Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NameSylvia Jane RENNOLDS 
Birth23 Aug 1856, Chicago, Cook, Illinois1709, p 18; date only,1713, p 1; place only,1769, year only
Memoon the corner of Canal and Madison
Death8 Dec 1936, Denver, Denver, Colorado1713, p 1 Age: 80
NicknameTib232, p 1
FatherDr. W. E. RENNOLDS
MotherRebecca Jane COPP
Individual Notes
• Ravenswood, Chicago. Sept. 11, 1905.
The letter arrived Saturday, it was very welcome, and I am so glad that it meets with your approval and cooperation. Starting on its second trip I have thought of a few suggestions. Let us use thin paper, if very thin, let us write on one side only, so it may be easily read. I will enclose an envelope in which I have placed 4 cents in stamps. Let us each do this and then when the letter reaches Uncle Wesley he can change the stamps into money to help pay for sending letter to Clara and back. I think it would be well to date and number each letter, then we can read in rotation without difficulty. Our little family will add their letters, would have written before but my first letter was a venture. They will do their duty in future as Cousin Riley suggests. This letter may mean a great deal to this same Riley judging the interest the family have taken in the small hand on the shoulder.
I send love to all,
Sylvia R. Martin232, p 40
The letter arrived Saturday, it was very welcome, and I am so glad that it meets with your approval and cooperation. Starting on its second trip I have thought of a few suggestions. Let us use thin paper, if very thin, let us write on one side only, so it may be easily read. I will enclose an envelope in which I have placed 4 cents in stamps. Let us each do this and then when the letter reaches Uncle Wesley he can change the stamps into money to help pay for sending letter to Clara and back. I think it would be well to date and number each letter, then we can read in rotation without difficulty. Our little family will add their letters, would have written before but my first letter was a venture. They will do their duty in future as Cousin Riley suggests. This letter may mean a great deal to this same Riley judging the interest the family have taken in the small hand on the shoulder.
I send love to all,
Sylvia R. Martin232, p 40
Census Data
• 1900 Census: Chicago, Cook, Illinois. Age 42, b Aug 1857, IL. Parents b England. Mother of 5 children, 4 living.1770
Spouses
Birth30 Apr 1855, Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois1769, year only
Death30 Nov 1930, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri1713, p 1 Age: 75
ResidenceChicago1747
ResidenceRavenswood, Cook, Illinois1709, p 16
ResidenceKansas City (1915)1742, p 2
FatherRev. Henry Leslie MARTIN (1827-1915)
MotherJane GOLDTHORP (1828-1914)
Individual Notes
• In the newspaper account of the 60th wedding anniversary of his parents in 1909, Joseph Earle Martin was listed as living in Chicago, but in the obituary of his father in 1915, it was noted that he was from Kansas City.1709, p 16
• Clara said the several effusions gave her a pleasant hour; it took our daughter Lois over two hours and a half to read the letters. Perhaps some of the time was wasted in laughing and in commenting on the different efforts. Then too some of the letters were long. You noted, all of you, how verbose the “Elder” was! His letter must have required great mental effort(?) How many of looked up the references given by the professor? After reading the letter of “M. D.” and the “Postscript” how many of the family thought, with us, that all the talent of the family didn’t preach. John expresses a desire to prove himself worthy of his name, etc. Won’t some of the Pomona folks tell us her name? Lillian owns up to hundreds; Clara to forty, and the professor to one, and the rest of us string along all the way between. John had better get a hustle, if he really wants to be, etc. We note many comments on the little hand on Riley’s shoulder. When next the letter reaches us, will perhaps, enclose copy of the short story we are now writing entitled “The Phantom Hand, or the Sad Fate of the Young Reporter.” By the way Witt, send Riley a bottle: he needs it.
This family letter is all right in theory, but the “Thing-in-law? that started it is just as liable to trouble as the sparks to fly up. Solomon XVI--111. There are school mams and professors; preachers and teachers, to say nothing of our one editor(?) and what show do us common work-a-day folks have anyway, in this letter. Next year our daughter May graduates and then you can all look for something brilliant from Ravenswood.
Just one little piece of advice based on my own personal experience. Date your letters; number them; write on thin paper; do anything else she says of look out. Haven’t really started to write my letter yet, but she says stop.
Earle.
P.S. She wouldn’t let me write at all the other time.
E.232, p 43
• Clara said the several effusions gave her a pleasant hour; it took our daughter Lois over two hours and a half to read the letters. Perhaps some of the time was wasted in laughing and in commenting on the different efforts. Then too some of the letters were long. You noted, all of you, how verbose the “Elder” was! His letter must have required great mental effort(?) How many of looked up the references given by the professor? After reading the letter of “M. D.” and the “Postscript” how many of the family thought, with us, that all the talent of the family didn’t preach. John expresses a desire to prove himself worthy of his name, etc. Won’t some of the Pomona folks tell us her name? Lillian owns up to hundreds; Clara to forty, and the professor to one, and the rest of us string along all the way between. John had better get a hustle, if he really wants to be, etc. We note many comments on the little hand on Riley’s shoulder. When next the letter reaches us, will perhaps, enclose copy of the short story we are now writing entitled “The Phantom Hand, or the Sad Fate of the Young Reporter.” By the way Witt, send Riley a bottle: he needs it.
This family letter is all right in theory, but the “Thing-in-law? that started it is just as liable to trouble as the sparks to fly up. Solomon XVI--111. There are school mams and professors; preachers and teachers, to say nothing of our one editor(?) and what show do us common work-a-day folks have anyway, in this letter. Next year our daughter May graduates and then you can all look for something brilliant from Ravenswood.
Just one little piece of advice based on my own personal experience. Date your letters; number them; write on thin paper; do anything else she says of look out. Haven’t really started to write my letter yet, but she says stop.
Earle.
P.S. She wouldn’t let me write at all the other time.
E.232, p 43
Census Data
• 1860 Census: Mt. Morris, Ogle, Illinois. Age 4, b IL. Living in household of John and Annis Martin. Listed as Erl.682
• 1900 Census: Chicago, Cook, Illinois. Age 45, b Apr 1855, IL. Paints and Oils. Father b NY; mother b England. Listed as Joseph E.1770
• 1900 Census: Chicago, Cook, Illinois. Age 45, b Apr 1855, IL. Paints and Oils. Father b NY; mother b England. Listed as Joseph E.1770
ChildrenLois G. (1883-)
Edith May (1884-)
Dorothy (1893-1952)
Josephine (1895-)