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My dad’s sister gave one to me and sent the other. She added Armstrong in-between the names Pricilla and Handley. I do not know where the name Armstrong came from. My dad’s sister typed that in as Pricilla told her. By the way, the census lists Pricilla and Vida Hanley which are Grand W and Barbara Handley's daughters. Pricilla was born September 3, 1912 and died August 31, 1989. It says on Grant W. Handley’s grave stone that he was born in 1873 and died in 1937 which is from a picture I have of it which my dad’s sister sent from here cousin on their mother’s side. Barbara’s name is on the same tomb stone or grave stone which 1878-1940, and it is located in Pilot Cemetery Herche, Illinois. Vida was married two times. It does not show who her second husband was, but her second husband was Melvin Walker and they had six children. Vida had died in a train wreck in Centralia, Illinois and Melvin Walker remarried Lucille. According to Kankakee records Louis Stebbins got to Louise Des Lauries married on October 14, 1902 and died on October 13, and the 1910 Us census lists him as the head of the house hold. The 1920 Us Census does not. My father says that he probably died of the great out break. The 1920 Us cenus shows that Louise Stebbins was divorced and the head of the household. They lived in Kankakee and their children and my father and sisters were all born in Saint Mary’s hospital in Kankakee Illinois. Father French baptized Pricilla. She lived with the nuns at a convent. She was a convert to the Catholic faith at 17. She kept it a secret from her family for along time. My father said her parents disowned her. After high school she entered the convent to become a nun. After two years when after very strict observance of the nunnery rules she had a physical and mental breakdown. They got married in 1935 She kept her marriage to my grand father Philip Stebbins a secret. For a short time after the marriage they lived in their own houses. After they told of the marriage they moved to Kankakee in Philip’s brother Alex’s house during the depression. Later and still during the great depression they moved to Chicago.
Philip Stebbins was drafted into the military during World War 2.
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