Delk Family History (and more!)

I have now updated part of the Descendant Chart. Now, when you go to John Delk’s children, you can click on them and see their descendants. I have all of the png’s for this on an FTP site if anyone wants them to print out. Please send an email to photos@familyhistoria.com, and I will get you a password to get in. This is also a great way to exchange pictures if you want some posted or a higher res. picture for printing. Remember, the Descendant Chart is an Adobe Shockwave file, you need the plug-in, (see earlier post). It is also 6mb in size, so give it a minute or two to load. I made it huge so you can read the names, may change it later.

Brian

I have now updated Charles Wesley Delk with photos, and have included his wife, Bernice Butler with photos for her. You can only get to her from Charles page. I will be adding some documents to their site as well later in the week. I am still waiting to find out about adding their children to the site.

In other news, I am starting to work with the city of Pleasant Hill on a history project showing the growth of the city and also what the future may hold. I have a photo that I want to add to the site showing a corn field that was taken from Highway 163, the area is now developed with houses and businesses. Would like to get people to sit down and interview to talk about how the city has changed over the past 50 years. This will be an on going project that I hope will get people interested in the history that is around them and that they to will become involved.

Brian

I have uploaded a biography of George Washington Delk, written by his son, dictated by GW. Elmer and Martha’s obituary are now posted as well as some poem’s that Martha had written during World War I. Some photos of Franklin Elsworth Delk before he left for the War are on-line and one of Solomon Bennet Delk, date unknown, is also posted.

Remember to give everything time to load. I am trying to keep everything below 3mb in size, but if you do not have high-speed internet, it will take a few minutes. If anyone wants a photo at a higher resolution for printing, please let me know and I will give you a separate download link.

Brian

Dad just finished up John’s Bio, please look and if you have any more information to add to it, that would be great. Also, I have added death notices for George Washington, John and his wife Sarah. More to come soon.

Quick update, just so everyone knows what is going on. My real job has kept me fairly busy this month, which is good for me, but bad for this site. I have however scanned a book full of  photos and documents, and in the next few weeks will be updating quite a bit. I could just upload everything and call it good, but I am cleaning up a lot of these scans. The documents are faded and the photos, (not all) are in need of some help. I know I said I woudn’t do this, but in the long run it looks much better.

Dad and I are hoping to get away long enough to get some photos of John Delk’s gravesite and maybe make some other stops as well. Hopefully this will happen sooner or later. Again, please check back in the next few days for updates.

Figured out how to get something to work in CSS, so now the Document section is working. I posted Fernandis Orien’s obituary. This is a learning process for me since CSS is not my normal cup of tea, but I am getting the hang of it. I just now need to make the dates of the letters into columns and I will be happy. It should be easy to do and it will look nicer. I have been having an internal debate with myself about the photos. Part of me wants to dust bust all of the photos and have them look as good as the day they were taken. The other part of me is realistic, and I know this is not a feasible task. So what I am going to do is split this down the middle. I will continue to scan at a high bit rate, fix the color cast’s in the photos and them look presentable, and move on. If at anytime someone wants a print of one, or when I have time, then I will fix it up. But for now, I just want to get them posted.

New photos are posted. They are of John Delk, George Washington Delk, John Henry Delk, Elmer Delk, Theodore Delk, Fernandis Delk, Priscilla Delk, Franklin Delk, Charles Wesley Delk, Sarah (Delk) Maitlen, and her daughters, Martha and Harriette. Speaking of the Maitlens, I will be working on that line this week. For those who do not know, my Great-grandfather, Elmer, married his first cousin, Martha. Martha’s mother, Sarah (Delk) Maitlen, is John Delk’s sister. And no, I do not have an unnatural tick because my Great-grandparents are first cousins. To help visualize all of this, I am working on a descendant chart for all of the family members. I will also start adding  a third category, documents, such as obituaries, newspaper articles and similar items.

If anyone is having problems with any of the pages, or if you notice some mistakes, please drop me a line at delkbrian@earthlink.net. And to add to that, if you have anything you want posted, let me know and I will get it put in.

I have now finished, for now, updating letters between the various family members. A picture is starting to form on how close knit the family was. Fernandis, or Nan, Theodore, and Elmer traveled west and back. Theodore’s son died at an early age. And the girl’s wrote about romance. I also stand corrected about having pictures of all of Ethelred’s children. We do not have one of Isaac or Isabelle. Isaac died in 1864, so it is doubtful we will ever find one of him, and Isabelle we can not make a definite identification. On the other hand, we have one of all of John’s children.

Speaking of photos, now that I have batch of letters done, I am now going to start on some photos and setting up a second family, The Maitlen’s, who would be my Great-grandfathers wife, Martha Maitlen. They were also kissing cousins. More on that later.

Mary (Delk) Beanblossom photo is updated. I hope I am correct in saying this, but I believe we have at least one photo of all of Ethelred’s children. I need to check that. Letters are also updated.

Updated Sarah Delk, she received a letter from her niece, Sarah Althea Delk, Daughter of Joseph Oen. In general, the letter details Joseph’s death and the move to Pittsburgh, Ohio. This letter is also posted with Joseph Oen. Nancy Byers biography has also been updated.