Source Citations for Peggy May Lanning

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Source Citations

census-us-1940-ps-ks-rawlins-9-2a: 1940 U.S. Census, population schedule, Kansas, Rawlins County, Clinton Township, enumeration district 77-9, sheet 2A; 1940 United States Federal Census, database with images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 7 Mar 2021) ⟩ "Kansas ⟩ Rawlins ⟩ Clinton ⟩ 77-9" image 4; citing “Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA microfilm publication T627, roll 1252 (of 4643), National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.”

marker-c-duane-peggy-saddler-2011-living: Gravestone of C. Duane (2011) and Peggy M. (living) Saddler; Find A Grave (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed 9 Nov 2023), memorial IDs 179964078 (C. Duane) and 236460331 (Peggy), photograph uploaded 2 Jun 2017 by JMarble to memorial 179964078 only; citing “Beulah Cemetery (Colby, Thomas County, Kansas, USA), Block 60 Lot 9 Site 2” [Peggy died in 2022, after the photograph used for this evidence was taken but before the image was downloaded.]

obituary-peggy-saddler-2022: Obituary for Peggy May (Lanning) Saddler (2022); Baalmann Mortuary (https://www.baalmannmortuary.com/: accessed 8 Nov 2023), Baalmann Mortuary – Colby (Colby, Kansas)

obituary-russell-lanning-2002: Obituary for Russell Lanning (2002); “Russell Lanning,” Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com: accessed 7 Mar 2021), image “United States of America ⟩ Kansas ⟩ Hays ⟩ The Hays Daily News” page 6; citing “The Hays Daily News (Hays, Kansas), 31 Oct 2002 (Thursday), page A6, column 2”

research-a-spear-family-history: {private} Engelmann, A Spear Family History, privately printed 1988, updated 2002, 2005; privately held

Source Reference Details

Name Details

census-us-1940-ps-ks-rawlins-9-2a:

Reference Detail: Line 13, household n/a

Comment Detail: Source includes name (Peggy Lanning).

marker-c-duane-peggy-saddler-2011-living:

Comment Detail: Source includes [married] name (Peggy M. (Lanning) Saddler).

obituary-peggy-saddler-2022:

Comment Detail: Source includes [married] name (Peggy May (Lanning) Saddler).

obituary-russell-lanning-2002:

Comment Detail: Source includes [married] name (Peggy Saddler).

Birth Details

census-us-1940-ps-ks-rawlins-9-2a:

Reference Detail: Line 13, household n/a

Comment Detail: Source includes age (6) and location (Kansas). Using her age and the official census date of 1 Apr 1940 gives a birth date range from 2 Apr 1933 to 1 Apr 1934.

marker-c-duane-peggy-saddler-2011-living:

Comment Detail: Source includes date (April 28, 1933).

obituary-peggy-saddler-2022:

Comment Detail: Source includes date (April 28, 1933) and location (Clinton Township of SE Rawlins County, Kansas).

Death Details

obituary-peggy-saddler-2022:

Comment Detail: Source includes date (January 30, 2022).

Father Details

obituary-russell-lanning-2002:

Comment Detail: Source identifies Peggy [(Lanning)] Saddler as a daughter of Ruesell Lanning. The source does not provide sufficient evidence to denote the type of parent/child relationship.

census-us-1940-ps-ks-rawlins-9-2a:

Reference Detail: Lines 9,13, household n/a

Comment Detail: Source identifies Peggy Lanning as a daughter of Russle Lanning. The source does not provide sufficient evidence to denote the type of parent/child relationship.

obituary-peggy-saddler-2022:

Comment Detail: Source identifies Peggy May Lanning as a biological child of James Russell Lanning.

Mother Details

obituary-peggy-saddler-2022:

Comment Detail: Source identifies Peggy May Lanning as a biological child of Erma Arabelle (Higley) Lanning.

Marriage Details

marker-c-duane-peggy-saddler-2011-living:

Comment Detail: Source includes date (Sept. 1, 1951).

obituary-peggy-saddler-2022:

Comment Detail: Source includes date (September 1, 1951) and location (Gem, KS).

Miscellaneous Facts Details “Events”

obituary-peggy-saddler-2022:

Comment Detail: Source includes school name and description (Tully rural school). The years are estimated from her age and graduation year from high school. The location is presumed to be the Tully post office that existed in Rawlins County for a few years in the late 1800s, and gave rise to the name of a hamlet that lasted a few decades more. It was possibly located near coordinates 39.589, -100.879.

obituary-peggy-saddler-2022:

Comment Detail: Source includes school grade (second grade) and location (Atwood, KS). The years are estimated based on the estimated years in first grade.

obituary-peggy-saddler-2022:

Comment Detail: Source includes approximate date ("spring of 1941" [estimated as Mar 1941]) and destination (Cumberland farm, Thomas County [, Kansas]). The town (now a ghost town) was probably located near the existing, but not publically accessible, Cumberland Cemetery, just north of Gem, Kansas, and a little south of the old Tully, Kansas post office (closed 1887).

obituary-peggy-saddler-2022:

Comment Detail: Source includes church name (Gem Baptist Church) and date (Dec 31, 1949). The church is presumably in Gem, Kansas.

obituary-peggy-saddler-2022:

Comment Detail: Source includes school name and description (Tully rural school). The years are estimated from her age and graduation year from high school. The location is presumed to be the Tully post office that existed in Rawlins County for a few years in the late 1800s, and gave rise to the name of a hamlet that lasted a few decades more. It was possibly located near coordinates 39.589, -100.879.

obituary-peggy-saddler-2022:

Comment Detail: Source includes year (1969) and destination ("Cumberland farm" [Thomas County, Kansas]). [See also Peggy's family's move in 1941.]

obituary-peggy-saddler-2022:

Comment Detail: Source includes date ("January of 1998") and destination (Colby [Kansas]).

obituary-peggy-saddler-2022:

Comment Detail: Source includes church name (First presbyterian Church), year (2001), and location (Colby [, Kansas]).

Miscellaneous Facts Details “Attributes”

census-us-1940-ps-ks-rawlins-9-2a:

Reference Detail: Line 13, household n/a

Comment Detail: Source includes date (1 Apr 1935) and location (same house [implying Clinton Township, County: Rawlins, State: Kansas]).

census-us-1940-ps-ks-rawlins-9-2a:

Reference Detail: Line 13, household n/a

Comment Detail: Source includes census date (1 Apr 1940) and location (Clinton Township, County: Rawlins, State: Kansas).

obituary-russell-lanning-2002:

Comment Detail: Source includes date (Oct. 30, 2002) and location (Colby [, Thomas County, Kansas]).

General Notes Details

obituary-peggy-saddler-2022:

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Research Notes Details

marker-c-duane-peggy-saddler-2011-living:

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obituary-peggy-saddler-2022:

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research-a-spear-family-history:

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