Original Letter to Members of the Family
The following was written by William Sam Rosamond and included as a part of his example as to how to write a brief autobiography
to be included in data sent to him by members of the family. It was his intent to obtain at least this amount of information on as many
family members as he could for inclusion in a decorative, bound, professionally printed genealogy of the family.
William Sam Rosamond: Born July 3, 1889, at Paris, Texas. Moved with his parents to Gainesville, Texas in 1890. Lived at 411e.
Taylor St. for twelve years. Attended the first six grades of the public schools at the East School, Gainesville, Texas. Moved to Tyler,
Texas for one year, and then to Burleson, Texas where he graduated from the high school in 1907 as valedictorian of his class. He
attended the Decatur Texas Baptist College, graduating in 1909.
During the school year of 1909-10 he taught in one of the ward schools at Antlers, Oklahoma. He attended the Southeastern State
Normal School at Durant, Oklahoma in the summer of 1910. The following fall he taught a rural school in a German settlement in
Blaine County, Oklahoma in order to learn to speak the German language which he had learned to read in college. The winter and
spring of 1910 he taught the sixth grade of the Arapaho Okalahoma public schools. He attended the summer term of Baylor University
at Waco, Texas in 1911, going back to Arapaho Oklahoma to teach languages in the high school there in 1911-12.
In the summer of 1912 he was a railway clerk (mail clerk) working out of Deniso, Texas. The following school year of 1912-13 he taught
science in Hobart Oklahoma high school. Again during the summer of 1913, he worked as a railway mail clerk, this time out of Fort
Worth. The school year following 1913-14 he was principle of the Temple Oklahoma high school. In the summer of 1914 he attended
the University of Oklahoma. While attending the university, he was elected Superintendent of the Walters Oklahoma public schools,
which position he held during the years 1914-15-16. During the summer of 1916 he again attended the University of Okalahoma. In
1916-17 he was Principal of the Wilburn Oklahoma high school.
He resigned his position in April, 1917 when the United States declared war on Germany and enlisted in the army. He was sent to the
training camp at Ft. Logan H. Roots near Little Rock, Ark. In August, 1917 he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant and ordered to
Camp Pike Arkansas to take charge of the motorcyclye dispatch service there as he had been an ardent motorcycle rider for years.
After three months service at Camp Pike he was ordered to France to take charge of the motorcycles of the advance section of the
American forces. He served in France, Germany and several other countries for twenty-two months before being promoted to First
Lieutenant and later to Captain. He was awarded a special citation by General Pershing in May, 1918. Returning to Washington D.C.
in July, 1919, he was ordered to San Antonio, Texas where he served as Educational Officer in charge of the Army Vocational Schools
at Ft. Sam Houston and Camp Normoyle, Texas. He was honorably discharged at Camp Normoyle, Texas in Feb. 1920.
He was with the South Texas Motor Co., distributors of Stanley Steam Cars, traveling in South Texas and Old Mexico Stanley Steam
Auto until Sept. 1920 when he was asked by the State Superintendent of Schools of Oklahoma to install an automobile school for the
Drumright Oklahoma public schools, which he did. During the first half of the summer of 1921 he attended the University of Oklahoma,
being sent during the last half of the summer as a delegate to the Federal Conferrence of Vocational Education held at the Dunwoody
Industrial Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota. In September 1921 he returned to the Automobile School at Drumright for the school year
of 1921-22. During the first half of the summer of 1922 he attended the state vocational conference at the A. & M. College, Stillwater,
Oklahoma, and during the last half of the summer he was sent again as a delegate to the Federal Conference at Minneapolis.
He was married August 16, 1922 to Miss Elizabeth Horschler at her home at Temple, Okla. Elizabeth Horschler was born December
15, 1893 in Jack County, Texas. She is the daughter of John Horschler and Samantha Canzadie Scoggins. She is a graduate of the
Southwestern State Normal School at Weatherford Oklahoma. Before her marriage she taught Domestic Art and Science at Cordell,
Oklahoma in the public schools, was officer manager for the state office of the Lewis E. Myers Company, and taught Expression in
Bartlesville Oklahoma. After an automobile tour of Colorado, Mr. and Mrs. Rosamond returned to Okalahoma City, Oklahoma where
Mr. Rosamond was employed by the City Board of Education as Director of Vocational Education.
He received the Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Oklahoma in June 1923. During the summer of 1923, he was a
member of the summer school faculty of the Central State Teachers College at Edmond, Oklahoma. He continued as Director of
Vocational Education for the Oklahoma City Public Schools during 1923-24. In the summer of 1924 he was a member of the Federal
Vocational Conference held at Blue Ridge, North Carolina.
He made the trip from Oklahoma to Blue Ridge in an automobile visiting all the members of the Rosamond family that he could locate
in Tennessee, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas, collecting much of the information contained in the sketch from the persons
visited. He returned in September to his position in the Oklahoma City Public Schools for the year of 1924-25. In November 1924,
enroute to the Convention of the Society of Vocational Education held at Indianapolis, Indiana, he visited several members of the family
in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Ohio, collecting much valuable information.
Wm. S. and Elizabeth Rosamond have one child, a son, Paul Herschel Rosamond, born at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, August 26,
1923.
