tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52773000923848682842024-03-14T07:06:38.382-07:00Ancestors I Wish I Knew/52 AncestorsMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-48201276993784001672019-12-30T09:39:00.003-08:002019-12-30T09:39:36.862-08:00#111 Who Are You?<br />
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Yorker … Relocated to the Midwest ..College professor…volunteer at Greenfield
Village …traveler…researcher…dog lover…reader…chocolate lover…genealogist <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-27268007703537199902019-12-26T14:23:00.000-08:002019-12-26T14:23:24.824-08:00#110 --Challenges to Solve<br />
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Challenges are all around us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather than blog about an ancestor who faced a challenge, I decided to write about a genealogy challenge that I am working on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I worked on my genealogy, I noticed that I had a group of ancestors that seemed to have lot of ties to each other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They sold each other land, married brothers and sisters, and moved to similar locations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For want of a better name, I call them the Tribe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then learned about a doing a cluster analysis of a group of ancestors, and decided that that is what I would do with my tribe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The idea of a cluster analysis is that people do not live in isolation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They often lived near relatives, friends and neighbor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were involved in each other’s lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyone can be included in a cluster, but it typically involves siblings, extended family, and those living close by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, your research is expanded in the hope that you will learn more about your direct ancestors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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So to do this, I first needed to define my cluster or tribe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The main tribe is the sons and daughters of David and Elizabeth Mears and the sons and daughters of John M. Hannah and Charity Mears, who moved from Brown County, Ohio to Edgar County, Illinois.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Charity Mears<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sarah Jane Mears.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-84950904219519335292019-12-13T09:06:00.000-08:002019-12-22T12:36:43.982-08:00#109 Christmas Traditions--Santa Claus<br />
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When I was about five years old, my mother bought a center piece for our Christmas table. It was a Santa in a sleigh with a music box in it that played Jingle Bells. It has been on our Christmas table for as long as I can remember. My father really liked to wind up the music box and hear Jingle Bells, even if we were not seated around the table.<br />
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When I cleaned out my parents' house after they died, there was Santa, right in the closet where he spent the rest of the year. I brought him to Michigan and now it drives his sleight in my family room on the side board.<br />
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Here is a picture of the Santa in his sleigh with the reindeer, who seemed to have lost their antlers along the way.<br />
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Now for a close up.<br />
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And lastly a real closeup. I did not realize until I took this picture, how sweet Santa's face is.<br />
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He still plays Jingle Bells and if he could talk I know he would wish everyone a Merry Christmas. </div>
Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-80014901100448557282019-12-05T08:50:00.001-08:002019-12-22T12:36:19.735-08:00#108 Needlepointing<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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with her needle point in her lap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I </span>have two footstools that she made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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Andrew George Cobbett Cochrane was born on May 12, 1809 in
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family lived on Museum Street, in London, and from the records for his son,
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WILLIAM WOODS . I am a wire-worker - I furnish the parish of
St. Giles' with wire, to be worked up into books and eyes. On the 24th of
August the prisoner brought this bill to me for 5l. 18s., for making books and
eyes in the rough state, for which I found the materials - I paid him by a
cheque on my bankers, Messrs. Young and Co., in Smithfield; this is it - it was
returned as paid; on the 8th of October he brought me another bill, which was
incorrect, but upon a second application, I paid him five sovereigns and 12s.
