I'm back to the family mysteries.... One name on the family tree that has done a masterful job of eluding me is that of Levin Hubbard's 2nd wife & the mother of Sarah Hubbard. Levin was married three times. Of course, I have identified the 1st & 3rd wives [Lydia Marshall & Charlotte Adams], but the 2nd has proved elusive.
Lydia was the mother of six children born between 1795 & 1806. All births have been recorded in Dorchester Co., MD. Very little has been found on Lydia, however.
Charlotte's four youngsters have been identified thanks to the 1850 census for Clinton Co., Ohio. [Levin died there in 1849.]
The middle family has proven to be a somewhat more difficult project. Levin moved to Delaware either after his 1st wife died or he married for the 2nd time. Selah/Selia [born between 1810 & 1815], John [1816] & Nancy [c1817] were born either in Maryland or Delaware. Sarah [c1819] & Levin Jr. [c1822] were born in Delaware. Elizabeth [c1823] was Ohio born.
I tackled the "Hubbard Problem" in Salt Lake City back in 2009 & made very little headway. One hopeful note was that one Sarah's siblings died after death registrations were filed in Indiana. That fizzled. The father's name was incorrectly recorded & the mother listed as "unknown."
To make the story really interesting, Sarah Hubbard Wolary died between 1860 & 1863, leaving her husband William with three minor children. Sina, Sarah's younger half-sister, had a baby whose father was killed during the Civil War. William Wolary married Sina & adopted the baby. They also had a child of their own.
My great-grandmother, Margaret Jane Wolary Prall was between 4 & 6 when her mother died, so was raised by Sina for most of her childhood..
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Getting the Place Right
When recording the places where your ancestors lived, make sure you are accurate for the period. In other words, record the county or other locale as it was when your ancestor lived there.
For example, my Faucett ancestors settled in Warren Co., Ohio. However, when John & his family arrived about 1797/8, Warren County had yet to be created. So from the time the Faucetts settled between the Miami Rivers until 1804, they resided in Hamilton County. I have seen a ton of entries for the Faucett kids born before 1804 listed "b. Hamilton Co."
US GenWeb's State sites all have county formation charts. Thorndale & Dollarhide's "Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920" has state/territorial maps for each census year with county boundary changes. Other sites will give you county changes as well. RootsMagic has a wonderful feature that let's you know if the place you entered was accurate. You know immediately if you have erred on state vs. territory, county change, etc. I would imagine other programs have a similar feature.
Keeping the location accurate will help you track down land, vital & other records on your ancestors. They might have lived on the same tract of land for three generations, but their records could be in 4-5 different counties! The Berkmiers settled in Green Co. in 1750. Haverford Co. is carved from Green in 1770. Hill Co. is taken from Haverford in 1820. Yellow Creek Co. is taken from Hill in 1840.
The 1st family deed & two births are found in Green Co., a handful of vital records & a deed in Haverford, more vital records in Hill Co. & the deed where the family sells that original tract is recorded in Yellow Creek Co. [but it does say "originally Green Co."]
Get the location right! It will help you tell the family story with more accuracy.
Also make sure you get things in order. City, town or township, county, state; City, province, country & so on. Recently I've seen entries for Leiden as South Holland, Leiden, Netherlands. It should be Leiden, Soouth Holland, The Netherlands.
For example, my Faucett ancestors settled in Warren Co., Ohio. However, when John & his family arrived about 1797/8, Warren County had yet to be created. So from the time the Faucetts settled between the Miami Rivers until 1804, they resided in Hamilton County. I have seen a ton of entries for the Faucett kids born before 1804 listed "b. Hamilton Co."
US GenWeb's State sites all have county formation charts. Thorndale & Dollarhide's "Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920" has state/territorial maps for each census year with county boundary changes. Other sites will give you county changes as well. RootsMagic has a wonderful feature that let's you know if the place you entered was accurate. You know immediately if you have erred on state vs. territory, county change, etc. I would imagine other programs have a similar feature.
