tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848473672531405402024-03-22T14:09:45.964-07:00suesgenblogDocumenting my family genealogy: the research, stories, and the journey.. Although I try to be thorough, don't take my information as total proof, please do your own research!Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-67480224290480255902022-07-26T08:02:00.000-07:002022-07-26T08:02:39.016-07:00Treasure Finds Tuesday!I started this post at the beginning of COVID shutdown 2 years ago, but never posted it. Since I'm trying to post every thing so it doesn't ever get lost, and post more regularly I've added to it and am posting it today. <br />
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I'm taking classes with the National Institutes of Genealogical Studies in Toronto. The online courses are the first courses I've done on-line as opposed to seminars and/or conferences... It's a little different, but even for someone who's been doing genealogy as long as I have (over forty years!), I'm still learning things! Many of my friends are wondering why I'm taking the Certificate degree-- after all, they think I'm magic at doing research and family history... but I'm largely self taught and attended many conferences and classes and it would be nice to have the letters after my name (OK ,OK, my ego's showing!). I hope that I can finish the whole course soon! <br />
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The first "Treasure Find" that is so great is a letter written by my fifth great grandfather and his wife (Squire/Esquire and Mary Bowen Ide) to his widowed sister Esther Ide Bowen in 1806. from this there are 2 important lessons:<br />
Lesson 1: It really pays to blog and keep queries and posts on many sites!<br />
Through one of them I was contacted by a distant collateral relative who possessed the letter and was willing to sell it to me! I have added a page with the scan of the letter to the blog (see tabs above) as well as a transcription of the letter. Not only does it tell a little of the life of this family, it mentions the death of the son (named Squire after his father), adding years to the estimated death of Esquire Sr. by making the 1810 and 1820 censuses refer to him rather than the son! Wow--- my ancestors are really looking for me! I loved the spelling and lack of punctuation! Now if I could only find a letter or Bible to help with my Burton or Fairchild lines...<br />
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Lesson 2: Never believe that you have looked for all the documents available, or that no records exist.... I wonder how many people have letters or diaries in their attics and don't even know it?!<br />
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An extra bonus is that I'm now a footnote in a book, as the details of the letter will be used in an upcoming book of the descendants of Richard Bowen, who was Mary Bowen Ide's ancestor! <br />
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The second treasure happened as I was unpacking the<u> first</u> (!) of thirty or so packing boxes that contain family memorabilia that I inherited form my parents that haven't been opened in about 15 years. They contain stuff from my paternal grandparents as well, and until we moved to Texas, I had nowhere and no time to even start sorting through them. But with COVID enforced shutdown, I had no excuse to ignore them any longer! I shudder to think of how long this will take! Here's the before picture to keep me honest on how long it takes to finish!<br />
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<br />In that first box, I found photos and a scrapbook and souvenirs that my Dad saved from when he attended the Boy Scout Jamboree in Washington DC in 1937 when he was 14 years old. It was so much fun to look at, that I didn't get much else done today, so this task may take a very long time!!!!<br />
<br />Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-502676891082199842022-07-24T09:10:00.000-07:002022-07-24T09:10:10.791-07:00 Josuha Rhodes letter <p> Well, I think I am finally down to the last few letters in the Rhodes - Sparks family. Without these letters I'm not sure we could make any sense of the family.! As always spelling and punctuation are or are not as in the letters and my comments or unreadable words are in [ ] I will post them separately as they are getting rather long!!!!</p><p> Letter from Josuah Rhodes to Sarah Rhodes Sparks. Photocopy received from Patsy Davies in 1990s. Transcribed by Susan Fairchild Barry July 24 2022.</p><p> 7 Mulbery St</p><p> Otley Rd</p><p> Bradford</p><p> Dec 7 /72</p><p> Dear Sister</p><p> Your of the 7th of</p><p>September is to hand and [this places Sarah's death after Sep 7 1872!]</p><p>am glad to say finds us all</p><p>in good health and are glad</p><p>to hear of you being well</p><p>As regards the property you</p><p>mention I looked after it ---</p><p>twenty Years since and could</p><p>make nothing out. I wrote to</p><p>Mr Hargreave [s?] of Leeds but</p><p>could get no answer to no of</p><p>my letters and for ^any Informa=</p><p>tion I can give you none</p><p>If you think you think</p><p> [ page 2]</p><p>you can make anything </p><p>out I shall be glad as</p><p>for myself I have very faint</p><p>hops - William & Ruth [ I believe is Ruth Rhodes and William Chadwick?]</p><p>address I can not give</p><p>the last time I heard of</p><p>them as they were in </p><p> William Ruth America</p><p>New ^ Zealand that is 3</p><p>years since since then we</p><p>have heard nothing ----</p><p>Business hear upon the</p><p>whole is very fair but every-</p><p>thing is getting dear workmen</p><p>are working shorters hours</p><p>and getting more money wich</p><p>makes every thing very dear</p><p>when you were at Bradford</p><p>coal was 6/- per ton now</p><p>they are 24/ - per ton</p><p>Beef 11/ per pound</p><p> [page 3]</p><p>one thing we have that</p><p>is reasonable is Flour</p><p>wich is 3/ - per stone 16 lbs</p><p>Rents are very dear</p><p>houses that used to be 9 <strike>L</strike></p><p>are now 20<strike>L</strike></p><p>and every thing in propotion</p><p>but the worst of it is wages</p><p>are not in propertionate</p><p>Brother Frank is well</p><p>but intends writing to you</p><p>Brother Mathew dose not</p><p>enjoy good heath</p><p>Brother John and Family</p><p>are very well</p><p>Brother Charles is better than</p><p>he has been some time</p><p>sister Jane is not well</p><p>she has seen the letter you</p><p>sent but gave no answer</p><p> [ page 4]</p><p>as to weather she would</p><p>write or no</p><p>My son John an d family</p><p>are quit well and expect an ^Enrease</p><p>My daughter Sarah &[C?]</p><p>are well but as yet</p><p>no family</p><p> James up to the mark</p><p>and I think they are all</p><p>on the encrease except</p><p>Sarah I have a grand</p><p>son to keep he he is 8 years</p><p>of age</p><p>I have 5 at home single</p><p>and doing well</p><p>hoping this find you</p><p>well believe <strike>my </strike> me</p><p>Yours affectionatly</p><p>Josuah Rhodes</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDJ_c_9X_Wmzxk9g-7j4biW9P7D4p84COe18GLcHaTS_KATD32KTQDIYSHR4NxzEp2u_UpmSJRaQaBxb0AczBcu2dLGR4qNEXhLS1-zRqR3qeB6oaadYkojYKRWm0YZh1TbBFuY8QnZrLRsdYOyX1hxTrk6-cjtlgnEh4RdpmqIEL5HDVA7K5mIg/s4032/IMG-4179Josuah%20Rhodes%20letter%201872%20p%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="403" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDJ_c_9X_Wmzxk9g-7j4biW9P7D4p84COe18GLcHaTS_KATD32KTQDIYSHR4NxzEp2u_UpmSJRaQaBxb0AczBcu2dLGR4qNEXhLS1-zRqR3qeB6oaadYkojYKRWm0YZh1TbBFuY8QnZrLRsdYOyX1hxTrk6-cjtlgnEh4RdpmqIEL5HDVA7K5mIg/w537-h403/IMG-4179Josuah%20Rhodes%20letter%201872%20p%201.jpg" width="537" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEismiumicn8iXRXgXdHIjgVx_7upOrIBnCEpR0fexoUCWzXjsKNQH8rFgqFEPMJdqtOr5JjEdNLmksNCL_lx4uy3uO_MArtjKWKcoeyp7dCNSGibcsg9MU1nUQJ2Oo3ajTfMVQtEQCAvKAmRyH4np8Gwr67HlP6iRApgt1f1_y2rDJQIiOJ2Z8qTw/s3252/Josuah%20rhodes%20letter%201872%20p%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2565" data-original-width="3252" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEismiumicn8iXRXgXdHIjgVx_7upOrIBnCEpR0fexoUCWzXjsKNQH8rFgqFEPMJdqtOr5JjEdNLmksNCL_lx4uy3uO_MArtjKWKcoeyp7dCNSGibcsg9MU1nUQJ2Oo3ajTfMVQtEQCAvKAmRyH4np8Gwr67HlP6iRApgt1f1_y2rDJQIiOJ2Z8qTw/w551-h434/Josuah%20rhodes%20letter%201872%20p%202.jpg" width="551" /></a></div><br />Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com0United States37.09024 -95.7128918.780006163821156 -130.869141 65.400473836178847 -60.556641tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-85196668069579952362022-07-23T17:04:00.004-07:002022-07-23T17:04:34.758-07:00Another Sparks letter<p>As I am reviewing my English genealogy and going through old boxes of data I received and maybe looked at years ago, in preparation to a trip to England this fall, I am still finding new letters and data. Here are the latest letters [This post has 2 letters, the next will have 2 more] Thank goodness someone in the family kept all these!!!!! I'll post photocopies later.</p><p>1. Letter from Ann Sparks Holmes to her niece Elizabeth Sparks Edwards. Photocopy of letter received from Patsy Davies. Transcribed by Susan Fairchild Barry 23 Jul 2022 . As always my comments are in [ ] and any transcription unknowns are given. All spellings are as in the original.... </p><p><br /></p><p> Burley Dec 17 1892 [ Burley in Wharfedale?]</p><p> Dear Neice</p><p>I write these few</p><p>lines to you hoping</p><p>this letter will find</p><p>you and your family</p><p>all well. You have oft</p><p>wanted a letter from</p><p>me to know how I was</p><p>coming on. I am very well</p><p>to say at 70 years old</p><p>plenty to do to get on.</p><p>with the help of a few</p><p>good friends</p><p> [page 2]</p><p>Dear niece I could</p><p>like to hear from</p><p>you also. and you</p><p>will oblige me</p><p>cetainly by writing</p><p>to No 6 Iron Row</p><p>Burley -In- Wharfe</p><p> dale</p><p>Wishing you all</p><p> a merry Christmas</p><p>and a happy new </p><p>year when it comes</p><p> [page 3]</p><p>so no more at</p><p>present from</p><p>your Aunt</p><p>Mrs Ann Holmes</p><p>No 6 Iron Row</p><p>Burley in Warfdale</p><p>near Otley</p><p>Yorkshire</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Letter from John Morell to his cousin Elizabeth Sparks Edwards . Letter photocopy received from Patsy Davies. Transcribed by Susan Fairchild Barry 23 July 2022. As always comments and unknowns are in [ ] .</p><p><br /></p><p>Leeds England Feb 18th 1872</p><p>Dear Cousin<span> </span></p><p><span> It is a pleasure for</span></p><p><span>me to write to you hoping it </span></p><p><span>will find you in good health as</span></p><p><span>it leaves us pretty well at present</span></p><p><span>Dear Cousin I dare say that</span></p><p><span>will not know me but I am</span></p><p><span>your Aunt Elizabeth's Son &</span></p><p><span>my name is John I am turned</span></p><p><span>18 years of age my father left us</span></p><p><span>when my grandmother Died &</span></p><p><span>was away 8 years [& 9 ?] months&</span></p><p><span>then they brought him home</span></p><p><span>ill & he had the Deliriums</span></p><p>& he recovered & was at home</p><p>about one year & he Died</p><p>but I am very happy to say</p><p>he was prepared for another</p><p>world I am the only one</p><p> [ page 2]</p><p>my mother [has?] but [ rest illegible]</p><p>we have had our share of trouble. I say</p><p>Cousin I never got your letter before the </p><p>11th day of February I was over at Burley</p><p>I went over to see my Aunt Jane for she</p><p>has been very ill in the Rhuematic but</p><p>she is on the recovering side again.</p><p>She showed me your letter & I read it</p><p>& I said that I would bring it</p><p>home and read it to my mother & then</p><p>I would answer it as I thought that</p><p>it was time some of us answered.</p><p>for I think you will think that </p><p>it is very bad behavior but I </p><p>never knew anything about it</p><p>until I saw it at Burley.</p><p>Dear Cousin you mention my</p><p>Cousin Thomas Footer I hope that</p><p> [page 3]</p><p>he is doing well it is such a long</p><p>period since I heard from him</p><p>do you ever see him if you do ask</p><p>him to write to us & let us know</p><p>how he is going on in America</p><p>& what he is doing. My Aunt Jane</p><p>desires me to give her kind regards</p><p>to you she cannot write herself</p><p>& when she wants a letter ^writing to us</p><p>at Leeds she has to ask other</p><p>people to write for her & they</p><p>think it too much trouble to </p><p>write a long letter & it is no</p><p>use to write a short letter into</p><p>America. My Aunt Ann is</p><p>quite well & she is living at</p><p>Burley & for my Uncle William</p><p>I never hear anything from</p><p> [Page 4]</p><p>him My aunt was very ill</p><p>about one year since & when</p><p>we went to see her my Mother</p><p>& me & when we came away</p><p>they said they would write to</p><p>us & let us know how she was</p><p>but they have never wrote</p><p>to us yet I think I have said</p><p>all me & my Mother sends </p><p>our best respects to you all hoping </p><p>that if we cannot meet in this</p><p>world we shall meet in </p><p>heaven at last. please to</p><p>answering this letter as soon </p><p>as you can Believe me Dear </p><p>Cousin to remain your ever</p><p>Affectionate Cousin John</p><p>{written up side of page 4]</p><p>PS Please to direct your letter </p><p>to Leeds as follows.</p><p> John Morell</p><p> please to excuse Lamberts Yard Briggate</p><p>all mistakes Leeds</p><p>& the writing Yorkshire</p><p> England</p>Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-70213999090720735412021-09-14T18:58:00.003-07:002021-09-14T19:16:28.782-07:00Transcription Tuesday--New Sparks and Rhodes Letters!!!<p> Well, as COVID seems to be providing me with more spare time, I am working on cleaning out all the boxes of data and mixed stuff that we packed up for our move to Texas.....</p><p>And I found several letters that I didn't know that I had, providing info to aid my search for my English Rhodes and Sparks roots!!! </p><p>I've placed here, and will move them to the Rhodes/Sparks Letters separate page after I finish them all. The first is from Jane Sparks, a sister of John Gill Sparks and addressed to him, and his wife Sarah Rhodes. Each letter I find adds another name to be researched, and another link in the family chain!!</p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Letter from Jane Sparks to John Gill and Sarah Rhodes
