This map shows the northwest neighborhood where the Besseys lived in the 1920s and early 30s. Calvary off Walker is the first home they rented and where they lived when Dorothy was born. It was on the corner of Calvary and 10th. The home included 8 acres of woods behind it. The Marsdens lived on Bristol presumably by 10th. That is the home that burned down in 1930. Then they rented a home on Lincoln which is on the far right of the map. The home mentioned on page 8 of this history was located on Bristol “on a hill near the end that ran into McDonald.” The year was 1933. My Dad (Erwin Holmquist) and the future husband of Dorothy Bessey lived on Patton Ave the next street east of Bristol. In fact, Erwin and Dorothy’s first home was on the corner of Bristol and Woodrow. And our daughter bought her first home in 2012 on Walker between Woodrow and Calvary. Their house also backed up to the same wooded area as the house owned by my parents on Woodrow and the house my mom lived in her first few years on Calvary. One more street, Morgan at the top of the map is the house where my dad was born, the home his parents lived in with his maternal grandparents until they moved to Patton in 1928. My grandma. mom, Uncle Jim and Aunt Meredith would move to a house on McDonald in 1945 after the death of Clarence Bessey.
Ancestors Across the Ages 