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| 2751 | There is a John married to Eln Hoy 1723 in Braintree, Braintree Essex, England marriage index The baptism may not be accurate as Chrishall is quite a distance from Braintree. following info from wikipedia: Chrishall (pronounced Chris hall) is a small village in the English county of Essex. It is located 20 kilometres (12 mi) south of Cambridge and lies equidistant [10 kilometres (6 mi)] between the two medieval market towns of Saffron Walden and Royston. Although in Essex, Chrishall lies close to its borders with Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire and has a 'Hertfordshire' postcode (SG8). The village was listed in the Domesday Book as Cristeshalla, or "nook of land dedicated to Christ". In 1422, (1 Henry VI), it appears in a record as "Cristeshale".[2] It is one of only two English settlements whose name contains the word "Christ". Chrishall's location is key to its character; as the village sits at the highest point in Essex, at 147 metres (482 ft) above sea level, road construction has avoided this high ground and therefore Chrishall is off the beaten track. Chrishall's population has remained largely unchanged over the last 170 years. In 1841 it totalled 518 and today about 450 people live in the village.[3] | COLLIS, John (I1737)
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| 2752 | There is a Joseph Collis as an Ironmonger in Dunmow, Essex, England in (also a Guyver & Collis, wheelwright) Ancestry U.K., City and County Directories, 1600s-1900s Record for U.K., City and County Directories, 1600s-1900s Pigot's Directory 1839 p 35 There is also a William listed as a tailor, draper, & hatter in Dunmow (a brother?) | COLLIS, Joseph (I1895)
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| 2753 | There is a Mill Sly in the 1790 census in Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vermont; 2 males age 16+, 2 males under 16, 5 females. There is also a Gedeon listed, 2 males age 16+, 2 males under 16, 3 females. There is also a Henry Sly in Glastonvury, Bennington Vermont, which town is right next to Shaftsbury. | SLY, Miles (I7741)
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| 2754 | There is a Thomas Dear marriage to Jane Bonnington, in Upminster6 May 1807 in Essex, Writtle marriage index along with George Collis and Sarah Bonnington on 3 Aug 1807 | BONNINGTON, Sarah (I3646)
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| 2755 | There is a Thomas Gordon marr record to Mary Reynolds 13 Oct 1852, Yolo Co Marriage index C 4 | GORDON, Jose Tomas "Thomas" (I5507)
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| 2756 | there is a will for John Owens in Richmond County Virginia in 1712. | OWENS, John (I4038)
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| 2757 | There is a will for Richard Owens Sr. in King George County, Virginia in 1763. | OWENS, Richard (I4028)
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| 2758 | There is question as to the actual marriage of Johannah. It is stated that she | Family F3047
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| 2759 | There may be question on the place of death After the disappearance at sea of her 2nd Husband, John Taylor, Rhoda moved to NOrwalk, CT. and married Walter Hoyt. She had two daughters by first marriage. | TINKER, Rhoda (I3899)
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| 2760 | There seems to be some discrepency as to whether her name was Lawrence or Hill. | LAWRENCE, Susan (I785)
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| 2761 | These may or may not be the righ Milton Normon? 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Gideon Norton Age: 23 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1827 Birth Place: Massachusetts Gender: Male Home in 1850(City,County,State): Brighton, Livingston, Michigan Household Members: Name Age Gideon Norton 23 Hellen Norton 0 Lydia Norton 19 1860 United States Federal Census (these may be parents keeping the children Name: Milton C Norton Age in 1860: 6 Birth Year: abt 1854 Birthplace: Michigan Home in 1860: Brighton, Livingston, Michigan Gender: Male Post Office: Brighton Household Members: Name Age Electa M Norton 55 N G Norton 32 Helen Norton 10 Milton C Norton 6 American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) Name: Milton G. Norton Birth Date: 1827 Volume: 126 Page Number: 213 Reference: Ms, NY, farmer-Descendants and anc. of Chas. Norton. Guilford, Ct. By albert B. Norton. Washington, DC, 1856. (26p.):10-11 | NORTON, Milton Gideon (I1994)
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| 2762 | They arrived at Loudoun County, Virginia on 28 May 1763 | PANCOAST, Anne (I6481)
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| 2763 | They came from Wrightown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania on 28 Sep 1764 to Loudoun County, Virginia | DILLON, William (I6448)
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| 2764 | They had no children | Family F2354
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| 2765 | They lived in Capay valley in 1913 | WOOD, Myrtle Jessie (I4372)
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| 2766 | things to do: Timeline for Beaumont Loranger: 1862 Aug 28, Beaumont born in Sacramento, Sacramento, CA 1870 US Census, Beaumont living with parents in Cottonwood, Yolo, CA 1880 US Census, living with father in East Cottonwood, Yolo, CA 1883 Feb 11, married Margaret Tutt in Madison, Yolo, California 1883 Jun, son, Beaumont born in Madison 1884 Dec 22, daughter, Ora May, born in Madison 1886 Jul 25, daughter, Anna Belle, born in Madison 1888 Aug 8, son Isadore Caldwell, born in Madison 1890 Apr 22, daughter, Jessie Clyde, born in Madison 1896 Jul 13, son Phillip Raymond, born in Madison 1900 US Census, living with wife, Margaret and 5 children in Cottonwood, Yolo, CA 1903 Oct 23, daughter, Beatrice Rosells, born in Madison 1910 US Census, living with wife and 4 children and son in law in Cottonwood 1920 US Census, living with wife and 2 children in Cottonwood 1925 Jul 9, wife died in Woodland, Yolo, CA at age 60 1926 Oct 5, Beaumont died in Esparto, Yolo, CA at age 64 from glomular nephritis, Bright's Disease !DEATH: CA state file #50319 !MARR: Yolo County marriage records Book E pg 348. He was age 20 at the time of his marriage and lived in Madison, Yolo County, California. The name Beaumont is French Canadian, meaning beautiful Mountain. 1870 United States Federal Census Name: Beaumont Loranger Estimated birth year: abt 1862 Age in 1870: 8 Birthplace: California Home in 1870: Cottonwood, Yolo, California Family and neighbors: Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Woodland 1880 United States Federal Census Name: Bomont Lovangen Home in 1880: East Cottonwood, Yolo, California Age: 17 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1863 Birthplace: California Relation to Head of Household: Son Father's Name: I. R. Father's birthplace: Michigan Mother's birthplace: Canada Occupation: On Farm Marital Status: Single Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age I. R. Lovangen 52 Roger Lovangen 22 Bomont Lovangen 17 Fook 22 Kay Hun 49 G. B. Smith 43 C. F. Pope 20 T. J. White 25 Fred Jones 26 1890 California Great Register - living in Madison, Yolo county- farmer He lived at Cottonwood, and attended Cottonwood schools. He died of chronic myocarditis and mitral regurgitation. and Bright's Disease (Glomular Nephritis) Book 4 pg 376 1900 United States Federal Census Name: Beamon Loranger Home in 1900: Cottonwood, Yolo, California Age: 37 Estimated birth year: abt 1863 Birthplace: California Relationship to head-of-house: Head Spouse's name: Margaret Race: White Occupation: farmer Household Members: Name Age Beamon Loranger 37 Margaret Loranger 34 Beannont Loranger 16 Ora M Loranger 15 Anna B Loranger 13 Isadore Loranger 11 Clyde Loranger 10 Raymond Loranger 3 1910 United States Federal Census Name: Beaumont Loranger Age in 1910: 47 Estimated birth year: abt 1863 Birthplace: California Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: Michigan Mother's Birth Place: Canada English Spouse's name: Margaret Home in 1910: Cottonwood, Yolo, California Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Beaumont Loranger 47 Margaret Loranger 44 Raymond P Loranger 13 Beatrice R Loranger 7 Isidore C Loranger 21 James W Travis 25 son in law Jessie C Travis 19 daughter 1920 United States Federal Census Name: Beaumont Loranger Home in 1920: Cottonwood, Yolo, California Age: 57 years Estimated birth year: abt 1863 Birthplace: California Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's name: Margaret Father's Birth Place: Michigan Mother's Birth Place: Canada Marital Status: Married Race: White Sex: Male Home owned: Own Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Image: 279 Household Members: Name Age Beaumont Loranger 57 Margaret Loranger 54 Raymond P Loranger 23 Beatrice R Loranger 17 | LORANGER, Beaumont Pete (I4326)
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| 2767 | Things to do: Timeline for Freeman Major Parker: 1874 Dec 14, Freeman born at Hungry Hollow, Yolo, California 1880 Census, lived with parents in East Cottonwood and Fairview, Yolo, California 1900 Census, was farming and lived with parents at Fairview 1908 Jul 16, Freeman married Ora May Loranger in Woodland, Yolo, CA 1909 Sep 22, first son, Ervin Belmont, born in Esparto, Yolo, CA 1910 Census, lived in Capay, Yolo, California with wife and son 1911 May 14, son, Everett Freeman, born in Esparto, Yolo, CA 1916 Sep 17, son, Chester Dale, born in Esparto, Yolo, CA 1920 Census, lived in Esparto with wife and 3 sons 1921 Aug 16, daughter, Lois Verna, born in Esparto, Yolo, CA 1930 Census, lived in Esparto with wife, 3 sons and 1 daughter 1950 Mar 29, Freeman died in Esparto at age 75 from heart problems Dar records Vol 12 pg 163 !MARRIAGE:Book G, page 473 (or pg 25. /410) at age 34 Hungry Holloow is about 5 miles north of Capay in Yolo County. Freeman was an almond farmer and an expert in grafting and care of trees. He had an ulcer and had to drink goat's milk, so he kept a pet goat that went everywhere with them. When he went to the beach house at Dillon Beach, which he built in about 1917, He tied the goat on the running board. On one trip the goat fell off and the children had to chase him down. Many fishing trips were made up on the rocks, 'poke-poling' for eel. At home, Freeman had a wine cellar underground behind the garage that had to be entered by a ladder. It had wine barrells with a hose on a spigot. Friends would come by and take a swig out of the hose. Lois heard them talking about it and one day decided to try it. She ended up in an apple tree singing at the top of her voice. She got a spanking for her escapade. Freeman died at age 76 on his ranch, at the old pump house. Everett found his father, after he had been reported 'missing'. Freeman and brother Gene, bought almond orchards, approximately 1905, NW of Esparto. Everett bought Lou Chinn's house up the road and piped water under highway to get water from Freeman's to his orchard. Freeman had arthritis in his hands and would put his hands under an ozone lamp. He had an enlarged heart, and may well have suffered from prostate related complications, in his old age. 1880 United States Federal Census Name: Freeman Parker Home in 1880: East Cottonwood and Fairview, Yolo, California Age: 6 Estimated birth year: abt 1874 Birthplace: California Relation to head-of-household: Son Father's name: John Father's birthplace: OH Mother's name: Sarah Mother's birthplace: OH Occupation: At School Marital Status: Single Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age John Parker 41 Sarah Parker 39 Durward Parker 16 Jennie Parker 12 Luella Parker 10 Freeman Parker 6 Eugene Parker 3 William Parker 23 (cousin to John) 1900 United States Federal Census Name: Freeman Parker Home in 1900: Fairview, Yolo, California Age: 26 Estimated birth year: abt 1874 Birthplace: California Relationship to head-of-house: Son Father's name: John Mother's name: Sarah Race: White Household Members: Name Age John Parker 61 Sarah Parker 59 Mary Parker 27 Freeman Parker 26 farm labor Albert Parker 14 Leta Parker 13 John Parker 8 Joshua Hays 39 1910 United States Federal Census Name: Freeman M Parker Age in 1910: 36 Estimated birth year: abt 1874 Birthplace: California Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: Iowa Mother's Birth Place: Iowa Spouse's name: Ora M Home in 1910: Capay, Yolo, California Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Freeman M Parker 36 Ora M Parker 25 Ervin B Parker 6/12 World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Name: Freeman Major Parker County: Yolo State: California Birth Date: 14 Dec 1873 Occupation: Orchardist Tall, Slender, Brown eyes, Black hair Next of Kin: Mrs. Ora Parker Race: White FHL Roll Number: 1544472 1920 United States Federal Census Name: Freemon M Parker [Freeman M Parker] Home in 1920: Esparto, Yolo, California Age: 46 years Estimated birth year: abt 1874 Birthplace: California Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's name: Osa M Father's Birth Place: Iowa Mother's Birth Place: Iowa Marital Status: Married Race: White Sex: Male Home owned: Own Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Image: 296 Household Members: Name Age Freemon M Parker 46 Osa M Parker 33 Crvin B Parker 10 Everett F Parker 8 Chester D Parker 3 4/12 1930 United States Federal Census Name: Freeman Parker Home in 1930: Esparto, Yolo, California Age: 56 Estimated birth year: abt 1874 Birthplace: California Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's name: Ora May Race: White Occupation: Farmer, Orchardist, Military Service: no Age at first marriage: 35 Household Members: Name Age Freeman Parker 56 Ora May Parker 45 Irvin B Parker 20 Everett Parker 18 Chester Parker 13 Lois Parker 8 SS death index.-PARKER FREEMAN MAJOR 12/14/1873 DILLON PARKER M CALIFORNIA YOLO buried in Capay Cemetary, Esparto, Yolo, California | PARKER, Freeman Major (I4313)
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| 2768 | Things to do: Timeline for John Dillon: 1803 Dec 18, John Dillon born in Pennsylvania 1830 Dec 30, John married Jane Babb in Belmont County, Ohio 1832 daughter, Hannah born in Belmont County 1833 Nov 23, daughter, Catherine J, born in Belmont County 1836 Feb 26, daughter, Elizabeth, born in Belmont County 1838 Sep 14, son Peter Colley, born in St. Clairsville, Belmont, Ohio 1841 May 5, daughter, Sarah Ann born in Belmont County 1843 Oct 8, daughter Amy Houge born in Belmont County 1850 US Census, John living in Richland, Belmont, Ohio, with wife and 6 children 1856 Iowa State Census, John living in Cedar County, Iowa with wife and 5 children 1889 Aug 7 John died in Dresden, Poweshiek, Iowa of Kidney Brights Disease (1880 Census) 1903 Sep 12, widow, Jane, died in Woonsocket, Sanborn, South Dakota Iowa State Census Collection, 1836-1925 Name: John Dillon Census Date: 1856 Residence County: Cedar Residence State: Iowa Locality: Iowa Birth Location: Pennsylvania Family Number: 25 Marital Status: Married Gender: Male Birth Year: abt 1803 Line: 1 Roll: IA_49 Neighbors: Household Members: Name Age John Dillon 53 Jane Dillon 45 Catherin J Dillon 22 Elizabeth E Dillon 20 Peter C Dillon 18 Sarah Ann Dillon 15 Amy H Dillon 12 Peter K Walters 2 1850 United States Federal Census Name: John Dillan Age: 46 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1804 Birth Place: Pennsylvania Gender: Male Home in 1850(City,County,State): Richland, Belmont, Ohio Household Members: Name Age Anney Dillan 6 Catherine Dillan 17 Elizabeth Dillan 14 Hannah Dillan 18 Jane Dillan 41 John Dillan 46 Peter Dillan 12 Sarah Dillan 8 1860 Us Census Deep River PO, Deep River tnshp, Poweshiek, Iowa - John Dillon age 56, Jane age 51, P. Cauley age 21, Sarah Ann age 19, Annie age 16. 1870 US Census Montezuma, Deep River Twnshp, Poweshiek, Iowa - John Dillon age 66, Jane age 56 ( a cook, school teacher, and a farm laborer are listed with them) 1880 US Census Dresden, Deep River, Poweshiek, Iowa - John Dillon listed as having Bright's disease of kidney. Name: John Dillon Age: 76 Birth Year: abt 1804 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1880: Dresden, Poweshiek, Iowa Race: White Gender: Male Relation to Head of House: Self (Head) Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: Jane Dillon Father's Birthplace: Virginia Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania Neighbors: View others on page Occupation: Farmer Sick: of kidney/Brights Disease Household Members: Name Age John Dillon 76 Jane Dillon 71 buried in the Dresden Cemetary, Deep River, Iowa | DILLON, John (I4897)
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| 2769 | Things to do: 1. Check accuracy of birthdate. The following information is from the "Napa County Record" Friday, May 17 1996, pg 5- "Vintage Valley Views". 1806 1839 grew up married and farmed in eastern Tennessee Birthdate accuracy?) 1839 1845 widowed, farmed in Missouri, married Mahala and had more children 1845 captained of the Grigsby-Ide Wagon train to California and Napa County from Fort Laramie. 1846 47 one of the leaders of the California Bear Flag Revolt, then was a captain of the first company of Mounted Riflemen of the California Battalion (later called Co. E of Freemont's Battalion. (Story of the Bear Flag History in the SF Examiner, 28 May 1922) 1847 Sept 25, bought 1,400 acres of farm land in Napa Valley, from Salvador Vallejo, General Valleyo's brother. This land adjoined Rancho Caymus, which belonged to George Yount. 1856 Aug 20, Divorce Decree in Napa declared he had an affair with Isabel Yates of Napa Valley. 1857 June 21 remarried Mahala 1860 March 20 Mahala died at age 44 1860 Sept 15 John sold the last parcel of his Yountville land 1860 went to Texas then to Missouri to spend final years with relatives. 1864 and 1872 came back to California to settle Mahala's estate. 1876 March 15 died in Moselle, Franklin County, Missouri Captain John Grigsby - died March 1876, Moselle, Franklin County, MO. Mason. Captain of Grigsby-Ide Party to California 1845; Captain of the Bears and of a company of the California Battalion under Fremont. 1852 California Census Napa County Name Race Gender Birth Place Estimated Birth Year Age Residence County John Grigsby White Male Tennessee abt 1811 41 Napa Grigsby White Female Tennessee abt 1817 35 Napa G W Grigsby White Male Tennessee abt 1830 22 Napa Grigsby White Male Tennessee abt 1832 20 Napa S A Grigsby White Female Tennessee abt 1831 21 Napa M T Grigsby White Female Tennessee abt 1834 18 Napa S Grigsby White Male Missouri abt 1836 16 Napa Wiley Grigsby White Male Missouri abt 1838 14 Napa N A Grigsby White Female Missouri abt 1841 11 Napa J S Grigsby White Male Rocky Mountains abt 1845 7 Napa J K P Grigsby White Male California abt 1847 5 Napa K Grigsby White Female California abt 1848 4 Napa L Grigsby White Female California abt 1851 1 Napa | GRIGSBY, Capt. John (I7562)
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| 2770 | Things to do: 1. check meirhoff book for history 2. find Rose in 1900 census 3. Rose occupation in 1920? Timeline for Albert Rose Nurse: 1874 Jun 16, Albert Rose born in Capay, Yolo, California 1896 Jun 14, married Minnie A Duncan in Yolo County, CA 1898 Oct, daughter, Lola Marcella born in Yolo County 1899 Mar 7, daughter, Lola died in Woodland, Yolo, CA 1901 Jan 30 son, born in Yolo County, died on Feb 1st. 1901 wife, Minnie, died in Woodland 1904 lived in Colusa while working on Tisdale Wier 1905 Oct 25, married Carolyn May Clark in Sacramento, Sacramento, CA 1906 Sep 12, son, Elwood Clark born in Sacramento 1908 Sep 18, son, Ashley Kingdon, born in Sacramento 1910 US Census, lived in Sacramento Ward 8, Sacramento, California, with wife, Carrie and 2 boys, occupation Engineer/Dredger 1910 Jul 6, daughter, Lucille Berniece,born in Sacramento 1912 Jun 21, daughter, Elinor Fay, born in Sacramento 1913 Dec 31, son, Forrest Clare,born in Cadanasso, Yolo, California, 1914 Nov 30, daughter, Norma Carolyn born in Cadanasso, Yolo, California, 1917 Aug 5, daughter, Audrey Adair born in Cadanasso Yolo, California, 1920 US census, lived in Capay, Yolo, California with wife and 7 children 1930 US census, lived in Capay, Yolo, California with wife and 4 children, nut & grain farmer 1938 Jul 24, Albert Rose died in fire in his home in Capay, Yolo, California at age 64 buried in Capay Cemetary !MARR 1:Yolo County Book F Pg 431 !DEATH:CA state file #45920 ! His Biography in the "Capay Valley" by Ada Meirhoff,Pg 361 Albert Rose Nurse and Carolyn Mae Clark met and fell in love in 1904. He was assigned to work on the Tisdale Wier in Colusa where Carrie lived and worked as a dress maker. He was grieving over the death of his first wife, Minnie Duncan and their two little children. Carrie, according to their friends, brought out the best in Albert Rose and made him happy and positive. They married in 1905. They were a happy, loving, supporting couple. The first 4 children were born in Sacramento, Elwood in 1906, Ashley in 1908, Lucille in 1910, and Elinor in 1912. Rose was a conductor on the streetcar for the Sac'to Gas, Electric, and Railway Co. In January 1913 the family moved to the ranch in Cadenasso, where Rose grew up and three more children were born, Forrest in 1913, Norma in 1914, and Audrey in 1917. Rose and Carolyn Nurse lived and raised their children on the 160 acre ranch inherited from his mother. They raised cattle, pigs, turkeys, chickens, and grain. There were also almonds, walnuts, and peaches. The ranch at Cadenasso included the house where Rose was born and was near the Cadanesso school. When their children were still quite young, Rose Nurse lost his eyesight due to eyelashes that grew back into his eyes, irritating them. He could no longer work and earn a living for the family. The girls would take tweezers and pull out his eyelashes. He would often be heard whistling or singing. He was a gentle man and loved all the babies and little ones. He would often say, "Isn't that the cutest baby you have ever seen." His children took turns reading to him, and providing for his needs. They were poor financially, but a happy, loving cooperative family. Carrie played the piano, mainly hymns. Rose played the violin and could chord and play with her by ear. The children would sing to the music. The children were never spanked. The parents were always supportive with positive guidance. If the children needed disciplining, they were sent to the bedroom and told not to come out until there was a smile on their face. If it was only half of a smile, they were sent back until the smile was full and real. The land was reposessed by Roy Wyatt after a fire in 1938 burned down the house with Rose Nurse in it. Elinor Parker, their daughter, tells the story about the fire as follows: "She was on her way to stay with her parents. She stopped at the Monroe ranch to drop off something. Everett found her there and told her there was trouble at the ranch. He took her to the ranch. Someone stopped her at the gate and told her she couldn't go to the house because her dad was gone. Her mother was sittin there by the gate in a chair and said, 'I don't mean to be rebellious, but why did this have to happen to us?' Audrey and Elwood were still living at home at the time, but Elwood had gone on a date and Audrey had gone to Fort Bragg.. After the fire, Carrie, Audrey, and Elwood stayed at the Monroe ranch until after the funeral. They then rented a small house on Court Street in Woodland until after Audrey and Jim were married. Then Carrie lived with them until she moved to Alderson's Convelescent Hospital. Rose and Carrie had a $6000 balance owed on account in Wyatt's general store. Carrie had no income and no money to repay the balance owed, and neither did any of her children since it was during the great depression. So the land went to Roy Wyatt to satisfy the $6000 debt. The property was later sold for $69,000. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 Name: A R Nurse Residence Year: 1902 Street address: 1723 K Residence Place: Sacramento, California, USA Occupation: Motorman Publication Title: Sacramento, California, City Directory, 1902 Albert Rose Nurse - Sacramento Union - Apr 9 1909 - pg 7 9 Apr 1909 Sacramento, California Lost his sight - Rose Nurse, a former resident of Yolo county, a son of M.A Nurse and a brother to Mrs. W. L. Ely, has lost his sight. He had been afflicted with granulated lids for a long time. He has recently been ill with typhoid fever and the disease has left him bling. His physicians hope that it is only temporary and that in time Mr. Nurse will recover his sight. 1910 United States Federal Census Albert Rose Muse Name: Albert Rose Muse (The name on the census is Nurse. The extractor read it as Muse.) Age in 1910: 35 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1875 Birthplace: California Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: Ohio Mother's Birth Place: California Spouse's name: Carolina C Home in 1910: Sacramento Ward 8, Sacramento, California Occupation: Engineer, Dredger Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Albert Rose Muse 35 Carolina C Muse 35 Elwood Clarke Muse 3 Ashley K Muse 1 7/12 World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Name: Albert Rose Nurse County: Yolo State: California Birth Date: 16 Jun 1874 Race: White FHL Roll Number: 1544472 DraftBoard: 0 Age: Occupation: Nearest Relative: Height/Build: Color of Eyes/Hair: Signature: 1920 United States Federal Census Albert R Nurse Name: Albert R Nurse Home in 1920: Capay, Yolo, California Age: 45 years Estimated Birth Year: abt 1875 Birthplace: California Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's name: Caroline C Father's Birth Place: Ohio Mother's Birth Place: California Marital Status: Married Race: White Sex: Male Home owned: Own Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Image: 233 Household Members: Name Age Albert R Nurse 45 Caroline C Nurse 44 Elwood C Nurse 13 Ashley K Nurse 11 Lucille B Nurse 9 Elmor F Nurse 7 (Elinor) Forrest C Nurse 6 Norma C Nurse 5 Andrey A Nurse 3 (Audrey) 1930 United States Federal Census Albert R Nurse Name: Albert R Nurse Home in 1930: Capay, Yolo, California Age: 55 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1875 Birthplace: California Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's name: Carolyn C Race: White Occupation: Farmer Nuts and Grain Own home Age at first marriage: 31 (both) Parents' birthplace: father, Ohio mother, California Household Members: Name Age Albert R Nurse 55 Carolyn C Nurse 55 Elinor F Nurse 17 Forest C Nurse 16 Norma C Nurse 15 Audrey A Nurse 12 Wm C Loranger 33 (lodger) veteran of WW I | NURSE, Albert Rose (I4334)
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| 2771 | Things to do: 1. Check Napa and Brentwood newspapapers 2 Deeds in both counties as well as Berkeley. 3. Death notices and wills Timeline for Erasmus Dorwin Grigsby: 1841 E D born Wright County, Missouri 1850 Census lived in Laclede County which was previously Wright County, Missouri 1852 age 11 moved with his parents by wagon train to Napa County, CA 1860 Census listed in Yount township, Napa county, CA with his parents. 1864 age 23 Married Elmira Miller in Napa County, CA 1866 Jul 2, daughter Laura Susan born Napa County 1867 Mar 20, son, Warren Miller born Napa County 1868 leased land in Contra Costa County, CA 1870 Mar 14, daughter Lillie Jane born Brentwood, Contra Costa, CA 1870 Census, listed with wife and three children in Yount, Napa County, California 1872 Mar 2, son Byron Lindsay born Brentwood, Contra Costa, CA 1875 took a trip to Texas 1880 Census listed in Contra Costa County, CA with wife and four children plus wife's mother and her grand daughter, 2 servants, and three laborers. 1900 Census, listed in Contra Costa, County with wife, 2 sons and 1 boarder. 1910 Census listed in Berkeley, Alameda, CA with wife and 1 servant 1912 Sep 18 died in Berkeley, Alameda, CA, age 70 1923 23 Jan Elmira died in Oakland, California, 2 days before her 74th birthday Erasmus Dorwin Grigsby and Elmira Miller were married 28 Oct 1864 in Napa County, California. Elmira was only 15 at the time. Elmira's father had brought his family to Napa from Oregon, presumably by wagon, only a few years previous. Elmira and Dorwin were the parents of 4 children; Laura, Warren, Lillie, and Byron. After Laura was born, the family moved to Contra Costa County in California. Elmira was born 20 Jan 1849 in DuPage County, Illinois; the only child of Daniel and Laura (Crumb) Miller. It is believed Laura died during or shortly after giving birth. When just a few years old, Elmira moved to Washington County, Oregon with her father and soon after removed to California with her father, step mother and half sister, Matilda. Elmira was often sick. Her grandson, Russell Collis, remembers being at his Grandma and Grandpa Grigsby's house in Berkeley and practicing the piano according to Grandma's (Elmira's) wishes. Uncle Bryon would sneak Russell out the back door to a baseball game when Grandma wasn't looking. Russell remembers riding in a surrey with a fringe on top. It is said Elmira practiced the Christian Scientist faith. She died from heart disease in Oakland in 1923 just 4 days short of age 74. Erasmus or Dorwin as he was called was born 2 Oct 1841 in Wright County, Missouri. He was the 2nd of 8 children born to Terrell and Cynthia Grigsby. He came with his parents, Terrell and Cynthis Grigsby, to California by wagon train in the spring of 1852, at age 11. In 1868 he leased land in Contra Costa County and in Stanislaus County. He later sold all his stock and farming implements, and made a trip to Texas and returned in June, 1875. The next spring he purchased a quarter section, situated some 2 1/2 miles from Brentwood station, on the Central Pacific Railroad, four mile north of Point of Timber, and engaged in general farming. He was one of the most successful farmers of the county. He plowed with 8 mules and a jerkline. He was well liked. Dorwin became sick and he and Elmira moved to Grand Street in Berkeley. Byron took over the homestead. Dorwin died in Berkeley from heart disease in 1912 at just short of 80 years of age. Upon his death each of his children received 45 acres of land in Brentwood. (See copy of "the History of Contra Costa County" SF, 1882, W. A. Slocum and Co. pg 570. and "Illustrations of Contra Costa County", 1878, pg 29. Methodist Church at Point of Timber (50 members) Have a picture of him and his wife. Have copy of their marriage License. (father had to give consent as Elmira was underage at the time of her marriage- is listed as age 16) !DEATH: State file #30376 vol. 3 pg 4257 (I have another state file #25627) Have a copy of his death certificate. 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Arasmus D Grigsby Age: 8 Birth Year: abt 1842 Birthplace: Missouri Home in 1850: District 45, Laclede, Missouri Gender: Male Family Number: 290 Household Members: Name Age Leonell L Grigsby 31 Cynthia Grigsby 31 Robert T Grigsby 11 Arasmus D Grigsby 8 Elfonza D Grigsby 6 Mary Susan Grigsby 2 *1860 United States Federal Census Name: Erasmus B Grigsby Age in 1860: 18 Birth Year: abt 1842 BirthPlace: Missouri Home in 1860: Yount, Napa, California Gender: Male Post Office: Sebastopol Household Members: Name Age Terril l Grigsby 42 Sinthea Grigsby 42 Erasmus B Grigsby 18 Elfonga d Grigsby 16 Mary S Grigsby 13 Laura J Grigsby 9 Orina E Grigsby 6 Thos A Grigsby 2 James H Grigsby 1 James Edington 21 Wm Alred 30 Alfred Boyd 25 1870 United States Federal Census Name: E D Grigsby Age in 1870: 29 Birth Year: abt 1841 Birthplace: Missouri Home in 1870: Yount, Napa, California Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Napa City Value of real estate: Household Members: Name Age E D Grigsby 29 Almira Grigsby 21 Laura S Grigsby 4 Warren M Grigsby 3 Infant Grigsby 3/12 *1880 United States Federal Census Name: Erasmus D. Grigsby Home in 1880: Township 5, Contra Costa, California Age: 39 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1841 BirthPlace: Missouri Relation to head-of-household: Self Spouses's Name: Elmira Father's birthplace: TN Mother's birthplace: NC Occupation: Farmer Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Erasmus D. Grigsby 39 Elmira Grigsby 30 wife born Illinois Laura S. Grigsby 13 daugh Warren M. Grigsby 13 son Lillie J. Grigsby 10 daugh Byron L. Grigsby 8 son Mary J. Miller 53 wife's mother nurse Tillie M. Huey 5M boarder Jack Ellsworth 50 servant farm labor Jim Ah 17 servant cook on farm Thomas Murphy 27 labor Edward Ferguson 33 labor William O Brien 30 labor *1900 United States Federal Census Name: Erasmus H Grigsby Home in 1900: Supervisors District 5, Contra Costa, California Age: 58 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842 BirthPlace: Missouri Relationship to head-of-house: Head Spouses's Name: Elmira Race: White Household Members: Name Age Erasmus H Grigsby 58 Elmira Grigsby 51 Warren M Grigsby 32 Byron L Grigsby 28 Edward Elway 16 boarder *1910 United States Federal Census Name: Erasmus D Grigsby Age in 1910: 68 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842 BirthPlace: Missouri Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: Tennessee Mother's Birth Place: North Carolina Spouses's Name: Elmira Home in 1910: Berkely, Alameda, California Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Erasmus D Grigsby 68 Elmira Grigsby 66 Fannie Bennink 35 servant | GRIGSBY, Erasmus Dorwin (I213)