Sparks, copy obtained from Patsy Davies in 1980 and transcribed by Susan
Fairchild Barry on 11 Sep 2021.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Photocopy of letter attached. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 8;"> </span>March
3<sup>d</sup> 186[ 4? 9?]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">Dear Brother and Sister<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am very well of
myself and am living <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">in Burley and I am very unhappy about you<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">not sending me a letter. I send you a letter and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">you never sent me no answer back and you ask<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">me what I thought about going into Canada<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">and I told you then I could not come by my-<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">self, we have had a very hard winter here<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">and am left by myself and I mention John<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">Shoesmith and he die very suddenly at Ilkley<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">and Ann is living at Otley and she is very well<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">for anything I know and Elizabeth is residing <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">in Leeds and I got a letter from her last Friday<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">and she sends her best respects to you she would<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">like to see you but she thinks it will be not in<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">this world and Elizabeth has one son and his<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">age is fourteen and <sup>he</sup> would like to see you.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>William is living
at the bottom of Holling[s?]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">Hill [s or,] is William writing to you or not<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">I have sent this letter William Smith and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">John Craven and if they come to your house <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">you must treat them very kindly for I know<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">their parents remarkably well and you must<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">give my best respects to Mr and Mrs Wie and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">please to let me know if Elizabeth has got<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">married or not but let me know in the next<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">letter and I have sent my mother funeral chard<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;">and I have sent you a English newspaper<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So no more
from your<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Affectionate<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 2pt 0.5in;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sister<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b> </b><a href="http://www2.houstonlibrary.org/cgi-bin/clayton/microprint_record.pl?key=9704" target="_blank">INDEX TO COMPILED SERVICE RECORDS OF VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS WHO SERVED DURING THE WAR OF 1837-1838 IN ORGANIZATIONS FROM THE STATE OF LOUISIANA</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><b> </b><a href="http://www2.houstonlibrary.org/cgi-bin/clayton/microprint_record.pl?key=4790" target="_blank">INDEX TO COMPILED SERVICE RECORDS OF VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS...PATRIOT WAR, 1838</a><br />
<b>State: </b>NEW YORK<div><br />
Now I know most conflicts and military sources, but this was a new one for me. 1837-8 ? Too late for War of 1812, Too late for Texas Independence, too early for the Mexican War, and too early for the Civil War....uh oh, I was hooked! So I started to Google the war of 1837, got Patriot War, followed it, and I learned a lot!<br />
The Wikipedia listing is here <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_War">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_War</a> and<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Canada">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Canada</a><br />
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I knew nothing about the Canadian Rebellions of 1837 and 1838 or the Republic of Canada formed by William McKenzie and his followers in the US and Canada. This was a failed attempt for the prospect of a declaration of independence and secession of Canada from Britain ! And on "Navy Island " between Ontario and New York!<br />
And volunteers from the State of Louisiana? Now I can't wait to get to the Clayton library and check out the names on the microfilm!!!! Perhaps it will help with finding info for members of my DAR chapter from Louisiana!!! But I obviously didn't have what I intended to post today.<br />
So I guess it is a great lesson that checking the microfilm catalog for things other than just surnames is a great idea to find unusual records and history!!!</div>Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-51843040430025500442017-04-25T14:25:00.000-07:002017-04-25T14:25:31.114-07:00Travel Tuesday -- Friuli, especially Raveo, home of my grandmotherHard to believe it's been almost a year since I embarked on my trip to Italy in search of my mother's genealogical past and to show my husband and daughter a little of the culture, arts, food, and people of Italy.<br />
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I was most interested in visiting the area my grandmother was from. Close to the Austrian border, and in a part of Italy that I had never seen. I'm not really great yet at using embedded Google maps, and couldn't get it to display all the town names when I made it. The top red is Raveo, the main town<br />
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of the family. The yellow pin is Enemonzo, the town they moved to after grandmother was born in Raveo, and the latest home. The green pin is where we stayed in Tolmezzo, and the middle pin is the town of Colza, which we discovered as birthplace of one of the ancestors in some of the records, but I only passed through it, it's a frazione (subdivision) of Enemonzo now. From Tolmezzo to Raveo is about 7 miles, From Raveo to Enmonzo is about 4 miles. The towns are in the Carnia Valley. It is a beautiful area and off the beaten tourist track. I think only skiers in ski season or really serious summer hikers visit the area. There is only one bus from Udine (capital of region) to Tolmezzo most days... of course we missed it, necessitating a long expensive cab ride!!!<br />
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I spent most of my 2 1/2 days in the region ensconced in the archives of church records, so I will have to go again in the future to really look at the land and connect with the people....maybe next year? I'll have to rent a car, as this area isn't covered well by public transit, so I'll avoid winter, as the area gets lots of snow!<br />
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Wikipedia has a great history of the region. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friuli">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friuli</a> . The Friuli language -- not an Italian dialect, it's a separate language--- is spoken as well as Italian..... I can't follow it at all, and my Italian was somewhat better, but I'm glad my cousin and the genealogist I was with spoke English! <br />
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According to the relative I met in Raveo, there are about 300 people in Raveo now (486 in 2004 according to Wikipedia) and probably never had more than 1000 people. Since our family lived there from at least 1700 to 1890, I must be related to everyone in the town!Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-63593541217466275602016-09-02T09:52:00.000-07:002016-09-02T09:52:25.670-07:00Family Friday --- who are these people???? Fessias???Well, I'm in New York visiting with my cousin Dolores to share the info I found in Raveo, Italy, and she has pictures with no names we are trying to figure out. I think these are of my Fessia line, specifically of Pietro/Pedro older brother of my grandfather who went to Chile instead of coming to America with the rest of the family.....<br />
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I thought I knew a lot about Italian research, from the classes at National Institute of Genealogical Studies, researching the microfilms at Salt Lake, transcribing and translating documents, and reading all the books on Italian research I could find! <b><i>But there is always something new to learn.</i></b><br />
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My grandmother Maria Jacomina Teresa Antoinetta Antonipieri emigrated from the Friuli region of Italy with her first husband Angelo Felice in 1911. I thought she was born in Enemonzo, and her parents moved there from Raveo, a smaller town about 5 km away. So I started in Raveo. A cousin(?), and now dear friend, Danilo Antonipieri, whom I had found on Facebook, [love social media for finding relatives!] had picked me up in Tolmezzo where I was staying, and then drove me to Raveo.....<br />
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I had hired (through Ancestry.com --progenealogists.com) an Italian genealogist, Gabriele Musumeci, to set up appointments with the local parish keeper of the records, and to be there to translate since although I read Italian fairly well, I don't speak it well.... and he was worth his weight in gold! (Although even he had to ask questions because they tend to sometimes use words in Friulani, a separate language, which sorta sounds like Italian, Slavic and German mixed....)<br />
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It was a beautiful day, and Signore Bonanni met us at the parish office. When we asked to look at records of Antonipieri.... he pulled out a beautiful book separate from the church records, which when opened, contained pages of hand-drawn family trees! Neither Gabriele or I had ever seen such a wonder, and I was so excited I could barely keep from happy dancing trough the room! The book was prepared by the priest about 1900 for all the families in the town. He also raised funds in 1894 to rebuild the church, and a plaque is located on the church. <br />
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If there is sainthood granted for genealogists, I nominate Father Barnaba Colledani!!! The book didn't contain all dates for everyone, but made it easy to prepare a bare bones pedigree to start looking for data..... My thoughts were that we sure did need to get a LDS camera crew here to digitize the book and the church records before another earthquake (there was a bad one here in 1979) destroys the records!<br />
