tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89269598173344980552024-03-15T12:05:09.851-04:00Genealogist by NightChronicle of my return to genealogy, including catching up on technological changes as well as my research.VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-72519733976812958472023-03-24T23:11:00.000-04:002023-03-24T23:12:49.493-04:00"As We Are Now Living Apart": the Second Marriage of Samuel Glenn<p>Way back in 2018, I wrote up my findings on <a href="https://genealogistbynight.blogspot.com/2018/09/will-real-parents-of-samuel-glenn.html" target="_blank">the real parents of my ancestor Samuel Glenn</a>. I ended the post with a teaser, claiming to have more information to share--a claim I never followed up on. </p><p>Until today: here I will present information on Samuel Glenn's ill-fated second marriage. As a refresher, Samuel Glenn was born between 1776 and 1780 in Maryland. His first wife is reported to be Catherine Hickson, who died in Clermont County, Ohio on 11 Mar 1833. They had eight children together, some still at home when Catherine died.</p><p>I found a marriage record for a Samuel Glenn occurring in Campbell County, Kentucky in 1839. Campbell County is situated right across the river from Samuel's land in Clermont County, Ohio. Could this be the right Samuel? (Click any image to enlarge.)</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbAb1eZtAv2bNij07XngUMFY0HklzYiJ2F_V_z3la9Axlp4tYdHlqoWFlhfcCoPkxhVU2QL_LXb7LvkiN6DmD5u955weNZigNypLXuuZRxknnQ8TaCQwToZSpZVsupIXGlyOU7CbjDHemhJnx9KpgHu8grAoLVka-Q1c21pRNpdo08s9Bj8qI_gczQ5Q/s1903/Glenn%20Samuel%20to%20Sarah%20Colby%20marriage%20bond%20CROPPED.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1903" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbAb1eZtAv2bNij07XngUMFY0HklzYiJ2F_V_z3la9Axlp4tYdHlqoWFlhfcCoPkxhVU2QL_LXb7LvkiN6DmD5u955weNZigNypLXuuZRxknnQ8TaCQwToZSpZVsupIXGlyOU7CbjDHemhJnx9KpgHu8grAoLVka-Q1c21pRNpdo08s9Bj8qI_gczQ5Q/s320/Glenn%20Samuel%20to%20Sarah%20Colby%20marriage%20bond%20CROPPED.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Samuel Glenn to Sarah Colby Marriage Bond</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><blockquote>"KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: That We, Samuel Glenn and Wyatt Baxler, are held and firmly bound, unto the commonwealth of Kentucky, in the just and full sum of fifty pounds, current money, to the payment of which well, and truly to be made, We bind ourselves, our heirs, &c. jointly and severally, by these presents, sealed and dated this 9th day of Jany 1839. The condition of the above obligation, is such, that whereas, there is a marriage shortly intended to be solemnized, between the above bound Samuel Glenn and Sarah Colby, widow, now should there be no legal cause to obstruct the same, then the above obligation to be void, else to remain in full force and virtue.<br />Witness Saml Glenn<br /> W. Baxter"</blockquote><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggNQPbZ4vKaXPhiPAxQjUjBFeICLXoZycRh_j48GKvS-5TR9wROsY9ogB4F-2rbjDku2bRdBLedXYQuorCpTym6UHZoLKQcY7OUs_NURP_s2UDyn4GErMC7Bbx8Y3sarWLKX6UsURgbb2_sppqHI6X39NT_nfhf9H68mwd9n8vf5GMglQY3CymqmIclA/s2709/Glenn%20Samuel%20to%20Sarah%20Colby%20marriage%20bond%20front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1236" data-original-width="2709" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggNQPbZ4vKaXPhiPAxQjUjBFeICLXoZycRh_j48GKvS-5TR9wROsY9ogB4F-2rbjDku2bRdBLedXYQuorCpTym6UHZoLKQcY7OUs_NURP_s2UDyn4GErMC7Bbx8Y3sarWLKX6UsURgbb2_sppqHI6X39NT_nfhf9H68mwd9n8vf5GMglQY3CymqmIclA/w320-h146/Glenn%20Samuel%20to%20Sarah%20Colby%20marriage%20bond%20front.jpg" title="Samuel Glenn to Sarah Colby Marriage Bond" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Samuel Glenn to Sarah Colby Marriage License</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />"COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY, Campbell County, to wit,<br />To any legally authorized Minister of the Gospel,<br />These are to license and permit you to join together in the holy state of matrimony Samuel Glenn, Widower, and Sarah Colby, Widow, and in so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant, bond and security having been given.<br />Given under my hand this Ninth day of January 1839.<br /> John N. Taliaferro, Ck"<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRnB-m33rQkpsPM7859fY41KNl7DzTb_h3etuYd2vcg5Cv1lUEO668BMx-drEtB3piKN0ZvHaW1VffDmwaGaFHXIdM_Swf3_EKh3SV09HAFCrFXMdytq67febv8r8-mxyLTuntCYqfXQgPInxn1qAVgLRWG9esqe5aj0UE6xL08-f-uJL0YFKHN7dTuA/s1924/Glenn%20Samuel%20to%20Sarah%20Colby%20Campbell%20Co%20KY%20Marriage%20Bk%201830-1851%20p.%2091%20CROPPED.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="1924" height="61" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRnB-m33rQkpsPM7859fY41KNl7DzTb_h3etuYd2vcg5Cv1lUEO668BMx-drEtB3piKN0ZvHaW1VffDmwaGaFHXIdM_Swf3_EKh3SV09HAFCrFXMdytq67febv8r8-mxyLTuntCYqfXQgPInxn1qAVgLRWG9esqe5aj0UE6xL08-f-uJL0YFKHN7dTuA/s320/Glenn%20Samuel%20to%20Sarah%20Colby%20Campbell%20Co%20KY%20Marriage%20Bk%201830-1851%20p.%2091%20CROPPED.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Record of Marriage<br />Campbell County, Kentucky Marriage Book 1830-1851, p. 91</i></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><blockquote>"720: Samuel Glenn to Sarah Cobly (sic). Married by Revd C. L. Southgate January 9, 1839"</blockquote><p></p><p>Samuel Glenn died in 1841 and does not appear in the Will Index in Clermont County probate records. His entry in the 1840 census lists only him, no one else in the household. Not looking good to find anything further about this mysterious widow Colby.</p><p>I shelved this information until a later date. I was perusing the dry and dusty deeds of Clermont County, Ohio, and uncovered the whole (or as much as was put into public record) story.</p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Clermont County, Ohio Deed Book 40</b><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div><blockquote><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Page 27: </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Know all men by these presents that I Sarah M Glenn wife of Samuel Glenn of Clermont County State of Ohio Do hereby relinquish all my right to and acquit my said husband Samuel Glenn his heirs executors and administrators of any claim whatsoever to him of any maintainence Dower allimony or any other claim on account of the marriage contract that now exists between himself and me to any of his Real or personal property both in law or equity that he now holds or may own at any time for the remainder of his natural life upon the following condition that Samuel Glenn my husband and me cannot by some means and for some difficulties live together as we now are living apart and mutually agree so to live so long as God shall spare our lives this day my said husband made to Dennis Smith my Trustee a Deed of General Warrantee for thirty acres of land lying in Stonelick Township in said County gave me one Cow worth about ten Dollars one half of the rent (</span></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Page 28) </span></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wheat that he received last year the farm that I now live on last year and paid the Costs of a suit that was commenced by me against him in the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio for allimony all of which I acknowledge the receipt for as one equal third part of all he possesses and agree to leave the premises on which I now reside immediately and to never trouble him any more Witness my hand and seal this 31st day of March 1841</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Sarah M Glenn</span></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Executed in presence of<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wm. Roudebush<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Elizabeth her X mark Stagton</span></span><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">State of Ohio<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Clermont County<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Before me Wm. Roudebush a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared the above name Sarah M Glenn and acknowledged the signing and sealing of the above Release to her husband to be her voluntary act and deed this 31st day of March 1841<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Wm Roudebush JP<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Recorded July 23d 1841”</span></span></blockquote></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Page 369: </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Know all men by these presents that I Samuel Glenn of the County of Clermont & State of Ohio in consideration of the sum of one dollar and a full release from Sarah M. Glenn my present wife to me of all her legal right both in law and equity to me my heirs executors and administrators of all the property I now or shall own at any time during my natural life either real or personal have bargained and sold and do hereby bargain sell release and aquit all my title to (</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Page 370) </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dennis Smith Trustee for Sarah M. Glenn my present wife in fee simple her heirs and assigns forever to the undivided half of the following premises situate in the County of Clermont and State of Ohio bounded and described as follows beginning at a white oak & 2 beeches south corner to Daniel Dumford thence running north 45</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: super;">o</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> E 37⅓ poles to a stone thence S 50</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: super;">o</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> E 107½ poles to a white oak & 2 beeches thence S 45</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: super;">o</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> W 37⅓ poles to two ashes and a beech thence N 50</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: super;">o</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> W 112 poles to the beginning Containing sixty acres this deed to convey thirty acres only of the above described land off of the south end next to where Samuel Waldren now lives to have and to hold the said premises with the appurtenances unto the Said Sarah M. Glenn said Trustee for her only use and the use of her heirs and assigns forever and etc. Samuel Glenn for himself & his heirs doth hereby covenant with the said Dennis Smith Trustee for the said Sarah M Glenn for her use and the use of her heirs and assigns that he is lawfully seized of the premises aforesaid and that the premises are free and clear from all incumbrances whatsoever and that he will forever warrant and defend the same with the appurtenances unto the said Dennis Smith the Trustee above named for the use of the said Sarah M Glenn her heirs and assigns against the lawful claims of all persons whomsoever In Testimony whereof the said Samuel Glenn has hereunto set his hand and seal this 31st day of Mar 1841<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Executed in presence of <br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Wm Roudebush<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">William Tarr<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saml Glenn {seal}</span></span><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">State of Ohio Clermon County, SS<br /></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Before me Wm Roudebush a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared the within named Samuel Glenn and acknowledged the signing and Sealing of the within conveyance to be his voluntary act and deed this 31st day of March 1841</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Recorded April 6, 1842 Wm. Roudebush JP”</span></span></blockquote><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></div><p>So, the records tell us that Samuel and Sarah were married in January of 1839. By the time of the 1840 census, they were living apart. At some point, Sarah filed for divorce with the Supreme Court of Ohio, but agreed to drop the suit when, in March of 1841, Samuel gave her the real estate and personal property outlined above.</p><p>Samuel died three months later, on July 1, 1841.</p><p>I have not yet been able to find out more information on the widow Sarah M. Colby--maiden name, first marriage, or when she died. She went on to sell her 30 acres in 1845. A next step in research would be to find any of the divorce proceedings, if they exist. Those might give more detail as to why the couple could not get along.</p>VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-33349919886765869332023-01-17T12:34:00.000-05:002023-01-17T12:34:03.315-05:00A Tale of Two Properties, Part 1: John and Alice Hilyard of Muncie, Indiana<p style="text-align: left;"> <span style="text-align: left;">Last July, my intrepid partner in crime DD and I decided to look into our more recent ancestry, closer to home. My great-grandparents, John and Alice (Holtzapple) Hilyard, lived for a time in Muncie, Indiana. They are the featured family on my cover page, and I believe that photo was taken shortly before they moved to Muncie. We still have some family there and met up with local cousin CC to investigate. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;">Some years ago, I located an address for John and Alice in a 1913 city directory: 1802 E. 12th Street in Muncie. I ran right over to Google Maps and was disappointed to see this area is a commercial zone with some buildings and parking lots there now. I asked cousin CC about it at the time, and she confirmed the house no longer existed. The red balloon on the right shows the address; I'm leaving in Heekin Park for further reference. Note that 12th Street is now called Memorial Drive. <i>Reminder: click on any image to enlarge it.</i></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLyrGV81tXEGm2gtmpD_Ej1uNluJoBkQ5btzvA25be7FlTZGyLuLZRxg6WhJK3EJxx1ghfrGyhaCTKIcCP-_0D11Zt6N7nCPnAESLqQmxE_iQXYxHmZYp9GQWtHV2vWBY51yx3hJqK73PCHgc9vPOgi-BDLcdZpi2rldu2D1zzOvwNLHntA83RRK0LkA/s1228/Current%20location%201802%20E.%2012th%20St%20Muncie%20IN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Google Maps Snip of 1802 E. 12th Street Today" border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="1228" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLyrGV81tXEGm2gtmpD_Ej1uNluJoBkQ5btzvA25be7FlTZGyLuLZRxg6WhJK3EJxx1ghfrGyhaCTKIcCP-_0D11Zt6N7nCPnAESLqQmxE_iQXYxHmZYp9GQWtHV2vWBY51yx3hJqK73PCHgc9vPOgi-BDLcdZpi2rldu2D1zzOvwNLHntA83RRK0LkA/w320-h141/Current%20location%201802%20E.%2012th%20St%20Muncie%20IN.jpg" title="Google Maps Snip of 1802 E. 12th Street Today" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Google Maps View of 1802 E. 12th Street Today</i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;">I was able to find an ad in a 1912 newspaper showing this property, with 7 rooms, was for rent. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYyMzPGAkh41d9lvUAN93d4RXNQoa5WbEfwPZN2F3Zgz3hPC-se87j89X3sU9QBPH1eEeoEfpHqwh1VSKa_JoYzhc0RQJ5Z-C3iIzg2MWdmETM-hJ-tol6Mr4Cuak3r8Q04eIQyoEyy-mVb_dPuOUX6OBCFKQD4RUVDOSy-b8tcxcs6tKBKQvViWv2xA/s400/Ad%20for%20house%20Hilyards%20lived%20in.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="175" data-original-width="400" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYyMzPGAkh41d9lvUAN93d4RXNQoa5WbEfwPZN2F3Zgz3hPC-se87j89X3sU9QBPH1eEeoEfpHqwh1VSKa_JoYzhc0RQJ5Z-C3iIzg2MWdmETM-hJ-tol6Mr4Cuak3r8Q04eIQyoEyy-mVb_dPuOUX6OBCFKQD4RUVDOSy-b8tcxcs6tKBKQvViWv2xA/s320/Ad%20for%20house%20Hilyards%20lived%20in.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The Star Press </i>10 Mar 1912</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We can assume they took the house for rent, as the 1913 City Directory is based on the prior year's residents. The directories were printed every two years, and the Hilyards were there again in 1915, 1917, and 1919. During this time period, John Hilyard worked as a carpenter for Ball Bros., famous manufacturer of Ball glass jars.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnIhZwa0avMVXIKIhdyjQY5xH1SzVvIpyu0G5jucgEPTthA6HfTFRtrcJzmdt017z40eu--lGbqvTOxi9K2Gy-l-USoAQ_5QN-BBuDXWIVj7RlbIuJeD1MfZtWxWlH3twutEIMpNXzWqeBIaXx4jeU_d97fIu4hbfbp4jjTzEXtDHM4dS0CVtcnt7IYg/s1391/1913%20Muncie%20IN%20City%20Directory%20Hilyard%20crop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="1391" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnIhZwa0avMVXIKIhdyjQY5xH1SzVvIpyu0G5jucgEPTthA6HfTFRtrcJzmdt017z40eu--lGbqvTOxi9K2Gy-l-USoAQ_5QN-BBuDXWIVj7RlbIuJeD1MfZtWxWlH3twutEIMpNXzWqeBIaXx4jeU_d97fIu4hbfbp4jjTzEXtDHM4dS0CVtcnt7IYg/s320/1913%20Muncie%20IN%20City%20Directory%20Hilyard%20crop.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1913 Muncie City Directory</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And that's where I left it. With the house gone, what more could I learn?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Until 2022, when I started to prepare for our trip that is. I thought I should revisit the records and see what I might have missed. Since we were going to be in the county seat, I should look up the deed to this property while we were there. Checking online for information before heading out, I found the Delaware county deeds were already digitized and available for free online! Check out the wonderful <a href="https://www.munciepubliclibrary.org/carnegie" target="_blank">Muncie Public Library</a> for more. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtCklnRxUiKRe6-QrzzjGSrnV8srSNSgH2-mxCw3ltE_UAjwASIHgBGYpMNd7MSU-nXOjD_N8MIYFlV6du16VUgif5AAaqyIcVoPs15BJ2Os_ClVUIyPbL10VvcDksKaurp7WeWvAyR-VucnK7BGaon_f1Ds3xp-5pwHoG1So4r9z3IWP858WXTSGhbw/s5406/Dunlap%20to%20Jesse%20and%20Alice%20Hilyard%20Delaware%20Co%20IN.tif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5406" data-original-width="3438" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtCklnRxUiKRe6-QrzzjGSrnV8srSNSgH2-mxCw3ltE_UAjwASIHgBGYpMNd7MSU-nXOjD_N8MIYFlV6du16VUgif5AAaqyIcVoPs15BJ2Os_ClVUIyPbL10VvcDksKaurp7WeWvAyR-VucnK7BGaon_f1Ds3xp-5pwHoG1So4r9z3IWP858WXTSGhbw/s320/Dunlap%20to%20Jesse%20and%20Alice%20Hilyard%20Delaware%20Co%20IN.tif" width="204" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Delaware County, Indiana Deed Book 161 p. 80</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Rather than a street address, the deed gives a lot number: Lot 10 in block 56 of Goshorn and Lupton's subdivision. I noticed John and Alice bought the property (the one they had lived in for 4 or 5 years as renters) from the owners for $1 and other consideration. The sellers' names are not familiar to me. I don't know why the Hilyards got the house for a dollar, and this is an area I should explore further.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There are many historical maps available online, so I thought I would look up this specific lot number. I found a great high-resolution map from <a href="https://dmr.bsu.edu/digital/collection/HistMaps/id/261/rec/4" target="_blank">Ball State University's website</a> and was able to locate lot 10 Block 56, outlined in blue here.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFwx5j6rERMn7R4SGS_xXvGzG6jYr1-VYoj03GN1CYJR39qiN0OxlGSuoYfQWrszpXQiKRi593-u2aRi-X6DaJGJBvbfWCF8DvqwsXpjUF4J5SW-FYcx4YGWw9iZKpWUiVwtY_kZzy6FUyPjgOb8Haajy1EZW-R8ijYM9Nzx0UpLvmFBEgFque80aqaQ/s1053/Muncie%20Indiana%201919%20Hilyard%20property.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="530" data-original-width="1053" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFwx5j6rERMn7R4SGS_xXvGzG6jYr1-VYoj03GN1CYJR39qiN0OxlGSuoYfQWrszpXQiKRi593-u2aRi-X6DaJGJBvbfWCF8DvqwsXpjUF4J5SW-FYcx4YGWw9iZKpWUiVwtY_kZzy6FUyPjgOb8Haajy1EZW-R8ijYM9Nzx0UpLvmFBEgFque80aqaQ/s320/Muncie%20Indiana%201919%20Hilyard%20property.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>If you compare this to the Google Maps screenshot above, there is a big discrepancy. Using Heekin Park as a reference point, the current location of 1802 is east of the park and on the same street. But at the time the Hilyards lived there, it was <i>west</i> of the park, and a block down!<div><br /></div><div>I dug through my photos and found some pictures I believed to be John and Alice's Muncie home, included here.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnq3dutfA7Cef3Z-8_eoseI-bN4fNJwSuI2C8AyewpYe96D5eCt4hnmjTqJ3JbO2gOSDyAK0be-lrbszLP_PFshLlEyqjGpGwjjmwG92VHoaxPWKw7AFs9HpKTEb2rlTJPX_lMcVgZTTu3GcpJ7mZzt8gl67iiRuaiH66lN07T-mJ0zOn-LbzXYxKu1Q/s1345/John%20and%20Alice%20Hilyard%20happy%20faces.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="815" data-original-width="1345" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnq3dutfA7Cef3Z-8_eoseI-bN4fNJwSuI2C8AyewpYe96D5eCt4hnmjTqJ3JbO2gOSDyAK0be-lrbszLP_PFshLlEyqjGpGwjjmwG92VHoaxPWKw7AFs9HpKTEb2rlTJPX_lMcVgZTTu3GcpJ7mZzt8gl67iiRuaiH66lN07T-mJ0zOn-LbzXYxKu1Q/s320/John%20and%20Alice%20Hilyard%20happy%20faces.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John and Alice Hilyard<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQmJE0wMmzYFvf4HpJ8Msq0npaFvpMRyGAGOBPN0oMP5WFVQnohV5Db-EhbVHIm15Z8dM7yN1pN2EVcc2R-FQ5mWDDfD7zXT7viIg_wlHcn-WFJ3wAFShq-aG4-6uP0TIcwHvBxpejaucxlwVe3yXERs4Hw2c67yZ25eIS_bXmf-y4kEIa0ouWkjCdeg/s1347/Seated%20Alice%20Hilyard,%20on%20right%20Vaughn%20Hilyard%20and%20Tessie%20Tomlinson.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="825" data-original-width="1347" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQmJE0wMmzYFvf4HpJ8Msq0npaFvpMRyGAGOBPN0oMP5WFVQnohV5Db-EhbVHIm15Z8dM7yN1pN2EVcc2R-FQ5mWDDfD7zXT7viIg_wlHcn-WFJ3wAFShq-aG4-6uP0TIcwHvBxpejaucxlwVe3yXERs4Hw2c67yZ25eIS_bXmf-y4kEIa0ouWkjCdeg/s320/Seated%20Alice%20Hilyard,%20on%20right%20Vaughn%20Hilyard%20and%20Tessie%20Tomlinson.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seated, Alice Hilyard. Daughter Tessie on far right, son Vaughn standing next to Tessie</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Armed with this new information, I set out with cousins DD and CC to do some recognizance work. We cruised up and down the street, parking and peering at the current homes, trying to determine which one was "ours". While we were there, we convinced ourselves it was this one, and that it had been added on to considerably:</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN9zgBY6lqNd9YJvQ4vXmn_7cPsP3rlkm4z3FH1fOWoxALcSn0Ye_tDdTmfRye6hunRUPos2xVkvq6LH-un7GoGAKNc7BsY0WLYrkV2pTdpW9tVpYZhr0YK-zhskWxtQjgII61Q9urUcExnVZHRJV7x8IuJpScb39vgZZPiP8QAStI4aBpGdRd4i3yUg/s1536/received_1407520066420711.