tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27943758485315227432024-03-16T13:49:32.987-05:00Letters to My GrandparentsStories of my family history research.Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.comBlogger184125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-18878733338318450412024-03-07T14:54:00.000-06:002024-03-07T14:54:24.465-06:00Finding more about Eliel Melton and Family using new tools at FamilySearch.org<p> Dear Grandparents,</p><p>Yesterday was the 188th anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo. Our son-in-law Chris' 4th great uncle Eliel Melton was serving as Quartermaster for the troops defending the Alamo and died there 6 Mar 1836. Today was my first opportunity to try some of the new tools that <a href="http://Familysearch.org">Familysearch.org</a> debuted at Roots Tech last week. So what did I search for?.... additional information on Eliel Melton!</p><p>My search brought up a deed that mentioned Eliel and his heirs-at-law including Chris' direct ancestor, his 4th great grandmother Mary "Polly" (Melton) Echols. Mary was the sibling closest in age to Eliel.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-wwdBxvDTzM0eQZDp-VS3wNZ5c6ofeIGGjLqryRDhLyubNl6NRtlgBN2xHgOC7VWe1bRB58OzjSsiwyHJVoSQEcqi3f2rbn-_348WLUAozGhepEYUyEhHytGfldbYRYnGJUaEjSk8hM-u4ZStal74WqnHMTzeDmQtfUpU8X-9mxIfvZP89egUxaxHaw/s707/StateofTexastoheirsof%20ElielMeltonfromFramilySearch.org.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="707" data-original-width="543" height="491" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-wwdBxvDTzM0eQZDp-VS3wNZ5c6ofeIGGjLqryRDhLyubNl6NRtlgBN2xHgOC7VWe1bRB58OzjSsiwyHJVoSQEcqi3f2rbn-_348WLUAozGhepEYUyEhHytGfldbYRYnGJUaEjSk8hM-u4ZStal74WqnHMTzeDmQtfUpU8X-9mxIfvZP89egUxaxHaw/w377-h491/StateofTexastoheirsof%20ElielMeltonfromFramilySearch.org.jpg" width="377" /></a></div><br /><p>One of the best features of this new tool from Family Search is the AI generated full transcription of the document. For genealogists, transcription of old and sometimes difficult to read documents is a painstaking process involving line by line examination and recording. Often, one must examine all examples of a particular letter in the document to determine which letter and word is written. </p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">75 </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">The </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">State </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">of </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Texas </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">men </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">by </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">County </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">of </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Willam </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">me </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Stroud </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Metton </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Ethen </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Milton </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Mary </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Elchil </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">A </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">L </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Harper </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">& </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Stephen </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Felken </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">by </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">them </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">agent </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">and </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Attorney </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">in </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">fact </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Thomas </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">of </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">the </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">State </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">of </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Georgia </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">heirs </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">at </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Law </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">of </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;"><span class="css-16czxw9" style="border-radius: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px 4px;">Eliel </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;"><span class="css-16czxw9" style="border-radius: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px 4px;">Melton </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">late </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">of </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">the </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">State </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">of </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Texas </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">decd </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">for </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">our </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">selves </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">have </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">this </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">day </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Jonathan </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;"><span class="css-16czxw9" style="border-radius: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px 4px;">Melton </span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">of </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">the </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">State </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">of </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Texas </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">his </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">heirs </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">& </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">assigns </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">all </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">and </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">right </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">title </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">interest </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">and </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">claim </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">in </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">and </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">to </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Five </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">hundred </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">two </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">and </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">one </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">half </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Nineteen </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">hundred </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">and </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Twenty </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">my </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Soldrins </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Claims </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">lying </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">being </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">and </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">soutered </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">in </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">the </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">County </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">of </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Ellis </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">deceased </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">the </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">said </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Jonathan </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Meton </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">for </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">himself </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">his </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">heirs </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">and </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">assigns </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">to </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">have </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">and </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">to </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">hold </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; 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color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">the </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">said </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;">Jonathan </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #202121; font-family: "HeritageBody:Sans", HanaMinBFont, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif, Tofu;"><span class="css-16czxw9" style="border-radius: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px 4px;">Melton </span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #202121;"><span style="background-color: #eeeeee;">The highlighted area above is the AI transcription of the document's first paragraph. </span></span></p><p>Now, I am not implying that the AI transcription is perfect. It is far from that but it does provide a much easier starting point. The County in this document is not William but Milam. The names are Stroud Melton, Ethen Melton, Mary Elchols but it is a great help and timesaver.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG7Mxv-K3-7FTFdu5mLJjDa_p3Hk_CgIUdQ7hqzloVn5UyvWs4Z-9UyJ2gKl1n1ZOYWtYXoBx2WtZiCHgRkgb_-SOV53s0AFxnxtnEKxCtKI9pjDc7Cce8ZS4k2S5sfq3LPWaVbKcZHpozcDgOHKuUV5ICpIVfC7sopSQ6ByPws3N3m1cYy60_FuV7AA/s573/MaryEcholsPoA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="468" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG7Mxv-K3-7FTFdu5mLJjDa_p3Hk_CgIUdQ7hqzloVn5UyvWs4Z-9UyJ2gKl1n1ZOYWtYXoBx2WtZiCHgRkgb_-SOV53s0AFxnxtnEKxCtKI9pjDc7Cce8ZS4k2S5sfq3LPWaVbKcZHpozcDgOHKuUV5ICpIVfC7sopSQ6ByPws3N3m1cYy60_FuV7AA/w315-h386/MaryEcholsPoA.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><br /><p>The next document in the file is a specific power of attourney given by Mary Elchols 21 February 1853. Texas was giving land to the heirs of those that perished at the Alamo. These documents would help Mary recieve one of these land grants. Very fortunate as she had been left in a dire financial situation when her husband Robert Milner Echols died intestate and in debt 3 Dec 1847 in Mexico during the Mexican American War.</p><p>Many thanks to Family Search for making these tools available to us for free. I am looking forward to using them in every one of my genealogy projects.</p><p>Love,</p><p>Cecily</p>Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-75705769337491532532023-08-13T10:02:00.000-05:002023-08-13T10:02:25.127-05:00Laurens Duyts - One of a 100 ancestors with an interesting life.<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Dear Grandparents,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In October 2002, my siblings and I traveled to be with our mother (Betty (Werst) Cone) to commemorate the 10th anniversary of our father's (Charles Newton Cone, Jr.) death. Oh, there were some tears shed, but there were many more smiles and laughs as we told stories of the wonderful man he had been. Remembering that wonderful occasion, we decided to gather to mark the 10th anniversary of our mother's passing this year. Given that all four of our grandparents had ancestors who had lived in New York State, coupled with the amazing fact that none of we four (very well-traveled individuals) had ever visited Niagra Falls, we are heading for upstate New York next month. In preparation, I've been doing some research into our New York ancestors and have decided to share some of the amazing lives they lived.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Please meet our 8th great grandfather Lauren Duyts. He is said to have been from an area in Holstein that is now Denmark. No records of his birth or baptism have been discovered. Another Dye (Duyst eventually changed in our family line to Dye), Robert Dye has written,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span> "Laurens Duyts was apparently born and raised on the island of "Strand" west of the city of Husum, then part of Denmark. Most of the people on the island made their living by deep sea fishing. In 1634, a catastrophic tidal wave nearly destroyed the island tearing it into three separate islands and killing several hundred people. The area where Laurens lived is now the island of Nordstrand."</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxH8HNBQi1ARqkDZMycfCEsHHeNOY6BG2hDYtA6HrIyMvnrvLgCWh6I5I7wvxqDscFk8Z-jNcpyvyzEFimTsg2TafR869kNkYas5uQIbJB4EyBu-YVTKUBd9UK4-LpRnMUMVYYkr3-MWE84f8QdQRvwlTYtXpETcAuPXywM0NVapGxR9HFYUn7QjOSIw/s915/NorstrandHusum.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="508" data-original-width="915" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxH8HNBQi1ARqkDZMycfCEsHHeNOY6BG2hDYtA6HrIyMvnrvLgCWh6I5I7wvxqDscFk8Z-jNcpyvyzEFimTsg2TafR869kNkYas5uQIbJB4EyBu-YVTKUBd9UK4-LpRnMUMVYYkr3-MWE84f8QdQRvwlTYtXpETcAuPXywM0NVapGxR9HFYUn7QjOSIw/s320/NorstrandHusum.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>The storm may have provided the motivation for his move to Amsterdam. </span>His marriage bans were posted August 28, 1638 in the Noorderkerk on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, Netherlands. My siblings and I well remember the church from our many trips to visit Trude in Amsterdam.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMNuUdbLZoBlFOkYEuBEMEBGDBKzt-PdXpdwoTyNRfgaf_3rVfkyTfAkkbvQntixdP2bg2hzSZ1z32krHISW-H8x6g4SeiiArOp3jLUXy7nwxrUQxfFlT0UPukxnGykJeHW_prrBLWi3Pw1bzzzuS1dgP6HPnByFpyq0EtrabSVNK6-XFg8fuq5pSiUQ/s745/Noorderkerkonthe%20Prinsengracht.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="471" data-original-width="745" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMNuUdbLZoBlFOkYEuBEMEBGDBKzt-PdXpdwoTyNRfgaf_3rVfkyTfAkkbvQntixdP2bg2hzSZ1z32krHISW-H8x6g4SeiiArOp3jLUXy7nwxrUQxfFlT0UPukxnGykJeHW_prrBLWi3Pw1bzzzuS1dgP6HPnByFpyq0EtrabSVNK6-XFg8fuq5pSiUQ/w404-h255/Noorderkerkonthe%20Prinsengracht.jpg" width="404" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial;">FamilySearch.org has filmed the Nederland Hervomed Kerk, BK vol 228-229 Page 153 left hand side from FHC microfilm 0223298 Item 2; <i><b>"Lourens Dyijs from Noortstrant, a laborer living at the Brouwergracht, aged 26 years, with Ytgie Jans from Amsterdam aged 18 years.</b></i>"<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The young couple were looking for opportunities and decided to immigrate to New Netherlands, now New York State, the Dutch Colony across the Atlantic. They arrived in New Amsterdam July 15, 1639 on the Brant van Trogen (Fire of Troy in English) a private armed vessel, engaged at Hoorn Hollang by fellow Dane Captain Jochiem Pietersen Kuyter. Two other Danes traveled on the same ship. Jonas Bronck and Peiter Andriesen. Jonas Bronck hired Duyts and Andriesen to clear a tract of 500 acres, which Bronck had purchased from the Indians. According to a book on Scandinavian Immigrants in New York, 1630-1674, Laurens was "commonly known as Laurens Grootschoe (Big Shoe)". One is left to wonder if his feet were exceptionally large.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"> <i>"They shall be at liberty to plant tobacco and maize, on the express condition<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></i><i> that every two years they shall clear new pieces of the land...furthermore, Pieter Andriesz and Lourens Duyts bind and pledge their persons and properties for the payment of what Mr. Bronck has disbursed for them on board the ship <b>De Brant </b> <b>van Troven</b>, 120 guilder 16 stivers of which Peiter Andriessen must pay fl 81:4 and Lourens Duyst fl. 49:12. Done in Fort Amsterdam, 21st of July 1639.</i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e453f;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Arnold J. F. Van Laer, New York Historical Manuscripts Dutch Vol I; 1638-1642; Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc., Baltimore, MD. 1974; pp 196-197; Morris Library, University of DE, Newark. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Their first child, daughter Margariet was baptized December 23, 1639 in New Amsterdam. One of her sponsors was Gerrit Jansen of Oldenburg leading to speculation that he may have been Ytgie's brother. She was followed by sons Jan Laurenszen Duyts in 1642 and our 7th great grandfather Jans Laurentzen Duyts in 1644. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Laurens seems to have been an itinerant farmer, renting the land he worked. He had a difficult time getting along with his neighbors as well as the Dutch authorities. One can find more than 15 instances in the court records of New Amsterdam documenting his legal problems. These problems come to a tumultuous conclusion with the verdict handed down by Pieter Stuyvesant, one of the severest verdicts handed down in New Amsterdam.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8u_SzRZrj_B7iDmuvCfjBGzEFPlbZkjmrRIndhwKzCWH7n32Y5u4Q6RMVErYO6Hwp5IYOuhfyYQxhFJYUlxdjHHd3qj1l78SDYuCVtKwNiRyuPWWU2668fEsswiuQV7Kx19R3tao13351OwG7z6Lpc8MtVUjp-QfLQx2hWog9DncxWEwY5wLwkgcnDQ/s772/ImageofsentenceforLaurensDuytsfromNAHC.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="511" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8u_SzRZrj_B7iDmuvCfjBGzEFPlbZkjmrRIndhwKzCWH7n32Y5u4Q6RMVErYO6Hwp5IYOuhfyYQxhFJYUlxdjHHd3qj1l78SDYuCVtKwNiRyuPWWU2668fEsswiuQV7Kx19R3tao13351OwG7z6Lpc8MtVUjp-QfLQx2hWog9DncxWEwY5wLwkgcnDQ/s320/ImageofsentenceforLaurensDuytsfromNAHC.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkMjHA_O4Pklnc8uqv8pwS4Qt3v0Uiar8yNNTRnUnhyOpGireL4iGN5cDAg2TwOjXxT0cz8EvwOza8WxKapvF7adjX0MYNaQnFqXstksMg-GYKnZ2IXaWDY6bIErHkg9ko0wXKgMhuV9MdfoiYSD7y-_NDlJ42edeXMGaD5G-EoC2TgivoUhhZaiKH2g/s517/sentencepg2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="515" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkMjHA_O4Pklnc8uqv8pwS4Qt3v0Uiar8yNNTRnUnhyOpGireL4iGN5cDAg2TwOjXxT0cz8EvwOza8WxKapvF7adjX0MYNaQnFqXstksMg-GYKnZ2IXaWDY6bIErHkg9ko0wXKgMhuV9MdfoiYSD7y-_NDlJ42edeXMGaD5G-EoC2TgivoUhhZaiKH2g/s320/sentencepg2.