Zula Leora Suydam
Posted 03 Mar 2009 by hpbs1
Zula Leora Suydam was born in Wyandotte City, Kansas in what is now Kansas City, Kansas. In 1859, her parents, Eliza M. Kinney and Chas. Henry Suydam were the first couple to be married in the newly formed Wyandotte Co. She had two brothers, William and Edward King Suydam. Their mother, Eliza Kinney Suydam, died when they were quite young, and their father, Charles, moved to OK and TX in the years following Eliza's death, taking his oldest child William with him. Zula and Edward remained in Kansas with their aunt, Sara Kinney, growing up at White Church, Wyandotte Co. where Indian children were their playmates on the Kansas frontier.
Zula became a teacher and taught in the Leavenworth schools until August 28, 1888 when she married Thomas W. Houston.
The couple lived in Chicago three years while Thomas studied theology, and in 1891 they went to China for eight years as missionaires.
In 1899, Thomas' health failed and the family returned home, living in California and Arizona and Baldwin and Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1924, Zula came to Hot Sulphur Springs to join her husband and grown children who had already settled in the area. In that tragic year, the couple lost two of their children, Mary in a car accident, and David in a hunting accident.
Zula was a devoted mother, and she was talented in drawing and painting. She moved often and lost many of her possessions in the process and that was a sorrow to her. Zula was very proud of her prestigious early American Dutch and English ancestry.
Betty Houston, Zula's granddaughter, who was quite young during the Colorado years, remembers her Grandmother Houston as a hard-of-hearing old woman with a huge hearing horn that she would order the children to speak into.
My mother Betty Houston Burkett was less than 4 years old when she knew her grandmother Zula. Her mother, Clara, did not care much for her mother-in-law (although she was very fond of her father-in-law, Thomas W. Houston), and I suspect young Betty was somewhat intimidated by her hard-of-hearing, old grandmother with the large hearing aid horn. As a consequence, I grew up dismissing my Great Grandmother Houston as a conventional and not very interesting women. Only later did I discover what an unconventional and interesting life she had. Her mother had been born in Michigan but moved with her widowed mother, Lois Samson Kinney to Kansas Territory because her mother's brother, Myron U Samson, had settled after he was discharged from the military at Fort Leavenworth, KT. In Kansas Territory, Myron married Margaret, a member of the Osage tribe, and they adopted an orphan girl from the Delaware tribe. At some point Margaret died. Myron never remarried, but remained close to the Delaware tribe for the remainder of his life. After the Delaware were removed from the state of Kansas and sent to Oklahoma, Myron joined them there, where he had a job as postmaster. He only returned to Kansas on visits and died in Oklahoma at the home of Charles Journeycake , a Delaware chief. I had no knowledge of Myron's marriage to Margaret until I was contacted by a descendant of his adopted daughter. My great aunt Lyda wrote that her mother, Zula, always spoke fondly of the Delaware Chief Journeycake and of the tribal children she had played with in the early years of Kansas statehood before the Indian removal. Small wonder that the Indian Removal was one of her earliest memories. After the death of her mother, she and her younger brother were raised by Kinney aunts in Kansas, where she grew up, became a teacher and married a minister turned missionary who took his family with him to China. My grandfather David was born there.
At the time of her death in 1927, besides her husband, seven living children remained. Lyda, who was in China; Paul in Portland, Oregon; Faith A. Sipe, in York, PA, Zula Marjorie, Sara Gladys and T. Wallace all living in Hot Sulphur Springs and Doroth F. Gutzler, living in the Sheephorn Valley, Colorado.
Zula was buried on September 2, 1927, next to her son David and daughter Mary Houston Allis in the Hot Sulphur Springs Cemetery.
Burial:
Hot Sulphur Springs Cemetery
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Posted 03 Mar 2009 by hpbs1
Zula Leora Suydam was born in Wyandotte City, Kansas in what is now Kansas City, Kansas. In 1859, her parents, Eliza M. Kinney and Chas. Henry Suydam were the first couple to be married in the newly formed Wyandotte Co. She had two brothers, William and Edward King Suydam. Their mother, Eliza Kinney Suydam, died when they were quite young, and their father, Charles, moved to OK and TX in the years following Eliza's death, taking his oldest child William with him. Zula and Edward remained in Kansas with their aunt, Sara Kinney, growing up at White Church, Wyandotte Co. where Indian children were their playmates on the Kansas frontier.
Zula became a teacher and taught in the Leavenworth schools until August 28, 1888 when she married Thomas W. Houston.
The couple lived in Chicago three years while Thomas studied theology, and in 1891 they went to China for eight years as missionaires.
In 1899, Thomas' health failed and the family returned home, living in California and Arizona and Baldwin and Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1924, Zula came to Hot Sulphur Springs to join her husband and grown children who had already settled in the area. In that tragic year, the couple lost two of their children, Mary in a car accident, and David in a hunting accident.
