Ailsa Bell Amos

1895 - 1939  (44 years)

• 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  (Age 93 years)
  Mother	Arabella Jane Love,   b. 15 Mar 1861, WI ,   d. 26 Jul 1908, Dry Valley, Custer Co., NE  (Age 47 years)
  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  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	David Glen Heller,   b. 16 Nov 1891, NE ,   d. Dec 1974, Grand Island, Hall Co., NE  (Age 83 years)
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2010
  Family ID	F10	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1895 - Custer Co., NE  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• 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.
  		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.

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] History Reminiscence and Biography of Nebraska, (Alden Publishing Company, 1912).