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p>I<span style="font-family: arial;">n November 1658, Laurens was accused of forcing his wife to sleep with Jan Botcher. When she refused, he beat her. Later he sold and left his wife to Jan Botcher to settle an old debt of 500 guilders, thirty guilders in hand and a half a barrel of beer. Laurens is then accused of committing adultery with Gessie Jans, the married wife of Jan Jansen Smit, with whom he had relations several times according to confession of both of them. The Director General of the United Netherlands and the honorable lords directors of the Chartered West India Company at the Chamber of Amsterdam sentenced and condemned, as they hereby sentence and condemn the aforesaid Lauens Duijts alias Grootschoen to </span><i><span style="font-family: arial;">be brought to the place where justice is commonly done, and the, with the hangman's rope around the neck be severely whipped with rods, and his right ear shall be cut off, and he shall be and remain banished from this province for the period of 50 years, on penalty if he returns again to this province of being punished with the rope until death follows, and to pay the legal cost made for this, as an example to others, denying the fiscal's further claim made on and against him. Thus done and sentenced in Fourth Amsterdam the 25th of November 1658 a</span>n<span style="font-family: arial;">d executed the 30th of the same month.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Stuyvesant Pieter Tonneman</span></i></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">For living in adultery with Laurens Duyts, Geese Jansen is sentenced to the whipping post, the upper part of her body being stripped naked, and two rods placed in her hand, to be afterwards conducted, in that wise, outside the city gates, and banished for the term of 30 years with costs. Her sentence was also carried out on November 30th. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The similar paper for Ytige Jans, Lauren's legal wife is illegible where the sentence is spelled out however it carries the same ominous phrase "executed the 30th day of the same month." She was found guilty as charged without torture and was whipped and banished also. She was found guilty of living in adultery with John Parcell, alias Borcher, of Huntingdonshire, England.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">On December 12th, 1658, John Parcel and Itje Jans file a petition pleading for mercy and confessing their "guilt, and sin and great remorse.... not knowing to which place they will flee with their five innocent little children.... praying for the love of Goad, out of mercy to pardon the petitioners and to allow them to stay in this province, and to agree that they may be married for the protection of the innocent children."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The Council's record on the decision does not survive but when John Parcel dies in 1684, he leaves a widow Ytije.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">(These items are held in the New York State Archives and published online by the New Amsterdam History Center which provides both the images and the translations).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Laurens Duyts went into exile in Bergen, New Jersey where he married Grietje Jansen January 1, 1666. They were among the first couples married in the new settlement of Bergen.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Laurens and Ytige are my paternal grandmother's 7th great grandparents through their youngest son Hans Laurentzen Duyts. My grandmother was a very prim and proper woman and would have been scandalized by the stories of Laurens' behavior. In fact, I imagine that she would not be pleased that I am sharing this story. Hopefully, she will understand that the stories of our ancestors, the good, the bad and the ugly, should be told.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Love, </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Cecily</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">For family: Our line to Laurens Duyts:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Hazel Bynon (Allen) Cone daughter of Chester Bynon Allen and Ida Mae Dye. Ida Mae Dye, daughter of Amos Dye, Jr. and Marinda Jane McCowan. Amos Dye, Jr. son of Amos and Maria (Taylor) Dye. Amos Dye son of John Laurens and Elizabeth (Caywood) Dye. John Laurens Dye son of John and Mary (Applegate) Dye. John Dye son of John Laurens and Ann (Brown) Dey. John Larens Dey son of Hans Laurentzen Duyts and wife Sarah Vincent. Hans Laurentzen Duyts son of Laurens Duyts and Ytige Jans.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Note: spellings used in this post are the spelling found in the documents or translations. Spelling was not standardized until the 1920s so names are often spelled differently even in the same document.</span></p>Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-50645073831606815522023-03-10T10:45:00.001-06:002023-03-10T10:45:58.380-06:00Helen Louise (Werst) (Pearce) Caldwell 1928-2019Dear Grandparents,<br />
<br />I started writing this post in March of 2020 and then COVID happened and all of our lives changed. I'm just getting back to it this year in time to celebrate Aunt Helen's 95th birthday. <div><br /><div>
This is the first year in a long while that I will not be sending birthday greetings to Aunt Helen. She is in your company this year, not ours. It is very strange as she has always been an important part of my life. I was named for her and Cecil, so I became Cecily Louise. Like most of our stories, her story is complicated.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsf-_zzE4sW5WgumV8PPS-4bA_0OkZLLzbmBAUSC1Hu55I-GNoleKfg5asudawkqNpi-nRKshQQsgFOPCretaUOVto3SnGieR7-a0FYsoR5R-mxyAQFVxmM-iZTqOVN7R5EPPTQUsXNlKeRZXfNOmnJi3BWhUYDZfagjIu1p79KRgqvNRVKV33ywc/s1150/CecilandGrace%20(2016_12_17%2018_37_25%20UTC).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1150" data-original-width="1026" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsf-_zzE4sW5WgumV8PPS-4bA_0OkZLLzbmBAUSC1Hu55I-GNoleKfg5asudawkqNpi-nRKshQQsgFOPCretaUOVto3SnGieR7-a0FYsoR5R-mxyAQFVxmM-iZTqOVN7R5EPPTQUsXNlKeRZXfNOmnJi3BWhUYDZfagjIu1p79KRgqvNRVKV33ywc/w285-h320/CecilandGrace%20(2016_12_17%2018_37_25%20UTC).jpg" title="Cecil Oscar and Grace (Colby) Werst 1924" width="285" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Cecil Oscar and Ada Grace (Colby) Werst in Spokane, Washington circa August 8, 1924.</span></div><div><br />It wasn't a very auspicious beginning for Helen. Her father, Cecil Oscar Werst, had died from an infected tooth 4.5 months before her birth. It was before penicillin, and he was gone in 10 days, leaving behind a stunned, pregnant wife, Grace (Colby) Werst and their 15 months old daughter, Betty Lorraine.</div><div>
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At age 27, death was probably the last thing on Cecil's mind. Times were good. The family was living in a comfortable rented house on McClellan Street in Spokane, Washington. Cecil had been promoted to manager at the Royal Silk Hosiery Company. Grace had worked as the secretary to the publisher of the Spokesman Review Newspaper and left her position to welcome their first child. We're not certain if Cecil or Grace already knew there was another baby on the way. He left no life insurance, some savings but most of that was invested in stocks.<br />
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Feeling desperate, Grace and Betty traveled by train to Pendleton, Oregon so she could be with her sister Madge (Colby) Massey during her confinement. Helen Louise Werst was born 10 Mar 1928 in Pendleton, Oregon.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj371ilVnTi-gXW2CJHVTfM3Tyc_UHpE4kU83kCbrqrdqZItmScj6kywTog-3KGTxesIzoNGXAbcn2RKgM5ghqfXQr9qUvYpefVSnEL1X1beRK0bscwN1OZ1Vakb-4gMhqwo3XMj1hOPoUfMOhZL0gLCNVnCMolL6LbYdGrWogUsygM62UsRlYqxNk/s434/BettyGraceHelenSpokane1928.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="290" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj371ilVnTi-gXW2CJHVTfM3Tyc_UHpE4kU83kCbrqrdqZItmScj6kywTog-3KGTxesIzoNGXAbcn2RKgM5ghqfXQr9qUvYpefVSnEL1X1beRK0bscwN1OZ1Vakb-4gMhqwo3XMj1hOPoUfMOhZL0gLCNVnCMolL6LbYdGrWogUsygM62UsRlYqxNk/s320/BettyGraceHelenSpokane1928.jpeg" width="214" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Betty, Grace and Helen from left to right in Spokane circa 1928</div><div><br />Grace tried, really tried, to make it with her two girls back in Spokane. She was a modern woman and wanted to stand on her own two feet. Unfortunately, it was difficult to find a job, childcare, etc.<br />
Complicating things even more was the economic situation in the country. Beginning in March 1929, the Federal Reserve began warning of the dangers of stock speculation and by October 29th everything crashed. The stocks that Grace held became worthless. She wrote to the company heads of each of the stocks she held pleading for a job.<br />
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Grace had to give up the rented home, sell many of their belongings and move in with Madge and her husband Harley Massey in Pendleton. Finally, a letter came with the offer of a job as a stenographer at the Smith Tower in Seattle. How could she get there? find a place to live? and most importantly, what about her daughters? I'm certain that she agonized about these decisions. In the end, Betty stayed with Aunt Madge and Uncle Hal in Pendleton and Helen went with her Mom to Seattle.<br />
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They probably traveled by train and found a boarding house recommended by co-workers or family friends. She arranged for Helen to stay with an older couple during the day and went to work. This arrangement lasted until the summer of 1932. Grace's father William Wallace Colby wrote asking her to come home and take care of him after his second wife passed.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC6L1kSph5FbizHN6DKHpYZDqx23pcoFmAquvfZKZhLIdRpMMO0zBPFVfgnqrRhNFIFEJPII8nTmFUMbVF7qfMtdfzUHtP-0g4DK5BZKPKfmAla0-K8CLgotaqAXT6BjdxMj6EtzwlQ_fF0pHfc27fpL8yL-eLz-FZLODS0z05X7S2a-uWB4OzsG8/s634/HelenandGraceinSeattlecirca1930.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC6L1kSph5FbizHN6DKHpYZDqx23pcoFmAquvfZKZhLIdRpMMO0zBPFVfgnqrRhNFIFEJPII8nTmFUMbVF7qfMtdfzUHtP-0g4DK5BZKPKfmAla0-K8CLgotaqAXT6BjdxMj6EtzwlQ_fF0pHfc27fpL8yL-eLz-FZLODS0z05X7S2a-uWB4OzsG8/s320/HelenandGraceinSeattlecirca1930.jpeg" width="242" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Helen and Grace in Seattle circa 1930</div><div><br /></div><div>Grace jumped at the chance to finally be able to raise her girls together at Pine Lawn Farm where she had spent her older childhood years. From the recounted stories, it was quite a change for everyone. Grace had been head of her family, making her own money and deciding how it would be spent. The much youngest of five girls, Grampa Colby was 45 when she was born, now he was 75 and set in his ways. He thought children should be seen but not heard and he was not shy about expressing his opinions on how Grace should be raising her daughters.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5f3Z3vS-jPm4pMozdVAA7fEldXMzW7n86vRwjJWPhqKzPKDyTR29_j0o_iod7c0dgOMjao-cM7GYm_w_CtzaxUAh3LlSOwYwEqSzOAbUygs40LL1Mzx6d54r7CDqLZGUcQYOZCqHTeAe_FjB7jm_nRy1NcJ7iecyr661cZWQPIaR-EgILMpi5Hyw/s459/betty%20and%20ww%201935%20(2016_12_17%2018_37_25%20UTC).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="293" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5f3Z3vS-jPm4pMozdVAA7fEldXMzW7n86vRwjJWPhqKzPKDyTR29_j0o_iod7c0dgOMjao-cM7GYm_w_CtzaxUAh3LlSOwYwEqSzOAbUygs40LL1Mzx6d54r7CDqLZGUcQYOZCqHTeAe_FjB7jm_nRy1NcJ7iecyr661cZWQPIaR-EgILMpi5Hyw/s320/betty%20and%20ww%201935%20(2016_12_17%2018_37_25%20UTC).jpg" width="204" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Betty and Grampa Colby (William Wallace Colby 1857-1936) at Pine Lawn Farm</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>It must have been difficult for the girls also! Betty had been left behind with her Aunt and only saw her mother the few times when she was sent on the bus from Pendleton to Seattle with a family friend who drove the bus. She missed her father and was away from her mother at the same time. Helen didn't get to see her mother during the day and was not fond of the couple who cared for her. She was jealous that Betty had nicer clothes that Aunt Madge had purchased. What a challenge for them all.</div><div><br /></div><div>Turned out that Pine Lawn Farm was a wonderful place to spend one's childhood. There were animals, chores and kids the same age across the street. There was not much money, but it was the depression and few people had money. They could trade the chickens and prunes they raised for other crops and services they needed. The "farm" gave them a sense of belonging to a place that I've never had in my nomadic life. Maybe that's why we're keeping it in the family.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLdKcK8F4tZMtiTJa_7hdMyqJtp9bAtsH6_PQaWqEUbaRZcLk8fHv7XQ3eo1_YIvw1Hj0r-Q6VB0rqzOtGgXI8L47JZOF5U04P935R2YoCrW2j33EmWkSujSDyvfgXCkY8rKIm_5U42cw9gDGj_qZODV8j-x8LJKGMEBA0r5vAGxvLwxpkvU701h0/s2816/Barn%20at%20Pine%20Lawn%20Farm%20circa%201930%20(2016_12_17%2018_37_25%20UTC).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2112" data-original-width="2816" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLdKcK8F4tZMtiTJa_7hdMyqJtp9bAtsH6_PQaWqEUbaRZcLk8fHv7XQ3eo1_YIvw1Hj0r-Q6VB0rqzOtGgXI8L47JZOF5U04P935R2YoCrW2j33EmWkSujSDyvfgXCkY8rKIm_5U42cw9gDGj_qZODV8j-x8LJKGMEBA0r5vAGxvLwxpkvU701h0/s320/Barn%20at%20Pine%20Lawn%20Farm%20circa%201930%20(2016_12_17%2018_37_25%20UTC).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPO-SdOsrj6EtXg4vPox6Zvyuu8oPs264UabgRcipAgIon_sakfyUsEiNgZukZgSSzxSRs4bL0xN7QePbSY39Z60N3BurA_OZ5oShvl30Ho7Sf4OtnfnvnNsqPABofj-A3imgqE1rhXebupARxH3B61cHUNLn8gPTxREO-kl8fWpsYK9gQbWdUqbc/s603/farmhouseatPineLawnFarm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="603" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPO-SdOsrj6EtXg4vPox6Zvyuu8oPs264UabgRcipAgIon_sakfyUsEiNgZukZgSSzxSRs4bL0xN7QePbSY39Z60N3BurA_OZ5oShvl30Ho7Sf4OtnfnvnNsqPABofj-A3imgqE1rhXebupARxH3B61cHUNLn8gPTxREO-kl8fWpsYK9gQbWdUqbc/s320/farmhouseatPineLawnFarm.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><div style="text-align: center;">Above barn at Pine Lawn Farm, below farmhouse</div>
<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp1uTkMh4ih7owphwcVop-mYcvBrjHN_mdjBCW_F9kKpFBnUsYv61pCY9b0AE9utitTXBJGnBwSD0_dGfmhfw4MultjJvcS1RfQ5Ri6FSCHLEL19hJjW408xt4K6jbEiWRpUN4JDE8cWPs_JtjNuOI2mxAlfVF0ilMO-tN80LneVk22Ol2lGGYdqk/s640/HelenatFarmcirca1945.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="420" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp1uTkMh4ih7owphwcVop-mYcvBrjHN_mdjBCW_F9kKpFBnUsYv61pCY9b0AE9utitTXBJGnBwSD0_dGfmhfw4MultjJvcS1RfQ5Ri6FSCHLEL19hJjW408xt4K6jbEiWRpUN4JDE8cWPs_JtjNuOI2mxAlfVF0ilMO-tN80LneVk22Ol2lGGYdqk/s320/HelenatFarmcirca1945.jpeg" width="210" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Helen at farm circa 1945</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8VZIL2LL0Vowi2bkhVCCRFUBzKw5cxUNI2uw1K_DmLOnGxwL_tskJyZybBn2FWb4xnHyI4gaheWsr6_01pQcQ_XqMLZceQgKes-pxR1o0YCjDPWWXcrhWhdCUBbtacOdmKEp4I1fu2q5k_iL5FTKoMi5PI13cHFU9D2_kzLQTniBdb3JRYz_uIP4/s602/BettyGraceHelenPineLawnFarmcirca1943.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8VZIL2LL0Vowi2bkhVCCRFUBzKw5cxUNI2uw1K_DmLOnGxwL_tskJyZybBn2FWb4xnHyI4gaheWsr6_01pQcQ_XqMLZceQgKes-pxR1o0YCjDPWWXcrhWhdCUBbtacOdmKEp4I1fu2q5k_iL5FTKoMi5PI13cHFU9D2_kzLQTniBdb3JRYz_uIP4/s320/BettyGraceHelenPineLawnFarmcirca1943.jpeg" width="255" /></a></div><span><div style="text-align: left;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Betty, Grace and Helen at the farm circa 1945 </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">There is much more to add to her story but this is a good place to stop with chapter one. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Happy 95th birthday Aunt Helen! We miss you!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Love,</div><div style="text-align: left;">Cecily</div></span></div></div>Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-65830032030430345352023-02-17T17:18:00.001-06:002023-02-17T17:18:41.249-06:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Catch-up I'd like to Meet Simpson Barnes<p> Dear Grandparents,</p><p class="MsoNormal">There are so many ancestors that I would like to meet, that
it is a difficult task to select just one. Given that task, I select one of my
brick walls, my 2<sup>nd</sup> great grandfather Simpson Barnes. I have been
searching to identify Simpson’s parents for many years. No image of Simpson
Barnes has been passed down through my part of the family. Most of what I know
of Simpson comes from the census records he left behind.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The earliest record I have is the 1850 Federal Census
enumerated on the 31<sup>st</sup> of August 1850 by W. W. Wood in the Township
of Cambria, Hillsdale County, Michigan. <o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4PYwcPSwJyxtMkNYFseZVZji_YBrscI1kA4cE9DoII14I0wWDEZ8T-edhiU2hlzD_KEoOsJq34cKo94VCoUYsCfn0l2wAKR7N6P-6uOkI4bAlcD9c3D3hoKp3w86t8KbxzpzUOCp13JDI9w36LF0v2zzI8FGBVcxlA4nAFGn8uplanTFTIxkMwvI/s883/1850CensusSimpsonBarnesunderlined.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="883" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4PYwcPSwJyxtMkNYFseZVZji_YBrscI1kA4cE9DoII14I0wWDEZ8T-edhiU2hlzD_KEoOsJq34cKo94VCoUYsCfn0l2wAKR7N6P-6uOkI4bAlcD9c3D3hoKp3w86t8KbxzpzUOCp13JDI9w36LF0v2zzI8FGBVcxlA4nAFGn8uplanTFTIxkMwvI/w486-h284/1850CensusSimpsonBarnesunderlined.jpg" width="486" /></a></div></blockquote><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal">This shows Simpson Barnes, on line 11, as a 23 year old
Farmer born in NY state with Angelina Barnes, whom I know to be his wife, age
20 born in Ohio and their 3 months old son Wesley David Barnes, born in
Michigan. They are the household listed just below the family of Wesley
Burgoyne, age 46, born in Virginia, his wife Sarah age 44 born in Pennsylvania
and their son James Burgoyne age 18 born in Ohio.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Of special not is the tick mark for Simpson Barnes that
indicates he could not read or write.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">By 1856, Simpson Barnes is living in Columbia, Wapello
County, Iowa. The others in the family are only identified by initials but A,
aged 25 born in Ohio, married and like Simpson has lived in Iowa for 3 years.
This person seems to be Angelina. Their son is identified as C. W. born in Mich
who has lived in Iowa for 3 years which seems to line up with the son
previously listed as Wesley. There is also a one year old female listed as E.
E. born in Iowa.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The 1859 Kansas State Census lists Simpson Barnes, who settled in Osakaloosa, Jefferson County in November 1858. Immediately below his enumeration is James Burgoyne who settled there in August 1858. This James Burgoyne is more probably, his wife Angelina's young brothe James. There is another column that mentions those who are not allowed to vote and a Barns, W. C. is listed there. Thre is significant blled through from the next page on the record image so more investigation is needed.</p><p class="MsoNormal">In the 1860 Federal Census, James Burgoyne and family are
enumerated directly above the record for Simpson Barnes still in Oskaloosa,
Oskaloosa Township, Jefferson County, Kansas. Both men are listed as farm
laborers with real estate of $100 and personal estate of $50. Simpson has two
additional children, William age 2 and James age 11 months. Simpson can still
not read or write but his older children are attending school.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO45B6pP1QwMJo5fM1EuBnJl2h9m4uGTnZcMazXZG_LXfA9EdSotJSW_mXSBU21pUaQ_JkNUS_is04vE8ROD6gijI7G0wGafev91ABrbZosaMr25OjXVwj3ABo9khpQ4ElZisKE9bgstyMDwjCIpQXKVaC-3-YQML2rcuP9wV1ERiawmL0LiFlfsU/s530/1860Censusunderlined.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="530" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO45B6pP1QwMJo5fM1EuBnJl2h9m4uGTnZcMazXZG_LXfA9EdSotJSW_mXSBU21pUaQ_JkNUS_is04vE8ROD6gijI7G0wGafev91ABrbZosaMr25OjXVwj3ABo9khpQ4ElZisKE9bgstyMDwjCIpQXKVaC-3-YQML2rcuP9wV1ERiawmL0LiFlfsU/w362-h328/1860Censusunderlined.jpg" width="362" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The 1865 Kansas State census gives the most complete listing
of Simpson’s and Angelina’s family. Children are still listed only by initials
but sone C. W. is 14, daughter E. E. is 11, son W. N. is 10, son J. E is 5,
daughter M. J. is 3 and son T. S. is 7 months old. I believe that daughter M.
