MARY ANN HANCOCK MARSDEN 1803 - 1877

Two grandparents I knew well and loved were Doc and Minnie Casey, very unalike, one serious and quiet and one always joking and visiting, one with dark hair and eyes and one sandy-haired and fair.  They met when Doc traveled to another state for training and they seemed to have nothing in common.  But it turns out that Doc's grandmother was Eliza Hancock (see earlier blog) and Minnie's great grandmother was Mary Ann Hancock.  When Mary Ann was growing up in Derbyshire, England, Eliza lived on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.  Perhaps they were related a few generations back.

Mary Ann was the daughter of Joseph and Mary Jackson Hancock and she married Charles Marsden.  They had thirteen children who grew up in Derbyshire. Aat some point, Mary Ann became a Mormon.  Half of her children moved to Salt Lake City as adults and Mary Ann moved to Utah probably after Charles died in 1854 when he was only 50.  There is a record of a Mary Marsden coming in 1866.  Her daughter, our grandma Ellen Marsden, came to America about 1850.

Mary Ann apparently was living with her youngest daughter, Ann, when she died in Lehi, Utal in 1877.



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ELLEN MARSDEN DAVIS PULLEN 1829 - 1906

I traced her name from the death certificates of two of her kids and later found her in the census.  My grandma, Minnie Casey, would have grown up in the same neighborhood in Litchfield, IL as her grandma Ellen, but I never heard her talk about Ellen.  The maiden name on the death certificates were Maiden and Maisden, so it took a while for me to think:  Marsden.  A distant cousin on the internet connected, writing that his Ellen had married Davis and Pullen.  So now we know about Grandma Ellen.

Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England is in north central England, and that's where Ellen's family had lived for several generations.  She came to America as a young woman, went to St. Louis, married Louis Davis and had a boy and a girl.  Louis died early in their marriage, and she married Charles Pullen, also from Derbyshire who had come to America the same year as Ellen.  Perhaps they knew each other back there.  He was 7 or 8 years younger and had children from a previous marriage.

Some of Ellen's family were Mormon.  Many siblings and her mother came to the US, mostly settling in Salt Lake City.  Nothing I've seen in records shows that Ellen was a practicing Mormon.

Ellen and Charles lived in Litchfield, IL in the 1880's according to the census.  Charles was a coal miner as was her first husband, Louis Davis.  I've often wondered if Grandpa Louis was killed in a mining accident, but have found no evidence.  Ellen died when she was 77.



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MORE ABOUT GRANDMAS

A lot of grandmas are still unknown to me.  Others are "probables."  My gg grandma Ellen who came over from England mid nineteenth century may be a Marsden, Maiden or some similar last name.  She is one I hope to find more about.  But that will be a future blog as I'm out of known grandmas.

Today I'm beginning a new blog:  suekrusegrandpas.  I'll start with the Casey side.  Hope you'll take a look if you're interested.

ALICE CRANMER NORTON about 1536 - 1601

Alice must have had a very difficult life in England.  Her father was prominent in the church and in politics and had to flee the country when Queen Mary came into power.  Her uncle, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was burned at the stake before she was 20.  Her first cousin, Margaret, the archbishop's daughter, died soon after marriage, and Alice ended up marrying Margaret's husband, Thomas Norton.

The Nortons of Sharpenhow, Bedfordshire were a prominent family.  Thomas was nicknamed "the rack-master-general of England" for his torturous questioning of Catholics.  He had a master's degree from Cambridge and was a member of parliament; a poet as well as an attorney.

Alice was a Protestant like her father.  She had ten children.  When she was about 50, whe was considered "insane" and lived with her oldest daughter, Anne.  Her husband was imprisoned in the Tower for a while, then died in 1584.  Alice didn't live to see her son, Walter, killed in a massacre on a ship between Boston and Virginia.


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ALICE SANDS CRANMER born about 1500

When Aunt Maggie took Nancy and I to the movies to see Henry VIII in 1948, we loved it and had no idea that the three of us were descendants of the Cranmer family.  Thomas Cranmer was the Bishop of Canterbury and close confident of the king during Henry VIII's reign and was later burned at the stake.

Alice Sands was from Kent, England in the southeast near London.  She married Edmund Cranmer, brother of Thomas, who had been educated at Cambridge and was named Archdeacon of Canterbury in 1534.  During this time, England was in religious turmoil while some royalty still were loyal to the Catholic Church, and to the Pope, and others leaned toward the teachings of Martin Luther and other Protestant leaders and didn't like the hierarchy with the Pope above the King of England.  Both Edmund and his brother Thomas were church leaders and both leaned toward Protestantism and both were married, although kept their wives and families under wraps at times.

Alice and Edmund had about six children including Alice who married the widower of her first cousin, Thomas' daughter, Margaret.

When Catholic Mary became queen, Edmund fled to Germany.  His brother Thomas was burned at the stake in 1555.  I haven't yet learned when or where Alice died.


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ANN SPICER PARTRIDGE about 1617 - 1689

Ann and her husband, William Partridge, were probably from Buckingham, England and married there in 1636.  They soon left for America and settled in Salisbury, Massachusetts, just a mile or two from the southern border of New Hampshire.

They had at least seven children, one of whom married Ed Gove who is known for "Gove's Rebellion" in which some of our Wadleigh and Sleeper ancestors participated.  A new governor had been appointed for New Hampshire who apparently a lot of people didn't approve of.  In 1683, Gove instigated a small rebellion against the governor.  The demonstrators were arrested for treason.  Ed Gove was sent to the London Tower for three years.  His wife, Hannah, sister of our grandma Elizabeth, wrote for his safe return saying he was beset with these outbursts. 

William Partridge died when he was still a young man and Ann married Anthony Stanyon.  They lived in Hampton, New Hampshire where Ann died in 1689.



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ANN SMYTH SHAW about 1600 - 1647

Ann married Roger Shaw in London, England in 1618.  About eight years later, with at least 4 young children, they sailed for America and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts near the Bay.  Roger was active in local government and was a vintner and innkeeper.

Later, they sold their Cambridge home and moved north to Hampton, New Hampshire, located on that about 20 mile strip bordering the Atlantic ocean.  Ann died there around 1647 when she still had very young children.  Soon thereafter, Roger married Susannah Tilton, a widow.  Ralph died in Hampton in 1661.


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MARGERY PICKMAN DIKE born about 1644?

Was our grandma Margery a half-sibling to her husband?  Here's the background.

Anthony  Dike came from England to America in 1623.  He was a ship captain and involved in several other businesses.  He married Tabitha and they had two children, Anthony, Jr. and Charity, and then he died in a shipwreck in 1638.  One of his business partners was Nathaniel Pickman (sometimes called Pittman) and Nathaniel and Tabitha were married about 1639.  They lived in Salem.

Some records show that Nathaniel and Tabitha had a daughter, Margery, born about 1644, making Margery and Anthony, Jr., who married, half-siblings with Tabitha the mother of both.

Some records show that before coming to Salem, Nathaniel married a woman named Tabitha in Bristol, England who, after having a few children, died, and Nathanial came to Salem with the children and soon thereafter married the widow Tabitha Dike, making Anthony Jr. and Margery step siblings if Margery was one of the children by Nathaniel's first wife.

I haven't found another Pickman in early Salem who could have been the father of Margery.  Of course it's possible that Margery wasn't a Pickman at all.

Anthony and Margery had 6 children (including our ancestor, Nathaniel) before Anthony died in 1679.  Margery then married John Polin about 1680.



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ANN WHITE FISHER about 1576 - 1617

Lincolnshire, England is in eastern England opposite Liverpool on the west and just south of Hull where Nancy's in-laws and Edward's grandparents lived.  Some of our ancestor families who lived in Lincolnshire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries include White, Fisher, Skipper, Robinson, Ledgard and Gwynne.

Ann (perhaps agnes Ann) married Richard Fisher in 1597.  I haven't yet identified their parents.  Ann and Richard had about 10 children, one of them Sarah who married Rev. William Skepper and went to Massachusetts.  Ann died in Lincolnshire about the same time Sarah was born, and Richard died just a couple of years later.

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ABIGAIL BAKER WARNER about 1609 to 1637

Abigail and her husband, William Warner, were born and lived in Boxstead, Essex, England near London.  They had at least three children, including our ancestor, John Warner.

Abigail died when she was probably in her 40's.  Then her husband, children, and also her sister, Sarah and her husband, Richard Lumpkin, sailed to Massachusetts where William died about 1648 in Ipswich.


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MARY WHITLOCK BLODGETT about 1587 - 1610

A couple who did not come to America but who lived in Stowmarket, Suffolk, England, about 60 or 70 miles north of London, were Mary and her husband Robert Blowgatt/Blodgett.  Mary may have been the daughter of Roger and Margaret Greve Whitlock, but they were married in Essex, further south.  Robert may have been the son of Robert Blowgatt and Maria Margaret Wareyn, also from Suffolk.

Mary and Robert had a least five children, including their son, Thomas, who did cross the ocean and settled in Massachusetts.