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| 2772 | Things to do: 1. check out christening dates for the children. 2. court records for Samuel and Susannah. 3. where is Tollesbury, Essex in relation to Bocking and Braintree? 4. death dates of first Dorcus and first William. 5. Susannah's death date and place. (found this- copy in pictures/Marilyn ancestors/Collis/Samuel) 6. find info on Jeff Clinton, descendant of William Collis, son of Samuel. 7. Is there an 1831 census? 8. Is Samuel buried in St Michaels Church yard? 9. How do I know Rebecca is daughter of Samuel Timeline for Samuel Collis: 1762 Samuel Collis born Essex, England 1785 Oct 20 Samuel marries Susannah Smith at Bocking, Essex, England 1788 Oct 5 daughter Susannah born in Bocking 1790 Jul 3, son Samuel born in Braintree, Essex, England 1794 Apr 11, daughter, Dorcus born in Braintree, 1795 Jul 12, son Charles Smith born in Braintree, 1797 Jun 17, son William born in Braintree, 1800 May 7, son Christopher in Braintree, 1803 Aug 9, daughter Dorcus born in Braintree, 1804 son, William born in Braintree, 1814 daughter, Rebecca Ely born in Braintree 1826 Pigot's Directories show Samuel Collis as a Saddler in High Street, Braintree, England 1832 Samuel died at Braintree 1832 Pigot's Directories show Susannah Collis as a Saddler in High Street, Braintree, England. BOCKING, a village, a parish, and a subdistrict, in Braintree district, Essex. The village stands on the left bank of Blackwater river, and on the Braintree railway, adjacent to Braintree; forms a suburb of that town; consists chiefly of one long street; and is a seat of petty sessions. A trade in baizes, called "bockings," was at one time prominent; and a manufacture of silk and crape is now carried on. The parish includes also Bocking-street and Bocking-Church-street, ¾ and 2 miles distant from Braintree, both with post offices under that town, and the former situated on the branch Roman road from Chelmsford. ... "BRAINTREE <../Braintree/index.html> and BOCKING, though distinct parishes, form one continuoous town, extending for a mile on the road between Chelmsford <../Chelmsford/index.html> and Halstead , and the rivers Blackwater and Podsbrook, and having a united population in 1861 of 8,186 England, Boyd's marriage indexes, 1538-1850 Transcription First name(s) Samuel Last name Collis Birth year - Marriage year 1785 Spouse's first name(s) Susan Spouse's last name Smith Place Bocking County Essex Country England Source Boyd's marriage index, 1538-1850 Record set England, Boyd's Marriage Indexes, 1538-1850 Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records Subcategory Marriages & divorces Collections from Great Britain SOURCE: LDS marriage sealing batch # A457628 sheet # 1132, input 457628-457632 Made a will in 1831 while ill and died in 1832 , his occupation listed as Saddler and Harness maker (Essex Record Office Will 532BR33) Pigot's Directories show Samuel Collis as a Saddler in High Street, Braintree, England, in 1826 and Susannah Collis as Saddler at the same address in 1832. England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991," Samuel Collis (familysearch.org) name: Samuel Collis gender: Male burial date: 27 Jan 1832 burial place: Braintree, Essex, England * It is perhaps of interest and significance to note that his youngest child is named Rebecca Ely and that a Marriage Bond shows John Collis aged 21 of Castle Hedingham married Dorcas Ely aged 20 of Sibyl Hedingham at Gestingthorpe about 1748. Samuel's son William - descendant Geoff Clinton of Abbots Langley, Herefordshire geoffclinton@tiscali.co.uk | COLLIS, Samuel (I361)
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| 2773 | Things to do: 1. Check out if Jennifer and Luella were born in Des Moines? Timeline for John Robert Parker: 1838 Nov 9, John born in Licking County Ohio 1861 Jul 4, John married Sarah Ann Dillon in Poweshiek County, Iowa 1862 Sep 1, first child, daughter, Flora H born in Poweshiek County, 1863 Jan 29, son, Durward Colley, born in Poweshiek County, 1863 Apr 17, daughter Flora died in Dresden, Poweshiek County, 1865 son, Everett, born in Poweshiek County, Iowa 1867 Sep 6, son Everett, died in Dresden, 1867 Sep 15, daughter, Jennifer Kate, born in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa 1869 Aug 11, daughter, Louella, born in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa 1870 Census, living in Jackson, Poweshiek, Iowa dwelling 129, with wife and 3 children 1873 Registered in California Register of voters 1874 Dec 14, son, Freeman Major, born in Hungry Hollow, Yolo, CA 1876 Jul 28, son, Eugene Dillon, born in Capay, Yolo, California 1880 Census, farming in East Cottonwood/ Fairview, Yolo, CA, with wife and 5 children, +1 cousin 1880 Sep 6, daughter, Eva Sarah, born in Capay, Yolo, California 1883 Sep 13, daughter, Mary Edna, born in Capay, Yolo, California 1886 Dec 15, son, Elbert Valentine, born in Capay, Yolo, California 1887 Jan, daughter, Lena, born in Yolo County, CA 1900 Census, living in Fairview, Yolo, CA with wife and 5 children 1901 Lena died in Yolo County, CA 1902 Feb 24, John Robert died in Esparto, Yolo, CA at age 63 from severe gripp and Pneumonia 1904 Jan 30, son Elbert died in Hungry Hollow, Yolo, CA Parker Ranch was at Hungry Hollow NOTE! A John Parker age 26, laborer was listed in 1860 census, Yolo County, Putah township on pg 43, # 339 (Probably not our John, Our John may have been at Pike's Peak, Colorado?) DAR Records Vol 20 pg 163 1870 United States Federal Census Name: John Parker Estimated Birth Year: abt 1838 Age in 1870: 32 Birthplace: Ohio Home in 1870: Jackson, Poweshiek, Iowa dwelling 129 Race: White Gender: Male farrier Value of real estate: Post Office: Montezuma Household Members: Name Age John Parker 32 born Ohio Sarah Parker 30 born Ohio George Parker 6 born Iowa (In 1900 census records in CA, Durward was listed as George D) Kate Parker 3 born Iowa Louellen Parker 1 born Iowa John Parker 12 born Iowa (could this John be a cousin?) 1873, Aug 25: registered in the California Great Register of Voters as a farmer in Fairview, Yolo County, application # 5274, age 34, born Ohio. 1880 United States Federal Census Name: John Parker Home in 1880: East Cottonwood and Fairview, Yolo, California Age: 41 Estimated birth year: abt 1839 Birthplace: Ohio Relation to head-of-household: Self (Head) Spouse's name: Sarah Father's birthplace: NY Mother's birthplace: OH Occupation: Farmer Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age John Parker 41 Sarah Parker 39 Durward Parker 16 son BP Iowa Jennie Parker 12 dau " Luella Parker 10 dau " Freeman Parker 6 son BP CA Eugene Parker 3 son " William Parker 23 cousin BP OH 1890 California Great Register - living in Fairview, Yolo county- farmer 1900 United States Federal Census Name: John Parker Home in 1900: Fairview, Yolo, California Age: 61 Estimated birth year: abt 1839 Birthplace: Ohio Relationship to head-of-house: Head Spouse's name: Sarah Race: White Occupation: Household Members: Name Age John Parker 61 Sarah Parker 59 wife Mary Parker 27 daughter Freeman Parker 26 son Albert Parker 14 son Leta Parker 13 daughter John Parker 8 son Joshua Hays 39 servant 1902 buried in Capay Cemetary, Esparto, Yolo, California. !NOTE: Birthdate may be 24 Nov 1838 or 39. !NOTE: He came from Iowa in early l870's and homesteaded in Hungry Hollow, (5-6 miles north of Capay). Where he was a sheep herder, cattle rancher and farmer. That is where he died. He was buried in th Odd Fellow's cemetery at Capay as he was a member of the Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) The following is from, "Histoy of Yolo Co, California, Biographical Sketches, "John R. Parker" pg 768.: "John was born at Newark, Licking County, Ohio and at the age of thirteen in 1851 he accompanied his parents from Ohio to Iowa settling in Poweshiek county, where he aided his father in the clearing of a government claim. In 1858-59 he made a trip to Pike's Peak at the time of the discovery of gold in Colorado. The trip peaked his interest in the west but was unsatisfactory from a moneyed standpoint and he returned to agriculture efforts on the home farm. He took up land for a homestead and spent many years in making improvements, bringing the soil under cultivation and securing ...whose broad fields of grain stretch from his barns in every direction,...While he gave his attention almost wholly to agriculture, there was a time in young manhood when he taught school and he continued in that profession for a very short period after his marriage, thus earning the money he needed for defraying indebtedness on his land. Shortly after his arrival in Yolo county California in 1876, and his taking up of land, Mr. Parker went back into the hills near snow mountain, where he bought about three thousand acres of land. On this vast tract he herded a flock of three thousand head of sheep. The business proved profitable. He also owned an almond orchard of thirty acres in Hungry Hollow, but this he sold. He was active in general welfare and especially in the work of the Christian Church. He was a school trustee. He took no interest in public affairs. He was a citizen of sterling, rugged characteristics, of pronounced strength of character and unquestioned integrity in every relation of life." He died from a brief illness of severe grippe followed by pneumonia. note! The above article said that "eleven children were born of their marriage, but three of these died young, namely: Everett, John and Lena: and Elbert died in 1904." The 1900 Census shows John, Lena and Albert (Elbert) still alive. Grave Markers in Iowa, Poweshiek County, List Flora H and Everett, children of John and Sarah Parker. Was perhaps Flora stillborn? Yolo County Biographies Page 1 of 2 yolo County Biographies John Robert PARKER The laborious existence of a progressive Iowa farmer, whose broad fields of grain stretch from his barns in every direction, was exchanged for the radically different yet no less busy life of a California sheep-raiser when in 1876 Mr. Parker removed to the western coast as a permanent settler. Prior to the removal his life had been marked by few changes, the first of any importance having been the migration of the family from Ohio to Iowa when he was a lad of thirteen years, and the second event of prominence occurring when he made a trip to Pike's Peak at the time of discovery of gold in Colorado. The latter journey interested him in the west, but the results from a moneyed standpoint were unsatisfactory and he cheerfully returned to agricultural efforts on the home farm. John Robert Parker was born at Newark, Licking county, Ohio, November 9,1838, and at the age of thirteen in 1851 he accompanied his parents, Timothy and Catharine (Trout) Parker, from Ohio to Iowa, settling in Poweshiek county, where he aided his father in the clearing of a government claim. Later he took up land for a homestead and spent many years in making improvements, bringing the soil under cultivation and securing those returns to which the efforts of capable farmers entitle them. While he gave his attention almost wholly to agriculture, there was a time in young manhood when he taught school and he continued in that profession for a very short period after his marriage, thus earning the money he needed for defraying indebtedness on his land. The establishment of a home on an Iowa farm'followed the union of Mr. Parker with Miss Sarah Dillon, a native of Ohio and a woman of forceful personality and attractive qualities. Eleven children were born of the marriage, but three of these died young, namely: Everett, John and Lena; and Elbert died in 1904. Those now living are as follows: Durward C., Eugene D., Freeman, Jennie K., Luella, Eva and Mary E. The first-named son, a resident of Esparto, married Minnie Gates and is the father of two daughters. Eugene D., of Capay, Yolo county, married Daisy Goodnow and has two children, Milo and Fern. Freeman, who lives at Esparto, is married and has two sons, Ervin and Everett. The first-named daughter, Jennie K., is the wife of Richard Chinn and the mother of four children, John, Lela, Erma and Blanche. Luella, Mrs. Hugh Chinn, has four children, Lowell, Amy, Nella and Stella. Eva married Jack Simpson, a dairyman living at Meridian, Sutler county; they are the parents of three children, Elmo, Elmer and Vernon R. Mary E., the last-named member of the Parker family, married Paschal Moore and they are living on a dairy ranch near Woodland; their family comprises three children, Marvyn, Leoma and Ola. Shortly after his arrival in Yolo county and his taking up of land, Mr. Parker went back into the hills, where he bought about three thousand acres of range land. On this vast tract he herded a flock of three thousand head of sheep. The business proved profitable, although the net returns were largely reduces through the depredations of wildcats, wolves and coyotes. In those days wild animals were plentiful and hunting excursions were frequent in the vicinity of the Snow mountain, where frequently Mr. Parker aided in the killing of bears. On his large ranch near Esparto he planted eight acres in an orchard which forms a valuable adjunct to the place. At one time he owned an almond orchard of thirty acres in Hungry Hollow, but this he sold. Throughout the long period of his residence in Yolo county he gave consistent aid to all movements for the general welfare and especially helped in the work of the Christian Church, whose doctrines he upheld by precept and theory. His interest in educational progress led him to consent to serve as a school trustee, but as a rule he declined all offices and took no part whatever in public affairs and politics aside from voting the Republican ticket. When death came to him, February 24, 1902, it removed from the county one of its pioneer sheep-raisers and worthy ranchers, a citizen of sterling, rugged characteristics, of pronounced strength of character and unquestioned integrity in every relation of life. Transcribed by Bea Barton Source: "History of Yolo County, California" by Tom Gregory. Published by the Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1913, pages 768 - 770 http://www.calarchives4u.com/Biographieshttp://www.calarchives4u.com/Biographies/yolo/yolo-park.htm 2/6/2007 | PARKER, John Robert (I4318)
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| 2774 | things to do: 1. Check records for Samuel's birthplace. 2. last two children, Warner & Eliza, born after Lucy's death. Check this our. 3. Census records for Samuel Nurse? 4. find children on census 5. Check actual birthplaces of children. Timeline for Samuel Rogers Nurse: 1769 Feb 25, Samuel born in Rutland, Worcester, MA (Gilford, Windham, VT from Dolores) 1791 Samuel married Lucy Bump in New York 1793 Jan 17, son Isaiah, born in New York 1796 Jan 31, son, Rueben, born in New York 1799 Oct 21, daughter Isabel, born in New York 1802 Mar 24, son, Joshus, born in New York 1803 son, Isaac , born in New York 1804 Feb 23, son, Lyman, born in New York 1806 son, Uriah, born in New York 1808 Jul 10, daughter, Sarah, born in New York 1811 Aug 29, son Lewis, born in New York 1815 daughter, Lucy, born in New York 1817 Mar 29, daughter, Mary, born in New York 1821 Sep 10, son Lyman died 1823 Sep 10, Samuel's wife, Lucy, died in Wheelersburg, Scioto, buried in Vaughter's Cemetary, Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio 1825 Mar 1, Samuel married Phoebe Bender/Burdick in Scioto County, OH, 1845 Jul 29, Samuel died age 76, in Scioto County, OH, buried in Vaughter's Cemetary, Portsmouth, Scioto, Ohio, Dolores Ruthersford also gives Samuel Rogers Nurse birthplace as Giolford, Windham, Vermont. were last two Children were born after Lucy's death and before Samuel's second marriage? 1820 United States Federal Census about Samuel R Hurse Name: Samuel R Hurse [Samuel R Nurse] Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Washington, Scioto, Ohio Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820 Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1 Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1 Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 18: 1 Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 3 Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 2 Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 2 Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 2 Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 2 Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 5 Free White Persons - Under 16: 5 Free White Persons - Over 25: 4 Total Free White Persons: 14 Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 14 The following needs to be checked out as it is different from the info I have? Family Data Collection - Individual Records (ancestory.com) Name: Samuel Rogers Nurse Spouse: Phoibe Bender Parents: Joshua Nurse , Elisabeth Rogers Birth Place: Saratoga, Saratoga Springs, NY Birth Date: 28 Feb 1769 Marriage Date: 1790 Death Place: French Grant, Scioto, OH Death Date: 9 Jul 1865 Samuel Rogers Nurse in the U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Name: Samuel Rogers Nurse Gender: Male Birth Date: 26 Feb 1769 Death Date: 29 Jul 1845 Cemetery: Vaughters Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio, United States of America Has Bio?: N Father: Joshua Nurse Mother: Elizabeth Nurse Spouse: Pheby Nurse Children: Joshua Nourse Isabel Benton Sarah Austin URL: https://www.findagrave.com/mem... | NURSE, Samuel Rogers (I6933)
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| 2775 | things to do: 1. Check to see if Dorcas is actual daughter born 8 years after last child. Other children? 2. Newspapers in Mecklenburg County, NC 3. Newspapers in Osage, Pulaski, MO 4. Check out the dates of this appointment? Robert Faires, in the U.S., Appointments of U. S. Postmasters, 1832-1971 Name: Robert Faires Post Office Location: Onyx, Pulaski, Missouri Appointment Date: 1 Oct 1820 Volume #: 12B Volume Year Range: 1832-1844 5. Is this Robert related? There is a Lindsey listed as Chairman of the Court Tennessee, Wills and Probate Records, 1779-2008 Name: Robert Faries Probate Date: 3 Oct 1853 Probate Place: Carroll, Tennessee, USA Inferred Death Year: Abt 1853 Inferred Death Place: Tennessee, USA Item Description: Administrators, Executors and Guardians Bonds, 1852-1882 Timeline for Robert Faires: 1798 Aug 15, Robert born in North Carolina 1816 May 23, Robert married Susannah Orr in Mecklenburg County, NC 1817 Jul 15, daughter, Cynthia born in Mecklenburg County, NC 1819 Jan 27, son, Addison born in Mecklenburg County 1820 Dec 12, daughter, Jane Pricilla born in Mecklenburg County 1823 Jan 18, daughter, Mary Elizabeth born in Mecklenburg County 1825 Jan 19, son, Joseph Morgan born in Mecklenburg County 1827 Feb 5, son, James Pulaski born in North Carolina 1828 daughter, Susannah, born born in North Carolina 1831 Nov 16, moved west to Tennessee 1836 14 Jan,daughter, Dorcas 1836 Dec 4, arrived at Onyx on the Osage Fork of the Gasconade River, in Pulaski County, MO 1840 Oct, Robert served as Postmaster in Onyx, Pulaski County, MO 1850 US Census, District 45, Laclede, Missouri as a farmer 1851 Robert appointed the school commissioner 1855 Nov 22, Robert died in Lebanon, Laclede, MO at age 57 1857 May 11, Robert's widow, Susanna, died in Laclede County, MO The following info came from Charlene Chambers King at the following web site: Robert Faires and Susannah Orr were both born and raised in North Carolina. They married on May 23, 1816 in Mecklenburg Co., North Carolina. After Robert and Susannah married, they lived in North Carolina until Nov 16, 1831, the day they started to move west to Tennessee. They landed in Campbellsville, Giles County, Tennessee on Dec 20, 1831. They lived there until Sept. 1, 1836, when they started west. Robert and Susannah joined a wagon train headed to Pulaski County, Missouri. The Gribsbys and Brownlows were also part of that wagon train (Who were all the families in this wagon train?). They arrived at Onyx on the Osage Fork of the Gasconade River, in Pulaski County, Missouri, on Dec. 4, 1836. Robert built a mill and store there, which was destroyed by a flood in 1840. This forced them to move to higher ground. This is when many moved to the Drynob area and this is my understanding how Drynob got it name. About 1839 Robert had a mill on Osage Fork and a store. The first Monday in April 1849, after Laclede Co. was formed, the first election was held resulting in the election of Robert Farris to be one of three Judges for the newly formed Laclede Co., MO. At the first meeting of the County Court Robert Farris was elected to be the presiding judge. Robert Faires was appointed the school commissioner in 1851. About some of Robert and Susannah's children: Mary Elizabeth married Thomas Honssinger in 1846. They raised their family in the Drynob area. They are my great great great grandparents. Cynthia married Terrill Grigsby Oct 1840 Robert Faires served as Postmaster in Onyx, Pulaski County, Missouri (source: History of Pulaski County, MO, vol 2, found in the Salt Lake City FHL.) "History of Laclede County, First County Board The First County Board below was taken from the book History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889. First County Board. -- In accordance with the provisions of the foregoing act [forming of Laclede County], an election was held at the required number of places within the county, on the first Monday in April, 1849, and Robert Faires , William Smith, and Samuel W. Barnes were elected county court justices, John S. Shields sheriff and John L. Herndon clerk of the county court. In further obedience to the act, these officers, after being duly commissioned and qualified, met at the house of L. Murphy, about two miles east of the present site of Lebanon, on the 31st day of May following, and there organized the county court by electing Hon. Robert Faires as its presiding judge." Source Vendor: County Court Records - FHL # 0546461-0546466 Source: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT Robert Faires was appointed the school commissioner in 1851. About some of Robert and Susannah's children: Mary Elizabeth married Thomas Honssinger in 1846. Cynthia married Terrill Grigsby in 1838. They moved to Napa Valley Calif. about 1852. Jane Priscilla married William Grigsby Brownlow in 1842. They raised their family in the Drynob area. The picture below was taken in August 2001 while standing in section 17 viewing sections 20 & 21. Sections 17, 20 & 21 was once owned by Robert Faires and then later by George R. James. The Osage River is located in the valley where the trees are in a row in the middle of the picture. The old Phillips Cemetery is located above the Osage River on the grass hill. U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 Name: Robert Faires Issue Date: 1 Jun 1845 Acres: 80 Meridian: 5th PM State: Missouri County: Laclede Township: 34-N Range: 14-W Section: 17 Accession Number: MO5250__.303 Metes and Bounds: No Land Office: Springfield Canceled: No US Reservations: No Mineral Reservations: No Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566) Document Number: 7084 U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 Name: Robert Faires Issue Date: 1 Oct 1845 Acres: 40 Meridian: 5th PM State: Missouri County: Laclede Township: 34-N Range: 14-W Section: 20 Accession Number: MO5280__.168 Metes and Bounds: No Land Office: Springfield Canceled: No US Reservations: No Mineral Reservations: No Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566) Document Number: 5111 U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 Name: Robert Faires Issue Date: 1 Jul 1852 Acres: 80 Meridian: 5th PM State: Missouri County: Laclede Township: 34-N Range: 14-W Section: 17 Accession Number: MO5370__.232 Metes and Bounds: No Land Office: Springfield Canceled: No US Reservations: No Mineral Reservations: No Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566) Document Number: 11261 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Robert Faines Age: 52 farmer property value $1000 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1798 Birth Place: North Carolina Gender: Male Home in 1850(City,County,State): District 45, Laclede, Missouri Susana age 66 born North Carolina James P. age 22 born North Carolina Per Robert Faires' family bible records Joseph Morgan Faires was b. 19 Jan 1825 and departed this life April 20, 1846. He is my 3rd great uncle. - Charlene Chambers Tindall Added: Nov. 11, 2011 North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741-2004 http://www.ancestry.com about Robert Faires Name: Robert Faires Spouse: Susannah Orr Marriage Date: 22 May 1816 Marriage County: Mecklenburg Marriage State: North Carolina findagrave.com Robert F. Faires Birth: 1798, North Carolina, USA Death: 1855, Missouri, USA Son of Joseph and Mary Faires. Family links: Spouse: Susannah Orr Faires (1793 - 1857)* Children: Mary Elizabeth Faires Honsinger (1823 - 1870)* Joseph Morgan Faires (1825 - 1846)* Burial: Phillips Cemetery, Laclede County, Missouri, USA Phillips Cemetery, located near Drynob on the Mike Bowman Farm, Township 34 Range 14W section 20 | FAIRES, Robert (I221)
