Welty Photo Gallery

These couples make up the majority of the direct ancestors of Claude Welty and Gladys (Dixie) Dick.

Each couple will be their own book in the Life & Times of XX Series

Starting their life with the threat of the WW II draft hanging over their heads, the family pulls together (literally) but first Loren heads to Alaska to work as a commerical fisherman and nurse, then returns Long Beach, to join and ultimately run Marge's families construction company C.R. Crain and Sons. 

Claude is born in the wild west town of Elk Falls, Kansas and ends up a dairyman in Los Angeles. His life cut short, Dixie carries on and raises her son and adopted son on her own through the depression.

Frank was a Sheriff of Elk Falls, Kansas before he moved west to California and runs a saddle store, right when horse and buggys start to fade. 

A cooper in Ohio and a farmer in the wild west of Elk Falls, Kansas

Henry was a Teacher, Captain in the 68th Ohio Volunteers in the Civil War, Judge in the wild west of Elk Falls, Kansas and ultimately lives out his life in Escondido, California. His rock story was one of our first genealogy trips uncover a family legacy.

Lived in Sugar Creek Township Ohio. Henry and Mary's headstones are  located in an abandoned cemetery. The story of finding the cemetery and uncovering its secret is waiting to be told. 

Was Michael one of the famous Three-Welty-Brothers from the Rhine River Area? Was Christina his second or third wife? The tangle of the family is hard to unravel, and the search continues. 

Dixie is a great story teller and keeper of the Dick family stories. Her life changes when Claude unexpectantly passes away in 1933 as the depression continues. She makes ends meet, working as nurse in the boot-leg days on Catalina Island.  

From Kansas to life in early San Berdardino, California 

Samuel came to Placer California to mine for gold in 1852. Apparently he didn't strike it rich and returns to Kentucky, and then dies in Elk Falls, Kansas

Born in West Virginia, John and Mary raise a family of 14 children in Nebraska 

Frontier family of Fishing Creek, Kentucky

John was Revolutionary War Soldier in South Carolina, and a founding father of Pulaski County, Kentucky. Margaret faces her own challenges during the Revolutionary War, burrying her own brother when he is killed by the Tories during a bothced raid in 1782.

William is a slave owning Plantation farmer in South Carolina. Mary Jasper is the neice of famous Revolutionary war hero William Jasper. Their story sheds light on an interesting time in US history. 

James is a soldier in the 2nd Dragoons in South Carolina during the Revolutionary war and he and Sarah raise 5 children in the backcountry of Chester South Carolina. Their story of arriving in the Colony of Charlestown from Ireland in 1767 aboard the Ship the Earl of Donegal, highlights the complexity that begins the American Revolution.