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TRICKETT FAMILY HISTORY of WAYNE FREDERICK TRICKETT
BIRTH NAME:
Wayne Frederick VOGEL
Born: 8-3-1948 in Washington D.C.
Died:
BIRTH FATHER:
William Joseph VOGEL
Born: 12-25-1921
Died: 6-23-1976
BIRTH MOTHER:
Doris Elizabeth (LEEBRICK) VOGEL*
Born: 1-12-1922
Died: 10-16-1948
BIRTH GRANDPARENTS:
John Nicholas LEEBRICK Sr.**
Ruby Elizabeth (MELROSE) LEEBRICK
ADOPTIVE NAME:
Wayne Frederick TRICKETT
Raised by adoptive parents Joyce
and Edison TRICKETT since Oct.1948
ADOPTIVE FATHER:
Edison TRICKETT
Born: 7-11-1916
Died: 2-24-1999
ADOPTIVE MOTHER:
Joyce Marie (LEEBRICK) TRICKETT *
Born: 3-12-1930
Died: 10-24-2009
ADOPTIVE GRANDPARENTS:
William Joseph TRICKETT
Jean Robertson (GIFFEN) TRICKETT
Generation 2
Edison TRICKETT was born July 11, 1916. He died February 24,1999. Edison was the third son of William Joseph TRICKETT and Jean Robertson GIFFEN. He married Joyce Marie LEEBRICK on April 5, 1947, in Rockville, Maryland. They were married (nearly 52 years) until his death in 1999 . I feel fortunate and extremely proud to say that I am one of the couple's children. It is known that his children remember Edison as “Dad, our hero”.
He was born in Gilmore, Maryland and grew up in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, near the Maryland and West Virginia borders. He was tall, rangy and athletic. He often told stories of coal mining in his teens, of playing ball under the only gas light in town, and running back and forth to the nearby town, more than 10 miles roundtrip, just for the fun of it!
Although he served in the Marines, in Guam and the Philippines in World War II, he never talked much about it, except for rare references to the malaria he picked up there. He did like to laugh about the way the troop ships made everyone, especially him, seasick.
One story he told was when he and fellow Marines were in California preparing to depart for the Pacific Front. Each morning for some period of days his company would march with full packs, weapons and all their gear down to the troop ship where they climbed the sides draped with cargo nets, with all that weight, to the deck.
They were sent down below decks while many more troops were loaded onboard. When all troops were in place on board, they were told to reverse the process, go back down the boarding nets and march back to the barracks. This must have been to practice and re-practice the loading and unloading of the ship until the officers felt it was done to their satisfaction.
On one of these mornings, after he was deep within the ship and was feeling the movement of it, he and others were told they could go topside for fresh air. He said on reaching the deck he realized the threat of leaving had come true and the base was getting smaller in the distance! It was on to the Pacific Front!
After the war he worked at the Dr. Pepper bottling plant in Washington, D.C. where he put his Electrical Engineering education to work updating the production line. He then joined RCA in Washington where he stayed for the next 30 years.
He was an avid gardener, raising everything from tomatoes and peppers to eggplant and kohlrabi. When he wasn't gardening he was building and fixing things. Edison could fix or build anything, often it seemed, through sheer willpower! More than once we saw him grind or bend an old tool to create an entirely new one. He was an early proponent of repurposing!
Edison, who filled out to 6 feet tall and 205 pounds, was a tremendous athlete. We never saw anything he couldn't do. Football, baseball, basketball, it didn't matter. He could hit a baseball out of sight. He could throw a football sixty yards on a line. Through the years, Edison always had time for his children and spent countless hours after work with them playing football, baseball and other sports or games.
It should be mentioned that our father Edison wasn't the only exceptional athlete in the Trickett family. My brother Ron and I remember playing in several family baseball games and by baseball, I mean hardball, not softball, in the mid-1960's. These included our Dad, his father, William (who was nearly 80 at the time and played the outfield without a glove!), his brother, George and our half-brother, Ed who was even sought after by major league scouts. And I'm here to tell you that everyone could flat out play! Ed, who is a professor of psychology also taught at Yale University, at Maryland University, at the University of Chicago and is currently in 2020 at the University of Miami. He was also a very popular folk music artist with many recorded albums to his credit.