Keeping the location accurate will help you track down land, vital & other records on your ancestors. They might have lived on the same tract of land for three generations, but their records could be in 4-5 different counties! The Berkmiers settled in Green Co. in 1750. Haverford Co. is carved from Green in 1770. Hill Co. is taken from Haverford in 1820. Yellow Creek Co. is taken from Hill in 1840.
The 1st family deed & two births are found in Green Co., a handful of vital records & a deed in Haverford, more vital records in Hill Co. & the deed where the family sells that original tract is recorded in Yellow Creek Co. [but it does say "originally Green Co."]
Get the location right! It will help you tell the family story with more accuracy.
Also make sure you get things in order. City, town or township, county, state; City, province, country & so on. Recently I've seen entries for Leiden as South Holland, Leiden, Netherlands. It should be Leiden, Soouth Holland, The Netherlands.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Prall - Rhodes Mystery
The Rhodes family pops up again in the mystery category. One of the questions surrouding Isaac Rittenhouse Prall & Ann Bathia Rhodes is the exact date of death for the couple. A brief bio for one of their sons stated that Ann died in 1865 & Isaac in 1880.
Isaac sold his York Co., PA property in April of 1865. Ann was not mentioned in the deeds, so most likely died in early 1865. Isaac made the trip from Pennsylvania to Ohio & was residing with daughter Anne Elizabeth Kohler in Clinton Co., OH in 1870. Isaac did not appear in the 1880 census, nor was he located in the mortality schedule. Did he die in Clinton Co.? Putnam Co., OH where the Kohlers lived in 1880? Perhaps he decided to return home to York Co.?
To date - an unsolved mystery!
Isaac sold his York Co., PA property in April of 1865. Ann was not mentioned in the deeds, so most likely died in early 1865. Isaac made the trip from Pennsylvania to Ohio & was residing with daughter Anne Elizabeth Kohler in Clinton Co., OH in 1870. Isaac did not appear in the 1880 census, nor was he located in the mortality schedule. Did he die in Clinton Co.? Putnam Co., OH where the Kohlers lived in 1880? Perhaps he decided to return home to York Co.?
To date - an unsolved mystery!
Saturday, March 30, 2013
New Home for the Genealogical Society of Marion County
The official word came down that the Genealogical Society of Marion County will be relocating from the Crown Hill Cemetery Waiting Station to the former office building at Memorial Park Cemetery on 9350 E. Washington St., just east of I-465.Our new home will be more accessible and give us more room. Details on the move will be forthcoming at the GSMC website: www.GenealogyIndy.org Here's a photo!!
Monday, March 25, 2013
Ulster Historical Foundation Program - GSMC & IHS
Saturday the Genealogical Society of Marion County & the Indiana Historical Society co-sponsored an Irish & Scots-Irish Family Research Seminar with speakers Fintan Mullan & Brian Trainor from the Ulster Historical Foundation. The Seminar was held at the Eugene & Marilyn Glick History Center's Basile Theater auditorium.
Fintan & Brian presnted sessions on Introduction to Irish & Scots-Irish Family History Research, Emigration from Ireland to America, Church Records in Ireland, Understanding Irish Townlands, Researching 18th & 19th Century Farming Communities & Irish & Scots-Irish Research: Not Always at the Bottom of the Pile.
The sessions were both informative & entertaining. The turnout was over 200. If you ever have a chance to attend one of the UHF Seminars, it will be well worth your time.
Fintan & Brian visit the US around St. Patrick's Day to present seminars across the country.
Fintan & Brian presnted sessions on Introduction to Irish & Scots-Irish Family History Research, Emigration from Ireland to America, Church Records in Ireland, Understanding Irish Townlands, Researching 18th & 19th Century Farming Communities & Irish & Scots-Irish Research: Not Always at the Bottom of the Pile.
The sessions were both informative & entertaining. The turnout was over 200. If you ever have a chance to attend one of the UHF Seminars, it will be well worth your time.
Fintan & Brian visit the US around St. Patrick's Day to present seminars across the country.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Source citings from the Twilight Zone
The Rhodes family gets at least one more post. In searching for the details on Captain Zachariah Rhodes' fate, the source citations got just plain weird!
