tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8427155907031601092024-03-05T21:03:26.234-08:00The Great Ancestral HuntLaurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04191615169155143283noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842715590703160109.post-10108959204818921662012-06-19T12:24:00.001-07:002012-06-19T13:20:06.769-07:00What's in my DNA?The results are in! What a fascinating thing, this DNA. On <a href="http://ancestry.com/">Ancestry.com</a>, it gives a break down of where I am from using both my paternal and maternal DNA but doesn't tell me who belongs to what. On <a href="http://23andme.com/">23andme.com</a>, I was only able to find out info on my maternal line until my dad takes the DNA test which he will do soon.<br />
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Here is a link to the information on my Maternal Haplogroup, a rare group that is 25,000 years old.<br />
<a href="https://www.23andme.com/published/ancestry/maternal/c98b7df9004deb9b/0f27295fab7f5b46/">Laura's Maternal Haplogroup and Ancestral Map</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">From </span><a href="http://ancestry.com/" style="background-color: white;">Ancestry.com</a><span style="background-color: white;"> here is the breakdown which is culled from both paternal and maternal DNA:</span><br />
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My thoughts on the breakdown, based on my paper research of my family tree is that the entire percentage of the British Isles and 8% of the Scandinavian is from my dad's DNA with 27% Scandinavian and all of the European percentages belonging to my mother. To say I was a little shocked is an understatement. I grew up believing I was mostly German and Bohemian but that accounts for only 5% of my DNA. I had no idea at all that I was 35% Scandinavian. I knew only of one Dutch ancestor that I discovered last year doing research and one other this year from Sweden, but both were born centuries ago and probably wouldn't account for 35%. I do look Scandinavian and when I was in France once, someone thought I was from Sweden. Makes sense now, but who were these Scandinavian ancestors? It could be assumed that there is some Viking blood seeing how they were such voracious conquerors and that would be a good assumption. But how about some scientific evidence? Turns out in 2006 a genetic link was discovered that linked the Sami people to the Volga-Ural region in Russia, which is where my mother's great grandparents were born.<br />
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<i>John and Mary Spahn. My great-great grandparents. Both born in the Volga-Ural region</i></div>
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<i>of Russia. Possible descendants of the Sami people of Southern Sweden or Finland.</i></div>
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My great-great grandparents considered themselves German, although they were both born in Russia, but the truth is that they were most likely of Scandinavian blood, and possibly descended from Sami people from Southern Sweden or Finland. The Sami people fall into the U halpogroup with most being U5, but a small population is in the U4. This hints at just a tiny slice of the mystery waiting to be uncovered but it's a good start!. Pretty darn cool. This will make an already planned trip to Scandinavia in 2014 have a different meaning altogether! Next, I will wait for my Paternal Halpogroup results from my dad and see how much of his DNA is from Scandinavia. If it's more than 8%, I may have to re-think this whole blog post,lol.<br />
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Here are some images, music and interesting facts of the Sami people: <a href="http://saamiblog.blogspot.com/">Saami Blog</a><br />
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Another shocker was the 18% Southern European which encompasses Portugal, Spain and Italy. Huh? What? Wait a minute! I haven't found anyone in my line from any of these countries. Some digging is going to have to be done to find out who these Southern Europeans are, or where they came from and how they got into my DNA. First I'll need my dad's results to determine if it's in his line or my mother's line which is what I suspect.<br />
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Not a shocker? 42% British Isles. I've always known I was descended from Irish ancestors (I was born with the last name of CLARE after all), although I'm still trying to find the immigrant Irish ancestor. And I've been drawn to England as a homeland since well, probably birth. :) It's why I trek the land, spend so much time there, have an affinity for it's people, love it's shows and movies and totally get their humor. I belong there, my DNA longs to be there. It's strange but I always felt like I had lived there before in a past life and I believe that even more now. Plus, nearly every line in my paternal family tree leads back to an ancestor from the British Isles.<br />
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<i>Always happy to be in Britain! Sitting atop a rock in Northumberland, overlooking Hadrian's Wall.</i></div>
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From <a href="http://23andme.com/">23andme.com</a>, the Maternal results say I am 100% European which encompasses all of the British Isles, Scandinavia, Western and Eastern European. What that means is there is no Native American DNA on my mother's side and very little if any Jewish ancestry. Today, my maternal DNA most closely resembles people from France and Germany. I can't wait until next month when I find out my Paternal Halpogroup from my dad. And one of the best things about having your DNA done is as new genetic research is discovered, they can update your own information! The adventure continues!<br />
<br />Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04191615169155143283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842715590703160109.post-62423138092028519392012-05-28T05:18:00.000-07:002012-05-28T05:18:16.677-07:00In Memory of Those Who Served...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This image is in honor of all those who served with a special remembrance to those in my family tree who fought for freedom:<br />
Samuel Gaskill- Revolutionary War<br />
Asbury Gaskill, Great Great Grandfather-Civil War<br />
Webster T. Roth, Great Great Grandfather-Civil War<br />
Adam Spahn, Great Grandfather-World War I<br />
Eugene Duesing, Grandfather-World War II<br />
Anthony Duesing, Gran Uncle-World War II: Missing in Action<br />
Larry Duesing, Uncle-Vietnam<br />
<br />Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04191615169155143283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842715590703160109.post-59634965267071715992012-05-19T12:48:00.003-07:002012-05-19T12:48:55.153-07:00I'm a Nutter...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My English friend Ray has been calling me a nutter for years. Little did we know back then that I actually AM a Nutter! My Great Great grandmother is Mary Nutter, a direct descendant of Christopher Nutter, my 8th Great Grandfather, who sailed from England to Maryland in 1665 when he was just 21. When I began to research this line, I was very excited to find out how far back it would go and to connect it to England (as you all know, it's the land I love most!). The name is Anglo-Saxon and is found in both Yorkshire and Lancashire. It was first recorded in Gloucestershire and variants of this surname have been around since the early middle ages. I was able to take my Nutter line back even further to Christopher's Grandfather, Richard Nutter, who was born in Lancashire in 1579. I still have lots of research to do on my Nutter ancestors but I've discovered quite a bit in a short amount of time.<br />
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Last April I was lucky enough to have a friend who was living in Maryland at the time and invited me for a visit. One day we set out by car and drove to the Eastern Shore and down to Nutters Neck. This was land owned by Christopher and given to his sons Matthew and Christopher. This was the birthplace of my 5th Great Grandfather, Matthew Nathan Nutter who was grandson of Matthew and great grandson of Christopher. He was the last in my direct line to have lived at Nutters Neck, having left for Harrison County, Virginia where he and his brother built Nutter Fort. It was so cool to walk around the area. There is just one small dirt road called Nutters Neck Road that leads into some woods and deadends at Manumsco Creek. I could imagine how it looked in 1665 as there weren't any towns or buildings around, save a few farms and there was certainly nothing around or along Nutters Neck. I could imagine the Nutters fishing in the creek and hunting in the woods. I wondered if they ran into any Indians or had to endure any hurricanes or blizzards. Still so much to find out! But for now you all can enjoy these images we took while there. It was so cool to walk where my ancestors once tread and it's always so much more fun to be hunting for clues somewhere other than the internet! :-)<br />
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<i>The Woods Surrounding Nutters Neck</i><br />
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<i>Panoramic View of the woods around Nutters Neck. Pic taken by my friend Missy Trent.</i></div>
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Matthew Nathan Nutter was the son of John Huett Nutter (Matthew's first son and Christopher's grandson) and in the next post I'll be sharing the fascinating history on that middle name, another of my direct lines! You won't want to miss this one, as it's historical, tragic and full of political drama! Stay tuned...Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04191615169155143283noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842715590703160109.post-22004508406575666472012-01-10T10:09:00.000-08:002012-05-19T09:41:09.642-07:00Lucking out on English Research<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="text-align: left;">Wow. Hard to believe it has been nearly a year since I last posted anything on my </span><span style="text-align: left;">genealogy</span><span style="text-align: left;"> blog. Life has a way of getting into the way of research and time has a way of zipping by. I did manage to take a trip to England in April and lucked-out on an extraordinary opportunity. I found myself somewhere that most people will never get to visit...inside the library and office of the official royal historian to Westminster Abbey. The Abbey was actually closed due to the fact that the Queen was attending service. However, a series of conversations with the guard at the door-bookshop manager-"man in the red cape at the cloisters"-led me down those long corridors, over burial stones, to the library door. We were buzzed in and told to wait before the Abbey's historian and librarian, Tony, took us up some narrow stairs into a room filled with ancient books and manuscripts. It was amazing! I felt like we were in the restricted section of Hogwarts! Tony took us into his office which was filled wall-to-wall with the histories of Britain and the world. Books with crumbling spines, yellowing pages and dusty covers. I told Tony I was looking for an etching of my ancestor Sir Henry Spelman (who, himself was an Antiquarian) as well as a photograph of his burial stone (he is buried in a location not accessible to outsiders). Tony carefully lowered a huge book down onto the large table and flipped through a series of original etchings from the 15th century. I watched as faces of kings, queens and knights flew by until I recognized Henry's image. "That's it!" I yelled out with excitement! Tony then took the big book into a smaller room to make a copy for me and returned not only with two copies but also with an image of Henry's stone. We chatted a few more minutes about the upcoming wedding of Prince William (in which he was attending! Lucky guy!) before I headed off, beaming from the thrill of a lifetime! </span></div>