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1384" data-original-width="1536" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN9zgBY6lqNd9YJvQ4vXmn_7cPsP3rlkm4z3FH1fOWoxALcSn0Ye_tDdTmfRye6hunRUPos2xVkvq6LH-un7GoGAKNc7BsY0WLYrkV2pTdpW9tVpYZhr0YK-zhskWxtQjgII61Q9urUcExnVZHRJV7x8IuJpScb39vgZZPiP8QAStI4aBpGdRd4i3yUg/s320/received_1407520066420711.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oops, wrong house!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">However, after we got home and really thought it over, this house was located on lot 11, right next door to lot 10.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now we are convinced that the house John and Alice Hilyard is still standing, and looks like this:</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWhw8GnLwybFVTkIkyrm2Ua2kCS9HjPkQG4K0kghbjiE-DkAK9IsZkWxSBCJBmtzfY5NBQiNvJEOzRT7vNzLSp1A5SLSAmOwB47nHEnAgG2wcaFawGpZ2ZXqjMGloGiBvOCf_pucmu0B2P4_CBCnrcvdlDM3w5iauougwZvt3qtG80wMNSCXvUCYM9Fw/s2048/Probable%20home%20of%20John%20and%20Alice%20Hilyard.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWhw8GnLwybFVTkIkyrm2Ua2kCS9HjPkQG4K0kghbjiE-DkAK9IsZkWxSBCJBmtzfY5NBQiNvJEOzRT7vNzLSp1A5SLSAmOwB47nHEnAgG2wcaFawGpZ2ZXqjMGloGiBvOCf_pucmu0B2P4_CBCnrcvdlDM3w5iauougwZvt3qtG80wMNSCXvUCYM9Fw/s320/Probable%20home%20of%20John%20and%20Alice%20Hilyard.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Would they mind if we cut some bushes back so we could see the place better??</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The east side of the house is totally obscured by bushes and trees, and that is the angle the old photos would have been taken from. But if you imagine it without the front porch, it has the abrupt cut-off of the front as in the old photos. We didn't try to take a lot of photos of this house because were focused on the one next door, but I feel certain this is it based on the old city map, and that the photos I have are of this home.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ988wD0p1_PgAJ4mKEbiG3NYHZbodelkDdQlodWC8cAQQvzsiWd-wpoUOPIOki1bZfA0a2wE0DNfCxr5TwU_9qNOwmB37kfsdnMupBuRfGUASsRydEYQJzQoj06cU7jrvwJnvyWpdo5xjnI6Z5aU58jLanufOoVoWHv-0k05SAVgu2Uao_jCDcJNmDQ/s1227/HILYARD,%20JOHN%20AND%20ALICE_Muncie%20Home%20Map.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="1227" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ988wD0p1_PgAJ4mKEbiG3NYHZbodelkDdQlodWC8cAQQvzsiWd-wpoUOPIOki1bZfA0a2wE0DNfCxr5TwU_9qNOwmB37kfsdnMupBuRfGUASsRydEYQJzQoj06cU7jrvwJnvyWpdo5xjnI6Z5aU58jLanufOoVoWHv-0k05SAVgu2Uao_jCDcJNmDQ/s320/HILYARD,%20JOHN%20AND%20ALICE_Muncie%20Home%20Map.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Current location using Beacon website, courtesy of cousin DD</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Lesson here: just because you have an address for a location doesn't mean it translates to the current address. Streets get renamed. Dig a little deeper, find some old maps. Check deeds for more information. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p></div>VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-33353359661206990042021-11-03T07:42:00.001-04:002021-11-03T07:42:34.260-04:00VERDICT: William G. Bryant--NOT My Ancestor<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I started this project to determine if William G. Bryant (1765-1840), son of James and Jane (Guerrant) Bryant of Powhatan County, Virginia, was the same William Bryant who married Barbara Alspaugh on 13 Mar 1799 in Lincoln County, Kentucky. William and Barbara (Alspaugh) Bryant were the parents of my 4x great-grandmother Susannah Bryant who married Edward Windsor Moore. I wrote a series on this couple and the effects of the Civil War on their lives beginning with </span><a href="http://genealogistbynight.blogspot.com/2016/04/my-family-in-civil-war-part-seven.html" style="font-size: 11pt;" target="_blank">this post</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></span></div>Preliminary information suggested these two men were one and the same. William G. Bryant received land from his father in Lincoln County, and appeared on tax lists there around the 1799 marriage date. He was of the right age to be married. However, I will show through several documents left behind by William G. Bryant that he could not have been the husband of Barbara Alspaugh. </span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-177a90ec-7fff-3443-4902-00b9cd63dc8e"><br /><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">William G. Bryant was born in 1765 in Cumberland County, Virginia to James and Jane (Guerrant) Bryant, descendants of French Huguenots. In 1777, this part of Cumberland became Powhatan County. This birthdate and place information comes from William’s application for a pension for service during the American Revolution. This is an example of the handwriting from the application:</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisxT2WxMhl1CEe8NndgXuIZg-gBOjL6Xft3H8-IRMOKV_eRbfjHhHQUVir7ROJ7Kx1AjYN1UHws72b3Og-R_HamzhCn6MaeDeXz5EdhAg_-i71H3o8UCDv1cyah01I-Z-eU_-0CyK9Scf_/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="67" data-original-width="779" height="35" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisxT2WxMhl1CEe8NndgXuIZg-gBOjL6Xft3H8-IRMOKV_eRbfjHhHQUVir7ROJ7Kx1AjYN1UHws72b3Og-R_HamzhCn6MaeDeXz5EdhAg_-i71H3o8UCDv1cyah01I-Z-eU_-0CyK9Scf_/w400-h35/image.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>William G. Bryant testifies as to his birth. Click to enlarge.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">William’s father James Bryant wrote a will which was entered into probate in Powhatan County, Virginia on 16 Dec 1807 (Book 1, p. 88)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. In it, he wrote: “Having already given to my son William Bryant a moiety of my lands in the state of Kentucky…” <i>Moiety</i> means part or portion. The lands referred to are found in the deed books of Lincoln County, Kentucky.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> The deed was for 260 acres in Lincoln County on the waters of Boone’s Mill Seat Creek, a branch of Dick’s River, and was written in 1793. This is important to help follow the correct William through tax records.</span></span></p><br /><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">William G. Bryant first appeared in his father’s tax record in Powhatan County in 1784</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. He was listed by name as age 16-21, and was also taxed the same in 1785. In 1786, however, he was still in his father’s list but age 21 and over, which correlates with his 1765 birth year. He was still in his father’s list in 1787.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEm-f71TiL8Hqy3rzCC9wRVKjKeruaoUDFqaaGn98qlwAO2AKaGm1za57FKf2IsfP-eRnuALmWyTeQd28F1Tta39kpNGrbfg53Jn_CBau0Y7v6coMudUkRmIYdawJA-qUB1sfhqEUi9jFQ/s2048/1784+Powhatan+Co+VA+James+Est%252C+James%252C+William%252C+and+John+Bryant.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1408" data-original-width="2048" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEm-f71TiL8Hqy3rzCC9wRVKjKeruaoUDFqaaGn98qlwAO2AKaGm1za57FKf2IsfP-eRnuALmWyTeQd28F1Tta39kpNGrbfg53Jn_CBau0Y7v6coMudUkRmIYdawJA-qUB1sfhqEUi9jFQ/w320-h220/1784+Powhatan+Co+VA+James+Est%252C+James%252C+William%252C+and+John+Bryant.jpg" title="1784 Powhatan County, Virginia Tax List" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">1784 Powhatan County, Virginia Tax List<br />Click to enlarge</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1788, William and his brother John are found in the tax lists of Lincoln County, which was still a part of Virginia until Kentucky became a state in 1792. John Bryant, born in 1760 and his father’s oldest son, may have been in Lincoln County as early as 1785, when his father gave him power of attorney to act on his behalf to sell land located there.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The easiest way to verify these two were the same would be to find the deed where William sold the land. I believe William and Barbara (Alspaugh) Bryant moved to Orange County, Indiana around 1816, so I thought that would be a good time frame to check. I looked through the entire deed index for Lincoln County, Kentucky and never found the entry for the sale of the Boones Mill Seat Creek land. That was odd, but not much I could do about it. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I made a timeline for all the facts I had about William Bryant, to help sort out his movements. This helped keep track of where he was, and also showed gaps where I needed to find more information. At this point, I could still believe the two men might be the same person.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, on a research trip to the Library of Virginia in Richmond, I found a deed that convinced me otherwise</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. On 17 July 1811, John Bryant and Mary his wife of Garrard County, Kentucky and William G. Bryant </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and Mary his wife</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of Putnam County, Georgia sold any interest they had in their father James Bryant’s land in Powhatan County, Virginia to Peter Dupuy (Powhatan County, Virginia Deed Book 4, pp. 277-278). In 1811, my William and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barbara his wife</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> were still living in Lincoln County, Kentucky with my seven-year-old 4x great-grandmother Susannah. Still trying to make the theory work, I ran through scenarios where William divorced Barbara, or just left her and ran off to Georgia.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Researching in Putnam County, Georgia, I learned that William Bryant had married the widow Mary Flournoy on 26 February 1811. She was the former Mary Ashurst who had married John Francis Flournoy in Goochland County, Virginia on 24 Dec 1787. John Flournoy had died just a year before she married William Bryant. There is much more to tell about this marriage, but I will just note here that a John Flournoy witnessed the 1794 deed in which James Bryant sold the Boon’s Mill Seat Creek land to William.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So, William was married in 1811. But by this time he was 45. Had he been married before? Online trees suggested he had but were mostly unsourced. The FamilySearch family tree had an intriguing set of transcriptions though. They showed that William G. Bryant had a daughter who had been accused and acquitted of murdering her husband, in Alabama of all places. I knew from his pension application that William G. Bryant was living in Marion County, Indiana shortly before he made the application in 1834 from Ripley County, Indiana. This daughter, Ann Minerva Higginbotham, moved to Indianapolis (Marion County) after the acquittal, and William G. Bryant is mentioned in her probate that took place there in 1833.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Research on Ann Minerva Bryant showed she married Caleb Higginbotham in 1812 in Elbert County, Georgia. From this, I estimated she was born around 1791, indicating at least one other wife for William G. Bryant. Online research has not yet uncovered a marriage record. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I needed to find the deed for when William G. Bryant sold the Boon’s Mill Seat Creek land. If he had a wife alive at the time he sold it, she would have to be mentioned. I went back to Kentucky records. I hadn’t done a thorough workup on the tax records yet, so I started there. The last year I found William in the Lincoln County lists with his acreage on Boon’s Mill was 1796. There were entries for a William after that, but never with the land. I remembered that William’s brother John had moved to Garrard County, so I thought I might check there to see if William followed. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BINGO! They didn’t move at all, the boundaries changed. Garrard County was formed from parts of Lincoln, Madison, and Mercer counties in 1797! </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Once I knew that, it was a snap to find William and his land in Garrard County tax lists. Then in the deed records, I found the sale of the land</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. On 3 June 1799, William Bryant and </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">his wife Frances</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sold the land to William Dunn. My ancestor William Bryant married Barbara Alspaugh in Lincoln County, Kentucky on 13 Mar 1799, three months before this deed mentioning a wife named Frances. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZDY6fPxOoyrYQCSso6PeDg21KqhPuaLKrcfXCFr0l9wnUXjV_cTUQW-AlPfYbF3nSyILwvsVr0AEDVUT0c4GYKHYBisn8Rl-K4xN6LebSGErAKMQ8gW105LZzXLKuKfX63bKxtSurGfKZ/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="1215" height="72" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZDY6fPxOoyrYQCSso6PeDg21KqhPuaLKrcfXCFr0l9wnUXjV_cTUQW-AlPfYbF3nSyILwvsVr0AEDVUT0c4GYKHYBisn8Rl-K4xN6LebSGErAKMQ8gW105LZzXLKuKfX63bKxtSurGfKZ/" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Garrard County, Kentucky Deed Book A, p. 225<br />Click to enlarge</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I still have much to do regarding this family. Since I’ve done all the work to trace William G. Bryant, I’m going to transcribe the documents I’ve found and post them to FamilySearch. I have tried in vain to find a probate that I’m fairly certain exists for him. There is one reference to an "executrix" in his pension file.</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I still feel that my William Bryant may be related to this family. There are very few Bryants in Lincoln County in the 1790s, and in 1792 there are two William Bryants listed consecutively. The first is William G.; is the second one my ancestor? Are they connected? Also, Ancestry suggests a few ThruLines that might connect me to James Bryant of Powhatan County, though that far back the segments are very small and could be false.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5DOmBXyvQ7L6zhImlpLj4YgjhlrSJ5785vIic0uxfj4fl60pH6zvdDW0p9zvb2hSk5CXjvCjs3CMI1UVMD-ZnuThDNf6J0QCd6IXM9sS5ewvPQVKC8vzSABoX7QpmA6FFkUPJZqyNzZ9d/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="152" data-original-width="1463" height="41" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5DOmBXyvQ7L6zhImlpLj4YgjhlrSJ5785vIic0uxfj4fl60pH6zvdDW0p9zvb2hSk5CXjvCjs3CMI1UVMD-ZnuThDNf6J0QCd6IXM9sS5ewvPQVKC8vzSABoX7QpmA6FFkUPJZqyNzZ9d/w400-h41/image.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>1792 Tax List Lincoln County, Kentucky<br />Click to enlarge.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></span></p><br /></span>VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-76942013817594561392020-07-12T13:56:00.000-04:002020-07-12T13:56:33.893-04:00James Edwards, the Brick Wall I Built All By Myself<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjajXwhz7ypzCZiDriMiC0Cg5-vLbxqJo-b7jgZp0T3huoZg3eJj_cw7NScYsGK_Ws_rO_MZbbi3tBbcvs8N325pMAumB_MKnm8spxSjtLl4K491-PKsieqAXnHvE_icaaFy0eieynJFUeo/s640/Edwards+Meme.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjajXwhz7ypzCZiDriMiC0Cg5-vLbxqJo-b7jgZp0T3huoZg3eJj_cw7NScYsGK_Ws_rO_MZbbi3tBbcvs8N325pMAumB_MKnm8spxSjtLl4K491-PKsieqAXnHvE_icaaFy0eieynJFUeo/s320/Edwards+Meme.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>I had the disdainful task of pruning off a large branch of my family tree last month. This article explains why I believe that my ancestor James Edwards is NOT James McClanahan Edwards, son of Thomas and Mary Ann (McClanahan) Edwards, as has been perpetuated throughout countless family trees. Settle in.<div><br /></div><div>I was given a great deal of information on the Edwards branch of my family tree in some papers belonging to my great-grandfather Christopher "Carson" Wilson. Carson Wilson was one of many victims of an elaborate scam promising descendants of a certain Robert Edwards a share of money they were entitled to relating to land Edwards purchased on Manhattan in the 1700s. Family trees were fabricated with no documentation, linking potential "heirs" to this estate. All the heirs had to do was pay a fee to get their piece of the pie. Trust me, Carson Wilson never got his share of the Manhattan fortune. Perpetrators of the fraud did serve time.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ_r92WCyrKEWQpsCx9LofBuWjF9qA5tAg6IfXc-4kFeNr5OzksBJ3msLSwI6UkBNjE1fW4OIZ9oQ_BkHDBsa0RDrRjM02W-xj8CmCHahj8azehVFmzK4wqVlEy1Bqazp8JlRZvks4YTqn/s960/Edwards+Heirs+Carson+Wilson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="540" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ_r92WCyrKEWQpsCx9LofBuWjF9qA5tAg6IfXc-4kFeNr5OzksBJ3msLSwI6UkBNjE1fW4OIZ9oQ_BkHDBsa0RDrRjM02W-xj8CmCHahj8azehVFmzK4wqVlEy1Bqazp8JlRZvks4YTqn/w180-h320/Edwards+Heirs+Carson+Wilson.jpg" title="Poor photocopy of Carson Wilson's claim to the Edwards fortune" width="180" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Poor photocopy of Carson Wilson's claim to the Edwards fortune</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>So, back to these fake family trees. They seem to be taken as gospel these days, with hundreds of online trees containing the links back to the Manhattan Edwards clan. Let me place my family in this web. The above Carson Wilson was the grandson of Susan T. Edwards and Andrew McIntyre. Much of this family's business took place in Grayson County, Kentucky where most old courthouse records have been lost to fire. However, it is known that Susan T. Edwards was indeed the daughter of James Edwards and Nancy England. The Edwards Heirs fraud claims that <i>this</i> James Edwards was the same person as James McClanahan Edwards who was the son of Thomas Edwards and Mary Ann McClanahan of Greenville County, South Carolina. I claim they are not the same man. Let me start with what I know about my ancestor, James Edwards</div><div><br /></div><div>James Edwards and Nancy England were granted a license to marry in Garrard County, Kentucky on 1 Jun 1805. I have not yet been able to find the original record, but a transcribed record book exists. The couple later moved to Grayson County, Kentucky which has precious few records, so I decided to search Garrard County for any crumbs I could find on this couple. </div><div><br /></div><div>Fortunately, FamilySearch has Garrard County tax lists and deeds available online. I located a deed in which James Edwards and Nancy his wife sold 50 acres of land on Paintlick Creek to Samuel Reed on 25 Oct 1806. I then found the deed where James purchased the land on 11 Jan 1799 from David Rice. Using this information, I was able to track the "right" James Edwards on the Garrard County, Kentucky tax lists, which list his 50 acres on Paintlick Creek. He was taxed on the land from 1800 to 1806, at which time he stopped appearing on the Garrard County lists. There is a James Edwards on earlier lists, but without any land, so I cannot at this time confirm it is my James Edwards.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now I have a slight gap in the tax records before picking up James in Grayson County, Kentucky tax lists. A James Edwards first shows up in Grayson County tax lists in 1815. He appears there many years, lastly in 1851. The first time he is taxed for land was 1842. I have census records for James in Grayson County for 1820, 1830, and 1840, with the right number and ages of children. I have NOT been able to locate James and Nancy Edwards in the 1850 census, nor found a true record of James' death. Nancy's gravestone still stands in what is now called Sandrock Hill Cemetery in Ohio County, Kentucky.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6uVjbuOoAL5jPVJmjCL0wCiloE0BTVEVQmeyz0yIkHiT3C8hQqpbASjPRi52PJsdUM2z8A_E6f71cc_xhig13fTytG9VWj1jhMbCoAg1oGDdtFVBJ2g-up7p3fYlS0SpCbccAfqJO1gCy/s1464/Edwards+Nancy+gravestone.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1022" data-original-width="1464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6uVjbuOoAL5jPVJmjCL0wCiloE0BTVEVQmeyz0yIkHiT3C8hQqpbASjPRi52PJsdUM2z8A_E6f71cc_xhig13fTytG9VWj1jhMbCoAg1oGDdtFVBJ2g-up7p3fYlS0SpCbccAfqJO1gCy/s320/Edwards+Nancy+gravestone.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Gravestone of Nancy England Edwards taken by Vonda Heverly</i><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>James and Nancy England Edwards had nine children that I am aware of. Of the children that lived to be enumerated in the 1880 census, they listed the birthplaces of both parents as Virginia.</div><div><br /></div><div>From all of these records, my ancestor James Edwards seems to have lived his entire adult life in the state of Kentucky. In NONE of these records does he use a middle initial or middle name.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now, let me tell you what I know about James McClanahan Edwards. The Edwards Heirs group seems to have picked up this name from the will of Thomas Edwards, which was written 8 Jul 1825 and entered probate in 1832, in Greenville District, South Carolina. Thomas Edwards left a very detailed will, outlining what he had already given to each of his children. He wrote: "I have given to my son James McC Edwards at his marriage and afterwards" items including a tract of land valued at $400.</div><div><br /></div><div>I located the deed for the land that Thomas Edwards mentioned in his will. It is for 400 acres in Greenville District, South Carolina and was deeded in 1821. It specifically says "my son" and calls him "James McClanahan Edwards"; it also describes the land as the parcel "where he [James] now lives". I have not yet located a deed where James McClanahan Edwards sold this land.</div><div><br /></div><div>What I have outlined so far is enough proof to me that my ancestor James Edwards, who was living in Grayson County, Kentucky in 1820, is NOT James McClanahan Edwards (son of Thomas and Mary Ann McClanahan Edwards) who was deeded land that he currently lived on in 1821 in Greenville District, South Carolina.</div><div><br /></div><div>I did find further records for a James McClanahan Edwards that I believe to be the son of Thomas and Mary Ann. I found a land grant in St. Clair County, Alabama to James McClanahan Edwards for 40 acres. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgERbqB_Xu-RSAljaRUP4F9ZsvvBzUSUKFsql4RQ1JHD-bp-SF0Ve4PqiwvSM8ZewfaVhZSUxbFt_ji94PdJfJtPmk-ybq2yG9gSPj5SKOjgd4jRuZXG3hG_k6Comy6jVabGsiE1PIiYsV3/s899/James+McClanahan+Edwards+Alabama+Land.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="899" data-original-width="568" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgERbqB_Xu-RSAljaRUP4F9ZsvvBzUSUKFsql4RQ1JHD-bp-SF0Ve4PqiwvSM8ZewfaVhZSUxbFt_ji94PdJfJtPmk-ybq2yG9gSPj5SKOjgd4jRuZXG3hG_k6Comy6jVabGsiE1PIiYsV3/s320/James+McClanahan+Edwards+Alabama+Land.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Land record for the REAL James McClanahan Edwards</i><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>From this point, this man was fairly easy to find more information on. He was the subject of a paper written up in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly on manumission. Because the middle name "McClanahan" is so unusual, I feel certain this is the son of Thomas and Mary Ann, cementing the fact that he is <i>not</i> my ancestor living in Kentucky.</div><div><br /></div><div>I have not included extensive sources for this article at this time so I can get it published and online for others to read. I have all of the documents I mention on my computer and am happy to share them with others.</div>VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-84428961866660874432019-06-09T20:34:00.000-04:002019-06-09T20:34:10.556-04:00Crawford Research Project Part 3: Summary of Known FactsI'm continuing on with my latest research project using the Research Like A Pro method developed by Diana Elder and Nicole Dyer of <a href="https://familylocket.com/">Family Locket</a>.<br />
