Annis Hubbard and Charles Sholes Divorce Record 1896.06.05 Antelope County Nebraska

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Annis Hubbard and Charles Sholes Divorce Record

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Nebraska divorce records
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In District Court of Antelope County Nebr., Petition

Annis H Sholes, Plaintiff vs. Charles E Sholes, Deft.

The plaintiff complains of the defendant for that on the 9th day of October 1889 in Antelope County, Nebraska, she was married to the defendant, and has since resided herein, and has ever since said marriage conducted herself toward the defendant as a faithful, chaste, and obedient wife.

2nd The defendant, disregarding his duties as a husband, on the 9th day of October 1889 willfully deserted the plaintiff, and for more than five  two years lost past has been willfully absent from her without a reasonable or just cause. (Note: Updated 11/6/24 after consulting with Sandy Dempsey and looking more closely at the handwriting. The word is very likely "two".)

3rd The following children are the issues of said marriage to wit, Florence Octavia Sholes, aged 6 years.

4th The plaintiff further represents that said defendant is a man of vicious and vulgar habits, and is wholly unfit to be entrusted with the care, custody and education of children.

The plaintiff therefore prays that she may be divorced from said defendant and that she may be given the custody of said child and that said defendant be decreed to pay her reasonable alimony, and for such other relief as equity may require.

State of Nebraska, Antelope County:

I, Annis H. Sholes, plaintiff in the above entitled action, do solemnly swear that I believe the facts stated in the foregoing conclusion to be true.

Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 5th day of June, 1896. E O Kilvairnis. Notary Public.

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Annis Hubbard and Charles Sholes Marriage Record 1889.10.09 Sherman Twp Nebraska

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Annis Loiza Hubbard and Charles E. Sholes Marriage Record

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Marriage Record, Nebraska No 273

Mr. Charles E Sholes to Miss Annice Hubbard
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I, E. W. Sholes of Antelope County, State of Nebraska, age ___ years, do solemnly swear that I am acquainted with Mr. Charles Sholes and Miss Annice Hubbard who are parties for the marriage of whom a LICENSE is applied for; that said Charles Sholes is of the age of 26 years and upward; of sound contracting mind, and unmarried. That said Annice Hubbard is of the age of 20 years and upward; of sound contracting mind, and unmarried, and may lawfully contract and be joined in married.

I furthermore do solemnly swear that the following schedule containing the names of the aforesaid parties, their age, color, place of birth, residence and parents' names, is correct in every particular, to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief, to-wit:

Name	Charles E Sholes	Annice Hubbard
Age	26	20
Place of Birth	Iowa	Nebr
Residence	Antelope	Antelope
Father’s Name	E. W. Sholes	Edmund Hubbard
Mother’s Name	Sarah A.	Jane C

E W Sholes, Applicant, subscribed and sworn before me Oct 9th, 1889

Certificate of Marriage

To the county judge of Antelope County, Nebraska:

This certifies that on the 9th day of October A. D. 1889 at Sherman Tp in the said county, according to law and by authority, I duly JOINED IN MARRIAGE Mr. Charles E Sholes and Miss Annice L Hubbard and there were present as witnesses Lewis R Riley and Hattie Pundle. Given under my hand the 9th day of Oct A.D 1889. A. B. Nelson

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Annis and Orland, Venus and Mars

One of my favorite family jokes, which always falls flat, is "Grandpa was from Mars, Grandma was from Venus." My children smile uncertainly. The grandkids look confused.

"Don't you remember the book that was all the craze a few years ago? Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus?"

Blank stares. Finally somebody will say, "Oh. Ha-ha."

Mars and Venus are both ghost towns now. Annis Hubbard's mother Jane took a homestead in Venus in 1886. Orland Carver's family moved to nearby Mars a few years before that, in 1877. Venus is marked on the map below. Mars is just a little bit southeast, in Royal. (If Royal doesn't show up, make the map a little larger by clicking on the "+" sign.)

Grandpa

Orland William Carver Sr. was born in Wisconsin on Nov 20, 1869. We've heard he was born in Janesville, but La Valle, Sauk County, Wisconsin seems more likely based on the family's location in 1870. His parents were Cyrus Hoyt Carver and Mary Jennette Allen.