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and of course Antonipieri "Chiandat" was the first tree in the book, followed by the next page Antonipieri "Bonella" and the a third page Antonipieri .... which led to the first new lesson in Italian genealogy....... Some towns use the old Roman system of a first name, a surname, and a name to denote the branch of the surname family which was called cognome then (or vulgo in the Latin Raveo church records) , which <b>now</b> in Italian means surname! In Roman times, the surname was nomen, with a praenomen (first name), and then a cognome, which could be a branch or nickname.... found this on Wikipedia which I love! <br />
so New Lesson #1 ... named family branches!!<br />
Now how to enter into Rootsmagic.... guess I'll use Nickname slot as it puts " " around it....<br />
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We found my great grandfather Daniele Anonipieri at the bottom of the Antonipieri "Bonella" tree [#2, page 4]. the top of that tree (also a Daniele) was in the first row of children of the previous Antonipieri "Chiandat" tree. We asked Signore Bonanni if he knew why the split, and he said that Daniele had gone "on coook" [ not sure of spelling, that's just what it sounded like...] When we asked what that meant, he explained was like the Cuckoo bird. who moves into another bird's nest... instead of the wife ( Maria Ariis called Bonella) coming to live with his family, he went to hers, hence the new branch of the tree Antonipieri "Bonella"! Even though both households were in Raveo!<br />
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We spent the afternoon at the parish archive in Enemonzo, returned to Raveo the next day for a half day to finish looking for records.... In the two days, we managed to take pictures and locate records giving names back to before 1700, about 7 generations!!!!!! Have never managed that in US records in all my 40 years of genealogy. Of course it helped that they remained in the same town for 200 years! The surnames in my tree include several Bonannis from different branches, Ariis ( diff branches) , Vriz/Vritz, Noselli, Iaconissi, Valino, Buttini, Pascoli, Piazza. I suspect that the reason the priest created the trees was to make sure the people weren't too closely related.... although we found one marriage in the family which had a papal dispensation for the marriage. Here's my grandmother's parents' marriage entry (second one).<br />
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It turns out that they were related also, about 4th cousins..... I'll add more info in part 4 about both Enemonzo and Raveo research, as this is getting too long! And I'll update my ahnentafel page with the new generations. But I'll close with a picture of Signore Bonanni (l), Danilo Antonipieri (r) & me(c) in front of the old Bell tower. Ciao!!! Arrivederci!<br />
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<br />Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-34210538664522510132016-07-09T18:39:00.001-07:002016-07-09T18:54:23.415-07:00My Italian Journey- the beginning backgroundThis is a start to a set of blogs about the search for my Italian roots, half of my heritage. I have spent most of my 40 years in genealogy researching my father's side of the family. I have done a couple of "Surname Saturday" posts to at least publish my mother's parents' surnames so that I might connect with relatives around the world, because that's where the Italians have gone--- everywhere!<br />
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I was able to do a little more on my Fessia line than the Antonipieri line (see posts of January 30, 2010 and August 17, 2009) [OMG was it that long ago?!].<br />
I found Fessia cousins in Chile through Facebook, and also some Antonipieri cousins. It helps to have "rare" Italian surnames! <br />
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The only documents I had were my grandparents' death certificates (with parents listed as unknown--- really?!) and the names of their parents as remembered by my mother, who only knew one grandparent who came to America. It helped when the LDS church microfilmed the province records in the Piemonte region of Italy. On my trips to Salt Lake, I had to request them from the vault, 4 at a time,twice a day, as instead of filming all one town across the years, each film (or 2) covered one year across many towns..... There are decennial indices, however, they are from the start of the Italian country, so 1876, 1886, etc.... rather than 1870, 1880 etc like I went looking for originally.... but those records only go back to 1866 and a couple of 1840s baptisms attached to later marriages.... and they haven't microfilmed those earlier church records yet, at least not in the areas of Italy I need..... and they hadn't filmed anything in the Friuli province of Italy where grandmother was from...<br />
And of course over the years I had sent letters in Italian with International Reply Coupons, and International money orders for donations/costs--- which disappeared into a black hole somewhere, as I never heard any reply!!!<br />
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So although I've been using the records from FHL, I decided to see what else I could learn, and started to plan my "bucket list" trip to Italy,since I'm retired now. I'm pursuing an American professional certificate [40 courses, like a degree!] at National Institute for Genealogical Studies [www.genealogicalstudies.com], and the electives are allowed from any of the country certificate courses. I took the course on Italian Civil Records:Part I, Although I was very good at translating and transcribing the records already, I learn something new from every course. I I found out about a private Facebook group for Northern Italian research, and of a website for the Italian Archives!!!! And wonder of wonders, the Italian Udine province archive main page had a choice of English!!! They have a project to list something for everyone born between 1850 and 1900.<br />
you can search on surname , or surname and first name.... I found a listing the marriage of my great grandparents,with just the year 1878, but the birthplace of Raveo, and the names of their parents!!!! For the first time in 40 years, I filled in the 4 names in that generation!! And really started making trip and plane reservations.<br />
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I went back to Salt Lake with Leland Meitzler's Christmas Tour, and made arrangement through Progenealogists (now owned by ancestry,com)to hire a genealogist to make appointments at the parishes in Gaglianico (BI) Piemonte,and Raveo and Enemonzo (UD) Friuli, and perhaps to even have the genealogist to meet me at the locations..... A real necessity because although I can translate genealogical documents, and understand about half of the conversations, I don't speak the language well at all!<br />
The trip itinerary changed from mostly genealogy, to a tour of Italy,since my husband and daughter were also going, but I had carved out at least 2 days in each area for my research....<br />
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Then I talked to my 2nd cousin Dolores Tafuri, who has the pictures postcards and even my Grandmother's Italian passport!!!! She made copies of everything, and I was astonished at what was there.... so I had lots to take with me..... and the next posts will be about the trip, the genealogical lessons and the data ..... I'm still on cloud 9 and I've been home a month!!!<br />
Ciao til next blogSue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-87031492851192632272015-11-11T13:05:00.000-08:002015-11-11T13:05:08.861-08:00One of my veteran ancestors- Grandpa FairchildAlthough I haven't blogged in some time, it seemed fitting to post on Veteran's Day. I have done some posts in the past listing my veteran ancestors and the wars they served in, but today I thought I'd do a more in depth biography. It's too soon to do an adequate biography on my father, and we are in the centennial of WWI, so I decided to profile his father, my Grandpa Fairchild, a veteran of WWI.<br />
He died when I was only 5, and I have limited memories of him, but they are full of the love he showed to us. The rest I pieced together from what my parents told me, and the photos, documents and letters that have remained in the family ....This will be a LONG post!<br />
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Victor Miller Fairchild was born April 18, 1895 in Portville, Cattaraugus county, New York to Fred W. and Lucy Gertrude Miller Fairchild, Grandpa did not have an easy early life. His mother died a short 2 years later, after giving birth to his sister Marian. Vic and his sister were raised primarily by his grandmother and aunts, until his father remarried in 1903, when Vic was 8 years old. He attended school in Portville, graduating from Portville High School , where he played baseball, a sport he avidly followed the rest of his life. I don't know why he decided to become a dentist, but he attended the University of Buffalo, receiving his DDS in June 1917, and his license to practice in October 1917. He was back home in Portville, NY.<br />
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But his life would be changing. Victor had registered for the draft at the age of 22, while in Buffalo on June 2, 1917, just one week before the date on his degree. He had not claimed exemption from the draft, and the next item I have is from the post card he wrote home from the train on the way to Fort Dix, NJ postmarked Jul 25, 1918. Whether he volunteered or was drafted, I do not know. I have an entire set of letters and cards he sent home to his parents from that one to the last letter he sent from France in July 1919. They provide a fascinating look at the day to day life he spent in the army, although not as a true combat soldier. Most are written on paper from the YMCA or Red Cross, and most envelopes and letters have an officer's signature that they have been reviewed....<br />
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I have a picture of a tent, marked on the reverse " My first home at Camp Dix. The second night it rained and we didn't have the ditch dug and there was 6" - 8" of water in the tent"<br />
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He must have been drafted because his first letters describing the life at camp- "drilling, pulling weeds, carrying bales, filling ticks (mattresses or pillows?), digging ditches, working in kitchen, putting up buildings" and also that he might have a chance at filing commissioned officer papers at induction, and complaints about the men in the regular barracks, his address was Company 32, 8th Battalion. Although he failed to become an officer, he changed companies and moved into a separate barracks. He was then in Co E, 348th Infantry. Then he was assigned as a Dental Assistant and would be in the 87th Division The letters continue with the preparations for going overseas, and he warned that he would not be sending letters of great detail, because he didn't want holes cut in them. A great example is the letter describing the trip overseas as he wrote it as it occurred, and the version he wrote home after the Armistice was signed "Dear Father, I certainly had one fine trip across the Ocean and was not seasick".... I'll transcribe those and post as a separate page ... but from the latter letter, he went over on the Mauritania, the sister to the Lusitania, which had been torpedoed.... the next picture is of the postcard sent home, and the letter of the trip.... the only hole, the actual date in August of the journey (26).<br />
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He could only tell them he was in France, but not where, he wished he could speak French, as "it would come in handy" He said he was eating about twice as much as he did at home, and when he got home, he wanted to "live behind the candy counter" at his father's store. He has been on the move in France, and has seen quite a few German prisoners.... In October, the address on the letters becomes Sanitary Detachment 335 Machine Gun Battalion still part of the 87th I think.... and he's able to get a "warm shower bath once a week" He spoke of sending his friend at home a card, but couldn't put his address on it, so asked the parents to give it to the friend... He sent home a coupon in mid October that would allow his folks to send him a 3 lb Christmas package and his suggested contents for "hard candy like lemon or lime drops, 2 or 3 packages of Sen-Sen, some gum, a knife to replace his lost one, and whatever they wanted to send in the remaining room". He describes the locales, astonished that the French wear wooden shoes, and use 2 wheel carts rather than 4, and that it rains a lot.... <br />