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| 2776 | Things to do: 1. divorce papers, Oscoda, Cheboygan counties? 2. Isabella, Bay, Oscoda County newspapers. (gold rush news, marriages, divorces, deaths) 3. What was Loren's occupation? lumber? 4. Where were the gold strikes in 1888? 5. location of Michigan counties: Eaton, Bloomfield, Mecosta, Isabella, Iosco, Cheboygan. Timeline for Alvanus/Alvannah Loren Sly: 1854 Loren born in Michigan 1860 Census, Loren, listed as Alvanus, lived with parents and siblings in Oneida, Eaton, Michigan 1863 Jan 11, Loren's father, William W Sly, age 56, died in Isabella county, Michigan 1864 Oct 4, Loren's mother, Elizabeth, married Sylvester Brown. The children were farmed out. 1870 Census, There is an Alvin Sly, age 17, living with John and Almira Sly in Bloomfield, Oakland, MI 1873 Loren's mother, Elizabeth, age 53, died in Michigan 1877 Loren married Elizabeth Close in Hinton, Mecosta, Michigan 1878 Nov 30, daughter, Clara or Carrie, born in Ausable, Mecosta, Michigan 1879 owned 40 acres of land in Hinton, Mecosta County, MI (T 13 N, R 8 W) 1880 Census. Loren A Sly, wife, Elizabeth, and daughter, Carey living in Fremont, Isabella, MI 1881 May 3, daughter, Addie May, born in Oscoda, Iosco, Michigan 1883 Jul 26, son, Ernest Wayne born in Mackinaw City, Cheboygan, Michigan 1888 near this time Loren left for the gold fields and disappeared. ??? Alvana Loren Sly and Elizabeth Close were married 23 September 1877 in Hinton, Mecosta, Michigan. According to his cousin, Alonzo Daniel Sly, Loren borrowed the suit of his brother, Lester, to be married in. In1880 Loren and Elizibeth lived in Fremont, Isabella County, Michigan with their 1st child, Carey. Elizabeth's parents lived nearby. They had 2 more children, Addie Mae and Earnest, and times were hard. Loren (as he was listed in the 1880 census) decided to go to the gold fields. Just where he went is unknown. It is said that he sent a couple of letters home and then was not heard from again. According to Olive Sly Huff, the daughter of Ernest Sly, who was Loren's son, "Ernest said he was 5 years old ( about 1888) when his father left for the west." After her husband left, Elizabeth took in roomers to make ends meet. Richard Smith was one of her roomers. Richard and Elizabeth married and moved to Montana to homestead, ten miles east of Eureka. Elizabeth (Libby) and Richard Smith raised her grand daughter, Bertha Sherman. According to a cousin, "Old Dick wasn't too gifted in work. It was always Aunt Lib that did the work. She even worked out at cooking. It's still a wonder to me how people got by in those days." Alvanus or Loren A. Sly was born about 1854 in Michigan, the 3rd child of 6, of William and Elizabeth Sly. His father died when he was about 9 years old. His mother remarried, but most of the children were farmed out. Bertha Sherman said that her grandmother, Elizabeth Sly described Loren as a red-haired man who walked with a limp. When Bertha was just a little girl she ran into the house and said "Grandma, there is a red-haired man who walks with a limp coming up the road!" When they went to look, the man was gone. They wondered if it could have been Loren Sly. Loren's brother, Lester, lived and died in Billings Montana in 1933. The place and time of death of Loren are unknown. Elizabeth Close was born in Adams County Indiana on the 25 December 1858. She was the second child of 6 born to James and Nancy Close. Her father had been married before and Elizabeth had a half brother, George. She grew up in Indiana, later moving to and marrying in Michigan. After her first husband left and she remarried and moved to Michigan, Libby raised vegetables and strawberries to sell to the neighbors. She also sold cottage cheese, eggs, milk, chicken, cookies, etc. She was well liked by everyone. Elizabeth (Close) Sly Smith was diagnosed with breast cancer at the Mayo Clinic and Bertha often administered Morphine to her grandma to make the pain bearable. Elizabeth died from the cancer in July 1919 at the age of 60. Alaska Gold Rush 1880-1914 (Valdez 1898) !SOURCE: Sealed to spouse, 10 Dec 1985 SL, Marriage sealing batch # M518622, sheet #1003, film# 1004849 1860 United States Federal Census Record about Alvanus Sly Name: Alvanus Sly Age in 1860: 7 Birth Year: abt 1853 Birthplace: Michigan Home in 1860: Oneida, Eaton, Michigan Gender: Male Post Office: Grand Ledge Household Members: Name Age William Sly 52 Elizabeth Sly 33 Wm W Sly 12 Lester 8 Alvanus 7 Daniel Sly 6 George Sly 3 1870 United States Federal Census (There is a George, age 45, and Jane Sly on this page 2 families up) Name: Aline Sly ( this definitely is written Alvin perhaps our Alvanus Loren?) Estimated Birth Year: abt 1853 Age in 1870: 17 Birthplace: Michigan Home in 1870: Bloomfield, Oakland, Michigan Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Franklin Household Members: Name Age (All born in Michigan John Sly 47 born abt 1823 Michigan Almiea Sly 40 (looks like Almira) Aline Sly 17 (looks like Alvine) farmer Charles Sly 5 William Watkins 20 farmer U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918 about Loren Sly Owner's Name: Loren Sly State: Michigan County: Mecosta Town: Hinton Year: 1879 This is a census of John and Almira who Alvine was living with in 1870 1880 United States Federal Census about John B. Sly Name: John B. Sly Age: 57 Birth Year: abt 1823 Birthplace: New York Home in 1880: Bloomfield, Oakland, Michigan Race: White Gender: Male Relation to Head of House: Self (Head) Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: Almira D. Sly Father's Birthplace: New York Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania Neighbors: View others on page Occupation: Farmer Household Members: Name Age John B. Sly 57 Almira D. Sly 47 Charles B. Sly 14 1880 United States Federal Census Record Loren A. Sly Name: Loren A. Sly Age: 26 Estimated birth year: abt 1854 Birthplace: Michigan Occupation: Farmer (Noted that he was employed 2 months during census year) Relationship to head-of-household: Self Home in 1880: Fremont, Isabella, Michigan Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Spouse's name: Elizabeth Sly age 21, daughter Carey age 1 Father's birthplace: NY Mother's birthplace: MI Lawrence Sly mentioned in the record of Earnest W. Sly and Blanch R. Holbrook Name: Lawrence Sly Gender: Male Wife: Elizabeth Close Child: Earnest W. Sly Other information in the record of Earnest W. Sly and Blanch R. Holbrook from Montana, County Marriages Name: Earnest W. Sly Event Type: Marriage Event Date: 30 Jun 1907 Event Place: Kalispell, , Montana Age: 24 Marital Status: Single Race: White Birthplace: Mack City, Mich. Birth Year (Estimated): 1883 Father's Name: Lawrence Sly Mother's Name: Elizabeth Close Additional Relatives: X Spouse's Name: Blanch R. Holbrook Spouse's Age: 21 Spouse's Marital Status: Single Spouse's Race: White Spouse's Birthplace: Pine Valley, Oregon Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1886 Spouse's Father's Name: Henry W. Holbrook Spouse's Mother's Name: Mahala E. Neil Reference ID: V3p513 , GS Film number: 1902479 , Digital Folder Number: 4350527 , Image Number: 287 "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F33W-J42 : accessed 21 Oct 2014), Lawrence Sly in entry for Earnest W. Sly and Blanch R. Holbrook, 30 Jun 1907; citing V3p513, Kalispell, , Montana; FHL microfilm 1902479. Bertha Sherman said that her grandmother, Elizabeth Sly said that Loren was red-haired and walked with a limp. According to a letter from Olive Sly Huff, the daughter of Earnest Sly, who was Lorian's son; Earnest said he was 5 years old ( about 1888) when his father left for the west. Elizabeth and Lorian Sly were living in Michigan, Bay County, Pinnconning Village. When money became scarce, Lorian left for the gold fields. There were two or three letters received from him. Then no more word. Elizabeth took in roomers to make ends meet. Richard Smith was one of her roomers. Richard and Elizabeth married, after 1894, and moved to Montana to homestead, ten miles east of Eureka. Addie Mae Sly and Milton Sherman married and went with them. Libby and Dick Smith raised Bertha Sherman, daughter of Addie Mae and Milton Sherman. When Bertha was just a little girl she ran into the house and said "Grandma, there is a red-haired man who walks with a limp coming up the road!" When they went to look, the man was gone. They wondered if it could have been Lorian Sly. Lorian's brother, Lester, lived and died in Billings Montana in 1933. ( Bertha was born in 1903.) findagrave.com Loren Alvanus Sly.. Birth: 1853 Grand Ledge Eaton County Michigan, USA Death: unknown Yellowstone County Montana, USA Loren married Elizabeth Close on Sept 23, 1873 in Michigan. Loren, apparently, left his family in 1888. He was going to look for gold in Montana. He sent a few letters and then was not heard from again. Death: aft 1898. Family links: Parents: William Wesley Sly (1807 - 1863) Elizabeth Morris Sly (1827 - 1879) Spouse: Elizabeth Libby Close Sly (1858 - 1919)* Siblings: William Wesley Sly (1848 - 1922)* Hattie Sly (1849 - 1859)* Lester Daniel Schley (1850 - 1935)* Loren Alvanus Sly (1853 - ____) Daniel Sly (1856 - 1942)* George Albert Sly (1858 - 1942)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Body lost or destroyed Created by: RMW Record added: Jun 01, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 91113176 | SLY, Alvannah Loren (I28)
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| 2777 | Things to do: 1. edit his story Timeline for Terrell Grigsby: 1818 Feb 3, Terrell born in Giles County, Tennessee 1833 moved with parents to Pulaski County (Wright/Laclede) Missouri 1838 Mar 11 married Cynthia Faires in Osage, Laclede, Missouri 1839 Feb 22, son, Robert Faires, born in Missouri 1841 Oct 2, son, Erasmus, born in Missouri 1844 Apr 6, son, Alphonzo DeLafayette, born in Missouri 1847 Jun 14, daughter, Mary Susan, born in Missouri 1850 Nov 30, daughter, Lura Jane, born in Missouri 1854 Mar 2, daughter, Orlena, born in Napa, California 1857 Aug 27, son, Thomas Anderson, born in Napa, California 1859 Jun 9, son, James Pulaski, born in Napa, California 1861 Jul 1, daughter, Mary Susan, died in Napa, California 1892 Jan 16, Terrell died in Napa, Ca at age 73 of La Grippe 1898 Sep 6, Cynthia, died in Napa, CA age 81 of old age Terrell and Cynthia Grigsby, paternal grandparents of Laura Susan Grigsby, the mother of Russell Collis Terrell Grigsby and Cynthia Faires were married 11 March 1838 in Osage, Laclede County, Missouri. Both of their parents had moved their families to Missouri in the early 1830's from Tennessee. Their first 5 children were born in Missouri; Robert, Erasmus Dorwin, Alphonzo, Mary, and Lura. Terrell went to California in 1850 and settled in Napa County then came back to Missouri for his family. They moved to California in a wagon drawn by oxen about 1852. Terrell's parents came west, but Cynthia's parents stayed in Missouri. Three more children were born in Napa, California: Orlena, Thomas, and James. Terrell began farming and diversified in grapes for wine, wheat, and cattle in Mendocino, Lake, and Napa Counties. Terrell Lindsey Grigsby was born 3 February 1818 in Giles County, Tennessee the 2nd of 7 children born to Samuel Harrison and Mary Lindsay Grigsby. At the age of fifteen Terrell accompanied his parents to Pulaski County (later to become Wright then Laclede County), Missouri, then considered "the frontier of the west." where he assisted his father in farming. Terrell's father, Samuel Harrison Grigsby, of Tennessee, was said to have served under his uncle, Gen. W. H. Harrison, during the War of 1812. Accompanied by his wife, Mary (who was called Polly), Samuel came to California in 1853, but Mrs. Grigsby survived the trip only a few days. Two of their children died as infants, two of their grown children died on the plains on the trip west. Terrell, according to the History of Solano and Napa counties, "Was one of the most aggressive and energetic of our early settlers, a pioneer wine merchant, as well: a man whose originality of thought and action won for him an honored place in the community of which he was an important citizen." He later became interested in a local railroad and invested time and money in it, but due to the panic he pulled out. Shortly after this venture he withdrew from active life, and made his home in Napa until his death from la grippe, 18 January 1892 at the age of nearly 74. Cynthia Faires was born 25 July 1817 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, the first of 6 children. Her father, Robert Faires, who was born August 15, 1798, and died November 22, 1855, and her mother, Susannah (Orr) Faires, born October 21, 1793, died May 11, 1857, were also natives of North Carolina. The Faires family moved to Tennessee, then to Missouri where Robert Faires had a mill on the Osage Fork of the Gasconade River. The story is told about Cynthia that as she aged, she sat down in her rocking chair on the front porch of her house and said, "I quit! Anything else you want done around here, you need to hire someone to do it." True or not, she was a true pioneer with all of the hardships. Cynthia died of old age exhaustion in Napa County 4 September 1898 at the age of 81. Mr. Grigsby carried on his wine industry on his Napa county farm. The building, which was 58x112 feet, and three stories high, was built of stone secured from the adjacent foothills, and its capacity was 275,000 gallons. The first and second floors were used for storing wine, while the third was devoted to its fermentation. The many windows were iron-barred, the walls were two feet thick and the uprights were of heavy redwood. From a large tank on the hillside water was distributed throughout the plant. In connection with the cellar Mr. Grigsby built of stone a still house 26x28 feet, which was used for making brandy. Operations in this still house were aided by a portable engine, which was also used to supply hot water for the cleaning of barrels. The entire plant cost approximately $30,000. Mr. Grigsby was also interested in the prospective construction of what was to be know as the S. F. & Clear Railway, and in addition to devoting much time to the development of this proposition, he also advanced neccessary funds with which to carry on the initial work. Grading operations were instituted, but owing to the subsequent panic Mr. Grigsby deemed it impracticable to continue his plans, and after meeting obligations to date, which involved the sale of his ranches, he abandoned the project. Shortly after this venture he withdrew from active life, and made his home in Napa until his death, January 18, 1892. His wife died in Napa six years later, September 4, 1898. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Grigsby: Robert F., a miner near Calistoga; Darwin, a farmer in Contra Costa county; Alphonzo D., a farmer in San Diego county; Mary S., who died at the age of twenty-two; Lura Jane, now Mrs. Trubody; Orlena E, widow of J. B. Edington, who makes her home in Napa; Thomas A., of Napa township; and James P., a carpenter in the Southern Pacific shops in Sacramento.] from "Hill Guides, 'Napa Valley, Land of Golden Vines", by Kathleen & Gerald Hill, p259: Chinese laborers had first arrive in Napa Valley after they had been drawn to the gold diggings in the mountains as early as 1849 and helped build the transcontinental railroad which was completed in 1869. At least 400 settled in the Napa Valley and settled in the Chinatowns of Napa, Saint Helena, and Calistoga. They helped build the stone walls, plant and harvest the vinyards. They had laundries, worked at cooks, gardners, and household servants. In 1882 the Chinese exclusion act was enacted, barring further immigration. Terrell Grigsby, owner of Occidental Winery in Brown's Valley, personally fought off a mob intent on chasing out his Chinese workers. The wine industry needed their loyal inexpensive labor.. History of Solano and Napa Counties, California with Biographical Sketches of The leading men and women of the Counties, who have been identified with its growth and development from the early days to the present time., History by Tom Gregory and other well known writers., Illustrated ~ Complete in one volume, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1912, pg 446 TERRIL LINDSEY GRIGSBY. One of the most aggressive and energetic of our early settlers, a pioneer wine merchant, as well; a man whose originality of thought and action won for him an honored place in the community of which he was an important citizen, was Terril Lindsey Grigsby, who immigrated to California in 1850. He was born in Giles county, Tenn., February 3, 1818, and at the age of fifteen accompanied his parents to Laclede county, Mo., then considered “the frontier of the west,” where he assisted his father in farming. Mr. Grigsby’s father. Samuel Harrison Grigsby, of Tennessee, was a nephew of Gen. W. H. Harrison, and served under his uncle during the War of 1812 ; accompanied by his wife he came to California in 1853, but Mrs. Grigsby survived the trip only a few days. her husband residing in Napa county until his death. At the early age of twenty. in 1838, T. L. Grigsby was married to Cynthia Faires, who was born in Mecklenburg county. N. C., July 25, 1817. Her father. Robert Faires, who was horn August 15, 1798, and died November 22. 1855, and her mother, Susannah (Orr) Faires. born October 21. 1793. died May 11, 1857. were also natives of North Carolina. T. L. Grigsby made his first trip to the west with ox-team, and located on what is nosy known as the Occidental Vineyard ranch, in the foothills of Napa valley. This consisted of two hundred and fifty-seven acres, one hundred and twenty of which were planted to grain, eighty to grapes (the output of the vineyard being about three hundred tons annually) and the remainder used for pasturing. Abundantly watered by many springs, this ranch was, and is, one of the most fertile in Napa county. Returning- to Missouri by way of the Panama canal, Mr. Grigsby made necessary preparations for a second trip west in 1852, this time with his family. The wagons were drawn by oxen and the train also included a hand of cattle, which formed the nucleus of the stock business which Mr. Grigsby carried on upon his arrival in California. In addition to his Napa county farm he owned a ranch in Mendocino county, also land in Lake county, both of which were devoted to stock-raising. Mr. Grigsby carried on his wine industry on his Napa county farm. The building, which was 58x112 feet, and three stories high, was built of stone secured from the adjacent foothills, and its capacity was 275,000 gallons. The first and second floors were used for storing wine, while the third was devoted to its fermentation. The many windows were iron-barred, the walls were two feet thick and the uprights were of heavy redwood. From a large tank on the hillside water was distributed throughout the plant. In connection with the cellar Mr. Grigsby built of stone a still house 26x28 feet. which was used for making brandy. Operations in this still house were aided by a portable engine, which was also used to supply hot water for the cleaning of barrels. The entire plant cost approximately $30,000. Mr. Grigsby was also interested in the prospective construction of what was to be known as the S. F. & Clear Railway, and in addition to devoting much time to the development of this proposition, he also advanced necessary funds with which to carry on the initial work. Grading operations were instituted, but owing to the subsequent panic Mr. Grigsby deemed it impracticable to continue his plans, and after meeting obligations to date, which involved the sale of his ranches, he abandoned the project. Shortly after this venture he withdrew from active life, and made his home in Napa until his death, January 18, 1892. His wife died in Napa six years later, September 4, 1898. Eight children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Grigsby: Robert F., a miner near Calistoga ; Darwin, a farmer in Contra Costa county ; Alphonzo D., a farmer in San Diego county; Mary S., who died at the age of twenty-two; Lura Jane, now Mrs. Trubody; Orlena E., widow of J. B. Edington, who, makes her home in Napa; Thomas A., of Napa township; and James P., a carpenter in the Southern Pacific shops at Sacramento. TL Grigsby patent . THE OCCIDENTAL Vineyard Chief! - ■ The Most Perfect Vineyard Implement Ever Invented. It will do more work and butter work than any other plow over Invented. It is a Sulky QeJlg Plow on wheels, 4 feet 4 inches high, which makes it of LIGHTER DRAFT than any other plow ever invented. The plow is handled or controlled with the feet instead of tho hands. Tho slimes are run revcisidle, no they will do DOUBLE THE AMOUNT of WORK Without sharpening. They are adjustable, to the} can he set to suit any width of row. They turn the dirt right and left; at the same time they are so arranged as to throw the dirt to or from the vines, as desired. The plow does All the Plowing: All the Plowing in the Vineyard, And all the cultivator work and weed cutting, by simply removing the plows and attaching the cultivator or shovel plows; removing the cultivator and attaching the weed cutter. A Boy of Fourteen Years can Work It. Eight of these implements are in use on the Natoma Vineyard Farm. A team of 1,000 pounds each will run the Plow the whole season. Invented and Patented by T. L. GRIGSBY, Occidental Vineyard, Napa County. Or call and see them at K. BOULK'S Agricultural Works, Fourth Street, San Francisco. Pacific Rural Press, Volume 27, Number 16, 19 April 1884 !SOURCE: Births and deaths of family from family bible in posession of Elva Triplett (descendant of James P Grigsby) of Sacramento. See copy of article in "Illustrations of Napa County, California with Historical Sketches", Oakland, Smith and Elliott, 1878.And, "History of Napa County" 1878 pg 7. Have copy of sketch of properties and buildings. Also have pictures of Grigsby winery buildings in Napa County. Have a copy of death certificate. Have a picture of him and his wife Cynthia Terrell was said to have come to California in 1850 with the William Wilson Hale wagon train. For more info google book: Volunteer Forty-Niners: Tennesseans and the California Gold Rush by Walter T. Durham - (Nov 15, 1997) 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Terrell L Grigsby Age: 31 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1819 Birth place: Tennessee Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 45, Laclede, Missouri; farmer Household Cynthia 31 NC Robert 11 MO Arasmus D. 8 MO Elfonzo 6 MO Mary Susan 2 MO 1860 United States Federal Census Name: Terril l Grigsby Age in 1860: 42 farmer value: $20,000 Birth Year: abt 1818 BirthPlace: Tennessee Home in 1860: Yount, Napa, California Gender: Male Post Office: Sebastopol Value of real estate: Household Members: Name Age Terril l Grigsby 42 Sinthea Grigsby 42 Erasmus D Grigsby 18 Elfonga d Grigsby 16 Mary S Grigsby 13 Laura J Grigsby 9 Orina E Grigsby 6 Thos A Grigsby 2 James H Grigsby 1 James Edington 21 day labor Wm Alred 30 farmer Alfred Boyd 25 day labor 1870 United States Federal Census Name: Terrell R Grigsby Estimated Birth Year: abt 1818 Age in 1870: 52 farmer BirthPlace: Tennessee Home in 1870: Yount, Napa, California Gender: Male Post Office: Napa City Household members age Cynthia 52; Orlena E 14; Thomas A 12; James P 10 1880 United States Federal Census Name: Terrell Grigsby Home in 1880: Yount, Napa, California Age: 62 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1818 BirthPlace: Tennessee Relation to head-of-household: Self Spouses's Name: Cynthia Father's birthplace: VA Mother's birthplace: TN Occupation: Farmer vineculturest Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Terrell Grigsby 62 Cynthia Grigsby 62 wife Elisabeth Grigsby 22 daughter Chua Ah 30 labor Sin Ah 30 labor A Point in Vineyard Practice. We had a pleasant conversation about vines on Monday with T. L. Grigsby, of Yountville, one of the leading viticnltnrists of Napa county; a man who spends nearly all his waking hours in working among vines or in thinking about the best way to'do the work. As Mr. G. has about 200 acres in vines and perhaps the best wine cellar in the county, he has certainly enough to keep one man busy both with hand and brain. Mr. G. is now adopting a practice with young vines which he believes produces a better vine than the old* method. When a young rooted vine is set in the vineyard there is a joint at the top from which start several shoots, one of which is generally led up and headed off above, at the bight the stump is desired to stand. The other shoots are lopped off and the strong sucker which usually starts from anteye below the ground, is also cut off beneath the surface. The result is that there is near the ground a gnurly knob formed by the out end of the original cutting and the shoots which are cut away. These exposed cut surfaces are liable to rot and always make a rough bunch in the vine, even if harmful decay does not set in. While Mr. G. has been scraping around the vine to cut off the lusty sucker, in order to build up a vine from the unsightly knob above the ground, he has thought that perhaps he was destroying the better shoot to save the poorer, and the thought pressed upon him so forcibly that he has changed his method with all the young vineyard he now has on hand. His practice is, therefore, to scrape away the dirt until he reaches the joint below, which threw up the strong sucker, and near that joint he cuts off the old wood instead of the sucker. This sudker then becomes the vine and there is no exposed surface of cut cane. It grows up strong and smooth. The old stock is out away in the spring, as soon as the sucker is started out well. The sucker is then permitted to run out as long as it likes until the proper time for pruning in the fall, being permitted to run along the ground the first summer. In the fall it is raised up, lopped off at the hight desired in the permanent stump and tied to a stake. The result is a smooth cane from the root to the top, instead of the knobby joint which is usually seen near the ground. This rough joint with its exposed cut surfaces Mr. 6. regards as a vulnerable point in a vine, as it is liable to decay, which weakens the stock and opens the way for the attacks of insects. The same practice which he has adopted with young rooted vines, when set in vineyard, is also applicable to cuttings Bet in permanent positions, except, of course, that the change from old stock to sucker is made later in the case of cuttings. What have our vine-growing readers to say of this practice? We know that we have made handsome rose bushes by taking a strong sucker, which seemed born to supplant the old wood, and lopping off the older timber. The point is open for discussion. Pacific Rural Press, Volume 19, Number 23, 5 June 1880 News article T.L. Grigsby Grape Culture. A writer engaged in grape culture near Sandusky, Ohio, has heard that in California, vines are tied to stakes only two feet in hight, and asks how we manage to keep our vines sufficiently up from the ground to escape mildew, rust and rot in the grape. We happen just now to be in possession of a few notes on grape culture in Napa Valley, obtained from Mr. T. L. Grigsby, denning to some extent his mode of culture, which we will make use of, as answering fully the inquiries of our correspondent. His grape lands are what would be termed gravelly or stony foothill lands, and yet immediately adjoining the more level valley lands, the latter being better adapted to corn and other annual crops. Preparation of Ground. It is the practice of Mr. G. to plant rooted vines of one year's growth, instead of cuttings, us preferred t>y many. To do this and secure the best possible thrift to his vines, he thoroughly plows and pulverizes the soil to the depth of from 18 to 20 inches. This is done in fall find winter previous to planting, and the transplanting from tho nursery row to the vineyard ground is done from the middle of March to the fith of April. By this method he never fails of securing a vigorous growth, saves one year of field cultivation and the difference between setting the rooted vines and cuttings he thinks is fnlly made up by the ease with which his cuttings are cultivated in close nursery row. Distance in Planting. Hardly any two persons agree as to the best distance for vine culture, and doubtless much depend! upon the varieties of grapes cultivated. Some being of more vigorous habit of growth than others, require more room; but Mr. G. has fully determined, that all things considered, eight feet by eight is the best distance to be observed on his land. Where the land is low, strong and rich, doubtloss more room should be given than when it is high, dry and of less strength. At a distance of Bxß feet, vines five years old in Mr. G.s vineyard produce at the rate of four tons 700 lbs. to the acre. From vines nine yearß old he has grown as many as nine tons per acre. He gets $20 per ton for the Mission variety, and $30 per ton for foreign, and considers it better than any other crop he raises. Low Training. After trying high and low training to his full satisfaction, he is convinced that in his locality it is bettor to train them low, taking cost of stakes and labor into consideration and gives them a tiunk of only one foot in bight, which to our Eastern inquirer will seem quite strange; but when it is understood that the grapes will not rot even when lying on the ground the strangeness vanishes. As to the age at which our vines bear—it being one of the questions of our correspondent— we are informed by Mr. G. that his Mission grape vines, in the fall of the second year after tr msplanting, yielded him 1,106 pounds to the acre. jen_genealogy jen_genealogy originally shared this 15 Apr 2014 story Pacific Rural Press, Volume 4, Number 10, 7 September 1872 TL Grigsby article TL Grigsby article jen_genealogy jen_genealogy originally shared this 15 Apr 2014 Other Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 7, Number 224, 12 November 1878 | GRIGSBY, Terrell Lindsey (I216)
