Datanetics and Apple I

It was pretty cool to open the Los Angeles Times to see this article 

This historic custom built Apple I comes with a Datanetics keyboard

Description from the auction house. I think my dad would be blown away by this.

The White Rose of Middle Valley

This is what I would call ‘a gem of a find’ in my grandmother’s memorabilia and it’s in good shape

I guess smiling for the camera wasn’t a thing then. Good thing it is now! You can click on each image to see them larger so you can read the text. Edward and Lucinda had nine children. The last two died shortly after birth. 

Such a tragic story of her mother dying after her younger sister was born. Then being separated from her sister. Her father and brothers moving somewhere else. In those days, how would you ever find your siblings?

Why couldn’t the writer tell us the weird way the laundry was hung? I want to know. 

I think my grandmother Alice Ginevra Fletcher was named for the Genevria in this photo…maybe

Then I wonder, how many relatives have to be on the family tree? Where do I stop? Maybe this booklet is enough for this family in the 1800’s? 

Lucinda loved to sew, quilt, knit and read. Kinda like me. Her nickname in her early life was Cinda. She was known as Grandma Fletcher in Middle Valley, Idaho

Note: Emily Fletcher Towell is the author of the Covered Wagon Diary in the upper tabs



And will probably remain that way, at least for me.

I wonder if Fanny Fletcher was the one my Grandma always talked about. I haven’t found anyone else named Fanny yet. 





Written by Ethel Hopper in 1958. Lucinda was her great grandmother 

Verona Yeargain Styll 1891-1981

Verona C Yeargain pictured on the right

She is third from the front

Front and center. Amazing that she saved these photos

A report card from 1898 Osage School in Skiatook, OK. She was also good at keeping important info

I wished I had asked more questions when I could have









Verona and Edson in the 50’s at my parents home in Whittier, CA

Opening a File

I am down to one box now for the Fletcher Family. Opened a file and found these letters to my Dad from Henry H. Fletcher

One of the envelopes

A typed version of the Covered Caravan Diary. The one that Alice Fletcher Cann copied from the original diary. It’s in the upper tabs for your reading pleasure

And this! I have yet to read it, but will soon to share n this blog. Mrs. Carl Fletcher is named as one of the contributors of this historical document

From that letter, I found and added Edward T siblings and now know where Alice Genevra’s name came from! And where Aunt Fanny fits into the picture! Yay!

A Circle of Friends

This is from an album that Jamie made for Marshall and Earla in 2006



Life long friends! With Drus and Martha!

Earla Cann and Alhambra High School

I am always amazed as to the memorabilia people keep

Earla Cann, Prom Queen - January 14, 1947

Close up of the longer article

The Queen and her Court


Report cards







Graduate of Alhambra High School

8mm Film to a Thumb Drive

After gathering all of the 8mm film in yellow boxes (parents) and reels (grandparents), I had them transferred to a thumb drive. 48 files. No sound. All from the 50’s and 60’s. Great fun to watch on my laptop. This took 3 months to have done and several days for me to watch and take notes. I am so happy with how it all worked out! 

Apparently my parents and grandparents weren’t too good about labeling their movies. So, I made a summary of each file so my siblings would know what is on it. And where to speed up. 

Screen shots of my grandparents from their home movies

I love this one!

They are just so happy! It was our ‘go to’ place for family parties!

The company that I used:

Legacy Digital Productions

202 W Lincoln Street, Suite A

Orange, CA 92865

714-757-0993

Robert H Styll 1811-1890

Robert H Styll 1811-1890. Father of Robert Emmett Styll who is the father of Edson Eastman DuHamel Styll (my grandfather). I really enjoy putting the puzzle together and also researching family names. I might do a blog post on where their names come from. That would be interesting!

Seth Newman Eastman, MD 1855-1899

Seth Newton Eastman, MD

b. 1855 d. 1889 at age 33

Son of Edson Cummings Eastman and Mary E Eastman

From the family archives

Born in Concord New Hampshire and died in New York City and buried in the family lot in Blossom Hill cemetery at Concord. Attended Vermont medical college 83 year course, graduating with distinction. Appointed surgeon on one of the steamships of the Alexander line running from New York to Veracruz. He had a short practice at Danvers, Massachusetts. Surgeon on the Rotterdam line of steam ships. Hemorrhage of the lungs in Amsterdam while visiting some friends at a hotel. Six weeks of skillful medical treatment nursed back to health by his sister Belle. Then went to Barbados Island and back to being a surgeon on the Brazilian line. Dr. Eastman had friends. He made them everywhere and he retained the last, their attachment. He met death with fortitude. Living, he scattered about him a smile of help; dying, he desired to cast no shadows and life‘s pathway.

