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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72421870224311351612017-04-27T11:44:04.929-04:00Ellie's AncestorsIrish and US Genealogy and ResearchElliehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-76953288036460464682017-04-18T09:51:00.000-04:002017-04-18T09:52:28.909-04:00This One Is Personal

Jack & me, costume party

  You may have noticed a resounding silence from me of late. Other than the blog about my rebel ancestor which was written quite some time before I published it, I haven't posted in awhile. I've debated whether or not to do so now, but in the end I wanted to do something to mark the passing of a wonderful man, so here it is.

 My loving husband passed away last month and concentrating has been difficult, so writing has been impossible. I have no words to express how much I miss him, but I hope to return to blogging soon. Until then, sincere thanks to all of you who have written to me.
Ellie Elliehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-8092677683475322462017-04-05T20:28:00.000-04:002017-04-05T20:31:31.288-04:00Announcing a New Holiday

  I've come to the conclusion my County Carlow ancestor Patrick Hore, who was hung by the British for defending Ireland's freedom during the rising of' '98, deserves some recognition. To that end, April 5, the day on which he was murdered, will hereafter be observed, (in my family at least) as Patrick Hore Day. I designed the t-shirt above and everyone in the clan is getting one which they had better wear.

 Patrick's offense was to administer an "unlawful oath" to Matthew Brennan. Something along the lines of "damnation to the king and all the royal family". Supposedly he also conspired to kill Luke Lyons, but I'm not sure if the conspiracy ever came to fruition. Probably not since he was not charged with Luke's death. Regardless, I feel great pride at having a rebel in the family and now that I've finally found him, I couldn't bear to have his memory lost again. Here's to you Patrick, may the Saints bless and protect you.

 Elliehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-73655692694921595072017-02-28T08:25:00.001-05:002017-02-28T08:25:54.707-05:00Tuesday's Tip/Getting Techie...Just A Little Bit

  When I first began using the internet decades ago, there was a feature called "cache" that was visible every time a search was performed and hits resulted. It was right there in smaller letters below the title and description of the web page -- and then it wasn't. Cache by the way is basically a snapshot in time of a website.

 Cache was useful if previously viewed content had been removed from the site or if it was down for some reason or just taking FOREVER to load. Even if the page had been removed, it was still possible to view the cached version.

 I never even noticed it was gone until the day I went to use it. Well, it turns out cache is not gone! It's simply hiding. It can now be found residing right after the site's URL as circled in red above, just click the green arrow and there it is. An alternative is to use Internet Archive's Wayback Machine which involves a bit more work than just clicking an arrow, but may have an even older version of the page of interest.Elliehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-37501813510780285462017-02-25T09:49:00.001-05:002017-02-25T13:44:49.602-05:00Grandpa Jeremiah And That Hussy Betsey

Death of Betsey Grandy Garner, born Sterling, NY -- died in Hastings County, Ontario, Canada

  Yesterday, instead of cleaning up my desk like I promised myself I would do, I spent the day figuring out the seeming inconsistencies in the life of Betsey Chase, the wife of John M. Grandy and then of Jeremiah Garner. Betsey is not even related to me, but she did marry my third great-grandfather Jeremiah, so I needed to clear up a few things. By the way, the back story of the Garner/Grandy nuptials is a somewhat sordid one that involves international borders, abandonment and bigamy, you can read it here if you'd like.

 Although I was convinced Betsey died only a year and a half after her 1868 marriage to Grandpa Jeremiah in a foreign country, (OK, it was Canada), annoying contradictory evidence kept popping up. One was the record in a database on the Wayne County, NY Historian's website saying Betsey Grandy married Eugene Morris in 1874. Did she tire of Jeremiah, return home and marry again? Another was a pension record dated 1892, with the names John M. Grandee and his widow Betsey A. Grandee of New York. But... Betsey died in 1869...didn't she? Of course she did, the record of her demise is at the top of this page; I was convinced at one time and I'm not that easy to convince. I read somewhere that while researching you should just go ahead and assume there was another person of the same name living in the same area as your ancestor. That way you'll be extra careful before accepting the evidence you find at face value. I think it's good advice and try to keep it in mind while chasing my ancestors.

 I couldn't just assume Elizabeth Garner was Betsey Grandy even though I had their marriage record, and the likelihood of another Elizabeth marrying a Garner who was coincidentally an innkeeper like my Jeremiah, and lived in Hastings County, like my Jeremiah, and was from Sterling, NY like Jeremiah... oh heck, it's her! I wouldn't even be questioning it if not for those nagging contrary records that turned up; in census after census my Jeremiah Garner is the only person of that name in Hastings County, or the entire Provence of Ontario for that matter.

 Still, those records did exist and they needed to be reconciled.
What if the pension referred to a different couple with the names John M. and Betsey Grandy, living somewhere in New York? The record at Family Search didn't give a home address, just "New York State". It did however give the next best thing, John's unit, the 10th Regiment of NY Heavy Artillery. Unlike modern day soldiers, those of the Civil War era usually enlisted locally and served alongside their family, friends and neighbors. Checking to see where this regiment was formed, I found the 10th was made up of soldiers from Jefferson County, far north of Cayuga County where the Garners and Grandys lived. Now I checked the 1850 census of Jefferson County for a John Grandy and found him in Clayton. At age 17 he was just the right age to be a Civil War soldier. Strangely, Ancestry had nothing at all about John Grandy, Civil War soldier; I sometimes wonder if they are transferring their military information to Fold3 which they now own?

 Family Search though, had lots on John. Along with the above mentioned pension record they had the 1890 veteran's schedule showing John still in Jefferson County and the marriage of Daniel, a son of John M. Grandee of Clayton and (I crossed my fingers here) BETSEY Robbins! YES! There WAS an explanation for the pension, it was a different couple bearing the names John M. and Betsey Grandy/Grandee. But there was still that pesky local marriage in 1874. Now I searched the 1850 and 1860 censuses of Wayne and Cayuga Counties, because they lived in an area right on the border of the two counties, and there in Butler, Wayne, New York I found Betsey Grandy, daughter of Lewis Grandy, seven years old in 1860; she could easily have been married fourteen years later. This must be the future wife of Eugene Morris.

 I do this all the time and I'll bet I'm not alone. I research a subject and find what I deem to be conclusive evidence, but as years go by I move on to other lines and the memories of my fantastic finds fade. When I return to the other family I find myself doubting my own conclusions. And that is where this blog comes in so handy, and why it has a search function. All I have to do is check past posts and oftentimes there is an analysis of the research I've already done. For me this is so much easier than keeping a research journal, even if no one ever read what I wrote it would be worth the effort.Elliehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-59750085003496669992017-02-20T06:25:00.000-05:002017-02-20T06:25:28.391-05:00Mappy Monday/Finding Uncle John Crotty's Farm

  My third-great-grandmother Honora Crotty Power was born in the Catholic Parish of Tramore, County Waterford in 1814. I know this because on March 12 of that year, her parents Ellen Kelly and Patrick Crotty had her baptized in that place. I also know Honora grew up and married Edmond Power there sometime around 1834. They made their home in Cullencastle, still in Tramore Parish, where they had at least three children. I believe there were others born to them, but unfortunately Tramore church records are missing for the early years of the Power marriage. Their youngest child Philip, born in 1857, is the lone baptism found in Tramore. I know of the existence of the other two children only because they appear in obituaries in the USA.

 Honora came to America between 1875 and 1880, probably alone as a widow. The 1875 New York census shows all three of her known children in Farmington, New York but she is not with any one of them. In 1880 Honora was living with her daughter Ellen Mahoney in Farmington, where she died in 1888, her death certificate being maddeningly devoid of any genealogical information. That was about all I could find for a long time, but although the church records are missing for the period when Honora married and began her family, earlier church records survive. I was able to find the marriage of her parents in 1809, and along with her baptism, that of her older brother David, and her younger brother Patrick Jr.