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ROBERT WAINWRIGHT . I am master of the work-house. The
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you? A. The directors of the poor employed him, and he was to account to me as
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PHILIP RILEY . I am beadle of St. Giles'. I took the
prisoner; he said he understood he was wanted, that he was very glad, and had
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Shortly thereafter Andrew George Cobbett Cochrane and
William Cochrane along with their families migrated to the United States and
settled in Buffalo, New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From what
I could find about Andrew in Buffalo, he was an outstanding citizen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The City Directories for Buffalo list the
associations, organizations, and churches as well as the individuals who held
offices in them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1837, Andrew was
the recording secretary of the Young Men’s Association, a literary society,
which i<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A year later, he was still the
recording secretary, but also on the library and by-laws committees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1847-48, he was the Assistant Secretary of
the St. Andrews Society, a group for those of Scottish descent; a notary
public,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and the Deputy District Grand
Master of Erie District #3 of the Odd Fellows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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was the general account for the American Merchants’ Union Express Company,
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s described as having a “well-selected” and large library of books and
was the forerunner of both the Buffalo Public Library and the Buffalo Museum of
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I would like to talk to Andrew and find out more about
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get away with it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why did he need the
money?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Where was he confined? </span>Did the arrest lead to his coming
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-56154541934534783042019-11-26T08:26:00.001-08:002019-12-22T12:35:14.289-08:00#106 Soldier<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I think of the he </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">War of 1812</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> (1812-1815) as a kind of forgotten war. It is sandwiched between the Revolution War and the Civil War and does not get a lot of attention. However, it was an important war. It was fought because of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">British restrictions on U.S. trade, America’s desire to expand its territory,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"> and the impressment of United States sailors into the Royal Navy. </span><br />
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-11207200599413035432019-11-19T12:52:00.001-08:002019-12-22T12:34:35.380-08:00#105 Poor-- Ann Morgan, Poor in Information<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week’s theme is poor. Poor in money? Poor in land? Poor in children? How about poor in information? That would fit my great great grandmother, Ann Morgan. Other than her name, and a couple of pieces of information about the birth of her children, she is a mystery.<br />
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Unfortunately, Morgan is a common name and so is Ann. I figured that Ann had her children in her late teens or very early 20. That would mean that she was born in the 1790’s. Both the 1841 and 1851 census list an Ann Morgan who would be the right age. The only other piece of information is that she was an upholsterer. <br />
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So I am stuck. I would love to ask Ann some of these questions? Who were your parents? Where did you live? How long was your relationship with Andrew Cochrane Johnstone? Did he support you and the children?<br />
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-21599316575780517802019-11-13T14:14:00.000-08:002019-11-13T14:15:26.479-08:00#204 Rich Man<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are many ways to be rich. My emigrant ancestor, Edward Richards (1610-1684) was a rich man. When you are dealing with people in the 17th century, it is hard to determine exactly how rich any one was. One way to determine that is to look at what they owned, particularly land.<br />
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Edward Richards lived in Dedham, Massachusetts. He arrived there about 1632 and was granted a house lot and another lot because there was a defect in his house lot. A little later he was able to buy an additional lot from Robert Feak. Edward joined the church and signed the Dedham Covenant.<br />
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The town of Dedham was granted a good deal of land, some of which they held and other of which they distributed to its residents. They had an interesting system. The amount of land a person received was based on the amount of land the person already held and the number of people in the family. So if you had a lot of land and a large family you got more land than people who owned less land and a smaller family.<br />
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Within the land granted to Dedham was a large tract of land which previous had been granted to a Mr. Cook of Dublin, Ireland for a large farm and manor house. After Mr. Cook died, his attorney was given permission to sell the lands to Eliazer Lusher and Anthony Fisher of Dedham. Some time later, Edward Richards was able to buy Mr. Cook’s farm and built “Broad Oaks,” which remained in the Richards family until 1838.<br />
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So I think, in terms of land Edward Richards was a rich man. If I could talk to him, I would like to know what he did with all that land. How much was farmed? How much was meadow? How many buildings was on that land?<br />
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-3803479876224579562019-10-28T11:30:00.000-07:002019-10-29T06:55:29.395-07:00#203--Trick or Treat<br />
Every year I go to Halloween Nights at the <a href="https://www.thehenryford.org/visit/greenfield-village/" target="_blank">Greenfield Village</a>. It is a treat to be there and enjoy all the scenes and displays. Some are tricks, but others are treats. Volunteers carve 1000 pumpkins and they are placed along the sidewalks and visitors follow the path.with the pumpkins lighting the way.<br />
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First we have a some coffins.<br />
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<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-70505367059824983132019-10-23T12:22:00.000-07:002019-10-23T12:22:16.663-07:00#202--Driving the REO<br />
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picture among my mother’s things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a
wonderful scene of a family going for a Sunday afternoon ride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could identify my grandfather, Walter Eitelbach, driving, my
