Janice Werner Kemp-Phillippy and Steven William Phillippy Ancestry - Families and Individuals


Harry Bonnell BRADFORD was born 1870. He died 1952. Harry married Ida Florence WERNER on 1903.

Other marriages:
SPEIDEN, Mary Shand Prentice

Ida Florence WERNER [Parents] was born 30 Mar 1881. She died 23 Feb 1930. Ida married Harry Bonnell BRADFORD on 1903.

Ida Florence Werner* grew up in the farm community of Eglon WV where she met her future husband, Harry, when he was on a summer vacation in western MD, near the WV border. Eglon is a very small town almost on the border between MD and WV which is surrounded by dairy farms and sawmills in the Appalachian mountains. She was the third of five children in her family and had received some training in singing from her father, who was a music teacher. She and Harry were married in 1903 in Washington DC and she raised their two sons.
Ida was known for her long and radiant red hair. She was a wonderful hostess and played the piano for many country sing-fests, as well as for her family and friends in Washington DC.

Ida died suddenly in 1930 of what was diagnosed as "rheumatic heart", accompanied however with hemorrhaging of the lungs. It is suspected now that she had contracted tuberculosis, which was complicated by a chronic condition, such as asthma.

They had the following children:

  M i William Werner BRADFORD was born 25 Nov 1905 and died 9 Feb 1975.
  M ii Henry Knight BRADFORD Sr. was born 28 Jul 1907 and died Mar 1993.

William Werner BRADFORD [Parents] was born 25 Nov 1905. He died 9 Feb 1975. William married Christine Elizabeth BANNERMAN on 2 Nov 1929.

Other marriages:
Living

Christine Elizabeth BANNERMAN was born 29 Jul 1908. She died 6 May 1970. Christine married William Werner BRADFORD on 2 Nov 1929.

They had the following children:

  F i Living
  M ii Living

William Werner BRADFORD [Parents] was born 25 Nov 1905. He died 9 Feb 1975. William married Living on 13 Jul 1970.

Other marriages:
BANNERMAN, Christine Elizabeth

Living


Harry Bonnell BRADFORD was born 1870. He died 1952. Harry married Mary Shand Prentice SPEIDEN.

Other marriages:
WERNER, Ida Florence

Mary Shand Prentice SPEIDEN married Harry Bonnell BRADFORD.


Ira Mortimer WERNER [Parents] [scrapbook] was born 8 Apr 1877/1879. He died 10 Aug 1985 in Tampa, Florida and was buried in Garden Of Memories, Westminster Section, Tampa, FL. Ira married Katherine GOOD.

Other marriages:
JOHNSTONE, Margaret

Katherine GOOD "Kitty" married Ira Mortimer WERNER.


Ira Mortimer WERNER [Parents] [scrapbook] was born 8 Apr 1877/1879. He died 10 Aug 1985 in Tampa, Florida and was buried in Garden Of Memories, Westminster Section, Tampa, FL. Ira married Margaret JOHNSTONE.

Other marriages:
GOOD, Katherine

Margaret JOHNSTONE was born 1877. She died 1973 in Tampa, Florida and was buried in Garden Of Memories, Westminster Section, Tampa, FL. Margaret married Ira Mortimer WERNER.

Other marriages:
UNKNOWN,

BIOGRAPHY: Had two children by prior marriage, raised granchild Peggy.


UNKNOWN married Margaret JOHNSTONE.

Margaret JOHNSTONE was born 1877. She died 1973 in Tampa, Florida and was buried in Garden Of Memories, Westminster Section, Tampa, FL. Margaret married UNKNOWN.

Other marriages:
WERNER, Ira Mortimer

BIOGRAPHY: Had two children by prior marriage, raised granchild Peggy.


Swan Augustus GUSTAFSON was born 4 Aug 1868 in Sweden. He died 17 Apr 1937. Swan married Lephia Hope WERNER.