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<i><br /></i></div>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04191615169155143283noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842715590703160109.post-64407787402443306112011-02-23T18:14:00.000-08:002012-02-10T20:34:39.114-08:00Finding Records of the PastAlthough it's been almost a year since I have posted to my Genealogy blog, I have still been doing research. With an upcoming trip to Maryland and Virginia, I have been focusing on my Nutter Ancestors who settled a good part of the Virginias and Maryland. I recently purchased a book called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stepney-Parish-Records-Somerset-Maryland/dp/1585491365?ie=UTF8&tag=thegr02f-20&link_code=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969" target="_blank">Stepney Parish Records of Somerset County, Maryland.</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=thegr02f-20&l=btl&camp=213689&creative=392969&o=1&a=1585491365" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important;" width="1" /> This book contains birth, deaths, marriages and confirmation records for the period of 1709-1889 from the churches of St. Bartholomew's at Green Hill and St. Mary's at Tyaskin.<br />
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Inside are records for John Huett Nutter and Ann Nutter, my 6th great grandparents as well as their son Matthew Nathan Nutter, my 5th great grandfather.<br />
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As is the case with this record, sometimes it brings up more questions than answers. Ann Nutter was a second wife. Was she a cousin and her maiden name actually was Nutter or did they make an error in the records, forgetting perhaps to list her by her maiden name? Based on the time period, it was not unusual for cousins to marry and my hunch is that Ann's maiden name was Nutter and she was a cousin from another Nutter line. I have added this to my "questions to be answered, proof needed" list. That list is long. Really, really long.</div>
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One of the features at <a href="http://ancestry.com/">Ancestry.com</a> is the "relationship" tree, showing exactly how you are related to someone way down the line. I've got over 1100 people currently in my family tree so it's helpful to have a way to view the relationship easily.<br />
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<span class="topName" style="font-weight: bold;">John Huett NUTTER </span><span class="topYear" style="color: #6e6e6e;">(1705 - 1760)</span></div>
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<a class="relative" href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4743215/person/343236684" style="color: #445708; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Matthew Nathan Nutter (1737 - 1811)</a></div>
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<a class="relative" href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4743215/person/-1553766169" style="color: #445708; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Claude Everett Gaskill (1890 - 1962)</a></div>
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<a class="bottomName" href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4743215/person/-1553804340" style="color: #445708; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Laura Clare</a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">is your </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">12th great grandmother</span></b></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="flat_icon arrow2down_green" style="background-image: url(http://c.mfcreative.com/lib/tgn/ancestry/i/icon-sprite.png); background-position: 0% -760px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; float: none; height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; width: 16px;"></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="relative" href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4743215/person/366126112" style="color: #445708; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Edward Mumford (1540 - )</span></a></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Son of Bridgett</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="flat_icon arrow2down_green" style="background-image: url(http://c.mfcreative.com/lib/tgn/ancestry/i/icon-sprite.png); background-position: 0% -760px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; float: none; height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; width: 16px;"></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="relative" href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4743215/person/366118169" style="color: #445708; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Barbary Mumforde (1579 - 1624)</span></a></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Daughter of Edward</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="flat_icon arrow2down_green" style="background-image: url(http://c.mfcreative.com/lib/tgn/ancestry/i/icon-sprite.png); background-position: 0% -760px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; float: none; height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; width: 16px;"></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="relative" href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4743215/person/366114339" style="color: #445708; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Samuel Smith (1600 - 1642)</span></a></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Son of Barbary</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="flat_icon arrow2down_green" style="background-image: url(http://c.mfcreative.com/lib/tgn/ancestry/i/icon-sprite.png); background-position: 0% -760px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; float: none; height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; width: 16px;"></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="relative" href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4743215/person/365356815" style="color: #445708; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mary Smith (1636 - 1677)</span></a></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Daughter of Samuel</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="flat_icon arrow2down_green" style="background-image: url(http://c.mfcreative.com/lib/tgn/ancestry/i/icon-sprite.png); background-position: 0% -760px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; float: none; height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; width: 16px;"></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="relative" href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4743215/person/365352081" style="color: #445708; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hannah Endicott (1676 - 1737)</span></a></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Daughter of Mary</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="flat_icon arrow2down_green" style="background-image: url(http://c.mfcreative.com/lib/tgn/ancestry/i/icon-sprite.png); background-position: 0% -760px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; float: none; height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; width: 16px;"></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="relative" href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4743215/person/347600854" style="color: #445708; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Benjamin Gaskill (1709 - 1776)</span></a></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Son of Hannah</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="flat_icon arrow2down_green" style="background-image: url(http://c.mfcreative.com/lib/tgn/ancestry/i/icon-sprite.png); background-position: 0% -760px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; float: none; height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; width: 16px;"></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="relative" href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4743215/person/347585506" style="color: #445708; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Samuel Gaskill (1749 - 1821)</span></a></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Son of Benjamin</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="relative" href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4743215/person/347578577" style="color: #445708; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thomas Gaskill (1788 - 1850)</span></a></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Son of Samuel</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="flat_icon arrow2down_green" style="background-image: url(http://c.mfcreative.com/lib/tgn/ancestry/i/icon-sprite.png); background-position: 0% -760px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; display: inline-block; float: none; height: 16px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: 8px; width: 16px;"></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="relative" href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4743215/person/-1553538421" style="color: #445708; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Timothy Sewell Gaskill (1811 - 1870)</span></a></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="relative" href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4743215/person/-1553574319" style="color: #445708; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Asbury S Gaskill (1844 - 1925)</span></a></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Son of Timothy Sewell</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="relative" href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4743215/person/-1553766169" style="color: #445708; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Claude Everett Gaskill (1890 - 1962)</span></a></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="relative" href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4743215/person/-1553769250" style="color: #445708; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Billie Louise Gaskill (1919 - 1966)</span></a></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Daughter of Claude Everett</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a class="relative" href="http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/4743215/person/-1553804339" style="color: #445708; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Larry Clare (1940 - )</span></a></span></b></span></div>
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</div>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04191615169155143283noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842715590703160109.post-91781648502093672582010-05-31T08:30:00.000-07:002010-05-31T08:35:28.174-07:00Ancestors in the War of the Rebellion<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Tx5Ox8gfYLoYyqUMsHViTXFd3pP6ElQA3zgHnDTrnvzQN-jazxBz8MZwnXtvm0lDCRQW4_p5aZdrxZ9OdnSxLD31y3okcJtcN1oL2eMGGko4ci1Hu10WdqJUDEP7l3t-v7t7u9lAXPc/s1600/WebsterCivilWarReunionPic+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Tx5Ox8gfYLoYyqUMsHViTXFd3pP6ElQA3zgHnDTrnvzQN-jazxBz8MZwnXtvm0lDCRQW4_p5aZdrxZ9OdnSxLD31y3okcJtcN1oL2eMGGko4ci1Hu10WdqJUDEP7l3t-v7t7u9lAXPc/s400/WebsterCivilWarReunionPic+.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>I never had that much interest in learning about the Civil War. Whatever I did know about it came from watching Gone With the Wind a gazillion times. I was obsessed however, with the histories of WWII. That interest came about from watching The Guns of Navarone in Junior High. And, I had a grandfather that served in WWII so I felt more of a connection to that historical event than I did to the Civil war. I even made a journey with my mother to the beaches of Normandy and to the WWII museum in Caen, France. But, now I'm finding myself engrossed in stories about the Civil War. Now that I have found ancestors that participated I feel I owe it to them to find out just what happened and what they went through.<br />