J. is my great grandmother Mary Jane (Barnes) Werst. Sadly, Simpson is still
illiterate. However, he is now a farmer with land that he owns.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1oyKbM6wtOITWGcyLSxr98pDzNBUPtQkqkdyUWoT3iyY66nU2PhbG3pVW42dXQAEb9YUfHHYFV7Ar9LU4dNypb5xLFgGyAZPb4lGipmUegZowzl-VDoph0GchxOro6P5tiS_F20gSrKe7eM_lssbCNGxtu4nFZ2D0CXlehUmGGNav14taOh5Tzt4" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="975" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1oyKbM6wtOITWGcyLSxr98pDzNBUPtQkqkdyUWoT3iyY66nU2PhbG3pVW42dXQAEb9YUfHHYFV7Ar9LU4dNypb5xLFgGyAZPb4lGipmUegZowzl-VDoph0GchxOro6P5tiS_F20gSrKe7eM_lssbCNGxtu4nFZ2D0CXlehUmGGNav14taOh5Tzt4=w415-h179" width="415" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I listened to a webinar by the noted genealogist and
researcher Elizabeth Shown Mills recently. She talked about how often we have
the answers to some of our questions in the documents that we have already
found but not completely analyzed. Today was the first time I noticed that
Simpson was illiterate and is marked so on every census. I also looked at some other information that
I had collected for Simpson. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Several years ago, I
found a U.S. General Land Office Record for Simson Barnes on ancestry.com. The
place listed was Crawford, Iowa so I wasn’t entirely convinced that this person
was the same as my Simpson so I merely saved it as in 1860, my Simpson was
living in Jefferson County, Kansas. This time I went back to the original
record from the Bureau of Land Management at https://glorecords.blm.gov/results/default.aspx?searchCriteria=type=patent|st=IA|cty=|ln=Barnes|fn=Simson|sp=true|sw=true|sadv=false. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This
time there was a complete image of the Military Warrant 46210 issued in Iowa on
May 1, 1860 to Simson Barnes “minor Child of John J. Barnes deceased private
Captain Stokes Company, Ohio Militia, War 1812.” It further states that the
land has been duly located upon, “the east half of the Southwest </span></span>quarter of Section twelve in Township Eighty-three of Range
thirty eight in the District of Lands subject to sale at Council Bluffs, Iowa
containing eight acres.”</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Turns out, Simson Barnes assigned this land to Andrew L.
Grimes, which means he probably sold the land to Mr. Grimes because he was
living in Kansas.</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyP-tzVOM0CbJse4UECdZw3Sc9pyQEdzBabDd3cB2D8MmmC7Pv4woILyfIIPGKOyWoZds9z7e3bKRPdE1MKyMSEVLAmYcEqi-phG42z-mtVQixMygBDr4Y7rZuIYpbg6yD19T_9tyZ7cANPAsUY_DCI6QgSE1jcZSmF0splD1HImPGsk2eQaNFaHg/s925/MilitaryWarrantSimsonBarnesGLO.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="925" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyP-tzVOM0CbJse4UECdZw3Sc9pyQEdzBabDd3cB2D8MmmC7Pv4woILyfIIPGKOyWoZds9z7e3bKRPdE1MKyMSEVLAmYcEqi-phG42z-mtVQixMygBDr4Y7rZuIYpbg6yD19T_9tyZ7cANPAsUY_DCI6QgSE1jcZSmF0splD1HImPGsk2eQaNFaHg/w528-h213/MilitaryWarrantSimsonBarnesGLO.jpg" width="528" /></a></div><br /> <o:p></o:p><p></p><br /><br /><p></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: left;">Finally! A clue as to who "Simson’s", "Simpson’s" father. John J.
Barnes is listed in the Ohio Militia for the War of 1812 and he is in Captain
Stoake’s Company. I have to keep reminding myself that spelling does not count and was not standardized until the 20<sup>th</sup> century and Simpson was
illiterate. </div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Captain Stoake’s Company was raised from Harrison County,
Ohio which is due west of Pittsburgh, PA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I do not have any records of Simpson from Harrison County and every
record I do have lists him as having been born in New York state. The Ohio
Militia fought in New York State. So now my working hypothesis is that John
Barnes met Simpson’s mother in New York and settled there. Clearly, much more
research to do. It would be so much easier to just meet and he could provide
all the answers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>Love, </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Cecily</p>PS. For family members her is our relationship to Simpson Barnes</div><div>Simpson and Angelina (Burgoyne) Barnes, their daughter </div><div>Mary Jane Barnes married Lewis Werst, their son</div><div>Cecil Oscar Werst married Ada Grace Colby, their daughter</div><div>Betty Lorraine (Werst) Cone is my mother.</div>Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-23628540806942917892023-02-17T17:18:00.000-06:002023-02-17T17:18:30.913-06:00Happy National Inventors Day! February 11, 2023<p>Dear Granddaddy and Grandfather Allen,</p><p>We're celebrating National Inventors' Day this weekend. Talk of inventions were standard during my childhood. Each trip to see our grandparents in Oregon entailed a tour of the Pacific Adhesives Corporation, my paternal Grandfather's firm. We had tours of the plant, got to see the new railroad cars, and especially got to visit my Grandfather's laboratory. There were always experiments underway and it was fascinating even if it didn't always smell great. Granddaddy held several patents including US2191070A on the Process of manufacturing plywood which was assigned to M&M Wood Working Co. The original application was filed 19 Feb 1935. Drawing from the patent below.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Fny-YUpOmWBYKMCAoHcDQa-yiSs9gSC3A4Wa_m8z8O-3uO31zGqNsUYdwDL6iuPZDBkU_zrOoVoqcVu-RW7jqVLY7t_bfsHfQ9VGjXkgJjMeIqUKTh8xGunUDkaudPZdhelm0i1argV9xyIFvfxLe8HpOLDrwO7-wel1UmvlRJEZk0nvF1NkvqI/s544/ProcessofManufacturingPlywood.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="381" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Fny-YUpOmWBYKMCAoHcDQa-yiSs9gSC3A4Wa_m8z8O-3uO31zGqNsUYdwDL6iuPZDBkU_zrOoVoqcVu-RW7jqVLY7t_bfsHfQ9VGjXkgJjMeIqUKTh8xGunUDkaudPZdhelm0i1argV9xyIFvfxLe8HpOLDrwO7-wel1UmvlRJEZk0nvF1NkvqI/s320/ProcessofManufacturingPlywood.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Granddaddy was not the only inventor in the family. Chester Bynon Allen, Grandmother Cone's father also had several patents to his name. His first patent was filed June 16, 1908 and was approved July 6, 1909. It is Patent No 927,205 for Wainscoting. He developed the process while living in Johnson City, Tennessee and working as President of the Standard Oak Veneer Company and the Allen Panel Company.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Mql9UXSLtQel8BjVs0qzLUMcksv6Bp8OqwzSRkMTDhYBnNaVDXXuFhACd215lJGh14a5WuaHUuReq4YvvefnhoVdtWCFLXdQOX5q_7eG8PILNeok3xOCBM9mW9AI87ztXSoXBLKJOLKv4zP84VjUwWBySDKxMYwX0PTBOXJez5mpSlBLUsdHwD0/s863/PatentDrawingforWainscottingbyCBAllen.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="863" data-original-width="637" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5Mql9UXSLtQel8BjVs0qzLUMcksv6Bp8OqwzSRkMTDhYBnNaVDXXuFhACd215lJGh14a5WuaHUuReq4YvvefnhoVdtWCFLXdQOX5q_7eG8PILNeok3xOCBM9mW9AI87ztXSoXBLKJOLKv4zP84VjUwWBySDKxMYwX0PTBOXJez5mpSlBLUsdHwD0/s320/PatentDrawingforWainscottingbyCBAllen.jpg" width="236" /></a></div><br /><p>Both men had several patents all of which have expired now.</p>I knew my grandfather well and was lucky enough to know him as an adult. He was always willing to read to us as children and never backed away from an intellectual discussion when we were adults.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkWffWBlAifU_-wwwsp1FZsMdCHMHukX8FXv51Io990gOQ9xpFyiePMSILLGWPqXOBM44JDFYfJ0prodjmmpTpt2ae2pNIrJycGDvdIAGH4bO0MUyaOC1iWV7znpI4uWfeg48VLdHhSSJGAc8yV2k0JDFjDPPTWM2tOSCxaACiFjveEwISy-a-EB8/s730/Granddaddycirca1932.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="497" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkWffWBlAifU_-wwwsp1FZsMdCHMHukX8FXv51Io990gOQ9xpFyiePMSILLGWPqXOBM44JDFYfJ0prodjmmpTpt2ae2pNIrJycGDvdIAGH4bO0MUyaOC1iWV7znpI4uWfeg48VLdHhSSJGAc8yV2k0JDFjDPPTWM2tOSCxaACiFjveEwISy-a-EB8/s320/Granddaddycirca1932.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Love this photograph of him as a young chemist and inventor circa 1932.<div><br /></div><div>My great grandfather Chester Bynon Allen died October 21, 1945, so I never new him. I talked with one of his older grandchilren, H. Brent Cooke, III, about him several years ago. Brent said that he remembered him sitting at the table reading his newspaper, and looking askanse over the paper at some of the opinions that his wife was expressing. The photograph below was posted by Lawrence Allen, another of his great grandchildren. I think I detect some remainder of the red hair he was supposed to have passed on to my Grandmother.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibIeOChgNLRtptZUoBh5IRNE_9nSqqPNr0-8VipKeK2SwNguqmCbEr09aBiSQ-BHuKpBoGMcuILYCSQwLunm4TpGJ6eq9ADDsYjAbDbE477BPKy95AOsjHAH93w9lTR97evoJ_2g95tAv1fbj7YTUFJyXmti44ohAhwxiUEm5oce6sfZQ8lGgh4VQ/s690/ChesterBynonAllen.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="528" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibIeOChgNLRtptZUoBh5IRNE_9nSqqPNr0-8VipKeK2SwNguqmCbEr09aBiSQ-BHuKpBoGMcuILYCSQwLunm4TpGJ6eq9ADDsYjAbDbE477BPKy95AOsjHAH93w9lTR97evoJ_2g95tAv1fbj7YTUFJyXmti44ohAhwxiUEm5oce6sfZQ8lGgh4VQ/s320/ChesterBynonAllen.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Febrary 13, 2023 was the 157th anniversary of his birth.</div><br /><div>Love,</div><div>Cecily<br /><p><br /></p></div></div>Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-40800476576019428322023-02-17T15:25:00.000-06:002023-02-17T15:25:40.303-06:00Jeremiah Pratt marries Jennet Pratt February 16, 1790<p> Dear Grandparents,</p><p>When family historians run across marriage records where each member of the couple's surname is the same, the first thought is often that the bride's maiden name has been lost to time. The second thought might be this is going to be cousin marrying cousin. Such were the ideas that occured to me when I found the record of the marriage of Jeremiah Pratt and Jennet Pratt February 16, 1790 by the Rev. Richard Ely. They were married in the Second Congregational Church in Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut. The second church was organized June 19, 1726 in an area that is now Westbrook, a town that was formed from Saybrook in 1840. Interestingly, Jeremiah and Jennet are not the only all Pratt couple whose marriage is recorded on the same page of the church records. A marriage between Nataniel Jones Pratt and Tempe Pratt is recorded on December 10, 1789. So are Jeremiah and Jennet closely related?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7uqsUDToXk8MZtoLqHIygYLNCpUZIOVR35_yBGg-piUxSrocrH51nYCvd7Q5b61mP0FDJbysaAFNbT_-7RY73w1vmCDat6s7cJNv5axoxwNZJVNnyUJkA1dgFmAiLikwSrlcYaNQ-zmGx2KW1x1pg4mXin6ugtTYRC0Ubyoodw0ddEphIrzmjgC4/s987/HarrietPrattfamilyTreefromfamilysearch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="987" height="377" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7uqsUDToXk8MZtoLqHIygYLNCpUZIOVR35_yBGg-piUxSrocrH51nYCvd7Q5b61mP0FDJbysaAFNbT_-7RY73w1vmCDat6s7cJNv5axoxwNZJVNnyUJkA1dgFmAiLikwSrlcYaNQ-zmGx2KW1x1pg4mXin6ugtTYRC0Ubyoodw0ddEphIrzmjgC4/w505-h377/HarrietPrattfamilyTreefromfamilysearch.jpg" width="505" /></a></div><br /><p>Looking at the family tree of their daughter and my 3rd great grandmother Harriet (Pratt) Utley, we can see that there is more than one Pratt to Pratt marriage as Jeremiah's parents Edward and Mary were both Pratts also.</p><p>The following chart shows Jeremiah's and Jennet's parentage.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZZjr5EdDlc_cDidlQm7Pk6A6ReeW_-axSiPGdE0StKZxErFYJGiqZ9q2O5lcKFrN7nvvzl8B__QmK55u6Ts53Mb_Oi4BPG_TL9wbJhWodCRc9gQCPAOxgzYq7L33asspDQ1blwMaJeCWW_g_IBqM2-AI4akIDdBoYRdQMrGeIP52xXg-6P0v0lk8/s643/JeremiahandJennetPrattparentagerelationship.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="643" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZZjr5EdDlc_cDidlQm7Pk6A6ReeW_-axSiPGdE0StKZxErFYJGiqZ9q2O5lcKFrN7nvvzl8B__QmK55u6Ts53Mb_Oi4BPG_TL9wbJhWodCRc9gQCPAOxgzYq7L33asspDQ1blwMaJeCWW_g_IBqM2-AI4akIDdBoYRdQMrGeIP52xXg-6P0v0lk8/w442-h144/JeremiahandJennetPrattparentagerelationship.jpg" width="442" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div>So Jeremiah's 3rd great grandparents are the same as Jennet's 4th great grandparents making them 4th cousins once removed. Interestingly, Jeremiah's mother, Mary Pratt, is not related to the others.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRiEQxw7gl7ZDuYGN18GTnDTbu1khowi1lm4P44zAztI6QcZa-onXlxFbuuaLZdFqotiiGHgXtICZgE-pntu5rqStqITXRpm_yBK6DDbMIBbCwFn_sX9nrAkajUaPzMrqeZczfOb7afF-YsSJqnvgSQyiCpLMWzIzGUygOKmNK5kTJT2TmyyWAiVo/s619/HarriettPrattUtleyfromfamilyalbum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="416" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRiEQxw7gl7ZDuYGN18GTnDTbu1khowi1lm4P44zAztI6QcZa-onXlxFbuuaLZdFqotiiGHgXtICZgE-pntu5rqStqITXRpm_yBK6DDbMIBbCwFn_sX9nrAkajUaPzMrqeZczfOb7afF-YsSJqnvgSQyiCpLMWzIzGUygOKmNK5kTJT2TmyyWAiVo/s320/HarriettPrattUtleyfromfamilyalbum.jpg" width="215" /></a></div><div><div><br /></div><div>Jeremiah and Jennet are the parents of eleven children. My 3rd great grandmother Harriet Pratt was born 19 Oct 1806 in Burlington Flats, Otsego County, NY and died there 3 Jun 1892 aged 85. She married Philip Utley on 25 Nov 1827 and they were the parents of 8 children. She did not seem to suffer from having a number of Pratts in her family tree.</div><div><br /></div><div>Love,</div><div>Cecily</div><div><br /></div><div>PS for family members our relationship to Jeremiah and Jennet (Pratt) Pratt</div><div>their daughter </div><div>Harriet Pratt and Philip Utley their daughter,</div><div>Eliza Harriet Utley and William Warner Cone, their son</div><div>Frederick Naaman Cone and Helen Brown Newton, their son</div><div>Charles Newton Cone and Hazel Bynon Allen my paternal grandparents</div><div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p></div></div></div>Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-32543263630356787072021-05-09T17:52:00.001-05:002021-05-09T17:52:58.825-05:00Ezra Sill DAR Patriot Dear Grandparents, <div>For the last five or so years, I have been serving as the Registrar for my Daughters of the American Revolution Chapter (NSDAR). This is an organization for the female lineal descendants of those who fought or supported America's effort to win its independence. In another five years, we will celebrate America 250... the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. I've been a member of DAR since 2008 and have proven my descent from two Patriots, Evert Van Epps (A117914) and Asa Pratt (A092459). I also have applications pending for Magdalena Schlechty (A002160), Andrew Woodruff (A128621), Elisha Hopkins (A210046), Eleazer Warner (A121071) and James Clark. I am especially anxious for James Clark to be verified as he will be a new Patriot. That means, that I will be his first decendant to prove his service and my descent. James Clark, of Lebanon, CT, responded to the Lexington Alarm, and fought at Bunker Hill and White Plains. I am determined to recognize as many of my ancestors as I can possibly prove including Ezra Sill (A103626). </div><div><br /></div><div>Usually, when I write a post for this blog, I am using the calendar report function from Legacy Family Tree software. Today is no exception. Thursday, May 6th 2021, was the 268th anniversary of my 5th great grandfather Ezra Sill's birth in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut. Ezra's parents are Andrew and Elizabeth (Mather) Sill. Andrew is a descendant of John Sill and his son Joseph who immigrated to Cambridge, MA from Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland, England. Newcastle is in the far north of England, nearly to the border with Scotland.
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According to "The Pioneers of Massachusetts, 1620-1650" John Sill heard Mr. Shepard preach in Northumberland and sailed for New England with wife Joanna and son Joseph in tow. John became a proprietor of Cambridge, MA on May 2, 1638. Their surname was spelled variously Sill, Scill, Sell but Sill is the spelling that seems to have prevailed. John is Ezra's 3rd great grandfather.