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| 2778 | Things to do: 1. find Emily Starr in 1860 census, Missouri. 2 Find out why Lewry died on plains in 1852, when the story says they came in Oct 1853? 3. http://www3.nvusd.k12.ca.us/education/school/schoolhistory.php?sectiondetailid=7977&sc_id=1160959139 4.check out: War of 1812 Service Records http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=1&new=1&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=angs-c&gsfn=Samuel&gsln=Griggsby&msbdy=1794&msbpn__ftp=Virginia%2c+USA&msbpn=49&msbpn_PInfo=5-%7c0%7c1652393%7c0%7c2%7c3245%7c49%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c&uidh=2u2&pcat=39&h=421108&recoff=4+5&db=1812muster&indiv=1&ml_rpos=3 about Samuel Griggsby Name: Samuel Griggsby Company: BROWN'S REG'T, EAST TENNESSEE VOLS. Rank - Induction: SERGEANT Rank - Discharge: SERGEANT Roll Box: 86 Roll Exct: 602 U.S., War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815 Name: Samuel Grigsby Company: COFFEE'S REG'T, CAV., W. TENNESSEE VOLS. Rank - Induction: PRIVATE Rank - Discharge: PRIVATE Roll Box: 86 Microfilm Publication: M602 http://sos.tn.gov/products/tsla/regimental-histories-tennessee-units-during-war-1812 COLONEL JOHN COFFEE DESIGNATION: Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry DATES: December 1812 - April 1813 MEN MOSTLY FROM: Rutherford, Davidson, Dickson, Robertson, Smith, Sumner, Williamson, and Wilson Counties CAPTAINS: John Baskerville, Thomas Bradley, John W. Byrn, Blackman Coleman, Robert Jetton, Charles Kavanaugh, Alexander McKeen, Michael Molton, David Smith, Frederick Stump, James Terrill BRIEF HISTORY: This regiment of cavalry joined Jackson's forces at Natchez in early 1813. The strength of the regiment was approximately 600 men. While the bulk of Jackson's troops traveled by boat to Natchez, Coffee's mounted men went overland after rendezvousing near Franklin, Tennessee in mid-January 1813. The officers of this regiment were considered to be the elite citizens of their counties. Many of the men in this regiment later became part of the unit led by Colonels Alcorn and Dyer during Jackson's first campaign into the Creek territory in the fall of 1813. John Coffee was a wealthy landowner in Rutherford County and a one-time business partner of Andrew Jackson. Coffee was married to Rachel Jackson's niece, Mary Donelson (they named two of their children Andrew and Rachel). COLONEL JOHN ALCORN DESIGNATION: 2nd Regiment of Volunteer Mounted Riflemen DATES: September 1813 - December 1813 MEN MOSTLY FROM: Davidson, Rutherford, Sumner, and Wilson Counties (Winston's company from Madison County, Alabama) CAPTAINS: John Baskerville, Richard Boyd, Thomas Bradley, John Byrne, Robert Jetton, William Locke, Alexander McKeen, Frederick Stump, Daniel Ross, John Winston BRIEF HISTORY: Colonel John Coffee commanded this regiment until the end of October 1813, when Coffee was promoted to Brigadier General. John Alcorn took over as colonel and the unit was incorporated with Colonel Newton Cannon's Mounted Riflemen to form the Second Regiment of Volunteer Mounted Riflemen. The Second Regiment, along with Colonel Robert Dyer's First Regiment of Volunteer Mounted Gunmen, formed the brigade under John Coffee. Muster rolls reveal that the regiment went by various designations besides volunteer mounted riflemen: volunteer cavalry; mounted militia; or mounted gunmen. Many of the men from this unit were with Andrew Jackson on the expedition to Natchez (December 1812 - April 1813) and, consequently, felt their one-year's enlistment expired in December 1813. Jackson insisted that the time not spent in the field did not apply to the terms of enlistment. Hence, a dispute broke out between the troops and Jackson late in 1813. Most of the troops did leave by the end of that year, despite Jackson's strenuous efforts to keep them. The regiment participated in the battles at Tallushatchee and Talladega (3 November and 9 November 1813) and muster rolls show that practically all of the companies sustained casualties, the most being in Captain John Byrne's company. The regiment's line of march took them from Fayetteville (where the regiment was mustered in), through Huntsville, Fort Deposit, Fort Strother, to the battles, and back the reverse way. COLONEL ROBERT DYER DESIGNATION: Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Gunmen or Cavalry DATES: September 1813 - May 1814 (some enlisted in January 1814) MEN MOSTLY FROM: Davidson, Rutherford, Williamson, Dickson, Giles, Overton, Robertson, Stewart, and Sumner Counties CAPTAINS: (Lt.)James Berry, Samuel Crawford, Nathan Farmer, James Haggard, Charles Kavanaugh, Archibald McKenney, John Miller, William Mitchell, Michael Molton, Edwin G. Moore, David Smith, George Smith, James Terrill BRIEF HISTORY: One of two regiments which Dyer commanded at different times of the war, this regiment was part of General John Coffee's cavalry brigade throughout most of the Creek War. The unit participated in most of the battles of the war, including Talladega (9 November 1813), where they formed the reserves, and Horseshoe Bend (27 March 1814). There were several companies of "spies" in the regiment: companies of cavalry that were sent on reconnaissance patrols and usually took the lead in the line of march for Jackson's army. DESIGNATION: 1st Regiment of West Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Gunmen DATES: September 1814 - March 1815 MEN MOSTLY FROM: Davidson, Dickson, Williamson, Bedford, Maury, Montgomery, Rutherford, Smith, and Stewart Counties CAPTAINS: Bethel Allen, Ephraim D. Dickson, Robert Edmonston, Robert Evans, Cuthbert Hudson, Thomas Jones, James McMahon, Glen Owen, Thomas White, Joseph Williams, James Wyatt BRIEF HISTORY: Part of Coffee's brigade at New Orleans, most of this regiment took part in the night battle of 23 December 1814. Most of the company muster rolls show casualties from this engagement. Portions of this regiment also participated in the capture of Pensacola from the Spanish in West Florida (7 November 1814). The initial rendezvous point for this unit was Fayetteville, Tennessee. From there they passed through Fort Hampton, to Baton Rouge, and finally to New Orleans. Source Information Direct Data Capture, comp. U.S., War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: National Archives and Records Administration. Index to the Compiled Military Service Records for the Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1812. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M602, 234 rolls. About U.S., War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815 When the United States declared war on Great Britain in 1812, Congress authorized the President to accept and organize volunteers in order to win the war. This database is a listing of men mustered into the armed forces between 1812 and 1815. Taken from records in the National Archives, each record includes the soldier's name, company, rank at time of induction, rank at time of discharge, and other helpful information. It provides the names of nearly 600,000 men. For researchers of early American ancestors who may have served in the military, this can be a helpful source of information. These records were taken from Record Group 94 Records of the Adjutant General's Office, microfilm publication M602, a total of 234 rolls of film. Compiled Military Service Records (CMSR) Each volunteer soldier has one Compiled Military Service Record (CMSR) for each regiment in which he served. The CMSR contains basic information about the soldier's military career, and it is the first source the researcher should consult. The CMSR is an envelope (a jacket) containing one or more cards. These cards typically indicate that the soldier was present or absent during a certain period of time. Other cards may indicate the date of enlistment and discharge, amount of bounty paid him, and other information such as wounds received during battle or hospitalization for injury or illness. The soldier's place of birth may be indicated; if foreign born, only the country of birth is stated. The CMSR may contain an internal jacket for so-called "personal papers" of various kinds. These may include a copy of the soldier's enlistment paper, papers relating to his capture and release as a prisoner of war, or a statement that he had no personal property with him when he died. Note, however, that the CMSR rarely indicates battles in which a soldier fought; that information must be derived from other sources. A CMSR is as complete as the surviving records of an individual soldier or his unit. The War Department compiled the CMSRs from the original muster rolls and other records some years after the war to permit more rapid and efficient checking of military and medical records in connection with claims for pensions and other veterans' benefits. The abstracts were so carefully prepared that it is rarely necessary to consult the original muster rolls and other records from which they were made. When the War Department created CMSRs at the turn of the century, information from company muster rolls, regimental returns, descriptive books, hospital rolls, and other records was copied verbatim onto cards. A separate card was prepared each time an individual name appeared on a document. These cards were all numbered on the back, and these numbers were entered onto the outside jacket containing the cards. The numbers on the jacket correspond with the numbers on the cards within the jacket. These numbers were used by the War Department only for control purposes while the CMSRs were being created; the numbers do not refer to other records regarding a veteran nor are they useful for reference purposes today. Timeline for Samuel Harrison Grigsby 1794 Sep 18, Samuel Harrison born in Wythe County, Virginia 1808 Samuel moved with his family to Roane County, Tennessee (Roane Co created in 1801, 1815 Dec 4, Samuel married Mary Lindsey in Roane County Tennessee 1816 May 10, daughter, Drewsilah, born in Lynnville, Giles, Tennessee (Giles Co created in 1809, county seat Pulaski) 1818 Feb 3, son, Terrell Lindsey, born in Lynnville, Giles, Tennessee 1820 Apr 2, daughter, Chillnery, born in Lynnville, Giles, Tennessee 1822 May 1, son, Achilles Fine, born in Lynnville, Giles, Tennessee 1824 May 29, son, Lillard Harrison, born in Lynnville, Giles, Tennessee 1827 Aug 2, daughter, Lewry, born in Lynnville, Giles, Tennessee 1831 Oct 1831, son, John Melchesadeck, born in Lynnville, Giles, Tennessee 1833 Samuel moved his family to Pulaski County, Missouri 1840 US Census, Samuel living in Pulaski County, Missouri with family 1850 US Census, Samuel living in Pulaski County, Missouri with family 1851 Made a land claim in Laclede County, MO T 32, R 16, 1853 Moved his family overland to California 1853 Oct 11, Samuel's wife Mary died in Yountville, Napa, CA 1860 US Census, Samuel living in Yount, Napa, CA with freed slave, Lucy Grigsby 1870 US Census, Samuel living in Yount, Napa, CA with Lucy, and Starr family (I believe Emily Starr is Lucy's daughter 1873 Mar 28, Samuel died in Yountville, Napa, CA at age 78 Much of the information on this family came from Barbara Bickford who has the Grigsby family bible In 1808 Samuel Harrison Grigsby moved to Giles County, Tennessee from Virginia when he was fourteen. He may have served under William Henry Harrison (perhaps his uncle, brother of his mother? There was a Benjamin Harrison who moved to Pulaski County Missouri ) during the War of 1812. He moved his family to Pulaski County, Missouri, in 1833. (Perhaps in Waynesville.) He squatted and farmed on the Osage Fork of Brush Creek making a land claim in Laclede County, Township 32, Range 16 in 1851. (The lands embraced in the territory of Laclede County were not surveyed into sections, townships and ranges, and put into market and made subject to entry, until from 1835 to 1840. LaClede County was made from Pulaski County in 1838) In 1853, Samuel, his wife and family made the overland journey to California, but she survived after the trip only a few days. The party they traveled with was struck with valley fever in Bear Valley. (Could this have been the Colorado tick fever or Mountain fever? This malady included severe headaches, muscle and joint pains, chills, and fever) Their daughter-in-law, Elizabeth, (wife of Lillard) died at Bear Valley, California, as did her husband who came from the Napa Valley to meet them. Their two small children survived. Samuel Harrison Grigsby lost another daughter-in-law on the plains in 1852, the wife of Achilles Grigsby. In 1852, Lewrey Grigsby also died on the plains coming west. Accompanying Samuel and Polly Grigsby on the trip west was Lucy, a slave they had freed before starting west. She refused to be left behind and became Samuel's housekeeper. According to the family bible, Lucy was born 11 November, 1806. Samuel may have been a half-brother to Captain John's father. CHECK DATES IN THE ABOVE. THEY DON'T SEEM TO MAKE SENSE! Transcription of Will of Samuel H. Grigsby dated 4 Nov 1868 In the name of God Amen - I Samuel H Grigsby Sr of the county of Napa and State of California being weak in body but of sound a disposing mind being advanced in years and in view of the uncertainty of life, do make publish and declare this my last will and testament in manner following My estate consists of real and personal property to wit about Two Hundred (200) acres of land lying and being situate in said Napa County State aforesaid, promissory notes, cash and some stock. My first request is that if die in California that I be buried near my departed wife and that our graves be enclosed in one enclosure. That I be buried in decent and fashionable order and that a proper and fitting tomb stone with suitable engravings of my age, place of birth, death, etc. thereon engraved be erected and maintained over and upon my grave. And that the expenses of and in order to the complete execution of the above request be paid out of my undivided estate. Second - I give devise and bequeath to my old servant woman - Lucy, the house and orchard thereto attached and adjoining known as the march house during her life and widowhood, and after her death or widowhood the said premises, house, orchard to revert back to my estate and be disposed of as the other real estate. Third - I give will and bequeath to my son Terrel L. Grigsby One Thousand Dollars in money, or the value of one Thousand Dollars in land of my real property said land to be valued quality quantity location and improvements considered at it then market valuation. Fourth - I give will and bequeath to my son John M Grigsby, Five Hundred Dollars in money or the value of Five Hundred Dollars in land of my real property. Said land to be valued quality quantity location and improvement considered at its then market valuation. I make this difference owing to my having paid a debt for said John M Grigsby to the heirs of L H Grigsby, deceased. Fifth - I give will and bequeath to my grand child Samuel H Grigsby, a minor, heir of L H Grigsby - deceased, seven hundred and fifty dollars in money, or the value of seven hundred and fifty dollars in land of my real property quality, quantity location and improvement considered at its then market valuation. Sixth - I give will and bequeath to my grandchildren Rachel Barker and Samuel Cooper Five Hundred dollars each in money or land of my real property quality quantity location and improvements considered at its then market valuation. Seventh - I knowingly and intentionally refuse to give will or bequeath any of my estate or property to Elizabeth White (my grand child) Eighth - I hereby nominate and appoint my son A F Grigsby of Napa County, California to be my sole executor, without bond, of this my last will and testament to settle my entire estate and to settle with each and all of the legaties without the interposition, aid, or authority or control of any court or courts of this State. Except for the purpose of Probate of this my last will and testament. To take possession and control of my estate at my death and to pay the before mentioned legacies, giving and granting to my said executor the privilege and entire discretion of paying the same either in land or money as and in the manner herein before provided. Granting to my said executor two years to pay and discharge said legacies to the legatees who are of age at the time of my death, and to the minors so soon after the two years as they may become of age. Ninth _ After the above and foregoing bequests and requisitions have been done, performed and complied with by my executor, I will devise and bequeath to my said Son A F Grigsby all of the residue of my estate, whether real personal or mixed, and where ever it may exist. Saml H Grigsby Sr.(his signature) Subscribe by the testateor, Samuel H. Grigsby Sr. in the presence of each of the undersigned. The said testator at the time of subscribing the said will, declared the same to be his last will and testament and we in his presence and in the presence of each other, and at the request of said testator have subscribed our names witnesses. Nov 4, 1868 R N Sture Jesse Grigsby 1829, Wed. Feb 25 Samuel H. Grigsby vs. Judge Hudspeth, Wiley C. and Arthur Hudspeth - lands condemned for sale. (Every name index to 18 Middle Tennessee County Record Books, Giles County Chancery Court Records) 1836, Aug 1, Samuel Grigsby was Justice of the Peace in Laclede County, Missouri. He was also JP in 1840, Aug 3. (reference: "Our Ancestors in Pulaski Co. MO, Supplement 1, compiled by Tom Turpen, FHL, Salt Lake City, Utah) 1840 United States Federal Census Samuel H Grigsby Name: Samuel H. Grigsby Township: Not Stated County: Pulaski State: Missouri Number of persons in household: Ages of persons in household: 1 male 5-10; 2 males 15-20; 1 male 20-30; 1 male 40-50; 1 female 10-15; 1 female 40-50 1 Slave schedule Pulaski County, Missouri Samuel H Grigsby # age colour 1 40 F M ( Probably Lucy) 2 26 F B 3 23 M B 4 23 M M 5 21 M B 6 6 M M 7 4 F B 8 3 M B 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Samuel H Grigsbey Age: 54 Estimated birth year: abt 1796 Birth Place: Virginia Gender: Male Household: Mary wife age 54 born N. C. Home in 1850 (City,County,State): District 72, Pulaski, Missouri 1860 United States Federal Census Samuel H Grigsby Name: Samuel H Grigsby Age in 1860: 65 Birth Year: abt 1795 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1860: Yount, Napa, California Gender: Male Post Office: Sebastopol Value of real estate: Household Members: Name Age Samuel H Grigsby 65 James A Meritt 30 bn Illinois Occupation: Ostler, (a person who takes care of horses; groom.) Lucy Grigsby 46, mulatto, bn Virginia 1870 United States Federal Census Saml H Grigsby Name: Saml H Grigsby Estimated Birth Year: abt 1794 Age in 1870: 76 Birthplace: Virginia Home in 1870: Yount, Napa, California Family and neighbors: Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Napa City Household members: Lucy 70 white, keeping house, bn Virginia, (this probably is the mulatto servant brought with them) Cebar Starr 35, black, labor, bn Tenn Emily Starr 31, black, at home, bn Missouri (probably Lucy's daughter?) Robert Starr 7 black, at home, bn Missouri Edward Starr 10 at home, bn Missouri *Re: Emily Starr: 1880 United States Federal Census Name: Emily Starr Home in 1880: Napa, Napa, California Age: 40 Estimated birth year: abt 1840 Birthplace: Missouri Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head) Father's birthplace: Tennessee Mother's birthplace: Virginia Occupation: Laundress Marital Status: Married Race: Black Gender: Female Household Members: Name Age Emily Starr 40 Appendix: Pulaski County, Missouri is located in the scenic Ozarks of Southcentral Missouri. It is composed of woods, forested hills and beautiful streams.--------- Condensed from "Missouri As It Was" pg 6. The early settlers were mostly deer hunters and farmers from Tennessee, North Carolina and Kentucky. They drove through the country and where ever they found good land and good water, they squatted. Between 1835 and 1840 settlers from Tennessee took squatters claims along the Gasconade & Ozark Forks. Among them were Samuel Grigsby, Robert Faires and John Honsinger. The Gasconade and Osage Forks were two large rivers buttressed by towering bluffs. Robert Faires built a Mill and store on the Osage Fork. The lives of the well to do families were not so different from that in their native state. Samuel Grigsby brought with him at least one slave, Lucy. In the house, the walls would be hung with festoons of dried fruit and vegetables. Dried flax would be strung from the rafters. There would be no glass in the windows. Perhaps they were covered with shutters or oiled paper or cloth. These pioneers would have brought with them everything they needed to live. A rifle and ammunition were indespensible both as protection and as a means of procuring food. Also needed were a hunting knife, an ordinary ax, a broad ax, and other tools, implements and household furnishing depending upon the financial condition of the settler. Well to do families came with their slaves and whatever furniture they could bring be wagon trains. Their women and children rode in carry-alls with some degree of comfort. They had some horse teams and a sufficient number of cattle, sheep, hogs and domestic fowls. Each family would always have at least one hound or a pack of hounds if they could afford it. | GRIGSBY, Samuel Harrison (I218)
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| 2779 | Things to do: 1. find marriage of Daniel and Elizabeth Kenyon 2. check records in hopkinton Timeline for Daniel Crumb: 1737 Aug 19, Daniel born in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island 1763 Daniel married Elizabeth Kenyon in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island 1765 Jun 26, daughter, Sarah, born in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode 1766 Oct 22, daughter, Abigail, born in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode 1768 Dec 25, daughter, Hannah, born in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode 1770 Oct 22, son, Daniel, born in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode 1772 Aug 2, son Samuel, born in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode 1776 Mar 16, son Daniel, born in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode 1781 May 2, son, Hunneman, born in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode 1781 May 2, son, William, born in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode 1816 Daniel died in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States There is a Stonington, New London, Connecticut. Stonington (Pawcatuck) City is found in Yahoo.com as being a place in Rhode Island that a John Randall settled in 1629. Rhode Island, Births, 1636-1930 Name: Daniel Crumb Birth Date: 19 Aug 1737 Birth Place: Rhode Island 1st Parent: William Crumb 2nd Parent: Hannah Crumb American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) about Daniel Crumb Name: Daniel Crumb Birth Date: 1737 Birthplace: Rhode Island Volume: 38 Page Number: 24 Reference: Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 10 Apr 1911, 1356; 17 Apr 1911, 1356; 3 Mar 1930, 9386 Source Information: Godfrey Memorial Library, comp.. American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. Original data: Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library. Description: This database contains millions of records of people whose names have appeared in printed genealogical records and family histories. With data from sources largely from the last century, each entry contains the person's complete name, the year of the biography's publication, the person's state of birth (if known), abbreviated biographical data, and the book and page number of the original reference. Learn more... Connecticut, Hale Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 about Daniel Crumb Name: Daniel Crumb Birth Date: abt 1737 Death Date: 1824 Death Place: North Stonington, Connecticut Age at Death: 87 American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) Record Name: Daniel CRUMB Birth Date: 1737 Birthplace: Rhode Island Volume: 38 Page Number: 24 Reference: Gen. Column of the " Boston Transcript". 1906-1941.( The greatest single source of material for gen. Data for the N.E. area and for the period 1600-1800. Completely indexed in the Index.): 10 Apr 1911, 1356; 17 Apr 1911, 1356; 3 Mar 1930, 9386 | CRUMB, Daniel (I4177)
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| 2780 | Things to do: 1. find marriage record for Isador and Harriett Abbey 2. death record for Harriett Timeline for Isador Regis Loranger: 1827 Nov 5, Isador was born in River Raisin, Monroe County, Michigan, 1840 Beaumont at age 13, moved with his parents to Wayne County, Michigan (now Detroit) 1850 US Census Brownstone, Wayne, MI, age 22, fisherman, with Ann Loranger age 17, bp Canada. 1852 crossed the plains to Sacramento, California 1856 married widow, Harriett Sophia Reynold, Abbey, in Sacramento, Sacramento, CA 1857 Jul, son, Francis Regis born Sacramento, 1860 US Census, Regis listed as teamster, living with Harriett and Register Abbey in Sacramento 1862 Aug 28, son, Beaumont Pete, born in Sacramento 1862 moved to Madison, Yolo, CA 1870 US Census, Isador living in Cottonwood, Yolo, CA, with wife, Harriett and 2 sons 1878 wife, Harriett died in Madison 1880 US Census, Isador living in Cottonwood,with 2 sons and servants 1882 Jul 23, married Mary Epson Hughes in Woodland, Yolo, CA 1900 US Census, Isador living in Cottonwood,with wife Mary E 1903 Dec 16, Isador died in Madison, at age 76, buried Catholic Cemetary, Woodland, Yolo, CA 1852 he crossed the plains to California, locating in Sacramento, where he resided for 10 years. For a year he was proprietor of the St. Louis hotel, at first known as the "Grizzly Bear House". He then bought an interest in the St. Charles hay yard. After being engaged in this business for a year he sold out and for about three months was a prospector, searching for mines. His health began to fail and he returned to Sacramento, and with Joseph Anderson purchased his former feed business. They also engaged in teaming. This partnership was continued until Mr. Loranger removed to Yolo County and located on his farm 5 miles southwest of Madison. 1860 United States Federal Census Name: Isadore Loranger Age in 1860: 33 Birth Year: abt 1827 Birthplace: Michigan Home in 1860: Sacramento Ward 4, Sacramento, California Gender: Male Post Office: Sacramento Occupation: Teamster Household Members: Name Age Harriet S Abbey 37 Register Abbey 3 Isadore Loranger 33 1862 about this time he moved to Yolo County 1870 United States Federal Census Name: Isadore R Loranger Estimated Birth Year: abt 1828 Age in 1870: 42 Birthplace: Michigan Home in 1870: Cottonwood, Yolo, California Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: Post Office: Woodland Household Members: Name Age Isadore R Loranger 42 Harriet S Loranger 44 Reges Loranger 13 Beaumont Loranger 8 1880 United States Federal Census Name: I. R. Lovangen ( IR Loranger) Home in 1880: East Cottonwood, Yolo, California Age: 52 Estimated birth year: abt 1828 Birthplace: Michigan Relation to head-of-household: Self (Head) Father's birthplace: Canada Mother's birthplace: MI Occupation: Farmer Marital Status: Widower Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age I. R. Lovangen 52 widowed Regis Lovangen 22 son BP CA, mother BP Canada Bomont Lovangen 17 son BP CA, mother BP Canada Fook 22 Kay Hun 49 G. B. Smith 43 C. F. Pope 20 T. J. White 25 Fred Jones 26 1890 California Great Register 1 - living in E. Woodland, Yolo county- farmer 1900 United States Federal Census Name: Isaac Loranger (I read Isador) Home in 1900: Cottonwood, Yolo, California Age: 72 Estimated birth year: abt 1828 Birthplace: Michigan Relationship to head-of-house: Head Spouse's name: Mary E (married 18 years) Race: White Neighbors: Household Members: Name Age Isaac Loranger 72 Mary E Loranger 54 (0 children-0 living Cury G Williams 55 laborer MaryAnn Mickey has the birthplace of Isadore as St. Antoine, River Raisin, Michigan | LORANGER, Isador Regis (I4763)
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| 2781 | Things to do: 1. find on map Braintree, Great Mapleston (Maplestead?), and parish-Sible Hedingham 2. review will of John 3. who did temple work for John Collis? 4. What was John's occupation? farmer 1777 in Great Mapleston 5, What do we know about John? Timeline for John Collis 1727 Jul 14, John Collis born at Braintree, Essex, England 1747 Mar 9, John marries Dorcas Ely 1749 John Collis born 1762 Samuel Collis born ? Edward Collis born 1815 John Collis dies at Great Mapleston, Essex, England John was listed of Great Maplestead in County of Essex, England at the time of making his will. He asked to be buried in the meeting house yard Castle Hedingham. He listed leasehold messuage or tenement farm lands and premises situate lying and being in the parish of Sible Hedingham | COLLIS, John (I1733)
