmother Marie Louisa Weaver (born Hamilton).

April 9, 1891. Jesse Lee Burney was born, the youngest of 12 children born to my great-great-grandfather William David Weaver and my great-great-grandmother Marie Louisa Weaver (born Hamilton). Jesse Lee Burney lived less than 14 months and died on June 4, 1892. His sister, my great-grandmother Addie Lou Rosencrance (born Weaver) was 17 years old at the time. It is not clear from family history why his last name is listed as "Burney" and not "Weaver".

April 10, 1816 or 1820. My great-great-great-grandfather John J. Hamilton was born in Bartow County, Georgia. He became the husband of Sarah Ann Frances Hamilton (born Edwards) and the father of my great-great-grandmother Marie Louisa Weaver (born Hamilton). John J. Hamilton was also the brother of Dr. James Hamilton who was the second husband of Lucinda Amanda Weaver (born Hearn) and, the stepfather of William David Weaver who married Marie Louisa Hamilton. In other words, if John J. Hamilton attended the wedding of my great-great-grandparents William David Weaver to Marie Louisa Hamilton, he was not only father of the bride but uncle of the groom as well.

April II, 1760. My great-great-great-great-great grandfather Jonathon Hearn was born in Sussex County, Delaware to Samuel and Elizabeth Hearn. He left Delaware on January 7, 1792 and moved to Hancock, Georgia where he lived for 8 years then moved again presumably to Putnam County, Georgia.

April 13, 1827. My great-great-great-great-great grandfather Jonathon Hearn died in Putnam County, Georgia two days after his 67th birthday.

April 21, 1941. My great-great-uncle William Corrigan Weaver died at age 58. He was a younger brother of our great-grandmother Addie Lou Rosencrance.

April 22, 1917. My great-great-grandfather William David Weaver died at the age of 71. He was the father of our great-grandmother Addie Lou Rosencrance.

April 27, 1955. Richard Maruso was born. He became the husband of Amy Lois Bornemann, my sister.

April 28, 1954. Carmen Russo was born. He became the husband of Karen Marie Bornemann, my sister.

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MAY

May 9, 1853. Eliza Shi (or Shy) Pennington died at age 53. She was the daughter of Samuel and Jane Patterson Shi, natives of Virginia, who moved to Hancock County, Georgia after the American Revolution. Eliza Shi married Samuel Pennington (1800 - ?) who was the son of Thomas Pennington, a native of Virginia who settled in Warren County, Georgia and later moved to Jasper County where he died. The wife of Thomas Pennington (mother of Samuel Pennington and mother-in-law of Eliza Shi Pennington) had been Letha Beel (or Bell) whose marriage bond is on record in Salisbury, North Carolina.

Among the 6 children born to Eliza and Samuel Pennington was Mary Jane Pennington (1834 - 1887) who became the second wife of Francis Sharpe Hearne, Jr. (1822 - 1866) in 1850.
A second and more important connection between the Pennington and Hearn families is the marriage of Amma Pennington (1830 - 1882), sister of Samuel Pennington, to William Hearn. With this marriage, Eliza Shi Pennington became my great-great-great-grandfather's brother-in-law's wife.
Finally, James Pennington was the first husband of my great-great-great-aunt Anna Weaver, sister of William David Weaver and daughter of Lucinda Amanda Weaver (born Hearn), according to my great-aunt Audrey's account of the Hearn and Weaver family histories.
The land owning gentry of the Old South formed a type of aristocracy. Therefore, it was not unusual for prominent families to intermarry more than once, as did the Hearns and Penningtons, over the generations before the Civil War. A son and daughter of Samuel and Eliza Shi Pennington, W.B.R. Pennington (1828 - ?) and Nancy Ann Pennington, appear to have married a sister and brother of the Maddox family, Nancy J. Maddox (in 1845) and Mesech Asburn Maddox, respectively.
My family history notes that Samuel Pennington was a Methodist and prominent in the Masonic Lodge. He was a steward in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Samuel Pennington and Eliza Shi Pennington are buried in what is known as the Harwell burying grounds in Jasper County, Georgia. The inscription on the tomb of Samuel Pennington reads: "Remember Wife and Children as you pass by
As you are now, so once was I
As I am now, so you must be
Prepare for death, and follow me."
The inscription on the tomb of Eliza Shi Pennington reads:
"Sacred to the memory of Eliza Shi Pennington, consort of Samuel Pennington, who died May 9, 1853, in the fine hopes of blessed immortality in the 53 years of her life."