 Farmington had several different Power families living there at the time Honora arrived, some were from Waterford and were probably related, but I'm not sure how at this point. There was only one Crotty family however-- that of John Crotty, his wife Ellen and their daughter Mary. Could this be Honora's brother? There was no baptismal record for him in Tramore, but what were the odds the only two Crottys from Ireland living in a small town like Farmington were not related? Not good as I discovered, they were related! The story of how I proved it is here.

  But back to maps; since I grew up one town over from Farmington, I was naturally curious about where the Crotty's had lived there. So I went to Ancestry and searched their collection of ownership maps. It took a little persistence, John was mistakenly indexed as J. B. Cratty, but I found him. I'm sure it's my Uncle John-- right across the street is the Wallace farm. James Wallace was John's brother-in-law, husband of his wife Ellen's sister Mary Mullett. Even today these two families from across the Atlantic remain together, buried side by side in St. Patrick's Cemetery in nearby Macedon, NY.

 I took a drive out to the spot pictured on Ancestry's map but things had changed a bit. The old map showed the two families on a road that goes straight through to an east-west road. No such road exists. Being familiar with the area I was pretty sure I was in the right place, but things were not lining up. I then looked at a satellite map which brought everything into focus.

 Look there, right below the T formed by the two roads. The outline of an old, long unused road can clearly be seen in darker green running though the wooded area. It's overgrown, but still visible. The house on the left was the spot John and Ellen Crotty lived a century ago. While their home is gone now, and another has taken it's place, the fascination remains for me. This spot is a tangible link to my Irish past. I've surrendered any notion of being able to fully explain the emotions kindled by standing in my ancestor's footprints, but if you're reading this, I probably don't have to. Elliehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-91012070729129317432017-02-17T17:31:00.001-05:002017-02-17T20:19:25.935-05:00Friday's Photo/Ned Burke, Irish American Hero

Edward George Burke

  Looking around Ebay today, I came across this photo while searching one of my ancestor's localities. The picture is labeled a "memorium" of Edward George Burke of the US Navy-- I just had to know more about this handsome young Irishman. His story is a tragic one that occurred in the summer of 1911 at Owasco near Auburn, New York; the place my Irish immigrants settled after leaving Ireland during the famine.

 A search at the Old Fulton newspaper site produced this sad story featured in the Oswego Daily Times dated July 12, 1911:

  Owasco Lake last evening, added another canoeing tragedy to the list due to this frail craft when Edward George Burke, of Philadelphia, a graduate of the United States Naval Hospital service, was drowned with his cousin, Miss Adelaide McCarthy, a pretty high school girl and niece of Mayor O'Neill of Auburn.
 Burke reached here yesterday, and Miss McCarthy was showing him the lake as they paddled south. Suddenly a terrific windstorm burst and their canoe capsized.
 A motorboat coming to the rescue was swamped by the heavy seas. Burke shouted, "Save the girl, don't try to take me in." The engine of the motorboat stalled however as the wind blew the helpless craft away. Burke, still trying hard to tread water while holding his cousin, disappeared.
 The bodies of the unfortunate couple were not recovered. Burke's parents are both dead, but his brother resides in Philadelphia.

 Ned and his cousin Adelaide were eventually found, and buried in the same plot at St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery in Auburn a few days later. A monument consisting of a bronze tablet affixed to a boulder stands in Emerson Park overlooking the lake, it reads:

IN MEMORIUM
EDWARD GEORGE BURKE, LATE US NAVY
DROWNED IN OWASCO LAKE
ELEVENTH DAY JULY NINETEEN HUNDRED
ELEVEN
STRIVING TO SAVE THE LIFE OF
MARY ADELAIDE McCARTHY

I KNEW YOU NOT; I KNOW YOUR NAME, NED BURKE
'TIS THE MISTY ISLE WITH TH' EMERALD CREST
THAT SUCKLES YOUR RACE AT HER TEEMING BREAST;
THAT SPURNS THE CRAVEN, THAT ADORES THE MILD,
THE GENTLE, THE TENDER, THE WOMAN AND CHILD.

WHITE WAS THE SOUL OF YOU NED BURKE
THE WINDS WERE HIGH AND THE WATERS WERE BLACK;
TWAS DO OR DIE WITH THE MAID AT YOUR BACK;
WITH NEVER A QUIVER OR HALT AT THE TEST
YOU GAVE YOUR ALL, YOU GAVE YOUR BEST

THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY PUBLIC
SUBSCRIPTION TO COMMEMORATE A BRAVE DEED

Elliehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-75041729462412376812017-02-16T15:04:00.002-05:002017-02-16T15:43:02.284-05:00All Roads Lead To Garrettstown

 Now that my Vincent family has been fairly well figured out, at least until I'm able to get a peek at those 1812 pension applications, I've turned my attention back to Ireland and Counties Carlow and Kildare. Mostly because a recent DNA match appears to link me to John McGarr who I believe is the father of my Daniel in Ballyraggan.

 When the NLI put the Catholic parish records online, I spent days pouring over them and creating lists of baptisms and marriages from Rathvilly and Baltinglass Parishes, but my organizational skills being somewhat lacking, they were all over my computer; some were transcriptions, some were screen shots, a few downloads... you get the picture. Deciding that the best way to handle this mess was to create one document arranged chronologically by parish, I set to work and now have a useful set of records. I still have a folder containing the above described mess, but now I also have a neat index of what I've found. I like duplicates because I still do NOT trust computers. And every time someone's airline cancels their flight due to a "computer glitch" my mistrust is vindicated.

 Looking down at the addresses in my ever so neat list, three places dominate--Ricketstown, home of the Hore family, Ballyraggan where the McGarrs resided and Garrettstown, where it appears both lines lived before moving to the other two townlands. All are quite close together. The earliest event mentioning Garrettstown is the 1802 baptism of Richard "Magah", son of John & Catherine, alas no maiden name is given. This couple are, I believe, John McGarr and Catherine Murphy, also the parents of my Daniel (I think) making Richard and Daniel brothers. In 1803 Elizabeth "Magah" was born at Garrettstown to a Michael and Mary. They, I believe, are Michael McGarr and Mary Hayden, Michael being a brother of the above John McGarr (again, I think). If I'm right about this, that would make Daniel and Elizabeth first cousins, and following my tree down to the present day, Elizabeth my 5th cousin which is exactly what the DNA match says.

 I didn't find any early Hore baptisms with a Garrettstown address, but there is a barely legible one from another family in 1801 for whom Michael and Winny Hore acted as sponsors. Also, when my third great-grandfather Michael Hore married Mary Travers in 1814, the address was Garrettstown. That year is the last time I find Garrettstown in my ancestor's records. Checking the Tithe Applotment books I found no family members in the townland, they had clearly moved on before the book was compiled for that area. Michael McGarr is believed to have died about that time, and his widow Mary Hayden was among the early Irish immigrants to Auburn, New York. The only individual that I found named Hore in the area is John living at Ricketstown. I know there were others in the area, but the books don't reflect this.

 The Tithe books did show my Daniel McGarr in Ballyraggan and a John "McGra" living about 5 miles away in Knocklasheen More! This John could be my man, especially since the name right next to his is "Widow Murphy", his wife Catherine Murphy's mother perhaps? There's really no way to be sure, so I go on collecting puzzle pieces. As I once read somewhere, the more pieces you have the easier it is to see what the picture will eventually be.Elliehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-86667911627714903402017-02-10T09:37:00.000-05:002017-02-10T09:37:46.820-05:00Friday's Photo/Timothy McGarr, AKA "The Snooty One"

1856-1942

 Today's photo is not of the best quality, but it's the only one I could find. In young adulthood, Timothy McGarr worked for the Associated Press going on to become private secretary to Roscoe Conkling, US Senator. Tim rose in New York State politics to become secretary of the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene. I knew that a man of such prominence must have had numerous photos taken over the course of his career, and we here at EA headquarters did not rest until we found this one in an obscure book online.

