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028 |EMORY ANDREW SCOTT WALLING (1854-1931)| | | | | | | | | |
029 |+GRACE ELLEN MARSHALL (1859-1945) | | | | | | | | | | |
031 | |WILLIAM BENSON WALLING (1881-1966) | | | | | | | | | |
042 | |+ANNA MARIE BOSTWICK (1881-1960)| | | | | | | | | | |
550 | | |HENRIETTA GRACE WALLING (1910-1992)| | | | | | | | |
551 | | |ELLEN ELIZABETH WALLING (1912-1985)| | | | | | | | |
552 | | |JEAN KIRKPATRICK WALLING (1918-1987) | | | | | | | |
083 | |RALPH GORDON WALLING ( - )| | | | | | | | | | |
549 | | |MARY WALLING ( - ) | | | | | | | | | | | |
032 | |LAURA CORDELIA WALLING (1890-1972) | | | | | | | | | |
033 | |+HARRY LEE SAWDEY (1890-1949)| | | | | | | | | | | |
040 | | |JANE ELLIOTT SAWDEY (1915-1996) | | | | | | | | | |
553 | | |GRACE MAYNARD SAWDEY ( - )| | | | | | | | | |
554 | | |ANNE ELIZABETH SAWDEY (1918-2002) | | | | | | | | |
555 | | |HARRIET LEE SAWDEY ( - ) | | | | | | | | | |
556 | | |ESTHER SCOTT SAWDEY ( - ) | | | | | | | | | |
082 | |MARION ELIZABETH WALLING (1896-1979) | | | | | | | | |
209 | |+WILLIAM LEE CRAWFORD (1895-1972) | | | | | | | | | |
546 | | |WILLIAM ALEXANDER CRAWFORD (1919-1986)| | | | | | | |
547 | | |THOMAS WALLING CRAWFORD (1920-1990)| | | | | | | | |
949 | | | |ANNE FOLLMAR CRAWFORD ( - ) | | | | | | | |
950 | | | |JOHN WALLING CRAWFORD ( - ) | | | | | | | |
548 | | |MARY LEE CRAWFORD (1921-1978)| | | | | | | | | | |
011 | |MARIETTA MARSHALL WALLING (1897-1962) | | | | | | | | |
012 | |+LEWIS SAXTON MOSHER (1896-1973)| | | | | | | | | | |
009 | | |ROBERT WALLING MOSHER ( - ) | | | | | | | | |
010 | | |+GERTRUDE HORNER ( - ) | | | | | | | | | | |
003 | | |NATALIE MOSHER ( - )| | | | | | | | | | | |
008 | | |MARY LOU MOSHER ( - ) | | | | | | | | | | |
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199 | | | | | |THOMAS WALLING ( - )| | | | | | | | |
197 | | | | |JAMES WALLING ( - ) | | | | | | | | | |
198 | | | |THOMAS WALLING (1710-1792)| | | | | | | | | | |
191 | | |THOMAS WALLING (1753-1802)| | | | | | | | | | | |
075 | |THOMAS A. WALLING (1793-1863)| | | | | | | | | | | |
196 | | | | |? HERENDEEN ( - )| | | | | | | | | | |
193 | | | |HEZEKIAH HERENDEEN (1715-1790) | | | | | | | | |
199 | | | | | | |THOMAS WALLING ( - )| | | | | | | |
197 | | | | | |JAMES WALLING ( - ) | | | | | | | | |
195 | | | | |MOLLY WALLING ( - ) | | | | | | | | | |
192 | | |MARY HARRINGDEE (1757-1840) | | | | | | | | | | |
952 | | | | | | |BENJAMIN HARRINGTON ( - ) | | | | | |
951 | | | | | |WILLIAM HERRENDEEN (1658- ) | | | | | | |
499 | | | | |ELISHA HERENDEEN ( - ) | | | | | | | | |
194 | | | |FREELOVE HERENDEEN (1732-1790) | | | | | | | | |
028 |EMORY ANDREW SCOTT WALLING (1854-1931)| | | | | | | | | |
859 | | | |OLIVER ELLIOTT (1766-1852)| | | | | | | | | | |
858 | | |JAMES ELLIOTT (1799- ) | | | | | | | | | | | |
076 | |LAURA ANNA ELLIOTT (1820-1895) | | | | | | | | | | |
505 | | | |WILLIAM SCOTT ( - ) | | | | | | | | | | |
860 | | |ESTHER SCOTT (1801- ) | | | | | | | | | | | |
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199 |THOMAS WALLING ( - )| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
197 | |JAMES WALLING ( - ) | | | | | | | | | | | | |
195 | | |MOLLY WALLING ( - ) | | | | | | | | | | | |
196 | | |+? HERENDEEN ( - ) | | | | | | | | | | | |
193 | | | |HEZEKIAH HERENDEEN (1715-1790) | | | | | | | | |
194 | | | |+FREELOVE HERENDEEN (1732-1790) | | | | | | | | |
192 | | | | |MARY HARRINGDEE (1757-1840) | | | | | | | | |
191 | | | | |+THOMAS WALLING (1753-1802) | | | | | | | | |
075 | | | | | |THOMAS A. WALLING (1793-1863)| | | | | | | |
210 | | | | | |+MERCY BLACKMARR (1785-1845) | | | | | | | |
076 | | | | | |+LAURA ANNA ELLIOTT (1820-1895) | | | | | | |
211 | | | | | | |LAURA LUCINDA WALLING (1846-1917) | | | | |
212 | | | | | | |MARY WALLING (1847-1847) | | | | | | | |
213 | | | | | | |THOMAS ATWELL WALLING (1849-1930) | | | | |
214 | | | | | | |ROBY JANE WALLING (1851-1924)| | | | | | |
028 | | | | | | |EMORY ANDREW SCOTT WALLING (1854-1931)| | | |
029 | | | | | | |+GRACE ELLEN MARSHALL (1859-1945) | | | | |
215 | | | | | | |ASENATH ESTHER WALLING (1858-1934) | | | | |
198 | | |THOMAS WALLING (1710-1792)| | | | | | | | | | | |
200 | | |+ELIZABETH VINTON ( - )| | | | | | | | | | |
191 | | | |THOMAS WALLING (1753-1802)| | | | | | | | | | |
192 | | | |+MARY HARRINGDEE (1757-1840) | | | | | | | | | |
075 | | | | |THOMAS A. WALLING (1793-1863)| | | | | | | | |
210 | | | | |+MERCY BLACKMARR (1785-1845) | | | | | | | | |
076 | | | | |+LAURA ANNA ELLIOTT (1820-1895) | | | | | | | |
211 | | | | | |LAURA LUCINDA WALLING (1846-1917) | | | | | |
212 | | | | | |MARY WALLING (1847-1847) | | | | | | | | |
213 | | | | | |THOMAS ATWELL WALLING (1849-1930) | | | | | |
214 | | | | | |ROBY JANE WALLING (1851-1924)| | | | | | | |
028 | | | | | |EMORY ANDREW SCOTT WALLING (1854-1931)| | | | |
029 | | | | | |+GRACE ELLEN MARSHALL (1859-1945) | | | | | |
215 | | | | | |ASENATH ESTHER WALLING (1858-1934) | | | | | |
201 | |WILLIAM WALLING ( - ) | | | | | | | | | | | |
ANCESTRAL CHART
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703 | | | |THOMAS MARSHALL ( - ) | | | | | | | | | |
544 | | |ROBERT W. MARSHALL (1804-1875) | | | | | | | | | |
704 | | | |ELIZABETH DUNHAM ( - ) | | | | | | | | | |
041 | |ROBERT WILLIAM MARSHALL (1838-1899)| | | | | | | | | |
726 | | | |ROBERT (Dr.) JOHNSTON ( - ) | | | | | | | |
545 | | |MARTHA JOHNSTON (1806-1894) | | | | | | | | | | |
029 |GRACE ELLEN MARSHALL (1859-1945)| | | | | | | | | | | |
737 | | | | | | | |RICHARD EDGERTON ( -1691) | | | | | |
735 | | | | | | |JOHN EDGERTON (1662-1692) | | | | | | | |
738 | | | | | | | |MARY SYLVESTER ( - )| | | | | | |
733 | | | | | |JOHN EDGERTON (1690-1768) | | | | | | | | |
744 | | | | | | | | | | |CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS (1530- )| |
743 | | | | | | | | | |WILLIAM REYNOLDS (1560- ) | | | |
741 | | | | | | | | |STEPHEN REYNOLDS ( - ) | | | | |
739 | | | | | | | |JOHN REYNOLDS ( -1702) | | | | | | |
742 | | | | | | | | |SARAH BRADFORD ( - )| | | | | |
736 | | | | | | |MARY REYNOLDS (1664-1727) | | | | | | | |
824 | | | | | | | | |WILLIAM BACKUS ( -1661)| | | | | |
740 | | | | | | | |SARAH BACKUS ( -1702) | | | | | | |
566 | | | | |DANIEL (Capt.) EDGERTON (1737-1783)| | | | | | |
821 | | | | | | | | |WALTER HARRIS ( -1654) | | | | | |
818 | | | | | | | |GABRIEL HARRIS ( -1684)| | | | | | |
822 | | | | | | | | |MARY FRY ( -1656)| | | | | | | |
816 | | | | | | |JOSEPH HARRIS (1673-1737) | | | | | | | |
819 | | | | | | | |ELIZABETH ABBOT ( -1702) | | | | | |
734 | | | | | |PHOEBE HARRIS ( -1763) | | | | | | | | |
823 | | | | | | | | |JOHN STEPHENS ( -1670) | | | | | |
820 | | | | | | | |WILLIAM STEVENS (1630-1703) | | | | | |
817 | | | | | | |MARY STEVENS (1677- ) | | | | | | | |
565 | | | |PHILIP EDGERTON (1774-1863) | | | | | | | | | |
576 | | | | | | | | |WILLIAM (Deacon) DOUGLAS (1610-1682) | |
573 | | | | | | | |ROBERT DOUGLAS (1639-1715)| | | | | | |
578 | | | | | | | | | |ROBERT MATTLE ( - ) | | | | |
577 | | | | | | | | |ANN MATTLE (1610-1685) | | | | | | |
571 | | | | | | |THOMAS DOUGLAS (1679-1724)| | | | | | | |
575 | | | | | | | | |ROBERT HEMPSTEAD (1613-1654) | | | | |
574 | | | | | | | |MARY HEMPSTEAD (1647-1711)| | | | | | |
569 | | | | | |ROBERT DOUGLAS (1705-1786)| | | | | | | | |
623 | | | | | | | | |RICHARD SPERRY (1606- )| | | | | |
622 | | | | | | | |JOHN SPERRY ( - )| | | | | | | |
572 | | | | | | |HANNAH SPERRY ( -1758) | | | | | | | |
567 | | | | |MARY DOUGLAS (1742-1829) | | | | | | | | | |
669 | | | | | | | | |NICHOLAS EDGECOMBE ( - ) | | | |
667 | | | | | | | |JOHN EDGECOMBE ( -1721)| | | | | | |
670 | | | | | | | | |WILMOTT RANDALL ( - ) | | | | |
663 | | | | | | |JOHN EDGECOMBE (1675- )| | | | | | | |
671 | | | | | | | | |EDWARD STATTINE (1652-1703) | | | | |
668 | | | | | | | |SARAH STATTINE ( - )| | | | | | |
570 | | | | | |SARAH EDGECOMBE (1710- ) | | | | | | | |
666 | | | | | | | | |ROBERT HEMPSTEAD ( - ) | | | | |
665 | | | | | | | |JOHN HEMPSTEAD (1649-1688)| | | | | | |
664 | | | | | | |HANNAH HEMPSTEAD ( - ) | | | | | | |
190 | | |HIRAM EDGERTON (1800-1871)| | | | | | | | | | | |
756 | | | | | | | | |JOHN HALL (1605-1676) | | | | | | |
753 | | | | | | | |SAMUEL HALL (1648-1725)| | | | | | | |
757 | | | | | | | | |JEAN (JANE) WOOLEN ( - ) | | | |
751 | | | | | | |JOHN HALL (1670-1730) | | | | | | | | |
755 | | | | | | | | |JOHN WALKER ( -1652)| | | | | | |
754 | | | | | | | |HANNAH WALKER (1646-1728) | | | | | | |
749 | | | | | |ELIAKIM HALL (1711-1794) | | | | | | | | |
773 | | | | | | | | |RICHARD LYMAN ( - ) | | | | | |
771 | | | | | | | |JOHN LYMAN ( - ) | | | | | | | |
789 | | | | | | | | | |ROGER OSBORNE ( - ) | | | | |
774 | | | | | | | | |SARAH OSBORNE ( - ) | | | | | |
752 | | | | | | |MARY LYMAN ( -1740) | | | | | | | | |
775 | | | | | | | | |JOHN PLUM ( - ) | | | | | | |
772 | | | | | | | |DORCAS PLUM ( - )| | | | | | | |
747 | | | | |ISAAC HALL (1737-1796) | | | | | | | | | | |
782 | | | | | | | | |THOMAS DICKERMAN ( -1657) | | | | |
778 | | | | | | | |ABRAHAM DICKERMAN (1634-1710)| | | | | |
776 | | | | | | |ISAAC DICKERMAN (1677-1758) | | | | | | |
783 | | | | | | | | |JOHN COOPER ( -1689)| | | | | | |
779 | | | | | | | |MARY COOPER ( - )| | | | | | | |
750 | | | | | |RUTH DICKERMAN (1712-1752)| | | | | | | | |
784 | | | | | | | | |DAVID ATWATER ( - ) | | | | | |
780 | | | | | | | |JOMATHAN ATWATER ( - ) | | | | | |
777 | | | | | | |MARY ATWATER (1686- ) | | | | | | | |
786 | | | | | | | | | |WILLIAM (Deacon) PECK ( - ) | |
785 | | | | | | | | |JEREMIAH (Rev.) PECK ( - )| | | |
781 | | | | | | | |RUTH PECK ( - ) | | | | | | | |
788 | | | | | | | | | |ROBERT KITCHELL ( - ) | | | |
787 | | | | | | | | |JOANNA KITCHELL ( - ) | | | | |
568 | | | |MARY HALL (1767-1807) | | | | | | | | | | | |
797 | | | | | | | | |JOHN MOSELEY ( - ) | | | | | |
793 | | | | | | | |JOHN MOSELEY ( - ) | | | | | | |
791 | | | | | | |JOSEPH MOSELEY (1670-1719)| | | | | | | |
799 | | | | | | | | | |THOMAS NEWBERRY ( - ) | | | |
798 | | | | | | | | |BENJAMIN NEWBERRY ( - )| | | | |
794 | | | | | | | |MARY NEWBERRY ( - ) | | | | | | |
801 | | | | | | | | | |MATTHEW ALLYN ( - ) | | | | |
800 | | | | | | | | |MARY ALLYN ( - ) | | | | | | |
806 | | | | | |ABNER MOSELEY (1699- ) | | | | | | | | |
802 | | | | | | | | |THOMAS ROOT ( - )| | | | | | |
795 | | | | | | | |THOMAS ROOT ( - )| | | | | | | |
792 | | | | | | |ABIGAIL ROOT (1668- ) | | | | | | | |
803 | | | | | | | | |ALEXANDER ALVORD ( - ) | | | | |
796 | | | | | | | |ABIGAIL ALVORD ( - )| | | | | | |
805 | | | | | | | | | |RICHARD VORE ( - ) | | | | |
804 | | | | | | | | |MARY VORE ( - ) | | | | | | |
748 | | | | |ESTHER MOSELEY (1741-1827)| | | | | | | | | |
773 | | | | | | | | |RICHARD LYMAN ( - ) | | | | | |
771 | | | | | | | |JOHN LYMAN ( - ) | | | | | | | |
789 | | | | | | | | | |ROGER OSBORNE ( - ) | | | | |
774 | | | | | | | | |SARAH OSBORNE ( - ) | | | | | |
807 | | | | | | |JOHN LYMAN (1660-1740) | | | | | | | | |
775 | | | | | | | | |JOHN PLUM ( - ) | | | | | | |
772 | | | | | | | |DORCAS PLUM ( - )| | | | | | | |
790 | | | | | |ELIZABETH LYMAN (1702- ) | | | | | | | |
809 | | | | | | | |ISAAC SHELDON ( - ) | | | | | | |
808 | | | | | | |MINDWELL SHELDON (1666- ) | | | | | | |
811 | | | | | | | | |THOMAS WOODFORD ( - ) | | | | |
810 | | | | | | | |MARY WOODFORD ( - ) | | | | | | |
815 | | | | | | | | | |ROBERT BLOT ( - )| | | | | |
812 | | | | | | | | |MARY BLOT ( - ) | | | | | | |
533 | |LAURA CORDELIA EDGERTON (1836-1921)| | | | | | | | | |
561 | | |LOUISA POMEROY (1804-1841)| | | | | | | | | | | |
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751 |JOHN HALL (1670-1730) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
752 |+MARY LYMAN ( -1740)| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
749 | |ELIAKIM HALL (1711-1794) | | | | | | | | | | | | |
750 | |+RUTH DICKERMAN (1712-1752) | | | | | | | | | | | |
747 | | |ISAAC HALL (1737-1796) | | | | | | | | | | | | |
748 | | |+ESTHER MOSELEY (1741-1827) | | | | | | | | | | |
568 | | | |MARY HALL (1767-1807) | | | | | | | | | | | |
565 | | | |+PHILIP EDGERTON (1774-1863) | | | | | | | | | |
190 | | | | |HIRAM EDGERTON (1800-1871)| | | | | | | | | |
561 | | | | |+LOUISA POMEROY (1804-1841) | | | | | | | | |
560 | | | | |+MARY ANN JUDD (1817- )| | | | | | | | | |
562 | | | | | |MARYETTE EDGERTON (1830-1905)| | | | | | | |
564 | | | | | |DANIEL G. EDGERTON (1835- ) | | | | | | |
533 | | | | | |LAURA CORDELIA EDGERTON (1836-1921)| | | | | |
041 | | | | | |+ROBERT WILLIAM MARSHALL (1838-1899) | | | | |
029 | | | | | | |GRACE ELLEN MARSHALL (1859-1945)| | | | | |
028 | | | | | | |+EMORY ANDREW SCOTT WALLING (1854-1931) | | |
531 | | | | | | |WILLIAM EUGENE MARSHALL (1860-1942)| | | | |
730 | | | | | | |+JESSIE ANGELINE PETTIT (1875-1961)| | | | |
731 | | | | | | | |ROGER PETTIT MARSHALL (1907-2000) | | | |
732 | | | | | | | | |ERIC MORE MARSHALL ( - ) | | | |
532 | | | | | | |CORA ELOISE EDGERTON MARSHALL (1862-1948)| | |
940 | | | | | | |+JAMES WILLIAM GREENMAN (1861-1954)| | | | |
942 | | | | | | | |GRACE INEZ GREENMAN (1885-1971) | | | | |
941 | | | | | | | |+ROBERT McCLURE BROOKES (1874-1932)| | | |
943 | | | | | | | | |ROBERT McCLURE (JR.) BROOKES (1910- ) |
944 | | | | | | | | | |BARBARA JEAN BROOKES ( - )| | |
034 | | | | | | |MARIETTE MARSHALL (1864-1963)| | | | | | |
466 | | | | | | |+SPENCER S. BURTON (1846-1913) | | | | | |
563 | | | | | |SARAH LAVINIA EDGERTON (1839-1906) | | | | | |
745 | | | |MOSELEY HALL (1771-1861) | | | | | | | | | | |
746 | | | |+MARY EDGERTON (1777-1854)| | | | | | | | | | |
813 | |JOHN HALL ( - ) | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
814 | | |LYMAN HALL (1724- ) | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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703 |THOMAS MARSHALL ( - ) | | | | | | | | | | | | |
704 |+ELIZABETH DUNHAM ( - )| | | | | | | | | | | | |
705 | |JAMES MARSHALL ( - )| | | | | | | | | | | | |
727 | |JANE MARSHALL (1790- ) | | | | | | | | | | | | |
728 | |HUGH MARSHALL (1793- ) | | | | | | | | | | | | |
729 | |+AGNES SMITH ( - ) | | | | | | | | | | | | |
544 | |ROBERT W. MARSHALL (1804-1875) | | | | | | | | | | |
545 | |+MARTHA JOHNSTON (1806-1894) | | | | | | | | | | | |
534 | | |JAMES C. MARSHALL (1828-1915)| | | | | | | | | | |
535 | | |+ANNE MCCORD (1839-1897) | | | | | | | | | | | |
536 | | | |ROSA? MARSHALL (1857- )| | | | | | | | | | |
537 | | | |MELINDA MARSHALL (1864- ) | | | | | | | | | |
538 | | |MARIA J. MARSHALL (1830- )| | | | | | | | | | |
539 | | |ELIZABETH MARSHALL (1832-1894) | | | | | | | | | |
540 | | |MARGARET MARSHALL (1835- )| | | | | | | | | | |
041 | | |ROBERT WILLIAM MARSHALL (1838-1899)| | | | | | | | |
533 | | |+LAURA CORDELIA EDGERTON (1836-1921) | | | | | | | |
029 | | | |GRACE ELLEN MARSHALL (1859-1945)| | | | | | | | |
028 | | | |+EMORY ANDREW SCOTT WALLING (1854-1931) | | | | | |
531 | | | |WILLIAM EUGENE MARSHALL (1860-1942)| | | | | | | |
730 | | | |+JESSIE ANGELINE PETTIT (1875-1961)| | | | | | | |
731 | | | | |ROGER PETTIT MARSHALL (1907-2000) | | | | | | |
732 | | | | | |ERIC MORE MARSHALL ( - ) | | | | | | |
532 | | | |CORA ELOISE EDGERTON MARSHALL (1862-1948)| | | | | |
940 | | | |+JAMES WILLIAM GREENMAN (1861-1954)| | | | | | | |
942 | | | | |GRACE INEZ GREENMAN (1885-1971) | | | | | | | |
941 | | | | |+ROBERT McCLURE BROOKES (1874-1932)| | | | | | |
943 | | | | | |ROBERT McCLURE (JR.) BROOKES (1910- ) | | | |
944 | | | | | | |BARBARA JEAN BROOKES ( - )| | | | | |
034 | | | |MARIETTE MARSHALL (1864-1963)| | | | | | | | | |
466 | | | |+SPENCER S. BURTON (1846-1913) | | | | | | | | |
541 | | |GEORGE NELSON MARSHALL (1840-1926) | | | | | | | | |
542 | | |THOMAS O. MARSHALL (1847-1902) | | | | | | | | | |
706 | |WILLIAM MARSHALL ( - ) | | | | | | | | | | | |
ID: 003
Name: NATALIE MOSHER
Sex: F
Birth place: Erie, PA.
Mother: MARIETTA MARSHALL WALLING (011) (1897-1962)
Father: LEWIS SAXTON MOSHER (012) (1896-1973)
Spouse: ROBERT LYNN GRISWOLD (002) (1924-1995)
Wedding: 6/11/1949, Erie, PA.
Child 1: LEWIS LYNN GRISWOLD (004) ( - )
Child 2: FREDERICK ROBERT GRISWOLD (001) ( - )
Child 3: ROGER WALLING GRISWOLD (005) ( - )
Attended Strong Vincent High School in Erie, then majored in English
at Allegheny College. This was during the War years, and when she got
to college in 1944 there were 300 girls in her class and only 100
boys. She met Dad at a fraternity party. Their wedding was conducted
by Rev. Cyrus Moorhead, son-in-law of Uncle Will Walling, in the house
on Cherry Street where she grew up. After they were married they moved
to Hawaii where she worked in a photography shop. When Dad was in grad
school at Berkeley she was a receptionist at a psychological clinic
there. She was secretary at Bidwell School for a couple years when I
was a student there. After they got divorced in 1968 she moved from
Stockton to Palo Alto where she worked for a few years at a hi-tech
start-up run by Bill Odell (who was the son of Carey Odell, a
Hollywood set designer whose name can occasionally be seen in the
credits of old movies). After that went bust, she worked for various
other Silicon Valley hi-tech places including as a secretary at Xerox
for 10 years, mostly at the Palo Alto Research Center, one of the
highest-tech places in the Valley. Currently lives in Menlo Park, Ca.
next to Rog and Silvia.
She was a kid during the Depression. She says some people didn't
have enough to eat and literally froze in their homes during the cold
winters right next to Lake Erie. The depression didn't really end
until 1939 when the war started, and then there was rationing. Along
about 1943 was when it got worse; nobody could get enough gasoline to
drive very far, and Mom sometimes had trouble getting back to college
at Allegheny in Meadville, only 45 miles away. Sometimes she would
stop off with Uncle Ralph in Corry. It paid to know your butcher so
maybe he would slip in a little extra meat; you might not even know
what it was til you got home. Mom continued this habit years later,
she always got her meat from the Yosemite Meat Market in Stockton when
I was a kid. But they got plenty of eggs, they could always get a few
dozen from Mr. Crossman out by the farm.
Work was easy to find during the war, and she had one job in
accounting making out payrolls, right next to the New York Central
Railroad station, so at break time she was always treated to the
dramatic partings and homecomings of soldiers outside. She said she
also had a job modeling clothes in a department store, and another
testing bomb warheads for the last 5 or 6 weeks of the war, and then
suddenly the jobs were all gone.
ID: 008
Name: MARY LOU MOSHER
Sex: F
Birth place: Erie, PA
Mother: MARIETTA MARSHALL WALLING (011) (1897-1962)
Father: LEWIS SAXTON MOSHER (012) (1896-1973)
Note: Aunt Lulu
Worked for years as a textbook editor in New York. Published many
history textbooks. She was nicknamed Lulu by Aunt Annie. Like Aunt
Annie and some other forbears, she chose a writing-related career.
This is the only career choice that seems to have lasted in this
family, other things like medicine, the law, and banking having
fizzled out.
She went to Vassar and majored in English Lit. Mom says she had a
job during the war in a factory that made refrigerators. After they
were spray-painted excess paint would collect down at the bottom of
the box they were painted in, and her job was to clean out the excess.
The name Mary goes way back in this family. Her mother, Marietta
Marshall Walling, was named after her aunt Mariette Marshall (Aunt
Ettie), and in the generation before that, there was Maria Marshall,
an unusual name for the daughter of an Irishman. Marietta Marshall
Walling also had a great-grandmother named Mary Harringdeen.
ID: 009
Name: ROBERT WALLING MOSHER
Sex: M
Birth place: Erie, Pa.
Mother: MARIETTA MARSHALL WALLING (011) (1897-1962)
Father: LEWIS SAXTON MOSHER (012) (1896-1973)
Spouse: GERTRUDE HORNER (010) ( - )
Wedding: ? 12/21/1963
Note: Uncle Bob
Stock market fan. Lives in Clearwater, Fla. Got his picture in the
paper when he was a kid for winning a fox trot competition. Avid golf
nut, like his father. Has gotten 2 holes-in-one, and he's still going.
He worked midnight shift at an aircraft plant, putting together
propellers or something early in the war, then he was in the Army
reserves, and studied medicine as an undergraduate for a couple years
at places like Cornell and Yale, on the Army's dime.
He met Aunt Gertrude in New York. She was living in the apartment
above Aunt Annie, but she was off in places like Geneva a lot, and
having an empty apartment above her made Aunt Annie nervous, so Aunt
Gertrude sub-let it to Uncle Bob. That's how they met, and then later
they surprised everyone by getting married. As of 1998, they've lived
in a condo in Clearwater for 30 years. They're big on charity work for
the Salvation Army.
Uncle Bob is a Republican, like his father; Mom and Aunt Lulu, on
the other hand, are lifelong Democrats.
ID: 010
Name: GERTRUDE HORNER
Sex: F
Birth place: White Plains, N. Y.?
Spouse: ROBERT WALLING MOSHER (009) ( - )
Wedding: ? 12/21/1963
Note: Aunt Gertrude
After the war, she was a secretary for Arthur H. Dean, an
ambassador and lawyer for one of the 10 biggest law firms in the
world. She went to places like Geneva with him for international
conferences. She knew many politicans and diplomats, including almost
all the big players in international affairs of those days. John
Foster Dulles asked her to be his secretary when he became Secretary
of State, but she turned him down because the Secretary of State
doesn't have much job security. She was good friends with Abba Eban.
She used to take the elevator with Eleanor Roosevelt at the U. N., who
she says was very likeable and friendly. Also at the U. N., she once
found Clark Clifford (future Secretary of State under LBJ) working at
a desk in a room she thought had been assigned to her boss Arthur H.
Dean. She politely informed him of this, and he just as politely
informed her he believed she was mistaken. He turned out to be right.
I think this was in late 1961. Mr. Dean never did find out. She also
knew Lyndon Baines and Lady Bird Johnson, as well as George Ball and
Dean Rusk. She met JFK. "I never met Eisenhower, but I used to talk to
him on the phone", she says.
Another thing she says is, "I'd never trust a politician any
farther than I could throw him." She has little interest in her former
Washington life these days. She got uterine and breast cancer in the
early 60's, back when chemotherapy was new. (She says Foster Dulles's
son got cancer about that time. They did some kind of brain operation
on him and it left him basically a vegetable.) She got a hysterectomy,
and for a while the doctors weren't sure she should marry Uncle Bob,
but eventually they did, a little after Uncle Bob's birthday in 1963.
She kept working for the government for a year or two after that, but
then she quit and so far they've been happily married 35 years.
ID: 011
Name: MARIETTA MARSHALL WALLING
Sex: F
Birth date: July 23, 1897
Birth place: Erie, Pa.
Date of death: Dec. 12, 1962
Place of death: Erie, Pa.
Age at death: 65 years, 4 months, 19 days.
Mother: GRACE ELLEN MARSHALL (029) (1859-1945)
Father: EMORY ANDREW SCOTT WALLING (028) (1854-1931)
Spouse: LEWIS SAXTON MOSHER (012) (1896-1973)
Wedding: 9/26/1922, Erie, Pa.
Child 1: ROBERT WALLING MOSHER (009) ( - )
Child 2: NATALIE MOSHER (003) ( - )
Child 3: MARY LOU MOSHER (008) ( - )
The engraving plate for her wedding invitations still exists. It was
made into a tray. It's made out of brass, and you have to hold it up
to a mirror to read it. A hundred people came to her wedding.
She was raised more by her Aunt Ettie than by her mother. (One
gets the impression that the oldest children got the lion's share of
the attention in that family.) Aunt Ettie had sparse hair (just like
Aunt Lulu and Grace E. and Uncle Will), and in those days the style
was to bundle the hair up on top of the head. So she bought what was
called a transformation, or, more colloquially, a "rat". It was a
small hairpiece she put up on top of her head, and bundled her own
hair around it. Grandma was so impressed that she went thru the
neighborhood telling about Aunt Ettie's rat on her head. Aunt Ettie
didn't appreciate it.
She was the youngest of her siblings. They were society folks, and
she got her picture in the paper every now and then, for things like
being an officer in the Junior League. Mom says it was a bit difficult
for her to adjust to her middle-class lifestyle as an adult. Whenever
one of her daughters went out with a guy, she would say "Is he from a
good family?" Grandpa made fun of her for that.
She took a year off before she went to Vassar. She graduated just
before she turned 23.
She went to her sister Marion's wedding in Philadelphia, and wrote
back to her family about it, apparently on a train on her way back to
Vassar. Written Mar. 10, 1918, the day after the wedding, this letter
is in the possession of Anne Crawford Lurie:
"Sunday evening
"En Route from New York to Po'keeps__" - Poughkeepsie
"Dear Family Who Weren't There:
"Well, it is all over, and I am on my way back to the grind again.
It ocurrred to me that you all might like a little 'inside dope' so I
am going to write in spite of the jiggle and only having a pencil. The
'powers that be' at school let me go down Thursday afternoon but I
will leave out the preliminaries and get down to the real thing.
Yesterday, we were all on pins and needles, more or less, because Lee"
- Crawford, the groom - "did not know when he could get there and we
did not hear from him until four. Then, too, he was afraid that he
might not have passed his exams and might have to stay another week,
but he did, and they were married in the Second" - ? - "Presbyterian
Church about half passed six. Only nine out of the 106 who entered in
Lee's class graduated. Pretty good for him.