Ezra's mother Phoebe is the daughter of Lt. Joseph and Phoebe (DeWolf) Mather.The Mather family also has deep New England roots. Rev. Richard Mather was born about 1596 in Much Woolton, Lancashire, England. The oldest building in Much Woolton is the "Old School" which is said to date from 1610 and may have been the site of Richard's early education. Today Much Woolton is part of Liverpool.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXHX-_QklpI5r6tQ2Gf72ncjK7RSPgnGHZVywUxw3-pRlHU4VgDh7aGqeSxfa7vphFlINU8JlgF-UfawF47pwt25zLUYJjDSZHh0O3C4AlV3_0n45iRdZk2crE61p6vumUuk2hCs6H4NI/s1004/MuchWooltonOldSchool.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="1004" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXHX-_QklpI5r6tQ2Gf72ncjK7RSPgnGHZVywUxw3-pRlHU4VgDh7aGqeSxfa7vphFlINU8JlgF-UfawF47pwt25zLUYJjDSZHh0O3C4AlV3_0n45iRdZk2crE61p6vumUuk2hCs6H4NI/s320/MuchWooltonOldSchool.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
Richard went on to attend Oxford University's Brasenose College but did not complete his degree. He immigrated on the ship <i>James</i> with his wife and family in 1634. Rev. Mather was paid 100 pounds annually for serving as Dorchester's minister for many years.
The family lived in a part of Lyme, CT sometimes referred to as "Silltown" from the time of Ezra's great grandfather Joseph's marriage to Sarah Clark in 1677.
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Back to Ezra.... it would be wonderful to know how involved he was in the unrest prior to the Revolution. We know he was only 22 when he responded to the Lexington Alarm. We know he was paid for 29 days of service and we know that he was hospitalized during that time with a fever.
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Of course, we all consider ourselves lucky that he survived the fever lest we would not be here.
There are many records missing for Ezra. We would like to know the exact date of his marriage to Charity Pratt, daughter of Edward and Mary (Pratt) Pratt. {The untangling of my Pratt lines is the subject for another, or several, other posts because I also descend from Charity's brother Jeremiah Pratt who married Jennett Pratt. You begin to see the problem here but just to relieve your concerns, none of the married Pratts were first cousins.} </div><div><br /></div><div>We believe that Ezra and Charity were married about 1778 because their first child Mary was born that year. All of their children (Enoch, Mary, Uriah) were baptized July 17, 1788 at the church in Essex, Lyme County, CT. "Charity, w. of Ezra, was admitted to the church July 20, 1788". Perhaps, they had moved to an area near the church or perhaps the death of their son Edmond on Oct. 10, 1787 followed by the death of Ezra's father Andrew on May 13, 1788 brought them to church.
The Essex Church records are our only source for the death of Ezra in Aug of 1808. I am looking forward to submitting my supplemental application for Ezra. Any of Ezra's other female decendants over the age of 18 are eligible to join DAR (contact <a href="http://www.dar.org" target="_blank">www.dar.org </a>or your local chapter). I wish all of you who fought, worked and supported the Revolution could make yourself known to me. I don't want to forget anyone.</div><div><br /><div>Love,
Cecily </div><div><br /></div><div>My descent from Ezra and Charity (Pratt) follows:
Their daughter Mary Sill married Rufus Utley. Their son Philip Utley married Harriet Pratt. Their daughter Eliza Harriet Utley married William Warner Cone. Their son Frederick Naaman Cone married Helen Brown Newton. Their son Charles Newton Cone married Hazel Bymum Allen. Their son Charles Newton Cone, Jr. is my father.</div></div>Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-78858354036577618202021-03-07T19:15:00.000-06:002021-03-07T19:15:06.233-06:00<p> Dear Grandparents,</p><p>Happy Anniversary to Joseph and Mehitable (Young) Sanford my 5th great grandparents who were married March 7, 1769. Joseph, the son of Captain Joseph and Mary (Clark) Sanford, was born about July 28th, 1745 in Litchfield, Connecticut the youngest of their 6 children. The Sanford family were descendants of Thomas Sanford from Hatfield, Broad Oak, Essex, England.</p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga0ZeDV0qd4f0MC3M_58qpuPFvgu50_7C2U2vkvqdPMh5EE1yyjOBNoaOnwUFHq4s-P5XN_OfLMmRA_SbnBbL5qsiPzBWxh5s0CrNtqD3utFH2frp922_MQq5hNjlStkK7IZz5BMkxcAI/s455/HatfieldBroadOak.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="283" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga0ZeDV0qd4f0MC3M_58qpuPFvgu50_7C2U2vkvqdPMh5EE1yyjOBNoaOnwUFHq4s-P5XN_OfLMmRA_SbnBbL5qsiPzBWxh5s0CrNtqD3utFH2frp922_MQq5hNjlStkK7IZz5BMkxcAI/w245-h394/HatfieldBroadOak.jpg" width="245" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photograph of St. Mary the Virgin Church and maps are from<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield_Broad_Oak" target="_blank"> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield_Broad_Oak</a><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Hatfield Broad Oak was well established by the Norman Conquest and the parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin is early medieval so would have been known to Thomas the immigrant. At the time of the Domesday Book, Hatfield Broad Oak was the 9th largest settlement in Essex. Though Thomas arrived in Massachusetts, he soon emigrated to Milford, Connecticut. Three generations later, the senior Joseph relocated to Litchfield.</p><p>Not as much is known about Grandmother Mehitable's family. The book "<i>Thomas Sanford, the emigrant</i> <i>to New England; ancestry, life,, and descendants</i>" published in 1911 and compiled by Carlton Elisha Sanford states that Mehitable was from Long Island. There is a Jeremih Young who marries Mehetabel Brown in Southold, Suffolk County, New York in 1747 which would be of a good age to be the parents of Grandmother Mehitable. The <i>Peabody Genealogy, </i>which has been published on ancestry.com, lists a Jeremiah Youngs born 1719 in Oyster Ponds, Long Island who married 3 Sep 1747. His father is given as Jonathan Youngs and his mother Dorathy Browns. Evidently his wife, Mehetable Brown was a cousin of his mother. The genealogy also lists two daughters Ann Youngs and Mehetable Youngs.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHUZObOBPPaJ5Hda_LVh6r52w4mwSNfkROfGInJi6YKXIYwjsNZt5JOlJWUIUi4v2tbKVlgf4-y1cJZkwGNiwtlRk11bxeNwJBYKqtlLZF0lgqUbQqNO98UHG-4pvdW0hDbZ8VhFAB1GI/s697/LitchfieldOysterpondsMap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="697" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHUZObOBPPaJ5Hda_LVh6r52w4mwSNfkROfGInJi6YKXIYwjsNZt5JOlJWUIUi4v2tbKVlgf4-y1cJZkwGNiwtlRk11bxeNwJBYKqtlLZF0lgqUbQqNO98UHG-4pvdW0hDbZ8VhFAB1GI/s320/LitchfieldOysterpondsMap.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Google maps distance between Oysterponds and Litchfield</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>We don't know how Joseph and Mehitable met. Many would suggest that most people married people who lived in the same county if not the same town. This is not alway true in our family of wanderers. Today the journey between Oysterpond, Long Island, New York and Litchfiedl, Connecticut would take about 3 hours by car. In their day, the trip would have been measured in days not hours. </p><p>Joseph's immediate family were all located in the South Farms area of Litchfield and it was there that they made their home. Seven children were born of their marriage:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Stephen 1770-1772</li><li>Mehitable 1771-1772</li><li>Joseph 1773-1805</li><li>Olive 1774-1817</li><li>Stephen 1776-1841</li><li>Edmund 1781-1860</li><li>Osias 1784-1856</li></ul><p></p><p>In the "Genealogical and Family History of Central New York, Vol. 1, Joseph is referred to as "Captain" Joseph Sanford. On page 445, it states that he served in the revolution and "On June 8, 1778, he was captain of the Eleventh company, trainband in the Thirteenth regiment of the state." He was also at Peekskill with the main army in New York.</p><p>Honestly, I did not remember what happened during the Revolution at Peekskill. I also had not thought about how close Peekskill is to Litchfield, Connecticut. New York State has created an almanac website that tells more of this story. In the summer of 1776, the British had more than 8,000 troops on Staten Island and 100 ships were anchored in the harbor. They needed to feed their sailors and troops. The flour, fresh meat and produce that were held on Litchfield farms were just what the British needed. Only the men of the Litchfield Miltia stood in their way. As a farmer, you must have known that you had to keep the British from reaching supplies but also that the survival of the Sanford family and others depended on their ability to stop the British.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihkZegq-tbrKOpdWKyWDgKzo5h3phdXg4prgWJ_SpUGMRXQ1O8XaWQSebUW0aE6OeZ5sooto-mPjQ210PachSUEvuQXNhZanSKWkJqkwz8UoSireG93yqEBEvqIzubXPjUIjTxEWHo5Cc/s911/MapofNYCT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="911" data-original-width="716" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihkZegq-tbrKOpdWKyWDgKzo5h3phdXg4prgWJ_SpUGMRXQ1O8XaWQSebUW0aE6OeZ5sooto-mPjQ210PachSUEvuQXNhZanSKWkJqkwz8UoSireG93yqEBEvqIzubXPjUIjTxEWHo5Cc/s320/MapofNYCT.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span> <span> </span></span>Map from <a href="https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2014/01/american-revolution-trouble-at-poughkeepsie-and-peekskill/">https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2014/01/american-revolution-trouble-at-poughkeepsie-and-peekskill/</a><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>The New York Almanac has a very sobering description of what was at stake when Militia men responded to the Alarms at Poughkeepsie and Peekskill. "Barley and wheat fields were almost ready for harvest and if left unattended grain would rot on the stalk." A farmer of that time and area typically worked 50 or more acres which was mostly pasture and grain. He would also have an orchard and a garden adjacent to his wood frame house and barn. Each year he would raise cattle and hogs and butcher 1500-2000 pounds of pork and 1200 pounds of beef. His family's survival depended on a successful harvest. <br /><p>Things were even more complicated for the Sanford family. Their first two children had died in 1772. If Joseph went with the Militia, Mehitable would be at home with a three year old, a two year old about to give birth early in July. There was extended family around but most of the men were also part of the militia.</p><p>Joseph chose to serve and his service has been recognized by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. He is Patriot #100080. Mehitable has not been recognized for a contribution to the Revolution. This rankles me more than a bit. My husband served a 30 year career in the U. S. Navy and I well know that family members make more than little contributions to their loved one's service. I promise you I had it easier than Mehitable.</p><p>Joseph's and Mehitable's marriage lasted nearly 45 years until he passed on 13 Dec 1813. That was a long marriage in those days. Joseph left a third of his estate to his wife.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3igU59Y6Ev9jOe3CNXM2uWc8KXiX_ybNRJRDT4LTv61ZhWAQq2OgO68LRw_fCkSKTRoGD4IMp1jBKnsVSaheo3Ra3NLR_Y2YggOENXVjPs08ZD6lCYkIi99DlFf1c2cPg3C0f_ev-oQc/s550/will.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="550" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3igU59Y6Ev9jOe3CNXM2uWc8KXiX_ybNRJRDT4LTv61ZhWAQq2OgO68LRw_fCkSKTRoGD4IMp1jBKnsVSaheo3Ra3NLR_Y2YggOENXVjPs08ZD6lCYkIi99DlFf1c2cPg3C0f_ev-oQc/s320/will.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joseph's will refers to "his beloved" wife</td></tr></tbody></table><p>Three years after Joseph's death, Mehitable married widower Daniel Strong of Bethlem. Their marriage lasted until his death June 15, 1830. Mehitable lived until March 11, 1835.</p><p>No headstones survive for either Joseph or Mehitable. An earlier transcription of headstones in the cemetery at Morris, Litchfield County, CT refers to a stone "In memory of Mr. Joseph Sanford who died Dec 13, 1818 aged 68 years. </p><p>Thank you both for your service. We remember you still.</p><p>Love,</p><p>Cecily </p><p>Our descent from Joseph and Mehitable is as follows:</p><p>Their son Stephen Sanford married Olive Woodruff (whose father also served). Their daughter Caroline Beckworth Sanford married Reuben Newton. Their son Charles Shepard Newton married Mary Elizabeth Clark. Their daughter Helen Brown Newton married Frederick Naaman Cone. Their son Charles Newton Cone married Hazel Bynum Allen. Their son Charles Newton Cone, Jr. is my father.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-7158953922470204212020-11-23T21:26:00.000-06:002020-11-23T21:26:17.414-06:00Thankful for Intrepid Ancestors<p> Dear Grandparents,</p><p>A few days before we will celebrate Thanksgiving, we pause to remember that we owe our lives to intrepid ancestors who were willing to take huge risks to settle in an area that was largely unknown. We have many ancestors who came on ships but today I will especially be remembering those who came on the Mayflower 400 years ago. </p><p>My 10th Great Grandfather, William Bradford was one of the religious separatists that fled England for Holland and then Holland for America. William was born around 1590 in Austerfield, Yorkshire, England. His father died when he was an infant and he was raised by older relatives. He was among those imprisoned in Boston, England during their first attempt to escape to Holland. Records from Leiden list him as a fustian maker (a maker of cotton cloth). On November 15, 1613, he married Dorethea May whose father was among the religious separatists. She died in Cape Cod harbor December 7, 1620 slipping on the Mayflower's icy deck and falling in to the water. How sad to have survived the difficult voyage only to drown before setting foot in the new world. </p><p>Bradford married second Alice (Carpenter) Southworth a widow who came in 1623, it is said, in response to a letter from William proposing marriage. </p><p>William Bradford became one of the leaders of the Plymouth Colony, serving as its Governor for nearly 30 years. Much of what we know about their life in Leiden, in the colony and of the Mayflower's voyage comes from his account entitled Of Plymouth Plantation. Below is the first page of his manuscript: (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Plymouth_Plantation#/media/File:Of_Plimoth_Plantation_First_1900.jpg)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFUiLK-3TPLV7xOIufw4fi6y9VwyJd3nulFmFs_A1Ynpq75LABz1rR5TYT5YXzHPadH_VCrPhqW7zhmrKSokb3t5ZzJtBNG0hNqaZs2Bh5ah8RNUNxulvaEwhZ6DS7gmb7I4hnvRF0e7o/s1331/800px-Of_Plimoth_Plantation_First_1900.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1331" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFUiLK-3TPLV7xOIufw4fi6y9VwyJd3nulFmFs_A1Ynpq75LABz1rR5TYT5YXzHPadH_VCrPhqW7zhmrKSokb3t5ZzJtBNG0hNqaZs2Bh5ah8RNUNxulvaEwhZ6DS7gmb7I4hnvRF0e7o/s320/800px-Of_Plimoth_Plantation_First_1900.jpg" /></a></div><p>Our descent from William and Alice (Carpenter) (Southworth) Bradford is as follows: their son William Bradford, his daughter Alice Bradford, her daughter Abiel Adams, her daughter Delight Metcalf, her son Eleazer Warner, his son Thomas Warner, his daughter Joanna Warner, her son William Warner Cone, his son Frederick Naaman Cone, his son Charles Newton Cone, his son Charles Newton Cone, Jr and me.</p><p>My 11th great grandparents William and Mary (unknown) Brewster also came on the Mayflower. They were among the older religious separatists. William was born about 1566 in Nottinghamshire, England. According to Bradford, he attended Cambridge University. He then entered the service of William Davison, Ambassador to the Netherlands and afterward Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth I. Brewster became Postmaster at Scrooby. This office was rather more involved than today and included occupying Scrooby Manor and entertaining royalty and church prelates. It was through Brewster's friend Sir Edwin Sandys, treasurer of the Virginia company, that he obtained a grant of land in North America. </p><p>William Brewster was a ruling elder of the Plymouth church and until 1629 acted as minister and teacher. When he died in 1644, the inventory of his belongings included separate listings of his Latin and English books totalling nearly 400 titles. The chest below is on display at the Pilgrim Hall Museum in Plymouth and is said to have been brought on the Mayflower by Brewster.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kV11oFpMvJlmQqnOHjuAPKA6ceoI_F7FfrKia64lniDEVL0j0SlPgnknC-VjE_aI0rSow_UKemARQX6Am6qQloG7-15qBQyHr9qwBf39mys3ON9RFxe6JuVDKNFR_bxfJb6Ju8KY0GE/s356/Brewster%252BChest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9kV11oFpMvJlmQqnOHjuAPKA6ceoI_F7FfrKia64lniDEVL0j0SlPgnknC-VjE_aI0rSow_UKemARQX6Am6qQloG7-15qBQyHr9qwBf39mys3ON9RFxe6JuVDKNFR_bxfJb6Ju8KY0GE/s320/Brewster%252BChest.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p>Unfortunately, Mary's surname and origin are unknown. Our descent from William Brewster is as follows: William and Mary Brewster; their daughter Patience, her daugther Mercy Prence, her daughter Hannah Freeman, her daugher Mercy Mayo, her son Nathaniel Hopkins, his son Nathaniel Hopkins, his son Elisha Hopkins, his daughter Rhoda Hopkins, his daughter Joanna Warner, her son William Warner Cone, his son Frederick Naaman Cone.... etc.</p><p>Another of my 10th great grandfathers is Francis Cooke. Born about 1583, his English origins have not been discovered. Some think he was from Norwich or Canterbury. He lived in Leiden where he married Hester le Mahieu July 20, 1603. She is said to have been a French Walloon (protestant) whose parents had earlier fled to Canterbury. Their marriage occurred six years before the Pilgrim Church had moved to Leiden. The Cookes returned to Norwich, England for some time but returned to Leiden to have their first son baptized at the French church there. </p><p>Francis and his oldest son, John, sailed on the Mayflower. Hester and their other children Jane, Jacob, Elizabeth and Hester came to Plymouth in 1623 onboard the ship <i>Anne.</i> Francis lived a long life dying at about 80. His wife survived him by at least 3 years.</p><p>Our descent from Francis and Hester (le Mahieu) Cooke is as follows: their son Jacob, his son Jacob, his son John, his daughter Sarah, her son Nathaniel Thacher, his daughter Sarah, her daughter Lydia Hornell, her daughter Mary Elizabeth Clarke, her daughter Helen Brown Newton, her son Charles Newton Cone, etc...</p><p>My 8th great grandfather Edward Doty was not among the religious separtists who sailed on the Mayflower. His English origins are still unknown. He is believed to have been born between 1597 and 1602. He came on the Mayflower as a servant to Stephen Hopkins and was still a servant in 1623 when the land was divided. He signed the Mayflower Compact so he was probably 18 to 21 in 1620. Nothing is know of his first wife. He married Faith Clarke who came on the ship Francis in April 1634 with her father Thurston Clarke.</p><p>Doty has the reputation of being a troublemaker in Plymouth. He fought a sword and dagger duel with another Hopkins servant Edward Leister. Both were wounded. They were sentenced to have their feet and heads tied together for an entire day but were let out after an hour because of their "suffering".</p><p>Our descent from Edward Doty is as follows: Edward and Faith (Clarke) Doty, their son Edward Doty, his daugher Mercy Doty, her son Edward Pratt, his son Jeremiah Pratt, his daughter Harriet Pratt, her son Harriet Utley, her son Frederick Naaman Cone, etc....</p><p>Stephen Hopkins, my 10th great grandfather, led a very interesting life. Proven descent from Stephen can get you into the Mayflower Society as well as the Jamestown Society. From Hampshire, England, he married his first wife Mary in the parish of Hursley. They had three children Elizabeth, Constance and Giles. Hopkins sailed in the ship <i>Sea Venture </i>bound for Jamestown as a minister's clerk. Unfortunately, the ship was wrecked at Bermuda. The surviving crew and passengers were stranded on the island for ten months eating turtles, birds and wild pigs. </p><p>Six months into this life as a castaway, Stephen and several others organized a mutiny against the ship's captain. The plot was discovered and Stephen was sentenced to death. Pleading with sorrow and tears, he begged for mercy as his death would ruin his wife and children left behind in England. Eventually, the castaways built a small ship and sailed to Jamestown. It is unknown how long Stephen stayed in Jamestown.</p><p>Meanwhile in England, Mary Hopkins died and left a probate estate which mentioned their children by name. </p><p>Stephen married Elizabeth Fisher in England in 1617. Their first child Damaris was born about 1618. The entire family sailed on the Mayflower. The others treated him as an expert on Native Americans as he had met some of them in Jamestown. Stephen died in 1644 leaving a will and naming his children. Below is his signature</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZcU8_yQ3VlteiVwkfwflN3IRK8M5hBZ8q1vXmeVI322UqXBH-nIkPiPkSEjw-1HN6M93Qzv05mtbP6QfXtY0cdP2YA2tKl6r1pjPKvtLJxtH5XTFTBsFcHn_hhMcHUH74uLcBc4dOgrQ/s250/stephenhopkinssignature.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="68" data-original-width="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZcU8_yQ3VlteiVwkfwflN3IRK8M5hBZ8q1vXmeVI322UqXBH-nIkPiPkSEjw-1HN6M93Qzv05mtbP6QfXtY0cdP2YA2tKl6r1pjPKvtLJxtH5XTFTBsFcHn_hhMcHUH74uLcBc4dOgrQ/s0/stephenhopkinssignature.png" /></a></div><br /><p>Our descent from Stephen and Mary Hopkins is as follows: son Giles who also came on the Mayflower, his son Stephen Hopkins, his son Nathaniel Hopkins, his son Nathaniel Hopkins, his son Elisha Hopkins, his daughter Rhoda Hopkins, her daughter Joanna Warner, her son William Warner Cone, his son Frederick Naaman Cone, etc...