 Timothy began life in much reduced circumstances in Auburn, NY. His parents, John McGarr and Mary Kelly, were Irish immigrants who married in Auburn and immediately began a family. Timothy was their eighth child, to be followed by two more. His father died when Timothy was ten years old and his mother when he was thirteen. After that his oldest brother Richard raised him and his siblings, quite a responsibility for a young man of twenty four.

 Timothy was briefly mentioned in a blog of mine from November of 2015 concerning discrimination against Catholics in 19th century America, which noted his father-in-law's alarm that his daughter had married an Irish Catholic. What I left out of that blog was that Tim's father-in-law made no effort to hide his disgust over his child's marriage, writing in a family history-- "(T.E. McGarr) is said to have been educated, in part at least, for a Roman Catholic priest; and it seems the veriest irony of fate that I, having had fear and detestation of Roman Catholicism bred in my very bones, and, since I arrived at years of discretion and understanding, having ever regarded the Roman Catholic Church as being, in all respects and without exception, the greatest calamity that ever befell the human race, should, despite myself, be thus connected with the unclean thing."  I hope his daughter slapped him.

 About now you're probably wondering where the label, "the snooty one", came from. While researching the McGarrs on Ancestry.com I made contact with a descendant of this McGarr line. In her possession was an old letter packed with family lore, obviously written in response to another long ago family researcher's questions, which she generously shared with me. This is the same letter that confirmed my hunch that the three children buried in an Alabama cemetery were indeed the children of Timothy's sister Catherine.

 The letter talks about the usual family happenings, in "Grandpa McGarr's" family, covering several of Timothy's siblings, then it comes to Tim himself-- "Tim, the real snooty one who was Commissioner of Lunacy of the State of New York and must have made quite a bundle."

 So there we are. Was Tim really snooty? Or was the writer a tad bit jealous of his success and affluence? Motivations not likely to be found in typical genealogy records, but then who thought I'd discover Tim's in-law's bigotry in a book online? I'm very interested in this McGarr line because my theory is that Tim's father John McGarr, the immigrant, was the brother of my Daniel McGarr who remained in Ballyraggan, County Kildare. A possible link made more intriguing by shared DNA, but that's a story for another blog...Elliehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-10098506232260376192017-02-09T09:23:00.001-05:002017-02-09T09:23:41.489-05:00National Archives of Ireland Family History Workbook

Glendalough, Co. Wicklow--what was their address before 1606?

 The NAI has created an interesting new site with information concerning online resources and featuring a free Irish genealogy workbook at: https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/en/2016-family-history/welcome Even though I've been doing Irish genealogy for a number of years, I found a few things I was unaware of here, for instance-- County Wicklow didn't even exist as such until 1606 and the idea that perhaps most Catholic parishes kept no burial records because it was the state church that owned the graveyards in the early 19th century.

 After arriving at the site, click the green button labeled "Let's get started", and up comes a page with a few hints about Irish genealogy along with seven short videos describing each "module" covered in the course. Quite short actually, only about a minute each but worth viewing. These are narrated by the engaging, respected genealogist John Grenham and a joy to listen to. Well, to be fair, I find anyone with even the slightest Irish accent a joy to listen to, but Mr. Grenham has the added bonus of being a very learned man.

 The workbook containing the modules themselves can be downloaded in PDF format. At the bottom of the video page a green bar across the bottom will prompt you to download the course, which doesn't take long at all. Reading it doesn't take long either, each module is only a couple of pages. I particularly enjoyed the online searching tips and the modules concerning surnames and placenames.

 As I mentioned, the videos are well done, the course is easy to get through in one sitting and you may learn a thing or two. One thing I don't think gets the attention it should, and doesn't in the course either, is the fact that the censuses of 1901 and 1911 contain detailed descriptions of our ancestor's living conditions. That really doesn't happen in US censuses. Several additional forms exist in the Irish censuses, one with information about the house itself and who the landholder is, and one for outbuildings. In 1901 my 3rd great-grandmother Margaret Gun (mis-transcribed Geen) can be found living in urban Listowel on land owned by the Earl of Listowel, with her grandson, her widowed daughter Johanna Connor and Johanna's three grown children. They lived in just two rooms...the six of them! The form for outbuildings noted a "piggery" on the property, but failed to mention if it was inhabited by a hog at the time. These bits of knowledge about their lives are very important to me and I would bet to many family historians. Elliehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-37142348928097248812017-02-02T23:53:00.000-05:002017-02-02T23:53:21.459-05:00Friday's Photo/ Edna Steinfurth of Erie PA

 Meet Edna L. Steinfurth, born 12 September of 1899 in Erie, Pennsylvania to Henry Steinfurth, the son of German immigrants and his wife Augusta, a native of Germany. Edna grew up in Erie with an older brother Arthur and three younger siblings, Irene, Walter and Beatrice.

 I love these old full length photos. This one must have been taken around 1910 give or take a few years and shows not only the clothing, but the footwear a young girl of the era would have worn.

 I'm unable to find a record of a first marriage for Edna, but there is a death certificate for a child who appears to be her daughter--

 I found Carl Simonsen, the father in the certificate, in later censuses with a wife named Hannah, so he and Edna must have divorced. Edna later married George Swanson and eventually moved to New York State, first to Jamestown and by 1940 to Buffalo, New York. Edna passed away 14 October 1989 at the age of 90. She and her husband George, who died in 1966 are buried together in Erie Cemetery in Erie, Pennsylvania.

 Elliehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-72933220940675788632017-02-01T09:48:00.003-05:002017-02-01T09:48:55.660-05:00Wednesday's Website/New York Gravestones

 I've been working on filling in my Vincent family tree, working back in time. I've always been led to believe that no gravestone exists for Sarah Cowan Wells whose granddaughter and namesake Sarah Charlotte Fowler married John Taylor Vincent around 1850 in Wayne County, New York. So I was quite surprised to see a family tree on Ancestry.com which had a supposed photo of her stone. The thing is, the picture is so small and blurry it could be anyone's stone. Find a Grave has no image of Sarah's stone though it does have several of her husband Austin Wells'. I know she's there with Austin, I have a list of burials from the cemetery office which lists Sarah Wells, wife of Austin with the appropriate dates. Both are in Section C, row 13, of Old Turnpike Cemetery in Cambridge, New York .

 I looked around for more sites that might have a photo of Sarah's stone and ran across this site, New York Gravestones . They didn't have a pic of Sarah's marker either, though they too had one of Austin's. What this site did have was actual photographs of tombstones with no unsourced assertions as to the deceased's family connections nor undocumented burials with no picture of the stone-- like that other site. While it's great to see those possible family facts, and sometimes they are correct, I'm concerned casual researchers may believe the data on Find a Grave comes from cemetery records; too often it doesn't.

 Personally? I have my doubts there is a marker for Sarah Cowan Wells, or a readable one at any rate. She must be buried next to her husband Austin, why take a photo of his grave and neglect hers? New York Gravestones doesn't have as many burials as Find a Grave, but they are growing. I'll be sending my photos to them in the future.Elliehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-57813081208715235542017-01-31T11:58:00.000-05:002017-01-31T11:58:10.328-05:00Tuesday's Tip/Searching on Find A Grave I've found Find a Grave can be a little frustrating when I'm searching for someone whose last name could be spelled in various ways, or if the person in question has married and I'm not sure of the correct spelling of her married name. They can be a little persnickety about spelling, and you can't search by the deceased's first name alone, which with well over one million burials isn't really feasible anyway. There is a back door however, if you have an idea where the burial may have taken place.