Mary died about 1610 when she was still young and before her son set off for America.



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RUTH EGGLETON BLODGETT about 1630 - 1703

Many of my ancestors came to America in the seventeenth century and settled in northeastern Massachusetts - all ancestors of grandpa U. D. Casey.  If I could identify all his great-great-great-greats living in the eighteenth century, it would total 64 families!

In the 1630's Ruth's parents brought her from Kent, England (in the southwest not far from London) to Massachusetts when she was a baby or small child.  Her father, Stephen, died on the trip across the ocean.  Her mother, Elizabeth Bennett Eggleton, married Joseph Potcham a few years later.

Woburn, Massachusetts marriage records show the marriage of Ruth to Samuel Blodgett in 1655.  They spent their lives in Woburn, just north of Boston, and had at least 8 children including a Ruth and a Samuel.  Their son Samuel lived all his life in Woburn.  They all had to deal with the natives, illnesses for which there were no vaccinations or antibiotics, wild animals, territorial disputes.

Ruth died in 1703 in Woburn and Samuel lived to be 87 years old.



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ELIZABETH GILL MCCLURE about 1706 - 1785

Great-great Aunt Loll (Laura McClure Milhouse) was into family history, especially that of the McClure family.  She wrote on rolls of shelf paper:  family names and dates and relationships and quotes from books.  She quoted a book about the McClures  and the immigration in 1729 of two brothers, David and Samuel.  Her great grandfather was a David who was a physician in the Revolutionary War.

For a while I was stuck on the McClure line with our DAR David.  Then in church records, I found the birth of his daughter, Betsy Gill McClure.  I had also found the marriage of John McClure and Elizabeth Gill in nearby Leicester, Massachusetts, the right time and place.  It was enough for me to believe that Elizabeth was David McClure's mother.

Elizabeth and John lived in Brookfield, Massachusetts and had about ten children including our DAR David who married Hannah Richardson.  Elizabeth's last name may have originally been Gyll.  I haven't been able to find her parents.  Other researchers have suggested parents as Michael and Relief Gill, but their Elizabeth married Cheever and there is no reason to believe he died and she remarried.  A William and a Thomas Gill witnessed John's fathers' will, but I haven't connected them to Elizabeth.

John died in Brookfield in 1782 and Elizabeth died there a few years later.  Granddaughter Betsy Gill McClure was born in 1791.




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THOMASINE CHANNON MATTHEWS about 1598 - 1690

Devonshire is that part of England that juts out on southwest lower England.  That's where the Channon family lived in the sixteenth century.  Thomasine married Frances Matthews there in 1622, had a few children, then they came to New England.

Thomasine was perhaps the daughter of Henry and Johan Drewe Channon.  Thomasine seemed to be a family name as there are others with her name in Devonshire records.  Although her husband Frances is in New England records, I haven't been able to find his parents in Devonshire.  His last name sometimes is referred to as "Mathes."

Thomasine and Frances lived in southwest Maine and southeast New Hampshire.  They had several more children, including grandpa Walter who became a constable at Isle of Shoals.  Walter's daughter married into the Rowland Young family.

Frances died in 1648 but Thomasine lived into old age and died in 1690.

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ESTHER HASEY GREEN about 1649 - 1740

Esther was the daughter of William and Sarah Hasey and may have been born in Malden, Massachusetts but baptized in Boston.  She married Henry Green who had been born in Essex, England but lived in Malden when they married.  They had seven or eight children, including Jacob who married Dorothy Lynde.

The History of Malden written in the l800's includes copies of city documents from the 1600's and gives a good picture of what life was like then.  Nearby Indian villages were devastated by disease, later traced to lack of immunity to European germs, residents had  differences about clergy to be hired, buildings to be built, and there were conflicts between different geographical areas of Malden.  The church was a pivotal part of life.  Esther's father was a lieutenant and during King Philip's War fought with ancestors Greens, Lyndes, and Hills.

Sometime in the eighteenth century, the part of Malden where Esther lived was annexed to Stoneham and she died there about 1740.



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DOROTHY LYNDE GREEN 1692 - 1740

Malden, Massachusetts is a small town just north of Boston that before 1642 was part of Charleston.  Both the Lynde and Green families lived there when Dorothy and Jacob Green were born and married.  They were the parents of Miriam Green who married into the Richardson family who married into the McClure family.  Malden seems to be a progressive town as it was one of the first to declare separation from Britain over 200 years ago and was one of the first to recognize marriage between persons of the same sex.

Dorothy was the daughter of John Lynde and Elizabeth Hills who had married in 1691 in Malden after John's first wife died.  Elizabeth was perhaps the daughter of Joseph Hills and widow of William Green.  John Lynde, a captain in King Philip's War, was married at least 3 times.  Dorothy had two sisters and at least four half siblings.

Dorothy's husband, Jacob, was the son of Henry Green and Elizabeth Hasey.  Henry was a lieutenant in King Philip's War.  One book (Virkus) says that Jacob was a Harvard graduate.  Jacob kept a journal which he named "Jacob Green, His Writing Book" and which was continued by his son, Jacob, after his death.

Jacob and Dorothy were married only 10 years when Jacob died.  Dorothy then married John Barrett and they moved to eastern Connecticut, to Killingly.  Dorothy died there in 1740 at only 48 years old.



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MARY STOVER STOVER 1702 - 1766

Mary was the daughter of Dependence and Mary Young Stover of York County, Maine.  She would have been about 21 when her dad died and her mother married John Wells.

The Reverend Joseph Moody of York kept a diary during the 1720's in which he mentions problems with pirates and Indians.  He also wrote on April 25, 1724, "There is a purpose of marriage betwixt Isaac Stover and Mary Stover."  This probably was the wording used for announcing marriage banns in those days.  It was traditional to have the banns announced in church on three consecutive Sundays before the marriage.

Isaac was Mary's first cousin and the son of George and Abigail Stover.  He had been born at Cape Neddick on the coast and very close to York.  Isaac and Mary had five children that I know of, including Grandma Deborah Stover who married Peter Heal.

Mary died about 1766 and Isaac lived about 20 years longer.



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MARY YOUNG STOVER died about 1734

Mary was the daughter of Rowland and Susanna Matthews Young and she married Dependence Stover.  Her father was a fisherman, her husband a ship builder.  Mary may have been born on the Isles of Shoals but moved to York, Maine, at the southern tip, when she was young.  She and Dependence were married there about 1701.

Mary and Dependence had about five children before he died in 1723.  He was probably quite a few years older than she was.  Mary then married John Wells.

Mary and Dependence's oldest daughter, Mary, married her first cousin and nephew of her father.  She was one of my grandmas.

In Maine in the eighteenth century, there were conflicts with the natives, and in 1712 Dependence was wounded in a battle during which another settler was killed.

Mary died about 1734 in Wells, Maine, in York County.


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SUSANNA MATTHEWS YOUNG married about 1669

Susanna's parents, Walter and Mary Matthews, lived in Maine early in the l7th century as did her husband, Rowland Young III who was a fisherman like his dad.

Susanna and Rowland lived on Smuttynose, part of the Isle of Shoals about 6 miles off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire.  A priest who went to the islands about 100 years later told of the residents who were uncivilized and inbred.  Susanna and Rowland moved from the island to York, Maine about 1683.  Later, he was a deacon and selectman.

They had nine children including Mary who married Dependence Stover and who was one of my grandmas.

Rowland died in June 1721 but I haven't found when Susanna died.



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JOANNA KNIGHT YOUNG about 1625 - 1698

There are probably at least three Knight families in the family tree, all from England and arriving in America in the early seventeenth century.  Joanna was the daughter of Robert and Margaret Grimley Knight.

Joanna married Rowland Young who had come from Buckinghamshire, England to York, Maine in 1637.  He was the son of Rowland and named his oldest son Rowland.  He was a fisherman by trade.  No connection has been found between Rowland's family and the Young family from Maine who would marry Joanna's descendant about six generations later and who were also ancestors of great grandma Lemira and who also came to America around 1620.

Joanna lived next door in Maine to George Norton, a brother-in-law of Sylvester Stover who would marry Joanna's granddaughter who was one of my grandmas.

Rowland died in 1685 and willed everything to Joanna.  When she died in 1698, she willed to four of her children.  Perhaps the other four had died.



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ELIZABETH BACON RICHARDSON 1641 to about 1673

Elizaeth was born in Woburn, Massachusetts to Michael and Mary Jobo Bacon.  Her dad was from a line of Bacons in Suffolk County, England.  Not much is known about her mom except that she was married in Suffolk County and died in Woburn.  I haven't found a connection between Elizabeth and Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia.

In 1658 Elizabeth married John Richardson in Woburn.  He had been born in Charleston, Massachusetts in 1639 and was in King Philip's War.

They had only two sons before Elizabeth died in her early thirties.  John married twice more and had other children.  He died about l696.




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JOANNA THAKE RICHARDSON about 1606 to 1666

I don't know if Joanna came to America with her folks, who were perhaps William and Joanna Wood Thake, or with her husband, Samuel Richardson.

