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| 401 | Sponsors: Johann Bergbauer & Anna Bergbauer, his wife. | Muehlbauer, Johann Philipp (I1982)
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| 402 | Sponsors: Michael Muehlbauer & Anna Maria Muehlbauer | Muehlbauer, Anna Maria (I195)
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| 403 | Sponsors: Henry Simon & Franciska Simon. | Muehlbauer, Franciska (I307)
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| 404 | St. Agatha's 1-8, Power memorial 9-12, Likes Irish Music. | Ross, Thomas Michael (87038688)
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| 405 | St. Benet Fink. | Willett, William (I2844)
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| 406 | St. Joseph Cemetery. | Schmitt, Cecelia Margaret (I201)
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| 407 | St. Joseph's Church | Family: Walter Phillip Sterneman / Mary Ann Muehlbauer (F2)
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| 408 | St. Wendle's Catholic Church, Evansville, IN | Family: Francois Joseph Schmitt / Amalia Regina Dudenhoeffer (F7)
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| 409 | Story from a person on ancestry.com. "The story goes that he was part of some "way out" religion and that he stole the children from his first wife Eleizbeth Bettie Hayden, and that she went and stole the children back. It apperas that he was part of the Restoration Movement and left Lexington, KY with a group of people intent upon founding a new church. | Perkins, Greene Anderson (78601948)
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| 410 | Taken from "Haydock Family Notes," by Melbourne Smith. After the death of their parents the children were "apprenticed" to various members of the Society of Friends. Following the expiration of their terms of apprentice ship in Rahway, New Jersey, the three oldest children, Mary, Joseph and Gideon A. moved to Smithland, Marchall County, Kentucky, near the mouth of the Cumberland River. This was presumably between 1825 and 1830, the exact date is not known. Gideon A. Haydock died on his farm in Marshall County, Kentucky on March 6, 1850, at age 47. ********************************************************************* Taken from "The Story of Great Grandmother Leech." Elizabeth Haydock Leech was born in Smithland, Kentucky, September 26, 1833. Her mother, Harriet Conway, was of Irish descent, her father, Gideon Haydock, was a Quaker whose parents had come to America to escape religious persecution in England... Gideon Haydock died before his five children, Elizabeth, Joe, Gus, Maria (Buntie) and Clara were grown. ********************************************************************* | Haydock, Gideon Augustus (I4784)
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| 411 | Taken from "History of Southeast Missouri," page 588. Leon J. Albert was born at Portland, Jefferson county, Kentucky, on the 6tb of November, 1840, and the village in which he was thus ushered into the world is now an integral part of the city of Louisville. He is a son of Nicholas and Anna (Hoin) Albert, both of whom were natives of France and the marriage of whom was solemnized in the city of Louisville, Kentucky. Nicolas Albert was born in Alsace-Lorraine, France, a district that became a German province as a result of the Franco-Prussian war, and there he was reared to years of maturity. He received excellent educational advantages and, reared on the border between France and Germany, he had virtually equal facility in the use of both the French and German languages, a knowledge that proved of great value to him during his subsequent business career in America. His mother died in her native land and after he himself had established his residence in the United States his venerable father, John Albert, joined him and passed the residue of his life in Louisville, Kentucky. Albert gained his initial business experience in his native land, where he continued to maintain his home until 1830, when, as a young man, he embarked on a sailing vessel and set forth to seek his fortunes in the United States. After a long and weary voyage he landed in the city of New Orleans, whence he proceeded to Kentucky and located in the city of Louisville. There he was given a municipal office, largely due to his familiarity with the French and German languages, and in the '40s he removed with his, family, to Jackson, Cape Girardeau county, Missouri, where he engaged in the general. merchandise business, in company with his brother. In 1852 he removed to Cape Girardeau, the judicial center and metropolis of the county, and here he soon gained precedence as one of the leading merchants of the county. He was a man of marked ability and sterling character, commanded the high regard of all who knew him and was an influential factor in local affairs of a public order. He was well known throughoutthe county and was the confidential advisor of its French and German citizens, the while he was deeply appreciative of the institutions and advantages of the land of his adoption, to which his loyalty was ever of the most unequivocal type. He was calledto various offices of local trust and at the time of his death was incumbent of the position of United States gauger for his district. He was summoned to the life eternal in August, 1874, at the age of sixty-eight years, and his name merits enduring place on the roster of the sterling citizens who have aided in the development and upbuilding of this favored section of the state of Missouri. In politics he gave his support to the cause of the Democratic party and both he and his wife were devout communicants of the Catholic church, in whose faith they were reared. Mrs. Albert died in 1872, at the age of fifty-six years, leaving four sons and one daughter, all of whom attained to years of maturity, and three of whom are now living. ************************************************************************** ** | Albert, Nicholas (I4773)
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| 412 | Taken from "History of Southeast Missouri," page 746. Melbourne Smith is a native son of Missouri, his birth having occurred at Marble Hill, Bollinger county, on December 9, 1882. He is the son of that well-known statesman and lawyer, Madison R. Smith, member of Congress from the Thirteenth District of Missouri. The elder gentleman was born July 9, 1850, at Glenallen, Bollinger County, Missouri, and received his preliminary education in the public, schools, later entering Central College at Fayette, and preparing for the law under Louis Houck, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He was admitted to the bar at Marble Hill in 1874 and he was united in marriage to Nannie Leech of Cape Girardeau January 12, 1881. To this union five children were born, namely: Melbourne, Alma, Taylor, Bab and Buntie. The family removed to Farmington about the year 1888 and there the head of the house engaged in the practice of law. An able man and one of high ideals of citizenship, he soon received marked political preferment, representing his district in the state Senate from 1887until 1891 and giving most loyal and efficient service to his constituents. He acted as reporter of the St. Louis Court of Appeals from 1901 until 1904 and in 1907 reached the zenith of his career, going as representative of the Thirteenth Missouri District to the Sixtieth Congress, his tenure of office lasting from 1907 to 1909. The son, Mr. Smith, is a stanch supporter of the principles of Democracy and he is a prominent Mason. The religious faith of the family is that of the Southern Methodist church. Madison R. Smith is at the present time counsel for the Federal Trust Company of St. Louis and he also acts in the same capacity for the Houck Railroads. He is located at Farmington at the present time. *********************************************************************** Taken from page 30 and 31 of an unknown source: For sometime it has been generally known that Hon. M. R. Smith of this (St. Francois) county would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Judge of the St. Louis Court of Appeals, and the Times wishes to supplement his candidacy with its indorsement and support. We have known Mr. Smith for several years, and have no hesitancy in testifying to his high moral and mental attainment as a citizen and lawyer, who would honor the position to which he aspires. M. R. Smith was born in Bollinger County, Missouri, in 1850. He was educated at Central College, Fayette, Mo., and admitted to the practice of law in 1874. He served as Prosecuting Attorney of Bollinger County for nearly four years, in which position hedischarged his duties with faithfulness and impartiality. In 1886, while still a resident of Bollinger County, he was elected to the State Senate from this district, an while a member of that body took an ative and prominent part in all measures of importance. He was chairman of the Committee on Criminal Jurispurdence, one of the most important committees, during the revising session of 1889, the labors of which he discharged with energy and distinguished ability. There is no man of his age, perhaps, in this section of the State that outranks him as a lawyer. He loves his profession, and has with regular fidelity devoted himself to the understanding of its mysteries. His character is blameless, his energy tireless, his mind analytical and conceded to be of what the lawyers call the legal type. From his training, his love of the law, his industry and acknowledge ability, we bespeak for him a splendid career on the bench if he should be fortunate enough to attain that position. He is but forty years old-the prime of manhood-is in dead earnest, and the very man to succeed Judge Thompson, which we hope and believe he will do.-Farmington Times. The above is but a sample of the high esteem in which Mr. Smith is held where he is known. As is stated in the above clipping, the major part of Senator Smith's life has been spent in this (Bollinger) County, during which time he has been a hard student of the law. He has many friends and aquaintances here who have seen him advance from an humble school teacher to a place among the best jurists of the State, and so will be glad of the opportunity of manifesting their esteem in a practical and substantial way. In view of Mr. Smith's long residence with us; his high standing in his profession; his many sterling qualities as a gentleman; his sound Democracy and the strength he would give the ticket, we are for him, as we believe are the people of this County, andSoutheast Mo.