Zula was a devoted mother, and she was talented in drawing and painting. She moved often and lost many of her possessions in the process and that was a sorrow to her. Zula was very proud of her prestigious early American Dutch and English ancestry.
Betty Houston, Zula's granddaughter, who was quite young during the Colorado years, remembers her Grandmother Houston as a hard-of-hearing old woman with a huge hearing horn that she would order the children to speak into.
My mother Betty Houston Burkett was less than 4 years old when she knew her grandmother Zula. Her mother, Clara, did not care much for her mother-in-law (although she was very fond of her father-in-law, Thomas W. Houston), and I suspect young Betty was somewhat intimidated by her hard-of-hearing, old grandmother with the large hearing aid horn. As a consequence, I grew up dismissing my Great Grandmother Houston as a conventional and not very interesting women. Only later did I discover what an unconventional and interesting life she had. Her mother had been born in Michigan but moved with her widowed mother, Lois Samson Kinney to Kansas Territory because her mother's brother, Myron U Samson, had settled after he was discharged from the military at Fort Leavenworth, KT. In Kansas Territory, Myron married Margaret, a member of the Osage tribe, and they adopted an orphan girl from the Delaware tribe. At some point Margaret died. Myron never remarried, but remained close to the Delaware tribe for the remainder of his life. After the Delaware were removed from the state of Kansas and sent to Oklahoma, Myron joined them there, where he had a job as postmaster. He only returned to Kansas on visits and died in Oklahoma at the home of Charles Journeycake , a Delaware chief. I had no knowledge of Myron's marriage to Margaret until I was contacted by a descendant of his adopted daughter. My great aunt Lyda wrote that her mother, Zula, always spoke fondly of the Delaware Chief Journeycake and of the tribal children she had played with in the early years of Kansas statehood before the Indian removal. Small wonder that the Indian Removal was one of her earliest memories. After the death of her mother, she and her younger brother were raised by Kinney aunts in Kansas, where she grew up, became a teacher and married a minister turned missionary who took his family with him to China. My grandfather David was born there.
At the time of her death in 1927, besides her husband, seven living children remained. Lyda, who was in China; Paul in Portland, Oregon; Faith A. Sipe, in York, PA, Zula Marjorie, Sara Gladys and T. Wallace all living in Hot Sulphur Springs and Doroth F. Gutzler, living in the Sheephorn Valley, Colorado.
Zula was buried on September 2, 1927, next to her son David and daughter Mary Houston Allis in the Hot Sulphur Springs Cemetery.
Burial:
Hot Sulphur Springs Cemetery
I
Zula Leora Suydam
Posted 03 Mar 2009 by hpbs1
Zula Leora Suydam was born in Wyandotte City, Kansas in what is now Kansas City, Kansas. In 1859, her parents, Eliza M. Kinney and Chas. Henry Suydam were the first couple to be married in the newly formed Wyandotte Co. She had two brothers, William and Edward King Suydam. Their mother, Eliza Kinney Suydam, died when they were quite young, and their father, Charles, moved to OK and TX in the years following Eliza's death, taking his oldest child William with him. Zula and Edward remained in Kansas with their aunt, Sara Kinney, growing up at White Church, Wyandotte Co. where Indian children were their playmates on the Kansas frontier.
Zula became a teacher and taught in the Leavenworth schools until August 28, 1888 when she married Thomas W. Houston.
The couple lived in Chicago three years while Thomas studied theology, and in 1891 they went to China for eight years as missionaires.
In 1899, Thomas' health failed and the family returned home, living in California and Arizona and Baldwin and Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1924, Zula came to Hot Sulphur Springs to join her husband and grown children who had already settled in the area. In that tragic year, the couple lost two of their children, Mary in a car accident, and David in a hunting accident.
Zula was a devoted mother, and she was talented in drawing and painting. She moved often and lost many of her possessions in the process and that was a sorrow to her. Zula was very proud of her prestigious early American Dutch and English ancestry.
Betty Houston, Zula's granddaughter, who was quite young during the Colorado years, remembers her Grandmother Houston as a hard-of-hearing old woman with a huge hearing horn that she would order the children to speak into.
My mother Betty Houston Burkett was less than 4 years old when she knew her grandmother Zula. Her mother, Clara, did not care much for her mother-in-law (although she was very fond of her father-in-law, Thomas W. Houston), and I suspect young Betty was somewhat intimidated by her hard-of-hearing, old grandmother with the large hearing aid horn. As a consequence, I grew up dismissing my Great Grandmother Houston as a conventional and not very interesting women. Only later did I discover what an unconventional and interesting life she had. Her mother had been born in Michigan but moved with her widowed mother, Lois Samson Kinney to Kansas Territory because her mother's brother, Myron U Samson, had settled after he was discharged from the military at Fort Leavenworth, KT. In Kansas Territory, Myron married Margaret, a member of the Osage tribe, and they adopted an orphan girl from the Delaware tribe. At some point Margaret died. Myron never remarried, but remained close to the Delaware tribe for the remainder of his life. After the Delaware were removed from the state of Kansas and sent to Oklahoma, Myron joined them there, where he had a job as postmaster. He only returned to Kansas on visits and died in Oklahoma at the home of Charles Journeycake , a Delaware chief. I had no knowledge of Myron's marriage to Margaret until I was contacted by a descendant of his adopted daughter. My great aunt Lyda wrote that her mother, Zula, always spoke fondly of the Delaware Chief Journeycake and of the tribal children she had played with in the early years of Kansas statehood before the Indian removal. Small wonder that the Indian Removal was one of her earliest memories. After the death of her mother, she and her younger brother were raised by Kinney aunts in Kansas, where she grew up, became a teacher and married a minister turned missionary who took his family with him to China. My grandfather David was born there.
