In Memory of Mr. Isaac Dade Sr.

Mr. Isaac DADE Sr was born Virginia about 1805 to 1813.  He was a labor.  He was the husband of Frances OVINGTON DADE. His wife, Frances was the mother of 14 children.

Isaac Dade and Francis Dade were the witnesses to
Mr.  Lewis Lankford and Miss Charlotta Dade's marriage in 1873. 

Isaac was one of Canton, Missouri's older residence of his time. On January 11, 1890, he passed at his daughter, Charlotta (DADE)  LANKFARD's home. Charlotta was living in  St. Joseph, Missouri. Isaac was 85 years old at the time of his death.

Source: 1870, 1880 Censuses, Marriage Record, Newspapers, Obituary,

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God bless you.
S. A. Blakley

William Allen: Who Was He?

What is known of  William Allen?

Wm Allen applied for a license marry on December 24, 1888 in St. Joseph, Missouri. He wanted to marry a Miss Laura Washington. George Fermon signed his name as a witness to William Allen's signature. Wm made his mark on the application.

On March, 1889, Wm Allen and Miss Laura Washington were married in St. Joseph, Missouri. They were married by The  Rev Alexander C Terrell. He was the pastor at the Methodist Church on  311 Antonie in St. Joseph, MO.

About nine months later, on December 21, 1889, William and Anna Laura Allen were blessed with a daughter.  Her name was  Mary Anna Allen.

 Birth record of Mary Anna Allen Lankfard   

 On the 1890 St. Joseph, Missouri city directory, William Allen was listed as a labor residing at Mulberry NE Cor 18th. This was the same address of William and Susan Washington. They were the parents of Anna Laura Allen.

There isn't much more known about William Allen. The only source of his existence are the application for marriage and the marriage license, the birth record of his daughter, Mary and the 1890 City directory in St. Joseph, MO.

There are questions that remind.

Who were Williams' parents?
What about his upbringing?
Could William have another name?
Could William have been mulatto?

Can't locate William Allen on the 1870 and 1880 censuses.
There's a black William Allen listed on the 1880 census in St. Joseph, MO.
This William was born oi n 1858 in MO.

Could Wm and Anna divorced?
There's no record of Anna Allen or Laura Allen being the widow of Wm Allen.
There's no record of Anna Allen or Laura Allen in the City directories.
Anna Laura was listed as the widow of Thornton Walters in 1898.

 What happened to William?
When and where did he passed?

Who Was William Allen?
He was my mother's Grandfather.

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God bless you.
S.A. Blakley  

Family Connections: Going Deeper In 2020

Greetings! Welcome to this New Year!
Happy Twenty Twenty!
I hope you have a good start in this new year.!

I'm hoping to go deeper into what I have discovered on my family tree.  I've made a lot of new discoveries on the DADE Family Connections. I have come across news articles, obituaries and  some DNA  matches that I need to look over. I'm trying to connect the dots.

I have put my DNA matches into groups of Dade, Bartlett and Blakey Blakley WHITE Family Connections on ancestry.com.I've stumbled across some mysteries that have been solved. I have DNA cousins who I know but didn't imagine to be my relatives. I discovered that I'm an aunt cousin.

I've been updating the In Remembrance each year as I come across the information. The links posted years ago, but, I go back over to add informations.

In Remembrance on The Dade Family Connections
I plan to update what I have discovered and I've to re read articles. I have info so that I can journal on. It's interesting.


In Remembrance on The Bartlett Family Connections. I haven't made much progress on the BARTLETT Family Connections. I have come across some DNA matches with cousins who are connected with the DADE side. I'm waiting on a reply.


In Remembrance on  The Blakey Blakley WHITE Family Connections
I hope to make some progress on some of the BBW Family lineage.

I hope that you continue into the Christmas Season.
May we find what we are looking for.

Thanks for reading.
God bless you.
S.A. Blakley