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| 2782 | Things to do: 1. Look in Brentwood CA newspapers 1880-1910, for articles and wedding, birth, death of Arthur, etc. 2. Look in Colfax WA newspapers 1910-1918 for articles. 3. Look in Winner's letters for info 4. Do I have a will and death cert? for both Laura and Walter? Timeline: 1868 Walter born Berry Street, San Francisco, CA 1870 Census, Walter age 2, living with parents San Francisco, CA 1880 Census, Walter age 11, living with parents Contra Costa County, CA 1892 Oct listed in California voter registration, age 24, farmer in Briones Valley residence, Brentwood post office, 5 foot 10 in tall, fair complexion, hazel eyes, dark hair, left leg shorter, 1893 Marriage Certificate -Walter and Laura in Brentwood, Contra Costa, CA 1894 daughter, Hazel, born, Brentwood, CA 1896 June California voter registration, farmer in Brentwood 1896 son, Ernest Russell, born Brentwood, CA 1898 daughter, Gladyce, born, Brentwood, CA 1900 Census, Walter age 33 Contra Costa County, CA; living with wife, Laura, and three children, Hazel, Russell, & Gladyce,. 1900 Oct; son, Winner, born, Brentwood, CA 1901 & 1902, he is listed as a blacksmith living at 4164 17th Street, San Francisco. He shoed horses for the San Francisco Streetcars. 1902 Aug; son, Arthur, born, Brentwood, CA 1907 Sep, 5; son, Arthur, died in Brentwood while Walter was on business selling farm equip. in Washington. 1907 Sep 19; son, Edgar, born Brentwood, CA 1910 Census, Walter, age 42, Diamond, Whitman, Washington; living with wife, Laura, and five children, Hazel, Russell, Gladyce, Winner, & Edgar 1912 daughter, Hazel married in Whitman County, Washington 1917 daughter, Gladyce married in Dayton, Washington. 1918 Walter, Laura, and son Edgar moved back to Brentwood, CA to farm left him by his mother 1920 Census, Walter, age 51, House Construction; Oak St., Brentwood, Contra Costa County, CA; living with wife, Laura, and Edgar and 2 boarders in construction. 1923 Walter fell off ladder while picking apples in Wenatchee, WA. 1930 Jan 22, Walter died of bladder cancer in San Francisco. 1930 Census, Laura living in Oakland, Alameda, CA with daughter, Gladyce and husband Pete Ping 1940 Census, Laura living in Sacramento, CA with daughter, Gladyce and husband Pete Ping 1940 Aug 7, Laura died of old age. She had been with her son, Winner in Oregon and Gladyce had gone to Oregon to bring her home to live with her and her husband Pete Ping. Laura was in a rest home at the time of her death at age 74. Walter Winner Collis and Laura Susan Grigsby were married 4 Oct 1893 in Brentwood, Contra Costa County, California. They met in Brentwood where their parents had adjoining farms. Her wedding veil was adorned with live orange blossoms. They were the parents of 6 children; Hazel, Ernest (known as Russell), Gladyce, Winner, Arthur, and Edgar. Five of the children lived to adulthood. Arthur died as a young child. They lived in Brentwood behind Walter's blacksmith shop later moving to Colfax, Washington, then back again to Brentwood. Laura was born 2 Jul 1866 in Napa County where her parents had met and married. She was the oldest of 4 children, all of which attended school in Brentwood, California. Her father was a successful farmer there. Her mother was often ill, and many times Laura stayed home from school to care for her mother. She was an accomplished piano and organ player. When her husband died, Laura moved to Oregon to be with her son, Winner, but was soon retrieved by her daughter, Gladyce, who brought her to live her last days in Sacramento. Laura died in 1940 at the age of 74 from heart disease. Walter Winner Collis was born 14 Sept 1868 at 130 Berry Street, San Francisco, California, Walter was the 8th of 10 children born to William and Ann (Randall) Collis of England. William Collis, is listed in the 1868-1874 San Francisco directory as having a saloon and residence at that address. It is reputed to have been nice real estate at that time. In the 1888 San Francisco directory, Walter was listed as a lamplighter and trimmer for The Cal Electric Light Co. in San Francisco, living at 1517 Vallejo Street. (is this our Walter Collis?) Before the turn of the century he was a grain farmer in Brentwood, Contra Costa County, California. My father, Russell Collis, said that farming was never his best occupation. In 1902, he is listed as a blacksmith living at 4164 17th Street in San Francisco. He shod horses for the San Francisco Streetcars. In 1906, during the earthquake, he and his family were living behind the blacksmith shop in Brentwood, California. He later worked for the Holt Harvestor Company as a traveling salesman, demonstrating and selling equipment. His family was living in Berkeley during that time. He was sent to Washington State and was there in 1907, when his son, Arthur, choked to death. Aunt Gladyce remembers the body lying in the living room for about one week while they waited for Dad to return for the funeral. Two weeks after Arthur's death, Laura gave birth to her sixth child, Edgar. The family moved to Diamond, Washington and in the 1910 census he is listed again as a blacksmith in his own shop. The following information was told to me by Russell Collis in January of 1976. "In 1910 the family (Walter Winner's family) moved to Diamond, Washington. Walter worked in a blacksmith shop there. In 1918, Walter inherited $700 from his mother. He took Laura, Edgar, a cow and the furniture on a freight train back to Brentwood to 40 acres of property left to Laura by her father, Erasmus Grigsby. Walter nearly died of the flu. Gladyce and Hazel had both married in Washington. Russell and Winner both stayed to work." "In 1923 Walter, Laura and Edgar returned to Washington for Bertha and Russell's wedding and then went on to Wenatchee, Washington, to pick apples. Walter fell off the ladder onto his back. He later developed kidney and bladder problems attributed to the fall. They called it cancer. It was hardening of the bladder. The bladder was like granite inside and they would chip it off in chips. Walter was never really well after that. Doctor Regen and Doctor Reynolds at the University hospital in San Francisco wanted to operate. The cost of $150, Walter felt was too high and the county owed him something after all these years. He went to the County Hospital in Martinez. It didn't help and when he went back to University Hospital, it was too late. He died there in 1930 at age 61. He left the farm in debt and it was taken over by the bank shortly after his death. Farming was not his best interest." "Walter played the coronet well and he played any kind of brass instrument. He played in the band in Diamond for a while. He also played the mouth organ well. He had a short leg and walked with a limp, but he was a very strong, husky man. He could pick up a one hundred-fifty pound anvil by the horn and hold it straight out at arm's length. He also was an expert swimmer and at one time made a wager he could swim the river from Brentwood to San Francisco Bay. No one took him up on it so he didn't swim it." MEMORIES OF Walter Winner Collis by Grandson, WALTER LEROY COLLIS (as told to Marilyn Parker, June 4, 1988) I remember little of the ranch in Brentwood; just going through the orchard between Grandma Collis' and our little shack, Grandpa sitting in the rocking chair on the porch with tears rolling down his cheeks because he hurt so bad. Yet Grandpa always had time to play with me. Whenever I'd come, he'd hold me on his lap. I can remember Grandma chasing him around, telling him, "Walter! do this." Boy! He'd move. She was just a little tiny squirt. We used to gather around the piano and sing the old traditional stuff on Christmas Eve. Money was tight so we would go out and cut down a tree whether it was pine or whatever, and decorate it with homemade decorations. I remember stringing popcorn, making chains and paper decorations. Grandpa Collis was a big man, religious, a blacksmith, 6 feet 1 inch on one foot and 6 feet 2 inches on the other; A big man with big arms. He wouldn't hurt a fly. He fell across a ladder picking fruit and developed cancer of the bladder. !BIRTH: Berry Street, 10 pm (William Collis family bible in possession of Marilyn Parker) !MARRIAGE: Marriage Cert. in possession of Laura Mae Just. (I have a copy) 1870 United States Federal Census Name: Walter W Collis Age in 1870: 2 Birth Year: abt 1868 Birthplace: California Home in 1870: San Francisco Ward 9, San Francisco, California Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: San Francisco Value of real estate: Household Members: Name Age Wm Collis 43 (male citizen of US) Annie E Collis 41 Ada A Collis 16 Wm A Collis 15 Austin W Collis 6 Rachel Collis 4 Walter W Collis 2 *1880 United States Federal Census Name: Walter W. Collis Home in 1880: Township 5, Contra Costa, California Age: 11 Estimated birth year: abt 1869 Birthplace: California Relation to head-of-household: Son Father's name: William Father's birthplace: Eng Mother's name: Esther A. Mother's birthplace: Eng Occupation: Going To School Marital Status: Single Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age William Collis 54 Esther A. Collis 51 William A. Collis 24 Austin W. Collis 15 Rachael Collis 12 Walter W. Collis 11 Florence E. Collis 10 Lillian E. Collis 8 1900 United States Federal Census Name: Walter Collis Age: 33 Birth Date: Sep 1866 Birthplace: California Home in 1900: Supervisors District 5, Contra Costa, California Race: White Gender: Male elation to Head of House: pouse's Name: Laura Collis Marriage Year: 1893 Years Married: 7 Father's Birthplace: England Mother's Birthplace: England Occupation: Farmer rented farm Household Members: Name Age Walter Collis 33 farmer Laura Collis 33 Hazel Collis 5 Russel Collis 3 Gladys Collis 2 *1910 United States Federal Census Name: Walter L Collis Age in 1910: 42 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1868 BirthPlace: California Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: England Mother's Birth Place: England Spouses's Name: Lora Home in 1910: Diamond, Whitman, Washington Marital Status: Married Occupation: Blacksmith, own shop (own it free, house) Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Walter L 42 Lora Collis 44 Hazel Collis 15 Russel Collis 13 Gladys Collis 11 Wynner Collis 9 Edgar Collis 2 1920 United States Federal Census Name: Walter W Callis Home in 1920: Brentwood, Contra Costa, California, Oak Street Age: 51 years Estimated Birth Year: abt 1869 Birthplace: California Relation to Head of House: Head Occupation: Construction, House builder, for wages Spouse's Name: Laura E Father's Birth Place: England Mother's Birth Place: England Marital Status: Married Race: White Sex: Male Home owned: Own farm Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Image: 492 Household Members: Name Age Walter W Callis 51 Laura E Callis 53 Edgar D Callis 12 Samuel S Logan 37 boarder, builder, house builder Roy C Motter 21 boarder, painter, house builder 1930 United States Federal Census Name: Laura S Collis Birth Year: abt 1867 Gender: Female Race: White Birthplace: California Marital Status: Widowed Relation to Head of House: Mother-in-law Home in 1930: Oakland, Alameda, California Map of Home: View Map Street address: 76th Ave Block: 3099 House Number in Cities or Towns: 1446 Dwelling Number: 255 Family Number: 262 Age at First Marriage: 27 Attended School: No Able to Read and Write: Yes Father's Birthplace: Missouri Mother's Birthplace: Missouri Able to Speak English: Yes Household Members: Name Age Elmer F Ping 32 Gladys E Ping 30 Frank E Ping 57 Mary E Ping 52 Laura S Collis 63 1940 United States Federal Census Name: Laura Collis Age: 73 Estimated birth year: abt 1867 Gender: Female Race: White Birthplace: California Marital Status: Widowed Relation to Head of House: Mother-in-law Home in 1940: Sacramento, Sacramento, California Map of Home in 1940: View Map Street: 13 Avenue House Number: 4964 Inferred Residence in 1935: Sacramento, Sacramento, California Residence in 1935: Same Place Sheet Number: 10A Attended School or College: No Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 5th grade Weeks Worked in 1939: 0 Income: 0 Income Other Sources: No Neighbors: View others on page Household Members: Name Age Elmer Ping 44 Gladyce Ping 41 Laura Collis 73 Edgar Collis 32 !DEATH: died age 62, State file #5389 vol. 10 page 1322, buried:Brentwood Union Cemetary findagrave.com Walter W. Collis.. Birth: 1864 Death: 1930 Burial: Union Cemetery Brentwood Contra Costa County California, USA From the dawn of the Iron Age through the 19th century, the blacksmith trade grew in demand and became increasingly specialized in the process. America would not even exist were it not for the smithy. Indeed, civilization itself is indebted to the blacksmith for virtually all material innovation up to the advent of the factory floor. The importance of the blacksmith cannot be overstated. But then, something happened: machines. The smithy trade began to decline in the mid-19th century, as machines began to produce items that were formerly made by the blacksmith. At first it was the simple things: nails, hooks, fence rods. In time, more complex products were machine-crafted, such as hinges and barbed wire. The smithy simply couldn't compete with the economics of machine-crafted implements, a phenomenon that soon gave rise to a virtuous cycle of machine-dominance in the production of most material goods. What the machines didn't take from the smithy was soon eaten by other competitive innovations and historical events: Ransom E. Olds' Soon thereafter, the extensive adoption of large open-geared tractors negatively impacted demand for simply farm tools, horse shoes, and other finely crafted items previously considered agricultural necessities. The Great Depression killed a last bastion of the blacksmith market niche when architectural ironwork . research Holt Harvester Co during 1910-1930: History Of Holt Harvester Co 1883 The Stockton Wheel Company was established by Benjamin and Charles Holt. 1886 The first Holt "link belt" combined harvester was sold, replacing unreliable mechanical geared harvesters. 1890 Benjamin Holt unveiled his version of the steam traction engine with new, patented steering clutches. 1892 The Stockton Wheel Company was incorporated as The Holt Manufacturing Company. 1904 Benjamin Holt tested a steam powered machine that moved on self-laying tracks instead of wheels. He named this invention the "Caterpillar". 1931 Marysville Tractor & Equipment Co. was formed by Daniel W. Beatie to cover Marysville,CA 1935 Roseville facility in Placer County was opened. 1939 Holt Bros. was formed by Parker M. Holt and Harry D. Holt to cover Santa Maria, California. | COLLIS, Walter Winner (I205)
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| 2783 | Things to do: 1. Look through records in binder to add details 2. Is there an 1831 Census? no 3. Are there news articles or advertisements for Star brewery or Kennington Brewery? 4. Who did temple work for Christopher Annett Collis, mother, Susannah Smith/Collis? 5. Can more info on children be found? What about New Zealand/Australia? 6. 4. What is the name of the town where the White Horse Inn was located? Bert's email states it was in Witham. Timeline for Christopher Annett Collis: 1800 May 7 Christopher born Braintree, Essex, England 1821 marriage: June 7 Maria Bridge in Witham, Essex, England 1822 Aug 11 daughter, Jane, born Essex County to Chrisopher and Maria 1824 son, Samuel Annett, born Essex 1825 son, Samuel Annett, died Witham, Essex, England 1826 May 20 son, William, born Witham, 1827 Christopher went bankrupt 1828 April 16 son, George Smith Collis, born Witham, 1829 Feb 9 daughter, Maria, born Witham, 1830 Poll Books and Electoral Registers Christopher A Collis, Witham 1831 May 21 daughter, Dorcus, born Witham, 1832 Christopher was a baker, brewer in Witham, 1833 Death: May 23, wife, Maria, in Witham, 1833 Christopher moves to Chelmsford as a brewer's clerk at Kennington Brewery, Dorset St and Chapham Rd near the oval cricket grounds in London. 1836 son? Joseph Collis born (he was born after Christopher's wife Maria died and before he married Eliza) 1838 Oct 19 Marries Eliza Parker at St. Giles Cripplegate, London England. 1839 daughter, Eliza Collis born 1839 Owned a Tavern/Public House, The Woolpack Inn (near the White Horse Inn), Church St. Chipping Hill, Witham 1839 Pigot's Directory: baker, Chipping Hill, Witham (Baker's yeast and yeast for ale may have been interchangeable at that time) 1841 Census: Christopher and Eliza living Brixton, Lambeth, Surrey, England 1844 Sept, wife, Eliza dies, Lambeth, Surrey, England 1846 Jul 9 marries Alice Scott Honeysett at St. Giles Cripplegate, London England. 1851 Census: Christopher with wife, Alice, in Hounslow, Middlesex 177 London Rd, Brewer at Star Brewery, employing 1 labor and two sons 1851 London, England, Electoral Registers, Christopher in Heston, Star Brewery 1853 London, England, Electoral Registers, Christopher in Heston, Star Brewery 1868 Christopher marries Elizabeth Archer age 37, spinster 1869 Death: Christopher South Stoneham, Hampshire age 69 According to the records sent to me from Bert Collis I write the following: Christopher was bankrupt in 1827 and paid his creditors 2s.6d. in the pound. (i.e. One eighth) but by 1833 he was buying a small house in Witham and started in business as a victualler and baker. In 1833 he was in Chelmsford and was listed as a brewer's clerk of Kennington Brewery, Dorset Street and Chapham Rd. Brewer's clerk. (44 K from Witham, 35 K from Chelmsford. He also with his brother William became tenant of the Swan Inn at Brentwood in Essex. (Quite a coincidence! He soon failed again owing nearly four hundred pounds mainly to the brewers and was again made bankrupt. The Essex Record Office has a thick wad of court papers on the claims and counter claims. It includes a letter written by Christopher A Collis to the brewers solicitors. Christopher moved to London and became Brewers Clerk at the Kennington Brewery in Dorset St. Clapham Road. (This was near the Oval Cricket Ground). His father Samuel Collis was buried at Braintree on Jan 27th 1832, age 70 (Information from Bert Collis) http://search.labs.familysearch.org England births and Christenings 1538-1975 The index is an electronic database of information transcribed from original records. Christopher Annett Collis baptism/christening:24 Jul 1801 Braintree, Essex, England father: Samuel Collis mother: Susannah indexing project batch# 103390-0 source film # 1702171 UK, Poll Books and Electoral Registers, 1538-1893 Name: Christopher A Collis Poll Year: 1830 Residence: Witham Where Freehold lies: White Notley Houses occupier: Hawkes Hundred: Lexden And Witham County: Essex (page 111;1838 Marriage solemnized in the Parish Church in the Parish of St Giles without Cripplegate in the city of London. No. 222 Married 19 Oct 1838, Christopher Annett Collis, age 39, bachelor, profession: Brewer, Residence: Witham, Essex, Father's name: Samuel Collis, Profession of father: Sadler Eliza Parker, age 31, Spinster, residence: Witham, Essex, Father's name: Henry Parker, profession of father: Sawyer) 1841 England Census Christoper Collis Name: Christoper Collis Age: 40 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1801 Gender: Male Civil Parish: Lambeth (St. Mary Lambeth Parish) Hundred: Brixton (Eastern Division) County/Island: Surrey Country: England Street address: Camberwell Lane South Occupation: Brewer Source information: HO107/1054/1 Registration district: Lambeth Sub-registration district: Brixton ED, institution, or vessel: 2 Folio: 31 Page: Line number: 12 GSU Number: 474652 Household: Name: age Christoper Collis 40 Eliza 35, William 15, George 14, Maria 10, Samuel 5, Joseph 5, Dorcus 5, Eliza 5, Henry Parker 20 (probably Eliza's brother) carpenter 1851 England Census Christopher A Collis Name: Christopher A Collis Age: 52 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1799 Relation: Head Spouse's name: Alice Gender: Male Where born: Braintree, Essex, England Civil Parish: Heston Ecclesiastical parish: Holy Trinity Town: Hounslow County/Island: Middlesex Country: England Street address: 177 London Rd. Occupation: Brewer employing 1 labor and two sons Registration district: Brentford Sub-registration district: Isleworth ED, institution, or vessel: 1a Neighbors: Household schedule number: 177 Star Brewery, London Road Household Members: Name Age Alice Collis 53 wife, born Norfolk, Thilgay Christopher A Collis 52 brewer Samuel Collis 17 son, born Witham, Essex brewer Joseph Collis 15 son, born Witham, Essex brewer Eliza Collis 14 daughter, born Witham, Essex scholar at home London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 Name: Christopher Annett Collis Year: 1851 County or Borough: Star Brewery, London Smallberry Green, Hounslow Road, in the parish of Heston, County of Middlesex Ward or Division/Constituency: Heston London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 Name: Christopher Annett Star Collis Year: 1853 County or Borough: London, County of Middlesex Ward or Division/Constituency: Heston Street address: Star Brewery, Smallberry-green Hounslow England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1983 Name: Christopher Annett Collis age 67, widower, reside Portswood, father Samuel Collis, Saddler and Elizabeth Archer age 37, spinster, reside Portswood, father William Archer, Blacksmith Year of Registration: 1868 Quarter of Registration: 21-Mar District: South Stoneham County: Hampshire Volume: 2c Page: 89 England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1983 Surname Given Name District Volume Page Deaths Jun 1869 age 68 Collis Christopher Annett S. Stoneham 2c 29 The district S. Stoneham is an alternative name for South Stoneham and it is in the county of Hampshire Food in the 17th Century In the early 17th century people began eating food with forks for the first time. During the century new foods were introduced into England (for the rich) such as bananas and pineapples. New drinks were introduced, tea and coffee. In the late 17th century there were many coffee houses in the towns. Merchants and professional men met there to read newspapers and talk shop. In the late 17th century the rich began eating ice cream. Many rich people built special underground chambers in the grounds of their houses for preserving ice during the summer. The ice was covered in straw to preserve it. However for the poor food remained plain and monotonous. They subsisted on food like bread, cheese and onions. Ordinary people continued to eat pottage each day. Food in the 18th Century There was little change in food in the 18th century. Despite the improvements in farming food for ordinary people remained plain and monotonous. For them meat was a luxury. A poor person's food was mainly bread and potatoes. In the 18th century drinking tea became common even among ordinary people. 19th Century Food In the early 19th century the working class lived on plain food such as bread, butter, potatoes and bacon. Butcher's meat was a luxury. However things greatly improved in the late 19th century. Railways and steamships made it possible to import cheap grain from North America so bread became cheaper. Refrigeration made it possible to import cheap meat from Argentina and Australia. Consumption of sugar also increased. By the end of the 19th century most people (not all) were eating much better food. The first fish and chip shops in Britain opened in the 1860s. By the late 19th century they were common in towns and cities. In the late 19th century the first convenience food in tins and jars went on sale. Although the principle of canning was invented at the end of the 18th century tinned food first became widely available in the 1880s. The can opener was invented in 1855 and the rotary can opener followed in 1870. Furthermore in the 1870s margarine, a cheap substitute for butter, was invented. Tomato ketchup was invented in 1874. Several new biscuits were invented in the 19th century including the Garibaldi (1861), the cream cracker (1885) and the Digestive (1892). Furthermore new sweets were invented during the 19th century including peanut brittle (1890) and liquorice allsorts (1899). For centuries people drank chocolate but the first chocolate bar was made in 1847. Milk chocolate was invented in 1875. 19th Century Britain In the 19th century Britain became the world's first industrial society. It also became the first urban society. By 1851 more than half the population lived in towns. The population of Britain boomed during the 19th century. In 1801 it was about 9 million. By 1901 it had risen to about 41 million. This was despite the fact that many people emigrated to North America and Australia to escape poverty. About 15 million people left Britain between 1815 and 1914. However there were also many immigrants. In the 1840s many people came from Ireland, fleeing a terrible potato famine. In the 1880s the Tsar began persecuting Russian Jews. Some fled to Britain and settled in the East End of London. 19th Century Society In the early 19th century Britain was an oligarchy. Only a small minority of men (and no women) were allowed to vote. The situation began to change in 1832 when the vote was given to more men. Constituencies were also redrawn and many industrial towns were represented for the first time. The franchise was extended again in 1867 and 1883. In 1872 the secret ballot was introduced. However in the 19th century at least 80% of the population was working class. In order to be considered middle class you had to have at least one servant. Most servants were female. (Male servants were much more expensive because men were paid much higher wages). Throughout the 19th century 'service' was a major employer of women. In the 19th century families were much larger than today. That was partly because infant mortality was high. People had many children and accepted that not all of them would survive. In a 19th century family the Father was head of the family. He wife and children respected him and obeyed him (at least that was the theory!). Until 1879 a man could legally beat his wife and until 1882 all a woman's property, even the money she earned, belonged to her husband. Divorce was made legal in 1857 but it was very rare in the 19th century. | COLLIS, Christopher Annett (I209)
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| 2784 | Things to do: 1. look up Thomas Benfield Abode (death record) St Savior Parish Source of children's baptisms found on Ancestry.com, Pallot's Baptism Index for England, 1780-1837 Probable siblings of Elizabeth Benfield. Pallot's Baptism Index for England: 1780 - 1837 Birth, Marriage & Death (also IGI fische) Name: Thomas Benfield Mother: Keziah Benfield Father: Thos Benfield Baptism: 29 Sep 1794 - Gloucester, St. Michael, Gloucestershire Name: Hannah Benfield Mother: Keziah Benfield Father: Thos Benfield Baptism: 11 Jan 1804 - Gloucester, St. Michael, Gloucestershire Name: Wm Benfield Mother: Heziah Benfield Father: Thos Benfield Baptism: 21 Jul 1805 - Gloucester, St. Michael, Gloucestershire Name: Eliz Benfield Mother: Heziah Benfield Father: Thos Benfield Baptism: 28 Dec 1808 - Gloucester, St. Michael, Gloucestershire Name: Joseph Benfield Mother: Keziah Benfield Father: Thos Benfield Baptism: 2 Jan 1811 - Gloucester, St. Michael, Gloucestershire possibly>? London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 Name: Thomas Benfield Record Type: Burial Age: 74 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1766 Abode: St Saviour Parish Death Date: abt 1840 Burial Date: 31 May 1840 Burial Place: St George The Martyr, England Parish or Poor Law Union: St George the Martyr Borough: Southwark Register Type: Parish Register England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Transcription First name(s) THOMAS Last name BENFIELD Gender Male Birth day - Birth month - Birth year - Age - Death quarter 2 Death year 1840 District ST. SAVIOUR SOUTHWARK County London Volume 4 Page 339 Country England Record set England & Wales deaths 1837-2007 Category Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers) Subcategory Deaths & burials Collections from United Kingdom | Benfield, Thomas (I9707)
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| 2785 | Things to do: 1. Margaret's death cert, cause of death? 2. Ada Merehoff's book for his history 3. Robert's death cert. 4. children on census, marriage, death Timeline for Robert Edward Tutt: 1833 Nov 17, Robert was born in Virginia 1858 Jan 14, Robert married Margaret Gordon at Gordon Ranch on Cache Creek, Yolo Co, California 1858 daughter, Maria born in Yolo County, CA 1859 Feb, son, Henry James born in Yolo County, CA 1860 US Census, living in Cottonwood, Yolo, CA with wife Margaret and 2 children 1863 daughter, Ellen Mae, born in Yolo County, CA 1865 Jun 2, daughter, Margaret, born in Yolo County, CA 1867 Great California Register of Voters of Yolo County, Farmer, W. Cottonwood, Yolo, CA 1869 daughter, Lillie, born in Yolo County, CA 1870 US Census, farmer, living in Cottonwood, with wife, Margaret and 5 children 1870 son, Jessie, born in Yolo County, CA 1876 daughter, Maria, died in Yolo County, CA 1876 son, Phillip Ashby, born in Yolo County, CA 1879 son, William Edward, born in Yolo County, CA 1880 US Census, farmer, living in Cottonwood, with wife, Margaret and 5 children 1880 about this time a son, Aaron, born in Yolo County, CA 1881 about this time a son, Jack, born in Yolo County, CA 1882 wife, Margaret died in Yolo County, CA 1889 Jul 28, married Harriet Lowrey Devoe in Yolo County, CA 1890 California Great Register, living in Madison, Yolo county, farmer 1900 US Census, farmer, living in Guinda, Yolo, CA, with wife, Harriett 1910 US Census, farm labor living in rented home in Guinda. No Harriett listed 1913 Robert died in Madison, Yolo, CA at the age of 79 years from degenerative heart disease His Biography in the "Capay Valley" by Ada Meirhoff,Pg 368 Great California Register of Voters of Yolo County-Farmer - W. Cottonwood, 1867 California Great Register 1890 - living in Madison, Yolo county- farmer He came to California from Missouri in 1854 and settled in Yolo county the same year. His occupation before coming to the State had been farming. He owned 320 acres of tillable land in Madison, Yolo, California. He lived in Madison 60 years before his death of degeneration of heart (old age) at 79 years and 10 months. Book 2 pg 191 1860 United States Federal Census Name: Margarett Tutt Age in 1860: 19 Birth Year: abt 1841 Birthplace: California Home in 1860: Cottonwood, Yolo, California Gender: Female Post Office: Cache Creek Value of real estate: Household Members: Name Age N E Tutt 26 (I read R E) Margarett Tutt 19 Mariah Tutt 2 (could be Maria L) Nancy Tutt 8.12 (I read Henry) 1870 United States Federal Census t Name: Margaret Tutt Estimated Birth Year: abt 1841 Age in 1870: 29 Birthplace: California Home in 1870: Cottonwood, Yolo, California Race: White Gender: Female Value of real estate: $1400, $5000 Post Office: Woodland Household Members: Name Age Edward R Tutt 35 farmer Margaret Tutt 29 Maria Tutt 12 Henry Tutt 11 Ellen Tutt 8 Martha Tutt 6 Lillie Tutt 1 Thomas Bloxham 31 farmer 1880 United States Federal Census Name: R. E. Tutt Home in 1880: East Cottonwood, Yolo, California Age: 46 Estimated birth year: abt 1834 Birthplace: Virginia Relation to head-of-household: Self (Head) Spouse's name: Margaret Father's birthplace: VA Mother's birthplace: VA Neighbors: Occupation: Farmer Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age R. E. Tutt 46 Margaret Tutt 35 Henry Tutt 20 Ellen Tutt 16 Mattie Tutt 15 Jessie Tutt 7 Philip A Tutt 3 Edward Tutt 1 Robert Belsha 28 Frank Cox 24 1900 United States Federal Census (could this be our Robert with wrong BD and Bplace Name: Robert Tutt Home in 1900: Guinda, Yolo, California Age: 59 Estimated birth year: abt 1841 (Could this be wrong date?) Birthplace: Missouri Relationship to head-of-house: Head Spouse's name: Hariatte Race: White Occupation: Neighbors: Household Members: Name Age Robert Tutt 59 Hariatte Tutt 58 Lester P Wood 63 Andrew E Mc Niell 47 1910 United States Federal Census Name: Robert E Tutt [Robert E Lutt] Age in 1910: 76 farm labor Estimated birth year: abt 1834 Birthplace: Virginia Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: Virginia Mother's Birth Place: Virginia Home in 1910: Guinda, Yolo, California (Guinda Road) rented home Marital Status: Married (2) Race: White Gender: Male Neighbors: Household Members: Name Age Robert E Tutt 76 | Tutt, Robert Edward (I5495)
