“Memories” Part Four

[“Memories” from The Daniel Y. Hooley Family by Bessie Hooley, four of the last fifteen pages; transcribed by MLHC]

MEMORIES (Part Four of Six)

The first I can remember we lived in Missouri.  I have wondered so much why we left there.  We were always so happy there.  We moved to California and the house we were supposed to live in had burned down so we lived in a tent.  It was a large tent and had curtained-off rooms.  Mama did not like the dirt floor, so they put a carpet down with straw under it.  We just lived there six months then moved to Arizona.

Papa had bought a farm with a small house on it and we were a big family.  The first night we lived there we slept on the floor.  I will never forget there was no running water and mama went with a bucket to get water.  She heard a rattling noise close to the side of the door so she went around another way and papa came with a lantern.  A big rattle snake was curled up there.  Papa tried to kill it but it crawled under the house.  We never saw it again.

Not having much room, papa soon built a new house and while it was being built we lived in a small house on a farm papa rented.  I look back and just don’t see how mama could do everything.  We milked fifteen to twenty cows.  Then they churned butter and delivered it to Phoenix about 12 miles from where we lived.  We lived close to Glendale, Arizona.  Papa had private customers.

The desert was close to us and one evening a man came in almost running.  He had started across the desert about forty miles and thought he would perish.  He had no water.  He saw  papa’s pigs down the road a ways and was going to stop and drink the water there.  Then he saw our light.  Mother fixed a nice supper for him and he drank a lot of milk and water.  He was very thankful.  Papa never turned anyone away when they were hungry.

We children took turns going with papa to deliver butter.  My time never came very often but I always enjoyed it.  We saw a lot of Indians.  They would sell their wares along the street.

We had no church home there and papa thought we needed that so soon we moved to Texas.  Here was a little church at Tuleta, where papa preached again.  Papa had a butter route.  He delivered butter to Beeville twice a week.  We never fit so well in Texas.  The land was poor.  We lived there just seven years then went to Oklahoma.  Papa preached at a small church in the country close to Jet, Oklahoma.  We lived there seven years.  In 1924 we moved to Harper, Kansas.

We always had good meals and clothes to wear, but I know it went hard.  Mother was a wonderful cook, and could make meals out of very little.  I am sure thankful for my parents — for what they taught me.  And I always will be.

~ Nellie Mae Hooley

[Nellie was the 8th of 14 children born to D. Y. and Mattie Hooley]

“Memories” Part Three

[“Memories” from The Daniel Y. Hooley Family by Bessie Hooley, four of the last fifteen pages; transcribed by MLHC]

MEMORIES (Part Three of Six)

We lived at Glendale, Arizona near Phoenix for six years.  During this time a number of the older children were converted in the home.  Father kept the family altar burning brightly.  To hear him and mother agonize with God in prayer remembering each one of us children by name meant much.

When Paul was about five or six years old he jumped to the ground from a low wagon and hurt his one foot and leg to the extent that they did not grow for a while, so that one leg was shorter and the foot smaller than the other one which caused a slight limp in his walking.

~ Daniel Dwight Hooley

[Daniel was the 9th child of 14 born to D. Y. and Mattie Hooley]

“Memories” Part Two

[“Memories” from The Daniel Y. Hooley Family by Bessie Hooley, four of the last fifteen pages; transcribed by MLHC]

MEMORIES (Part Two of Six)

According to standards of living at that time we had a very nice home while living in Missouri.  A good house, nice yard, big apple orchard, truck patch with different sorts of berries and a big garden.  A large barn and grainery, tool shed, big wood shed, smoke house and chicken house.

Papa liked nice horses and we had nice ones.  Always had cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, geese and turkeys.

There was a nice grove of trees just off the yard where papa built swings and a merry-go-round for us children.  We spent many happy times there.  When papa came in for dinner from the field we would all get to the swings and he would give us a big push.  What a thrill!

The bedroom where we slept upstairs had a window toward our orchard and I never saw anything more beautiful than those apple trees looked to me when they were in full bloom.

There was never time or day too busy.  We always went to the living room before breakfast for Family Worship.  Papa always read the Bible and we would memorize some verses.  Then all knelt in prayer.

In winter we would change to our night clothes by our big stove before going upstairs where it was cold.  Papa would go up with us and tuck us in bed and tell us a Bible Story.  How well I remember those stories of Daniel, Joseph, Abraham, Jacob, Jonah and Christ’s birth.  Things you learn in early childhood are never forgotten.  On those evenings after our Bible story papa always prayed, asking God’s tender care for us during the night.