One of my early breakthrus was locating the book by Adelos Gorton, The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton (George S. Ferguson, Philadelphia, PA, 1907). The page on the Rhodes family stated that Zachariah died at sea in 1815. Progress!
While trying to locate additional information at the FHL in Salt Lake back when the family histories were located in the Joseph Smith Building, I came across the series of genealogies on Roger Williams. The Rhodes family was allied to Williams, so I checked out the following:
Dorothy Higson White, Descendants of Roger Williams: The Waterman and Winsor Lines Through His Daughter Mercy Williams, Volume: I - The Waterman Line (Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1991).
White included the fact that Zachariah and Perry Rhodes were lost at sea in 1815 on a voyage from Baltimore to Puerto Rico. More details! White cited Gorton.
A trip to an FGS Conference to Boston gave me the opportunity to visit the NEHGS Library. There I found the multi-volume set by Frederick A. Holden, Family Record or journal of facts of the Holden Family in America, 1852-1910: from Randall Holden about 1636 to the present time (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1989 [photocopy]).
Holden was the mother lode! Captain Rhodes sailed from Baltimore on the schooner "Hannah" on 14 Aug 1815 with brother Perry and was never again heard from. [Citing Gorton]
There I had it: Date of departure, port, destination, ship's name and type.
How is it that Holden and White were able to flesh out the story by sighting the source that had the least amount of information?
Sometimes you are lost in that dimension beyond which is known to man - THE GENEALOGY ZONE!
One of my early breakthrus was locating the book by Adelos Gorton, The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton (George S. Ferguson, Philadelphia, PA, 1907). The page on the Rhodes family stated that Zachariah died at sea in 1815. Progress!
While trying to locate additional information at the FHL in Salt Lake back when the family histories were located in the Joseph Smith Building, I came across the series of genealogies on Roger Williams. The Rhodes family was allied to Williams, so I checked out the following:
Dorothy Higson White, Descendants of Roger Williams: The Waterman and Winsor Lines Through His Daughter Mercy Williams, Volume: I - The Waterman Line (Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1991).
White included the fact that Zachariah and Perry Rhodes were lost at sea in 1815 on a voyage from Baltimore to Puerto Rico. More details! White cited Gorton.
A trip to an FGS Conference to Boston gave me the opportunity to visit the NEHGS Library. There I found the multi-volume set by Frederick A. Holden, Family Record or journal of facts of the Holden Family in America, 1852-1910: from Randall Holden about 1636 to the present time (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1989 [photocopy]).
Holden was the mother lode! Captain Rhodes sailed from Baltimore on the schooner "Hannah" on 14 Aug 1815 with brother Perry and was never again heard from. [Citing Gorton]
There I had it: Date of departure, port, destination, ship's name and type.
How is it that Holden and White were able to flesh out the story by sighting the source that had the least amount of information?
Sometimes you are lost in that dimension beyond which is known to man - THE GENEALOGY ZONE!
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Standiford Family
Ts could easily be Rhodes & Cunningham Family Part III. Pathiah [Bathiah] Standiford married James Cunningham on 1 Aug 1773 in St. John's Parish in Baltimore, MD. There is less known about the Standiford line than the Cunninghams. I think Pathiah was the daughter of Israel Standiford & Cassandra Anderson, but don't have much to go on for evidence.
Two of Pathiah's possible sisters married men by the name of Rhodes. I have yet to determine if they were related to Captain Zachariah Rhodes. There was another Zachariah Rhodes in Baltimore about the same time. I believe he was a distant cousin.
Since I haven't looked into this branch of the tree in some years, there may be be new data available on the Standifords.
Two of Pathiah's possible sisters married men by the name of Rhodes. I have yet to determine if they were related to Captain Zachariah Rhodes. There was another Zachariah Rhodes in Baltimore about the same time. I believe he was a distant cousin.
Since I haven't looked into this branch of the tree in some years, there may be be new data available on the Standifords.
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