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In my <a href="http://genealogistbynight.blogspot.com/2019/06/crawford-research-project-part-2.html">last post</a>, I stated my research objective. In a nutshell, it is to determine if my ancestor Elizabeth Crawford Torr is the daughter of Alexander and Mary (McPheeters) Crawford of Augusta County, Virginia.<br />
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The next step in the process is to create a summary of known facts. I'm not a big fan of spreadsheets, so I put my information into a table, arranged chronologically. In it, I included what I know to be true about Elizabeth Crawford Torr. I also included the death date for her proposed parents.<br />
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The second table is a summary of possible DNA connections to Alexander and Mary Crawford. <br />
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The next step of my research project is to create a locality guide for Augusta County, Virginina.<br />
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<b>CRAWFORD RESEARCH PROJECT SUMMARY OF KNOWN FACTS</b></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Est. 1752<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Birth of Elizabeth Crawford<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Best guess based on her being about 21
at the birth of her first child, estimated to be in 1773<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">29 Sep 1764<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Death of Alexander and Mary McPheeters
Crawford<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Buffalo Gap, Augusta County, Virginia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: windowtext;">The Pennsylvania Gazette</span></i><span style="color: windowtext;">, published 15 Nov 1764; available online at
newspapers.com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">“In a Letter from Stanton, in
Virginia, dated October 26, it is said, that on the 29<sup>th</sup> of
September the Indians killed one Crawford and his Wife, and burnt their House
and Barn, with a great Quantity of Grain in it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">29 Oct 1792<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Elizabeth Tar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Fayette County, KY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Tax
Rolls of Fayette County, Kentucky, Fayette County, Kentucky, Oct. 29, 1792,
DGS #7834426, Film #7957, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
accessed on FamilySearch.org</span><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Oct.
29, 1792<br />
Person's Names Charged With the Tax: Tar, Elizabeth<br />
Horses, Mares etc: 2<br />
Cattle: 2</span><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">25 Oct 1793<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Oct.
25, 1793<br />
Person's Names: Elizabeth TORE<br />
White males 16-21: 2<br />
Horses, mares, etc: 1<br />
Cattle: 4</span><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">24 Aug 1795<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Elizabeth Tore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Fayette County, KY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Aug.
25, 1795<br />
Person's Names: Elizabeth TORE<br />
White males 16-21: 1<br />
Horses, mares, etc.: 1<br />
Cattle: 9</span><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">8 Jun 1796<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Tax List<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Betty Toor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Fayette County, KY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Ibid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Jun 8,
1796<br />
Person's Names: Betty TOOR<br />
White males above 21: 1<br />
White males above 16: 1<br />
Horses, mares, etc.: 4<br />
Cattle: 8</span><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">16 Jun 1797<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">Tax List<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Elizabeth Tore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Fayette County, KY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Ibid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Jun 16,
1797<br />
Person's Names: Elizabeth TORE<br />
White males over 21: 1<br />
Horses, mares, etc: 4</span><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">2 Nov 1807<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">Permission for daughter to marry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">Elisabeth Tarr<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Shelby County, KY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">Shelby
County, Kentucky Marriage Bonds, loose paper, Phillip Pearce and Else Tarr, 2
November 1807; Shelby County Courthouse, Shelbyville, Kentucky</span><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Tahoma",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;">"Sir<br />
You have my consent to issue Licance of marriage betwen my Daughter and
Philip perce. my Daughter is of full age, and her father is dead.<br />
I am Sir yours<br />
Elisabeth her X mark Tarr<br />
To the Cleark of Shelbey County<br />
Test<br />
A.M. Gaughey"</span><span style="color: windowtext;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">SUMMARY
OF POSSIBLE CRAWFORD DNA MATCHES<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
Using Ancestry DNA’s ThruLines feature, these are <i>possible</i>
connections to Alexander and Mary McPheeters Crawford. The kits belong to my mother and uncle.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tbody>
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<td style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
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<b><span style="color: windowtext;">Through Which Child<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext;">Match on Which Kit<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext;">Ancestry User<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: windowtext;">Predicted Relationship<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">John<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH, WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">CC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH, WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">LS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">William<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH, WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RP<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RB<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">JN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH, WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">MN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">JB<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RR<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">JLK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 12;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">Edward<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH, WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">GKW<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 13;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH, WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">JDF<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 14;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 15;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">Alexander<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH, WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">AS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 16;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH, WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">DN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 17;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 18;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">Rebecca<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">GA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 19;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 20;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">Mary<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH, WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RB<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 21;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 22;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">Samuel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH, WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 23;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH, WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">SFC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 24;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">CH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 25;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH, WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">JuH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">5<sup>th</sup> c 1 rem<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 26;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH, WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">JoH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 27;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">MW<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">5<sup>th</sup> c 1 rem<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 28;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">SR<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 29;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 30;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">Robert<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH, WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">JI<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 31;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH, WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">NL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 32;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">BR<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 33;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">KR<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 34;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">CB<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 35;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 36;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">James<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH, WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">GW<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 37;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH, WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RP<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 38;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH, WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">PJ<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 39;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">RH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">JG<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 40;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">DT<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 41;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">GH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 42;">
<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 71.75pt;" valign="top" width="96">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 63.0pt;" valign="top" width="84">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">WM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 50.85pt;" valign="top" width="68">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">IL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 67.9pt;" valign="top" width="91">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: windowtext;">6<sup>th</sup> cousin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; width: 58.45pt;" valign="top" width="78">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
</td>
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<br />VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-29205396100537594422019-06-06T15:49:00.000-04:002019-06-06T15:49:08.378-04:00Crawford Research Project Part 2: Research Objective<a href="http://genealogistbynight.blogspot.com/2019/06/crawford-research-project-part-1.html">In my last post</a>, I gave some background on my ancestors William Torr and Elizabeth Crawford. Now that is off my chest, I'm ready to begin a research project focusing on Elizabeth Crawford Torr. I will use the Research Like A Pro method developed by Diana Elder and Nicole Dyer at <a href="https://familylocket.com/">Family Locket</a>.<br />
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I have never been able to identify the parents of Elizabeth Crawford Torr. To be honest, I wasn't even sure where to start. But with the recent launch of Ancestry DNA's ThruLines, I got a clue. If you aren't family with ThruLines, you can <a href="https://youtu.be/nVcHgKK_ztg">learn more about them</a> on Ancestry's YouTube Channel. If you prefer an excellent objective overview, check out <a href="https://youtu.be/y6FpqIQATms">Blaine Bettinger's video</a>, which also discusses the new DNA Match List feature.<br />
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ThruLines uses your DNA cousin matches and member family trees to identify possible ways you could be related to your matches. NOTE: because this feature relies on family trees, it is only as good as the data in the trees. SO, if there is an error in a tree, it could produce an error in the ThruLines. ThruLines is just a tool, NOT the be-all-end-all answer.<br />
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I'll give you an easy example. This is the ThruLines screenshot for my grandfather, Vaughn Hilyard. My DNA is linked to a tree that only has my direct-line ancestors. In this picture, anyone who appears in my tree has a solid-line box around their name. Any person ThruLines predicts is my relative that DOES NOT appear in my tree has a dashed-line box around them.<br />
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On the right is my father, in a solid-line box, indicating he is in my tree (and, indeed, a DNA match at the parent level). In the dashed box is a person predicted to be my uncle, based on information found in other people's trees. He was, indeed, my uncle Ron. Coming down from him are two DNA matches, one predicted to be a first cousin, the other a first cousin once removed. Both of these are correct! I know them to be correct because, in this case, all of these people are known to me, and are in my full-size private tree. But, say I didn't know about this uncle. All of these links and suggestions would be a starting place for me to learn who these two DNA cousin matches are and how they are truly related to me.<br />
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Now, on to Elizabeth Crawford. I can't give you a screenshot of this, but as I was scrolling through my mother's ThruLines, I noticed a "Potential Ancestor" button. Clicking on this took me to a man named Alexander Crawford. There were a couple dozen DNA matches that could potentially link me to this man. I was intrigued. I have since entered him into my database as my ancestor, and this is what the ThruLines looks like now.<br />
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I can only show part of it here, but there are more lines if I scroll left or right. I have labeled my line on the left, and it is shown as solid boxes since these people are in my tree. The other four are potential children of Alexander Crawford, with possible links from them down to my DNA cousins. If there were only one DNA cousin, I might not give this much weight. But my mother has <i>twenty-nine</i> DNA cousin matches that could tie back to this man. That warrants a closer look.<br />
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Enter the Research Like a Pro method. The first step in the process is to identify your objective. What is my question, including as much specific identifying information as I can? I want to know if Elizabeth Crawford Torr is the daughter of Alexander Crawford (and his wife Mary McPheeters). </div>
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<b>My research objective is this: Determine if Elizabeth Crawford Torr (birth estimated 1752, death estimated after 1807 possibly in Shelby County, Kentucky) who married William Torr about 1772 (birth estimated 1752, death before 29 Oct 1792) is the daughter of Alexander Crawford (birth estimated 1715, death 29 Sep 1764 in Augusta County, Virginia) and his wife Mary McPheeters (birth estimated 1716, death 29 Sep 1764) in Augusta County, Virginia.</b><br />
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In my next post, I'll continue the process by creating a summary of known facts. This is a timeline or table of everything I know so far and where that information comes from.<br />
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VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-33975596182231575212019-06-05T13:24:00.001-04:002019-06-05T13:24:42.143-04:00Crawford Research Project Part 1: Background Information<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7_QR0KUqhUKaZJ91NB6BnQ8FnTPk1VOz9-Sx2IzhlhPUjsoeIGbIWIIrSbnI5JIgOuucBSKWoTKJX0miFMkk4qWEG5Vj7wOmEFeOe5SF3scHlXHR2ubs4SqvmKYtxSc_422Eea8wbH1m3/s1600/RLAP+cover.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="817" data-original-width="662" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7_QR0KUqhUKaZJ91NB6BnQ8FnTPk1VOz9-Sx2IzhlhPUjsoeIGbIWIIrSbnI5JIgOuucBSKWoTKJX0miFMkk4qWEG5Vj7wOmEFeOe5SF3scHlXHR2ubs4SqvmKYtxSc_422Eea8wbH1m3/s200/RLAP+cover.JPG" width="161" /></a>Last year, I stumbled upon a great method to improve my genealogical research. It is the "Research Like a Pro" system, constructed by mother-daughter team Diana Elder and Nicole Dyer. You can read all about it on their website at <a href="https://familylocket.com/">Family Locket</a>. They have also put together the information in a book, available in hard copy or e-book, titled <i>Research Like A Pro: A Genealogist's Guide</i>. This method helps me focus my efforts on a single question instead of wasting time mindlessly clicking from website to website.<br />
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I recently had a new question pop up that needs some serious attention. Using Ancestry DNA's new ThruLines feature, I identified potential parents for a brick-wall ancestor. This ancestor's name is Elizabeth Crawford Torr, my fifth great-grandmother. She, along with her husband William Torr, came into my cross-hairs recently when I "rediscovered" my cousin Ken, a lively octogenarian who would like to learn more about this couple before, as he puts it, "it's too late."<br />
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Before I launch into my research project, I want to provide a bit of background. There is much controversy about the Torrs. Quite a bit has been written, most of it without sources. This hearsay has become gospel over the years, and I have decided to throw my hat into the ring. With sources, of course.<br />
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Ken and I met with another Torr cousin, Jane, over 20 years ago. Not too long after we worked over these lines with limited success, I wrote up my summary of my findings and conclusions. The rest of this post contains my nearly 20-year-old Progress Report, with a few updates.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Purpose
of report: To clarify what is now known
about William Torr and to correct some previously published errors regarding
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The earliest record we have for
William Torr is a tax record (1)</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> from Frederick County, Virginia from
1782 under the name William Toor. He appears on subsequent lists in 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, and finally on a list dated 30 May 1789. I have images of the originals for each of these, but only include one here for brevity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Next is a Revolutionary War Public
Service Claim. General information about
this can be found in the <a href="https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/opac/revpscabout.htm">Library of Virginia’s online catalog</a>. Quoting from the website, “...in May 1780 the General Assembly passed an act authorizing the governor
to impress supplies needed by the American army. The governor appointed commissioners of the
provision law in each locality to carry out the terms of the act. The commissioner, when he impressed property,
gave the owner a certificate describing what was taken. Between 1781 and 1783 county </span><span style="color: #212063; font-family: inherit;">county courts held special sessions at which certificates
were presented and authenticated, and booklets listing authenticated
certificates were compiled and sent to Richmond for settlement. Two
commissioners appointed to settle the claims recorded those for which they
authorized payment, and warrants were issued by the auditor of public accounts.”
