I’m Katie Bond, age 58, single mother of twin 19 year old boys. We live in Portland, Oregon (helping to keep Portland weird). I’m from the corn fields of Illinois (where barbed wire was invented!). I came to Portland via San Francisco, where I went to college and where my sons were born. When I graduated I thought I would go into Transportation Planning. I did a six month internship making maps at the City of Gresham (measure 57 was voted in an eliminated any job possibility at the City of Gresham but my years of experience as a legal secretary and computer consultant lead me to a job as a Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) Case Manager). As a DHS Case Manager I have worked with downtown Portland homeless, those just out of prison re-integrating into Portland life, and now I have a pre-SSI caseload.
Interests
- Politics (father precient captain and actively involved in local Republican politics in DuPage County, Illinois -> working for politicians in Chicago -> interest in the politics of Portland, Oregon)
- Family Stories and Genealogy (45+ years of research at Quakersurnames.Net)
- American History & Culture (focus on Colonial Nantucket, pre-Civil War, Guilford County, North Carolina and Underground Railway, Wayne County, Indiana)
- Migration (What movitates a move?)
- Cozy Mysteries
- Quaker History, Aesthetics, and Simplicity
- World Music (especially Northern African, Mideastern and Indian)
- Baking & Cooking (see what I am cooking this week below)
- Architecture and how the space elicits thoughts and feelings
- Cube Decoration — Fabric & Beaded Decoration (pictures in the future)
- Cube Art & Supply Sources (pictures in the future)
- Cube Organization Tools (pictures in the future)
Collections:
- Railway Dining Car Postcards
- Quaker Meetinghouse Postcards
- Cotton Thread
- Collect and use daily Lindt-Stymeist stoneware (pictures to come)
- Red glass scientific beekers
- Cookbooks (will start working on some cookbook reviews)
- Genealogy Books (Quaker, Nantucket, Coffin, British Ancestry, Whaling — Bibliography in the future)
Professional
- Case Management
- Serving Homeless
- Re-entry (from prison to community)
- Leadership
- GIS (geographic information systems) use in social services
- Cultural Geography (explore getting my Masters with a focus on migration studies)
Personal
- Single Parenting Twin Boys
- Daughter of a high school economics and history teacher who got his B.A. at 40 at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb and M.A. at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona and creative mother who got her degree in culinary arts (cooking) in her 50s taught at Elgin Community College, had a catering business and worked at Joliet State Prison as a chef. She is now happily retired in northwest Arkansas.
- Brother, Gary, who lives in Missouri with his wife and two sons.
- Meal Planning on a budget
- Abstract oil painting collection of artist Peter Ratner
- Pug owner
- Jewelry making with beads of fine stones and gems (pictures in the future)
- Find, experience and savour a “significant other” in my life
Education
- 1969, graduated West Chicago (Illinois) Community High School
- 1996, B.A., American Studies, San Francisco State University
Katie -
I found your wonderful list of Quaker surnames, which include Joel Bailey and Ann Short, and Mary Bailey and Alexander Stewart, from whom I am descended. My father’s mother was Effie Mae Stewart Fleming of Paola Kansas, where I was born.
I have an unbroken line from Alexander Stuart (b 1608) to myself, with all of the wives and gravesites.
I can fill in your Stewart family from Alexander Stewart, who was the son of Robert and Mary (Martha) Richardson Stewart of Kennett.
My daughter is getting married near Bend this August, and I usually drive to Seattle, Portland, San Francisco in the summers.
Also if you google the Tacoma Public Library postcard section (under Tacoma Past & Present) and type in ‘Hoquiam’ or ‘Polson’, you will see some of my postcards.
- Ron Fleming
734-662-0917
Thank you Ron! If you want to post your information at Quaker Surnames send it to me. I can give you a link to your e-mail or website also if you like. We’re cousins! I would happily accept more information. Tonight I will look at your postcards. At some point I will start scanning mine and posting them.
When you are in Portland, and if you are interested in getting together, e-mail me!