It was at this house where Paul as a tiny boy fell and ran a weed stub into his right eye.  He suffered the loss of his eye-sight.  He had such nice big blue eyes.  I shall never forget how mama cried.  Well, happy times, troubled times, joys and sorrows — that’s life.

Spring was very interesting for us small children.  Seemed every morning there was some new baby in the barn yard.  A little colt, a baby calf, some little lambs, or a bunch of little pigs.  We loved them all.

Our home was just one-half mile from the church where papa preached.  The school we attended was one and one-half mile in the opposite direction.  A little one room country school with a big heating stove setting in the middle.  We always walked to school.  Mama always had such nice lunches packed in our dinner pails.

~ Ruth Hooley

[Ruth was the 4th child of 14 born to D. Y. and Mattie Hooley]

“Memories” by D. Y. Hooley’s children

[“Memories” from The Daniel Y. Hooley Family by Bessie Hooley, four of the last fifteen pages; transcribed by MLHC]

MEMORIES (Part One of Six)

Schooling in Father’s day was meager-meager.  Duties at home took first place.  Father wrote in an attractive hand-writing.  As I remember he told how he had attended a school for two days where the teacher had taught the art of penmanship.  From this very little instruction he said he kept practicing what the teacher had showed him.

In father’s day the movement was west.  People left what is now garden spots of the country to join the movement to the alluring west.  This was father’s and mother’s lot and they encountered hardship as a result.  The necessities were the rule, not luxuries.

Along with providing a living for the family father answered the call to preach the gospel and so served his time and generation with a heart of love and grace.  This without a formal education or ministerial training or often times without the cooperation of those he was trying to serve.  Many times the pay was criticism in the face of which he gave his testimony.  Any form of remuneration for ministerial services was out of the question.

As far back as I can remember mother assumed the duty of teaching a Sunday-School class and for this she really had no time for preparation.  It just is not fair that they had to struggle with privation while we have every convenience and luxury.

~ Jesse F. Hooley

[Jesse was the 5th/6th child of 14 born to D. Y. and Mattie Hooley, twin to Jennie.]

The Daniel Y. Hooley Family

D. Y. Hooley family

“The Daniel Y. Hooley Family”

by Mrs. Bessie Hooley (no publishing date; latest birth records included are from 1973)

[Excerpts (by MLHC) are taken from first 5 and last 15 pages which contain narrative paragraphs.   I am transcribing verbatim what Bessie recorded pertaining to the first 6 generations descended from Andreas Holly as follows:]

The Hooley’s are of Swiss origin but because of religious persecution many moved to Southern Germany before coming to America.

The name Hooley has been spelled in different ways by the members of the same family; Holly, Holley, Hoolley, and Hooley.  I am using only two of these spellings as I don’t know when they changed.  The original immigrant list with the original signatures is on file in the Division of Public Records, Harrisburg, Pa.  These records show that Andreas Holly, Michael Holly, and Jacob Mast with their families sailed on the ship Brotherhood, whose captain was John Thomson.  The ship sailed from Rotterdam and last from Cowes and arrived at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 3, 1750.

Andreas Holly — Progenitor

Andreas Holly settled in Lancaster county now Lebanon county, Pa. which bordered the Northkill settlement of the first Amish Mennonite pioneer settlers of America.  His son, John Holly, who was also a native of Switzerland, lived in Bern Twp.  Andreas was a member of the Amish Mennonite Church.  He died in the locality where he first settled and is supposed to have been buried near Hamburg, Berks County, Pa.  Tradition says that the early members of his family were low in stature, well proportioned, having a muscular frame capable of enduring great hardships.

SECOND GENERATION — John Holly, son of Andreas Holly.

John Holly son of Andreas Holly was born in 1739.  He was ordained an Amish Mennonite minister in which capacity he labored until he was forced to leave Bern Twp, on account of Indian depredations (looting and destruction).  He settled in Pequea Valley, Lancaster Co., Pa. at which place he united in marriage with Catherine Blank whose parents also were natives of Switzerland.  She was the daughter of Dr. Hans and Magdalena Blank.  In April 1791 he moved with his family from Salisbury Twp., Lancaster County, Pa. to Brown Twp., Mifflin Co., Pa. where he died October 4, 1805.

He was rendered insolvent from his financial means at the former place by the depression which came from Continental currency among American Colonies in the period of  the Revolutionary War.  They had eleven children.

