Helen Dorcas BRYANT (*5 Sep 1865 +13 Aug 1961)

[35688] Husband 1 : Frank Hiram BELOW
Children
  1. +Helen Dorcas BELOW (*6 Apr 1887 +16 Aug 1966)
  2.  Frank Bryant BELOW (*6 Jun 1894 +13 Aug 1916)
  3. +Frank Hiram BELOW (*25 Aug 1898 +16 Nov 1983)
Please email corrections or additions to Dale Schultz at
Personal details of people who may be living are NOT placed on the web

Complete list of names in tree

URL changed? Try Dale or Debbie's tree home site.

[35687]

[35687] Around the time she had grandchildren, Helen Dorcas Bryant Below became known within the family as Mippie.
NAME: Helen Dorcas /Below/

Once she had grandchildren, Helen became known as Mippie within her family.

[35689] Helen Dorcas Bryant appeared on the census of 03 Jul 1870 in Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana. She lived with her parents, her siblings, and a female housekeeper in a home valued at $2000 owned by her father.

[35691] Helen Dorcas Bryant appeared on the census of 08 Nov 1880 in 1912 13th Street, Saint Louis, Saint Louis City, Missouri. She lived with her parents and siblings as well as a married couple identified as boarders.

[35693] Frank Hiram Below Sr. and Helen Dorcas Below lived in 1889 in 681 Oakwood, Webster Groves, Saint Louis County, Missouri. Per the Webster Groves Century Homes book, this home was built for Frank Below in 1889. See exhibits for photo.

[35695] Frank Hiram Below Sr. lived in 1890 in 685 Oakwood, Webster Groves, Saint Louis County, Missouri. Per the Webster Groves Century Homes book, this home was built for Frank Below in 1890. See exhibits for photo.

[35697] Between 1891 and 1892, Frank Hiram Below Sr. lived at 4346 Evans Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. His Chicago Voter Registration on 18 October 1892 reported him as having lived at 4345 Evans for 1 year, in Cook County and the state of Illinois for 2 years.

[35700] Frank Hiram Below Sr. lived in 1896 on Old Orchard Avenue, Webster Groves, Saint Louis County, Missouri.

[NF2699] Frank Hiram Below Sr. married Helen Dorcas Bryant, daughter of James Ray McCorkle Bryant Jr. and Helen Margaret Riley, on 04 May 1886 in Chestnut Street, Church of the Holy Comunion, Saint Louis, Saint Louis City, Missouri.
Per Joan Wolf Blistain, the couple took a steamboat from St. Louis, down the Mississippi and up the Ohio, to Indiana for their honeymoon.

NOTE Frank Hiram Below Sr. and Helen Dorcas Below appeared on the census of 0
CONC 3 May 1910 in 550 Big Bend, Webster Groves, Saint Louis County, Missour
CONC i. He owned the home with a mortgage. He is listed as department mana
CONC ger for a wholesale hardware company. Also in the household are his 3 c
CONC hildren, his monther-in-law, and sisters-in-law Margaret E. and Helen M
CONC . Bryant.
SOUR @S82@
PAGE Central Township, City of Webster Groves Ward 2, Supervisor District 61, Enumeration District 120, sheet 26A, Lines 43-44.
_TMPLT
FIELD
NAME Page
VALUE Central Township, City of Webster Groves Ward 2, Supervisor District 61, Enumeration District 120, sheet 26A, Lines 43-44.
CONC 5 Jan 1920 in 550 Big Bend, Webster Groves, Saint Louis County, Missour
CONC i. He owned the home free of a mortgage. He is listed as being the ma
CONC nager of a hardware company. Also in the household are son Frank H. Be
CONC low, Jr, daughter Helen Dorcas Wolf with husband Louis Wolf, mother-in-
CONC law
Helen Bryant, sister-in-law Margaret Bryant, and female servant Sarah M
CONC olam.
SOUR @S95@
PAGE Central Township, City of Webster Groves Ward 2, Supervisor District 11, Enumeration District 136, Sheet 5A.
_TMPLT
FIELD
NAME Page
VALUE Central Township, City of Webster Groves Ward 2, Supervisor District 11, Enumeration District 136, Sheet 5A.
NOTE Frank Hiram Below Sr. and Helen Dorcas Below appeared on the census of 1
CONC 0 Apr 1930 in 117 South Maple Avenue, Webster Groves, Saint Louis Count
CONC y, Missouri. They were in the household of their daughter and son-in-l
CONC aw, Helen Dorcas Below Wolf and Louis Wolf. Also in the household was t
CONC heir daughter, Margaret E. Bryant. Frank Below was listed with no empl
CONC oyment.
SOUR @S68@
PAGE Central Township, City of Webster Groves Ward 2, Supervisor District 8, Enumeration District 95-70, Sheet 14B, Lines 75-76.
_TMPLT
FIELD
NAME Page
VALUE Central Township, City of Webster Groves Ward 2, Supervisor District 8, Enumeration District 95-70, Sheet 14B, Lines 75-76.

[56986] Frank Hiram Below Sr. and Helen Dorcas Below appeared on the census of 21 Jun 1900 in Webster Groves, Saint Louis County, Missouri. They own the home with a mortgage. Also in the household are their 3 children. He is listed as being a hardware clerk. The next household on the census sheet is James & Helen Bryant, Helen Dorcas Bryant Below's parents.

[35688] [S753] George Blistain

[35685] [S832] Louis Wolf, Wolf, Louis--Genealogy of the Wolf & Below Families, unpublished, no sources cited. (Compiled April 1964)

[35686] [S733] Journals of Louis Wolf (, 1921–1967), originals privately held by George Eric Blistain, [address for private use], 2014 (Grandson). Personal journals covering 1921-1926 & 1946-1967..

[35690] [S730] 1870 US Census

[35692] [S737] 1880 US Census

[35694] [S828] Bradley, Marilynne, City of Century Homes : A Centenniel History of Webster Groves, Missouri (1995)

[35696] [S828] Bradley, Marilynne, City of Century Homes : A Centenniel History of Webster Groves, Missouri (1995)

[35698] [S829] Chicago City Directory

[35699] [S830] Chicago Voters Registration, Url: www.ancestry.com

[35701] [S831] Saint Louis County Directory (1896)

[56984] [S724] 1900 U.S. Census

[56985] [S726] Deutschland, ausgewählte evangelische Kirchenbücher 1500-1971," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP62-ZR2H : 3 April 2020), Friederike Bertha Dorothee Wehrstedt, 17 Apr 1854; images digitized and records extracted by Ancestry; citing Baptism, Egeln, Wanzleben, Sachsen, Preußen, Deutschland, Egeln, German Lutheran Collection, various parishes, Germany.

[56987] [S724] 1900 U.S. Census

[56988] [S725] 1940 U.S. Census, ; .