May I5, 1958. Michael Alan Davis was born in Pittsbugh, Pa. to my second cousin Lillian Marlene Davis (born Towle) and Robert Leon Davis. Lillian Marlene Davis is the daughter of my great-aunt Lillian Towle (born Rosencrance).

May 20, 1877. John Thomas Weaver was born. He was a younger brother of my great-grandmother Addie Lou Rosencrance. He lived only 18 days.

May 21, 1878. My great-great-uncle Charles Edward Weaver was born. He was a younger brother of my great-grandmother Addie Lou Rosencrance. Charles Weaver died in May of 1920 at 41 or 42 years of age.

May 21, 1982. Jason Maruso was born to Richard Maruso and Amy Lois Maruso (born Bornemann). Amy found out she was pregnant with Jason shortly before Dad's death. She saved the news until after his burial then announced, "I think this family needs some good news. I'm pregnant!"

May 28, 1852. My great-great-great-grandfather Thomas Jefferson Weaver died. He was the first husband of Lucinda Amanda Weaver (born Hearn) and father of William David Weaver.

May 28, 1955. My second cousin Lillian Marlene Towle married Robert Leon Davis. She was 20 and he was 26 years of age. They eventually had four children and were divorced on August 25, 1962. Lillian Marlene Davis is the daughter of my great-aunt Lillian Towle (born Rosencrance).

May 30, 1939. My uncle David Joe Neal was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He was the first husband of my aunt Lois Carol Neal Davis (born Bartlett).

May 31, 1901. My great-uncle John Nelson Blewitt was born in Wilmerding, Pa. He became my great-uncle when he married my great-aunt Nellie Clyde Rosencrance on November 27, 1924.

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JUNE

June 3, 1922. My grandfather Alfred Isaac Bartlett (1897 - 6/25/77) married my grandmother Sara Marie Rosencrance. She was 22, he was 25 years old. They would have 3 children - my uncle John Alfred Bartlett, my mother Elaine Marie Bartlett, and my aunt Lois Carol Bartlett.

June 4, 1892. Jesse Lee Burney died having lived 13 months and 27 days. He was the last of the 12 children born to William David Weaver and Marie Louisa Hamilton. He was a younger brother of Addie Lou Rosencrance (born Weaver), my great-grandmother.

June 6, 1877. John Thomas Weaver died having lived 18 days. He was a younger brother of my great-grandmother Addie Lou Rosencrance.

June 10, 1956. Kathy Welch was born. She became the wife of Paul Edward Bornemann, my brother.

June 11, 1960. My aunt Lois Carol Bartlett married David Joe Neal. She was 19 and he 21 years of age. They had three girls, my cousins Carol Jo Neal, Judy Elaine Neal, and Jill Ann Neal, then were divorced in 1971.

June 15, 1899. My grandmother Sara Marie Rosencrance was born to John S. and Addie Lou Rosencrance (born Weaver) at 12:50 p.m. on a Thursday in Putnam County, Georgia, in the town of Godfrey. She was actually born on the 16th, but her mother considered the day she started labor, June 15th, to be the official date of birth.

June 17, 1977. Paul Edward Bornemann married Kathy Welch. He was 26 years old and she was 22.

June 19. 1980. Erin Bornemann was born, the third child and first daughter of Paul Edward Bornemann and Kathy Welch.

June 21, 1980. Erin Bornemann died of pneumonia having lived only three days.

June 25, 1977. My grandfather Alfred Isaac Bartlett died of a heart attack at age 80. His last words were spoken to his daughter, my aunt Lois. When she stood before his bed, he opened his eyes and said, "Oh, 'Sis', you came all this way for nothing." Then he closed his eyes and died.

