A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
In the 1900 US Census for Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska, she is listed as Jennie Barnum.
Descendant Diane Kienholz says: Grandma loved to swim, garden, play in the snow, hunt for Geoducks on their beach, raise chickens and most of all her family. History written by her daughter Bebe: My mother was the oldest of 6 sisters and had 3 older brothers. Early in her life the family moved to Acme, Canada, a small town outside of Calgary. That is where she must have learned her love for growing things, as she was growing up on the family farm. She attended school in Calgary. In 1918 the family moved to Tacoma where she met, fell in love with and married Burdette Busselle. She made her home on 12th Street the show place of the neighborhood. Her home was always open to family and friends and she loved to entertain. Nine years later I was adopted, at only 3 days old. During my childhood we were all very happy. Mom excelled in many areas and continued to further her education through courses at Eastern Star Business College and courses in sewing and needle work. She crocheted and knitted beautifully, even took prizes at the State Fair for her work. During the war, she had the grandest victory garden in the whole city. After the war she took up growing prize Mums, eventually taking the grand sweepstakes. With the ability to grow flowers, she decided she needed to know how to arranged them, and took a flower arranging class. In 1946 we moved to Lakota Beach. With a large house and a lot of land she really had her opportunity to grow everything, from strawberries to prize-wining Iris. She had 150 rose bushes and borders of Primroses. As I would get up early for school I would wake to find Mom had been up for hours working in the yard. We loved the beach, digging up Geoducks. They were the happiest years. After I was married they sold the beach house and lived in an apartment until they bought a sweet model home out by the Narrows. She had a chance to grow things again. After she got the new house in order her beloved husband died. The last few years she traveled around to places she wanted to visit, Hawaii, Tahiti, West Indies and visiting relatives. Seeing her grandchildren and her great grandson, Jason. Through the years Mom was active in the PEO, American Legion Auxiliary, Eastern Star, Daughters of the Nile. Since her marriage she was a member of the First Methodist Church of Tacoma, although she never attended church too much, she had a firm belief in God and passed it on to me, which is the greatest thing she could pass on to her posterity. I'm sure her life has had a large void for the past years and there are now two special people united again and happier than ever and somewhere in heaven things are greener and flowers a lot prettier.
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