1. John Holly married Sarah Garver
2. Christian Holly married Elizabeth Mast
3. Peter Holly, second husband of Esther Mast
4. David Holly married Catherine King
5. Barbara Holly married Jacob Yoder
6. Magdalena Holly married Christian Yoder
7. Christiana Holly, second wife of Daniel Kauffman
8. Elizabeth Holly married John Lantz; second husband, Solomon King
9. Fannie Holly married Joseph Kenagy
10. Mary Holly married John Kenagy
11. Catherine Holly married Isaac Garver

John Holly, son of Andreas Holly was the great, great-grandfather of Daniel Y. Hooley.

He was also the great, great-grandfather of Mattie Yoder, wife of Daniel Y. Hooley.

 

THIRD GENERATION — Peter Holly, son of John Holly

Peter Holly was the second husband of Esther Mast Zook.  Esther Mast was the daughter of Jacob Mast who was married to Magdalena Holly.  Jacob Mast came on the same ship Brotherhood with Andreas and Michael Holly.  Esther Mast was first married to Christian Zook.  They had two children.

1. Jacob Zook married Barbara Yoder
2. Barbara Zook married Jacob King

Esther Mast Zook, second marriage to Peter Holly.  They had seven children

1. Abraham Holly married Abigail Hartzler
2. John Holly married Jermima Kauffman
3. Daniel Holly married Esther Yoder
4. Martha Holly married Joseph Stutzman
5. Lydia Holly married Yost King
6. Samuel Holly, second husband of Nancy Grady, third husband of Susanna Yoder Egli Yoder  (Susanna was the mother of Noah Yoder of Town Line)
7. Catherine Holly married Joseph Summers

FOURTH GENERATION — Daniel Holly, son of Peter Holly.

Daniel was married to Esther Yoder.  He and his family lived in Pa. near Belleville (Allentown).  Their oldest child was a cripple and walked with a limp.  They had three children.

1. Christian Hooley born 1830, married Nancy Plank
2. Jacob P. Hooley born 1832, married Polly Yoder
3. Mattie Hooley born 1835, married John Glick

FIFTH GENERATION — Jacob P. Hooley, son of Daniel Hooley

Jacob was born Dec. 11, 1832 in Mifflin Co., Pa.  He was married to Polly Yoder who was born Nov. 9, 1832, in Wayne Co., Ohio.  She was the daughter of Peter Yoder and Fanny Blough.  The family left Wayne Co., Ohio April 1, 1869 and moved to Lagrange Co., Indiana.  The location was about sixteen miles east of Goshen, eat of the Townline Church.  Four years later they moved about twenty-five miles north east to the Pretty Prairie, which is East and North of Howe, Indiana.  In October 1883, Jacob and his family moved to Cass, Co., Missouri where he died on Jan. 23, 1888 of Pneumonia.  They had seven children.

1. Esther Hooley born Jan. 26, 1858, died June 3, 1946, married Jonathon Hartzler.
2. Daniel Hooley born April 7, 1860, died March 25, 1945, married Mattie (Martha) Yoder.
3. Sarah (Sally) Hooley born Dec. 23, 1862, died Oct. 1945, married Eli Yoder.
4. Emma Hooley born 1865, died _____ [Bessie left this blank.], married Isaac Plank, second husband David Plank.
5. Susan Hooley born March 39, 1867, died Jan. 29, 1930, married Joseph G. Hartzler, second marriage to John M. King, third marriage to Manasses Lincoln (Link) Yoder, all of Garden City.
6. Dave (David) Hooley born March 27, 1869, died April 23, 1916, never married.
7. Mary Hooley born _____, died _____, married James Quinn.

SIXTH GENERATION — Daniel Hooley, son of Jacob P. Hooley.

Daniel had no middle name until he got married.  Then he took the first letter of his wife’s name for his middle initial.  Since then he wrote his name D. Y. Hooley.  He was born in Wayne Co., Ohio on April 7, 1860 and left there on April 1, 1869 with his parents, Jacob P. Hooley and Polly Yoder.  They moved to Lagrange Co., Indiana.  This location was about sixteen miles east of Goshen.  He lived at this place until he was thirteen years old.  In 1873 his parents moved again about twenty-five miles north east, on Pretty Prairie.  It was here he first attended the first Mennonite Sunday School all in the German language.  It was here also that he gave himself to the Lord at the age of twenty years.  In July 1880 he was baptized and united with the Mennonite Church.  In December 1880 his mother died who was his main companion.

In Oct. 1883 his father moved again, this time to Cass Co., Missouri.  His father died in Jan. 1888 of Pneumonia.  On the fifteenth of Sept. 1889 he was married to Mattie E. Yoder in the Bethel Church, Bishop David Kauffman officiating.  In May 1892 he was ordained to the Ministry.

