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Thurtell and Related Families
Notes for Belle THURTELL
Information from Cynthia Kerman showed that Belle Thurtell married Henry
Travis. She taught school in Sinipee, Wisconsin, and later in Sturgis,
South Dakota. Belle took care of her elderly mother, Amy Burns
Thurtell.
The entry about Ransom B. Folts in a 1901 Grant County, Wisconsin,
biographical record shows his wife's sister, Belle Thurtell, was the
widow of Henry Travers.
She is listed as Anna B. Thurtle in the 1870 U.S. Census for the Town of
Jamestown, Grant County, Wisconsin, the youngest child of Edward Thurtle
and Anna Thurtle. She is shown as age 9, a white female, born in
Wisconsin and attending school.
The IGI shows Belle Thurtell married Henry Travis on June 24, 1891, in
Meade County, South Dakota (film number 1985489).
She is listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for the Town of Jamestown, Grant
County, Wisconsin (SD 2, ED 110, Page 3), enumerated June 2, 1880, as
Belle Thurtle, age 19, single, attending school within the census year,
whose occupation is teaching school. She is living with her widowed
mother, Anna Thurtle, and her siblings Frederick, age 25, a miner,
Harriet, age 23, and Grace, age 21.
She is listed as Bell Travis in the 1900 U.S. Census Soundex living on
Sherman Street, Sturgis, Sturgis Precinct, Meade County, South Dakota, in
Volume 11, ED 34, Sheet 1, Line 56. This record shows her as age 38,
born in Wisconsin in July 1861. She is living with her daughters, Amy
Travis, who is shown as age 6, born in May 1894 in South Dakota, and
Henrietta Travis, age 4, born in February 1896 in South Dakota. Also
living with her is her mother, Amy Thurtell, who is shown as age 79, born
in August 1820 in North Carolina.
In the 1910 U.S. Census for Meade County, South Dakota (SD 2, ED 68,
Sheet 22A, City of Sturgis, Ward 3), Amy B. Travis, age 48 and a widow,
is shown as head of the household and owning her home mortgage free on
Sherman Street, Sturgis, Meade County, South Dakota. The census shows
she has her own income and was born in Wisconsin with her father born in
England and her mother in North Carolina, and she is the mother of two
children, both of whom are living. Her children, Amy Travis, age 15 and
born in South Dakota, and Henrietta Travis, age 14 and born in South
Dakota, are in school. Living with her is her mother, Amy Thurtell, age
89 and a widow and mother of 10 children, of whom 7 were still living.
This census shows she was born in North Carolina and that her father was
born in Germany and her mother in North Carolina. A roomer, Ada E. Boyer,
age 30 and born in Iowa, is ennumerated with the family.
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