In 1630, three Richardson brothers from Hertfordshire, England, sons of Thomas and Katherine Duxford Richardson, came to Charleston, Massachusetts on the ship Arabella.  They helped establish the town of Woburn, Massachusetts and lived there on "Richardson's Row."

Joanna and her husband, Samuel, one of the three Richardsons, had 8 children they raised in Woburn.  I'm a descendant of two sons:  One grandson married another's great granddaughter.

Joanna's husband died in Woburn in 1657 and Joanna died there about 1666.



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KATHERINE DUXFORD RICHARDSON about 1570 to 1631

YIKES!  I have a grandma in common with George W.  Doc Casey would turn over in his grave.

Katherine grew up in Hertfordshire, England, around London, the daughter of Richard Duxford.  She married Thomas Richardson, also of Hertfordshire, in 1590.  Several of their sons moved to America, and the Casey line descends from one of them.

Katherine died about 1631 and Thomas in 1634.



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SARAH CLARKE DAVIS about 1628 - 1698; SARAH DAVIS COLE about 1651 - 1734; SUSANNA DAVIS RICHARDSON born about 1662

I don't know anything about Sarah Clarke's background, but she married George Davis, probably in Reading, Massachusetts, just north of Boston.  Sarah and George had about 9 children before he died in 1667 when she was only around 40 years old.  Sarah then married Nicholas Rist.  I've found no clue that this Davis family was related to the family of Grandma Minnie Davis Casey.

Sarah was mother of TWO of my grandmothers.  Susanna was the gg grandma of Dexter McClure and Sarah was the gggg grandmother of his wife, Debby Young.

Sarah Davis, born about 1651, married Abraham Cole, a tailor.  She and her husband lived in Salem and then in Hampton, New Hampshire about 1678.  In 1692, Sarah and also her sister-in-law were accused of witchcraft and put in prison.  Her husband put up bail and later the charges were dropped.  Abraham died in 1715 but I've found no record of Sarah's death.

Susanna Davis, born in 1662, married John Richardson, a carpenter.  They lived in Woburn, Massachusetts, also close to Boston, and John died there in 1715 and Susanna about 1734.  They had four children, including Grandma Susanna Richardson who married her second cousin, Samuel Richardson.


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ANNA GERTRUDE HEIDERSDORF WELLER 1667 - 1695

In the 17th century, the part of Europe Anna lived in was the Duchy of Nausau, part of the Roman Empire; now it's in Germany.  Anna was the daughter of Anna and Anton Heidersdorf (Heyersdorf) who were innkeepers in Dillenburg.  From internet photos, it looks like a beautiful place.

Anna Gertrude married Johannes Weller who was a Reformed minister and had attended the nearby University of Herborn.  In the 16th and 17th centuries, there was conflict between the Catholic, Lutheran, and Reformed churches in Europe.

Anna grew up in Dillenburg, but after marriage her husband was the pastor first at Erndtbruck and then Elsoff.  Their daughter, Appolonia, (my gxx grandma) was born in Erndtebruck but married into the Waldschmidt family in Dillenburg.

At age 28, in February l695, Anna died.  Her husband remarried later that year, so Appolonia would have been raised by a stepmother.



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ELIZABETH MANN BALDWIN 1782 - 1842; SARAH COLE MANN 1760 to about 1816; MERCY KENT COLE born about 1725; PHOEBE WINCHELL KENT married about 1708

In the early 1800's, Virginia was adjacent to Ohio.  Frederick County was in northern VA.  Elizabeth Mann, the daughter of an unknown man and Sarah Cole Mann, was living there with her family in 1805 when she married William A. Baldwin.  They had a few children, then moved to Harrison County, Ohio in 1810 where our grandma Sarah Baldwin was born.  They were in Tuscarawas County, Ohio by 1830 where Sarah married into the Ervin family and their son, Reese, married John Ervin's step daughter.

Back in Frederick County, VA a deed dated 1816 read,

"William Baldwin and wife Elizabeth of Harrison County, Ohio, to William Powell Simmonds of Frederick County, Virginia for $210 . . . which land was granted by Lord Fairfax to John Cole March 31, 1781 and by his last will and testament devised to his wife Massey Cole and by her willed to their daughter Sarah and her heirs one of which is Elizabeth, wife of William Baldwin, and the other is Jane wife of said William P. Simonds.  Fourteen acres plus."

Elizabeth's husband, William A. and the children, mostly grown, moved west to Scott County, Indiana in 1838.  Elizabeth must have died in Ohio as I could find no reference to her.

Sarah Cole (1760 to 1816) was perhaps born in Morristown, New Jersey, so would have been there at the same time as the Ervin family, the family her granddaughter married into.  No information has been found about her husband.

Mercy Kent Cole was thought to have been from Massachusetts and New Jersey.  She married John Cole and they lived in Frederick County, VA

Phoebe Winchel Kent may have been part of the Winchel family of Connecticut.  She married Thomas Kent but I have no information about their children except for Mercy, above.

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REBECCA GADDIS MCFALL 1820 - 1841

Rebecca's parents haven't yet been identified nor have those of her husband, John McFall.  Several Gaddis families were in the neighborhood in southern Indiana when she lived there, folks who had moved up from Kentucky or west from Pennsylvania.  There is a marriage record in Scott County, IN that Rebecca and John married May 15, 1841.  John would have been perhaps 10 years older, or more, and may have been married before.

Rebecca and John had two children before she died at age 21 when her youngest baby, our grandma Mary Jane, was 1 month old.  Two years later, John married Elizabeth Kinney.  The 1850 census taker reported John and Elizabeth living together, but by the 1860 census, they were not.  He usually stated for the census that he was born in Eastern Canada, as were his parents, but once his birthplace is shown as VA.  In the 1850 census, age is shown as 34 but in the 1860 census, it is shown as 54.  The Scott County Journal reported his death in 1880. 

My sister found Rebecca's gravestone a few years ago in New Frankfort, Indiana.



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MARY NUNERY LYNCH about 1790 - 1875

Another Virginia Grandma who has been hard to trace is Grandma Mary Nunery, wife of James Lynch.  Her maiden name and marriage date are on James' military record as he was in the war of 1812.  They were married in Rockingham County, North Carolina in 1806, had many children, and moved, perhaps to Virginia according to some of their children's birthplace claims, and on to Scott County, Indiana about 1830.

Two boys were born to Mary and James:  James and Peter.  James moved to Iowa with his family and according to town history, worked in law enforcement in both elective and appointed offices.  Pete lived in Washington County, IN and was the subject of many family stories.  He was said to have killed a man in a bar fight and had to leave the county for a while.  However, County records show only a $2.00 fine for assualt and battery.  Two of Mary's daughters married men, Easton and Talley, who were arrested for murder and robbery.  Talley was taken from jail by a mob and lynched.  Easton apparently was freed and moved west with his family.

Mary's last name has been Lumly, Nunly, Nunry on various records and her age had a wide range on census records.  Her birthplace has been consistently Virginia.    In the 1870 census, both Mary and James were living with their son, Pete and his family, but they are not shown in the 1880 census.



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ELIZABETH "BETSY" THOMPSON ARBUCKLE died about 1766 AND ELIZABETH LAWRENCE ARBUCKLE 1748 - 1809

People didn't used to pay much attention to birthdays or ages.  In a letter written by a Gamble born in the early nineteenth century, he wrote that he knew his age by his cousin's since he was one year younger.  But on a tombstone of James Arbuckle in Clark County, IN his age at death is measured in years, months, and days, and it translates to a birthdate of March 17, 1766.  That was before his dad, Thomas, married Elizabeth Lawrence, and some researchers say that Thomas was first married to Betsy Thompson who died when James was an infant.  Thomas was only 19 in 1766 and the next year he married Elizabeth Lawrence.

The Thompsons, Arbuckles, and Lawrences were Virginians and lived in western VA in a sparsely populated area.  There are plenty of court records for the area but birth, marriage and death records are scarce (unlike  New England).  Betsy's grandfather apparently was a pastor, but church records are hard to come by.  So all we know about her is that probably she and Thomas Arbuckle married young, she had a baby (or more?) and died very young.

The Lawrence family were like the Arbuckles, living "on the frontier" in the eighteenth century.  One of Thomas Arbuckle's brothers married the widow of one of Elizabeth's brothers.  Thomas and Elizabeth were married in 1767 and a few years later, Thomas was appointed by the court to be the surveyor of the land between "Hunley Hill and Kens Creek."

Much has been written about conflicts with the natives in the area.  Apparently the Virginia government made an agreement with the natives that settlers would go no further than a certain point, but people didn't pay any attention to it.  Elizabeth's husband was in the militia a good part of the time:  the French-Indian war, the Revolutionary War, and he was in the militia at other times.  They had at least eight children, and when one of Elizabeth's brothers died, he left his six children in the care of Elizabeth and Thomas.