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I have two Great Great Grandfathers that served in the Civil War, or the War of the Rebellion as it was called back then. Both served for the Union. Asbury S. Gaskill, on my paternal grandmother's side and Webster T. Roth, on my paternal grandfather's side. Both served for Iowa, Asbury with the 4th Iowa Calvary and Webster with the 26th Iowa Infantry. Both had very different experiences. Asbury, who lived in Mount Pleasant where the 4th Iowa Calvary was based, enlisted in October of 1861and only served until April 1862 when he was discharged by the camp surgeon and sent home in what was listed as "a dying condition". Measles had swept through the barracks and Asbury had contracted it which led to him having "disease of the chest" or more commonly known as pneumonia. When he entered the service, he was a strong lad of eighteen years, able-bodied and working on the family farm. When he left the service just a few months later, he was "broken-down" and near death with a "depression of the chest of a few inches" which would cause him great pain all throughout the rest of his life. I have no pictures of Asbury, save this single image of his grave marker, located at Maple Grove Cemetery in Dodge City, Kansas:<br />
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For my great great grandfather Webster Tyler Roth, the experience was quite different. He enlisted in August, 1862 at the age of 19 in Clinton, Iowa.<br />
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<i>"was on march to Chattanooga, halted to cook dinner. We built our fire upon rock and by the side of rock, necessarily so far we were in the mountains. The rock became intensely heated and small pieces burnt off one of which struck in my right eye."</i><br />
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I discovered a memoir written by Webster's fellow soldier who served with him in the 26th Infantry. Both of their companies fought side by side during most of the war. William Royal Oake's account of his time with the Iowa 26th gives me a unique insight to the day by day life of my great great grandfather during the Civil war. An insight to what he went through during his march through the South, what he endured and witnessed during the battles.<br />
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So today, I pay tribute to these two brave men and all those that have served and protected our country in the years following from the Great War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We will never forget your service.<br />
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</span></div></div>My Dolechek family came over from Klášterec nad Ohří, Czechslovakia ( Klösterle), Bohemia in 1866 and settled in Ringgold County, Iowa. This group included my third great grandfather, Leopold, his wife and two children (they would have 6 more after moving to Ringgold and then three more after moving to Kansas), his two brothers Vetus and Peter, their families and their widowed mother, Frantiska, my fourth great grandmother who died in Ringgold in 1875. Her husband, my fourth great grandfather must have died then prior to their arrival into Iowa in 1866. I have not yet discovered his name. A trip to Klösterle will be required in order to find additional records so that I can continue down the line. Many immigrants from Bohemia settled in Ringgold, including some of the Pacha family, the Bohemian ancestors of my husband, Charlie. Other Bohemian families that settled in Ringgold include Toman, Krechky and Sedlicek just to mention a few.<br />
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The Krechky home in Ringgold was the largest log house in the neighborhood and served as a place for most of those early social gatherings. The first Bohemian church was also a log cabin and it remained for many years until the settlers built a new church on the edge of the cemetery on part of my third great uncle Peter Dolecheck's farm. Peter performed the lay minister services for the church for 25 years.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"</span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In the year of 1866 Peter DOLECHECK Sr. and his brothers, Vet and Leopold and families and several related families of theirs, started on a long journey to America where they arrived the same year. At that time it took six weeks to cross the Atlantic Ocean. They all settled in Washington Township about nine miles northwest of Mt. Ayr. Peter DOLECHECK's Sr. made their permanent home in Washington Township and after their arrival in America. Peter DOLECHECK Sr. conducted the services in the Bohemian Church for about twnety-five years. The services in the beginning and for many years after, were held in a log cabin but later on when the settlers were better situated financially, they build a new church on the cemetery grounds. It was located on a part of the Peter DOLECHECK farm."</span></span></i></span><br />
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The Bohemian Cemetery in Ringgold Iowa where many of the Dolecheck and Pacha ancestors are buried:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Many immigrants who came to the new world changed their surnames. Some added or subtracted letters from their surnames while others shortened or lengthened the names.In Czech, Dolecek has</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">hácek mark over the letter c that is pronounced like "CH" in the word church which is how it got its americanized spelling of Dolechek, with the extra "h" added.</span></span><br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Sometime after 1880 my third great grandfather, Leopold and his brother Vetus moved their families from Ringgold, Iowa to Barton County, Kansas where they both built farms and worked in agriculture. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;">My second great grandfather, Ferdinand who was Leopold's third son married and moved to Kinsley, Kansas where he built a farm and raised his family including my great grandmother Josephine. Here is a photograph of Ferdinand and his wife Margaret and her sister Sophie:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv3dA1zdrrpc16ZzwMWUMDKrwYricws_n2jmuCAe6iGymqVopxc1dABKFFz_-Ndph6C8kRzbKtYqpYvWmqoTfA7T0Qtc1JMJ0MdmsuPIswSWvfrs3MRLjw2v3WRlTXEaRSaqkaHn5t3NI/s1600/FerdinandMargaretKramerSisterSophie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv3dA1zdrrpc16ZzwMWUMDKrwYricws_n2jmuCAe6iGymqVopxc1dABKFFz_-Ndph6C8kRzbKtYqpYvWmqoTfA7T0Qtc1JMJ0MdmsuPIswSWvfrs3MRLjw2v3WRlTXEaRSaqkaHn5t3NI/s400/FerdinandMargaretKramerSisterSophie.jpg" width="352" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px;">and a photo of my great grandmother Josephine Dolechek on her wedding day to my great grandfather Adam Spahn:</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 5px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 5px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85788/laurgeo/bdde9be6513572f47a2109b41ae93a42.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></a></span></div><div></div></div></span>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04191615169155143283noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842715590703160109.post-47240426054609429162010-04-24T07:20:00.000-07:002010-04-26T20:35:43.555-07:00A Musical Family<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk6q10cewolGmUP50iS_zqQQMxBcmaSibpB1hlyQ227X-sies_gIn34MkYaMnjsQ7YXMzojj3YEDcJZ5QHi97AY89Cb_1Ir_18OhRS2vSYyeCoZsZxFfo86uHb49Koo7rFVaOAYJpo98k/s1600/PopsGuitarR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk6q10cewolGmUP50iS_zqQQMxBcmaSibpB1hlyQ227X-sies_gIn34MkYaMnjsQ7YXMzojj3YEDcJZ5QHi97AY89Cb_1Ir_18OhRS2vSYyeCoZsZxFfo86uHb49Koo7rFVaOAYJpo98k/s400/PopsGuitarR.jpg" width="347" /></a></div><br />
I always loved going down to my Grandpa Carl Clare's house. "Pops" as we affectionately called him had some odd and interesting things in his home (a jeweled tree! metal detectors! old wooden teeth!) all which were very enticing to a school kid. Pops house was only a block from my own. I would stay there after school sometimes or just wander down on the weekend to say hi. I loved to swing on his porch swing, pet his cats and above all else, listen to him and my step-grandmother Thelma play their music.<br />
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Pops would play a song on the guitar or pluck his banjo and Thelma would play the organ. She always let me tinker on the organ. They played several functions together every year, entertaining the good people of Kansas and they kept on playing until Thelma left this world. Pops continued on with his music however, which I'm sure was very healing to him after Thelma's passing. One of my last memories of Pops was when Charlie and I took my Grandma (Duesing) for a ride on the DCF&B train and Pops provided the music. What a surprise that was to take one grandparent for a ride, only to discover another on the same train!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">I have a story from Pops about being the entertainment on the railroad that I will post in a followup blog. For this blog entry I want to focus on what I discovered about my grandfather's musical heritage. In researching my grandfather's maternal line, I discovered that music was a big part of the Roth family life. Not only music, but stories and poetry too. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