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| 2786 | Things to do: 1. Newspapers in Houghton 2. border crossings 3. reread letters and info from Clayton Sherman 4. Letters from Matilda for her records 5. tombstone in Lot 31, Section 10, Forest Lawn Cemetary, Detroit, Michigan, Timeline for James Milton Sherman: 1857 Nov 26, James Milton born in Houghton, Ontario, Canada 1861 Census, James living in Houghton, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada, with parents Joseph & Matilda Sherman 1871 Canada Census, HoughtonNorfolk South, Ontario, Canada with parents 1879 Dec 24 James married Martha Madora Smith at Glenmyer, Ontario, Canada 1880 Nov 26, first son, Milton Kellum, born in Kingsmill, Cockran Dist., Ontario 1881 spring, moved to Lumberton, Michigan (may have missed 1880 US census & 1881 Canada census) 1882 Jul 15, daughter Alma Rolettie, born in Lumberton, Michigan 1883 bought 50 acres and old farm in Norfolk, Ontario, Canada 1883 Oct 28, son, Arthur Lewellyn born in Houghton, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada 1885 Jan 7, son Henry Clayton born in Houghton (James Milton was in Oscoda, Iosco, MI at the time) 1886 Apr 18, daughter, Mary Elizabeth born in Houghton 1887 May 1, son, Joseph Bernard born in Houghton 1888 May 29, son Frank Wesley born in Houghton\ 1889 Sep 10, son Ira Hamilton born in Houghton 1891 Census of Canada, Houghton, Norfolk, Canada 1893 Jan 21, son William Austin born in Houghton 1894 Sep 14, son Lawrence Edmond born in Houghton 1895 Oct 20, son Earl Romain born in Houghton 1897 Jul 14, son Clarence Clifton born in Houghton 1899 Feb 5, daughter, Matilda Sepperal born in Houghton 1901 Census, living with family in Houghton 1910 Census, living with family in Oscoda, iosco, Michigan 1913 divorced Martha Madora. 1913 17 April, married Anna Reaume, in Harrisville, both of Greenbush, MI, both married 1 time before, 1916 moved to Detroit to work in car industry. 1921 quit working in Detroit 1930 Census living in Shelby, Macomb, Michigan with son, Milton K Sherman and Milton's family 1934 Sep 14, James Milton, age 76, died in Eloise, Michigan, poorhouse, buried in Detroit, Wayne, MI 1934. . Buried in Forrest Lawn Cemetery Detroit MI, arrangements were made by the widow of his son Henry Clayton Sherman Joseph's grown son, James Milton, lived at Lumberton, Michigan, (1881-1883) then moved back to Fairground, Ontario, and lived there until he finally moved to Oscoda, Michigan (1900). It follows that family data for the period 1827-1900 may exist at either end of this Ontario-Michigan axis, particularly near the towns mentioned or along logical travel routes between them. James Milton was the father of Milton Sherman who was the father of Bertha Sherman (Collis). The following story was taken from the family genealogy by Vernon Sherman: " James Milton was born November 26, 1857 at Houghton, Ontario, Canada. His wife was Martha Madora Smith whom he called "Dorie". She called him "Milt". They were married at Glenmyer, Ontario, Canada, Christmas Eve, 24 December 1879. Their first child was born eleven months later. Their thirteenth child was born twenty years later. Martha's father was a Methodist minister for fifty years, and was sixty-one years old when Martha was born. He came from London, England and his wife from the vicinity of Glasgow, Scotland. He died at age 83. They lived on a farm east of Glenmyer at the time of Martha's marriage, having moved there from Walsingham Township. During the period 1879-81, James Milton and Madora lived at Kingsmill, Ontario, 3 or4 miles northwest of Aylmer and about 30 miles northwest of Fairground. Their first child, Milton Kellum was born at Kingsmill. In the spring of 1881 they moved to Lumberton, Michigan, near Big Rapids, and here their second child, a daughter, Alma, was born. They moved back to Houghton, Ontario in the fall of 1883 and here the rest of their 13 children were born, none of them in the same house. The town of Hemlock, Ontario consisted of three stores, a school, a church and a blacksmith shop. The gristmill was at Vienna, nine miles away. Fairground, Ontario, was the nearby location of the annual tounship fair and reunion. James Milton soon found need for additional money to support a growing family. He heard great talk of high wages in the Michigan woods and decided to work there during the winter months. About 1884, he left the winter management of the farm to his wife and children and went to the Michigan woods near Oscoda. He is known to have been in Oscoda during the winter of 1885, when his son, Henry Clayton, was born (7 January 1885). In a letter (dated 13 Oct 1946) to his nephew, Vernon Sherman, Milton Kellum Sherman wrote concerning his father, James Milton Sherman. "In 1883 he bought the north 50 acres of the old farm in Houghton Township, and built a 3 room house on it. While the plaster was drying, we went down to Uncle Charles Mercer, and there Arthur was born. We were there for about two weeks. In 1884, J. M. Sherman bought the south 50 acres of the farm, making his 100 acres of land. He had 30 sheep, 10 milch cows, and a good team of mares, also hogs and chickens, and farm tools. The land was swampy, wet and uncleared. Father worked very hard to clear and ditch that land, 'til he got rheumatism and was laid up for three years and six months. After the doctors got his farm, stock, and tools, they cured him of his rheumatism. He tried hard to recover the farm by working out. But he had a large family to feed, a lot of sickness and five deaths. He worked for 50 cents a day around our neighborhood. It was in Cleveland's administration and times were hard. He finally lost the farm and moved off. After Matilda (the last child) was born, father went back to Oscoda to work. He had worked there some before. We had one old mare left to do our work with. Clayton, Arthur and myself worked hoeing corn for Charlie Beech. We got 25 cents a day. We moved from the Sprag house to a house on the third concession across the road from Moris Fultons. From there we moved to the Pridle house, on the third concession just north of the third side road. While there, we traded the old mare for a little gray mare. She was a good horse. Art and I came to Oscoda and a year and a half later the rest of the family came over and brought the little gray mare with them. From that mare, father raised a mare colt, from that colt he raised three colts, one for your father (Henry Clayton), one for Art, and one for myself. J.M. Sherman bought 80 acres of timber land at Handy, Michigan, near Mikado, on Pine River. Father, Art, Clayton, and Frank, cut the cedar off the land and sold the land, and bought 180 acres on the west side of Cedar Lake, 5 miles south of Greenbush and 6 miles north of Oscoda. About 1907 he bought a barn of Vern Sharky, of the Woods estate. He tore it down and moved it up to Cedar Lake to build a home there for himself and mother. But there was too much interference from A and F, 'til father had no home in Oscoda. And finally mother was persuaded to move back to Canada in 1911, just before the Oscoda fire. She was there only a short time, and moved to Detroit with Clarence and Matilda. Also A and F. In 1913 father applied for a divorce and got it. I think he married Widow Reeves in the spring of 1914. He was living on her farm when World War I started. Her farm was 4 miles north and 1 mile west of father's farm. In 1916 father went to Detroit to work. In late fall of 1917 we both went to work for the Fisher Co. at Detroit plant # 7. He was a sweeper. He worked till the strike in 1921. Then he went back to the farm and moved his (then) wife to Detroit, and with the lumber that he had bought from Sharky, he built the two family flat in Detroit. His second wife made him sleep in the attic. He got up in sleep one night and fell down the stair well to the basement, about 25 feet, and broke his hip. Several days later the police found him laying a short distance from the sidewalk in the grass and tall weeds near Mack Avenue on Conners Creek Road. He was taken to the hospital and the rest I think you know. The doctor in the hospital told me that father was not crazy, but worn out in mind and body." James Milton is believed to have applied for his first U. S. papers in 1884 at Tawas City, Michigan. The declaration of intention is on file but bears no date. However, the order admitting him to citizenship shows 17 November 1900 as the date of application for the final papers. Final citizenship papers were signed 19 September 1904 by Judge J. Kennine at Tawas City, Iosco County, Michigan. Those Michigan days were of tarpaper, sawdust and forest fires. Lumber Barons came into being overnight by the simple expedient of stealing timber from the boundless state forests. Later, fires set in the "slashings" removed all evidence of theft. What a forest fire did to Oscoda in 1911 is part of the Henry Clayton chapter in this story. Oscoda was a lumbering town and one of the most active lake ports. Sandy streets were surfaced with Cedar and Tamrack bark. The fresh smell of tar paper and of rough sawed new boards filled the air. In the spring the Au Sable River ice broke and the "run" was on. The river was choked with logs. A system of river Bayous above the town stored the overflow of timber until the mills could handle it. Floating necklaces of chained logs, known as log-booms lashed timber shipments to river banks and lay in mill ponds. Other shipments of timber came down Lake Huron as huge rafts bound with chain were towed by tugs to mills at the lake shore. Still a third flow of timber arrived via the narrow-gage logging trains creaking and groaning out of the woods. The ringing whine of the great saws continued 24 hours a day. At 6 hour intervals the blasts of mill whistles told the change of shift. Michigan was the Nation's lumber pile in those years. It was the country of Paul Bunyon, his famous "talking boots"; the Winter of the blue snow; and his mighty ox, Babe, whose eyes were as big as cartwheels and measured two ax-handles between centers. In 1910, James milton Sherman took up farming on a place near Greenbush, Michigan, some 20 miles N.W. of Oscoda. His family remained by choice in Oscoda where Arthur and Frank headed it up. Most of the children were self supporting and when the family moved back to Fairground, Ontario, that same year, Henry Clayton and Milton Kellum remained in Michigan. In 1914, James Milton married the widow Reeves. She was a small dark woman with eleven children, many of whom were at that time well grown boys. She was Catholic. They lived first on her farm but later moved to Detroit In 1934, when a Police Ambulance took James Milton to Detroit Receiving Hospital, all he would tell them was his name and that he was the father of 13 children. When advised that her husband was critically ill at the hospital, the ex-widow Reeves consulted with her sons (all now able to support themselves) and announced that they were not interested. She refused the hospital's repeated requests that she talk to them and so in a few days her husband was transferred to the County Poor House at Eloise, Michigan where he died 14 September 1934 in his 77th year. When a person dies in the Poor House and the body is not claimed, the county's procedure is set by law. The cadaver is clothed in a suit of long underwear, put in a rough box, and buried in "Potter's Field" However, James Milton Sherman is buried in Lot 31, Section 10, Forest Lawn Cemetary, Detroit, Michigan, along with his son Henry Clayton. Arrangements were carried out by Henry Clayton's widow and son acting for Henry Clayton. James Milton's headstone reads, "Grandfather" 1861 Census of Canada Name: James M Sherman Gender: Male Age: 5 Birth Year: 1856 Birthplace: Canada West Marital Status: Single Home in 1861: Houghton, Norfolk, Canada West Religion: Methodist Film Number: C-1052 Page Number: 7 Household Members: Name Age Joseph Sherman 34 farmer, born Canada Matilda J Sherman 30 born Canada William L Sherman 10 born Canada James M Sherman 5 born Canada Sarah E Sherman 2 born Canada 1871 Census of Canada Name: James Sherman Gender: Male Age: 14 Birth Year: abt 1857 Birth Place: Ontario Religion: Baptist Origin: German Province: Ontario District: Norfolk South District Number: 11 Division: 02 Subdistrict: Houghton Subdistrict Number: a Neighbors: Household Members: Name Age Joseph Sherman 43 Matilda Sherman 39 William Sherman 19 James Sherman 14 Sarah Sherman 12 Mary Sherman 9 Louisa Sherman 7 Lambert Sherman 3 Ontario, Canada Voter Lists, 1867-1900 about James M Sherman Name: James M Sherman Year: 1885 Locality: Houghton Township Province: Ontario Country: Canada 1891 Census of Canada Name: James M Sherman Gender: Male Marital Status: Married Age: 34 Birth Year: abt 1857 Birthplace: Ontario Relation to Head of House: Head Religion: Baptist French Canadian: No Spouse's Name: Martha M Sherman Father's Birth Place: Ontario Mother's Birth Place: Ontario Province: Ontario District Number: 97 District: Norfolk South Subdistrict: Houghton Neighbors: Household Members: Name Age James M Sherman 34 Martha M Sherman 30 Millon K Sherman 10 angelell L Sherman 8 Aurthur L Sherman 7 Henry C Sherman 6 Mary E Sherman 5 Frank W Sherman 3 1901 Census of Canada Name: Milton Sherman Gender: Male Marital Status: Married Age: 44 Birth Date: 28 Nov 1856 Birthplace: Ontario Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's Name: Martha M Racial or Tribal Origin: English Nationality: Canadain Religion: Methodist Occupation: W E Province: Ontario District: Norfolk (South/Sud) District Number: 94 Sub-District: Houghton Sub-District Number: B-2 Family Number: 53 Page: 6 Household Members: Name Age Milton Sherman 44 Martha M Sherman 40 Milton K Sherman 20 Alma R Sherman 18 Arther L Sherman 17 Claryton Sherman 16 Mary E Sherman 14 Frank W Sherman 12 Clarance C Sherman 3 Matilda S Sherman 2 *1910 United States Federal Census Name: James M Sherman Age in 1910: 52 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1858 Birthplace: Canada English Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: Canada English Mother's Birth Place: Canada English Spouse's name: Martha M Home in 1910: Oscoda, Iosco, Michigan Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Year of Immigration: 1902 Household Members: Name Age James M Sherman 52 Martha M Sherman 49 Frank Sherman 21 Clarence Sherman 12 Matilda Sherman 11 1920 United States Federal Census Name: James M Sherman Age: 63 Birth Year: abt 1857 Birthplace: Canada Home in 1920: Greenbush, Alcona, Michigan Race: White Gender: Male Immigration Year: 1881 Relation to Head of House: Head Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: Anna Sherman Father's Birthplace: Canada Mother's Birthplace: Canada Home Owned: Own, farm Able to Read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Neighbors: Household Members: Name Age James M Sherman 63 [43] immigrated 1881, naturalized 1900 Anna Sherman 45 [43] Vernice A Reaume 15 Marie Reaume 14 Dennis H Reaume 12 Aloysious C Reaume 10 Elbert Reaume 8 1930 United States Federal Census Name: James M Sherman Home in 1930: Shelby, Macomb, Michigan Age: 73 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1857 Relation to Head of House: Father Occupation: Education: Military service: Rent/home value: Age at first marriage: Parents' birthplace: Household Members: Name Age Milton K Sherman 49 Zoey Sherman 39 Joseph Sherman 17 Henry C Sherman 14 Basil B Sherman 12 James M Sherman 73 father, came to US 1883, naturalized Ontario, Canada Voter Lists, 1867-1900 about James M Sherman Name: James M Sherman Year: 1885 #484, Juror, yes lot W 1/2 5 conc 1 owner PO7 Locality: Houghton Township Province: Ontario Country: Canada Ontario, Canada Voter Lists, 1867-1900 about James M Sherman Name: James M Sherman Year: 1886 #489, Juror, yes lot W 1/2 conc 1 owner PO7 Locality: Houghton Township Province: Ontario Country: Canada Forest Lawn Cem. He died in Eloise History of Eloise Westland, Michigan http://www.sherman-roots.com/sherman/pioneers/sp'ott.doc 3. James Milton8 Sherman born Nov 28 1857 in Houghton [Twp] Norfolk Co Ontario Canada (mc/mp; GVWS p0). (Gen Refs: not in DPS, NES, SD, LDS/AF, LDS/IGI). 1871. 1879. James married at Glenmyer Ontario Canada to Martha Madora "Dorie" Smith, who was born c1860 [born 1861] (mc/mp), she and parents born in Canada (1910 Census; GVWS p1). 1879/81. James lived in Kingsmill Ontario (mc/mp). 1881/83. James lived at Lubmerton MI, near Grand Rapids MI (mc/mp). 1883/84. James moved to Fairground Ontario, and purchased 50 acres of land. He added another 50 acres in 1884 and built a 3 room house. He had 30 sheep, 10 milch cows, a good team of mares, hogs, chickens and farm tools. The land was swampy and uncleared; he worked hard to clear and drain the land. He got rheumatism and was laid up for 3 year and half years; the doctors took the farm for medical bills. 1884/85. James a farmer, left his family in Houghton Center Ontario, and worked the winter in the lumber mills in Oscoda MI Iosco Co (GVWS p1). 1893. James' son Henry, was kicked by a horse. James was so angry with the horse that he rushed into the house, got his Yankee musket, and shot the horse dead. He tanned "old Charlie's" hide and it was a rug on the floor in front of his bed all the rest of his life (GHCS p1). 1900. James move to Oscoda MI Iosco Co (mc/mp). 1901. James and family immigrated to Oscoda MI Iosco Co (GVWS p2). 1904. September 19th, James became a citizen at Tawas City MI Iosco Co (mc/mp). xxxx. James purchased 80 acres on the Pine River at Handy MI Alcona Co, and cut the cedar and then sold the land (mc/mp). 1906. James's father Joseph died in Ontario, James lived in Oscoda MI (mc/mp). 1910. Census of Oscoda MI Iosco Co indicated: James age 52, carpenter working at odd jobs; Martha M Sherman, age 49 born 1861, married 31 years, 13 children 8 alive; children Frank, Clarence, Matilda; they lived on Lake Street (p278/d139/f140; nb/7.46). 1910. James purchased 180 acres, located on the West side of Cedar Lake about 5 miles South of Greenbush MI and about 6 miles North of Oscoda [this would be near the Alcona and Iosco county line (mc/mp, from GVMS). 1911. James and family experienced the great fire of 1911 (GVWS p5), Martha had moved back just before the fire (mc/mp from GVWS). 1913. James divorced Martha (mc/mp). 1913. James M age 56, a farmer of Greenbush MI Alcona Co, born in Canada; married in Harrisville MI Alcona Co to widow Anna Reeves/Reemes (uc) age 40 born 1873; 2d marriage for both; his parents Joseph Sherman and Jane Fick (ALC/MR 2-68). xxxx. James was living on Anna's farm when WW-1 started, located 4 miles North and 1 mile West of his farm. 1914/16. James worked for the Fisher Co Plant #7 in Detroit MI as a sweeper, until the 1921 strike (mc/mp; GVWS). 1917. James built a two family flat in Detroit, and brought his wife there to live. 1920. Census of Alcona Co indicated: James M age 63, immigrated 1881 and naturalized in 1900; Anna Sherman age 45 born 1875 in MI, wife; five step-children named Resume (Soundex e3/p8). 1920. Census of Flint MI Genesee Co indicated: Martha age 59 born 1861 in Canada, mother-in-law, immigrated 1901; enumerated with Earnest Rathburn (Soundex e38/p14). 1921. James move to Detroit MI (mc/mp). xxxx. Martha Sherman died in Dearborn MI Wayne Co (GVWS p0). 1934. Anna made him sleep in the attic, one night he fell down the stairway 25 feet to the basement and broke his hip and was taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital. Anna refused to accept James from the hospital, so he was transferred to the County Poor Farm at Eloise MI (mc/mp). 1934. Sep 13th, James Sherman died at the poor house at Eloise MI Wayne Co (GVWS p0; mc/mp; mc/tb). Buried in Forrest Lawn Cemetery Detroit MI, arrangements were made by the widow of his son Henry Clayton Sherman (mc/mp). The history of Eloise actually begins in Detroit were a vote of the people on March 8, 1832, under the name of Wayne County Poor House, named the institution County House Infirmary, it was then located on Gratiot and Mt Elliott Avenues. After the county purchased The Black Horse Tavern, a Detroit-Chicago Stagecoach stop, in 1839 this became the location of the second County Poor House. Of the 146 people living in the original Poor House, only 35 transferred to the new location. The other 111, refused to go into what was than mostly wilderness. Eloise is often referred to as Eloise Sanatorium, Eloise Hospital or even, The Crazy Hospital. The Sanatorium was applied when the hospital opened a out-door treatment center for tubercular patients. The name, Eloise Hospital was adopted by the Board of Superintendents of the Poor on August 18, 1911. It would later become, again The Wayne County Asylum. The term, Eloise, was originally used, because the United States Government, set the Post Office located here in the general office building, it was named Eloise. Later the name, Eloise was applied to the Michigan Central Railroad depot here, the American Express Company located here, and the Detroit, Ypsilanti & Ann Arbor road, all became known with the name Eloise attached. But why Eloise ? Prior to the year 1894, there were no post offices, express offices, or railroad offices, located at any institutions. This slowed deliveries in the Wayne, Westland and Detroit areas and the Superintendent motioned for a post office located at the County House May 1, 1894. The Postmaster General at that time, approved for the location, however to avoid any annoyance to his Department, he established the order that all newly established post offices, would have only short names, or names of one word, and none, could resemble closely to any other within the State. Freeman B. Dickerson, recent postmaster of Detroit, was then President of the Board. He was largely responsible for getting the new County House Center, built, and was very interested in the establishment of the post office. His only living child, a daughter, who was four years old, was called, Eloise. Members of the Board, submitted the name, Eloise, which was than sent to Washington, and approved. On July 20, 1894, the post office was established, under the name Eloise. (Eloise Dickerson, later married and became the wife of Harlow N. Davock, of Detroit. She died in 1982 at the age of 93.) Eloise evolved over time, and expanded and by the 1930's there were 78 building on almost 1,000 acres of land. It was a self-sufficent community, within Westland Township. It had it's own dairy farm, piggery (or pig farm), greenhouses, a fire department, power plants, bakeries, and its own Post Office. The main building, called "N Building" was over 380,000 square feet and housed 7,000 indigent persons. Over 3,000 of them, working throughout the large complex. What Else did Eloise Have ? Eloise was not only a General Hospital, and housing unit for the poor of Wayne County, but it is commonly referred to as the "Crazy Hospital." Eloise was a facility for mentally disturbed patients. In the small Eloise Museum located inside of the Kay Beard Building still standing on Michigan Avenue, are artifacts including leather arm restraints. Eloise also had a section for a morgue. There is said to be 7,145 former Eloise residents buried in the old Eloise Cemetery, which is located on the South side of Michigan Avenue, just across from the Kay Beard Building. The last burial is said to have occured in January 1948. ( SEE BELOW for VIEW of Eloise Cemetery and Markers) The Keeper's residence had originally been located in the west end of the main building, however in 1865, it was approved a new structure be built, for the keeper and his family. The building was drawn up by James Anderson, and built by Henry Metz, by contract. The building had a frontage of 46 feet and was 37 feet wide, and also two stories high. The first keeper to live here was A.L. Chase. This building was also used by the Board for meetings and office space, located on the second floor. The previous portion of the main building, that had been used by the keeper and his family, was turned into bedrooms, a dispensary, and nursery. By 1876, there were buildings for the Insane Asylum. The name used for these buildings was the Third County House. In 1839, there was also a school district with a school house located on the property. There were several children in the County House at the time it was first opened in Detroit, who's parents had died from cholera, and the County House was their only home. In Section 52 of Chapter 2 of the Laws of 1838, it stated that the Superintendent of the Poor, in every county, were obligated to look after the education of all children between the ages of five and sixteen. Therefore a room was set aside and apart where the children would assemble for school. In 1859, an old building, that had been used during a small pox epidemic, was made into a schoolhouse. The next year the Board erected a schoolhoues along Plank Road. Legislature later passed a bill stating that the Wayne County Farm, used for the benefit of the poor, would be named a school district, and should be numbered by the School Inspector of Nankin. This would later be named, School District No 10 of Nankin, and entitled to the school money provided to all the other school districts. The first teacher here was Chloe Walker, she was replaced in October of 1862 by Harriet Chase. The building however was destroyed in a fire, and the school had to be run , again from the main building. The Board elected to not erect a new schoolhouse located on the property, as another was being built in the area. The children on Eloise property began to attend the State Public School in May of 1874. The number of children inside the community here, outnumbered the limit to be excepted by the Public School, and by 1880, they had to erect a separate school building . The last recorded money recieved for school purposed was in 1887. There were at times, after 1887, that the State School could not take in the extra number of children from Eloise, and the Superintendent was in charge of educating those children that could not be placed, or adopted out. The Board approved a $5,000 appropration for a seperate "cottage" to be used for the children. They were to be completely seperated from any of the inhabitants of the main hospital area. The cottage was never built, because , massive and quick steps were taken to place every child in other institutions. The State Public School and State Institutions were from then, established to take care of these existing children and those that would become orphaned, or outcast. The schoolhouse built in 1880, was later used for special cases of male patients in the County House, and later as a laundry for the Asylum. The building was located on the north side of Michigan Aveaue, at Merriman Road. In 1825, the grounds in and around the Wayne County Poor House (or Eloise) were almost completely covered by trees of all types. Many of the older white oak trees stood over 130 feet high. These woods of course housed many wild animals such as fox, lynx, deer, bear, and wolves, as well as other smaller animals and birds. Joseph Moss surveyed this property for the Government, for the laying of Military Road. It would extent from Detroit to Chicago, and was then an old Indian trail. The Torbert family built a log house along this "road", cleared the land, and cultivated a small farm. In 1839, the County purchased the Torbert cabin, which Torbert had named and used as the Black Horse Tavern. They also purchased the 280 acres, four cows, a yoke of oxen, and vegetables seeds from Torbert, to run a farm for the County. In June of 1840, 2 horses and a harness were added, and that August, 3 plows, a fanning mill, and other farm tools were purchased. The first farm report to the County Commissioners produced the following: 600 bushels of corn, 35 bushels of beets, 180 bushels of rutabagas, 28 bushels of peas, 55 bushels of oats, 14 bushels of onions, and 2 bushels of pickles. At the time the County purchased this property there is said to have been 2 log buildings, located north of the log house (or Black Horse Tavern). One was a barn and stable, and the other was a shed for teams of animals. There is some indication that the shed would later become mental health institution, and the barn remained standing until 1886, then was sold for its lumber and hay. In 1875 a grain barn was built south of the Michigan Central RailRoad, which was 56 feet long and 46 feet wide. Another barn was built in 1886 for hay, grain, stock, and other tools, it also had a horse and cow stable, and a wagon shed. This structure was 144 feet long and 36 feel wide. In 1886 an addition was added for a dairy, and a solo was added in 1904. In 1896, the County built another barn northwest of the County House originally intended for use by the Asylum farm. In 1884, a new root cellar was constructed and was built between the bakery building, and the gas house. It was 52 feet long and 20 feet wide and divided into seperate bins for vegetables and fruit. Another root cellar was built to house tubers in 1895, it stood on a small hill. It was tore down in 1922, to make room for a small street. In 1935, an underground root cellar was completed east of the farmhouse , and South of Michigan Avenue. This was 40 feet wide and 100 feet long, housing almost 5,000 bushels of produce. A second underground root cellar was built in 1942. At the beginning of the County House's existence, the farmers were the keepers. In 1842 T.T. Lyon was offered the position as keeper and farmer, but claimed he would starve to death on the salary of $300 a year. An investigative committee was form during the Civil War period, to establish the need, and importance of the County House. The farm embraced 280 acres of land, of which 180 were good for cultivation. Another 60 acres were cleared , well-fenced, and useful for pasturage, and 40 acres in timber land. They reported it to be a good arrangement for farming with a house, and out buildings situated in the center, on the south side of the Rouge River. The River was reported to be a valuable supply of water to the stock and water to the house and washrooms. They also found, however, that the population of the paupers was not sufficent to run the entire farm, and that renting or leasing out work on shares of the land, would be adventageous. In short, the committee felt to take away any of the farm would injure the value of the surrounded community. In 1872, they purchased 157 acres adjacent to the land, which was owned by the Cady family, for use of the Asylum. There were at this time, two seperate keepers, one was the Keeper of the Asylum, and one was the Keeper of the County House. There was a competitive feeling between the two Institutions and the Keeper of the Asylum felt there would be a more leveling of administration if this farm was placed under their direction. In 1893, Dr. E.O. Bennett, took charge of the Asylum and the Cady Farmland was placed under his jurisdiciton. In 1897 a new wire fence was built around both farms and all fields, and a deep well was sunk as well as a windmill and large tank. The two farms remained seperate and distinct from one another for several years. It wasn't until 1908 when they discontinued this, and both became a single unit, and remained so until the function of farmkeeper was discontinued in 1955. Other additions and enlargements were made after the purchase of the Cady farmland. 