At the time of her death in 1927, besides her husband, seven living children remained. Lyda, who was in China; Paul in Portland, Oregon; Faith A. Sipe, in York, PA, Zula Marjorie, Sara Gladys and T. Wallace all living in Hot Sulphur Springs and Doroth F. Gutzler, living in the Sheephorn Valley, Colorado.
Zula was buried on September 2, 1927, next to her son David and daughter Mary Houston Allis in the Hot Sulphur Springs Cemetery.
Burial:
Hot Sulphur Springs Cemetery
I
Posted 03 Mar 2009 by hpbs1
Zula Leora Suydam was born in Wyandotte City, Kansas in what is now Kansas City, Kansas. In 1859, her parents, Eliza M. Kinney and Chas. Henry Suydam were the first couple to be married in the newly formed Wyandotte Co. She had two brothers, William and Edward King Suydam. Their mother, Eliza Kinney Suydam, died when they were quite young, and their father, Charles, moved to OK and TX in the years following Eliza's death, taking his oldest child William with him. Zula and Edward remained in Kansas with their aunt, Sara Kinney, growing up at White Church, Wyandotte Co. where Indian children were their playmates on the Kansas frontier.
Zula became a teacher and taught in the Leavenworth schools until August 28, 1888 when she married Thomas W. Houston.
The couple lived in Chicago three years while Thomas studied theology, and in 1891 they went to China for eight years as missionaires.
In 1899, Thomas' health failed and the family returned home, living in California and Arizona and Baldwin and Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1924, Zula came to Hot Sulphur Springs to join her husband and grown children who had already settled in the area. In that tragic year, the couple lost two of their children, Mary in a car accident, and David in a hunting accident.
Zula was a devoted mother, and she was talented in drawing and painting. She moved often and lost many of her possessions in the process and that was a sorrow to her. Zula was very proud of her prestigious early American Dutch and English ancestry.
Betty Houston, Zula's granddaughter, who was quite young during the Colorado years, remembers her Grandmother Houston as a hard-of-hearing old woman with a huge hearing horn that she would order the children to speak into.
My mother Betty Houston Burkett was less than 4 years old when she knew her grandmother Zula. Her mother, Clara, did not care much for her mother-in-law (although she was very fond of her father-in-law, Thomas W. Houston), and I suspect young Betty was somewhat intimidated by her hard-of-hearing, old grandmother with the large hearing aid horn. As a consequence, I grew up dismissing my Great Grandmother Houston as a conventional and not very interesting women. Only later did I discover what an unconventional and interesting life she had. Her mother had been born in Michigan but moved with her widowed mother, Lois Samson Kinney to Kansas Territory because her mother's brother, Myron U Samson, had settled after he was discharged from the military at Fort Leavenworth, KT. In Kansas Territory, Myron married Margaret, a member of the Osage tribe, and they adopted an orphan girl from the Delaware tribe. At some point Margaret died. Myron never remarried, but remained close to the Delaware tribe for the remainder of his life. After the Delaware were removed from the state of Kansas and sent to Oklahoma, Myron joined them there, where he had a job as postmaster. He only returned to Kansas on visits and died in Oklahoma at the home of Charles Journeycake , a Delaware chief. I had no knowledge of Myron's marriage to Margaret until I was contacted by a descendant of his adopted daughter. My great aunt Lyda wrote that her mother, Zula, always spoke fondly of the Delaware Chief Journeycake and of the tribal children she had played with in the early years of Kansas statehood before the Indian removal. Small wonder that the Indian Removal was one of her earliest memories. After the death of her mother, she and her younger brother were raised by Kinney aunts in Kansas, where she grew up, became a teacher and married a minister turned missionary who took his family with him to China. My grandfather David was born there.
At the time of her death in 1927, besides her husband, seven living children remained. Lyda, who was in China; Paul in Portland, Oregon; Faith A. Sipe, in York, PA, Zula Marjorie, Sara Gladys and T. Wallace all living in Hot Sulphur Springs and Doroth F. Gutzler, living in the Sheephorn Valley, Colorado.
Zula was buried on September 2, 1927, next to her son David and daughter Mary Houston Allis in the Hot Sulphur Springs Cemetery.
Burial:
Hot Sulphur Springs Cemetery
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