The file above was recorded sometime in the early 80’s or so, by Amy Walker, Joan Fackrell, and possibly Thora? While I am at the moment unsure, if anything comes to light, I will update this information. It is a history of their ancestors, and it is read by our ancestors, making this a unique file!
Author: mr.kelsey.bacon
The Beginning of This Project
I am starting this project today. I just ordered a flatbed scanner in order to start scanning, when possible, all the documents and photos I have stacked next to my desk here. I also just set up this subdomain in order to put the photos I scan somewhere so other interested people can easily be granted access to the images and stories. Where I can, I will include any information of the people in the photos I upload, and what I can remember of the time the photo was taken, as well as allow the image on the page to link to a higher resolution photo for download. Be sure to go to that photo if you are downloading. I intend also to put a password on the blog pages, to keep some degree of privacy for the things kept here. Contact me directly if you need the password.
I expect that most of the things here will be of interest to my brothers and sisters, and to my children. I’ll do my best here to keep things together, and I will categorize according to family lines, in order to allow the reader to select a family linage to filter by. I don’t anticipate these categories to go very deep as I have a lot from the last century, and really want to focus on what is here next to my desk, so I can get it all put up somewhere safe. I also have a category called Editorial Notes, for posts such as this one, and notes on progress as I go, and so on. I really do expect this to take some time! I may even have to get a sheet fed document scanner to speed things up. I hope this all helps.
–Kelsey J Bacon
February 2022, Preston, Idaho
My Birth
I was born on Wednesday March 10th, 1971, in Oxnard, California. My mother was separated from her husband at the time and living alone in an apartment in the Ventura Avenue area of Ventura, California.
Amy and Orson Fackrell Divorce
I was looking through the old historical papers still here in the family and found a gem among them, dated 26 February 1935. It is a copy of the divorce decree from Amy Eliza Walker and Orson Fackrell. As the judge was an H. R. Christmas, I imagine Orson referred to the divorce as his Christmas present! But more treasured is paragraph 3 of the findings, “That the defendant has offered to the plaintiff such indignities as to render his condition, as her husband, intolerable.” It is not the kind of thing that comes up in conversation when one is related to the “her” in this situation! I seem to remember he was pretty serious about this drinking, though, and can easily imagine that her trying to get him to slow down is what was intolerable.