Katie
Good morning, Katie,
In looking for some Indianapolis information, I googled my grandfather’s name and found your page about the family of Isaac Beeson and Phoebe Stroud, from whom my grandmother was descended. As I read the information about my grandmother and grandfather, I saw that two of their children are missing …. my mother and one of my aunts. I would like to give you that information to add to the page. Unfortunately I don’t have specific dates for my aunt, but I know where she was born, who she married, and where she died. And, of course, I can give you complete information about my mother.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Marilyn Mittelstadt
Marilyn,
I would love additional information on our mutual family! I can also give you an e-mail and/or web page link from the page also if you like.
Katie
That would be great, Katie. Whichever works best for you will be fine with me. I’m not sure what to do with a web page link, but I could probably figure it out. I am leaving on Saturday morning and will be gone for 12 days. I will have my laptop with me and should be able to get online at least 7 of the 12 days.
It was really neat for me to look at page with my grandparents names on it and see names of some cousins of my Mother who I remember meeting when we took a trip from L.A. to Indiana 52 years ago. I had just graduated high school and it was my Mom’s first trip back, so her aunt and uncle organized a big family picnic.
richard fitz-wale was not born about 1090,as he died sometime after 1188. He was the son of Galo also known as ‘Wales” or “Walon”- the name Fitz Wale which means “son of Wale”. His wife Maud refers to him in a documents as “Richard son of Galo”Also, later in the pedigree, Roger de Puttenham probably did not marry Alina Apigmel- that is a misreading of the record. He preobaby did marry Alina de Herdbergh, who inherited the de Herdberg llands as heri ofNicholas de Herdberg. And there were three John Puttenhams that followed Richard Puttenham of Eddlesborough, not a John and a Henry- the record is somewhat limited here, but two generations are not enough to have filled the time span between the two Richards. If any change in the lineis required, it would be be to substitute a Nicholas Puttenham for one of the John Puttenhams.
I was on your website. Thought you might like this information about Sarah Eliot, she m. Aut. 6, at Nazing, England 1618; d. Roxbury, Mass. March 20, 1672. She married William Curtis bapt. 1592 at Nazing, England; sailed from London 22 June 1632 in the Lion; arrived Boston Sept. 16, 1632; d. at Roxbury, Mass., Dec. 8, 1672. They had Children:
William, b.1619, at Nazing, Essex, England; d. 1634 at Roxbury, Mass.
Mary Curtis, bapt. March 11, 1620 at Nazing, England
Thomas, bapt. Jan. 19, 1622 at Nazing, England
Elizabeth bapt. Feb. 13, 1624 at Nazing, England
John, bapt July 17, 1629 at Nazing, England
Philip bapt. March 28, 1632 at Nazing, England; m. Oct. 20, 1658, Obedience, Holland; he was killed Nov. 7, 1675
Sarah, bapt. Aug. 5, 1627 at Nazing, England
Hanna bapt. at Roxbury, Mass.
Isaac, bapt. July 22, 1641 at Roxbury, Mass.
I belong to the Curtis/Curtiss Society and have all the Curtis/Curtiss Genealogy books. I can help ya out with more info. Kathy
Katie,
What a nice website! I see you have researched history in Wayne County, Indiana. My grandfather six times back, David Bradbury, settled near Hagerstown with his family around 1807. His grandson William (through son John) emigrated to Iowa in the mid-1850’s. I hope to find some documentation showing William’s connection to John and David. The family was associated witht the Salem Primitive Baptist Church a couple miles east of Hagerstown. Do you have any ideas on where I might look to have some success in this? Thanks, Steve
Hello,Katie & Distant cousin, I am Descended through George Harlan and Elizabeth Duck.George and Michael & Thomas you know immigrated to Ireland and Sometime Later,Thomas went back to only die on English Soil as a Englishman.George and Michael Continued Their Journey to Chester Co Pa,and from There They Branched out all Over The U.S. and Ours,Jehu Harlan and sussanah Moore Made it to Iowa where 4 Of Our Harlans Married our 4 Allens from which I Descend.(Don’t think That wasn’t a Mess Trying to get them all in a Right Family…MY other Ancestor was James Harlan who married Elizabeth???,Ezekial and Arrons Brother,to get you on the Right Track.I Have Apheus Harlans Info Here and Pearl turners “Hanawald,Cock of the Woods” Here in This Mess somewhere.But you do Have a Great Site.Good Luck to you cousin Kate….Richard 112 Elizabeth St.S.W Cedar Rapids,Iowa 319 5502631