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Carver History from Myrtle Violet Carver Groves

A while back a cousin came to me with photos of our great-grandparents and most of their children. She got these from her great-grandmother, Myrtle Violet Carver Groves. This is the family of Cyrus Hoyt Carver and his wife, Mary J Allen.

She took photos of old scrapbook pictures with her phone. I edited to make them clearer. I've posted them on Facebook and Ancestry but haven't shared them here yet.

Carly also transcribed Myrtle's family history notes, to which I added a few comments based on updated info. We've kept the notes as is, except for those comments. I'm so grateful people in previous generations did research and wrote down their notes. I've been sitting on this for a while because I'm unclear about the best way to share it. But the best way is probably any way that works. So, here is the transcript of her notes. This will take you to Carley's website. This used to be a PDF on my Google Docs; something happened. I'll work to fix that. Meanwhile, on Carley's site look for the documents titled "transcript-history-myrtle-violet-carver-groves ..." There are two documents. One contains missing pages from the original. Each has some Carver info.

If this doesn't work well, please contact me at carverhistorical@outlook.com, and we'll figure something else out.

A few highlights

The family moved from Wisconsin to homestead in Nebraska in 1878.
Cyrus made his own tools and sewed, by hand, his own shirts made from brown denim and lined with red flannel which he wore the year round.
The family attended singing school in the evening for entertainment.
Oliver was married to Loren's stepdaughter.
Orin may have moved to Gresham, Oregon.
Barton married Happy Jo Sherman, whose full first name was Happiloni.
Donley never married.

And here are the photos.