</p><p>Recently, I discovered another Mayflower passenger who is my 11th great grandfather, Richard Warren. He was born about 1585 in county Hertford, England. He married Elizabeth Walker April 14, 1610 at Great Amwell, Hertford. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoF9vYqiluvZAuA606eC-lk5oOnUaHukdZfpwSTLp4DDVYc6R-bzOARPy7-Mv5g2OJnwnEnucU5gFavZzTKxMl3eRHcHNYay9j9tLOdKWpIy0vSE3LYibrYR8osV_hRHCpt0SZD7z0620/s800/GreatAmwellChurch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoF9vYqiluvZAuA606eC-lk5oOnUaHukdZfpwSTLp4DDVYc6R-bzOARPy7-Mv5g2OJnwnEnucU5gFavZzTKxMl3eRHcHNYay9j9tLOdKWpIy0vSE3LYibrYR8osV_hRHCpt0SZD7z0620/s320/GreatAmwellChurch.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>Not much is known about Richard's life in America. His wife and five daughters came on the ship <i>Anne </i>in 1623. In Plymouth, they added two sons. All of the Warren children survived to adulthood, married and had large families. At his death, it was written, "this year (1628) died Mr. Richard Warren, who was an useful instrument and during his life bare a deep share in the difficulties and troubles of the first settlement of the Plantation of New Plymouth."</p><p>Our descent from Richard and Elizabeth (Walker) Warren is as follows: their daughter Abigail, her daughter Lydia Snow, her daughter Deborah Skiffe, her daughter Keziah Presbury, her daughter Sarah Freeman, her daughter Drusilla Conant, her daughter Rhoda Hopkins, her daughter Joanna Warner, her son William Warner Cone, his son Frederick Naaman Cone, his son Charles Newton Cone, etc...</p><p></p><p>I am thankful that this group of people, bound by a common experience, braved the ocean voyage and a new, unknown land. I wonder if I would have been as brave.</p><p>Love,</p><p>Cecily Cone Kelly</p>Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-20951858593480541432020-08-08T09:01:00.000-05:002020-08-08T09:01:17.158-05:00Evert Van Eps and the Battle of Oriskany<p> Dear Grandfather Evert,</p><p>Yesterday, August 6th, was the 243rd anniversary of the Battle of Oriskany. Though I am certain you well remember the day, I think many of your descendants may not know about the Battle or that you were part of it. So here is what we know today... wish you could correct any wrong impressions we have.</p><p>Early on the morning of August 6th, 1777, a troop of more than 800 men from the Tryon County (NY) Militia and their allies among the Oneida, were marching along the path through woods leading west from the Oneida Village of Oriskany. The terrain they were navigating was difficult, a rocky wooded ravine. They were ambushed as they were marching to the aide of Fort Stanwix which was under seige by British forces led by Lt. Colonel Barry St. Leger and their Iriquois allies.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlFhAPn-9ojp-qpENqSxsWq542JLvIDn9DeFUwFm1UFovDxz_Blt9QS0yqpfh-trN0NAx-C7GRpv5wHwk-rFWEFTrKF570CozmxKfIvk2vcm3VsLhV_HivFFHkMsQI2G24jTBVPnuI_Wo/s810/Herkimer_at_oriskany.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlFhAPn-9ojp-qpENqSxsWq542JLvIDn9DeFUwFm1UFovDxz_Blt9QS0yqpfh-trN0NAx-C7GRpv5wHwk-rFWEFTrKF570CozmxKfIvk2vcm3VsLhV_HivFFHkMsQI2G24jTBVPnuI_Wo/s640/Herkimer_at_oriskany.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">The painting above, shows General Herkimer rallying the Tryon County Militia at the Battle of Oriskany. It is on display at the public library of Utica, New York and was executed by Frederick Coffay Yohn.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The American troops were led by Nicholas Herkimer. Herkimer was the son of Palatine German immigrants who had settled in the Mohawk Valley. A veteran of the French and Indian War, he became the head of the Tryon County Committee of Safety and then colonel of the local militia. After a split with the loyalists on the committee, Herkimer was commissioned by the Provincial Congress as a Brigadier General on September 5, 1776. </p><p>Upon learning of the siege of Fort Stanwix, General Herkimer ordered the Tryon County Militia to assemble at Fort Dayton. We assume, that you were with those troops and began the 28 mile march to the west. There must have been a great deal of confusion at the start of the ambush. We know that both you and General Herkimer were wounded in your left legs. You lived to relate the story of your wound to your family and it is included in the Widow's Pension application for your wife.</p><p>General Herkimer was not so lucky. Though his leg was dressed on the Battle Field, infection set in on the retreat. His leg was amputated by an inexperienced surgeon and Herkimer died ten days later.</p><p>I hope you know that the site of the battle has been long rememberd. The Oriskany Monument was dedicated on August 6, 1884. Though the action was considered a tactical loss, the Battle is considered to have contributed to the colonists' major victory at Saratoga and a coalition of civic and political leaders, descendants of Revolutionary soldiers, historians and artisans were instrumental in constructing the monument. </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4FH1YGT4Cfs4TDY1peCaLuvXcR3-00Ch3Fp9lQzxcRUW9xyFTep-9uIOSBsDyc91Fx-R2G8GVR8jk5ZoGl2M1k_MvI_vowc9OYa6L6jsE8VFhD2HyBtqZIElLqiycKMKN6h_jtW7MGhU/s474/oriskanymonumentdedicationb-w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4FH1YGT4Cfs4TDY1peCaLuvXcR3-00Ch3Fp9lQzxcRUW9xyFTep-9uIOSBsDyc91Fx-R2G8GVR8jk5ZoGl2M1k_MvI_vowc9OYa6L6jsE8VFhD2HyBtqZIElLqiycKMKN6h_jtW7MGhU/d/oriskanymonumentdedicationb-w.jpg" title="Dedication of the Monument August 6, 1884" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Monument dedication August 6, 1884 from oriskanymuseum.com</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Your name is on the plaque listing the soldiers who fought at Oriskany. We thank you for your service there and your other efforts to secure our nation. More than 40 of your descendants have proven their relationship to you for membership in the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.</p><p>Love,</p><p>your 4th great granddaughter</p><p>Cecily Cone Kelly</p><p>Our descent from Evert Van Eps is as follows</p><p>Evert Van Eps married Mary "Polly" Minthorn; their daughter Jane Van Eps married Richard Hugunin; their son Van Eps Hugunin married Sarah Amanda Gibson; their daughter Mary Elizabeth Hugunin married William Wallace Colby; their daughter Ada Grace Colby married Cecil Oscar Werst; their daughter is my mother Betty Lorraine Werst.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-89745208611319975722020-06-16T11:04:00.001-05:002020-06-16T11:04:35.653-05:00Happy Anniversary Theodore and Mary Jane (Vale) WhitlockDear Grandparents,<br />
Yesterday, we are commerated the 166th wedding anniversary of my husband's 3rd great grandparents, Theodore and Mary Jane (Vale) Whitlock.<br />
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Theodore is the oldest son of John Whitlock, who was born about 1809 in Cecil County, Maryland. John married Rachel Ann Mason March 25, 1832 in New Castle County, Delaware. Rachel is the daughter of Matthew Mason and an unidentified mother. John was a Wheelwright and Theodore learned his trade from his father. A wheelwright is someone who made or repaired wheels for carts and wagons.<br />
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Mary Jane is the daughter of James Vale (Vail). She appears with him on the 1850 census as a 16 year old living in Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. There is no appropriately aged female that could be considered her mother on the record.<br />
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By 1860, Theodore and family were living in the village for Leipsic about 5 miles inland from the Delaware Bay. He owned real estate worth 300 dollars. In 1860, wheelwrights would earn about $10.64 per week so to have accumulated 300 dollar's worth of real estate meant the family was doing well. It should also be noted that Mary Jane is listed as an adult who can neither read or write, a situation that was not unusual for women at that time.<br />
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The next record we find for the Whitlock family is the 1870 census and there are some problems with the information reported to the Enumerator. Theodore is still a Wheelwright born in Delaware, however the box for having a foreign born father is checked and we know his father was born in Maryland. Mary Jane's name is listed as Sarah J. Some other items seem correct. The four coldest children, ages 18 to 10 are all listed as laborers who can both read and write. It was not uncommon for children to go to work at very young ages usually for their father.</div>
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By 1880, the family is living in West St. George's Hundred, New Castle County. Theodore is still working as a Wheelwright and Mary J is keeping house. There are six children still in the home, the youngest three are in school. I have not included the image as it is very faint.</div>
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Today, we would think that Theodore died fairly young only 58.. The cause of death is listed as appoplexy, that is a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke.</div>
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A death certificate for Mary Jane has not been found. The last record we have of her is the 1900 census. She is listed as a widow, living in a rented house in District 63 in Middletown. Also in her household are sons John, age 41 and widowed, Eugene age 34 single, daughter Olive married and grandson Eugene born November 1891. All of them, with the exception of the grandson, can read and write.</div>
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For more than fifty years, Ed and I have been driving through Middletown, Delaware on trips between Burlington County, New Jersey and Annapolis, Maryland. These trips began when Ed was a Midshipman at the U. S. Naval Academy and have continued when we lived in Annapolis and now when our daughter lives in Annapolis. In the beginning, we did not know that Ed had ancestors who had lived in Middletown. Probably, we did not even know that Ed had Whitlock surnamed ancestors.</div>
Still the town always had appeal and we often stopped there for a break.<br />
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Ed, Amanda and I stopped in Middletown a couple of years ago and spent a few hours looking in local cemeteries and libraries looking for a death record for Mary Jane and headstones. Unfortunately, we did not have any luck. Hopefully, we'll be back later this summer and find something.<br />
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Until then,<br />
Cecily<br />
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For family members<br />
Theodore and Mary Jane (Vale) Whitlock parents of<br />
James Whitlock who married Catherine Shaffer<br />
Catherine "Kate" Whitlock married Edward Everett Hanna<br />
Alice Mae Hanna married William Joseph Kelly<br />
Edward Ebert Kelly* married Pauline Nelda Haas<br />
*family lore has it that Edward Ebert Kelly was supposed to have been named Edward Everett for his grandfather and an error was made on the birth certificate so Edward Ebert he became.<br />
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<br />Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-27033860599953891532020-05-31T19:52:00.001-05:002020-05-31T19:52:07.163-05:00Reverend Thomas HookerDear Grandfather Hooker,<br />
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Today, May 31st we are marking the anniversary of your delivery of your most well remembered sermon at Hartford, Connecticut in 1638. Those of us who are students of the origins of the United States of America, consider it to be among those sentiments that led to our Declaration of Independence. Your declaration that <b>"the foundation of authority is laid firstly in the free consent of</b> <b>the people"</b> was passed on by Henry Wolcott, Jr. who was in attendance at church that day and made handwritten notes of your revolutionary statement.<br />
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In the 21st century, most have forgotten that in your time, the world was dominated by Kings and Emperors and that normal, everyday people had little, if any say, in their government. Your sermon is credited with providing some of the impetus for Connecticut citizens to ratify, in January 1639, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the first known written constitution to form a basis of government. According to the Office of the State Historian (Connecticut) historian John Fiske wrote 150 years later that the Fundamental Orders "mark the beginnings of American Decomcracy, of which Thomas Hooker deserves more than any other man to be called the father."<br />
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So who were you? Some records are lost to history. You were born in Leicestershire, either at Marfield or Birstall on July 5, 1586.<br />
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You recieved your first formal education at Dixie Grammar School, a free school in Market Bosworth. Following that you matriculated at Queen's College, Cambridge University in 1608 and then transferred to Emanuel College where you received your BA in 1608 and your MA in 1611. You later studied Divinity there.<br />
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In 1620, you were preaching at St. George's Church, Esher, Surrey and it was there you earned your reputation as an excellent speaker and were noted for good pastoral care of your parishners.<div>
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Perhaps it was the reputation you gained in Esher, that led to you being hired as a lecturer and preacher for St. Mary's Church in Chelmsford under John Michaelson. Archbishop William Laud decided to suppress church lecturers in 1629, and you left to run a school at Little Baddow, just to the east of Chelmsford. We don't know exactly when they were able to identify you as a leader for the Puritan sympathizers but we do know that your were summoned to the Court of High Commission and later forfeited your bond and fled to Rotterdam, The Netherlands. These difficulties led you to seek a new start in Massachusetts. Some reports say that your congregation from Chelmsford preceded your journey to Massachusetts and wrote to you in Holland inviting you to come and once again serve as their leader.</div>
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<br />The Governor of Massachusett, John Winthrop, recorded the arrival of Griffin in his diary writing,<br />
<em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">“The Griffin, a ship of three hundred tons, arrived (having been eight weeks from the Downs). This ship was brought in by John Gallop a new way by Lovell’s island, at low water, now called “Griffin’s Gap”. She brought about two hundred passengers, having lost some four, whereof one drowned two days before, as he was casting forth a line to take mackerel. In this ship came Mr. Cotton, Mr. Hooker and Mr. Stone, ministers, and Mr. Pierce, Mr. Haynes (a gentleman of great estate), Mr. Hoffe, and many other men of good estates. They got out of England with much difficulty, all places being belaid to have taken Mr. Cotton and Mr. Hooker, who had been long sought for to have been brought into the high commission; but the master being bound to touch at the Wight, the pursuivants attended there, and, in the meantime, the said ministers were take in at the Downs. Mr. Hooker and Mr. Stone went presently to Newtown, where they were to be entertained, and Mr. Cotton stayed at Boston."</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span><br />
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Among the passengers were your wife Susanna and children John, Samuel, Sarah, Joanna and Mary.<br />
(For family members, another of my 11th great grandfathers, John Gallop, was also aboard <i>Griffin.</i><br />
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It must have been wonderful for you and your family to be reunited with your friends from Chelmsford who had settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Once you were pastor of your old congreation, you are quoted as saying, "Now I live, if ye stand fast in the Lord."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plaque honroing Thomas Hooker's Ministry at First Church of Cambridge, Cambridge, MA<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hooker">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hooker</a></td></tr>
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I suppose for non-comformists such as yourself and your congregation, the appeal of new land in Connecticut where you could worship exactly as you choose was overwhelming. In 1636, all of you removed to the banks of the Connecticut River where you were among the founders of Hartford.<br />
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Today, we are largely kept at home by a viral pandemic. Our understanding is that your death on July 7, 1647 was caused by a prevalent epidemic. Some times have not changed. Your death was considered a great public loss. Gov. Withrop wrote, "That which made the stroke more sensible and grievous, both to them and to all the country, was the death of that faithful servant of the Lord, Mr. Thomas Hooker, pastor of the church of Hartford; who for piety, prudence, wisdom, zeal, learning, and what else might make him serviceable in the place and time he lived in, might be compared with men of the greatest note." (Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889, Vol III, p 251) That is high praise indeed. It is believed that you are buried in Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground and there is a plaque to your memory on the wall in the current building of the chuch you founded. You are not forgotten.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hartford, Connecticut from www.wikipedica.org</td></tr>
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Love,<br />
Your 11th great granddaughter<br />
Cecily<br />
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For family members, here is our descent from Thomas Hooker<br />
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Rev. Thomas Hooker married Susanna Garbrand<br />
Mary Hooker married Rev. Roger Newton<br />
Capt. Samuel Newton married Martha Fenn<br />
Susanna Newton married Joseph Plumb<br />
Susanna Plumb married Nathan Nettleton<br />
Anne Nettleton married Samuel Woodruff<br />
Andrew Woodruff married Miranda Orton<br />
Olive Woodruff married Stephen Sanford<br />
Caroline Beckworth Stanford married Reuben Newton<br />
Charles Shepard Newton married Mary Elizabeth Clarke<br />
Helen Brown Newton married Frederick Naaman Cone<br />
Charles Newton Cone married Hazel Bynum Allen, my paternal grandparents.<br />
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The two Newton lines do not seem to be related. Though both English, Rev. Roger Newton's line is from Lincolnshire and Reuben Newton's line goes back to Bures St. Mary, Suffolk.<br />
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Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-81729416737338793812020-05-25T11:32:00.003-05:002022-05-30T09:13:18.267-05:00On Memorial Day We Always RememberDear Grandparents,<br />
This was first published a few years ago but it seems proper to repost it on Memorial Day 2022.<br />
Our family has a strong tradition of men and women who have served our country from the Revolutionary War to present day. By and large, they have survived their service to go on to have careers, families, and long lives. Today, as we commemorate another Memorial Day, I want to write about two family members who were not so lucky and made the ultimate sacrifice for our country.<br />
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My 2nd great uncle, Theodore William Clarke, served with the First Nebraska Infantry fighting for the Union during the Civil War. He was an unlikely soldier and most of what we know about him comes from the more than forty letters he wrote home to his mother Lydia Hornell Clarke and sister Mary Elizabeth Clarke Newton. The letters have been carefully preserved and handed down through the generations.<br />
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Theodore or "Trit" as he was nicknamed by the family was an unlikely soldier. Born about 1838 in Michigan, he was working for the telegraph company laying wire across Missouri and the Nebraska Territory when the war broke out. On July 15, 1860 he writes home stating, "I am in the employ of the Western Union Telegraph Company. We are engaged in the construction of the Pacific Telegraph running from Saint Louis to San Francisco in California... We're going along the Missouri River as far as Omaha City and then across to Fort Kearney... which is as far as we shall get before cold weather sets in." He is anxious for his little sister Molly, my 2nd great grandmother, to understand where he is and write August 5, 1860 from near Nebraska City, "It is about 60 miles from here to Omaha City and 180 from there to Ft. Kearney. By allowing about 5 miles for every working day you can look on your map and see anytime where I am."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Theodore William Clarke<br />
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Though he is busy with work he is not undecided about who should win the Presidential Elections of 1860. Writing September 21, 1860 he states, "Why Lincoln's the man of course and if the territories and Kansas and Nebraska had a voice in the coming election Douglas would hear a noise that would make him stuff his ears with cotton and send him to visit with his mother for the next four years at least."<br />