"The ceremony was quite short and simple and Dr. McCall was awfully
nice. His assistant, Dr. Green," - ? - "assisted him. John" presumably
John Crawford, Lee's younger brother - "and I stood up with" - ? -
"them." Sounds like she was the maid of honor and John was the best
man. "My duties weren't very arduous there being no bridal bouquet.
John kept the ring and payed the minister. The 'consenting parties'
conducted themselves very well. Father" - Emory A. - "went with them
to get their marriage license, and they giggled a good deal. I guess
he thought they weren't taking it seriously enough. The City Hall was
closed, so they had to take a taxi way out someplace." It sounds as if
they got the marriage license and got married all after 4:00 on a
Saturday.
"Marion thinks that she promised to obey in the ceremony, but John
and I were both listening for it, and are sure that she didn't. We had
an awfully nice dinner afterwards. The table was all decorated with
greens and pink sincet" - ? - "peas and roses with vases of pink
flowers. In the center was a fountain. Of course we had a private
dining room. We had fruit cocktail, celery & olives, tomato bouillon,
fish with little round brown potatoes and cucumbers, squah, candied
sweet potatoes, salad with cute little crackers, strawberry ice cream
in cupid molds with gold bows and darts, little cakes, coffee, mints
and salted nuts. I have probably forgotten something and it was just
as good as it sounds. Lee looked great in uniform and Marion was so
happy she was fairly radiant. She had a lovely blue suit and hat and a
beautiful pink" - ? - "waist," - ?? - "The bride and groom held hands
during most of the meal. It must have made eating a bit inconvenient,
but they did not seem to mind. We told them that we supposed that was
why they got married, so they could hold hands in public.
"We all, but Mother and Father, went to the station with them. The
taxi didn't come so we went in the street car. They said that nothing
was usual about their wedding. They just missed their train, the 9:00
to New York, so we all went back to Mrs. Crawford's" - presumably Mary
Lee Crawford, Lee's mother - "room at the Bellevue, and then John took
Margaret and me to the movies. Margaret came so she could tell all the
girls at school about it. They were terribly thrilled, and gave a big
party for Marion before she left. They had telegrams brought in at all
times, such as: Congratulations we are all for annexation
"The Crown Prince
"You are sentrenced to life imprisonment for desertion of the cause
"President McMillan
"Congratulations, I wish your man were in the Navy He is so strong
"Josephus Daniels." (Secretary of the Navy)
"I am sorry that I can't remember the funniest one of all, something
about going Leewards. They also had a wedding cake (Marion got the
icing)" - probably a rare commodity during the war - "and gave her a
lovely bouquet and a box of little things like toothpaste and
everything imaginable."
Writing on the back of a page: "Since I am borrowing this paper,
perhaps I had better try economizing a little,. Lee has leave until
next Friday. I don't know whether they are going to Erie or not.
"Probably you will have heard everything I have written from Mrs.
Crawford by the time this reaches you. Father telegraphed the bare" -
? - "news to the Dispatch. I am wondering what sort of a story they
will make out of it. Probably 'romance from childhood' or something of
the sort.
"You may have some trouble deciphering this. Father thinks my
writing atrocious. I will admit that it does not bear jiggling.
"Three weeks from to-day will find little sister" - Marietta - "in
Erie. It seemed too bad for Marion not to be married at home so that
you could all be there, but the war does upset things.
"Lots of love to you all
"From Marietta, an eyewitness."
In the margin:
"P.S. I crossed the big city all alone in a taxi Thursday and today!"
This last sentence is a reference to New York City. The train down
from Poughkeepsie came into Penn Station, but the one to Philadelphia
left from Grand Central, and in those days there was no rail
connection between them, so you had to take a taxi.
The reason the marriage was so rushed was because of the war.
Apparently no one expected Lee to graduate so early from the officers'
training program he was in, and they were about to ship him overseas,
and Aunt Marion wanted to marry him before he left, but she couldn't
do so without leaving school three weeks before graduation. Colleges
were strict about things like that then - no married students - so it
was quite a decision, and she never did graduate. She seems to have
had her father's approval or at least co-operation, but her mother
didn't care for the idea, so says family tradidion. She didn't like
her kids going off the reservation like that.
At Vassar Grandma majored in Poly Sci, and took botany too. She
would take her kids out on nature walks at places like the peninsula
or Eastwood Farm, half of which was undeveloped then. She would point
out all the different plants, the poison ivy and the insect-eating
plants and so on. She would take them out under the stars and tell
them all about the North Star and the Big Dipper and the Belt of Orion
and all they wanted to do was go to bed. None of it got thru to any of
them.
Aunt Lulu says she was among the first wave of health food nuts,
back in about the 20's.
Grandma is listed in the 1921/22 Erie City Directory as boarding
at 552 W. 8th (her father's house).
Aunt Lulu says she died of emphysema and congestive heart failure.
She was an athsmatic for much (all?) of her life.
ID: 012
Name: LEWIS SAXTON MOSHER
Sex: M
Birth date: Aug. 13, 1896
Birth place: 260 E. 8th, Erie, Pa.
Date of death: Oct. 21, 1973
Place of death: Erie, Pa.
Age at death: 77 years, 2 months, 8 days.
Mother: GRACE MINER SAXTON (013) (1866-1915)
Father: WILL KINGSLEY MOSHER (014) (1865-1915)
Spouse: MARIETTA MARSHALL WALLING (011) (1897-1962)
Wedding: 9/26/1922, Erie, Pa.
Spouse 2: MARGARET CLEVELAND (030) (1898-1982)
Wedding 2: 2/28/1964, Erie, Pa.
Child 1: ROBERT WALLING MOSHER (009) ( - )
Child 2: NATALIE MOSHER (003) ( - )
Child 3: MARY LOU MOSHER (008) ( - )
Note: Buried in Erie Cemetery.
Was a banker. Vice-president of the First National Bank of Erie. Was
offered a bank presidency when he was about ready to retire. Got
juvenile diabetes at the age of 50. Born at home. Lived for a year in
New Mexico as a kid because of his mother's tuberculosis. Was a first
lieutenant in World War I, and apparently saw some pretty heavy
action, though no one seems to know much about this. Told me once he
was a gunner on board a WWI plane, but he may have been joking. Mom:
"He wasn't a gunner, he was a foot soldier, and a 1st Lieutenant. He
was trained in a WWI program where they trained officers in 90 days.
They called them '90-day wonders.'" And: "Dad almost died overseas -
in France - in WWI. He was sent to Marseille to recuperate from, I
believe, serious pneumonia." When he recovered he was sent back home,
in early 1919 - he was there about a year and a half, says Aunt Lulu.
His first fiancee died in the flu epidemic when he was in Europe
fighting. His parents died when he was 18, leaving him with a
9-year-old kid sister to take care of. He was an avid golf nut,
getting 2 holes-in-one in his lifetime. He got his picture in the
paper for being on the board of the Family and Child Service group,
and the board of the Red Cross, and for being an incorporator of St.
Vincent's Hospital, and for when he got promoted to Assistant Cashier
at the First National Bank. During the Depression, there wouldn't be
enough work at the bank so he'd come home at 3:00, which meant they
could head out to the beach at 3:30. Nice life. Mom: Kenneman's Bakery
was "about 3 blocks away, had wonderful cinnamon rolls that I've never
encountered since. They almost went under during the Depression and
Dad, the banker, helped them stay in business." And: "When WWII came
along Dad tried to enlist. He was too old, had a family, so they
didn't take him. When Mom found out what he had done she had a fit."
He had the same kind of positive attitude Aunt Annie had. I remember
he taught me to play Gin Rummy and ride a bike. "He was generally
cheerful and had a good outlook - I think he realized how lucky he was
to be alive. He could always cheer up Mom by giving her a hug or kiss
or even a whack on the fanny. She'd brighten right up."
I first find him in the Erie City Directory in 1915/16, the year
after his parants died: "Mosher Lewis S, student, bds 804 Poplar".
Aunt Annie and Grandma Adelia are there too. Aunt Belle also lived in
that house in those years. Hard to say where he was attending school.
I think he had to leave Cornell when his parents died. In 1916/17
it's: "Mosher Lewis S clk Second National Bank bds 804 Poplar", same
bank his father worked at. Aunt Annie's gone this year. In 1917/18
it's the same except he's listed as a bookkeeper. In 1918/19 he's a
bookkeeper (and Aunt Annie's back this year), then in 1919/20 he's a
clerk, then in 1920/21 he's a teller. This is also the year Aunt Belle
died. (For some reason he's there every year in spite of the war.)
He's in the 1921/22 Erie City Directory too: they're boarding at 592
W. 8th St.; he's a teller, Aunt Annie's a student. 592 W. 8th is on
the same block his future wife lived on.
The progression of events seems to be that first his grandfather
Orson died, then his parents died, then his grandmother died, then
Aunt Belle died. On top of that, his finacee died during the flu
epidemic when he was in Europe, and he himself almost died in the War.
The 1934 directory says "Mosher, Lewis S. (Marietta), asst cash
Natl Bank and Trust Co and sec Germer Stone Co h 716 Cherry". In the
entry for the National Bank and Trust Co., he is listed as one of 5
men, the others being the Chairman of the Board, the President, the
Vice-President, and the Vice-President-Cashier.
He was a Presbyterian (the Church of the Covenant), and a lifelong
Republican. His obit says he was a member of "Keystone Lodge 455, F. &
A.M., the Scottish Rites Bodies-Valley fo Erie, Zem Zem Temple Shrine,
the Lake Shore Country Club and the Erie Maennerchor." He retired in
1965, and died 3 days before I was going to fly back to Erie to visit
him. They were having dinner at the country club, and he just slumped
over at the table. He got juvenile diabetes when he was 50, but
Grandma didn't have the presence of mind to have an autopsy done so we
don't know what he died of. He and his second wife were at 358 W. 9th
when he died. (In 1925 he was living at 1023 W. 8th St.)
As for his first name, the executor of his great-grandfather's
will was named Lewis A. Saxton. The only other person I can find in
his family tree named Lewis was Charles Lewis, who married his
great-aunt Amanda Miner. Regarding his middle name, Grandpa said that
"Saxton" came from "Sexton".
His best friend was named Earl O'Connor. The night Grandpa was
married, Earl O'Connor and his girlfriend eloped. She was Catholic and
he wasn't, and in those days that meant something. I knew Mr. O'Connor
when I was a kid. They had a nice house, almost an estate, out next to
the lake. He had been in a wheelchair for many years, and they had an
elevator in their house so he could get upstairs. I remember going up
in it, it went awful slow. But he was one of the nicest guys you'd
ever want to meet.
Much of the info in this part of the family tree was taken from a
transcription of the Mosher family Bible that Aunt Lulu did. Like the
other family sources, it doesn't seem to contain anything after
Grandpa's birth in 1896.
ID: 028
Name: EMORY ANDREW SCOTT WALLING
Sex: M
Birth date: June 11, 1854
Birth place: Farm in Greene, Pa.
Date of death: Dec. 29, 1931
Place of death: 552 W. 8th St., Erie, Pa.
Age at death: 77 years, 6 months, 18 days.
Mother: LAURA ANN ELLIOTT (076) (1820-1895)
Father: THOMAS A. WALLING (075) (1793-1863)
Spouse: GRACE ELLEN MARSHALL (029) (1859-1945)
Wedding: 4/22 (21?)/1880
Child 1: WILLIAM BENSON WALLING (031) (1881-1966)
Child 2: RALPH GORDON WALLING (083) ( - )
Child 3: LAURA CORDELIA WALLING (032) (1890-1972)
Child 4: MARION ELIZABETH WALLING (082) (1896-1979)
Child 5: MARIETTA MARSHALL WALLING (011) (1897-1962)
Note: Middle name may have been Arthur.
He was a justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. "He would have
been the next chief justice of the state supreme court, had he lived."
says his obituary. This can be read in one of two ways: if the
incumbent Chief Justice died, Judge Walling would have succeeded him;
or he was set to become Chief Justice soon no matter what. It turns
out Robert S. Frazer was Chief Justice from 1930-36, and Judge Walling
died in 1931, so the first explanation must be the right one. Thanks
to Scott Coyle and politicalgraveyard.com for this info.
"The leading citizen in Erie", says Mom. Someone tried to get him
to run for Governor once. Born in Erie County, Pa. Grew up on a farm
in North East Twp., Pa. Took a cold bath every day. Had a memory like
an elephant. If you came up before him, he could rattle off all your
previous convictions from memory. Died in his sleep the night of
12/29/1931. Aunt Lulu says he was "owned" by some railroad.
Aunt Lulu also says he set a precedent on a case where some
elderly person signed their name BELOW the dotted line on some
document, rather than ON it. He ruled it was still valid, since the
intent was clear. The precedent stands today.
"Early in his first judicial term he presided over the famous
murder case of Commonwealth vs. Heidler which resulted in execution by
hanging (only the second of this county) after the case had been
carried to the Supreme Court (191 Pa. 375). In this case the Supreme
Court adopted, in ipsissimis verbis," - in the same wording - "Judge
Walling's charge on insanity which then stood out as the standard on
this subject matter in criminal law. On the Supreme Court, Justice
Walling substantially held up his end of the appellate work as
referenced to Supreme Court Report (251 Pa. through 305 Pa.). He was
seen by his contemporaries as a 'lawyer's lawyer' and 'a legal genius
possessed of the common touch.'
"He was a most companionable and charmming associate, and an
exceedingly useful member of this Court, an industrious, careful
worker, as his many opinions testify, always prompt in disposing of
matters referred to him. As an example of his industry, he had written
opinions in all cases assigned to him during our last session, and at
the time of his death left no unfinished Court work." From "Memoirs of
the Erie County Bench and Bar", v. 2; this last paragraph is from a
memorial of him from the minutes of the Supreme Court of PA after his
death.
"History of Erie County", 1925: "Emory A. Walling's educational
training was obtained in the public schools, State Normal School,
Edinboro, and Lake Shore Seminary, North East." Edinboro is in
Washington Twp.; some of Grace E. Marshall's relatives seem to have
lived there once. "In 1878 he successfully took the bar examination
and began professional work in Erie County, Pa., there gaining a
degree of legal prominence and public favor that resulted in his
election as district attorney of that county."
Admitted to the Erie Bar on 9/4/1878. He didn't go to law school -
in those days most law students read law in the office of an
established lawyer, like an apprentice. Got elected D. A. in 1881.
(1881 was also the year the first open revolt was made against the
power structure of Sen. Simon Cameron, a corrupt Civil War figure in
the Pennsylvamia Republican party.) Served til he got elected as a
Republican to the State Senate in 1884. Served four years, then went
back to private practice. In Nov. 1896 got elected as, and in 1897
became, President Judge of the 6th Judicial District. Got re-elected
in 1906. Was named to the supreme court in Philadelphia on 1/3/1916
(or maybe 1/23/1915). Was in the Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Knights
of Pythias, the Grange, the Elks, etc. Eric Marshall says he was one
of the two or three most important Masons in the state, and helped to
build the Masonic temple in Erie. An announcement of his death put out
by the Masons says he was crowned an Active member of the Supreme
Council in Atlantic City on 11/16/1928. The Supreme Council is the
governing body of the Masons, so he was really one of the most
important ones in the country. Was a lifelong Republican, and a
Methodist. Got an honorary L. L. D. degree from Allegheny in 1920. He
rated a paragraph in the Who's Who for 1930. His death of a heart
attack got a front-page banner headline in the Erie Daily Times,
12/30/1931, Night Final Edition, price two cents. Was buried in Erie
Cemetery. There were about 40 honorary pallbearers at his funeral. All
his associate justices attended except one who was ill.
Note that the dates above, which came from his obit, don't match
up too well with the info from the Erie City Directories. 1878 seems
to be his first appearance: "Walling E A, law student with Benson &
Brainerd, rooms 31 North Park". He doesn't show up again til 1882:
"Walling E A, of Simon (?) & Walling, h 400 (?) W 7th". 1883: "Walling
E A, district attorney, h n w cor 10th and Chest". 1884/85: "Walling E
A, district attorney, o s s" - office south side - "fifth app Court
House, h n w cor 10th & Chestnut". 1885 is the same except he's called
an attorney-at-law. Ditto 1886. 1887: "Walling E A, of Vincent &
Walling and State Senator, h 407 Chestnut". 1888 is the same. 1889:
"Walling E A, atty at law, o 714 State, h 407 Chestnut"; and he had
$2000 of property in Ward 4 that year. His listing is the same in 1890
thru 1893; and in 1891 he's assessed $1700 in Ward 4. By 1894 he's on
the executive committee of the Erie Bar Association, and in 1894 and
1895 he's "Walling E A, of Lamb and Walling, h 407 Chestnut", and in
1896 it adds that they're in rooms 6, 7, and 8 of the Penn Bldg. In
1895 E A Walling of Ward 4 had $3,300 property, so he was quite
affluent by that time. In 1897 the Hon Emory A Walling is an Erie
County Judge, at 552 W. 8th now. Wm B Walling, student, boarder, is
also listed. Ditto 1898, and Marshall, Marietta, Miss, dept. register
and recorder, is boarding there too (this is Aunt Ettie). There are
also two servants. And in 1898 he was assessed $7,725 (still in Ward
4). By 1901, he was up to $8,023, and Ralph G., student, is boarding
with him, too.
In 1902/03, he's listed as President Judge of Erie Co. Court
House, still on W. 8th. Ditto next year. In 1904, he was assessed
$8023. In 1906/07 it also lists his office as on the 2nd floor of the
courthouse, and he's got Mutual Phone. In 1907, on 8th near Cherry, he
was assessed $7,831. By 1907/08 he seems also to have Bell phone. The
next year his office is at 8 Court House where he's got Bell, and at
home he's got Mutual. In 1909/10 he's "Presiding Judge Erie Co.
Courts, 552 W 8th, Mutual". In the same year there's an Orpha Soper,
domestic, listed there; also, he's listed as a member of the executive
committee of the Erie County Bar Association. Next 2 years his address
and title are the same; and in 1911 his property assessment was
$8,345. I didn't do as thorought a search of the later directories,
but in 1921/22 he's "Walling, Emory A, Hon" - that's in big letters -
"Justice of the Supreme Court of Pa 552 W 8th Mutual Phone".
The info sent me by the Pa. Senate Library differs in a couple of
particluars from the above, notably that he served there "1885, 1888",
implying that it was two separate terms (The 1947-1948 Pennsylvania
Manual). Also, he "was district attorney of Erie County for three
years, commencing January, 1882; elected to the Senate, 1884."
(Smull's Legislative Handbook, 1888.)
Jane Moorhead Luschwitz sent me a typewritten version of what's
apparently an article from the North East Breeze, 7/28/1966, which
describes how a "testimonial" (diploma?) granted by Lake Shore
Seminary to Emory A. in 1875 was given by Aunt Laura to the museum in
North East. Probably it was written by Ralph Hartley who was a
historian of sorts in North East and who wrote Aunt Laura a letter on
the subject 7/22/1966 (e-mailed me by Scott Coyle 2/4/09), in which he
indicates the diploma was displayed in the front window of the
National Bank on W. Main St. in North East for a couple weeks; and he
had a couple of photostats made. No telling where it is now. "He
started life in Greenfield Township", says the 7/28/1966 article.
"Never attended school until age 12, when a visiting school teacher
inspired him to get an education." The 1860 census, though, lists him
as being in school, at age 7. Maybe he stopped out for a while. "His
father died when Emory was nine leaving the mother with five small
children and many difficulties.
"After grade school in a typical old-time, one-room affair, Emory
enrolled at Lake Shore Seminary where he was janitor to pay his
expenses. After graduation he attended Edinboro Normal, then studied
law with a prominent Erie lawyer and was admitted to the bar in 1878.
"He became District Attorney for Erie County at age 42, defeating
the prominent Democratic attorney who had taught him law." This
appears to be a mistake. He was 42 in 1896, but that was the year he
was elected President Judge; he was elected DA in 1881. His teacher
William Benson was in fact in a messy election but that was in 1876
against Wiliam Galbraith.
"After 20 years on the county bench, he was elected to the State
Supreme Court where he served 15 years to his death in 1931. He was in
line to be Chief Justice and would not retire even at age 77.
"Allegheny College awarded him an honorary LLD in 1920; He was
married to a North East girl, Grace Marshall and had his summer home
at 'Eastwood' in West Sidehill Road for 42 years.
"Five of the six children born in the log cabin lived to old age."
They must be talking about Thomas Walling's second family. "Their
descendants are numerous and prosperous in today's world....
"As for the diploma or testimonial it shows Emory was enrolled in
a scientific course. Somehow he decided in favor of the law.
"Lake Shore Seminary had both a principal and a preceptress.
Penmanship and music and drawing were featured so that cultural
attainments were available, in addition to more down to earth subjects
like history, commerce, higher English, mathematics and geography."
From the Wattsburg Sentinel, Thursday, Nov. 10, 1892: "On Friday
night of last week, Hon. E. A. Walling made one of the finest speeches
we have ever listened to on the issues of the campaign from the
Republican stand point. If his argument had contained nothing more
than his eulogism of Abraham Lincoln and the honor paid to the boys in
blue for their service to their country and homes, everyone who lived
in the troublous times of '61 to '64, with hearts that beat with
patriotism, must have honored the man and many who were present said,
'I have known him from boyhood up, and if you had you would have known
he would be a great man some day.' The only draw back was to have a
place for him to speacd. (sic) 'Tis true the people from this end of
the state has (sic) always felt as though the Senate chamber at
Harrisburg was honored when Erie county's distinguished son, E. A.
Walling was a member of the Senate. The carpets of finest Brussels,
and seats of upholstered plush, and desks of polished walnut, never
rebelled on account of his presence, not even the carving around the
speakers desk or the rare pictures of Pennsylvania's greatness
objected to him, nor do we know that the clapboards, or seats, or
railing around the alter (sic) or little cabinet organ, or even the
steeple of the sacred edifice in Lowville objected to Mr. Walling
talking upon the great issues of the day. Only the keyholder to the
entrance to the only building convenient for a gathering, where such
vital interests were at stake, said No Sir! Such sacrilege will never
be allowed. But thanks to the Knights of Honor, or at least a part of
them, a suitable place was obtained in their hall in the school
building...." Wattsburg and Lowville are just south of Greenfield,
which is just south of North East.
There's an article from the Erie Daily Times, 1/1/1908, where it
says that at 11 AM that day members of the Erie County Bar Assoc.
called upon the venerable former Judge Vincent and exchanged their
best New Year's greetings, then "called upon Judge E. A. Walling
afterwards and shook hands with the honored and esteemed incumbent of
the high office of president judge.
"Judge Walling had a hearty hand-shake and a kindly word of good
will and fellowship for each one." There's a picture of him too.
Columnist Jay James in the Erie paper: "Justice Emory A. Walling
had a most remarkable memory for names and faces. He developed this
during his many years of presiding in the local courts. Woe betide the
criminal who falsified as he stepped up for sentence, pleading that it
was his 'first offense'. Judge Walling had but to look at him and his
keen, legal mind would recall his previous offense, their degree and
what disposition was made of them. Nearly everybody on the lower West
Side knew Justice Walling. He would walk that section each day--rain
or shine. He got to know the tots on the street and spoke to them all.
A big kindly soul. One of the political episodes in the life of
Justice Walling happened in the old Times office. The late Boise
Penrose called the editor--F. S. Phelps by long distance and had held
the phone while Mr. Phelps walked down to the courthouse to ask Judge
Walling if he'd run for Governor of Pennsylvania. Judge Walling,
refused despite the fact that a selection by Penrose was a sure
winner. Judge Walling preferred the judiciary to the administrative
end of a state office."
Anne Sawdey Coyle: "Because he was next in line to be the Chief
Justice, his Pennsylvania car license was number two. Imagine how
important we grandchildren thought we were when our grandparents' La
Salle or Packard car driven by their chauffeur took us for a ride."
Scott Coyle says policemen would salute the occupants when they drove
by.
They built a big house at 552 West 8th Street, with live-in
servants, a ballroom on the third floor, a dumbwaiter (fun for the
kids to go up and down in), a closet the size of a normal room, etc.
It was the first house in Erie to have electric lights, in about 1902.
Mom says up on the second floor there was a solarium at one end, a big
sun-room that went all the way across the house, where Aunt Ettie used
to stay when she came visiting from Florida. Anne Sawdey Coyle: "To us
this house was a palace. And you treated it like a palace! When you
went to visit these grandparents, you got CLEANED UP FIRST! No play
clothes, no dirty hands, no dirty faces! You were expected to act like
'little ladies and gentlemen'. You rang the doorbell which was
answered by Vera, the long time deaf maid. She knew there was someone
at the door because she could feel the vibration on the kitchen floor.
She would look at a box on the kitchen wall. An arrow would point to
the name of the door or the name of the room from where the bell was
ringing.
"Once inside our grandparent's house the contrast between this
house and our was very evident. Everything looked as though the
cleaning lady had just walked out the door. Everything was spotless!
Not a thing out of place! The house with its large oak trimmed rooms
had been built for my grandparents. It consisted of four floors - all
of them built for a useful purpose.
"Our grandparents were both nice people. They loved their
grandchildren, I am sure, but they were just not demonstrative. They
were this way with their children as well as their grandchildren. As
an example - when Mother was at Wheaton Seminary she received a
letter, which she saved, from her father. It read as follows:
"September 13, 1910
"Dear Laura;
"Please find enclosed check of $225.00 as per our talk.
"Sincerely yours,
"Emory A. Walling
"Our dad would have written, 'Here is the money you asked for. Do
not spend it all in one place.' He would also have signed the letter,
'Love, Dad.'"
All their children except Ralph, the Navy man, lived nearby. Aunt
Laura and my grandmother lived around the corner on Cherry St., and
Aunt Marian lived at Seventh and Cherry. Uncle Will lived less than a
mile away 1214 W. Tenth. Even Uncle Ralph's daughter Mary stayed with
her grandparents a lot because her parents moved around so much.
When he died, none of the grandchildren were allowed to go to the
funeral. They went anyway - several of the young-uns lined up on the
street to watch the casket go by. A couple of the older ones got
punished for it.
Anne Sawdey Coyle: "By the way, all of us" - Aunt Laura's
daughters - "were named by our maternal grandfather. Mother said that
when the babies were born, our grandfather would give my parents a
list of acceptable names. Going back through the names of our
ancestors you can find previous ancestors with the same names. This
applies to all of us except me. There are neither Annes nor Elizabeths
anywhere on our family tree." I discovered that Grace Ellen Marshall
did indeed have an aunt named Elizabeth Marshall, and maybe another
aunt Ann Marshall. Of Anne's sisters, Jane Elliott Sawdey had a
great-aunt Ruby (Roby?) Jane Walling and a great-grandmother Laura
Anna Elliott; Harriet Lee Sawdey was named after her father Harry Lee;
and Esther Scott Sawdey had a great-aunt Asenath Esther Walling. Aunt
Laura herself was named after her grandmother Laura Cordelia Edgerton,
who had an aunt Laura Edgerton, who had an older first cousin named
Laura Edgerton. Uncle Will had an uncle William Marshall, but he was
mostly named after William Benson, an Erie banker. On my side of the
family, Grandma's name Marietta can be traced thru Mariette Marshall
(Aunt Ettie) to Maria Marshall, and also to Grace Ellen Marshall's
Aunt Maryette Edgerton; Aunt Lulu's name Mary Lou is a combination of
her mother's name Marietta and her father's Lewis; my brother's first
name is Lewis and my other brother Roger's middle name is Walling; and
my middle name Robert must have come mostly from my dad, but can also
be traced thru Uncle Bob back to his great-grandfather Robert W.
Marshall, and to his father Robert Marshall, the immigrant.
Most of the info here about Emory A.'s ancestors comes from a
12-page "Genealogy of the Walling Family", published apparently in
1908. It goes all the way back to 1675. Apparently someone has been
copying the genealogy down and adding to it every couple of
generations since then. The first part of it was written by Thomas
Walling, b. 1793.
After he got affluent they bought a farm of 160 acres in Northeast
Twp. on the south side of the highway. Not all of it was developed, so
there were streams and stuff on it. They had pigs and chickens and
hosses and cows. The pigs were smart, the cows and the chickens were
dumb. The 14 grandchildren would come out in the summertime. The cows
were kept in a barn-sized milking shed, and then Dan Thompson, who ran
the place, would use a hand-driven apparatus to separate the milk from
the cream. There was a big grindstone they used to sharpen knives.
There was a sleeping porch where the kids could sleep. During
thunderstorms the whole porch would rattle and shake. There was a hay
loft which you could jump down from onto a big pile of hay. Mom says
Natalie Hall's mom lost a ruby ring in that haystack, which has still
never been found. They had blocks of ice covered with sawdust, which
kept them frozen all summer. When Judge Walling died, they sold the
place to Dan. His widow Flossie is still alive in 1995 at age 97 and
she's the only person who still lives on that farm.
Anne Sawdey Coyle: "One of the reasons that Grandfather bought the
farm was because he loved to walk. In Erie he walked early mornings
and late afternoons. It was his late afternoon strolls that interested
his grandchildren. Why? Because, if we could be near the corner
drugstore when he stopped in to buy his newspaper, he might just
invite us in and tell the soda jerk to give us a Mexican Sundae....
"Another treat was when Grandfather and Grandmother Walling took
their entire family (quite a group when you realize that, not counting
their own children with their spouses there were fourteen
grandchildren) to the Lawrence Hotel for Christmas dinner. In our own
private dining room with all of being dressed to the nines we must
have been a stunning sight. Unfortunately no pictures of these gala
dinners were taken. Only professionals took indoor pictures when we
were growing up."
His death certificate says he died of carotid (?) hemmorhage, and
that he died around 1 A. M. on the 30th. The doctor had seen him just
the day before. It also says he was born in Greenfield Twp., though
his obit says Greene Twp. The obit also says he died at midnight on
the 29th.
Scott Coyle: "His picture is on the back wall of Courtroom No. 1 at
the Erie County Court House." E-mail, 12/17/03.
ID: 029
Name: GRACE ELLEN MARSHALL
Sex: F
Birth date: Apr. 5, 1859
Birth place: North East Twp, Pa.
Date of death: Feb. 22, 1945
Place of death: Erie, Pa.
Age at death: 85 years, 10 months, 17 days.
Mother: LAURA CORDELIA EDGERTON (533) (1836-1921)
Father: ROBERT WILLIAM MARSHALL (041) (1838-1899)
Spouse: EMORY ANDREW SCOTT WALLING (028) (1854-1931)
Wedding: 4/22/1880
Child 1: WILLIAM BENSON WALLING (031) (1881-1966)
Child 2: RALPH GORDON WALLING (083) ( - )
Child 3: LAURA CORDELIA WALLING (032) (1890-1972)
Child 4: MARION ELIZABETH WALLING (082) (1896-1979)
Child 5: MARIETTA MARSHALL WALLING (011) (1897-1962)
Born on Roger's birthday. Saw the train carrying Lincoln's body when
it came through Erie. They held her up above the crowd so she could
see it.
She is said to have had a memory like an elephant, just like her
husband. She grew up on a farm in Northeast Twp., not far from the one
her husband grew up on. The farm was later owned by her nephew Roger
Marshall and his wife Adelaide.
She actually had six kids, not five. There was also a daughter who
didn't live - stillborn, says Mom - and was buried in the backyard
without being named. This was the scene of great consternation later
when they had to move into the big house. She may have been in the gap
in the birth order between Uncle Ralph and Aunt Laura, or between Aunt
Laura and Aunt Marion. Now, from the Erie City Directories, they seem
to have built the big house at 552 W. 8th about 1896. My grandmother,
who was born in 1897, on the other hand, remembered the earlier house
rather dimly, according to Aunt Lulu, which implies they may have
moved away from it about 1899. In any case, the earlier address was
407 Chestnut, at the northwest corner of 10th and Chestnut, where they
first appear in 1883.
Now, in the death register for the Erie city directory, 1883/84, I
find an Etta Elviron Wallin who died of pneumonia at 1 year 7 months
on 6/3/1882. That means she would have been born about December 1880.
There was only one Walling family in Erie then, and the Etta makes it
very possible that she was named after Aunt Ettie like Grandma was.
