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Pence and Platts Photographs & History |
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The Pence family name has been spelled several different ways, as any red blooded American name has. The furthest research we have available links us to Germany. Richard Pence has written so many articles and has compiled so much that you should best read it on his website: http://www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/america.htm
Our Pence family records:
Ella Winifred Pence Pedigree Chart
More to come eventually!! |
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Platts Surname Origination [Habitational name from Platt or Platt Bridge in Lancashire, England, named in Middle English with Old French “plat”, meaning flat or thin. Also a topograph name from Middle English meaning “plot of land” or “piece of ground”. ] Platts Family History Lancashire is North West of England. Our relative, Henry Platts was born in Ripley, Derbeyshire, England. However, he departed from Liverpool which is in the Wastern portion. Henry Platts traveled alone with 2 bags in 1849, or so it seemed, to New York City on the ship Andrew Foster. The other names listed next to him on the passenger manifest are Perkins, and if you look on the previous page there are several different Perkins families listed. After his death, his wife remarries to a John Perkins, who claims to have arrived in 1849, the same year. I’m guessing that the Perkins were related to the Platts family. Henry Platts originally lived with a Canadian boot & shoe maker by the last name of Beauchaine in Freeport, Illinois, where the 1850 census states he was a laborer. He married Sarah Parks in February in the same city, which must have been where business was handled because she lived in Wisconsin. From there they moved to Albion Prairie, Wisconsin, less than 80 miles away. They had their second child there. He died the same year as their child’s birth, and probably never saw his son who was born in October. He died in a well cave in along the Bad Axe River, a tributary to the Mississippi that runs through Dane County. Sarah remarried by 1855 to John Perkins and moved to Waterloo, Iowa with her two young sons. They eventually wound up in Eldora/Jackson, Hardin County, Iowa where Sarah lived out her years. She also had 8 other children by John, combining the families together. Her daughter Adelaide Janette and her son James Thomas Platts both married into the highly esteemed Hayden family who helped found the area and are well known for their establishments. The Platts Family Home pictures were taken on Bank Street in Webster City, Iowa. |
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Ella Winifred “Winnie” Pence aka “Bingo” |
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Cecil Pence & Earl Platts, brothers-in-law, Grandma Winnie’s father and Uncle on her mom’s side. |
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Winnie and Avonelle, sisters |
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Unknown location, but check out the horse pulled plow. |
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I think these pictures give us a glimpse into the kind of woman Ella Winifred Pence League was. She loved woodworking, horses, adventure, and most of all her family. |
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The Platts Family originated from the Derbeyshire, England area below. |
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Cecil Pence with his sons, Rex, Gordon, and Dale. Winnie is in the background on the porch. |
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Who is with Grandma Alpha Platts Pence and Grandma Emma Estelle “Essie” Hayden Platts (below)? |
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Grandma Alpha Platts Pence with Roberta Ruth League. |
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Grandma Alpha with Avonelle’s girls. |
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Wallen Hayden Platts with his mother, Emma Estell Hayden Platts...and Winnie peaking in the background. |
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The Platts Women is all this said. #3 is Grandma Alpha Platts Pence and #5 is Avonelle Pence Brownell. Who are the other women? |
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Here we have ? |