Grandpa was the youngest of eight children: Seven boys and one girl. My father thought the girl's name might be Nettie; however, an unknown person on Familysearch.org has it listed as Roxy. This girl died at age 11. All of the boys lived to adulthood. They were: Dorr, Orin, Loren, Oliver, Donley, Barton and Orland.

Notes on spelling: Mary's middle name may have been spelled Jeanette, Jenet, Janet, or Jennette. Dorr's name has been spelled Dorr, Dor, and Door and in one record, David. Donley has also been spelled Donaley.

The family moved from Wisconsin to Nebraska with a group of other settlers. Among them was a man named Samuel Haskin, who appears to have been a close family friend. The Haskins and Carvers took homesteads near each other.

As they reached adulthood, some of the Carver boys also took homesteads in the Mars area, Grandpa included. Homesteading in Nebraska was not an easy life for any of these families, and over the years many moved away.

Grandpa and ? and Alta, maybe

My dad's early notes say that Grandpa's first marriage was to Grandma, but later he updated those notes to indicate a previous marriage to an unknown lady, and that they had one daughter named Alta. I haven't found any information about this marriage or child.

Grandpa and Grandma

I haven't seen any confirmed photos of Grandpa. Dad describes him as stocky, white, medium height, brown hair, blue eyes. Good luck getting a sketch artist to draw that for you! But since I don't have a likeness of his face, I'm going to show you the next best thing, a photo of his handwriting.

This is from Florence Sholes' marriage license. I think it says something like, ”I give my consent Miss Florence and Mr Carey to be married. Orland W. Carver.”  Since the sides are cut off and his handwriting is not quite as pretty as Dad's, it is hard to decipher. Below that is Grandma's handwriting.

We don't have any family stories about how Grandpa and Grandma met, but here is my theory. One of the Haskin girls, Mercedes, married Grandma’s brother, Edmund Hubbard. I imagine that at some point Annis came by to visit her brother, and there was Orland, neighbor man, with his keen good looks and stunning penmanship.

Maybe they met at one of those dances the Carvers liked to host. He winked. She blushed. They danced. And then they got married, proving once and for all that poor Grandma's man-picker was in serious need of repair.

I want to say good things about Grandpa, I really do. Here are some things.

• He used to rock the kids to sleep and sing them hymns.
• He fathered children who grew up to be good people.
• My father loved him.
• Without him, I would not exist.

OK. That's all I've got. I'm just not sure what was going on with him, but it seems like life started out well enough but went downhill over the years. Whatever was wrong, Grandpa, I'm sorry for you and wish your life had been better. More than that, I'm sorry for your family.

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Florence Sholes and Clarence Carey

Updated 6/21/18 to include Census and Draft Registration Information

As mentioned previously, Annis Hubbard and Charles Sholes had one daughter, Florence Octavia Sholes, born on December 31, 1890. I don't know how much time she spent with her biological father. Chances are she didn't know him, but that is conjecture.

• Her parents were married in 1889, and Annis filed for divorce in 1895. 
• The divorce papers say that Charles had been gone for more than five years, I think. The handwriting gets really hard to decipher. 
• Florence was 6 at the time the divorce was filed.

April 1906 -- O'Neill, Nebraska
At age 16 Florence married a 27-year-old from Iowa named Clarence Dean Carey. Don't lose track of Uncle Clarence. He just keeps showing up in this family. We name a Carver boy after him. We marry him, twice. And we have a lot of children with him.

May 1910 – Washington, Knox, Nebraska 
The census shows the family living in Washington, Knox, Nebraska.

1910; Census Place: Washington, Knox, Nebraska; Roll: T624_849; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0127; Image: 918; FHL Number: 1374862.