Now, the Erie Cemetery has a child who died 6/3/1882 at 19 months; but
the name is Ebba E. Wallin, not Etta; and she's buried in a lone
grave, not on a family plot. Another problem: Uncle Will's birthdate
was 2/12/1881, only about 3 months later. The Erie library has no
obituary for her. I've checked all the death registers up thru March
1898, and there are no other likely-looking candidates. Whoever has
the Walling Bible could probably clear this up. Another approach would
be to go to 407 Chestnut St. and see if her grave is still there.
Grandma Walling was a teetotaler, in contrast to the alcoholism
elsewhere in her family. In those days you either drank too much or
you didn't drink at all.
One of Eric Marshall's friends on the Grahamville Cemetery board
went to a party at the Walling house once. "The girls were all
pretty", he says. (E-mail, 11/27/2000.)
Grace E. is 1 year old in the 1860 census, and 10 in 1870.
She was bedridden for 8 or 10 years after she broke her hip. Mom
says she could be difficult. She always enjoyed visits from Grandpa
(he was an easy guy to like) but sometimes Grandma (her daughter)
would come and visit her and she wouldn't even remember it. Her death
certificate says she died of apoplexy (stroke). She was buried two
days later in Erie Cemetery.
ID: 031
Name: WILLIAM BENSON WALLING
Sex: M
Birth date: Feb. 12, 1881
Birth place: North East, Pa.
Date of death: June 11, 1966
Place of death: Erie, Pa.
Age at death: 85 years, 3 months, 30 days.
Mother: GRACE ELLEN MARSHALL (029) (1859-1945)
Father: EMORY ANDREW SCOTT WALLING (028) (1854-1931)
Spouse: ANNA MARIE BOSTWICK (042) (1881-1960)
Wedding: 11/30/1909
Child 1: HENRIETTA GRACE WALLING (550) (1910-1992)
Child 2: ELLEN ELIZABETH WALLING (551) (1912-1985)
Child 3: JEAN KIRKPATRICK WALLING (552) (1918-1987)
Note: Uncle Will.
One of the first students to graduate from Stanford, in 1903. He may
have gone out to California because of his health - he was always kind
of sickly and skinny. He takes some ribbing about it in the Stanford
yearbooks. 1902: "And a great big fat man said : 'Oh golly ! For
heaven's sake, just look at Wally !'" And this limerick appears in
1904:
There is a young fellow named Walling
Whose thinness is fairly apalling ;
His angles, alas !
Cut his friends as they pass ,
A circumstance really most galling !
The other Wallings of that generation had that angular appearance,
too.
He was admitted to the bar 10/28/1907 (from "History of Erie
County", by Reed, at Sutro).
"He was a Gridley Volunteer serving in World War I.... His hobbies
included the study of and speaking engagements about the derivations
of Anglo-Saxon surnames." From Memoirs of the Erie Count Bench and
Bar, vol. 2, 2000, from the Erie County Bar Foundation.
He had a memory like his parents'. Was a law librarian, but he
didn't keep a card catalog, he kept it all in his head, according to a
newspaper article we have. Aunt Lulu says that after his eyes went bad
(serious myopia, which probably could be corrected today) his father
got him a job at the law library. Seems like a strange job for someone
with bad eyes, but he knew what was in the law books so well he could
just rely on his memory. I knew him when I was a kid and he was a
little old man with a cane. He was a likeable old guy.
The article, apparently from the Erie Daily Times: "Members of the
Erie County Bar Association are proud of their new library in the
county courthouse--one of the most extensive collections of legal
tomes in the country.
"They are also very glad to have available as librarian William
Benson Walling, son of the late Judge Emory A. Walling.
"Always Ready to Help
"The law librarian, better known as 'Will', is as modest and
self-effacing as they come, but he has legal knowledge surpassed by
none of his association brothers, and he's always ready and willing to
furnish help to practically anyone who seeks it.
"Will's legal library now contains about 13,500 volumes, valued at
around $50,000, and and he not only can locate any of the tomes at a
minute's notice, but he can tell you what's in them. He does all this
without the aid of an index of any sort. All Will needs is the index
he carries in his head.
"Younger attorneys find Will especially helpful.
"'Will', they may ask, 'where can I find something in a hurry on
the protection of domestic water supplies in the state?'
"Digs Out Information
"Will will probably dig out the Laws of Pennsylvania, Volume Two,
1937, where the required information can be found.
"The library contains many rare volumes, oldest of which is the
Report of Cases in Pennsylvania Courts, printed in Philadelphia back
in 1806....
"Will not only makes himself valuable to many a lawyer who needs
some facts to iron out a case, but he'll go out of his way to aid the
general public. He recently spent most of the afternoon digging
through an encyclopedia to get the detailed information on the history
of American railroads for a gentleman preparing a magazine article.
"Will is the son of the late judge Emory A. Walling, who died Dec.
30, 1931, while serving his 16th year on the bench of the Pennsylvania
Supreme Court.
"Will was born in North East on Feb. 12, 1881, and was graduated
from old Erie High School in 1899 and from Stanford University in
1903. He entered the law office of T. A. Lamb after leaving college
and, in 1907, was admitted to practice in Erie County courts. Faulty
vision subsequently moved Will to give up active legal practice, and
on Jan. 1, 1931, he was appointed librarian..."
The "History of Erie County", 1925, says he graduated from Erie
High School in 1899, then went to Stanford and graduated in 1903. "He
then read law in the office of T. A. Lamb, Erie, and was admitted to
the bar in 1907....
"In 1909 Mr. Walling was married to Miss Anna M. Bostwick, of
Erie, the daughter of Charles F. and Henrietta (Riblet) Bostwick. The
Riblets were one of the pioneer families of Erie County, having
settled here in 1806." Their kids Henrietta and Ellen went to Gridley
High School, and Jean Kirkpatrick was in kindergarten.
"Mr. Walling is a Republican, a member of the University Club and
belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is secretary of
the Optimist club and belongs to the Chamber of Commerce."
Cousin Barbara Reeder of Los Gatos, CA has a letter Uncle Will
wrote to his Aunt Cora Marshall Greenman and Uncle Will (James Wlliam)
Greenman on their 64th anniversary. (We have a picture of this event).
It's typewritten on Erie County Law Library stationary, dated Feb. 20,
1946. It starts out with an excerpt from an old newspaper:
"ITEM FROM THE NORTH EAST SUN of February 25, 1882.
"Mr. and Mrs. Robert William Marshall of the Findley's Lake Road
announced the marriage of their daughter, Cora Edgerton, to Mr. James
William Greenman, the son of Mrs. Clarissa More Greenman of Greenman
Hill. The ceremony was performed at the home of the bride on
Wednesday, February 22, at 8 o'clock, with the pastor of the Little
Hope Baptist Church officiating. The bride has been employed as a
teacher at the Frog Pond School, and Mr. Greenman is an orchestra
leader, having but recently returned from a nation-wide tour with the
Greenman Melody Boys. The young couple will be at home in their new
house at Grahamville after March the first.
- - - - - - - - - - - - -
"Mr. and Mrs. James W. Greenman
"11124 South Hoyne Avenue
"Chicago, Illinois
"Dear Aunt Cora and Uncle Will:
"If this notice or a similar one did not appear in the North East
paper of sixty-four years ago it must have been the fault of your
publicity agent. It is a far cry from 1882 and the Findley's Lake Road
to 1946 and South Hoyne Avenue, and equally far from the little red
schoolhouse at Bird's Corners to the swank Morgan Park Military
Academy, but you both have bravely bridged the gap and have been happy
and successful at both ends of the line. And so from all of us here go
congratulations and felicitations to all of you there -- a 64th
wedding anniversary is a momentous and rare occasion, especially so
when it finds both principals in such good health and spirits.
"I very much appreciated your letter which arrived on my birthday
anniversary. The number 65 reminds me that much more of my life is in
the past than in the future and that, in truth, I am hitting the
Sunset Trail, as they used to say in the old West. Personally I am
very well satisfied to have lived the greater part of my life at the
time in which I have, as I believe the last fifty years a far more
desirable period than the next fifty will be -- it seems to me there
are stormy seas ahead. I was very much interested in what you wrote
about the million dollar baby arriving on time. I still persist in
being on time and that is one of the few virtues I can claim for
myself. I understand that I arrived on a Saturday at the propitious
hour of high noon, and that the merry hand of the dial was on the very
point of twelve as I made my advent in this vale of tears and sadness.
All the information I have ever received on the subject indicates that
I was an exceptionally cross baby, but I am sure that the amiableness
of my later years has more than made amends. Anna and the rest of our
household join me in wishing for you the most enjoyable of anniversary
celebrations.
"Sincerely,
"Wm. B. Walling
Uncle Will is listed in 4 of the early Palo Alto directories. In
the 1899-1900 Stanford University and Palo Alto Directory, under New
Students, is: "Walling, William Benson, Encina 76". Encina is a hall
near Hoover Tower. In the Palo Alto City Directory for 1900/1901, is
"Walling, W B, student, 405 Emerson st". 405 Emerson is a parking lot
now. In the Palo Alto City Directory for 1901/1902, it's "Walling, W
B, student, 405 Emerson street". In the Directory of Palo Alto and
Stanford University, Jan. 1903, in the On Campus section, is "Walling,
W. B., student, 4 Salvatierra St." That's in the residential south
part of the campus.
The Stanford student directories mostly corroborate the above.
They say he majored in English. The 1st semester 1899/1900 dir says he
lived at 56 Encina. 405 Emerson was the Kappa Sigma fraternity house.
By Oct. 1902 he was at 132 Encina. In Feb. 1903 he's back at Kappa
Sigma, but it's at 12A Lasuen now; and he seems to be behind in his
progress toward his degree by 7 hours. By Oct. 1903 he's not listed.
The 1901 Stanford yearbook lists him as the only member of the
class of '03 in Kappa Sigma. There were only about 10 people there
total, maybe the chapter was just getting started. He's alwas an
English major in the yearbooks, no mention of the law. In 1904 he's a
graduate with his degree in English. There are pictures of him in 1902
and 1904, and two in 1903.
Uncle Will is nonetheless listed in the Erie City Directory for
1897 and for 1902/03, 03/04, & 05/06 as a student boarding at his
father's house. In 1907 he was taxed $705, listed at 5th near Parade,
ward 1. Maybe that's where he worked, since in 1907/08 he's still
boarding with his parents, a law student in the office of T. A. Lamb.
In 1909/10 he's an "attorney-at-law, 9-11 Wayne Blk 725 State, Mutual,
bds 552 W 8th". Ditto 1910/11 except now he boards at 431 W 11th.
1911/12: "Walling Wm B (Anna B), lawyer, 708 State, Mutual phone, bds
431 W 11th, Mutual".
The T. A. Lamb he studied law with must be the one who was his
father's law partner. And Uncle Will must be named after William
Benson whith whom his father studied law, though neither of these
things is mentioned in Judge Walling's book.
His death certificate confirms the death date and says his mailing
address was 1214 W. 10th in Erie, his SSN was 188-36-3125 (and
ancestry.com's SSDI confirms the birthdate, as does his granddaughter
Jane Luschwitz), he died of heart disease with Chronic Brain Syndrome
as a contributory factor, and the arragements were done by the Burton
Funeral Home. The informant was Mrs. Cyrus Moorhead of 6722 Buffalo
Rd., Harborcreek, which is the address where he died.
His obit says he was survived by three daughters, Mrs. Cyrus W.
Moorhead, Ellen Walling, and Mrs. Lindley R. McClelland. Lindley
McClelland was a conservative judge in Erie whose name I heard on TV
once when I was there at age 14. Uncle Will lived at 1214 W. 10th when
he died.
Uncle Will was a good writer as the above letter demonstrates. He
wrote a poem for me when I was born, which Mom pulled out and showed
me on my twenty-fifth birthday, though it seems to have been misplaced
in the intervening years. Now Mom doesn't even remember it. Jane
Luschwitz sent me three poems he wrote, full of imagery about fall and
winter:
September
In fair September's pleasant days,
With ripened fruit and golden maize,
The flowers now reach their highest peak,
And grow more brilliant week by week.
The purple grapes on leafy vine
Perfume the bracing air like wine,
As lake-borne breezes sweep ahead,
And over all their freshness spread.
The fruit of which the poets sang
Must be the apple with its tang,
Of all aromas known, this wins,
The smell of apples stored in bins.
The trees are laden to the top,
With peaches as their luscious crop,
While squash and pumpkins, plums and pears,
Take prizes at the County Fairs.
The horn of plenty overflows,
As nature's finest hand she shows,
With ripened fruit and golden maize,
In fair September's mellow days.
November
In cool November's dull gray light,
With fallen leaves and birds in flight,
Neath bluish haze and hazel shade,
The drowsing landscape is displayed.
Like an inverted bowl of gray,
Low hanging clouds obscure the day,
And filter through a mellow glow,
That softens all the world below.
In lessened song and sober tone,
(The brilliant songbirds all have flown),
The winter birds sound muted note,
As through the leafless trees they float.
When southern winds and warmer days,
Bring Indian Summer's deeper haze,
Then standing still seem earth and sky,
As if afraid to live or die.
Late autumn brings its brooding spells,
And every year the tale retells,
With fallen leaves and birds in flight,
In cool November's dull gray light.
Winter Woodland
The winter woodland seems austere,
Yet magic beauty lingers here;
This photograph with rare success
Has reproduced this loveliness.
The sun through mingled tree-tops sifts
Its light on alabaster drifts
And lacy shadows etched in gray
Set fresh designs each sunlit day.
While winter birds here softly sing,
As through the frosted air they wing,
The summer birds majestic paeans
Float o'er the farthest Caribbeans.
The northwest wind sweeps to a gale
And stormy petrels lose the trail,
Then clouds and snow and tossing trees
In one cold gray all seem to freeze.
The sunset colors tinge the snow
With gold and blue in mingled glow,
And when the night on day intrudes
Then come those purple solitudes.
He also wrote the following poem, entitled "The Lake", which must be
about Lake Eire, sent me by Scott Coyle in an e-mail dated 2/8/2009.
Esther Lennertz and Harriet Sawdey found it in a box with a treasure
trove of pictures, documents, letters, etc.
No line can trace, no verses show
The beauty of her sunset glow,
As cheerful days to night unfold,
Mid bright patines of shim'ring gold.
Her summer hues of tender blue
That gently beckon me and you,
In autumn storms become deep gray,
As leaden skies hold back the day.
Then surging billows pound the sand,
And crush the work of man's frail hand.
In wintry cold her spray will freeze
On rocks and piles and poplar trees,
And iridescent suns will glow
In winter's jewels of icy snow.
A lake that answers human needs
As hungry, thirsty man she feeds,
A lake upon whose bosom floats
A mighty caravan of boats,
A freighter of ten thousand tons,
A birch canoe that swiftly runs.
Across whose white-capped waters ply
Huge coal boats with a year's supply,
Whose sylphlike yachts and snow-white sails
Dip low before September's gales.
A lake whose rippling waters flow
Round jutting point and crescent bow,
And, uncomplaining, sweeps away
The refuse of each human day.
I've sailed the lake, swam o'er its bars,
And from its beaches watched the stars.
In boyhood days it seemed a friend,
And more so now at life's far end.
ID: 032
Name: LAURA CORDELIA WALLING
Sex: F
Birth date: Dec. 11, 1890
Birth place: Erie, Pa.
Date of death: Mar. 29, 1972
Place of death: Erie, Pa.
Age at death: 81 years, 3 months, 18 days.
Mother: GRACE ELLEN MARSHALL (029) (1859-1945)
Father: EMORY ANDREW SCOTT WALLING (028) (1854-1931)
Spouse: HARRY LEE SAWDEY (033) (1890-1949)
Wedding: 1913
Child 1: JANE ELLIOTT SAWDEY (040) (1915-1996)
Child 2: GRACE MAYNARD SAWDEY (553) ( - )
Child 3: ANNE ELIZABETH SAWDEY (554) (1918-2002)
Child 4: HARRIET LEE SAWDEY (555) ( - )
Child 5: ESTHER SCOTT SAWDEY (556) ( - )
Note: Aunt Laura
Nice old lady. Was a photography nut. Lived around the corner from my
grandparents (the L. S. Moshers) at 943 W. 9th Street in Erie when I
was a kid.
Aunt Laura's daughter Anne Elizabeth Sawdey Coyle wrote a short
book called "A Family on Cherry Street" about growing up in Erie.
Their house was two doors down from Grandma's on Cherry then. Her
basement "contained a washing machine and a washboard". I remember a
washboard in Grandma's basement, too. "Because there were no electric
clothes dryers back then, the wet clothes hung in the cellar drying
with the heat of the furnace in winter, and in the backyard drying
with the heat of the sun in summer." They used those old springless
clothespins then.
"The kitchen in our house was Mother's domain. To say that mother
was a good cook is putting it mildly. She was an excellent coook!"
Even today her cookbook is still passed around in her family. I
remember when we went to Erie, she came over to visit, and when she
was leaving, she asked Rog, who was about 9 then, what his favorite
food was. He said turkey. When we went over to her house for dinner,
she had cooked him a turkey.
"Mother always had help with the housework. (Maids were paid five
dollars a week with Sunday and Thursday afternoon off.) Our family
always went out for dinner on Thursdays because there was no maid to
help in the kitchen. Can you imagine that with four daughters there
was no one to do the work!
"Anyway we always looked forward to these meals out. We all got
dressed up and met Dad downtown where there were numerous good
restaurants. I can still remember being allowed to order ice tea when
we ate at the restaurant. At home it was milk, milk, milk to fatten us
up." Everybody on that side of the family is skinny. "Of course, we
never drank pop. It just wasn't available the way it is now.
"Mother, with Dad's help, or the other way around, made grape
juice, root beer, and birch beer. I remember when one of Jane's
friends was in our kitchen (this huge room was always a great
gathering place). Before this friend opened his bottle of home made
grape juice, he shook the bottle. When he took the cap off, the grape
juice splattered all over the ceiling. We lived with a purple ceiling
until spring when the painters returned it to its original color."
In the spring they would clean the whole house. Everybody would
pitch in, and it would take a day to clean one room. "A room was
emptied down to its bare walls".
"At our house breakfast and lunch were eaten in the kitchen.
Dinner, supper as we called it, was eaten in the dining room. All
meals were eaten on the screened back porch when it was warm enough.
Meal times were family times. No matter where we were, we came when we
were called. If we were outside, Mother would whistle and we would
come running. Even if we did not hear the whistle, some friend or
friends of Mothers would say 'Your mother wants you.' Everyone knew
the whistle. My mother was very much the lady but her loud,
distinctive whistle was known all over the neighborhood."
"Mother went to the now Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts."
She spent a couple of years there. "In those days it was a finishing
school. Young ladies were taught to be proper young ladies. There was
no future of a career for most girls.... They were stay-at-home
mothers. Two car families were almost unheard of. Fathers drove to
work; mothers stayed at home and let the world come to them." And the
world did come to them. It was a very neighborhood-oriented society
then. "Milk in glass quart bottles was delivered to your back door
between five and six in the morning. Fresh fruits and vegetables were
sold by Susie from her push cart which she pushed around the
neighborhood daily.
"The ice man made his rounds every other day. A large card with
the numerals 25, 50, 75, and 100 in the corners of it was put in the
front window so the ice man would know what size chunck of ice to put
in your ice box. Nobody had to be home when he came. Doors were not
locked. The ice man walked in your back door, deposited the ice, and
left. On a hot day it was a big treat for us when we would go to
Harvey's ice truck where he would chip off generous hunks of ice for
all of us. Not the white ice that is made by today's refrigerators.
This ice was so clear that you could see through it. In winter Presque
Isle bay would freeze over. Ice companies would saw the ice and store
it in the ice house until it was needed for deliveries." They would go
down to the corner store for meat and stuff like that. No supermarkets
then.
"We even had a rag man who came around the neighborhood. He was
Charlie, a little man almost as old and run down looking as his push
cart. Mother would hear his 'rags, rags, any old rags' which would
sound like 'regs, regs, eneoregs.' Mother would send one of us to the
rag bag to get something to give to Charlie....
"Mail was delivered to our house twice a day. And just a two cent
stamp was needed for each letter! Christmas mail was delivered at
least four times a day including Sundays."
"Mother had many hobbies. She loved to garden and was such a
successful gardener. Her rose garden was a delight to see!" Grandpa
grew roses out in the backyard, too. "I remember pansies as being her
favorites. Every morning the pansy vases throughout our house were
refilled with fresh pansies.
"When her daughtwers were older, Mother became relly involved with
photography. She not only took pictures, but also developed, printed,
and enlarged them. How proud we all were of her when a photograph she
had taken won a prize in a contest!" She took really good pictures,
close-ups of birds in flight and things like that.
She knew her husband way back in elementary school. "It was at
Central High School that they became a pair. According to Dad's diary,
most of the days he 'walked Laura home from school.'"
Aunt Laura is in some of the early Erie City Directories. In
1906/07 she's listed as a student boarding at her parents' house.
Ditto 1908/09, 1909/10, 1910/11, 1911/12.
Her last residence was in Erie, zip code 16502. Her obit from the
Erie Daily Times says she was a Methodist, and she was survived by
four daughters: Mrs. Esther Lennertz of Orchard Park, N. Y., Miss
Harriet Sawdey of L. A., Mrs. James (Anne ) Coyle of Erie, and Mrs.
Gerald (Jane) McCarthy of L. A.; a sister, Aunt Marion of Lantana
Fla.; ten grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren; and she was
buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery.
ID: 033
Name: HARRY LEE SAWDEY
Sex: M
Birth date: Mar. 12, 1890
Date of death: Aug. 25, 1949
Place of death: Erie Pa.
Age at death: 59 years, 5 months, 13 days.
Spouse: LAURA CORDELIA WALLING (032) (1890-1972)
Wedding: 1913
Child 1: JANE ELLIOTT SAWDEY (040) (1915-1996)
Child 2: GRACE MAYNARD SAWDEY (553) ( - )
Child 3: ANNE ELIZABETH SAWDEY (554) (1918-2002)
Child 4: HARRIET LEE SAWDEY (555) ( - )
Child 5: ESTHER SCOTT SAWDEY (556) ( - )
His obit in the Erie Daily Times says he was a partner in the M. H.
Sawdey real estate firm; was stricken by a heart attack about noon
Wed. and died late Thurs. in Hamot hospital; was buried in Laurel Hill
Cemetery; and his survivors included 5 grandchildren, Lee and Robert
Earhart, Rebecca and Scott Coyle, and Barbara Lennertz; and he lived
at 943 W. 9th St.
Anne Elizabeth Sawdey Coyle "When my parents bought the house on
Cherry Street" - next to where Mom grew up at 716 Cherry St. - "it was
a three-bedroom, two story house. By the time our family had expanded
to six, our house had expanded also. If I remember nothing else about
my father, I will always remember the fact that he was a planner.
Under Dad's planning, 710 Cherry became a five bedroom house.
Expanding the upstairs meant expanding the downstairs, too. This gave
Dad the opportunity to have a huge kitchen built."
"Always, always, always something in our house was being rebuilt
or built anew. In my father's ming there were always projects to be
taken care of. Dad's corner of the cellar contained many tools and
gadgets. As his daughters grew older, he enlisted the daughter who
happened to be around and to be interested to be his carpenter's
helper. This I especially enjoyed.
"Also in our cellar was a huge, huge coal furnace. Several times a
winter a coal truck would arrive at our house. Coal would be sent into
the coal bin via metal shoots. What a noise this falling coal made in
our house! I can still hear it. Dad, of course, was the caretaker of
the furnace. His last chore of the night was to fill the furnace with
coal, his first chore in the morning was to repeat the process. During
the day one of the daughters was assigned to put more coal on the red
hot embers. Nobody, but nobody, spoke to you if it was your job to
feed the furnace and you forgot. The house got cold. Everybody glared
at you as they shivered."
"As I have told you, my father was a planner. For example, one
summer when we four were at Girl Scout camp for two weeks, we came
home to find that Dad had built a brick fireplace in our living room.
Can you imagine two parents with their four daughters roasting
marshmallows in this new fireplace in AUGUST? We did. It was times
like this that made me realize that growing up in our family was
always an adventure." He also built a disappearing staircase that went
up to the attic. The kids could go up there to play and pull up the
staircase.
"In summer our wide driveway in front of our three-car garage
became a wading pool. All that Dad had to do for that project was to
dam up the drain in the middle of the driveway." And, "Dad's most
popular winter project that he had built was a special, special treat
for the whole neighborhood. With our sleds we climbed the half dozen
steps to our front porch. And then it was on your sled and down a ramp
that went all of the way to the far end of our backyard. For the first
year of the slides existence we stopped only when we hit our back
fence. Our kind neighbor to the back of our yard could stand it no
longer. She insisted that Dad take the fence down each winter. Because
of her thoughtfulness, we were able to glide an extra forty feet on
our ride."
"Most Sundays started with a hurry up breakfast and then to church
and Sunday School at the First Methodist Church at Seventh and
Sassafras Streets in Erie. Very often in the summertime Dad could not
resist the temptation to take his family to the peninsula. Swimming, a
huge breakfast cooked on a grill by Dad and served by Mother, and then
more swimming. Who can say that church would be better for our family
than those wonderful family times at the beach? Dad's famous quote
was, 'My girls are closer to God when they are communing with nature
than they would be sitting on a church pew.'"
"One winter Dad got sciatic rheumatism. For six long weeks our
large front bedroom was turned into a hospital room. For the rest of
the family it meant changing to a very different life style. Our house
was no longer filled with the noise of active busy children. We had to
be very quiet because Dad was most of the time in a lot of pain. When
he did feel a little bit better, we girls helped him to pass the time.
One of us at a time would sit quietly and work on a jigsaw puzzzle
with him. We also made almost daily trips to the drug store to rent
novels for Dad to read. Book rental cost either ten or twenty cents a
day, depending on the length of the book. We went to the drug store
with a list of books Dad had already read. Not knowing too much about
literature in those days, I am sure we picked out some crazy books for
a grown man to read."
"An example of Dad's letter writing is a postcard I got from him
when I was away at college. Very carefully I had written him this long
letter telling him that when school was over, five of us would like to
go to Washington, D. C. I asked him if maybe he would like to lend us
a car to get there. In the return mail I got a postcard which said,
'Which one?', signed Dad."
He went to work at his father's insurance and real estate company
after 3 years of business school at Penn State. "Dad must have loved
Penn State because whenever he took his family on a summer trip, he
made sure that we stayed at the Nittany Lion Hotel at Steta College."
Anne Sawdey Coyle says he was a bank president, too: "Dad would laugh
and say that he was elected president of the Albion State Bank because
he owned the bank building." He died at 59. He, along with his
father-in-law Judge Walling, was an important Mason in Erie.
Mom's only real memory of her Uncle Harry seems to be that he
tried unsuccessfully to make her and Aunt Lulu eat some beef toungue
once.
ID: 034
Name: MARIETTE MARSHALL
Sex: F
Birth date: Feb. 11, 1864
Birth place: North East Twp., Pa.
Date of death: May 10, 1963
Place of death: Warren, Pa.
Age at death: 99 years, 2 months, 29 days.
Mother: LAURA CORDELIA EDGERTON (533) (1836-1921)
Father: ROBERT WILLIAM MARSHALL (041) (1838-1899)
Spouse: SPENCER S. BURTON (466) (1846-1913)
Wedding: Erie, Pa., 1903
Note: Aunt Ettie, Grace Ellen Marshall's kid sister.
She was the youngest member of her generation, and the only one I ever
met. We went and saw her once in an old folks' home in Pennsylvania
when I was a kid, in the summer of 1961. She must have been 97 then.
She was so senile she didn't even recognize anybody. She just sat
there in the bed looking at us. Mom says sometimes her eyes would well
up with tears because she knew how senile she was and couldn't do
anything about it.
She was Mom's great-aunt. Mom says she was a great aunt.
She died at the Barley Nursing Home in Warren, Pa. There should
have been a considerable amount of money in her estate, because not
long after her husband died she moved to Florida and invested in real
estate there and did well; but there was a lawyer somewhere in the
family whom her estate had been entrusted to who apparently siphoned
off a lot of the money, according to Eric Marshall.
From the St. Petersburg Times, Saturday, 2/28/48, about the 35th
anniversary of the Woman's Club: "Mrs. Burton, now 84 years old,
reminisced about her days as president. A civics and dramatic
department was added to club activities, the constitution was revised
and the system of life membership was set up. Also, during her term
the club raised over $10,000 toward building the clubhouse."
She seems to be in the 1870 census, age 6, though she's called
"Eddie" (this indicates, by the way, that the American habit of
pronounce "t" like "d" between vowels was active by that time); in the
1880 census, she's 16, called "Mary" this time. I can't find her in
PA. 1900.
She first appears in the Erie city directories in 1887: "Marshall
Ettie Miss, b 407 Chestnut", which is Emory A.'s house; the listing is
the same up thru 1891, then in 1892 & 93 it's "Marshall Marietta Miss,
copyist, b 407 Chstnt". In the 1898 Erie City Directory, she's still
boarding with her brother-in-law Emory A., listed as a dept. (deputy?)
register and recorder, and her name is again spelled "Marietta" here,
just like Grandma's, and just like in the next year's directory. On
the other hand, her father's bio in the History of Erie County, 1896
(CGS) has her name as "Mariette", which is the way she herself signed
it on the back of a picture Barbara Reeder has. Also in 1896, she was
a clerk in the recorder's office in Erie.
In the 1902/03 directory, her status is the same. By 1906/07 she's
listed with her husband.
Her death notice from the Erie Daily Times says she was "Aunt of
Mrs. R. M. Brookes, Chicago, Illinois, Mrs. Harry L. Sawdey, Mrs.
William Lee Crawford, William B. Walling, all of Erie, Pa, Roger P.
Marshall, North East, Pa, and Comdr. Ralph G. Walling, Key West,
Florida." Rev. Cyrus Moorhead officiated at the ceremony.
She was buried in Erie Cemetery, section 1, lot 25. They say her
birthdate was 2/11/1864.
ID: 040
Name: JANE ELLIOTT SAWDEY
Sex: F
Birth date: Feb. 5, 1915
Birth place: Erie, Pa.
Date of death: 1996
Place of death: Los Angeles
Age at death: 80 or 81
Mother: LAURA CORDELIA WALLING (032) (1890-1972)
Father: HARRY LEE SAWDEY (033) (1890-1949)
Note: Mrs. C. G. McCarthy.
Died near Christmas 1996 in LA. Has a son Lee Earheart who sails
worldwide and is well known in some circles; and another son Bob who
moved back to Erie.
Esther Lennertz tells me Bob Earheart has kids Natalie and Bobby,
who were at Aunt Laura's house when we had dinner there in about 1969.
Bob's brother Lee Earheart lives in Seattle.
Aunt Lulu said once that all Judge Walling's granddaughters died
in Erie; I guess Jane was the first who died elsewhere.
ID: 041
Name: ROBERT WILLIAM MARSHALL
Sex: M
Birth date: Apr. 28, 1838
Birth place: Northeast, Erie Co. Pa.
Date of death: Sep. 20, 1899
Place of death: North East
Age at death: 61 years, 4 months, 23 days.
Mother: MARTHA JOHNSTON (545) (1806-1894)
Father: ROBERT W. MARSHALL (544) (1804-1875)
Spouse: LAURA CORDELIA EDGERTON (533) (1836-1921)
Wedding: 8/19/1858
Child 1: GRACE ELLEN MARSHALL (029) (1859-1945)
Child 2: WILLIAM EUGENE MARSHALL (531) (1860-1942)
Child 3: CORA ELOISE EDGERTON MARSHALL (532) (1862-1948)
Child 4: MARIETTE MARSHALL (034) (1864-1963)
Note: Buried in North East Cemetery.
"Robert W. Marshall was reared and educated in North East township and
has always followed farming.... Mr. Marshall has always been a staunch
Democrat." - History of Erie County, Pa.
His middle name is established as William in the article about
Aunt Cora's wedding from the North East Sun, 2/25/1882 (see Uncle
Will's record).
His official cause of death was cancer, but it was really
cirrhosis of the liver; he was an alcoholic. He drank so much beer
that he balooned up to about 300 pounds by the time he died.
He was 12 in the 1850 census (where it says he was born in Pa.),
22 in the 1860 census (where it says he was born in Ohio), 32 in the
1870 census where his personal estate is $1000 and he's a farmer (born
in Pa.), and 42 in the 1880 census (born in Pa.).
