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Birdie Grace Bisbee[1]

Female 1874 - 1934  (60 years)

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  • Name Birdie Grace Bisbee  [2]
    Birth 20 Apr 1874  Smyrna Town, Chenango, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Gender Female
    Death 9 Jul 1934  Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Burial Bucklin Cemetery, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I9884  Bisbee
    Last Modified 30 Dec 2009

    Father Benjamin Franklin Bisbee,   b. 22 Jun 1842, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Jan 1923, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    Mother Rebecca Jane Grissom,   b. 17 Aug 1843, Cicero, Hamilton, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Feb 1919, Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    Marriage 1 Jan 1867  Mason City, Mason, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5] 
    • The B. F. Bisbee family came to Meade County in 1887 from Champaign County, Ill. in a covered wagon with their six children and driving two white mules. They first settled on some land southwest of Plains where they lived in a dugout for a short time. They then moved southwest of Plains, where they filed on a quarter of land and proved their claims up. This land is still owned by members of the Bisbee family.

      When B. F. Bisbee built the first wood frame hs for his family, he hauled the lumber from Dodge City, taking four days with a lumber wagon. His children hunted buffalo chips to burn in the stove to heat their hs their first winters when they were cold and hungry. --Taken from "Plains Centennial" printed 1985.
    Family ID F4140  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Isaac Newton Melia,   b. 25 Jan 1868, Preston, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 May 1949, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
    Marriage 14 Aug 1897 
    Children 
    +1. Jessie Melia,   b. 30 Aug 1898, Plains, Meade, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    +2. Gordon Bisbee Melia,   b. 30 Jan 1900, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 May 1968, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
     3. Mabel Melia,   b. 21 Oct 1901   d. Apr 1986 (Age 84 years)
     4. Oscar Vernon Melia,   b. 4 Jun 1904, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jul 1961, Kalispell, Flathead, Montana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 57 years)
    +5. Russell Elmer Melia,   b. 15 Mar 1906, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Jun 1981, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
     6. Emmerson Eugene Melia,   b. 12 Apr 1908   d. 29 Apr 1962, Johnstown, Weld, Colorado, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 54 years)
    +7. P.V. Melia
    Family ID F9529  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Sep 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 20 Apr 1874 - Smyrna Town, Chenango, New York, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 9 Jul 1934 - Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Bucklin Cemetery, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Notes 
    • Daughter of Benjamin Franklin Bisbee and Rebecca Grissom

      Was Twin of Minnie Belle who died in infancy.

  • Sources 
    1. [S2589] Crandall Melia, Grandson of Birdie Grace Bisbee, Melia, Crandall: Grandson of Birdie Grace Bisbee, (1837 N. San Antonia Ave, Upland, California. Tel. 909-985-4350. Email candcmelia2@yahoo.com).

    2. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 102.

    3. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 237.

    4. [S1261] Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900, Online, B. Frank Bisbee & Rebecca J. Grissom, 01/01/1867, vol 3 , p 6, Mason County.

    5. [S1084] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, comp., International Genealogical Index (R), (Version 5.0 (Online: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999-2005), : FamilySearch (TM) Internet Genealogy Service, 50 East North Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150).