2 henneries were constructed; a blacksmith shop was installed in 1915; and several piggeries were built. In 1889 a County piggery was built north of the County House barn , but had to be removed in 1913, to make room for a railroad trestle. In 1895 an Asylum piggery was built north of the Keepers residence, but was dismantled in 1917. Cement piggeries with also constructed in 1917, a half of a mile south of Michigan Avenue. When Did This Become the Wayne County Psychiatric Hospital ? There was no distinction between the rational and the insane inmates in the County House until March 22, 1841. It was this date, that the first of five patients were registered as insane, her name was Bridget Hughes, an Irish immigrant, she remained a patient here until her death on March 8, 1895 it is likely that she is buired among the indigent in Eloise Cemetery. During these first years there was at least one and possibly two building located northeast of building "C". They were constructed to house the psychiatrically distrubed. The County House was at this time, the home of the criminally insane who were sent from the Detroit House of Corrections. For several years, the County House was the only place for an asylum in the State of Michigan. The only division of patients in the County House, was by sex. Other than that, babies, old men, the blind, as well as the insane, were all housed together. Finally with the assitance of the Wayne County Board of Supervisors, insistant on legislation regarding the insane, in 1848, an act was passed creating a State Asylum. The first asylum was planned on ten acres of land, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the County House never showed an interest in having a seperate psychiatric Asylum on the property. However, they did continue to care for the insane and house them as best they could. In 1859, the Michigan Asylum in Kalamazoo, was ready to receive a limited number of female patients, however, they indicated that only the "curable" patients would be housed here. Over the years the number of insane people housed at the County Poor Farm, increased, until it was so intolerable, that the Hospital Board, determined to make an effort to provide a seperate building for the insane patients, approved the establishment in 1867 of a seperate building. In 1868, a two-story brick building was erected which was 42 feet long, 35 feet deep, with 57 feet of frontage. It was located 290 feet west of the Main County House. East and West wings were added in 1876 and in 1881 the management of the Asylum was transferred to a professional physician. Dr. E.O. Bennett, and his wife were employed as Medical Superintendent and Matron. After serving 19 years Dr. Bennett retired, and was replaced by Dr. John J. Marker. Marker's first act, was to erect a second Asylum Building, it was the year 1900. In 1882, the population of the Asylum was 307 patients, 224 of them resident patients. In 1887, a special building was contructed which combined the insane wards, the adminstrative headquarters, and the chapel. In 1885, the State of Michigan, passed a law for the insane, which basically stated any insane person continuously housed by the county of two years or more, would became a State charged patients, thereafter. This law was amended in 1891, stating that any insane person committed by a judge could be commit directly to the Wayne County Asylym, however, none would be confined there, if there was room in the State Asylum, but the State Asylum, could return patients to the County, when their beds were full. There was a devasting fire in 1892 at the Eastern Michigan Asylum located in Ypsilanti, and a large number of patients were moved to Eloise. The following year was the purchase of the Cady farmland and a "Women's Building" was erected west of the first Asylum building. Over the years there were additions, undates, and more buildings added to the main Asylum area. By 1907, alcoholics and drug addicts were maintained in State and County Hospitals. The population in 1913 was 576, with an employment of 22 males and 44 female attendents. By 1923, the population had grown to 1,700 patients, and additional buildings were erected. The first in 1921, another in 1923 with a new dairy barn and enlargment of the power plant, one in 1925, one in 1928 and one in 1929. The last psychiatric patient to leave Eloise was in 1979. Inside of the Kay Beard Building, still standing on Eloise property is a small museum run by Frank Rembisz, the director of the Wayne County Office on Aging. Eloise Cemetery in the News An article published in the Observer in October 1999, located also in the historical reference file at the Public Library of Westland at 6123 Central City Parkway Westland, MI 48185, tells of Eloise's "ghostly activities." L. Keas who chases ghosts .. for fun, moved to Westland from Chicago in 1998, and now resides in Canton, where she works as a website builder, and also runs, The Michigan Ghost Hunters Society, founded by Keas. (http://www.tmghs.com) Keas seeks out locations throughout all of Michigan, that are known to have interesting histories, like the old Wayne County Infirmary, Psychiatric and General Hospital Complex, also known as Eloise. The complex itself, now houses the Wayne County Office on Aging, as well as some social programs such as "Meals on Wheels." It is located on Michigan Avenue, just east of Merriman Road. Keas is said to believe that she captured ghosts hovering over an Observer photographer while taking photos for the article done at Eloise. Below are two photos that I took this September (2000) of the area known as Eloise Cemetery. At the time, the grass had just been cut and volunteers from, The Friends of Eloise(734-727-7377 Frank Rembisz), had come in, and started uncovering the markers located here. There are apparently 593 markers in the cemetery itself, marked only by number. The Friends of Eloise is working on complying death records, Eloise records, and death indexes to try and determine who might be matched with these 593 stones. Looking across the entire field where the Eloise Cemetery is located. You can not see that there are any markers here at all, unless you enter the field. There is no gate, and are no signs. Here is a picture showing 3 of the 593 numbered markers. The area had recently been cut and cleared, or locating any of the stones may have been near impossible 1900 Census of Wayne County House & Insane Asylum | SHERMAN, James Milton (I203)
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| 2787 | Things to do: 1. Read George's will Timeline for George Bridge: 1768 George born in Essex county, England 1792 George married Elizabeth in Essex, England 1794 daughter, Maria born in Witham, Essex, England 1796 daughter, Elizabeth, born in Witham, Essex, England 1798 daughter, Catherine, born in Witham, Essex, England 1822 George died in Essex county, England George Bridge seems to have been a shopkeeper, made a will 26 May 1821. He owned land in Witham, Chippinghill.The executors of his will proved 28 Nov 1822, were wife Elizabeth, Joseph Bridge, and Josiah and Martin Sanders. *These last entries are interesting bits of information? 1. http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/placeB/essexb26b.html History of Braintree and Bocking Note: the directory lists the names in the following order: Surname, First Name. It also abbreviates names. These have been reversed and typed in full to assist research. Those in Bocking are labelled as such, the remainder are in Braintree. George Bridge, tallow chandler and soap manufacturer Mr. Joseph Bridge London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 Name: George Bridge Spouse Name: Elizabeth Enderesby Record Type: Marriage by banns Event Date: 15 May 1796 Parish: St George the Martyr County: Middlesex Borough: Southwark George Bridge in the England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991 Name: George Bridge Gender: Male Burial Date: 1 Aug 1822 Burial Place: Witham, Essex, England FHL Film Number: 1702677 Reference ID: item 8 p 46 | BRIDGE, George (I865)
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| 2788 | Things to do: 1. send for homestead application and or land records. 2. Stump farms? 3. Subsistance farms? 4. R R in Lincoln county? 5. History of Lincoln county (Historical society?) 6. local mail delivery? 7. Bay County newspapers? property sales, etc. 8. 1860's Gold rush in Montana - became a state in 1864. 9. 1880's railroad crossed Montana 10. Divorce Papers? 11. Land records for May Sherman in Eureka 12. Land records for Elizabeth Smith Timeline: 1858 15 Dec Elizabeth born Adams Co. Indiana to James and Nancy Daugherty Close 1860 US Census Madison, Allen, Indiana age 1 with parents and sister, Eliza age 2 and half brother George age 11 1862 Decatur, Adams, Indiana 1865-1869 Siblings born Indiana 1870 US Census Root twp, Adams, Indiana with parents, James & Nancy Close 1877 Elisabeth married Loren Sly Hinton, Mecosta, MI 1878 Sister Diantha married Sylvester, Allen, MI 1880 US Census Eliz & Loren Sly Freemont, Isabella, MI, with child Carrie age 1 1894 MI State Census Elizabeth Sly Marr with 3 children, Pinconning Village, Bay, MI 1900 Eliz Sly & Richard Smith marr Rockford, Winnebago, Wis 1910 Census Eliz & Richard Smith Lincoln Co, Montana 1919 8 Jul Libby died of breast cancer in Eureka, Lincoln Co., Montana (death cert gives cause of death as Uterine Carcinoma) 1900 Census, Michigan - searched all of Bay County, Pinconning twp and found no Smith, Libby or Richard nor did I find any Slys After her husband, Lorian Sly, left for the gold fields (about 1888) during a recession, Elizabeth Sly took in roomers to make ends meet. After a few letters from Lorian, she never heard from him again. Elizabeth (Close) Sly eventually married Richard Smith, one of the roomers, (between 1894 and 1901) and moved to Montana near Eureka to homestead. Elizabeth (Libby) and Richard Smith raised her grand daughter, Bertha Sherman. Libby raised vegetables and strawberries to sell to the neighbors. She also sold cottage cheese, eggs, milk, chicken, cookies, etc. She was well liked by everyone. Richard Smith was a bricklayer, then a ditch tender of the irrigation ditch (circa 1916). It is said that little by little he lost most of his land through lawsuits he initiated. The homestead burned and he lived in the little cabin on the property. It is said that he was onery, but Bertha remembers him as kind to her. The land was eventually bought by Fred and Maye Alverson. She was a cousin to Bertha Sherman. Richard Smith died in Eureka, Montana. The following was taken from a letter dated 19 February, 1970, to Marilyn Parker from Maye Alverson, (daughter of Jennie Close Butler who was a sister to Elizabeth Close Sly Smith.) " Dick Smith's place was built on a piece of land that was not his and when he went to prove up, found it out. So he bought 3 acres from a Henry Wedymeyer. When Dick got too bad, he moved to town with one of their old neighbors and I think some one took what they wanted out of the house and touched a match to it, as it was burned. So nothing was left." "When Dick was buried, I was surprised as he was a real good looking man. He always wore a mustach and the undertaker shaved it off. The reason he wore a mustach, he had a big birth mark on his upper lip. And he was so clean." " Old Dick wasn't too gifted in work. It was always Aunt Lib that did the work. Even worked out at cooking. It's still a wonder to me how things and people got by in those days. (Lib for Elizabeth). At one point Elizabeth lived in a boxcar while picking huckleberries and cranberries in a cranberry bog. Elizabeth (Close) Sly Smith was diagnosed with cancer at the Mayo Clinic and Bertha often administered Morphine to her grandma to make the pain bearable. Elizabeth died in July 1919. "The Story of the Tobacco Plains Country, the Autobiography of a Community" Page 164 is in a chapter on "Fortine Area Homesteads." It says, "Among many other Michiganders who homesteaded in this vicinity were Dick Smith and his wife, and Mrs. Smith's son and daughter, Ernest and May Sly. For years Dick Smith was the community "radical"--always fighting the capitalist lumber companies and writing accusing letters to his Congressmen: "Just sore at everybody in the world," as Harry Weydemeyer puts it. Mrs. Smith died and her son and daughter went west, but Dick stayed on, living alone at his homestead, and died there at a ripe old age, still kicking." Boom and Bust: Montana's Homestead Era By Gary Glynn Although the homestead era in Montana lasted for more than 70 years, the vast majority of those who homesteaded in the state did so during a ten-year period beginning in 1908. The original Homestead Act was signed by Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. The new law stipulated that any head of household over 21 years old could stake out a 160 acre farm on government land with only a $10 filing fee. If the farmer lived on the homestead for five years and improved the property, he or she would receive title to it. Several different variations on the Homestead Act were passed over the years, and depending on which one a farmer filed under, he could receive 160, 320, or as much as 640 acres. Despite giving away land for free, the Homestead Act proved to be a failure in the arid West, where even 640 acres was simply not enough land to enable a farmer to succeed. It was an invitation to disaster. Nevertheless, to many the promise of free land was irresistible. By 1900, half a million families had moved West to homestead. It wasn't until the early 1900s that large numbers of would-be farmers began arriving in Montana, lured by a slick advertising campaign paid for by railroad magnate James J. Hill, the man who controlled the Great Northern, the Burlington and Northern Pacific railroads. Hill knew that customers for his railroads were hard to find in sparsely populated Montana, and he realized that with the help of the Homestead Act, he could convert the empty plains of Montana into a potential gold mine for his railroad empire. All he had to do was convince farmers that the dry plains of Montana were rich farmland. By 1908 his campaign to bring thousands of small farmers into Montana was in full swing. Hill had thousands of brochures distributed throughout the United States and Western Europe extolling the virtues of the Great Plains as a farmer's paradise. Hill also promoted the "Campbell System" of dry-land agriculture, devised by South Dakota farmer Hardy Webster Campbell. Campbell stated that with deep plowing and scientific agricultural methods, the plains of Montana could produce tremendous yields of grain. Hill also hired another agricultural expert Professor Thomas Shaw, who described eastern Montana as a farmer's paradise. By 1910, Shaw was operating 45 experimental farms in Montana, and the favorable results of his experiments were widely publicized. Along with promoting the promise of free land in an agricultural paradise, Hill announced cut-rate fares on his railroad to entice farmers to move to the state. His promises of free land, cheap transportation, and rich soil appealed to many people, and Montana's Homestead Boom was on. Most of the newcomers were Americans, but thousands were Germans and Scandinavians drawn by Hill's European advertising campaign. The cowboys and miners of the state, who had flooded into Montana during earlier booms, watched the trainloads of newcomers arriving, and derisively nicknamed them "honyockers." By 1908 the boom was in full swing, and every westbound train brought new homesteaders. They erected tar paper shacks and hitched up their plows, eager to make their fortune in the golden fields of wheat. The Great Falls land office averaged 1000 to 1500 homestead filings a month in 1910, and agriculture surpassed mining as the state's number one industry for the first time. At least 40,000 homesteaders filed claims in the state during the first twenty years of this century, and new farming communities began springing up all over the eastern plains. For several years it appeared as if the small farmers would succeed and prosper. A period of unusually high rainfall blessed the new farmers, and the freshly plowed prairies produced record crops of wheat. When James J. Hill passed away in 1916, it looked as if his plan to populate the empty plain of eastern Montana with homesteaders had paid off. The one thing that James J. Hill and his agricultural experts had not counted on was drought, and periodic droughts are a fact of life on the Great Plains. The spring rains failed to appear in 1917, and by the summer of 1918 the drought was widespread. Suddenly, thousands of Montana's homesteaders were in serious trouble. Their crops burned up in the fields, and the nonstop winds blew the carefully plowed and powdered topsoil away. Finally, hordes of grasshoppers arrived to complete the devastation. Many farmers found themselves unable to pay their bills, and by the summer of 1919 thousands had been forced from their farms. The same railroads which had brought the homesteaders into Montana now carried them away. The banks and seed merchants and implement dealers, all of whom had fueled the homestead boom with easy credit, declared bankruptcy in record numbers. Although the Homestead Act remained in effect until 1935, the homestead boom had ended in Montana by 1918. The steamboat trade, with its expense and limitations, dropped off sharply in the mid- 1880s, as the first railroads reached Montana and opened up to passenger service. "Emigrant cars," specially designed for the prospective settler, afforded dismal and cramped accommodations to those with enough money to pay for the cost of trip. Passengers in emigrant cars were often forced to spend their journeys sitting upright on uncushioned, backless benches. On many trains, the management offered thin straw mattresses (at a cost of $3.00 each), which could be laid on the floor beneath the benches. One settler remembered, "My mother had a real hard time getting any sleep on the train. Anytime she laid down under the benches, her feet stuck out into the aisle, and the conductor would come along and kick her." Privacy in the cars was minimal, with no dividing partitions and a common toilet and cookstove for as many as 30 emigrants. Wealthier settlers could rent out entire boxcars, in which to transport not only their family members, but also their household goods, farming equipment, and up to six heads of cattle. Bay County, Michigan land records? The date is before Libby and Richard Smith's marriage? Smith Libby J Sec 32 T 15N R 4E 80 acres Land office 04 (East Saginaw) Document #639 signing date 1874/04/10 1860 United States Federal Census Record about James Close Name: James Close Age in 1860: 33 Birth Year: abt 1827 Birthplace: Ohio Home in 1860: Madison, Allen, Indiana Gender: Male Post Office: Fort Wayne Value of real estate: $300 farmer Household Members: Name Age James Close 33 Nancey Close 23 George Close 11 Eliza Close 2 Elizabeth Close 1 1880 United States Federal Census Elizabeth Sly Name: Elizabeth Sly Home in 1880: Fremont, Isabella, Michigan Age: 21 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1859 BirthPlace: Indiana Relation to head-of-household: Wife Spouses's Name: Loren A. Father's birthplace: OH Mother's birthplace: OH Occupation: Keeping House Marital status: Married Race: White Gender: Female Household Members: Name Age Loren A. Sly 26 Elizabeth Sly 21 Carey A. Sly 1 Laura Bronk 10 nurse The 1894 statecensus, Michigan, Bay Co. Pinconning Village, dated June 8, 1894 (film #915292) page 206 family 822: Smith,Richard, age 30 M Board, single, carpenter bp Indiana, father bp Canada, mother bp Indiana 15 years in state. Sly, Elizabeth. age 35 F wife marr, 3 children, 3 living, bp Indiana, fath bp Canada, mo bp Indiana 15 years in state Sly, Carrie age 15 F daug single, bp Michigan, father bp Indiana, mother bp Indiana Sly, Addie M age 12 F daug single, bp Michigan, father bp Indiana, mother bp Indiana Sly, Earnest age 10 M son single, bp Michigan father bp Indiana, mother bp Indiana 1910 United States Federal Census Name: Elizabeth Smith Age in 1910: 51 Birth Year: abt 1859 Birthplace: Indiana Home in 1910: School District 10, Lincoln, Montana Race: White Gender: Female Relation to Head of House: Wife Marital Status: Married Spouse's Name: Richard Smith Father's Birthplace: Ohio Mother's Birthplace: Ohio Neighbors: Household Members: Name Age Richard Smith 49 Elizabeth Smith 51 Bertha I Sherman 7 Marr: film # 1004849, Book A, page 53 "Marriages, Mich, Mecosta County" #787 Montana Death Index, 1860-2007 Name: Elizabeth Smith Age: 61 Estimated birth year: abt 1858 Gender: Female Death Date: 8 Jul 1919 Index Number: Lin 34 findagrave.com Elizabeth Smith Birth: 1858 Death: Jul. 8, 1919 Burial: Tobacco Valley Cemetery Eureka Lincoln County Montana, USA Created by: Jim Lee Record added: Nov 19, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 44563149 Elizabeth Libby Close Sly Birth: Dec. 25, 1858 Adams County Indiana, USA Death: Jul. 8, 1919 Eureka Lincoln County Montana, USA Elizabeth married Loren Sly on Sept 23, 1873 in Michigan. Loren disappeared sometime in between 1888 to 1898. Elizabeth married Richard Smith on July 14, 1900 in Illinois. Parents: James Close (abt 1827 - Unk) Nancy Ann Daughterty-Close (abt 1836 - Dec 8, 1910) Family links: Spouse: Loren Alvanus Sly (1853 Burial: Tobacco Valley Cemetery Eureka Lincoln County Montana, USA Created by: RMW Record added: Jun 01, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 91113262 | Close, Elizabeth (I183)
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| 2789 | things to do: 1. Uriah marriage to Narcisse, was she a widow with children? 2. 1840 census? 3. 1860 census for more children? Who is Lell? Did William and George die young? 4. Who is Frank in 1870 census in Sutter Creek 5. Read through info on Uriah Nurse for more history. 6. History of Green, Scioto, Ohio 7. where is grave of Narcisse? Timeline for Uriah Nurse: 1806 Uriah born New York 1825 Uriah moved to Ohio 1830 May 16, Uriah married Narcisse M Turner Bliss in Scioto County, Ohio 1830 US Census, Uriah in Washington twnp, Scioto, Ohio with 1 female 20-30 +2 female children 1831 son, Samuel R born in Scioto County, Ohio 1834 Dec 23, daughter, Phoebe born in Wheelersburg, Scioto, Ohio 1838 daughter, Louisa Julia, born in Scioto County, Ohio 1840 son, William, born in Scioto County, Ohio 1842 son, George, born in Scioto County, Ohio 1846 Jan 19, son, Marcellus Areilus, born in Sciotsville, Scioto County, Ohio 1847 son, Warner Morrison, born in Scioto County, Ohio 1849 came to California to seek gold. (wagon train encamped in St. Joseph, Missouri on May 4 1849 1850 US Census, Uriah, gold hunter, + wife, Narcissa, 6 children +Phoebe Nurse, Green, Scioto, OH 1851 returned east to Ohio 1851 May, son, Mack Clay, born in Scioto County, Ohio 1854-1857 had an apprentice Mr Miller in Scioto County, Ohio 1860 US Census, Uriah, occup miller, in Green, Scioto, OH, Narcissa, and 4 children 1862 Uriah brought family to California 1867-1872 CA Great Registration of voters,Uriah listed as miller in Amador County, California 1870 US Census, Uriah, justice of the peace, wife, Narcissa, 3 sons, in Sutter Creek, Amador, CA 1875 Uri, in E. Grafton, age 59, miller 1876 Uriah died in Colusa County, California at age 70, buried Colusa County Community Cemetary 1889 Feb 3, Uriah's widow, Narcisse died in Capay, Yolo, CA at age 86 1825 Uriah is said to have left New York and removed to Ohio . 1830 United States Federal Census Name: Uriah Nurse (brother, Reuben is living close by) Township: Washington County: Scioto State: Ohio Household: 1 male 20-30, 1 female under 5, 1 female 5-10, 1 female 20-30 http://www.ttarchive.com/library/Biographies/Fisher_OW_AL.html Biography of Oliver Williams Fisher (from American Lumberman magazine) Source: American Lumberman, "The Personal History and Public and Business Achievements of One Hundred Eminent Lumbermen of the United States", Second Series, American Lumberman, Chicago, 1905-1906. Mr. Fisher was born in Scioto County, Ohio, September 2, 1842, his parents being Peter and Lucretia Fisher. He entered school at the tender age of four years and his scholastic training ended at the age of eight. Soon thereafter he went to work in a sawmill which cut about three hundred feet of lumber a day an old fashioned portable mill at 'a place called Pine Creek, in Scioto County. In 1854 he was apprenticed to Uriah Nurse to learn the trade of a miller, and remained with him until 1857. The next three years he worked at Springville, Kentucky, and for a short time he was employed in the circular sawmill of A. McManaway, in the Scioto Valley, Ohio, near Portsmouth. http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/th/read/KYMASON/2003-06/1055109339 http://boards.ancestry.families.aol.com/surnames.nurse/53/mb.ashx?pnt=1 1850 Census Ohio, Scioto, Green- Uriah listed as Gold Hunter.Uriah Nurse and wife Narcisus with 1st 6 children were listed Phoebe Nurse, age 62, born in VT. was also listed. He was an engineer and millwright and bridge builder in Ohio and owned a large flour and saw mill. He came to California as original 49er."A wagon train from Wheelersburg, Scioto County, Ohio, was encamped in St. Joseph, Missouri on May 4 1849. This train was to leave for California on the following day and it was composed of: Uri Nurse and Morrison Nurse along with others." Pg 49. He was successful as a miner at Bidwell Bar. He returned east in '51 and brought family out in '62. 1850 United States Federal Census census taken 17 Sep 1850 -(Also listed next house; Warner Nurse age 31, blacksmith with wife, and Phoebe Nurse age 62 born Virginia) Name: Uriah Nurse Age: 44 Birth Year: abt 1806 Birthplace: New York Home in 1850: Green, Scioto, Ohio, USA Gender: Male Family Number: 369 Household Members: Name Age Uriah Nurse 44 gold hunter Rasa Nurse 44 Samuel R Nurse 19 farmer Phoeba Nurse 14 Wm Nurse 10 George Nurse 8 Marcelus Nurse 7 Warner M Nurse 3 Phoeba Price 6 Mornson Norrse 26 farmer 1860 United States Federal Census Uri Nurse Name: Uri Nurse Age in 1860: 54 Birth Year: abt 1806 Birthplace: New York Home in 1860: Green, Scioto, Ohio Gender: Male Post Office: Wheelersburg Value of real estate: $4000, personal property $700) Household Members: Name Age Uri Nurse 54 bp NY (occupation - Miller) Narcissa Nurse 54 bp VA Marcellus Nurse 17 bp OH student Morrison Nurse 14 bp OH Julia Nurse 22 bp OH Lell Nurse 2 bp OH California, Voter Registers, 1866-1898 Name: Ure Nurse Residence Year: 1866 Residence Place: 2nd ward, Marysville,Yuba, California Age: 59 miller Birth Year: abt 1807, NY California, Voter Registers, 1866-1898 Name: Uri Nurse Residence Year: 1867 Residence Place: 2nd ward, Amador, California Age: 59 miller Birth Year: abt 1808, New York 1867-1872 Amador Co, CA-Great Register of Voters, -Uri, age 59, miller, Yolo Co. CA-Great Register of Voters, 1870 United States Federal Census Name: Uri Nurse Age in 1870: 63 Birth Year: abt 1807 Birthplace: New York Home in 1870: Township 4, Amador, California Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Sutter Creek Value of real estate: 600 persona lproperty 1000 Household Members: Name Age Uri Nurse 63 Justic of the Peace born NY Narcissie Nurse 64 keeping house born Virginia Marcellus Nurse 26 surveyor, born Ohio Mack Nurse 23 Livery Stable, born Ohio Frank Nurse 13 born Ohio 1875 & 1877-Uri, in E. Grafton, age 59, miller. 1876 Died in Colusa County, California-tombstone Colusa County Community Cemetary Uri's daughter, Phoebe, lived in Colusa County in 1880 Census. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Name: Uriah Nurse Birth Date: 1806 Birth Place: New York, USA Death Date: 1876 Death Place: California, USA Cemetery: Colusa Community Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place: Colusa, Colusa County, California, USA Has Bio?: N URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-.. Uriah Nurse Birth: 1806, New York, USA Death: 1876, California, USA Burial: Colusa Community Cemetery, Colusa, Colusa County, California, USA Maintained by: MrsB Originally Created by: IamMe Record added: Nov 01, 2015 Find A Grave Memorial# 154483182 | NURSE, Uriah (I4754)