grandmother, Regina, in the back seat and my mother, Marie, peaking out the side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I do not know who the other couple is, but I think they may be one of my grandfather's brothers and his wife. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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identifying information on it, except for the license plate with a date of 1914. I am fortunate to
volunteer at <a href="https://www.thehenryford.org/visit/greenfield-village/" target="_blank">Greenfield Village </a>and we have an old car festival. So I took my picture to the section where the
1910 to 1920 cars were displayed and asked if anyone could identify the
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idea what a REO was but with a little research, this is what I learned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1904 Ransom Olds started the <a href="http://absolutemichigan.com/michigan/michigan-automotive-history-reo-motor-car-company/" target="_blank">REO MotorCompany,</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>which by 1907 was one of the
top four car companies in the United States. The company manufactured cars in Flint, Michigan until 1936 when the depression affect the company so much that it ceased to
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<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-91367228660716767802019-10-20T12:43:00.000-07:002019-10-20T12:43:40.090-07:00#201 Adventurer--Lord Admiral Cochrane<br />
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My distant cousin, Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald (14 December 1775 – 31 October 1860), was an officer of the Royal Navy. By all accounts he was adventurous and very successful. So successful in fact that during the Napoleonic Wars that Napoleon called him Le Loup des Mers ('The Sea Wolf').<br />
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Lord Cochrane joined the British Navy at the age of 17. He served under his uncle, Admiral Alexander Cochrane. He was given command of his own ship, the Speedy. Always smart, when a Spanish war ship tried to capture him, he flew the Danish flag, and turned back a boarding group by stating that the ship had many cases of the plague on board. In addition, when followed by an enemy frigate, that night he put a barrel in the water with a candle on it. The enemy followed the barrel and Cochrane and his ship escaped. Lord Cochrane was well know for his capture of the Spanish frigate El Gamo in 1801. El Gamo was a large ship with 32 guns and a crew of 319. In contrast the Speedy had 14 guns and 54 seamen. Flying an American flag, Cochrane brought the Speedy so near to El Gamo that her guns could not fire. While the Spanish tried to board the Speedy, Cochrane turned away and fired his guns at the Speedy. Later Cochrane boarded and captured El Gamo even though he was outnumbered 5 to 1.<br />
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Cochrane did well with the Speedy. He captured, burned or pushed ashore 53 ships before Admiral Charles-Alexandre Linois captured him.<br />
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Lord Cochrane served as a model for several books. C.S. Forester used him as a model for<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Hornblower" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Horatio Hornblower">Horatio Hornblower</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> . He also served as the model for </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Aubrey" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jack Aubrey">Jack Aubrey</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> in the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">novels by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_O%27Brian" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Patrick O'Brian">Patrick O'Brian</a>.<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-58" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"></sup><br />
<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-56538122206678186322019-10-09T13:41:00.000-07:002019-10-09T13:41:35.431-07:00#200--Context Matters.<br />
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started to do genealogy, I was very content to build my family tree--to put all
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all over New York State.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since I have
many family members who lived in that state, for me it is a great site.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Using it I was able to find an ad for the
Hannah-Ross Shoe company in Auburn, New York, a company that I did not know my
grandfather was involved in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have also
been able to read about my grandmother and grandfather’s wedding, various
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Dedham, Massachusetts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The records go
back to the early 1600.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In those records
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books that focus on life at a particular time in our history, e.g., Frontier
Living by Edwin Tunis for my Hannahs and Mears who lived in Brown County, Ohio
and Edgar County, Illinois in the 1800’s. Since my ancestors moved from place
to place Walking with Your</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ancestors by
Melinda Kashuba was particularly useful.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
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specifically deal with my ancestors, they do describe what their lives might
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-37882263199773434272019-10-07T07:02:00.002-07:002019-10-07T07:02:59.410-07:00#199 Harvest time with Sarah Ann Hannah<br />
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for this week is harvest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have many
relatives who were farmers; the vast majority of them were men; however, a several
were women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Previously, I blogged about </span><a href="https://ancestorsiwishiknew.blogspot.com/2019/05/180-jane-mears-calvin-female-farmer.html"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jane Mears Calvin</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, my 3 great aunt who also ran a
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Hannah was born on February 17, 1823, in Brown or Clermont County, Ohio,.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her parents were John M. and Charity (Mears)
Hannah. She married Joseph Mitchell and they had five children together. Joseph
died in 1857.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many years later she<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>married Samuel McCampbell on October 24,
1892,. She died on February 24, 1906, at the age of 83. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Public Domain Land Tract Sales indicate that Joseph Mitchell did not buy any
land of the from the federal government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, he did buy land from some of his relatives, e.g. John M.