He married (1) Eleanor HEROD
Children were: Edison Jean TRICKETT
Edison also married (2) Joyce Marie LEEBRICK
They had the following children: Wayne Frederick TRICKETT born Aug. 3, 1948; Ronald Lynn TRICKETT born Oct. 20,1950; Joyce Marie TRICKETT born Nov.1,1952; Marlena Jane TRICKETT born Sept. 29,1954; Virginia Faye TRICKETT born Feb.10,1961.
His Parents were: William Joseph TRICKETT and Jean Robertson (GIFFEN) TRICKETT
Joyce Marie (LEEBRICK) TRICKETT was born March 12, 1930. Joyce died, sadly, suddenly and very unexpectedly on October 24, 2009 in the hospital while undergoing medical tests. Joyce married Edison Trickett on April 5, 1947 in Rockville, Maryland. She was 17 and had to get permission from her father, Frank, to wed. Edison and Joyce were married for nearly 52 years when Edison died in 1999. Joyce Marie managed her seven member family as a joy and an art . Her pleasant countenance and loving care were always a blessing to our family.
She was born in St. Mary’s, Pleasants County, West Virginia. It was established in 1849 by Alexander Creel, who is said to have had a 'vision of Mary' while passing the site by boat on the Ohio River. Train tracks run down the middle of 2nd Street, and freight trains running through the middle of downtown St. Mary’s are a common sight. It is one of the few towns in the country where freight trains actually share city streets with automotive traffic.
Her parents were Frank Lee LEEBRICK Sr. and Clara Marie (DELORME) LEEBRICK
Generation 3
William Joseph TRICKETT was born 22 Jan 1885. He died 4 May 1970. He married Jean Robertson GIFFEN around 1908, a union that lasted for more than 61 years. William died in 1970 at age 85, less than a year after Jean's death. She died 23 Oct 1969.
He was 6 feet 2 inches tall, redheaded, lanky and handsome. His hands, inherited from his father, were incredibly large. So large, in fact (my father, Edison, often said), that he could hide a baseball in a closed fist! And they were tremendously strong hands; strength no doubt developed as a young man working a pick ax in the Pennsylvania mines. He also worked as a union representative for the mine workers. He escaped the mines, moving his family from Uniontown Pa. to Washington D.C. but not before he was nearly crushed to death by a coal slab that left his back flecked with blue shale.
He married: Jean Robertson GIFFEN
They had the following children: Margaret Alice Jane TRICKETT born 2 Sept. 1909. She died 11 July 2000, Ruth Victoria TRICKETT was born 30 Mar 1911. She died Aug 1916, William Joseph E. TRICKETT Jr. was born 28 Dec 1912 and died 4 Jan 1978, George Waldeck Giffen TRICKETT was born 27 Dec 1914. He died 6 Jul 1992. George married Mary Saltmarsh Wheelock, Edison TRICKETT was born 11 July 1916. He died 24 Feb. 1999, John Robertson TRICKETT was born 20 Jan 1918 and died 9 Jan 1981, Virginia Naomi TRICKETT was born 16 May 1919 in Cumberland, Allegany Co., MD. She died 26 Dec 1996 in Morgantown, Monongalia Co., WV and was buried in Frostburg Memorial Gardens, Frostburg, MD. Virginia had lived at Accident, Garrett Co., MD. She had been a secretary with the Navy Dept. in Washington, DC. Virginia married Edwin BARGMANN. Edwin was born 27 Jul 1916. He died 11 Oct 1981.
Parents were: Edson TRICKETT and Rebecca Alice (HARTZELL) TRICKETT
Generation 4
Edson TRICKETT was born 22 Mar 1862 in Halleck, Clinton Dist., Monongalia Co., WV. He died 8 Jan. 1950 and was buried in Halleck Cemetery, Monongalia Co., WV.
Edson was a farmer and married Rebecca Alice HARTZELL, on 15 Oct 1882 in Masontown, Preston Co., WV. Rebecca Alice was a writer of poems and stories, some of which were published. She always remembered everyone's birthday and was personally proud of the fact that she even sent some of her great-grandchildren cards and gifts. Rebecca was born 25 Sep 1865 in Kingwood, Preston Co., WV. She died 28 Sept 1945 in Monongalia Co., WV.
