tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41172105228799337492024-03-02T06:36:54.944-08:00Shaking Family TreesRamblings of a writer/columnist/genealogist who's in love with the American West. By Myra Vanderpool Gormley℠
Certified Genealogist by the Board for Certification of Genealogists, 1987-2012, retired 2012. Retired "Shaking Your Family Tree" columnist and feature writer for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and former editor of RootsWeb Review.
Researching: Autry (Awtrey), Bankston, Connally, and Vanderpools.
Myra Vanderpool Gormleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206950249778083288noreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4117210522879933749.post-6778567401949242282019-04-13T12:02:00.000-07:002019-04-13T12:02:22.431-07:00Case of Erroneous Conclusions#52 ancestors
April 15-21, 2019<br />
Week 16 — Out of Place<br />
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The Case of Erroneous Conclusions </h2>
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or 2+2 = 5?</h2>
<i>By Myra Vanderpool Gormley © 2019 </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I first discovered that I had an ancestor named Absalom, I was delighted. I was weary of all the Johns, Williams, Henrys and Abrahams that I had been tracing through the records and trying to sort out. Little did I realize that Absalom would soon frustrate me more than all the others. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Working backward from the known to the unknown, I learned that Isaac Awtrey (also spelled Autry and several dozen other ways) and Araminta Bankston were my 4-great-grandparents and lived in DeKalb County, Georgia at one point. Along the way, I discovered some wonderful cousins who were most helpful in sharing information and research about our common kin. It helped greatly that many of my cousins lived in Georgia and knew its history, especially of its many counties and changing borders.
This began back in the old days when we used snail mail to communicate. As we gathered and shared information, we would, independently, search for primary and good secondary sources and try to verify our branches of the tree. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We learned that Isaac (1775-1842) and Araminta (1782-1861) had nine children — four sons and five daughters, born from about 1801 to 1819 — all in Georgia: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">i. Elbert — married Libby Collins </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ii. Greenberry — married Sarah Upton</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">iii. Eldridge — married Margaret George</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">iv. William — died young </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">v. Lucy — married Joseph Huey</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">vi. Nancy — married Alexander Stewart Jr. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">vii. Annis (female) — married Joseph Jackson Deal </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">viii. Mary Ann — married Marcellus Deal </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">ix. Elizabeth — married John Ware Stewart </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 1830 Census of Henry County, Georgia revealed there was 1 white male, age 80-90, in the household of Isaac Awtrey (the presumed white male, 50-60 years of age), and coupled with the finding of a rejected Revolutionary War pension application of an Absalom Awtrey dated 21 January 1833 in the same locality, it suggested that Isaac might be the son of this Absalom. Additional research in deeds and tax lists soon added more evidence to this supposition, plus in 1834 Isaac was given letters of administration in Henry County to sell the property of Absalom Awtrey to settle the estate.
Absalom’s pension application provided his date of birth: 7 June 1750, and that he was born near Gastonia (which would be Anson County), North Carolina and that he had also lived in Lincoln County, North Carolina; he moved from North Carolina to Spartanburg County, South Carolina (lived there 10 months) and removed back to Lincoln County, North Carolina, and from there he went to Greene County, Georgia to Jackson County, Georgia, and to Henry County, Georgia, where he resided in 1833. (Love the migration history mentioned in these pension files.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sometime later the 1800 Family Bible of Isaac Awtrey and Araminta Bankston was found stashed away in a descendant’s trunk. It was scanned and made available to all the cousins. It revealed, among other genealogical things, that Absalom was the father of Isaac, and that Absalom had died March ___ 1833 (per the Bible entry) and Absalom’s wife, Lucy, had died earlier on 12 Nov. 1818. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Imagine my surprise when a “cousin” informed me that my information about Absalom was incorrect and that Absalom was born about 1740 and had been a Tory (Loyalist) officer, served as a First Lieutenant in Colonel David Fanning’s Regiment and that after the war he had removed to Saint Clair County, Alabama and died there in 1833. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Interestingly, this cousin had same day and month for a birth date (just different year) for Absalom, and also had a similar name for his wife.
A bit of research revealed that Absalom Autry, the Tory, was recruited from Randolph County, North Carolina (The Colonial Records of North Carolina, Vol. 22, p. 196, https://docsouth.unc.edu/csr/index.php/document/csr22-0043 )
and had participated in an incident which is recorded in the Revolutionary War history of North Carolina: </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">“He [David Fanning] and his raiders first rode to Col. [Andrew] Balfour's plantation. When they arrived, the Loyalists immediately opened fire. Absalom Autry fired at Col. Balfour and the shot broke his arm. Col. Balfour made his way back into the house to protect his daughter and his sister. The Loyalists rushed the house and pulled Col. Balfour away from the women, then riddled his body with bullets. Even Col. Fanning fired his pistol into Balfour's head. The women were kicked and beaten until they fled to the home of a neighbor.” </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The information about this Tory officer of the same name as my ancestor does not match what I’ve found in the records for my Revolutionary War ancestor who was a Patriot, although a number of online trees have my Absalom’s date of birth and claim his wife was Lucy (or a variant thereof). Some even have a few of his children that I have, and at least one has an additional wife for him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’d say that something is out of place here. </span><br />
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Myra Vanderpool Gormleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206950249778083288noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4117210522879933749.post-42776797580879158062019-04-08T11:53:00.000-07:002019-04-08T11:59:02.483-07:00Seeking gold in California52ancestors
Week 15 (April 8-14)<br />
DNA (prompt)<br />
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Seeking gold in California </h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">By Myra Vanderpool Gormley © 2019 </span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I yearn to reach back into fragile pages of history and actually see, feel and smell what it is like in certain places and time periods. I like to know as much about the history in which my ancestors lived as I do the genealogical aspects. I like to see my ancestors in the settings in which they lived, grew up, married, wept over loss of children, and failed crops and how some defied conventions and did it “their way.” It also would be nice to figure out why they pulled up stakes and left XX and went to YY as I doubt that my assumptions are always accurate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have to confess that some members of my family tree are much more interesting than others. Some of them swirl back there in the misty fog of the past and beckon me — almost dare me to come find them. What amuses me, especially on a cold winter day, is to take a virtual sleigh ride through the woods of the past and look for them — and the historical evidence about their lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“How far back have you traced your family tree?” neophytes (and reporters) have often asked me — especially when they find out I have been “into genealogy” for decades. Or they will ask, “How many names do you have in your database?” — like I’m in some contest to collect the most. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I usually give them a casual comment about someone in my Dutch, French, Swiss, or Swedish lines that reaches back to the 15th or 16th centuries. That usually satisfies their curiosity. But what some do not seem to understand is that it is not how many ancestors you can squeeze on a chart or how far back in time the genealogical research takes you. That’s really unimportant because it is not the destination, but the journey — that delivers so much pleasure. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Road Not Taken </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">(1916) </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">by </span><span style="font-size: large;">Robert Frost (1874-1963) </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And sorry I could not travel both </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And be one traveler, long I stood </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And looked down one as far as I could </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To where it bent in the undergrowth; </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">. . .
I shall be telling this with a sigh </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Somewhere ages and ages hence: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I took the one less traveled by, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And that has made all the difference. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The joy of genealogy is taking those obscure or winding roads that diverge into Frost’s “yellow wood” which lead to tidbits — the incredibly rewarding nuggets — about my kin that show them as humans beings trapped in their historical eras. That is what delights me. So, what if it takes me a 100 years and endless hours of exploring? Who cares? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jonathan Lewis, a Forty-niner, was one of the first of our clan (he was the youngest child of Daniel Lewis and Betsy Vanderpool of Ashe County, North Carolina) who “went out West” and got rich in California — or so the story went. He did become rich indeed. Rich, with a fine ranch in the Sierra Nevada mountains, beautiful apple orchards, two wives and 14 children. But, when he died in 1900, the doctor noted the awful social disease that killed him and recorded that he was a “squaw man.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can feel the scorn the doctor had for Jonathan as he wrote the latter — instead of just listing his occupation as a farmer/rancher the doctor seemingly had to allow his own bigotry and prejudice show through. That was a road in the yellow woods for me. I had to know more about Jonathan — not just the blurb in a county history or the description written on his death certificate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finding him and his family in 1880 and 1900 censuses in California was rather straight forward. He had had 10 children by his second Indian wife. Tracing that large family was fairly easy, even with a common surname and luckily for me, descendants knew the name of their mother and her tribe [Sally Goodeye (1858-1935), Chukchansi]. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was Jonathan’s first Indian wife, probably born about 1842 in what was then Alta California that remained hidden in the mists of the redwoods and Sierra Nevada. She had no name — no identity whatsoever that I could ascertain. Of course, it is impossible to find someone without a name, so a search in 1860 census was useless, plus she was not likely be enumerated on that record as a single native woman. She died before the 1870 census was taken and marriage records of 49ers and native girls were not recorded in traditional records.