In the 1859/60 Erie County Directory Robert Marshall is assessed
$633 on the List of Taxables.
In 1865, he had a farm just south of his father's place; by 1876
this farm seems to be owned by his brother James and he's located just
north of his father on his brother George's old farm. He's listed in
thw 1870/71 Erie City and County Directory: "Marshall, R. W. farmer".
ID: 042
Name: ANNA MARIE BOSTWICK
Sex: F
Birth date: 1881
Birth place: Erie, Pa.
Date of death: Dec. 29, 1960
Place of death: 1214 W. 10th, Erie Pa.
Age at death: 78 or 79
Spouse: WILLIAM BENSON WALLING (031) (1881-1966)
Wedding: 1909
Child 1: HENRIETTA GRACE WALLING (550) (1910-1992)
Child 2: ELLEN ELIZABETH WALLING (551) (1912-1985)
Child 3: JEAN KIRKPATRICK WALLING (552) (1918-1987)
Died at home, age 79. The birth year here comes from Jane Luschwitz.
She was the daghter of Charles F. and Henrietta Riblet Bostwick. "Her
great-great-grandfather, John Riblet, came to Erie County in 1802, and
took up a large tract of land extending from what is now Buffalo Road
to Lake Road." Her grandfather John Harrison Riblet founded the Riblet
Furniture Company in 1834. M. by Rev. Robert Clements of the First
Presbyterian Church. Was survived by her husband; 3 daughters, Mrs.
Cyrus W. (Henrietta) Moorhead of Harborcreek, Miss Ellen Walling of
Erie, and Mrs. Lindley (Jean) McLelland of Girard; and six
grandchildren. Services were conducted by Rev. Gilbert E. Hoffman of
the Kingsley Methodist Church. Buried in Erie Cemetery. (From her obit
in the Erie Daily Times.)
Family tradition says she was something of a sour apple.
ID: 075
Name: THOMAS A. WALLING
Sex: M
Birth date: Jan. 7, 1793
Birth place: Conn. (Wallingford?)
Date of death: Feb. 25, 1863
Age at death: 70 years, 1 month, 18 days.
Mother: MARY HARRINGDEE (192) (1757-1840)
Father: THOMAS WALLING (191) (1753-1802)
Spouse: MERCY BLACKMARR (210) (1785-1845)
Wedding: 3/30/1813
Spouse 2: LAURA ANN ELLIOTT (076) (1820-1895)
Wedding 2: 5/25/1845
Child 1: LAURA LUCINDA WALLING (211) (1846-1917)
Child 2: MARY WALLING (212) (1847-1847)
Child 3: THOMAS ATWELL WALLING (213) (1849-1930)
Child 4: ROBY JANE WALLING (214) (1851-1924)
Child 5: EMORY ANDREW SCOTT WALLING (028) (1854-1931)
Child 6: ASENATH ESTHER WALLING (215) (1858-1934)
Note: 8 years younger than his first wife; 27 years older than his
Note: second. Got remarried 4 months after his first wife died.
Thos. Walling (b. 1793), on himself and his siblings: "Their children
were as follows: Heber, born in 1791, died at Minehead, Vt., in 1841;
Thomas, born in 1793; Mercy, born in 1797, died at Vandalia, Ill., in
1823; Ruenna, born in 1802, died in Groton, Ohio, 1845." Thomas lived
in Groton in 1840.
Thomas had two families, one with Mercy Blackmarr (see her record
for a list of them) and one with Laura Anna Elliott.
His son Emory was about 9 when he died. High achievers often seem
to be young at the time of their father's death.
Thomas was born in Wallingford, Conn., according to the "History
of Erie County", 1925, but that seems doubtful since the only Wallings
I can find in Conn. in 1800 are in Litchfield County. Anyway, "He was
a farmer and at an early age removed from Connecticut to New York
State, thence to Ohio, and later to Pennsylvania. While living in Ohio
he served as justice of the peace. He died Feb. 25, 1863, and his wife
died Feb. 9, 1896. They are buried in Grahamville Cemetery, North East
Township, Erie County."
Thomas Walling is in the 1820 census for New Lebanon, Columbia
County, NY. (not far from Litchfield County), with 2 boys under 10
(these must be Thomas H. and Stephen B.), one man between 26 and 45
(Thomas Sr.), one girl under 10 (Sally E.), and one woman 26 to 45
(Mercy Blackmarr Walling). There was one person engaged in farming,
and one in manufacturing.
He was one of three farmers to move from New York and settle in
Ripley Twp, Huron Co, Ohio by 1828. They all lived near each other.
One of the others was his uncle William Tanner, who lived on Lot 22.
Thomas was on lot 24. ("History of the Fire Lands", Williams, 1879, p.
320, at Sutro.) Maybe William Tanner married one of his aunts. Peg
Henderson says Thomas "went to PA in the 1840s after his marriage to
Laura Elliott, so he left the area about 17 years after he moved to
Huron County." She also says William Tanner moved to Indiana early on,
where there lived a Nathan Tanner too.
He seems to be in the 1830 census for Huron Co., Ohio, but he's in
there twice, once for Fairfield Twp., and once for Ripley Twp. The
breakdown of his family members is the same: one boy between 5 and 10
(this would be Hiram), one boy between 10 and 15 (Stephen B.), one boy
between 15 and 20 (Thomas H.), one man in his 20's (maybe a farmhand),
one man in his 30's (Thomas Sr.), one girl between 10 and 15 (Sally
E.), and one woman in her 40's (Mercy Blackmarr Walling).
In 1840, in Groton Twp. in Erie Co. Ohio, there's a Thomas Walling
with: a boy between 15 and 20 (Hiram), a man between 20 and 30
(Stephen B., probably), a man in his 40's (Thomas), and a woman in her
50's (the wife). There are also two unexplained girls, one between 10
and 15 and one under 5.
Thomas next appears with his family in the 1850 census for
Greenfield Twp., Erie Co. He was 57, a farmer, with real estate valued
at $4000. Living with him were:
Laura, 30, b. N. Y.;
Laura Ann (sic), 4, b. N. Y.;
Thomas A., 1, b. Pa.
They also appear in the 1860 census in Greenfield. Thomas was 68,
still a farmer, with real estate valued at $5000 and a personal estate
at $500. Living with him were:
Laura, whose age looks like 35, born in Pa. (sic);
Lucinda, 14, b. Pa. (sic);
Atwell, 11, b. Pa.;
Ruby, 9, b. Pa.;
Emery, 7, b. Pa.;
Anson (?), 2, b. Pa. This is probably Asenath.
There seem to be a number of mistakes here. Probably just a case of
census bureau headspace. All the Wallings are gone from North East
according to the Erie City and County Directory for 1870/71.
The middle initial comes from his daughter Asenath's note about
the old Walling bureau.
ID: 076
Name: LAURA ANN ELLIOTT
Sex: F
Birth date: June 20, 1820
Birth place: Portland, New York
Date of death: Feb. 9, 1895
Place of death: Erie? North East?
Age at death: 74 years, 7 months, 20 days.
Mother: ESTHER SCOTT (860) (1801- )
Father: JAMES ELLIOTT (858) (1799- )
Spouse: THOMAS A. WALLING (075) (1793-1863)
Wedding: 5/25/1845, Erie Co. Ohio
Child 1: LAURA LUCINDA WALLING (211) (1846-1917)
Child 2: MARY WALLING (212) (1847-1847)
Child 3: THOMAS ATWELL WALLING (213) (1849-1930)
Child 4: ROBY JANE WALLING (214) (1851-1924)
Child 5: EMORY ANDREW SCOTT WALLING (028) (1854-1931)
Child 6: ASENATH ESTHER WALLING (215) (1858-1934)
Note: Laura Ann was Thomas Walling's second wife, and was a good
Note: 27 years younger than him.
Her name has also been spelled Laura Anna Elliott and Laury Ann
Elliot.
She's listed in the 1870 census for Greenfield with her family
(her husband died in 1863):
Walling, Laura, 49, house keeper, real estate $6000, personal
estate $1200, b. NY;
-------, Atwell, 21, farmer, b. Pa.;
-------, Emory, 16, farmer and student, b. Pa.;
-------, Roba (sic), 18;
-------, Senith (Senich?), 13.
As for her birthplace, the "History of Erie County", 1925, says
she came from Chautauqua County, NY. Her death record says she's
buried in Grahamville Cemetery, and lived 74 years, 7 months, and 29
days. If this is right, she was born nine days before the date
indicated here. It also says she was born in Portland.
There are no Elliotts in Chautauqua Co. 1820, the year Laura Anna
was born.
In a letter to Aunt Laura by North East historian Ralph Hartley of
7/22/1966, e-mailed me by Scott Coyle 2/4/09, there is some
clarification as to where they lived. "I always thought the family" -
apparently he means E. A. Walling's family of origin - "was born in
the house on the German Road north of the Wilkinson home, where
Lucinda Hartley lived, and your mother lived. But Norman" - Norman
Wilkinson, who was raised by Roby Wilkinson, the Judge's sister -
"says Roby told him the family was born in a log cabin in a valley to
the east of the present Ray Post dwelling, previously occupied by Geo
and Roby. The German Road ran to the east of where it goes now, in
the valley."
ID: 082
Name: MARION ELIZABETH WALLING
Sex: F
Birth date: Jan. 4, 1896
Birth place: Erie, Pa.
Date of death: May 19, 1979
Place of death: Erie, Pa.
Age at death: 83 years, 4 months, 15 days.
Mother: GRACE ELLEN MARSHALL (029) (1859-1945)
Father: EMORY ANDREW SCOTT WALLING (028) (1854-1931)
Spouse: WILLIAM LEE CRAWFORD (209) (1895-1972)
Wedding: 3/9/1918, Philadelphia Pa
Child 1: WILLIAM ALEXANDER CRAWFORD (546) (1919-1986)
Child 2: THOMAS WALLING CRAWFORD (547) (1920-1990)
Child 3: MARY LEE CRAWFORD (548) (1921-1978)
She may have been born 1/4/1895. Lived at 4341 W. 11th St, Erie,
16505, on 5/19/1979 when she died. Died of cardiac arrest due to
hypertensive heart disease. Buried 5/22/1979 in Erie Cemetery in a lot
owned by Willam A. Crawford.
She went to Wells College near Ithaca, NY.
Her obit from the Erie Daily Times says she was a Presbyterian,
she was on the Board of Directors of the Visiting Nurse Association
and a past president of the Junior League, and was survived by sons
William A. and Thomas W., and by grandchildren Anne Lurie of NYC, John
Crawford of Erie, Perrie and Michael Soth of Erie, William Lee
Crawford II of North Bay, Ontario, and James T. Crawford of
Pittsburgh.
See Marietta Marshall Walling's record for a description of her
wedding.
ID: 083
Name: RALPH GORDON WALLING
Sex: M
Mother: GRACE ELLEN MARSHALL (029) (1859-1945)
Father: EMORY ANDREW SCOTT WALLING (028) (1854-1931)
Child 1: MARY WALLING (549) ( - )
Note: Comdr. Walling was in charge of the Navy Inspection Office
Note: in Erie.
Aunt Lulu: He left the Navy in the late 20's or early 30's (had TB
which he got serving on a destroyer in W. W. I) but came back in to
work for the Navy at GE and other plants in W. W. II. He went back and
stayed at his parents' house after he got TB, so his daughter lived
there with her grandmother.
He attended college at Annapolis - in those days you had to have
political connections to do that, so his father must have helped out.
He graduated in the same class with Nimitz. They sent him to Haiti
during the occupation there in the first part of this century. His
daughter Mary partly grew up there.
His wife, Norma Roberts, was from an old Key West family. She had
a Southern accent. Her mother-in-law Grandma Walling didn't like her
one bit, says Aunt Lulu, for reasons lost to history. Mom says they
lived in Corry when she was in college - Ralph owned a manufacuting
concern or something. They lived in Key West after W. W. II, as well
as in other places in Florida (but not in St. Petersburg). He died in
his early 80's.
He's listed in the 1902/03 Erie City Directory as a student
boarding at his parents'. Ditto next year. By 1905/06 he's gone, but
next year he's back, in the USN now, and he's still there with his
parents up thru 1911/12.
ID: 190
Name: HIRAM EDGERTON
Sex: M
Birth date: July 28, 1800
Birth place: Wallingford, Rutland, Vt.
Date of death: May 30, 1871
Age at death: 70 years, 10 months, 2 days.
Mother: MARY HALL (568) (1767-1807)
Father: PHILIP EDGERTON (565) (1774-1863)
Spouse: LOUISA POMEROY (561) (1804-1841)
Spouse 2: MARY ANN JUDD (560) (1817- )
Child 1: MARYETTE EDGERTON (562) (1830-1905)
Child 2: DANIEL G. EDGERTON (564) (1835- )
Child 3: LAURA CORDELIA EDGERTON (533) (1836-1921)
Child 4: SARAH LAVINIA EDGERTON (563) (1839-1906)
Note: Of Dayton, N. Y.
The first mention of a Hiram Edgerton in the Dayton area in the
censuses is in 1830. He's in Ellery, Chautauqua County, about 20 miles
from Dayton; he was in his 30's, there was a woman there in her 20's,
and a girl under 5.
The Edgertons first appear in Cattaraugus Co. in 1850. He's listed
there in Dayton:
Hiram Edgerton, 49, farmer, real estate $2940, b. Vermont;
Mary A., 32, b. N. Y.; <-- Second wife
Daniel, 15, worked on farm, b. N. Y.;
Cordelia, 13, b. N. Y.;
Sarah L., 11, b. N. Y.; <-- Must be Sarah Lavinia
Dexter, 3, b. N. Y.;
The three older children all attended school.
In the 1860 census, he's still there in Dayton, age 60, farmer, b.
Vermont, real estate $1500, personal estate $2700, with:
Mary Ann, 43, b. New York;
George D., 8, b. New York;
Edmond (?), b. New York.
Mark Armstrong says he's buried in Cottage Cemetery on the west
side of Dayton with his wife. He lived 70 y, 10 m, 2 d, and died
5/30/1871. "I have come across a few Pomeroys in Chatauqua County
(where Hiram resided at the time of his marriage)", say Mark. (E-mail,
4/11/2001.)
Eric Marshall also says Laura Cordelia had a sister Maria
(ma-RYE-a). She m. Sylas Merrill "whose only claim to fame was that he
was killed in a railroad disaster in the 1880's over in Ohio. A bridge
carried away, the train dropped into the river and the people were
swept down the roaring stream into Lake Erie." E-mail, 11/27/2000.
ID: 191
Name: THOMAS WALLING
Sex: M
Birth date: 1753?
Birth place: New Hartford, Conn.
Date of death: 1802
Place of death: New Hartford, Conn.
Age at death: 48 or 49
Father: THOMAS WALLING (198) (1710-1792)
Spouse: MARY HARRINGDEE (192) (1757-1840)
Wedding: 1777
Child 1: THOMAS A. WALLING (075) (1793-1863)
Note: His wife Mary Harringdeen was the daughter of his cousin
Note: Hezekiah Harringdeen.
He and his wife probably lived in Litchfield County, in northwest
Connecticut. Thomas (b. 1753) died in New Hartford, which is in
Litchfield County. In 1790 in Litchfield Town there were John Wallen,
Thomas Wallen, and James Wallen; Thomas (b. 1710) had three sons with
these names. In 1800, John Wallen is still there, and there are also a
William Wallen and a Joseph Walling; not to mention a Mary Wallen, who
lived in Kent. It's tempting to speculate this was Mary Harringdeen
Walling, wife of Thomas, but Thomas didn't die til 1802, and the other
members of her family don't match up too well. Also on the minus side,
the Thomas Wallen in Litchfield Town in 1790 looks like he had a son
and a daughter, but family records don't mention any children til
1791.
Peg Henderson says Thomas may have died in 1812.
There are also a few Wallings in Windham County, in NE Conn., in
the early censuses.
ID: 192
Name: MARY HARRINGDEE
Sex: F
Birth date: June 23, 1757
Birth place: Smithfield, R. I.
Date of death: 1840
Place of death: Ripley, Chautauqua, N. Y.
Age at death: 82 or 83
Mother: FREELOVE HERENDEEN (194) (1732-1791)
Father: HEZEKIAH HERENDEEN (193) (1715-1790)
Spouse: THOMAS WALLING (191) (1753-1802)
Wedding: 1777
Child 1: THOMAS A. WALLING (075) (1793-1863)
Note: Mary Harringdeen. Her father and her husband were first
Note: cousins.
I can't find a Mary Walling in 1810, but there was a Mary Walling in
Amenia, Dutchess County, New York, right next to Litchfield County,
Conn., in 1820. She apparently lived alone (one female over 45), which
is possible since her husband was dead by that time and her children
were all of marriageable age. She herself was 63 then. I can't find
her in any later censuses.
ID: 193
Name: HEZEKIAH HERENDEEN
Sex: M
Birth date: 1715
Birth place: Smithfield Twp, RI
Date of death: 1790
Place of death: Smithfield, Rhode Island
Age at death: 74 or 75
Mother: MOLLY WALLING (195) ( - )
Father: ? HERENDEEN (196) ( - )
Spouse: FREELOVE HERENDEEN (194) (1732-1791)
Wedding: 8/14/1750, Gloucester, RI
Child 1: MARY HARRINGDEE (192) (1757-1840)
Note: Hezekiah Harringdeen was married at age 38. Children:
Note: Freelove, Hart, Hiram, Mary, Susanna, Olive, Hezekiah, Heber & Mercy.
If he was really married at 38, he may have been born in 1712.
The birthplace is from Peg Henderson. The place of marriage is
from Anne Lurie.
He is listed in the state census of R. I. taken in 1774. See the
record for his wife Freelove.
A Hezekiah Herendeen took the Oath of Freeman in Scituate (next to
Smithfield) on 5/5/1734, according to the Genealogical Reference
Builders, p. 90. He must have been 16 or 17.
A Hazakiah Herendeen is listed in Glocester in a census taken in
R. I. in 1777 to find all men eligible for military service. He's
listed as in the 16 to 50 age range (he was actually 52 then) and able
to serve. He's listed twice ("Rhode Island 1777 Military Census",
Sutro, pp. 39 & 41). There's also a Hezekiah Herrendeen listed on the
Muster and Size Roll for the Town of Providence, 1782. ("Spirit of '76
in Rhode Island", Sutro.) The problem is that the Size Roll for 5th
Co., 1st R. I. Regiment lists Hezekiah Herington as age 22. It's
impossible to tell from this whether my ancestor actually served.
There was also a Hezekiah Herendeen who served from Conn., but he
was still alive in 1840 so he must be a different one.
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rigenweb/cemetery/cemetery172.html has
a cemetery record that must be for him, but the birth (c. 1722) and
death (5/32/1799) dates are different. He's buried with his wife in N.
Smithfield.
ID: 194
Name: FREELOVE HERENDEEN
Sex: F
Birth date: May 23, 1732
Birth place: Gloucester, R. I.
Date of death: June 16, 1791
Age at death: 59 years, 0 months, 24 days.
Father: ELISHA HERENDEEN (499) ( - )
Spouse: HEZEKIAH HERENDEEN (193) (1715-1790)
Wedding: 8/14/1750
Child 1: MARY HARRINGDEE (192) (1757-1840)
Note: Harringdeen (Herendeen) was both her maiden name and married
Note: name.
Peg Henderson says her mother was Susanna Rutenberg.
Married by Justice John Smith, according to the Vital Records of
R. I., v.3, p. 20. It was either in Gloucester or Smithfield,
according to p. 52 of the Gloucester section and p. 32 of the
Smithfield section of the same volume. P. 100 lists their children,
all born in Smithfield:
Hart, b. 5/14/1753
Mary, b. 6/23/1757 (my ancestor)
Freelove, b. 11/8/1759
Susannah, b. 9/12/1762
Olive, b. 2/6/1765
Hezekiah, b. 2/6/1768
Heber, b. 5/11/1770
Mercy, b. 8/19/1773
H. T. Walling's genealogy lists them in the same order, except that it
puts Freelove first, and it has a Hiram in the four-year gap between
Hart and Mary.
The census of R. I. taken in 1774, at the CGS, says that Hezekiah
Herndeen's household had two males above 16 (that would be Hezekiah
and his son Hart), two males below 16 (Hezekiah Jr. and Heber), three
females above 16 (Freelove, Mary, and Freelove the Younger), and three
females under 16 (Susannah, Olive, and Mary), totaling 10. The only
problem here is that Freelove the Younger would have turned 15 in
1774, not 16.
She is buried with her husband in the Herendon lot 150 ft south of
PHEASANT RUN ROAD at TEL pole # 2 in N. Smithfield. "Surveyed by Roger
Beaudry on Sept 23, 1995. At the time of the survey, cemetery was on
property which was being sold as a house lot. Only two stones could be
found and area was not enclosed in any way." This from
members.tripod.com/debyns/ns_ceme.HTM (no www). Her date of death is
at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rigenweb/cemetery/cemetery172.html.
ID: 195
Name: MOLLY WALLING
Sex: F
Father: JAMES WALLING (197) (1669-1753)
Spouse: ? HERENDEEN (196) ( - )
Child 1: HEZEKIAH HERENDEEN (193) (1715-1790)
Thomas Walling (b.1793): "The above mentioned Molly Walling, daughter
of James Walling, one of the emigrant brothers, married a man named
Harringdeen. To them was born a son in 1715, who was christened
Hezekiah."
ID: 196
Name: ? HERENDEEN
Sex: M
Spouse: MOLLY WALLING (195) ( - )
Child 1: HEZEKIAH HERENDEEN (193) (1715-1790)
ID: 197
Name: JAMES WALLING
Sex: M
Birth date: bef 1669
Birth place: Providence
Date of death: 1753
Age at death: 83 or 84
Father: THOMAS WALLING (199) ( - )
Child 1: MOLLY WALLING (195) ( - )
Child 2: THOMAS WALLING (198) (1710-1792)
Note: The Patriarch. Came from England with William Walling in
Note: 1675. Kids: Molly, Abigail, Freelove, Thomas, Rhoda, and Prudence.
According to H. T. Walling's genealogy, James and William Walling came
here in 1675. They may or may not have been brothers. Peg Henderson
says one researcher maintains that our line does not go back to the
1600's, but rather back to Ralph and Joyce Walling who came here on
the ship Anne.
She also says James' second wife, an Inman, was the mother of his
last 2 kids, Rhoda and Prudence.
In "New England Marriages Prior to 1700", there are listed 4
Wallings, all of whom lived in Rhode Island, where Grandfather
Hezekiah Harringdeen died (in Smithfield). There is first a James
Walling, who may be the subject of this record. He lived in Smithfield
and Providence, and died in 1753. If he died in 1753, that implies
that he was pretty young when he and William came in 1675, so maybe
they were brothers and came with their father. There are 3 people
named Thomas Walling listed there, too, but two of them were here
before 1675.
The Vital Records of R. I. says that James Walling died 4/4/1753
or 1754. According to the Ancestral Directory at the CGS, this James's
father was named Thomas, and he had a daughter named Elizabeth who
married Roger Williams, the grandson of the founder of Rhode Island.
The only problem is that our family record of the Wallings says
nothing about James the immigrant having a daughter Elizabeth.
The Boston Transcript lists a James Walling who married Elizabeth
Nox in Providence, 3/24/1751 (1731?).
The Saxbe article says that James Walling stayed in Rhode Island,
and that he had 11 children, all probably by his first wife whose name
is unknown. His six sons were John, Cornelius, Daniel, William,
Thomas (my line), and James Jr., birth order unknown. But if you add
these to the daughters listed above, they do add up to 11 children.
James m. (2) Mercy Taylor in 1742 and (3) Elizabeth (K)nox in 1750/51,
and died in 1753.
ID: 198
Name: THOMAS WALLING
Sex: M
Birth date: 1710
Date of death: 1792?1798?
Place of death: New Hartford, Conn.
Age at death: 81 or 82
Father: JAMES WALLING (197) (1669-1753)
Spouse 2: ELIZABETH VINTON (200) ( - )
Wedding 2: 1740 Smithfield
Child 1: THOMAS WALLING (191) (1753-1802)
Thomas Walling (b. 1793): "The other children of my grandfather" -
Thomas b. 1710 - "were: Mary, married to Justice Lewis; Rhoda, married
to Thomas Lewis; and John. These were the children by the first wife,
who was an Inman. His second wife was a Welsh woman and from Wales."
Peg Henderson says her name was Elizabeth Vinton. "My grandfather's
children by this second marriage were: Thomas, (my father), David,
James, and Rachel." Regarding James, the Boston Transcript says there
was a James Wallen of New York who served in the Van Ness Troops
Militia in the Revolution.
Genealogical Reference Builders: there was a John Walling made
freeman in Glocester, 1st Wednesday in May, 1757 (p. 263); and ditto
for John Walling Jr., 1st Wednesday in May, 1760 (p. 267).
The Saxbe article says this Thomas had moved west to New Hartford
by 1747, that his first wife was probably Mary Inman, and their kids
were Mary, Hannah, and Peter. He m. (2) Elizabeth Vinton (my line) in
1740 in Smithfield and died in 1798 in New Hartford in 1798 with 12
children.
ID: 199
Name: THOMAS WALLING
Sex: M
Child 1: JAMES WALLING (197) (1669-1753)
Child 2: WILLIAM WALLING (201) ( - )
Family records don't give Thomas's first name; they just say that
James and William were the immigrants, they don't even say whether
they were brothers. That Thomas was the name of James's father, etc.,
comes from the sources below.
There was a Thomas Walling in R. I. who had a son James by his
first wife Mary Abbot, and then a son Wm. B. by his second wife
Margaret. This was probably in the 1660's or 1670's. (National
Genealogical Society Quarterly, v. 53, #2.)
A Ralph and a Joyce Walling came to Plymouth in the ship Ann in
1623, may have settled near Scituate in Mass., then went to Rhode
Island (Boston Transcript). This is probably a different line.
Much of my info about the earliest American Wallings comes from
"Family Reconstruction by Filling the Inside Straight: Joseph Walling
of Sussex County, New Jersey", by William B. Saxbe Jr., in the
National Genealogical Society Quarterly, v. 85, #2, sent me courtesy
of Karen Michaelis. Most of it is compatible with the other info I
have. About Thomas, it says he was in Providence by 1650, and that his
first wife was Mary Abbott, daughter of Daniel Abbott - this would be
a good line to research. They had three kids: Thomas (moved to NJ);
Gershom (ditto); and James (my line). With his second wife Margaret
Colwell he had sons William, John, and Cornelius.
ID: 200
Name: ELIZABETH VINTON
Sex: F
Birth place: Wales
Spouse: THOMAS WALLING (198) (1710-1792)
Wedding: 1740 Smithfield
Child 1: THOMAS WALLING (191) (1753-1802)
ID: 201
Name: WILLIAM WALLING
Sex: M
Father: THOMAS WALLING (199) ( - )
Note: Family rcds: Came from England with James (brother?), 1675.
Note: Wm. Walling was made freeman in Glocester RI the 1st Tu. in May 1730
A William Walling was made freeman on the 3rd Tuesday of February,
1723, in Providence (Genealogical Reference Builders, p. 57).
ID: 209
Name: WILLIAM LEE CRAWFORD
Sex: M
Birth date: Mar. 16, 1895
Birth place: Pittsburgh, Pa.
Date of death: July 14, 1972
Place of death: Midland, Ontario
Age at death: 77 years, 3 months, 28 days.
Spouse: MARION ELIZABETH WALLING (082) (1896-1979)
Wedding: 3/9/1918, Philadelphia Pa
Child 1: WILLIAM ALEXANDER CRAWFORD (546) (1919-1986)
Child 2: THOMAS WALLING CRAWFORD (547) (1920-1990)
Child 3: MARY LEE CRAWFORD (548) (1921-1978)
Note: "Lee". Lived on Upper State Street.
Son of William Alexander Crawford and Mary Ada Lee. Was in the Navy
Avation Section Signal Corps. He was a combat pilot in World War I,
and was among only nine to graduate from his officers' training
program out of 106. He had many surgical operations in his earlier
years, though his granddaughter Anne Lurie doesn't know for what. Mom
and Aunt Lulu say he got tuberculosis on a battleship durning WW I, so
he couldn't stay in the service; then during WW II they called him
back and made him head of a unit that made pipe fittings - bolts,
gaskets and such - for military use. He retired with the rank of
Commodore or so.
On 12/15/1936 he lived at 629 Cherry St. in Erie. On July 14, 1972
lived at 1200 S. Ocean Blvd, Lantana, Fla. Cause of death: acute
coronary thrombosis due to arteriosclerosis. Buried in Erie Cemetery.
His obit from the Erie Daily Times says he was living in
Manalapan, Lantana, Fla. when he died; died at St. Andrew Hospital in
Midland, Ontario; was a VP of Griffin Manufacturing before retiring in
1961; served with the US Air Corps in WW I; was in the Kahkwa Club,
Erie Club, and Aviation Club; was survived by his wife, sons Thomas W.
and William A., daughter Mrs. Roger (Mary Lee) Soth, grandchildren
Perrie and Michael Soth of Erie, Ann Lurie of North Dakota, John
Crawford, William Lee Crawford II, and James T. Crawford, all of Erie,
and one great-grandson. He was a Presbyterian.
He married the girl-next-door, having grown up at 546 W. 8th,
right next to Judge Walling's house. Their house had a widow's walk up
on top - maybe something to do with the underground railroad, so says
tradition. (Erie was an important hub in the Underground Railroad.
Runaway slaves were hidden in a number of the houses in town.)
His brother John was the best man at his wedding. Anne Lurie
(11/21/2000) says he served in both World Wars. He had a problem with
alcoholism, as did his brothers to a lesser extent. He used to ply Mom
with alcohol when she got old enough. "How about a drink?" he would
say. Sounded like an OK idea to her. He was a photography nut, and had
some state-of-the-art equipment, but his pictures would all be of
bottles and bars and such. He would show up predictably at Aunt
Marion's on Christmas Eve with a gift, but it would usually be
something that didn't make a lot of sense - bowls that were too big
and that sort of thing.
Father Crawford went to Cornell, which may be why Grandpa L. S.
Mosher went there later. Uncle Bob went there too, as did Father
Crawford's great-great-grandson David Alexander Lurie.
Father William Alexander Crawford (1/12/1862 - 5/6/1948) was born
in Holliday's Cove, WV and died in Erie. Mary Ada Lee (12/8/1865 -
11/22/1930) was born in Cross Creek Twp, Washington Co., Pa. and died
in Erie. They had 4 kids: beside William Lee Crawford there were John
C. (b. 1/6/1899, d. c. 1962 in Erie?); Robert Patterson (b. 5/29/1900
in Pittsburgh or Erie, d. 10/1950 in Erie?); and James Porter (b.
5/2/1905, d. bef. 1950). Anne Lurie: "I don't recall Aunt Laura
particularly;" - I do remember Aunt Laura but I never met Aunt Marion
- "in addition, I think that Granddad's (Lee Crawford) brother may
also have been married to a woman named Laura. Note: I do sometimes
wonder whether Granddad was actually related to John Crawford & 'Uncle
Porter' (the black sheep of the family), as they seemed to have been
rather more lively than the rest of the Crawfords." E-mail 11/21/2000.
ID: 210
Name: MERCY BLACKMARR
Sex: F
Birth date: Apr. 22, 1785
Date of death: Jan. 27, 1845
Age at death: 59 years, 9 months, 5 days.
Spouse: THOMAS A. WALLING (075) (1793-1863)
Wedding: 3/30/1813
Children of Thomas Waling (b. 1793) and his first wife Mercy
Blackmarr: Thomas H., born 3/5/1814, died 2/5/1834; Sally E., b.
7/30/1817, d. 2/5/1834 (same date as Thomas); Stephen B., b.
10/23/1819, d. 8/20/1856; Hiram, b. 1/17/1823, d. 2/22/1848.
Peg Henderson says Mercy Blackmar's mother was Hart Herendeen,
sister of Mary Herendeen and daughter of Hezekiah and Freelove
Herendeen. That means Mercy's husband Thomas Walling (b. 1793) was the
second cousin of her father, the common ancestor being James Walling,
one of the two original immigrants.