Several of Elizabeth's brothers were granted land in what would become Kentucky, and her birth family traveled through the Cumberland Gap up into Kentucky.  Elizabeth and Thomas either went with them or shortly thereafter, and bought, or were granted, 400 acres adjacent to Solomon Lawrence.  Elizabeth died in Kentucky in 1809 and Thomas and much of the family moved north, across the Ohio River, into Indiana.  He died there in Jennings County in 1843 when he was 93 years old.


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MARGARET WILSON GAMBLE born about 1780

In County Cavan, Ireland thee are two land records showing a partnership between George Gamble, whom Margaret married, and a Robert Wilson and a John Wilson who were probably relatives of hers, but I haven't been able to trace her family.  George and Margaret had six or seven children, and according to one cousin, their families were originally from Glasgow.  In 1821 after George's father died, the family, including George's widowed mother, went to America.

One of Margaret's sons, Robert, wrote the following in a letter in 1896 when he was 88.

"We lived in Rooskey Township which is 40 miles from Dublin.  My father and I was at the bank of Dublin getting some money changed, it was well guarded with soldiers, they had their red coats on and their big guns in their hands.  We left Rooskey the eighth day of May eighteen hundred and twenty one.  We staid one day in Dublin then my father got a ship that was to sail for St. John's New Brunswick that is in the British Dominion.  Then we landed in St. Johns then my brother William got sick and we stayed there nine days.  then my father got another ship that was loaded with plaster of paris to bring us to Moose Island on leubeck . . . then he got another ship to bring us to Baltimore then he hired a four horse team to bring us over the mountains to Steubenville that is on the Ohio River . . . then he hired another man to bring us to Leesville, Ohio to his brother."

According to a family story, and according to a history of Carroll County, Ohio, a daughter, Mathilda, died on the trip over and was buried at St. John's.  But Robert didn't mention that in his 1896 letter.

The Gambles eventually settled in Tuscarawas County, Ohio where they owned 480 acres.  In 1842, their son, Alexander, and his wife moved further west to Scott County, Indiana.

It's a small world.  Two hundred years after Margaret and George left Rooskey Township, my daughter married a man who also had ancestors there at the same time.


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ASCENITH HERRON ERVIN born about 1790

Ascenith, or Aunt Ceenie as the Herrons called her, was our grandpa Elijah Ervin's step mother.  There is a record of a marriage in 1826 in Harrison County, Ohio between her and John Ervin.  He already had several children though I've been unable to find a record of his first marriage.  Ascenith had a daughter, Elizabeth Hearn, and I first thought Herron was Ascenith's married name, but Herron researchers have told me that she was born in Maryland to William Herron.  She must have had Elizabeth out of wedlock.  Coincidently, Elizabeth married Reese Baldwin, brother of Sarah, who married Elijah, our grandpa and Ascenith's stepson.

John Ervin also was born in Maryland but moved west to Tuscarawas County, Ohio.  After he and Ascenith married, they had several more children.  John was fifteen or more years older than Ascenith.  When he died in 1861, his 80 acres passed to her, and he made bequests to all his children.

I have no record of when Ascenith died.






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KEZIAH DODD SAUNDERS born about 1730

The Dodds (sometimes shown as Dod) came from England in the seventeenth century and settled in Connecticut across the Long Island Sound from New York.  Keziah's parents moved east to Mendham, New Jersey around 1745.  She married Ephraim Saunders whose family also had come from England a few generations back and settled in Connecticut before moving to New Jersey.

Keziah and Ephraim named their children unusual names like Cyrus, Beniah, Asa, Ziba, Azuba, and Jeduthan.  At least two of their sons moved on west to Washington County, Pennsylvania.

The History of Morris County (Halsey) says this about the Dodds:

"The Dods possessed rare mathematical and mechanical genius.  They could both invent and execute.  They made all the clocks in Mendham.  They repaired all the guns. . . . The family were remarkable for their ingenuity.  There was almost nothing which they could not do, almost nothing which they could not make.  They were self taught."


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JERUSHA PENNINGTON SAUNDERS  

Keziah's mother-in-law, Ephraim's mother, who married Joseph Saunders, apparently was the daughter of Ephraim Pennington.  The Penningtons were from England and came to America in the seventeeth century.  The town of Pennington and its Presbyterian church were in Morris County, New Jersey.

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ELIZABETH RIGGS DODD   born about 1680

Keziah's paternal grandma was Elizabeth, the daughter of Joseph and Hannah Brown Riggs.  The Riggs family moved from England to Massachusetts in the 1630's and then to Connecticut and over to New Jersey where Elizabeth was born.  Elizabeth married Daniel Dodd, probably a surveyor, and they lived in Connecticut and then Mendham, New Jersey.  They had four children including Stephen who was the father of Keziah.


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PERMELIA SAUNDERS MURPHIN 1815 - 1886

Like several other of our ancestor families, the Saunders lived for a while in northern New Jersey, then Washington County, PA where Permelia was born to Jeduthan and Phoebe Saunders.  they were active in the Presbyterian church.

In about 1835 Permelia married John Murphin who had come to America from Liverpool, England where he had left his two children with their grandparents after his wife died.  John and Permelia had 9 children, the first named Phoebe after Permelia's mother, and the first boy named Jeduthan Saunders after her father.  In 1843, the family, and many of the Saunders family, moved down the Ohio River to southern Indiana.  John and Permelia settled in New Frankfort where John had a shoe shop.

John died in 1858 when Permelia was only 43 years old.  In September 1859 she married David McClain.

Five of John and Permelia's children died prematurely - three as children and two around age 30.  Permelia's brother, Cyrus, was the grandfather of Harlan Saunders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

In the 1870 census, Permelia's mother Phoebe, age 89, was living with Permelia and David as well as two children, no doubt by David's first wife.  David died in 1881, and according to a newspaper obit, "he was always clever and kind hearted, and goes to his last resting place without an enemy."

Permelia died when she was 71 and is buried in Whitson cemetery, Scott County, Indiana.


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SUSANNAH BLAND ARBUCKLE about 1772 - 1846

The Hardins Creek Baptist Church in Nelson County, Kentucky, has a record of the marriage in 1789 of Susannah and James Arbuckle. Susannah's mother, Rachel, gave permission.  Researcher Charles Bland believed Susannah was the daughter of John Bland whose ancestors were in Virginia a few generations and before that, England.  The Arbuckles were from Scotland, lived in Virginia for a while, then James' parents moved on up into Kentucky.

Susannah and James lived in Kentucky until 1814 when they moved north to Washington County, Indiana.  They had nine children.  They moved further north to Bartholomew County, about 40 miles south of Indianapolis, with their married son, John, and then east to Rush County where they died.

Susannah's tombstone in Rush County reads, "Susannah, Consort to James Arbuckell, Died Nov 29 1846 Aged 79 Years."

In Rush County is a place called Arbuckle Ditch.








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MARY JOHNSTON MONTGOMERY 1761 - 1847

Johnston is another common name and so hard to trace.  According to the History of Washington County, PA, William Johnston, Mary's dad, was there around 1778 and a year later had about 400 acres.  He was a Justice of the Peace.

Mary had two sisters and two brothers.  She and her sister Nancy married Montgomery brothers and her sister, Janet, married a Cunningham.  The girls and their father moved to Nelson County, KY at some point, but the boys stayed in Pennsylvania.  William died in Nelson County about 1813.  Mary and her husband had moved on up across the Ohio River to Clark County, Indiana where many of their 13 children married.  Clark County was home to many descendants of Mary and William.

Mary's father must have been fairly well off according to his will.  He left Mary's husband, William, over seven hundred dollars but left his own son, John, only one dollar.  He also mentioned two books in his will that he left to his grandchildren:  "History of Redemption: and "Affiliation Mans Companion."

Mary's husband, William, was 10 years older than she was.  He died in 1829, made many bequests in his will, and bequeathed to Mary "the mansion house in which I now live."  He also directed two of his sons to "support and maintain" their mother.

A tombstone in Clark County reads, "Mary, Wife of William Montgomery, Died Sept 1 1847, 85 Yrs."





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SARAH JANE MONTGOMERY ARBUCKLE 1792 - 1866

Known as Jane, she was born in Pennsylvania (some say KY) but lived in southern Indiana most of her life.  The name Montgomery is common, and her family could have come from anywhere in the British Isles.  Her father may have been an attorney or justice of the peace.  He was a landowner in both PA and Indiana.

Jane married Thomas Arbuckle in 1813 in Clark County, IN.  His family had been in America for several generations and had made journey across the mountains from western VA to KY and then across the Ohio River to Clark County, Indiana.  Both their families could have been from Scotland as his branch of the Arbuckles is thought to have been from Renfrew, Scotland and there were Montgomery immigrants from there as well.

When Thomas and Jane were married in 1813, southern Indiana was still sparsely populated.  Most of Jane's siblings lived in the area as well as many of Thomas' siblings and cousins.  Jane's dad died in l829 in Clark County, and among his bequests,

"I give and bequeath to my daughter, Jane Arbuckle, thirty dollars in money and one heifer that will have a calf spring."

Her husband died at age 60 in 1851.  One of their sons was killed in the Civil War.  Jane died in 1866 when she was 74.  She has a namesake born almost 200 years after she was - Sarajane Lynch.