He Married: Rebecca Alice HARTZELL
They had the following children: Ira Ezra TRICKETT was born 28 Sep 1883 and died 26 Jul 1973.
William Joseph TRICKETT was born 22 Jan 1885 and died 4 May 1970. Josie Alice TRICKETT was born 22 Sep 1885. She died 3 Apr 1982. Twins: Jesse Ray TRICKETT was born 11 Aug 1888 and died 13 Dec 1963. Dessie May TRICKETT was born 11 Aug 1888 and died 9 Mar 1976. Isa Lottie TRICKETT was born 23 Apr 1891 and died 15 Nov 1980. Rosa Christina TRICKETT was born 5 Aug 1892. She died 2 Oct 1905 and was buried in Halleck Cemetery, Monongalia Co., WV. Rachel Susanna TRICKETT was born 12 Feb 1894. She died 20 May 1982. Anecia Pearl TRICKETT was born 24 Feb 1896 and died 25 Jan 1992. Twins: Earl Coleman TRICKETT and Muriel Catherine TRICKETT were born 1 Mar 1898, Muriel died 17 Sep 1985. Clarence Percy TRICKETT was born 24 May 1900. He died 8 May 1917 of spinal meningitis and was buried in Halleck Cemetery, Monongalia Co., WV. Lorna Belle TRICKETT was born 12 Nov 1903 in Halleck, Clinton Dist., Monongalia Co., WV. She died 2 Jul 1988. Milfred Kenneth TRICKETT was born 29 Apr 1908. He died 26 Sep 1935 and was buried in Halleck Cemetery, Monongalia Co., WV.
Parents were: Coleman TRICKETT and Sarah 'Sallie' (STEELE) TRICKETT
Generation 5
Coleman TRICKETT was born 29 Oct 1837 in Monongalia Co., WV. He died 28 Jun 1913 in Toronto, Jefferson Co., Ohio and was buried in Union Cemetery., Toronto, Jefferson Co., OH. Coleman married Sarah 'Sallie' STEELE, daughter of Thomas STEELE and Susanna FREDERICK, on 29 Mar 1860 in Brown's Chapel, Monongalia Co., WV. Sarah was born 27 Aug 1838 in Monongalia Co., WV. She died of pneumonia 25 Jun 1914 in Monongalia Co., WV, and was buried at Halleck Cemetery, Monongalia Co., WV.
Coleman was born on his father's farm near Halleck, Monongalia County, Virginia. He spent his youth in pursuit of an education while tending to his farm duties. After reaching the age of majority, he became a stone mason.
He served in Company B, 4th West Virginia Cavalry as a teamster, during the Civil War. Has was a pensioner during the remainder of his life. He died on June 28, 1913 (age 75 years, 8 months) and is buried at Union Cemetery in Toronto, Ohio.
He Married: Sarah 'Sallie' STEELE
They had the following children: Virginia TRICKETT was born 1 Jan 1861. Edson TRICKETT was born 22 Mar 1862 and died 8 Jun 1950. Helen TRICKETT was born 30 May 1863. Harmon F. TRICKETT was born 24 Feb 1865 and died 27 Oct 1946. Delia Julia TRICKETT was born 27 May 1866. John Thomas TRICKETT was born 4 Sep 1867 in Halleck, Clinton Dist., Monongalia Co., WV. He died 1874 in Monongalia Co., WV and was buried in Halleck, Clinton Dist., Monongalia Co., WV. James T. TRICKETT was born 22 Nov 1868 in Halleck, Clinton Dist., Monongalia Co., WV. He died 25 Jun 1890 in Pleasants Co., WV and was buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Pleasants Co., WV. Elizabeth 'Lizzie' TRICKETT was born 17 Jan 1870 and died 19 Dec 1936. Charlotte TRICKETT was born 4 Apr 1871. Leroy TRICKETT was born 19 Nov 1872 in Halleck, Clinton Dist., Monongalia Co., WV. He died in Monongalia Co., WV and was buried in Halleck, Clinton Dist., Monongalia Co., WV. Joseph TRICKETT was born 28 Oct 1874 in Halleck, Clinton Dist., Monongalia Co., WV. He died 30 Oct 1876 in Monongalia Co., WV and was buried in Halleck, Clinton Dist., Monongalia Co., WV. Coleman TRICKETT was born 9 Feb 1876 in Halleck, Clinton Dist., Monongalia Co., WV. He died 24 Apr 1880 in Monongalia Co., WV and was buried in Halleck, Clinton Dist., Monongalia Co., WV. Sarah 'Mollie' TRICKETT was born 9 Jun 1878 in Halleck, Clinton Dist., Monongalia Co., WV. Sarah married Oliver Shingleton on 9 May 1903. Anna TRICKETT was born 6 Feb 1880 in Halleck, Clinton Dist., Monongalia Co., WV. She died 14 Apr 1880 in Halleck, Clinton Dist., Monongalia Co., WV and was buried in Halleck, Clinton Dist., Monongalia Co., WV. Perry TRICKETT was born 22 Mar 1881 in Halleck, Clinton Dist., Monongalia Co., WV. He died Apr 1973. Charles S. TRICKETT was born 22 May 1883 in Halleck, Clinton Dist., Monongalia Co., WV. Charles married Lulu A. THOMPSON.