Peg Henderson says Mercy is buried in Deyo Cemetery, Groton Twp,
in Erie Co. Ohio along with all her children except Stephen B. She
also says Stephen B. was b. NY and d. in Huron Co Ohio and married 1)
Catherine Starkey; and 2) Catherine Reed 10/1/1844. And that he's
buried in Bellvue Cemetery in Bellevue, Huron, Ohio. And that Hiram's
birthdate was 1/27/1825.
Stephen B. Walling had 6 kids, of whom the oldest, Hartson Thomas
Walling of Boone, Iowa, b. 9/10/1845 in Huron Co. Ohio, was, along
with Mrs. Thomas O. Wilkinson (Emory's sister Asenath), the compiler
of the "Genealogy of the Walling Family".
Hartson Thomas Walling is the ancestor of "Peg" Henderson, AKA
Margaret Mary McNeil, a genealogist who has supplemented the info in
his book with a good deal of her own research. Hartson died 12/6/1901
on a train somewhere between Denison and Boone, Iowa on a train. He's
buried in Linwood Park Cemetery in Boone. On 3/16/1869 he married
Charlotte Adel Parrott (3/30/1848 - 4/20/1922) who was born in Huron
Co. and died in L. A. but she's buried same place as her husband. From
there Peg's line of descent goes:
Rose Ina Adell Walling (8/27/1877 - 11/6/1931)
m. 9/6/1893 Charles Elmer McNeil (6/20/1868 - 2/10/1960)
John "Kenerson" McNeil (5/12/1896 - 11/26/1975)
m. 6/14/1922 Mary Ada Young (2/21/1899 - 6/4/1994)
Margaret "Peg" Mary McNeil
m. 3/26/1944 George Henry Huls (4/28/1921 - 11/8/1996)
m. 2nd 11/27/1969 Owen Henderson
ID: 211
Name: LAURA LUCINDA WALLING
Sex: F
Birth date: June 25, 1846
Date of death: Feb. 13, 1917
Place of death: North East, Pa.
Age at death: 70 years, 7 months, 19 days.
Mother: LAURA ANN ELLIOTT (076) (1820-1895)
Father: THOMAS A. WALLING (075) (1793-1863)
Wedding: 1/1/1861
Note: Married Joseph C. Hartley. Children: Anna Jane, Hartson W.,
Note: Warren A., Eustace E., Willie Rose, Charles, and Joseph.
Peg Henderson says she was born 6/26/1846.
The death notice for her in the Erie Daily Times says Lucinda
Walling Hartley died Tu. 2/13/1917 in North East, age 71, and that
services were at the residence of her son, 13 Grahamville St. in North
East, but it doesn't give his name.
In Grahamville Cemetery, North East, there is a Hartley tombstone
for Joseph C. (1840-1905) and Lucinda W. (1846-1917). The picture of
it that Karen Michaelis e-mailed me (11/18/2000) has a flag next to it
so he was probably a Civil War veteran.
Jane Luschwitz says she m. Charlie Hartley. It looks like they may
have had a son Harry who m. Minnie Calista Bisbee.
Shirley Bemiss Thompson is of the Laura Lucinda line. She lives in
North East and has been doing Walling genealogy for 25 years. She knew
lots of the old-timers there. She is the gr-granddaughter of Annie J.
Hartley Bemiss and George Bemiss, Sr. Annie's brother Charles Hartley,
"who married Ethel Eades, is the one who had the grocery store in
North East for years, and his son, Harley still lives there. Harley
ran the store after his folks died. My mother knew Annie, and my
father used to tell me about her wanting to learn to drive, so my
father taught her. Guess she was a wild driver." She goes on to talk
about Ralph Hartley, the man who had the newspaper column and wrote
about North East history. She says his facts were not always right:
"...we used to lock horns occasionally, in a good-natured way."
(E-mail, 12/7/2000.) Karen Michaelis says Harley and his cousin
Delbert Kress were cousins and lifelong buddies (9/2/01).
There is a Wilkinson connection here, mentioned in Roby's record.
Shirley says Joseph Christie Hartley was his full name. The following
tree has been reconstructed from her e-mails of 12/7/2000, 12/16/2000
and 12/20/2000:
Thomas Bemiss
+ Selinda
Smith Jonathan Bemiss
+ ------
George E. Bemiss
+ Annie J. Hartley - dau. of Laura Lucinda and Joseph Hartley
George Bemiss Jr.
Lee Edward Bemiss
Shirley Bemiss Thompson - genealogy fan
Lloyd George Bemiss
Wiliam Hartley Bemiss
+ Edna Kimball
Merle Kimball Bemiss - now 90 years old
Phoebe Bemiss - second wife of
+ Abel Wilkinson, father of Thomas O. & George S.
ID: 212
Name: MARY WALLING
Sex: F
Birth date: Aug. 4, 1847
Date of death: Aug. 1847
Mother: LAURA ANN ELLIOTT (076) (1820-1895)
Father: THOMAS A. WALLING (075) (1793-1863)
ID: 213
Name: THOMAS ATWELL WALLING
Sex: M
Birth date: Aug. 4, 1849
Date of death: Aug. 15, 1930
Place of death: Findley Lake, (NY?)
Age at death: 81 years, 0 months, 11 days.
Mother: LAURA ANN ELLIOTT (076) (1820-1895)
Father: THOMAS A. WALLING (075) (1793-1863)
Wedding: 12/1890
Note: Living in North East in 1925.
Note: M. Josephine Mallock (says Peg Henderson).
There's a death notice in the Erie Daily Times from 8/16/1930 that
says Thomas Apwell Walling died 8/15 at the home of his niece, Mrs.
Grace Seltzer, Findley Lake, and that he was buried in Grahamville
Cemetery in North East. A picture of his tombstone sent me by Karen
Michaelis says his wife was Mary J.
The Walling reunion notes confirm the death date and say that a
hymn was sung in his memory at the 21st annual reunion on 8/21/1930.
Jane Luschwitz sent me 3 handwritten family trees for the
Wallings. One says Grace Selzer was the daughter of his sister
Asenith. And one says Atwell was a bachelor; the others say he adopted
a son and a daughter. Pat Rizzo and Karen Michaelis tell me he may
have had a foster son Lawrence "Sniper" Walling. Karen adds, "Ruby
Kimball told me, when she was here, that 'Sniper' Walling was Lawrence
Walling, married to Margaret Bush Walling. Margaret died in 1999 at
the age of 92 years." From an E-mail, 9/9/03. More needs to be
learned, though, about Sniper Walling and his odd nickname. The
records at the courthouse in Erie might be of help.
The info for the following tree came from Karen Michaelis,
11/27/2000:
Thomas Atwell Walling 1848-1930
+ Mary J. 1854-1921
Lizzie
+ Homer Magoon
Karen Michaelis quotes Ralph Hartley: "Atwell gave her" - Lizzie -
"the farm where she and Homer lived. Lizzie died in her thirties while
pregnant, when she fell through hay chute while pushing hay. Homer
then married Edith Cardot."
ID: 214
Name: ROBY JANE WALLING
Sex: F
Birth date: Oct. 18, 1851
Date of death: 1924
Place of death: Erie?
Age at death: 72 or 73
Mother: LAURA ANN ELLIOTT (076) (1820-1895)
Father: THOMAS A. WALLING (075) (1793-1863)
Wedding: 10/2/1873
Karen Michaelis quoting Ralph Hartley: "Roby taught school as a girl
and saved $500. Married a guy who took the money and left her. Then
she married George Wilkinson." E-mail, 11/27/2000.
The 1908 genealogy says her name was Ruby Jane, and she m. George
S. Wilkinson and had kids Hattie Luella, Jessamina A., Myrtle May, and
George E.
The "History of Erie County", 1925, says her name was Roby Jane.
Karen Michaelis and "Nelson's Biographical Dictionary", 1896, pp. 797
& 798 agree with this, so it is very likely right. The 1870 census
says Roba. Jane Luschwitz says Robie. Aunt Lulu isn't sure; she says
she knew the relatives on the Marshall side better than on the Walling
side.
The following tree is reconstructed from Karen's e-mails of
11/14/2000 and 2/6/2001, and Nelson's Biographical Dictionary:
Roby Jane Walling m. 10/2/1873
+ George Sprague Wilkinson b. 5/8/1858
Hattie
Jessie
+ Charlie A. Brandow of North East Twp.
George Elliott (George Henry?) - died young of TB
Myrtle May d. young of TB. Lived on Walling homestead with
+ (James) Harry Kress of Greenfield Twp.
Delbert - d. at 97; lived with Geo & Roby after mom d.
+ Bess Neeley
Karen; the youngest. My 3rd cousin. Genealogy fan.
+ --- Michaelis
Kurt - Theology student. Of Dothan, AL.
+ Naomi
Lawrence
Mabel
George Sprague Wilkinson was the brother of Asenath's husband
Thomas O. Wilkinson; so two brothers married two sisters. George "was
an ardent Prohibitionist and member of the United Brethren Church."
Their father Abel Wilkinson "was the first to enlist in the army
during the late war; participated in the battles of Bull Run, Antietam
and Gettysburg, and was wounded in the neck by the enemy's bullets in
the Wilderness fight." (Nelson's again.) Abel remarried to Phoebe
Bemiss after his wife died, and there is at least one Bemiss of her
line in the 1910 reunion picture. (Karen's e-mail of 12/1/2000.)
In the 1907/08 Erie Directory, which covers Edinboro, North East,
etc., G S Wilkinson is listed in North East RFD No 4.
Karen writes: "'Harry J. Kress paid $2500 for old Walling place
near Hancocks. 125 acres in 1896 or so. Delbert Kress (my father) was
born in the old Walling home on German Rd.' 'Harry moved to the
Walling farm about 1906.' If this is the farm I am thinking of, it is
still standing and occupied today. In fact the owners have been doing
some remodeling and is looking good. The barn is still standing. We
went by there this past summer when we were up there. So as not to be
confusing, the Walling home" - where Emory was born - "on German Rd.
is no more. It fell down years ago. But the Walling Farm near Hancocks
is still standing. If my understanding is correct the Walling Farm was
owned by Thomas Atwell Walling, and he sold it to Harry J. Kress."
E-mail, 11/27/2000.
Karen Michaelis is a genealogy fan who lives in Panama City, FLA.
When her father died she came into the possession of some old
pictures, unlabeled or badly labeled, which got her into genealogy.
"The Grahamville Cemetery" - in North East - "is one of my faviorte
places....my kids think I am nuts...." E-mail, 11/21/2000.
ID: 215
Name: ASENATH ESTHER WALLING
Sex: F
Birth date: June 29, 1858
Date of death: Mar. 2, 1934
Age at death: 75 years, 8 months, 1 day.
Mother: LAURA ANN ELLIOTT (076) (1820-1895)
Father: THOMAS A. WALLING (075) (1793-1863)
Wedding: 10/4/1877
Note: Lived in Finley Lake, N. Y.
Note: "Aunt Seene" or "Aunt Seeney"
Karen Michaelis, a Roby Jane descendant, says of the Walling Bible
that Dorothy Nobles has: it "has been handed down through the line of
Asenath Walling Wilkinson.... A chest of drawers has also been handed
down through Asenath's side of the family.... This bureau was given to
Asenath as a wedding gift. I have seen it and it is quite lovely..."
From an e-mail, 11/14/2000.
The following tree is reconstructed from "Nelson's Biographical
Dictionary... of Erie Co. PA", 1896; the "Genealogy of the Walling
Family" (?1908), that Asenath helped compile; Karen Michaelis
(12/1/2000, 12/4/2000, 9/2/03, & 2/27/09); and Jane Luschwitz:
Aseneth Walling; m. by T. A. Walling JP
+ Thomas Orlando Wilkinson; 11/17/1850-8/12/1917; went to Lake
Shore Seminary; Republican, town clerk, teacher, 106 acres
Genevieve Rosemond b. 7/16/1878; m. 7/30/1899; d. 3/14/1912
+ Moreland James Pellor
Blanche - of Eagle Bay, NY; 5/7/1901-3/2003; d. age 102
+ --- Zurl
Franklin Emerson Wlikinson b. 3/27/1881; m. 12/31/1902
+ Charlotte "Lottie" Esther Witcher
Maurice
+ Jennie - still in North East - turns 97 in 2009
Florence - d. 12/1999 at 95
+ --- Mann
+ --- Higgins
Dorothy - has Walling/Wilkinson Bible & the old bureau
+ --- Nobles
Grace Mabell Wilkinson b. 4/8/1884; m. 5/14/1902
+ Cecil Page
Gerald A. Page b. 22 March 1908
+ Evelyn
+ Elbert Carmen Selzer; m. 1/1/1914
Carmen Selzer
Ethel Beatrice Wilkinson b. 10/2/1890; m. 4/28/1923
+ Ralph Alonzo Stilwell
twins boys b. 2/4/1924
Beryl Asenath Wilkinson 1/10/1901-7/26/1905 - listed in
Walling/Wlikinson Bible with the other children
+ --- King
It would be worth it to see if any of the above are in Erie Library's
obit index.
From Emory A. Walling's obituary: "A sister, Mrs. Asenith King,
who resides in Corry, also survives..." Under marriages in the
Elliott/Walling reunion notes for 1933 it says "Mar. 2nd Mrs. A. W.
King".
There are 3 Wilkinsons in Greenfield Twp. listed in the Erie City
and County Directory for 1870/71. That was one of the few years they
listed the people in the townships.
Aunt Laura's daughter Anne remembers an Asenith from the farm out
in North East, and she remembers visiting a Wilkinson family that
lived near Findley Lake.
She's buried in Grahamville Cemetery in North East, and her death
date here comes from Karen. I don't know Thomas's death date, but
neither of them is listed in the Corry directory for 1939. The Corry
library doesn't really have an obituary index, but since her death
date is known they could probably find her obit.
Karen Michaelis remembers a bit about Frank Wilkinson: "Seems as
though he was a big man with very dark hair.... Frank's son Maurice
and wife Jennie I remember well. In fact Jennie is still living in
North East, PA. I visited with her last summer. She lives in an
apartment complex for senior citizens. She is in a wheelchair and
almost blind. But she remembers me and it is always a blessing to see
her. She will be 97 this year." E-mail, 2/27/09.
ID: 466
Name: SPENCER S. BURTON
Sex: M
Birth date: Jan. 19, 1846
Date of death: June 6, 1913
Place of death: Erie, Pa.
Age at death: 67 years, 4 months, 18 days.
Spouse 2: MARIETTE MARSHALL (034) (1864-1963)
Wedding 2: 1903, Erie,Pa.
Note: First wife was Mary Cosper.
Spencer Burton was a veteran of the Civil War. He was a widower of
60 years when he married Marietta Marshall as his second wife. He had
several children by his first wife.
In 1862, when he was only about 16, he "went into the naval
service on the 'Fairplay'. After one year's service on this vessel,
one of the 'Mosquito Fleet', which plied the waters of the Tennessee,
Ohio, and Cumberland rivers, he returned to Erie and enlisted in the
111th P. V. I." I guess this is Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. "Five
months later, while engaged in breastworks building at Buzzard's
Roost, Ga., he was injured, and was thereafter and until mustered out
at the close of the war, on detached duty." This is from the "History
of Erie County", 1896, as is the birthdate given here.
He's in some Erie City Directories. in 1871/72 he's listed as a
clerk. In 1876/77 he's "S S Burton, of Burton & Siegel, coal dealers";
ditto next year. In 79/80 he's "S S Burton, coal dealer"; ditto thru
1882. In 1883 he's a coal and wood dealer; by 1885 it's coal, wood,
feed, and fertilizer; in 1886 he adds salt too, and that's how he's
listed up thru 1893. In 1886 he's got property in 3 different Erie
wards, adding up to 3 or 4 thou.
He's listed in the 1906/07 Erie City Directory in big letters:
"Burton Spencer S (Marietta) county treasurer Court House room 3, h
918 W 8th, Mutual Tel". Next year he's got both phones, which I guess
means Mutual and Bell. He had $1,734 in taxable property in 1907; it
says he lived on 8th near Plum. They're still there up thru 1910/11.
In 1911/12 he seems to have moved: "Burton S S (Maryette), h 156 W
7th", but he's in the tax list as "Burton S S ns 8th bet Plum &
Cascade 1,908", so maybe he still owned the old house. His death
notice in the Erie pape says he lived at 156 W. 7th when he died.
Until her death in 1963 Marietta Burton received a small pension
as the widow of a Civil War veteran.
ID: 499
Name: ELISHA HERENDEEN
Sex: M
Father: WILLIAM HERRENDEEN (951) (1658- )
Wedding: 6/13/1717
Child 1: ELISHA HERENDEEN (504) (1715- )
Child 2: FREELOVE HERENDEEN (194) (1732-1791)
Anne Lurie has his parents as William Herrendeen and Esther Hoage.
I deduce from the way they are listed in the Vital Records of R.
I., v. 3, Gloucester Births and Deaths, that Elisha and his second
wife Susannah were the parents of Freelove Herendeen. With his first
wife Ruth he had Elisha (b. 4/22/1715) and Jane; then with his second
wife Susannah:
William, b. 5/15/1718
Marcy, b. 12/22/1721
Amey, b. 1/20/1723
Peter, b. 2/24/1727
Thomas, b. 2/25/1729
Freelove, b. 5/23/1732 (my ancestor)
John, b. 9/18/1734 (twins,
Deliverance, b. 9/18/1734 apparently)
Rachel, b. 9/3/1736
Stephen, b. 2/27/1740
Penelope, b. 7/22/1742
Glocester is a township right next to Smithfield Township.
The 6/13/1717 marriage date comes from Peg Henderson, who also
says his wife Susannah's last name was Rutenburg. That's a German
name, unusual for early New England. She has some other additions and
discrepencies regarding Elisha's children, notably a Jane b. 8/9/1716
in Easton, NY.
According to the Genealogical Reference Builders, p. 56, in Sutro,
Elisha Herendeen (the elder, presumably) took the Oath of Freeman
4/30/1723; and p. 247 has Elisha Herendeen Jr. taking it 5/2/1738 in
Glocester, which would have been a week or so after his 23rd birthday.
P. 261 has Thomas taking it in Smithfield on the 1st Wedensday in May,
1756.
ID: 505
Name: WILLIAM SCOTT
Sex: M
Wedding: Esther
Child 1: ESTHER SCOTT (860) (1801- )
Katherine Johnson says a William Scott married an Esther Eliot in 1790
in Mason, NH.
There are 9 children listed for Wm. Scott in the IGI. All are born
in Londonderry Twp, Windham Co, Vermont, and their mother is named
Esther:
Aaron, b. 5/17/1791
John, b. 4/7/1793 (probably the John Scott later of Portland, NY)
William, b. 3/1/1795
Asa, b. 5/10/1797 (his son Asa is with James Elliott in 1860)
Mary, b. 4/4/1799
Esther, b. 7/9/1801 (my line)
Betsey, b. 3/3/1805 (Katherine Johnson's line)
Eliot, b. 4/4/1808
Phebe, b. 11/29/1810
The birthdates for Mary, Betsey, and Eliot look a bit suspicious.
Regarding the censuses, in 1790 there are no William Scotts
anywhere in Windham Co. and no Scotts at all in Londonderry; in 1800
there are no Scotts in Londonderry; in 1820 there are no William
Scotts in Windham Co. but Asa and Benjamin Scott are both in
Londonderry.
There don't seem to be any William Scotts at all in the
Londonderry land record indexes. Maybe he just never took the deeds in
to have them recorded. But on 5/24/1800 Oliver Eliot sold 55 acres in
Londonderry to Esther Scott and her children (of Mason, NH). And for
some reason the husband's not mentioned. See Oliver Elliott's record.
In the 1810 census, though, Wm. Scott is in Londonderry, with 1
male under 10 in the household (must be Eliot); 3 males 10-16 (Asa,
Wm. Jr, and John though technically John was probably 17 by then); 1
male 16-26 (Aaron); one male 45+ (must be William); 2 females under 10
(Esther and Betsey); 1 female 10-16 (Mary); and 1 female 26-45 (must
be Esther).
Regarding son John Scott, there is a John Scott mentioned in
several Londonderry deeds, the earliest of which is in 1814, when he
was about 21. He is the seller in five or six of them and the buyer in
about as many. There was also a John Scott who was a supervisor of
Chautauqua Co. NY in 1813. But in most of his Londonderry deeds, the
last of which is in 1829, he's described as living in Londonderry,
with the exception of 1823 and 1824 when he seems to be living across
the stateline in Jackson, Washington Co. NY.
For these and other relevant Londonderry deeds, see LDS films
0028440, 0028441, and 0028442.
Katherine Johnson of Buffalo, who posted a message 8/23/1997 on
the Chautauqua Co. website, is a Betsey Scott descendant and a
Scott/Elliott researcher. Her line runs thus:
Betsey Scott m. Stephen Seeker
Harriett Rose Seeker m. Almond Blood
Elmer George Blood m. Bertha Jane Marlett
Vernon George Blood m. Florence Aloura May Stone
Constance Elaine Blood m. David Sylvanus Johnson
Katherine Elaine Johnson
She says there are many Scott descendants in the Carroll, NY area, and
she went to school with some of them, even though she didn't know they
were related then.
ID: 531
Name: WILLIAM EUGENE MARSHALL
Sex: M
Birth date: 1860
Birth place: North East, Pa.
Date of death: Mar. 31, 1942
Place of death: North East
Age at death: 81 or 82
Mother: LAURA CORDELIA EDGERTON (533) (1836-1921)
Father: ROBERT WILLIAM MARSHALL (041) (1838-1899)
Spouse: JESSIE ANGELINE PETTIT (730) (1875-1961)
Child 1: ROGER PETTIT MARSHALL (731) (1907-2000)
Note: Living on the family farm in 1896.
Note: Buried in North East Cemetery.
9 in 1870 census, 20 in 1880. Wife was Jessie Pettit Marshall. Lived
in North East, Pa., on Sidehill Rd.
Eric Marshall tells me that Will had to care for his alcoholic
father; then after he died, Will was tired of being stuck at home so
he went to work taking care of Eastwood Farm for Judge Walling. After
that Dan and Flossie Thompson took over that job. He may have met his
wife at that time, her family lived on another farm in North East. Her
parents didn't much like the idea of her marrying a Marshall, because
they knew about the family alcoholism; but it turned out to be a good
match.
When he died, he was living in R. D. 4 in Erie (from his death
notice in the Erie paper).
ID: 532
Name: CORA ELOISE EDGERTON MARSHALL
Sex: F
Birth date: Aug. 2, 1862
Birth place: North East, Pa.
Date of death: Jan. 13, 1948
Place of death: Chicago, Ill.
Age at death: 85 years, 5 months, 11 days.
Mother: LAURA CORDELIA EDGERTON (533) (1836-1921)
Father: ROBERT WILLIAM MARSHALL (041) (1838-1899)
Spouse: JAMES WILLIAM GREENMAN (940) (1861-1954)
Wedding: 2/22/1882, North East, Pa
Child 1: GRACE INEZ GREENMAN (942) (1885-1971)
Note: Married Wm. J. Greenman of Cleveland.
8 in the 1870 census, 18 in the 1880 census (where her name is spelled
"Corra", and where it says she was teaching school). She hated
Roosevelt. All you had to do was mention his name and she'd about do a
back-flip. Aunt Lulu says she used to get all red in the face.
Barbara Reeder: she "was a teacher in a country school at age 18
'Some of the boys were several years younger than I was!'. She enjoyed
playing cards, especially bridge; she also enjoyed knitting mittens
for her grandchildren and great-grandchildren."
She and Will had 4 kids: Carelton Marshall (1883-1954 NE, PA);
Grace Inez; Jesse James (sic) (1889-1939); and Ettie May (1892-1892)
who I suppose must have been named after her Aunt Ettie.
Julie England informs me (e-mail, 3/28/2002) that Carleton (as her
family always spelled it) Marshall Greenman (b. 4/7/1883 in PA, d.
1/11/1961 in OKC) m. Fannie Dubois on 6/5/1912. Their children
were Carleton Marshall Greenman II, b. 3/3/1913; Margaret Louise
Greenman, b. 12/8/1914, and William More Greenman, b. 4/2/1921.
ID: 533
Name: LAURA CORDELIA EDGERTON
Sex: F
Birth date: Nov. 24, 1836
Birth place: Dayton, New York
Date of death: Mar. 26, 1921
Place of death: North East, Pa.
Age at death: 84 years, 4 months, 2 days.
Mother: LOUISA POMEROY (561) (1804-1841)
Father: HIRAM EDGERTON (190) (1800-1871)
Spouse: ROBERT WILLIAM MARSHALL (041) (1838-1899)
Wedding: 8/19/1858
Child 1: GRACE ELLEN MARSHALL (029) (1859-1945)
Child 2: WILLIAM EUGENE MARSHALL (531) (1860-1942)
Child 3: CORA ELOISE EDGERTON MARSHALL (532) (1862-1948)
Child 4: MARIETTE MARSHALL (034) (1864-1963)
Note: 5th cousin of Stephen A. Douglas.
Note: Jessie Pettit Marshall said she was called Grandma M.
She's 13 in the 1850 census for Dayton, N. Y., called Cordelia. She's
in the 1860 census for Northeast, age 24, called Cordelia; and in the
1870 census, age 33 (?), where her name looks like Delia; and in the
1880 census, age 43, where her name looks like Laura C. She and both
her parents were born in New York.
Her death certificate says she was buried in North East on the
28th, and the undertaker was Stull & Wilson of North East. She died at
9831 Sidehill Road, Overlook Farm, where she was living and where
Eric Marshall lives now.
ID: 534
Name: JAMES C. MARSHALL
Sex: M
Birth date: Jan. 28, 1828
Birth place: Arboe Parish, Ireland
Date of death: Apr. 25, 1915
Place of death: North East
Age at death: 87 years, 2 months, 28 days.
Mother: MARTHA JOHNSTON (545) (1806-1894)
Father: ROBERT W. MARSHALL (544) (1804-1875)
Spouse: ANNE MCCORD (535) (1839-1897)
Child 1: ROSA? MARSHALL (536) (1857- )
Child 2: MELINDA MARSHALL (537) (1864- )
Note: Was eighteen months old when his parents came to America.
Note: In 1896 he was living at the old homestead in North East.
23 in the 1850 census. 31 (?) in the 1860 census. 42 in the 1870
census. Was a farmer in North East. "Marshall, James, farmer" is
listed in the Erie City and County Directory for 1870/71. When his
brother Thomas died in 1902 he was living in Cherry Creek, NY.
Eric Marshall, in the notes he sent with the Edgerton pix
11/14/2000, says, "James is buried not far from William and Jessie
Marshall in the same section of the North East Cemetery, North East,
PA. He served in the 145th. Regt. Pennsylvania Volunteers during the
Civil War. The 'History of Pennsylvania Volunteers 1861 - 1865' by
Samuel P. Bates, Vol. IV, page 531 indicates that James was a private
in Company 'C' and served from August 26, 1862 until his discharge on
February 18, 1863." That means he was 34 when he joined up. He is the
only blood relative I have been able to find who was in the Civil War.
Eric also sent me a picture Aunt Persis Marshall AKA Mrs. James
Marshall.
There was another James C. Marshall in Erie then, who was an
attorney; he was older, and born in America. In 1853/54, 1854/55, and
1857/58 James C. Marshall is listed in the Erie city directory as a
lawyer with Marshall and Vincent. That was John P. Vincent who later
partnered with Emory A. Walling in the 1880's. And in the 1859/60 Erie
County Dir., Jas. C. Marshall is listed as a trustee of the Erie
Academy (p. 18). Same year James Marshall is assessed $80 on the list
of taxables.
ID: 535
Name: ANNE MCCORD
Sex: F
Birth date: Nov. 7, 1839
Birth place: New York
Date of death: Nov. 14, 1897
Place of death: North East
Age at death: 58 years, 0 months, 7 days.
Spouse: JAMES C. MARSHALL (534) (1828-1915)
Child 1: ROSA? MARSHALL (536) (1857- )
Child 2: MELINDA MARSHALL (537) (1864- )
21 in 1860 census, 32 in 1870 census, 41 in 1880 census. Parents b.
Ireland.
ID: 536
Name: ROSA? MARSHALL
Sex: F
Birth date: 1857?
Birth place: Pa.
Mother: ANNE MCCORD (535) (1839-1897)
Father: JAMES C. MARSHALL (534) (1828-1915)
Note: Married a man named Heath.
3 in 1860 census, where her name looks like "Rosalthy". 13 in 1870.
ID: 537
Name: MELINDA MARSHALL
Sex: F
Birth date: 1864?
Birth place: Pa.
Mother: ANNE MCCORD (535) (1839-1897)
Father: JAMES C. MARSHALL (534) (1828-1915)
Looks like 7 in 1870 census. 16 in 1880 census, where she's called
"Linnie", and where it says her parents were both born in Ireland,
though her mother was probably born in New York.
ID: 538
Name: MARIA J. MARSHALL
Sex: F
Birth date: 1830?
Birth place: Ohio (Solon?)
Mother: MARTHA JOHNSTON (545) (1806-1894)
Father: ROBERT W. MARSHALL (544) (1804-1875)
Note: Married Silas H. Merrill. Living in Dayton, Cattaraugus
Note: County, N. Y., in 1896.
20 in the 1850 census.
ID: 539
Name: ELIZABETH MARSHALL
Sex: F
Birth date: 1832
Birth place: Ohio (Solon?)
Date of death: 1894
Age at death: 61 or 62
Mother: MARTHA JOHNSTON (545) (1806-1894)
Father: ROBERT W. MARSHALL (544) (1804-1875)
Note: "Libbie".
Note: Buried in Grahamville Cemetery.
17 in the 1850 census. Doesn't appear in the 1860 census, but is 38 in
the 1870 census, living with her father; then in the 1880 census,
she's apparently living with her brother Thomas, single, age 48.
ID: 540
Name: MARGARET MARSHALL
Sex: F
Birth date: Jan. 6, 1836
Birth place: Solon, Ohio
Date of death: Dec. 6, 1893
Place of death: North East
Age at death: 57 years, 11 months, 0 days.
Mother: MARTHA JOHNSTON (545) (1806-1894)
Father: ROBERT W. MARSHALL (544) (1804-1875)
Note: Married Edward Merrill; both dead by 1896.
Note: Can't find an obit for her at the EPL.
15 in the 1850 census. Dora B. Merrill, one of the keepers of the
Thomas O. Marshall narrative, was of this line: "She was the
granddaughter of Margaret Marshall who was the fifth child of Robert
and Martha. Margaret married Edward Merrill and they had a son,
Marshall Merrill. He married Mary Blaisdell and they had children,
Dora and Marian Merrill. Dora lived most of her life in Jamestown, NY
where she had a house on Regent Street . She was quite interested in
the Marshall family genealogy. She and my grandmother, Jessie Pettit
Marshall, corresponded frequently and I remember Dora visiting
Overlook Farm when I was a boy. She was what we referred to as being
an 'old maid'." From Eric Marshall, 11/16/09.
Margaret is in the 1880 census for Dayton, Cattaraugus Co., New
York. She seems to be widowed:
Margrett M. MERRILL, 43, b. OH, schoolteacher, par b. IRE
Marshall MERRILL, 24, Son, single, b. PA, R. R. Baggage Master
Mary S. MERRILL, 22, Dau, single, b. PA, Dress Maker
Jennie MERRILL, 16, Dau, b. PA, teacher; in Pomfret NY, 1910
George E. MERRILL, Son, 13, b. PA; in Jamestown, 1900
Mary Blaisdell who married Marshall Merrill seems to be remarried
by 1910, to Marcus Rhoades. She's listed as Mary B., 48, they've been
married 10 years, looks like it's the second marriage for both of
them. With them is Dora B. Merril, step-daughter, age 21 here, high
school teacher. Also listed is daughter Marion, 7, who if she's a
daughter of Marcus and Mary would not be a Marshall descendant, and
therefore it's not likely any Marshall family materials would be found
in her line.
Dora B. Merrill is found in 1920 Jamestown, Chautauqua Co. NY, 17
years old this time, living on Van Buren St. with the family of Marcus
Rhodes now as a fosterdaughter. She's a phone co. operator, she and
both parents b. NY.