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SARAH BALDWIN ERVIN 1816 - 1897

Leaving New England and moving forward a couple of hundred years, Sarah was born to William and Elizabeth Mann Baldwin who had married and had a few children in West Virginia, then moved north to Tuscarawas County, Ohio where Sarah was born.  If the Baldwin historians are to be believed, her Baldwin line can be traced back to Buckinghamshire, England and back to the 13th century.

Sarah married Elijah Ervin in 1838 in Tuscarawas County when she was 22 and he was 20.  Soon after, they moved west to Scott county, Indiana with her dad and several siblings.  Her brother wrote in a letter to his cousins,

"We are making preparations to move again in the spring to Scott County, Indiana, where we bought a farm containing 120 acres with a cabin house and stable and 25 acres cleared with 70 apple trees planted out for six hundred dollars . . . The Indiana fever is getting very high in this country.  There is a good many of our neighbors have gone and several more agoing with us . . . We all expect to go down the river except David.  He is going with the wagon as we think this would be the best way for us to go as there is so many of us that we all can't go in one wagon.  As it is dear traveling by land and cheap by water as we found some very high bills as we was going down from 37 1/2 to 62 for supper and bed.  The times is very hard in this country now for the poor people."

In the 1850 census, Elijah is shown as a fan dealer, and Sarah's youngest brother is living with them.  Her father died in Scott County in 1842 and her mother may have died back in Ohio.  In 1856 they moved further west to Vinton, Iowa and that is where my great grandfather Ebert was born.  There is a family story that as a child, Eb was stolen by the Indians on his pinto pony and later found, still on his pinto.  But the story goes that it wasn't really Eb who was found but a little Indian boy.  I believe the story was made up as a joke since Eb looked so much like a native American as did several of his children.

After about 10 years in Iowa, Sarah and Elijah moved back to Scott County.  In the l870 census, Elijah was a postmaster in Scott County, and he died when he was only 55.  In the 1880 census, Sarah is shown as a Seamstress and three of her boys live with her.  My grandma, Rose Lynch, would have know her grandma as Sarah died in 1897 when Grandma Rose was 8, but I never heard her talk about Grandma Sarah.


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PRISCILLA SYMONDS WARNER born about 1620

Priscilla probably was born in Essex County, England.  Her father, Mark, moved the family to Ipswich, Massachusetts about 1634.  She married John Warner there in about 1639.  Some researchers say she was John's second wife and that he had a few children when they married.  John also had been born in England and had come to Ipswich as a child with his father.

All of their children were born in Ipswich.  The court held a hearing about the death of their son, Daniel, by a tree falling on him.

In about 1665, a few families, including John and Priscilla's and Pricilla's sister, Susan Symonds Ayres's, established a new settlement further inland, more in the center of Massachusetts, which later was called Brookfield.  In l675, some of the settlers were ambushed by the natives and Pricilla's brother in law was killed.  All the others holed up in the Ayer's home for three days while the natives burned the rest of the town.  When the siege was over, the settlement broke up, many traveling back to the coast.  John and Priscilla moved to Hadley, about 20 or 30 miles further west where two of their married sons lived.

In Hadley, John petitioned to be allowed out of the military because of ill health, and he died in 1692 while in his 70's.  There is no record of Priscilla's death.


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JERUSHA DIKE RIDER born about 1737

Dudley, Massachusetts records include the marriage in 1757 of Daniel Rider and Jerusha Dike.  She seems to fit into the family of Nathanial Dike whose great grandfather had been in America since the 1620's and had died in a shipwreck.  The Dike's lived in several Massachusetts towns, and Jerusha's father, mother, and six children had been "warned out" of Rutland, MA in 1739.  The reason isn't shown in the records.

Jerusha's father was in several military expeditions and was killed during a battle in Canada in 1745.  Her husband, Daniel, had been born in Willington, CT and they moved to Tolland County CT where they raised their family.  They joined the Congregational Church there in 1772.  Daniel was in the French-Indian war.

Jerusha is a Biblical name that means "inheritance."  She is the only grandmother I've found with that name.  Her daughter, Rachel, married into the Warner family, her granddaughter into the McClure family, and Lemira McClure was my great-grandma who lived down the garden path while my mom was growing up.



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SARAH SKIPPER FAIRFIELD about 1639 - 1710

Sarah's last name was spelled "Skepper" in England but "Skipper" in America.  Sarah's dad, a clergyman, graduated from college in 1614 and lived in Lincolnshire, England.  In about 1638 he came to the Massachusetts Bay Company.  His first wife and several of his children by her died, and then he married Sarah Fisher and they had a daughter, Sarah, who grew up in Massachusetts (Wenham and Reading) during conflicts with the natives, the witch trials in Salem, political conflicts with England.  Sarah's half-sister was killed by the Indians.

Sarah married Walter Fairfield in 1654.  Walter was very active in the community, held political offices, and kept a tavern and inn.  In Essex court records, he was fined for "abusing Richard Coy's wife and children with words and blows" and later, for verbally abusing two other men.  Several other court actions mention him over the years.

At least four of Sarah's children died as infants or children.  She lived to be about 70.  Her husband, Walter, waited only a few months after her death to remarry.  He joined the church at age 86 and died at 92.



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SARAH FAIRFIELD NEEDHAM ABBE 1655 - 1742

Sarah grew up in Massachusetts just before the Salem witch trials.  At least one of her descendants researched the court records in Essex County, MA and found references to her and her father.  The Fairfields had been active members of the community since Sarah's grandfather had come to America from England.  Her mother's father, William Skepper, was a college graduate (in 1614!) and was an early settler in the Massachusetts Bay Company.

An unknown Needham was Sarah's first husband who apparently met an early death as she is referred to as "widow" in the record of her second marriage in 1683.  In the court records,

"June 1679 Sarah Needham and Philip Parsons, for fornication

November 1679  Sarah Needham, daughter of Walter, suspected of fornication.  Walter bound for her appearance at the next Ipswich Court.

March 1680  Walter Fayerfield, being bound to bring Sarah Needham into court and not appearing.

June 1681  Sarah presented for fornication, found to have borne a child, and fined (warrant dated June 29, 1681)."

In 1683, Sarah and Thomas Abbe were married and apparently moved to Enfield, CT where he was an early settler.  He also was in King Philip's War, was a selectman for six years and assessor.  He was one of a group who were ordered to pay a fine if they didn't cut brush "that they should have done last August."  Sarah and Thomas had 6 children.  I haven't found out what happened to the child born in 1681.

Sarah lived a long life and died in Enfield in 1742 when she was 87 years old.



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TABITHA ABBE WARNER born about 1696

Tabitha's grandparents moved from England to Massachusetts and her parents moved from Massachusetts to Enfield, Connecticut where she was born, grew up, and married John Warner after his first wife died.  She was only about 17 and he was 30.

Tabitha's father was very active in Enfield civic affairs and held several offices.  He also was a lieutenant in the French-Indian war and was wounded in battle.  Her mother's father, Walter Fairfield, was an attorney and said to descend from royalty a way back.

Tabitha's husband's family also was from England and had been in America for a few generations.  John Warner's grandfather had been in King Philip's war.  John, also, was in the military and before marrying Tabitha had been in a battle in which his brother was killed.

John had been married only for a year and had a 4 month old when his first wife died.  John and Tabitha were married in 1713, so at age 17 she became a wife and mother.  About 1720, they moved on southeast to Stafford, Tolland County, CT where John was the first town clerk.  They had eleven children.  I've found no death record for Tabitha.



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HULDAH SIMONDS BLODGETT 1666 - 1746 AND JUDITH PHIPPEN HAYWARD SIMONDS abut 1619 - 1689

Huldah's father came from England and settled in Woburn, Massachusetts.  In our family, there are three simmons/symonds/simmonds families, but I haven't been able to connect them.  Huldah's mother, Judith Phippen, was from Somerset, England.

Huldah married Samuel Blodgett in 1683 in Woburn, Massachusetts.  They had ten children and a long marriage.  He died in 1742 and she died a few years later.

Huldah's mother, Judith, came to America as a servant in the Davis family at age 16 from Somerset, England to Massachusetts.  Also on the ship was another servant to the Davis family, James Hayward.  James and Judith were married when their indentures were up.  However, James died shortly after they married and she then married William Simonds who also had lost his mate.

William and Judith lived in Woburn and had eleven children.  Judith's mother in England died just a few years after she arrived in America and her dad died in 1642 and named her in his will.  Judith died in Woburn in 1689.



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KATHERINE BLODGETT WARNER 1717 - 1802

Thomas and Susan Blodgett came to America from Suffolk, England in 1635 with three small children.  He died before he was 40, and in his will wrote about his children,

"should they have a father-in-law [stepfather] who does not treat them well, my will is that the Deacons and our brother Fessington and our brother Windship, they, or either of them, should have the power to see unto it and reform it by one means or another."

His great-granddaughter was Katherine Blodgett who married John Warner.