All I knew about her is that she and Jonathan had produced four children between about 1862 and 1870. I feared she was going to disappear into the splendors of Yosemite or remain hidden among the rocks and ravines of the California Gold Country and be forever lost to me. But I kept looking. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’d like to dazzle you with my brilliant sleuthing and how I tracked down secret, long-lost or obscure files. Alas, not true. Like many crime solvers will tell you — it wasn’t the clever researcher, the high-tech equipment or the DNA — it just good old police work, or in this instance, genealogical research, patience and persistence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One day while digging through the records of those who claimed their Indian heritage in the 1928 census for the Indians of California, the youngest child of that couple recorded her mother’s name — Cee-au-na. So, one more blank was filled in on the family tree, but it comes attached with a thousand more questions and many roads yet to explore. </span><br />
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Myra Vanderpool Gormleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206950249778083288noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4117210522879933749.post-40289123407638834072019-04-01T13:06:00.000-07:002019-04-01T13:11:26.412-07:00In Search of Heinrich’s Roots #52 ancestors<br />
April 1-7
Week 14: Brick Wall<br />
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In Search of Heinrich’s Roots </h3>
<i><span style="font-size: small;">by Myra Vanderpool Gormley © 2019 </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Heinrich (Henry) Gimper [sic] (also recorded as Kimber) arrived in Philadelphia 2 October 1753 on the ship <i>Edinburgh </i>from Rotterdam, last from Cowes. He might be from Daaden, a small rural town about 10 miles south of Siegen, only a few miles south of the Sieg River. But, no proof, yet and he remains a brick wall. Until evidence can be found to support this possible village of origin, it is just a theory, based on research of others who claim that four others on this same ship were from this village. [1] </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Surnames of those from Daaden who arrived on the same ship with my Heinrich (Henry) Gimper/Kimber were: HOEFFER, MEYER, KLEIN, GREGELO, JUNG, CRAEMER, TIEL, KLOECKNER, and BRAUN. On the Edinburgh other shipmates who may have originated from the same area were: Anthon REUSCH (whose name appears as Anthon KEUSCH, and is listed next to my Henry GIMPER on the list); and also there’s a Henrich Gottfried THIEL and Johannes REINSCHMIDT (Johannes Renschmit). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While my Heinrich (Henry) might or might not have been from Daaden or a nearby locality, he probably came from that region. So far, no solid clues have been uncovered to ascertain where the origins of the 20-year-old Heinrich (Henry) Gimper/Kimber were. He is the only one of that surname on the ship. [2] </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While he may, under the general rules, fall into the “brick wall” category, I just consider him a challenge, albeit a difficult and a long-time one, and I keep hammering and chiseling away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Experienced researchers advise that 18th-century German emigrants seldom came to America on their own. Rather they generally grouped together with others from their same villages and areas and made the entire voyage together. That’s why I’ve focused on those who arrived on the Edinburgh in October 1753 with my Heinrich/Henry. He evidently married soon after he arrived in Pennsylvania and if the place of birth of his children is correct, he soon migrated to North Carolina. He settled on or near Stinking Quarter Creek, which is a lengthy tributary of the Alamance Creek of the Haw River, running westerly across what is now central Alamance County and into Guilford County. The Alamance Creek and Stinking Quarter Creek area of old Orange County, North Carolina, was settled almost exclusively by German Lutheran and Reformed families, beginning in the 1750s. Heinrich/Henry was naturalized 22 September 1764 in Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina (p. 559, Superior Court Minutes). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “They [German immigrants] may have gone separate ways soon after arriving or may have continued their association. Part of the reason why they stuck together as groups [originally] was because of the recruiting that was going on in Germany. Recruiters for some of the U.S. colonies were paid a certain amount per emigrant they could provide for their prospective colony. The competition for willing emigrants by these recruiters was intense and their means were often quite unethical. They would say almost anything to try to convince a group of people that they should change their plans and join say the New England or Nova Scotia group instead of the Pennsylvania or Carolina group they may have initially thought to join. These recruiters would go through each village in a neighborhood and assemble a few families and individuals from each of the villages. They would then lead the entire group up the Rhine River to Rotterdam where they would be paid for their efforts.” [3] </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It takes time to break down brick walls. In our fast-paced world we often expect instant genealogical answers by typing in a name and perhaps a date and locality, and it can be frustrating to be faced with several options and possibilities and/or no definitive answers. Plus, we have to deal with name variants — when did Gimper/Kimber become Kimbro? And is the Heinrich/Henry Gimper who landed in Philadelphia in 1753 the same fellow who wound up in Orange County, North Carolina? Were any of his ship mates kin or neighbors in the “old country”? So far, I’ve been unable to determine his wife’s name, which adds to the frustration. Neither Henry nor his wife (widow) is listed in the 1790 North Carolina census. The last record in which I’ve found them (I think) is dated 1789. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My hopes to finding the origins of my ancestor, Henry Kimbro (and all his variant names/spellings) have been focused on learning more about and tracing the ship mates who arrived on the <i>Edinburgh</i> (and other ships) in the autumn of 1753 and especially any who may have wound up on Stinking Quarter Creek in Orange County, North Carolina. I also research the families into which his children married and look for clues or evidence of their European origins, and I track down his neighbors — always looking for snippets of information that might solve this puzzle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This often has been tedious, boring research with mostly negative results. Frequently, I put it away and let it set. After all, my ancestors aren’t going anywhere. And, then the nagging starts, and I pull out the research logs and data I have about Heinrich/Henry Gimper/Kimbro (ca 1733-1789) and I create a new research plan, hone the chisels and grab a hammer, and go back to work in hopes of knocking down this so-called brick wall. Knowing full well, the minute I solve that problem, two more will pop up — like whack-a-mole. </span><br />
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Schroeder Im Sohl 60: 5270 Gummersbach 1; West
Germany 1986 — an article that appears in <i>The
Palatine Immigrant</i>, Vol. XII, No. 1, 1987. Family History Library (US/CAN
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Hinke. <i>Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of
the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808
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1753,” by Henning Schroeder</span></span>Myra Vanderpool Gormleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206950249778083288noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4117210522879933749.post-82519990632162700772019-03-24T14:20:00.000-07:002019-03-24T14:23:11.755-07:00Tidbits of News Enrich Family History#52 Ancestors
Week 13 — In the Paper<br />
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Tidbits of News
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<i>By Myra Vanderpool Gormley © 2019 </i><br />
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<i> </i><span style="font-size: large;">It is the small things, rather than the major vital statistics we all pursue, that make a family history interesting to read. I find these rather trivial things in old newspapers — just ordinary news items of other times and places, but what depth and color they provide my genealogy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the <i>Arkansas Wheel</i>, a newspaper I’d never heard of, was an article that settled once and for all (I hope) the dispute in my family as to whether my great-grandpa, William Carroll Vanderpool, was a Baptist or a Methodist preacher. There in that obscure paper, published at Jasper, Newton County, Arkansas, on 21 October 1886, was a lengthy article, headlined with “Minutes of the 7th Annual Meeting of the Buffalo Association of United Baptists held with Corrinth [sic] Church, Newton County, Arkansas. It is dated. Friday, 24 September 1886. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">From the article I learned great-grandpa Vanderpool, along with the <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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moderator and clerk, was to make out a bill of arrangement for to-morrow [sic]. They were to “have 100 copies of the association’s minutes printed, to superintend the job, and take care of the distribution of same.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">I always trusted my Dad and Aunt Inez (after all they
knew their grandpa) regarding him being a Baptist preacher, but other
cousins disagreed. Now, I have additional evidence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In <i>The Star Progress</i>, of Berryville, Arkansas, a marriage announcement appeared on 25 Feb. 1916. It reported that Miss Alice Downs and Orb Vanderpool were married near Eureka Spring by the Rev. Mack Haggard. It also mentioned that her mother, Mrs. M. A. Downs, accompanied them and that the bridegroom was “clerking at Fair Store” and that he was the “son of well-to-parents who reside just across from Arkansas in Barry County, Missouri” where the young couple were going to reside. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Orb is rather unusual name, which aided in me finding him in our large Vanderpool database. These one-name projects are fun because you get to work with so many cousins — near and distant. However, had his given name been John or William, I might still be looking. We have his given names as Orba Elmer, with a nickname of “O.E.” He was born 13 March 1893 in Carroll County, Arkansas and died in Barry County, Missouri in 1952. His bride’s full name turned out to be Martha Alice Downs, but apparently she went by her middle name. They had five known children. He was the son of James Bluford Vanderpool and Cordelia E. Jackson. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In August of 1910, my granduncle, Brack Vanderpool, and another man were thrown from a wagon by a runaway team. Brack’s left arm was broken. This little news item appeared 29 August 1940 in <i>The Indian Journal</i>, published at Eufaula, Oklahoma. It ran under a heading of “Recalling Past Evens in Eufaula” — Items taken from the files of the <i>Journal</i> recalling events that transpired in years gone by — 1910. “Looking Backward” columns in local newspapers are among my favorites because it is easy to overlook something in the older newspapers which are often laid out somewhat helter-skelter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Brack’s full name was Russell Braxton, but he was always called “Brack.” He married Cora Kimbro on 17 October 1908. They had four daughters, three of whom lived to adulthood. He was the son of my Baptist preacher great-grandpa, William Carroll Vanderpool and Mary Kelly. Brack’s big brother, John, was my grandfather who married Cora Kimbro’s older half-plus sister, Mollie Kimbro. I refer to them as “half-plus sisters” because Cora and Mollie had the same father and their mothers were full sisters. As a result, the children of Brack and John are almost full double first cousins. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My genealogy software goes bonkers trying to compute this.
</span>Myra Vanderpool Gormleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206950249778083288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4117210522879933749.post-34118057518357260232019-03-18T12:25:00.000-07:002019-03-18T12:25:48.648-07:0012 Problems with a Pedigree#52 Ancestors
Week 12 — Prompt “12”<br />
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12 Problems with a Pedigree </h2>
<i>By Myra Vanderpool Gormley © 2019 </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I sometimes shudder at the ease with which family trees can be slapped together. Some of them may be correct, but I am overly cautious — knowing how easy for any and all of us to make mistakes, misread documents, or analyze them incorrectly. Plus, I know how difficult (or impossible) it is to fix or correct an error once it has flitted off into the never-never-land of the Internet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many years ago — 21 to be exact — I compiled a pedigree of William Henderson Shoemake (1824-1908), which was focused on his Cherokee heritage. He was the son of John A. “Jack” Shoemake and
Elizabeth [—?—] whose maiden name I still have not discovered. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Problem No. 1: Nicknames. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In transcribing my notes taken from researching in the Cherokee Nation citizenship applications and cases (FHL films #1,022,106 and #1,492,835), I took a testimony reference to a John (called Balljack) Shoemake to be referring to the John Shoemake (1766-1852) — the lineage on which I was working. That was my error. Now, John Shoemake (1766-1852) had a STEPson named John A., who was called “Jack.” (1803-1854). The STEPson took the Shoemake name, but his biological father was “a white man named [—?—] Jones.” However, the nickname was just “Jack” (not Balljack) and it was a reference to the younger John A. Shoemake — the stepson. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Problem No. 2. Sorting. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Be sure to get your Johns (et al) straight, including nicknames, and don’t assume a younger man of the same name is the son of the older one or is the one being discussed. Don’t trust your computer software to do this for you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">John Shoemake (1766-1852) married (Indian style) to Annie Thorn, date and place are unknown, but evidently it was sometime after 1803 (when John A. “Jack” was born to Annie Thorn) and before 30 May 1818 when John Shoemake (the elder) registered a claim for 640 acres “in the right of his wife” under the Treaty of 1817, which became Reservation #122 and was located in Jackson County, Alabama. John and Annie are shown in the 1830, 1840 censuses as "white", but in the 1850 census in Jackson County, Alabama, they are listed as “mulatto.” Ironically, her son, John A. Shoemake, is listed next to them with his family (and nothing is marked in color column). (1850 Jackson County, Alabama, District 19. Roll: M432_7; Page: 50A; Image: 110.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Problem No. 3. Misreading of documents. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Several have misread the following document and compiled genealogies that mix up the two different lines and some have informed me of “my” error, and posted same online, because they did not read carefully. The information taken from the Cherokee citizenship court about William H. Shoemake and his brother, John W. Shoemake in 1882 should be read carefully. Example: </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"My name is John V. Alberty, my age is about 48 years, I am a Cherokee, and reside in the Cherokee Nation, Going Snake District. According to the statements in the petition, I don't know anything about the claimants. I did know a family of Shoemakes. There was a man named Jim Shoemake. His brother was Tom Shoemake. Jim Shoemake married a woman by the name of Oxendine. They lived on the line there near Dutch Town, Washington County, Arkansas. They lived there till about the year '58 or '59. They then went from there to California or Arizona. I have not seen them since." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Note that Alberty says he does not know anything about the claimants (the claimants were W. H. Shoemake and John W. Shoemake); then he goes on to say that he did know of a family of Shoemakes in Arkansas (Jim and Tom) and that they went to California or Arizona. That is semi-correct — at least about Jim Shoemake’s family) but these Shoemakes and mine are not related to each other in any way that I have been able to determine after many years of research. Having the same surname, as genealogists are aware, is not proof of any kinship, and even using the same spelling is not proof of a relationship. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The claimants in this Cherokee citizenship case were the sons of a John A. (called Jack) Shoemake, who took the surname of his STEPFATHER, John Shoemake, a mulatto, who was born in 1766 in South Carolina. They are Cherokee — not via a Shoemake line but via their grandmother, Anna [nee Thorn] who was 1/2 blood. John A.’s biological father was a white man whose surname is said to be JONES. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The James Shoemake who lived in Washington County, Arkansas at the time of the 1850 census claimed to have been born in South Carolina; had a (presumed) wife named Susan [—?—]; and five children, ranging in ages 3 to 11 born in Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas. This family went to California by 1860 where they are enumerated in Stanislaus County and can be followed through various California censuses, Great Registers and other records. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Problem No. 4. Beware of others of the same name who might be confused with your person with the resultant entangled trees that might be compiled and posted/published. There are few, if any, perfect pedigrees, and we all can mistakes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When John and Annie Shoemake were “dispossessed” of their Reservation #122 in 1846/47, because of a case brought by some claimants in the Cherokee Nation (Oklahoma) the U.S. government commission which made the decision provided the genealogy of Cah-tah-la-tah, a full-blood Cherokee, the purported wife of a John Shoemake, which included the name of their purported child, Nee-ku-ti-hee, who was the mother of six children: Susan, Lizzy, Isle-hoo-wee, Oo-tah-the-kees-ky, Arly, and
Sa-wat-chee. The claim was that someone of the same name (John Shoemake) had also been married to another Cherokee by whom he had had a daughter. However, this claim, which turned out to be fraudulent, said the John Shoemake who had a Cherokee wife named Cah-tah-la-tah, was a white man. The John Shoemake of Reservation #122 was mulatto. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Problem Nos. 5 through 11. Relying on unsubstantiated genealogy, even if the U.S. government created it, is always filled with risks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have unlinked Cah-tah-la-tah as a wife of my John Shoemake, as there is no proof that he ever had any wife other than Annie Thorn. This also unlinks the purported daughter, Nee-ku-ti-hee and her six children (listed above). While initially there were numerous questions about the Reservation #122, the dispossession, and later the return of it to John and Annie and her heirs, the genealogical information the government provided appeared rather straight forward, and at the time there was no way to check or verify the government’s source of the information, which apparently came from the claimants or their lawyer. It is only later after reexamination of the differences of the two men named John Shoemake, when and where they lived, and the most important fact that the original claim proved to be false, that makes me suspect that the genealogical material is inaccurate also. A fraudulent claim to property which was valued at $7,680 in 1847 — that’s about $231,000 in today’s value more or less — raises serious doubt as to the accuracies of the genealogy provided by these claimants. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That is what happened in this case — I was so focused on the genealogy that I overlooked an important date. John Shoemake and Annie claimed their reservation under the Treaty of 1817 and 1819 and the lawsuit brought in 1846 pertaining to land under the Treaty of 1835. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“The view of this office in the matter resting upon the showing in the papers herewith is that the land claimed and surveyed for Shumake [sic] under the Treaty of 1817 and 1819 is not the identical land for which an award was made under the Treaty of 1835 to certain alleged heirs.” (Letter dated 12 February 1856 by Thomas A. Hendricks, Commissioner, to Honorable Robert McClelland, Secretary of the Interior. General Land Office, National Archives, Washington, DC, Record Group 49, Indian Reservee Files Correspondence — Indians (Cherokee), John Shoemake claim). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Based on a rough evaluation of the property’s worth and divided by the six heirs in the claim, the amount each might have received would have been about $38,500. Of course, I’m sure the lawyer(s) were paid out of it, but that is a significant sum of money to have had in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory in the late 1840s. I wonder if the heirs actually received any money, and if so, did the U.S. government make them pay it back because of the fraudulent claim? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So many questions, so little time, and that’s why it is almost impossible to “complete” a pedigree, let alone have a perfect one. </span><br />
Myra Vanderpool Gormleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206950249778083288noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4117210522879933749.post-89376327134313621122019-03-11T12:01:00.000-07:002019-03-11T12:01:45.066-07:00Unknown Cousins by the Dozens#52ancestors
2019-03-11<br />
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<i>By Myra Vanderpool Gormley © 2019 </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the largest families in my Vanderpool database has no surname — it is simply listed as [—?—], meaning the surname is unknown. Well, that’s not 100% accurate, because Vanderpool is by far the largest family in the database, but I do have a number of people for whom a surname has not been found. There are way too many Johnsons and Jones in my tree, too, but all-in-all I’m lucky to have many less-common surnames. Of course, there are the numerous “Van—” and “Vander—” names — thanks to my New Netherland Dutch heritage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I was not surprised to discover that I have many Mary [—?—] and this includes the Mary Anns, Mary Elizabeths, Mary J., Mary “Polly,” et al ladies. More than 80 of them as I quickly can determine. Next most popular given name is Elizabeth (without a known surname) and all its variants including Eliza, Lizzie, and Betsy. Then comes Sarah/Sara, Nancy, Margaret and Lucy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As an unofficial rule in my pedigree it appears my Williams usually married Marys and my Johns married Elizabeths. Some of them even married two Marys and two Elizabeths — not at the same time — but I’m sure they did it just to confuse me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course, not everyone in my Vanderpool database is an ancestor, in-law, or even blood-related to me. Many are remotely connected and for which I’m grateful that my genealogy software can usually figure out our relationship, if there is one. What fun to learn someone is your 5C3R (fifth cousins three times removed). That’s one reward for working with these one-name databases. I think it is going to help with the DNA connections, too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love my “unknowns” — they challenge me to do more research and see if I can discover their full names and who they are and how they connect. Naturally, there are some days when I wish I had a smaller family of [—?—], [—?—] and [—?—], Marys, or Elizabeths, or Marthas, hanging on the tree. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> But I keep plugging along enjoying each new find, each new fact, and fresh evidence, because I’ve never known anyone who has completed their family tree and I now understand why.</span><br />
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Myra Vanderpool Gormleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206950249778083288noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4117210522879933749.post-48723140299703869932019-03-04T09:25:00.000-08:002019-03-04T09:25:15.304-08:00The Goat and the Old Bachelor<span style="font-size: x-small;">#52ancestors
Week 10 (March4-10) </span><br />
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The Goat and the Old Bachelor </h2>
<i>By Myra Vanderpool Gormley © 2019 </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Forever intertwined in my childhood memory is a goat and an old man — my grandpa’s best friend (the old man, that is). While not an uncle, he was a bachelor, and almost family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The goat was called Billy, but the man was called “Bill” or W. C. by adults. However, he was always known to me as “Mr. Carter.” His given names were William Charles, which was the reverse of my Papa’s names — a subject they talked about frequently and found amusing. One of them being W. C. and the other C. W. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Carter drove an old banged-up panel truck with lots of dents on the outside and in the inside, well, Billy rode it in often and he nibbled at the interior — eating anything he could put in his mouth. He also left his special odor everywhere. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Carter and Billy the Goat lived down the road a piece from my Papa’s Oklahoma farm. The goat went with him about everywhere. So did Papa and me. We were a dynamic and unlikely quartet of two old farmers, a little girl, and a goat. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRazbaGtyPUg5x-sd8merETfsS8l0RTNOmPhFU4M586KrNfTKwLU3R3LGUC9aRdepegtwbtPUfywsgGpQwQLTR2UhDfwh9_PG-oNUJwv09dBiPKCN2vBu0-iGJHKWtrZZjvjRtkvtHlrA/s1600/tractor-farm-woman1940s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="566" data-original-width="800" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRazbaGtyPUg5x-sd8merETfsS8l0RTNOmPhFU4M586KrNfTKwLU3R3LGUC9aRdepegtwbtPUfywsgGpQwQLTR2UhDfwh9_PG-oNUJwv09dBiPKCN2vBu0-iGJHKWtrZZjvjRtkvtHlrA/s320/tractor-farm-woman1940s.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">We often toured the “bottom lands” — a fertile commercial farm area of what was then Griffin Grocery Company, north of Muskogee, Oklahoma. There the soil was rich from the many spring-time floods of the Arkansas River. Those old farmers, with my assistance, would check out the corn, alfalfa, watermelons, peanuts, soybeans, and cotton — then on to the stockyards we’d go on a fairly frequent schedule in the spring and summertime. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Carter, crippled up badly with arthritis, could barely walk, and relied on his wooden cane as he tottered and shuffled about. He had lost two middle fingers on his right hand in a farming accident years ago. I found that fascinating and asked him many questions about the accident, and about when he had come to Indian Territory and why he had stayed (talk about a born nosey journalist).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He and Papa were twin figures, born the same year — Papa in Georgia and Mr. Carter in Iowa. They were both big men always dressed in the Oklahoma uniform — faded blue overalls. I listened to their conversations about the “good old days,” the war, those rotten Communists, politics — local and national — and the high cost of living, and always, about the weather, and how the crops and livestock were doing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Carter had no wife and no family — at least none I ever knew about. I always invited him to our family get-togethers, especially Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter feasts, and later to my country school activities including its annual pie supper and a Christmas program. He always came and seemed pleased to be included.
One year at Christmastime he brought me a package of dates. I thought they were the best treat ever — so sweet and gooey. He smiled at my delight in them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He and I also shared a great love for my grandmother’s vinegar pies and bread-and-butter pickles. We were sure that she could win the blue ribbon at the Oklahoma State Fair for anything she cooked. </span><span style="font-size: large;">When I was about six years old, he subscribed to <i>Jack and Jill</i> magazine for me as a birthday present. I was in heaven. It arrived in the mailbox monthly or bimonthly — I have forgotten which, packed with stories, poems and artwork. A couple of years later he gifted me with my first desk, and then he bestowed a most precious present on me when I was nine — his mother’s piano. On it I learned to play, and it became my most treasured possession. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Years later, when I was in Germany working for <i>Stars & Stripes</i> newspaper I sent Mr. Carter a Christmas card (something I had always done — my mother taught her children good manners) but that year, for some reason, I also included a long letter telling him about my budding career, travel adventures in Europe, and how much his gifts and friendship had meant to me. I’m so glad I did. Mother reported back later that the old gentleman just beamed when he told her about receiving my letter and card. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My grandparents were both gone by then and I was aware that I would not have my special friend forever and that he might not be there by the time I returned from Europe. So, in my letter that year I had reminisced about the good times with him, Billy the Goat, and my Papa.
And what memories they were — including the time Mr. Carter and Papa got lost at the stockyards and I had to go to the office and turn them in, then wait for someone to go find those old farmers so we could get home in time for supper. You didn’t want to make my grandmother angry by being late. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a tough job looking after those two old men — and Billy the Goat was of no help. </span></div>
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Myra Vanderpool Gormleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206950249778083288noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4117210522879933749.post-82369554322154471692019-02-25T09:30:00.000-08:002019-02-25T09:30:19.047-08:00Where the Secrets Reside#52ancestors 2019
Week 9—Feb 25-3 mar<br />
Prompt: At the Courthouse<br />
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Where the Secrets Reside </h3>
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">By Myra Vanderpool Gormley © 2019 </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Research at courthouses is seldom dull or predicable. You never know what you will find or what morsels of long-hidden or forgotten family secrets might turn up. Here’s a sampling of things I’ve collected from court records about various family members. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Esriakim Case and Malachi Vanderpool having in a most contemptious and outragious maner fought and made an assault upon each other in the face and in the presence of the court on motion of Phl.?? Kearney . . .
