This site is dedicated to my family.
My maternal surnames include Bisch, Thornton, Tatem (Tatum), Wilson, Harris, Murphy, St. Vrain, De Lassus, Gregoire, Jones, Bayles, Asbridge, Roberts, Laporte, Hubardeau, Ragsdale, and others. The primary location of my ancestors since the late 1800's is Bonne Terre, St. Francois County, Missouri. The Bisch's, originally from Germany, settled in Ste. Genevieve and Valles Mines, Missouri coming from Pennsylvania. The St. Vrain's and Gregoire's came from France and eventually settled in Ste. Genevieve.
My maternal direct and indirect connections include some famous and semi-famous historical names - Ceran, Marcellin, and Felix St. Vrain, Don Carlos Delassus, Pierre Derbigny, Abbe Henri Gregoire, Gen. George Wallace Jones and Rev. William Murphy. Very (and I do many VERY) distant links include Auguste Chouteau, founder of St. Louis and President George W. Bush. While not a direct line, these links are interesting from a geographical and historical point of view.
My paternal surnames include Kelly, Briedwell, Burt, Wood (Atwood), Wilcox, Smiley, Martin, Sigler, Winslow, Morton, Jenny, Harman, Kingsley, and Carpenter. My Kelly line came from County Cork, Ireland to Lansing, Michigan, then on to Kansas and eventually to Oklahoma. My Wood line came originally from England.
George Morton, my paternal 10th great-grandfather, a Pilgrim Father of New England was the financial agent of the Pilgrims and purchased the "Mayflower." However, George Morton did not sail on the "Mayflower." He arrived in the new world in 1623 aboard the "Anne." All male passengers who arrived in New England from 1620 until May 1630 who had an affiliation with the Pilgrim Church were considered Pilgrim Fathers of New England.
So I guess all this history makes me a true American. A little of this and a little of that all mixed together in the melting pot that made this great country what it is today.
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- Youngest Thornton Kids (30 KB)
Katie, Lida, and Butch
- Katie and Lida Thornton (29 KB)
- Katie and Nancy Bisch (18 KB)
at Grover's grave. This tombstone is buried under the new stone.
- The Bisch Family (33 KB)
at wedding of Alice and Jack Kelly - from left Monkey Pratte, Charlie Bisch, Katie Bisch, Nancy Williams, Marie Bayles
- Monkey and Dude Pratte (14 KB)
Wedding Day - - Dude and Monkey Bisch Pratte, and Harold Portell and Nancy Bisch Williams
- Hazel Hensley, Katie Bisch and ? (13 KB)
- Bert Allen Williams (27 KB)
- Katie Bisch (16 KB)
- Allen and Nancy Williams (28 KB)
Wedding Day
- Catherine Amelia Tatum Thornton (24 KB)
- Williams Wedding Day (33 KB)
from left, Bert and Margaret Williams, Allen and Nancy Williams, Katie Bisch
- Catherine Amelia Tatum Thornton (47 KB)
- Ceran St Vrain (11 KB)
- Bun and Marie Thornton (28 KB)
- Ceran St Vrain (10 KB)
- Butch and Millie Thornton (22 KB)
- Ceran St Vrain Headstone (5 KB)
- Ceran St Vrain, Joseph Felix ? St. Vrain and Harry (16 KB)
- Mora, New Mexico (11 KB)
- Don Carlos De Hault De Lassus (13 KB)
Portrait identified as Don Carlos de Hault de Lassus now hanging in the Missouri Historical Society.
- Butch Thornton (24 KB)
- Butch and Kate Thornton (26 KB)
- Lida Thornton (24 KB)
- June and Jerry Nelms (31 KB)
- Elon Asbridge Headstone (33 KB)
Marvin Chapel Cemetery
- June and Jerry Nelms (26 KB)
- Asbridge Tombstone (18 KB)
Bonne Terre Catholic Cemetery
- Joseph A Thornton headstone (22 KB)
Bonne Terre Cemetery
- Uncle Red and Aunt Bird (61 KB)
Picture taken at their home in East Bonne Terre, Missouri
- Benjamin B. Bisch (24 KB)
- Asbridge Cemetery (26 KB)
Marvin Chapel Cemetery
- Benjamin B. and Laura Bisch (12 KB)
- Bayles Cemetery, East Bonne Terre, Mo (20 KB)
- Bisch Marker - Been and Laura (17 KB)
Bonne Terre Catholic Cemetery
- Aubrey A, and Alice Minnie Bayles (35 KB)
Aubrey 48 years old, and Alice Minnie Ragsdale 42 years old. Picture taken in East Bonne Terre, Missouri
- Theodore and Mary St Vrain Bisch (30 KB)
- Bayles Cemetery, Bonne Terre, Mo (24 KB)
- Alice M. Ragsdale Bayles tombstone (25 KB)
Bayles Family Cemetery
- Louella Maberry Ragsdale and children (28 KB)
Louella with children Belle, Cynthia, and Charles
- Cynthia Ragsdale Hylton headstone (16 KB)
Bayles Family Cemetery, East Bonne Terre, Missouri
- Theodore Jones Bisch (25 KB)
Theodore Jones Bisch and his wife Susan Parthenia Mason Bisch c. 1900
- Cecil and Thelma Bayles (11 KB)
My paternal grandparents - Cecil and Thelma Asbridge Bayles
- Elizabeth "Monkey" Bisch (167 KB)
This is a picture of Aunt Monkey in her dance costume.