If Dora never married and her sister Marian was not a Marshall,
then the journal of Martha Johnston Marshall, if there was one, might
have wound up with one of the other children listed above in 1880:
Mary S., Jennie, or George. Scott Coyle came up with the following
info about them:
Edward A. Merrill b: 5/28/1833 in Dayton, NY d: 11/13/1868 in
North East, Erie, PA Burial: Dayton, Cottage Cem, Sect B, Row 22
+Margaret Marshall b: 06 Jan 1836 in Solon, OH m: 06 Dec 1854; d:
06 Dec 1893 in North East, Erie, PA. Buried with husband
Marshall H. Merrill b: 23 Feb 1856 in North East, d: 16 Apr 1898
in Conneaut, Ashtabula, OH. Buried with parents
+Edith May Blasdell b: 02 Aug 1861 in Perrysburg NY m: 12 Apr 1882
d: 3/29/1926 in Dayton, NY. Burial: Cottage Cem, Sect A Row 7
Dora Blasdell Merrill b: 08 Oct 1888 in Conneaut, OH d: 27 Nov
1972 in Clermont, Lake, FL Buried there in Oak Hill Cem
Mary I. Merrill b: 30 Aug 1857 in North East, PA d: 23 Dec 1933
in Dayton, NY ? Burial: Carroll, NY, Maple Grove Cem
+Frank H. Blasdell b: 9/1854 Perrysburg, Cattaraugus, NY m:
9/3/1884; d: 10/29/1943 Dayton, Cattaraugus, NY ? Bur w/ wife
David J. Blasdell b: 5/12/1886 in NY d: 8/8/1967 Frewsburg,
Chautauqua, NY Burial: Maple Grove Cem, Section 4 lot 18
+Gladys May Unknown b: 1888 m: Bet. 1903 - 1960 d: 22 Feb 1960
Burial: Maple Grove Cemetery, Section 4, Lot 18
Edward M. Blasdell b: 26 Dec 1888 in PA d: 5/1/1971 Burial:
Maple Grove Cemetery, Section 6, Lot 402
+Gertrude Oberg b: 1892 d: 05 Oct 1963. Burial: Maple Grove
Cemetery, Section 6, Lot 402
Jennie A. Blasdell b: 07 Feb 1891 in PA d: 24 Dec 1984 in
Jamestown, NY Bur: Maple Grove Cem, Sect 4, Lot 54
Robert A. Blasdell b: 18 Dec 1892 in PA d: 18 Feb 1986. Burial:
Maple Grove Cemetery, Section 6, Lot 402
+Fannie Eva Unknown b: 1899 d: 21 Jun 1969. Burial: Maple Grove
Cemetery, Section 6, Lot 402
Flora May Blasdell b: 23 Nov 1894 in NY d: 12/23/1971 Falconer,
Chautauqua, NY Burial: Maple Grove Cem Sect 4, Lot 77
Jennie Merrill b: 1864 in PA d: Bet. 1880 - 1964
George E. Merrill b: 1866 in PA d: Bet. 1920 - 1966 in Aurora,
Erie, NY ? Burial: Aurora, Erie, NY ?
+Abbie Unknown b: 1876 in NY m: 1895 d: Bet. 1920 - 1976 Aurora,
Erie, NY ? Burial: Aurora, Erie, NY ?
Lucille Merrill b: 1899 in NY d: Bet. 1910 - 1999
Irene L. Merrill b: 1901 in NY d: Bet. 1920 - 2001
George Merrill b: 1916 in NY
See home.comcast.net/~ingallsam/roots/MalloryCaptJohn.htm for more on
this line.
ID: 541
Name: GEORGE NELSON MARSHALL
Sex: M
Birth date: Apr. 22, 1840
Birth place: North East
Date of death: 1926
Age at death: 85 or 86
Mother: MARTHA JOHNSTON (545) (1806-1894)
Father: ROBERT W. MARSHALL (544) (1804-1875)
Wedding: 8/18/1869
Note: Lived in North East on the family farm. Still alive in 1925.
Note: Buried in Grahamville Cemetery.
10 in the 1850 census, 20 in the 1860 census, 29 in 1870. In 1865, he
had a farm in North East, in section 17, just north of his father's
place. By 1876 it seems to have been owned by R. W. Marshall.
Much of the following tree comes from an e-mail of Leigh Joanne
Marshall Glazier, 12/2/2000.
George Nelson Marshall
+ Emma Louise Edgerton b. 2/3/1847 in Thompson, Geauga Co. OH
Minnie
+ Frank Rater
Margaret
Frank - got the family farm
Adgate - Eric pronounces this the old way: "Adgut"
+ Catherine Spacht
4 kids, plus:
Leigh Joanne - genealogy fan
+ Robert Louis Glazier
Mark Hamilton Glazier - of Peekskill, NY
David Marshall Glazier
+ Christine Ekey
Marshall James
Stacie Marie Glazier - of Croton-on-Hudson, NY
Notice that George married an Edgerton. His brother, my ancestor
Robert W. Marshall, also married an Edgerton. The connection, though
there probably is one, is not known. Emma Louise Edgerton was the
daughter of Benjamin O. Edgerton and Sarah M. Cadwell. And Leigh had a
great-uncle Frank Edgerton who wrote a couple letters she has while he
was in the Union Army in Tenn. Leigh also has a Bible whose first
entry is for Benjamin Osborne, b. 11/16/1751.
ID: 542
Name: THOMAS O. MARSHALL
Sex: M
Birth date: 1847
Birth place: Pa. (North East?)
Date of death: June 24, 1902
Place of death: Sharon, Pa.
Age at death: 54 or 55
Mother: MARTHA JOHNSTON (545) (1806-1894)
Father: ROBERT W. MARSHALL (544) (1804-1875)
Note: Editor of the North East Advertiser.
3 in 1850 census, 13 in 1860, 22 in 1870. In the 1870/71 Erie City and
County Directory is "Marshall, T. O. farmer" living in North East. In
the 1880 census, there is what looks like a T O Marshall, who is
probably Thomas, though the age for him is 31. His mother is living
with him, and they got her age wrong, too. His wife Mary, 25, was born
in Pa.
In 1892, T. O. Marshall and M. C. Moore bought the North East
Advertiser newspaper.
In about 1894 Thos. O. Marshall of North East was the Democratic
candidate for Assembly. He got 2049 votes, but was apparently beaten
by the Republican. ("Nelson's Biographical Dictionary...", 1896, p.
261.)
From The Sun, a newspaper in North East, 6/28/1902:
"Death of T. O. Marshall
----
"Thomas O. Marshall who moved from here to Sharon" - in Pa., right
next to Trumbull Co., Ohio - "this spring died there Tuesday from
complications resulting from a head cold.
"The remains were brought here for burial, and the funeral was
conducted by Rev. Crosby on Thursday, at the residence of Wm.
Marshall." This must be his nephew, my great-great-uncle.
"He leaves his wife, a grown up son and a daughter 13 years old,
also a brother James of Cherry Creek, N.Y.," - in Chautauqua County -
"a brother George of North East and a sister, Mrs. Thompson of
Cleveland." Hard to say who Mrs. Thompson would have been. Of his 3
sisters, Maria married Silas H. Merrill, Libbie never married, and
Margaret was dead by 1896.
"Mr. Marshall was 55 years of age. He was one of seven children of
R. W. Marshall, who came to this country from Ireland in 1829. R. W.
Marshall settled in North East township, in 1816." This establishes
that Robert Sr.'s middle initial was W., like Robert Jr.'s. And the
1816 must surely be 1836.
"Owing to the active part Mr. Marshall took in politics, first as
a Democrat and later as a Populist, he was well known all over the
county." Populism arose out of the Farmer's Alliances of the late 19th
century. They were a generally left-leaning group that favored
agrarian reform and things like that. "For some years he was editor of
the Advertiser here. Although not a member of the bar he acted as
counsel in a great many lawsuits here. He spoke in public considerably
and was a man of much ability and had many friends. His death causes a
general feeling of sorrow."
ID: 544
Name: ROBERT W. MARSHALL
Sex: M
Birth date: Mar. 12, 1804
Birth place: Arboe, Tyrone, Ireland
Date of death: Dec. 25, 1875
Place of death: North East, Pa.
Age at death: 71 years, 9 months, 13 days.
Mother: ELIZABETH DUNHAM (704) ( - )
Father: THOMAS MARSHALL (703) ( - )
Spouse: MARTHA JOHNSTON (545) (1806-1894)
Wedding: 4/2/1827, Ireland
Child 1: JAMES C. MARSHALL (534) (1828-1915)
Child 2: MARIA J. MARSHALL (538) (1830- )
Child 3: ELIZABETH MARSHALL (539) (1832-1894)
Child 4: MARGARET MARSHALL (540) (1836-1893)
Child 5: ROBERT WILLIAM MARSHALL (041) (1838-1899)
Child 6: GEORGE NELSON MARSHALL (541) (1840-1926)
Child 7: THOMAS O. MARSHALL (542) (1847-1902)
Note: Chr. 11/4/1804 in Arboe Parish, County Tyrone, Ireland.
He was eighth in the birth order. He suffered from alcoholism, the
Marshall family curse. He and his wife were "married in Ireland and
came to America in 1829" - before the potato blight - "and located at
Solon, Ohio, where they lived until 1836. They then decided to return
to Ireland" - still before the potato blight - "and had reached
Buffalo, N. Y. when the mother" - Martha - "was taken ill with
cholera. At Buffalo they met a friend, Ed Graham, who told them of the
good qualities of Erie County, Pennsylvania, and induced them to
return to Erie County, which they did when the mother recovered her
health. They settled in North East township, buying fifty acres of
land, and then followed farming until the death of Robert Marshall,
which occurred December 25, 1875," - Christmas - "his widow surviving
until November 9, 1894." This from the "History of Erie County", 1896,
at the CGS. It goes on to tell about their children, all of whom were
dead by 1925 except George N. (see the records for them).
Scott Coyle found, in Keystone Kuzzins of Aug. '94, an account of
Robert Marshall which has much the same information as the above
source or other sources in this database, though it does differ in
some particulars. "It first appeard in the North East Breeze." - on
Thursday, June 14, 1934 - "The most interesting difference is that
they lived in Aurora, Portage County, Ohio for four years before
moving to nearby Solon, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. 'Robert Marshal' does
show up on the 1830 census for Aurora with a wife and son, although
the age of his wife does not match. Another interesting statement is
the 'now living in Erie, PA ... six children, all married' of Emory
and Grace Walling - further confirmation of a sixth child. Correct
number of children, but only five living and married." From Scott's
e-mail to me of 10/17/09. The article, which seems a bit sketchy on
the Atlantic passage but contains more info about their stay in North
East than other sources, differs from the T. O. Marshall narrative
below in saying that the ship they went to America in was a steamboat;
that it returned for repairs to Londonderry; that the passage took 6
weeks; that they landed in New York; that they settled first, as Scott
says, in Aurora, til 1833; that they then lived in Solon til 1836;
that after meeting Ed Graham in Buffalo, he "persuaded them to come to
Erie with him. From there they came to North East and bought 50 acres
of land which is known as the old MARSHALL homestead on the Findley
Lake Road. They bought around 200 acres of land that adjoined the
fifty acres, part of which is now the George MARSHALL farm. Mr.
MARSHALL spent the balance of his life on this farm, purchased when
they came here." It goes on to list some of the descendants; living in
North East then were William Marshall, Roger Pettit Marshall, Mrs.
Minnie Marshall Rater, Margaret Marshall, Frank Marshall, Adgate
Marshall, Ruth Anna, Miriam, David, Donald and Leah, Joan Marshall.
Robert's son Thomas's obit establishes that his middle initial was
W. It's probably a safe bet it stood for William, since his son was
named Robert William Marshall.
His farm was in southeast North East, in section 17. It's on a map
I have from 1865. He's still there in 1876, which is a little strange
since he died in 1875.
He was 44 in 1850 census for Northeast Twp. Was a farmer with
$2800 worth of land. 54 in 1860 census, and by this time his real
estate was valued at $5000 and his personal estate at $500. The 1870
census is harder to read, but his age looks like 66, his real estate
is up to $8250, and his personal to $3000.
His naturalization record says: "To the Honourable the Judges of
the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Erie
"The Petition of Robert Marshall a Native of Ireland Respectfully
Sheueth (?) that he was born in the Year Eighteen hundred and nine
that he migrated to this Country in year Eighteen hundred and twenty
nine and (?) has resided within the Jurisdiction of the United States
for more than five years immediately previous to this his application
That he has Never ben of any of the Order of Nobility And if Any Such
Should by Any Means unexpectedly decend to him he doth Voluntarily and
entirely and entirely (sic) renounce the Same. that he hath Never ben
of (?) heretofore prescribed by any State or ben legally (?) Convicted
of having joined the Army of Great Britain during the late War." -
1812 - "That your Petitionr (?) is desirous of becoming a Citizen of
the United States and to enjoy the benefits and protections of the
Constitution and Laws thereof Your Petitioner therefore prays
your Honours to admit him to become a Citizen of the Said United
States upon his Complying with the requisitions of the Acts of
Congress in Such Case made and provided his
Witness Robert X Marshall
Carson Guchan (?) mark"
His mark looks sort of like an X. In Ireland they didn't have a system
of public education in those days. This document goes on and gives the
date (11/4/1839) and is witnessed by James C. Marshall, who must have
been either his 11-year-old son, or else the James Marshall of Solon,
Ohio who was born c. 1806.
It also contains the signature of William Marshall. It's hard to
say who this William Marshall would have been, but there are two
William Marshalls whose naturalization records I also got: one was b.
1807, emigrated the same year as Robert, so he was probably Robert's
older brother, had lived in Washington Twp. in Erie Co. for the
previous 18 months, and he was sworn on 8/8/1837, sponsored by Andrew
Scott; the other was b. 1818, from County Tyrone, em. 1819 (sic), and
sponsored on 5/4/1840 by Robert Marshall. Maybe a cousin. (See also
"Erie County, Pa. Naturalizations, 1825-1906" at Sutro.)
In the 1870 census, there seems to be an Ann Marshall listed with
his family, age 23, b. in Ohio. This is the only reference I know of
to her. She couldn't have been a daughter, since T. O. Marhsall's obit
establishes that Robert Sr. only had 7 children.
"Marshall, Robert, farmer" is listed in the North East section of
the 1870/71 Erie City and County Directory.
The following narrative about the Marshalls in both Ameica and
Ireland was sent me by Eric Marshall of North East, arriving,
appropriately enough, on St Patrick's Day:
"MARSHALL FAMILY MEMORANDA
"(The following notes were written down by Thomas O. Marshall,
being family history as told to him.)
"Robert Marshall, son of Thomas and Betsey Marshall, was born in
the province of Ulster, County Tyrone, and Parish of Arabo, Ireland,
in the year 1804, on the twelfth day of March, and was the eighth
child of the family." There's a handwritten note in Jessie Pettit
Marshall's handwriting that says that he was born 3/12/1804 at
Brookend, Londonderry County, Parish of Arbaugh, which agrees with
what Scott found in Keystone Kuzzins. I can't find any references to a
Brookend in that area. "He remained with his parents on the farm until
he was twenty-two years of age. He acquired the art of cultivating the
soil to some extent, and was also an expert at weaving linen goods,
which was one of the articles of export in those days. He received a
limited education at a day school in the Parish; but in those times
young people did not have the advantages for acquiring an education
which they have in this country at the present time, for it was
thought of more moment that they should be taught to labor at physical
labor - consequently his mental training was somewhat neglected.
"About the year 1827, on the second day of April, he was married
to Miss Martha Johnston, daughter of Robert Johnston, who resided in
the Parish of Arabo, County of Tyrone and Province of Ulster, who was
a doctor by profession and a very respectable man. (His history will
be given with that of his family in the succeeding chapters of this
book.)" Whether this was ever actually turned into a book is unknown.
I can't find it in the U. C. library catalog. "At the date of their
marriage, Robert was twenty-three years of age, and his wife twenty
years and eleven months of age, having been born on the second day of
May, in the year 1806.
"After their marriage, he lived at his father-in-law's, but worked
at his father's at his trade of weaving until the sixteenth of June
1829. During this time, on the twenty-eighth day of January, 1828, was
born their first child, which was a boy and which was named James,
after his Gandmother Marshall's brother James.
"On the sixteenth day of June, 1829, he, with wife and child and
household goods, left the Parish of Arabo and proceeded to the city of
Belfast" - maybe 30 miles away - "where he had an uncle by the name of
Dunham, where they remained but one day and then embarked for the
distant shores of North America on a vessel called 'The Beautiful Rose
Bank of Belfast,' commanded by Capt. Boyd of Belfast. After going on
board the vessel they did not sail until the twenty-sixth of June,
when they bid adieu to the shores of their native land, where remained
so many persons and objects which will ever be dear to their memory,
never to be forgotten while life lasts or the mind continues to
reason. The vessel was large and roomy, there being but sixty
passengers on board, and all looked forward to a pleasant voyage.
"They sailed with a favorable wind for ten days, and were making
rapid progress toward the New World, and all were enjoying themselves,
thinking they would soon reach their destination, but their hopes were
sadly disappointed, for on the morning of the seventh of July, a
squall struck the vessel about daylight while she was under full sail,
when the watch were all asleep; and with such violence as not to leave
a mast standing, but snapped them off below the cradles as though they
were mere reeds." Probably a hurricane, though July 7th seems a bit
early in the season for that. "The narrator of this history, Mrs.
Robert Marshall, was the only person awake on the vessel's deck at the
time of the accident, she having come upon the deck from her berth
below a few moments previous. Immediately all was confusion and
excitement among the passengers, and all the different actions
exhibited by people under intense excitement were here exhibited, and
found like our natures, many and varied. Some were singing, some
praying, some whistling as though they were spending a holiday at
home, and others were playing tha violin and seemed to be of the
temperament that enjoys life even in the face of death itself. But to
those who are calm, cool, and collected amid sudden danger, a storm at
sea is among the most solemn spectacles which can be experienced by
man. It is there the power of the Creator is displayed in a manner
that compels the mind of man to acknowledge His supremacy, and also to
realize how insignificant is his power, compared to that of his
Creator. The storm lasted for three days and nights, during which time
the vessel rolled about at the mercy of the wind and waves, but on the
fourth day the fury of the storm had so far abated as to admit the
making of repairs upon the vessel. A jury mast was rigged and and a
small sail clewed thereto, but the vessel made but little progress;
but upon the fifth day after the storm the Captain hailed a passing
vessel and explained their situation, and they carried information of
the disaster to Queenstown, in the South of Ireland, (then called the
Cove of Cork), and dispatched a steam tug to their assistance, which
towed them into the Cove of Cork, arriving at the latter place fifteen
days after they had first set sail. Here they were kept for fifteen
days while the vessel was undergoing repairs. During this time and
upon the 12th. day of July, 1829, occurred the celebration of that
memorable anniversary of Protestants celebrated in memory of the great
victory by King William the Conqueror of England over the Catholics."
This seems to be a reference to William of Orange's victory over the
Catholic King James I in the Battle of the Boyne on July 12th, 1690.
"Upon the celebration of this event there occurred at this time, at a
place called Gleno in the North of Ireland, a desperate encounter
between the Orangemen and Catholics, between whom was a long-settled
feeling of hatred. A number were killed on both sides, and a great
number wounded; but the bravery and courage of the Orangemen prevailed
over the religious zeal of their opponents, and they came out of the
affray victorious, their only cause of regret being the lives of their
comrades, which had been sacrificed in defense of their faith. The
excitement caused by this event soon passed away and quiet again took
possession of the land, but many of the participators in the
celebration of the 12th. of July, 1829, are still living, and with
those, the bitter feelings of a minority engendered by the action of
the Catholics upon that day has never been forgotten, and will not be
so as long as memory performs its office, in their minds. Many of
those who had taken passage in 'The Rose Bank' went back to their
homes, and ten of the passengers gave up the voyage entirely, not
being willing to again entrust their lives and those of their families
to the treacherous element from which they had so recently escaped.
"The remainder of the passengers, including the subjects of this
sketch, determined upon again attempting to reach America, which is
justly termed a land where all wanderers of every class and nation can
find a home and welcome. Here they find no King, no Lords to oppress,
but each man is Lord of his own domain, subject only to those laws
enacted for the preservation of society, and those enacted by the
people themselves through the medium of chosen representatives. They
had a pleasant voyage, and upon the twelfth day of August, 1829, they
entered the mouth of the River St. Lawrence. The vessel then proceeded
up the river to Quebec, arriving at the latter place upon the second
day of September, 1829, having been twenty-one days upon the river.
The reason of this was that they could only proceed while the tide was
coming in from the ocean, and tie up when it was going out. There they
stayed for a week, when they took passage in a steamer and proceeded
up the river to Montreal, where they again landed. Here they hired a
conveyance and proceeded by land nine miles to La Chine," - on the Ile
de Montreal - "having to pass the rapids in the river in this manner.
Here they again embarked upon the river and proceeded by steamboat up
to Cornwall," - right across from New York - "a distance of
twenty-four miles. They then proceeded by land to Prescott, Canada,
east a distance of fifty-five miles, and from thence by the river to
Queenstown a distance of five hundred miles. From thence by land to
Waterloo, a distance of twenty-eight miles; thence across Niagra River
by ferryboat to Black Rock in the State of New York, thence by land to
Buffalo, a distance of one and one-half miles; thence by steamboat
upon Lake Erie to Cleveland, in the State of Ohio.
"From Cleveland they went to Bainbridge, Ohio," - in Geauga
County, right next to Solon - "a distance of twenty-five miles, at
which latter place lived his brother, Hugh Marshall, arriving here
Sept. 20, 1829."
Then he goes into a digression on the Lough Neagh, a lake right
next to Arboe Parish: "The Lough Neagh was a beautiful sheet of water
about twenty miles in length and from eight to ten miles in width. Its
bottom was covered with a white sand, and so clear were its waters
that the bottom was discernible at its greatest depth. It also
possessed the rare mineral qualities of turning to stone certain kinds
of wood when immersed in it for a sufficient time. No handsomer
scenery was to be found than that with which its shores abounded, and
this lake is today the pride of any and all Irish hearts in whatever
part of the earth they may be located."
This narrative came down to us through Ellen M. Marshall, Dora B.
Merrill, and Jessie Angeline Pettit Marshall. It was written by Thomas
O. Marshall, the newspaperman, but there is quite a bit of detail in
it in the form of dates and places, which suggests that someone kept a
journal of the trip to America. Since Robert Marshall signed his name
with a mark, it could hardly have been him. His wife, on the other
hand, was the daughter of a doctor, so she might have been better
educated, plus she is referred to as "the narrator of this history";
so probably it was her. Dora B. Merrill was the granddaughter of
Margaret Marshall Merrill, so if her journal survives, it might
someday be found in that part of the family.
Eric Marshall has this to say about how the Marshalls came to
North East, and what became of their land there, which infomation came
down to him, I take it, through the family: "The version I heard was
that they came from Ireland, went to Ohio for a short stay and then
were heading back to Ireland when they ran into a gentleman named
McCord in Buffalo. The McCords lived in North East and Mr. McCord
convinced Robert Marshall to come to the North East area where he knew
they could find some good land. As goes the story, Robert and family
came here with Mr. McCord and he showed them land along the lake. Of
course, that today would be prime grape land, but Robert couldn't find
any Chestnut trees growing along the lake so he headed south of town
until he found the trees growing along Findley Lake Road. That was
where he and Martha settled in and raised their family. That land
wasn't worth much then and still isn't today. Robert Jr., my great
grandfather, lived just west of the old Marshall homestead and when he
died, the land was divided up between his four children. Willam, my
grandfather, left his share of Robert's farm to my father and I
remember when dad sold it back in the '50's. William moved from there
to work for Grace and Emory on their farm on Sidehill Road. That's
when he met my grandmother and they got married in 1906. William then
bought land north of Sidehill Rd. from his father-in-law, Tom Pettit,
and went into the grape business. Later on, Emory and Grace decided to
put in some grapes, too, so I guess they figured that there was money
to be made in Concords. William continued to work for Grace and Emory
for a few years and then Truman Strickland took over the management of
Eastwood." From his e-mail to me of 10/25/09. Note that Eric has the
name McCord where two other versions have Ed Graham. A quick look at
the censuses shows that there were both Grahams and McCords living in
North East in those days.
ID: 545
Name: MARTHA JOHNSTON
Sex: F
Birth date: May 2, 1806
Birth place: Alugh, Co. Tyrone, Ir.
Date of death: Nov. 9, 1894
Place of death: North East?
Age at death: 88 years, 6 months, 7 days.
Father: ROBERT (Dr.) JOHNSTON (726) ( - )
Spouse: ROBERT W. MARSHALL (544) (1804-1875)
Wedding: 4/2/1827, Ireland
Child 1: JAMES C. MARSHALL (534) (1828-1915)
Child 2: MARIA J. MARSHALL (538) (1830- )
Child 3: ELIZABETH MARSHALL (539) (1832-1894)
Child 4: MARGARET MARSHALL (540) (1836-1893)
Child 5: ROBERT WILLIAM MARSHALL (041) (1838-1899)
Child 6: GEORGE NELSON MARSHALL (541) (1840-1926)
Child 7: THOMAS O. MARSHALL (542) (1847-1902)
Note: Buried in North East.
43 in the 1850 census. 64 in the 1870 census. In the 1880 census, in
the household of T O Marshall, there is a Martha, his mother, widowed,
b. Ireland, parents both b. Ireland; but her age is given as 76. T O
Marshall must be her son Thomas, but his age is given as 31, and in
1850 it's 3. Go figure.
The Keystone Kuzzins article about her husband gives her
birthplace as Alugh, though I can't find that on the map. It also says
that she stayed on the Marshall farm in North East after her husband
died, til her own death.
There are two references to her as being named Hannah Johnson, one
of them in the handwriting of Jessie Pettit Marshall.
ID: 546
Name: WILLIAM ALEXANDER CRAWFORD
Sex: M
Birth date: Mar. 24, 1919
Date of death: Dec. 1986
Place of death: Erie Pa.
Age at death: 66 or 67
Mother: MARION ELIZABETH WALLING (082) (1896-1979)
Father: WILLIAM LEE CRAWFORD (209) (1895-1972)
Note: Strong Vincent High School, class of '36.
Note: William Alexander Crawford II.
M. Elinor Thayer. Two kids: William Lee Crawford II and James T.
Crawford, one of whom became a Canadian citizen. His SSN was issued in
Oklahoma, probably when he was in the service. He last resided in PA,
area code 16505.
Elinor Thayer (11/27/1926 - 6/1987) d. in Erie.
ID: 547
Name: THOMAS WALLING CRAWFORD
Sex: M
Birth date: Apr. 19, 1920
Birth place: Erie, Pa.
Date of death: May 20, 1990
Place of death: Erie, Pa.
Age at death: 70 years, 1 month, 1 day.
Mother: MARION ELIZABETH WALLING (082) (1896-1979)
Father: WILLIAM LEE CRAWFORD (209) (1895-1972)
Wedding: 7/6/1945, York Springs Pa
Child 1: ANNE FOLLMAR CRAWFORD (949) ( - )
Child 2: JOHN WALLING CRAWFORD (950) ( - )
Note: Buried in Erie Cemetery.
He and my mom are the only left-handers in the family.
M. Lydianna Amelia Zepp, dau. of William Zepp and Anna Follmar.
"Zeppie" was Pennsylvania Dutch. And a diabetic, diagnosed in her 20's
or 30's. As were her mother and sister. As was Thomas himself, who was
diagnosed in about his 60's, though Anne Lurie can't remember anyone
else on either side of his family being diabetic. When he died he was
living at 5607 Franklin Ave., Fairview, Pa. 16415. He had chronic
bronchitis from smoking too much, for too long. He died of chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease. Zeppie graduated from York Springs HS
in May 1939. Zeppie (6/21/1922 - 10/12/1972) was born in York Springs
Pa. and died in Erie. Her father was a wealthy industrialist from
Bucks County, Pa.
His obit from the Erie Daily Times says he was past president of
the Crawford Plastics Co., an Army vet of WW II, a Presbyterian, had a
degree in engineering from Penn State, was predeceased by his wife,
his brother Bill and sister Mary Lee, and was survived by his son John
W. of Fairview, his daughter Mrs. James (Anne) Lurie of Nutley, NJ,
and 2 grandchildren. Buried in Erie Cemetery.
ID: 548
Name: MARY LEE CRAWFORD
Sex: F
Birth date: June 18, 1921
Birth place: Erie, Pa.
Date of death: Apr. 8, 1978
Place of death: Erie, Pa.
Age at death: 56 years, 9 months, 21 days.
Mother: MARION ELIZABETH WALLING (082) (1896-1979)
Note: Divorced. M. Roger Soth.
Note: Buried in the Walling plot in Erie Cemetery.
Married Roger Soth, who was a difficult man. Two chiildren, both
adopted: Perrie, a girl, who still lives in Erie; and Michael. It
ended in divorce. I seem to remember Aunt Lulu saying that the strife
between Mary Lee and her husband was so bad that toward the end of
Mary Lee's life Perrie wouldn't even talk to her father. Roger Soth
(6/19/1922 - 10/1985) d. in Edinboro, Pa.
From Mary Lee's obit in the Erie Daily times: she died at Hamot
Medical Center following an extended illness, was a graduate of Ogontz
Junior College, was a Presbyterian, was a member of the Hamot Aid
Society, the Junior League, and the Visiting Nurses Association, and
was survived by her mother, her daughter Perrie M. Soth, her son
Michael Lee Soth, and her brothers William A. and Thomas W.
ID: 549
Name: MARY WALLING
Sex: F
Father: RALPH GORDON WALLING (083) ( - )
Note: Strong Vincent High School, Class of '36.
Married a man named Beardsley. Aunt Lulu speaks well of her, "my
favorite of all my cousins". She lived with her grandmother for a
while, who used to make her wear big stockings to school every day
that went up above her knees. She would go over to Aunt Laura's house,
who would let her take them off and go to school without them. Aunt
Laura, Aunt Marion, and Grandma Marietta all lived on the same block
of Cherry St. then, just around the corner from 552 W. 8th.
ID: 550
Name: HENRIETTA GRACE WALLING
Sex: F
Birth date: Jan. 27, 1910
Birth place: Erie, Pa.
Date of death: July 10, 1992
Place of death: North East, Pa.
Age at death: 82 years, 5 months, 13 days.
Mother: ANNA MARIE BOSTWICK (042) (1881-1960)
Father: WILLIAM BENSON WALLING (031) (1881-1966)
Note: M. Cyrus W. Moorhead. Lived in North East. Buried in Erie
Note: Cemetery in a lot owned by A. K. Riblet.
Cyrus W. Moorhead conducted my parents' wedding ceremony. The
Moorheads were big in the underground railroad in Erie. The first
Moorhead who came to Erie was actually a slaveowner. He wrote a book
about the early days of Erie.
She died at her home at 9205 S. Haskell Rd. in North East. Lived
in the North East/Harborcreek area most of her life. She was a
Presbyterian, and a 1930 graduate of Allegheny with a degree in
history and English. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1986,
by her two sisters, and by her daughter Edith Ann McCabe. She was
survived by daughters Mrs. Carl (Jane) Luschwitz of Apalachin, NY, and
Katharine Hoffman of North East, and by 4 grandchildren. Buried at
Erie Cemetery. (Erie Daily Times, 7/11/1992.)
This tree is from info supplied by Jane Moorhead Luschwitz of
Apalachin, NY:
Henrietta Grace Walling 12/27/1910-7/10/1992
+ Cyrus William Moorhead 9/24/1906-7/11/198?
Edith Ann Moorhead 1939-1974
+ --- McCabe
Jane Kerr Moorhead genealogy fan
+ Carl Paul Luschwitz
Lisa Ann Luschwitz
+ Joseph Albert Vascovic
Maximillian Joseph Vascovic
Sophie Jean Vascovic
Jeffrey Carl Luschwitz
+ Kierstin Marie Smith
Dustin Duane Smith Luschwitz
Kathryn Marie Luschwitz
Kyle Jeffrey Luschwitz
Brian Shawn Luschwitz
+ Jessica (Jen-Yi) Chen b. 3/8 - kept maiden name
Katharine Elizabeth Moorhead - took back maiden
+ --- Hoffman name after divorce
Robert Lee Hoffman - now Duffel-Hoffman
+ Jennifer Duffel
Michael Allen
---
ID: 551
Name: ELLEN ELIZABETH WALLING
Sex: F
Birth date: Aug. 4, 1912
Date of death: Apr. 4, 1985
Place of death: Erie, Pa.