Name:	Clarence D Carey
Age in 1910:	31
Birth Year:	1879
Birthplace:	Iowa
Home in 1910:	Washington, Knox, Nebraska
Race:	White
Gender:	Male
Relation to Head of House:	Head
Marital Status:	Married
Spouse's Name:	Florence Carey
Father's Birthplace:	Iowa
Mother's Birthplace:	Germany
Household Members:	Name Age Clarence D Carey 31 Florence Carey 19 Laverne Carey 3 Esther Carey 1

Jan 1920 – Mullen, Boyd, Nebraska
By 1920 the family has moved to Mullen, Boyd, Nebraska. This is about 16 miles east of Spencer, where Orland and Annis are living in 1910.

1920; Census Place: Mullen, Boyd, Nebraska; Roll: T625_980; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 25; Image: 524.

Name / Age / Birth Year:	Clarence D Carey / 40 / abt 1880
Birthplace:	Iowa
Home in 1920:	Mullen, Boyd, Nebraska
Race / Gender:	White / Male
Marital Status / Spouse	Married / Florence O Carey
Household Members:	Name Age Clarence D Carey 40 Florence O Carey 30 William L Carey 12 Esther I Carey 11 Marvin E Carey 9 Richard H Carey 7 Harold E Carey 5 Louie G Carey 3 8/12 Mable M Carey 1 4/12  Ida G Carey 0 4/12

Sept 1918 – Bristow, Boyd, Nebraska
Per Clarence’s WWI draft registration, the family is in Bristow, Boyd, Nebraska, where Clarence is farming.

May 1921 -- Florence dies in Bristow
I feel like Aunt Florence was probably exhausted all of the time. She had nine kids in 14 years. Shortly after the birth of child number nine, on May 22, 1921, she died of peritonitis.

After her death, Clarence and the children went to stay with Annis and her second husband, Orland Carver, in Norfolk, Nebraska. They put up a tent in the back yard and camped out while Clarence tried to figure out what to do.

It must have been very hard for a low-income farmer/laborer with that many children to figure out how to care for them and make a living at the same time. Annis helped, but she was not in good health. Some of the children ended up in foster care or were adopted out.

From Dad's Journal

Here is an excerpt from my father's journal about this family.

"Florence had died at the age of thirty-three or thirty-four, at the birth of her ninth child. I could scarcely believe it -- nine children in fourteen years.

"Eleven days later, a 1914 Overland full of Careys came to a halt in our driveway. The kids probably didn't pile out according to age; and I'm not too sure whether fourteen-year-old William LaVern was even along. I think he probably came later by bus or train.

"Be that as it may, twelve-year-old Esther was there. A pretty child she was, and almost petite. She had probably been holding the baby during the ride, although ten-year-old Marvin or eight-year-old Richard could have -- or perhaps even seven-year-old Harold. However, it would hardly have been wise to delegate this chore to five-year-old Louis Gustave (Gussy), four-year-old Mabel, or two-year-old Ida Grace, known to us as Gracie.

"Esther and Dick could have passed for twins, had he been big enough. The rest of the family had lighter colored hair -- more on the brownish order -- and it wasn't wavy like Esther's and Dick's. Neither was Vern's. As for that tiny bundle they called "Clareton" (Clareton Lee) I just couldn't tell whom he looked like. I remember well, however, that Clarence, his father, took Clareton from Esther's arms, carried him to my mother, who stood waiting in the doorway of our three-room house, and placed him in her arms.

"'Here Grandma', he said smiling, 'take him. He's yours.'

Dad goes on to explain that between the Carvers and Careys, there were 16 people in a three-room house. Dad and his brother Ashton were already sleeping out back in a tent due to lack of room. The solution? Grandpa and Clarence emptied out the tent and created double bunk beds (full sized beds that several children could cram into at once.)

"Poor Mom! Can you imagine a sick person managing a home with so many children in it? I don't know how she managed to cook for such a gang, even with the help of Esther and Sina. Drainboards? Sinks? Faucets? Not in our house. We simply washed in one dishpan, rinsed in another, and somehow stacked the dishes on the table to drain.

"The family made do like this most of the summer, until Clarence Carey found a house for rent. Eventually the government stepped in and put several of his children in fostor homes, much to his distress. The baby, however, stayed with Grandma.

"When Grandma was hospitalized, Sina quit school to watch Clareton. She did her best to care for him, but after Grandma died and Grandpa left home, it was more than she could do."