The Blodgetts had settled in Massachusetts, but Katherine's father, Joshua, and some of his brothers moved from eastern Massachusetts to north central Connecticut in Tolland County in 1719 when Katherine was only 2.  Joshua had married a woman named Dinah (many think Dinah Morse) in Massachusetts, and she sued him for abandoment.  One book states, "Joshua disappeared from Stafford about 1734 on account of some social disfunction."

Katherine married John Warner who had been born in Connecticut, and they lived in Stafford and were members of the First Congregational Church where the births of their ten children were documented, including our grandfather, Moses Warner.  Katherine died in 1802 when she was 85.



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ELIZABETH NORTON STOVER about 1636 - 1714

When I saw the movie "Henry VIII" as a teenager, I had no idea I was connected to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Henry VIII's friend and advisor.  The one who broke from the Catholic Church and granted King Henry's divorces and eventually was executed.  Grandma Elizabeth's great great grandpa was the brother of Thomas Cranmer, the Bishop of Canterbury.  Her great grandma, Alice Cranmer, niece of the bishop, spent her last years at a hospital for the insane.  Her great grandfather, Thomas Norton, was a member of Parliament and a playwright.

Elizabeth's father came to America about 1633 and married his wife in York, Maine.  He became the Marshall of York and later went back to England and was never heard from again.  His wife was Margaret, and according to one book her "presence in their home [Elizabeth and her husband's] evidently caused many of the troubles of their early married life."

Sylvester Stover, to whom Elizabeth was married in York in 1652, was a fisherman and ferryman who had been born in Suffolk, England.  They lived in York and had 9 children, two of whom had children who married each other.  Elizabeth moved to Scituate, Massachusetts after Sylvester died and died there in 1714.




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ABIGAIL ELWELL STOVER, about 1676 to 1741, METHIBLE MILLET ELWELL, born 1641, MARY GREENOWAY MILLET about 1606 to 1682

Grandma Abigail's grandfathers had been early residents of New England, and she married George Stover whose father had come from Suffolk, England.  They were married in Gloucester, MA in 1692 and had 12 children.

The Elwells were from Stoke Abbot, Devonshire in the southwest.  After coming to America, her grandfather, Robert Elwell, held several governmental appointments.


Grandma Methible's parents came to America from England in 1635, a few years before she was born.  She married Isaac Elwell and they had seven children, including Grandma Abigail, above, and lived in Gloucester, MA.


Her mother, Grandma Mary Greenoway Millet, came when she was 29, from St. Saviour, Southwark, with her husband, Thomas, and two year old son.  Her parents, John and Mary Greenoway had come a few years earlier and settled in Dorchester MA where her father was a millwright, and according to one book,
"of much esteem."



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DEBORAH STOVER HEAL Born about 1730

The Stovers came from Suffolk, England to America in the early seventeenth century and settled in York, Maine, in the southwestern corne of the state.  Deborah's parents, Mary and Isaac Stover, were first cousins whose fathers were brothers.

Deborah married Peter Heal whose father had settled in New England, and according to some, under mysterious circumstances.  Perhaps he was shipwrecked off the coast, perhaps he was escaping from France and using an alias.  There also was a Peter Heal on a ship's passenger list bound for Virginia from England.

In the vital records of York,

"Mr. Peter Heall resident of York and Deborah Stover . . . married May 11, 1752 by the Rev. Mr. Issac Lyman."

They had six children, born in Georgetown, Maine, east of York but still on the southern end of Maine.  Son Isaac named his daughter Deborah Heal, and her son named his daughter Deborah Young, and she was our first ancestor on the Heal/Stover branch to marry and live in Scott County, Indiana.

Apparently Deborah died in her forties and her husband married again.




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ELIZABETH PARTRIDGE SHAW Born 1642

The Partridge family came from Buckinghamshire, England and settled in Massachusetts.  Elizabeth's parents, William and Ann, were married in England but all their children were born in Massachusetts.  Elizabeth's grandfather, John Partridge, stayed in Olney, England but in his will mentioned his grandchildren in New England.

Probably in those days women weren't allowed to own anything as the bulk of his estate was left to several men, probably sons-in-law- to "maintain the widow as long as she should live."  Elizabeth's grandmother was named Frances.

Elizabeth married Joseph Shaw who had been born in Cheshire, England and had come to America with his parents.  They were married in June of 1661 shortly after his father died and left him a 100 acre farm in southeastern New Hampshire.  Elizabeth and Joseph had 9 children according to Rockingham County records.







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ELIZABETH SHAW YOUNG 1664 - 1708

While I was growing up, we had neighbors named Shaw, but I had no idea then that I had a Grandma Shaw.  She was born in that southeastern corner of New Hampshire, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Partridge Shaw.  Her father and two grandfathers had been born in England.  When Elizabeth was 18, she married Aaron Sleeper, also born in New Hampshire, and his father also had come over from England.

Elizabeth lived through hard times between the natives and the British government.  She and Aaron had seventeen children, including a couple of sets of twins.  She died at age 44, perhaps of childbirth as her last child was born in 1708, leaving behind many young children.




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ELIZABETH SLEEPER YOUNG BORN ABOUT 1684

I haven't found just where Grandma Elizabeth was born but she married Joseph Young in 1705 and they lived in Kingston, New Hampshire, in the southeast corner of the state.  Her grandfather and Joseph's grandfather had been immigrants from England.  Elizabeth was the daughter of Aaron and Elizabeth Shaw Sleeper.

Joseph was a carpenter and they had at least seven children, born in the early 1700's in Kingston.  The City Clerk sent me the handwritten record, above.  Elizabeth and Joseph lived through hard times - - friction with the natives and also with Britain.  So far I haven't found a record of Elizabeth's death.




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SARAH WADLEIGH YOUNG Born about 1656

Grandma Sarah led a hard life.  She was born in New Hampshire, the daughter of Robert Wadleigh who was an assemblyman for a while and a judge, and she married John Young about 1672.  They had at least 6 children and lived in Exeter in southeast New Hampshire.

The King of England appointed a governor to New Hampshire who was unpopular, and because the Assembly wouldn't cooperate with him, he dissolved it in about 1692.  He had wanted to change the method of creating the Assembly from elections to appointment by the sheriff as was done in England.  One assemblyman, Ed Gove, organized a short-lived rebellion with a group of men that included three of Sarah's brothers.  One account says the brothers were not punished for participating in the rebellion, one says all three were imprisoned, and one says only one brother was sent to prison in England for a year.

Sarah's husband, John, had a tavern in Exeter, and at least three times, according to the town records, he was fined for trading liquor with the Indians which was illegal at that time.  His death was reported in the town history as follows:

"A remarkable coincidence which resulted in frustrating a plan formed by a party of savages for the destruction of the town, occurred on June 9, 1697 . . . a party of women and children went into the woods . . . for the purpose of picking strawberries.  To frighten them, someone, without the least suspicion that an enemy was near, fired an alarm . . . In point of fact, a party of Indians were at that very time lying in ambush in another part of town with the intention of making an assualt the next morning, but hearing the alarm, they supposed they were discovered, and hurriedly decamped killing on their way, John Young, wounding his son, a child, and taking captive a third."

Sarah was only in her early forties when this happened and perhaps remarried, but I haven't found a record of her remarriage nor when or where she died.




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JEMIMA CILLEY YOUNG 1735 - 1826

The descendants of Grandma Jemima have spent much time trying to determine her parentage.  No birth record has been found and birth records in New England have been so available (compared to Virginia where they are skimpy).  My best guess is that she is the daughter of John and Elizabeth Glidden Sellea, both because there is a gap in their reported children - - from 1726 in New Hampshire to 1740 in Maine - - and because a Charles Glidden witnessed her husband's signature on a document.

Jemima married Gideon Young in 1761.  Gideon's ancestor, John Young, had arrived in New Hampshire fromn England over 100 years earlier, and Gideon and some brothers moved on into Maine around 1760.  Jemima and Gideon had eleven children, some in Bristol, ME and some in Camden.  Some of the children moved on to Lincolnville and that's where Jemima was living when she died.  If we are to believe her age in her obituary, she had four of her children when she was in her forties.

According to the Hancock Gazette in Belfast, Maine,

"In Lincolnville . . widow Jemima Young, age 91, she was one of the first settlers of the town.  She had 11 children, 72 grandchildren, and 65 great grandchildren."






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DEBORAH HEAL YOUNG BORN 1781

Grandma Deborah's immigrant, her great-great grandpa Peter Heal, came to Maine about 1730.  Some say he was a French protestant minister, fleeing France after the crackdown on protestants.  Others say he was English or Irish, as were all the other ancestors and lateral relatives.  An article in the Bath (Maine) Index from 1914 suggests the last name was really Dillon or DeLeon, and that perhaps Peter was on a ship wrecked off the coast and just stayed in Maine.

Deborah was born in Edgecombe, Maine to Isaac and Ruth Dunton Heal.  When she was only 15, she married Elijah Young whose ancestors had been in New England since the early 1600's.  They had seven children (that I know of) including two sets of twins.  Son Abner married Jane Waldsmith and settled in Scott County, Indiana.  One or two of their other children also lived in southern Indiana.