Age at death: 72 years, 8 months, 0 days.
Mother: ANNA MARIE BOSTWICK (042) (1881-1960)
Father: WILLIAM BENSON WALLING (031) (1881-1966)
Note: Unmarried. Buried in Erie Cemetery in a plot owned by A. K.
Note: Riblet.
Died at her home at 114 W. 10th, same place her mother lived when she
died. A 1934 graduate of Elmira College. Worked as a caseworker for
the Erie County Board of Assisstance for 37 years. Was a Methodist and
a member of the American Association of University Women. Survived by
her two sisters. (From the Erie Daily Times, 4/5/1985.)
ID: 552
Name: JEAN KIRKPATRICK WALLING
Sex: F
Birth date: 1918
Date of death: Mar. 26, 1987
Place of death: Erie, Pa.
Age at death: 68 or 69
Mother: ANNA MARIE BOSTWICK (042) (1881-1960)
Father: WILLIAM BENSON WALLING (031) (1881-1966)
Wedding: 2/8/1936
Note: Strong Vincent High School, Class of '36.
Died at her home at 5898 Overlook Dr. She attended Mercyhurst College.
She was pretty active, being both a Methodist and on the board of the
Unitarian Church, as well as being superintendent of the church school
and president of its Women's Club; she was a member of the Elk Valley
Garden Club and served on the board of the Sunnyside Home, the
Traveler's Club and the PTA, was active in the Cub Scouts, the Erie
County Lawyers Wives, Erie County Republican Women, the Lake Shore
Country Club, etc. "She was active in politics during the 1960s,
enjoyed flower arranging, gardening, painting, and collecting and
refurnishing antiques." She was survived by her husband, her sister
Henrietta of North East, and four sons: John McClelland of Natrona
Heights, Robert McClelland of Doylestown, James McClelland of Erie and
Scott McClelland of Chicago. Buried at Girard Cemetery, funeral done
by the Burton Funeral Home of Girard.
Aunt Lulu says her first husband (father of her first child) was
a real no-goodnik, and it didn't last. Mom says his name was Bill Lee
and he engaged in check-kiting and other criminal activities so she
divorced him. The Walling family reunion notes give the date of her
first marriage, to William J. Lee, 2/8/1936. They also say their son
John Walling was born 11/26/1937. Bill Lee "was a real lowlife", says
Laurel Lee McClelland Anderson. "My grandma Jean used to tell us the
story of how right before she left him, she was begging him for money
for food, which he didn't give her, and she came home soon after that
to find him eatng the last jar of baby food she had for my dad. Real
winner of a guy!" And, "they were married" - in NY - "for about a year
before anyone even knew about it, then got married in the church once
she became pregnant with my father. After they divorced a few years
later, my dad only saw his father once, in a chance meeting at a gas
station when my dad was about 9. Bill came up to him and told himn he
was his dad, and my dad ran home." He is said to have gotten remarried
and maybe had children. Tradition says he died in a bar fight in
Mexico.
I gather son John Walling Lee was later adopted by Jean's second
husband Lindley R. McClelland, a conservative judge in Erie whose name
I heard on TV once when I was there visiting in about 1969. Mom says
he was a nice guy, if a bit on the stiff side. According to his obit
(Erie Daily Times, 12/14/1991), he was quite an achiever. "Judge
Lindley Rossiter McClelland, a well-respected and distiguished jurist
who was as knowledgeable about the Civil War as he was about the law,
died Friday" - 12/13/1991 - "after a long battle with cancer. He was
75." And, "McClelland was known for his sharp legal mind and quick
wit... particularly for an essay he authored in the late 1960s about
the now-famous Miranda warnings that must be given to criminal
defendants at their arrest." The essay, "Along Came Miranda", was
taught for years at law schools around the country. He was a defense
attorney for 15 years, then spent 10 years in the DA's office as
assisstant DA, county solicitor, and DA. He became a judge on the
Court of Common Pleas in 1967 and retired in 1981. As a defense
attorney, "He was always completely prepared", said an ex-reporter.
"But more important, his mind was totally focused on every word, every
nuance, ready to react." The reporters liked him because of his
freedom-of-the-press positions. "He was known as a tough judge in the
courtroom, particularly when dealing with young lawyers who came to
court unprepared." "He looked the part, he was the part. I think he
was born to be a judge", said his friend Richard Brabender. "He was
one who didn't just know the law, he was interested in the philosophy
upon which the law was based. As a consequence, he could justify it or
criticize it with equal intellectual vigor", said his friend Judge
Richard Nygaard.
And, "He was a nationally-recognized expert on Abraham Lincoln and
was well-published on the subject of the Civil War president." "He
probably had read everything that had ever been written about the
Civil War, even to the extent of studying old newspaper reports in the
libraries," said his friend Judge William Pfadt. He used to go and
visit the Civil War battlefields, and authored many papers on the war.
He was also a golf nut, who "probably either played or practiced
almost every day in his later years," said Pfadt. He was on the board
of St. Vincent Health Center, and in the Country Club, the
Maennerchor, the American Legion, the Crippled Children's Society, and
the Universalist-Unitarian Society.
"He had a tragic life," his friend Judge Carney said. "He lost
family members through tragic circumstances, but he never publicly
showed the pain he endured at his losses." He came from a family of
jurists. He was born in Girard, Pa. on 4/7/1916. He got his bachelor's
and his law degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He was in Europe
in the Army in WW II. When he died at St. Vincent's he was living at
5898 Overlook Drive. The arrangements were done by the Burton Home.
Beside his wife, he was predeceased by 2 sons, Robert on 9/21/1987,
and James in Feb. 1990. He was survived by 2 other sons, John of
Natrona Heights, and Scott of Erie; and by 8 grandchildren and one
great-granddaughter, Lindsay.
"Memoirs of the Erie County Bench and Bar, v. II" adds that he was
well-published in various law journals, was a member and trustee of
the Universalist-Unitarian Society, and was a student of the history
of the law.
Two of his sons died tragically from suicide. Laurel Anderson:
"Bob had a history of depression, but it was still quite a shock,
since he seemed to be doing well before that. It was not too long
after my grandmther died. It was just devastating to everyone.
Especially since he did it in a manner that his teenage son had to be
the one to find him that way. It was awful...He was divorced long
before that and his son lived with him all his life. He never
remarried. My dad was VERY close to him, being they were closest in
age. Jim, one of the other brothers, was SO upset Bob could do such a
thing that he didn't even want him buried near my grandma. Then he
went and did the same thing a couple years later. Even more
devastating, since he never had any psychological problems, not that
anyone knew about. He left a wife and two very young children. They
all moved to S. Carolina and we don't hear from them much. My
grandmother had problems with depression during her life and was
hospitalized a few times."
Here is a chart of Jean's descendants, mostly from info sent by
Jane Moorhead Luschwitz and Laurel Anderson:
Jean Kirkpatrick Walling
John Walling Lee/McClelland
+ first wife
Richard William McClelland (called Carter)
Lindsay Carter
Ronald Martin McClelland (called Carter)
+ second wife
Laurel Lee McClelland
John Joseph McClelland
Erin Lynn McClelland
Robert Walling McClelland 1945-1987
Mark Rossiter McClelland
James Walling McClelland 1951-2/25/1990
+ Gretchen Hines
Jonathan Scott McClelland
Christina
Scott Rossiter McClelland; owns Roadhouse theater
ID: 553
Name: GRACE MAYNARD SAWDEY
Sex: F
Birth place: Erie, Pa.
Mother: LAURA CORDELIA WALLING (032) (1890-1972)
Father: HARRY LEE SAWDEY (033) (1890-1949)
Note: Lived only four months.
ID: 554
Name: ANNE ELIZABETH SAWDEY
Sex: F
Birth date: Oct. 28, 1918
Birth place: Erie, Pa.
Date of death: Aug. 9, 2002
Place of death: Hamot Med Ctr, Erie
Age at death: 83 years, 9 months, 12 days.
Mother: LAURA CORDELIA WALLING (032) (1890-1972)
Father: HARRY LEE SAWDEY (033) (1890-1949)
Note: Strong Vincent High School, Class of '36.
Anne Sawdey Coyle has kids Amy, Scott, and Grant. They were at Aunt
Laura's house when we had dinner there in about 1969. Amy was my age
and I remember her from when I spent the summer in Erie in 1961.
Anne wrote a short book called "A Family on Cherry Street" from
which much of the info here about the Wallings in Erie is taken. About
her grandfather's farm: "Now to Eastwood Farm on the Side Hill Road in
Northeast, Pennsylvania. As I have told you, this was a walking oasis
for our grandfather." 160 acres, about four times as big as a regular
farm. "As soon as he got there (in his chauffeur driven car because
neither of my grandparents drove)" - the chauffeur was a bootlegger -
"he took off up into the hills or down in the gully. Grandmother would
sit under one of the three giant maple trees that were in the front
yard of the farm house. Her maid during this time" - I guess this
would be Vera, the deaf Swedish maid - "would be in the kitchen
preparing food for any family members who happened to be there.
"Because our Walling grandparents did not live at the farm, their
families shared the times to stay there. Because four of their
children lived in Erie, each family could live at the farm one month
every other summer. The Sawdeys, especially Dad, loved the farm. Our
family stayed there the most. We were always there May, June,
September, and October. If another family didn't stay its entire
month, we would pack up and go back out there.
"Some of the happiest family days of our lives were spent at that
farm. It was such a wonderful place to raise children. Mother planned
our meals around what fruits and vegetables were ready for picking
that day....
"Our spring and autumn days at the farm were marred by one fact.
We still had to go to school. But even that was an adventure! Each day
we would get up early so we could ride into Erie with Dad. After
school we would go to our house on Cherry Street to wait for Dad to
pick us up and drive the sixteen miles to the farm. As soon as we
stepped out of the car at the farm, Dad would say, 'Okay, off with the
shoes and socks.' What a great feeling it was to run around the huge
lawn in our bare feet." There feet would get toughened with use. No
one ever told them not to do anything, either.
"Dad was sure that the fruits and vegetables picked just before
eating were the best tasting. For this reason at the last minute
Mother would give the call, 'Ready for the strawberries, or ready for
the peas, or ready for the corn.' We would all head for the various
picking fields. Sometimes this was a disaster for Dad when he went to
the corn field. He would always be miserable with hay fever
afterwards. There was no medicine for him to take so he just had to
wait it out. This did not keep him from going to the cornfield again.
He loved every aspect of the farm so even pleading from Mother could
not keep him away from the pollen producing plants.
"One summer Dad told us that he had a surprise for us. Said the
surprise would be arriving that evening. Imagine our delight when a
huge truck pulled into the barnyard and out came a brown and white
pony. At home we sometimes had a cat and for a long time we had a
Scotty dog named Mickey. But our very own pony! Unbelieveable! We
rode, rode, and rode that poor overworked pony all summer long. No
wonder his fastest time was any time he was being ridden to the barn."
About disease: "With chicken pox, measles (there were three kinds
of measles when we were growing up) and whooping cough, we were
considered contagious and had to be kept away from our siblings. Not
for a few days but for ten or twelve days! This was silly because we
all got everything anyway.
"As soon as the doctor decided that you had a communicable
disease, he would inform the health department. In a matter of
minutes, the 'health officer' would be tacking up a sign on your front
door. The sign read, for example,
"CHICKEN POX
"This house is under quarantine.
"No one is allowed to enter or leave until
"this sign is removed.
"Working fathers were allowed to come and go, but no one else was
allowed to come in or go out. At the end of the quarantine period the
health officer would return to your house to remove the sign. At our
house removing the sign was not an easy thing to do. Most of the time
all the health officer did was to change the date on the sign because
by the time Jane was getting over the disease, Anne was starting, then
Anne was well, and on to Harriet, then on to Esther. You can imagine
how long our house was quarantined when in one winter we got two
communicable diseases! During this time we were allowed to talk to our
friends (when we were finally alllowed out of bed) through the living
room windows.
"There was one good side to these sicknesses- WE WERE NOT ALLOWED
TO GO TO SCHOOL! Some friend would bring school work to our house and
leave it in our mail box. This was no problem because we could not
take the completed homework back to school because it was
CONTAMINATED."
There were other diseases. They knew kids at school with polio,
and scarlet fever was very contagious and very dangerous. They had to
take you to Lakeview Hospital for that.
"Buying ready-made clothes was almost impossible for us because we
were all so thin." Everyone on that side of the family is skinny. They
had a seamstress come in and make the clothes.
About play time: "This twice a day recess was our most favorite
time of the school day. There was no need for more than one teacher to
be on the play ground with us. We had unsupervised play time. We
behaved. It was expected of us. This in itself is a far cry from the
recess periods of today where the teacher continues teaching even
during recess." In the fall they made leaf houses from maple leaves,
and in the winter they made slides (the teachers probably wouldn't let
them today - too dangerous). In the spring the jumped rope, and they
played marbles year-round. They had stilts and bikes and scooters and
roller-skates. This was about as fancy as toys got then. "And we
played mumblety-peg with a pocket knife. We took our knives to school
so we could play the game at recess. Times have really changed. A
knife in school these days means a three-day suspension for the
carrier."
About the attic: "It was almnost the most important place in the
house for us. It was a wonderful, wonderful playroom! For hours on end
we played up there. It was such a homey place in which to play dolls.
Dad had the whole attic finished off to be one big room. When we
played with our dolls, we each had our separate corners.
"When we outgrew playing with dolls, our attic became the 'Cherry
Street Library'. We had books signed out to all the children in the
neighborhood. Beware if you did not return your library book on time.
We came after you!"
Anne Sawdey Coyle's obituary was e-mailed me by Karen Michaelis,
9/2/03. It says she taught school in Erie for many years. She went to
Strong Vincent, then got her bachelor's from Mercyhurst. She was a
member of First United Methodist. "She was preceded in death by her
husband of 46 years, James P. Coyle; two sisters, Jane Ehrheart
McCarthy and Grace Sawdey; and a grandson, Jamie Himrod.
"Survivors include two daughters, Rebecca Himrod and her husband,
Dennis, of Erie and Amy Stevens and her husband, Edward, of Cleveland;
two sons, Scott Coyle of Erie and Grant Coyle and his wife, Virginia,
of Cleveland; two sisters, Harriet Sawdey and Esther Lennertz of Erie;
seven grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter." She was buried at
Laurel Hill Cemetery.
ID: 555
Name: HARRIET LEE SAWDEY
Sex: F
Birth place: Erie, Pa.
Mother: LAURA CORDELIA WALLING (032) (1890-1972)
Father: HARRY LEE SAWDEY (033) (1890-1949)
ID: 556
Name: ESTHER SCOTT SAWDEY
Sex: F
Birth place: Erie, Pa.
Mother: LAURA CORDELIA WALLING (032) (1890-1972)
Father: HARRY LEE SAWDEY (033) (1890-1949)
Her daughter Barbie's house got wiped out by Hurricane Andrew in
Florida.
ID: 560
Name: MARY ANN JUDD
Sex: F
Birth date: 1817?
Spouse: HIRAM EDGERTON (190) (1800-1871)
Note: 32 in the 1850 census for Dayton. 43 in 1860.
Hiram Edgerton's second wife. Children: Dexter, died in infancy;
George D.; Edmund A., all dead by 1912.
ID: 561
Name: LOUISA POMEROY
Sex: F
Birth date: May 15, 1804
Birth place: NY? Mass? Wallingford VT?
Date of death: July 20, 1841
Age at death: 37 years, 2 months, 5 days.
Spouse: HIRAM EDGERTON (190) (1800-1871)
Child 1: MARYETTE EDGERTON (562) (1830-1905)
Child 2: DANIEL G. EDGERTON (564) (1835- )
Child 3: LAURA CORDELIA EDGERTON (533) (1836-1921)
Child 4: SARAH LAVINIA EDGERTON (563) (1839-1906)
Eric Marshall thinks her first name was actually Cecilia.
Mark Armstrong says that Louisa is buried with her husband Hiram
at Cottage Cemetery on the west side of Dayton Twp. in Cattaraugus Co.
NY. The tombstone inscription says she died 7/20/1841 aged 37 years, 2
months, 5 days. Buried with them are daughter Maryette Edgerton
Leonard and her husband Joseph Nelson Leonard. This came from the DAR
records at the State Library in Albany, NY. Mark also says the 1880
census for her son Daniel says she was b. Mass. but other sources say
NY. (E-mail, 4/11/2001.) The IGI says it was Wallingford, Rutland Co.,
VT but the town clerk there can find no record of it. Still, there are
a number of Pomeroys in the records in Brandon to the north. Here is a
possible tree:
Daniel Pomeroy, 1772-4/7/1845 at 73; d. in Brandon, bur. in Old
Congregational Cem.
+ Charlotte, 1774-10/29/1815; d. Brandon, bur Old Cong Cem
? William
Azuba b. 1796 in Brandon, d. 2/21/1819 at 23, bur Old Cong Cem
Leonard b. 1797 in Brandon d. 8/7/1798 at 11 mos., " " "
? Louisa b. 5/15/1804 - no birth rcd in Brandon or Wallingford
Charlotte b. 1808 in Brandon
Paris b. 1810 in Brandon
Sybil S. b. 1813 in Brandon, d. 3/6/1814 at 9 mos 3 d
+ Mary - Daniel's second wife
Notice the 11-year gap between Leonard and Charlotte. Maybe they moved
somewhere else for a while. It would probably be worth looking at the
land records, or maybe there's a will in Rutland Co. Also, Daniel
Pomeroy is in the 1810 census for Orwell, Rutland Co., which is right
next to Brandon (though on my map it's really in Addison Co.), so it
might be worth a look there.
The above info came from the town clerk of Brandon, and from Joyce
Barbieri, town clerk of Wallingford. Allied names are Taylor,
Hastings, Porter, and Gates.
ID: 562
Name: MARYETTE EDGERTON
Sex: F
Birth date: 1830
Date of death: June 4, 1905
Age at death: 74 or 75
Mother: LOUISA POMEROY (561) (1804-1841)
Father: HIRAM EDGERTON (190) (1800-1871)
Note: M. Joseph Nelson Leonard.
ID: 563
Name: SARAH LAVINIA EDGERTON
Sex: F
Birth date: 1839?
Date of death: c. 1906
Age at death: 66 or 67
Mother: LOUISA POMEROY (561) (1804-1841)
Father: HIRAM EDGERTON (190) (1800-1871)
Note: M. Martin Merrifield.
ID: 564
Name: DANIEL G. EDGERTON
Sex: M
Birth date: 1835?
Mother: LOUISA POMEROY (561) (1804-1841)
Father: HIRAM EDGERTON (190) (1800-1871)
Note: Lived in Carbondale, Colorado.
ID: 565
Name: PHILIP EDGERTON
Sex: M
Birth date: Oct. 1, 1774
Birth place: Norwich, Ct.
Date of death: c. 1863
Age at death: 88 or 89
Mother: MARY DOUGLAS (567) (1742-1829)
Father: DANIEL (Capt.) EDGERTON (566) (1737-1783)
Spouse: MARY HALL (568) (1767-1807)
Child 1: HIRAM EDGERTON (190) (1800-1871)
"He married (first) Mary Hall, whose brother, Mosely Hall, married
Mary Edgerton, Philip's sister. He married (second) Narcissa Osborne.
Children: Isaac, born December 4, 1797; Hiram;" - my ancestor -
"Philip Jr.; Edmund, July 28, 1804; Edwin, February 26, 1808;
Benjamin, December 28, 1811; Laura, August 28, 1815; Julius, June 29,
1819." This is from the "Genealogical and Family History of Central
New York", 1912, CGS, as is much of the info here about Hiram's
ancestors. A copy of an Edgerton book sent me by Joyce Barbieri, town
clerk of Wallingford, Vt., has Edwin crossed out.
The name Laura shows up among his children. This Laura Edgerton
had a first cousin named Laura Edgerton, who was nonetheless born 25
years earlier; and she married Lyman Hall, who was apparently Mary
Hall's brother.
Phillip Edgerton is in the census for Wallingford, Rutland Co.,
Vt., 1800. There are two boys under 10 (Isaac and Hiram), one man 16
to 26 (Phillip), and a woman 16 to 26 (Mary Hall, I guess). I can't
find him anywhere after 1800.
ID: 566
Name: DANIEL (Capt.) EDGERTON
Sex: M
Birth date: Mar. 1, 1737
Birth place: Norwich, Conn.
Date of death: Feb. 24, 1783
Place of death: Tinmouth, Vt.
Age at death: 45 years, 11 months, 23 days.
Mother: PHOEBE HARRIS (734) ( -1763)
Father: JOHN EDGERTON (733) (1690-1768)
Spouse: MARY DOUGLAS (567) (1742-1829)
Wedding: 11/8/1764
Child 1: PHILIP EDGERTON (565) (1774-1863)
Child 2: MARY EDGERTON (746) (1777-1854)
"Captain Daniel Edgerton, a descendant of Richard Edgerton, came with
his family from Saybrook, Connecticut, and settled in Tinmouth,
Vermont, about 1780. He died in Tinmouth, February 24, 1783, of
small-pox, and was buried there, his headstone being moved to
Wallingford cemetery about one hundred years after he died. The family
moved to Wallingford, Vermont, soon after his death." I can't find any
Edgertons in Wallingford, 1790. "He married, November 8, 1764, Mary
Douglas, who was an aunt of Senator Stephen A. Douglas." Well, sort
of. "Children: Phebe, born December 6, 1765, married Samuel McClure;
Daniel, April 12, 1768, married Betsey Fargo; Robert, April 15, 1770,
married Anna Bull; Isaac, July 11, 1772, unmarried; Philip" - my line
- "Mary; Sarah." There was also a Eunice, according to the Edgerton
book sent me by the town clerk of Wallingford. It also says the first
five children were born in Norwich.
Regarding his parentage, the DAR says he was born 3/1/1737, which,
according to the Vital Records of Norwich, would make him the son of
John and Phoebe Edgerton. The LDS says his birthdate is 11/11/1747,
which would make him the son of Hezekiah Edgerton, who also fought in
the Revolution. The town clerk of Wallingford says 3/1/1737, as do two
documents she sent me, so I guess that wins.
From "The Genealogy and Family of the State of Vermont", p. 648,
Sutro: Daniel Edgerton "came from Salisbury, Litchfield Co.,
Connecticut, to Tinmouth, Bennington (now Rutland) Co., Vt., where he
purchased 420 acres of the confiscated estate of a Tory, John McNeil
by name, as is evidenced by the land records of the town of Tinmouth,
which bears the date of 8/31/1778." The DAR says he couldn't have done
this if he wasn't a patriot. "Daniel Edgerton was familiarly known as
'Captain Daniel', and served in the Revolution." It goes on to say
that his wife Mary Douglas was the daughter of Benjah Douglas who was
at Valley Forge, but this contradicts info from other sources.
The deed for his land reads in part as follows: "James Claghorn of
Rutland, County of Bennington, State of Vermont, Commissioner
appointed... to make sale and dispose of confiscated estates in the
Probate District of Rutland, in consideration of the sum of 1500
pounds lawful money to me in hand paid, before the delivery hereof by
Daniel Edgerton of Salisbury, County of Litchfield, State of Conn.,
Gentlemen, conveyed to Daniel Edgerton lands which were formerly
granted by Benning Wentworth, Esquire Governor of New Hampshire, and
were lately the property of James McNail and now forfeit to this State
by his treasonable conduct.
"Witness: Phebe Pratt; Samuel Chipman. Aug. 23, 1778" - This from
the Edgerton book sent me by the town clerk of Wallingford.
From Brian G. Edgerton (see below): Capt. Edgerton may actually
have served in the French and Indian War, since he was the right age
for it. He was probably always a farmer, except for his military
service. His property in Salisbury, Ct. was next to that of his
brother Nathaniel. His cousin Simeon Edgerton moved to Vermont about
the same time he did; it was probably to get away from the British.
Capt. Daniel's property in Tinmouth was near the former Limas
Valentine place, and the Valentine family there still owns property
that is used by the Green Mountain Black Powder Shooting Club. The
original site of his grave is uncertain. On his gravestone it says:
"DIED Feb ~24 1783 Capt. Daniel ~Edgerton AEt. 46 Virtuelivis" -
virtuous? - "beyond the grave."
His probate record indicates that his estate was pretty sizeable.
The home farm in Tinmouth, containing 295 acres, was valued at 1075
pounds, and another 100 acres, which constituted his wife's dower, was
worth 80 pounds. His combined personal and real estate came to 1769
pounds, but he had managed to accumulate 1294 pounds in debt, which
was about twice the value of his personal estate, so they had to sell
the farm. Maybe that explains why the family moved to Wallingford
after his death.
Much of the info about Capt. Daniel's ancestors comes from the
DAR. They also say he's called Captain on his tombstone, and that he
died of smallpox, probably contracted in the service.
From a document sent me by the Town Clerk of Wallingford, started
8/28/1971 and written by a man named "Poppy" Monis, who bought some
land there in 1933: "Daniel Edgerton came to Tinmouth from Connecticut
dying in 1783 at the age of forty-six on the Limas Valentine place,
which is the brick house just to the left of route 140 on the road
paralleling our West Hill road but on the Tinmouth side. Before his
death he had purchased in 1778 for 1500 pounds about 420 acres
comprising part of what is now callled West Hill. West Hill was then
in Tinmouth, not actually becoming part of Wallingford until 1793.
This land, acquired by 'Captain Daniel', as he was called because of
his service in the Revolutionary War, had been the estate of the Tory,
John McNeil, whose property was forfeited to the state for
'treasonable conduct'. Perhaps it is only fair to John McNeil to note
that his confiscated property, differing from most such property at
the time, was free from debts, and after the war he settled in
Charlotte, Vermont, where he had an honorable career as a town
representative, Judge of Probate for Chittenden County, and founder of
the Essex Ferry across Lake Champlain. This ferry, for years, linked
the chief route of travel between Vermont and New York State. In those
uncertain times many a good man lost out!
"The story goes that Captain Edgerton's four (?) sons built houses
on what is now 'West Hill Road'. Probably each house was built in the
Colonial way, with oak frame timbers secured together with trunnels,"
- tree nails - "then when the timbers were ready to be girted into the
house frame, neighbors and family were invited to a 'house raising'
and in the old English way deriving from the Druids a workman secured
a small sapling upright to the frame and the ceremony of 'wetting the
bush' took place. With rum or cider or whatever was available, the
workers toasted the new house, christened it, and dedicated it to
future years of happiness. Some of those years we have enjoyed in the
old house." The house which was occupied by the Widow Edgerton, where
Philip must have grown up, was the scene described by Margaret Peattie
in her Saturday Evening Post story "Emmy for Sugar, Sarah for Salt"
(1/4/1941). The early settlers had to do almost everything for
themselves. "They used nature, and the severe New England seasons, to
make their work less burdensome; heavy work, for instance, such as
moving stones for walls or cutting trees for firewood, would be done
during winter using sledges drawn over the icy frozen ground. The
'refrigerator' was a shelf built into the unheated basement foundation
walls. When Poppy acquired the West Hill property there were still
some of the shelves to be seen. Though no one could say that life in
those days was easy, particularly it was not easy for the women, it
had its compensations. The tempo of lives, for instance, was slower.
It was tuned to the rhythms of nature and not to the accelerated tempo
of machines. This rhythm of Nature is well set forth by Doctor Peattie
in one of the finest chapters in his book 'The Friendly Mountains'."
He goes on to tell about an early settler named Hopkins. "The first
Hopkins cleared two acres of land, planted wheat, and slept in a
hollow log with one end closed as a protection against wolves. Trees
were broader of girth in those days, of course, and it is not
inconceivable that he might have managed some primitive furniture in
his hollow log."
A number of writers of some note have lived there. John T.
Trowbridge wrote the poem "Darius Green and his Flying Machine" there
in 1854. "I have always heard that the barn Daruis Green jumped from
was on the Fox farm (now the McCouch place) and that the barn is still
standing."
The complex of buildings where the Widow Edgerton lived had "a
blacksmith shop, or, as it was probably called in those early days, a
'Forge Barn', where raw iron brought from Tinmouth could be made into
tools. The Tinmouth forges made weapons for the Green Mountain Boys at
the time of the Revolution, and was considered so threatening by
General Burgoyne that he is said to have sent raiders through the
Tinmouth Valley to destroy the forges."
Capt. Edgerton has a 5-times-great-grandson named Brian G.
Edgerton, of Idaho Falls, from whom some of the information for the
Edgerton part of this tree comes. Notably he says Hannah Sperry's
(572) mother was Elizabeth Post, dau. of John Post (437). But a lot of
his info seems suspect so I didn't enter much of it. His descent is:
Capt. Daniel Edgerton (1737 - 1783)
Robert Douglas Edgerton (1770 - 1824)
Robert Edgerton (1797 - 1859)
Hiram R. Edgerton (1823 - 1883)
George Erwin Edgerton (1856 - 1923)
Ernest Henry Edgerton (1889 - 1950)
Leon Bisbee Edgerton (1919 - 1996)
Brian G. Edgerton
ID: 567
Name: MARY DOUGLAS
Sex: F
Birth date: Dec. 4, 1742
Date of death: June 6, 1829
Place of death: Wallingford, Vt.
Age at death: 86 years, 6 months, 2 days.
Mother: SARAH EDGECOMBE (570) (1710- )
Father: ROBERT DOUGLAS (569) (1705-1786)
Spouse: DANIEL (Capt.) EDGERTON (566) (1737-1783)
Wedding: 11/8/1764, in Nowrich (?)
Child 1: PHILIP EDGERTON (565) (1774-1863)
Child 2: MARY EDGERTON (746) (1777-1854)
Note: From New London. M. 2nd Jonathan Thompson. Buried in Green
Note: Hill Cemetery.
On her tombstone it says:
Thou shalt come to thy
grave in a full age, like as
a shock of corn cometh in,
in its season.
Lo this, we have searched it,
so it is: Hear it, and know thou
it for thy own good - Job 5-26-27
Most of the info about Mary's Douglas ancestors in this database
comes from the "Douglas Genealogy" by C. H. J. Douglas on microfilm at
Sutro.
According to Brian G. Edgerrton soon after her husband Daniel's
death she and he family moved to a farm later known as the Allen
Edgerton farm, near Wallingford, Vt.
ID: 568
Name: MARY HALL
Sex: F
Birth date: Nov. 24, 1767
Date of death: Feb. 5, 1807
Age at death: 39 years, 2 months, 12 days.
Mother: ESTHER MOSELEY (748) (1741-1827)
Father: ISAAC HALL (747) (1737-1796)
Spouse: PHILIP EDGERTON (565) (1774-1863)
Child 1: HIRAM EDGERTON (190) (1800-1871)
Note: This is the line of Halls from Wallingford, Ct., where her
Note: husband was born.
Kids: Isaac, Hiram (my line), Edmund, Philip.
Most of the info here about her ancestors comes from "Halls of New
England, Genealogical and Biograhical", by Rev. David B. Hall, 1883.
ID: 569
Name: ROBERT DOUGLAS
Sex: M
Birth date: Dec. 28, 1705
Birth place: New London, Conn.
Date of death: Oct. 1786
Place of death: Tinmouth, Vt.?
Age at death: 80 or 81
Mother: HANNAH SPERRY (572) ( -1758)
Father: THOMAS DOUGLAS (571) (1679-1724)
Spouse: SARAH EDGECOMBE (570) (1710- )
Wedding: 8/5/1731
Child 1: MARY DOUGLAS (567) (1742-1829)
C. H. J. Douglas: "Robert and his wife were both members of the church
Oct. 5, 1735. He lived on the farm which had been his father's. The
house, which had two large front rooms, was often used as a place for
holding meetings. Mr. Adams frequently had lectures there, and the
children of the neighborhood were brought to these lectures for
baptism. At one time nine were baptised there." In 1797 or 1798 his
widow moved with her son Daniel Douglas to Wallingford, Vt. and died a
few months later. Children, all b. New London: Hannah, Thomas, Sarah,
Robert, Mary (my ancestor), Samuel, Mehitabel, Joseph, Daniel.