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| 2790 | things to do: 1. verify daughter Elizabeth Ann 2. Cooper County MO history 3. Culpepper County, VA history Timeline for Pillip Augustine Tutt: 1796 Philip Tutt born in Culpepper County, Virginia, 1812 Military Service; Served in the War of 1812 1824 Dec 21, Philip married Catherine Ashby in 1826 Jun 22, son John Samuel born in Fauquier County Virginia 1830 Jan 21, son James Henry born in Fauquier County Virginia 1833 Nov 17, son Robert Edward born in Fauquier County Virginia 1835 ? daughter, Elizabeth Ann born in Fauquier County Virginia? 1835 Emigrated to Missouri from Virginia- PhillipA., Dr. Gabriel, Col, Richard J. Tutt, brothers, came down Kanawha River to Ohio by boat, the younger men, slaves, livestock came across country to St. Louis with a wagon train; women and older men came by steamboat down the Ohio, up the Mississippi to St. Louis. Brought a mare with them which was descendant of famous running horse, "Imperial Whip:, settled in Kelly Township, Cooper County, Missouri. 1840 US census Cooper County, Missouri, p132 - Phillip A. Tutt 1848 August 3 to 1859,November 8 - Cooper County, Missouri Surveyor 1850 US census, Cooper County, Missouri, Dist. #23 - p Phillip age 56 VA; Catherine age 43 VA; John S. age 22 VA; James H. age 19 VA; Robert . age 17 VA. 1855 Sep 21, wife Catherine died in Cooper County, MO at age 49 1860 US census, Cooper County, Missouri, Phillip living in household of son, J. H. Tutt 1870 US census, Cooper County, Missouri,living in household of son, James H. Tutt 1871 Sep 27, Philip died in Cooper County, MO at age 75 Occupation, Cooper County, Missouri - Surveyor/Teacher/Judge of the County Court. from "History of Cooper County, Missouri", by W. F. Johnson, Historical Publishing Company, Topeka 6 Cleveland, 1919, Vol 1 VKM Publishing Co. 1978: pp 669-671. James H. Tutt was a native of Virginia; he was born in Fauquier County, Jan. 21, 1830 and died in March 1898. He came to Missouri with his parents, Phillip A. and Catherine (Ashby) Tutt, in 1835. The family first settled in Calloway County and in 1836 came to Cooper County, and settled in Kelly township on the farm that is now owned by Charles P. Tutt. Phillit Tutt bought this place from Thomas Best for $5 per acre. At that time there was a log cabin on the place and a few acres of land were cleared. Here Phillip Tutt and his wife spent the remainder of their lives. Phillip Tutt was a surveyor, and for a number of years served as surveyor of Cooper County. He also held the office of judge of the County Court. He was a soldier in the War of 1812 and his father, John Tutt, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, serving with the Virginian troops.Phillip Tutt was one of four brothers who came to Missouri together, the others being Dr. Gabriel, Col. John, and Col. Richard J. They came down the Kanawha River to the Ohio in a boat, and from there the younger men of the families and the negro slaves drove across the country to St. Louis with a wagon train, while the women and the older men came by steamboat down the Ohio and up the Mississippi Rivers to St. Louis. When the Tutt family came to Missouri they brought with them a mare which was a descendant of the famous running horse, "imported Whip," and Charles P. Tutt still has on his place descendants of that animal. 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Philip A Tatt Age: 56 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1794 Birth Place: Virginia Gender: Male Home in 1850(City,County,State): District 23, Cooper, Missouri Household Members: Name Age Catharine Tatt 43 James H Tatt 19 John S Tatt 24 Philip A Tatt 56 Robert E Tatt 17 | TUTT, Philip Augustine (I5873)
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| 2791 | Things to do: 1. What is the Dabney Commission? 2. Look up suction dredge history. 3. Check on Civil engineer for Central Pacific RR 4. State Dept of Pub Works engineer under Gov. Markham's term. +Budd, Gage, Pardee, and Gillett. 5. Marcellus cause of death 6. Picture of headstone in East Lawn cem, Sacramento 7. Meirhoff book for history 8. Mary cause of death, headstone? 9. How, where, did Marcellus meet Mary? Timeline for Marcellus Areilus Nurse: 1846 Jan 19, Marcellus born in Sciotsville, Scioto, Ohio 1861 Jul/Aug pvt in 27th Regiment Ohio Volunteers 1 under Colonel John W Fuller 1862 Came to California with his parents 1870 Marcellus listed as surveyor with parents in Sutter Creek, Colusa, CA 1872 Sep 15, married Mary A Wood in Yolo County, California 1874 Jun 16, son, Albert Rose born in Cadanasso, Yolo, California 1876 May 17, son, Guy Frank, born in Capay, Yolo, California 1878 May 17, son Jay Clyde, born in Capay 1880 US Census, living in West Cottonwood, Yolo, CA with wife and 3 boys, civil engineer 1881 Aug 31, daughter, Clare Clay, born in Capay 1883 son, Guy Frank died in Capay, Yolo, CA 1883 Dec 10, daughter, Mary J, (Molly) born in Capay 1886 Dec 13, daughter Stella Lee, born in Capay 1888 Feb 6, son, Roy Marcellus, born in Capay 1900 US Census, living Sacramento Ward 8, Sacramento, CA, with wife and 6 children, civil engineer 1891 Oct 7, daughter, Edith Kingdon, born in Capay 1915 Dec 28, died in Sacramento, Sacramento, CA at age 69 fburied at East Lawn, Sacramento 1934 Feb 22, widow, Mary died in Oakland, Alameda, CA at age 77 Marcellus Nurse in the U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 Name: Marcellus Nurse Side: Union Regiment State/Origin: Ohio Regiment: 27th Regiment, Ohio Infantry Company: F Rank In: Private Rank Out: Private Film Number: M552 roll 80 Other Records: Learn More about this Regiment His Biography in the "Capay Valley" by Ada Meirhoff,Pg 361 !NOTE: Great Register of Voters, Amador County, CA 1867, 1872, 1873, 1875- listed Marcellus Nurse, age 23, as a farmer. Great Register of Voters, Yolo County, CA 1872, 1886 listed Marcellus in W. Cottonwood as a farmer. California Great Register 1890 - living in Capay, Yolo county-Civil Eng'r Marcellus was extremely likable and popular. He was a member of the Dabney Commission. He invented the suction dredge. Came to CA in 1862. He was a Civil Engineer for the Central Pacific RR. Was appointed the State Dept. of Public Works engineer during Gov. Markham's term. He also served under Govenors, Budd, Gage, Pardee, and Gillett. He was instrumental in development of the Sacramento Weir. He was a member of Independent Order of Foresters. At the time of his death, he resided at 2015 K Street in Sacramento. !DEATH: CA state file #39023 !MARR: Yolo County Marriages, Book P, page 250 (by J W Pendergast, Yolo County, Ca) Homestead records T10N-R3W 1878 (roll#29Bur of Land Man film, Fed Bldg. Sacramento, CA) filed 1890-Marcellus A. Nurse Marcellus A. Nurse West Cottonwood, Yolo, CA <1847> Ohio Self, Mary Nurse <1857> California Wife Rose Nurse <1875> California Daughter, Guy F. Nurse <1876> California Son, Jay C. Nurse <1878> California Son 1880 United States Federal Census Marcellus A. Nurse Name: Marcellus A. Nurse Home in 1880: West Cottonwood, Yolo, California Age: 33 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1847 Birthplace: Ohio Relation to head-of-household: Self Spouse's name: Mary Father's birthplace: NY Mother's birthplace: VA Occupation: Civil Engineer Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Marcellus A. Nurse 33 Mary Nurse 23 Rose Nurse 5 Guy F. Nurse 4 Jay C. Nurse 2 John C. Kendall 47 (hand) 1900 United States Federal Census Marcellus Nurse (Civil Engineer) Name: Marcellus Nurse Home in 1900: Sacramento Ward 8, Sacramento, California Age: 54 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1846 Birthplace: Ohio Relationship to head-of-house: Head Spouse's name: Mary (mother of 8, 7 still living) Race: White Household Members: Name Age Marcellus Nurse 54 Mary Nurse 43 Jay C Nurse 21 Clara Nurse 18 Mollie Nurse 16 Stella Nurse 14 Roy Nurse 12 Edith Nurse 8 1910 United States Federal Census Marcellus A Norse Name: Marcellus A Norse [Marcellus A Nurse] Age in 1910: 65 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1845 Birthplace: Ohio Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: Ohio Mother's Birth Place: Ohio Spouse's name: Mary Home in 1910: Sacramento Ward 8, Sacramento, California Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Marcellus A Norse 65 Mary Norse 53 Jay C Norse 31 Roy M Norse 22 Edith M Norse 18 | NURSE, Marcellus Areilus (I4342)
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| 2792 | Things to do: 1. When did Christopher marry Elizabeth? 2. 1810, 1830 census Timeline for Christopher Sly: 1779 Sep 7, Christopher born in Vermont ( According to the family bible of Rhoda Sly Pearson) 1803 Holland Purchase, New York Christopher and Benjamin Sly, T9 R2 1805 speculate that Christopher married Lodema Mack in Ontario County, NY 1807 Oct 22, son, William Wesley, 1809 Sep 1, son, Daniel 1811 Aug 18, daughter, Lucinda, 1815 Mar 21, daughter, Malinda 1815 bought 11 acres + 16 square rods in Gorham, Ontario, NY for $111 1816 Christopher on Gorham, Ontario County, NY tax list Lot 10, 61 acres 1817 May 7, daughter, Rhoda 1819 Jul 11, son, Sylvester, 1819 Christopher on Gorham, Ontario County, NY tax list lot 10 61 acres 1820 Census, Christopher Sly, Gorham, Ontario, NY 1821 Jul 11, son Benjamin, 1821 bought 21 acres from Joshua Sly in Phelps for $600 1821 Christopher on Gorham, Ontario County, NY tax list lot 10 61 acres 1822 Christopher on Hopewell, Ontario County, NY tax list lot 10 61 acres 1823 Christopher on Hopewell, Ontario County, NY tax list lot 10 61 acres 1823 Aug 13, wife Lodema, died in Hopewell 1824 Christopher on Hopewell, Ontario County, NY tax list lot 10 61 acres 1824 Christopher sold land in Gorham with wife Elizabeth; 11 acres for $300 1825 Christopher sold land in Gorham with wife Elizabeth; 21 acres for $400 1830 Christopher on Hopewell, Ontario County, NY tax list 1831 Dec 1, Christopher Land records, Detroit, MI Michigan-Toledo Strip T 2 N, R 8 E sec 28 and 33 1833 Census Michigan Territory, Christopher in Tnsp Petition. 1835 23 Nov Christopher land record, Detroit MI, Michigan-Toledo Strip T 2 N, R 8 E sec 32 1840 Census, Commerce, Oakland, Michigan 1845 Christopher died in Commerce, Oakland, Michigan at age 66, buried in Richardson Cem. Christopher Sly, Ontario County, New York Tax list: 1816 Gorham lot 10, 16 acres 1819 " " " 1821 " " " 1822 Hopewell " " (1822 Hopewell broke off from Gorham) 1823 " " " 1824 " " " 1830 " " " Land records, Ontario New York- Christopher Sly 1815 bought 11 acres + 16 sq rods in Gorham for $111 1821 bought 21 acres from Joshua Sly in Phelps for $600 1824 sold 11 acres + 16 sq rods in Gorham for $300 with wife Elizabeth 1825 sold 21 acres in Phelps for $400 with wife Elizabeth 1823 Sep 9 from the "Ontario Repos" -" Sly Lodama, 34, died Hopewell, Mrs. Christopher Sly" Christopher Sly grave found in row 14, Richardson Cemetary, Commerce Twp, Oakland. Michigan. Also Elizabeth Sly, wife of Christopher, born 3 Aug 1780, died 7 Feb 1879. 1820 United States Federal Census Name: Christopher Sly Township: Gorham County: Ontario State: New York 1 2 _ _1_ / 3_ _1/ _3 (There is a William Mack in, 1820 US census NY, Ontario, Bristol 4 ___ 1/ 1__ 1 _/ _ 1 and in 1830 NY, Ontario, Bristol 1 1 2 2 _ _ _ 1 _ _ _ _ _ / 1 _ _ 1 _ _ 1 ) Michigan Census, 1827-70 Name: CHRISTOPHER SLY State: MI County: Michigan Territory Township: Petitioner Year: 1833 Database: MI Early Census Index 1840 United States Federal Census Name: Christopher Sly Commerce, Oakland, Michigan _ _ __1_ _ _ _1_ _ _ _ /_ _2_ _ _ 1 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6534161&ref=wvr Christopher Sly Birth: 1779 Death: Sep. 13, 1845 Burial: Walled Lake Cemetery Walled Lake Oakland County Michigan, USA Plot: Section 1, Row 14 | SLY, Christopher (I32)
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| 2793 | Things to do: 1. Where is Martha in 1870 census? 2. Is Andrew J on 1880 census the same as William Richard ? 3. What wagon train did they come on? Timeline for Richard Johnson Clark: 1840 Dec 10, Richard was born in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky (from obit ) 1850 US Census listed with father, Davis Clark, in Bullitt County, Kentucky 1860 US Census listed with father, Davis Clark, in Bullitt County, Kentucky , Mt Washington PO 1863 Oct 29, Richard married Martha Melvina Woodward in Carson City, Lyon, Nevada as the came on the wagon train to California 1964 Oct 29, son, David Chester born in Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, 1866 Jan 6, daughter, Aurora Josephine born in Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, 1867 Jun 10, son Alfred Woodward born in California 1869 Feb 23, daughter, Lillian Hannah born in College City, Colusa, California 1870 US Census Living in Santa Rosa with 3 children, David Clark and mother in law, H Woodward 1871 Sep 29, son, George Washington, born in Pacheco, Contra Costa, California 1874 Feb 4, daughter, Carolyn May born in Pacheco, Contra Costa, California 1878 Oct 5, daughter, Martha Melvina born in Monticello, Napa, California 1880 Jan 7, son, William Richard, born in Arbuckle, Colusa, California 1880 US Census, Living in Monticello, Napa, California with wife and 8 children 1884 Aug 31, daughter, Nina Maud, born in College City, Colusa, California 1900 US Census, Living in Arbuckle as Barley thresher with wife and 4 children 1907 Oct 6, Richard died, in College City at the age of 66 1870 United States Federal Census Name: R J Clark Estimated Birth Year: abt 1841 Age in 1870: 29 Birthplace: Kentucky Home in 1870: Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Santa Rosa Household Members: Name Age R J Clark 29 David C Clark 24 birthplace: Indiana Amora J Clark 5 birthplace: California (Aurora) Keeping house Alfred Clark 4 birthplace: California Lilly H Clark 3 birthplace: California H Woodward 66 of the family birth place: New York 1880 United States Federal Census Name: Richard J. Clark Home in 1880: Monticello, Napa, California Age: 38 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1842 Birthplace: Kentucky Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head) Spouse's Name: Mattie M. Father's birthplace: Virginia Mother's birthplace: Virginia Neighbors: Occupation: Laborer Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Richard J. Clark 38 Mattie M. Clark 33 David C. Clark 15 Aurora J. Clark 14 Alfred W. Clark 12 Lillie H. Clark 11 George W. Clark 8 Carrie M. Clark 6 Mattie M. Clark 2 Andrew J. Clark 5M 1900 United States Federal Census Name: Richard J Clark Home in 1900: Arbuckle, Colusa, California Age: 59 Birth Date: Dec 1840 Birthplace: Kentucky Race: White Ethnicity: American Relationship to head-of-house: Head Father's Birthplace: Kentucky Mother's Birthplace: Kentucky Spouse's Name: Martha Marriage Year: 1864 Marital Status: Married Years Married: 36 Residence : Arbuckle Township, Colusa, California Occupation: Barley thresher Household Members: Name Age Richard J Clark 59 Martha Clark 53 9 children, 9 living father's birthplace:New Jersey, Mother's bp New York Carrie Clark 26 Mattie Clark 22 William R Clark 20 Maud Clark 15 1907,Death: CA state file #26832 findagrave.com Richard Johnson Clark Birth: Dec. 10, 1840 Bullitt County Kentucky, USA Death: Oct. 6, 1907 College City, Colusa County, California, USA Civil War Veteran Family links: Spouse: Martha Melvina Woodward Clark (1846 - 1938) Children: David Chester Clark (1864 - 1903)* Burial: College City Cemetery, College City, Colusa County, California, USA Plot: Section K, lot 17 Created by: Larry K Record added: Apr 11, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 68254403 | CLARK, Richard Johnson (I4351)
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| 2794 | Things to do: 1. Who did temple work for Thomas 2. email relatives of Thomas 3. marriage of Elizabeth Frances Randall and other children Is this the right Thomas Randall? England & Wales Christening Records, 1530-1906 Name: Thomas Randall Gender: Male Birth Date: abt 1802 Christening Date: 24 Oct 1802 Christening Place: Saint Denys, Warminster, Wiltshire, England Father's name: James Randall Mother's name: Ann Timeline for Thomas Randall: 1803 Thomas born Wiltshire, England 1826 married Elizabeth Benfield 1828 Mar 13, daughter, Anne born in 77 London Rd, Southwark, Surrey, England 1831 son, Thomas Enos born in Southwark, Surrey, England 1833 son, James born in Southwark 1834 son, Edwin born in Southwark 1835 Sep 30, daughter, Elizabeth Frances born in Southwark 1841 Feb 6 Amelia Rosalie born in Southwark 1841 Census, living as a butcher with family in 78-79 London Road, Southwark, Surrey, England 1850 Feb 19, Emily Maria born in Southwark 1851 Census, living as a butcher with family in 78-79 London Road, Southwark, Surrey, England 1857 Jan 20, Thomas died in Southwark, Surrey, England; buried Norwood Cemetery, Norwood Road, Lambeth, greater London, England 1841 England Census Name: Thomas Randall Age: 38 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1803 Gender: Male Where born: Surrey, England Civil Parish: St George The Martyr Hundred: Southwark County/Island: Surrey Country: England Street address: 78-79 London Road, Occupation: butcher Registration district: St George Southwark Sub registration district: London Road Neighbors: Household Members: Name Age Thomas Randall 38 Elizabeth Randall 32 Ann Randall 13 Edwin Randall 7 Elizabeth Randell 5 Amelia Randell 4 Mo George Smith 26 male servant Mary Ann Randell 17 female servant 1851 England Census Name: Thomas Randall Age: 48 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1803 Relation: Head Spouse's Name: Elizabeth Randall Gender: M (Male) Where born: Wiltshire, England County: Surrey Country: England Street Address: 78 London Road Occupation: Condition as to marriage: Registration district: St George Southwark Sub-registration district: London Road ED, institution, or vessel: 4 Household schedule number: 42 Household Members: Name Age Thomas Randall 48 butcher born Wiltshire Elizabeth Randall 42 butcher assistant born Gloucester City Ann Randall 28 " Born Surrey St George Thomas Randall 20 " Born Surrey St George James Randall 18 " Born Surrey St George Edwin Randall 17 " Born Surrey St George Elizabeth Randall 15 " Born Surrey St George David Stonehill 20 journeyman butcher Samuel Atterbury 23 " Emma Luck 29 servant Thomas employed thirty-five men. He had two live-in journeymen butchers and one girl house servant. Charles nor the 2 little girls, Amelia and Emily, were in this census. perhaps the 2 little girls had died. Charles was married, on his own, and is listed in the 1851 census in Surrey, Southwark, as a journeyman butcher with another butcher. England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1983 Name: Thomas Randall Year of Registration: 1857 Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar District: St George Southwark County: Surrey Volume: 1d Page: 115 Elizabeth Frances was administrator of Thomas' will. London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 Name: Thomas Randall Record Type: Burial Estimated Death Date: abt 1857 Burial Date: 12 Jan 1857 Age: 54 Residence: London Rd., Southwark Estimated birth year: abt 1803 Parish or Poor Law Union: Norwood Cemetery, Norwood Road, Lambeth Borough: Lambeth County: Surrey Christening dates found in the 1988 IGI-England, London County Microfische # C0327 England Vital records (freebmd.rootsweb.com) Date Death Surname Given Name Age District Volume Page Sep 1837 RANDALL William St George Southwk IV 111 Sep 1838 Randall Ann St Geo Southwark 4 11 Sep 1838 Randall Elizabeth St Geo Southwark 4 11 Dec 1838 RANDALL William St George Southwark 4 89 Jun 1840 RANDALL George St Geo Southk 4 303 Sep 1845 RANDALL Ann Cranage St Geo Southk 4 269 Dec 1847 Randall Jane Southk St Geo 4 415 Dec 1848 RANDALL James David St Geo Southk 4 372 Sep 1849 Randall Thomas St Geo Southk 4 877 Sep 1851 RANDALL George S Geo South 4 301 Mar 1852 RANDALL Ann St George Southwark 1d 133 Mar 1854 Randall Mary Jane St. Geo. Sk. 1d 135 Sep 1854 Randall Thomas James Harfo St Geo Sk 1d 34 Mar 1857 Randall Thomas St George S . 1d 115 Dec 1859 Randall Charles Arthur St George S 1d 130 Mar 1854 RANDALL Mary Elizabeth St George S 1d 151 Mar 1866 Randall Richard 59 St. George S . 1d 122 Sep 1866 Randall Benjamin C 1 St George Southwark 1d 135 Sep 1866 Randall Matilda 32 St George Southwark 1d 126 Search for Type: Births Surname: Collis County: Surrey Birth date Surname First name(s) District Vol Page Mar 1841 Randall Amelia Rosalin St Geo Southk 4 44[8_] Mar 1850 Randall Emily Maria Southk S Geo 4 513 | RANDALL, Thomas (I211)
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| 2795 | things to do: 1. Will for William Crumb 2. Westerly, Hopkinton RI history & vitals Timeline for William Crumb: 1677 Aug, William born in Westerly, Washington, RI 1698 William married, Mercy Saunders in Westerly, 1699 son, Joseph born in Westerly 1700 Sep, daughter, Rachel, born in Hopkinton, Washington, RI 1702 son, William, born in Hopkinton 1704 daughter, Mercy, born in Hopkinton 1706 daughter, Jemina, born in Hopkinton 1708 daughter, Elizabeth, born in Hopkinton 1710 son, Tobias, born in Hopkinton 1736 William's wife, Mercy, died in Hopkinton 1736 Apr 25, William married Hannah Lewis in Westerly, 1737 Aug 19, son. Daniel, born in Hopkinton 1740 Nov 9, son, Samuel, born in Hopkinton 1746 Jun 1746, William Crumb died in Hopkinton, Washington, RI Daniel Crumb was born in 1650 in Rhode Island, USA as the first child of Daniel Crumb. He died on 13 Apr 1713 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, USA (Age: 63). When he was 26, he married Rachel Roberts on 07 Nov 1676 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, USA. Daniel Crumb lived in Rhode Island, USA. He lived in Washington, Rhode Island, USA in 1669. Daniel Crumb and Rachel Roberts had the following children: 1. William Crumb Sr. was born on 01 Aug 1678 in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, USA. He died on 02 Apr 1746 in Hopkinton, Washington, Rhode Island, USA (Age: 68). He married Mary Mercy Saunders about 1701 in USA. Earliest records of Daniel found in R.I. colonial records of 28 Oct. 1668. He was part of a settlement of Misquamicut. In 1699 he drew another lot. On May 17, 1671 he took Oath of Allegiance to the King & Colony of R.I. Daniel was a Connecticut Volunteer om war against the Indians. In 1700 he received 35 acres for his service. William was made a Freeman of th Colony on th 4th Mar. 1699 at Town Meeting at Roger Larkins House. In 1710/11. He was a purchaser of "Lewis & Maxon Purchase" in Hopkinton & was called "William of Hopkinton". Westerly Town Council and Probate Volume 3 (5) 1745-1762 William had wife Hannah and children Joseph, Rachell, William, Mary, Jemima & Elizabeth, children of a previous wife who have all received and 2 unnamed sons & perhaps daus of wife Hannah mention in his will dated 6 Jul 1741, proved Westerly 30 Jun 1746. will dated 1741, Westerly 4A:70 | CRUMB, William (I4192)
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| 2796 | Things to do: 1. William in 1820, 1830, 1840 Census in NY 2. William birth in Hopkinton, RI 3. write SUSAN LYNN (OLSON) GOODWIN, 11781 ELKHEAD RANGE ROAD, LITTLETON CO 4. when did William move to Ill? State Census? 5. Check out mother of William: Susannah Crandall on birth records of Rhode Island ( Did Father remarry?) Timeline for William Crumb: 1781 May 2, William born possibly in Hopkinton, Washington, RI 1820 William married Anna Lewis 1821 daughter, Pollyann born in New York 1822 daughter, Matilda born in New York 1823 daughter, Lucy born in New York 1824 daughter, Laura born in New York 1826 daughter, Eliza born in New York 1828 Sep 22, son, Joseph D Crumb born in New York 1830 son, Orville, born in New York 1833 son, Sylvester born in New York 1836 son, David born in Canastota, Madison, New York 1841 daughter, Harriet Newell born in Volney, Oswego, New York 1846 son, George W born in DuPage County, Illinois 1847 William died in DuPage County, Illinois from "Early Settlers of New York State - Their Ancestors and Descendants: by Janet Wethy Foley ( 1st Presbyterian Church, Albany, NY., (Crumb, Children of John and Jane Jolly; John, baptized 29 Aug 1789; Peter, baptized 20 Apr 1792) Rhode Island, Vital Extracts, 1636-1899 about William Crumb Name: William Crumb Birth Date: 2 May 1781 Birth Place: Rhode Island, USA Father Name: Daniel Crumb Page Number: 38 Rhode Island, Births, 1636-1930 about William Crumb Name: William Crumb Birth Date: 2 May 1781 Birth Place: Rhode Island 1st Parent: Daniel Crumb 2nd Parent: Susannah Crandall Source Information: Ancestry.com. Rhode Island, Births, 1636-1930 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Description: This database is a collection of birth records for the U.S. state of Rhode Island between 1636 and 1930. Each record provides the child's name, parents' names, and birth date. Learn more... 1820 United States Federal Census Name: William Crumb Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Otselic , Chenango , New York Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820 Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1 Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 1 Free White Persons - Over 25: 1 Total Free White Persons: 2 Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 2 1830 United States Federal Census Name: William Crumb Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Otselic, Chenango, New York Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1 Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1 Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 2 Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1 Free White Persons - Under 20: 5 Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2 Total Free White Persons: 7 Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 7 | Crumb, William (I4120)
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| 2797 | Things to do: 1. Check Iowa Militia records for Andrew and son, John 2. Who did temple work in early days. Check church records. 3. Check Lebanon, Oregon, for records of son, Luther, a ME clergyman There in 1860 4 check grandson, Albert P Woodward, physician in SF 5. Check Indiana marriages 6. Check for Andrew's death in Marion County, Iowa death cert. of daughter, Martha, M Woodward Clark, states father's birthplace as New York Timeline for Andrew T. Woodward: 1788 Andrew born in Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey ( some records say New York) 1818 30 July Andrew married Hannah Tuttle in the Seventh Presbyterian Church, NY, NY, NY 1819 26 Jun, Luther Tuttle born in Richland County, Ohio, USA 1821 1 Jul, Alfred born born in Richland County 1823 22 Oct, John Andrew born in Richland County 1828 16 May, Orin Tuttle born born in Richland County 1831 3 Jan, Calvin born in Richland County 1838 21 July, Wesley born in Richland County 1841 14 May, Mary Jane born in Richland County 1843 16 Aug, Drusilla born in Nobel County, Indiana 1845 20 Aug, Martha Melvina born in Nobel County 1850 US Census, Andrew living in Elkhart, Nobel, Indiana with wife, Hannah, and 7 children 1854 Moved to Iowa according to the Iowa State Census, 1856 1854 Iowa State Census, Andrew living in Pleasant Grove, Marion, Iowa (4 males, 3 females, 3 voters, 2 militia) 1856 Iowa State Census, Andrew,, age 68, living in Marion, Iowa with wife, Hannah, Calvin, 25; D 12, MM 9 1857 through 60 Andrew died probably in Iowa 1860 US Census, No Andrew, Hannah living with son, Orin and his 2 children and 3 of her children in Marion Co, Iowa 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Andrew Woodward Age: 62 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1788 Birth Place: New Jersey Gender: Male Home in 1850(City,County,State): Elkhart, Noble, Indiana Household Members: Name Age Andrew Woodward 62 Calvin Woodward 19 Drusilla Woodward 6 Hannah Woodward 47 John H Woodward 25 Martha L Woodward 4 Mary Jane Woodward 9 Oren T Woodward 22 Wesley Woodward 11 Iowa State Census Collection, 1836-1925 Name: Andrew Woodward Census Date: 1854 Residence State: Iowa Residence County: Marion Locality: Pleasant Grove Roll: IA_122 Line: 8 4 males and 3 females , 3 voters, 2 militia. Iowa State Census Collection, 1836-1925 Name: A Woodward Birth Year: abt 1788 Birth Place: New Jersey Gender: Male Marital Status: Married Census Date: 1856 Residence State: Iowa (2 years in the state) Residence County: Marion Locality: Dallas Roll: IA_61 Line: 15 Family Number: 97 Neighbors: Household Members: Name Age A Woodward 68 Hannah Woodward 53 Calvin Woodward 25 D Woodward 12 M M Woodward 9 Note: no Andrew! 1860 United States Federal Census Name: Wesley Woodward Age in 1860: 22 Birth Year: abt 1838 Birthplace: Indiana Home in 1860: Dallas, Marion, Iowa Gender: Male Post Office: Newbern Value of real estate: Household Members: Name Age Oren T Woodward 33 born Ohio Hannah Woodward 56 born NY Wesley Woodward 22 born Indiana Gresela l Woodward 16 born Indiana Martha M Woodward 14 born Indiana Albert P Woodward 5 born Iowa (This is Oren's son) Jasper Woodward 3 born Iowa (This is Oren's son) | WOODWARD, Andrew T. (I6425)
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| 2798 | This Adam is with Elizabeth? 1840 US Census Could not find Adam Heckathorn in Sugar Creek, Stark, Ohio 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Adam Heckathorn Age: 44 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1806 Birth Place: Pennsylvania Gender: Male Home in 1850(City,County,State): Sugar Creek, Stark, Ohio Household Members: Name Age Adam Heckathorn 44 Elizabeth Heckathorn 50 Nicholas Heckathorn 6 1860 United States Federal Census about Adam Keckahorn Name: Adam Keckahorn Age in 1860: 50 Birth Year: abt 1810 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1860: Sugar Creek, Stark, Ohio Gender: Male Post Office: Navarre Value of real estate: View Image Household Members: Name Age Elizabeth Funk 60 Adam Keckahorn 50 Tenant Jacob Funk 15 Nicholas Funk 12 1870 United States Federal Census Name: Adam Yeckahrin (I think this is Adam Heckathorn) Estimated Birth Year: abt 1805 Age in 1870: 65 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1870: Lake, Stark, Ohio Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: View Image Post Office: Greentown Household Members: Name Age Adam Yeckahrin 65 Elizabeth Yeckahrin 69 1880 United States Federal Census about Adam Heckathorn Name: Adam Heckathorn Home in 1880: Uniontown, Stark, Ohio Age: 75 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1805 Birthplace: Penn Relation to Head of Household: Something other than a direct relationship (Other) Father's birthplace: Penn Mother's birthplace: Penn Neighbors: View others on page Occupation: Laborer Marital Status: Widower Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Jacob Royer 49 Mary R. Royer 42 Ida Royer 19 Franklin Royer 15 Almeda Royer 11 Adam Heckathorn 75 boarder | HECKATHORN, Adam (I8080)
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| 2799 | This cannot be the correct marriage. Samuel would have been 10 years old. | Family F241
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| 2800 | This child is not listed in the Bible record. | TUTT, Elizabeth Ann (I7839)
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