Hannah, John Wesley Hannah, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
land was mostly in Ross Township in Edgar County and where he and his family
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Agricultural Census Schedule lists Sarah Mitchell as the owner of a farm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The farm consisted of 80 improved acres and 32
unimproved with a value of $2000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>$100
was the value of the machinery and farm implements. Sarah had 5 horses, 3 milch
cows, 1 other cattle, 20 sheep and 12 swine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The livestock was valued at $570.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The farm produced 1500 bushels of Indian corn and 86 pounds of wool. The
farm produced 100 pounds of butter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
animals that were slaughtered during the year were worth $30. When I looked at
the other farms which were listed, Jane’s farm was pretty typical, not the
largest, not the smallest, just kind of in the middle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to talk to Sarah <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and find out how she
ran the farm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did her children do most
of the work?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did she hire people to help
her? How did she learn to manage the farm?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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also ran the family farm after her husband died in 1857 (See blog on the right
side of this page).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am wondering since
Jane had been running her farm for some time, she provided any advice to Sarah.
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My great aunt, Anne Hannah, married Charles Ross and moved from Butler, Missouri to Auburn, New York. When her father, John Wesley Hannah (1839-1899) died, her brother William and her four sisters, also moved to Auburn. William married Gertrude Cochrane, who came to Auburn to visit her cousin, Lucy Pingree. My father and his sister were both born in Auburn. They lived at 187 Genessee Street with William sister, Anne Hannah and her husband, Charles Ross.<br />
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I started by going to Google Maps. I put Auburn, New York in the search box and when the map came up, I started at Genesee Street and South Street, and drove down South Street. I was impressed that South street was a mix of older buildings and new ones.<br />
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Close by I found Fort Hills Cemetery, where my Aunt Anne Hannah and her husband Charles Ross are buried. I took a quick look at Find a Grave and was able to locate her headstones.<br />
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When I got to the corner of Genesee and South Street, I turned onto South. A little way down I drove by Harriet Tubman’s House, the former <br />
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As I drove on , I found the home of William Seward, a New York State Senator, Governor of New York, a U.S. Senator, and Secretary of State for President Lincoln.<br />
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I also saw The Cayuga Museum of History and Art and Case Research Lab Historic Site and the Schweinfurth Art Center.<br />
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In downtown Auburn, I saw St. Peter's Episcopal Church, where I think my father may have been baptized.<br />
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Then along came Pam. Pam is a granddaughter of Jennie Willey and was able to fill in a great deal of information about that branch of our tree. Jennie had 8 brothers and sisters. The one that was most confusing was James Willey, whose name was once in a while written as James "Sig Montanio "Willey. Then one day, Anna was looking at a census of the Willeys and founds a Sig Montanio. The age, birth location etc. all matched James Willey. So the three of us started in to figure out this little puzzle. We were able to figure out the genealogy and why the name change. It turned out that James joined a <a href="https://ancestorsiwishiknew.blogspot.com/2016/04/daring-young-man-on-flying-trapeze.html" target="_blank">circus as an acrobat,</a> wire walker and later running a traveling circus. We found pictures of his two sons, who worked as clowns and acrobats, information about the circuses he ran and numerous newspaper articles about the performances.<br />
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-60588061194493673992019-09-16T08:30:00.000-07:002019-09-16T08:35:09.159-07:00#196 So Many John Hannahs<br />
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This week’s theme is mistakes. Errors are easy to make in genealogy, particularly when you do not have a lot of information or when a number of people have the same name.<br />