My great grandmother, Pops' mother, Glen Coe Roth, was a violin player. She must have been good as she played different venues and functions. Here is a photo of her holding her violin:<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">And here is a flyer announcing one of her performances:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfvpsv_QyuPZmTWzocqSNS7Zyk0yAE0gzH7ih_BqSDK5VuiPGGt5lG7huflCpSTB2IhmuHcAzVPQD__rPR3_h_RBpV8jHIO-xtKAghnxj3i59O6LZWoD9q5DYF4jOKXIp9nCCIWUBgty0/s1600/TonightAtTheHall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfvpsv_QyuPZmTWzocqSNS7Zyk0yAE0gzH7ih_BqSDK5VuiPGGt5lG7huflCpSTB2IhmuHcAzVPQD__rPR3_h_RBpV8jHIO-xtKAghnxj3i59O6LZWoD9q5DYF4jOKXIp9nCCIWUBgty0/s400/TonightAtTheHall.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">It reads in part "Good violin music and songs will be interspersed throughout the entire program by Glen Roth Clare." Notice the name of the Entertainment Co. "Evans-Roth". I haven't figured out yet if that was Glen Coe herself or another musical Roth that was partners with "Evans".</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Glen Coe must have passed her love for music down to her children, thus my grandfather probably had music in his life from an early age. And the same was probably true for Glen Coe as well since her father, my great great grandfather Webster Tyler Roth was a drummer. He drummed in the Civil War for Company H, Iowa 26th Infantry Regiment from August 14th, 1862 until June 6th, 1865, from the age of 20 to 23. Here is a Civil War Reunion picture of him and other members of his regiment. I have no idea when it was taken, but most likely, at least 20 years after the war. My great great grandfather is seated in the middle row, third from the left:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6t8FRVd0ophdszteveF036grmPTDP-z6lh2zEgje1DocLcTcDtoOsXIkmU75ujgLx6Gf7WxPscF16PDyMBnKWGqkalA0c7fC8baEBDl0LhQ0RcR96YmzeUsU9ye5ADqLIvyTSHJjJbHs/s1600/WebsterCivilWarReunionPic+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6t8FRVd0ophdszteveF036grmPTDP-z6lh2zEgje1DocLcTcDtoOsXIkmU75ujgLx6Gf7WxPscF16PDyMBnKWGqkalA0c7fC8baEBDl0LhQ0RcR96YmzeUsU9ye5ADqLIvyTSHJjJbHs/s400/WebsterCivilWarReunionPic+.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Webster and his wife Annie had 10 children who lived and I'm curious now to find out how many of Glen Coe's siblings also enjoyed music and maybe if Annie herself was musically inclined and if it also came from her side of the family (Wright). At least some of it rubbed off on me as I played piano, guitar and flute as I was growing up and still, today plunk on the piano every now and again</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Nstk6CBAITqQOPPywBZBSYgQMfTFZxAbS0jkPNcnLIOGm5RxZoZ81s-RvG_Sun8cIISJ6wN-L5DjwzWir_1G7zOI2PnaGvsj1KvrrVyo0Vhbp2fktypI78vXBtgMOFyBzqLLKDNa9Q0/s1600/LauraPiano.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Nstk6CBAITqQOPPywBZBSYgQMfTFZxAbS0jkPNcnLIOGm5RxZoZ81s-RvG_Sun8cIISJ6wN-L5DjwzWir_1G7zOI2PnaGvsj1KvrrVyo0Vhbp2fktypI78vXBtgMOFyBzqLLKDNa9Q0/s400/LauraPiano.jpg" width="382" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Will I find more musicians in my family tree? Stay tuned! (No pun intended!) </div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85788/laurgeo/bdde9be6513572f47a2109b41ae93a42.png" style="-moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous; -moz-background-origin: padding; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border: 0pt none ! important;" /></a>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04191615169155143283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842715590703160109.post-62580035841835821782010-04-19T19:52:00.000-07:002010-04-21T19:07:05.107-07:00Tragedy on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sometimes, while researching one ancestor you fall upon another who has a story to tell. And sometimes, you solve a family mystery, only to uncover another one. Both happened this week searching for Kansas newspaper articles on my grandfather, Carl Clare. My grandfather was named after his uncle, Carl Clare, his father Harry's younger brother who was born in 1890. Carl, who would be my great great uncle was missing one of his arms, the result of an accident on a train. None of the current living family members knew what that accident was, just that it involved a train.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">While searching those Kansas newspapers, I found the story of what happened to Carl on that train. The story was printed in the Kansas City Star on November 27th, 1905 and reads:</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><i>SHOT BY A KANSAS WATCHMAN.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Carl Clare, a 15-Year-Old Newkirk, Ok., Boy, in a Critical Condition.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>WICHITA, KAS., Nov. 27.---Carl Clare of Newkirk, Ok., was brought to a Wichita hospital this morning. He was shot by the night watchman in Harper, Kas. He is in critical condition. Clare, who is only 15 years old, had been riding the blind baggage of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe train on his way home from a visit. When ordered to halt the boy started to run and the watchman shot him. A bullet from a 44-caliber revolver passed through his right side.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br />
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</i></div><div style="text-align: left;">This newspaper article was a goldmine of information. It solved the mystery of how Carl lost his arm on the train. It also tells his age and his current place of residence. But, it leaves other mysteries to be solved...where was he coming from? who was he visiting? was he alone? what hospital was he brought to? was there no way to save the arm? who cared for him? did his parents take the train to Kansas to be with him?<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">One of the most interesting bits of information revealed in the article is that Carl was riding in the "blind baggage" of an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe train. By 1905, the year Carl took this fateful ride, the trains of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad traveled from Chicago to San Francisco.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix5IDayqzWBpeksvc2D_NXSiv9u38UdtlCgfSsw3tkk1Sq07J910zAyH7CCMasmvfbW8FjZqfylA5DbjESrkvjSk4MR0wmqjMLyrviLhGnNadcGvZBw6JX6Z2etLkvOb6Z5U7oPL1zKx4/s1600/SantaFeRouteMap1891.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix5IDayqzWBpeksvc2D_NXSiv9u38UdtlCgfSsw3tkk1Sq07J910zAyH7CCMasmvfbW8FjZqfylA5DbjESrkvjSk4MR0wmqjMLyrviLhGnNadcGvZBw6JX6Z2etLkvOb6Z5U7oPL1zKx4/s400/SantaFeRouteMap1891.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">We know Carl was probably travelling somewhere from the east back towards the west and was shot in Harper, Kansas, just south of Wichita. His father had moved the family from Ellison, Illinois to Powhatten, Kansas before moving to Oklahoma during the great Land Runs. Perhaps Carl was visiting family left behind in Ellison or Powhatten.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Carl was riding in the blind baggage of the train. This tells us that he was most likely not traveling with his parents. The blind baggage of the train was a baggage car that was carried behind the coal tender of the locomotive and was known as a "blind baggage car" because it had no connecting door but a loose blind over the exit. Because there is no connecting door, hobos (migratory workers) who hopped the trains without paying could not be discovered from within the train. This became known as "riding the blinds". It was a very dangerous way to travel as was "riding the rods", hanging on under the train. Researching this I found several stories of those "riding the blinds" losing fingers or hands or being ran over and killed while trying to hop a moving train.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">"The Ballad of Casey Jones" has a lyric that refers to the blinds:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Casey said before he died</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>fix the blinds so the bums can't ride</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>If they ride, let them ride the rods</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>and put their hands in the trust of God</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="text-align: left;">Was my great great uncle Carl a migratory worker, a hobo? Or was he just returning from spending time with family? Carl was shot...discovered by a night watchman. Carl, who must have been just a frightened teenager took off running which was probably his most natural instinct. Instead of letting him go, the night watchman shot him with a 44-caliber gun. Thanksgiving was three days later so it's assumed he spent that time in a Wichita hospital. Who was the night watchman who shot him? What was his story? There is more mystery now than before! I'll have to put my Sherlock sensibilities to work and try to solve it.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">An interesting endnote to this blog entry: I've taken one shot of railroad tracks. One shot of part of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad. That one shot was taken in 2008 in....Harper, Kansas. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-cSk_KKshMMRXyHoJJTCBDdzJzNlCSDvqr-p5kgLoOwc8IuPLHOt_iHRtYWJsmYfsXkRlDISs8lHsI7Hv8niTXMYwBoqTfrtqM7rRqc14kNRGXyk022b_vk9W4aPlFBu8TvbwTMgim_A/s1600/MyTracksinHarper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-cSk_KKshMMRXyHoJJTCBDdzJzNlCSDvqr-p5kgLoOwc8IuPLHOt_iHRtYWJsmYfsXkRlDISs8lHsI7Hv8niTXMYwBoqTfrtqM7rRqc14kNRGXyk022b_vk9W4aPlFBu8TvbwTMgim_A/s400/MyTracksinHarper.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Coincidence? Or perhaps I was drawn there by ancestral energy. I prefer to believe the latter.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85788/laurgeo/bdde9be6513572f47a2109b41ae93a42.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></a>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04191615169155143283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842715590703160109.post-22063032743586213572010-04-17T18:32:00.000-07:002010-04-18T20:57:07.374-07:00The Roth Family Line and a Terrible Tragedy<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
<h2 class="leaf" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://c.mfcreative.com/css/learn/SymbolicGreenLeaf.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(178, 178, 178); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #566c11; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 30px; text-transform: none;">Roth Name Meaning and History</h2><div class="nameMeaning" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><ol style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a person with red hair, from Middle High German <i>rot</i>, German <i>rot</i> ‘red’. As a Jewish surname it is also at least partly ornamental: its frequency as a Jewish surname is disproportionate to the number of Jews who, one may reasonably assume, were red-headed during the period of surname adoption.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">German and English: topographic name for someone who lived on land that had been cleared, Old High German <i>rod</i>, Old English <i>rod</i>, <i>roð</i>.</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">German: from a short form of any of the various Germanic personal names with the first element<i>hrod</i> ‘renown’. </li>