There is no record of Deborah or Elijah's deaths in Maine and some have speculated that in the early nineteenth century they moved with their family to Ohio.  My great-great aunt, Larua McClure Milhous, wrote that she had once seen a letter from her great-grandmother, Deborah.



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CHRISTINA APOLLONIA WELLER WALDSCHMIDT born about 1692

Apollonia was the daughter of John and Gertrude Heidersdorf Weller.  Her mother died when she was only 3 years old.  Her dad attended Herborn University and was a pastor first at Elsoff and then at Erndtbruck, both towns in Wittgenstein and not far from Dillenburg where her mother was born.  Her birth rcord reads "anna" but other records show "Christina."

Apollonia married John Heinrich Waldschmidt in Dillenburg in 1718.  They had 8 children born in Dillenburg, including John who attended Hebron like his maternal grandfather, became a Reformed minister, and went to America.

I have found no death records for Apollonia or for John Heinrich.










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MARIA ELISABETHA GRUBE WALDSCHMIDT 1733 - 1803

In the town of Kusel, Germany Grandma Maria was born in 1733 to Johannes Christian Grube and Susannah Schreiner.  It was recoded in the Reformed Church records.  Five years later, the family which included Maria's two older brothers, took the ocean voyage to America and settled in Berks County, PA.

As Maria was growing up in Berks County, John Waldschmidt attended the University of Herborn in Germany studying for the ministry, was recruited for a post in America, and arrived in Philadelphia in 1752.  He had Reformed churches in Lancaster and Berks counties, and the Grubes were members of one of his congregations.  In 1754, when Maria was 21 and he was 30, they married.  In 1755, they purchased 100 acres where they lived with their 8 children.

Grandma Maria must have been pretty tough as her husband had several congregations to serve and would have been away from home a lot.  His church records still survive in the Pennsylvania Archives.  Perhaps she ended up with an emotional illness as the following is in the record.

"A circumstance in connection with his [John Waldschmidt] tombstone happened about six years later [6 years after he died in 1786] which was thought very singular, and which is not only traditionally remembered in our neighborhood, but we find a record of it in the church book.  On a Sunday, June 1, 1793, while a large congregation was assembled in the church, listening to the Word of God, and when the winds were quiet, the tombstone of Rev. Waldschmidt suddenly broke off at the top and fell flat on the tomb.  Many saw it and all heard it fall.  The wonder in connection with this event was vastly increased in the minds of the people by the fact that Mrs. Waldschmidt [Grandma Maria] who was demented long before, and had not spoken a word for years, began to speak again with others on that same day."

The pastor's estate papers show he had 175 books in Hebrew, Latin, German and Dutch.

One Grube researcher claimed the family was from Switzerland and very well off financially.  But the record is pretty clear that Grandma Maria's dad was a shoemaker and her Grube grandparents innkeepers in Kusel, Germany.

Maria died in 1803 when she was 70 years old.




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CATHARINA BOLENDER WALDSCHMIDT 1765 - 1810

Grandma Catharine's birth was recorded by our ancestor, Pastor Waldschmidt, in the church records.  The Pastor wrote that she was the daughter of Peter and Fronica.  In Peter's will, he names his wife, Maria Barbara.  So Catharina's mother is in question, but most seem to think that Peter was just married once - to Maria Barbara - and that Pastor Waldschmidt had the name "Fronica" on his mind since he'd written it in his record book several times recently.

Catharina was brought up in southeastern Pennsylvania where there were several German settlements.  The German language was spoken and residents belonged to the German Reformed Church.  Catharina's father, Peter, probably immigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania in l750 and settled in Berks County.  Her dad died when she was a child and she married Christian, the pastor's son, when she was only 15 and he was 25.

Christian was in the Revolutionary War.  After the war, they may have moved to the Brush Valley in central PA or to Norristown near Philadelphia, or both.  In l796 they moved on west to southwestern Ohio.  According to one publication, the Waldschmidts and the group they moved with. did so because they were "compelled to leave the county" due to their affiliation with a Piest Church "which was offensive."  This may not be true at all.  A man named Fitzwater who was a child during the trip to Ohio wrote the following.

"C. Waldsmith, our own family, and four other families started for this State on or near the first of May, 1796 . . . A day or two after leaving Pittsburg, Christian Waldsmith was walking on a sand bar when he picked up a fife which looked very ancient.  The brass on the ends was black and somewhat corroded, and it was full of sand.  It was supposed it had been in the river since Braddock's defeat - nearly forty-one years . . . After being on the river seven weeks, we landed at Columbia.  The Miami was pouring out muddy water and driftwood.  This was the first sight I got of that river. . . Not far above the mouth of the Miami the boat which contained Waldsmith's family ran aground. The four men and a boy tried to get it afloat that afternoon and into the night, but did not succeed.  The next morning another boat came along, when they hailed the inmates for assistance . .  . in two or three hours the boat was afloat . . . Waldsmith was so pleased to get his boat afloat that he told them he would give them ten gallons of whiskey for their services.  They brought a keg which held three gallons, and he filled that."

The Waldschmidts Americanized their name to Waldsmith, built a paper mill, distillery, school and church on 1000 acres which they apparently bought for $1 per acre.  In 1804 they built a house that is now an historic landmark.  They had nine children.  The oldest son, Peter, married Hannah Long whose family I've been unable to trace.

Catharina died in 1810 when she was only 45 years old.  Her husband and one son died in the flu epidemic four years later.



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RACHEL RIDER WARNER 1761 - 1850

Both sides of Grandma Rachel's family had been in New England for over 100 years before she was born in Stafford, Connecticut in 1761.  Her parents were Daniel and Jerusha Dike Rider and they belonged to the First Congregational Church which kept good records still available.

Rachel married Moses Warner whose family also had come to the US from England  in the early seventeenth century.  They had eleven children, all listed in the vital records of Stafford.  Their first-born daughter, Orilla, married into the McClure line, and her family moved to western New York in l806.

Sometime after their eleventh child was born in 1803, Rachel and Moses moved to Erie County, PA, that northwestern block of Pennsylvania that juts up to Lake Erie between New York and Ohio.  I haven't been able to learn why they moved there, to a place so far west and away from family.  Erie County is about l00 miles further west from where their daughter, Orilla, moved in l806.

Moses died in Erie County in 1840, and Rachel lived to be 89 years old and died in l850.




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MIRIAM GREEN RICHARDSON 1720 - 1804

Grandma Miriam lived through the Revolutionary Way, too, in New England.  She married Uriah Richardson who was born in Grenwich, Massachusetts, and they lived together in Stafford, Connecticut.  Miriam attended the Stafford Congregational Church, and a church record reads

"A child of Mrs. Uriah Richardson was baptized being offered by his Wife alone, he being of the Baptist denomination.  May 6, 1754"

It looks as if Miriam and Uriah had only four children who survived to adulthood.  When Uriah died, he willed Miriam a portion of the farm and the east end of the house, as well as "personal property" like towels, a sheet, pillowcases, a warming pan, Bible, and so on.  His two living children and heirs of the two daughters who had died, also received bequests of land and personal property. 

It's one thing to learn in history about 18th century women's rights and another to see first hand how your grandmother had to inherit the bedclothes she slept on and pans she cooked on, and that the church record had to point out that her husband was not involved in the baptism of his child.

Miriam was a daughter of Jacob and Dorthy Linde Green.  Both families immigrated to Massachusetts from England in the seventeenth century.  Miriam lived to be 84 years old and died in Stafford.




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HANNAH RICHARDSON MCCLURE 1747 - 1782

Grandma Hannah was almost left out of our family tree.  Her husband, David McClure, a Revolutionary War medical doctor, was married three times.  In an early 20th century letter to a great-uncle, a contact in Connecticut wrote that David McClure's mother was Lucy Kibbe.  But a check of official records shows that David's father, Dr. David McClure, first married Jane Moore, then after she died, he married Hannah in Stafford, Connecticut in 1768.  She was only 20 and he was 35.  Also, the transcribed Stafford vital records lists her as "Mrs." but copies of the First Congregational Church handwritten records clearly show "Miss."

Hannah lived through a hard time - - the Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783) in which her husband was a medical doctor and no doubt away from home a lot.  She died when she was only 34 and our ggg grandfather, David, was a boy of six.  His father married a third time in about 1788 when David was 10 to Lucy Kibbe.

Grandma Hannah's ancestors were active in their communities over the years.  The Richardsons were early immigrants and have been traced to England in the sixteenth century.  Her mother's family, the Greens, were in New England in the early 17th century and one source states her grandpa was a Harvard graduate.  Hannah and David lived in Stafford, Connecticut and attended the First Congregational Church.

There is a family story about her husband's gravestone.  My great aunt and uncles were in Roxbury, VT in 1958 and searched for Dr. David McClure's gravestone.  They were directed to a man's barn where the gravestone had been stored after the cemetery was moved.  My aunts and uncle stashed the gravestone in the trunk of their car and took it back to New Frankfort, IN.