 Select "Search for a cemetery" on the home page. Now you can select a specific state and county. At this point, a list of cemeteries will appear which you can whittle down further by village or town. Once you have selected a cemetery, you will be able to search by first name alone. Granted this works best in smaller cemeteries or if the first name is an unusual one like say, Wentworth, but if you've been unable to find the burial the traditional way it may be worth a try.Elliehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-38209447576060232752017-01-25T21:25:00.000-05:002017-01-25T21:27:33.735-05:00Wednesday's Website/Civil War Prison Database  Now that I've proven my ancestor Mary Augusta Vincent married George W. Matteson, I'm naturally curious about their courtship. George enlisted in 1861, five years before the couple married in July of 1865. Did they know each other when he enlisted, did they meet while he was home on a furlough? Their homes were one hundred miles apart in 1865, how did they meet? George mustered out of the army in early March of 1865, only four months before the marriage, it seems to me they must have been acquainted, perhaps even engaged, for at least part of his service.

 I'm not too hopeful I'll find the answers I seek, but nonetheless I've been reading histories of the 76th regiment and pouring over letters from men in George's Company F. One bit of information that turned up was that George was captured at the Battle of the Wilderness, 5 May 1864 and held prisoner for seven months. Some of the regimental histories mentioned their soldiers being sent to the notorious pow camp at Andersonville Georgia; was that where George was taken after his capture? If he spent seven months in that prison he was lucky to have survived, many died within much shorter time spans. A young soldier named Price who was taken prisoner the same time as George lasted only three months in it's confines.

 Surfing around trying to find some lists of prisoners I stumbled upon this site: http://www.civilwarprisoners.com/index.php
containing searchable databases of Andersonville and Cahaba prisons along with the prisoners aboard the Sultana, a ship which exploded as it was carrying prisoners from those two places to freedom. I selected Andersonville's database and typed George's name into the search fields, immediately this popped up--

 He had been taken to that terrible place! There's no telling what shape he was in when he was released, but it couldn't have been good. By the time of his capture the prisoner exchange program had been halted leaving growing numbers of Union prisoners trapped in Confederate prisons which had insufficient resources to care for or feed them. This leaves me wondering even more, was Mary Augusta engaged to George in 1864? Did she know of his capture and where he was? Maybe someday I'll find out.Elliehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-31765941203377390932017-01-23T16:18:00.000-05:002017-01-23T16:18:13.068-05:00Finding Mary Matteson

George Washington Matteson

 Work here has continued apace in my attempt to find more proof of the identity of the wife of George W. Matteson. An earlier post outlined all the circumstantial evidence I've amassed on that topic, which points to my ancestor Mary Augusta Vincent being the bride. I'm pleased to say I've now found the evidence that settles the matter.

 To review, my ancestor Mary Vincent, was born to my third great-grandparents Thomas and Matilda Taylor Vincent in 1838 and was last seen living with her sister Louisa Vincent Hurd in Cohocton, Steuben County, NY in 1865. After 1865 she either died, was married, or she joined the underground. Several family trees posted on Ancestry showed two different Mary A. Vincent's, (along with two different sets of parents) as the wife of George Matteson, I managed to rule both those young women out by determining who they really had married. The funny thing was, there weren't that many women named Mary Vincent or Mary A. Vincent born in New York around 1838. Further evidence that the woman who married George was indeed my relative was the name she chose for her first daughter. It was Frances, probably in honor of Mary's recently deceased sister Frances Amelia Vincent Coons.

 A few days ago I took a trip to the Rochester, NY library to view a book I'd found in their online catalog containing marriages extracted from Steuben County newspapers, including the time period of the wedding. Surely this book would provide some answers, I was running out of options. The results were very disappointing--no results. Last night while looking through my notes I remembered a tree on Ancestry that listed no parents for Mary Vincent, (or was it the wrong parents?) , either way it had her marriage taking place in Steuben County, the source being "US Pension Office". If the marriage had indeed occurred in Steuben County that would be fabulous; I was reasonably certain my Mary Vincent born in1838 was the only Mary Vincent circa 1838 living in Steuben County in 1865.

 The owner of said tree had never responded to my polite inquiry as to the exact wording of the source, which meant I had to somehow get a look at George's Civil War Pension file-- documents which I've been led to believe are not yet digitized--another dead end. Just for the heck of it I typed all the following into the Google search box--"Civil War" "George W. Matteson" "New York",  and hit enter. The first two hits were for Ancestry searches which for some reason had the location as California, not New York. The third hit was my own blog, then Find A Grave, next a WorldCat link for the wrong George Matteson; the sixth hit was different, this one's heading was, "Archive Grid-Sager brothers Civil War Letters", with "George Matteson 76th" in small type underneath. That was at least the right George who I knew had served in the 76th so I clicked it, maybe George was mentioned in the letters? I next did a "find on page" search for Matteson and there, highlighted in the sidebar, was another link titled, "George W. Matteson 76th New York Infantry", from the Allen County Library...so I clicked that too.

 Up came a page with details that read, "1 online resource-- twenty four unnumbered pages-- Military Service, Affidavit, Pension record, etc. etc..." What? Could it be? I hardly dared believe my good fortune, but there it was, George's pension file! I started through the pages hoping against hope that the tree at Ancestry had been right about the marriage information being contained in this document. There was mention of the name Mary A. Matteson, a cause of death for George, pension amounts... I kept going and finally, there on the next to last page I found it, "married Mary A. Vincent July 2nd 1865 at Bloods Corners, Steuben County, New York!" Another search revealed that Bloods, today called Atlanta, was a small hamlet in the Town of Cohocton. The marriage place was not just Steuben County, it was the exact township where my Mary was residing in 1865. This clinches the deal for me, I have the right name, right age, and right wedding place.

 I'm still amazed I found this, there are only a few hundred pension files on the site, out of tens of thousands that exist. What were the odds the one I needed would be there? And yet it was, sometimes if you're persistent you just get lucky.

Elliehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-74860405934789243232016-12-29T08:58:00.001-05:002016-12-29T08:58:56.192-05:00Tuesday's Tip On Thursday  I just figured this one out, and couldn't wait five more days to share it with you. Especially since those holiday gifts of DNA kits will be making their appearance on Ancestry.com in the coming weeks.

 You know how you open your DNA page and find a promising match to your kit only to discover the other person has no family tree to compare with yours? Sometimes there is a way around that. Click on the kit anyway, and the box below will appear--

 Just because the match has no tree attached to their DNA kit doesn't necessarily mean they don't have one floating around somewhere on Ancestry which they have neglected to attach. That's not always true, but in some cases it is. See the blue box above? If there is a tree, you can find it by clicking there. If there isn't, the box will be green and prompt you to suggest to the other party they add one. Slick advertising huh?

 Wishing everyone a wonderful, discovery filled New Year and many DNA matches!Elliehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-83074285130487048612016-12-12T09:23:00.000-05:002016-12-12T10:25:42.858-05:00When It All Comes Together

George & Mary A. Vincent Matteson With Children

 We here at Ellie's Ancestors Headquarters in snowy upstate New York are hard at work sorting out the children of my 3rd great-grandparents Thomas Vincent and Matilda Taylor. I'm pleased to say another child has been accounted for, I'm 99% sure. Best of all, there are tons of pictures of this person online! I never find pictures, this is very exciting.

 Mary Augusta Vincent, born in 1838 was the seventh child in her family; she can be found with her mother Matilda and step-father Rockwell Rood in 1850 and 1855. I cannot locate her in 1860, but in 1865 she is living with her sister Louisa Hurd and her family in Cohocton, Steuben County, New York. After that the lady vanishes. I searched census returns, Find A Grave, cemetery records, newspapers, all the data I have on her siblings--there was no trace of Mary Augusta after 1865.

 I ran broad searches on Ancestry.com and Family Search.org with very little in the way of results, except in Ancestry Family Trees. There, in several trees I found a woman of the right age named Mary A. Vincent who married George Washington Matteson and went homesteading in Nebraska. Many of the trees said her parents were Abram and Mahala Vincent of Brant, Erie County, New York while a few claimed a David Vincent from England and his wife from Ireland were Mary's parents. All available census records for Mary Vincent Matteson say her parents were both born in New York -- that ruled out David from England. There was indeed a Vincent family in Brant, NY headed by Abram Vincent, with him were Mahala and a daughter Mary A. born in 1835. This was certainly the family indicated in the Ancestry trees, but was this Mary A.Vincent really the future wife of George W. Matteson?