June 29, 1901. My great-aunt Audrey May Rosencrance was born at 6:00 p.m. on a Saturday in Godfrey, Georgia. She was two years younger than her sister, my grandmother Sara Marie Bartlett. My great-aunt Audrey was born Addie Mae Rosencrance but had her named changed to Audrey May.

June 29, 1953. Amy Lois Bornemann was born in Wilmington Delaware. She was the third child and first daughter born to Herbert A. and Elaine Marie Bornemann (born Bartlett).

June 30, 1951. My great-grandmother Addie Lou Rosencrance (born Weaver) died of cancer at age 76. She was the mother of my grandmother Sara Marie Bartlett. Mom notes, "She was a sweet, typical Southern Lady, very gentile', soft spoken and courteous. Because first born grandchild Betty Rosencrance Goldsmith could not pronounce 'Grandma', Addie Lou was called 'Bonner' by all her grandchildren."

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JULY

July 14, 1946. My great-uncle Ralph Blane Morrison died sixteen days before his 55th birthday. He was the second husband of my great-aunt Audrey May Britner Morrison (born Rosencrance). They had had one year of a loving, healthy marriage before he was diagnosed with cancer. Great-aunt Audrey nursed him for two years until his death.

Mom was 19 years old when her uncle Ralph passed away. She remembers an incident related to his extended illness:
"During World War II, our family lived in New York City. Mom (Grandma Bartlett) and I used to wait on lines in big department stores to get sheets which were very scarce to send to Pittsburgh for Uncle Ralph's bed. Greedily, in order to get two, Mom and I pretended not to know each other. Once when the clerk said, 'Who's next?', your Grandmother said inadvertently, 'We are!' Needless to say, we got only one."

July 15, 1841. My great-great-great-grandfather John J. Hamilton married my great-great-great-grandmother Sarah Ann Francis Edwards. She was 19 and he was 21 or 25 years of age. Among their children would be my great-great-grandmother Marie Louisa Weaver (born Hamilton).

July 16, 1897. My great-uncle Jesse Lee Rosencrance was born at 5:00 p.m. on a Friday in Morgan County, Georgia near Godfrey, Georgia. He was the first of five children born to my great-grandparents John Schoonover Rosencrance and Addie Marie Bartlett's older brother by two years. Jesse Lee Rosencrance married Mary Williams (Aug. 1898 - Jan. 1937) in February of 1916 when he was 18 and she was 17 years old. They had two children, Elizabeth Rosencrance and John W. Rosencrance, both born in Swissvale, Pa. Mary Rosencrance (born Williams) died at age 38, and great-uncle Jesse later remarried.

July 19, 1951. My brother Paul Edward Bornemann was born in Camden, New Jersey to Elaine Marie Bornemann (born Bartlett) and Herbert A. Bornemann.

July 27, 1927. My second cousin Robert Blewitt was born in Wilkinsburg, Pa. to my great-aunt Nellie Clyde Blewitt (born Rosencrance) John Nelson Blewitt. Nellie Clyde Blewitt was the younger sister of my grandmother Sara Marie Bartlett.

July 29, 1797. My great-great-great-great-great-great uncle Jacob Hearn was born. He was the brother of my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Jonathon Hearn.

July 30, 1891. My great-uncle Ralph Blane Morrison was born in Harrisburg, Pa. He was the second husband of my great-aunt Audrey May Britner Morrison (born Rosencrance). They married in July 1943 when she was 42 and he was 51 or 52 years old. They had no children.

Contemplating marriage to my great-uncle Ralph, great-aunt Audrey wrote to her sister Sara on August 31, 1942:
"It's a long sad story and started like this: That big ole moon was a shinin' down on the water and the orchestra was playin' 'Lets Make Believe' and when he axed me, I said 'yes' just like that, without hesitation - me thinkin' it was just another summer mid-night's dream, only we didn't wake up. Now, how do I get out of it? I'd like to be married in a way but I don't like the idea of wrestling with a beef stew or pots and pans for that matter. And I don't think love and companionship would go far toward appeasing a man's appetite - for food.
He's 6 feet tall, slender, has a beautiful head of wavy hair; cynical, disillusioned; has a big smile on his face from morn till night and everyone is crazy about him - men, women, children, dogs, cats, horses and even that cute little black animal with the white stripe down his back that we met face to face in the woods yesterday took one long interested look and graciously walked away without the usual back talk.
I'm afraid it's the real McCoy, but I can sympathize with the bachelor's reluctance to part with his beautiful freedom.
I'm going to Florida to think it over and will then decide my next course. Wish me luck."

