New Jersey Family Group Sheet for the John Clarence LEMMONS Family *********************************************** Copyright © Michelle Larson. All rights reserved. http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml *********************************************** Submitted by: Michelle Larson Email address: ancestory4me@aol.com ================================================================================ Husband: John Clarence LEMMONS(2, 3, 4) ================================================================================ AKA: John R. LEMONS 1 Born: 22 Dec 1867 - Newton, Sussex, New Jersey, USA(2, 5, 6, 7, 8) Died: 5 May 1952 - Marquette, Hamilton, Nebraska, USA(2, 3, 5, 7) Buried: May 1952 - Aurora, Hamilton, Nebraska, USA(5) Addr:Aurora Memorial Cemetery, c/o Eldon Burling, caretaker, 1309 Highway 14, Aurora, Nebraska 68818-5321, USA Father: William Ellsworth LEMMONS (1841-1906)(2, 9, 10, 11, 12) Mother: Rebecca Catherine BLACKFORD (1840-1901)(2, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) Married: 19 Oct 1898 Place: Aurora, Hamilton, Nebraska, USA(3, 4, 14) ================================================================================ Wife: Lida DANCE(2, 3, 20) ================================================================================ AKA: Born: 24 Nov 1876 - Stanford, McLean, Illinois, USA(2, 5, 8, 21, 22) Died: 3 Jun 1944 - Aurora, Hamilton, Nebraska, USA(2, 3, 5) Buried: Jun 1944 - Aurora, Hamilton, Nebraska, USA(5) Addr:Aurora Memorial Cemetery, c/o Eldon Burling, caretaker, 1309 Highway 14, Aurora, Nebraska 68818-5321, USA Father: William DANCE (1843-1917)(2, 4, 10, 23) Mother: Julia Ellen (1854-1905)(2, 4, 10) ================================================================================ Children ================================================================================ 1 F Irma Irene LEMMONS(2, 4, 6) Born: 9 Jul 1903 - South Platte Precinct, Hamilton County, Nebraska, USA(3, 20, 24) Died: 7 May 1995 - Aurora, Hamilton, Nebraska, USA(20, 25, 26) Buried: 11 May 1995 - Aurora, Hamilton, Nebraska, USA(20, 27) Spouse: Richard Julius Bruno FENSTER (1900-1998)(20, 26, 28, 29) Marr. Date: 24 Dec 1923 - Mankato, Jewell, Kansas, USA(4, 30, 31, 32, 33) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ Medical Notes (Husband) ================================================================================ Cause of Death: Suicide; gunshot to head(34) ================================================================================ Burial Notes (Wife) ================================================================================ Gravestone transcription: Lida Lemmons, November 24, 1876 - June 03, 1944. ================================================================================ Source Citations ================================================================================ 1. United States Federal Census, (Stillwater Township, Sussex County, New Jersey; 1870), Pg. 40, Lines 20-24. Repository: Ancestry.com Images Online. Cit. Date: 24 Dec 2003 2. Shirley M. (Deichmann) Fenster. Repository: FENSTER, Dale & Shirley, 2323 Wagon Wheel Road, Nampa, Idaho 83651, USA. 3. Doris (Fenster) Rasmussen & Irma Irene (Lemmons) Fenster, "Family Keepsakes/History", (continuously updated; 2003), Lemmons family listings by Irma Irene Lemmons-Fenster. Repository: Rasmussen, Edgar and Doris, Route 1 Box 59, Marquette, NE 68854, USA. 4. Leonard & Margaret Johnson, "Family History of William Dance", (compiled August 15, 2000) Rec. Date: 4 Sep 2001. Repository: McCarty, Bill and Karen, 10001 W. Frontage Rd #239, South Gate, California 90280. 5. Michelle Thompson-Larson, "Aurora Memorial Cemetery - Gravestone Photos & Transcriptions", (Aurora, Hamilton Co., NE; gravestones & markers photographed, transcribed, & indexed; 1994-2001.) Repository: Larson, Dean & Michelle, 212 East 9th Street, Waterloo, Iowa 50703, USA. 6. Doris (Fenster) Rasmussen & Irma Irene (Lemmons) Fenster, "Family Keepsakes/History", (continuously updated; 2003). Repository: Rasmussen, Edgar and Doris, Route 1 Box 59, Marquette, NE 68854, USA. 7. Ibid, Note on 'Producers' paper. Repository: Rasmussen, Edgar and Doris, Route 1 Box 59, Marquette, NE 68854, USA. 8. United States Federal Census, (South Platte Precinct, Hamilton County, Nebraska; 1900), Image 11, ED77, Sheet 6A, Date: 16 June, Line 16-17, Dwelling & family 100, Head of Household: Lemmons, John H. Repository: Ancestry.com Images Online. 