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  • The family lived in Canton during the childhood years of the siblings.  Then everybody left except for Papa Charles and Laura.
  • Alma, Fred, and Eva, and also Fred's first wife Mabel all attended Oberlin College or Conservatory, and there were family and friends in other parts of Ohio.​
  • Will was assigned by the Army to Cincinnati twice - or maybe just once, with a temporary assignment to Texas in the middle of the Cincinnati assignment.  Kathleen, his second wife, was in Cincinnati with him, as were whatever children had been born.  Bill and Roger were born in Cincinnati.

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This will probably be mostly Woods Hole - i.e. Fernbank - but will also include the Boston area because Fred lived there for a while and Alma visited, and plus a couple of postcards from Ruth Farmer when she visited Gloucester.  Additionally, the American mission bureau (for Fred) and the Christian Science Mother Church (for the Farmers) are in Boston.
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Alma moved to South Hadley in 1908 for her career at Mount Holyoke College.  Mama Margaret lived with Alma when she wasn't visiting her other children.  After Fred's first missionary outing, whenever Fred was in the US, he lived near Alma, with Mabel and then with Sibyl and then with AG.
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Timeline for Georgia:
  • 1905 or so: WJ Farmer, Kathleen's father, comes to Savannah.
  • 1909 (April) -1910 (January): Will is stationed in Savannah.
  • 1910: Kathleen, her sister Ruth, and her mother Annie come to Savannah.  The Farmer household is created.
  • 1915: Will is re-assigned to Savannah, and comes with his mother, Mama Margaret, and with his toddler daughter, Margaret.
  • 1916: Will is notified that he has been assigned to Cincinnati, whereupon he marries Kathleen and moves to Cincinnati with her and with little Margaret, while Mama Margaret goes back to Massachusetts to live with Alma when she's not travelling around.  The Farmer household in Savannah continues.
  • 1923: Will is assigned to Atlanta, and moves there with Kathleen, little Margaret, and the three additional children who have been born in the meantime: Billy, Kay, and Roger.  The family stays in Atlanta after Will's retirement in 1928.
  • 1933: WJ Farmer, Kathleen's father, dies.
  • 1935: Ruth Farmer, Kathleen's older sister, dies.  Annie, Kathleen's mother, age 85, moves to Atlanta to live with Will and Kathleen.There is no more Farmer household in Savannah.
  • 1936: Annie dies.
  • 1940: Kathleen dies.  Will's children have grown up and are living outside of Georgia.  Eva leaves Philadelphia and comes down to Atlanta to keep house for Will.
  • 1950: Will dies.  Eva stays in Atlanta.
  • ​1960s sometime: Eva moves from Atlanta down to Coral Gables, Florida.  There are no more Stokeys or Farmers left in Georgia.
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Will was stationed in California around 1910-1913, and his marriage to his first wife, Margaret, took place there from start to finish.  Mama Margaret went out to California to take care of Will's daughter Maggie after Will's wife Margaret died.  (Too many Margarets.  Why couldn't Will have fallen for somebody with a different name?)