He writes of the celebration when word came that the Armistice was signed, and the letter carries the name of the town-- Angers, for the very first time. He then writes a day later that he hopes that it will be the last letter, and that they expect to move and be home before Christmas.<br />
In December, the 335th moves from Angers to St Nazaire, and he's not sure how long they will be there.. He heard of a friend's death (Leon Barber) from his parents... He receives a bunch of his hometown newspapers, and is happy he will have more time to read, but that the medical and dental units may be kept in France longer, as they will process all the soldiers through for examinations and shipping home first. <br />
Around Christmas, he asks if his Dad might cable him some money so that in January when he might get 14 days leave he could go visit Paris and some of the rest of France.... his $8.50 pay wasn't going very far.... By February, he still hadn't gotten leave, because Paris had been closed to soldiers... and due to his moving to Dental Infirmary, Camp 1 in the same place, letters had not been reaching him... In March he writes" Last week I thought sure I would have to go to Russia but they picked two other dental officers to go from here"<br />
Also in March, he is moved to an "Isolation Camp," as he came down with the mumps! There were many soldiers getting them every day.... he was to be in quarantine for 18 days....<br />
His leave request for London hadn't come through..... ( he's now in Camp # 3)<br />
In May, his leave request for London finally was approved, and he thought that he would try to go throughout England and Scotland as much as he could as well in the time. <br />
Then follow several letters written on Knights of Columbus paper (strange for a Presbyterian!) from Paris, London, and Dublin Ireland, He's writing that they will go to Belfast, Glascow and Edinburgh. When in Paris the YMCA took them out to Versailles, where the Peace conference was being held, and that he stood by the table upon which the Peace was to be signed. His next letters from St. Nazaire describe his leave journey, and that they were at the Firth of Forth on Queen Victoria's birthday, and there was a big celebration. His letters in June describe the dwindling number of soldiers and consolidating of barracks and mess halls, and his desire to get home. The last letter is dated July 6th, and states that they were relieved of duty, he was packing and had to go get "deloused" whether he wanted or not ... they were to close the port by the 20th and any remaining soldiers would have to go to Brest to go home. He figured he would have about a week before he would get on board a ship,<br />
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Following his return, he set up in dental practice in Olean, a larger city next to Portville. At some point, he met Grandma, who was a nurse in a nearby town in Pennsylvania. They were married at her sister's home in Lock Haven Pennsylvania in June 1921, and Dad, their only child, was born in 1923. They lived in Olean for the rest of his life. He was an elder in First Presbyterian Church, served on the Select Service Board for WWII. He was a member of the 8th District Dental Society of New York, the New York State Dental Association, Delta Sigma Delta Fraternity, and the City Club of Olean, and went to many baseball games in Buffalo and New York City, getting a baseball signed by Dizy Dean and his team in the early 1950s. He died suddenly of a brain hemorrhage (stroke) just 10 days after his 63rd birthday... he was so beloved, that over 500 people (non-relatives) attended and signed the pages of the memorial book at his funeral.<br />
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There are many unanswered genealogical questions I have about him. Did he know that when he was in Scotland, it was close to the birthplace of his birth mother's father and grandfather? Did he know that Dr. Raub, one of the other dentists in town, was a second cousin? My Dad never answered those, and others either, so I can't fill some familial blanks, but I do know about Grandpa's life during the Great War, due to the letters and postcards, which either his dad or stepmom kept, and then he and Grandma kept also........<br />
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Thanks Grandpa, for your service, along with that of Dad, my brother, our Civil War, Revolutionary War, and colonial wars ancestors, for allowing us to live in a great, peaceful and free country!!!!<br />
Happy Veteran's Day everybody!Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-10660681484357989812015-06-01T16:19:00.004-07:002015-06-01T16:19:45.416-07:00Monday Madness-- The search for Ariel Brace Wadsworth and his families ......Well-- Monday Madness seems to be my favorite theme, as I've gotten more frustrated in finding documents. And even when I think I have finally found something, a problem always occurs...<br />
This time, it's getting 4 letters from the DAR in my attempt to connect to additional American Revolutionary soldiers. All four letters concern the same lineage tie, from Mary Ann Wadsworth Petty to her father Ariel. Now, at least 2 others have connected to these patriot men through Ariel and his wife only about 10 years ago, so I figured should be easy, right?!<br />
Nope. The Bible record which was used then is no longer considered acceptable.... sigh.... I need to write up this one man going through all I know, to see if anyone can think of records I might have missed... I'm afraid it will be long and boring but here goes...<br />
It all starts with the proverbial "black sheep" of the family. I'm not sure if this guy was born with wanderlust, gave up easily, or was just a weird guy, but he has consumed many almost uncountable research hours over the last 40 years, so it's only fitting that I document his story, or as much of it as I have discovered, although it will take several posts to cover it all...<br />
Ariel ( also found as Arel, Biel, and even Royal-- try ah Rah' all in a Boston accent) B. ( we all believe stands for Brace, his mother's maiden name) Wadsworth was born in Hartford CT on 19 April 1791., the 11th ? child and 8th? son of James Wadsworth ( a Minuteman answering the alarm at Lexington and Concord!!!) and his wife Mary Brace. The birth is shown in at least one Bible Record in the Connecticut State Library.....<br />
He's baptized in Hartford CT on 14 July 1800 (age 9) along with 4 siblings, an older adult brother Rodney, a brother William, and sisters Katey and Anna Cadwell Wadsworth. He's listed as Ariel Brace in the minister's book, so that's our official naming point He is always Ariel Brace or Ariel B. from here on..<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Viets, Roger,. </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">Records of Rev. Roger Viets, rector of St. Andrew's, Simsbury, Conn. : and missionary from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1763-1800</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.5px;">. Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1893. p. 48</span><br />
His next record appears in 1809 (age 18) where he appears in the Records of the church in Bolton, CT [in the NEHGS Register 1900 , vol 54 p 85] getting married :<br />
1809 May 15 Ariel Wadsworth Susanna Skinner<br />
The birth of their son Ariel S(kinner) Wadsworth is not recorded in any Barbour or church records (Hartford or Bolton). The next records are from both Bolton, CT church records and cemetery inscriptions:<br />
<i> NEHGS Register 1902 vol 56, p 350 </i><br />
1810 Decemr10 Susanna wife of Ariel Wadsworth 18<br />
<i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> NEHGS Register 1929 vol 83 p. 104</span></i><br />
Susannah, consort of Ariel Wadsworth died December 11, 1810 in her 19th year. [note one day discrepancy]<br />
He does not show as a head of household in the 1810 census anywhere.<br />
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So before he's 21, he's married, had a son, and lost his wife leaving him with an infant son.. This is where things start getting a little dicey....<br />
He marries our ancestress, Roxey Rouse Robinson... but not recorded anywhere in official records that we've been able to find. After all, he needs someone to take care of the baby!<br />
Roxey was born in Windham, CT, a town 18 miles to the east of Bolton (Google maps), and she's about 9 years older than Ariel (b. 27 July 1782- Barbour Records, Windham, p. 215) in her late 20s, so a real spinster.... The date of the wedding that we have found ( more about that Bible record later!) is May 1811, no place known...<br />
The children have given their birthplace in the later censuses usually as Massachusetts, although once CT is listed. The family tale that has passed down was that CT was conscripting for the war of 1812, and Ariel didn't want to serve, so they moved to Massachusetts.... His occupation of farmer and waggoner [early 19th century version 18 wheel trucker!!!!] meant he did do a little traveling. He had 4 daughters with Roxcy. He doesn't show up on the 1820 census anywhere as head of household.... <br />
The birth years of the daughters are 1813 ( Roxcy married John Dort), 1815 (Mary Ann, married Rev. Zenas T. Petty), 1818 (Susanna married Abram Sanford) and 1821 (Elizabeth, married George Reynolds).<br />
He first shows up in the census as head of household in 1830 in Belfast, Allegany Co NY, quite a distance away from Hartford, Bolton and ??? Massachusetts!<br />
A deceased cousin from Alabama had the book in which Roxcy wrote her receipts and notes. I believe that is where I first saw the birth dates of the daughters. But my thermal copies from 1980 have long since disintegrated, and I am trying to locate her by now married daughters to see if they still have the book. The most interesting item in the book was a page on which Roxcy had a date in 1835 where she wrote "Ariel B runaway and left me". Another date in 1836 follows with "I left the farm". That date corresponds with the sheriff's sale of the property I located in the Allegany Co deed books.She also had listed a visit by Ariel S. Wadsworth, her stepson. [He has his own interesting saga!]<br />
That is a good place to end the first part of Ariel's saga, although it contains the most mysteries, it's not by far the weirdest,.... stayed tuned for Terrible Tuesday's chapter!<br />
Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-89126329075767996912015-03-02T15:41:00.000-08:002015-03-02T15:41:14.424-08:00Monday Madness ! the tale of Isaiah Burton or Button or???<br />
Well, I have been chasing the Burton lineage since about 1978.... I found my 3x great grandfather Varnum Burton. He was living in Hinsdale, Cattaraugus County, NY where he died in 1902... and in the <i>Historical Gazeteer and Bigraphical Memorial of Cattaraugus County, N. Y. </i>edited by William Adams, pub Syracuse NY 1893, p. 710, it states that he was born in Ulysses NY on July 11, 1808, and that "His father, Isaiah, a native of Hopkinton , R.I., was a Revolutionary soldier." It also stated Varnum, his wife, and 3 children had arrived in Hinsdale Feb. 9, 1841. So the search for the father and the rest of the family began. Alfred Burton bought 63.5 acres from the Holland Land company, then sold 11 acres to Sally Luddington. in 1842. In 1845, Thomas Luddington sells the same 11 acres to Varnum Burton. Turns out that Alfred and Sally are the siblings to Varnum.<br />
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The 1850 US census for Hinsdale shows an 89 year old male, born R.I, living with Alfred and his wife. There is no name, and it is not obvious if the marks on the page are ditto marks to the above name , the child named Horace. But not to be deterred, I looked for other copies --- Remember the enumerators made more than one copy!!!! There is a county copy of the census still extant on negative microfilm, ( which is why I won't show here) which has name and it could be read as Isaiah or Josiah..... So far, so good. On 1855 state census, no old guy still living with any of them, and also Thomas Luddington has died leaving widow with kids... So he died between 1850 & 1855....<br />
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I had luck finding Varnum Burton ( Farnham on one census!) in Madison County, but no Isaiah. And I found variations in surname of Barten, Bertin, Burtin.... And in Rhode Island, most of the vital records seemed to be taken from tombstones, so I left the frustrating Burtons alone, revisiting every couple of years, although through Varnum's wife, I was able to trace back to Ides, and found other Revolutionary Patriots, and eventually John Howland , a Mayflower ancestor, so wasn't totally a bust.<br />