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</div><div><h2 class="leaf" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(http://c.mfcreative.com/css/learn/SymbolicGreenLeaf.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 2px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(178, 178, 178); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #566c11; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 30px; text-transform: none;">The Roth Line</h2><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">l</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Glen Coe Roth (great grandmother)</span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Roth line has been fascinating to follow and I've learned some interesting things about my ancestors. One such interesting fact is that my great grandmother, Glen Coe, learned to shoot a gun at a very early age and always carried it with her while out in the pasture, herding the cows. Her nickname was "Sarge". How I love that! She was an accomplished violinist. She loved to dress in costume, and was most fond of Native American dress:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2SvuozNG3FjlqZx_e6kDWXQcYMVi0jFvP1KyRENh575iSPlPYGLYjt_XgQqEjKqp7lQEIbQntyFCqlSZ3y9vIP1D2iNg4J42V3KO8x646Jeu62p2PCYAI9bxdchL2xZLhXgVa6U4dQH8/s1600/Glencoe1R.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2SvuozNG3FjlqZx_e6kDWXQcYMVi0jFvP1KyRENh575iSPlPYGLYjt_XgQqEjKqp7lQEIbQntyFCqlSZ3y9vIP1D2iNg4J42V3KO8x646Jeu62p2PCYAI9bxdchL2xZLhXgVa6U4dQH8/s400/Glencoe1R.jpg" width="313" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">With a name like Glen Coe and a brother named Fairiby, I thought perhaps a Scottish descent would be found. Although her mother's maiden name is Wright, which is Scottish, I discovered that it's more probable that Glen Coe was named for a small town in Butler County, Kansas. I've not found a birth record for Glen, but her father was living in Hodgeman County the year before she was born which is most likely her place of birth. As for her brother, Fairiby, their father, Webster Tyler Roth served in the Civil War and his Regiment Colonel was Thomas G. Ferreby. This is probably where the name Fairiby came from. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Webster Tyler Roth, my second great grandfather was born in Illinois but moved to Iowa with his family sometime between the ages of eight and fourteen. In 1862, at the age of 20, he enlisted in the War of Rebellion (as the Civil War was called) and served with Company H, the 26th Iowa Infantry Regiment. He served three years until 1865.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxoUKKnSfpm_8zWKqKVXf1KfIh-MAxwGJtAP2lxTXqEi0piyI1dgCTsf-ixIwM8r1xJ8BR1q7F7pyA-FBTKPf8W6FedpN_4tCKJPquV1DdkgaWRLRRVGxCFeoBkru-Ye7-e3MqSvL5PS8/s1600/Webster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxoUKKnSfpm_8zWKqKVXf1KfIh-MAxwGJtAP2lxTXqEi0piyI1dgCTsf-ixIwM8r1xJ8BR1q7F7pyA-FBTKPf8W6FedpN_4tCKJPquV1DdkgaWRLRRVGxCFeoBkru-Ye7-e3MqSvL5PS8/s400/Webster.jpg" width="355" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">He married Anna Juliette Dillon Wright sometime before 1868 and they had 11 children, but lost the youngest one, Yvette, to a tragic accident involving fire around Christmas of 1897. The story from the Dodge City Daily Globe, 12/31/1897:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Georgia;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Georgia;"><div style="line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**Last Saturday evening between 5 and 6 o clock a little girl of W.T. Roth who resides at the State Soldiers Home while playing in the back yard with some other children backed into a small fire which had been started by the children. Her Dress caught fire behind, and before she discovered it her clothing was all on fire. she started and ran towards the rear door of Mr. J.W. Keiths house. Mrs. Keith had just came to her rear door and saw the childs clothing in flames. She ran to the child and pulled the clothing off as fast as she could, but before she could get them off the child was burned so bad and had inhaled so much of the fire that her little life could not be saved. Her hair was all burned from her head. Her body and flesh was burned black. Mrs. Keiths hands were also badly burned in attempting to save the little one. The Dr. did all that could be done for the child which only lived till 4 o clock Sunday morning. The parents have the sympathy of the citizens in their sad affliction.**</div><div style="line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It was such a sad story to discover. I can't imagine how horrible that must have been for the other children and for Webster and Anna. Anna died just two years later, perhaps with a broken heart. Webster was already living at Fort Dodge Soldiers Home when it happened and I've not discovered where the underage children went to live once Anna had died.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXQPWvjMJV6nJkb84iDH4lEGyzQ1vcMyvl08SCSu8eXjIiRQXRPLVFu2FZeDJQvga19ARpXtXGoyKhQ0pkb_B5T3iS-jwC1OkFdb0Xvv-zK2zclCkOI4hx4F1CqApW1wYPFfaOdYxPb64/s1600/WebsterRothFamilyR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXQPWvjMJV6nJkb84iDH4lEGyzQ1vcMyvl08SCSu8eXjIiRQXRPLVFu2FZeDJQvga19ARpXtXGoyKhQ0pkb_B5T3iS-jwC1OkFdb0Xvv-zK2zclCkOI4hx4F1CqApW1wYPFfaOdYxPb64/s400/WebsterRothFamilyR.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Back row: Edna (b. 1873), Ida (b. 1869), Chesterfield (b. 1878), Alwilda (b. 1871), Eva (b. 1868), Ann (b. 1880)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Front row: Devern (b. 1890), Fairiby (b. 1888), Glen Coe (b. 1886), Anna Juliette (b. 1850) holding Yvette (b. 1892, d. 1897), Webster Tyler (b. 1842), Pearle (b. 1884)</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've not done much research past Webster because he and his family has had a lot of historical records to comb over but I did find his father's headstone:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-LaX4_zssNXHU4ZN6UT576DoiUoKua4qN9l02n2De_eKFhOqbCAar7p1tPjlYPKp6ZuiDk3EK-173vTSXZ20rpkI5vdhuOEz0X4F0_dCzsQ02_7C1ew27IVN6_nxvdD9-ybwp4fCqYYo/s1600/SolomonRoth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-LaX4_zssNXHU4ZN6UT576DoiUoKua4qN9l02n2De_eKFhOqbCAar7p1tPjlYPKp6ZuiDk3EK-173vTSXZ20rpkI5vdhuOEz0X4F0_dCzsQ02_7C1ew27IVN6_nxvdD9-ybwp4fCqYYo/s400/SolomonRoth.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And a photograph of Solomon's brother, David, who's portrait hung in the Roth Family home in Hinsdale, Illinois and can also be found in a biography of the early pioneers of Hinsdale:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy18QntyECTojHHixCPTLCDnX48pLNOSXqrvALJqdzz8rbAsdc0XnSa6FVblK3JqGU1J1kLk1dPh5uSQ8Ia2NxgvWCXo_zP1Lpti_RirH6gETRphyphenhypheneO4Xbt4qIjzCEeC0k98fNFUF8-jE/s1600/DavidRoth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy18QntyECTojHHixCPTLCDnX48pLNOSXqrvALJqdzz8rbAsdc0XnSa6FVblK3JqGU1J1kLk1dPh5uSQ8Ia2NxgvWCXo_zP1Lpti_RirH6gETRphyphenhypheneO4Xbt4qIjzCEeC0k98fNFUF8-jE/s400/DavidRoth.jpg" width="262" /></a></div><div style="line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 1em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Solomon's father was Edward Roth who was born in Dudley, Massachusetts in 1762. Finding his birth record was great because it told me that his father, Benjamin, was a "junior" so I know now that my 6th great grandfather would also be a Benjamin. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfrJGT2RuS9jVHviSuS3or9GfT8oF0lSzXUGBPNTvh5M6K7zM-6KXQ814pyx_4vTqrOBgrJwxaVTPUHvYoqNJ4mMkFD4aNx6GIqujYYHhJySUK9d1UuEWRpSFYDzu11yOw51wzAPkVhJk/s1600/EdwardRothBirthRecord.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfrJGT2RuS9jVHviSuS3or9GfT8oF0lSzXUGBPNTvh5M6K7zM-6KXQ814pyx_4vTqrOBgrJwxaVTPUHvYoqNJ4mMkFD4aNx6GIqujYYHhJySUK9d1UuEWRpSFYDzu11yOw51wzAPkVhJk/s400/EdwardRothBirthRecord.jpg" width="241" /></a></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Edwards father, Benjamin Jr. was supposedly born in the little village of This in the Champagne-Ardennes region of France. I've not been able to confirm this however. This has brought me to a standstill on my direct Roth line until I can travel to the village of This, France or find some other record in Massachusetts that will confirm the French connection. In the meantime, I've decided to order the complete Civil War Military file for my great great grandfather Webster Tyler Roth and have been busy researching stories of his children. More to come on this fascinating branch of my family tree!</span></span></span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04191615169155143283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842715590703160109.post-69242702123106493432010-04-15T20:12:00.000-07:002010-04-18T20:56:43.345-07:00With a Little Help From My FriendsI had blogged earlier about the mystery surrounding how and when my Great Great grandfather John Spahn came to America. The family legend was that he went AWOL with the Russian Army and snuck into the States. I've not had any luck in finding him on any passenger list but with a little help from my friends, I just may get one step closer to solving the riddle.<br />
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Three of my girlfriends, Trena, Gina and Leilani all live in Kansas, about half an hour from Topeka. The three of them frequently get together for "girly afternoons" (always wish I was there with them!) so I sent all of them the information on the Naturalization record for John Spahn which is located at the Topeka Genealogical Society and asked for help in finding the record. I can always count on these girls for great support and they jumped on the favor without question.<br />
Here are the pictures Trena posted on Facebook of her visit to the Topeka Genealogical Society:<br />
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holds the record for John Spahn.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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The white book: Naturalization Record C District Court Shawnee County.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Now, I wait patiently to get the record...and with a little help from my friends, a mystery may be solved!</div><div style="text-align: left;">Update to follow...</div><div style="text-align: left;">Until then, Thanks girls for all your help!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85788/laurgeo/bdde9be6513572f47a2109b41ae93a42.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0 !important;" /></a>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04191615169155143283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842715590703160109.post-68274996741191740562010-04-13T12:17:00.000-07:002010-04-13T12:28:45.881-07:00Tombstone Tuesday: a Buffalo Hunter named McGill<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Boot Hill, Dodge City, Kansas</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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McGill's first name is unknown. He was a buffalo hunter and desperado who amused himself by shooting into every house he passed by. Members of the Vigilante Committee including James Hanrahan of the Occident Saloon and John (Scotty) Scott of the Peacock's Billard Saloon ran him out of town.<br />
McGill opened fire on them and they responded.<br />
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The report from the Marion County, Kansas Record read:<br />
On Tuesday night, an unmitigated scoundrel and desperado named McGill was shot and killed at Dodge City. This is the same scoundrel who shot and killed a sixteen year-old boy on New's Years Day last, without the slightest provocation.<br />
-March 29th, 1873<br />
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I used to play in this graveyard. My family had summer passes so Boot hill became a place they could drop us off for the day and we would let our imaginations lead us into great stories of Cowboys and Indians.<br />
As a teenager, I worked up on Boot Hill...and it freaked me out to be there at night, closing up the museum which had the bones of a Native American Indian inside under glass and a Buffalo Head on the wall whose eyes seemed to follow you where ever you walked. The place is definitely haunted, maybe even by the Buffalo Hunter named McGill!<br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/85788/laurgeo/bdde9be6513572f47a2109b41ae93a42.png" border="0" style="border: 0 !important; background: transparent;" /></a>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04191615169155143283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842715590703160109.post-27966159548873372592010-04-09T19:03:00.000-07:002010-04-13T12:27:47.601-07:00Fort Dodge, Home of Heroes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiLUYe6clHuEXp7JE0In3CQXuBOCI505DRx4I9kCrQA5OZGv5tsw5wDMaGblNwa9OUPu000nuM2C4xQKP0nzvsHFFuQIbuyeISfl5rtW9lPNuiwjoz6TSkNE-wUJDvC3dAqKvLRU3KV5c/s1600/FortDodge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiLUYe6clHuEXp7JE0In3CQXuBOCI505DRx4I9kCrQA5OZGv5tsw5wDMaGblNwa9OUPu000nuM2C4xQKP0nzvsHFFuQIbuyeISfl5rtW9lPNuiwjoz6TSkNE-wUJDvC3dAqKvLRU3KV5c/s400/FortDodge.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