-Marble Hill Press, March 24, 1892. ************************************************************************* Taken from "Biographies," page 1621. SMITH, Madison Roswell, a Representative from Missouri; born on a farm near Glenallen, Bollinger County, Mo., July 9, 1850; attended the public schools and Central College in Fayette, Mo.; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1874; taught school; began the practice of law at Marble Hill, Bollinger County, Mo., in 1877; prosecuting attorney of Bollinger County 1878-1882; served in the State senate 1884-1888; decided to be a candidate for reelection; served as editor of reports for the St. Louis courtof appeals for four years and resigned; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions 1896 and 1912; elected as a Democrat to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1909); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress; organizer and Secretary of the Federal Trust Co., of St. Louis, 1909-1912; minister to Haiti from 1912 until his resignation in 1914; continued the practice of his profession in Farmington, Mo., where he died June 18, 1919; interment in the Masonic Cemetery. ************************************************************************** * Taken from "Madison Roswell Smith" in "Histories of the Following Families: Andrew Jackson Smith, Madison Roswell Smith, Taylor Smith, Jr., Dr. Samuel Smith, William Scott Smith, Joseph Todd, Carl Otto Kamp, John Haydock" by Robert B. Smith. Madison Roswell Smith was born on a farm near Glenallen, Bollinger County, Missouri, July 9, 1850. He was the son of Andrew Jackson Smith and Barbara Caroline Rider Smith. His family had come to Missouri from Lincoln County, North Carolina, probably about 1800. He attended the public schools, then Central Methodist College in Fayette, MO. Because of the death of his father in 1871, he had to leave school and return home to help his mother with the farm work. In 1872 he started studying law under Louis Houck ofCape Girardeau, and was admitted to the bar in 1874. He began his practice in Marble Hill, MO., in 1877, after teaching for two years. He served as Prosecuting Attorney of Bollinger County, 1878 - 1882, and in the State Senate from 1884 - 1888. He declined to be a candidate for reelection and moved his family to Farmington, Missouri about 1889. They bought a home at 419 W. Columbia. He went into law partnership with Judge William R. Taylor. During the campaign of 1900 when William Jennings Bryan was a candidate for president, Mr. Smith introduced him in St. Francois County. For four years he was a reporter for the St. Louis Court of Appeals, then resigned. He was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907 - March 3, 1909). but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection. 1909 he was an organizer, Secretary and attorney of the Federal Trust Company, St. Louis, Missouri. He served for three years. In 1912 he was appointed minister to Haiti by President Wilson-the first white ambassador to this island. Because of failing health he resigned after three years, and continued his law practice in Farmington. He died June 18, 1919, with interment in the Masonic Cemetery. On January 12, 1881, he married Miss Nannie Haydock Leech of Cape Girardeau. They had five children: Melbourne, Alma, Taylor, Barbara, and Nancy. His politics was a Democrat; his religious affiliation, Southern Methodist; and he was a member of the Masonic Order. ************************************************************************** * | Smith, Madison Roswell (I3855)
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| 413 | Taken from "Story of Great Grandmother Leech," written in 1931, probably by Nancy Ann (Bebo) Leech and named by someone else in the family. Elizabeth Haydock Leech was born in Smithland, Kentucky, September 26, 1833. Her mother, Harriet Conway, was of Irish descent, her father, Gideon Haydock, was a Quaker whose parents had come to America to escape religious persecution in England. Smithland is now counted among the forgotten towns of our country; situated at the junction of the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers it was at one time the most flourishing little city in southwest Kentucky. It was the center of an agricultural activity and the county seat of Livingston County. During the winter months the prosperous farmers of the community would move their families into town in order to send their children to a subscription school. They were taught arithmetic, reading, writing, spelling, French and Latin. All through the many years of her life, Elizabeth Leech cherished a little French note written to her by a little playmate who was visiting away from Smithland. The girls were given lessons on the piano. Years after Elizabeth's fingers had grown stiff with age she would sometimes consent to play "Santa Anna's Retreat" to the great delight of her grand children. Gideon Haydock died before his five children, Elizabeth, Joe, Gus, Maria (Buntie) and Clara were grown. At about the same time a brother of Gideon's and his wife died leaving five children. Harriet Haydock took these children into her home, and the ten children were reared as brothers and sisters. She was a frail woman, delicately reared with only a farm for a livelihood, and a farm in pioneer Kentucky was a big proposition for any woman with ten small children. But her children were clothed, fed, andeducated probably better than the average children in a pioneer country. Her oldest son, Joe and the oldest nephew, Dick, later owned and operated for years, the Ohio River warehouse at Cairo. Then Dick moved to California, and Joe came to Cape Girardeau and became Mr. Houck's bookkeeper at the railway station at the foot of Goodhope street. Gus, the younger son, was in the Confederate army and was killed at Shilo and buried in the trench with hundreds of other Confederate soldiers. Clara Haydock married L. J. Albert of Cape Girardeau, and Maria became the wife of W. V. Leech who became a partner of A. D. Leech and carried on the business after the older brother's death. Harriet Haydock spent the last years of her life with her daughters, and lies at rest in the Lorimer cemetery. On another Kentucky farm near Smithland, a young widow was experiencing a life not unlike Harriet Haydock's. Linda Glenn Leech had been left, at the death of her hunband, with a farm, seven sons and a daughter. These seven sons became successful businessmen and the daughter, the wife of Captain Joe Fouler of Paducah. Sam, one of the sons was married at Princeton, Kentucky, to a sister of the late Judge Robert J. Wilson of Cape Girardeau. The Leech and Haydock families were old friends, exchanging visits and meeting frequently in town. Amzi Leech and Elizabeth Haydock were married Oct. 19th, 1853. Four years later, in 1857, they came to Cape Girardeau to live, and Amzi Leech became the owner of a general merchandise store on the corner of Main and Themis Street, the best business stand in town at the time. From what I have gathered of A. D. Leech's business methods, I suspect they more nearly resembled 20th Century methods than anything Cape Girardeau had experienced up to that time. He establisheda cotton market that brought cotton to the Cape from as far South as Arkansas, instead of to Menphis, as previously. It was not an unusual sight in season to see cotton wagons lined up next to the Leech store, down Main street, up Independence and southon Spanish for half a block or more. Mr. Frank Anderson of Commerce once told me that A. D. Leech went personally among the farmers of the lower counties and solicited their business, that he had a charming personality and numbered his friends in Southeast Missouri by the hundreds, the men held their cotton for him because they had confidence in his fair and square dealing. He had faith in the future of Cape Girardeau and gave the town his loyal support. A. D. Leech died in 1873 at the age of thirty nine. When Elizabeth Leech, a small blue eyed, golden haired mother, with a little son in arms and a daughter (Mattie) just three, looked eagerly over the guards of the landing boat, at her new home, she saw a levee not hard to visualize today, for in many respects it has changed little during the passing seventy four years. There was, of course, no sea-wall, no railway tracks, no fine Railroad Station in the distance; but the levee, even then, was the best between St. Louis and Memphis. It had virtually the same skyline as today, with the same two and three storied buildings stretching across the top. At the north end, on the corner of Harmony (Broadway) stood the imposing Riverview Hotel, and beyond that Nathen's large flour mill and warehouses. Far to the south she caught a glimpse of another large mill, the Convent, and the beautiful Catholic church. In front of her, up Themis Street, the court house stood on its pinnacle with a square two storied brick building on an erosionned hill-no grass and a path leading up to the top. It was twenty five years later that Elizabeth Leech's son-in-law, a member of the City Council, fought for and won a terraced, grass sodded lawn with shade trees for the "court yard." Soft maples were planted because of their rapid growth, with the hope that other forest trees would be gradually added. There were no houses to rent in Cape Girardeau in 1857. Someone had to leave town or for some reason consent to rent their homes for a few months. While looking for a place to live, the Leech family stayed at the St. Charles Hotel, of which Mr. Zalma Block was owner and proprietor. While here a close friendship was cemented between them and the Block family that has lasted through four generations. For a short while Elizabeth Leech and her family were domiciled in the Philipson home on Harmony Street,then they were moved to a large, gloomy house on the corner of Themis and Main Streets, just across from the Leech store. They had not lived there long when Col. Sturdivant decided to remodel the house into a business house, and it became the "Bank of Sturdivant." However Col. Sturdivant retained a suite in the building for his own home, and lived there until he went back to Virginia. The Leeches moved up the street to the Harris house on the corner of Themis and Spanish. It was during this period that Aunt Patience was acquired, Then Mr. Leech went to the Ingram place (now the Sprout home) to select a servant. He took his oldest daughter with him, saying the children had a right to help select their nurse. When Aunt Patience, who was about fifty five years old, saw them coming she ran from the group of Negroes to them crying: "Oh, Marsa, take me, I knows you's a good man!" The little girl selected Aunt Patience on the spot. Dr. Stockton, a physician of the Cape at the time took her son Tom so that they might not be separated. Tom Stockton became the town's famous Crier and was for years the sexton of the Presbyterian Church. Shortly after Aunt Patience came to the Leech family she "got religion." She invited the family to come down to the river to see her baptized. The levee was full of spectators, but when Aunt Patience emerged she caught a glimpse of "her