Daughter of Squire and Mary Amanda Phelps Cahill. After the death of her mother, her father married the widowed Elizabeth "Betty" Childers Blackwell. When a small child, she attended school as taught by her father, who was much more strict with her than with the other children.
He later would explain that he didn't want anyone accusing him of favoritism. Aunt Grace could recite a poem that her mother was assigned as a school child which started out as, "They call me little chatterbox, my name is Nobie Kay." I wish I could recall the remainder of the poem! After her mother's death at such a young age, her father felt unable to raise all the children and young Nobie went to live with a German-speaking family named, I believe, Becker, who lived hear her childhood home west of Washington. Thus, even as an adult, though not born into German ancestry, she could speak the language fluently. When her future husband, James, was first introduced to her, he misunderstood her name, tipped his hat and said, "Nice to meet you, Miss Hill." Married James Asa Houseman at Steelville, Missouri on October 24, 1897. Their first home was in a small house in the tiny community of Red Bird in southern Gasconade County. In my childhood years, the house still stood but was razed sometime in about the 1980s.
Mother of Dewey, Lola, Grace, Myrtle, Mary Margaret, Beulah and Herbert. Sister of Theattus Valdavia "Addie" Cahill, Frances Estelle "Fannie" Cahill Ellis, Talitha Arminta Lucilla Geneva "Lou" Cahill McIntosh and Baby Boy Cahill. Aunt Grace always said of her mother, "When mama was married she had a 13-inch waist and when she died, she weighed over three hundred pounds." She always used her middle name and often a shortened version. Her nieces and nephews knew her as "Aunt Nobie." She mostly signed her name as 'Nobia.' Her grandfather Samuel Cahill Sr. settled near present-day Washington, Missouri in 1818, joined by other close relatives from the state of Kentucky.
He later would explain that he didn't want anyone accusing him of favoritism. Aunt Grace could recite a poem that her mother was assigned as a school child which started out as, "They call me little chatterbox, my name is Nobie Kay." I wish I could recall the remainder of the poem! After her mother's death at such a young age, her father felt unable to raise all the children and young Nobie went to live with a German-speaking family named, I believe, Becker, who lived hear her childhood home west of Washington. Thus, even as an adult, though not born into German ancestry, she could speak the language fluently. When her future husband, James, was first introduced to her, he misunderstood her name, tipped his hat and said, "Nice to meet you, Miss Hill." Married James Asa Houseman at Steelville, Missouri on October 24, 1897. Their first home was in a small house in the tiny community of Red Bird in southern Gasconade County. In my childhood years, the house still stood but was razed sometime in about the 1980s.
Mother of Dewey, Lola, Grace, Myrtle, Mary Margaret, Beulah and Herbert. Sister of Theattus Valdavia "Addie" Cahill, Frances Estelle "Fannie" Cahill Ellis, Talitha Arminta Lucilla Geneva "Lou" Cahill McIntosh and Baby Boy Cahill. Aunt Grace always said of her mother, "When mama was married she had a 13-inch waist and when she died, she weighed over three hundred pounds." She always used her middle name and often a shortened version. Her nieces and nephews knew her as "Aunt Nobie." She mostly signed her name as 'Nobia.' Her grandfather Samuel Cahill Sr. settled near present-day Washington, Missouri in 1818, joined by other close relatives from the state of Kentucky.
Daughter of Squire and Mary Amanda Phelps Cahill. After the death of her mother, her father married the widowed Elizabeth "Betty" Childers Blackwell. When a small child, she attended school as taught by her father, who was much more strict with her than with the other children.
He later would explain that he didn't want anyone accusing him of favoritism. Aunt Grace could recite a poem that her mother was assigned as a school child which started out as, "They call me little chatterbox, my name is Nobie Kay." I wish I could recall the remainder of the poem! After her mother's death at such a young age, her father felt unable to raise all the children and young Nobie went to live with a German-speaking family named, I believe, Becker, who lived hear her childhood home west of Washington. Thus, even as an adult, though not born into German ancestry, she could speak the language fluently. When her future husband, James, was first introduced to her, he misunderstood her name, tipped his hat and said, "Nice to meet you, Miss Hill." Married James Asa Houseman at Steelville, Missouri on October 24, 1897. Their first home was in a small house in the tiny community of Red Bird in southern Gasconade County. In my childhood years, the house still stood but was razed sometime in about the 1980s.
Mother of Dewey, Lola, Grace, Myrtle, Mary Margaret, Beulah and Herbert. Sister of Theattus Valdavia "Addie" Cahill, Frances Estelle "Fannie" Cahill Ellis, Talitha Arminta Lucilla Geneva "Lou" Cahill McIntosh and Baby Boy Cahill. Aunt Grace always said of her mother, "When mama was married she had a 13-inch waist and when she died, she weighed over three hundred pounds." She always used her middle name and often a shortened version. Her nieces and nephews knew her as "Aunt Nobie." She mostly signed her name as 'Nobia.' Her grandfather Samuel Cahill Sr. settled near present-day Washington, Missouri in 1818, joined by other close relatives from the state of Kentucky.
He later would explain that he didn't want anyone accusing him of favoritism. Aunt Grace could recite a poem that her mother was assigned as a school child which started out as, "They call me little chatterbox, my name is Nobie Kay." I wish I could recall the remainder of the poem! After her mother's death at such a young age, her father felt unable to raise all the children and young Nobie went to live with a German-speaking family named, I believe, Becker, who lived hear her childhood home west of Washington. Thus, even as an adult, though not born into German ancestry, she could speak the language fluently. When her future husband, James, was first introduced to her, he misunderstood her name, tipped his hat and said, "Nice to meet you, Miss Hill." Married James Asa Houseman at Steelville, Missouri on October 24, 1897. Their first home was in a small house in the tiny community of Red Bird in southern Gasconade County. In my childhood years, the house still stood but was razed sometime in about the 1980s.
Mother of Dewey, Lola, Grace, Myrtle, Mary Margaret, Beulah and Herbert. Sister of Theattus Valdavia "Addie" Cahill, Frances Estelle "Fannie" Cahill Ellis, Talitha Arminta Lucilla Geneva "Lou" Cahill McIntosh and Baby Boy Cahill. Aunt Grace always said of her mother, "When mama was married she had a 13-inch waist and when she died, she weighed over three hundred pounds." She always used her middle name and often a shortened version. Her nieces and nephews knew her as "Aunt Nobie." She mostly signed her name as 'Nobia.' Her grandfather Samuel Cahill Sr. settled near present-day Washington, Missouri in 1818, joined by other close relatives from the state of Kentucky.
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