The card catalog lists Torr, William,
place of residence Frederick County. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the August 1783 court:<br /> “William Torr for Ferriage of 117 Men & 3 horses over Shanandoah River for same use.”(2)</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #212063; font-family: inherit;">This piece of information is useful for several reasons.</span><span style="color: #212063; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: #212063; font-family: inherit;">First, many (undocumented) Torr genealogies state that William Torr operated a ferry.</span><span style="color: #212063; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: #212063; font-family: inherit;">This public service claim bears that out.</span><span style="color: #212063; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: #212063; font-family: inherit;">However, some genealogies state he was on the Potomac River; </span><span style="color: #212063; font-family: inherit;">I haven’t found any reference to William Torr on the Potomac.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #212063; font-family: inherit;">In 2016, I discovered one further reference to William Torr. In a transcription of Frederick County, Virginia Deed Books is this entry (3): </span></div>
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"MARTIN, THOMAS BRYAN (of Greenway Court in Frederick Co. VA)--14 Mar 1785, 1 Nov 1785--Lease of Property--for the annual payment for the sum of 20 pounds due each 14th Mar paid by Wm. HAND to lease a farm with all its houses, buildings, orchards, gardens, meadows, ways, paths, water course, profits, commodities, hereditaments & appurtenances, including Ferry Boat Landing, lying on the Shenandoah River in Frederick Co. VA, formerly the lease of Wm. TORR, the lease to run for 10 years, signed by T.B. Martin & Wm. "W" Hand, Wit: Edward Rogers, Samuel Sharp & John Simson, received by James Keith CC; Book 21, 108."</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The transcribed deed gives some fertile ground for further research. But sadly, the tax lists and public claims records are the only primary source materials I have found for William Torr. Much has been stated as fact about him, his parentage, wives, and family, but
these are the only primary sources to support any claims made about him. We can say definitively that William Torr
lived in Frederick County, Virginia from 1782 to 1789, and that he operated a
ferry on the Shenandoah River. The rest
is inference and speculation! However, I
will try to support any further claims with as much secondary information as
possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Many Torr genealogies state that
there were two generations of Williams: the first William was married to Mary
Troxal and the second generation William was married to Elizabeth Crawford. Another theory is that there was one William,
with two wives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is my belief that Mary Troxal never enters into our Torr family, and that there
is one William Torr, who was married to an Elizabeth whose maiden name is
believed to be Crawford.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Some <i>Troxal</i> genealogies say Mary was married to a “Barr or Derr or Tarr”. I believe a Torr researcher latched onto that statement, assuming it was William Torr, and linked the two families. </span> Hence, it is stated in some Torr genealogies that the William Torr who operated a ferry married “Mary Troxal, a Virginia girl of English parentage”. Others cite a Mary Troxal dying in Scott County, Kentucky in 1795. Why would she have still been referred to as “Troxal” if she had been married to a Torr? <span style="font-family: inherit;">Lastly, research into the Troxal name shows that it is actually Swiss, and spelled Trachsel and many other variants; not, as the genealogies claim, “of English parentage”. I firmly believe that the Troxal-Torr link is not valid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A family genealogy referred to as “The Ashby Pearce Book” (or a photocopy of it) is located at the Filson Club in Louisville, Kentucky. Ashby Pearce was the son of Philip and Else Tarr Pearce, and this book has places to fill in information about one’s family. It gives Aley (Else) Torr Pearce’s father as William Torr and her mother as Elizabeth Crawford. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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This is the one piece of information that gives Elizabeth’s maiden name. There has been no other record located thus far. This record also states under “No. Br’s & Sisters: Three sisters 4 brothers”. It is not known if this tally includes Aley/Else or not. My research shows only seven total children of William and Elizabeth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first primary evidence I found regarding Elizabeth Crawford Torr was the 2 Nov 1807 marriage bond of his daughter Else Tarr and Philip
Pearce in Shelby County, Kentucky. This is evidence that William Torr was not alive in 1807, and that he
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">“Sir: you have my consent to Issue Licance of marrage between my Daughter Else and Philip pierce. my Daughter is of full ages and her father is dead. I am Sir yours, Elisabeth (her X mark) Tarr” (4)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Else Tarr was born in 1787. That means that William and Elizabeth were
married by 1787, providing further evidence against the idea of a first wife named Mary Troxal who died in 1795. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">Summary: It is my belief that there was only one generation of William
Torr, and he only had one wife, named Elizabeth Crawford. There is no Troxal connection to the Torr
line.</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Elizabeth
Crawford Torr</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Elizabeth Crawford Torr was probably
born by 1752 This is
based on the fact of her oldest son John Tarr’s estimated birth in 1773, and her being at least 21
at this event. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: 0.5in;">A search of Kentucky’s tax lists revealed further
information about this Torr family.
Kentucky became a state in 1792.
The first tax list from Fayette County dated 29 Oct 1792 lists Elizabeth Tar. This is significant. For Elizabeth to be enumerated on the tax
lists, her husband was not alive. Now,
we can move the date of William Torr’s death from 1807 back 15 years to
before 29 Oct 1792.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fayette County, Kentucky 1792 Tax List for Elizabeth Tar</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Next, in 1793 (no day or month),
Elizabeth Tore is on the Fayette County tax list with two white males over
16. These are her two oldest sons, John
and William.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1794, Elizabeth is not on the tax
rolls. However, her oldest son John
appears for the first time on 17 Jun 1794 in Fayette County with one white male
over 21. This is most likely the year he
turned 21, putting his birth around 1773.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Elizabeth continues to appear in the
Fayette County tax rolls in 1795, 1796, and 1797. There is no roll extant for 1798. After this, her son John appears in the
Shelby County lists from 1799 to 1809.
The only further record for Elizabeth is the previously mentioned bond
for her daughter Else’s marriage in 1807. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One further note: some erroneous genealogies
give Elizabeth Crawford’s parents as George Crawford and Nancy Winters. The marriage record for this couple can be
found in Augusta County, Virginia; they were married on 22 Jun 1789! They are obviously not the parents of Elizabeth. This needs to be corrected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Summary: William Torr was born by est. 1752 based on his wife and children's ages (though possibly much earlier), and died sometime between 30 May 1789 and 29 Oct 1792, from tax records. Elizabeth Crawford was born est. 1752. She married William Torr probably
around 1772 (prior to the birth of their son John in 1773). She was widowed by 29 Oct 1792, and lived in
Fayette County, Kentucky from that time until 1797. She mostly likely moved with her family at
that time to Shelby County, Kentucky, where the last record she left was her
permission for her daughter to marry Philip Pearce in November 1807. No record of her death has been found.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p> </o:p> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Sources<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Frederick County, Virginia Tax Rolls, Frederick County, Virginia, unnumbered, Personal Property Tax Lists, 1782-1802, film #7842567, 1782, Virginia State Library, Richmond Virginia. microfilm available at FamilySearch.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Microfilm; Public
Service Claims. Court Booklets and
Lists (reels 1-4) arranged by county, p. 5 and 36. Also Commissioner’s Books, II, p.
214. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Buck D. A., Abstractor and Compiler, <i>Frederick County, Virginia Deed Books 21-26.</i></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shelby County,
Kentucky marriage bonds, located at the county courthouse.</span></li>
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<br />VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-6214476917195919972019-01-30T20:19:00.001-05:002019-01-30T20:19:15.637-05:00Estill's Defeat: Harper Family Series, Part 2<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fort Boonesborough, 2001<br />
Photo by Vonda Lee Heverly</td></tr>
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I am fortunate to have a few ancestors for whom records are abundant. These are the ones I want to write The Book for: that thick dust-gatherer that tells every little detail, complete with sources, of course. I realize the impossibility of completing such a task, so my goal is to write individual chapters. Each chapter may not be complete, and they certainly aren't going to be in chronological order. But each installment will get me closer to having The Book I've been longing for.<br />
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One such family is the Harpers. They were among the earliest settlers in Kentucky and lived in close proximity to some famous people (translation: lots of source material!). I've written one chapter in this journey already, <a href="http://genealogistbynight.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-life-and-murder-of-peter-harper.html">The Life and Murder of Peter Harper</a>. Peter was my 6x great-uncle; now I turn to his brother John Harper, my 5x great-grandfather.<br />
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John Harper was born probably in Prince William County, Virginia in about 1747 to George and Betty Harper. He first came to Kentucky in 1779, aged about 32. He came with a small group of men to stake out claims for land. That first winter was a rough one, and he spent it inside the shelter of Boonesboro, a fort Daniel Boone had built in 1775. He spent the next few years serving in the Kentucky militia on the frontier during the Revolutionary War as a spy, scout, and ranger. This was a time when there were many skirmishes between the white settlers and the natives who hunted in the area.<br />
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This story is about one such clash, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Little_Mountain">Battle of Little Mountain</a>, also called Estill's Defeat. There is an excellent account of this story written in <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/collinshistorica02coll/page/634">Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky</a></i> by Lewis and Richard H. Collins. This link takes you directly to the story in the book on archive.org. This book was published in 1874, and the language is a little flowery to our modern ears. Here is my interpretation of the original in a modern tone, with a few original excerpts in block quotes:<br />
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On March 19th, 1782, an empty Indian raft floated down the Kentucky River past Boonesboro. This indicated that Indians were crossing the river further upstream with the intention of sneaking up the back side of unprotected settlements. An alarm was sent to Captain James Estill about 15 miles away at his station, and he raised a party of 40 men to investigate.<br />
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The day after the party left Estill's Station, Indians attacked it. They killed a young woman within sight of the fort, and took captive an enslaved man, Monk. Monk knew full well there were no fighting men left behind, but told the Indians how strong the fort was and of all the men inside to defend it. His exaggeration was effective enough to send the Indians away, saving the women and children left inside.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image from <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=cEgVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA194&dq=monk+james+estill&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwje1YTAvIbgAhUi6oMKHbJiCzEQ6AEIPzAE#v=onepage&q=monk%20james%20estill&f=false"><i>The History of Kentucky</i></a><br />
[see citation below, click link to view book online]</td></tr>
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Two boys were sent to catch up to Captain Estill and tell him of the attack. They reached Estill's party early on March 21st. The men resolved to chase the Indians, sending five men back to the station to defend it. After crossing the river, they discovered the Indian trail and rode hard to catch them. They camped that night near where Mount Sterling, Kentucky stands today, an area called Little Mountain. [Little Mountain was actually an Indian burial mound that was leveled in 1845. You can <a href="https://explorekyhistory.ky.gov/items/show/598">read about it here</a>.] Ten of the men had horses unable to go on, so the remaining 25 took off the next morning, March 22nd. They soon observed fresh Indian tracks and knew they were getting close.<br />
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They rode several hours, when they came upon six Indians preparing their supper from a buffalo. Captain Estill fired his gun, causing the Indians to run. David Cook, a little ahead of the rest of the party, saw an Indian halt. He raised his gun, and fired. Just at that instant, another Indian crossed their path, and the single shot killed both men. This remarkable shot, seen by most of Estill's group, spurred them on to fight.<br />
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The Indians were beginning to retreat, not wishing to engage, when their leader was shot and fell. His death would have ended the battle 20 minutes after Cook shot the first Indians. To quote the History of Kentucky:<br />
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<i>"But to the true son of the forest there is no rallying cry like that from his wounded leader. He ordered them to come back, and fight like men."</i> </blockquote>
The Indians dragged their leader, whose name has been lost to history, behind a bush where he would be protected but could give orders to his men. His voice was strong and they did not disobey.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Image of <i>Estill's Defeat</i> from the <a href="https://dp.la/item/32bdca43c14053149bca23c946bc7723">Digital Public Library of America</a><br />
(<i>see full citation below in References</i>)</td></tr>
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The two sides were evenly matched, and it turned into a series of individual conflicts instead of organized forces going head to head.<br />
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<i>"Each rifleman singled out his man, and fired at no uncertain mark. Life itself was forfeit. The firing was deliberate. For an hour, both sides stood firmly, or bravely fell...In the clangor and uproar of a general battle, death is forgotten, and cowards often die like brave men; but in the cool and lingering expectation of death, only the man of true courage can stand. Such was the situation now...The Indian chief could not retreat, and without him his men would not." </i></blockquote>
At this point, Captain Estill sent a detachment of six men with Lt. William Miller to go around the creek and flank the enemy so as to surround them. If these seven men had followed their orders, the settlers might have won the day. However, as they moved their position they panicked and abandoned their comrades, securing their own safety but sealing the fates of the other men.<br />
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As soon as Estill saw what had happened, he ordered David Cook to the flank. These men immediately obeyed, but Cook was shot. The men in the front were running low on ammunition. Suddenly, Adam Caperton, one of Estill's closest friends, was shot in the head. However, the shot did not immediately kill him, but crazed him. Unaware of his own actions, he staggered out into the open space between the enemies, and a powerful Wyandot, out of ammunition, leaped out to scalp him. Estill could not leave his friend to this fate. Gun empty and three times wounded himself, Estill rushed toward the Indian with his butcher-knife drawn. The two warriors grappled in hand-to-hand, life or death combat.<br />
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<i>"Each was so powerful and quick, the other could not use his weapon; first up, then down upon the ground, twisting and turning like two immense serpents struggling for the mastery."</i></blockquote>
Estill had broken one of his arms four months before; it was not yet fully healed, and it finally gave way. The Indian, with a wild yell of triumph, buried his knife in Captain Estill, killing him instantly. Just as he gave his yell, the Indian fell dead over Estill, shot by Joseph Proctor. He had been watching the contest with a steady aim, but held his fire lest he kill Estill.<br />
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One more settler was killed, and the battle was over. The Indian chief had finally passed. The battle had gone on for nearly two hours. The whites left their dead behind, and carried off their three wounded. Joseph Proctor carried William Irvine nearly the whole 40 miles back to Estill's station on his back. Though the battle ended effectively in a draw, the Indians were left with possession of the field and so it is called Estill's Defeat.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.madisonhistoryky.org/Monk_Estill.php">enslaved man Monk</a> escaped from the Indians, and reported that they had 17 killed and 2 wounded. Of the whites, seven were killed, 11 returned to Estill's station, and seven deserted in dishonor. Monk was freed later that year by Captain Estill's son for his actions during these days. He went on to have 30 children by three wives and became a Baptist minister.<br />
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John Harper wasn't in the Battle of Little Mountain; he didn't witness Estill's defeat firsthand. However, three days later he led a party of men to the battle ground to bury the dead, which they did by covering them with logs and debris. The Indians had carried off their own dead, and did not mutilate or scalp the whites. They made no attempt to harass the burial party, surely knowing such a party would come. Twenty-one years after the battle, John Harper gave testimony in a land dispute case:<br />
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<b>Deposition
of John Harper</b> (taken on May 20, 1803, at spot where James Estill was defeated and killed): That he piloted the company to this place that came to bury the dead that was killed in the battle with James Estill, and he found James Estill dead on, or very near, this spot of ground and that he was well acquainted with this spot of ground previous to the battle. <b>Question by plaintiff:</b> Do you not know that this place was a place of great
notoriety previous to the first of the year 1783? <b>Answer:</b> it was from the time of the battle
being fought, and was ever since called Estill's battle ground. <b>Question by same:</b> Was there any marks by which a stranger could know this place to be the place where Estill was killed? <b>Answer:</b> None, other but by the trees being scalped by bullets and the bones of the people that were buried on the ground which was
plain to be seen the first of the year 1783. [Source: <i>Fayette County, Kentucky Records</i>, p. 93, see full source below.]</blockquote>
John Harper had lived in close proximity to these men for four years. He knew some of them quite well: Joseph Proctor gave testimony for John when he applied for a pension for his service during the American Revolution. Beal Kelly, another survivor, also came from Prince William County in 1779. John helped him build his cabin and stake his claim. Though accustomed to rough frontier living, it had to be a shock to see seven of these men dead on the battlefield, their bodies subjected to wildlife and the elements for some days. Nearly a year later the land was still scarred and the bones of these men were visible. Over twenty years later, he led men to the exact spot where he had seen it all.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Estill's Defeat</i> from the <a href="https://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=83478">Historical Marker Database</a><br />
Photo Credit: Mark Hilton, 11 May 2015</td></tr>
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References:<br />
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<ul>
<li>Estill's Defeat <a href="https://www.wyandotte-nation.org/culture/history/general-history/estill%E2%80%99s-defeat/">from the Wyandotte perspective</a></li>
<li>Estill's defeat. 1859. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-f65a-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.(Accessed January 30, 2019.)</li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The History of Kentucky: From Its Earliest Discovery and Settlement, to the Present Date</i>, by Zachariah Frederick Smith; published by Prentice Press, 1895; original from New York Public Library, digitized 11 Feb 2008; accessed 30 Jan 2019.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Fayette County, Kentucky Records Volume 1</i>, by Michael L. Cook and Bettie Anne Cook, Cook Publications, Evansville, IN 1985.</span></li>
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VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-5431059851777825382018-09-08T17:05:00.000-04:002018-09-08T17:06:21.377-04:00Will the REAL Parents of Samuel Glenn Please Stand Up?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Glenn Moore, granddaughter of this blog post's subject</td></tr>
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For many years, the Glenn branch of my tree stopped at Samuel Glenn, who died July 1, 1841, in Clermont County, Ohio. I was never tempted by the many-times-copied trees on Ancestry that showed his line extending back to <a href="https://rexfactor.wordpress.com/2017/06/07/robert-the-bruce-1306-29/">Robert the Bruce</a>, the most awesome king Scotland ever had.<br />
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Well, maybe a little tempted. I'd love to descend from Robert the Bruce. But these trees were all lacking one key ingredient: Proof.<br />
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I decided to work on this line a bit to see if I could make a breakthrough. I've been slowly entering proven information into a Rootsmagic database, and began putting in what facts I knew about Samuel. I had the following already:<br />
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<li>A photocopied Bible record belonging to Samuel's son Elias Glenn, stating that "Samuel Glenn My father died on the first day of July 1841."</li>
<li>U.S. Federal Census records from Clermont County, Ohio for the years 1820, 1830, and 1840. By using the age data in these records, I narrowed Samuel's birth year to somewhere between 1776 and 1780.</li>
<li>From Ancestry, I also had three records from the Ohio Early Census Index for the years 1801, 1809, and 1810. The first one was for the Virginia Military District, and the other two for Clermont County.</li>