It's therefore ordered by the Court that the Constables do diligently make search for the said Esriakim Case and Malachi Vanderpool and that they be forthwith taken into custody and comitted into the Goal of the county, and there to remain until they be delivered by a Due Course of the Law."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Georgia: 1822 Deed: Hill to Peacock </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Written: September 3 1822—Jasper County, Georgia—Deed Book A, page 60.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">State of Georgia Jasper County. Know all men by these presents that I, Mordica Hill, of the County and State aforesaid being of sound mind and memory and in my perfect senses and having lost my eyesight and not able to take care of myself nor my property of any kind and being disposed to live with my son-in-law Lewis Peacock and he having agreed to take care of me during life and I feel it my duty to give to him all that I possess both real and personal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now know ye that the said Mordica Hill as aforesaid do hereby give grant & bequeath unto the said Lewis Peacock, his heirs and assigns all the real and personal property that I possess that is to say all that tract or parcel of land situate lying and being in the 17th District of original Baldwin but now Jasper County and known by part of lot No. (207?) in the Dist. aforesaid and
containing sixty acres of land more or less together with one Negro woman named Priss about 50 years of age, one sorrel horse, one brown bay mare or filly 2 years old, one cow and calf, and all my hogs, one bed and furniture, and all my working tools of all kings [sic] together with all papers debts dues and demands due me from all persons whatever. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal & by making my mark in the presence of the undernamed persons this third day of September 1822. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Illinois: 1847 Will Extract (Henderson) </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This day came John A. Shoemake and my mother Anna Shoemake & Eli B Shoemake & John W. Shoemake my sons, before me an acting Justice of the Peace for said county them being Cherokees men and woman claiming the rights of the Cherokee nation under the Treaty of 1835-36 which we never have received the benefit of said treaty and has [sic] never had the opportunity of informing ourselves to the parole (?) until this present time and for the want of our Cherokee friends and information represent us to the government of the United States, which now we will refer to our relations that we are of Parch Corn family and Caty Thorn and the Big Bear and John and James Thorn and Anny Shoemake lived at parchcorns on the Bank of Tennessee River where John fortook [?] his reservation on the path leading to Crowtown, then moved to the place where John Benge took his reservation, now called Bolivar then her & husband John Shoemake moved to the west fork of Crow Creek where they took there [sic] reservation and there lived until dispossed [sic] of by the laws of the country; now she refers to her family her husband deceased the 2nd day of November 1852 which she is entitled to his per capita of all Just Dues under the treaty of 1835-36. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She refers to her son John A. Shoemake, the only child she has or ever was known to have. She refers to her grandchildren and son’s wife Elizabeth Shoemake, my son’s children now refer to the names and number: John A. Shoemake & Elizabeth Shoemake, his wife; Eli B. Shoemake thire [sic] son & Elizabeth Ann Shoemake thire [sic] daughter, Died on the 8th day of September 1853, and claims her per capita under the treaty of 1835-36 and all Just on the Government and John W. Shoemake and George W. Shoemake & James D .Shoemake ,and William H. Shoemake and James P. Shoemake.
Anna Shoemake aged about 70 years of age and John A. Shoemake aged 50 years. Elizabeth Shoemake, wife of John A. Shoemake, aged about 45 years and William H. Shoemake 29 years of age, and James P. Shoemake, 27 years of age, and Eli B. Shoemake, 26 years of age, and Elizbeth Ann Shoemake, 24 years of age, and John W. Shoemake, 22 years of age.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Elizabeth Ann Shoemake, Deceased, having three children, George W. Shoemake, aged 7 years old, James D. Shoemake, aged 2 years & 11 months lacking 7 days, John E. Shoemake, aged 7 months.
She claims of twelve of the family. They claim under the former treaty of themselves and family which have been debased of their rights in consequence of Siler, the agent, not coming through the country in which we lived which we are able to prove. he said he would not go so far through the country for one or two familys, [sic] this can be proved by Samuel Keys.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Now the said Shoemakes claims for themselves 12 in number the amount due them under the Act of 1835-36 and there [sic] removal and subsistence and also there [sic] per capita which amounted to ninety two dollars & 70 cts apiece when paid to other Cherokees and a balance before the House of Congress of the United States of Eighty five dollars apiece which the petitioners now begs leave to be represented to be attached to that appropriations Bill the under signed Cherokees as duty Bound will Ever pray to the Congress of the United States Recieved [sic] our petitions State of Alabama, Jackson County. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Arkansas: 1891 Adultery (Vanderpool) </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1859 Georgia: </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Butts County. 8 June 1859, Isaac Bankston appeared before Thomas J. Saunders, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said county. Isaac a resident of said county. Gives his birth place, thinks he is about 93 years old — his father was named Daniel Bankston and he was the brother of Jacob Bankston who was the father of Elijah Bankston — the deceased husband of Mrs. Elizabeth [née Morris] who lives in this county ... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Says his father, Daniel and his father's brother, Jacob moved from the state of North Carolina and settled in Wilkes County, GA about the beginning or just before the commencement of the Revolutionary War . . . says that Elijah Bankston was older than he [Isaac] . . . says that Andrew Bankston was his father's brother, and he moved to and settled about Beech Island in South Carolina and before the war and that the said Andrew had two sons — named James and Daniel (did NOT have a son named Elijah) . . . that Peter Bankston, the brother of deponent's father moved from North Carolina after the Revolutionary War and settled in Wilkes County, Georgia and that the said Peter had four sons — Larry, Andrew, John and William (did NOT have a son named Elijah) . . . </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1832 Indiana: Guardianship (Vanderpool) </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Marion County, Indiana. January Term 1832. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Guardianship of Mary Vanderpool — John Vanderpool appointed guardian of his sister, Mary Vanderpool, about 35 years of age, being an idiot . . . her estate is worth about $150.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />Myra Vanderpool Gormleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206950249778083288noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4117210522879933749.post-18973287528197041922019-02-18T08:10:00.001-08:002019-02-18T08:10:38.629-08:00A Stair-step of Cousins#52 ancestors Week 7<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Left to right (surname FRICKS): Norma Jean, Sherman, Kathleen, Leon, Helen, and Lorene. They range in ages from about 12 to 6. The date of the photograph is estimated to be about 1937. Norma Jean, Kathleen and Lorene are the daughters of Teck P. Fricks and Mildred Inez Smith. Sherman, Leon and Helen are the children of Homer N. Fricks and Virgie Dee Shirley. All are grandchildren of Charles W. Fricks (1873-1958) and Ida Mae Hensley (1879-1959). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like many old pictures, this one did not have any information recorded on the back — no date, place, or any names. The photograph appears to have been taken a few miles north of Muskogee, Oklahoma, near where the paternal grandparents resided. Homer and Virgie moved to Houston, Texas between 1927 and October of 1929 as their daughter, Helen, was born in the Lone Star state. Their two older sons were born in Muskogee County, Oklahoma in 1925 and 1927. Evidently, the Texas cousins had returned to Oklahoma to visit both sets of their grandparents, and someone had a camera handy to record the get-together of the six cousins in what appears to be summertime. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The maternal grandparents of Sherman, Leon and Helen were William Henry Shirley (1863-1954) and Martha E. Waymire (1869-1954), who also lived in Muskogee County, Oklahoma, near Fort Gibson. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Who took the snapshot is not known, but it was probably Virgie (Shirley) Fricks. The picture was part of my mother’s collection and she was an aunt to all these children. Mother provided the names of her nieces and nephews who appear here, and other cousins have confirmed the names, position, and approximate ages. </span></div>
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Week 7<br />
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For the Love of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness</h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">JAMESTOWN (Virginia Colony). December 1717-January 1718. Recently, Captain Andrew Tarbett delivered here about 70 illegal aliens from Germany on his ship, the “Scott.”
The voyage was delayed in London for about two months while the captain served time in debtors’ prison there. As a result, the immigrants, who had paid the captain to take them to Pennsylvania, depleted most of their supplies and money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “These immigrants did not pay their passage money,” Captain Tarbett claims. “In order to recoup my losses, Lt. Gov. Alexander Spotswood has paid for them and negotiated a contract for their labor for the next seven years.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A spokesman for the immigrants, speaking in halting English, claims that in London the captain gambled away the money they had paid for transportation to Pennsylvania, not Virginia. He also says they are being forced into indentured servitude (which they consider a form of slavery) and required to sign a contract they don’t understand and can’t read.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> It is believed that most, if not all, of these families came from the Rheinpfalz (Palatinate) and the Kraichgau area — the latter is a hilly region in Baden-Württemberg, in southwestern Germany. One immigrant said he was from the village of Stetten am Heuchelberg; another is from Neuenbürg; and others are from Gemmingen. This entire region has suffered economically since the extremely harsh winter of 1708-1709 killed fruit, grape vines and trees. It also killed birds and livestock and even froze wine in the casks. Additionally, the French continued invasions into the region have left many villages in ashes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sources who were able to talk to some of these immigrants said they had sold everything they owned in order to pay the emigration taxes to leave, transportation and custom costs down the Rhine River to Rotterdam, a ship to London, and then for passage on the “Scott” to Pennsylvania.
“All total the cost to emigrate was about 30£ — equivalent to more than 330 days of wages for a skilled tradesman,” according to one of passengers. The occupations of these immigrants are weavers, tailors, coopers, vineyard tenders and there’s even a goose herder. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Captain Tarbett, of Glasgow, claims bad weather blew his ship off course forcing it to land in Virginia instead of Pennsylvania. However, informed sources say there was collusion between Lt. Gov. Spotswood, some associates, and the captain to deliver the immigrants to Virginia to work in naval stores owned by Spotswood, Robert Beverly, and other partners. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“They need more settlers to move onto the frontier land in order to lay claim to it,” a government official said, asking not to be identified. “Spotswood is embarked on a huge western land development program on the frontier.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">News sources say that from Jamestown these immigrants are to be transported to the fork of the Rapidon and Rappahannock Rivers to just below the future site of Fredericksburg. This is as far as a ship can go because of the falls in the river. Then they will have to take a trip over roads that were built by the First Germanna Colony (1714) up to Fort Germanna.
Once settled on the frontier, the first objective is to clear some land so they can grow food. Spotswood and his partners will supply them with cattle on a partnership basis. The Germans will be required to return the equivalent of the original. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Additionally, it was revealed that Spotswood and his partners want the Germans settled on farm-sized acreages along the north shore of the Rapidan River. Houses are to be laid out at half-mile separations along the river, with another row paralleling these, but about a half-mile back from the river.