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I tracked Alfred, who sold his land in Hinsdale and disappeared. I found they had moved to Lowden, Cedar County Iowa because his second wife had filed a deposition there in support of minor's pension for his son George's widow whose husband had died at Andersonville during the Civil War. I'm nothing if not thorough in trying to turn over any rock to find this family... did I mention how long I've been looking for them??!<br />
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Then this week, I looked again in my Burton notebook, because I'm taking the US Land Records class from the National Institutes of Genealogical Studies, and one of the assignments asks about the first use of deeds..... so I thought I'd try running the Burton names again in Ancestry, etc.... and happened on a guy's tree listing an Isaiah Button / Burton....<br />
hmmmm... so I looked, and he had the kids all listed Alfred, Varnum and Sally Luddington, along with 2 more I didn't know: Eunice Paine and Clarissa Sanford.... Wow! Varnum named one of his daughters Eunice. And the tree had attached the Revolutionary war pension of Isaiah Button..... Could hardly contain my excitement!! A pension is a done deal for proving service and a deposition listing all the kids--- Jackpot!!!<br />
Happy dance ---and yet how could I never have tried BUTTON before??? what a rookie mistake! <br />
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I immediately contacted the tree owner, and offered to share all the info I had accumulated on the descendants, and told everybody I might have had Isaiah finding me just like Geoff Rasmussen's new book!<br />
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I pulled up Fold3.com and looked at the pages of the pension.... sure enough there is a deposition from Cattaraugus, signed by Alfred and Sally stating that their father had died 10 March 1851.... listing the children, but it also said that he had not had a pension, had applied in 1832 but been denied.... hmmm maybe no happy dance as this is in a pension file.<br />
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Looked at the rest of the pages, and was brought down quickly. Isaiah had been deposed in 1832, and was 99/100 years old, gave birthdate of June 4th 1733! He died Dec 1 1832, and the last payment was made in 1834...<br />
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He would have been 118 if he died in 1851, and I'm sure the pension office would have been really aware of that!!<br />
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And there is a letter from a Cattaraugus county lawyer, suggesting that if the service the 5 heirs stated was already used, perhaps there were 2 Isaiahs. Added to the fact that the pensioner had stated that he had never left R.I and all the children were born in New York, and my balloon was burst!!! Oh well... but it's not a total loss, as I have a death date for my Isaiah, and the list of the children with the wives' married names, and a new surname to try.... but why they all changed from Button to Burton???<br />
Oh and now all those trees on ancestry, and the book published in 1970s by Robert Nye that state that Isaiah was born in1732 and died in 1851 that are circulating with WRONG INFO..... I'm so frustrated and what a maddening family!!!!!<br />
Oh well, tomorrow is another day!<br />
<br />Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-58776657535851707312014-10-14T19:05:00.001-07:002014-10-14T19:05:59.008-07:00Treasure Tuesday! Esquire/Squire Ide Letter<span style="font-family: inherit;">Well this is definitely a"Treasure Tuesday" post. I may not have enough words to describe this. Although it occurred a few months ago, I'm just now getting a chance to report on it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I got contacted by a man who is a distant collateral relative about a letter he had, and offered to sell to me. I have purchased it because it was written by Esquire/Squire Ide, a Revolutionary War patriot, and my fifth great grandfather. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Squire (or Esquire as he signed the letter), was born 30 July 1751 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts Bay Colony to Timothy and Esther Bosworth Ide. He was the sixth of at least 10 children. On 3 June 1773, in Rehoboth, he married Mary Bowen, the daughter of Uriel and Elizabeth (Perry) Bowen [Arnold's <i>Rhode Island VR</i>]. They moved to Clarendon, Rutland Co, Vermont, where most of their 8 children were born..... Otis 1774; Ester 1777; Mary, 1780; from hereon born VT Leafe 1782; Squire 1784; Betsey 1787; Patience? 1791; William Perly 1795 [Clarendon VT Vital Records]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here is the letter! (I'll transcribe to separate tab page later).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Just having the letter would be a treasure enough, but in addition, the primary information in it helps to answer some of the unknowns in this lineage. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Everyone carries "post 1800 census" as the death date for Squire, as he has a son of the same name, and it is difficult to know which of them is the head of household in the 1810 or 1820 census --by 1820 could be either father or son, since both fit in the age group, and only 1 male is there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The date of the letter is November 1 1806, so Squire was definitely alive then, but amazingly enough, in the letter, he states "...it was my Son Squier that was dead and not my Da[gh?]ter.."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">So the father Squire is the one in both the 1810 and 1820 census!!! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Since then, another genealogist William Bart Saxbe, who is writing the third volume of the <i> Descendants of Richard Bowen </i>located a deed from 28 Sept 1821 by Squire Ide, so we can now state his death as post 28 Sept 1821, the date of the deed in Clarendon VT. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Really a full treasure Tuesday!!! </span>Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-46315821716866179032014-09-28T17:00:00.000-07:002014-09-28T17:00:01.851-07:00Sentimental -- or Sorting -- SundaySunday afternoons are the most wonderful time of the week. When the kids were young, we would either go for an outing ( one year, we had annual passes to Disneyland, and went at least once a month on Sunday afternoons!), or picnicked at the Arboretum, or I'd bake while everyone watched the games on TV, or if I was very lucky, I could disappear into the office to read or do some genealogy.<br />
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Now that the kids are grown and away from home, and Bob and I have moved to our new retirement home, every day is pretty much available to do those wonderful Sunday afternoon activities, so you'd think that the Sunday activities would be common......but retirement finds us busier than ever, and now outings with extended family, volunteering, group meetings, setting up house, and taking online genealogy courses have made the days and weeks fuller than they used to be.<br />
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Rather than late night or rare Sunday afternoons, it's harder to find any spare moment to do any genealogy. So a Sentimental Sunday of blogging and remembering past outings with the kids would be nice. But a major complication is that I have now gotten more stuff. I have now not only my boxed up genealogy from the move, I inherited boxes of family pictures, letters, memorabilia, and I guess "Junk", that have been in storage for years!!!!<br />
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So I have now allotted Sunday afternoons while everyone else is resting and relaxing as the only unscheduled time to spend in my office. I plan to sort, scan and organize all theses boxes.... <br />
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I figured that it would be simple.... One box a ta a time, Open box, sort info inside, scan, and file.......<br />
but I opened the first box to find newspapers from 1954 from Buffalo, NY and Olean, NY, and NY City with articles about the explosion on the USS Bennington in May 1954. My father, Robert Fairchild, was aboard the ship, and the explosion occurred the day after my brother Jeff was born. Dad, a dentist, received a commendation for his triage medical care of sailors on the deck that day. The USS Bennington was an aircraft carrier, and on that day, the hydraulic fluids for launching the planes got into the ventilation system and when it reached the mess ( cooking galley) with an open gas flame, there was a huge explosion. He never talked much about that day to me, and I was astonished at the tale of death and heroism that occurred. 113 men died, 201 were injured, and over 118 received commendations or service medals... My brother Chuck said that the only comment Dad made to him about it was that if you didn't know any first aid before then, you knew it all by the end of that day.... I remember that Mom said no one told her anything about it, and kept all newspapers from her for two days, because it took time before they knew who was killed or injured... She kept asking why Dad hadn't sent word on whether the name she picked for Jeff was OK, but they told her that there were some temporary communications problems on the ship. Years later, some of the sailors that were at another base kidded my Dad about handing out exploding cigars that worked too well when Jeff was born......<br />
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By the time I finished reading all the newspaper accounts, and remembering all the comments I had heard about it over the years, the whole afternoon is now gone, and I haven't scanned a single article.... so this turned into a sentimental Sunday rather than a sorting Sunday after all! And I'll scan them all next Sunday afternoon, I hope!<br />
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<br />Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-69816769884074688422014-09-20T09:14:00.000-07:002014-09-27T18:41:09.719-07:00Surname Saturday --- my Rhodes of Yorkshire England, Canada, and the USMy Rhodes Surname<br />
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My Rhodes relations come from Yorkshire England. They seem to have large families, use mostly common names (Thank God for the occasional Craven and Armitage!!!) and worked at any jobs they could find. Some came to the U.S. some to Canada, then the U.S., some went to Australia.....<br />
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They also seemed to have lost track of each other, until the death of a relative with property in England spurred letters back and forth across the Atlantic. These formed the beginnings of my search for the elusive relatives, and I have placed the transcribed letters on a separate page within this blog (see tabs at top ). It would help if "Rhodes" in Yorkshire wasn't so much like Smith or Jones here in the USA!<br />
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In the 1871 England census alone, there are 11,956 Rhodes indexed in
Bradford, West riding, Yorkshire .... That doesn't count Manningham,
Shipley or Otley, all places listed in various letters and records....<br />
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The letters were written (we think, but they are all addressed "Dear cousin") to Elizabeth Sparks married to John Edwards . Elizabeth's mother was Sarah Rhodes, the first of the surname found in my pedigree.<br />
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generations to the Rhodes surname<br />
1. Moi<br />
2. My Robert Edwards Fairchild<br />
3. My grandmother Jennie 'Jane' Gertrude Edwards<br />
4. My great grandfather Lemuel Edwards<br />
5. My great great grandmother Elizabeth Sparks<br />
6. my great great great grandmother Sarah Rhodes <br />
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Sarah Rhodes was born about 1807 in Yorkshire England. On 29 Aug 1835, in St. Peter's Parish Church, Bradford, Yorkshire, England, at the age of 28 she married John Gill Sparks, a cordwainer<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> [Originally term used for one who worked with Cordovan (a special leather from Spain) but later term used for shoemaker]. They had two daughters born in Bradford, Yorkshire: Elizabeth ( 8 Apr 1837) and Ruth (12 Feb 1839). They then left for the Americas, leaving Liverpool, England on the ship "Napolean" arriving in New York on the 28 October 1839.</span></span><br />
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Year: <i>1839</i>; Arrival: <i>New York, New York</i>; Microfilm Serial: <i>M237, 1820-1897</i>; Microfilm Roll: <i>Roll 040</i>; Line: <i>34</i>; List Number: <i>814</i>.