My great grandfather, Adam Spahn spent his final years here, at the Fort Dodge Soldier's Home in Fort Dodge, Kansas. I had visited him there shortly before he died. The memory of the visit, with him in his wheelchair, lined up alongside many other wheelchair bound soldiers has never left me.It was difficult to see him in his final stages of life.The only other time I remember being out at Fort Dodge (besides Christmas 2008, when I took the above photograph) was as a small child, during a school field trip. I never really thought much about the fort. But, now I realize what a huge roll it has played in not only my great grandfather's life, but that of my great great grandfather, Asbury Gaskill who also spent the twilight of his life as a resident here.<br />
I was completely unaware of a second relative at the fort until I began tracing my Gaskill ancestors Asbury served in the Civil War but was discharged shortly after for "disease of the chest". He spent some time in 1900 at the Leavenworth Soldiers Home but at some point ended up here, at Fort Dodge. I have ordered Asbury's complete military file from the National Archives in Washington, DC and even though it can take up to 4 months for the packet to arrive I'm hoping it will tell me when he began living at Fort Dodge. Having ordered that file, I am now interested in ordering military records for my great grandfather, Adam Spahn who was in WW1, my grandfather, Eugene Duesing and his brother, Anthony Duesing who were in WWII. Unfortunately, a fire in 1973 destroyed most of the Army records (both Adam and Eugene were in the Army) so it may be a more difficult task than it was ordering the Civil War file of Asbury but I shall try and see what I can get!<br />
For now...here is a little bit of history on Fort Dodge:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGBJZ-txEhsNRQYMzCBWx8__jN4FbVsx4KBy3-MCvpPQr7d13eT24xdZJRhojqkYn-pPW-rgMYLhwTr6S6tErfUV4gc8Q_C91H7Tz4yal2qy0__vyIcquQqm4522m9LT04hPJtegyI32E/s1600/fort.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGBJZ-txEhsNRQYMzCBWx8__jN4FbVsx4KBy3-MCvpPQr7d13eT24xdZJRhojqkYn-pPW-rgMYLhwTr6S6tErfUV4gc8Q_C91H7Tz4yal2qy0__vyIcquQqm4522m9LT04hPJtegyI32E/s400/fort.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Fort Dodge, was one of the most important forts on the western frontier. It is located to the southeast of Dodge City. The fort was established on April 10, 1865 by Captain Henry Pierce, by order of Major General Grenville M. Dodge. The fort’s primary purpose was to protect the wagon trains on their way to New Mexico.<br />
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The need for a fort at this location was great; an unusually large camp site for the fort was situated where the dry route and the wet route of the Santa Fe Trail intersected. The dry route came across the divide from Larned on the Pawnee River, while the wet route followed the river. The dry route, often called the Hornado de Muerti, the journey of death, was often without water the whole distance and trains would lay up to recruit after making the passage. When the Indians discovered this popular stopping off point, they began to attack the many unwary emigrants and freighters traveling through the area.<br />
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Initial fortifications were crude earth dugouts excavated along the north bank of the Arkansas River. Many men first stationed there were Confederates who preferred a fight with the Indians to languishing, perhaps dying, in northern prisons. The soldiers had no lumber or hardware, so they had to use the available materials, grass and earth, to create the 70 sod dugouts. These were 10 X 12 feet in circumference and seven feet deep. A door to the south faced the river and a hole in the roof admitted air and light. Banks of earth were bunks for the soddies that slept from two to four men. Sanitation was poor and spring rains flooded the dugouts. Pneumonia, dysentery, diarrhea and malaria were common that first year in the isolated fort.<br />
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In 1867 Fort Dodge was relocated and rebuilt in stone buildings. In 1868 Comanches and Kiowas attacked Fort Dodge, killing four soldiers and wounding seventeen. As a result, General Philip H. Sheridan came to Fort Dodge in the summer of 1868. He pitched his camp on the hill north of the fort and started outfitting his command against the Indians.<br />
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In the fall of 1868, General Alfred Sully took command at the fort in preparation for winter campaign against the plains Indians. When the preparations for the expedition were well under way and his army practically ready to march, General Sully was sent home and General George A. Custer carried on the campaign.<br />
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The abandonment of Fort Dodge in June, 1882, created surprise among the Dodge City people who were terrified of the Indian raids.<br />
After its abandonment, part of the buildings were demolished, some removed. The military reservation was transferred to the Interior Department on January 12, 1885 and was converted to the Kansas Soldiers Home in 1889. When rebuilding and repairing began on the Soldiers Home, the character of the famous old post was sustained.<br />
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The Kansas Soldiers Home now includes a library/museum, a modern intensive nursing home, a recreation center, five residence halls, and 60 cottages. Veterans of the Mexican, Civil, Indian, Spanish-American, Philippines, Boxer Rebellion, World War I, and II, Korean and Vietnam Wars have all been occupants.<br />
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The peaceful park, quiet shaded tree lined walks, dignified buildings, both old and new, and other markers seem a far cry from the dugouts and forsaken soldiers barely existing on the Arkansas River bank in 1865.<br />
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Fort Dodge Hauntings – There have been many reports of strange occurrences at the old fort over the years. At a barn upon the site, it is said that at 3:30 every morning all the lights go on and off and the doors mysteriously open by themselves.<br />
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info courtesy of <a href="http://www.legendsofamerica.com/">Legends of America</a>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04191615169155143283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842715590703160109.post-6644567223866498532010-04-06T14:52:00.000-07:002010-04-06T14:55:41.760-07:00Tombstone Tuesday- Southwick Memorial<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Continuing with my research of my Quaker heritage and my 9th great grandparents Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick, I present for Tombstone Tuesday, a Memorial on Shelter Island. Unveiled on July 17th, 1884 on the Sylvester Manor house burial ground. The inscription reads: </span><br />
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Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick of England were members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in a very puritanical Salem. They were persecuted, fined, whipped, thrown in prison and eventually banished for not following the Puritan ways. They were my 9th Great Grandparents (and 8th great grandparents of Winston Churchill and Richard Nixon, my second cousins, 8 generations removed) and their daughter, Provided, my 8th Great Grandmother. To find out the horrors your family members went through is gut-wrenching. What I find utterly unbelievable is that the Puritans, who left England because of religious persecution became persecutors themselves and many Quakers suffered terribly as a result. Even more shocking to me was to find out that the person who passed judgement on them was my own 9th Great Grandfather, Puritan and first Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Endicott:<br />
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><i>"According to the </i><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="1911 Encyclopædia Britannica"><i>1911 Encyclopædia Britannica</i></a><i>, "Under his authority the colony of Massachusetts Bay made rapid progress, and except in the matter of religious intolerance in which he showed great bigotry and harshness, particularly towards the </i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_Society_of_Friends" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Religious Society of Friends"><i>Religious Society of Friends</i></a><i> (Quakers)" (including </i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_martyrs" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="Boston martyrs"><i>religious executions</i></a><i>), "his rule was just and praiseworthy. Of him </i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Eggleston" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="Edward Eggleston"><i>Edward Eggleston</i></a><i> says: A strange mixture of rashness, pious zeal, genial manners, hot temper, and harsh bigotry, his extravagances supply the condiment of humour to a very serious history; it is perhaps the principal debt posterity owes him.</i>"</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1PJmU1ZT5MA62o2f9m8IDnU5xuYE12iXO_T5BlmLg-H94ht-l8YU4J9YOyFlGPqB2T7IJuAWN4Vwp0UjfRRuX4Elu6rxC2JRlBwW6Socm5hYQt0oOIsb_7CIHgrsOrlJCsQNaIoaeY3U/s1600/QuakerTrial.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1PJmU1ZT5MA62o2f9m8IDnU5xuYE12iXO_T5BlmLg-H94ht-l8YU4J9YOyFlGPqB2T7IJuAWN4Vwp0UjfRRuX4Elu6rxC2JRlBwW6Socm5hYQt0oOIsb_7CIHgrsOrlJCsQNaIoaeY3U/s400/QuakerTrial.jpg" width="257" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><i>Quaker Trial, 17th Century</i> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><i><br />
</i></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Because of the unfair treatment of their parents, having bear witness to the repeated lashings and imprisonments, Daniel and Provided decided not to participate in a church that was so persecuting and for this they were fined ten pounds each even though it was known they would not be able to pay. The Governor then issued an order in the General Court of Boston that Daniel and Provided would be sold as slaves to any English nation at Virgina or Barbados. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCr2Jrndbyj4_9Ow-6ZAFy8T49WJQY65X-R9Vr_vj8pP34rTQezDs5a_vxm565eBIl_EaqNzVHTy88FPZP1Xd_hbf5oiUmhcVD0bmK0YUQtHzFNFoUpDiY1bifxOxwMJ63KwjxiHlai60/s1600/AttemptedSaleofProvided.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCr2Jrndbyj4_9Ow-6ZAFy8T49WJQY65X-R9Vr_vj8pP34rTQezDs5a_vxm565eBIl_EaqNzVHTy88FPZP1Xd_hbf5oiUmhcVD0bmK0YUQtHzFNFoUpDiY1bifxOxwMJ63KwjxiHlai60/s400/AttemptedSaleofProvided.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This image shows my 9th great grandfather, Governor John Endicott attempting to sell my 8th great grandmother, Provided Southwick into slavery. The writing below the image reads:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>"The attempted sale into slavery of Daniel and Provided Southwick, son of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick by Gov. Endicott and his minions, for being Quakers."</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">I wanted to know more and after several days of research I came upon the book:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><i>"Genealogy of the Descendants of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick of Salem Mass.</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><i>The Original Emigrants, and the Ancestors of the Families Who Have Since Borne His Name (1881)</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvtvua-xzOa4nT_iRobHCOnHAi5tuGUJjjUUKgz0XP0Qz-0yJbddCol_eqDJdB6EOJWQ_uR-HuRhvpSgfC94gvc0TxTr5XDj1ULhEapaHaYWTBTfBq8BCq3eDgVnw6Tce-PUqqzkW5eM/s1600/GenealogyBook2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigvtvua-xzOa4nT_iRobHCOnHAi5tuGUJjjUUKgz0XP0Qz-0yJbddCol_eqDJdB6EOJWQ_uR-HuRhvpSgfC94gvc0TxTr5XDj1ULhEapaHaYWTBTfBq8BCq3eDgVnw6Tce-PUqqzkW5eM/s400/GenealogyBook2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><i><br />
