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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Monday, January 30, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
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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Saturday, January 28, 2012
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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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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Friday, January 27, 2012
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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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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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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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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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Monday, January 23, 2012
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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Saturday, January 21, 2012
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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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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Thursday, January 19, 2012
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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"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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Monday, January 16, 2012
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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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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Saturday, January 14, 2012
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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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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Thursday, January 12, 2012
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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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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Sunday, January 8, 2012
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.
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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.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
GAMBLE/CARLILE GRAVESTONE
L to R Mimi Kruse Trenholme, Robert Lynch, Jude Lamare, and Steve Lynch
Friday, January 6, 2012
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.
sue<William Ervin Lynch<Ivan Ebert Lynch<Belle Gamble Lynch<Elizabeth Carlile Gamble
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.
sue<William Ervin Lynch<Ivan Ebert Lynch<Belle Gamble Lynch<Elizabeth Carlile Gamble
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
MARY JANE (MOLLY) MCFALL MURPHIN 1844 - 1913
John McFall and Rebecca Gaddis had been married only 3 years when Rebecca died, leaving a 1 year old son, and a 1 month old, Mary Jane, known as Molly. John remarried a few years later, and Scott County, Indiana census records show he lived with his wife, son James and daughter Margaret. According the the census, he and his parents had been born in Canada.
An obit from Clay City, Illinois cites Molly as the adoped daughter of Isaac and Malinda Miller Patterson. That is odd because in the l850 and 1860 census (when she was 7 and 17), Molly was living with Mary Miller. I've wondered if Mary Miller was Molly's grandma, and if perhaps Malinda Miller Patterson was her aunt. The Pattersons moved from Scott County, Indiana to Illinois in l862.
During the Civil War (1861 - 1865), Morgan's Raiders of the south went through Scott County, Indiana. Jed was in the Union army from 1862 to 1865. He and Molly were married during the war in November 1864 when she was 20. They had only three children and the youngest died in childhood. After the war, Jed had a chair factory in Scott County.
Jed and Molly had lived together nearlty 50 years when he died in 1912, Molly died of tuberculosis a year later when she was 69, the year my dad was born. I've never seen a photo of Molly.
Sue<William Ervin Lynch<Cora Rose Ervin Lynch<Minnie Murphin Ervin<Molly McFall Murphin
An obit from Clay City, Illinois cites Molly as the adoped daughter of Isaac and Malinda Miller Patterson. That is odd because in the l850 and 1860 census (when she was 7 and 17), Molly was living with Mary Miller. I've wondered if Mary Miller was Molly's grandma, and if perhaps Malinda Miller Patterson was her aunt. The Pattersons moved from Scott County, Indiana to Illinois in l862.
During the Civil War (1861 - 1865), Morgan's Raiders of the south went through Scott County, Indiana. Jed was in the Union army from 1862 to 1865. He and Molly were married during the war in November 1864 when she was 20. They had only three children and the youngest died in childhood. After the war, Jed had a chair factory in Scott County.
Jed and Molly had lived together nearlty 50 years when he died in 1912, Molly died of tuberculosis a year later when she was 69, the year my dad was born. I've never seen a photo of Molly.
Sue<William Ervin Lynch<Cora Rose Ervin Lynch<Minnie Murphin Ervin<Molly McFall Murphin
Monday, January 2, 2012
SARAH NANCY ARBUCKLE LYNCH 1826 - 1919
Pete was said to have murdered a man in a bar fight, but court records show a $2 fine for assult and battery. Enough family stories exist that I think he must have been a short-tempered man. Also, Sarah and Pete had to face the tragedy of one of Pete's brother-in-law's lynching, and the arrest for murder of another brother-in-law. According to newspaper stories, three men (two of them married to Pete's sisters) planned to rob an old woman near Brownstown, Indiana. Two of them went to her home and ended up murdering her. Those two were later pulled out of jail by a lynch mob and hung. The other brother-in-law apparently was released and moved out of state.
Sarah and Pete had about 8 children and lived in a log cabin in western Scott County, near Little York. In 2000, the cabin was still standing and inhabited. After Pete died in l902, Sarah lived with her youngest son, Wid, and his wife, and then with her grandson, Ivan, and his wife, until she died in 1919.
My dad, a son of Ivan, knew Grandma Sarah when he was a youngster. When his first child was born, he named her Nancy Jane. Was that for his Grandma Sarah, and her mom, Jane? When his first son was born, he wanted to name him Pete after his great-grandfather. My mother, his wife, said she would not name a child after a murderer and named him Robert. However, everyone called Robert "Petie" until he started to school.
Sarah's mother was probably of English descent - her father a Montgomery and her mother a Johnston. Both those families also were in southern Indiana in the early nineteenth century. Sarah inherited good genes and she lived to be 93 years old.
sue<William Ervin Lynch<Ivan Ebert Lynch<William Taylor Lynch<Sarah Arbuckle Lynch
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