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I have 11 John Hannah’s in my tree. I also have several with a different first name, but John as their middle name, e.g. John Hannah Turner. In some way or another they are all related, often lived in the same area and farmed. The ones I am most interested in are John M. Hannah and John Wesley Hannah, my great great and great grandfathers.<br />
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One way to keep them straight is to use their middle names, if they have them. So John Gates Hannah, John Gray Lawrence Hannah, and John Bayard Hannah are easy to keep straight as long as they are referred to with their middle names. If not, dates of birth can distinguish them. The dates of birth range from 1799 (John M. Hannah) to John Clifford Hannah (1919). Location also helps. The earlier John Hannahs tended to live in Brown County, Ohio or Edgar County, Illinois. As time passed, some moved to places like Missouri or Colorado. So if a John Hannah turns up in California, I will check him out, but can be pretty sure he is not one of mine.<br />
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The lesson I learned from all these John Hannah’s is be careful and check to make sure you have the correct one.Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-56068561081238754712019-09-08T08:22:00.000-07:002019-09-08T08:23:26.338-07:00#195-- Richards Hannah Goes Back to School<br />
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This week’s theme is schools. How appropriate as most students are now back at school. I have previous blogged about my grandfather attending <a href="https://ancestorsiwishiknew.blogspot.com/2018/08/143-william-d-hannah-goes-to-school.html" target="_blank">Wentworth Academy</a> and Dickinson College as well as my great Aunt going to <a href="https://ancestorsiwishiknew.blogspot.com/2019/01/161-first-aunt-gert-goes-to-college.html" target="_blank">Baird</a>. So I decided I would blog about <a href="https://www.polyprep.org/" target="_blank">Poly Prep County Day School </a>(Poly), where my father was a student.<br />
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Poly was started in 1854 at 99 Livingston Street, Brooklyn. The academic program was very strong and equal to the programs at elite boarding schools. A variety of extracurricular activities evolved: a newspaper, drama society, debate. Students wanted more athletic opportunities. In 1916 part of the Dyker Meadows Golf Course was purchased and the school was incorporated as the Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School. 350 students arrived in 1917. Students stayed after school to engaged in after school activities, typically sports. Poly was all boys until 1979, when girls were admitted.<br />
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In the family that does not throw out anything of sentimental value, I have the yearbook, The Polyglot, from my father’s senior year. It is a pretty typical yearbook—pictures of students by class, pictures of the faculty, pictures of various athletic teams, clubs, etc.<br />
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I knew that my father played hockey and lacrosse at Poly, but I learned that he was also on the soccer team, and was its captain.<br />
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He was Vice President of the Oasis Society. According to the Poly website, the Oasis Society “recognizes leadership and accomplishment that benefit our school, aiming to promote school spirit and service to the school community.” In addition, he was in charge of refreshments for the Senior Dance.<br />
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My grandfather, William D. Hannah was in the shoe business. He had a shoe factory in <br />
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<a href="https://www.cityofnewburyport.com/" target="_blank">Newburyport, Massachusetts </a>and another in Dobbs Ferry, New York in the early 20th century. He also had a showroom on Duane Street in New York City.<br />
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At that time, the way to advertise was to send catalogs or flyers to businesses. I am fortunate to have several of his catalogs. Some were fairly simple and others were rather elaborate.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre;">well as boots. I would love to wear either of these pink shoes. </span></span><br />
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Just look at all the colors those shoes come in.<br />
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I am not sure whether this is a shoe or a boot. I love the buttons, but think it would take me a long<br />