</i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">I've discovered that books on family Genealogy such as this one don't come cheap! In fact, some can be selling for hundreds of dollars! But, this book was totally worth the purchase as I uncovered so much more than what I had found previously. It included Historical Extracts such as this one:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><i>"Lawrence, Cassandra and their son Josiah were imprisoned at Boston for being Quakers and were kept there twenty weeks on a charge of violating a law enacted while they were in prison."</i></span></span><br />
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</i></span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Eventually all Quakers were banned from setting foot in Massachusetts under "pain of death" although several risked imprisonment and even death by hanging in order to continue their ministry. Lawrence and Cassandra were banished and fled to Shelter Island, Long Island Sound, New York where Nathaniel Sylvester, the island's first white settler gave shelter to them and many other Quakers. Another except from the Southwick Genealogy book reads:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><i>"Lawrence and wife Cassandra went to Shelter Island, Long Island Sound, being banished under pain of death in 1659, and died there in the spring of 1660 from privation and exposure; his wife died three days after him."</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Yesterday, as I was sitting on my patio in the morning sun, sipping my favorite brand of coffee and enjoying the views over the lake, I thought about Lawrence, Cassandra and Provided and how this day, this moment of enjoyment is a result of all my ancestors, on both sides of my tree. Those who suffered humiliation and persecution, those that fought and died in war, those who endured hardships in the new lands and on the open prairies.Those that gave me life, protected me and loved me. I honor all of them by continuing my research, telling their stories and keeping memories alive.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Clusty didn't reveal any new information or links but for Dogpile, I found </span><a href="http://publicdomaingenealogy.com/?placement=9"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Public Domain Genealogy</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, a website with access to millions of free records. Also, </span><a href="http://meaning-of-names.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Meaning-of-Names.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> which said that Quattlebaum meant "dweller near the bridge across the bog". Not very useful, but fun all the same. I enjoyed this challenge of using different search engines and seeing the results and where they would lead me to. It allowed me to have new eyes to find new links to various genealogy sites, many that I hadn't known before of before the challenge. </span></span><br />
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</div></div>Well...wouldn't you know it! My paternal grandmother's line leads right to some major events in American History, including the founding of Salem, Massachusetts and the Salem Witch Trials.<br />
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I have come to enjoy the detective work involved with following the lines, verifying documents and making sure everything matches up with proven sources. It's so exciting to find a story while on the paper trail, one that may have been buried under years of past generations but now uncovered by yet another descendant.<br />
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Such was the case with my Great Grandparents, Claude E. Gaskill and Myrtle Irene Currey Gaskill. My great grandfather Claude was born in 1890 in Wray, Colorado and before the age of five, the family up and moved taking Claude and his seven siblings (a 9th child would be born later) to Washington County, Kansas. He grew up in Mill Creek and after he turned 20 years old he left home looking for work as a "Hired Man" in Grandview, Kansas. He married Myrtle Irene Currey on March 24, 1917 when he 26 years old and Myrtle just 18. During their marriage they had four daughters, Dorothy, Billie (my grandmother), Marjorie and Ruth. Their marriage lasted about 10 years, then, for unknown reasons, by 1930 they were divorced and Claude was living in Wichita, Kansas shacked up with a woman thirteen years younger than himself. This left my great-grandmother in Dodge City to raise four daughters, all under the age of twelve, alone and during the Great Depression. This couldn't have been easy. After the divorce she rented a room at the Lora Locke hotel which had just opened in 1928 and where, coincidently, my 2nd Great Uncle Carl Clare was also a lodger. She began work as a maid at the hotel while the children lived with her parents. It's assumed that she also stayed with her children at her parent's home when she wasn't working as she was listed at both locations during the 1930 census...oops! She was counted twice!<br />
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On the other hand, my dad loved going to visit his grandfather, Claude in Wichita, Kansas. Claude would call the kids "Scallywags". He lived next door to a penny arcade and my dad and his siblings would save up all their pennies for the visit just so they could go and play all the games. Claude died in 1962, three years before I was born. Myrtle died in 1970 when I was six years old. I wasn't raised with this side of the family so I don't have any memories of her and I'm not sure if she had a chance to see me when I was a baby. But, I feel like I know her now and I'm very proud to have yet another strong woman in my family tree!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Not much is known about my main paternal line. I didn't grow up with this side of the family so I don't have much to go on at all. James Clare Sr. moved his wife Elisabeth and four children (Martha, Sara, James Daniel & Luella) from Kentucky to Illinois sometime before James Daniel was 12. What brought him to Illinois is unknown at this time. I'm going to have to rely on a marriage record for James Daniel Clare to try to get me further in the search. Most of the Clare's that settled in Kentucky where English but I'm sure there must be an Irish connection somewhere with a surname like Clare!</div><div style="text-align: left;">James Daniel married Amanda Clarke in Illinois and sometime between 1895 and 1900 moved the family (Ray, Harry Cleveland, Elsie, Katie and Carl) to Perry, Oklahoma. During this time, the famous <a href="http://www.okgenweb.org/~land/">Land Runs</a> were taking place. I doubt that James participated in the land run as the 1900 census shows him as a "renter" and "day laborer" in Perry. It's more probable that he went there to find work because towns were quickly growing as a result of the land settlements. Just five years later he was living as a widower in Winfield, Kansas. My great grandfather was 24 at the time but two of his siblings were still teenagers and living without their mother.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Most of the information I found for my great grandfather, Harry Cleveland Clare came from his WWI draft registration card which showed him married with 4 children (Clinton, Clyde, Carl and Laurence), working as a truck driver and having gray eyes and brown hair. All that my dad really remembers about his grandfather was that he was a boxer in his youth. I like the sound of that...both the Oklahoma Land Run and an Irish boxer make me think of the movie "Far and Away". A distant cousin is researching my great grandmothers line and shared with me his funeral card which gives the date of birth, death and final resting place:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkSw2EjaT2M3J1hzg9iRd9p8yAPwyCno5h4eoYHYe8D_ZSKXb3kPs1R74-tzr0K4anhOIqlm4yGaVD0DoKXRMFGq9S0XXUKUiiq8oXFRQ_Cr4vIEICqZMOamy2D-NXMj1Nl-96X-YNvak/s1600/HarryClareFuneralCard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkSw2EjaT2M3J1hzg9iRd9p8yAPwyCno5h4eoYHYe8D_ZSKXb3kPs1R74-tzr0K4anhOIqlm4yGaVD0DoKXRMFGq9S0XXUKUiiq8oXFRQ_Cr4vIEICqZMOamy2D-NXMj1Nl-96X-YNvak/s400/HarryClareFuneralCard.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I hope the luck of the Irish will be with me as I continue to search records trying to find the birth city and parents of James Clare, Sr. and his wife Elisabeth.</div></li>
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<div style="text-align: center;">Betty Jane Spahn (grandmother)</div><div style="text-align: center;">I</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Adam George Spahn (great grandfather)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">b. 1897, Topeka, Kansas</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">John Spahn (2nd great grandfather)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">b. 1864, Saratov, Russia</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Adam Spahn (3rd great grandfather0</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">b. unknown, Saratov Russia</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Part of the problem researching this line is lack of documentation for immigration for my 2nd great-grandfather, John Spahn. According to family legend, he never wanted to talk about his life in Russia or how he came to the United States. He told a story to his great granddaughter, Betty Jane when she was young about boys being forced out of their homes and made to go serve in the Russian Army. It was rumored that John went A.W.O.L. from the Russian Army. This rumor could be fact because out of all records from Saratov, John and his wife Mary are not among the passenger lists. From the various Census reports, I was able to determine that they arrived into the United States in 1891. I searched all the ships that came into port in 1891 and they weren't on them. In addition, the Census tells us that they were naturalized as American Citizens in 1900. They settled in Topeka, Kansas where my great grandfather and his siblings were born before the entire family moved to Offerle.