9. How a Jerseyman Did a Brave Deed, (Unknown Newspaper; New Jersey; July 22 -- Special). Repository: Rasmussen, Edgar and Doris, Route 1 Box 59, Marquette, NE 68854, USA. 10. Doris (Fenster) Rasmussen, "My Family Register", (Marquette, Hamilton Co., NE), 8. Repository: Rasmussen, Edgar and Doris, Route 1 Box 59, Marquette, NE 68854, USA. 11. Bob MacAvoy - correspondent, 18 Sept 2002; Subj: CW Veteran William Lemmons. Repository: MacAvoy, Bob. 12. Doris (Fenster) Rasmussen & Irma Irene (Lemmons) Fenster, "Family Keepsakes/History", (continuously updated; 2003), 1. Repository: Rasmussen, Edgar and Doris, Route 1 Box 59, Marquette, NE 68854, USA. 13. A Sussex County Hobson, (Unknown Newspaper, New Jersey, 1899). Repository: Rasmussen, Edgar and Doris, Route 1 Box 59, Marquette, NE 68854, USA. RE: William E. Lemmons' U.S. Civil War service. 14. Marriage Record: Lemmons, John C. & Lida Dance, (Hamilton Co., Nebraska, Marriage Record D, pg. 363, Filed 20 Oct 1898.) 15. Sussex County, New Jersey Marriage Books, (Newton, Sussex Co., NJ), Book B, record #275. Repository: Sussex County New Jersey Marriages. Cit. Date: 16 Aug 2006. Cathy DiPietro (list admin NJSussex at Rootsweb) provided information on Blackford-Lemmons marriage [Email, 22 Oct 2002, vdpcom@warwick.net] 16. Harold Smith - correspondent, Email: 23 Dec 2002, Subj: Lemmons Family Plot. Repository: SMITH, Harold, , New Jersey, USA. Cit. Date: 26 Dec 2003 17. Ibid, "Descendants of John Blackford", (Email: 23 Dec 2002, Subj: Rebecca Blackford Ancestry), Pg. 10. Repository: SMITH, Harold, , New Jersey, USA. Cit. Date: 21 Sep 2004 18. United States Federal Census, (Stillwater Township, Sussex County, New Jersey; 1850), Pg. 166, Line 3-9, Dwelling 150, Family 157, Household of William Blackford. Repository: Ancestry.com Images Online. 19. Ibid, Pg. 165-166, Lines 39-44, Dwelling 149, Family 156, Household of Stephen R. Blackford. Repository: Ancestry.com Images Online. 20. Aurora News-Register, Irma Fenster, (Aurora, Hamilton Co., Nebraska; Published 10 May 1995). Repository: Aurora News-Register, 1320 K St., P.O. Box 70, Aurora, Nebraska 68818-0070, USA. 21. Doris (Fenster) Rasmussen & Irma Irene (Lemmons) Fenster, "Family Keepsakes/History", (continuously updated; 2003), 06/14/2001 Lemmons family listings by Irma Irene Lemmons-Fenster. Repository: Rasmussen, Edgar and Doris, Route 1 Box 59, Marquette, NE 68854, USA. 22. Doris (Fenster) Rasmussen, "My Family Register", (Marquette, Hamilton Co., NE), 7. Repository: Rasmussen, Edgar and Doris, Route 1 Box 59, Marquette, NE 68854, USA. 23. Michelle Thompson-Larson, "Aurora Memorial Cemetery - Gravestone Photos & Transcriptions", (Aurora, Hamilton Co., NE; gravestones & markers photographed, transcribed, & indexed; 1994-2001.), Sec. 9, Lot 23, Owner: Wm. Dance. Repository: Larson, Dean & Michelle, 212 East 9th Street, Waterloo, Iowa 50703, USA. Lot contains 8 markers: 1 family & 7 individual. Unknown if all gravestones mark actual burials. Early cemetery records were lost to fire. 24. Edna VonHausen-Crow-Stohl-Anderson - correspondent. 25. Dale L. Fenster. Repository: FENSTER, Dale & Shirley, 2323 Wagon Wheel Road, Nampa, Idaho 83651, USA. 26. Aurora News-Register, Obituary of Richard Fenster, (Aurora, Hamilton county, NE; September 2, 1998). 27. Michelle Thompson-Larson, "Aurora Memorial Cemetery - Gravestone Photos & Transcriptions", (Aurora, Hamilton Co., NE; gravestones & markers photographed, transcribed, & indexed; 1994-2001.), photos taken 1996 & 2000, double marker. Repository: Larson, Dean & Michelle, 212 East 9th Street, Waterloo, Iowa 50703, USA. 28. Aurora News-Register, Hold Last Rites for Alvena Fenster Here Saturday, (Aurora, Hamilton Co., NE; Published March 1960). Repository: Aurora News-Register, 1320 K St., P.O. Box 70, Aurora, Nebraska 68818-0070, USA. 29. United States Federal Census, (Otis Precinct, Hamilton County, Nebraska; 1900), ED4-75, Sheet 5A-B, 11 June 1900, Dwelling/Family 84, Household of Jacob H. Fenster. Repository: Ancestry.com Images Online. 30. "Marriage Record of Richard J.B. Fenster & Irma Irene Lemmons", (Jewell County, Kansas, Record #42722, pg. 322, December 24, 1923). 31. Doris (Fenster) Rasmussen, "My Family Register", (Marquette, Hamilton Co., NE), pg. 100-107 by Irma Irene (nee Lemmons) Fenster. Repository: Rasmussen, Edgar and Doris, Route 1 Box 59, Marquette, NE 68854, USA. 32. Newspaper: Unknown, News article printed after Monday, Dec. 24, 1923. 33. The Independant, (Grand Island, Hall Co., Nebraska), Today's Obituaries: Area Deaths, Sunday, August 30, 1998, Richard Fenster. 34. Doris (Fenster) Rasmussen, 01 July 2002. Repository: Rasmussen, Edgar and Doris, Route 1 Box 59, Marquette, NE 68854, USA.