time to get them buttoned up. Want to know how much they cost? See that number at the button. That is the price, but you have to read it backward. The shoe/boot costs $1.60.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week's theme is tragedy. Bad things happen in all families, but this is a most interesting one from my family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Harlan Turner, my great aunt's husband certainly was involved a a tragedy . I did not know much about him, except that he married my Aunt Gert Hannah in Butler, Missouri on April 4, 1890. Then they divorced 9 years later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Harlan was born Morgan County, Kentucky on February 27, 1857 to James and Elizabeth (Trimble) Turner. The 1860 and 1870 census describe him as living at home with his parents in Kentucky. In 1880 Harlan is living in Valley, Linn, Kansas. He is described as a farmer and a partner in the farm. When he arrived in Butler, Missouri is a mystery to me. However, I got more information about him from the Butler newspaper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Imagine my surprise to read that he was involved in a gun fight in a saloon in Butler. Compared to</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">the size of most of the articles in the paper, this was a much longer article so I suspect it was a big story in Butler. As I read the article, this is what seems to have happened. Harlan Turner and his friend, J. W. McVeigh had spent most of the day from noon to early evening drinking in the Goose Saloon. About 7 o’clock they began to hit each other over the head and in the face with their hats. To avoid further trouble, the bartender closed the bar, and Turner and McVeight left, and went their separate ways.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">to what they had seen and Turner testified indicating that he shot McVeigh in self-defense. After describing an verbal interaction with McVeigh, Turner said the following:</span><br />
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<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-66610658118947291692019-08-16T06:38:00.000-07:002019-08-16T06:38:40.473-07:00#192--Comedy<br />
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Comedy is this week’s theme. When I think of comedy I think of clowns and when I think of clowns, I remember that I have two relatives who worked as clowns when they were children.<br />
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Their father, James Willey (1850-1918) changed his name to Signor Montanio. James worked as an acrobat, tight- rope walker, and a trapeze artist. He also ran circuses--primarily, the Great New York Circus and the Great Mexican Circus. He married Josephine Greenwalk (1860--1899), and they had four children--Harry (1873-1947), Perry (1880-1942), Minnie, and Charlotte. The boys worked in the shows as clowns and acrobats and their mother had a musical act. <br />
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Local newspapers often reported that the circus was coming or reported on the performance. Those clippings gave me some insight into what the boys did. According to this article, sometimes they worked as acrobats or trapeze artists.<br />
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While the article above describes them as twins, they were not.<br />
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I wonder what Harry and Perry looked like and was thrilled to find these two pictures of them.<br />
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From tracking the route of their circus--The Great New York Show or the Great Mexican Show, the boys worked until 1893. After that, various newspaper articles show them working as cowboys, often in rodeos. </div>
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-21292414305974713232019-08-07T13:28:00.002-07:002019-08-07T13:34:49.306-07:00#191--Sisters--Staying Together<br />
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The theme for this week is sisters. My great grandmother, Charity Mears, had five sisters, they are part of my ancestry tree that I call the tribe and that I have written about before. I think of them as a tribe because they tended to stay together.<br />
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This time I want to look at who they married and see if there were relationships among their husbands.<br />
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Mary Mears ((1786-1873)—Lemuel Boyle Sayer<br />
Elizabeth Mears (1796—1880)—Jonathan Shreve<br />
Catherine Mears (1799-1888)—Robert Legate (1802—1822) and Israel Donnelson Sayre (1807-1849)<br />
Nancy Mears (1801-1883)—George Newell (1798-1875)<br />
Jane Mears (1803-1878)—Jesse Stephenson (1804—1828)and David Calvin (1800/1810—1845)<br />
Charity Mears (1806—1842)—John M. Hannah (1799-1842)<br />
Sarah Jane Mears (1808-1899)-- George Fisher (1807-190)<br />
William Mears (1799-1873)--Sarah Newell (180--1873).<br />
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-88741479567448166852019-08-02T08:04:00.000-07:002019-08-02T08:04:45.519-07:00#190-- Four Brothers in the Jewelry Business<br />
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The theme for this week’s blog is brothers. I was really excited. My great grandparents, Louis and Maria Eitelbach has six children—all boys. They lived in Hagen, Germany until 1896 when they, along with their four youngest children—Walter, Louis, Maxmillian and William—came to the United States. They settled in Brooklyn, New York at 1287 Greene Street. After their arrival, Maria had two more children—Harry and Frank.<br />
