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Bellevue Historical Society Annual Meeting

Location:  Bellevue Elks Club located at 214 W. Main Street, Bellevue

March 21, 2019

The Bellevue Historical Society will hold its Annual Meeting on Thursday, March 21st, 2019 at 7 p.m. at the Bellevue Elks Club, 214 West Main St.

The brief business meeting will provide reports on the Society’s activities, financial status, an update on the Tremont House Restoration Project; followed by election of Directors.
Bellevue native Elizabeth Burr Marquard will present a program on her books which relate the 100-year arc of her maternal ancestors’ lives, the William Seibel family of rural Monroeville.   “I Come From a Place Called Home, (1882-1929)” begins at Riverside Cemetery, east of Monroeville as the last surviving sister, 80-year-old Minola, makes a final visit to her childhood home.  She relates the unbreakable bond of the Seibel siblings; forged in the hardships delivered by fate and weather, and the overriding shadow in their lives – their mother’s mental illness.

Mrs. Marquard’s companion book, “I Come from a Place Called Home  (1930--1985)” continues the story as the family grapples with difficult decisions about their mother’s destiny and the fate of the family farm. The Seibels’ determination and sisterly support carry them through the decades of the Great Depression and World War II, helps them adapt to modern conveniences, and bear witness to the social upheaval of the 1960’s and the trauma of Vietnam.

Mrs. Marquard used old family letters, diaries, farm journals, manuscripts, and oral history to write the books, which are part biography and part historical fiction. The two books include hundreds of family photographs.  Mrs. Marquard grew up in Lyme Township and graduated from Bellevue High School and The Ohio State University.  She now resides in Chardon, Ohio.

Her books will be available for purchase and for signing.

 

 

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The Historical Society’s Annual Meeting was postponed to April this year.

The later date did not affect attendance, as a good crowd attended the event, held at the Society for the Arts on Thursday, April 5, 2018.
During the business meeting, Treasurer Mary Mitchell provided a Financial Report, President John Miller provided an update on the Tremont House Project and Election of Directors was held.

Larry Claus, Jeannie Gore, Judy Miller, Mary Mitchell, and Alicia Robles were elected to two-year terms.
Mary Mitchell introduced the program, ‘Bellevue Remembered’ with texts of excerpts from the 2002 Wallpaper Project for Ohio's Bicentennial.

Pat Sullivan, Bill Oddo, and Peggy Missler read from their interviews. Gail Coe read for her father, Bob Wagner. April Bickel represented her mother, Hazel Decker.

Current Bellevue Police Chief Mark Kaufman read the reminiscences of former Chief Russell Hetrick.
Willis Lodge’s memories of life in Bellevue were read by his daughter, LeRose Meadows; and his wartime memories were read by daughter Sue Andrews.

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