Edson Cummings Eastman 1832-1911

Edson Cummings Eastman

b. 9 Nov 1832 d. 9 Mar 1911

Info gleaned from genealogy books at Aunt Betty’s house in Oklahoma when me and my parents stayed with her. Elizabeth Hazelwood Styll Smith married to J. Leroy Smith 19 Jun 1923. He was a real estate bookkeeper and she was a teacher in public schools. 

Edson Eastman DuHamel Styll with Edson Cummings Eastman. Child was the brother of Elizabeth Hazelwood Styll Smith (Aunt Betty).

President of the Eastman Association in Concord. Married Mary Elizabeth Robinson February 14, 1855 and Mary W Whitemore is his second wife. Edson was a very successful businessman, respected by all with whom he came in contact with. He was the president of the Eastman association of Concord a number of times. He was a publisher and stationer of Concord and his establishment is one of the largest of its kind in the state.

From his obituary

In the death of Edson C Eastman which occurred at his home on N. State St., late on Thursday afternoon, the city of Concord suffers a loss of one of its oldest and best known businessman as well as a most popular, public spirited and every way for most useful citizen. Mr. Eastman was born in Concord November 2, 1832, the son of Seth and Sarah (Coffin) Eastman. His education was received in the public schools of the city and in the Gilmanton Academy. Mr. Eastman began his business career as a clerk in the office of former governor Joseph a Gilmore, who was at that time general manager of the Concorde and Claremont railroad.

After a few years of railroad experience, he decided to enter business, and with SG Sylvester of this city started a crockery store under the name of Sylvester and Eastman. About 50 years ago Mr. Eastman bought the entire stock in business of Mr. Crawford and enter the book and publishing business, the store being located on the present site of the bean needle craft shop. After engaging in the new business successfully for some years, he was unfortunate enough to be burned out, but nothing daunted, start a business again, and had continued in the same line up to the present time. Of late years, he had conducted business in a well-equipped establishment just north of the New Hampshire savings bank.

Sometime in the early 1850s Mr. Eastman married Mary Robinson of East Concord, who died in 1882, survived by her husband and two children Mary Isabell who married Robert Styll and is at present living in Oklahoma City Oklahoma and son Seth Eastman, who became a physician and died some years ago at age 33.

In 1888 he married Mary Whitemore a Bradford mass, who survives him. Mr. Eastman has always been identified with the Democratic Party and for many years had been active member of the first Baptist Church on North State St. Mr. Eastman‘s career has been a very successful one. He published the White Mountain Guide Book (in print for 110 years) which was so popular that it went through 13 or 14 editions.

He published the old reliable Leavitt’s Farmers Almanac (still available on Amazon 1875 Edition) and several law books, the last of these being a compiled edition of New Hampshire Public Statutes (still being made today Volume 29 as of 2021).

He bought the stock of G Parker Lyon and continued the publishing of well-known New Hampshire Register, afterwords purchasing the entire stock of Josiah W Sanborn which was the stock above mentioned, included the New Hampshire Reports which he published down to and including the 61st volume. He had been for many years and active member of the Eastman family Association, the New Hampshire Historical society and the Appalachian club.

Until recent years Mr. Eastman have been an enthusiastic and active member of the Concord Board of Trade. Mr. Eastman was in the old days an active member of the Peacock Engine Company No. 4 and had been for years an honorary member of the Concorde Veteran Firemans Association.

Another Obituary 

Mr. Edson C Eastman Thursday was a widely known publisher, most popular and patriotic citizen and a consistent Democrat. His heavily stocked Concord bookstore has more than half of the century seemed an indispensable institution. No business in New Hampshire is better known among the class of people appreciate the value of service it has rendered. THE PATRIOT will particularly miss Mr. Eastman because he visited it’s office with great frequency, having from boyhood love the smell of printers ink and he was in incorporator of the new Hampshire Patriot Company which now on this paper.