- Theodore Jones Bisch and Susan Parthenia Mason Bis (16 KB)
- Felix Grover Bisch (72 KB)
Felix Grover Bisch, USMC
- Mary Hermoine Bisch Young (32 KB)
original by Trappe, Farmington Mo - - "Miss Bisch, Flat River, Missouri"
- William Samuel Asbridge (15 KB)
This was my Grannie's daddy.
- Fannie Bisch Turley Headstone (25 KB)
Bonne Terre Catholic Cemetery
- Benjamin Bisch family (88 KB)
Benjamin and Laura Evaline Wilson Bisch with their two older sons Benjamin Theodore and Felix Grover. Abt. 1891
- Bess Headstone (41 KB)
Marvin Chapel Cemetery, Bonne Terre, Missouri
- The Bayles Women (54 KB)
Christmas at Grannie's House-l to r front row Linda Bayles, Alice Bayles, Rena Gay Lundmark; back row Virginia Bayles, Marie Bayles, Faye Lundmark, Thelma Bayles
- Theodore and Mary St. Vrain Bisch (33 KB)
Theodore and Mary (Marie) St. Vrain Bisch
- William Samuel Asbridge (9 KB)
- Ned and Virginia Bayles headstone (20 KB)
Bayles Family Cemetery, East Bonne Terre, MO
- Stella Thornton (26 KB)
- Tillman Asbridge Headstone (19 KB)
Marvin Chapel Cemetery, Bonne Terre, Missouri
- Edwin "Ned" Bayles marker (12 KB)
Bayles Family Cemetery, East Bonne Terre. MO
- The Bayles Boys (40 KB)
Cecil, Alvey, and Ned Bayles
- Brian "Jody" Samples headstone (20 KB)
Bayles Family Cemetery, East Bonne Terre, MO
- Cecil Sylvan Bayles - U.S. Navy (7 KB)
- William and Jane Harris Bayles headstone (24 KB)
Bayles Family Cemetery, Bonne Terre, MO
- Cecil Bayles headstone (26 KB)
Bayles Family Cemetery, East Bonne Terre, Missouri. Thelma is buried at Marvin Chapel Cemetery.
- Minnie Caroline Asbridge Byington headstone (32 KB)
Marvin Chapel Cemetery, Bonne Terre, MO
- Faye, Bob, and Rena Gay Lundmark and Grannie (38 KB)
New Year's Eve 1959
- Sam Byington Headstone (22 KB)
Marvin Chapel Cemetery
- Jewel Byington Headstone (37 KB)
Marvin Chapel Cemetery
- Hilda, Joe and Jim Bisch (35 KB)
- Joseph Monell and Hilda Hensley Bisch (21 KB)
- Joe J. Thonton (36 KB)
son of Joseph Austin and Catherine Tatum Thornton
- "The Boys" (33 KB)
Ben T. Bisch, Clarence Hopkins (front) and Joe T. Thornton, Bonnie Armstrong (back)
- George Thornton (30 KB)
under an orange tree (California)
- George N.Thornton and Joseph M. Bisch (26 KB)
402 Spruce Street, Bonne Terre, Missouri
- Birth Certificate of George N. Thornton (75 KB)
- Marie Bisch (19 KB)
8th grade graduation
- Ben, Buddy, Betty, Elsie Bisch (38 KB)
- Marie Bisch (14 KB)
- Grandma Bisch (32 KB)
Laura Evaline Wilson Bisch in front of house at 402 Spruce Street, Bonne Terre, Missouri
- Bisch Kids (28 KB)
Marie, Nancy, Charlie, and Lee Eatte
- Felix Grover and Ben Bisch (34 KB)
- Charlie Bisch and friend (23 KB)
- Uncle Joe and Aunt Hilda Bisch (5 KB)
50th Wedding Anniversary
- Felix Grover Bisch (25 KB)
- Bisch Kids 2000 (43 KB)
Nancy, Charlie, Marie, Monkey - Potosi Lake
- Joe and Hilda Bisch Headstone (33 KB)
Bonne Terre Catholic Cemetery
- Ben and Felix Grover Bisch (28 KB)
- Charles T. Bisch (5 KB)
- Jim Bisch (28 KB)
taken in St. Louis
- Charles T. Bisch (8 KB)
- Jim Bisch Diploma (47 KB)
- Charles T. Bisch family (29 KB)
Janet, Laura, Sue, Karen (bride), Chuck, Charlie, Kathy
- Joseph James "Jim" Bisch headstone (5 KB)
Jefferson Barracks Cemetery, St. Louis, MO
- Dude Pratte (31 KB)
- Lee Eatte Hope Bisch (30 KB)
- Monkey Bisch - high school (12 KB)
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