 One way to prove she wasn't, (and help prove Mary Augusta was), was to figure out what had became of Abe & Mahala's Mary. To do that I spent hours searching for clues. I found that Mary Vincent of Brant did not appear in any census in New York after 1855. Where was she in 1860? The online trees all said Mary and George were married in July of 1865 and that seemed right, their first child was born in 1866. I did find George Matteson in NY State's 1865 census taken in June, a month before his wedding, living with his parents in Cortland County. If Mary of Brant had really married George in '65 she should have been in the 1860 census under her maiden name. On the other hand, I couldn't find Mary Augusta that year either. Two of the trees said the marriage occurred in Steuben Country, the sources being a pension record and a church record although neither was provided with the tree. Still, remember who was living in Steuben County in 1865... Mary Augusta!

 Now, hoping that Mary of Brant had married and stayed local, I did a search of the 1860 census of Brant for any woman named Mary, no last name, born 1835 +/- 5 years. Surprisingly, there were only a few after weeding out the ones who were still living with their parents. I was able to narrow it down to three possibilities. Two of them didn't pan out, but Mary the wife of James Stevens was another story. I found the couple in Brant in 1860, then in Evans, Town of Angola just a few miles away for following censuses. Find A Grave gave me her death date and the tantalizing clue, "Mary V. Stevens", V for Vincent? I discovered her children's names, obituaries and other articles, but nothing to indicate who Mary Steven's parents were, though her obituary in an Angola newspaper contained what would prove to be the break I needed.

Mrs. Mary Stevens, widow of James Stevens, died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Jesse Stone in Conneaut, Ohio at age 90...

  Using this information I was able to find her daughter Rachel Stone's death notice that indicated her passing took place in Ohio in 1940, which led me to Ohio Death Records at FamilySearch.org--

 There, near the bottom, Mother-- Mary Vincent born at Brant, New York. Proving that Mary A. Vincent, daughter of Abram and Mahala Vincent of Brant, NY did not marry George Matteson and the censuses over the years prove she did not move to Nebraska.

 Adding all these facts to others; like Mary A. Vincent Matteson naming her first daughter Frances (Mary Augusta's sister Frances had recently died), and naming her youngest daughter Ella Augusta, and not least-- there just weren't all that many women named Mary Vincent born about 1838 in New York; especially when one considers she married a bit later than most women, at age 26, and many of her contemporaries bearing the same name were Vincents only by marriage. The NYS census of 1865 lists only ten women named Mary Vincent in the entire state who were born between 1835 and 1839. Of that number, five are wives, one is a daughter with her parents, one is of mixed race and one is Mary Augusta. The other two are unlikely due to location. Given all this evidence, I do think I've finally found Mary Augusta! Or, Mary Augusta Vincent Matteson!Elliehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-83350799490714646162016-12-06T09:16:00.000-05:002016-12-06T09:17:52.289-05:00Tuesday's Tip/Another Way To Research

 Hello! It's been awhile since I posted here, I've been engrossed in my Vincent research and meeting new cousins! The tip I want to share today has to do with research. As I've been amassing data on this family, I've found that I needed someplace to organize it all but I didn't want to put my theories into my personal genealogy software just yet, since they are only unproven theories, and because what if tomorrow all the un-filed photographs, folders, documents, and stacks of books that have built up on my desk were to suddenly collapse and crush me? I wouldn't want my survivors looking at that software and being led down the wrong genealogical path. (I think about stuff like that)

 My solution was Ancestry Family Trees. I created a Vincent tree and unlike my other trees on Ancestry, I made this one private since it contains large amounts of unproven information. The benefit of this is twofold -- firstly, everything is organized in one place and secondly, Ancestry looks at my tree and sends me hints. Including birth and death certificates, census records, marriage records, military records, photos, fellow researcher's trees, and family stories so far. As new databases are added to the site, Ancestry will automatically search them for my persons of interest. I can tweak the tree, adding and changing names to see if more tips pop up, and then change it back. The tree needn't be detailed; names, approximate dates and a location if you have one will do. And I can delete the tree at any time or make it public.

 It's made documenting this family and storing what I find much easier and quicker than searching Ancestry's mountain of databases manually, though I wouldn't rely on it entirely since oddball spellings do pop up. Elliehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-13501353568826707492016-10-27T17:35:00.000-04:002016-10-27T18:01:40.660-04:00Mary Is Maria And That S Is An L

 We've heard it a million times-- don't assume online trees are correct. Nor should you believe family histories published, bound and sitting on a shelf in your local library are free from error. I've even written about that very subject, so why did I assume the book about my family was right? Not only was it NOT right, it really hampered my research since for a long time I believed that it was right.

 I've been trying to sort out the children of my third great-grandparents Thomas Vincent and Matilda Taylor of Halfmoon in Saratoga County, New York. I'd already discovered that the information about that couple contained in the book was not correct and neither I've found, is alot of it about their children. For instance, the book's "Mary S. Vincent" born in July of 1827 was not named Mary and her middle initial wasn't S. She was in fact Maria L.Vincent, though the date of July 1827 was right. How did I come to that conclusion? First of all, I could find absolutely no mention of Mary S. anywhere except in the book which made me suspicious. Granted, she would have been difficult to trace since she would not have appeared in any census under her own name until 1850, by which time she most likely would have been married and/or possibly deceased. But to leave no trace at all? That does happen, but it was too soon to give up on her.

 Whilst pondering this, I ran a search among the matches to my DNA test at Ancestry using the surname VINCENT as a filter. One hit was for an individual with a "Maria LeCresia Vincent" born in Cayuga County, New York in their tree. At first glance I discounted the possibility of them being related, this Maria's father was James of Dutchess and Greene Counties and her mother Mary Bullis. None of that sounded particularly familiar, and yet...that Cayuga County birthplace gave me pause. Cayuga County is where Thomas and Matilda Taylor Vincent were living at the time of his death in 1842. Taking a closer look at Maria LeCresia, I saw that the online tree said she had married Isaac Corwin Price in Dix, New York. Dix? That is where Matilda Taylor and her second husband lived following Thomas Vincent's death in Cayuga County.

 Now my curiosity was really piqued so I took a look at the New York State Census of 1855. This is a great census, it not only gives the individual's county of birth if that birthplace was in New York State, but it also gives the individual's relationship to the head of household. That useful bit of information doesn't show up in federal censuses until 1880. Maria L. Price told the enumerator she was born in Saratoga County, home county of Thomas and Matilda before they moved westward in New York! I located a news article confirming her marriage in Dix, "Maria Louisa Vincent" was the name used.

 Following the Price family through the years I tracked their move to Farmington, Tioga, Pennsylvania; just 36 miles from Dix, New York and the births and sadly, deaths of children of Maria. Several of them with names that matched names in her Vincent family, as did Maria's name--her father Thomas had a younger sister named Maria. The 1900 census confirmed her birth date as July 1827, but the coup de grace was the death certificate of Maria Price. Father's name? Thomas Vincent! The document appears to have been filled in by a barely literate person, (it was Sarah Price Bailey, daughter of Maria L.), but the name Thomas Vincent is quite clear. Either Sarah didn't know where her mother and grandparents were born, or more likely had no idea how to spell it as she simply replied "don't know" to those questions. She writes Maria L's mother Matilda's name as something resembling M~a even though the form asked for Matilda's maiden name and not her first.

 Later death certificates for Maria's adult children variously give her birthplace as Wolcott, New York, Cayuga County, New York and Montour Falls, New York. The only document giving Maria's place of birth as Saratoga County is the 1855 census, which is the one time she herself gave the information. I can see why the Ancestry tree got that wrong, but it does suggest she spent some time in Cayuga County, very close to Wolcott, in her youth, while Montour Falls is only eight miles from the Beaver Dams neighborhood in the Town of Dix where her mother Matilda lived.