Parents were: James TRICKETT and Anna Maria (FERRELL) TRICKETT
Generation 6
James TRICKETT was born 1802 in VA (or WV). He died before 1860. James married Anne Maria FERRELL, daughter of Henry H. FERRELL and Elizabeth, on 2 Aug 1824 in Monongalia Co., WV. Anne was born 1804 in VA (or WV). She died after 1860. James’ occupation was listed as a stonemason on the 1850 Monongalia Co., WV census and lived next door to his mother.
On the 1860 census Anne Maria lived in Clinton Dist. Monongalia Co. WV, with her son John, her mother (age 83) and Sarah E. SHAHAN (age 14).
He Married: Anne Maria FERRELL
They had the following children: Elizabeth TRICKETT was born 9 Aug 1825. Joseph T. TRICKETT was born 3 Dec 1827 and died 6 May 1897. Lewis Jacob TRICKETT was born 1833 and died Feb 1877. John J. TRICKETT was born 1835 in Monongalia Co., WV. John served in Company C, 14th West Virginia Infantry during the Civil War and was wounded at Cloyd Mountain on 9 May 1864. He died at Emery Henry Hospital on 3 Jun 1864. Louisa TRICKETT was born 16 Mar 1836 and died 23 Oct 1913. Coleman TRICKETT was born 29 Oct 1837 and died 28 Jun 1913. Harvey TRICKETT was born 1841 in Monongalia Co., WV.
Parents were: Joseph TRICKETT and Margaret (LINTON) TRICKETT
Generation 7
Joseph TRICKETT was in born 18 Aug 1755 near Tower Hill, London, England. He died 15 Oct 1805 in Monongalia Co., WV. He was a school teacher. He married Margaret LINTON on 9 Apr 1782 in Hampshire Co., WV. Margaret was born Jun 1765 in New Jersey. She died after 1850. Joseph served an apprenticeship as a Silversmith and was educated in and ministered in the Church of England. Soon after he came to America, in 1780, he renounced his ministry in the Church of England and sided with the Colonists.
Joseph was with General Washington’s staff and was at the Battle of Yorktown and the surrender of British forces. After the war he taught school and was the Commissioner of Revenue in Monongalia County, Virginia.
Shortly thereafter, they settled in Monongalia County Virginia, on a farm on Joe's Run near the little town of Smithtown about twelve miles south of Morgantown. Joseph taught school and from 1796 to 1805 served as Commissioner of Revenue of the Western District. Joseph's will was dated August 6, 1805.
He Married: Margaret LINTON
They had the following children: William TRICKETT was born 18 Jun 1783. Michael E. TRICKETT, (son) TRICKETT, (son) TRICKETT, Mary TRICKETT, Sarah TRICKETT Sarah married Israel STEVENS, son of John L. STEVENS and Nancy Agnes WHITFORD, on 26 Aug 1820 in Monongalia Co., WV, Israel was born 11 Sep 1797. Margaret TRICKETT died before 1839, James TRICKETT was born 1802 and died before 1860, (daughter) TRICKETT, John N. TRICKETT (son) TRICKETT.
