William's Branches of the Babel Family Tree

Most of this information was provided to me by the wife of my third cousin once removed, Doris Bable, and my fourth cousin twice removed, Jeff McQueen.  The information about my immediate family comes from me.  We are all descendants of Christopher Babel. Personal notes on family members, by family members, are located at the end.  Superscript numbers indicate personal note number.  The bullets and indents indicate each generation.  More information will be added as it becomes available.

Personal Notes

1Personal notes by Doris Bable on William Bable.
William's birthplace listed on 1830 census records of Cross Creek, Pennsylvania, as both Maryland and Virginia.  He was between 20 and 30 years old at the time of the census.

2Personal notes by Doris Bable on Christopher Bable.
 Christopher was a farmer.  1860 census does not show Christopher living with family - in Civil War or living elsewhere.
1870 census shows family living in New Gallilee, Darlington, Beaver County.

3Personal notes by Doris Bable on Joseph Bable.
Widower in 1900, works for railroad, rooms with a Mrs. A. French in Beaver Valley.

4Personal notes by Doris Bable on Amos W. Bable.
 Amos W. Bable buried July 16, 1902 in Wilson Cemetery, New Galilee, Pennsylvania.  Was ill for six days prior to his death.  Suffered some form of paralysis.
Amos was a Farmer and a coal miner.
Served in the Civil War: PUT - August 19, 1862 to May 26, 1863 - Co. I, 134 RGT.
Left a will - #3888 - Registed at Beaver County Courthouse.
First wife Lucinda born about 1838 in Pennsylvania.  32 years old on 1870 census.
Marriage to second wife Lydia registed in 1895 at Beaver County Courthouse.
In the 1870 census - living with Amos and Lucinda was Margaret A. Bable - age 72, Amos' mother, also brother Joseph who was a farm laborer.
Amos grave - GAR marker #1234 - Granite marker.

5Personal notes by Doris Bable on William John Bable.
 The 1860 census records of Darlington Twp., Pennsylvania, show William is 8 years old, living with family.
The 1900 census records of Chippewa Twp., Pennsylvania, show William is 53 years old and a Section Hand for railroad.
1900-1901 - Beaver Valley, City Directory: Family living at 2307 East Avenue, Beaver Valley.  Rooming with a Mrs. French, or she is living with them, unclear.  She may be related - an older married daughter?

6Personal notes by Doris Bable and Raymond Lester Babel on William Landro Bable/Babel.
1888-89:  Willie attending school, Franklin C, Beaver County, College Hill.
Beaver County Marriages:  William L. Bable and Rosa M. Schutte.
1900-1904:  William and family living at 2715 9th. Avenue, Beaver, Pennsylvania.  William is a Teamster.

William is buried at the Grandview Cemetery in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.  Monument headstone.

Orphans Court Records, Washington County, Pennsylvania:  William Landro Bable and Myrtle Anna Bable - widow.  Widows exemption of $500.00, Fiouciaries Act - SAC - 12 pages - granted December 12, 1938.
William Landro Bable, deceased - Howard Cochran, Veterans Service Officer - Regarding son Raymond Lester Babel, minoor - appointment of guardian, September 30, 1939 - Beaver County Trust Co., Beaver County, Pennsylvania.

William was a decorated veteran, having served in both the Spanish-American war and World War One.  During WWI, William was exposed to Mustard Gas.  He suffered the effects of Mustard Gas Poisoning for the rest of his life.
According to Raymond (William's son) the effects of the poisoning were so bad that William finally ended his own life by ingesting poison.

7Personal notes by Doris Bable, Raymond Babel and Adaline Babel-Cuellar on Lula Delores Hart-Babel.
Lula was born six days before her sister's (Effie)  first birthday.  Lula was married first to Mont Luther Bable.  After "Luther's" death, she married William Landro Bable/Babel.
Lula died in 1925 at the Minaca Heights Sanitarium of Tuberculosis.  She is buried at the Little Beaver Cemetery.

8Personal notes by Adaline Cuellar on Hulda Adaline Babel-Richardson-Cuellar.
Although she never uses the name, she was named Hulda after her maternal grandmother.  After her mother's death in 1925, "Adaline" was taken and raised by her maternal grandmother, Hulda Elizabeth Dawson-Hart-Richardson.  She saw her father (William Landro Babel) only once afterwards.  She was eight years old and living with her grandparents in Mishawaka, Indiana.  Her father brought a trunk full of her mother's belongings with him.  He wanted to take Adaline back home with him, but her grandmother refused to let her go.  Adaline was adopted by her grandmother and step-grandfather in the Fall/Winter of 1930-31.  They moved to Chickasha, Oklahoma on September 9, 1931.  She did not see her brother Raymond Lester Babel again until 1944.

9Personal notes by Raymond Lester Babel and Ethel I. Babel-Hurt on Raymond Lester Babel.
 A short time after the death of his father in 1938, Raymond left Pennsylvania and traveled all over the United States taking odd jobs to support himself.  Shortly before the United States became involved in WWII, Raymond returned to Pennsylvania and had an accident which left him in a body cast for a year.  When he received his draft notice, Raymond had to be taken to the induction center by two male nurses.  He was classified as "4F" on the spot.  After recovering from his accident, Raymond left Pennsylvania and came to Oklahoma in search of his sister, Adaline.  He stayed for a short time, returning to Pennsylvania long enough to take care of family business.  Afterwards, he returned to Oklahoma and settled.  He met Claudie Imogene Prentiss in 1956.  They married in 1957.  They were married thirty-nine years, until her death on March 12, 1996.

10Personal notes by Doris Bable on Dallas Bable.
Dallas was a farmer.  It is suspected that his first wife Elizabeth died in childbirth.

   
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