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The family is not found in records again until in Gosfield, Essex, Ontario Canada in the 1861 Canadian census. Sarah is found with her daughter Elizabeth's family in 1870 in Warren, Macomb Co., MI, and in 1871 she is back in Gosfield, Essex, Ontario Canada, living with her daughter Ruth's family. She is listed there as a widow, and the 1870 US census didn't ask marital status, so John Sparks must have died prior to 1870/71. No further record of Sarah has been found.<br />
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Gen 7. John Rhodes, father of Sarah was born in Yorkshire, and was married to Mary Jowitt, Unfortunately, that's where the trail ends at this point. <br />
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Based on the letters I have transcribed, John and Mary Jowitt Rhodes had a large family:<br />
Josh or Joshua died about 1878 <br />
Matthew<br />
Frank<br />
Ruth -- apparently married to a Chadwick probably in the US <br />
John -- father to Walter and Sam was alive in 1885, but had had a stroke, and was dead four years by 1891<br />
Jane ? either wife of one of the sons or a daughter, unsure in letters<br />
she had a son Oliver who was also dead<br />
William who had gone to Australia<br />
Charlie<br />
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One of the letters was written by a Charles Butterworth, and the asumption is that his wife was a Rhodes. I searched on Ancestry, and came up with a tree with Theophilus Butterworth married to a Margaret Rhodes that could be the right one. They live in Yorkshire, and according to the marriage certificate, his wife's father is Joshua Rhodes which also fits well.<br />
I contacted the member, and pointed her to the letter.... She assures me that this is her great grandfather, and that the address is correct for him that year.... and they had no idea that they had American relatives!!! maybe I should have saved this for Surprise Sunday!!!! Now I have another branch project to tackle!!!<br />
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<br />Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-13792610336027247272012-04-19T00:30:00.000-07:002012-04-19T07:53:22.035-07:00Treasure Thursday---Patriot's Day 2012 -- my PatriotsWell, the theme is Treasure today, and since it falls on Patriot's Day, it seems fitting to acknowledge the treasure of my Patriot ancestors.<br />
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Started in 1969, this day ( known as Patriots' Day in Massachusetts) was formed as a civic holiday in Massachusetts and Maine (it's a school holiday in Wisconsin), celebrated on the third Monday in April. It commemorates the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord ( April 19, 1775), the acknowledged first battles of the Revolutionary War. So this year the holiday didn't fall on the actual day.... but I believe in celebrating the actual day, which is the 237th anniversary!<br />
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It is always a reminder and great wonder, that although three of my four grandparents were 20th century (1905, 1913) immigrants, I have one lone American grandparent, through whom I have managed to find 2 Civil War heroes, at least 6 Revolutionary War heroes (including a Minuteman!), and Mayflower ancestry.<br />
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I will list all the known ( in alphabetical order) and the possible Revolutionary War heroes and patriots, especially the one ancestor who actually responded to the alarms of Lexington and Concord. If you are descended from any of them please contact me!!! <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Isaiah Burton</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">The only mention of Isaiah Burton's service is found in the <i>Cattaraugus County NY History</i> biography of his son, where it states "...his father, Isaiah, a native of Hopkington, R.I. was a Revolutionary soldier." I have been trying to find the proof for almost 30 years, but since he named the son Varnum after a revolutionary war general, and was living with the son in 1850 as a 89 year old RI native, I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on this day.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b><span style="font-size: large;">Jonathan Haynes</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jonathan Haynes appears on a notice for Captain Robinson's Company of Vermont Militia to appear on Nov 1, 1775. No pension or other data found so far. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Squire Ide from Rehoboth, Massachusetts enlisted April 28th 1775 in Capt. Samuel Bliss' company, Col. Timothy Walker's (22d) regiment. service 3 months, 11 days, appears on a muster roll dated Aug 1 1775, reported discharged Sept 25, 1775, also received an order for a bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Roxbury, Oct 26, 1775. He served 2 days at Tiverton, R.I. in Capt. Sylvanus Martin's co., Col Williams regiment from Oct 7, 1777 to Oct 9, 1777. He then served in Capt. Ichabod Wade's (light Infantry) Col. George Williams regiment immediately thereafter for 21 days. Later he served 12 days as a private in Capt. Jonathan Woodbury's co., Col. Jacob Davis' regiment enlisting July 30, 1780, discharged 7 Aug 1780 at Rhode Island at an alarm including 4 days travel home.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Daniel Robinson</span></b> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Daniel did not fight. Instead, he manufactured saltpeter for a powder mill in Windham, CT. His son Jonathan served( see below). Maybe they used his ammo at the battles of Lexington and Concord ?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Jonathan Robinson pension S18182</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jonathan Robinson, Daniel's son, served 2 months as draftee in Capt Hezekiah Bissel's and Lt. Nehemiah Tinker's Company in Nov 1776 (at age 16), marched to R.I. On the 10 Apr 1777 he spent 2 months service as draftee under Cap. Nehemiah Tinker in Col Tyler's regiment Connecticut Militia, and was at Fort Griswold, Groton, CT. In April 1778 he enlisted for term of 1 year in Capt Abner Robinson's Co, Col. Samuel McLellan's Regiment, Connecticut State troops, to be available as minuteman. He marched to White Plains in June of 1778, then marched to West Point 40 rods from Fort Clinton, remaining there until mid September. A few days after returning to Windham, they were called to New London, and remained near Fort Trumbull until the end of January 1779.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Jabez Rouse</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">enlisted /appointed Sergeant in Capt. Vine Elderkin, later Thomas Converse's Company, Col. Heman Swift's Battalion 7th CT troops, on Feb 17, 1777 for a term of three years, discharged Feb 17, 1780. During those three years, the 7th Ct fought in the Battle of Brandywine, the Battle of Germantown, and the Battle of Monmouth. The 7th Ct is listed as one of the regiments at Valley Forge!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Thomas Mix Sr. or Thomas Mix Jr.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">There were three Thomas Mixes in Wallingford CT at the time of the Revolution... One, known as Thomas Mix 2nd drew a pension, and is a cousin to my Thomas Mix Jr. Either Sr. Or Jr. signed an Oath of Fidelity, and perhaps the younger fought if the service is not all Thomas Mix the 2nd. I haven't looked into this line well at all....</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>James Wadsworth</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">James was a true Patriot Day Minuteman. He served in Capt. Abraham Sedgwick's company for the Lexington and Concord alarms!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">and now the <i><u><b>possibles</b></u></i>, namely any male in my tree alive past April 1775... (and unfortunately at this point I'm only considering male ancestors, until I have a lot more info on the wives).... These were alive during the Revolutionary War:</span></span><br />
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Whiting Backus 1747-1775: He dies in 1775 at age 27 in Windham, CT but no date or reason ... still searching for answers.<br />
Henry Brace 2nd 1713-1787. The service is given to his son, Henry (3rd?) b. 1844. Still haven't found if the father fought or provided other services.<br />
Samuel Flint1712-1802: He seems to be the lone possible Tory of the group, but still looking for an Oath of Fidelity or other service.<br />
Israel Robinson 1696-Jan 1776: was old, but perhaps gave money? His son & grandson were definitely patriots. <br />
John Rouse 1717-1779: Generally a wanderlust guy, was divorced by wife citing abandonment.... haven't found much on him at all.<br />
Elisha Wadsworth is most probably a Tory. He appears to have come to the aid of a convicted Tory....<br />
Ichabod Wadsworth, father of Elisha and grandfather of James was old, but alive until 1778... not much research time has been spent on him....<br />
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So there they all are... except maybe the next time, I'll show all the women of my pedigree, who ran the homes and farms while these guys went off to war... Happy Patriot's Day!<br />
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<br />Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-84654991848415506212012-01-21T22:30:00.000-08:002012-01-21T22:30:32.857-08:00Random Research ItemsWell, rather than creating a Surname Saturday regular post, I spent this evening doing some random research into several branches. I then of course became entangled with one of my biggest genealogical pet peeves, the unsubstantiated public trees on ancestry.com....( followed closely by the peeve of finding the place names of say "Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States of America" for a date in the 1600s!... sigh)<br />
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The furthest back I have gotten in the Mix line is Daniel Meekes and his wife, always listed as "Mrs. Daniel Meekes" so I backed up one generation to Thomas Mix married to Rebecca Turner, and decided to look for her parents. Her father is Nathaniel Turner. so I started to look. The first source was of course NEHGS "Great Migration" database... where I found him, with of course Origin: unknown... and wife as _____ ______ . For curiosity, I decided to look at ancestry, just to see what trees people have listed....<br />
and there I find several with a wife listed as Margaret Leachland, but no sourcing. Then of course there are those trees (a lot of them!!!) who wrongly list Nathaniel as the son of Humphrey Turner and Julia Gamer.... but the son Nathaniel of Humphrey was born in about 1624 which makes it impossible for Nathaniel to have a daughter Rebecca born in about 1629 married in 1649... and of course those are the "hints" that I should merge with my tree! Not likely! I keep my tree private on ancestry to keep that from happening!<br />
Anyway, the only interesting fact I gathered was that from all the data in NEHGS was that Nathaniel Turner died at sea in 1645/6 and that Rebecca and Thomas Meekes (later Mix) were in court in July 1649 "to answer to their sinful miscarriage in matter of fornication, with sundry lies added thereto by them both in a gross and heinous manner" and were married by September 4th of that year! And that from all the offices in the colonies that Nathaniel held, and all the property, he must have been highly educated, was a great military talent, and could accrue wealth in the early colonial period! So I have a great ancestor!<br />
Perhaps I'll find more data later...<br />