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Military_District">Virginia Military District</a> was a part of what would later be southwest Ohio. It was bounty land set aside for veterans of the Revolutionary War, who received payment for their service in land rather than money. Why was Samuel Glenn, who was <i>born during</i> the revolution, paying taxes on land there?</div>
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I was able to locate the original tax record on <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/">FamilySearch</a><sup>1</sup>. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1801 Tax List for Virginia Military District, image from FamilySearch</td></tr>
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Samuel Glen was taxed for 200 acres of 2nd rate land<br />
No. of Warrant 4939<br />
Date of Entry with Surveyor 19 Jul 1800<br />
Water Course and County: lower side Trakles Creek, Ross<br />
Amount of tax: 70 cents</blockquote>
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According to the book <i>Revolutionary War Land Grants</i> by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck<sup>2</sup>, 200 acres was the amount awarded to a non-commissioned officer who served a three-year term. However, if the soldier died or was killed in service, his heirs were entitled to the same amount of land. On page 202 of this book, Samuel Glen is listed as receiving 200 acres.</div>
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I knew I had to see information about this bounty warrant. Since the land was located in the Virginia Military District, it would not be located at the National Archives with federal land grants. A little sleuthing revealed these records were at the Library of Virginia on microfilm. And wonder of wonders, FamilySearch had copies of these microfilms! The particular one I wanted to see has been digitized, but must be viewed at a family history center or an affiliate library. I was off the day I discovered this, but my car was in the shop. Drat!</div>
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My next available day off, I was at the Indiana State Library first thing to check out this microfilm. The entry for Samuel Glen consisted of one index card and one handwritten document, front and back.<sup>3</sup><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Samuel Glen Bounty Warrant Index Card and Front of Supporting Document</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Samuel Glen Bounty Warrant Index Card and Back of Supporting Document</td></tr>
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The document says: </div>
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"Corporation of Winchester, Sct May 31st 1799<br />
On the motion of Samuel Glen and it being proved to the satisfaction of the Court It is ordered to be certified that he is the only child and heir of Samuel Glen deceased an american soldier who was killed in the war between this country and Great Britain.<br />
A Copy Test, J. Peyton CWH"</blockquote>
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Winchester, Virginia is located in Frederick County. As of yet, I have not located any court records there that pertain to this document.</div>
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Shortly after this revelation, I found myself at the <a href="http://www.genealogycenter.org/">Allen County Public Library</a>, and found this abstract from the Frederick County Minute Books<sup>4</sup>:</div>
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GLINN ELIZABETH WIFE OF (SOLDIER); MINUTES 1773-1780, p. 255, Elizabeth Glinn, whose husband is soldier in Morgnan Regiment in Continental Service, pension for herself and a child."</blockquote>
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I was able to locate the Compiled Service Records for Samuel Glen on Fold3, but they did not shed any further light on his age or death date. </div>
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<b>In summary, Samuel Glenn b. 1776-1780, d. 1841 in Clermont County, Ohio was the only son and heir of Samuel Glen, a soldier who served from Frederick County, Virginia and died during the American Revolution, and his wife Elizabeth.</b></div>
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I have more information to share on Samuel Glenn (Jr.) and Samuel Glen (Sr.) in future blog posts. There is also more research to be done, and I hope to uncover more.</div>
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Sources:<br />
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<span data-sheets-userformat="{"2":9089,"3":{"1":0},"10":0,"11":4,"12":0,"16":10}" data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Tax records of Ohio, 1801-1814, \"Book entries of the lands of non-residents situated between the Scioto & Little Miami Rivers commonly known by the name of the Virginia Army Lands (Virginia Military District ), v. 1, 1801,\" entry for Samuel Glen, image 51, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 7 Sep 2018). "}" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><sup>2</sup> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1998.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><sup>3</sup> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Virginia, Office of the Governor, "Bounty warrants, 1779-1860," Box 58, Given, John to Goodrum, Thomas, FHL film 008140688 Item 4</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><sup>4</sup> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">Daughter of the American Revolution, Virginia, Series 2, v. 35, </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic;">Abstracts of court records, Frederick County, Virginia, 1763-1830</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;">, (Virginia: Virginia DAR, 1994).</span><br />
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VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-42689391115296051362018-04-13T15:30:00.001-04:002018-04-13T15:30:55.413-04:00Edward Moore and Martha Thompson: A Working Family Group SheetAs I wrote <a href="http://genealogistbynight.blogspot.com/2018/04/longstanding-errors-parents-of-edward.html">in my last post</a>, I have only within the last year discovered an error in my Moore line. My ancestor was Edward Moore (I'm going to start referring to him as Jr.), born 17 Dec 1769 in Guilford County, North Carolina. This comes from a transcript of a Bible record. I'm working with the theory that he is the son of Edward Moore (I'll refer to him as Sr.) and Martha Thompson.<br />
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Edward Moore Sr. wrote his will in Moore County, NC on 15 Jul 1800. It entered into probate in Nov 1803 in the same county.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edward Moore Sr.'s will; Moore County, NC Will Book A</td></tr>
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In this will, Edward Moore Sr. mentions the following: sons William and Edward; daughters Sarah Stamper, Mary Wilson, and Johana Kannedy; grandson George Moore; and son-in-law David Kannedy. He also mentions his wife, who is alive, though not by name.<div>
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We can add to this list a son Thomas, who died 18 Sep 1794 in Moore County, NC. It doesn't seem as if a will was produced, but testimony was made about its existance here:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Testimony as to Will of Thomas Moore; Moore County, NC County Court Minutes Aug 1784-Nov 1795</td></tr>
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A family Bible record of Edward Moore Sr.'s son-in-law David Kennedy lists 10 children for Edward Sr. and Martha Thompson: Susey, Salley, Mary, William, Elisabeth, John, Thomas, Martha, Joaner, and Edward. Since they are not mentioned in either of the above wills, it is presumed that Susey, Elisabeth, John, and Martha died before Thomas' will of 1794, and without children. The one exception to this is Edward Sr.'s mention of his grandson George Moore. I do not yet know who the father of this George Moore is.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Page from the family Bible of David Kennedy listing the children of Edward and Martha Thompson Moore</td></tr>
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So, listing the children in the order given in the Bible, and filling in what few details I have, here it is:<div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Children of Edward Moore Sr. and Martha Thompson, married 10 Nov 1746 in Salem, New Jersey</b></span></div>
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<li><b>Susey Moore</b>: born est 1747, died before 1794</li>
<li><b>Sarah/Salley Moore</b>: born 9 Aug 1749, died 12 Mar 1839 in Morgan County, KY; married <b>James W. Stamper</b></li>
<li><b>Mary Moore</b>: born est 1751, died after father's will of 1800; married <b>George Wilson</b></li>
<li><b>William Moore</b>: born 16 Dec 1754 in Botetourt County, VA per his Rev War application for pension, died 15 Apr 1832 in Orange County, IN; buried in Stamper's Creek cemetery (his sister married a Stamper but doesn't seem to have settled here); wife <b>Rachel</b></li>
<li><b>Elisabeth Moore</b>: born est 1756, died before 1794</li>
<li><b>John Moore</b>: born est 1758, died before 1794</li>
<li><b>Thomas Moore</b>: born est 1760, died 18 Sep 1794 in Moore County, NC; married <b>Phebey</b>; appears to have no children as his siblings were subpoenaed to approve "will"</li>
<li><b>Martha Moore</b>: born est 1763, died before 1794</li>
<li><b>Joanah Moore</b>: born 17 Jul 1766, died 12 Oct 1857 in Lauderdale County, Alabama; married <b>David Kennedy</b> 24 Apr 1788</li>
<li><b>Edward Moore Jr.</b>: born 17 Dec 1769 in Guilford County, NC, died 19 Jul 1848 in Parke County, Indiana; married <b>Pharaba Pearce</b>. [My Line]</li>
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Lastly, there is the grandson George Moore mentioned in Edward Moore Sr.'s will. I know that Edward Moore Jr. did not have a son named George. William Moore did have a son George, born about 1795.</div>
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VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-4188768022413757892018-04-09T10:26:00.001-04:002018-04-09T10:26:23.884-04:00Longstanding Errors: The parents of Edward and William Moore of Orange County, IndianaIt can be a hard blow to find out years of research were wasted on the wrong family. But the feeling that you finally have it <i>right</i> makes it all better again.<br />
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For me, it started with a typewritten manuscript about the Moore family that I found at the Orange County [Indiana] Genealogical Society in the 1990s. If it had a cover page, I failed to copy it. I believe it was written in the mid-20th century, and I am sorry to say I do not know who authored it. I am indebted to her for collecting so much information, including many personal stories that would be lost now, and committing them to paper.<br />
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However, I believe her link between the first and second generation to be wrong. These are the pages that led me astray:<br />
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My ancestor was Edward Moore, born 17 Dec 1769 in North Carolina and died 19 Jul 1848 in Parke County, Indiana. He married Pharaba Pearce (26 Jun 1769-18 Aug 1845). Pharaba is the subject of a <a href="http://genealogistbynight.blogspot.com/2017/06/brick-wall-busted-maiden-name-of-of.html">blog post here</a>, in which I busted the brick wall of her maiden name.<div>
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This Edward Moore moved to Indiana along with one of his brothers, William Moore (1754-1832). The above two pages claim that the father of Edward and William was William Moore Sr., who died in Wake County, North Carolina in 1780. I don't know how the author made this connection, whether from the work of others or by William's will, but I took it and ran with it. Researched it for decades, tracing the descendants of William Moore Sr. to Tennessee and North Carolina. It was a wild goose chase. </div>
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When I discovered the maiden name and parents of Pharaba Pearce, I started uncovering information about her husband Edward Moore and who his true parents might be. The first thing that made me question it was this:</div>
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Somehow (thank you Google, I'm sure) this led me to an incredible website called <a href="http://moorecountywallaces.com/index.php">The Wallace Family of Moore County, NC</a>. Don't be deceived, it is not strictly on the Wallace family. It documents many families from the area, including the Moores and Pearces. <div>
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On the Wallace Family website is a family group sheet for the presumed parents of Edward Moore. You can see it here, the <a href="http://moorecountywallaces.com/getperson.php?personID=I05911&tree=Wallace">family group sheet of Edward Moore and Martha Thompson</a>. What I love about this website is that it has links to actual documents. If you scroll down the page in this link you will find all their documents available right there.</div>
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The two pieces of information that convince me these are the right parents for Edward and William Moore of Orange County, Indiana are these:</div>
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1. Edward Moore (let's call him Sr.) owned land on Deep River in Moore County, NC. Windsor Pearce, father of Pharaba, also owned land on Deep River, in Randolph County, NC. Deep River spans the two counties, so they were actually fairly close to each other. Edward Moore Jr. and Pharaba Pearce were likely "neighbors", making a match possible.</div>
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2. Edward Moore Sr.'s will lists sons William and Edward, among other children. </div>
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This post is just breaking the surface. I look forward to further research and posts to clarify my findings.<br /><div>
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VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-90689667591169429252018-03-29T21:13:00.000-04:002018-03-29T21:13:28.137-04:0052.12: Misfortune; Catharine Murphy ReckThis post is part of a project called "<a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/#more-3982">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a>" created by Amy Johnson Crow.<br />
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The prompt this week is Misfortune. This dovetails with last week's<a href="http://genealogistbynight.blogspot.com/2018/03/5211-lucky-harrison-reck.html"> Lucky story of William Harrison Reck</a>.<br />
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As with most women in my family tree, I don't know a great many details about my great-great grandmother Catharine Murphy Reck. She was born on October 3rd, 1838 in Miami County, Ohio to William Henry and Mary (Sipe) Murphy. She was the oldest in a family of 13 children that all lived to adulthood.<br />
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When she was 20, she married William Harrison Reck in Darke County, Ohio. He enlisted in the Civil War a few years later. After the war, they moved from Darke County, Ohio to Henry County, Missouri for a few years, during which time my great-grandmother was born. I don't know what took them out there or why they returned, but by 1874 they were back in Ohio. In the early 1900s they moved to Riverside County, California with several of their children, where they died and are buried.<br />
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I have a letter Catharine wrote to her daughter after the death of William Harrison. I shared that letter <a href="http://genealogistbynight.blogspot.com/2015/01/my-family-in-civil-war-part-six-william.html">in this post</a>. From this, I can tell she was well-educated and had good penmanship. I have a few pictures of her, all with a calm, mild expression. Other than these bare facts, I didn't have a lot.<br />
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Catharine and William Harrison Reck had seven children. I knew one had died young but I did not know the circumstances. His name was Charles Edward Reck, born October 16, 1868 and died April 17, 1893 aged 24. He hadn't married or fathered any children. There are no death records available for this time, so I figured I'd never find out more.<br />
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Then in 2007, another researcher sent me a newspaper clipping. The clipping is unsourced but has the date Jan. 29, 1976 written on it. It is a human interest piece about Bertha Mae Marchal and shares some of her memories.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Newspaper Clipping Jan. 29, 1976 Dateline Versailles<br />Interview with Bertha Marchal</td></tr>
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The pertinent part is marked by a pen and reads as follows: <div>
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"Another vivid memory occurred when I was 10. One day an explosion shook the schoolhouse. We thought it might fall down. Charles Haber of Greenville was the teacher. He went out and looked all around. When he came back, he said it had to be a bomb, but there was no damage."</blockquote>
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"We found out later it was a boiler exploded at John Kelch's saw mill. Two young men, McClurg and Reck, were eating their lunch nearby. It boiled dry and blew up and they were blown to pieces."</blockquote>
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"Again my nosieness got the best of me. I asked my sister to go along with me to see the place. We walked back the long road to the edge of the woods and there we found Mrs. Reck picking up pieces of the bodies. I'll never forget that."</blockquote>
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What a horrific story. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Steam boiler being installed in a saw mill<br />Black & white photonegative, 4 x 5 in. <a href="https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/141847">State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory</a>. </td></tr>
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More recently, with the abundance of digitized newspapers, I thought I might find out more about this event online. The story was indeed picked up and ran in newspapers across several states as a small paragraph. Not one paper got the names of the men correct. The earliest one referred to "Charles Peck" and then almost instantly it became "Harry Rex". The other man was called by McClung and McClerg. If I didn't already know what I was looking for, I probably would not have found them.</div>
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The earliest report I found ran two days after the explosion:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Akron Daily Democrat 19 Apr 1893, page 1<br />From Newspapers.com</td></tr>
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As the story traveled, details became more lurid. A New Orleans newspaper reported this:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Times-Democrat of New Orleans 20 Apr 1893, page 8<br />From Newspapers.com</td></tr>
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I am certain Catharine Reck was out of her mind with grief. But I wondered why this 54-year-old woman was out searching for her son's body, seemingly by herself?<div>
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As I learned more about Catharine's husband William Harrison Reck, I began to understand a little. Harrison Reck dislocated his shoulder in a fall from a horse in 1889. The injury plagued him to the point he was unable to get out of bed at times for several days. Also, by the time of their son's death, he was legally blind.</div>
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Their older children were married and out of the house. Charles Edward Reck was the oldest unmarried son, and I assume he still lived with his parents, supporting them as they aged and the father was unable to work as much as he used to. There were still three other siblings at home to support: my great-grandmother Jennie age 20, Martha age 18, and Perry age 15.</div>
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Catharine's husband was unable to help her find their son's broken body. She most likely wanted to shield the girls and Perry from what she knew would be a terrible sight. But she had to get her son and lay him to rest. I wish I had a picture of Charles to share here. This is Catharine:</div>
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VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-316233601086060452018-03-28T22:46:00.001-04:002018-03-28T22:46:25.161-04:0052.11: Lucky; Harrison ReckThis post is part of a project called "<a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/#more-3982">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a>" created by Amy Johnson Crow.<br />
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The prompt for this week is Lucky; for next week it is Misfortune. I'll use these two prompts to tell you more about my great-great grandparents, William and Catharine (Murphy) Reck.<br />
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I blogged about William before; first about <a href="http://genealogistbynight.blogspot.com/2015/01/my-family-in-civil-war-part-five.html">his Civil War service</a>, and then some about <a href="http://genealogistbynight.blogspot.com/2015/01/my-family-in-civil-war-part-six-william.html">his life after the war</a>.<br />
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William (also called Harrison) Reck was 24 years old when he enlisted in 1861. He had married Catharine Murphy in 1859. At the time he enlisted, they had a son David, not quite two years old, and Catharine had just given birth to their son John less than one month before. He joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/69th_Ohio_Infantry">69th Ohio Volunteer Infantry</a>. My earlier blog post highlighted some activities of this unit.<br />
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Last week, in March of 2018, I visited the <a href="https://www.nps.gov/stri/index.htm">Stones River National Battlefield</a> near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Harrison Reck and his unit were in the thick of the fighting there. I read about the battle when writing my original post, but actually being there added a whole new dimension to my understanding of what these men went through.<br />
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The battle took place over three days. The men were encamped at the end of December 1862, knowing a battle was about to take place. They were ordered to have no campfires during this time. On New Year's Eve, though, the men were allowed to make fires in the morning, and enjoyed warming their hands and having some hot coffee. It was exactly at this time the Rebels attacked.<br />
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The men struggled to grab their weapons and form up. The fighting that day was incredible. I studied the maps of where the different units were, and Harrison's Ohio 69th was very close to what became known as the Slaughter Pen. This was a rocky area with some deep crevicees where the Union soldiers hid and fired from.<br />
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They became surrounded by Confederates and were ordered to retreat. As they came out of the rocks, it was easy for them to be picked off by the rebels. The rocks became slippery with blood, and bodies piled up. I am not sure Harrison was in this exact area but he was certainly near enough to know and see what was going on.<br />
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The Slaughter Pen was only a part of the horrors that day. The Union was beaten down. New Year's Day finally dawned, though many men never slept that night. Both sides tended to their wounded and collected their dead. The Confederates felt certain they had won the day. However, due to the bravery of some units holding strong, reinforcements were able to arrive. The battle resumed the next day and led to a Union victory. Stones River was one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.<br />
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Harrison Reck's unit went on to other battles. Chickamauga and Chattanooga. Missionary Ridge. Sherman's March to the Sea. Harrison, in spite of all the horrors he had to witness, was in some aspects a lucky man. First, he was a survivor. The second thing I learned at the <a href="https://www.nps.gov/kemo/index.htm">Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield</a>.<br />