people" and in a hysterical frenzy she rushed up to her master and threw her arms around him crying, "Oh, Marsa Am, I's so happy!" The crowd laughed, and "Marsa Am" went home to put on a dry shirt. During the War Elizabeth and her little family of three were moved to the large two story frame house that stood for so many many years on the northwest corner of Lorimer and Themis. There were five children born to her while they lived there. And it was from this house years later, when W. V. Leech and his wife Maria, were living there, that the Leech family and their friends witnessed, from the upper porch, the famous race between the Metohez1 and the Bee1 go past the Cape. The Union soldiers made much of the little children across the street from their camp. They knew the family were southern sympathizers and sometimes would tease the little one until the children would retort with something about the "Yankees", then the men would laugh good naturedly and an argument would ensue. Amzi Leech did not join the Confederate army because his fast growing family needed him, but he did provide a substitute. Clara Haydock, who spent much of her time with her sister, Elizabeth, was an ardent and zealous Confederate. In defiance she named a little calf on the place Jefferson Davis, then kept it locked up in the smokehouse to keep the soldiers from carrying it off. When a Union battle had been won the citizens were required to illuminate their homes for the big parade that always took place. Can you imagine placing hundreds of candles along the small panes of glass in every window in your house, then have the soldiers groan as they passed because they knew you had decorated because you had to, not because you wanted to. Most of this in the light of today appears like schoolboys' pranks, but there were some tragedies and some near tragedies. Once the little Leech children saw a young boy hauled away in a wagon from the guardhouse, seated on his newly constructed pine coffin. A little latter they saw his old mother walk up and down, up and down, wringing her hands and crying. Three times the life of Amzi Leech apparently hung in the balance. The soldiers knew he was a Confederate sympathizer, but they liked him and treated him courteously. But three times, when there had been too much drinking they came to the house late at night with threats of shooting and demanded that he come with him. Once, Louis Klosterman, a young State Militia man who was clerking in the Leech store and living at the house, persuaded them to leave. Another time, Mr. Leech himself shamed them into leaving; and the third time, Aunt Patience jumped among them from the porch and prayed so long and fervently that the good Lord come down and saved Marsa Am that they gradually faded away. One day it was rumored that the Confederates were marching on the city. There was great excitement, orders rang out and the soldiers marched out to meet them leaving their coats piled high on the side porch of the Leech house. It was the day of the skirmish West of town, on April 26th 1863. When the town was threatened by Confederate gunboats one of the Leech children was very ill and there was no thought of any of them taking the boat that waited at the levee to carry Cape citizens to a point north of the town. Two of the children sat on the high wall and watched the men, women and children hurry by. Some of the women carried feather beds on their heads and the children followed with birdcages, quilts and toys. They offered to take the two on the wall with them for they knew it would prove a veritable target if the town should be bombarded, which it was not. While the men in the southern counties were at war the women came to the Cape to sell and buy. It was not an unusual thing for Elizabeth Leech to have five or six women and as many children as guests for overnight. Shortly after the War Mr. Leech bought the happy place on the Jackson Road. It was a lovely house of red brick, white stone coping, French windows, and a two-storied front porch that extended to the eves of the roof. There was a lovely garden on the east side. Here, for many years Elizabeth Leech planted and cared for the flowers that were ever her delight. There were large forest trees that lined the walkway to the gate. On the lawn mysterious Jack-o-lanterns often played at night over the meadow atthe foot of the hill, to the great consternation of the Negroes and children. A few years before his death A. D. Leech's brothers took into their store as a clerk a first double cousin from Kentucky, David A. Glenn. David Glenn had many characteristics in common with his cousins-he was gifted in that he made and held friends, was always liberal, and gave his tireless support to his town and community. After her husband's death Elizabeth Leech attempted to carry on in the same generous way she had been used to. She was a active member of the Presbyterian church, and her home was always open to the ministers and their families. For many years the Presbyterian women served meals during the Fair. All the meat, bread, chicken salad and many other deliciously cooked edibles were prepared in the Leech kitchen and carried out to the fair grounds on the Bloomfield Road in the surrey behind old Thad. It was she, because of her knowledge of parliamentary law that held the Cape Girardeau Presbyterian Church in the Southern Assembly. The motion was put before a small prayer meeting congregation and passed. Mrs. Leech was not at church that night and had retired when she was told what had happened. In her own words written in a letter January 17, 1880, she said: "I got out of bed quickly and got some paper and ink and wrote a note to Mr. Pender, one of the elders, and told him they had not advertised that theywould vote on it that night and that the members were not all there, and that they would have to call another meeting . All the members went to this meeting and they put the church in the Southern Assembly. All were pleased about it except Col. Van Frank. He showed his displeasure for a while." Senator Oliver once told me that Dr. Farris, a Presbyterian minister of St. Louis, told him that at one time he had written repeatedly to the clerk of the session and other men of the Cape church for certain information and had received no reply, when it occurred to him to write to Mrs. Leech. In a short while her answer came with the exact information. She was always conscientious in the performance of a duty. She did not seek the vote for women, but when it came to them she felt it her duty to expressher opinion through it, especially in issues she considered moral. In 1883, her family reared, (one daughter, Mary, had died at the age of sixteen, a few years after her father) she moved to Kansas City to live with one of her sons. Kansas City was at the time in the beginning of its phenomenal boom, and for almost forty years she watch the growth of the town-felt she was a part of it. She was always interested in the world about her-her friends, her neighbors, her flowers and chickens, and above all else her church and her family. Her natural courteousness with its bit of shyness was charming and the heritage she has left her grand-children. ******************************************************************* | Haydock, Elizabeth L. (I4782)
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| 414 | Test from Francis Stover: "Herman Stover born April 11, 1876, Hannover Germany. He came to th e United States in 1893 and settled near his brothers in Plum Creek township. He never married but was an industrious farmer and enjoyed life with the Stover's children. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus. He did June 23, 1946. Funeral services were at St. John's Catholic Church and Cemetery, Beloit, Kansas." | Stover, Herman (I577)
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| 415 | Text from Francis Stover: "John Barnard (Barney) Stover born July 2, 1871, Hanover, Germany. He came to the United States in 1888 living north of Beloit all his life except for two years when he went back to his native land. He own conciderable land in Jewell and Mitchell county. He married Anna Bulthaup July 11, 1905 at St. John's Catholic Church, Beloit, Kansas. To this union four sons were born. William John born May 4, 1907 and died May 10, 1907. Henry born Nov. 10, 1908 and died Dec 30, 1954. August born 1909 and died Aug. 22, 1932 from a car accident, breaking his neck in Salina, Kansas. Raymond born Jan. 10, 1911. Barney died Jan. 20, 1911. Funeral services were held at St. John's Catholic Church and burial in St. John's Cemetery. His death due to dropsy." | Stöver, John Barnard (I575)
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| 416 | The A. in A. J. may stand for Andrew. Andrew Smith is listed as a guest at C. E. W. Smith's wedding. | Smith, Dr. Andrew Jackson Jr. (I6221)
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| 417 | The back of the picture of Grandmother Cato given to Mary Joyce by Ida Bell has "Mary Elizabeth Cato Baker" written on the back. I assume that means that she married a Baker after James Newton Cato died. | Baker (I7616)
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| 418 | The birth entry for Joes Mathias, other than the year is not dated, but his birth is the last parish birth entry for 1705. | Josten\Justen, (Joes) Mathias (I2944)
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| 419 | The birth of Benjamin Oney III occured in Virginia, probably in Frederick Co., VA or Tazewell Co., VA. His wife, Sally Allen was said to be born in Virginia, also. All their childern were said to be born in Virginia, probably in Tazewell County where they lived. By 1820, they had moved to Floyd Co., KY. Nancy, the daughter of Benjamin and Sally was married in 1820 and her birthdate was given as 1807. This was the same birthdate given for their son William. Nancy and William could have been twins, but I think it is more probable that Nancy was born about 1805. | Oney, Benjamin III (I2764)
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| 420 | THE EVANSVILLE COURIER & PRESS, 15 FEB 2000 Dale, IN -- Marcella M. Greubel, 83, died Saturday, Feb. 12, 2000, at CORE Nursing Home in Huntingburg of congestive heart failure. Surviving are three daughters, Mildred Ann Herzog and Norberta (Geisler) Bullock, both of Jasper, and Mary Ann Bianchetta of Austin, Texas; a sister, Loretta Greubel of St. Wendel; three brothers, Albert O., Clemens and Sylvester Schmitt, all of St. Wendel; six grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren and 10 stepgreat-grandchildren. Her husband, Andrew J., and an infant daughter, Kathyln, preceded her in death. Services will be at 10 a.m. CST Thursday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, with burial in St. James Church Cemetery in Haubstadt. Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, with a rosary at 5 p.m. at Fuller Funeral Home and Crematory in Dale. | Schmitt, Marie Marcella (I1320)