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ORILLA WARNER MCCLURE 1782 - 1849

Grandma Orilla lived in New York state.  Her son, gg grandfather Dexter, moved on out to Indiana but many of the rest of the family stayed in New York and were not close with the Indiana cousins.  Her name is unusual and a Spanish word, but I've never uncovered any Spanish ancestors.  Her family tree seems to be all English.

Orilla was born in Connecticut to Moses and Rachel Rider Warner whose families had been in New England for several generations.  She met and married David McClure whose father had been a medical doctor during the Revolutionary War.  They married June 1805 in Stafford, CT, and on June 19, l806, set out for eastern New York state, arriving July 3.  Their first child, Hiram, was born in April 1806, so they made the trip with a small infant.

Hiram's daughter, Agnes, who died in 1940, wrote,
"The year of his [her father, Hiram's] birth, 1806, there was an eclipse of the sun and his mother - Grandmother Orilla Warner McClure - determined to give her first born every advantage and experience possible, carried him out of doors that he might behold the wonder of the heavens and take his first lesson in astronomy."

Orilla and David had nine children, three of them becoming medical doctors like their grandfather McClure.  They lived in Cattaraugus County in the southwestern part of the state.  Orilla died when she was 67 years old and they are buried in Cadiz Cemetery.

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MARIAH WHITCRAFT CARLILE 1799 - 1843

There are no family stories about Grandma Maria.  She was Belle Gamble's grandmother but died before Belle was born.  Belle was my dad's grandmother.  Maria was born in County Cavan, Ireland in l799 and traveled with her family across the ocean to Pennsylvania when she was a baby.  Two or three of her siblings died on the trip over.  From Pennsylvania, the Whitcrafts moved to eastern Ohio where Maria met James Carlile, whose family also was from County Cavan, and married him.

The Whitcrafts may originally have been from Scotland or England.  There are Wheatcrofts, Whitecrafts, and similar names throughout the British Iles.  Tuscarawas and Carroll counties in Ohio were the destinations of a lot of Scots-Irish.  The same is true of Carlile and all its spellings.

Maria had nine sibling who lived and married in Ohio.  She and her husband moved on to Scott County, Indiana about 1837 after her mother died in Ohio in 1834.  James and Mariah had thirteen children, then she died in l843, perhaps in childbirth since their youngest son, James, was born in l843.



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ROBERT GAMBLE LETTER OF 1896

Robert Gamble was born l807 in County Cavan and lived most of his life in Ohio.  He was the oldest brother of great-great grandfather, Alex Gamble.

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Van Wert, Ohio
1896, June 19

Dear Nephew and Family - -

As I am all alone, I will converse with you through the silent language (this pen) hoping when these few lines reach you that they may find that you are all in the enjoyment of good health as they leave us all here at the present writing except myself.  I am not so well as I ought to be on account of a hurt I got last fall in crossing my own fence eight rails high.  I thought nothing of jumping down as I allways [sic] have done but I strained the neck of my bladder and I had to have the doctor to wait on me for three days but I am in tolerable health again for a man my age.  I sent east to my cousin Alexander Gamble to know my age.  He can tell my age by his brother William who married my sister Isabell and I am a little younger than him.  [This Alexander and Willliam are first cousins of our great great grandfather, Alexander.)

My brother-in-law William Gamble will be 90 years old this coming September and I will be 89 years old this next December on the 25th day of December, 1896.  As I, Robert, am the oldest of the Gambles now living, I will give you a small account of the Gambles.  It may be a satisfaction to you in your old days to know how many uncles you have and their names.  I will give you the name of the township your father came from, or the parish we call it.  We came from County Cavan.  We lived in Rooskey Township that is 40 miles from Dublin.  My father and I was in the bank of Dublin getting some money changed, it was well guarded with soldiers, they had their red coats on and their big guns in their hands.  We left Rooskey the eighth day of May eighteen hundred and twenty one.  We staid [sic] one day in Dublin then my father got a ship that was to sail the next day for Saint John's New Brunswick that is in the British Dominion.  Then we landed in Saint John's New Brunswick, then my brother William got sick and we staid there nine days.  Then my father got another ship that was loaded with the plaster of paris to bring us to moose island on leubeck, the lake or river was between them, then he got another ship to bring us to Baltimore, then he hired a four horse team to bring us over the mountains to Steubenville that is on the Ohio River.  His name was Sam Quaintance.  Then he hired another man to bring us to Leesburg, Ohio, to his brother.  The man's name was John Maddin.  So we staid there all winter with his brother and in the spring my father had enough of money to enter eighty acres of land in the woods.  Then it was root, hot, or die.  You would laugh to see my father chopping.  He would stand on the ground and chop big logs and little ones too.  Well, I must tell how many uncles you had in Ireland.  My Uncle John Gamble is the oldest.  He had Robert Edward and Mary Jane and Moses, then his wife dies and he would not let him get married  again.  so he got a nice little woman to live in one of his houses about 40 rods from his house and supported her there, she was a nice young woman and she had one child to him.  His name was John.  The woman's name was Ginny Murray so he died.  He was middling well off then.  My father had another brother, his name was James, he would drink whiskey so he was coming home from the market late, he had been drinking whiskey, and he fell off the bridge and drowned in about a foot deep of water.  It was supposed he had hurt himself for he was lying on his face when found.  Then there was another brother, his name was Alexander, he lived in Baltimore.  He was rich, he followed  bottling whiskey but he was dead when we came to Baltimore.

Names of all my children.  My first wife's name was Malinda Price, whe was seventeen years old the day that we were married.  Our first child was a girl, we called he Margaret Jane, the second was a boy we called him William Willson, the next was a girl her name was Mary Ann, the next was a girl we called her Malinda Louise, the next was still born.  These are all my first wife's children.  My second wife's name was Jane Patterson, she was eighteen years old when we got married.  Our first child was a boy we called him Robert Wesley, the next was a girl her name was Matilda Leticia, the next was a boy his name was Richard Weirick, the next was Clarinda Isabell, the next was Amanda Maria, the next was Daniel George.  Now I will give you the name of my last wife her name was Mary Wolfe, she was just the same age of my first child Malinda.  Our first child was Nannie Catherine, the second was Daniel George, the next was Richard Weirick and Martha Emily.  My uncle William Gamble's family was Robert John and William and Anne and Alexander.  They are all dead but Alexander my brother.  William's children were Calvin and Rowley and George Leonard, Omar and Sarah Jane.

Yours truly -

Robert Gamble

Girls.   You put some dough in a dish what makes them pick it.  Answer in your next letter.  Robert, what goes through the water and through the water and never touches it.  Robert, Uncle George and wife is dead and Uncle John Gamble's wife is dead last week.  I got my spectacles broke and I have to write without my glasses.  Robert, I have put a nice monument up to my wife's grave in Woodland Cemetry, it cost three hundred dollars  it is the finest granite I ever saw  their is not a cloud on it.  It is as nice a monument as you ever saw, it took four horses to haul it, it is beautiful.  Write soon.

GAMBLE/CARLILE GRAVESTONE

In 1997 descendants visit the gravesite of Elizabeth Carlile and Alexander Gamble.

L to R Mimi Kruse Trenholme, Robert Lynch, Jude Lamare, and Steve Lynch

ELIZABETH CARLILE GAMBLE 1819 - 1890

Grandma Elizabeth was the oldest in a family of 13 kids.  At least three of her sisters died as young women.  She was born and married in Carroll County, Ohio, but the family (including her parents and siblings) moved on west to Scott county, IN in l842 where she and her husband Alex raised their family of 10.  The move must have been hard for her with a one-year old and either pregnant or with a newborn.  And knowing that her husband was leaving his family in Ohio.

It is a small world.  My Aunt Mabel, maternal aunt, married (as a second husband) the grandson of Elizabeth (my paternal gg grandmother).  The first man I wanted to marry ended up marrying a descendant of Elizabeth's sister (none of three of us grew up in Scott County).

Elizabeth's great niece wrote,  "The Carlyles were chased out of Scotland by dogs when the Catholics chased the Covenanters or Scottish anti-Catholics out of Scotland.  Groups of men were driven to the edge of the Irish Sea by angry men with dogs.  Some swam out to little rocky islands off the coast and were later rescued by Irishmen in small boats . . . Grandfather's [Elizabeth's brother's] mother, Mary Whitcraft, was born in Ireland and came to America when quite a young girl.  Grandfather remembered his grandfather Whitcraft and said he spoke with a broad Irish brogue."

Elizabeth was the granddaughter of a Scottish or Irish immigrant and daughter of an Irish immigrant, and she married Alexander Gamble who was born in County Cavan, Ireland and came with his family to Ohio in 1821 when he was about 7.  The Gambles probably were Scots who moved to Ireland for a few generations before coming to America.

Elizabeth's mother, Mary Whitcraft Carlile, died the same year they moved from Ohio to Indiana, but many of Elizabeth's children made their homes in Scott County.  She died there in l890 at age 71.


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