Schlatter Family Site
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Genealogy NotesRose and JoeWe are Rose Golden Schlatter and Joseph Augustus Schlatter, Jr. We were married in Oxford, Alabama, on July 30, 1966. We have two children, Joseph A. Schlatter, III, and Stephanie Hope Schlatter. They are twins, born in 97th General Hospital (US Army hospital), Frankfurt, Germany, October 3, 1968. In early 2005 my wife and I moved to Bay Saint Louis, MS, where we were building our retirement home when we were wiped out by Hurricane Katrina. We returned to Knoxville, TN, where my parents lived, to decide what to do next. A few weeks after we arrived in Knoxville, my father died of a stroke. A few months later, my mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer; she lived seven months and died in March 2007. My mother was our family historian. She had folders, notebooks, and boxes full of photos and "stuff." After her cancer diagnosis, I spent many days with her going through the family history material she had and taking notes on what she knew of our family history. Earlier -- in 2002 and 2003 -- Rose had made several trips to her hometown of Oxford, AL, to interview elderly family members and collect material about her family from local sources. At the same time, I started doing online research on my family and Rose's family. These pages are the result of our research. Come back from time to time because we continue to find new information. Rose's Family: Golden, Cobb, HarrisRose is from Oxford, Alabama. Her father was Ernest Edgar Golden, born in Hico, Louisiana and her mother is Zelma Louise Cobb, born in Oxford, Mississippi. Golden. In Alabama, near the towns of Oxford and Anniston, is a small community named Golden Springs. The community is named for Rose's great-grandfather Golden who was an itinerant preacher. He established a home and small store near a good, reliable spring that soon became known as "Mr. Golden's Spring," later shortened to Golden's Spring, eventually becoming Golden Springs. Cobb. Rose's maternal grandparents were Raymond G. Cobb and Autrie Harris. The Cobbs and the Harris's were from the White Plains area of Calhoun County, Alabama. Both families originated in Georgia. My Family: Schlatter, Waldner, Richardson, Dudding, Coon, WhiteI was born in Centreville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi. My father was Joseph A. Schlatter, Sr., born 1 August 1915, Shaw, Mississippi, died 29 November 2005, Knoxville, TN. My mother was Annie Lee Richardson, born 21 October 1924, near Norwood, East Feliciana Parish, LA, died 18 March 2007, Knoxville, TN. SchlatterMy Schlatter grandparents were Adolph Schlatter and Emma Waldner. Both of them were from Saint Gallen, Switzerland. They immigrated to the US before the beginning of WW I. Adolph Schlatter was a baker. Family legend has it that a friend of his in Memphis wrote to him and invited him to come to Memphis and open a bakery. However, as I am discovering, it was a lot more complex than that.
Emma Waldner lived past the end of WW II. She had a brother, Louis, who came to Mississippi and worked in the bakery. Later, Louis would be a baker at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Here is the Schlatter Family Photo Album -- as of mid-February 2010, I am adding to this photo album almost daily.
RichardsonRichardson. My maternal grandparents were Clarence James Richardson and Annie Lee Dudding. We have a small booklet titled Memoirs of Francis DuBose Richardson, written December 1, 1895. I have a photocopy of the original. There are no sources, footnotes, or bibliography in the booklet. Instead, it appears to be what it claims to be -- the recollections of an individual who was a cousin of my great-great-grandfather. These memoirs tell the following story:
Dudding. My maternal great-grandmother died when I was 12 years old and I remember a little about her. She was Nina Anna Statia White and was married to Maurice Dudding. Family legend has it that the Duddings lived in Putnam County, West Virginia and, in the late 1800s, they put their belongings on a flatboat and floated down the Ohio to the Mississippi, disembarking near the Louisiana - Mississippi border and making their way to a homestead near the village of Norwood, East Feliciana Parish, where they started farming. My mother had an old dining table that came down the river on the flatboat; after her death, the table passed to me. Another Dudding family heirloom that passed to me after my mother's death is "Nanny's Long Box." While researching the Dudding family, I found the Dudding Family Website -- it is an excellent site put together by an individual who is descended from the same Duddings I am related to. There is in our family a copy of an old map of the area of Washington, DC, showing an area named "Duddington Pasture." The family story is that this property belonged to the Duddings before they moved to West Virginia. White. The White family originated in Great Britain then emigrated to South Carolina. They appear to have migrated from SC to southwest Mississippi, much as did the Richardson family. Coon. My maternal grandfather, Clarence J. Richardson, was the son of Reverdy Hunter Richardson and Martha "Mattie" Coon. Martha Coon had several siblings, one of whom was her younger sister, Ada Adair Coon (married John Davis, Woodville, MS, in November 1907). When Aunt Ada died in 1962, she left a number of documents to my mother. Here are two of the items in those documents -- Ada Coon-John Davis marriage license, and, a handprint from "Little Willie." Family PhotosHere are links to several pages of family photos. I've tried to organize these in some logical fashion -- hope this is not too confusing. Schlatter family photos, mostly pre-1950, four pages
Future WorkI use the Family Tree Maker genealogy software from Ancestry.com. Also, I subscribe to the Ancestry.com search services and we have been able to track down a lot of our ancestors through records on that site. I also use the following online genealogy search services:
Follow this link to our family tree on the Family Tree Maker genealogy site. Miscellaneous Family History NotesI have written several memos based on my genealogy research. Here is a list of these memos with links to them.
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