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| 421 | The following article is taken from "History of Southeast Missouri," page 588. A representative of a family whose name has been prominently and worthily identified with the history of southeastern Missouri for more than half a century, Leon J. Albert has long held distinctive prestige as one of the active and influential business men of the city of Cape Girardeau, which place has represented his home since his boyhood days and in which he holds secure vantage ground in popular confidence and esteem. He is essentially one of the representative citizens of Cape Girardeau county, his influence has permeated the civic and business activities of this favored section of the state, and his activities have been directed along normal and legitimate lines. In point of consecutive identification with the more important business interests in Cape Girardeau he is now one of the oldest business men in this city, where his capitalistic interests are of broad scope and importance. He has stood exponent of the highest civic ideals and the utmost loyalty and few residents of Cape Girardeau have wielded larger or more beneficent influence in the promotion of the best interests of the community. He served seven years as mayor of his home city and has held other positions of public trust,-preferments that bear patent evidence of the high regard in which he is, held in the community that has so long been his home and the center of his productive activities. Here he is president of the Sturdivant Bank, the oldest and most substantial financial institution of this section of the state, and he has beenactively concerned with the same for forty years, being the oldest banker in Missouri south of St. Louis. He is also a member of the directorate of the Southeast Missouri Trust Company and has other large interests in Cape Girardeau. Leon J. Albert was born at Portland, Jefferson county, Kentucky, on the 6tb of November, 1840, and the village in which he was thus ushered into the world is now an integral part of the city of Louisville. He is a son of Nicholas and Anna (Hoin) Albert, both of whom were natives of France and the marriage of whom was solemnized in the city of Louisville, Kentucky. Nicolas Albert was born in Alsace-Lorraine, France, a district that became a German province as a result of the Franco-Prussian war, and there he was reared to years of maturity. He received excellent educational advantages and, reared on the border between France and Germany, he had virtually equal facility in the use of both the French and German languages, a knowledge that proved of great value to him during his subsequent business career in America. His mother died in her native land and after he himself had established his residence in the United States his venerable father, John Albert, joined him and passed the residue of his life in Louisville, Kentucky. Albert gained his initial business experience in his native land, where he continued to maintain his home until 1830, when, as a young man, he embarked on a sailing vessel and set forth to seek his fortunes in the United States. After a long and weary voyage he landed in the city of New Orleans, whence he proceeded to Kentucky and located in the city of Louisville. There he was given a municipal office, largely due to his familiarity with the French and German languages, and in the '40s he removed with his, family, to Jackson, Cape Girardeau county, Missouri, where he engaged in the general. merchandise business, in company with his brother. In 1852 he removed to Cape Girardeau, the judicial center and metropolis of the county, and here he soon gained precedence as one of the leading merchants of the county. He was a man of marked ability and sterling character, commanded the high regard of all who knew him and was an influential factor in local affairs of a public order. He was well known throughoutthe county and was the confidential advisor of its French and German citizens, the while he was deeply appreciative of the institutions and advantages of the land of his adoption, to which his loyalty was ever of the most unequivocal type. He was calledto various offices of local trust and at the time of his death was incumbent of the position of United States gauger for his district. He was summoned to the life eternal in August, 1874, at the age of sixty-eight years, and his name merits enduring place on the roster of the sterling citizens who have aided in the development and upbuilding of this favored section of the state of Missouri. In politics he gave his support to the cause of the Democratic party and both he and his wife were devout communicants of the Catholic church, in whose faith they were reared. Mrs. Albert died in 1872, at the age of fifty-six years, leaving four sons and one daughter, all of whom attained to years of maturity, and three of whom are now living. Leon J. Albert, the second in order of birth of the five children, gained his rudimentary education in Louisville, Kentucky, and he was about twelve years of age at the time of the family removal to Missouri. He continued to attend school at Cape Girardeau, this state, and was about twelve years old when the family home was established in the little city, where he has maintained his residence during the long intervening years within which he has risen to a position as one of the representative citizens of the section of the state to which this history is devoted. Here he continued his higher academic studies in St. Vincent's College. After leaving this institution he was for a time employed as clerk in his father's mercantile establishment and later he was for two years a clerk on boats of the St. Louis & Memphis Packet Company, operating a line of steamboats between the two cities mentioned. After severing his connection with this company Mr. Albert became associated with his uncles, John and SebastianAlbert, in the wholesale grocery business at Cape Girardeau, and with this line of enterprise he was thus identified from 1864 until 1871, in which year he assumed the position of cashier in the bank of Robert Sturdivant, which was then a private institution. In 1882 the bank was incorporated under the laws of the state, under the title of the Sturdivant Bank, and Mr. Albert continued to serve as its cashier until January, 1902, when he was elected president of the institution, of which office he has since continued incumbent. He has wielded much influence in the upbuilding of this solid and popular banking concern, which bases its operations on a capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars and which now has a surplus fund of twenty-five thousand dollars. From dates designated it will be seen that Mr. Albert has been consecutively identified with the executive affairs of this bank for a period of forty years, and additional significance is given to this statement by reason of the fact that the Sturdivant Bank is the oldest in the state south of St. Louis. Its management has ever been along careful and conservative lines and it has successfully weathered the various financial panics of localized or national order, without the slightest questioning of its ability to liquidate all its obligations at any period in its history. The bank has done much to conserve the best interests of the community in which it is located and those identified with its management have at all times been citizens of the highest standing. In addition to being one of the principal stockholders in the bank of which he is president, Mr. Albert is also one of the leading principals in the Southeast Missouri Trust Company, of Cape Girardeau, which was organized and incorporated in 1906 and. which has a paid up capital stock of five hundred thousand dollars. He was one of the organizers of this corporation and has been a valued member of its directorate from the beginning. He is also a stockholder and director in the Cape Girardeau Water WorksCompany and the local electric light company. Every enterprise and measure projected for the general good of the community has received the earnest co-operation of Mr. Albert and no citizen of Cape Girardeau has shown more distinctive loyalty and publicspirit. Though he has had naught of ambition for public office, he yielded to the importunities of his fellow citizens and consented to become a candidate for the office of mayor of his home city. He was first elected to this position in 1877 and he served as mayor for seven years, a fact that offers the best voucher for the efficiency and acceptability of his administration of municipal affairs, an administration marked by due conservatism and wise progressive policies. Mr. Albert has shown a specially lively interest in educational affairs and he has served consecutively as a member of the board of regents of the Missouri State Normal School at Cape Girardeau since 1885. He was appointed to this office; by Governor Francis and has thrice been reappointed. During more than a quarter of a century of such identification with this fine state institution he has been indefatigable in the promoting of its interests and the maintaining of its facilities at the highest standard. Besides serving as mayor ofhis home city Mr. Albert has held other municipal offices and also county offices, his election to each of which was made entirely without solicitation or effort on his part and his acceptance of which was prompted solely by a sense of civic duty. In politics he accords unwavering allegiance to the Democratic party and both he and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church. He is one of the appreciative and valued members of Cape Girardeau Lodge, No. 639, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. In the year 1864 was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Albert to Miss Clara Given Haydock, of Livingston county, Kentucky, and she was summoned to eternal rest on the 25th of December, 1900. Of the nine children of this union six are now living, and concerning them the following brief data are given: Hattie is the widow of S. R. Nelson, of Chillicothe, Missouri, and she has three children; Leon, Jr., who is engaged in banking at St. Louis, Missouri, married Miss Mary Juden, and they have three children; Alma is the wife of William W. Wood, of Baltimore, Maryland, and they have three children; Harry, who is a resident of St. Louis, Missouri, where he is engaged in the real estate business, married Miss Charlotte Peironnett, and they have two children; Clara is the wife of Henry Coerver, of Olathe, Colorado, and they have one child; and Leland is engaged in commission business at Cape Girardeau. Helen, who is deceased, became the wife of Melbourne Smith, of Farmington, Missouri, and is survived by one child,so that Mr. Albert has a total of thirteen grandchildren, in whom he takes the deepest interest, as may well be inferred. On the 4th of April, 1907, Mr. Albert contracted a second marriage, by wedding Miss Lee Cairns, who was born and reared in Missouriand who proves a gracious chatelaine of his beautiful home in Cape Girardeau. ************************************************************************** ***** | Albert, Leon J. (I4664)