 I'm not sure where the online tree got the names James Vincent and Mary Bullis as Maria L's parents, or the middle name of LeCresia. I tend to think the name was probably Louisa as in the news article about her marriage, but newspapers often get that sort of thing wrong so I'm withholding final judgement on that. I am however, convinced I've finally found Thomas and Matilda's daughter.

 Elliehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-72411676257450065852016-10-18T10:59:00.000-04:002016-10-18T10:59:54.437-04:00Tombstone Tuesday/Jane Watkins of Manchester, NY

Jane Watkins

 I almost didn't write this blog, the subject is not a pleasant one. A short time ago I wrote about Edwin Watkins, a former slave who along with his family lived in the small town of Manchester in upstate NY. Edwin seemed to fit right in to Manchester, he was even elected to the position of school trustee in 1865. His son Edwin Jr. married a woman named Jane whose fate was to die in childbirth, like so many of her 19th century sisters. Edwin Jr. eventually moved to Auburn, NY and remarried. When he died in 1921, his widow wished to receive his Civil War pension--but first she had to prove the first wife's demise.

 The story of how some prominent men of Manchester replaced Jane's broken tombstone and sent a photo of the new stone to the pension office is told here. Thinking that stone might be of interest in a "Tombstone Tuesday" blog I decided to seek it out. Oddly enough the stone wasn't listed in the online cemetery inventory, but the burial records showed Jane Watkins and infant in row 32, close to my 2nd great-grandfather Paul Worden. I also had a description of it's location from the news article (see above link).

 This should be easy enough to find I thought. After pausing to say hi to Grandpa Paul I looked and looked...nothing. Then I spotted a stone in the extreme south west corner almost completely hidden by tree branches. Walking over I could see no inscription at all which struck me as odd, the stone wasn't all that old? But it was blank, not a mark to be seen. I started back to my car then stopped. No. They didn't. They wouldn't.

 I retraced my steps back to the stone, and climbing in among the branches I looked at the back. They did. There on the back of the stone was the name Jane; to say I was horrified would be an understatement. All the other stones in this cemetery faced the traditional east, Jane's faced west. I couldn't get a good shot of the inscription since there was no light in the foliage. I guess the residents of my hometown regressed a bit between 1860 and 1921.Elliehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-33982982850847131012016-10-12T15:38:00.001-04:002016-10-13T14:44:46.204-04:00Finding Vincent Graves/In Which I Ruin Yet Another Manicure

Section of French Cemetery

 Thursday, October 6th dawned clear and sunny. By mid-day when my chauffeur husband and I began the 40 mile trek to Victory, New York where French Cemetery lay, the mercury had risen into the high seventies. Perfect weather for grave hunting. Victory is located in Cayuga County and is a very rural place with farms and fields interspersed between wooded areas.

 As we drove deeper into the countryside I couldn't help but wonder what had compelled anyone to move there in the first place? There was no industry, no canal, no port or railroad to draw them; all I could think is that most likely it was due to Victory being part of New York's "military tract", land the state set aside to reward Revolutionary War soldiers. After a wrong turn or two we came upon the cemetery on a slight rise along the road. French Cemetery is a very unassuming burial place and not terribly large, good news since I had never been there before and had no idea where my people rested. At that point though, something unusual happened. I stepped out of the car and began walking south, but immediately stopped. I then turned around and quickly walked north to the far end of the cemetery, and straight to the

grave of my twice widowed 4th great-grandmother Mary Clements Vincent Howland in the back row. I couldn't even read her stained stone until I was standing right in front of it, but something drew me to that spot.

 Before we left home I had pulled up the online inventory of the cemetery and given my husband a list of names to look for, but of course I had already found Grandma Mary and right there next to her was her two year old granddaughter Mary Jane Wetherel, the child of her daughter Janet Vincent. To the right of Mary Jane were two partially buried tombstones, one of which was snapped in two. I looked down at them and experienced a case of deja vu-- it was Uncle Milo's stone all over again. There was only one thing to do, I got down and started digging. I had no tools (when will I ever learn?) other than the bottle opener on my key-chain. (I'm fond of Guinness--it doesn't have a screw top-- don't judge me.)

 I set my husband on lookout duty for wildlife, as the day before our trip there had been an attack by a rabid coyote one town over and I wasn't taking any chances, genealogy and hydrophobia do not mix. I finally uncovered most of the broken stone, and while I

Matilda Vincent Wife of John Irish

could read only the first few letters of the name, "MA", I could clearly make out the words,"wife of John Irish". This was Matilda Vincent, another of Mary Clements Vincent Howland's daughters! The day was getting hotter, and the second stone was buried even deeper than the broken one; I was getting a little discouraged when my husband retrieved a claw hammer from the car, the perfect tool for ripping turf. Bit by bit the inscription was revealed, it was the grave of Thomas Vincent, son of Mary, brother of Matilda and Uncle of Mary Jane!

THMs Vincent

 This was what I'd been hoping to find ever since I read their names in the online inventory, which was an alphabetized list giving no indication of who was buried next to whom. Each of these individuals had a different last name, Howland, Wetherel, Irish, Vincent--but they were family, my family, and they were right there together just as family should be. A short distance away was the grave of Anna Irish, sister-in-law of Matilda.

 My husband retreated to the air conditioning of the car leaving me a few moments alone graveside. It's puzzling how close one can feel to ancestors one has never met; as I stood there looking down on their graves I though of how over one hundred and sixty years ago ancestors of mine had stood in the same spot where I now stood, grieving as they bade farewell to their loved ones. They had done so several times in the summer of 1847 when an epidemic swept through town taking Matilda and Mary Jane. Two of Matilda's children also died at that time and are probably there with their mother but apparently have no stones. I raised my eyes and gazed over the rolling countryside, which seemed to be completely unchanged from the days they were here and felt such a connection to them. Thomas' stone had the following epitaph:

Upon his grave shall blessings rest
Kind good & pious were his ways
They loved him most who knew him
And their affection speaks his praise

 But it was three simple words carved near the bottom of little Mary Jane's stone that brought tears to my eyes:

All is well

Mary Jane
daughter of
Darius & Janet
Wetherel
died Aug 12, 1847
Aged 2 yrs 3 mo
& 15 ds

 Elliehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-13969116695336836462016-10-08T11:21:00.001-04:002016-10-08T11:24:33.752-04:00Edwin Watkins Part Two/Edwin & Isabel's Family
  In time Isabel would forgive the shock and embarrassment of asking the Harmon sisters to vacate their own home, but I doubt she ever forgot it. She and Edward got on with their lives in the log cabin and before long, children began to arrive. The 1850 census shows Edward and Isabella Watkins, both aged 38 along with Edwin age 6, James age 5 and Celinda age 3. All were born in New York excepting Isabel who gave her birthplace as Connecticut.

 Looking at another old newspaper column by Mr. Osgood about his younger days, I read, "We climbed the hill and arrived at the log cabin where Edwin (Edward) Watkins lived. The family came out to greet us. A couple of candles were on the table in front of the open widow and Eliza stood in the doorway with a string of large red beads around her neck. Eliza was Bill's sister and their father was Steve Watkins, another giant of a man. It was said he was never beaten by any man on the Erie Canal from New York to Buffalo. However, one day a gent put a knife into Steve, and the children came to live with their uncle."

 This meant Edwin Sr., (or Edward as he appears in census records and will in this blog hereafter to distinguish him from his son), must have had a brother named Steve who was apparently employed on the canal. Returning to the 1850 census I had no trouble finding Stephen and Elizabeth Watkins both age 25 living in Manchester. With them were Louisa age 3 and William age 1. Eliza must not have been born yet. So, Edward did have a relative nearby after all. I searched and searched, but could find no further mention of the murder of Steve Watkins. I did find an article from 1859 describing a Willard Bates being charged with assault & battery after breaking a window sash over the head of a man named Steve Watkins in Canandaigua, NY. It probably was Edward's brother--the 1860 census shows that Stephen and Elizabeth had moved to that place, along with children William, Eliza, Frances, Stephen and Sarah Watkins ages 12 to 2.

