_Justus EARLE _______+
| (1749 - 1826) m 1778
_John Edward EARLE __|
| (1797 - 1866) m 1822|
| |_Ann LAWRENCE _______
| (1752 - 1824) m 1778
|
|--Justus EARLE
| (1829 - 1829)
| _Robert Richard COX _
| | (1750 - 1809)
|_Sarah COX __________|
(1803 - 1885) m 1822|
|_Hannah YEAMANS _____+
(1767 - 1846)
[1306] This Justus died in infancy, as his brother was named Justus, but born in 1830.
_Leander Abel HANDSPIKER _+
| (1904 - 1977)
_Jackie Lea HANDSPIKER _|
| (1937 - 1979) |
| |_Violet Louise HAZELTON __+
| (1906 - 1986)
|
|--James Ivan "Jim" HANDSPIKER
| (.... - 2003)
| _Herman SMITH ____________
| |
|_Barbara SMITH _________|
|
|__________________________
[238]
Obituary from The Chronicle Herald:
HANDSPIKER, James Ivan "Jim" - 43, passed away January 31, 2003, in Digby General Hospital. Born in Halifax, he was a son of the late Jack Handspiker. He lived his early life in Montreal and Digby, where he attended Digby Regional High. He joined the Armed Forces in 1977, and was stationed at a base in Alberta, where he spent a short period before his release. The next few years he lived in Alberta, Ontario and Sussex, N.B. regions before returning to his home in Digby about six years ago, where he was employed as an auto body mechanic. He will be sadly missed by his mother, Barbara Cook, Weymouth; brothers, Kenneth and Keith, both of Digby; Bruce, Gilliam, Man.; sister, Belinda, Dartmouth. Visitation will be 2-4, 7-9 p.m. Wednesday, funeral service 2 p.m. Thursday, both in Jayne's Funeral Home, 7 Birch St., Digby, Rev. Donald Robertson officiating. Interment in Fairview Cemetery, Digby. Family flowers only. Donations in memory may be made to Canadian Diabetes Association. On-line condolences to: www.funeralscanada.com/homes/jayne
_Peter HANDSPIKER ___+
| (1787 - 1870) m 1816
_Edwin Bartlett HANDSPIKER _|
| (1817 - 1904) |
| |_Ferebee FANNING ____+
| (1787 - 1871) m 1816
|
|--Jessie Minerva HANDSPIKER
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Jane Margaret KEENE _______|
|
|_____________________
[721] A Jesse M. Handspiker, "male" was listed as born in 1860 to this family, in CV1 manuscript. The spelling may have lead to the listing as male, and I can think of no specific reason for the date difference. Again, much of this may be attributed to the Edwin B. vs. Edward H. problematic lines.
_Watson Chipman HANDSPIKER _________+
| (1893 - 1923) m 1916
_Francis (Frank) Lewis HANDSPIKER _|
| (.... - 2000) m 1943 |
| |_Lillian May HAZELTON ______________+
| (1894 - 1972) m 1916
|
|--Marilyn HANDSPIKER
|
| _Jean Louis (John Lewis) MOULAISON _
| |
|_Patricia (May) Agnes MOULAISON ___|
(1926 - 1997) m 1943 |
|_Agnes ROGERS ______________________
__
|
_Mr. HENSELBECKER ___|
| |
| |__
|
|
|--Henry "Hank" HENSELBECKER
|
| __
| |
|_Catherine ? ________|
|
|__
[1493]
THIS Henry/Hank is likely the first of his name, at least for the Henselbeckers who descend through the "Montana Line" of the family, to have arrived in the US, along with his mother and step-father, Ernst Bottler.