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Trit stays with Western Union until they complete the line to Ft. Kearney and he learns to become a proficient telegraph operator feeling that he is making good money doing so. However, the situation changes when word of the secession of the southern states reaches the Nebraska Territory. He enlists as a 'fifer' or musician with the First Nebraska Infantry explaining to his mother on July 16, 1861, "I can never have it said that I, who have no one dependent on me and nothing but my life to loose, stood back in this hour of our country's peril and remained an inactive spectator."<br />
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His words turned out to be prophetic. Theodore spent more than 18 months with the First Nebraska, surviving the Battles of Ft. Donelson, and Shiloh before dying January 7, 1863 in Van Buren, Missouri. Like the majority of the Union casualties, Theodore died not of wounds but of a disease probably something like pneumonia.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Battle of Fort Donelson fought February 14 through 16, 1862.<br />
Picture created by Kurz & Allison 1887<br />
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I wish I could report that family members can visit Theodore's tombstone and place flowers their each memorial day in remembrance of his sacrifice. Unfortunately, his final resting place is unknown. When ever I visit Arlington National Cemetery, I like to imagine that our Trit is one of the 'unknowns' honored there.<br />
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My cousin Phelps Wilson Long, Jr. also gave his life, not in a national catastrophe but in a global conflagration. The 1940 Federal Census finds Phelps as a 16 year old, living with his family and attending high school.<br />
His father Phelps and mother Martha Allen Long were running the family department store in Tallahassee, Florida. Little sister Shirley was in the sixth grade. An older cousin Lindsay Pappy also lived in the home.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">1940 U. S. census, Leon County, Tallahassee, Ward 2, Florida, population schedule,<br />
Page 2, penned, lines 31-36, house number 1016, Thomasville Rd., digital images<br />
<i>Ancestry.com</i> (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed 24 May 2014);<br />
citing National Archives microfilm roll: T627_597; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 38:3.</td></tr>
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After High School, Phelps went off to the University of Florida in Gainesville and joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. Probably no one anticipated the changes that would effect the family and nation in the next couple of years.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Phelps is fourth from the right in the bottom row of the University of Florida<br />
Seminole Yearbook image from www.ancestry.com<br /><br /></td></tr>
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The first year following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor did not go well for American forces. Many young men like Phelps felt an urgency to do their part for the war effort. Phelps enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and was sent to New River, North Carolina for training.<br />
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copy of photograph in possession of his sister. Used with permission.</td></tr>
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<span id="goog_628289453"></span><span id="goog_628289454"></span>Phelps' unit was eventually sent to the South Pacific to take part in the battle for Bougainville, a strategic island that had been held by the Japanese since 1942. His unit, the 3rd Marine Division was given the task to take the hilly area around the Japanese field artillery. One of the most difficult positions to take was an area called "Helzappoppin Ridge". The Marines attacked there on December 12th. It wasn't until the 18th that coordinated attacks allowed the American troops to capture and control the ridge. Phelps was killed on the 16th.<br />
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His death left a huge hole in his tight knit family. My grandmother Hazel Allen Cone (his mother's sister) said that his mother never recovered from his loss. She died a mere five years later at age 47. Talking with his sister Shirley Long Collins last month is Tallahassee, she said that her father never got over Phelps death either. I could see the sadness over of the loss of her brother that remains with Shirley to this day. Phelps' parents eventually paid to have their son's remains returned to Florida for burial.<br />
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Hopefully, we will all take time among the picnics, boat rides, cookouts and other festivities to remember those whose sacrifices have secured our country and way of life.<br />
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Love,<br />
Cecily Cone Kelly<br />
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P. S. For family members - Phelps W. Long was my paternal grandmother's nephew and my father's first cousin. Theodore Clarke is also on my paternal side, the brother of my 2nd great grandmother.<div><br /></div><div>P.P.S Since this was written, I've discovered that Phelps Long received a posthumous Silver Star for his attempted rescue of another wounded Marine. His citation reads, "For conspicous gallantry and intrepidity while serving with the Third Marine Division in action against enemy Japanese forces in the Cape Torokina area Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands on December 16, 1943. He "courageously volunteered with another man to carry a stretcher out to a dangerous position in front of his lines and bring back a wounded pharmacist's mate. PFC Long made his hazardous way forward in the face of hostile fire and under extremly difficult conditions, succeeded in placing the injured man on the stretcher. Subsequently, raising himself slightly to move to the rear of the stretcher and pick it up, he was mortally wounded by Japanese sniper fire." The newspaper article also mentions that his parents also "received a letter from their son's company commander, Capt. Robert R. Lamb, USMC expressing tribute to the young Marines gallant bravery."</div>Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-10041192141485013892020-05-07T14:56:00.000-05:002020-05-07T14:56:00.934-05:00Kees' father Jan Schipper's birthday.Dear Kees,<br />
I have a genealogical calendar that shows family events that have occured through the years on this date. Today it mentioned that it was the anniversary of your father, Jan Schipper's birthday, 7 May 1900. He was born in Texel, Noord Holland, The Netherlands. He was the first child of his parents Gerri and Marijtje (Platvoet) Schipper. Seven other children followed.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Birth Registration for Jan Schipper<br /><a href="https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/55491995">https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/55491995</a></td></tr>
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Texel (pronounced Tessel) is an island off the coast of the Netherlands know for its dumes and bird life. It is well known for the Dunes of Texel National park filled with beaches, grass topped dunes and trails through the forest. It must have been a beautiful, if sparsely populated place to live.<br />
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One of the buildings that your father knew still exists, the Texel Lighthouse at the end of the dunes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">19th Century Texel Lighthouse VVV</td></tr>
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You can't imagine how we are living these days with most of us under stay at home orders. Because many are having difficulty adjusting to these times, there have been several posts about what challenging lives those who were born in the early 20th century lived. They were young teenagers when World War I began. Considering the times most would have left school and begun their trades. Though Netherlands maintained its neutrality during the war, the population was not un affected. The Royal Netherlands Army was mobilized throughout the war and the Dutch provided housing for refugees, captured soldiers. The government also restricted the free movement of the Dutch people.<br />
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Of course, the War was followed by the depression and then the Second World War. Your father lived through very difficult times. I remember you telling be that you thought the deprivations he experienced during World War II had just worn out his body. He died, much too young, on 25 Jun 1951.<br />
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Today we salute his memory!<br />
Love,<br />
Cecily<br />
<br />Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-72991234359547069192020-04-16T22:13:00.001-05:002020-04-16T22:13:57.305-05:00Our Ancestors Knew Each OtherDear Grandparents,<br />
This will come as no surprise to you but we do not often think that our friends and relations may have known each other. One of my volunteer positions is as Registrar for my National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Chapter. I'm sure my grandmother, Grace Colby Werst Branchflower, has been very pleased that I've proved our ancestry to her Patriot Evert Van Epps (and I have supplemental applications pending on many of the rest of you). As Registrar, I help others research their ancestors and submit their applications.<br />
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This week I've been helping one of our new members, Kay Pontious, delve further into her Patriot Jonathan Taylor's role in the American Revolution. He's one of the Patriots who applied for and received a pension and after his death his widow was also granted a pension. His is an interesting case. He enlisted in the 3rd Regiment of Light Dragoons, Virginia Line in Cumberland, Virginia.<br />
He fought in New Jersey. He settled in the Edgefield District in South Carolina and then his widow and family moved on to Walton County, Georgia.<br />
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Now Jonathan Taylor's story is not really mine to tell but in reading the pages of his and his wife's pensions over the phone to Kay, I came across a name that is in our family tree. Robert Milner Echol's is my son-in-law Chris' 4th great grandfather.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert Milner Echols<br />18 Mar 1798 - 3 Dec 1847<br />Photo from <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7190349/robert-milner-echols">https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7190349/robert-milner-echols</a> add by Terry Echols.</td></tr>
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Robert Milner Echols was born in Wilkes County, Georgia but soon settled in Walton, County not far from Monroe. He served in the Georgia General Assembly and also the Georgia Senate where he was three times elected president of that body. He also served as a judge in Walton County. It is in his capacity as judge that I found his name in Jonathan Taylor's pension.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Document from the Pension file for Jonathan Taylor of Virginia<br /><a href="https://www.fold3.com/image/18461544">https://www.fold3.com/image/18461544</a></td></tr>
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The best thing about finding this signature is that on a following page in the document, Jesse Mitchell, Clerk of the Inferior Court, attests to the signatures. So, we know that Chris' family and Kay's family had contact with each other. Small world isn't it.<br />
<br />Love,<br />
Ceciy<br />
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For family members: The descent from Robert Milner Echols<br />
Robert Milner Echols married Mary "Polly" Melton (her brother Eliel Melton died at the Alamo)<br />
Mary Ann Tabitha Echols married James Troup Scott<br />
France Ella "Fannie" Scott married George Washington Outlaw<br />
Bertha Outlaw married George William Cunningham<br />
Geraldine Louise Cunningham married Charlie Campbell Black - Chris' Grandparents<br />
Which makes makes Robert Echols my grandchildrens' fifth great-grtandfather.Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-62121746610842422572020-04-01T20:35:00.001-05:002020-04-01T20:35:25.929-05:00Joseph Platt's Baptism DayDear Grandfather Joseph,<br />
Usually people identify most with the ethnicity of their birth surname. Mine is Cone, which was shortened according to family legend from MacCough, and is clearly of Scottish origin. If the truth be told, I have many more English than Scottish ancestors. I use a genealogy software program called Legacy Family Tree. It has a wonderful report format that reports births, marriages, and deaths from my family tree by date. There are no fewer than 25 people in my tree that have significant events on April 1st. I decided to write about you today because, quite frankly, your surname is one that I had forgotten was in my family tree.<br />
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Though April 1st may also be your birthday, documentation shows it to be the day of your baptism in Milford, Connecticut. Your parents are Richard and Mary (Wood) Platt. Richard was baptized in Ware, Hertford, England May 6, 1604. He married at Roydon, Essex, England Mary Wood, daughter of John and Jane Wood, January 26, 1628/9.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St. Peter's Church Roydon - the only building in Roydon that dates from before their marriage.<br />Photo <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">By Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9296086</span></td></tr>
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Ware, a market town, is about 5 miles from Roydon. It was known as a hotbed for Puritanism. Rev. Charles Chauncey, who went on to become the President of Harvard, was vicar from 1627 to 1633.<br />
He immigrated to New England about 1638 and Richard and Mary followed not long after as he was admitted to the church at New Haven January 29, 1639 (Connecticut Vital Records [The Barbour Collection]1630-1870, vol. Milford p. 128.). Richard was one of the original Proprietors of Milford, Connecticut. In 1643, he received an allotment of 4-1/2 houselot, 27-1/2 upland and 13 meadow acres. He held the houselot, 6-3/4 in East Field, another 20-3/4 in East Field, 4-1/2 in The Meadow and 1 acre in Harbour Meadow.<br />
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Milford must have been an interesting place. For all the strictness for which the Puritans were known, evidently there was still time for mischief. According to court records, you were part of a 'silly prank' when you and several friends snuck out in the dead of night and destroyed a Wepawaug Indian fort which was unoccupied at the time. Your motives were not disclosed and it is unclear if the group was fined 10 pounds or if each member was fined 10 pounds. You also had to rebuild the fort.<br />
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You had settled down by the time you married Mary Kellogg on May 5, 1680 and went on to a steady career which included being Lieutenant of the Train Band (militia) in 1698 and Deputy from Milford to the Connecticut General Assembly in May 1700.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the oldest building in Milford dates from circa 1700 and would have been recognized by Joseph.<br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">By Sgt. R.K. Blue - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14582442</span></td></tr>
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There is some question about your death date but an inventory was taken of your estate March 21, 1703/4. Of your children, only my ancestor Mary was of age.<br />
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I'm glad your baptism date popped up on my calendar today. It's always fun to know that not all my Puritan ancestors were staid, sticks-in-the-mud.<br />
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Love,<br />
Cecily<br />
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For Family members: our descent from Joseph is as follows<br />
Joseph Platt and wife Mary Kellogg<br />
John Woodruff and wife Mary Platt<br />
John Woodruff and wife Hannah Andrew<br />
Samuel Woodruff and wife Anne Nettleton<br />
Andrew Woodruff and wife Mirand Orton<br />
Stephen Sanford and wife Olive Woodruff<br />
Reuben Newton and Caroline Beckworth Sanford<br />
Charles Shepard Newton and wife Mary Elizabeth Clarke<br />
Frederick Naaman Cone and wife Helen Brown Newton<br />
Charles Newton Cone and wife Hazel Bynon Allen<br />
Charles Newton Cone,Jr. and wife Betty Lorraine Cone - my parents.<br />
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<br />Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-1006466243494546662020-03-31T20:36:00.001-05:002020-03-31T20:36:51.354-05:00Happy Anniversary John and Sarah (Noyes) HaleDear John and Sarah,<br />
Today we are remembering the 336th anniversary of your marriage in Beverly, Massachusetts. It was sort of a May-December marriage, you, the groom, 47, and your bride 29. <br />
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Both the Hale and Noyes families were of English origin. The exact origin of the Hales remains unknown. Sarah's father, Rev. James Noyes, was born about 1608 in Cholderton, Wilts, England, the son of Rev. William and Anne (Parker) Noyes. William matriculated at University College, Oxford in November 1588 and received his BA Degree May 21, 1592. He became the Rector of Saint Nicholas Church in Cholderton in 1602.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Drawing of the first St. Nicholas Church, Wilts, England. Church is<br />supposed to have been constructed by the Saxons. The following is from the Church Records,<br />"The Church of St. Nicholas, Cholderton, was given to the Monks of St. Neats about 1175 and<br />the grant was confirmed by Pope Alexander III."<br />used with permission from <a href="http://evermore.imagedjinn.com/blg/154/data-concerning-the-church-of-st-nicholas-at-cholderton-wiltshire-england/">http://evermore.imagedjinn.com/blg/154/data-concerning-the-church-of-st-nicholas-at-cholderton-wiltshire-england/</a></td></tr>
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William's and Anne's sons, James and Nicholas, along with Sarah (Brown) Noyes and cousin Thomas Parker swore oaths of allegiance so they could sail for New England on the <i>Mary and John</i> under Master Robert Sayres arriving at Boston in March 1634.<br />
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James and Sarah settled in Newberry where they had ten children, Sarah being the youngest. Unfortunately, James died when Sarah was only a year old.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo from Find A Grave Memorial ID 35286148 added by<br />Paul M. Noyes, used with permission<br />Headstone is located at the First Parish Burying Ground,<br />Newbury, Massachusetts</td></tr>
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John Hale's father Deacon Robert Hale is one of the immigrants covered in Robert Charles Anderson's "The Great Migration." The ship he arrived on is unknown but we know that he was in Boston by the fall of 1630 when he was admitted to the Boston church as member #18. His occupation was carpenter. One source, U. S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700, gives his wife's name as Joanna Cutter and a marriage date of October 14, 1632. By that date Robert and Joanna removed to the church at Charlestown. John, born June 3, 1636, was the oldest of their five children.<br />
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John was educated at Havard and graduated in 1657. After graduation, he moved to Beverly where he had been hired to teach religion. On September 20, 1667 he was ordained pastor of the newly organized church at Beverly. He remained in this post until his death.<br />
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As an upcoming young man, John married Rebecka Byles December 15, 1664 in Ipswich. They had four children, John, James, Rebecca and Robert before she died April 30, 1683.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rebekah Byles Hale Headstone<br />Find A Grave Memorial ID 48178556 photo by Jude<br />Abbott Street Burial Ground, Beverly, Massachusetts</td></tr>
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After a marriage of nearly 20 years, John missed being wed. Both the Noyes and Hale families were Puritans. Beverly and Newbury were only about 20 miles apart so it is assumed that the families were acquainted. At 29 years of age, Sarah was either very picky or had not been interested in any propsed suiters. We don't know why John appealed to her or if the courtship was long. We do know that you were married this day in 1684.<br />
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Two sons were born of this marriage, James in 1685 who also became a minister and Samuel who was born in 1687 (Nathan Hale, martyr of the American Revolution, is Samuel's grandson but that is a story for another day).<br />
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There are many more tales to tell of your marriage but those also will be saved for another day. My siblings and I visted your home in Beverly which stands to this day and is a museum maintained by the Beverly Historic Society.<br />
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So Happy Anniversary. You have not been forgotten by your descendants.<br />
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Love, Cecily<br />
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P.S. for family members our descent is as follows:<br />
John Hale and wife Sarah Noyes<br />
James Hale and wife Sarah Hathaway<br />
James Hale, Jr. and wife Elizabeth Bicknell<br />
