A Mother’s Love Is Like A Rose, Each Passing Day It Grows
And Grows.

Vol. 8, No. 5
April 2006

That’s right! It’s Mother’s Day. And this Newsletter is dedicated to the Mother’s of our enormous family.

To start this newsletter out, I would like to make some much needed corrections. Someone had sent me some photos to publish and had given the wrong information about them.

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Patty,

The Stover family photos were a surprise when I opened the newsletter this morning.  The first photo is of Mary Pontsler Stover, and the photo beside of it was an old metal photo which someone in the family took and made the first photo from. Below Mary is her son and my grandfather, Joseph Stover. Even though he was in Oklahoma for a short time in his early life, he lived and died in Putnam County, WV. The photo beside of him is his daughter/my mother, Bertha Stover Jividen.

Mary Pontsler Stover                                                Virginia Dare Corns

Joseph Stover                                                           Bertha Stover Jividen

Virginia Dare Corns, daughter of Eva Stover Corns and grand daughter of Mary Pontsler Stover. Eva was a daughter of Mary Pontsler Stover and sister to Joseph Stover.

Mary’s parents were Joseph and Martha Jane Walker Pontsler. Joseph’s parents were Serick and Elinor Walkinshaw Pontsler, who were also the parents of Elinor Pontsler who married Clark Tillis, who was the son of Richard Tillis and Elizabeth Greenlee VanBibber. This means that Mary Pontsler was really not a member of the VanBibber family, just in and around the family.

I hope this helps clear up the photos and connections.

Thanks for all your hard work…I know it is not easy to put out a newsletter like that.

Carolyn Jividen Miller: [email protected]

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{Thank you Carolyn, I really appreciate the help. Patty}

                  Grandma Celia       Uncle Noah
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John Fisher and Susan Laura Helleums Fisher and their family.
Celia was John Fisher-Bruton’s daughter.
Great Grandma Susan’s maiden name was Susan Laura Helleums.
Uncle Noah is the oldest boy in the photo. He married 1^st wife Mable;
2^nd wife, Aunt Merl. (not pictured).
All of the babies are buried at Leech, OK at Elm Cemetery.

                                                        
       Aurther Granville VanBeber                                           Celia Charity Bruton VanBeber
Grandparents of Nadine Duvall and Leigh Lloyd

Roy Little is on the horse. Bob and Ida Little are behind him in the
drivers seat, with Bob holding the reins, and Ida holding daughter Mildred.

James Henry VanBebber and Ruth Ann Hooker-VanBebber
Great grandparents of Nadine Duvall and Leigh Lloyd.

Submitted by: Nadine Duvall: [email protected]
Leight Lloyd: [email protected]

Stanton Bailes and Laurana Higginbotham-Bailes with my grandfather, George Bailes on my great grandmother’s lap.
In the back we believe is Bertie Bailes Birkshire, half sister of my grandfather. We are still researching this. She was a lot older than my grandfather and his brothers. We are not sure if she was a daughter from a first marriage of Laurana or Stanton?

Serrick Pontsler, father of Elinor Pontsler Tillis, 1^st wife of Clark "Click" Tillis, grandfather of Rebecca Tillis-Tucker, great grandfather of Enith Tucker-Bailes.

Eleanor Pontsler Tillis Clark "Click" Tillis

(Seated): Rebecca Tillis Tucker, daughter of Clark and
Eleanor, with my grandmother Enith on her lap.
At this time, we are unsure as to the ID of the couple in
the back.

Descendants of Isaac Thomas VanBibber

1 Isaac Thomas VanBibber 1827-1870 and Missouri Ann Sutton 1835-
   2 Thomas Isaac VanBibber 1864-1912 and Mary Jane Lumsden 1871-1933
      3 Flora Frances VanBibber 1894-1923 and John Bourell
         3 Bessie Sadie VanBibber 1897-1970 and Lee Byford 1889-1964
         3 Virginia Gladys VanBibber 1902- and George Pryer|
         3 Clara Jane VanBibber 1904 - and Ed Rogers 
         3 Clarence VanBibber 1904-1923
         3 Huey VanBbber 1097-1962 and Pauline
         3 Ellen Pearl VanBibber 1908-1992 and Gustav Schneider
         2^nd husband of Ellen Pearl VanBibber: Arthur Charles Lampe 1902-1966

My Family by: Patricia Van Bibber-Santillan

Documentation of the Marriage of Isaac Van Bibber and Mary Walraven

Van Bibber Family

Isaac Van Bibber and Mary (Mariah) Walraven
   Loyal Van Bibber and Sarah Elizabeth Robinson
      Albert Van Bibber and Phebe Eakins
         Charles Edison Van Bibber and Nellie Avery Waterman

Waterman Family

Russell Waterman and Elizabeth Susan ?
   Henry Waterman and Sophia Selves"
      John Waterman and Emily Jane Carpenter

Carpenter Family

William Carpenter and Nancy Ann Brown
   Emily Jane Carpenter and John Waterman
      Nellie Avery Waterman and Charles Edison Van Bibber

                                              
Charles Edison Van Bibber & John Waterman; father of
Nellie Avery Waterman Nellie Avery Waterman.
My Grandparents. My Great Grandfather.

                           
Nellie Avery Waterman; Nellie Avery Waterman at her home
Age about 24 years. On Jarboe street in Kansas City, Mo.
She told my sister Virginia She passed away in 1959, when I was
(Del Grande) that she had hand about 6 years of age.
made the dress that she is wearing in this photo.

                                    
My daddy, Kenneth Carpenter Daddy in the 1970’s; in
Van Bibber as a teenager in Independence, Missouri
Omaha, Nebraska.

Hello,

I have always enjoyed reading about my family. I am interested in learning if anyone knows much about the VanBibber man who fought in the Revolutionary War. I was just hoping that it was in my line since I am trying to get into the DAR, and can’t find all of the records that I need for two of my lines. This might be a better hope.

Thanks so much for taking over the job of editor!

Debbie Crumbaker: [email protected]

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Olive Van Bibber was my wife’s first cousin many times removed. Or her aunt, or her niece. My wife descends from Jacob Van Bibber, Olive’s brother.

Earl H. Taylor : [email protected]

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Hello Patricia,
I am related to some of the Van Bebbers. My line is:

Isaac Van Bebber m Hester Op de Graef
   Jacob Isaac Van Bebber m Christina
      Debra Van Bebber (or Lisbet?) m Herman Isaacs Op de Graef
         Styge Op de Graef m John Krey
            Catherine Krey m Christian Haldeman
               Christian Halteman m Magdalena Frey
                  Benjamin Halteman m Fannie Funk
                     Christian Halteman m Deborah Stauffer
                        Moses Halteman m Almira Schultz
                           William Halteman m Ida Woods
                               Mary Halteman m Charles T Wolfram
                                  Charles Wolfram

Do you now who the mother of Styge Op de Graef Was?  Debra or Lisbet? Both were married to Styge’s father, and they were sisters, and I’ve seen both of them given as her mother.

Chuck Wolfram: [email protected]

Don’t forget! Father’s Day is in June!

I thought I should let everyone know that I am in the process of moving to a new home.

Please send any news articles and/or photos to me at my Yahoo address.

I will be able to access everything, and still be able to work on the upcoming newsletter.

Patricia Van Bibber – Santillan : [email protected]