 I checked the NYS census of 1865 hoping to find the county of Stephen's birthplace, the 1855 had left that column blank, but I couldn't locate him. He must have died between 1860 and 1865. I found his children William and Eliza with their Uncle Edward, but no trace of Elizabeth and the other children. Also in Edward's household was his son Edwin J. and Edwin's new wife Jane. That census also revealed that the elder Edward was born in Steuben County, NY and Edwin J. and the other children in Ontario County.

 Checking the 1820 census for Steuben County I found a total of one hundred eight individuals under the "free colored persons" heading and forty six slaves, mostly concentrated around Painted Post and Bath, NY. They weren't enumerated by name so I have no way of knowing who they were, but I did find among the free men, Simon and King Watkins. They were indexed as "Walkins", but it looks like Watkins to me. Given the family composition of both men, I'm betting Simon was Stephen and Edward's father.

 It was around the time of the 1865 census that Edward was elected a trustee of the school district. All indications are that Edward and his family, with the exception of Stephen of course, were doing well in Manchester. When Isabel Watkins died she left a will leaving land which bordered Edward's land, to her daughter Celinda. Clearly The Watkins family had been able to purchase real estate.

 The 1870 Manchester census shows young Edwin J. and his wife Jane now in their own household with a 3 year old daughter, little Hattie. In 1875 they had been joined by twelve year old Sarah Newport, sister of Jane. Yes! Now I had a maiden name for Jane and I found her in 1860 living in Sodus, NY with her family. Manchester's 1880 census tells a sad story. Edwin was now a widower living alone. Manchester Village Cemetery, next to the Baptist Church on Main Street, records the burial of Jane Watkins and Infant Watkins, no date given. What happened? Was the infant buried with Jane little Hattie or was it another baby? It's hard to be sure, in 19th century records I've seen children much older than three referred to as infants; on the other hand, death in childbirth was not uncommon at that time. It turned out to be the latter. Looking for Hattie in 1880 I found her living with her aunt Celinda and Celinda's husband Charles Ross. That is the last census in which Edwin J. appears in Manchester, by 1892 he is living alone in Auburn, NY and working as a laborer.

 Perhaps the pain of losing Jane and their baby was more than Edwin could stand to be constantly reminded of, perhaps he felt inadequate to raise a small girl like Hattie on his own. His mother Isabel passed away in 1881 and so was unavailable to help him; sending her to Celinda must have seemed like the best solution for everyone. But Edwin had one more surprise for me. In an article about the history of Manchester Cemetery which appeared in an 1952 edition of the local paper was this--"Edwin Watkins, the colored man who lived on North Avenue... served in the Civil War. His wife died Oct 2, 1875 at 23 years of age. Edwin moved to Auburn and remarried. After his death his second wife, [named as Josephine in the 1900 census], applied for a widow's pension, but had no proof of his first wife's death. However, Alvin Dewey and Eugene Payne went to the cemetery, replaced the old broken headstone with a new one, took the picture and sent it to the proper authorities. In the south west corner of the cemetery the stone still stands."

 Neither man had probably ever met Josephine Watkins who lived in Auburn, and one would think the church burial records and a notarized statement would have satisfied the authorities. Alvin and Eugene must have done all this out of affection for their old childhood friend Edwin J.

 In Ancestry's US Colored Troops Military Service Records, I found Edwin J. Watkins born in Manchester, enlisted at Palmyra, NY on 23 August 1864, his description says he was six feet tall--another family giant.

Elliehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-82139546679815627612016-10-07T08:17:00.001-04:002016-10-07T08:17:12.146-04:00Edwin Watkins of Manchester, NY Part One

 My last post included a reference to Edwin Watkins, a man supposedly born into slavery who lived in Manchester, NY in the years after the Civil War. I became curious about Edwin, I knew of no other former slaves living in Manchester. What had brought him here and was he happy and well treated in Manchester? Had he really been a slave and what became of him?

 While I haven't been able to answer all those questions, I have learned quite a bit about Edwin and his family. In a weekly column by Carlos Osgood called "The Homestead" that appeared in the local paper there was more information about Edwin. Mr. Osgood speaks of roaming the Manchester woods as a young boy and visiting Edwin, by then quite elderly, calling him a great orator, and goes on to state, "Edwin lived with the Deacon [James Harlan] away back in 1825". Looking at the 1850 census, the first one in which I could find Edwin, he says he was born in 1812. That means he would have been a child of about 13 in 1825. The census also says he was born in New York State. Slavery ended fairly early in New York, but I wasn't sure of the date so I checked the net and found this:

In 1799, New York passed a Gradual Emancipation act that freed slave children born after July 4, 1799, but indentured them until they were young adults. In 1817 a new law passed that would free slaves born before 1799 but not until 1827. By the 1830 census there were only 75 slaves in New York.

 So Edwin could have been born into slavery and later freed. Deacon Harlan was a well known abolitionist, so it's not surprising he would take Edwin in. In fact, Edwin became one of the family, Mr. Osgood went on, "When the Deacon had company Edwin was invited into the parlor to meet the guests, and when they went to church, which was every Sunday, Edwin sat on the front seat of the big family carriage, and sat with the Deacon and his daughters in the family pew." In other words, the Deacon practiced what he preached.

 The 1850 census revealed Edwin, (recorded as Edward), was married and had a family of his own by that time, and Mr. Osgood was enlightening on that topic as well, noting-- "Edwin began smiling on a girl who lived with the Yeomans family at Walworth. In fact she had grown up there. She had been carefully trained in housekeeping and needlework and they thought a great deal of her. Whether she was born a slave is more than I know." He then repeats the story of Edwin's courtship as he heard it from Edwin himself, "One evening Edwin and his girl were sitting in the kitchen when Mr. Yeomans passed through saying 'Isabel, what have you got that damned man hanging around here for?' Then Edwin rose to the occasion saying he could not see why he should be treated in this manner for he owned one of the best farms in Manchester with a big brick house and a good log tenant house. He said he owned six good horses and a lot of cattle. Adding that he was a prominent member of the Baptist church and for several years had sung in the choir."

 The Yeomans eventually relented, even sending Isabel off with a generous dowry. So she and Edwin were married that Christmas; moving into the log house since Edwin told his new bride the brick house was currently rented and he couldn't take possession until spring. This went on quite well, until the day Isabel walked over to the brick house and asked the Deacon's daughters when they were going to move out. Edwin must have had some explaining to do at that point!

Next blog--Edwin and Isabell's family...

 Elliehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-79309720161537115032016-10-03T11:58:00.000-04:002016-10-03T11:58:46.862-04:00Politics Past

 As the most bizarre presidential campaign ever seen by the staff here at Ellie's Ancestors painfully winds to a close, we are reminded of a time when the political process was more dignified--or perhaps not.

 We refer you to the following, which appeared in the Shortsville NY Enterprise in 1930, written by Carlos P. Osgood, an elderly, long time resident of the area who recorded his early memories in a weekly column called, "The Homestead". The piece below details an election held in 1868 for the position of school district trustee which just happens to involve my 3rd great-grandfather Paul Worden as one of the candidates:

 The trusteeship was held for a number of years by such people as TJ McLouth, E. Peirce and Anson Lapham, a rather imposing list of names, but we find that on October 16, 1865, Edwin Watkins, colored, born a slave, was elected trustee. The main object of being trustee was the hiring of the teachers and also handling the financial affairs of the district, which amounted in some years to as much as $60.