Then, the Germans are to make naval stores. In the early 18th century, wooden ships required a flexible material, insoluble in water, to seal the spaces between planks. Pine pitch was mixed with fibers like hemp to caulk spaces and prevent leaks. Crude gum or oleoresin was collected from the wounds of living pine trees. England no longer had the resources to produce naval stores and relied heavily upon naval stores from its American colonies. As a result, naval stores were becoming an essential part of the colonial economy, and Spotswood understood their value. Moreover, this would be his justification for taking up thousands of acres of land, which he could then claim were being used to produce naval stores. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Among these immigrants, later to be known as the Second Germanna Colony of Virginia (1717), were my ancestors, Hans Michael Holt (1696-1767) and Anna Elisabeth Schieble (1700-1765), who married, by estimate, about 1719. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today, there are many thousands of descendants of these Second Colony im-migrants. Some are actively researching their families, while others are not aware of their kinship to these ancestors who were brought to Virginia against their will in 1717 and forced to work as indentured servants for seven to eight years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Other surnames of those believed to have arrived in 1717 and were part of the original settlers are: Amburger (Auberge, Ambergey), Ballenger, Blankenbaker (Plankenbühler), Breuel (Broyles), Clore (Klaar), Cook (Koch), Crigler (Kriegler), Fleishmann, Holt (Hold), Kaiffer (Käfer), Moyers (Myers, Mayers), Paultisch (Paulitz), Smith (Schmidt), Shively (Scheible), Snyder (Schneider), Utz, Yager (Jäger), and Zimmermann, plus possibly others. </span></div>
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<b>References/Sources:</b><br />
For a list of Germanna Settlers (various years),<br />
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https://germanna.org/2013/09/10/list-of-original-germanna-settlers/<br />
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Story of the Second Colony: www.secondcolony.org/thestory.html<br />
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Germanna History Notes, by John Blankenbaker: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~george/johnsgermnotes/<br />
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The German Colony of 1717, by Arthur Leslie Keith. The William and Mary Quarterly. Vol. 26, No. 2 (Oct., 1917), pp. 79-95. Published by Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1914859. Accessed 7 Feb. 2019<br />
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WikiTree:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Germanna_Descendants
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Week 6 (Feb 4-10) — Surprise<br />
<i>By Myra Vanderpool Gormley © 2019 </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In my early childhood, I was lucky to have spent several years with my maternal grandparents and I had heard their stories many times. Grandmother was a delightful storyteller and I was a captive audience. She told me how she met grandpa at a local dance where he was the caller and her brother played the fiddle. She wanted to wait until she was 21 before she married, but when she was 20, Grandpa convinced her to marry him. They were married 15 October in 1899. Originally, Grandpa had wanted them to marry on his birthday, which was 15 September, but grandmother insisted on the October date. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fifty years later, preparations were underway for their Golden Anniversary celebration. It was a gala time as their seven children pooled their money and had their farmhouse painted and papered inside, purchased new curtains, put in new flooring, and spruced up the place in general. The children and their spouses, plus many kinfolks came for the party. Food was piled high on the kitchen table and every counter surface available. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My cousins and I played and ate goodies until we almost burst. There was lots of singing and storytelling. I remember the laughter as my aunts and uncles told tales about growing up together. The older folks — kinfolks of my grandparents — added their collective memories to the good old days in Indian Territory when they had first arrived. I was nine years old and have a vivid memory of that bright October day and the celebration. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I began genealogical quest, one of the first things I did was go to the courthouse in my hometown and look up the marriage records of both sets of grandparents. I dutifully copied the information and where I had found it (I had good teachers). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thus, I had the facts from an original source, I had the memories of the 50th anniversary celebration, and I even recalled what my grandmother told me that she had worn on her wedding day — a navy blue suit that was far too warm for an Indian Summer day in Creek Nation of Indian Territory. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Imagine my surprise, while in search of another relative, I stumbled across a “Marriage” notice in the local newspaper about my maternal grandparents. While I had the wedding date and place, it revealed two additional bits of information. They were married at the home of the bridegroom </span><span style="font-size: large;">in Muskogee, and the ceremony had been officiated by the Rev. S. G. Thompson. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />Myra Vanderpool Gormleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206950249778083288noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4117210522879933749.post-47612733052812443522019-01-25T11:09:00.000-08:002019-01-25T11:09:07.919-08:00Peering into the Past#52 ancestors
Week 5 — At the library<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It’s all my sister Jo’s fault. She was the scholar in the family and during her high school years (I was five years behind her), she often spent time after school at the city public library, which was kitty-cornered from our dad’s business. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We lived in the country and rode the school bus, but on those days when she studied at the library, from about four to six, we’d catch a ride home with dad. I wasn’t allowed to ride the bus home without her so I trudged along to the library. I really didn’t have to be coaxed as I was a avid reader, but as a typical kid, I’d go off exploring for new books and any treasures at the library that were available. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That’s how I discovered stereograms and the old newspapers on microfilm. It was fun looking at the images of the “olden days” of my locality and state, but the library had a limited supply of them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, the discovery of old newspapers on microfilm opened an enthralling adventure for me. Quite by accident, because I don’t recall any index being available, I discovered my maternal great-grandfather (N. B. Fricks) listed as a juror on some U.S. Court cases in the late 1890s, when the area was part of the Creek Nation of Indian Territory. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many of the crimes the juries heard were for larceny, forgery, counterfeiting, horse stealing, introducing and selling liquor (a no-no in Indian Territory, but a widely prevalent occurrence). Other crimes, some of which required me to use the “big” dictionary in the reference area, were: sodomy, gaming and seduction. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A plea of guilty to horse stealing for one fellow resulted in him being sentenced to 5 years and 1 month in the Ohio state penitentiary (which lead to more questions about why he was sent to Ohio, when another man who pled guilty to forgery was sent to two years at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and yet another was sent to 2 years at reform school at Cheltenham, Maryland). The law was confusing, but I was fascinated by it, the local history, and of course, my family’s part. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the crime of “introducing liquor” a guilty plea could result in a sentence of $25 fine and one month in jail, or 90 days in jail and a $1 fine, but on the other hand, one Charles Anderson, charged with “selling whisky,” as opposed to “introducing liquor,” and who pled guilty and was given a sentence of $1 fine and one month. It didn’t say where the “one month” was to be spent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A “seduction” case went to trial and the verdict was “guilty,” but the man was not sentenced. The reason? He was charged with seducing Emma Hamilton under promise of marriage, but since conviction, he married the girl and the sentence was suspended and “he will avoid the penitentiary if he supports and cares for his wife.” A sidebar to this case: A witness in this case who testified for the defendant was arrested and placed in jail on charge of perjury.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Muskogee girls know what’s what and any attempt on the part of shrunken and distorted and ill-proportion old maids of New England to get them to adopt hoop-skirts or any other device that will prevent a respectable display of face, form or figure won’t work worth a cent. We are with the anti-crinoline brigade.” </span><span style="font-size: large;">What? I thought “hoop-skirts” went out of fashion after the Civil War. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sis, the librarians and those old newspapers are responsible for me becoming a genealogist, a history buff, and having a long newspaper career. How can I ever thank them enough? </span></div>
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Week 4 — I’d Like to Meet<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While there are dozens of my ancestors I’d like to meet, mostly to quiz them about genealogical matters such as when and where they were born and the women’s maiden names, but I’ve long been intrigued with researching my direct maternal line, the mitochondrial DNA. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I understand it, everyone inherits mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from their mother — through her mother, her mother, her mother, her mother, and so on. And, while both males and females inherit mitochondrial DNA from their mothers, only females can pass it on to their children. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As opposed to my paternal line, which now extends back 12 known generations, in just five short generations, my maternal paper trail ends with Tabitha Morgan (born 1797 in South Carolina), so I’d like to meet her daughter, Elizabeth Morgan Kirby (1828-1906), and learn more about her and her mom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I first met Elizabeth Morgan Kirby when I found her marriage record dated 9 July 1850 in DeKalb County, Georgia where she married David Gresham Awtrey. Locating the couple in the 1850 census provided some inconsistent information — first, they were enumerated on 18 October of that year, living with her parents (John Kirby and Tabitha Morgan) in Panthersville, DeKalb County, Georgia and secondly, the bride was four years older than the bridegroom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Interestingly, David Gresham Awtrey is also enumerated on 16 October 1850 with his parents (Eldridge Awtrey and Margaret George) in Flat Shoals, DeKalb County, Georgia. He was listed as their 18-year-old son, even though his marriage record plainly reveals he and Elizabeth were married in July that year. Don’t you love conflicting data? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The bridegroom’s paternal grandmother was living in Panthersville, DeKalb County, Georgia in 1850 also. She was enumerated on the same day and just one page away from where Elizabeth Morgan Kirby and David Gresham Awtrey are listed with her parents. How well the families knew each other is anyone’s guess, but Panthersville was a small community (and still is) in metro Atlanta. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elizabeth Morgan Kirby and David Gresham Awtrey lived long lives (she died in 1906; he died in 1902) and produced 11 children. I’d like to know if I have all of their names recorded correctly and then ask Elizabeth what was behind her creativeness in the naming department? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know my great-grandmother, Araminta — their first child — was named for her paternal grandmother, but why were the two additional names — Rhody Ella — added? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Most of their children were given names with family connections, such as Margaret Ann Tabitha (1856-1943) who evidently was named for David Gresham’s mother (Margaret George) and Elizabeth's mother (Tabitha Morgan), but why did you stick in the Ann? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am curious as to how you picked the name of David Ella for your seventh child? Obviously, she was named for her father, but whom was the Ella for? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I haven’t figured out the origins or connections to some of the other names bestowed upon the children, such as Clinton Almanzer (1855-1897), Henry Crockett (1869-1901-10), Ophelia (1873-1960), or Wylie Hall (b. ca 1875). And, by the way, what happened to Wylie? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next, I have some questions about what you and the children were doing during the Civil War. I know David Gresham Awtrey served in the Confederate States Army and his company was captured in July of 1864. After the war, times were obviously difficult for your family, is that why you left the Atlanta area and removed to Saint Clair County Alabama? But why the move to Haralson County, Georgia by 1880? And, where were you hiding in the 1900 census? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Additionally, tell me more about your mom – Tabitha Morgan. Where in South Carolina was she born and when and where did she marry your dad? Oh, never mind, just fill out this Family Group Sheet for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please tell me more about my great-grandmother, Araminta. Family stories call her the “dark and feisty one.” Do tell. I’m all ears. </span></div>
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Myra Vanderpool Gormleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206950249778083288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4117210522879933749.post-32667923514388505072019-01-15T15:36:00.003-08:002019-01-16T10:36:13.088-08:00Untangling gnarled branches of family trees#52 ancestors 2019
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<span style="font-size: large;">While the name of Araminta is somewhat unusual, or so I thought, it was a fairly popular name in my family for several generations, including my maternal great-grandmother Araminta Awtrey (1851-1927) who was named for her grandmother, Araminta Bankston (1782-1861).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It turns out that a search for this given name shows hundreds so named in the 1850 U.S. census in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, as well as in Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Missouri, which means it was widespread in American families by the middle of the 19th century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “Araminta is one of the many literary coinages of the Restoration period, [1660-1714] in this case possibly a conflation of Arabell and Aminta,” according to The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names (Withcombe, 1977). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first of this name I’ve found in my family was Araminta Bankston and it was her 1800 Marriage Bible that put me on the quest to find her father — a Jacob Bankston. See earlier blog: https://shakingfamilytrees.blogspot.com/2019/01/pass-sorting-hat.html </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Having eliminated a childless couple — Jacob Bankston (1720-1757) and Elinor Cock, of Philadelphia, listed in an old genealogy — as the parents of Araminta’s father, Jacob, I turned back to sorting through Georgia records looking for clues and evidence. Three records proved to be most helpful. Two appear in The Early Records of Georgia, Volume I, Wilkes County. (Abstracted and compiled by Grace Gillam Davidson, published 1933 in Macon, Georgia) and now available online at:
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. There is a 1786 deed in Wilkes County, Georgia, which mentioned that Peter, Daniel and Jacob Bankston sold 400 acres in Pennsylvania, which was “and from our father, Laurence Bankston.” (Wilkes County, GA, Deed Book AA — 1785-1787 p. 127.) </span><br />
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“Whereas I <b>Jacob Banckston</b> is about to remove to the Missippi state [sic] this to sertyfy [certify] that I have bargind and sold unto <b>Elijah Banckston</b>, my son all my right[s] and title to the claim that I did againstt the Creek Nations of Indians for property taken at McNabs Fort Wilk[es] County 1782 which property was valued to five hundred and fifty five dollars and I do hereby give over all my right[s] and title to the above mentioned claim unto to above <b>Elijah Bancksto</b>n or sum written and hereby in power him to Recept for the same in my name and this my order shall recept to whom may be impowerd to pay of [off] the claim. Signed <b>Jacob Banckston. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, there is a Jacob Bankston who was the son of Lawrence Bankston and Rebecca Hendricks and he had a son, Elijah Bankston, and he planned to leave Georgia for the “Missippi state” [sic] which would have been the Mississippi Territory in 1811 as Mississippi was not yet a state. Is this Jacob the father of my Araminta, and was he also the Jacob Bankston who married Nancy Brewer on 5 October 1808 in Clarke County, Georgia and whose maiden name has been misread as Moore and Brown by various researchers? If so, then that was his second marriage. Is this why my Araminta Bankston or at least her husband, Isaac Awtrey, went to Mississippi about 1810 but only stayed a short time before returning to northeast Georgia? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> 1. His parents, Lawrence Bankston and Rebecca Hendricks were married about 1726 in Pennsylvania and lived there first, but by 1744 Lawrence was listed as a taxpayer in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. Land and court records pertaining to Lawrence’s estate reveal that he had five sons, and at least one daughter — who married James Lea. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. In a 1793 a deposition of James Lea pertaining to land owned by Lawrence Bankston in Caswell County, North Carolina, he said that Andrew was his (Lawrence’s) eldest son, Peter was the second son, Lawrence (Jr.) was the third, Daniel was the fourth and Jacob was the fifth son, and the youngest son. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The problem is not finding ancestors, it is the challenge of sorting them (Where is that enchanted sorting hat of Hogwarts houses fame when I need it?). Another challenge is proving that a particular Jacob is the one that belongs in my tree — and is not someone else of the same name. Additionally, men who marry women of the same given name, thus eliminating one sorting tool, should suffer serious penalties, such as being forced to translate a thousand Latin parish records or sort out my Marys, Elizabeths, and Annes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of my challenges is to disprove all the twisted, gnarled trees out there — in print and online. I realize that will never happen, but I can dream. My Jacob Bankston dangles upon dozens, perhaps hundreds, of trees. He has been linked to several wives (most of them incorrectly); his date of birth is unproven, and so is his exact date of death, but he appears in many records and a great deal of valid information about him exists. Unfortunately, the good has been tossed into a mix with the bad, creating a gallimaufry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What has really thrown a monkey wrench into the works is once upon a time many years ago there was a genealogy published. Like all genealogies, it has errors, and too many family historians have relied upon this one source without verifying its material. To confound the problem, the compiler seldom cited sources, or did not do so specifically, so it is impossible to determine which records were used for individual facts. (An example is a citation of “Index Holy Trinity Church, p. 10” — there are thousands of churches in the USA of this name and what is this an index to?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I, too, started with this old genealogy, but when an 1800 Family Bible of Isaac Autry/Awtrey and Araminta Bankston who married that year was found in a descendant’s trunk in the attic, it revealed that my 4-great-grandmother, Araminta Bankston, was the daughter of a Jacob Bankston. I was elated, thinking I had solved a problem. But, a challenge promptly popped up. According to this old genealogy, there were two Jacob Bankstons (father and son); one born in 1731 in Philadelphia and one born about 1760 in North Carolina. My Araminta was born in 1782 in Georgia (I had her date of birth from her tombstone and the family Bible). So, technically, either of these Jacobs could be her father. I had no idea which one, so I started digging in the traditional records — vitals, land, probate and taxes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Georgia land records rewarded me with a deed which provided a wife’s name for one of the Jacob Bankstons. The deed showing Jemima as Jacob's wife was made on February 10, 1798 (<i>Hancock County, Georgia Deed Book A-B, page 501</i>). Some church records in Clarke County show a Jacob and Jemima Bankston as members. However, I still did not know how old this Jacob Bankston was, or if he was the father of my Araminta. Purportedly, he had died about 1817 in Georgia, but no record of probate could be found, and no exit deeds for him, although he more or less vanished from the tax lists of Georgia about 1818. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Luckily for descendants, many of the records of these early Swedish families have survived and have been microfilmed. I found a marriage record for a Jacob Bankston and an Elinor Cox dated 14 June 1753 <i>(Gloria Dei [Old Swedes] Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Marriages, Baptisms and Burials, 1750-1789, FHL #511,806, p. 11)</i>. That information matched what the old genealogy claimed. </span></div>
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Additional research in Philadelphia records turned up a 1757 Will for Jacob Bankston. This Jacob had a wife, Elinor; she was named in his Will along with a brother, John, his mother, and some other relatives, but no mention of any children. That fact clearly eliminated this Jacob and Elinor as the parents of my Jacob or the other three children listed in the old genealogy. In the process, it also suggested that the birth date of 1731 used in the old genealogy had no evidence to back it up. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of my ancestors, who were among the first settlers of New York in 1624, were not Dutch or Huguenots. They were Walloons — French-speaking inhabitants of what is today southern Belgium and an adjacent part of France. They were Protestants who fled the Spanish regime and went first to the Netherlands and then to New Netherland. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They arrived in 1624, but so far it has not been determined whether they sailed on the <i>de Eendrach </i>[Unity] in January 1624 or on the <i>Nieuw Nederland.</i> The later sailed from Amsterdam on or after 30 March 1624. While no passenger lists for these two ships exist, “several passengers can be identified, based on records of dismissals from the Amsterdam French Church (1624) and records of the Dutch West Indies Company,” according to Henry B. Hoff in his article “The First Settlers of New York in 1624.” [1] </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This year marks the 395th anniversary of the arrival of the first known immigrant ancestors of mine. They were Ghislain Vigné and his wife, Adrienne Cuvellier, and (presumably) their three daughters — Maria, Christina, and Rachel. It is possible there were other children in this family who did not survive. Their only known son, Jan, who was born about 1624, is considered to be the first European male child born in New Netherland. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">According to Harry Macy, Jr. F.A.S.G., F.G.B.S. in his article “375th Anniversary of the Eendracht and Nieuw Nederland,” [2] those who can trace a line to one or more of the four first families of New Netherland — Rapalje, Monfort, du Trieux and Vigné — must number in the millions. So obviously I have lots of cousins out there. However, the Vigné line “daughtered out” and descendants today, including myself, will be found other surnames. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My branch descends via Maria Vigné, born ca 1613, probably in Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais (now Hauts-de-France) who married first Jan Pieters Roos in New Netherland and after his death, married secondly, my ancestor, Abraham Isaacsen Ver Planck, about 1634. [3] </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While updating research on Ghislain Vigné and Adrienne Cuvellier, I made a couple of discoveries about them and the city in which they lived prior to coming to New Netherland. They joined the Walloon Church in Leiden (Netherlands) in 1618. Five of their children, including a set of twins, are listed in the Register of Baptisms there from 1618 to 1623. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Leiden, at that time was a small city, located about 25 miles from Amsterdam. It had a population of about 45,000 in 1622. Among the famous people who called Leiden their hometown was Rembrandt Harmenzoon van Rijn (1606-1669) and other Dutch Masters such as Jan Lievens (1607-1674) and Jan van Goyen (1596-1656). Rembrandt even lived in the same district as the Pilgrim Fathers, in the area surrounding Pieterskerk — a late-Gothic church, also called the church of the Pilgrim Fathers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This raises the possibility that my New Netherland Walloon family might have known some of my husband’s Pilgrim ancestors — the Mitchells, and Francis Cooke and Hester le Mahieu (who married about 20 July 1603, in Leiden; Hester was the daughter of Walloons). These families were all in Leiden about the same time. Additionally, some of the Pilgrims attended the same church — the Walloon Church <i>(Vrouwekerk</i>). They might have worked together in the cloth industry as weavers, wool combers, carders, or cloth-fullers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Perhaps the Walloon ancestry of Hester le Mahieu connects to my <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Vigné </span>and Cuvelliers. If so, such a connection would probably date back to the middle-to-early 1500s and would be a first for my genealogical research outside of Switzerland.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">[1] American Ancestors
Magazine. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010. (Volume
11.1 (2010), pp. 28-28. Online database </span><a href="https://www.americanancestors.org/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">https://www.AmericanAncestors.org/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">[2] Macy, Harry Jr., The
NYG&B Newsletter, Winter, 1999, The New York Genealogical and Biographical
Society at </span><a href="http://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">http://www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">[3] Ver Planck, William
Edward, compiler, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">History of Abraham
Isaacse Ver Planck, and his Male Descendants in America </i>(1892; reprint,
Fishkill Landing, New York: J. W. Spaight, 1892). (</span><a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027/yale"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">http://hdl.handle.net/2027/yale</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; margin: 0px;">.39002040693997 : accessed 7 April 2016.</span></div>
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#52: Resolution<br />
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<i>By Myra Vanderpool Gormley © 2018 </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I knew I was in trouble when I first saw that Week 52’s “prompt” was “Resolution.”
My choices were limited to make a firm decision to do or not to do something — and that is not likely to happen at my age. The other option is the action of solving a problem, dispute, or contentious matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> In genealogy there are many “problems,” not to mention a few disputes, and even some contentious matters. However, most of these deal with records and data that argue with each other — not with our family and friends. Although I have some cousins who insist I don’t know how to spell one of my family surnames. But, I’m stubborn and believe that finding creative spelling of names is what makes one a good genealogist. I also refuse to blindly accept 12-year-old mothers and 105-year-old ancestors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While it would be nice to make a resolution to try to solve my various genealogical problems, the solutions may be beyond my capabilities or access to records that I need. There’s also the possibility that some records simply do not exist — a price one pays when descended from so many Colonial ancestors who deliberately chose to live in places where courthouses burned, wars were fought, and stubborn folks refused to leave paper trails. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’ve even played around with the idea of compiling a list of all of my female ancestors for whom I have no, or an unproven, maiden name and resolve to find answers. That resolution would last until some bright and shiny potential new ancestor came along and I’d be off on another hunting expedition. Alas, I know myself well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I could resolve to continue the almost daily updating and housecleaning of my several one-name databases, but this is an endless thankless job I do because, well, just because — I blame it on my Dutch and German genes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Speaking of genes, DNA research is fast becoming a tool and a curse. As more people participate and post their trees, I’m finding connections to many new cousins. I’m ever hopeful that some will have family Bibles, photos and other material to share. But I certainly don’t need a resolution to do this. DNA matches are almost as addictive as searching genealogy trees and GEDCOMs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2019 is going to bring another #52 Ancestors in 52 weeks challenge, and I don’t need a resolution to do that either. Writing stories about ancestors instead of placing them on colorless trees is much more fun and offers a creative outlet too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> So, I guess if I’m going to resolve to do anything — genealogically — this coming year, it will be to keep on keeping on. Watch out ancestors in hiding — I’m coming after you.