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| 422 | The following information is from "Smith Family Health Problems" by Melbourne Smith William Smith was one of the group of settlers who came Lincoln County, North Carolina in 1820, using the Daniel Boone route along the Cumberland River in Tennessee, and through western Kentucky, and across the Mississippi, to Southeast Missouri. This fact is well established. In the same group of settlers were members of these families: Bass, Kinder, Rhodes, Sitze, Bollinger, and Whitener. Some of the Berry's came into Bollinger County about this time, but I am sure they were from Georgia. Most of these family names will still be found in Bollinger and Madison counties, and all of them are in existence today in Lincoln and adjacent North Carolina counties. William Smith was one of the original settlers, and the Smith, and Kinder families were staunch believers in Negro slavery. They based their belief on the Bible, which, of course, in the story of Noah and his sons, states the matter very clearly. When the State of Kansas was about to be admitted to the union there was a terrific debate in Congress and it was country-wide, too, over the admission of Kansas as a slave or free state. Most of the inhabitants of northern Missouri, especially of the northwest section adjacent to Kansas, were slavery people, and about 1855 a local war broke out between the Kansas Jayhawkers and the slavery supporters in Missouri. It was during this border fighting that the James brothers, (Jesse and Frank) who were southern sympathizers, became experts in guerrila fighting, which they afterwards developed into outright banditry. The family tradition is that William Smith at the time of the border fighting was 85 years old, but that he was so opposed to Kansas being a free State that he shouldered his rifle and went off to fight with the other Missourians. It is pretty well authenticated that he was killed in a skirmish with Jayhawkers in the vicinity of Leavenworth, Kansas, (Then Fort Leavenworth.) The age of 85 is probably greatly exaggerated. He was possibly 25 or 30 when he came to Missouri in 1820, so that in 1855, when the Kansas border war developed, he should have been no more than 45 or 40. He had a brother Peter Smith, who was so exercised over the slavery issue that he went to Texas, and became known as a very tough bandit. Grandmother (Kinder) Smith maintained that this was correct, but what eventually happened to him, she did not know, I have wandered into some family history, but it is worth while background, ********************************************************************* | Smith, William (I9015)
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| 423 | The Gilmores are first recorded in Lancaster, Pensylvania. By 1746 John Gilmore was in Abermarle County, Virginia, with John, Stephen, and Charlie S. Heard. By the early 1750's they were in Cumberland County, North Carolina. By 1790 the family had migrated to Mechlenberg, NC or GA. Mentioned in Albermarle County Court Records of 3/1748 as witness to Heard Transaction for Jane Heard. | Gilmore, John (I7908)
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| 424 | The Identity of Joseph Hanks ---- Thelma K. Windham, Derwood, Md 1994 The first rule of genealogy is to never, never, never assume without having first eliminated every other possibility and even then be very, very, careful. Genealogy is based primarily on a chronology of fact and failing that by process of elimination. To date this process have never been followed by any of the Lincoln, Hanks Genealogist or Historians. Among them are noted and respected name as William E. Barton,' Ida Tarbell 2 and N.E. Robinson.3 This has posed a great disservice to those of us who are seeking to find the truth. The identity of the Joseph Hanks who was Abraham Lincoln's great grandfather is a classic example. The Joseph Hanks of Richmond County, Va., who Historians over the years have blindly and blithely assumed to be that man, albeit reluctantly and with reservations, could not possibly have been that Joseph. No one has ever been able to prove any of the allegations that he sent his son, Thomas, ahead of him to Hampshire County Va. or that Joseph ever left Richmond County to make the numerous journeys he would have had to made to fit the scenario created for him. A few, such as Howard M. Jenkins (The Mother of Lincoln),4 have questioned the story but why they never looked for another probable solution is the biggest mystery of all. This conclusion by the Historians was founded solely on an elaborate fabrication which originated with Caroline Hanks Hitchcock in her little book, "Nancy Hanks, The Story of Abraham Lincoln's Mother" which was published 1898/9. Her version was soon labeled pure fiction. William E. Barton wrote "An account of the family from which President Lincoln's mother came would have greatly simplified if Mrs. Caroline Hanks Hitchcock had not published, in 1899 her little book "Nancy Hanks". The surprising things about this book are that so much misinformation could have been contained in so small a volume and that so many discriminating people could have been deceived by it But the Joseph story lived on in this poor, illiterate Joseph, for who she had created an elaborate scenario to make him fit the picture. But, based on the known facts, he does not fit the picture. It is far more of a probability that Abraham Lincoln's great grandfather was Joseph Hanks from Berks County, Pennsylvania, who does seem to fit the picture with no fabrication necessary. Why no has ever considered this a possibility is strange since he was known to exist.6 He was in similar circumstances and in the exact same time frame as was Joseph of Richmond County. Joseph Hanks of Berks County, Pennsylvania was born 1725 to John Hanks and Sarah Evans as recorded in the records of the Society of Friends. He was disowned by Friends 9/26/1754, about the time he would have married. He was in litigation with Alexander Klinger in 1769.~ He was the only person by the name of Hanks listed in the Pennsylvania Septennial Census of 1779 as living in Berks County. In November of 1779 his daughter, Anna Maria Hanks, married Emanuel Ludwig", son of Michael and Eva Rosina Ludwig who was a close neighbor to Joseph's family. He was on the tax rolls for Berks Co. from 1754-1780 at which time he disappeared from the records at the same time as in the fall of 1780, a Joseph Hanks appeared in Hampshire Co. Va. where his son, Thomas, either enlisted or was drafted into the Revolutionary Army.9 He was on the tax rolls in Hampshire Co., in 178210 and in the census that same year with a household of eleven persons. On March 9, 1784 he mortgaged 108 acres of land to Peter Putman for twenty one pounds and nine shillings. 12 It has been surmised that Joseph's wife may have died since she did not sign the deed.13 And this may be so, considering the big gap between the births of his daughters, Elizabeth born 1776 and Nancy born 1784. At the time of his death in 1793 in Nelson County, Kentucky he did have a wife whom he called "Nanny" who obviously was the mother of the last child, Joseph. In 1794, after her husband's death, she was reported to have taken nine year old Joseph and probably ten year old Nancy to some unspecified place in Virginia.14 In addition Joseph was left his father's 150 acres of land probably because he was too young to care for himself or because he may have been "Nanny's" only son. Unfortunately, there are no birth, death or marriage records in Hampshire County as they were all destroyed during the Civil War and nothing can be verified. The mortgage deed tells us that Joseph was probably desperate to have accepted so little money for his land but more than likely it was all that he could get. He probably didn't sell outright because, in that post war period, there may not have been any buyers. It also seems to have been a hedge in case he wanted to return since he had the proviso in the document that he had the option of repaying the twenty one pounds nine shillings with interest on or before the 25th day of September next ensuing in which case the deed would be canceled. On default Peter Putman agreed to sell the farm and retain his twenty one pounds nine shillings plus interest and the residue would be paid to Joseph. We next find Joseph and his family in Nelson County, Kentucky. Presumably he went there from Hampshire County, Va. because he has never been found in any other locality. However, he is not recorded there until 1787 when on 2/23/1787 he contracted to buy 150 acres of land on Rolling Fork in Nelson County. The deed was never made and he never received a good title to his land.15 1/31/1793 Joseph Hanks, being of sound mind but weak in body, made a very ambiguous Last Will and Testament. On 5/14/1793 this will was entered in the Courts of Nelson County for probate. He mentioned only eight of his ten children by name with a small legacy to each with his 150 acres going to his youngest son, Joseph. He instructed that everything was to be left in the hands of his wife until after her death when at that time the residue of his estate was to be divided equally among all of his children. This will has been the subject of debate by Historians and Lawyers for decades and the general consensus has been that Joseph could, indeed, have had more children than those mentioned in his will. It has long been accepted that Lucy, by then married to Henry Sparrow and already provided for, was his daughter even though she was not mentioned by name in his will. And for the same reason he omitted his other daughter, Anna Maria married to Emanuel Ludwig and left behind thirteen years before in Pennsylvania. Anna Maria could read and write and taught her children to read and write as confirmed by her son, Samuel, who was a wealthy and well learned man who migrated from Berks County PA to Crawford Co., Ohio in December of 1831. Lucy, also could read and write as confirmed in her own handwriting on her marriage to Henry Sparrow 4/10/1790. Joseph of Pennsylvania was born in Pennsylvania, the seventh of eight children. His father, John, was born 5/21/1676, and died l73l in what is now Berks Co. He married Sarah Evans, daughter of Cadwallader Evans 10/11/1711 in the Gwyneld Quaker Meeting andsettled along the SkuylkiII river in Union Township, Berks County, very near the Exeter Township line. His close neighbors were Mordecai Lincoln, great, great grandfather of Abraham Lincoln, Squire Boone, father of the famous Daniel and Michael Ludwig who had settled in the lower end of Exeter Township about 1740. The Lincoln and Boone homesteads, both in Exeter Township, are still standing. The Lincoln, Hanks and Boone sons were of an age to have grown up together and become friends and apparently they did. John Hanks, brother of Joseph, was born 9/20/1712, John Lincoln was born 5/3/1711. Daniel Boone was born 5/2/1724. Joseph Hanks was born1725. The children of Michael Ludwig, John Lincoln and John and Joseph Hanks were of an age to have become friends so it was natural that a marriage would occur among them. Michael Ludwig's son, Emanual, married Joseph Hanks daughter, Anna Maria, in November of 1779. Since Joseph had been disowned by Friends, none of his children's births were ever recorded so we can only calculate that Anna Maria's birth was approximately about the same time as Emanuel's who was born 7/13/1756~~ Their marriage date was calculated from the inscription on Emanuel's tombstone which read that he had died 3/1/1791 and had been married 11 yrs 3 mo & 2 wks 21 which, calculated backward, gave us November 1779. Anna Maria would have chronologically fit into the family which was later found in Nelson County Kentucky as his oldest child. John Hanks, brother of Joseph, was the only other Hanks of record in Berks County from l7S4~l7SO.