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Visiting Kennesaw Mountain wasn't even on my travel radar that day. We were driving home from Florida to Indiana, and Kennesaw happened to be shortly past the halfway point, so that's where we stayed. I thought we might stop by the park so my daughter could earn a Junior Ranger badge. A little research the night before showed I had two ancestors who had fought there: Thomas Hilyard and Ansel Wilson; and a third whose unit was there: William Harrison Reck. However, Harrison had been placed in the Veteran's Reserve Corps a few months earlier.<br />
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The person working the desk in the visitors center was most helpful. I gave her my ancestors' units, and she looked up where they would have been camped and fought. She marked them on a map for me and photocopied some other pages of information. When we got to Harrison Reck's unit, she looked up at me and confirmed that he wasn't actually there. I said correct, he was taken out of active combat duty already. "He was really <b>lucky</b>," was her reply. She said his unit was located at Cheatham Hill, where the heaviest losses were during this battle. "He probably wouldn't have survived this."<br />
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If you ever get a chance to visit sites like this in person, take advantage of it. The staff is eager to share their knowledge. Walk the fields, look at the museums. Think about what your ancestor saw. It had to be a life-changing experience.<br />
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<br />VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-71257032986329798082018-03-05T16:46:00.001-05:002018-03-05T16:46:20.201-05:0052.10: Strong Woman; Haney Mozingo McKinney<span style="font-family: inherit;">This post is part of a project called "<a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/#more-3982">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a>" created by Amy Johnson Crow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have a confession:<i> I don't keep a research log.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I can tell you in general where I went, probably the decade I went there. If I photocopied something (pre-digital days), I tried to write the name of the book on the copy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, the actual day I first met Haney McKinney is lost to history. I was with my cousin Jane; we traveled to Frankfort, Kentucky, to the <a href="https://kdla.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx">Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives</a>. Probably in the early 2000s. I think we went with the intention of researching our shared line, the Tarrs/Torrs. We happened upon an index reference to some court cases involving that name, and requested to see them. Little did we know the treasure trove heading our way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jane and I share as common ancestors John Tarr and Hannah McKinney. The Tarrs, also found as Torr and Toor, are shrouded in genealogical mystery. As for Hannah, we didn't really know anything about her before her marriage to John which took place in Shelby County, Kentucky on October 19, 1804. We weren't particularly focused on her line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The court case files brought to us were in archival boxes, the cases separated into folders. The folders we opened that day were of our ancestor, John Tarr, suing someone named Haney McKinney, and of Haney McKinney's countersuit. It turned out Haney McKinney was his mother-in-law, and they were scrapping over the estate of her son John McKinney.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">As part of the case, Haney was awarded a dedimus by the court. I had never seen that word before. According to <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dedimus">Merriam-Webster</a>, it means a writ to commission a private person to perform some act in place of a judge (as to examine a witness)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Leaving her home in Shelby County, Kentucky, Haney McKinney traveled to Culpeper County, Virginia, a distance of over 500 miles. On March 25, 1806, she gathered testimony from several people at the tavern of Burtis Ringo. It is through these testimonies I learned about Haney's early life. I know of no other source for these stories. I'll let them speak for themselves, interjecting occasionally to clarify. The spellings are left intact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"</span>The following depositions was taken at the house of Burtice Ringo in the Town of Woodville in the County of Culpeper this 25th day of March 1806. To be read into evidence in a sute now depending in the Shelby Circute Court wherein Haney McKenney is plantiff and John Tarr Defendant in pursuance of the Anexed Commission and Notice."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first testimony came from Haney's brother, John Mozingo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"John Mosingo aged forty two years being duly sworn before us Daniel Brown & James Green Jnr. Two of the Justices of the peace for the county of Culpeper in the State of Virginia, deposeth and sayeth that about twenty two years ago John McKenny and Hany McKenny (who were then man and wife) did about that time part and as I understood by mutual consent and did also divide what property they then had by concent also and that after about Twelve months from the time of this parting the said Jno. McKenny left this part of the country and as I understood went to Greenbrier County. I have since understood that he and a woman which went off with him died. I further know that the property which the said Hany McKenny had out of the Estate of the said Jno McKinny was very little and that she had debts to pay which the said John McKenny had created and that she had very little left after paying them, and further this deponent sayeth not.<br /><br />1st question by the plaintiff:<br />Do you not know that Hanie McKenny’s Father became security for her in the year that she parted with her husband for the purchase of corn.<br /><br />Answer: I know he did<br /><br />And further this deponent sayeth not.<br />John Mosingo his X mark"</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The next witness was Nancy Mozingo, married to Haney's brother Charles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Nancy Mosingo alias Williamson aged forty two years being duly sworn before us Daniel Brown and James Green Jr. Two of the Justices of the peace for the county of Culpeper in the State of Virginia. This deponent deposeth and sayeth I lived with John McKenny and Hany his wife at the time they parted and that they did by mutual concent part and divide their property and that the property which was left for the said Hany McKinny was three cows three yearlings and one calf. Two Hogs and one pig and few articles in the house which in all were not in my opinion worth more than twenty shillings out of which property she was to pay the debts due by the said John McKinny, which were as follows Five pounds to Elijah Chich, Twenty six shillings to William Brodley which she had the cost of a petion to pay ____ Boon Between three and four pounds beside several other small debts for which she was warranted and had to pay, and further this deponent sayeth not.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Haney's brother George Mozingo testified:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"George Mosingo aged forty six years being duly sworn before us Daniel Brown and James Green Jr. two of the Justices of the peace for the county of Culpeper in the State of Virginia. This deponent sayeth that Haney McKenny had very little property left her at the time of her parting with her husband I know she had no horse kind nor do I believe she had a bed. She had some stock of cattle and hogs and to very little amount. I further know that she had several debts to pay which John McKenney her husband had contracted and that some of the property left with her was taken to satisfy one of them. I further know he left her little or no corn and that she was assisted by myself and others with that article on account of her distressed situation. <b><i>I further know that by her Industry and care she acquired property to considerable amount</i></b> before she left this country and further this deponent sayeth not.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are some other depositions, but they all agree with those given here. Haney Mozingo was married to John McKinney, I estimate around 1777. They had five children that I know of when they agreed to separate in 1784, most likely all under the age of six or seven. Although the testimonies say they split their possessions, it sounds as though Haney was left with the debts. She didn't have enough money left to buy corn to plant the next year's crop. Through a loan from her father, and help from her brothers and others, she was able to get through that year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Haney Mozingo McKinney never remarried. She raised her children, moving from Culpeper County, Virginia to Shelby County, Kentucky around 1800. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the lawsuit that started all this discovery, Haney's son John McKinney had died, and her son-in-law John Tarr was settling his estate. Haney said one of the horses listed as inventory was hers, John Tarr disagreed. She was willing to put up quite a ruckus to get this horse back, and through that I learned a lot about her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have collected several other documents and sources for Haney McKinney over the years. I'll close with her final one, an indenture that reads like a will:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"This indenture made this 4th day of October 1819 between Haney McKinney of the County of Shelby State of Kentucky of the one part & John Skelton of the same County of the other part witnesseth that the said Haney for & in consideration of the sum of one Dollar to her in hand paid for & in consideration of the natural love & affection which she hath doth bond to her grandson John Skelton hath granted bargained & sold & by these presents doth convey unto the said John & his heirs forever the following property to wit: Bena & Rose two negro girls together with all my house hold furniture & stock of every Discription & all & every species of Property belonging to me. & it is to be understood that said John Skelton is to give at my death to Charles Weathers the above named negro girl Rose or $300 in cash which ever the said John Skelton may choose. To have & to hold the said negroes & Other property to him the said John Skelton & His heirs & the said Haney McKinney for herself & her heirs hereby agrees to warrant & Defend said property against herself & her heirs & against the claim of all other persons whatever. If said John should die without lawfull Issue the said property is to Decend to Wilmoth Weathers heirs In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the date above. Test Geo W. Johnston<br /> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Haney McKinney {seal}"</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This came from the Shelby County, Kentucky Deed Book Q, p. 168. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Haney Mozingo McKinney led a hardscrabble life. Based on the number of lawsuits she filed, I'm not sure she was the most pleasant of people, but she was one strong woman I am certainly glad to claim </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">as my ancestor.</span><br />
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VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-62808481122707337662018-02-26T15:13:00.000-05:002018-02-26T15:13:32.663-05:0052.9: Where There's a Will; "A Dutiful and Obedient Child"<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">This post is part of a project called "</span><a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/#more-3982" style="font-family: "times new roman";">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">" created by Amy Johnson Crow.</span><br />
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One of my favorite wills, or rather the equity case surrounding it, is that of my 5x great-grandfather Ambrose Smith. He was born March 1, 1756 in Virginia and died March 25, 1839 at the age of 83 in Logan County, Kentucky. He served in the American Revolution and received a pension for his service.</div>
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Ambrose moved to Logan County between 1810 and 1811. At some point, he wrote a will and it was entered into probate and written into Logan County, Kentucky's Guardian Book B, on page 27:</div>
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Here is my transcription of the will (a little easier to read, my spacing added for clarity):</div>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">“To all whom their presents shall come: Greeting. Know ye that I, Ambers Smith of Logan County state of Kentucky, knowing that it is appointed for all unce? to die and being sound in mind and memory do make an ordin this my last will and testament holey revoking all former wills. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Fanny Brooks I give ten dollars of my estate for her portion.</span><span style="font-family: times new roman;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">James A. Smith to have my plantation tools. </span><span style="font-family: times new roman;">Mary Grinter, Nancy Buckannon, William Smith, Isabella Lee, J. A. Smith that is to have my estate to bee equally to bee divided between them. James A. Smith, Mary Grinter, Nancy Buckanon, William Smith, Isabella Lee except one hundred dollars of Izabella Lee’s portion is to come to Louisa A. Smith for her maintaine untill she comes of age or marry. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">I do hereby constitute James A. Smith Robert Grinter to bee Executors of of my estate. This is my last will and testament.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">At my death Peggy my black woman is to be free.</span><span style="font-family: times new roman;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Logan County Court, March Term 1839</span><span style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>At a county court held for Logan County at the court house in Russellville on the 25th day of March 1839 the within last will and testament of Ambrose Smith decd. was produced in open court and proven by the oaths of Wm. Harkreadder and Wm. Young two subscribing therto to be the last will and testament of said Smith. Whereupon the same together with this certificate hath been duly admited to record in my office. Given under my hand the date above. M. B. Morton”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Oddly, there is no date on the will. There is also no wife mentioned so she probably died before Ambrose. There aren't any relationships explained either. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Thankfully, Fanny Brooks wasn't happy with her ten dollars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">Fanny, a daughter of Ambrose Smith, and her husband Allen Brooks filed a suit against all the others named in the will. They claimed many things, among them that Ambrose Smith was incompetent to make a will, that the will had been altered without Ambrose's knowledge, and that Ambrose had been forced to make the will. Her claim is this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">"...your oratrix had always been <i>a dutiful and obedient child</i> there is only left by said pretended will to your oratrix the sum of $10."</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Ambrose Smith named as one of his executors Robert Grinter, who happened to be his son-in-law (and my next ancestor in line). Robert married Ambrose's daughter Mary on March 22, 1813. As executor, Robert led the response to the charges laid down by Fanny. I have no idea what he was really like, but I picture a solid, reasonable man, quietly irritated by all of Fanny's outrageous claims. I think what really wound him up, though, was the "dutiful and obedient child" business. He let her have it in his response:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">"He denies that said Fanny had always been a dutiful and obedient child, but on the contrary she had been a most undutiful and disobedient one so far as to become almost a common prostitute and give birth before she was married to said Brooks to two or three illegitimate children. Your respondent admits that there is only left said Fanny $10 by said will but denies most positively that the amount given to her was fraudulently torn out and altered to $10 and he denies that it ever was any other or larger sum."</span></blockquote>
He also defends his father-in-law's state of mind:<br />
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"He denies the allegation in the Bill that it is not the last will of said Smith and says that it is his last will and Testament. He denies that as far as he possesses any knowledge said Smith was induced fraudulently to sign said will... He denies any knowledge that any influence was exercised to induce said Smith to disinherit said Fanny or that any person interested or not interested in the Estate possessed the unbounded confidence of said Smith so as to be able to induce any particular disposition of his property, your respt believes that he was influenced entirely by her bad conduct to take the course he did pursue. Your respt admits that said Smith was not one of the strongest minded men and that he sometimes dissipated to some extent but he denies that said decedent was incapable of disposing of his property by will or otherwise on account of old age, bodily infirmity dissipation or any other cause at any time within his recollection and he also denies that said Testator was wholly deranged at the signing of said paper or at any other time as far as he has any knowledge or belief..."</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: times new roman;">The others named in the suit adopted Robert Grinter's response as their own. The case went up before the court.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">There is a lot of legalese, coupled with very bad handwriting, but the bottom line is that Fanny and Allen Brooks didn't have a leg to stand on. They contested her father's will, and lost. The will stood as submitted and the Brookses were ordered to pay the defendants' court costs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">This will stands as one of my favorites because of all the details gleaned from the equity case file that followed. When Fanny challenged the will, everything was dissected. One paper in the file is what I call the "score sheet", outlining all the players in the will and case, who they married, if they died during the case and then who their heirs were. What I like even more are the character sketches laid out: Fanny's challenge to her father's capacity, Robert's defense of it; and whatever everyone thought of Fanny.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;">This case also taught me not to stop with the will book entry. There may be oh, so much more to find!</span><br />
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My favorite heirloom is also my biggest.<br />
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This chest of drawers is made of cherry and is over 200 years old. It sits quietly in the corner of my spare room, waiting for me to come in and admire it from time to time (which I do quite frequently).<br />
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I saw a very similar chest on Antiques Roadshow once. According to the appraiser, they are quite common and not of great monetary value. This cherry chest, though, is priceless to me.<br />
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Family lore says this chest was made by my Moore ancestors and came with them on a wagon from North Carolina to Indiana. It has been handed down each generation to the oldest male child ever since.<br />
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Sounds simple enough, right? Maybe, but look a little more closely.<br />
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First, at when and how it was made. The family that made the trip to Indiana was that of Edward and Pharaba (Pearce) Moore. I estimate they were married about 1788 in North Carolina, based on the birth of their first child Martha in late 1789. The family moved to Indiana sometime after the birth of their last child Thomas in early 1811, and in time for Edward to appear on the Militia Roster for Harrison County, Indiana Territory in 1812.<br />
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The construction of the chest is interesting to my modern eyes. Of course there were no power tools then. The nails are square; each drawer has dovetailed joints.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Square nails and board salvaged from repair work needed on the chest</td></tr>
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I admire the craftsmanship for each step of its construction. Did they use stain then? What is the finish? </div>
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The original hardware was removed and replaced by my grandfather, Lee Moore. He was a janitor at Paoli High School and had someone in the wood shop make round wooden pulls for the drawers. I'd love to put the old hardware back in if I had it, but the wooden pulls are now part of the story.<br />
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So how did this chest, allegedly subject to the rules of primogeniture (passing to the oldest male Moore child), make it to a female named Heverly? Let's follow it.<br />
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I traced the male Moore descendants <a href="http://genealogistbynight.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-extinction-of-moores.html">in a previous post</a>. They are a rare breed indeed. Edward and Pharaba Moore made the trek to Indiana, as stated before, around 1811. They had nine children ranging in age from 22 to about 1. The oldest girl, Martha was newly married but her family came to Indiana as well.<br />
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Here's where the family lore breaks down. My next ancestor in line, Edward Windsor Moore, was not actually the oldest male child. He had an older brother John who lived to a ripe old age. So....so much for family lore? I'm not sure what to make of it.<br />
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Edward Windsor Moore, subject of <a href="http://genealogistbynight.blogspot.com/2016/04/my-family-in-civil-war-part-seven.html">many blog posts starting here</a>, was the father of William Bryant Moore. Though he also had an older brother named John, this John died as a boy. William Bryant Moore holds the title of my shortest-lived ancestor. He died at the age of 20 while working in the newly-constructed Orange County Courthouse.<br />
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William Bryant left behind a 17-year old widow, Mary, and 15 month old son, William Braddock Moore. Mary remarried to Henry Pierce Breeden, and they had five children of their own.</div>
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Sadly, all six of these children were orphaned when Henry and Mary Breeden died within a few months of each other in 1862. William Braddock Moore was 13, and did not qualify for any of his stepfather's Civil War pension. He seems to have lived for a time on his grandfather Edward Windsor Moore's farm, but I think he had to grow up pretty fast. </div>
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Someone (I would guess his grandfather) took charge of the chest until he established his own house by marrying Martha Ann Tillery in 1870. From there the chest had a mostly uneventful life, traveling to the home of William Braddock Moore's son Fred, to his son Lee, and finally to my uncle Bill.</div>
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My uncle Bill has no children. I had heard about the chest over the years and wondered what would happen to it. By this time I was grown and had my own house. My mom asked Bill about the chest, and he agreed I could have it since I was interested in it. </div>
