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Data Example
William
Joseph "Billy" MARTELL 1 ID:000049
Carpenter, Cabinet Maker
Birth, Wexford, Allamakee Co., Sep 4, 1881
Death, Wheatland. Platte Co., WY, Oct 9,1951
Burial, Wheatland Cemetery - Wheatland, WY, Oct 12, 1951
Son of Charles MARTELL and of Philomena Geneva LaPOINTE
Marriage, Wexford, Allamakee Co., IA, Feb 5,1918, Mary Matilda "Mayme" McGUIRE, birth; Lansing, Allamakee Co., IA, Nov 29, 1894, Death, Wheatland, Platte Co., WY, Oct 15, 1979, Daughter of James Francis McGUIRE Jr. and of Catherine Matilda BURNS.
Church Affiliation: St. Patrick's Catholic Church -- Wheatland, WY.Physical Description: 5ft. 4in. - 145lbs..
Organization: Woodman of the World Lodge.
Burial Plot: N ½ Lot 207, Block 4.
Military: US Navy.
Baptism: Oct 15,1881, Immaculate Conception Church - Wexford, IA.
Children:
1. Mary Philomena MARTELL 11 ID:000004, Birth, Wheatland, Platte Co., WY, Nov 18, 1918, Death, Wheatland, Platte Co., WY, May 14, 1996
2. Joseph Charles MARTELL 12 ID:000679, Birth, Wheatland, Platte Co., WY, Sei) 3,1920, Death, San Diego, CA, Dec 4, 1943
3. Katherine Esther MARTELL 13 ID:000647, Birth, Wheatland, Platte Co., WY, Oct 9, 1922, Death, Platte County Memorial Hospital, Wheatland, WY, Mar 29,1981
4. Martha Susanna MARTELL 14 ID:000667, Birth, Wheatland, Platte Co., WY, Sep 14,1924
5. Roselle MARTELL 15 ID:000665, Birth, Wheatland, Platte Co., WY, Jul 15,1926
6. Agnes Eleanor MARTELL 16 ID:000678, Birth, Wheatland, Platte Co., WY, Feb 13, 1931
" My dad was told by a doctor in Iowa that he had better go west fast-for his health. He had two kinds of inflammatory arthritis. So, my folks hurried up and got married in the church there in Wexford. They left Lansing, Iowa on Monday April 22, 1918 and got to Wheatland, Wyoming on Thursday April 24 th. Mom and Dad, grandma and grandpa McGuire, and my Uncles Bernard, Pat, James and Tom came west with them when they left Lansing, Iowa. My Dad was a carpenter by trade. He loved to play the fiddle, and played for dances all around the flats. He even made a fiddle from apple wood, once. In 1926, he built the house (Lot 2 Block 192, 1503 15th St.) in which all of my sisters and brother were raised, got married and left home -- in Wheatland. We all had our ups and downs ... who hasn't."
"What I remember about my Dad (Will, mom called him) was at night, when I was very young, he would get his fiddle out and renting it or just play it, and then sometimes he would write his own music. I would set for hours and watch and listen to him play. Mom would go every time he would play for dances so that she could get the money he got for playing, and she would take me with her. If she didn't she wouldn't get any of the money, as he would just spend it on booze. The more Dad drank the better he could play. He could sure make that old fiddle jump to a tune. By the time the dance would be over he would only have one or two strings left on it.
I remember he and another man named Greenlee bootlegged whiskey for awhile. Greenlee had a little girl that he had to raise by himself, her name was Irene. I went to school with her. Dad was a very good carpenter! He built a lot of the barns for ranchers and farmers around the Wheatland Flats that are still there today. Celia (Kernan) Hermann has dad's fiddle."
Medical notes:
Cause of death -- Acute Heart attack ( low blood
pressure). 1 year chronic Myocarditis
Multi-media objects.
1. P : 0000490l.bmp;
2. P*; 00004902.bmp; "Billy"- 30 Years
Sources.
1. Birth, 2 ID:00008
2. Burial, 2
3. Death, 2