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I had always wondered how the Spahn's ended up in Russia because I knew Spahn wasn't a Russian name but rather a German name. Researching the Spahn immigrants in general, including John's assumed brother, George Spahn, yielded a wealth of imformation about how the Spahn ancestors ended up in Russia...they were Volga Germans who settled the region in the mid 1700's. Here is the story from Wikipedia:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Volga Germans</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (</span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="German language"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">German</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">: </span></span><span lang="de" xml:lang="de"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wolgadeutsche</span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> or </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Russlanddeutsche</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="Russian language"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Russian</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">: </span></span><span lang="ru" xml:lang="ru"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Поволжские немцы</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Povolzhskie nemtsy</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">) were </span></span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_German" style="background-attachment: initial; 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background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="European Russia"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">European Russia</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> around </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saratov" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #5a3696; text-decoration: none;" title="Saratov"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Saratov</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and to the south. They maintained </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_culture" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="German culture"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">German culture</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="German language"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">language</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, traditions and churches: </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Church_in_Germany" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="Evangelical Church in Germany"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Lutherans</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span></span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Church" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="Reformed Church"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Reformed</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span></span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="Roman Catholicism"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Roman Catholics</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, and </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Mennonite" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="Russian Mennonite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mennonites</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. Many Volga Germans emigrated to the </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="Midwestern United States"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Midwestern United States</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="Canada"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Canada</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="Brazil"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Brazil</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="Argentina"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Argentina</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="Paraguay"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Paraguay</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguay" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="Uruguay"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Uruguay</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and other countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries. During World War II, many died in </span></span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="Soviet"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Soviet</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> labour camps. In the late 20th century, many of the remaining ethnic Germans moved to </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #002bb8; text-decoration: none;" title="Germany"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Germany</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span></div></div></div><div class="nameMeaning" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div><div class="factTopPanel" style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 6px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Here is a lovely picture of Norka, Saratov settled by the Volga Germans:</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;"><div class="nameMeaning" style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="display: inline !important; text-align: left; text-indent: 30px;"><div style="display: inline !important;"><div style="display: inline !important;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Another issue with searching the records for John and George Spahn is an abundance of Spahn's with the same names...Adam, George, John are all popular and there are several of each, including the infamous George Spahn who owned Spahn Ranch in California, where the Manson Family stayed and hatched their murderous plan. Even the female Spahn's had repeating names such as Elizabeth, Katherine, Mary/Marie. Most are probably related to each other and to me in one way or another. I will have to add the Saratov region to my list of ancestry travel destinations. I could visit this church in Norka and just maybe I will find the birth and marriage records for John Spahn, which in turn, could lead me down a longer road back in time. To a time and place where the Spahn's were once again back in the motherland of Germany.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></span></i></span><br />
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<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">probably a patronymic from one of the numerous old personal names related to <a href="http://www.ancestry.myfamily.com/facts/dusing-family-history.ashx?ln=Dietz" style="color: #445708;">Dietz</a>.</li>
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</div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Eugene George Duesing (grandfather)</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">b. 1917 in Windthorst, Kansas</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">l</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Joseph John Duesing (1st great grandfather)</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">b. 1881 in Windthorst, Kansas</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">l</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Joseph John Duesing, Sr. (2nd g. grandfather)</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">b. 1842 in Halverde, nordrhein-westfalen, germany</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">l</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Johannes Gerhardus Duesing</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">b. 1793 in Halverde, nordrhein-westfalen, germany</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">l</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Johann "Jan" Dusing</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">b. 1762 Schapen, Germany</div></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div><div>This was as far as my research online would take me. The next step is to travel to the Nordrhein-Westfalen area parishes and physically look for birth/marriage records...meander through the local villages and graveyards to see if I can locate any of our lost ancestors. Of course, any kind of travel is all right with me...especially if the villages look like the village of Halverde where my 2nd and 3rd Great Grandfathers were born:</div><div><br />
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</div><div><div style="text-align: center;">Perhaps a trip to the Duesing homeland in the fall? </div></div><div><br />
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</div>It's raining today. It's a damp, dark and gloomy sort of day. A perfect morning to spend drinking a cup of java and researching my roots. And this morning turned up a wealth of information on my Great Great Grandfather, Joseph John Duesing. I discovered a passport application that he filled out in March 1907. On this application was his date of birth (2/9/1842), place of birth (Halverde, Germany), when he arrived in New York City as an immigrant (Aug 1866), the ship he came in on (The S.S. Hermann) and the port he sailed from (Bremman, Germany). It showed that he traveled alone, without any family members or spouse. It also had his residency (Cincinnati, Ohio from 1866-1876) and where and when he became a naturalized citizen (Distric Court of Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Ohio on 12th of October, 1874). It showed his current residency of Windthorst, Kansas and his occupation as a farmer. It stated that he was about to go abroad temporarily and that he would return with in four months back to the USA and resuming citizenship duties. It included his signature at the bottom of the Oath of Allegiance. In addition it also included his physical description: He was 65 years old at the time of the application and was 5' 4.5" (he was short!). He had a medium-high forehead, a dominant nose and blue eyes. He had a mustache and full beard and his hair was listed as gray. His face was round and his complexion was listed as "florid".<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">For what purpose Joseph was travelling back to Germany is not known yet...perhaps a family member was ill or had died. I haven't found the ship he departed out on or the date but I did find the passenger list for his return back into the United States. He arrived back from Bremman on August 8th, 1907 on the Barbarossa.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Here is a photo that very ship:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY3oR9mSRJknHvINMnC7T5xZSiZnDl21kl50gDWSLqPwI5eLo8thUMvGNyEogfh5ovT98NqUiwLW11yLWwx1pPnv7bfVgm_-regA4NPSdAZvL2rpcxql9YzQ1TlxJDo0BkzTNfJEgY_vk/s1600-h/Barbarossa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY3oR9mSRJknHvINMnC7T5xZSiZnDl21kl50gDWSLqPwI5eLo8thUMvGNyEogfh5ovT98NqUiwLW11yLWwx1pPnv7bfVgm_-regA4NPSdAZvL2rpcxql9YzQ1TlxJDo0BkzTNfJEgY_vk/s400/Barbarossa.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have just begun researching the Dusing/Duesing line and will post additional information and photos as I discover them. For now, the rain has stopped and it's time to set aside the search and do some actual work.</div>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04191615169155143283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-842715590703160109.post-73483446261594792702010-03-19T14:11:00.000-07:002010-04-02T18:48:18.797-07:00The Hunt Begins<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span">When I decided to start researching my ancestry I had no idea of the work involved. Nor did I know just how quickly information would begin to pile up. I needed a place to put it all and I've decided to load it here, this sister blog to my weekly blog about life, "</span><a href="http://wherethegoldbeesdream.blogspot.com/">Where the Gold Bees Dream</a><span class="Apple-style-span">". I also wanted to use this blog as way to keep track of all that information and a place to get help on those lines that are a bit more challenging to research and follow.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This project is exciting and has consumed me for the last couple of weeks. My photography and art have taken a back seat while I dive into the deep sea of ancestors. How fitting that I'm starting this blog the day before I turn 45. If only I would have had an interest in documenting the family histories earlier. Only one grandmother survives but I wish I could have heard stories from those who have passed on already. Will they speak to me through my findings? I certainly hope so!</span></span>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04191615169155143283noreply@blogger.com0