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Myra Vanderpool Gormleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206950249778083288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4117210522879933749.post-22641777165726716812018-12-17T07:39:00.001-08:002018-12-17T11:20:26.845-08:00Making My Nice List52Ancestors
Week 51—Nice<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It’s nice to be related to someone famous or rich (or both) and it’s nice to find cousins who share their years of research with you. But at the top of my “nice” list are two cousins I have never met personally. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My maternal grandma use to remind me (jokingly) to be proud because I was a Peacock — a descendant of the Peacocks of Atlanta, in fact. Well, that didn’t mean much to me as a kid on a farm in Oklahoma. Even years later when I began to explore my ancestry seriously, my tendency was to brush aside the family legends about any purportedly rich or illustrious lines, and try to focus on just the facts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, my granny knew what she was talking about — her mother-in-law — Elizabeth (Connally) Fricks, a widow, lived with her son and his wife (my granny) for many years. And Elizabeth (Connally) Fricks was a descendant of Louis Peacock, an early Atlanta-area pioneer. The details about the Peacock-Connally-Fricks connections I did not learn overnight, or by clicking on an online tree, or figure it all out in a weekend, but eventually I discovered that my great-granny was the only child of Elizabeth Jane (called Jane) Peacock who married “Big Charles” Connally at the tender age of 15 — much younger than my other female ancestors. In 1849, my great-granny was born in Atlanta — and her mother — Elizabeth Jane (Peacock) Connally died in 1852 at the tender age of 22 — the mother of only the one known child. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I has no pictures of Elizabeth Jane Peacock (1830-1852) or any of her husband, Charles William “Big
Charles” Connally (1817-1886), but fate smiled on me. One of my nice cousins (and a double cousin at that) shared with me some pictures of her ancestors — Thomas Whipple Connally (1809-1884) and Temperance Arnold Peacock (1818-1896). Thomas Whipple Connally is an older brother of my “Big Charles” and Temperance is an older sister of my Elizabeth Jane Peacock. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How nice is that? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another cousin, while cleaning out the attic, found a treasure that had been kept in his family for many generations. It was the 1800 Bible of a couple who married that year — my ancestors — Isaac Awtrey and Araminta Bankston. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This super nice cousin of mine scanned the images and shared with us. Most of us had been researching for years, tracing the descendants of this couple but dead-ended at proving their parents.
The Bible provided the date of marriage and the names of fathers of the couple, plus additional genealogical material on their children and more.</span></div>
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Myra Vanderpool Gormleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206950249778083288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4117210522879933749.post-25544623253920144292018-12-09T10:09:00.000-08:002018-12-09T10:09:47.653-08:00Scrutinizing My Naughty List#52ancestors
Week 50- Dec 10-16<br />
Prompt: Naughty<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Picking a “naughty” ancestor to write about this week was a monumental challenge. Which one? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While it is fun for us genealogists to joke about our horse thieves, outlaws, and less-than-sterling ancestors, when you have a tree full of them, it is a bit embarrassing to have so many from which to choose. How on earth did I come to have so many “colorful” progenitors? Is that a special gene? If so, where is it located in the DNA? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started to write about my 3great-grandmother, Margaret (George) Awtrey, who in April of 1871 in Haralson County, Georgia filed a Civil War Damage Claim before the Southern Claims Commission[1] claiming that she had been loyal to the Union during the Civil War and had had $279 worth of property taken by or furnished to the Union Army during the rebellion. Her claim included a horse, seven hogs and some potatoes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But, I don’t know whether Margaret was actually a pro-Unionist or not. Perhaps she was naughty and lied. Perhaps she was telling the truth or filed because she was in dire circumstances after losing her husband and their home. One can understand a lie in such a situation, but a lie is still a lie. The U.S. government denied her claim. While she said she had been loyal to the U.S., her husband had been a Confederate Army spy, and the witnesses for her claim were her sons and sons-in-law — all former Confederate soldiers and probably not the best witnesses to call upon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, I changed my mind about which ancestor to write about when I recalled that once upon a time I stumbled upon some others with shady pasts while I was reading dull dry deeds of Etowah County, Alabama. Therein, I had found a record that Randall Hensley was indebted to a fellow for $500 for signing an Internal Revenue Bond . . . for the personal appearance of his son, Francis Marion Hensley. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, no! The latter is my great-grandpa. His father, Randall Hensley, mortgaged his 120-acre farm to pay for the bond and Francis Marion Hensley was charged with violation of the Internal Revenue Law of the U.S. He had been arrested on the Coosa River and charged with “engaging in and carrying on a business of a distiller of Spirituous liquors without having paid the special tax or given bond as by law required.” [2]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gulp! Dodging taxes is usually unwise, and moonshining, even with its interesting historical past in America, had been discouraged during the Civil War when several Southern states passed laws prohibiting the use of grains for anything but food. After the war a federal tax on home distilleries became law and during the 1870s, this law began to be enforced and in early 1875 they nabbed my great-grandpa. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, a moonshiner in the hills of northeastern Alabama is not how I had pictured my ancestor, so I was somewhat relieved when I read the court case wherein Francis Marion Hensley claimed that he just happened to be tending the still when the Revenuers came by — he was “watching it for another fellow.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, of course, I wanted to believe him. And did, briefly until I read the name of the fellow for whom he was tending the still — who was, good grief — his father-in-law!</span></div>
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1 "Barred and Disallowed Case Files of the Southern Claims Commission, 1871-1880" (NARA M1407) records. Southern Loyalists (those who were Union sympathizers) made 22,298 claims for property losses totaling $60,258,150.44. However, only 7,092 claims (32%) were approved for settlements totaling $4,636,920.69. Each claimant sought to prove their loyalty and loss through the testimony of others. The paper trail created by the claimants and the people who came forward to testify, for or against a claimant, provide a wealth of information about individuals living in the South during the Civil War.<br />
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2 Jason Sumich, "It's All Legal Until You Get Caught: Moonshining in the Southern Appalachians," article, Appalachian State University, Anthro.appstate.edu (https://anthro.appstate.edu/research/field-schools/ethnographic-and-linguistic-field-schools/summer-2007-Alleghany-county : online 9 December 2018); Department of Anthropology-ASU-Boone, NC.
Myra Vanderpool Gormleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206950249778083288noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4117210522879933749.post-88276047914762557882018-12-04T15:07:00.000-08:002018-12-10T12:21:17.081-08:00Winter Wonderland#52ancestors
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whatever possessed a man, who apparently had a comfortable life with hundreds of acres, horses, mules, and cattle, and a large family nearby, to pull up stakes in Rowan County, North Carolina and at age 73 go to Union County, Illinois — more than 600 miles away? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not only did he, his wife and most of their family make the move — but they did it in the winter.
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jacob Fricks, of Germanic-Swiss ancestry, was born about 1750 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. A first-generation American, he served during the Revolutionary War in North Carolina; married in 1788 to Eva Elizabeth Earnhardt, also a first-generation American of Germanic heritage. They prospered in Rowan County, North Carolina where they raised a large family. Paul, their youngest of 12 children, was born in 1816. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So how do I know they made the move from North Carolina to Illinois in the winter? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think the least they could have done is to have left a written report explaining why the move and a record of how high the snow drifts were. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />Myra Vanderpool Gormleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206950249778083288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4117210522879933749.post-5172043718341940692018-12-03T14:10:00.002-08:002018-12-03T14:10:26.831-08:00DNA vs. Paper Trail52 Ancestors Week 48<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This week’s prompt “Next to Last” stumped me, so I chose to write about “When DNA and the Paper Trail Disagree.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finding a new clue to the ancestry of the Rev. Wilson Henderson (1762-1847) sent me off in several directions trying to prove or disprove the claim that he was the son of an Edward Henderson who left a will in 1790 in Chester County, South Carolina. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A number of online trees provided bits and pieces of information and cited their source as “Will” or "Abstract of SC Will” or “Ancestry.com—Chester County, SC Will.” Eventually, I found the latter, which actually is from a book of abstracts of South Carolina Wills, that also had been microfilmed at some point. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I found the “Will of Edward Henderson” which was, according to the source, “Probated Dec. 3, 1790; Recorded in Book A, page 60. It is typewritten. Since the typewriter was not commercially available until about 1878 — nearly 100 years after the Will was written, obviously this was a derivative source.
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<span style="font-size: large;">A bit more digging and I learned that these abstracts were “Verbatim Copies of Old Wills Recorded in Will Book A” (South Carolina) and were a C. W.A. Project #3342. C.W.A. stands for Civil Works Administration and that was a Depression-era temporary jobs endeavor.
I almost forgot about this information, thinking that the father of my Wilson Henderson had not yet been identified, and so I put the project on the back burner — temporarily. Then a DNA discussion in re the Henderson Clan caught my eye and someone remarked that it was strange that the Henderson DNA line from Wilson to Edward matches, but the paper trail doesn’t. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided to see if I could find the original Will and read it for myself. Using the catalog at FamilySearch.org, I was able to find the Family History Film 23308 listing this will and there was a digitized version (DGS4753542) available online. </span></div>
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Following the request that “my lawful debts to be paid and my estate as follows: Item. I give and bequeath to my son Wilson Henderson one shilling sterling . . . “ </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So my ancestor is mentioned in Edward’s Will. He apparently is the eldest son, but it impossible to ascertain the order of birth of the 12 children mentioned in the Will.
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course, what happens now that I know Edward Henderson (ca 1739-1790) is the father, and I have the name of the purported mother — Johanna Ferguson— is that I’ll put some other genealogy quest on the back burner and dig some more in pursuit of my Henderson Clan. </span></div>
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Myra Vanderpool Gormleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206950249778083288noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4117210522879933749.post-45487450834945584302018-11-22T13:46:00.000-08:002018-11-22T13:46:09.187-08:00Celebrating with the Pilgrims#52ancestors<br />
Week 47 Nov 19-25—Thankful<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> My ancestors were not in what became the United States in 1621 when the Pilgrims celebrated their first Thanksgiving. My family started arriving a few years later to settle in New Netherland, New Sweden, and Virginia. However, my husband’s family participated in the 1621 feast as he descends from John Alden and Priscilla Mullins. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It has been my genealogical duty and great pleasure to share this information with all of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren, which now totals 13 generations with the great-grands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I am thankful for the genealogists — amateurs and professional — who came before and to all who have shared their research and data with me. Their generosity has made my work (if you can call it that) much easier. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Along the way I’ve met (in person and electronically) numerous distant cousins-in-law, and some I know only by their published works. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our connection to Mayflower passengers, John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, winds back through history via ancestors named Pierson, Ayers, Byram, and Alden — from Missouri to Ohio, New Jersey and back to Massachusetts. It has been an historical adventure and a genealogical journey to trace this line, and I’ve enjoyed every mile of the trip. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Joseph Warren Baird, a son of Alexander Baird and Nancy Vanderpool, picked as his first wife, Rebecca D. Hartley. They lived in Ashe County, North Carolina, but soon after their marriage in 1860 removed to Tennessee where their first three children were born. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">By 1870, they were living in Benton County, Kansas, and by 1880 their family had grown to five children. Rebecca died in the autumn of 1881 in Kansas, and a cousin shared the information that Joseph Warren Baird removed to Oklahoma Territory, where he died in 1905. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Research often takes interesting turns and twists and when I found Joseph Warren Baird and his second wife, Jane, and three more children, they were enumerated in Alabama in 1900, but all the children had been born in Kansas between 1884 and 1888— at least according to the census. It appears, based on the birthdates of his second family, that Joseph Warren Baird had not remained a widower long after his first wife died. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What puzzled me was that my cousin claimed he died in Oklahoma Territory in 1905. That was a bit of geographical hopscotching from Kansas to Alabama to Oklahoma Territory. I had assumed (the sin of all genealogists) that his second wife was probably a neighbor in Kansas, but I was wrong. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While researching in North Carolina newspaper for another ancestor, one of those random facts fell into my lap which answered the question about Jane, the No. 2 wife of Joseph Warren Baird.