July 30, 1923. My uncle John Alfred Bartlett was born in Pittsburgh, PA. He was my mother's older and only brother.

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AUGUST

August 2, 1990. My aunt Lois Carol Neal Davis (born Bartlett) died of cancer at age 48.

August II, 1963. Laura Blewitt was born to my second cousin John C. Blewitt and his wife Edithe.

August IS, 1926. My aunt Edyth M. Bartlett (born Penley) was born in Boone, North Carolina. She married my uncle John Alfred Bartlett in 1947.

August 22, 1921. My father Herbert Alfred Bornemann was born. His birth certificate lists his middle name as "William", but he was baptized "Herbert Alfred Bornemann" after his godfather Alfred "AIf" Landon of New York. Dad used the middle initial "A" all his life.

August 23, 1796. My great-great-great-great-great-aunt Frances Mariah McClendon was born. She became the wife of Lot Hearn who was the brother of my great-great-great-great-grandfather William Hearn.

August 23, l968. My grandmother Sara Marie Bartlett (born Rosencrance) died of cancer at age 69.

August 24, 1851. My great-great-great-great- grandmother Amma Hearn (born Pennington) died nine days before her 46th birthday. She was the first wife of William Hearn and mother of Lucinda Amanda Weaver (born Hearn).

August 25, 1962. My second cousin Lillian Marlene Towle and Robert Leon Davis were divorced after seven years of marriage. They had four children.

August 29, 1948. My cousin John Alfred Bartlett, Jr. was born in New York, New York. He was the first child and only son of my uncle John Alfred Bartlett and aunt Edyth M. Bartlett.

August 31, 1803. My great-great-great-great-grandfather William Hearn was born. He was the great-grandfather of our great-grandmother Addie Lou Rosencrance (born Weaver) who writes in her letter of July 9, 1942 to her daughter, my grandmother Sara Marie Bartlett that the town of Hearnville in Putnam County, Georgia was named after William Hearn.

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SEPTEMBER

September 2, 1805. My great-great-great-great-grandmother Amma Hearn (born Pennington) was born. She would marry my great-great-great-great-grandfather William Hearn after whom the city of Hearnville in Putnam County, Georgia was named. She was his first wife and mother of Lucinda Amanda Weaver (born Hearn).

September 11, 1947. My second cousin Robert Blewitt married Donna Lee Wilson. He was 20 years old and this was his first marriage. They had no children and were divorced in 1957.

September 12, 1964. My second cousin Robert Blewitt married a second time to Phyllis Tanner of West Virginia who was the mother of three girls: Judy Ann Weiss born 1956, Cindy Lou Weiss born 1957, and Linda Gail Weiss born 1959.

September 28, 1963. My cousin Judy Elaine Neal was born to my aunt Lois Carol Neal Davis (born Bartlett) and uncle David Joe Neal.

September 29, 1981. My father Herbert A. Bornemann died of a heart attack at age 60 ending a long deterioration of his health as the result of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Mom notes:

"The night of his death, he was in the hospital. When his massive heart attack struck him, instead of calling a nurse, he had his roommate dial my number. He could only gasp, 'Schmoe, come quick. I need you.' - the last words he spoke.
He was still alive when I got there, but he could no longer speak. I notified the nurse and held his hand while the Code Red was called. 'I know you want to tell me you love me,' I said, 'and I love you.' His eyes locked on mine a second before they clouded. "

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OCTOBER

October 2, 1868. Ada Jeffiesonia Weaver was born. She was my great-grandmother Addie Lou Rosencrance's older sister but lived only four months and died more than six years before Addie Lou was born.