~ John was not disowned by Friends and his children were duly registered so we know that he was not Maria's father. In about 1773/4 John left Berks County andmigrated with his family to Augusta County (now Rockingham) Virginia to join his friend, John Lincoln, who had migrated there a few years earlier. There were no Hanks listed in the 1790 census for all of Pennsylvania. Joseph of Pennsylvania was evidently a poor and illiterate man. He owned no land of record and we know nothing about how he made a living for his family. He apparently did own personal property as confirmed by the number of years in which he paid taxes. Although he was listed on the tax rolls for 1780 there is no record that he paid the tax. He had nothing to hold him in Pennsylvania so it was natural that he would join the westward and southward migration which was going on at that time. He fits the picture of the man we have found to have been the grandfather of Nancy Hanks, Abraham Lincoln's mother. There are many reasons why Joseph Hanks of Richmond County does not fit the picture. First of all, there is no known facts that would substantiate all of the maneuvering accredited to him by various historians to try to make him fit the picture. It is highly unlikely that any of them ever happened. Secondly, his mother, Catherine, died in 1779 after thirty nine years of widowhood and Joseph was named administrator of her estate. Appraisals had to be made, the assets had to be sold, debts and expenses paid, and accounts rendered periodically, and a final distribution which was not completed until December 26, 1782.~ As late as April 1783 Joseph was in Richmond County when his brother, Thomas, was sued by Archibald Ritchie to collect, from his share of the estate, an overdue debt.~ In 1781, during that critical period between 1779 and 1784 he was, employed, probably as an overseer, for two of his neighboring planters, Griffin Fauntleroy and Richard Beale. By the middle of January 1782 his wages for that year 1781 were overdue which he would not collect until he brought suit against them on April 5, 1785.~ For a poor, illiterate man with probably a large family to support, it would seem that he would have had little or no money to either travel or to buy land. During this period he was recorded frequently in Richmond County as a surveyor of roads, and as a testifier in court cases and as a witness to wills and contracts.~ He was present when the legacies from the estate were divided in December 1782 and was recorded in Richmond County as late as April of 1783 as having made purchases at a neighbor's estate sale. ~ There is nothing in the records anywhere to indicate that he ever left the area. I have just found a treatise on the subject written and copyrighted in 1988 by Mr. Paul Verduin and published in the Northern Neck of Virginia Genealogical Society Magazine in December 1988. Mr. Verduin has listed the few known facts of record on this Joseph of Richmond County more completely than has any other Historian that I have read. On this very flimsy basis he was woven a scenario with suppositions, conjectures and assumptions that he claims makes it evident that this Joseph Hanks of Richmond County, Va. was indeed the Joseph of Hampshire County. But it is not evident. Mr. Verduin has given Joseph of Richmond County a very complicated scenario which does not stand up under scrutiny. He is perpetuating, without a shred of evidence to support it, the oft told story how this poor illiterate Joseph from Richmond County "must have" sent his son, Thomas, on ahead to Hampshire County in 1780. And followed thereafter by journeys made by Joseph over the next three years between Richmond County and Hampshire County. All of this at a time when he was mired up to his neck with a load of unfinished business. It makes absolutely no sense that he would have gone to Hampshire County at a time when he hadn't gotten his inheritance, or his back wages from his employers and more than likely didn't have a nickel to his name. And there has not been one shred of evidence ever produced that would even remotely support that this had ever happened. Mr. Verduin contends that, in or around June of 1782, Joseph "must have" taken a "tentative" sojourn of a few months to Hampshire County because he was not on the tax rolls in Richmond County.~ This was based solely on the fact that a Joseph Hanks did paytaxes in Hampshire County in 1782~ and who was also in the census there that same year with a household of eleven persons.30 A Joseph Hanks who, no doubt, had been there continuously since the fall of 1780. If he had, as Verduin claims, made a "tentative" trip to Hampshire County in May or June 1782 he would have had to have moved pretty fast to make the tax rolls by June or July and then return to get his family back there by October when the census was presumably taken. And then back to Richmond County at least by November to finish his accounts and settle his mothers estate. It simply never happened. Verduin goes on to say that after Joseph returned to Richmond Co. in the fall of 1782, to settled his mothers estate, that he was still in Richmond Co. as late as April of 1782 when he purchased unspecified items at an estate sale of one of his neighbors.Then, based on the fact that no taxes had been paid in 1783 in either Richmond or Hampshire Counties, he says by June of 1783 Joseph and his "wife and children" left Richmond Co. "for the last time" and went to Hampshire Co.3 This then brings up the question, had his household of ten dependents, who were in the 1782 census in Hampshire Co., also been commuting? Then he surmises that maybe only the male members were in Hampshire County, so in that case, that still leaves unexplained the eleven member household in the census. Mr. Verduin also claimed that Richmond Joseph had a large family but, he cannot substantiate this since there are no records "anywhere" to prove that either Joseph of Richmond Co. or Joseph of Pennsylvania ever had any more than one child each. Richmond Joseph had one child of record, a daughter, Betty, born 3/4/177132 Joseph of Nelson County had a daughter, Elizabeth, who stated, in the County Court House on her marriage to Thomas Sparrow, that she was age 20 in 1796 so she would have been born1776. A significant discrepancy. Verduin's final conclusion is that Richmond Joseph and Hampshire Joseph "must" be the same man because both were poor, both were illiterate and both had large families.33 A description which also fits Joseph of Pennsylvania who was far more likely to havebeen in Hampshire County than was Joseph of Richmond County. Joseph of Pennsylvania's scenario is, simple, direct and uncomplicated. The timing was right, the pieces more nearly fit and he wasn't hampered with a lot of unfinished business that has to be explained away. And significantly, after 25 years on the tax rolls, he disappeared from the Berks County records at the same time that a Joseph Hanks, in the fall of 1789, appeared in Hampshire County, Va. as shown by the drafting or enlisting of his eldest son into the revolutionary Army.~ The Thomas who enlisted in the Revolutionary Army there in the fall of 1780 was much more likely to have arrived there, in 1780, from Pennsylvania with his father, mother and siblings all at the same time. Since all of these Hanks left so few trails, a determination can only be accomplished by an evaluation of the whole picture based on which probability makes the most sense. From what we know of both of these Josephs it simply makes more sense that the unencumbered Joseph of Pennsylvania was the one most likely to have been the Joseph who was Abraham Lincoln's great grandfather. SOURCES I. Wm. E. Barton Linage of Lincoln 1929 2. Ida M. Tarbell - In the Footsteps of the Lincolns 1924 3. H. E. Robinson- Lincoln, Hank & Boone Families 4. Howard M. Jenkins- The Mother of Lincoln PP 135-136 5. Wm. E. Barton - Lineage of Lincoln P. 128 6. Adin Baber - The Hanks Family of Va & Westward 1963 PP 215 & 242 7. Berks Co. Court Records Copies #37 8. Ludwig Family Records 9. Revolutionary Army Pension App I. #4581 10. Hampshire Co. Personal Tax Records 1782 P.27 I I. Va. Census Hampshire Co. 1782 12. Hampshire Co. Deed B. 6 P. 168 13. John W. Wayland - Lincolns of Virginia P. 59 14. Wm. E. Barton Linage of Lincoln P. 189 15. Wm. E. Barton Linage of Lincoln P. 187 16. Nelson Co. Ky Will B.A. P. 107 17. William Barton - Life of Lincoln P. 227 18. Phila Co. PA. Will #W-I90 prob. 5/31/1731 19. H.E. Robinson- Lincoln Hanks & Boone Families P. 79 20-21. St. Paul Church Records- Amityville, PA. PP 42, 64 22. Berks County Pa Tax records 23. Adin Baber - Hanks Family of Va & Westward RCOB 2 PP 28-29 24. Richmond Co. Order B. 18 PP 281-282 25. Adin Baber - Hanks Family of Va. & Westward RCPB 19 PP 239-41 26. Richmond Co. Va. OrderB. 17PP41-44-92 OB. 19PP40 27.-28 Paul Verduin Treatise on Hanks P. 4374 &4363 Pub. Dec. 1988 29. Hampshire Personal Property Tax Records P. 27 30. Va. Hampshire Census 1782 31. Paul Verduin Treatise P. 4363 32. North Farnham Parish Rec. 1672-1800P.217 33. Paul Verduin Treatise PP 4369-4370 34. Revolutionary War Pension Application #4581 | Hanks, Joseph (I2552)