THIS Henry is the one mentioned in "Yellowstone National Park: Its Exploration and Establishment" Under notes for Part II, number 67 (the number of the footnote), it reads: "Henry Henselbecker, a half-brother, called 'Hank.'" After discussions with Henry Henselbecker, son of Henry (Civil War Vet), it was determined that this man was more likely the one referred to in the above book. The half-brothers he's associated with in the book are: Frederick and Philip Bottler. This indicates a shared mother between these three men. That may be the one "clue" that will help us connect Henry and his descendants to the Hanselbecker origins in Baden, Germany. Though, on his son, Henry's, 1880 Census return, it lists Henry's father AND mother as born in Indiana, as well as Henry (Jr.).
OCT-2002: Wondering whether the relationship of "half-brother" to the Bottlers is truly a biological one. If so, since "Hank" would have to be born no later than 1828 or so (given son's year of birth), either he was born to Catherine and "Mr. Henselbecker" in Germany, or, somewhere in Indiana, he was born, then adopted????? This is not going to be an easy line to follow!
Henry H. shows up in Iowa Census in 1860, as residing in Winneshiek County, Township of Orleans, on page 915 (fairly certain the Henry in the 1860 Iowa Census is THIS Henry ("Hank"), since it only lists heads of household and his son would only have been 14 at the time). It lists "Hank's" age as 45, indicating a birth year of 1815, and a place of birth as "BADE" (short for Baden).
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Input from Lee Whittlesey -
Archivist, National Park Service
Yellowstone Park Research Library and Archives
P.O. Box 168
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 82190
(307) 344-2261
So far as I know, the only geneology done on the Bottlers is a bit of
biography on Frederick Bottler that appears in the book PROGRESSIVE MEN OF
MONTANA, (Chicago: A.W. Bowen and Company, n.d.), a large thick history
that is held only by better libraries, p. 542. That bio states that Fred
was born April 10, 1843 to Ernst and Catherine Bottler, natives of Bavaria,
Germany. They emigrated to America in 1838. first to Ohio and then to
Indiana and then to Iowa. Their family consisted of six sons and five
daughters.
I know of no biographical information available on Henry Henselbecker
except that he was a half brother, according to Aubrey Haines's THE
YELLOWSTONE STORY (Boulder: U of Colorado Press, 1977, 1996).
I hope this helps.
Lee
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Based on the above information, my guess is, since Henry's son (Civ. War Vet) was born around 1846, this Henry would have had to have been born around 1825 or so, and possibly before. If that is the case, he was likely the son of Catherine by her first husband (Mr. Henselbecker) and born in Germany, not Canada. Much depends on the accuracy of the history.
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From "Wyoming Annals" (Winter 1994-1995, Vol 66, No. 4 p. 45)
Mention is made of the Bottler Brothers and Henry, as follows:
"The Bottler brothers - Frederick, Phillip, and Henry - settled in Paradise Valley, Montana, in 1868. They set up a hay, cattle and dairy ranch almost immediately. In September, 1869, David Folsom's party saw cattle there. According to Folsom a dozen head of cattle had free access to a stack of wheat on the premises. The Earl of Dunraven, a hunter who passed through in 1874, noted that the Bottler dairy was in operation when he visited the place. The following year General W.E. Strong, on his way to the Park (Yellowstone), also recorded seeing cattle on the Bottler Ranch. These were probably the first cattle in Paradise Valley but others would quickly follow.
NOTE: On page 46 of the Wyoming Annals is a picture of the Bottler's Ranch in 1871 by Wm. H. Jackson. One might assume, of the five men seen in the picture, one of them COULD have been Henry, though it matters little, as the picture was taken from some distance to capture a couple of the "buildings" on the ranch.
[1494]
From the online book about Yellowstone (http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/haines1/iee2d.htm), the following excerpt states the connection to the Bottler brothers. The Henry mentioned is half brother to Frederick and Philip Bottler, Henry "Hank" Henselbecker (passages in-between - and - are notations in book not words of Norris - Col P.W. Norris, which are in quotes):
"Leaving Everts at Fort Ellis [where he had business with the post sutler], with horse and Winchester rifle, I alone followed the Indian trail through the famous Spring Canon, and left the main pass and trail near the lignite coal bed. I thence crossed the beautiful grassy divide, still full of buffalo wallows, and following a continuous line of rough stone heaps from 2 to 5 feet high, to, and beyond Trail creek an estimated distance of 40 miles from here without seeing a human habitation, to the only one of white men upon the north bank of the Yellowstone."