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One small problem: while Bill was moving, the chest fell off the truck and suffered some minor injuries. One drawer was busted and the back panel broken. I didn't care; I wanted it anyway!</div>
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My father took on the repair job. He had to construct a few new pieces. I believe he used some old yellow poplar to craft them. He kept all the old pieces, which I hang on to, just because.</div>
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I am a historical re-enactor, and I keep much of my clothing and blankets for this hobby in the chest. It seems fitting that it holds linen and wool, like it did when it was new. Every time I open the chest, I think of all my ancestors who have opened it, and I feel a connection to them.</div>
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VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-51620883071104301382018-02-19T15:11:00.000-05:002018-02-19T15:11:35.756-05:0052.7: Valentine; Mary Ann Valentine Hilyard Neely<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This post is part of a project called "<a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/#more-3982">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a>" created by Amy Johnson Crow.<br />
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The prompt this week is "Valentine". I actually have ancestors with the surname Valentine, and I <a href="http://genealogistbynight.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-valentines-tale.html">blogged about the reluctant immigrant, Barnabas Valentine</a>, a few years ago.<br />
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One thing I like about the 52 Ancestors project is that it is making me write about things that I don't feel are "ready." Usually when I blog, I have a fairly complete story to tell on a topic I have researched. Here, I am gathering up what I know about someone and presenting what I have. I hope it will produce some leads.<br />
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Today, with the Valentine prompt, I will tell you what I know about the granddaughter of the above mentioned Barnabus Valentine. She was my 3x great-grandmother, Mary Ann Valentine. I have a bit of information on her, but so many more questions that I have been unable to answer.<br />
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Mary Ann was the daughter of Barnabus Valentine's son John Valentine and Agnes Neeley. Both John and Agnes, who went by the nickname Nancy, were married previously and left widowed. They were married 15 Oct 1818 in Fairfield County, Ohio. They each had one son from their first marriages.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Valentine married Nancy McCrory (nee Neeley)<br />Fairfield County, Ohio Marriage Book 1800-1836, page 165</td></tr>
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If the information on her gravestone is correct, John and Nancy Valentine had their first daughter Mary Ann on 13 Mar 1819, five months after their marriage. This was most certainly in Fairfield County, Ohio, as that was where the couple was married as well as where they were living in the 1820 census. As a side note, I would like to point out that before writing this blog post, I had Mary Ann's birthdate as 13 AUG 1819 in my database, but no source. A careful look at the gravestone gave me what I suspect is a more accurate date, and one I can at least point to a source for.<br />
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Shortly after her 10th birthday, Mary Ann's father John Valentine died, on 20 Jun 1829. This left Nancy Valentine with seven children to raise, the oldest being her stepson age 16, down to a daughter only nine months old. Nancy never remarried, and I'm sure she had a difficult, work-worn life. Her story will be for another post, however.<br />
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About 1838, a family moved in near the Valentines in Rush Creek township of Fairfield County, Ohio by the name of Hilyard. Thomas and Elizabeth (Haught) Hilyard came from Fayette County, Pennsylvania. I believe at the time they moved they had 17 children with them. Their oldest son was already married, and some children were not yet born. I imagine a match was welcome from both families.<br />
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Jeremiah Hilyard married Mary Ann Valentine on 14 Mar 1839 in Fairfield County, Ohio.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jeremiah Hillyard married Mary Ann Valentine<br />Fairfield County, Ohio Marriage Book 1835-1869, page 100</td></tr>
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The couple is listed adjacent to Nancy Valentine on the 1840 census of Fairfield County, so they may have initially lived with or near her. I believe they stayed in the area for about 10 years before moving west to Allen County, Ohio. Although Jeremiah purchased land in Allen County on 30 Mar 1850, the family was still located in Fairfield County at the time of the census on 30 Aug 1850.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1850 Fairfield County, Ohio Federal Census, Auburn Township, p. 410B<br />Full image found on Ancestry.com</td></tr>
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Jeremiah Hilyard died a few years later, on 2 Apr 1855, at the age of 37. The widow Mary Ann was 35. Just like her mother before her, she had seven surviving children (having lost a girl a few years earlier), and was now living on a farm over 100 miles from her mother and other family.<div>
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However, Mary Ann did not follow in the footsteps of her mother Nancy by remaining a widow and raising the kids on her own. Nine months after the death of Jeremiah Hilyard, Mary Ann remarried to what still strikes me as a surprising choice.</div>
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Mary Ann Valentine Hilyard, age 36, married Samuel Neely, age about <b>18</b> (I don't know his exact birthday). While it was certainly not uncommon to remarry at that time, and sometimes quickly after a spouse's death, it was usually a man to a younger, and sometimes much younger, woman. This is one aspect of Mary Ann I have so many questions about. Was this a love match? How did they meet? What were they thinking?? </div>
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Here is the family in 1860:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1860 Allen County, Ohio Federal Census, Amanda Township, p. 146<br />Full image found on Ancestry.com</td></tr>
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Samuel is listed as the head of household, but Mary Ann owned the land (the "1500" refers to the value of her real estate). The others in the house are Mary Ann's children; she and Samuel did not seem to have had children together.</div>
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Sam Neely enlisted in the Civil War. In fact, he fought in the same regiment and company as his step-son Thomas Hilyard (only two years his junior): the 81st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, company E. You can read some about Thomas Hilyard's Civil War service <a href="http://genealogistbynight.blogspot.com/2014/11/my-family-in-civil-war-part-one-thomas.html">in this blog post</a>. Very little is known of Samuel after this. According to service records, Sam enlisted on 1 Sep 1861 and mustered out 10 Sep 1864, serving his three-year term. The only other record I have found for him is in his mother's will dated 1866, she leaves him one dollar. There's another question: what happened to Samuel Neely?</div>
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By the 1870 census, Mary Ann had taken back the surname of Hilyard. I never would have found her before the advent of digitized/indexed censuses. She was living in Fawn River Township, St. Joseph County, Michigan with three of her sons. Another son, John, lived in the same area with his wife.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1870 St. Joseph County, Michigan Federal Census Fawn River Township, p. 106A<br />Full image found on Ancestry.com</td></tr>
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Why did they go to Michigan? What brought them back?<div>
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By 1880, Mary Ann, now using the surname Neely and marked as being a widow, was back in Ohio. She is listed in her own household, but the two previous entries are for her sons John and Ephraim and their families.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1880 Allen County, Ohio Federal Census Amanda Township, p. 3<br />Full image found on Ancestry.com </td></tr>
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Why Neely? Was she really widowed?<div>
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The only other record I have found for Mary Ann is her gravestone. She shares a stone with her first husband, Jeremiah Hilyard. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gravestone of Jeremiah and Mary Ann Valentine Hilyard<br />Allentown Cemetery in Allen County, Ohio</td></tr>
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Because of the stone having both Jeremiah and Mary Ann on it, plus a poem about mother and father, I feel it was placed after Mary Ann's death, not Jeremiah's three decades prior.</div>
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And that's all I have on Mary Ann Valentine Hilyard Neely. Two marriage records, four census records, and a gravestone. And questions. So many questions. I'll leave you with a picture said to be Mary Ann's oldest daughter, Nancy Ann Hilyard. It was shared to Ancestry by user Dennis Kendall, and I so appreciate it. Perhaps Nancy took after her mother:</div>
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VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-81412702766526339682018-02-12T09:22:00.000-05:002018-02-12T09:22:19.188-05:0052.6: Favorite Name; PettypoolThis post is part of a project called "<a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/#more-3982">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a>" created by Amy Johnson Crow.<br />
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The prompt this week is "Favorite Name." I've already blogged about my ancestor with the best first name. You can <a href="http://genealogistbynight.blogspot.com/2016/07/hell-turn-him-loose-story-of-daniel.html">read about Cinderella McIntyre Wilson here</a>, in my post about her brother Daniel Boone McIntyre (also a cool name).<br />
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Like many others participating in this challenge, I am plagued with the usual Johns, Marys, Williams, and Henrys. So, I turned to last names. I recall the delight I had when I discovered an ancestor with the surname Pettypool.<br />
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It's fun to say. Pettypool. I've never met anyone with that name in all my travels. I learned early on that many Pettypools shortened the name to "Poole" or "Pool" as time went on.<br />
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There is <a href="http://pettypool.com/">an excellent website</a> on the early Pettypools; if you are interested in this family it is a must-read. At this site there is a direct link to an article written in the Virginia Genealogist about the Pettypools with great documentation.<br />
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My last Pettypool ancestor was Martha "Patsy" Pettypool. Patsy was born February 6, 1787 according to her gravestone. Her parents were Stephen Pettypool and Margaret Halliburton. Although the 1850 census lists her birthplace as Virginia, her father Stephen Pettypool was living in Granville County, North Carolina around that time, and I think it is likely she was born there.<br />
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While still in Granville County, Martha Pettypool married Joseph Pumphrey Wilkerson, son of Francis and Ursula (Satterwhite) Wilkerson. The following marriage bond was executed by Joseph Wilkerson and Logustin Pool on November 8, 1804.<br />
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The Logustin Pool giving bond was Martha's uncle, Logustin Pettypool. Logustin married first a Satterwhite and later a Wilkerson, and joined in the multi-family migration to Kentucky.<div>
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Like most women in my family, Patsy's life was measured out by her marriage and the births of her children. She should appear by name in two federal censuses; I've found her in the 1850 but not yet in the 1860. I don't have any pictures of her, nor do I know of any that exist.</div>
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However, she did one thing a little unusual for her time. On August 12, 1864, she wrote a will. Well, she dictated her will. It was signed with her mark, indicating her illiteracy.</div>
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Martha died two months later, on October 2, 1864. Her will was recorded on October 10th, in the Breckinridge County, Kentucky Will Book 1, pp. 308-309. I have transcribed it here:</div>
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"Know all men by these presents that I Martha Wilkerson of the county of Breckinridge and State of Kentucky being of sound mind and disposing memory do make and constitute this my last will and testament.</blockquote>
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1st: I will and bequeath to my son A.J. Wilkerson my entire estate interest in and to the farm upon which I now reside and said interest being one eleventh part of said farm said A. J. Wilkerson is to have the said interest upon the following conditions to wit: that he shall pay to my other legatees hereinafter to be named the sum of eighty five dollars six months after my death said eighty five dollars I desire shall be equally divided among my legal hereafter to be mentioned. I also give and bequeath to my son aforesaid my old slave woman Mima it being her desire to be with him. I request that he shall take special care of her during his life.</blockquote>
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2nd: I desire that all the rest of my property of evry discription whatsoever after the payment of all my just debts funeral expenses &c shall be equally divided among the following of my children to wit: Polly Milner, Ursula Wilson, Jane Wilson, A.J. Wilkerson, Joseph P. Wilkerson, Anslem W. Wilkerson, and Joannah Carden. It is my wish will and desire that my slaves shall not be sold out of my family. I desire that my body shall be interred by the side of my husband's grave, and that my executor shall have both enclosed in a good stone wall arched over. This I make as a charge on my estate to be paid as part of my funeral expenses. </blockquote>
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I hereby appoint and constitute my son A.J. Wilkerson my Executor, hoping that he will faithfully carry out my last wishes in regard to my worldly affairs. Witness my hand this 12th day of August 1864.<br /> her<br /> Martha X Wilkerson<br /> mark<br />Witness<br />L.Green<br />Wm. Davison"</blockquote>
Concerning her property, I still need to investigate deed records on this family. As to her slave woman Mima, I wonder if this is the same person name Jesseminah or Jessemimah willed to her by her father in 1837? I have the 1850 slave schedule for Martha Wilkerson, and her oldest slave at that time is a black female aged 45. If this is Mima, she would have been born about 1805, making her almost 60 when the will was written. Less than one year later, the ending of the Civil War would have given Mima her freedom. I wonder if she lived to see that?<br />
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Regarding the last part of her will, Martha gave instructions about her burial. I have not yet found a listing on the FindAGrave website for Joseph and Martha Wilkerson, but I did locate photos of their gravestones on Ancestry.com. Though they are closeups of the stones, a stone wall with metal fencing is clearly visible in the background. I am seeking permission to use those photos here.<br />
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Lastly, while googling for this post, I found I am related to the Legal Genealogist, Judy G. Russell! You can read her <a href="https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2012/08/11/serendipity-saturday/">blog post on her Pettypool line here</a>. Our lines diverge at her 6th great-grandparents, John and Sarah Sanford Pettypool; my line comes down through their son Stephen, above mentioned.<br />
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VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-68831279938215129242018-02-05T15:34:00.001-05:002018-02-05T15:34:21.431-05:0052.5: In the CensusThis post is part of a project called "<a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/#more-3982">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a>" created by Amy Johnson Crow.<br />
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The prompt for this week is "In the Census." I know in my decades of doing genealogy, there must have been many "aha" moments while squinting at census records on the microfilm readers. For the life of me, I can't bring any one to mind.<br />
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However, I recalled this census record had a lot to offer:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1870 Federal Census Orange County, Indiana<br />Jackson Township, p. 15<br />Found on Ancestry.com</td></tr>
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I was trying to find my 2nd great-grandmother, Martha Ann Tillery (born 1853) before her marriage to William Braddock Moore. Here she is! Great. But who are all the people with her, and why should I care?<div>
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The 1870 census does not state how members of a household are related, so don't make any assumptions. People with four different surnames with ages spanning several decades are all living together (I'll also note, there is a James A. Dishon age 6 on the following page included as part of this household.)</div>
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This record actually represents a family matriarch, Rebecca Hobson, with several of her children and grandchildren living together on the same farm. She was born Rebecca Turner Kearby in 1815 in Kentucky. She married her first husband John Tillery (1810-1854) on March 30, 1833 in Dubois County, Indiana. Living with her in 1870 are three children from this marriage: Martha, Alfred, and Nancy Dishon. Alfred and his wife Catherine have two children at this time. Nancy Dishon was widowed and had four children living there. As of this time, I do not know who the two Lutrel children are.</div>
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The widowed Rebecca Kearby Tillery married her second husband, Mark Hobson, on April 24, 1858 in Orange County, Indiana. He died ten years later, leaving her a widow once again. They had one children together, the girl Rachel seen in this census.</div>
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So what at first glance looks like a boarding house is actually a pretty solid family unit. But what else can be learned? Don't just look at your family. Check out who is on the page with them, and the pages before and after.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1870 Federal Census Orange County, Indiana<br />Jackson Township, p. 15<br />Found on Ancestry.com</td></tr>
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You might just find a husband.<div>
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The orphaned William Braddock Moore is living right next door, working on the farm of his cousin James A. Moore. I guess this is how he met Martha Ann Tillery; they were married later that year on October 30, 1870 in Orange County, Indiana.</div>
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When searching the census records, figure out who everyone in the household is. Check out the families living nearby. A little detective work can uncover a previous generation to investigate.</div>
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VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-53276069071553393502018-01-27T20:30:00.000-05:002018-02-11T17:06:17.848-05:0052.4: Invite to Dinner; Alys Dickey HilyardThis post is part of a project called "<a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/#more-3982">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a>" created by Amy Johnson Crow.<br />
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The prompt for this week is "Invite to Dinner". Meet my grandmother, Alys Dickey Hilyard.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alys Duane Dickey 1924</td></tr>
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What inspired me to choose her for this particular prompt are stories my parents tell of huge dinners she made for her family. Before I describe the dinners she made, I'll tell you a little about her.<br />
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About a year ago, my genealogy partner-in-crime Deidre asked the family to post on Facebook little things they remembered about Alys, along with a picture representing that memory. She got some great responses.<br />
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Lots of our memories revolve around food. Alys and her husband Vaughn always had a big garden, and she preserved a lot of foods. Her oldest granddaughter, Rita, recalled she always had a bag of dried apples in her pantry.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Apples from the orchard</td></tr>
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Deidre, her great-granddaughter, attributes her love of peanut butter and honey sandwiches directly to Alys.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Still yummy today!</td></tr>
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My own memories of her big pantry include a jar of chewable vitamin C which I pilfered from regularly, and weird-looking quart jars of what I was told was delicious beef.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Canned beef? Not sure about that!</td></tr>
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Her daughter-in-law Ruth recalls being lucky enough to visit on the days Alys baked homemade bread, and usually eating the whole warm loaf while they were there.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Can you smell it?</td></tr>
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Another granddaughter, Jill, remembers tomato gravy, still a favorite of mine. I think it is an old German recipe.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tomato gravy in a cast iron skillet</td></tr>
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Ruth remembers this: "About the tomato gravy. Usually when she cooked a meal she left the pans on the wood stove to stay warm and save on dirty dishes. They didn't have water in the house until they were pretty old. But when she did put the meal on the table, she served the gravy in a beautiful German bowl that I would never have used. I still have it sitting safely in my cupboard."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful bowl Alys served her tomato gravy in</td></tr>
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Jill also has memories of the flower beds being filled with pretty flowers. And of the clunky black shoes Alys always wore.<br />
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Another great-granddaughter, Amanda, too young to remember Alys, could vaguely recall a "green house on a hill?" (It was actually blue, and sat atop Grease Gravy Hill.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Vaughn and Alys Hilyard, showing the house, flower beds, clunky shoes, and Dandy the dog</td></tr>
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Rita remembered, "She wore a white gown and matching bonnet to bed...I'm sure she handmade them. They only had one heater and a fireplace in the living room so that big room always stayed warm but the bedrooms were freezing cold in the winter. She stored much of her canned stuff under the beds to keep them cold." Ruth noted the gown and bonnet were made of white feed sacks.<br />