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| 425 | The Lackeys, from p. 285 of History of the House of Ochiltree of Ayrshire, Scotland with the Genealogy of the Families of Those Who Came to America and of Some of the Allied Families, 1124--1916 by Clementine (Brown) Railey: The Lackeys took shipping from Londonderry, Ireland, and coming to America, settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1748. Thomas Lackey, Sen., born 1728, married, in 1754, Agnes Leech, born 1730, elder sister of John Leech, Sen., with whom he came to America, at nine years of age. They were the only surviving members of a family of seven. Thomas and Agnes (Leech) Lackey came from Pennsylvania to Rockbridge County, Virginia, in 1768. Their home was two miles west of the Natural Bridge. The large outside chimney of the old house, still stands. Thomas Lackey was a wheelwright, by trade; and he made the large and small spinning-wheels, in use in those days. They are said by a descendant, who remembers having seen some made by him, to have been finespecimens of workmanship, having his initials carved in the wood. Thomas Lackey is said to have been a fine looking man, of fine physique, six feet tall, and to have resembled George Washington. He possessed ability as a scribe, and had the confidence of his fellow-citizens, who came to him to get writting done, in matters which required ability and judgement. He died at his home near High Bridge church, Sept. 1, 1801, aged 73 years. Agnes (Leech) Lackey died Sept. 23, 1814, aged 84 years. They were of Scotch Presbyterian faith. | Lackey, Thomas (I7822)
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| 426 | The Leeches, from p. 305 of History of the House of Ochiltree of Ayrshire, Scotland with the Genealogy of the Families of Those Who Came to America and of Some of the Allied Families, 1124--1916 by Clementine (Brown) Railey: John Leech; born April, 1739, in North Ireland; came, with his elder sister, Agnes, at nine years of age, from Londonderry, in 1748, to Lancaster Co., PA. They were the only surviving members of a family of seven. Agnes Leech was born in 1730, and married Thomas Lackey. John Leech married, in 1761, in PA., in his 22 year, Martha McComb. They came to Rockbridge Co., VA., in 1778, settling near Collierstown, twelve miles from Lexington, where they lived and died. John Leech and wife were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians. He was an elder in Old Oxford church, Rockbridge Co. ************************************************************ Notes about John Leech and John Leech, Jr. from VM: W. H. Eagles Notes and Queries, p 557 states John Leech came from Armagh, Ireland & that John served in the Revolutionary War! They, the Leech family of (7) sailed from Londonderry, Ireland in 1748 & they lived for a time in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Only 2 survived the sea voyage. John married Martha McComb in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania when Cumberland County was formed; it had been part of Lancaster County. I believe they did not move from Lancaster County, but that where they lived simplybecame Cumberland County. In 1778 John and Martha moved to Rockbridge County, Virginia. On p307 of the Ochiltree book it states that John Leech, Jr. married Ann Crawford. This is an error!! John Leech Jr. married Margaret Risk. In Rockbridge County came a James Leech with a wife named Martha and they too had a son John -- this John married Ann Crawford. Some believe John & James are the same person. This shows they did not do much research. I have been in contact with 2 descendants of James Leech. We believe John & James are related, probably cousins -- but, so far no proof. ************************************************************ Note in letter from VM to Don M. McCarty dated March 7, 2001: There was a family of 7 who left Ireland in 1748. Only 2 survived the crossing. Agnes Leech age 18 and her younger brother John age 9, born April 1739. John grew up in Pennsylvania and married a Martha McComb. They moved to Rockridge County, Virginia and had 13 children. Most note only 12. ************************************************************ | Leech, John (I5781)
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| 427 | The name Bircher, written and spoken Birrer since the middle of the 18th century, derives from the Birche farm in Roggliswil in the Willisau district. The family appears there early in a leading position. The brothers Hans, Heinz and Chuenzli (= diminutive of Konrad) Bircher, free farmers in Roggliswil, appear as judges at the court in Pfaffnau in 1380 and 1393; Hans Bircher is Weibel zu Pfaffnau in 1400 and there on behalf of Countess Elsbeth von Montfort chairman of the court. The progenitor of the Bircher des Luthern Valley, who came from Roggliswil or Pfaffnau, is Hans Bircher ("Henslin Bircher, Birchers Sohn im Mos"), who lived on September 17, 1414 with Uli Hugi from Ritter Götz of Hünenberg at Waldsberg Castle near Luthern near Twing and bought ban, ie. the lower jurisdiction, the fodder and the tavern, ie. Inn of the valley. Hans Bircher sold these rights to the city of Lucerne as early as 1421, with the exception of the tavern. Subsequently, the Birchers remained the most politically influential and leading family in the valley for centuries; up to the French Revolution, they became the Weibel six or seven times, who, like his colleagues in the other five districts of the Willisau office, was responsible for collecting taxes. The patrician family Bircher of the city of Lucerne, which has been documented back to 1500 and died in 1791, from which a large number of important personalities deserving of church and state emerged, also came from Luthern and Pfaffnau. | Bircher, Adelheid (I788)
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| 428 | The name Wireman was variously spelled, such as Wyerman, and Wierman. I have chosen to use the spelling most commonly used at a given time. Jacob Wyerman and Nancy Oeny were married in 1820, when she was possibly only 13 years old. Despite her young age, the children came along regularly. The family resided on Swift Creek in Morgan Co., KY, and wrer Baptists, members of the Swift Camp Church. The Wireman's had previiously been Mennonites or Quakers. Jacob was a miller and farmer. Nancy died in 1851, after bearing 12 children. Jacob married Mary Holmes in 1856. It has been said there were three children of this marriage, but the only one I have record of is Jacob, born about 1856. The Civil War forced the young men in this family to choose a side. Sons John and Bunyon fought for the South, and Bunyon have his life. Sons William, Jackson, and James fought for the North, Jackson died in 1862, and James fought in the battle of Perryville. William was captured and held in prison. Son Benjamin died during the Civil War years, but there is no record of military service. Jacob Wyerman died in 1879, said to be 100 years lod, byt we don't have enough info to support that. Census records record him as born 1785 or 1797. He was buried in the Wireman cemetery near where they lived , as were others of the family. | Wireman, Jacob (I2533)
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| 429 | The oldest son of Abraham Lemaistre appears to have been Richard Lemasters. Richard was not mentinoed in Abraham's will, it is assumed, because Richard had been given "Toombett" next to his father's acreage near Zekiah Swamp, when he was five years old, and it was to become his home for fifteen years later. There are precedents in both Maryland and Virginia of fathers securing land grants for underage sons, the purpose behind such practice being to circumvent the British custom of promogeniture. The omission of Richard Lemaster form his father's will, though understandable, is unfortunate for genealogists since no other documentation has been found to prove conclusively that Abraham Lemasters was Richard's father. However, careful scrutiny of records in St. Mary's and Charles counties during the latter 1600's reveals the presence of no other adult Lemaster male except Abraham. It is, therefore, a reasonable conclusion that Richard Lemasters was the son of Abraham Lemasters because there was no other Lemasteres around who could have been his father. Richard Lemaster married Martha Dennis around 1690. Martha is believed to have been the daugthter of Jean and Lysbet Denys who fled France in 1685 when the Edict of Nantes was revoked and settled in Somerset County, Maryland, as John and Elizabeth Dennis. There is no record of the marriage, but on April 11, 1752, Thomas Jameson testified before the Charles County court in a dispute over a corner of Betty's Delight that Richard Lemasters and John Dennis, Jr. were "brothers." (Jameson meant by this statement that Richard and John were Brothers-in-law in modern parlance.) Land records also show that on John Dennis woned a plantation which adjoined Betty's Delight. This John Dennis may have been either the father or John Dennis Jr. The name was called Tennison in land records. Richard and Martha (Dennis) Lemaster started their married life in St. Mary's co., Maryland, in the area claimed also by Charles Co., Maryland. When the matter was settled, their land was in Charles county. Both counties are at the tip of Maryland which is bounded by Chesapeake Bay. As a married man, Richard was termed a "Carpenter". He also made several land transactions, some of them were repeated in more than one source. Martha died between 1713, when her name appeared on a land deed, and 1723, when her name was absent from a land deed of that date. In the settlement of Virginia, Tobacco was not merely the money crop, but was money, it being the medium of exchange. lt's value in relation to the English pound was fixed by the House of Burgesses, as was it's quality and the amount of production. (Early day crop allotments?) Richard was able to purchase "Betty's Delight", for 5,000 pounds of Tobacco, in 1727 from his brother John, who had inherited it. Perhaps it was because John had produced no male heirs, that he was willing to sell the land to Richard, who willed the landto his son John. John sold it to one Abraham Hargess in 1747, thus removing Lemaster's ownership of "Betty's Delight" after sixty years of occupancy. All of the children of Richard and Martha Lemasters remained in the Charles County area during the early part of their lives, but following the French and Indian War (1754-1763) several of them migrated farther west in Maryland and south across the Potomac River into Virginia. Richard lived until after 1735. His will or grave have not been found. | Lemaster, Richard I (I2676)
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| 430 | The only decendent of the John and Mary Haydock that remained in New Jersey. | Haydock, Elizabeth (I4801)
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| 431 | The Rhienprovinz was formed in 1824 and changed to Rhein-pflatz in 1871. | Dudenhoeffer, Joannes Jacob (I89)
