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 1895 - 1939
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| Name |
Ailsa Bell Amos |
| Born |
1895 |
Custer Co., NE  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
7 Sep 1939 |
| Person ID |
I10 |
A Love Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
20 Sep 2010 |
| Father |
Zachariah D Amos, b. 24 Jan 1861, Carroll, Fairfield Co., OH , d. 2 Jul 1954, Douglas Grove, Custer Co., NE |
| Mother |
Arabella Jane Love, b. 15 Mar 1861, WI , d. 26 Jul 1908, Dry Valley, Custer Co., NE |
| Married |
2 Jun 1891 |
Valley Co., NE [1] |
| Documents |
 | Love, Arabella & Georgia, 1900 Federal Census
A portion of the 1900 United States Federal Census recording Zachariah, Arabella (Love), Ailsa, & Maude Amos; Alice & Richard Emerson; and Georgia Love living in Douglas Grove, Custer Co., NE.
Note that Richard & Alice Emerson's father Edward & other siblings are living "next door" on Thomas Arthur's farm, where Edward is working as a laborer. |
| Family ID |
F2 |
Group Sheet |
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 | Born - 1895 - Custer Co., NE |
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| Documents |
 | Amos, Ailsa & possibly Frieda, St Nicholas magazine
A page from St Nicholas magazine featuring a letter describing bee swarms by 12-year-old Ailsa B Amos. Photograph is said to be her little sister, likely Frieda. |
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| Love, Arabella & Georgia, 1900 Federal Census
A portion of the 1900 United States Federal Census recording Zachariah, Arabella (Love), Ailsa, & Maude Amos; Alice & Richard Emerson; and Georgia Love living in Douglas Grove, Custer Co., NE.
Note that Richard & Alice Emerson's father Edward & other siblings are living "next door" on Thomas Arthur's farm, where Edward is working as a laborer. |
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| Notes |
- Letter to St Nicholas magazine, 1908
Vol 35, Part 1, pg 751
Section: "Nature and Science for Young Folks"
Comstock, Nebraska
Dear St Nicholas: When the weather gets warm and the beehives are full of bees they begin to get ready to swarm. They raise a dozen or more young queens, but the old one generally goes with the first swarm. They come out in the air, fly around, and then settle. When they begin to settle a few bees light and the others keeps piling on them and hanging to one another till they all get settled. Sometimes there is no more than a quart of bees in a swarm, and we have had them when they would fill a big pail. Sometimes they will not stay in the cluster more than half an hour, and sometimes they hang all day before they go away. When we go to get them we spread a sheet down in front of the hive and shake the bees on it and they run in. If they light on a tree we sometimes cut the branch off and carry it to the hive. They quite often settle on a tree, and we have had them light on the fence or on the ground. The picture is of a swarm that settled on a sulky-plow seat. My little sister is finishing her breakfast beside them.
--Ailsa B. Amos (age 12)
One remembers while reading this that Ailsa's mother Arabella was known for her beekeeping skills.
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- [S3] History Reminiscence and Biography of Nebraska, (Alden Publishing Company, 1912).
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