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On to the next blank on the pedigree, and perhaps a better find!Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-16319211562240228402012-01-01T09:08:00.000-08:002012-01-01T12:02:33.285-08:00New Year ResolutionsI hate New Year's Resolutions... it seems that growing up, they were always thrust upon me by parents or teachers.... and what should they be but ... do better in school ( I was already doing very well Thank you!) , or to pick up my room more often, obey parents better, and later, lose weight, etc. And I always failed because I was making resolutions to do things I hated in the first place, and not of my own volition, and many that would be impossible to meet. Because I am a perfectionist, and because I can't be perfect, I procrastinate at anything I didn't like, or couldn't do perfectly! So left on my own, I wouldn't make any. But there is ALWAYS room for improvement, so I now make smaller goals that can be achieved as a subset of a large single goal!<br />
Even in the one thing I love, Genealogy, I hate to make the resolutions, but recognize that I need to state some goals, or I'll never accomplish much... I started doing genealogy in 1974, before the age of computers and internet, and so accumulated a lot of paper, along with tons of very interesting information. And as most of my friends know, I am a great researcher, and can find any information you need fairly quickly!!!<br />
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I switched to computers very early on, as they were necessary in my work field, and changed programs to get the best way to prepare pedigrees and family group sheets, rather than rewriting them.... But then the problem entered...... Given the limited time available for genealogy, did I want to spend a couple of hours entering (or now, scanning), or doing research.... Guess what! New research always wins!!!!! And there are always ne lines and new cousins to locate! But now I have accumulated so much data that even with my somewhat properly organized filing, I can't always find quickly what I want.... and the amount of stuff needing to be entered is overwhelming!!!<br />
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Retiring this year, I jumped at what we all wish for, the time to do more genealogy. So guess what, the hours spent flitting form one line to the other is now amounting to perhaps an entire day of uninterrupted research, and tons more info... some of which I know I must have already found........ sigh!<br />
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So rather than state the obvious and totally unreachable goal such as: I will scan in all the old family pictures, or that I will make sure that I file all of the accumulated paper that has recently piled up.... I will attack this the way I did any project for work, setting smaller goals that fit well within the scope of the larger project, which is of course to convert all the paper and information to electronic an then published format.... so here goes<br />
In 2012 I resolve to:<br />
1. Spend the first hour of the day entering data from <b>a notebook or file</b> into a program, WITHOUT Opening E-mail, or surfing the web<br />
2. Spend the next half hour scanning in pictures, then allow myself free rein to research....<br />
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Even if I don't fully meet them, any time I spend is getting rid of the paper and pile, and with my looking at the data as I enter it, new insights may occur! I will keep a pad to jot that idea down, but I will not open my Internet window until that 1 1/2 hours has passed!!!<br />
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Who knows, maybe I'll actually achieve the largest old goal of all the pictures scanned this year!<br />
Happy New Year!!!Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-47238805997097974092011-12-02T13:31:00.001-08:002011-12-02T13:55:03.629-08:00Advent Calendar Dec 1 Christmas TreeOK, I know I am a day late, but have been out helping friends with no power, so I'll do 2 posts today!<br />
We always got and decorated our tree on Christmas eve. I thought it was an old family tradition, until one year when I was a teen, I learned that my folks did that because they could get a tree cheaper on Christmas eve, and budget in a large family in the military was always important.<br />
Since I got married, the trees have varied over the years... from tabletop small trees with cloth and wood ornaments impervious to pets and small children, to very large and elaborate.... but one thing has always remained the same... it's always a REAL tree.... no artificial trees in our house!!! I love the smell and the sight of the tree and the beautiful sight...<br />
We have set up a tree every year, even when going to Texas to in-laws... with a siphon watering system, and not lit, they last! And we set them up early, not on Christmas eve. I want to smell the noble fir for the whole month!<br />
We moved into this home 17 years ago, and it has a 10& 1/2 foot ceiling. The first year we put our normal 6 footer, and it looked very sorry, so our son asked if we could buy a larger tree, now our big extravagance each year is the 9 1/2 foot real tree. here's what last year's looked like!<br />
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Each year, our children get to pick out a new ornament, and then when they leave the nest (perhaps in the next year or so), they will have a whole collection of ornaments to take with them! There are Bambi & Thumper, Garfield & Odie, Santa on a trike, penguins, etc.... It will be hard to part with them, as memories flow as we decorate the tree each year. Dad & James do the lights , then Katie (when she's home) & I put up the ornaments...<br />
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<br />Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-28001504761123892372011-12-02T13:02:00.001-08:002011-12-02T13:57:27.679-08:00Advent Calendar Dec 2 Christmas foodsIn our house growing up, food has always been associated with the holidays, especially Christmas! Unfortunately, I haven't found old pictures of any of the Christmas feasts....<br />
The Christmas tree decorating on Christmas eve was always accompanied by Hot Cocoa (not from a mix!!!), along with cookies and popcorn. Christmas dinner has always been turkey and all the side dishes, and I
can still remember the turkey roaster on the counter, so the regular
oven could be stuffed with all the side dishes. As we moved all our lives due to Dad's military career, I never got to taste my grandfather August Fessia's Christmas polenta, but heard about it from my Mom. She never made it, so I assumed she hadn't watched or asked about how to make it.... One of my cousins who owns a restaurant does make it and has promised to send me the recipe.... Think I'll call and remind him!<br />
Mom did made a <span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="fr"><span class="hps">bûche de Noël</span></span> that was similar to one made in her household. The area in Italy where my grandfather came from borders on France, so the mixing of cultures was very apparent especially in foods! I got to help make the meringue mushrooms, and mine were always the weirdest looking ones!<br />
With my children, we have always made "Jesus' Birthday Cake" on Christmas eve day... and left it on the coffee table overnight right beside the Nativity. It's simpler than a Yule Log cake, and the design and decorations have changed over the years as they have grown up. And it's one of the desserts on Christmas day at Jesus' birthday party aka Christmas Dinner.<br />
Even when we spent Christmases in Texas at my mother-in-law's home, we always made the cake, but I don't know if the tradition has transferred into the aunts' and uncles' families yet!<br />
Mom tended to make goodies as Christmas gifts for neighbors and friends, as that was an inexpensive way to give gifts. The gifts changed depending on the year, and where we were stationed.... I remember rum balls, cheese straws, and several different types of cookies, all placed in tins or boxes with pretty ribbons!<br />
I have continued the tradition, at first making a pumpkin bread, and now making a Date-Walnut cookie from a recipe given to me by a friend in the DAR of german ancestry.... the neighbors all know to return the tins if they want cookies the next year! <br />
Well my mouth is watering at the thought, so time to go dig out the bowls and mixer!Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-3196332807988885922011-12-01T10:14:00.001-08:002011-12-01T10:28:33.975-08:00Treasure Thursday- John Robinson letter to the Pilgrims<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Was so amazed by the History Channel's broadcast of the Mayflower history, called Desparate Journey, taken mostly from Bradford's "Of Plymouth Plantation" on Thanksgiving, that I decided to read it... In it I found a transcription of the Farewell letter written by my ancestor, Rev John Robinson to the Pilgrims. He was torn about whether to go or not, but it was decided that if the majority of the congregation were to remain in Holland, that at least for a while, he would also stay. I have visited Leiden, and walked where he walked, and was deeply affected. I debated whether this should be on Treasure Thursday, or Faithful Friday, but it is a treasure....</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So here it is! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Loving and Christian Friends,<br />I
do heartily and in the Lord salute you all as being they with whom I am
present in my best affection, and most earnest longings after you.
Though I be constrained for a while to be bodily absent from you. I say
constrained, God knowing how willingly and much rather than otherwise, I
would have borne my part with you in this first brunt, were I not by
strong necessity held back for the present. Make account of me in the
meanwhile as of a man divided in myself with great pain, and as (natural
bonds set aside) having my better part with you. And though I doubt not
but in your godly wisdoms you both foresee and resolve upon that which
concerneth your present state and condition, both severally and jointly,
yet have I thought it but my duty to add some further spur of
provocation unto them who run already; if not because you need it, yet
because I owe it in love and duty. And first, as we are daily to renew
our repentance with our God, especially for our sins known, and
generally for our unknown trespasses; so doth the Lord call us in a
singular manner upon occasions of such difficulty and danger as lieth
upon you, to a both more narrow search and careful reformation of your
ways in His sight; lest He, calling to remembrance our sins forgotten by
us or unrepented of, take advantage against us, and in judgment leave us
for the same to be swallowed up in one danger or other. Whereas, on the
contrary, sin being taken away by earnest repentance and the pardon
thereof from the Lord, sealed up unto a man's conscience by His Spirit,
great shall be his security and peace in all dangers, sweet his comforts
in all distresses, with happy deliverance from all evil, whether in
life or in death.<br />Now, next after this heavenly peace with God and
our own consciences, we are carefully to provide for peace with all men
what in us lieth, especially with our associates. And for that,
watchfulness must be had that we neither at all in ourselves do give,
no, nor easily take offense being given by others. Woe be unto the world
for offenses, for though it be necessary (considering the malice of
Satan and man's corruption) that offenses come, yet woe unto the man, or
woman either, by whom the offense cometh, saith Christ, Matthew 18:7.