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There was a small box of old toys, including a book called The Little Red Hen. After posting my memory of it, my dad let me have it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not my copy, but very similar</td></tr>
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Deidre asked the older generation to describe her personality. I noted that as a grandmother, she was "business-like." Rita, who knew her much better, had this to say: "She was a hardworking woman but she was pretty much no-nonsense. Very petite, always wore a dress and most times an apron. She taught school and had beautiful handwriting. She wore hair nets...she drove a car...ate cottage cheese and saltine crackers...played the organ and sang...maybe where I got my love of music."<br />
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The organ she referred to was an old pump style. I had it for awhile, and then my cousin Jack took possession of it. Ruth also noted she played the flat-top guitar. Her grandson Steve, a talented guitar player, treasures her guitars now. This one she purchased new from a Montgomery Ward catalog in 1922.<br />
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Once we primed the well, memories started flowing. Rita recalled, "She would make a skillet of cornbread to feed the chickens...she tied one end of a string to the momma hen's leg and the other end to a stick so she knew where she and the chicks were...she gathered eggs and used her apron as a basket."<br />
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Her grandson Craig shared this memory: "One time me and her were in her chicken coop and saw a snake with a bulge halfway down its body. Somehow she knew it had swallowed one of her glass nest eggs. She got her hoe, chopped the snake in half, popped out the egg, wiped it off on her apron, put it back in the nest, then chopped off the snake's head. I was amazed. She was so humane she would shoo a fly out the door rather than swat it. Seeing her brutally murder that poor snake seemed very out of character."<br />
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Craig shared another memory, and oddly enough when I asked his brother (independently) for a memory, he recalled the exact same story. "Us boys and paw were sitting at her table eating. For some reason paw hit me on top of the head with a spoon. Mammy came up behind him and cracked him really hard with a big wooden spoon and asked, "How do YOU like it?" In Steve's version, Alys hit their dad on the bottom, with a plywood hot pad grandpa Vaughn had made.<br />
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Alys was in her 30s during most of the Great Depression. Rita: "She took all the little pieces of bars of soap and tied them up in a nylon stocking to use completely up...she didn't throw anything away if it had a purpose. They would butcher a cow or hog in the fall and would can or freeze everything but the oink or moo. She made her own lye soap with the fat I think."<br />
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Ruth: "She made little cakes for her dogs (dog bread) out of old grease and leftovers. She kept them by the back door. I loved them and pinched off a bite quite often. That's the only time she ever got after me. For eating her dog bread! She never let the dogs come in the house, but Dandy was scared to death when it stormed, so she let her come in and lay under the cookstove, and she never moved. Laid right there till the storm was over. When she did the laundry they had to haul the water, heat the water, and she used a wringer washer. We have it so easy!" She says this is just what the washer looked like.<br />
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She also cooked on a wood cookstove. This type of stove takes a lot of finesse to bake in it; you have to be able to get the oven up to the right temperature, and maintain that temperature consistently over the time needed to bake the bread. This is the only picture I can find of her actual cookstove.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great-grandkids of Alys in front of her cookstove, about 1988</td></tr>
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So, back to what inspired this blog post in the first place. Alys would frequently have her family over for Sunday dinner. If both her sons were there with their wives and children, that would be a dozen or so people.<br />
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Now on a holiday, that number might swell to 35 or 40 people. She would make a traditional holiday dinner in her big country kitchen. The family ate in shifts around the kitchen table. The men got to eat first, then the kids, and lastly the women. Alys was cooking these dinners when she was in her 50s and 60s.<br />
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I had planned to focus on the meals my grandmother made, but this turned into a little character sketch of her, and I like it. This petite powerhouse of a woman, a well-educated school teacher with no running water and a wood-powered stove and oven, was compassionate to frightened dogs and houseflies but unafraid to mete justice upon egg-stealing snakes, and cooked in cast iron but could serve in beautifully painted ceramic. </div>
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If anyone deserves an invitation to dinner, it is Alys Dickey Hilyard. I'd want her to sit back and enjoy letting someone serve her. I could learn a lot from her.</div>
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VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-8559756995285524742018-01-16T12:29:00.000-05:002018-01-16T12:29:21.424-05:0052.3: Longevity; John SummersThis post is part of a project called "<a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/#more-3982">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a>" created by Amy Johnson Crow.<br />
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The prompt this week is longevity. The ancestor that immediately springs to mind is John Summers. John Summer's provenance is a little sketchy, but I believe him to be my 6th great-grandfather. I have a clipping of unknown origin describing him here:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Summers at age 112</td></tr>
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I was able to locate another article, written after John's death at 116, that mentions him along with others:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final paragraph: John Summers lived to be 116</td></tr>
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This second clipping came from page 2 of The Evening Post, published in New York City on 18 Dec 1833. This article notes he died in Kentucky; however, I found a census listing in 1820 that I feel sure must be this man living in Delaware County, Indiana:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1820 Federal Census Delaware County, Indiana, entry for John Summers</td></tr>
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The census taker noted this about Mr. John Summers: "This man is 114 years old never lost sight or hearing has upward of 400 descendants and has had two wives by each had ten children."<br />
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I have a lot more work to do proving the statements about John Summers, but he is an interesting read if nothing else.<br />
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VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-91178636973653324872018-01-08T10:59:00.000-05:002018-01-08T10:59:26.628-05:0052.2: Favorite Photo; William H. HoltzappleThis post is part of a project called "<a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/#more-3982">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a>" created by Amy Johnson Crow.<br />
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The prompt this week is Favorite Photo. This one is tough for me; I am blessed to have a lot of family photos, and many are treasured. The ones I enjoy most are where people are smiling or having a good time. So many old photos are posed and stilted and so...serious!<br />
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My father has this photo in his possession. It is his great-grandfather, William Harrison Holtzapple.<br />
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There are many things about William I notice, and I hope will be the subjects of future prompts. For one, the facial hair! It went through many iterations over the course of his life. What about the missing finger (only recently spotted by my keen-eyed daughter)--what happened to it?<br />
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But in this photo, it has to be the ice cream cone. Why does he have an ice cream cone? Did someone make him hold it, or did he refuse to give it up for the photo? Did he have a special affinity for ice cream?</div>
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What makes me love this even more? The existence of a second photo.</div>
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I contacted a cousin that I found through findagrave. He shared several pictures of the Holtzapples I had never seen before, including this one:</div>
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There seems to have been a photo shoot that day. I don't know of photos of any other family members taken then, with the cone or chair. But I'm so glad these were!<br />
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VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-12858184559098202422018-01-04T07:11:00.000-05:002018-01-08T11:28:02.900-05:0052.1: Start! My Great-Uncle Ed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm participating in Amy Johnson Crow's "<a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/#more-3982">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a>" to challenge myself to blog more. Each week she provides a prompt that can be interpreted any way the writer chooses.<br />
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Week 1's prompt is "Start". Amy gives a few suggestions as to what this might mean, and I want to talk about the person who got me started in genealogy. He was my great-uncle, Ed Moore.<br />
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I think my first genealogy memory was of a thick manila envelope Ed mailed to my mother around 1980. It was full of what I now know to be pedigree charts and family group sheets. I was captivated from the first glance. I was 10 years old.<br />
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There wasn't a whole lot a 10 year old in 1980 could do from a research standpoint. I checked out every genealogy book I could from my town library. I wrote my own charts. I even got bold enough to write some letters to older relatives who are now all gone. </div>
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About a decade later, I was married and far removed from my Indiana family, living on an Air Force base in California. I picked up my genealogy again, and ran with it, thanks to Ed.</div>
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I feel like I know so little about him, so I welcome the opportunity to write down the information I do have. Edward Stewart Moore was born in Paoli, Indiana in 1916. He was the second of a set of twins; his sister Edna was stillborn. I discovered where his middle name came from by his birth certificate; he was delivered by a Dr. Stewart. He had two older sisters, and an older brother Lee who was my grandfather. There was another son, Robert Clarence, born after Ed, but he died at the age of two from bronchopneumonia, two days before Christmas in 1921. Robert Clarence had always been just a name and two dates to me, but I got to visit Ed once, and asked him about the boy. Even as an old man, he got a little emotional when he talked about "Little Bob". That really personalized the child in my mind.</div>
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Ed went to school in Paoli until 8th grade, which I think was pretty common at the time. My grandfather Lee did the same.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ed Moore as a boy</td></tr>
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In the 1920 and 1930 censuses, Ed lived at home with his parents, Fred and Della Moore. Fred was a laborer at various jobs and Della was a homemaker. By 1940, Ed had moved to Arizona and was working on a dairy farm.<br />
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I'm not sure what took him to Arizona (perhaps it was the CCC?), but he spent the rest of his life "out West", ending his days in northern California.<br />
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**Added 8 Jan 2018**<br />
After reading this post, my mom (Ed's niece) called her brother. He related that during the Depression Ed and his brother Lee went to join the Army. The Army physical revealed he had tuberculosis, and Ed was told if he didn't move to a different climate he would be dead in six months. The family pooled all their money to buy him a ticket. When he arrived in Arizona, he had $8.00 left to start his new life.<br />
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I have from his records that he married Emily May Turner in late 1940. They never had children together, but Emily had a child or children from a previous marriage. My mother said she was a Mormon, and I think this is what sparked Ed's interest in genealogy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ed and Emily Moore</td></tr>
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When World War II started, Ed enlisted in the Army. I am fortunate enough to have received some of his memorabilia from that time.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ed Moore in uniform</td></tr>
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Ed was a tank commander and achieved the rank of corporal. I have his shoulder patch from the 16th Armored Division. I know he attended reunions with his unit mates until late in his life. I was unaware until very recently that Ed received the Purple Heart during his time in the war. I learned this when I found his grave marker on findagrave.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ed Moore and his tank "Beaugeard"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ed Moore and Crew--Ed center back<br />
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After the war, Ed lived in Phoenix for some years, then in northern California in the Eureka area. At the time of his death in 1997, he lived in Kelseyville.<br />
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I met Ed a time or two as a child, though I don't really have any memories of those visits. I did make contact with him in the early 1990s when I was living in southern California and taking a more serious interest in genealogy. His notes were alway terse but friendly.<br />
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When I graduated from college, my mom flew out to California, and we made the drive up the state to visit her uncle. Ed was in the very early stages of Alzheimer's; a little forgetful but he still knew he was forgetting. He seemed truly glad to see his brother's daughter and granddaughter, and we had a good visit. He lived in a little trailer on his step-daughter's property that he called his wig-wam. The property had a gate, and he always opened and closed it for the cars coming and going. He struck me as a gentle, humorous, and very tall person (6'2", a full foot taller than me).</div>
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I wish I knew him better. Thank you, Ed, for introducing me to this wonderful lifetime hobby!<br />
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VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-63311139832390261042017-06-28T12:41:00.002-04:002017-06-28T12:41:41.334-04:00Brick Wall: BUSTED! The maiden name of of Pharaba Moore is...Have you ever watched a mystery where the super sleuth is hunting diligently for a secret panel or switch to open up a passage, when the bumbling sidekick accidentally leans on it without even trying?<br />
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Enter me, the bumbling sidekick. Yesterday I stumbled on some documents on Ancestry that have solved, in my mind, a mystery that has eluded me since I started doing genealogy.<br />
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I have <a href="http://genealogistbynight.blogspot.com/2016/04/my-family-in-civil-war-part-seven.html">blogged about</a> my ancestors Edward Windsor and Susannah Bryant Moore extensively. Edward's parents were Edward and Pharaba Moore. This is proven by a family Bible belonging to Edward Windsor Moore's brother Thomas Moore.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Third page of Thomas Moore family Bible transcription, <br />listing his parents and siblings</td></tr>
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Other than this, I can find only one other record in my possession that lists Pharaba (in its myriad number of spellings) by name. It is a deed where Edward sold a piece of land, and Pharaba, as his wife, had to be listed. This is a transcription of the deed provided many years ago by my cousin Phyllis Hill.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deed from Edward and Pharaba Moore to William Wolfington, 1833</td></tr>
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Beyond this, 27 years of research hasn't yielded a single clue as to who Pharaba was before becoming Mrs. Edward Moore.<div>
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Yesterday, I stumbled onto the metaphorical secret panel:</div>
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This document is a petition by Reuben Pearce, who was attempting to settle the estate of his maiden aunt Kiziah Pearce. She died without children so her estate fell to her siblings and their heirs. To quote from above:<div>
"She had a sister named Ferabee who married Edward Moore, who removed from the county with his wife some twenty years ago and neither of them has been heard of for the past twenty years and your petitioner is advised that their long absence, not being heard from by their relatives, is presumptive evidence of their deaths."</div>
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This is the magical piece of the puzzle I always hoped to find. But not only this, the great internets yielded up to me the names of Pharaba's parents as well. Ready?</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Will of Windsor Pearce, Randolph County, North Carolina</td></tr>
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Down towards the end it says this:<div>
"and to My Daughter Pherrebee More They give one Featherbed & Furniture and Two Dollars to her or Her's".</div>
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Windsor and Mary Pearce, the parents of Pharaba Pearce Moore. Pharaba Pearce Moore, the mother of...don't forget...Edward WINDSOR Moore! Huzzah! </div>
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In my mind, this is proof. I hope my fellow Moore researchers will read over this, and rejoice with me!</div>
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I have much more to share with you, but I'm still processing all this.<br /><div>
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VondaHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217715718151473650noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8926959817334498055.post-58997541267452953112017-04-19T10:53:00.001-04:002017-04-19T13:31:25.331-04:00The Extinction of the MooresIt hit me on my afternoon commute. My Moore line is nearly extinct. I could think of only one living male Moore, and couldn't wait to get home to make sure I was right.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grave of Edward Windsor Moore in Orleans, Indiana</td></tr>
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I blogged earlier about my 4th great-grandparents, Edward Windsor and Susannah Bryant Moore, and their struggle to get a Civil War pension. You can <a href="http://genealogistbynight.blogspot.com/2016/04/my-family-in-civil-war-part-seven.html">start reading about that here</a> if you like.<br />
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<b>The Facts</b><br />
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Edward Windsor Moore was born 17 October 1802 in North Carolina. He married Susannah Bryant (born 25 July 1804 in Lincoln County, Kentucky) on 24 September 1823, in Orange County, Indiana. They lived nearly all their lives in rural Orange County except for a short stint in Kansas which did not agree with them. This couple had thirteen children. You would expect a large number of Moores to come down from them, right?<br />
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Well, you would be wrong.<br />
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<b>Their children</b><br />
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Edward and Susannah Moore had seven sons. John and Joseph died in early childhood. Bartlett Coffin, their youngest, died tragically at the age of 16 serving as a bugler in the Civil War.<br />
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Sons Columbus and David only produced daughters that survived to adulthood.<br />
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This leaves only William Bryant Moore (my ancestor), and Edward Windsor Moore II. Both of these men had sons that survived adulthood.<br />
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<b>Their grandchildren</b><br />
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Let me address Edward Windsor Moore II first. He died in battle during the Civil War. He has my only "loose end." He had two sons, Nelson and Edward Windsor III. Edward Windsor III is the only one listed as an heir to his grandfather's estate in 1890, meaning Nelson Moore died before this time leaving no heirs. I can find no other records for him beyond this date. If he produced any heirs I haven't yet located them.<br />
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Now on to my ancestor, William Bryant Moore. He died at the age of 20, on 10 January 1851. Fortunately he left behind one tiny baby, William Braddock Moore, my great-great grandfather.<br />
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<b>Their great-grandchildren</b><br />
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William Braddock Moore was orphaned at the age of 12 when both his mother and stepfather passed away that year. He married Martha Ann Tillery in 1870, and they reared a large family that included four boys. Two of them, William and Charley, died in childhood.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moore Family Portrait about 1900<br />
Back row: Minnie, Nannie, Fred, and Ella<br />
Front row: Ed, William Braddock, Nellie, Martha, and Opal</td></tr>
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This left Edward Bryant Moore, who only had daughters, and my great-grandfather Frederick Thomas Moore.<br />
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<b>Their great-great grandchildren</b><br />
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Fred Moore married Della Mariah Moore (a great confusion but completely separate line of Moores) in 1899. They had three sons: Lee, Ed, and Robert. Robert died just after his first birthday.<br />
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My great-uncle Ed married and helped raise his stepchildren, but never had children of his own. That just leaves my grandfather Lee, who passed away several decades ago.<br />
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<b>Their great-great-great grandchild</b><br />
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Lee Moore married Lillian Wilson in in 1936, and had one son, my uncle Bill. In the 215 years since the birth of Edward Windsor Moore, it has come down to this. One man that still carries the Moore yDNA.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My uncle Bill, the last of the Moores</td></tr>
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That's what hit me in traffic the other day. Bill is 80 now and has no children. I immediately asked my mom to talk to him about taking a yDNA test for me, and he graciously agreed. I'm ordering the kit today, and hope that this will help solve some mysteries for me. Moore is a fairly common surname and I'm stuck at Edward Windsor Moore's grandfather William, who died in North Carolina in 1781. I can't figure out where he came from. Perhaps in a few months I'll get some more clues.<br />
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