Eleazer Warner and wife Joanna Hale<br />
Thomas Warner and wife Rhoda Hopkins<br />
Naaman Cone and wife Joanna Warner<br />
William Warner Cone and wife Eliza Utley<br />
Frederick Naaman Cone and wife Helen Brown Newton<br />
Charles Newton Cone and wife Hazel Bynon Allen<br />
Charles Newton Cone, Jr and wife Betty Lorraine Werst<br />
<br />Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-27526314265401256692020-03-01T21:21:00.000-06:002020-03-02T07:24:04.155-06:00Happy 355th Birthday Grandfather Samuel Huntington,<br />
Can you imagine, a descendant, 11 generations removed from you, knowing that today is your birthday? I feel certain that your would be shocked by the amount of information we know about you so many years later.<br />
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I've just returned from Salt Lake City, Utah and RootsTech 2020, a convention gathering of thousands of Genealogy and Family History enthusiasts and professionals from around the world. In noticing on my <a href="http://legacyfamilytree.com/">Legacy Family Tree Software</a> calendar report that today was your birthday, I thought about all of the services represented at RootsTech that I have used to discover more about your life story.<br />
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The Huntington Family began meeting to discuss their family history in Norwich September 3, 1857. That lead to the publication of <i>The Huntingon family in America: a genealogical memoir of the known descendants of Simon Huntington from 1633 to 1915, including those who have retained the family name, and many bearing other surnames</i> published in 1915<i>. </i>This book is available online from a variety of sources.<br />
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Their research states that you were born in Norwich on March 1, 1665 in Norwich, Connecticut the son of Deacon Simon and Sarah (Clark) Huntington. Deacon Simon was born in Norwich, England May 6th 1629. He came to New England with his parents Simon and Margaret (Baret or Barrett) Huntington in 1633. The elder Simon died of smallpox enroute and was either buried at sea or at the mouth of the Connecticut River.<br />
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I use <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/">Ancestry.com </a>to research and build family trees. They have collected billions of records including a database that they've built entitled <i>US, New England Marriages Prior to 1700</i> the orginal source comes from Clarence A. Torry's "New England Marriages Prior to 1700" published in Baltimore by the Genealogical Publishing Co. in 2004.<br />
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You could help us with one problem. Many genealogists think that Mary's father is the John Clark who married Sarah Treat. Others believe Mary to have been the daughter of William Clark of Wethersfield.<br />
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Our records show that you and Mary are the parents of eight children: Elizabeth who married Moses Clark. Samuel who married Hannah Metcalf, Caleb who married Lydia Griswold, Mary who died young, Rebecca who married Joseph Clark, Sarah about whom we only know her birthday, John who married Mehitable Metcalf, sister of his brother Samuel's wife, and Simon who married a Sarah, surname unknown.<br />
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You served as a military officer and were entered in the rolls in Norwich as Lieutenant. Your service impressed the people of Norwich and you were granted a parcel of land at Trading Cove Brook, "by the fathers to be laid out by measure, 30 or 40 rods wide, the length of his father's land."<br />
I wonder if you would recognize your land on this map from July 1892.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Norwich, Connecticut Sanborn Insurance Map 1892<br />
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You relocated to Lebanon in 1700. In 1710, the citizens of Lebanon appointed you to a commission trying to resolve a dispute over the location of a new meeting house. As far as we know, you lived the rest of your life in Lebanon.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Headstone for Lt. Samuel Huntington from the Old Cemetery<br />
at Lebanon, New London County, CT from <a href="http://www.findagrave.org/">Find A Grave</a> Mem. #46073474<br />
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As you can see, it is difficult if not impossible to decifer the words chiseled on the stone. Not to worry. I discovered the inscription on your headstone at <a href="http://www.americanancestors.org/">American Ancestors</a>, the on line site for the New England Historical Genealogical Society. Since 1845, this organization has built a comprehensive resource library for family history research and has become the largest Society of its kind in the world.<br />
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"Here Lyes ye Body of Leiut Samuel Huntington, Geneleman, Who Died May ye 19, 1717 & In ye 52nd Year of His Age."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">from Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999<br />
this collection is from the Connecticut State Library<br />
and can also be found on <a href="http://www.ancestry.com/">www.Ancestry.com </a></td></tr>
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We've also found your Probate Packet containing 1 bond, 2 inventories, 2 distributions, 1 account of Administration, 18 receipts and 1 miscellaneous item. Theses were deposited in the Connecticut State Library under provisions of the Public Act 1909 Chapter 175 and were added July 23, 1912. I've included a photograph of the first page of your inventory. I wonder if you would feel accomplished or embarassed by the number of items listed. What would you think of the valuation of your items?<br />
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Love your 9th great granddaughter,<br />
Cecily<br />
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My descent from Lt. Samuel follows:<br />
his daughter Elizabeth Huntington married Moses Clark<br />
their son James Clark married Ann Gray<br />
their son James Clark married Anna Lyman Tiffany<br />
their son James Clark married 2nd Parnel Champion<br />
their son John Champion Clark married Lydia Hornell<br />
their daughter Mary Elizabeth Clark married Charels Shepard Newton<br />
their daughter Helen Brown Newton married Frederick Naaman Cone<br />
their son Charles Newton Cone married Hazel Bynon Allen<br />
their son Charles Newton Cone, Jr. married Betty Lorraine Werst<br />
they are my parents and there are two more generations<br />
<br />Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-40860727346472697642019-10-27T17:41:00.001-05:002019-10-27T17:41:32.416-05:00Edward Ebert Kelly died this day in 1987Dear Ed,<br />
I hardly knew you... of course I was curious about you... you are, after all, my husband's father. I had wanted to meet you before we were married. That didn't happen. After we returned from our honeymoon, we drove up to the Poconos so I could meet you and your wife. My Ed was not enthusiastic about the trip, but I think he agreed because he knew how important it was to me. It was difficult for my Ed, he was still smarting from your departure from his life.<br />
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Over the years, through researching your family, I've learned more about the circumstances of your life. It doesn't excuse how you treated your children but it does help us understand.<br />
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Born 3 April 1926 in Philadelphia to William Joseph and Alice Mae (Hanna) Kelly, you were the 5th child and second son. According to family lore, you were supposed to be named for your maternal grandfather Edward Everett Hanna. When your birth was registered, there was some confusion so you ended up Edward Ebert instead of Edward Everett.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William J. Kelly Family 1930 census with Edward E. Kelly underlined in red<br /><br /></td></tr>
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In the 1930 Federal Census your family was living at 5326 Westminster Avenue in Philadelphia. Your father was working as a Weaver in a Cotton Mill and your older siblings were in school. Things seemed to be going well for the family even though it was the beginning of the Depression. Your sisters, Marie and Dot, used to tell us of how difficult things got for the family during the Depression. They spoke of having to move suddenly, when the family was evicted for non-payment of rent because everyone had lost their job. They explained that if no one had coins to but in the electricity meter in the house, there would be no light, no heat also if no one had the funds to purchase coal.<br />
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Things became desperate for the family when your Dad, was killed 17 Sep 1939. We have yet to find the record of the inquest so we do not know if he was killed in a fight or when he was pushed into the street and was run over by a car. There was no life insurance, nor death gratuity. The income he was bringing in ceased.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William J Kelly Death Certificate</td></tr>
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The family was living in a typical Philadelphia brick row house at 663 N. Conestoga Street according to your mother who was the informant for your father's death certificate above. The photo, from Google, is the house as it looked in October 2018. By today's standards the house seems small for a family of 8, your younger brother John having been born late in 1930.<br />
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The row houses in this area were typically, two rooms down stair, living room or parlor, then behind the dining room and the kitchen was a lean-to attached at the back. There were two bedrooms upstairs.<br />
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By 1940, your older sisters were all working to support the family. Marie, Dot and Alice were all working as Cotton Winders in a Rubber Factory. Your older brother William had left school and was looking for work. Only you and your younger brother were in school. Aunt Marie told us that you left school at the end of the term, having finished 8th grade, and started looking for work.<br />
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The family managed to stay in the house at 663 Conestoga.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1940 Census for Kelly family recorded April 3, 1940.</td></tr>
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We don't know how long it took for you to find work with the Philadelphia Inquirer Newspaper Company or if it was your first job. We do know you were working there when you registered for the draft on your birthday April 3, 1944. You described yourself as being 6ft tall and weighing 155 pounds with Gray eyes and brown hair and a "flesh pimple on the left hand." I wonder if any of your children remember the mark on your left hand.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">World War II Draft Card for Edward Ebert Kelly from www.fold3.com from NARA</td></tr>
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Though your draft card does not say it, three months later your enlistment papers list your occupation as pressman and plate printer. It was an occupation that you would pursue much of your life. As a single man, without dependents, it was not surprising that you chose to enlist in the Army on July 21, 1944, you surely would have been drafted. Luckily, the war was winding down and you got only as far as Ft. Ord near Monterey, California during the two years you served.<br />
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We don't know how you met Pauline Nelda Haas. Your neighborhoods were not far apart in Philadelphia. Perhaps, one of your siblings introduced her to you. our were headed home to Philadelphia by July 6, 1946 departing from Fort Meade, Maryland. We know you and Pauline were married October 25 1947.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edward Ebert and Pauline Nelda Kelly on their wedding day October 25, 1947</td></tr>
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You and Pauline went on to have five terrific children, Edward William, Russell Alan, Patricia Anne, Robert Steven and Doreen Lynn Kelly. It's a shame you did not stay to see them grown. Though you reappeared in their lives now and again, I think its fair to say none of us really knew you well.<br />
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Your daughter-in-law,<br />
CecilyCecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-75584180464477994472019-01-13T13:54:00.001-06:002019-01-13T13:54:13.337-06:00The Challenge of Common Name Brick Walls: #52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Post 2Dear Grandparents,<br />
Though I often post about your adventures centuries ago, there are those of you who remain mysteries to me. Many of you were born in 19th century America, I'm sorry to admit. When I can find European Records several centuries older it bedevils me to admit that you remain successfully hidden in my own country. The single common denominator among you is the commonality of your surnames.<br />
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First example: Elizabeth Jane Jones. I have been searching for the identities of her parents for years.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elizabeth Jane (Jones) Gibson from family Bible in my possession</td></tr>
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According to her daughter Sarah Amanda (Gibson) Hugunin's family Bible, she was born 2 May 1821 in Tennessee. She married Newsom Gibson 29 Dec 1840 in Davidson County, Tennessee and died 1 Jan 1895 in Chicago, Cook County, IL. I have no way to distinguish her from the others named Elizabeth Jones and connect her to her parents.<br />
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Second: William Henry Colby, my second great grandfather was born between 1827-30 in New Hampshire or perhaps NY according to records I've discovered. I have not been able to determine which of the William or Wm Colbys listed in the 1850 Federal Census is him. He married Fanny Hutchinson Hunnewell 11 May 1855 in Lake County, Illinois. My Great Grandfather William Wallace Colby was born 16 Oct 1857 in Black Hawk County, Iowa. The other children are all born in Lake County. Usually in the census he is listed as a farmer however in the late 1870s the family is living in Logansport, Indiana and William is running a broom making business. The broom making is corraborated by a letter written by my Great Grandfather to a cousin.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William H. Colby 1900 Census Vernon Township, Lake County, Illinois<br />image from www.familysearch.org</td></tr>
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I have found many William Colby's born in New Hampshire between 1825-1830 but still not the clue to link him to his parents. I have DNA matches the tie into descendants of Anthony Colby who immigrated from England with the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 but no paper trail.<br />
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Third: Another 2nd Great Grandfather Simpson Barnes' parents remain unknown. Simpson is supposed to have been born 10 Feb 1825 in New York according to family records that I have not seen. He married Angelina Burgoyne 15 Nov 1848 in Hillsdale County, Michigan.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Simpson Barnes 1850 Census<br />Cambria, Hillsdale, MI image from www.familysearch.org</td></tr>
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According to census records he also lived in Wapello County, Iowa and Jefferson County, Kansas. There are 15 other Barnes families listed in Hillsdale and surrounding counties on the 1850 census. I'm working on finding a Barnes connection that went on to Iowa and Kansas. So far, it seems he followed his wife's family.<br />
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Fourth: Nancy Carr, one of my third great grandmothers, born 5 Feb 1791 in Northampton, Pennsylvania and died 17 Apr 1871 in Wabash County, Indiana. She married Tobias Werst circa Dec 1815 in Pennsylvania and their first son Joseph Carr Werst was born there 23 Sep 1816. The family emigrated to Butler Township, Darke County, Ohio by 1830. By 1855 they are living in Wabash County, IL. Nancy named her first son Joseph Carr Werst and that is my only clue as to the name of her father. There is a Joseph Christopher Carr who died 7 Apr 1839 and is buried in Bucks County, PA not far from where Nancy (Carr) Werst was living on Keystone Run, Northampton County. Once again there are many Joseph Carrs in the area and I have not found the record that ties Nancy to one of them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nancy Carr Werst headstone from<br />Mississenwa Cemetery, Wabash County, Indiana<br />headstone were moved to this location<br /></td></tr>
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So I continued to be challenged by the common names of my ancestors. It is particularly frustrating that all these examples are on my mother's line. I have DNA matches that link me to cousins that are descendants of most of these ancestor but no one has additional information. Here's hoping that one or more of these mysteries are solved this year.<br />
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Love,<br />
CecilyCecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-13765190531123774802019-01-01T20:18:00.001-06:002019-01-01T20:18:18.797-06:001 Jan 2019<br />
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Dear Grandparents,<br />
Another year has begun. Hopefully, it will be full of more genealogy research that I accomplished last year. I'm making a concerted effort this year to keep up with Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. She provides prompts to encourage writing about at least one ancestor each week. Her first prompt for 2019 is #First.<br />
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For my first post of the year, I've selected my 7th great grandfather who was known as Lieutenant Jonathan Lyman. He is the first person I can document who was born on the first of January.<br />
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Born January 1, 1684 in Northampton, Massachusetts, Jonathan is the son of Richard and Lydia (Loomis) Lyman. He was the fifth born of their nine children. His grandfather, Richard Lyman, had immigrated from High Ongar, Essex, England in 1631. His grandmother, Hepzibah Ford, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Cooke) Ford had immigrated in 1630 from Dorchester, England.<br />
The Lyman family moved to Lebanon, Connecticut in 1696 with a number of other families from Northampton.<br />
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Jonathan married Lydia Loomis, daughter of Deacon Joseph and Hannah (Marsh) Loomis. They were from Windsor, Connecticut. Their marriage was recorded in the volumes of Lebanon Vital Records however, the date is illegible. Based on page number in comparison to legible dates recorded on the same pages it was about 1708. This would also agree with the birth of their first child.<br />
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Jonathan was termed Lieutenant from his service in the Train Band of the North Company of the South Society in the Town of Lebanon. He was Ensign in May of 1726 and then Lieutenant in 1729 (Barrett Wendell, Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, 1906 p. 353).<br />
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Jonathan and Lydia were the parents of eleven children. six boys and five girls. Jonathan survived four of them. We are descended from their youngest child Anna Lyman who married Isaiah Tiffany.<br />
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One of the benefits of going back and looking at genealogy research that was done in the past is that it creates a new to-do list. I had not previously found Jonathan's will. Now I have it and will be transcribing it tomorrow. There will be lots to decipher including more that six pages of inventory. Jonathan signed his will and a quick glance at it reveals there were several books in the inventory so I assume he was literate.<br />
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Amanda, Ed and I visited Lebanon in 2015. We did not find a headstone for Jonathan in the old cemetery but he is most likely buried there.<br />
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Happy 335th Birthday, Grandfather Jonathan,<br />
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Love,<br />
CecilyCecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-85800870429261579292018-03-18T19:17:00.002-05:002024-03-16T12:45:06.180-05:00Happy Birthday Grandfather Cecil Oscar WerstDear Grandfather Cecil,<br /><br />(I'm updating a post written to my grandfather, Cecil Oscar Werst 16 Mar 1900-24 Oct 1927 in 2018. By now you have been able to meet your daughter Helen who passed 17 Oct 2019. Another great-great grand daughter has been born and we are celebrating the 124th anniversary of your birth). <div><br /><div>Today we are celebrating the 118th anniversary of your birth in what was then called Grasshopper Falls, Kansas. Please forgive me for not addressing you as grandfather. Having never met you, I do not know if you would have preferred Papa, Grampa, or whatever. I've always thought of you as Cecil. Named for you, I always wondered if children had made fun of your name when you were in school like they did with mine. Thinking of you as Cecil helped me think that I had an ally in the name wars of childhood.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cecil Oscar Werst<br />