October 2, 1880. My great-great-uncle Columbus Hamilton (Fred) Weaver was born. He was a younger brother of Addie Lou Rosencrance, my great-grandmother, and was still living in 1967 at the age of 87.

October 3, 1905. My great-great-great-grandmother Lucinda Amanda Weaver Hamilton (born Hearn) died at the age of 81. She had outlived her two husbands Thomas Jefferson Weaver (first) and Dr. James Hamilton (second) and her daughter-in-law Marie Louisa Weaver (born Hamilton). Lucinda Amanda Weaver Hamilton was the great-grandmother of my grandmother Sara Marie Bartlett.

October 5, 1871. Olivia Alice Weaver was born. She was an older sister of my great-grandmother Addie Lou Rosencrance but lived only five years and died before Addie Lou was two years old.

October 6, 1896. My great-great-great-grandmother Sarah Ann Frances Hamilton (born Edwards) died at the age of 71. She was the great-grandmother of our grandmother Sara Marie Bartlett.

October 10, 1897. My grandfather Alfred Isaac Bartlett was born in Oskaloosa, Kansas to John Brady Bartlett and Edith Lucy Ann Bartlett (born Schenck). He was one of eight brothers and sisters whose names were Alfred Isaac, Belle, Dean, Francis, Mary, Nattie, Raymond, and Virgie.

October 11, 1845. My great-great-grandfather William David Weaver was born.

October 18, 1962. Karen Marie Russo (born Bornemann) was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey to Elaine Marie and Herbert A. Bornemann. She is the youngest of their four children.

October 31, 1961. My cousin Carol Jo Neal was born to my aunt Lois Carol Neal Davis (born Bartlett) and uncle David Joe Neal. She was the first of their three children - all girls.

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NOVEMBER

November 2, 1953. My great-grandfather John Schoonover Rosencrance died of diabetes at age 73.

November 3, 1941. My aunt Lois Carol Bartlett was born in New York, New York. She was the last of three children and 15 years younger than her sister Elaine Marie Bornemann.

November 4, 1978. Amy Lois Bornemann married Richard Maruso. She was 25 and he 23 years old.

November 5, 1876. Olivia Alice Weaver died at age five. She was an older sister of my great-grandmother Addie Lou Rosencrance.

November 5, 1903. My great-aunt Nellie Clyde Blewitt (born Rosencrance) was born 5:00 a.m. on a Thursday in Atlanta, Georgia. She was my grandmother Sara Marie Bartlett's younger sister.

November 10, 1873. My great-great-great-great-grandfather William Hearn died. He was the great-grandfather of my great-grandmother Addie Lou Rosencrance (born Weaver).

November 12, 1990. Isaac Joseph Bornemann was born in Baltimore, Maryland to Michael Thomas Bornemann and Angela Jean Bornemann (born Skruch). At the birth of their only child, Angela was 40 years old and Michael was 42. They had been married for almost 14 years. The name Isaac (which means "laughter" in Hebrew) was selected for its biblical reference to the story of Abraham and Sarah who laughed when a messenger of the Lord told them that they would have their only child, a son, in their old age. It was also selected in honor of the baby's paternal great-grandfather Alfred Isaac Bartlett who had been named after his great-uncle Isaac.

November 15, 1821. My great-great-great-great-grandfather William Hearn married Amma Pennington. He was 18 years old and she was 16. This was his first marriage. She died August 24, 1851 at the age of 45. He remarried January 17, 1861 at the age of 57 to Cintha Catherine Callaway. My great-great-great-grandmother Lucinda Amanda Weaver Hamilton was the daughter of William Hearn and Amma Hearn (born Pennington).

November 19, 1844. My great-great-great-grandfather Thomas Jefferson Weaver married Lucinda Amanda Hearn. She was 20 years old. Of the children born to them, their first was my great-great-grandfather William David Weaver.

November 27, 1924. My great-aunt Nellie Clyde Rosencrance married John Nelson Blewitt in Swissva1e, Pa. She was 21 and he was 23 years of age. They were to have two sons: Robert (born 7/27/27 in Wi1kinsburg, Pa.) and John Blewitt (born about 1932).