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| 432 | The Sheridan family arrived in New York from Ireland with five children. With so many immigrants coming to the United States, work became scarce. The family went by boat down the Atlantic, around Florida, into the Gulf of Mexico to New Orleans. They then traveled up the Mississippi River. Railroad work was in great demand at this time. The railroad was being built between Atchison, KS and St. Joseph, MO. The family decided on St. Joseph probably because it was the larger of the two towns. She was widowed three times. Her 1st husband Michael died in his 30's. She bought rental property in St. Joseph and ran a boarding house for Railroad workers. She also ran a grocery store out of her living room. | Sheridan, Bridget (I33)
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| 433 | The story is that he went to Texas and became a bandit. See the note for his brother William Smith from "Smith Family Health Problems" by Melbourne Smith. | Smith, Peter (I9016)
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| 434 | There is a Jackson County Marriage record for Laura Martin and George W. Grant on 1/19/1888. This is Laura Martin the daughter of Allen Martin and Mary Barksdale. Allen was the former slave of John P. and Aaron D. Martin. | Martin, Laura A. (I6208)
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| 435 | There is a map to Uncle Jim's place on page 13 of "John P. Carty of Molls Creek." According to "John P. Carty of Molls Creek": James C. Carty's will stated that he left a mansion house when he died. Of course this statement aroused our curiosity and the search for the-rest-or-the-story was on! The following is what people who knew James and Mollie had to say about them and the mansion house. The house was located in the Caney Ridge Section of Dickenson County, Virginia which is now Coeburn Route #2. The mansion house was built of logs in an L shape. It had three very large rooms. The outside of the house was covered with boards for siding.It had good windows. The doors were hand made. A front porch filled in the L shape of the house. There was also a back porch. There was a large fireplace in the living room. The chimney was sandstone and mud. The top was rived boards. The floor was punchon, one log in the middle of the front room was loose on both ends. It would be removed to get under the house to store potatoes, apples, and so on for winter use. The house was papered with newspapers and catalog leaves. This house was one of the best at that time. It stood the test of time. The mansion house is no more; it burnt down in the early 1950's. Uncle Jim (as he was called) was a farmer. He had apples, peaches, and cherry trees on his farm; and a grape arbor in front of the house. He grew lots of vegetables. He peddled his produce, eggs, milk, and butter in Coeburn. He used the money he got to buy things that he and Mollie, his wife, needed. He made brooms out of hickory sticks. These were called scrub brooms. Uncle Jim and Mollie did not have any children of their own, but they reared a girl named Rose Powers who went by the name of Rosie Carty. James is buried on Caney Ridge at his homeplace. His headstone reads: Gone to dwell with the happy and blest. After James died Mollie married 15-June-1923 at Toms Creek, Wise County, Virginia, to Green Berry "G. B." Adkins. We have not done any research as to what happened to her after this marriage. | McCarty, James C. (I4294)
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| 436 | There is a note in Ken Spurrier's family tree next to the marraige date Dec. 10, 1910: "Div 1913, Re-Md 10/30/16" Served as pastor of a Methodist Church in Smithland in 1926. | Spurrier, Bjarne Hary (I5888)
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| 437 | There were three John Leech cousins; John, son of Thomas Leech, Sr. and Elizabeth (Crawford) Leech who lived on Broad Creek, and was known as "Broad Creek John Leech"; John Steele Leech, son of James Leech, Sr. and Isabella (Steele) Leech, called "Red-headed John Leech", and later "Squire Leech"; and "Black-headed John Leech," son of David Leech. | Leech, John (I5772)
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| 438 | This connection to the Willett family is a plausible hypothesis made through studies of circumstantial evidence by Glenn Willett Clark. (See note insert in the Donnelly book, "Edward Willett, Colonial Maryland Pewterer..."). | Willaert, Thomae (I2877)
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| 439 | This connection to the Willett family is a plausible hypothesis made through studies of circumstantial evidence by Glenn Willett Clark. (See note insert in the Donnelly book, "Edward Willett, Colonial Maryland Pewterer..."). | Willaert, Jean (I2857)
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| 440 | This connection to the Willett family is a plausible hypothesis made through studies of circumstantial evidence by Glenn Willett Clark. (See note insert in the Donnelly book, "Edward Willett, Colonial Maryland Pewterer..."). | Willett, John (I2853)
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| 441 | This connection to the Willett family is a plausible hypothesis made through studies of circumstantial evidence by Glenn Willett Clark. (See note insert in the Donnelly book, "Edward Willett, Colonial Maryland Pewterer..."). | Willaert, Thomae (I2872)
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| 442 | This connection to the Willett family is a plausible hypothesis made through studies of circumstantial evidence by Glenn Willett Clark. (See note insert in the Donnelly book, "Edward Willett, Colonial Maryland Pewterer..."). | Willett, Richard (I2847)
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| 443 | This connection to the Willett family is a plausible hypothesis made through studies of circumstantial evidence by Glenn Willett Clark. (See note insert in the Donnelly book, "Edward Willett, Colonial Maryland Pewterer..."). | Willaert, Jean (I2874)
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| 444 | This connection to the Willett family is a plausible hypothesis made through studies of circumstantial evidence by Glenn Willett Clark. (See note insert in the Donnelly book, "Edward Willett, Colonial Maryland Pewterer..."). | Willaert, Andreas (I2868)
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| 445 | This connection to the Willett family is a plausible hypothesis made through studies of circumstantial evidence by Glenn Willett Clark. (See note insert in the Donnelly book, "Edward Willett, Colonial Maryland Pewterer..."). | Willaert, Thomae (I2862)
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| 446 | This is engraved on the headstone of Magdelena's grave. It is a traditional German poem (it rhymes in German) on old German stones, between husband and wife and their reunion in heaven. Sleep well in God's hands Salvation with you is my lot Once I go home I will rise And we will see each other again. | Mayer, Magdelena (I90)
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| 447 | This is text from Francis Stover: "Henry Stover born Dec 12 1868, Hanover, Germany. He was the son of Albert Stover and Mary Elizabeth Durkens. In 1885 he left the country of his birth and came to the United States, location north of Beloit, Kansas on a farm that is still in the Stover's name. He worked for John H Fortman. He was a man who was admired by a wide circle of friends. He knew farming and his opinon carried weight in matter of vital interest to his neighbors in town and country. He was a director of the Guaranjyt State Bank and helped quarry rocks to build St. Hohn's Catholic Chruch. A member of the Knights of Columbus. Tow of his brothers came to the United States shortly after he did. He married Catherine Emkes Fortman Jan. 12, 1892 by Rev. E.C. Kieffer at St. John's Catholic Church, Beloit, Kansas. Eleven children were born to this union. He died of the farm he loved Dec. 16, 1938, Beloit, Kansas. Funeral services were held at St. John's Catholic Church on Saturday morning at 10 O'clock by Rev. J.B. Glynn officiating. Burial in St. John's Cemetery. Pall bearers were Henry Heidrick, John Hyde, Fred Eilert, Tom Schmitz, William Grennan and Fred Schaffer." | Stöver, Heinrich (Henry) (I22)
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| 448 | This was Reta's twin that died during birth or very young. | McCarty, Juanita (I4762)
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| 449 | Thomas and Margaret (Leech) Gilmore emigrated with her father's family to Livingston County, Kentucky in 1816. Here their four eldest children were born. In 1824 then removed to Preble County, Ohio, where five children were born near Eaton. In 1836 they settled near Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana; there their youngest son was born and there they lived and died. They were pioneers in a new country. Thomas Gilmore had the first wagon in the township. They had the courage to break with the time honored custom of serving strong drink in the harvest field and had the first harvest in that neighborhood without liquor. This led to the abolition of the custom in that section. Margaret Gilmore started the first temperance reform in her county. The boys of this family had to blaze their way to school through the pathless woods by chopping the bark from the trees to mark their path. Nine sons grew to manhood; not one of whom ever used liquor in any form nor profane language; and only two, out of the nine smoked. They were an interesting family of boys and mem; strong in good habits, in good politics, and nearly all legislators in their states. Margaret Leech Gilmore was a woman of a particularly strong Christian character, deeply and genuinely spiritual. Her influence for good was marked in the community in which she lived. Thomas Gilmore, too, came naturally by his religious strength. On his father's tombstone is this chosen epitaph: "An elder in the Presbyterian church." It is a far cry from Craigmiller Castle, Scotland, the ancient ancestral home of the Gilmores, to a log-built puncheon-floored cabin, in the western wilderness in Indiana in early 1800. Just such homes as this, of "plain living, and high thinking," have bulwarked the nation. Clothing was home-spun, food home-grown. In 1840 the neighbors from near and far to the number of 200 had gathered at the Gilmore home to see a young man's train start across the plains. Andrew and Nathan Gilmore and seven sons of neighbors made up the party. Nathan Gilmore, then 19 years of age, never saw his mother again. When news of her death came to him in his California home, almost 20 years later, his children well remember their father's grief which prostrated him for several hours. Three generations of Gilmores lie in the Greencastle Cemetery, Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana. | Gilmore, Thomas (I9013)
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| 450 | To Carter Co., KY by 1818 | Oney, Esquire (I2784)
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