Also, Alma and Mama Margaret visited California in the summer of 1915, and Alma passed through California on her way to Hawaii in 1959.
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Alma got her PhD from the University of Chicago.  Also, Fred and Mabel also studied some there.
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​Fred and Mabel went to medical school in Battle Creek, and Mama Margaret lived in Ionia, Michigan, before her marriage, and went back to visit because her nephew John Hicks and later her sister Mary Provines Hicks lived there.
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  • Will was occasionally stationed in New York.  And, of course, he went to West Point.
  • Eva lived in New York City before and during her brief marriage to Frank Evans, and Alma enjoyed visiting New York as well.​
  • Kay went to journalism school in New York - Columbia, I believe.
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  • Mama Margaret's younger brother Jim spent some time in Texas.  He was there in 1916, but I don't know when he got there or when he left.
  • Will was stationed in San Antonio from 1918 to 1919.  Kathleen, Maggie, and Billy joined him there, and Kay was born there.
  • Will bought some mineral rights in Texas at some point, and in 1934 he went to Texas to see to them.
  • Alma and friends drove though Texas on their way from Massachusetts to San Francisco to board a ship to Hawaii.
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  • Mama Margaret came from western Pennsylvania, and her sister Rebecca Provines Taggart lived there.
  • Will was one of the Army people assigned to the Gettysburg 1913 Reunion.
  • Eva lived in Philadelphia for nearly 30 years.
  • Kathleen's brother, Cecil Farmer, lived in western Pennsylvania for over 50 years.
  • Will's son Bill became a professor at Carnegie-Mellon (I think it was Carnegie Tech when he was there), so that Bill and his family lived in Pittsburgh from around the 1950s until...I don't know when.
  • And, of course, everybody knows that you have to go through Pennsylvania to get to Hawaii, so Alma wrote a postcard from Pennsylvania in 1958.
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Will lived in the Washington DC from 1913 until 1915 (I think), with his very young daughter Maggie and his mother, Mama Margaret.

Will's younger daughter Kay worked in DC for the Associated Press during World War II.  I'm not sure of the exact dates.

​And, of course, there were official letters from the government.
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Eva occasionally vacationed by the seashore New Jersey when she was living in Philadelphia, and there are a couple of random letters from New Jersey as well.
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When Will was assigned to Cincinnati in the late 19-teens and early 1920s, his work was with the Ohio River, which is the border between Ohio and Kentucky.  So I have found several items from Kentucky newspapers with his name in them.  I haven't found anything from that period in Ohio newspapers, but that may change as more is added to newspapers.com.
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Will's daughter Kay ended up in Oregon, and stayed there for over 50 years...except for her travels.
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Alma and Clara were in Hawaii for the winter in 1959.
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The Woodsides, who were the parents of Fred's first wife, Mabel, retired to Florida after their missionary work was finished, so we have a few things related to them.
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  • Fred, Sibyl, and Mabel were all missionaries in Angola.
  • Also, we have a bunch of letters from some people in what was then Rhodesia.​
  • And there's a postcard from Alma when she was passing through Egypt and the Suez Canal on her way to India.
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  • Kathleen and her family came from England, and left behind many family (Farmers and Grays) and friends who kept in touch with them.  Kathleen's friend Margaret Jackson lived in Aberdeen (Scotland) for a few years, which is why I have labelled this section United Kingdom rather than England.
  • Additionally, there were visits of Kathleen's immediate family back to England.
  • Sibyl had an uncle in England, though I haven't noticed any mail from him.​
  • Also, there were visits to England by Stokeys to England.  Alma went in 1910 and in 1926 and also in 1936 on her way to India, and Fred & Sibyl went in 1928 on their way back to America.  I can't think of any other visits at the moment.
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Alma was at the Women's Christian College in Madras (Chennai) in India for two long stretches: 1929-1931 and 1936-1937
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Sibyl was Canadian, and the Angola mission ended up being assigned to Canada, so Fred had some correspondence with the Canadian Mission Board.

And Alma travelled to Canada, of course.
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Will was assigned to Cuba a couple of times.  His younger son Roger was in Cuba for a summer or two on Naval ROTC.  Maybe his older son Bill went there too - I don't know.
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Will was sent to the Philippines for two years, but we don't have much mail from him.
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When the Farmers travelled between England and Savannah in the 19-aughts, they took a ferry over to The Netherlands and then crossed the Atlantic from there.  I don't know if it was cheaper, or if it was that this was the only way to go directly to the South, rather than to New York.
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Missionaries to Portuguese East Africa were required by the Portuguese government to spend some time in Portugal first, learning the Portuguese language.
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Ruth visited Italy on her trip to Europe in 1930.  I don't know if we have any other letters from there.
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Alma passed through France on her way to India in 1936.  I don't know if there are any letters from France.
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Alma was in Turkey in 1956 on her round-the-world trip with Gladys Green.
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