And if offenses in the unseasonable use of things, in themselves
indifferent, be more to the feared than death itself (as the Apostle
teacheth, 1 Corinthians 9:15) how much more in things simply evil, in
which neither honor of God nor love of man is thought worthy to be
regarded. Neither yet is it sufficient that we keep ourselves by the
grace of God from giving offense, except withal we be armed against the
taking of them when they be given by others. For how unperfect and lame
is the work of grace in that person who wants charity to cover a
multitude of offenses, as the Scriptures speak!<br />Neither are you to
be exhorted to this grace only upon the common grounds of Christianity,
which are, that persons ready to take offense either want charity to
cover offenses, or wisdom duly to weigh human frailty; or lastly, are
gross, though close hypocrites as Christ our Lord teacheth (Matthew
7:1,2,3), as indeed in my own experience few or none have been found
which sooner give offense than such as easily take it. Neither have they
ever proved sound and profitable members in societies, which have
nourished this touchy humor.<br />But besides these, there are divers
motives provoking you above others to great care and conscience this
way: As first, you are many of you strangers, as to the persons so to
the infirmities one of another, and so stand in need of more
watchfulness this way, lest when such things fall out in men and women
as you suspected not, you be inordinately affected with them; which doth
require at your hands much wisdom and charity for the covering and
preventing of incident offenses that way. And, lastly, your intended
course of civil community will minister continual occasion of offense,
and will be as fuel for that fire, except you diligently quench it with
brotherly forbearance. And if taking of offense causelessly or easily at
men's doings be so carefully to be avoided, how much more heed is to be
taken that we take not offense at God Himself, which yet we certainly
do so oft as we do murmur at His providence in our crosses, or bear
impatiently such afflictions as wherewith He pleaseth to visit us. Store
up, therefore, patience against that evil day, without which we take
offense at the Lord Himself in His holy and just works.<br />A fourth
thing there is carefully to be provided for, to wit, that with your
common employments you join common affections truly bent upon the
general good, avoiding deadly plague of your both common and special
comfort all retiredness of mind for proper advantage, and all singularly
affected any manner of way. Let ever man repress in himself and the
whole body in each person, as so many rebels against the common good,
all private respects of men's selves, not sorting with the general
conveniency. And as men are careful not to have a new house shaken with
any violence before it be well settled and the parts firmly knit, so be
you, I beseech you, brethren, much more careful that the house of God,
which you are and are to be, be not shaken with unnecessary novelties or
other oppositions at the first settling thereof.<br />Lastly, whereas
you are become a body politic, using amongst yourselves civil
government, and are not furnished with any persons of special eminency
above the rest, to be chosen by you into office of government; let your
wisdom and godliness appear, not only in choosing such persons as do
entirely love and will promote the common good, but also in yielding
unto them all due honor and obedience in their lawful administrations,
not beholding in them the ordinariness of their persons, but God's
ordinance for your good; not being like the foolish multitude who more
honor the gay coat than either the virtuous mind of the man, or glorious
ordinance of the Lord. But you know better things, and that the image
of the Lord's power and authority which the magistrate beareth, is
honorable, in how means persons soever. And this duty you both may the
more willingly and ought the more conscionably to perform, because you
are at least for the present to have only them for your ordinary
governors, which yourselves shall make choice of for that work.<br />Sundry
other things of importance I could put you in mind of, and of those
before mentioned in more words, but I will not so far wrong your godly
minds as to think you heedless of these things, there being also divers
among you so well able to admonish both themselves and others of what
concerneth them. These few things therefore, and the same in few words I
do earnestly commend unto your care and conscience, joining therewith
my daily incessant prayers unto the Lord, that He who hath made the
heavens and the earth, the sea and all rivers of water, and whose
providence is over all His works, especially over all His dear children
for good, would so guide and guard you in your ways, as inwardly by His
Spirit, so outwardly by the hand of His power, as that both you and we
also, for and with you, may have after matter of praising His name all
the days of your and our lives. Fare you well in Him in whom you trust,
and in whom I rest.<br />An unfeigned wellwiller of your happy success in this hopeful voyage,<br />John Robinson</span></span>Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-8376856437698784452011-11-24T21:45:00.001-08:002011-11-24T21:54:40.566-08:00Thanksgiving and blogversaryHappy Thanksgiving! <br />
As hard as I have searched, I cannot yet find any pictures of my family at Thanksgiving dinner.... but I'll keep looking! Really missed having my daughter at the table this year, so called her.... and miss having Mom as well, hard to believe this is the second Thanksgiving without her....<br />
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Spent the evening watching a terrific History Channel documentary called Desperate Journey: The untold story of the Mayflower.... Fabulous! I recorded it to watch again.... It started with the separatist movement in Scrooby, the move to Holland, and went through the end of the first year and the "Harvest Feast"....<br />
It was based primarily on Bradford's journals...The only part of the story not told was the anecdote about my ancestor John Howland, who supposedly was washed overboard, but hung onto a halyard rope, and was dragged back on board. I'm not sure that I could have lasted with the 100+ passengers below decks for 9 weeks through the storms, or survived the first winter, but am very thankful that John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley did, or I might not be here!!!<br />
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Just realized that this is the third anniversary of beginning this blog!!! My resolution (not waiting to New Year's) is to be more regular in writing my posts and sharing the history and documents of the various branches of the family, and the adventure in discovering them.....<br />
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now to retire to my bed with a very full stomach! Happy Thanksgiving everyone, and Thank You God for all your many blessings to me and my family.<br />
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While in the east last July, took lots of gravestone pictures. Some of
the tombstones which were legible 30 years ago, are not now
readable..... but some are.... going to add all to Findagrave one of
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This is the Fairchild plot at Chestnut Hill Cemetery in Portville, Cattaraugus Co., NY . Of course there are no chestnut trees there anymore ...... here are the individual tombstones....<br />
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Lucy Gertrude Miller 1st wife of Fred William Fairchild. She died within a week of giving birth to her second child, Marion. My grandfather Victor Miller Fairchild was her first child.<br />
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Next is Fred William Fairchild, son of James H. and Roxey R. Petty Fairchild, buried between his two wives... <br />
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Fred's second wife, Maude Ziegler.<br />
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Next is Nellie Sophia Fairchild ( sister to Fred and daughter of James & Roxey) and her husband Will T. Keller... the Kellers lived next door to James H. & Roxey Petty Fairchild.....<br />
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Final grave in first row is that of a grandson of Nellie and Will, I believe he died of a gunshot as a teenager... but haven't done much research on that branch of the family....<br />
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Roxcy Rosalia Petty Fairchild was the matriarch of this family. Grandma rose was the glue, and raised not only her eight children, but was also instrumental in raising 3 grandchildren after one was orphaned, and the other two lost their mother.... I wish I could have met her, and am truly thankful for her influence on the family!<br />
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James H(enry?) Fairchild was the patriarch. He was owner of a shingle mill, fought in the Civil War, was wounded at Battle of the Wilderness, member of the GAR, on the school board, whose "word was as good as a bond" as stated in his obituary. He was father of 5 sons and 3 daughters.... a distinguished man from his photos....<br />
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Lewie was another son of James. He worked in oil drilling in Cattaraugus count, among other jobs...<br />
With no children of his own, he was a great uncle to all his nieces and nephews....<br />
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Mary Case, wife of Lewis, worked in the publishing industry.... she and Lewis lived apart for many years, but remained married as far as I have been able to research. They had no children.... <br />
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<br />Well, that is the small plot of my great-great grandparents and some of their descendants..... for more info see my other blog posts and ahnentafel page, or contact me if you have more info, I'm always willing to share! <br />
Have a Happy Thanksgiving! <br />
SueSue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-55168611425675364832011-11-12T10:33:00.001-08:002011-11-12T10:42:56.870-08:00RootsTech Registration contestsRoots Tech is an annual conference held in Salt Lake City. It is of value to both genealogy software developers and to all of us genealogists who use these tools. I couldn't go last year, as was still working, but now that I'm retired.....<br />
There are several contests to win a free registration going on. Registration is $129 early, $189 regular, so this is a great savings! Here's the first one I saw posted, and it's easy to enter... offered by Joan Miller of Luxegen Genealogy & family History, it only requires you to spread the word, pick a session, and write an e-mail!!!! go to<br />
<a href="http://www.luxegen.ca/genealogy/rootstech-2012-win-free-registration/">http://www.luxegen.ca/genealogy/rootstech-2012-win-free-registration/ </a><br />
for the details....But Hurry, closes at midnight Sunday !<br />
I picked the session on apps for genealogy, as am trying to decide on smart phone, tablet/iPad, etc, and hope to learn enough to choose wisely! But there are sessions on the DNA usage, databases, and scores more (103 sessions in all!!! ) Hope to see you there!!!<br />
<br />Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-284847367253140540.post-7348346716516140942011-06-21T07:00:00.000-07:002011-06-21T07:00:01.848-07:00New Flip Pal toy and cover designAt the Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree I bought a new toy. It's called the Flip Pal, and is a portable scanning device. It can be used as a flattop for 4 x6 in pictures, or the cover can be removed and the scanner flipped to place directly on the book or picture to be scanned. It can then be moved and the different scans "stitched" together to make a single picture. It stores the scans on an SD card, and runs on 4 AA batteries... It's about 6 x 9 inches, and is very light! <br />
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I bought a little soft case for it (red) so I won't lose it, and decided to make a custom vinyl skin for the scan cover, so I can tell my scanner from everyone else's. And I might have to ....they were selling like hot cakes! It cost about twice what the Magic Wand scanner cost me last year, but since you don't have to move the scanner manually, the Flip Pal is much simpler to use.... I never could get the scanning pace quite right with the wand .....<br />
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I wanted a unique cover, but I'm no artist... and then remembered from one of Thomas MacEntee's challenges (winter games?) about using wordle.net to create a collage of surnames.... so I did, and thought it would make a striking cover..... and like no other!<br />
Looks pretty good, and I didn't have to draw a thing! It is rotated 90deg for the scanner cover....<br />
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Since I leave Friday night for Washington DC and then to NY for research, I expect that it will be well used in the next month, and I hope to add many pics to this blog both from pictures at home, and documents from DC.<br />
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Thanks again Thomas, for all your great tips including Wordle!Sue Barryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03242311852468150162noreply@blogger.com2