I'm not sure of the timing of all of this. Grandma died in 1925 but I don't know when she was hospitalized. Dad's sister Sina Belle Carver would have been about 14 when Florence died and 17 when Annis died. Eventually Sina married Clarence, but that's a story for another time.

The Carey Children 

William Lavern (Vern) Carey 1907
I see Vern in the Nebraska area and unmarried in the 1940 census, nothing after that and haven't located any family members.

Esther Irene Carey 1909-1999
Esther helped to raise Clarence's second set of children, if I understand correctly.

Marvin Eldon Carey 1910-2002
Marvin moved to Portland, Oregon. My dad used to go visit him occasionally. I think. Or maybe that was Gus.

Richard H Carey 1913-1943
Richard died fighting in World War II. He is buried in Carthage, Tunisia. He was a private in the 26th Infantry 1st Division.

Harold E Carey (Beed) 1915

Louis Gustav (Gus) Carey 1916-2007
Gus also lived in or visited Portland at some point, at least this is what my vague childhood memory tells me.

Mable Mae Carey (Beed) 1919

Ida Grace Carey (Rowlette) 1920
Ida Grace or possibly Grace L. Uncertain. Her name may have changed when adopted.

Clareton Lee "Buddy" Carey (Rowlette) 1921
As an adult it appears his name is spelled Clair.

After Florence died, Harold and Mable were adopted by the Beed family. Grace and Buddy were adopted by the Rowlette family. I don't know too much more about them at this point but hope to hear more from Carey cousins in the future.

Notes:
The above excerpt from my father's journal is also published in the book "Journal of a Not-So-Perfect Daughter", Chapter 7 "Twisted Trees". Author Nancy Carver Abbott. Publisher Pacific Press Publishing Association. Originally published 1998. Kindle ebook published 2013.

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Books by D. R. Haskin

Dick Haskin is the great, great grandson of Samuel J. Haskin, who was Great Grandpa Cyrus Hoyt Carver's neighbor in Nebraska. They both came to Nebraska from Wisconsin along with a group of other settlers, and in subsequent generations the Carvers and Haskins are tied together via the Hubbard clan. (We conjecture there may have been some Haskin relationships up the line as well, but we haven't been able to pin them down. Conjecture is fun, though.)

Dick lives on the Haskin homestead and has written some books about the history of the area. Cyrus Carver's family is mentioned occasionally in these books. (They build caskets and host dances.) Carver and Hubbard/Haskin family reunions are held on Dick's property (he has set up a campground) and at these reunions he gives tours of where the Carver dugouts and property used to be, the creek, the cemetery, location of the store, and so forth.

Titles: See Dick's Books on Amazon: D. R. Haskin
Surnames: Haskin, Hubbard, Carver, others who lived in the area

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The Carver Family of New England

This book is the most comprehensive I've seen for Carver generations going back to Robert. In the case of my line, it covers Robert down through Oliver. It must have taken a long time to compile.

That being said, it is not perfect. He was working with what he had. He listed two of Oliver’s kids, left two out, and added one (John G. Carver) as a “possibility” that I rather doubt, based on Oliver’s will.

If you can find a copy, it is well worth checking out.

Note: if you have a library card with online access, check the online databases for HeritageQuest. They have an electronic copy of the book. You can also check it out from internetarchives.com (Link below)

Title: The Carver Family of New England 
Author: Clifford Nickles Carver 
Surnames: Carver

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Sally Carlson Family History

Sally is a descendant of Cyrus Hoyt Carver. Cyrus is my great-grandfather: Orland William Carver Jr --> Orland William Carver Sr --> Cyrus Hoyt Carver.

Her website has some excellent photos and family information. In particular, look for pictures of the Carver dugouts and headstones. The family moved from Wisconsin to Nebraska in 1877. The dugouts were the homes that my great uncles lived in while they were helping to build the main house on the homestead in Nebraska.

Title: Sally Carlson Family History 
Surnames: Carver, and in the future possibly Hubbard, Parks, Allen

Plus family lines from other parts of Sally's tree.

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