November 28, 1882. My great-great-uncle William Corrigan Weaver was born. He was a younger brother of Addie Lou Rosencrance, my great-grandmother.

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DECEMBER

December 1, 1919. Elizabeth Rosencrance was born in Swissvale, Pa. to my great-uncle Jesse Meeker Rosencrance and Mary Rosencrance (born Williams). She was the first of their two children, the other being John W. Rosencrance born in December 1922 also in Swissvale, Pa.

December 2, 1980. My uncle John Alfred Bartlett died of a heart attack in Yonkers, New York.

December 6, 1979. Paul Herbert Bornemann was born to Paul Edward Bornemann and Kathy Bornemann (born Welch). He is the first grandchild of Herbert A. Bornemann and Elaine Marie Bornemann and the only grandchild Herbert knew before his death when Paul Herbert was not yet two years old.

December 8, 1936. My second cousin Harry Kenneth Towle, Jr. was born in Wilkensburg, Pa. to my great-aunt Lillian Rosencrance and Harry Kenneth Towle, Sr.

December 8, 1953. My cousin Suzanne Bartlett was born in Brooklyn, New York to our uncle John Alfred Bartlett and aunt Edythe M. Bartlett.

December 12, 1763. My great-great-great-great-great-grandmother Rhoda Parker was born to Jacob and Mary Parker. She would become the wife of my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather Jonathon Hearn and mother of my great-great-great-great-grandfather William Hearn.

December 13, 1867. Sara Amanda Weaver was born to my great-great-grandparents William David Weaver and Marie Louisa Weaver (born Hamilton). She was the first of their twelve children but lived only 17 days. She died almost eight years before her sister, my great-grandmother Addie Lou Rosencrance was born.

December 18, 1976. Michael Thomas Bornemann married Angela Jean Skruch at St. Vincent de Paul Roman Catholic Church in Baltimore, Maryland. Angela was 26 and Michael 28 years old.

December 18, 1989. Andrew Bornemann was born to Paul Edward Bornemann and Kathy Bornemann (born Welch). He is the youngest of their three sons.

December 20, 1903. My great-great-grandmother Marie Louisa Weaver (born Hamilton) died at age 55.

December 21, 1869. My great-great-aunt Mary Anna Weaver was born. She was an older sister of Addie Lou Rosencrance, my great-grandmother. She died at age 22 when Addie Lou was 16 years old.

December 22, 1926. Elaine Marie Bornemann was born to my grandparents Alfred Isaac Bartlett and Sara Marie Bartlett (born Rosencrance). She was their second of three children and oldest of two daughters.

Grandpa and Grandma Bartlett were attending a Christmas party when Grandma began to experience labor pains. Enjoying the party and thinking there was plenty of time to get to the hospital, Grandma and Grandpa over-estimated the length of labor. By the time they stopped at their house to pick up some things for the hospital, Grandma was in the final stages of labor. Grandpa ended up delivering Elaine safe and sound - at home.

December 28, 1871. My great-great-great-grandfather Dr. James M. Hamilton died. He was the second husband of my great-great-great-grandmother Lucinda Amanda Weaver Hamilton (born Hearn) and brother of my great-great-great-grandfather John J. Hamilton. He was the step-father of William David Weaver and uncle of Marie Louisa Weaver (born Hamilton) who were my great-great-grandparents.

December 29, 1867. Sarah Amanda Weaver died after living only 17 days. She was the first of twelve children born to my great-great-grandparents William David Weaver and Marie Louisa Weaver (born Hamilton). Sarah Amanda had died before any of her brothers and sisters were born.

December 30, 1988. Karen Marie Bornemann married Carmen Russo. She was 26 years old and he was 34.

December 31, 1885. My great-great-uncle Preston Ervin Weaver was born. He was a younger brother of my great-grandmother Addie Lou Rosencrance. Mom notes that he raised champion wire-haired terriers including one Royal Scotch Ward Suggestion who won Best of Breed at the prestigious Madison Square Garden Kennel Club show in the 1930's.

In 1967, great-great-uncle Preston Weaver was still living at age 81.
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