Published 15 March 1882 in the <i>Lenoir Topic</i> (Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina), with a dateline of Cove Creek (where Joseph Warren Baird was born) was the following:
“The people are still marrying and being given in marriage. Mr. J. Warren Baird, of Kansas (late a widower) has taken unto himself a wife and returned to Kansas. He married Miss Jane Lewis of Cove Creek.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now that I know when and where Joseph Warren Baird and Jane Lewis were married, I should be able to find their marriage record and quit hunting for it on the Kansas prairie. </span></div>
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Week 45 —Tribute to Veterans<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What started out to be a blog about some of the men in my family who served during World War I, took a sharp turn when I received an e-mail from France on November 2, which reads:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> “I volunteer at Epinal American Cemetery to do guided tours and today I will do a tour and we will put French and American Flags on the gravesite of Ervin Vanderpool! I always do the same to honor a soldier for the anniversary of his D.O.D. I just wanted you to know this! I was surprised to learn about his age (36) and I saw he was married with a daughter. I don't know what he did as Technical Sergeant but he is an HERO with his two Silver Stars! Thinking of him and his family this afternoon . . .” </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 48-acre Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial in France is sited above the Moselle River in the foothills of the Vosges Mountains. It contains the graves of 5,254 American military dead, most of whom lost their lives in the campaigns across northeastern France to the Rhine River and beyond into Germany. The cemetery was established in October 1944 by the 46th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company of the U.S. 7th Army as it drove northward from southern France through the Rhone Valley into Germany. The cemetery became the repository for the fatalities in the bitter fighting through the Saverne Gap, and in defense of Allied positions in the Vosges region, during the winter of 1944-1945. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Epinal American Cemetery will host a Field of Remembrance beginning November 10, 2018 through November 18, 2018. Poppies will be placed at every headstone, and in front of the memorial building as a visual reminder of honor and remembrance. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Touched by this act of kindness by a stranger, I did additional research on T/Sgt. Ervin Vanderpool who was killed in action 2 November 1944 during World War II. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">T/Sgt. Erwin Walker Vanderpool was in Company K, 157th Regiment, 45th Infantry Division, along with his “kid brother, T/Sgt. James Otis (called Otis) Vanderpool. On 25 October 1944, their unit was involved in a bayonet fight in the woods near Housseras (France). There was bitter fighting, against strong resistance, plus horrible weather. During a battle in the Vosges Mountains near the German border, the battalion commander Felix Sparks, heard that K Company was in trouble. He rushed up a hill, only to see Otis Vanderpool on a stretcher, his leg blown off at the knee. When Sparks made it to the front, he never told Ervin Vanderpool about his brother's injury. He didn't have time. The older brother was shot in the stomach and died on the battlefield. Ironically, Erwin could have been promoted and would never have been in that battle. Officers had talked of promoting Ervin, sending him to battalion headquarters, but he refused to listen. He wouldn't accept a promotion. He wanted to stay near his brother. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Erwin and Otis were sons of Levi Franklin and Ellie Potter. A cursory look at the family of Levi Franklin Vanderpool (1880-1968) and Ellie Potter (1884-1929) reveals they had 12 children — four daughters and eight sons — born between 1903 and 1929. Three of their children did not survive to adulthood. Closer inspection reveals a patriotic family with four, and possibly five, of their sons serving during World War II. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Their brother Arthur Harrison Vanderpool (1910-1989) enlisted in the Army on 20 Nov. 1940. • Their brother Eldee Vanderpool (1917-2005) was a Tech-5 in the Army; he enlisted 6 June 1945 in California and died in a Veterans Home in Napa County, California. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fourteen Vanderpools are listed on the U.S. Rosters of World War II Dead, 1939-1945, in a database of those buried overseas and other sources. On this 100th anniversary (11 Nov. 2018) of the end of World War I — the war to end all wars — I thank them for their service and sacrifices — may they rest in peace. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Marion F. Vanderpool, Seaman 2nd Class, Navy (Washington). MIA, died 23 January 1942. Honolulu, Hawaii Memorial. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. Vane I. Vanderpool, Seaman 1st Class, U.S. Naval Reserve (Washington and Oregon). Memorial North African American Cemetery, Tunis, Tunisia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. Clifford S. Vanderpool, Private, Army (Nebraska), 15th Tank Battalion, 6th Armored Division. Hamm Cemetery, Hamm Luxembourg. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">4. Cecil L. Vanderpool, Coxwain, Navy (Washington). KIA. Mountain View Cemetery, Lakewood, Pierce County, Washington.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> 5. Erwin W. Vanderpool, T/Sgt. Army (Colorado).157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division. Epinal Cemetery, Epinal, France.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> 6. Fred A. Vanderpool, Private, Army (Tennessee). Enlisted 16 March 1944. Co E, 264th Infantry, 66th Infantry Division (nicknamed Black Panther Division). Died 24 December 1944 on the SS Léopoldville when torpedoed by U-486 in the English Channel, off Cherbourg, France. Ridgewood Cemetery, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">7. Fred L. Vanderpool, Private, Army (Texas). 163rd Infantry Regiment, 41st Infantry Division. Died 24 April 1944. Manilla America Cemetery, Taguig City, Philippine Islands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">8. John Wesley Vanderpool, Private, Army (West Virginia). Enlisted 29 December 1943. KIA in France 20 October 1944. McCloud Cemetery, Dingess, Mingo County, West Virginia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">9. Orville R. Vanderpool, Technician 5th Grade, Army (Arkansas). 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. KIA 6 June 1944 near Magneville, France. See also:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> 10. Payton Lafayette Vanderpool Jr., Fireman 2nd Class, Navy (Missouri). KIA at Pearl Harbor 7 November 1941. Honolulu, Hawaii Memorial (recovered).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> 11. Ralph Maynard Vanderpool, Sergeant, Army Air Corps (Pennsylvania). Radioman and gunner, 446th AAF Bombardment Group. KIA over Italy 20 February 1945.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> 13. Walter Vanderpool, Private, Army, 517 Parachute Infantry (New York). KIA. Sospel, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Département des Alpes-Maritimes. He was killed along with four others in the blast of a bobby-trapped house in Sospel. German engineers had rigged it with a time-delayed device. Forest Home Cemetery, Waverly, Tioga County, New York.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> 14. Dean Burke Vanderpool, Ensign, USNR. Commissioned in May 1943; served on the <i>USS Casablanca</i> in the Pacific. Died 26 June 1944 of wounds at Naval Hospital, Bremerton, Kitsap County, Washington. Ewing Cemetery, Ewing, Mercer County, New Jersey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the eve of his voyage in 1641 to the New World, my ancestor, Anthony de Hooges, reflected on the “certainty of death, as well as the uncertainty of the hour” at which death would overtake him. He made out a Will even though he was single and only 21 years old. A week later, on 23 July 1641, he boarded <i>den Coninck David</i> (King David) in Amsterdam on a voyage to New Netherland where he was to begin a new job for the West Indies Company and a new life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Anthony de Hooges was baptized in the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam on 14 December 1620, the eighth and last child born to Johannes de Hooges and Maria Tijron. Both of Anthony’s parents were probably Calvinist immigrants from the Southern Netherlands (likely from Mechelen and Antwerp, respectively, in what is now Belgium). The family was evidently solidly middle class: Johannes [de Hooges] worked as a bookkeeper for the West India Company and was a shareholder in that company as well.”[1]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anthony de Hooges kept a journal of his long voyage. It begins: "In the year of our Lord 1641, the 30th of July, I commenced this journal in the name of the Lord. May the Lord conduct us to the place of our destination in order that on our arrival we may offer to the Lord the offering of our lips to His honor and our salvation. Amen."[2]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was an unusually stormy passage and no doubt frightening to all aboard. It took four months to reach its destination. The ship set sail from Texel with about 35 or 36 other ships. On August 19, it reached Plymouth [England] where it stayed until the 30th. Setting sail again, this time with five other vessels, it passed the Madeira Islands on September 16 and 17 and on the 19th and 20th passed the Canary Islands, leaving the other ships, except for one galley, there. By October 4, it was running short of water. It reached the Leeward Islands on October 16th, and anchored at St. Christopher on the 18th. Here it took on water and remained until the 23rd. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On November 29, <i>den Coninck David </i>sailed past Sandy Hook and Anthony closed his journal saying: "At daybreak we ran to the sand point (Sandy Hook) and we rounded it too close. We got aground on a reef which had formed there within a year. After two hours we got afloat again. God be praised we suffered no damage and with good speed passed between the Hoofden (the headlands at the sides of the Narrows) and in the afternoon came to anchor at the Manhatens, in front of Smits Vly (on the East River). Thus the Lord delivered us at last, after much adversity, for which He be praised forever, Amen. — "Journal of Anthony de Hooges, of his voyage to New Netherland beginning 30 July ending 29 November 1641."[3]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For some passenger lists of ships to New Netherland/New York, including den Coninck David in 1641 see:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> https://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/nnship53.shtml </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Six years later in New Netherland Anthony de Hooges married Aefje Albertsen “Eva” Bradt, adding some Norwegian to my family bloodline. They had four daughters and one son who was my ancestor, Johannes de Hooges (1654-1738), who married Margarita Post (1657-1700).</span> <span style="font-size: medium;">See The POST Family of New York and New Jersey -- Descendants of Adriaen Crijne Post, by Lorine McGinnis Schulze online at </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">http://olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/surnames/post.shtml </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Johannes de Hooges and Margarita Post were parents of six daughters and only one son, who died before reaching adulthood and thus the De Hooges surname has “daughtered out” in America. Johannes and Margarita’s daughter, Cathrina de Hooges married Wynant Vanderpool, my ancestor, in 1706.[4] </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipD7Mop4CPtcQ63j-mFEFqAxUSuZ-t6RApgC804j9M0hdomC5Tlt1h0gXayFY2M76PSj7D3wl_2OYQ8Wg1lkm0Qe0UM0oDFT8FDl4Oyew5gQ7QbSUF6yfD9ZsYEvyY5cF60vo_yHS6IwI/s1600/dutch-tulips-windmill-sm--WikimediaCommons.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: transparent; clear: right; color: #00009f; float: right; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="800" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipD7Mop4CPtcQ63j-mFEFqAxUSuZ-t6RApgC804j9M0hdomC5Tlt1h0gXayFY2M76PSj7D3wl_2OYQ8Wg1lkm0Qe0UM0oDFT8FDl4Oyew5gQ7QbSUF6yfD9ZsYEvyY5cF60vo_yHS6IwI/s200/dutch-tulips-windmill-sm--WikimediaCommons.jpg" width="149" /></span></a><span style="font-size: large;">Anthony de Hooges probably has many living descendants today, as he had 25 grandchildren and 143 great-grandchildren, but they will be found under various other surnames, and spelled variantly, such as Bries, Hornbeck, Van Etten, Rutgers, Quick, Oostrander, Roosa, de la Montagne, and Vanderpool. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">He is a fine ancestor to have because there are so many records written by him and/or pertaining to him available.
If you have New Netherland ancestry, perhaps he appears in your family tree, too.</span><br />
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[<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1] From the Introduction of <i>The Memorandum Book of Anthony de Hooge</i>s, translated by Dirk Mouw; publication of the New Netherland Research Center and the New Netherland Institute, 2012.
Retrieved from: https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/files/2713/5543/9527/DeHoogesTranslationFinal.pdf </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">[2] Van Rensselaer Bowier Manuscripts (Albany: University of the State of New York, 1908), p. 580. Retrieved from: https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/files/4813/8679/0228/NY006011163_1908_VR_Bowier_Manuscripts.pdf</span><br />
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[<span style="font-size: xx-small;">4] Col. William Van Derpoel Hannay, compiler, Dutch Settlers Society of Albany Yearbook, Vol. 41 (Albany, New York: Dutch Settlers Society of Albany, 1966-1968), p. 12.
</span>Myra Vanderpool Gormleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12206950249778083288noreply@blogger.com0