Autobiography
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Original Letter to Members of the Family
U.S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
WM. S. ROSAMOND, DIRECTOR
410 NORTH WALNUT, PHONE MAPLE 5491
To each of the members of
"The Rosamond Family"
Dear Kinfolks:-
As many of you know, my hobby for a number of years has been the collecting of genealogical and historical information about the
Rosamond family. I have collected in the last several years a vast quantity of information regarding my own and other branches of the
family. So many have expressed a desire to have the result of my investigations put into some form for distribution to the various
members of the family and have manifested a willingness to pay the cost of having this done, that I have prepared from the information I
have collected a chart or Family Tree and had it made into sections. I have had a number of copies of each section mimeographed.
The actual cost of stenographic work, typing, mimeographing, paper, postage, etc., figures out about $2.00 for each set of charts. This
is only the cost of having the material prepared for distribution and does not include anything for the time and money which I have spent
in collecting the material for my own use and satisfaction.
I am sending you a set of the charts and if you care to keep them just pin two dollars in bills or a check to your reply. If you feel that
they do not contain two dollars worth of information to you, simply return them as you are under no obligation whatsoever to send any
money. Your money without your hearty co-operation in the matter of collecting information data would be of no use to the cause, for
no matter how much money I had to spend in the effort, I could not prepare a satisfactory record of any value without the active
co-operation and participation of each member of the family. On the other hand your best and most hearty co-operation and assistance
in the matter of records and material would avail you and each of the other members of the family nothing unless each of you put some
of your money into a fund for duplicating and distributing the material collected or some one individual paid for this extra expense.
Whether you decide to keep the charts or not I would like very much for you to study them very carefully at your earliest convenience
and verify my deductions or point out the mistakes I have made relating to your own or any other branch of the family of which you have
knowledge. I am especially anxious to have a correct list of names and addresses. Please call my attention to any mistakes I have
made.
In case your family is not shown on the charts endeavor to find out which, if any, of the branches shown you belong to. In either case
write to me in some length what you know about your own branch of the family. War records, public offices held, places of residence of
your family extending back to the first settlements in this country if possible, occupations and accomplishments of all kinds, should be
included.
What do you think of attempting to collect and prepare for publication in book form, a genealogical history of "The Rosamond Family"
which will include such a record of each member of the family both living and dead? Would you sign an order for one or more copies at
the price fixed by the publishing house, which price will of course be stated on the blank sheet sent to you to sign? You understand
that the publishers will not print such a book without a certain number of signed orders and the more signed orders secured the
cheaper the book will be for each individual.
Will you agree to prepare your own, and use your influence to get the other members of your family and immediate relations to prepare
and send to me a concise but complete biographical sketch such as outlined above and on chart number one, to include if possible
photographs or kodak pictures of the persons and places mentioned? Pictures to be returned if requested and sufficient postage is
included.
I intend to prepare in typewritten form the material I have and can collect in the near future and have it bound in some permanent form
for my own family record. I think it is only fair that I should offer the other members of the family the opportunity to have this material if
they so desire.
I am sure that each one who receives this will understand that in the spare time that a busy man can take from his work that it would
be impossible to write each of the nearly three hundred of you an individual letter and that you will consider this mimeographed copy
my personal message to each of you individually.
Very Sincerely Yours,
Wm. S. Rosamond
Please address me at
P.O. Box 784,
Oklahoma City, Okla.
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1. Original Address List of William Sam Rosamond, Page 1
2. Original Address List of William Sam Rosamond, Page 2
3. Original Address List of William Sam Rosamond, Page 3
4. Original Address List of William Sam Rosamond, Page 4
5. Original Address List of William Sam Rosamond, Page 5
6. William Sam Rosamond's Family Tree, Master Chart 00
7. William Sam Rosamond's Family Tree, Chart 01
8. William Sam Rosamond's Family Tree, Chart 02
9. William Sam Rosamond's Family Tree, Chart 03
10. William Sam Rosamond's Family Tree, Chart 04
11. William Sam Rosamond's Family Tree, Chart 05
12. William Sam Rosamond's Family Tree, Chart 06
13. William Sam Rosamond's Family Tree, Chart 07
14. William Sam Rosamond's Family Tree, Chart 08
15. William Sam Rosamond's Family Tree, Chart 09
16. William Sam Rosamond's Family Tree, Chart 10
17. William Sam Rosamond's Family Tree, Chart 11
18. William Sam Rosamond's Family Tree, Chart 12
19. William Sam Rosamond's Family Tree, Chart 13
20. William Sam Rosamond's Family Tree, Chart 14
21. William Sam Rosamond's Ancestor's Bios, Page 1
22. William Sam Rosamond's Ancestor's Bios, Page 2
23. William Sam Rosamond's Questionaire Form, Page 1
24. William Sam Rosamond's Questionaire Form, Page 2
25. William Sam Rosamond's History of the Rosamond Name, Page 1
26. William Sam Rosamond's History of the Rosamond Name, Page 2
27. William Sam Rosamond's History of the Rosamond Name, Page 3
28. William Sam Rosamond's History of the Rosamond Name, Page 4
29. William Sam Rosamond's Introductory Letter, Page 1
30. William Sam Rosamond's Introductory Letter, Page 2