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<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-66235102092572735672019-07-10T08:20:00.001-07:002019-07-10T08:20:48.507-07:00#188--Reunion<br />
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Here I am, sitting on the front porch with my great grandmother, Charity Mears Hannah. I wanted to chat with her about a couple of people her family and what they are doing now. Charity was born in Ohio on 11 FEB 1806 to David and Elizabeth Mears. She married by John M. Hannah on 22 April 1822 in Brown County, Ohio. They were married by David Rankin, a well-known abolitionist<br />
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“Grandma, I am interested in learning a little about some of your brothers and sisters. What can you tell me about Aunt Catherine. “<br />
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“Well, Catherine was born on March 1, 1799, in Kentucky. She is 6 years older than I am so she often took care of me when I was little. I loved to play dolls with her. When I was older, she sometimes showed me how to cook. She married Robert Legate and they had two children together. After he died in 1822—that made her so sad--, she married Israel Donnelson Sayre and they had seven children. You know that Israel bought a good bit of land in Ross and Prairie Townships. He’s a successful farmer. While I do not ask, I think they have a good bit of money. Ever since he died in 1848, she and the children have run the farm.”<br />
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“Wow, I did not know all that. You know, I have never met Aunt Elizabeth because she still lives in Indiana. What do you know about her?”<br />
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family down the Ohio to Cross Plains, Indiana. Elizabeth told me it was an easy journey. So day, I hope to see her.”<br />
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“I have not seen her in a long time, because she lives in Brown County, Ohio. I hear from her once in a while or when friends and family come to visit from Ohio. She is a lot older than I am and I did not much to do with her when I was a child. She married Lemuel Boyle Sayers and they had only one child, David Mears Sayres. They live in Eagle township now; he retired from farming and is now working making cabinets. One thing I do remember is that Mary made the best pies, particularly her peach pie.”<br />
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“Thanks you do much Grandma for the information, I have a better understanding of your family, but maybe next week you can tell me a little more.”<br />
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05794793573272614683noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5277300092384868284.post-40928113518953837752019-07-04T06:09:00.000-07:002019-07-04T06:09:09.997-07:00#187--Another Brother Fighting for Freedom--John Richards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Fourth of July is this week so when the theme was
Independence I immediately though of those in my family who fought in the
Revolutionary War.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have previous
blogged about my third and fourth grandfathers, <span id="goog_987603143"></span><a href="https://ancestorsiwishiknew.blogspot.com/2014/04/fighting-for-freedom-abiathar-richards.html" target="_blank">Abiathar Richards, Sr</a>.<span id="goog_987603144"></span> and
<a href="https://ancestorsiwishiknew.blogspot.com/2019/05/181-abiathar-richards-jr-fighting-for.html" target="_blank">Abiathar Richards, Jr.</a> and their brother, <a href="https://ancestorsiwishiknew.blogspot.com/2017/07/108-able-richardss-secret-mission-in.html" target="_blank">Abel Richards</a>—all who fought for
freedom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I am going to add another
brother to that list, my uncle, John Richards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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John Richards was born in Dedham Massachusetts on March 19,
1723.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His parents were John and Abigail
(Avery) Richards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He married Rebecca
Herring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had two sons and six
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Revolutionary War Indicated John was a private in William Ellis’s Company,
Colonel Heath’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also served in a
company commanded by David Fairbanks, Colonel McIntosh’s Regiment for 4 days at
Dorchester Heights. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the
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and local volunteers quietly fortified the summit of Dorchester Heights with
cannon captured at Fort Ticonderoga. When the British army in Boston woke the
next morning, they discovered that they were now surrounded. This action by the
colonial militia hastened the decision by the British army to evacuate Boston
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