Saturday Fun Challenge: Occupations

For this week's mission (should you decide to accept it), answer the question:


1)  What were the occupations of your ancestors?

2)  Please go back several generations (say parents or grandparents or great-grandparents) and list the occupations that they had in the records you've found for them.  You could do this, say, by ancestor table number.

Father -

Ward, Gordon John (1919 - 1998)

Farmer

Assisted father with Threshing

Mechanic

Owned Oil Delivery Business

Mother -

Wooster, Alice Adelle (1924 - 2016)

Sales clerk while in high school and shortly after

Housewife

Owned craft shop

Grandfather -

Ward, William J (1887 - 1962)

Farmer

Custom Threshing for area farmers

Wooster, Marion James (1896 - 1976)

Farmer

Journalist while in Army

Carpenter- including in boat shop during Depression

Factory work during Depression

Janitor High School

Grandmother -

Ingalls, Frances Ellen (1889 - 1962)

Bookkeeper before marriage

Housewife

Jennings, Alice Valentine (1893 - 1970)

Waitress in tea shop

Registered Nurse

Housewife

G Grandfather -

Ingalls, Charles Joseph (1864 - 1939)

farmer

Jennings, William (1849 - 1917)

Ward, John S (1854 - 1932)

farmer

Wooster, Verner Robert (1867 - 1947)

Farmer

Supervisor of road work

Operated a grocery in Florida

Poet (although likely unpaid)

G Grandmother -

Brown, Achsah L (1864 - 1899)

housewife

Damery, Sarah (1862 - 1948)

housewife

Duff, Edith Mary (1868 - 1951)

housewife

Titus, Maria C (1858 - 1927)

housewife