- Norris stopped there for several days with the Bottler brothers: Frederick, Philip, and Henry, [67] enjoying their wild solitude. However, -
"The main object of my visit being to ascertain the possibility of an exploring party going through the upper canon and the Lava, or ancient volcanic country beyond, so as to reach the wonders said to be around Yellowstone Lake, several days were spent, with Frederick Bottler as guide, in climbing the Basaltic mountains and dark defiles, the mountain horses of Cayuse characteristics, climbing, like goats or mountain sheep, much of the way. Assured that with the fall of waters a party might in August reach at least the great falls of Yellowstone, we ought to have returned, but believing the Indians were across the next range of mountains upon a buffalo hunt, elated with the wonders found, and hoping to reach greater, and if possible be the first men to reach the Sulphur Mountains and Mud Volcanoes, and possibly the great falls and Yellowstone Lake, we rashly pushed on.
Although the snow-capped cliffs and yawning chasms in the basaltic or ancient lava beds, fringed with snow-crushed, tangled timber and impetuous torrents of mingled hot-spring and melted-snow water, made our progress-mainly on foot, leading our horsesslow, tedious and dangerous, we perservered until near a large river [68] that came dashing down from the Southwestern Madison range. There while crossing a mountain torrent, though the water was not over 20 feet wide and less than knee deep, such was its velocity that Bottler, who first entered, was carried from his feet and swept away much faster than I could follow, and though in great danger of being dashed amongst the rocks, he fortunately caught an overhanging cottonwood and by our united efforts was saved, but his valuable needle-gun, hat, ammunition-belt and equipments went dashing down toward the Yellowstone and were lost.
With my only companion sadly bruised by the rocks, benumbed, the remnants of his dressed elk-skin garments saturated by the snow-water, without gun or pistol, in a snow-bound mountain defile in an Indian country, even a June night was far from pleasant for us.
A morning view with an eight-mile field-glass, though disclosing distant clouds of smoke or spray [Mammoth Hot Springs], yet convinced us both of the utter folly of further effort until melting snows reduced the velocity and number of these mountain torrents, and we should be prepared with more than one gun for procuring food and defence from animals and Indians. As Bottler was unable to climb the mountains, [69] we returned through the unknown second canon, camping in it while I explored the route."
- In a note added at the time he edited these earlier writings for publication (which was never accomplished), he says: -
". . . We really visited comparatively little of the Park, yet from a spur of what is now called Electric Peak, we had a fine view of much of it and in returning on the west side of the Yellowstone through its second canon we explored the route which has been followed by nearly all others, and which is now the main route to the Headquarters of the Park."
- In closing the letter in which he forwarded an account of the foregoing exploration to the Norris Suburban, [70] Norris mentioned the choice which he had to make with regard to his activities that summer: -
"Shall soon decide whether General Washburn, Surveyor General of this Territory, friend Everts and Judge Hosmer, once of Toledo, Major Squier, the Bottlers and our humble self join in another expedition to the unexplored region of the Yellowstone Lake. If so, shall go no farther west this season; if not, shall try to cross the mountains to Oregon, down to Columbia, then to California, and return in autumn."
_George KAY _________
| (.... - 1820)
_Jacob KAY __________|
| (.... - 1876) m 1815|
| |_Sarah ? ____________
|
|
|--Angeline KAY
| (1825 - ....)
| _Shadrach CHASE _____+
| | (1750 - 1830) m 1792
|_Sarah CHASE ________|
(1794 - 1872) m 1815|
|_Martha EVANS _______
m 1792