In 1905 he moved to Victorville, California where the late David Garber located a colony of Mennonite people.  Since there was no church house at this place, services were held in the Hesperia School house.  Since the colony was practically a failure he moved to Glendale, Arizona in July 1905.  This location was about eleven miles from Phoenix and about one mile North of Glendale.  As there were no Mennonites here of his faith, he labored with the River Brethren Church for about five years.  In 1910 he moved to Tuleta, Texas where he gave his services to the Mennonite church for seven years.  In 1917 he moved to Protection, Kansas, then to Jet, Oklahoma and served that church for seven years.  Finally in 1924 he moved to Crystal Springs, Kansas where he faithfully tried to serve as a minister for twelve years.  All his life had been spent of the farm.  [Does Bessie mean “of the faith”?]

His deepest concern was that of church work.  His ever-ready helping disposition won for him many friends and he had the sincere respect of all those about him in his daily life.  In his many years of service given to the church he has enlarged its vision, sharpened its conscience and kindled its devotion to its purpose.

He and his wife and daughter, Jewel, went to live in Hammet, Idaho one year close where his son Paul and his family lived.  Then they resided on the home place again near Crystal Springs until Oct. 1942 when they moved to Elkhart, Indiana.

He attended services regularly at Prairie Street Church when health permitted.  For three weeks preceding his death he was not very well and was anxious to go Home.  The close communion with his Heavenly Father which he constantly enjoyed, gradually carried him over to the great beyond.  His passing came suddenly and unexpectedly on March 25, 1945.  Funeral services were held at the Prairie St. Church in charge of J. E. Gingerich assisted by J. S. Hartzler and Donal King.  Text I Cor. 15:57.  Burial was in Prairie St. Cemetery, Elkhart, Ind.

Mattie (Martha), his wife, was born March 4, 1872, the daughter of Christian P. Yoder and Saloma Yoder Kenagy.  She had one sister Emma and eleven half brothers and sisters, namely: Nancy Yoder Byler, Ida Yoder Morrill, Isaac, Sarah Yoder Stone, Lydia Yoder Plank, Emanuel, Joseph, (Peter had died), John Gruff Kenagy, Christian Kenagy, Rufus Augustus Kenagy, and Adolphus Kenagy.  Mattie died Dec. 19, 1959.  Services were held at Hartzler-Gutermuth Funeral Home in Elkhart, Ind.  with Rev. Howard Zehr in charge.  Burial was in Prairie St. Cemetery.

DANIEL Y. HOOLEY FAMILY

1. Titus, b.  — died 1890
2. Carl Christian, b. Oct. 1, 1891, m. Martha Ulinder
3. Paul Jacob, b. April 26, 1893, m. Alta Hostetler
4. Ruth Salome, b. Jan. 19, 1895, m. Herman Ray Miller
5. Jennie Fuller, b. Nov. 20, 1896 (twin), m. Noah Schrock
6. Jesse Finney, b. Nov. 20, 1896 (twin), m. Ruth Newingham
7. John Hudson, b. –died 1900
8. Nellie Mae, b. July 18, 1898, m. Daniel Reber
9. Daniel Dwight, b. July 4, 1900, m. Bessie Miller
10. Walter Willis, b. July 12, 1901, m. Esther Landes
11. Martha Esther, b. Feb 23, 1903, m. Glen B. Rodgers
12. Mark Willard, b. July 19, 1905, m. Ola Miller
13. Jewel Francis, b. Jan. 11, 1908,  never married
14. Harold Julius, b. June 24, 1911, m. Naomi Kauffman

Two infants were still-born.

[The above comprises the first 5 pages of Bessie Hooley’s booklet.  Watch for next post with more narrative taken from booklet’s last pages.]

Brief editorial note:

I have only altered Bessie’s punctuation to make it more consistent.  Once or twice I “corrected” her random “Hooley” to “Holly” when she clearly continues to use the “Holly” variant.  Otherwise, I left everything as she typed it, even if it seemed I could make simple “corrections.”  For example: I left “North East” instead of updating it to “northeast.”

I did not do any “correction” of facts.  If others have research which shows different names, places, dates, etc., they are welcome to add posts reflecting such.  My goal here is to transcribe Bessie’s booklet to on-line access.

As can be seen from the photo included here, my dad added in notations in his hand-writing.  I didn’t include any of those notes.  However there were hand-written notations which I believe were Bessie’s and I did include those.

D. Y. Hooley Family portrait

~ Mary Louise Hooley-Carlisle, youngest of Paul Ervin & Almeda (10th generation from Andreas Holly!)