Parents were: Thomas TRICKETT and Hannah (TURNER) TRICKETT
Generation 8
Thomas TRICKETT was born in England 1730. He died 1815. As far as I know, all of our Trickett’s are descended from Thomas Trickett. He married Hanna Turner around 1750.
Thomas and Hannah lived in England. Their daughter-in-law, Margaret, was appointed administrator of Thomas's estate in Monongalia Co., WV, on 13 Nov 1815. Margaret Trickett's statement of 27 Nov 1817 was made to establish claim to eight acres of land near London, England. The land was bequeathed to her deceased husband, Joseph Trickett, and their son, William, by Hannah. The income was to be given to Joseph and William.
Ron Trickett found a reference to Thomas's father Adam and his grandfather Thomas on the web, but there was not enough information to confirm the relationships.
He Married: Hanna TURNER
They had the following children: Joseph TRICKETT was born 18 Aug 1755 and died 15 Oct 1805.
Generation 1
Wayne Frederick TRICKETT was born August 3, 1948 in Washington D.C. My birth parents were William Joseph VOGEL, born 12-25-1921 - died 6-23-1976 and Doris Elizabeth (LEEBRICK) VOGEL, born 1-12-1922 - died 10-16-1948. Doris and her four children were in a house fire 9-5-1948. Sadly, due to injuries suffered in that fire, she died on 10-16-1948. I was about one month old at the time of that fire. Doris was buried in Arlington National Cemetery on 10-19-1948. William VOGEL was buried in Arlington Cemetery 6-28-1976 with his wife Doris Elizabeth.
Doris Elizabeth (LEEBRICK) VOGEL and Joyce Marie (LEEBRICK) TRICKETT were cousins within the large LEEBRICK family. For reasons unknown to me, William VOGEL did not continue to raise his four young children, Billy aged 6, Carol aged 5, Ernie aged 4 and Wayne aged 2 months, after Doris’s death.
Consequently three of the older Vogel children, Billy, Carol and Ernie were raised by their grandmother Ruby Elizabeth (Melrose) LEEBRICK and her son, their uncle, John Nicholas LEEBRICK Jr., Doris’s older brother. He has always been called “Uncle Johnny” by all our family. I, being an infant, was adopted within the family by Joyce Marie (LEEBRICK) TRICKETT and Edison TRICKETT. It could appear that kismet or destiny played a role in my future in 1948, as Edison and Joyce would lose their first born child, a son, who was born and died on 10-11-1949.
Edison and Joyce raised their new infant son and as time took its course their family also grew. Brother Ronald Lynn TRICKETT (Ron) was born in 1950; sister Joyce Marie TRICKETT (Sissy) was born in 1952; sister Marlena Jane TRICKETT (Mar) was born in 1954 and sister Virginia Faye TRICKETT (Ginny) was born in 1961.
I was raised with wonderful family connections to all of my TRICKETT/LEEBRICK relatives, including those with Ruby LEEBRICK as "Aunt Ruby", John Nicholas LEEBRICK Jr. as "Uncle Johnny" and Billy, Carol and Ernie as my "cousins". Being raised by Joyce and Edison TRICKETT gave all the advantages that one could hope for, these being a life with loving parents, brothers and sisters, grandmothers and grandfathers, plus a myriad of caring relatives to be taught by, protected by and even chastised by, always with love and my best interests at heart.
He married (1) Shelley Rae EICKENBERG in Washington D.C. on May 31,1969.
They had the following children: Aaron Scott TRICKETT born May 19, 1971 - died May 23, 2008,
Matthew Edison TRICKETT born April 1, 1975, Sarah Kathleen TRICKETT born June 15, 1977
He also married (2) Pamela Lohr ROBERTS in Leesburg VA. on December 24,1986
Birth Parents were: William Joseph VOGEL and Doris Elizabeth (LEEBRICK) VOGEL
Adoptive Parents were: Edison TRICKETT and Joyce Marie (LEEBRICK) TRICKETT
*Doris Elizabeth (Leebrick) Vogel
and Joyce Marie (Leebrick) Trickett
were first cousins.
**John Nicholas Leebrick Sr. was my birth Grandfather and was the brother of my adoptive Grandfather Frank Lee Leebrick Sr.
(Generation 1 is identical to the Generation 1 on my Leebrick Family History page.)