Swan Augustus Gustafson (1868-1937) was born in Kallbyn, Svanskog County, Province of Varmland, Sweden on Aug. 4, 1868. His ancestral family had lived and farmed for many generations in Svanskog, where the Parish Church (Lutheran) was decorated by his great grandfather, Shulstrom, a grandfather of his father, Mattson. Shultrom had apprenticed in the art of sculpture in Italy and southern Europe, and the Parish Church at Svanskog is adorned with his artistic talent.
Swan (whose name was originally Sven) received his primary and secondary education in Swedish public schools and then farmed in central Norway for a while. At the age of 22, in 1891, he emigrated to the United States. He sailed from Gothenberg on a steamship of the Wilson line to Liverpool, then on a Cunard liner Galia to Castle Garden (The receiving port in New York Harbor for immigrants in that year), where he arrived on April 26, 1891.

Almost immediatly after arriving in New York, Swan traveled by rail to Ridgeway PA where he filed his citizen papers (finalized in Oct. 1906), and worked at sawmills at Mill Creek and Ridgeway, then in 1893 securing a position as a helper on the steel vessels in the converting department at the Homestead plant of the Carnegie Steel mills in Pittsburgh. These mills were shut down that same year following the panic that followed a major labor disruption where several people were killed. Following that experience, Swan returned to the lumber camps and sawmills of Ridgeway.

By 1898 Swan had settled in Elkins WV, and in the period 1909-1913 he relocated to the town of William in Tucker County WV where he was a store manager for Richard Chaffee. In 1910, he married Lephia Hope Werner (1877-1975), who had two children by him, both sons. Lephia lived to be 98 years old.

In 1913, Swan relocated to the town of Ruthbell, in Preston County WV, and became the manager of the Ruthbell Lumber Company store, which had been formed by Mr. Chaffee. He remained there until he died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1937.

Swan became a stockholder and Director of the First National Bank of Albright, a stockholder in the Bank of Kingwood, and oversaw certain coal operations in Kentucky. He also held a commission as Notary Public in Preston County WV.

Swan was a Royal Arch Mason and a member of the Morgantown (WV) Lodge of Perfection. He was also a member of the Elkins Lodge, the Kingwood Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, the Maccabees of Detroit (Lodge No. 32), and several Swedish-American charitable and recreational organizations: the Svenska Turistforeningen Arskort (the Swedish National Travel Club), and the Federal Council Royal Arcanum in Pittsburgh. He was also a member of the Presbyterian Church of Kingwood WV. Swan was recognized and remembered in Ruthbell as one of that town's most charitable and public-spirited citizens.

Swan's parents were: Gustaf Mattsson; b. Jan 25, 1839; d. July 6, 1921; and Lena Svensdotter; b. Mar 19, 1844 in Amal Parish in the province of Dalsland, Sweden. Gustaf and Lena were married in about 1865. They had 8 children:

Lephia Hope WERNER [Parents] was born 11 Mar 1877. She died Oct 1975. Lephia married Swan Augustus GUSTAFSON.

Lephia Hope Werner (1877-1975) was raised in Eglon WV. She graduated from the Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio. After graduation she became a school teacher in Preston and Tucker Counties in West Virginia.

They had the following children:

  M i Karl Werner GUSTAFSON was born 23 Oct 1911 and died 1998.
  M ii John GUSTAFSON was born 8 Aug 1915 and died 28 Nov 1942.

Karl Werner GUSTAFSON [Parents] was born 23 Oct 1911. He died 1998. Karl married Ruth GEIST.

Other marriages:
Living

Ruth GEIST was born 6 Feb 1921. She died 19 Jun 1968. Ruth married Karl Werner GUSTAFSON.

They had the following children:

  M i Living
  M ii Living
  F iii Living

Living [Parents]

Wendy KAUFMAN was born 20 Aug 19__. She married Living.

They had the following children:

  M i Living

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