 Things must have drifted along smoothly until the October meeting of 1868, when there seemed to be a quite marked division of opinion as to whether Henry B. Nichols or Paul Worden would be elected for trustee. The night was dark and the rain fell down, but I was allowed to go with my father to the meeting. He drove the old white horse, hitched to the old-fashioned buggy with a leather top, with a leather apron in front of us. Over in the field that now belongs to Oscar Randall, across from the schoolhouse, "Teen" Worden [brother of Paul] had built a shelter of cornstalks and also built a fire to furnish light and warmth while he was husking corn and singing something like this:

With my love on the land
And my body in the sea
And the blue waves rolling over me

 The schoolhouse was pretty well filled with people when we arrived. Thomas J. McClouth was chosen chairman and Burrus Osgood clerk. Mr. McLouth was a quite tall, spare built gentleman, with a large amount of dignity. He wore a high, white beaver hat of the Henry Harrison type and a long, tall, cut-away coat. He had been a member of the State Legislature and was active in the organization of the Republican party.

 My grandfather, Ezra Peirce, was there. Ezra was an immense man, weighed probably two hundred and twenty-five pounds, but was simply big and boney; a giant in strength and very vigorous. He wore a soft, black hat and a sack coat and was decidedly a Democrat. Grandfather had also been a member of the Legislature, so when moments later a discussion of parliamentary rules arose, a good time was had by all.

 After awhile Mr. Henry B. Nichols arose to address the meeting. Certain young men present had been over in the field where Worden was husking corn and had shelled a few ears and put the shelled corn in their coat pockets. It is well to state at this time the room was dimly lighted, in fact, was lighted by one tallow candle and three or four lanterns with perforated tin sides, and the light coming through these openings made the walls of the room look as though they were breaking out.

 Mr. Nichols was just getting warmed up in his oratory when a couple handsful of grape and canister or shrapnel, or maybe it was shelled corn, flew through the air, caught the orator in the face and resounded vigorously from the beaver hat of the chairman. Then my grandfather Ezra rose and I was sitting beside him. I had never noticed before how large he was as he waved that immense hand toward the offending youths, as he told them what would happen should any more of that corn be thrown. Order was restored and Paul Worden was elected trustee.

 I enjoy this article, and not just because Grandpa Paul is involved. There is so much here conjuring up images of the past, the horse pulled buggy with a leather apron for wet weather, the description of the dimly lit school room before the days of electricity, the type of song that was popular; not to mention the delightful surprise of learning that voters from my home area were open minded enough in 1865 to elect a man born into slavery to office.

 I would bet many small town newspapers ran such columns, well worth reading.

Elliehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-63806264989112438502016-09-19T10:44:00.002-04:002016-09-19T10:50:11.475-04:00Pass The Nodoz

 Well, I've done it again. Upon reading that Find My Past was offering a free look at their new Irish records until midnight yesterday I hastened to the site. The long, long, long awaited Valuation Office Books were included! In my rush I failed to notice that the books were to be free forever. I had missed the email notifying me of this momentous event, having been preoccupied with family events, and only viewed it late last night. Midnight? Damn! So even though exhausted by the aforementioned family matters, I settled in for a long session. We're talking Valuation Books after all!

 I found some really good information and some disappointments. I located the entry for great-great-great-grandfather Daniel McGarr by finally just searching his townland of Ballyraggan. McGarr seems like such a simple name to spell, but it never works out that way. This time it was indexed as Magan--that's a new one. This was a house book and had some wonderful information. I knew from the Irish census taken years after his demise, that there were several out buildings on Daniel's farm, which was occupied at the time of the census by his late daughter Sarah's husband Thomas Hughes; but I had no idea if the buildings were there during Daniel's lifetime.

  As seen above, the question is settled. Along with the house, there was what appears to be a Cow House, (that one made me giggle), a barn and stable, and another I can't quite make out--it looks like Cas House or Car House, still puzzling that one out. I wrote to the Valuation Office years ago and they sent me wonderful copies from the cancelled books of Daniel's holding, detailing decade by decade the current occupiers so I almost didn't waste my "limited" time looking for him. But this information from the house book was not included in the packet sent to me by the VO, so I was glad to have found it.

 I also located another 3rd great grandfather, Connor Ryan, in Goldengarden, Tipperary and got a peek at his life there on the estate of Lord Hawarden. He had only a house and barn which really didn't surprise me. While Grandpa Daniel on the Fitzgerald estate had a generous (for the era) lease, Hawarden was very stingy about giving them out. Grandpa Connor was probably hesitant to make major improvements to his holding with no real assurance he'd be there long.

 The disappointing parts? Still nothing on my Hore/O'Hore/Hoare family, another seemingly simple name that gets mangled. Just nothing, not in these records nor the tithe applotments. I know their address from their children's baptisms, but they are nowhere in sight. The other disappointment is that I was under the impression the cancelled books were to be included, but they aren't there. The bright side is, I can again write to the Valuation Office and request copies of Connor Ryan's cancelled book entries now that I know for sure he's there in the records. It's a great time to be an Irish researcher! Elliehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7242187022431135161.post-65047201832467104322016-09-17T13:45:00.000-04:002016-09-17T13:45:02.507-04:00Of Blogs And Cousins And Long Distance Genealogy

 It began with an innocent enough email from a far distant cousin, (in both distance and genetics), inviting me to join in her search for details of our Vincent family from Halfmoon, Saratoga, New York. We initially connected through this blog, and have shared bits and pieces over time, but that one email has elevated our collaboration to something approaching obsession. Like so many of these family journeys, this one has twisted and turned and taken us far afield of the original quest. (Which in truth I'm not sure I even remember, and since I'm the undisputed queen of lost emails, will probably have to ask my cousin to remind me of.)

 Together we have uncovered a staggering amount of information and on the way proved beyond any doubt that the genealogy, published in book form, of the line of Revolutionary War soldier Captain Jeremiah Vincent, his son John and John's son Thomas,(my fourth great-grandfather), is incorrect and incomplete. How did we do it? By egging each other on from opposite ends of the continent for one thing, but once again the amazing internet played a huge roll. From census records and a genealogical society application on Ancestry, to wills and land deeds at Family Search; from a guardianship noted in the previously mentioned book to burials on the Find a Grave site, along with obituaries and other sources, a picture slowly emerged from the shadows of centuries.

 The book claimed Thomas, son of John Vincent and Mary Clements, died and was buried in French Cemetery in Victory, Cayuga Co. NY in 1842, which we found to be true. It also claimed his wife Matilda Taylor died in 1847 and was buried in Saratoga County, which is not. In fact, Matilda married a man named Rockwell Rood after Thomas' death and lived until 1890. I found her with Rockwell and several of her Vincent daughters in the 1850 census and other sources. There is in fact a Matilda Vincent buried in Saratoga, her stone even reads "wife of Thomas" however-- there is also a Thomas Vincent buried there with her. The author of the genealogy book apparently overlooked that and so didn't consider this could be a different couple, which it was. Clearly Thomas can't be buried in both Cayuga AND Saratoga.

 The guardianship was major in the search. The book and every single tree and site I've viewed claim that John Vincent and Mary Clements had only one child, the above mentioned Thomas. Yet guardianship papers filed in 1817 named Mary Vincent and John Clements (who turned out to be Mary's brother) guardians of the minor children Matilda, Thomas, Maria and Janet Vincent. Now our search began in earnest to find these children, (except of course Thomas whom we had already documented). And we did find them with the exception of Maria. Pretty good detective work if I do say so, since they were married females using their husband's surnames.

 There's lots more-- for instance, as it happened Mary Clements Vincent also remarried, but to detail all our findings and sources here would take me six or seven pages and I like to keep these posts concise and readable. Any Vincent's out there who would like to know more can email me, but a few points apply to all researchers:

 Just because a genealogy has been published in book form or any other form doesn't mean it's infallible.

Those trees on Ancestry whose only source is another unsourced tree? Great for clues but not much more. No matter how many trees say the same thing, if they just copied it from each other it's the same as one tree.

What seems like a sure bet, like in the burial of, "Matilda wife of Thomas Vincent", is sometimes just a coincidence.

Genealogy is ever so much fun with a co-conspirator.

Lastly--verify, verify, verify. I always spend a little time trying to disprove my current theory. It may not be fast, but when I'm done I'm reasonably sure the finished genealogy is accurate.

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