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You are the 7th child of Lewis and Mary Jane (Barnes) Werst. The Werst side of your family was part of the Somerset Church Of the Brethren congregation of Wabash County, Indiana that emigrated to Jefferson County, Kansas in 1864.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1900 Federal Population Schedule for Rock Creek Township,<br />
Jefferson County, Kansas showing family of Louis and Mary J Werst<br />
with seven children including 2 month old Cecil O Werst. 8 Jun 1900</td></tr>
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In the 1900 Federal Census, Lewis was working as a carpenter and states that he has only been employed for three months so far that year. The family is living in a rented home. I expect you had no memories of life in Kansas as your family soon moved west to Washington State.<br />
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Your Dad had been married once before he married your mother 1 Oct 1885. He and his first wife, Lunnete "Mattie" (Fitzsimmons) Werst were the parents of your three older half brothers, Jasper Lewis, George Franklin and Forest Dean Werst. Their mother died in April 1884.<br />
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Jasper had followed his maternal Uncle Charles Wesley Fitzsimmons to Pataha, a small community near Pomeroy, Garfield County in the Washington Territory. This was wheat country, not the forested country of Western Washington.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From www.loc.gov by Russell Lee, 1941<br />
How wheat was harvested before combines.</td></tr>
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Jasper had written home about the plentiful opportunities in the new state and Lewis and Mary Jane decided to follow the opportunity. We do not know if they traveled by wagon or rail. It must have been a logistical challenge to move a family of nine more than 1,000 miles.<br />
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The family settled in and their next and last son, Alvin Edgar Werst was born Christmas Eve 1902 in Garfield County. Alas, Lewis was not a farmer. The death of their 10 year old son Guy Alfred on November 24, 1905, the day after Thanksgiving appears to have been the last straw for the family attempt at farming .<br />
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Before the end of the year, they moved further west to Belma in Yakima County. This area was known for its apple orchards. It was also an area where the Federal Government was building dams and irrigation canals and there was plenty of work for a carpenter ready to give up on wheat farming.<br />
By the time the 1910 census was taken, Lewis was a prosperous contractor with three of his older sons working as carpenters for him.<br />
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Prosperity for the family was short lived, Lewis sickened and died in 1916. With your older brothers married and raising families of their own, supporting your Mother and younger brother fell to you. Thanks to www.ancestry.com, we know you applied for work as a fireman on the Northern Pacific Railway 21 May 1918 at Pasco, Washington.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">from www.ancestry.com</td></tr>
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We don't know why you lied about your age on the application. Did you think that being 19 would give you a better opportunity? The application states that you were 5ft 8 inches tall and weighed about 140 pounds. You had blue eyes and medium brown hair. You were hired and started work 2 days later. Evidently, the job did not suit you as you resigned effective June 3rd. It wasn't your job performance as the superintendent stated "services satisfactory." Were you homesick? Didn't like the work? Unfortunately, we don't know.<br />
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Eighteen months later, the 1920 Census lists you as head of the household, age 19, sole support of your mother and younger brother Alvin. You are listed as a laborer doing general work for wages.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1920 Federal Census for Grandview Precinct, Yakima, Washington<br />
Household of Werst, Cecil</td></tr>
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We don't really know much about your life between 1920 and 1924. We know you went to Pendleton, Oregon where your brother Clem was working as a carpenter building houses. Across the street from Clem and Bessie lived Harley "Hal" and Madge (Colby) Massey. Beginning in the summer of 1923, the Massey's were hosting Madge's younger sister Ada Grace. She had moved in after completing two years at Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University). Grace had discovered her stepmother had given away the dog she left at home in Newberg and vowed to never return to her father's house while her step-mother lived.<br />
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I wish we could know what you thought of Grace. I think she was quite the live wire. She had been President of her 1921 Newberg High School class and involved in everything. She was a modern woman, working as a secretary. I expect that she was also the whirlwind that swept you off your feet.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ada Grace Colby circa 1922 from family collection</td></tr>
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You did have many things in common. You had both lost a parent in your teenage years. You were both born in Kansas. You had each lived on farms and knew you wanted to seek your life's work elsewhere. You were both younger children in large families. Most of all, you both were determined to better yourselves.<br />
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Many years later, she talked with we grandchildren about her ambitions for you. She talked about how she helped you refine your dress, speech and manners. She also talked about how she loved to hear you play your banjo.<br />
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By August 8, 1924, you were in Spokane, Washington getting married.<br />
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The next three years passed all too quickly for Grace. You were promoted from salesman to Field Manager for the Royal Silk Hosiery Company. She was forced to leave her position as a secretary for the Spokesman Review Newspaper when her pregnancy began to show. Your daughter Betty Lorraine was born June 23, 1926.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cecil with daughter Betty circa Fall 1926</td></tr>
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Grandmother Hoo Hoo, our pet name for Grace, told us how you doted on your daughter. She talked about you taking her on rides in the park, including the Merry-go-round. She talked about the wonderful three month trip through all your Royal Silk territories in Washington, Oregon and Idaho.<br />
What an adventure for the family of three who would soon become a family of four!<br />
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Sadly, it was not to be. One of your teeth was bothering you. It was removed, an infection set in, and you were dead in two weeks at age 27 years, 7 months and 8 days. Your death certificate says that one of the leukemias added to your condition. A young life, cut way too short.<br />
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We can not know what you could have accomplished. You left behind a stunned, pregnant wife and a fifteen month old daughter.<br />
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I wonder if you ever imagined the size of your family now. We gathered last weekend to wish Helen (Werst) (Pearce) Caldwell, the daughter you never met, a happy 90th birthday. You have 24 surviving descendants and hopefully have been reunited with your daughter Betty.<br />
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Happy Birthday Cecil! Your legacy lives on.<br />
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Love,<br />
Your granddaughter,<br />
Cecily<br />
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<br /></div></div>Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-71628269617881497562018-02-05T16:23:00.003-06:002018-02-05T16:23:59.642-06:00Roger Williams arrived in New England 387 years ago today. #52 Ancestors in 52 weeks, week 6Dear Great Grandfather Roger,<br />
Today we celebrate the 387th anniversary of your arrival in Massachusetts. Honestly, I would not have remembered but this morning it was listed in our newspaper as one of the notable things that happened on 'This Day in History'. Not bad for someone who passed from this life some 300 years ago.<br />
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When we studied 'Roger Williams: Champion of Religious Freedom and Founder of Rhode Island' in school, I was attracted to your story but had no idea that you were my 11th great grandfather. If I'd known our relationship, I promise I would have paid more attention. We know much more about your life today than was covered in that long ago history class.<br />
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Born circa 1603 in London, England, you were the son of James Williams a tailor and merchant and his wife Alice (perhaps Pemberton). Evidently you were quite precocious taking shorthand notes of sermons and speeches in the Star Chamber. Noticed by Sir Edward Coke, he sent you to Sutton's Hospital (Charterhouse School) in 1621. Your progress was such that you then entered Pembroke College of Cambridge University in 1625, completing your bachelor of arts degree in 1627.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pembroke College, Cambridge University from<br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembroke_College,_Cambridge</span></td></tr>
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It is supposed that you took the orders to become a minister of the Church of England. A record of your ordination has not yet been found. We know that by 1629 you were serving as chaplain to Sir William Masham of Oates in Essex. Was it your dislike of the Anglican liturgy or Bishop Laud who impelled you to immigrate to Massachusetts? I wish you could provide that answer.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All Saints Church at High Laver, site of Roger and Mary Williams marriage.<br />by Charles01 at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Oxyman using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8107732caption</td></tr>
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We know you married Mary Barnard December 15, 1629 at High Laver, Epping Forest, Essex. What an adventure for a newly married couple to travel to Bristol and board the ship Lyon and sail for New England December 1, 1630. Crossing the north Atlantic in the dead of winter must have been terrifying. It must have been a hellish 65 days. The Lyon also brought food stores to the famished colony at Plymouth. The arrival must have been the cause of quite the celebration.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The North Atlantic painting (circa 1900) by Charles H. Woodbury 1864-1940<br />from the Library of Congress Collection</td></tr>
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It is written that you were invited to fill the pulpit of John Wilson who was visiting in England. You declined the offer because his Puritan church in Boston had not formally separated from the Church of England. You felt more comfortable with the Pilgrims of Plymouth who were 'separatists' having formed their own church when they fled England for Holland in 1607. Your determination to achieve the separation of church and state as well as your friendship with Native Americans and your role in the founding of Rhode Island are stories for another day.<br />
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Today we are thankful for the courage of you and your wife. We owe our existence to that courage.<br />
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Love,<br />
Cecily Cone Kelly<br />
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Our descent from Roger and Mary (Barnard) Williams is as follows:<br />
Their daughter Mary Williams married John Sayles<br />
Their daughter Mary Sayles married John Holmes<br />
Their daughter Susannah Holmes married Rev. Valentine Wightman<br />
Their daughter Mary Wightman married Capt. Joshua Rathbone<br />
Their daughter Martha Rathbone married Uriah Stephens<br />
Their daughter Martha Stephens married George Hornell<br />
Their son George Hornell, Jr. married Sarah Thacher<br />
Their daughter Lydia Hornell married 2nd John Champion Clarke<br />
Their daughter Mary Elizabeth Clarke married Charles Shepard Newton<br />
Their daughter Helen Brown Newton married Frederick Naaman Cone<br />
Their son Charles Newton Cone married Hazel Bynon Allen<br />
Their son Charles Newton Cone, Jr. is my father.<br />
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Interesting that most of this descent is traced on the female line.<br />
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<br />Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-36517895749281527152018-01-13T17:49:00.000-06:002018-01-13T17:49:36.101-06:00Jonathan Lyman 1684 - 1753 #52 Ancestors in 52 WeeksDear Grandparents,<br />
As we start 2018, I've signed up to participate in Amy Johnson Crow's "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" prompts. I am hoping my participation will help me tackle writing about one of your lives each week this year. Where to start? Now that is a challenge. I decided to start with the only person in my direct line for whom I can document a January 1st birthday, my 7th great grandfather, Jonathan Lyman.<br />
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Born in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, January 1, 1684 (Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Ancestry.com, 2011, p 24), he is the son of Richard and Elizabeth (Coles) Lyman. They were married 26 May 1675 in Northampton (Ancestry.com, <i>Massachusetts: Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988).</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts shown in red on this map from<br />
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His ancestry was English on both sides. Jonathan's paternal family came to Massachusetts from High Onger, Essex, England in 1631.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St. Mary's Church in High Onger, England was built about 1181. In all probability the Lyman family worshipped here.<br />
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His great grandfather Richard Lyman was the 11th member of the Roxbury, Massachusetts Church and then moved to Hartford, Connecticut in 1636 (Robert Charles Anderson, <i>The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, </i>Online database: American Ancestors.org, New England Historical Genealogical Society, 2010 p 1217).<br />
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The English origins of his maternal great grandfather, James Coles, have not been discovered. He immigrated to Massachusetts before 1639 and also lived in Hartford (Rising Genealogy: Descendants of Jonathan Rising of Suffield, Connecticut, Ancestry.com, <i>North American, Family Histories, 1500-2000,</i> database online, Provo, UT, 2016, Appendix D).<br />
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When Jonathan was 12, his family joined a number of other families from Northampton who moved to the fairly new community of Lebanon in New London County, Connecticut. He spent most of the rest of his life in Lebanon. He became a farmer and landowner (Coleman Lyman, <i>Ancestors and Descendants of Richard Lyman from High Ongar in England 1631, </i>New York 1878, p 166 www.archive.org).<br />
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We do not know the exact date of his marriage to Lydia Loomis. Part of the page is torn from the church records and the date is missing (Ancestry.com, <i>Connecticut, Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920, </i>Provo, UT 2013, V 4 p 3). We imagine sometime before their first child, Jonathan Lyman, was born September 1708. Lydia is the daughter of Deacon Joseph and Hannah (Marsh) Loomis. Her family came from Essex, England in the 1630s.<br />
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Jonathan and Lydia are the parents of eleven children born over 18 years in Lebanon. They are:<br />
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<li>Jonathan b. 19 Sep 1708, d. 1709.</li>
<li>Lydia b. 23 Nov 1709, m. Thomas Webster, d. 10 Dec 1790 in Bolton, Tolland, CT.</li>
<li>Jonathan b. 23 Apr 1712, m. Bethiah Clark 2 Oct 1735, d. 28 Jul 1792 Lebanon.</li>
<li>Sarah b. 24 Jan 1713, m. William Hunt 19 Dec 1734 Lebanon, d. 7 Feb 1746.</li>
<li>Hannah b. 15 Feb 1715, m. Simeon Hunt 29 Jul 1736 Lebanon, d. 2 Jan 1758 Coventry, Tolland, CT.</li>
<li>Joseph b. 3 Jul 1718, m. Joanna Loomis 2 Dec 1741 Lebanon, d. 15 May 1751 Coventry, Tolland, CT.</li>
<li>Jacob b. 4 May 1721, m. Mehitable Bushnell 26 Jun 1745, d. 15 Jan 1802 Andover, Tolland, CT.</li>
<li>Rachel b. 4 May 1721, m. Edmund Grandye 15 May 1745 Lebanon, d. 1815.</li>
<li>Zeriah g. 14 Apr 1723, m. Samuel Bushnell 5 Oct 1743 Lebanon, d. Feb 1745 Lebanon.</li>
<li>Elijah b. 21 Jul 1727, m. Esther Clarke 14 Dec 1748 Lebanon, d. 5 Apr 1782 Coventry, Tolland, CT.</li>
<li>Anna b. 28 Jan 1730, m. Isaiah Tiffany 19 May 1748 Lebanon d. 24 Apr 1823 Lebanon.</li>
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Jonathan died 11 Aug 1753 and is buried in the Old Cemetery in Lebanon. He wrote his will 25 Dec 1732. The probate file contains 10 pages of inventory items. Among my tasks for the new year is transcribing the 30 pages in his will packet.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jonathan Lyman's Headstone from www.findagrave.com. Photo by Sara</td></tr>
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Our descent from Jonathan and Lydia (Loomis) Lyman follows:</div>
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<li>Their youngest daughter Anna married Isaiah Tiffany 19 May 1748</li>
<li>Their daughter Anna Lyman Tiffany married James Clarke, Jr. 18 Jan 1781</li>
<li>Their son James Augustus Clarke's second marriage was to his first wife Anna's sister, Parnel Champion. We are descended from the second marriage.</li>
<li>Their son John Champion Clarke married Lydia Hornell 2 Oct 1845.</li>
<li>Their daughter Mary Elizabeth Clarke married Charles Shepard Newton 2 Oct 1865.</li>
<li>Their daughter Helen Brown Newton married Frederick Naaman Cone 29 May 1889.</li>
<li>Their son, my grandfather, Charles Newton Cone married Hazel Bynum Allen 4 Sep 1926</li>
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Only while writing this descent did I realize that Charles and Mary Elizabeth (Clarke) Newton were married on her parents' 20th wedding anniversary. My husband and I were married on my parents' 22nd anniversary.</div>
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Besides chronicling an ancestor's life, "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks" is rapidly filling in my 2018 Genealogical To Do List. Johnathan Lyman was a known ancestor for me. He is included in the pedigree chart prepared by my granduncle William L. Cone and passed on to me by my grandfather Charles N. Cone. Most of the facts included in this post are based on research I've done over the last 20 years. Still, I thought a www.google.com search might reveal additional life events.</div>
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That simple search found a 1983 Master's Thesis by Robert Charles Anderson entitled "Genealogy and Social History: the Early Settlement of Lebanon, Connecticut, as a case study."(Masters Theses 1911-February 2014, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, #1282, http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/1282). Yes, that Robert Charles Anderson, the author of the Great Migration Study. I do not know if he has a personal interest in Lebanon but I certainly do. I found 28 families to whom I have a connection in his paper.</div>
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Genealogy is often a linear pursuit, following one or another family by generation up the family tree. In my case, I have been concentrating on the stories of individual ancestors. Now I realize I also need to spend time on cluster research in places like Lebanon. Anderson identified immigrants to Lebanon from Northampton, MA, Norwich, CT, and Hartford, CT. He wondered in his paper if they had intermarried or had stayed within their original groups. It may have taken a couple of generations but my family tree contains intermarriages from all three groups. I will be spending time this year looking for family members in the sources mentioned in Anderson's bibliography.</div>
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Happy New Year,</div>
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Cecily Cone Kelly</div>
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Cecily Cone Kelly, One Bad Apple Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01777354409443789791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2794375848531522743.post-89846530107743035352017-07-04T11:52:00.000-05:002017-07-04T11:52:20.350-05:00Celebrating Independence Day<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today as we are celebrating the 241st anniversary our Independence, I think it is important to remember that many of our ancestors were involved in the American colonies fight for independence even before the declaration that we all hold so dear was adopted. In 1775 you raised a company from your friends and neighbors in Lebanon, Connecticut and responded to the Lexington Alarm and then marched on to the Battle of Bunker Hill. It was still more than a year to the first reading of the famous document.</span></div>
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