ID: 570
Name: SARAH EDGECOMBE
Sex: F
Birth date: 1710
Birth place: New London Ct. (LDS)
Mother: HANNAH HEMPSTEAD (664) ( - )
Father: JOHN EDGECOMBE (663) (1675- )
Spouse: ROBERT DOUGLAS (569) (1705-1786)
Wedding: 8/5/1731
Child 1: MARY DOUGLAS (567) (1742-1829)
Note: Kids: Hannah, Thomas, Sarah, Robert, Mary (my ancestor),
Note: Samuel, Mehitable, Joseph, David.
The LDS IGI also has a birth record for Sarah Edgecomb who m. Robert
Douglas being born in 1722 in Waterford, Ct.
ID: 571
Name: THOMAS DOUGLAS
Sex: M
Birth date: May 15, 1679
Birth place: New London, Conn.
Date of death: Mar. 3, 1724
Age at death: 44 years, 9 months, 17 days.
Mother: MARY HEMPSTEAD (574) (1647-1711)
Father: ROBERT DOUGLAS (573) (1639-1715)
Spouse: HANNAH SPERRY (572) ( -1758)
Wedding: 11/25/1703
Child 1: ROBERT DOUGLAS (569) (1705-1786)
C. H. J. Douglas: "He was admitted to church privileges April 9, 1710,
and was a prominent member of the New London Church. He also held
several important town offices. He was chosen collector in 1711. " He
was worth 776 pounds when he died, which was, I take it, quite a bit.
Kids, all born in New London: John, Robert (my ancestor), Thomas,
James, Daniel, Mary, Stephen, Nathan, John.
ID: 572
Name: HANNAH SPERRY
Sex: F
Date of death: 1758
Father: JOHN SPERRY (622) ( - )
Spouse: THOMAS DOUGLAS (571) (1679-1724)
Wedding: 11/25/1703
Wedding 2: 12/30/1731
Child 1: ROBERT DOUGLAS (569) (1705-1786)
Note: Of New Haven. Second husband was Samuel Chapman.
ID: 573
Name: ROBERT DOUGLAS
Sex: M
Birth date: 1639
Birth place: Scotland
Date of death: Jan. 15, 1715
Age at death: 75 or 76
Mother: ANN MATTLE (577) (1610-1685)
Father: WILLIAM (Deacon) DOUGLAS (576) (1610-1682)
Spouse: MARY HEMPSTEAD (574) (1647-1711)
Wedding: 9/28/1665
Child 1: THOMAS DOUGLAS (571) (1679-1724)
Note: Kids: William, Mary, Ann, John, Hannah, Sarah, Elizabeth,
Note: Thomas (my ancestor), Phebe, Susannah, Ruth.
C. H. J. Douglas: "He was a year old when his parents came to
Massachusetts, and twenty-one when he removed with them to New London,
Conn., in 1660. Lands were set off to him in New London, April 16,
1663. He also inherited from his father, in 1682, a house and lands in
New street, which he sold in 1700, to his son William. That same year
he gave William two house-lots in New street, on opposite sides of the
town street; and also a dwelling house (on the corner of Douglas
street) on condition of his providing in the house a home for Robert's
unmarried daughters, whenever they should wish to occupy it...
"Robert was a cooper - a trade which his father had taught him,
and which he in turn taught his son William. His name appears
frequently on both church and town records."
ID: 574
Name: MARY HEMPSTEAD
Sex: F
Birth date: Mar. 26, 1647
Date of death: Dec. 26, 1711
Age at death: 64 years, 9 months, 0 days.
Father: ROBERT HEMPSTEAD (575) (1613-1654)
Spouse: ROBERT DOUGLAS (573) (1639-1715)
Wedding: 9/28/1665
Note: First English child in New London.
ID: 575
Name: ROBERT HEMPSTEAD
Sex: M
Birth date: 1613
Birth place: Steeple Bumstead, Essex
Date of death: 1654/55
Place of death: New London
Age at death: 40 or 41
Wedding: 1658, New London
Child 1: MARY HEMPSTEAD (574) (1647-1711)
Note: Kids: Mary, Joshua, Hannah.
C. H. J. Douglas: He was one of the four who assisted Winthrop in
settling New London. "The old Hempstead house is still standing in
good repair, and, having been entailed, is in the possession of the
Hempstead family."
The birth, death, and marriage info here comes form Brian G.
Edgerton. See also rec 666.
ID: 576
Name: WILLIAM (Deacon) DOUGLAS
Sex: M
Birth date: 1610
Birth place: Scotland
Date of death: July 26, 1682
Place of death: New London, Ct.
Age at death: 71 or 72
Spouse: ANN MATTLE (577) (1610-1685)
Wedding: 1636? Scotland?
Child 1: ROBERT DOUGLAS (573) (1639-1715)
Note: Kids: Ann; Robert (my ancestor); Elizabeth; Sarah; William.
Brian G. Edgerton says he was born 8/9/1610 in Ringstead, England, and
was married in England.
His father was probably Robert Douglas, b. c. 1588. He came to
America in 1640 with his wife and his kids Ann and Robert, landing
probably at Cape Ann. He settled in nearby Gloucester but moved to
Boston within a year, where he was allowed to become a townsman. He
went to Ipswich next year where they gave him some land. In 1645 he
went back to Boston, set up as a cooper, and got some more land. In
1660 he moved to New London, where he got still more land; two parts
of it were still in the Douglas family about 100 years ago, and on one
of these part of the house is probably from the original dwelling
there, built before 1670.
In the winter of 1662/63, he and Cary Latham were made property
appraisers for New London, but they ran afoul of the General Court in
Hartford (this fron C. H. J. Douglas):
"At a Genll Assembly held at
Hartford, March 11, 1662/63.
"This Court hauing duly considered the valuation of ye estate of
N: London, apprized by Cary Latham and William Douglas, doe judge,
that they haue not attended any rule of Righteousness in their worke,
but haue acted very corruptly therein, and therefore doe order the
Treasurer that he send forth his Warrant to ye Constable of N: London,
to Levy Four pounds vpon ye estate of Cary Latham, and Two pounds vpon
Mr. Douglas his estate, as a fine for their corrupt and deceatful
acting therein."
The people of New London thought this was a bit rough:
"Whereas Cary Latham and Mr Douglas are by the Court fined for not
fully presenting the town list anno 1662, the town see cause to
petition the court as a grievance, not finding wherein they have
failed, except in some few houses."
The Court reversed itself:
"This Court remits Cary Latham and Mr. Douglas fine, wch was
imposed upon them by the Court in March, for there transgressions in
making their list."
After that he got religion. He acted as a go-between for the town
and the Rev. Mr. Bulkley, whose views apparently did not always match
those of the townspeople. "The Towne understanding Mr. Buckleys
intention to goe into the Bay" - this may be a reference to Bulkeley's
leaving town - "have sent James Morgan and Mr Douglas to desire him to
stay untill the seacond day com seavent-night wich day the Towne have
agreed to ask againe Mr Fitch to speake with him in order to know Mr
Buckleys mynde fully whether he will continue with us or no to preach
the gospell." He decided to leave anyway, whereupon Mr. Douglas was
instrumental in finding a new one, and got an extra 20 acres when he
went to Boston to fetch him. Mr. Bulkeley now owed the town 80 pounds,
three years' salary which had been paid in advance. "Mr Douglas and
goodman Hough are voted by ye Towne to demand the 80 pound of Mr
Buckley which he stands ingaged to pay ye towne." Bulkeley finally had
to mortgage his house. A house and lot were sold by Mr. Douglas to the
town for the new minister "reserved to the ministry both to us and our
succeeding generations never to be sold or alienated to any vse
forever." Sounds like they intended to stay in America a while. That
land is still a cemetery in New London, and Deacon Douglas is buried
there.
When King Philip's war broke out, William Douglas and Daniel
Witherill were appointed commissaries to the army. They were
responsible for provisioning the army, "and what either of them shall
doe in attendance of that duty shall be held as good, whether it be
for impressing or quartering or any other thing within the compass of
that office..."
He seems to have gotten the kind of jobs a parsimonious Scotchman
would get - property appraiser, bill collector, Army commissary. He
was always active in the church economy. He also was a townsman,
served on various committees, and was deputy to the General Court in
Hartford. He was an important guy in the community.
He was the ancestor of the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, U. S. Senator,
by the following line:
William Douglas, b. 1610;
William Douglas, b. 1645;
William Douglas, b. 1672-3;
Asa Douglas, b. 1715;
Benjah Douglas, b. 1760;
Stephen Arnold Douglas;
Hon. Stephen Arnold Douglas, b. 1813.
There's a story about the origin of the Douglas name recounted by
Hume, the family historian: "According then to the constant and
general Tradition of Men, thus was their Original. During the Reign of
Solvathius, King of Scotland, one Donald Bain (that is, Donald the
white, or fair) having possest himself of all the Western Islands
(called Ebudes or Hebrides) and instituting himself King thereof,
aspired to set the Crown of Scotland also upon his Head. For
effectuating whereof he gathered a great Army; wherein he confided so
much, that he set Foot on the nearest Continent of Scotland, to wit,
the Province of Kintyre and Lorne. The King's lieutenants Duchal and
Culen Governors of Athol and Argyle make Head against him with such
Forces as they could assemble on the sudden. Donald trusting to the
Number of his Men, did bid them Battle, and so prevailed at first,
that he madde the King's Army to give Ground, and had now almost
gained the Day, and withal the Kingdom, that lay at Stake both in his
own Conceit, and the Estimation of his Enemies. In the mean time a
certain Nobleman disdaining to see so bad a Cause have so good
Success, out of his Love to his Prince, and Desire of Honour,
accompanied with his Sons and Followers, made an Onset upon these
prevailing Rebels, with such Courage and Resolution, that he brought
them to a Stand, and then hearing the discouraged Fliers, both by Word
ane Example, he turns the Chace, and, instead of Victory, they got a
Defeat; for Donald's Men being overthrown and fled, he himself was
slain. This Fact was so much the more noted, as the Danger had been
great, and the Victory unexpected. Therefore the King being desirous
to know of his Lieutenants the Particulars of the Fight, and enquiring
for the Author of so valiant an Act, the Nobleman being there in
Person, Answer was made unto the King in the Irish Toungue (which was
then only in use) Sholto Du glasse, that is to say, Behold yonder
black-gray Man, pointing at him with the Finger, and designing by his
Colour and Complexion, without more Ceremony or Addition of Titles of
Honour. The King considering his Service and Merits in preserving his
Crown, and delighted with that homely Designation rewarded him royally
with many great Lands, and imposed upopn himself the Name of Douglas,
which hath continued with his Posterity until this Day." This is
supposed to have happened in the year 770, but the experts doubt the
story.
The Douglases have played an important part in Scottish history.
The first was William of Douglas in the late 1100's. In the late
1200's, there's a Sir William of Douglas (William the Hardy): he "had
all the daring and restless spirit which was characteristic of his
descendants. His first appearance is in 1267, when his head was nearly
severed from his shoulders in defending his father's English manor
from a foray of the men of Redesdale. Twenty years later, he is found
at the head of an armed band, carrying off his future wife, a wealthy
widow, Alionora of Lovaine, from the manor of her kinsfolks, the La
Zouches, at Tranent, in Lothian. We hear of him immeadiately
affterwards as spoiling the monks of Melrose, deforcing the King's
officers in the execution of a judgement in favor of his mother,
unlawfully imprisoning three men in his castle of Douglas, and
beheading one of them. He was the first man of mark who joined Wallace
in the rising against the English in 1297; and for this his lands of
Douglas were wasted with fire and sword, and his wife and children
carried off, by Robert Bruce, the young Earl of Carrick, then a
partisan of England. But the Knight of Douglas soon left the insurgent
banners, and submitting to his old patron, King Edward I., to whom he
had again and again sworn fealty, was sent prisoner to the castle of
York, where he died about 1302."
The most famous Douglas was the Good Sir James of Douglas, Robert
Bruce's greatest captain in the long War of the Succession. Robert
Bruce defeated the English, who had taken the Scottish crown from
Bruce's grandfather and given it to an English sympathiser. "The hero
of seventy fights, he is said to have won them all but thirteen,
leaving the name of 'the Black Douglas'--so he was called from his
swarthy complexion--as a word of fear by which English mothers stilled
their children." The Good Sir James perished in 1330 in Spain. The
dying king had asked him to take his heart in a box of gold and bury
it before the High Altar in the Holy Land. Some say that he was on his
way to the Holy Land when he died, but Hume states that he was on his
way back. Anyhow, the heart has been on the Douglas coat of arms ever
since.
Another interesting Douglas was Archibald the Tyneman (the loser),
fourth Earl of Douglas, son of Archibald the Grim. "At Homildon, in
1402, he was wounded in five places, lost an eye, and was taken
prisoner by Hotspur. Next year, at Shrewsbury, he felled the English
king to the earth, but was again wounded and taken prisoner. Repairing
to France, he was there made Duke of Touraine, and fell at Verneuil in
1424."
He was succeeded by his son Archibald, who distinguished himself
in the French wars; then his son and successor William, "a boy of
sixteen, is said to have kept a thousand horsemen in his train, to
have created knights, and to have affected the pomp of parliament in
his baronial courts. His power and foreign possessions made him an
object of fear to the Scottish crown; and, having been decoyed into
the castle of Ediburgh by the crafty and unscrupulous Crichton, he
was, after a hasty trial, beheaded, along with his brother, within the
walls of the castle in 1440."
By 1443, the Earldom had devolved to William, son of James the
Gross, "who, by marriage with his kinswoman...again added the lordship
of Galloway to the Douglas possessions. He was, for a time,
all-powerful with King James II., who made him lieutenant-general of
the realm; but afterwards losing the royal favor, he seems to have
entered into a confederacy against the king, by whom he was killed in
Stirling Castle, in 1452."
He was succeeded by his brother James, "who, in 1454, made open
war against King James II., as the murderer of his brother and
kinsman...The issue seemed doubtful for a time, but the Hamiltons and
others being gained over to the king's side, Douglas fled to England."
His brothers kept the struggle going for a while, but they finally
lost and the Douglas castles were dismantled and the earldom of
Douglas came to an end by forfeiture, "after an existence of
ninety-eight years, during which time it had been held by no fewer
than nine lords." The last earl lived in England until he leagued
himself with the Duke of Albany to invade Scotland. This didn't work
out either, and the Earl, "on being brought into the royal presence,
is said to have turned his back upon the king. The compassionate James
III. spared his life, on condition of his taking the cowl. 'He who may
no better be, must be a monk', muttered the old man, as he bowed to
his fate."
In another part of the clan, Sir James of Douglas of Dalkeith, a
"great chief, who died in 1420, saw Froissart" - a talented French
commentator, whose job it was to live in the 15th century and tell us
about it - "sit as a guest at his board; himself possessed of books of
law, grammar, logic and romance; and enjoined in his will that all the
volumes which he had borrowed from his friends should be returned to
them." Some of his lands are still held by the Earl of Morton, "who,
there is every reason to beleive, descends legitimately in the male
line from William of Douglas, the great progenitor of the race in the
12th century."
ID: 577
Name: ANN MATTLE
Sex: F
Birth date: 1610
Birth place: Northamptonshire, England
Date of death: 1685
Place of death: New London, Ct.
Age at death: 74 or 75
Father: ROBERT MATTLE (578) ( - )
Spouse: WILLIAM (Deacon) DOUGLAS (576) (1610-1682)
Wedding: 1636? Scotland?
Child 1: ROBERT DOUGLAS (573) (1639-1715)
Note: She was the only one of her siblings with heirs.
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register says her last
name was actually Mable.
In 1670, when she was 60, she traveled to Boston to appear before
Gov. Bellingham to establish her claim to some inheritance after her
father and brother died in England. James Johnson and the widow
Elizabeth Meares, formerly of Little Broughton, Northamptonshire,
testified they had known her in England. In the deposition,
Massachusetts is spelled "Massachusitt", Douglas is spelled both
"Duglas" and "Dowglas", and Ann is once spelled "Annie".
Brian G. Edgerton says she was born in Ringstead, Eng., and the
death date/place come from him too.
ID: 578
Name: ROBERT MATTLE
Sex: M
Child 1: ANN MATTLE (577) (1610-1685)
Note: Of Ringstead, Northamptonshire, England. Kids: Robert,
Note: William, Ann.
ID: 622
Name: JOHN SPERRY
Sex: M
Father: RICHARD SPERRY (623) (1606- )
Child 1: HANNAH SPERRY (572) ( -1758)
ID: 623
Name: RICHARD SPERRY
Sex: M
Birth date: Feb. 16, 1606
Place of death: New Haven, Ct.
Child 1: JOHN SPERRY (622) ( - )
Note: Kids: Ebenezer, Daniel, Esther, and maybe John (my ancestor)
Note: Richard, Nathaniel and Thomas.
The LDS says that he was John's father, and that John was Hannah's
father.
Savage says that he "had lived on the west side of the rock, about
one mile from the cave, where Goffe and Whalley, the regicides,
enjoyed their hiding, and he had supplied them with food..." Goffe and
Whalley were two judges in England who had sent the tyrant Charles I
to the chopping block. They fled to New England after the Restoration.
There's another story about Goffe, that he was hiding in Hadley during
King Philip's war. During a church service one day, the Indians
attacked. The worshippers scattered; then Goffe appeared, organized
some resistance, and successfully drove off the attackers, and then
disappeared again. Nobody found out who he was until after the
Glorious Revolution in 1688, when the Puritans came back into power.
The birthdate and deathplace come from Brian G. Edgerton.
ID: 663
Name: JOHN EDGECOMBE
Sex: M
Birth date: Nov. 14, 1675
Mother: SARAH STATTINE (668) ( - )
Father: JOHN EDGECOMBE (667) ( -1721)
Spouse: HANNAH HEMPSTEAD (664) ( - )
Child 1: SARAH EDGECOMBE (570) (1710- )
Note: Of New London.
ID: 664
Name: HANNAH HEMPSTEAD
Sex: F
Father: JOHN HEMPSTEAD (665) (1649-1688)
Spouse: JOHN EDGECOMBE (663) (1675- )
Child 1: SARAH EDGECOMBE (570) (1710- )
Note: Kids: John, Nicholas, Hannah, Elizabeth, Sarah (my ancestor)
Note: Grace, Jesse.
ID: 665
Name: JOHN HEMPSTEAD
Sex: M
Birth date: June 16, 1649
Birth place: New London
Date of death: Aug. 16, 1688
Place of death: New London
Age at death: 39 years, 2 months, 0 days.
Father: ROBERT HEMPSTEAD (666) ( - )
Child 1: HANNAH HEMPSTEAD (664) ( - )
The birth and death info comes from Brian G. Edgerton, who also says
his first name was Joshua.
ID: 666
Name: ROBERT HEMPSTEAD
Sex: M
Child 1: JOHN HEMPSTEAD (665) (1649-1688)
This may be the same Robert Hempstead (575) who was the father of Mary
Hempstead who married Robert Douglas (573), though Savage lists
daughter Mary but no son John. If they are the same, that means Robert
Douglas (569) married his second cousin Sarah Edgecombe (570).
ID: 667
Name: JOHN EDGECOMBE
Sex: M
Date of death: Apr. 1721
Mother: WILMOTT RANDALL (670) ( - )
Father: NICHOLAS EDGECOMBE (669) ( - )
Spouse: SARAH STATTINE (668) ( - )
Wedding: 2/9/1673-4
Child 1: JOHN EDGECOMBE (663) (1675- )
Note: Died at a great age.
Is thought to have settled at Kittery, Maine, as early as 1640.
Shows up in New London in 1673. Got a land grant in Connecticut of a
"homestead in the town plot and two considerable farms." His second
wife was Elizabeth, widow of Joshua Hempstead. Kids: John (my line),
Sarah, Joanna, Nicholas, Samuel, Thomas.
ID: 668
Name: SARAH STATTINE
Sex: F
Father: EDWARD STATTINE (671) (1652-1703)
Spouse: JOHN EDGECOMBE (667) ( -1721)
Wedding: 2/9/1674
Child 1: JOHN EDGECOMBE (663) (1675- )
Note: Kids: Margaret, John (my line), Sarah, Joanna, Nicholas,
Note: Samuel, Thomas.
Brian G. Edgerton says her last name was Stallyon and she was born in
1652 in New London.
ID: 669
Name: NICHOLAS EDGECOMBE
Sex: M
Spouse: WILMOTT RANDALL (670) ( - )
Child 1: SARAH STATTINE (668) ( - )
Note: Of Plymouth, in Devonshire.
A Nicholas Edgecombe was instrumental in establishing a settlement
at Casco Bay in Maine, and he visited it in 1658.
He's from an old family from the parish of Milton Abbot in
Devonshire. In Norman French, the name was written "de Eggescombe". In
the old family mansion there is an inscription on an old gateway that
says "R. E.", dated 1292.
Savage refers to a Nicholas Edgecombe of Scarborough, 1640, who
had a son named John, but this may be a different Nicholas.
ID: 670
Name: WILMOTT RANDALL
Sex: F
Spouse: NICHOLAS EDGECOMBE (669) ( - )
Child 1: JOHN EDGECOMBE (667) ( -1721)
ID: 671
Name: EDWARD STATTINE
Sex: M
Birth date: 1652
Birth place: Missenden, England
Date of death: May 14, 1703
Place of death: New London
Age at death: 50 or 51
Child 1: SARAH STATTINE (668) ( - )
Note: Last name is variously Stanley, Stallion, Stallon, Stolion,
Note: Stallyon, and Sterling. Wife was Margaret.
Kids: Deborah, Sarah (my line), Margaret; had two kids by his second
wife Elizabeth Miller, and married third the Widow Christian Chappell.
The birth and death info here comes from Brioan G. Edgerton, who
also says his wife was Margaret (Mary) of Great Missenden, Eng. (c.
1627 - 1680).
ID: 703
Name: THOMAS MARSHALL
Sex: M
Spouse: ELIZABETH DUNHAM (704) ( - )
Child 1: JAMES MARSHALL (705) ( - )
Child 2: JANE MARSHALL (727) (1790- )
Child 3: HUGH MARSHALL (728) (1793- )
Child 4: ROBERT W. MARSHALL (544) (1804-1875)
Child 5: WILLIAM MARSHALL (706) ( - )
"Thomas Marshall, the father of this family, was by profession a
miller, but carried on farming to some extent, having seven acres of
land, which in those times and in that country was a middling sized
farm;" - in America forty acres is more typical - "and upon this farm
and in his will he toiled for a livelihood and to bring up his family
respectably and to give them the advantages common to all in his
station in life." - Thomas O. Marshall.
The Marshalls came to Northern Ireland from Scotland as a part of
Elizabeth I's experiment in social engineering where she tried to turn
the Catholics into Protestants.
In Arboe, County Tyrone, in 1788, a Thomas Marshall m. a woman
named Elizabeth, but her last name is given as Marshall, in "Northern
Ireland Marriages", v. 2, Z. Mettam, LDS film 824282, item 3.
The parish records from Arboe, County Tyrone, list Thomas Marshall
and Elizabeth as being the parents of 3 children: James, christened
10/11/1789; Robert (my line), christened 11/4/1804; and William,
christened 11/6/1807 (LDS microfilm 0933409).
His mother had a brother named James, according to Thomas O.
Marshall.
Arboe (or Ardboe, or Arbaugh, or Arabo) Parish is in Counties
Tyrone and Londonderry, on the west shore of Lough Neagh. It's
agricultural country: "The system of agriculture is improved; the soil
is fertile, and the lands generally in a high state of cultivation....
The church, a neat small edifice, was erected in the reign of William
and Mary, on a site two miles westward from the ruins of the ancient
abbey.... On the western shore of Lough Neagh are the ruins of the
abbey, which form an interesting and picturesque feature; and the
remains of an old church, the walls of which are still standing. Near
them is an ancient ornamented stone cross in good condition." From
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland.
In Rootsweb's Cuyahoga Co. naturalizations, there is a John
Marshall who immigrated in June 1844, which is later than Robert W.,
but he's listed along with the other Marshalls there. He was
naturalized 5/31/1856. Maybe he's a previously unknown family member.
ID: 704
Name: ELIZABETH DUNHAM
Sex: F
Spouse: THOMAS MARSHALL (703) ( - )
Child 1: JAMES MARSHALL (705) ( - )
Child 2: JANE MARSHALL (727) (1790- )
Child 3: HUGH MARSHALL (728) (1793- )
Child 4: ROBERT W. MARSHALL (544) (1804-1875)
Child 5: WILLIAM MARSHALL (706) ( - )
Note: "Betsey"
The name Dunham is partly guesswork. Thomas O. Marshall, in his
"Marshall Family Memoranda", says, "On the sixteenth day of June,
1829, he," - Robert Marshall the immigrant, son of Elizabeth - "with
his wife and child and household goods, left the Parish of Arabo and
proceeded to the city of Belfast, where he had an uncle by the name of
Dunham...", implying that Dunham was Elizabeth's maiden name. But
that's not certain - maybe Elizabeth had a sister who married a
Dunham. And the record of Thomas Marshall's 1788 marriage to Elizabeth
(from "Northern Ireland Marriages", Z. Mettam) has her last name as
Marshall.
ID: 705
Name: JAMES MARSHALL
Sex: M
Mother: ELIZABETH DUNHAM (704) ( - )
Father: THOMAS MARSHALL (703) ( - )
Note: Chr. 10/11/1789 in Arboe Parish, County Tyrone, Ireland.
Note: Apparently died young.
But in the Cuyahoga Co. naturalizations on Rootsweb there is a James
Marshall listed who was naturalized in 1848.
ID: 706
Name: WILLIAM MARSHALL
Sex: M
Mother: ELIZABETH DUNHAM (704) ( - )
Father: THOMAS MARSHALL (703) ( - )
Note: Chr. 11/6/1807 in Arboe Parish, County Tyrone, Ireland.
In the Rootswebs naturalizations for Cuyaghoga Co. is a William
Marshall, naturalized 10/9/1852. The Erie County Library has obits for
two William Marshalls, one who died in 1891 and the other in 1895,
which I haven't gotten yet.
ID: 726
Name: ROBERT (Dr.) JOHNSTON
Sex: M
Birth place: Ireland
Child 1: MARTHA JOHNSTON (545) (1806-1894)
Note: He "was a doctor by profession and a very respectable man."
Note: He lived in Arabo Parish.
ID: 727
Name: JANE MARSHALL
Sex: F
Birth date: 1790
Mother: ELIZABETH DUNHAM (704) ( - )
Father: THOMAS MARSHALL (703) ( - )
"Jane, the oldest of the surviving children, was born during the year
1790. She was small in stature, and had a light complexion, dark hair
and blue eyes; and up to the year 1829 remained at home with her
parents and was not married - since which time nothing is known of
her history." - Thomas O. Marshall.
ID: 728
Name: HUGH MARSHALL
Sex: M
Birth date: 1793
Mother: ELIZABETH DUNHAM (704) ( - )
Father: THOMAS MARSHALL (703) ( - )
Spouse: AGNES SMITH (729) ( - )
Wedding: 1815?
"Hugh, the third child of the family, was born in the year 1793, and
remained at home with his parents until his twenty-fifth year, and
during that time had acquired the miller's trade, also the art of
weaving, together with a thorough knowledge of cultivating the soil.
At the age of twenty-two years he married a Miss Agnes Smith...
"After his marriage Hugh worked at the weaver's trade up to about
the eighteenth of August, 1817. About this time his first child was
born. Sometime in the month of March following, he embarked with his
family for America, with the hopes of bettering his condition in a
country free and independent, and where the laborer was permitted to
enjoy the fruits of his toil for his own benefit and to enhance the
pleasure of himself and his family. After a pleasant journey of about
seven weeks duration, they arrived at the beautiful city of Quebec,
situation on the north bank of the St. Lawrence in the eastern part of
the Canadian dominion." - Thomas O. Marshall.
Hugh Marshall is listed in the 1850 census for Solon:
Hugh Marshall, 54, farmer, b. Ireland;
Agnes " , 36, b. Ireland;
Percy? " , 14?, b. Ohio.
Also in Solon in 1850 & 1860 is a James Marshall. And as far back as
1830 there's a Thomas Marshall in Solon.
In the Cuyahoga Co. naturalizations on Rootsweb, there is a Hugh
Marshall listed who was naturalized 11/1/1852.
And on the same page as Hugh in the 1850 census is a Thomas
Marshall, age 19, young enough to be Hugh's son. Thomas and his family
can be traced all the way up to 1920. They start out in Solon, then
they're right next door in Bainbridge, then they're right next door to
Bainbridge in Chagrin Falls. Thomas was born April 1831, and his wife
Sarah was born May 1835, and they seem to have had 4 kids: Leonard, b.
1846 or 1847, who probably died young; Thomas Jr., b. 1854 or 1855;
George N., b. Oct. 1859; and Kate, a teacher, b. 1861 or 1862. By
1910, Sarah has been widowed, and her sons Thomas (unmarried) and
George (widower) are living back at home with her, as they still are
in 1920, when Sarah is in her 80's.
ID: 729
Name: AGNES SMITH
Sex: F
Spouse: HUGH MARSHALL (728) (1793- )
Agnes Smith was the "daughter of William Smith, who resided at
Anhavey, four miles morth of his father's home." This looks like a
reference to Wiliam Smith's father, but it may also be to Hugh
Marshall's father. "The members of the Smith family are quite
numerous and little is known of them save that one of them, Andrew by
name, afterwards came to America and now resides at Solon, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio. He was a nephew of Agnes, the wife of Hugh Marshall."
ID: 730
Name: JESSIE ANGELINE PETTIT
Sex: F
Birth date: Mar. 6, 1875
Birth place: North East
Date of death: 1961
Place of death: Erie, Pa.
Age at death: 85 or 86
Spouse: WILLIAM EUGENE MARSHALL (531) (1860-1942)
Wedding: Mar 28 1906
Child 1: ROGER PETTIT MARSHALL (731) (1907-2000)
Daughter of Thomas Pettit and Kathryn Bliss; see Keystone Kuzzins of
Aug. '94, p. 32.
ID: 731
Name: ROGER PETTIT MARSHALL
Sex: M
Birth date: Jan. 9, 1907
Birth place: North East
Date of death: Jan. 10, 2000
Age at death: 93 years, 0 months, 1 day.
Mother: JESSIE ANGELINE PETTIT (730) (1875-1961)
Father: WILLIAM EUGENE MARSHALL (531) (1860-1942)
Child 1: ERIC MORE MARSHALL (732) ( - )
Note: Died the day after his 93rd birthday, says Eric.
ID: 732
Name: ERIC MORE MARSHALL
Sex: M
Birth place: Erie, Pa.
Father: ROGER PETTIT MARSHALL (731) (1907-2000)
Wedding: 3/12/1966
Note: Genealogy fan.
President of the More Family Assoc., one of the most prestigious
family associations in the country. He was featured on the last
program of the PBS "Ancestors" series, which showed him playing the
bagpipes etc. Ran as a longshot candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania
in about 1991. Even though he's such a big genealogy fan he's adopted.
His real father was killed in a motorcycle accident before he was
born.
ID: 733
Name: JOHN EDGERTON
Sex: M
Birth date: Feb. 26, 1690
Birth place: Norwich, Conn.
Date of death: Feb. 15, 1768
Age at death: 77 years, 11 months, 20 days.
Mother: MARY REYNOLDS (736) (1664-1727)
Father: JOHN EDGERTON (735) (1662-1692)
Wedding: 12/14/1714
Spouse 2: PHOEBE HARRIS (734) ( -1763)
Wedding 2: 5/11/1731
Child 1: DANIEL (Capt.) EDGERTON (566) (1737-1783)
Note: First wife was Ruth Adgate, who was descended from William
Note: Brewster of the Mayflower.
Pictures of the headstones for him and his wife were e-mailed me by
James McDonald 3/31/2001. John's says: "Here Lies the Body of/-- John
Edgerton of/Norwich who died/Feb 15 1768 aged/77 years He..."
ID: 734
Name: PHOEBE HARRIS
Sex: F
Date of death: July 29, 1763
Place of death: New London?
Mother: MARY STEVENS (817) (1677- )
Father: JOSEPH HARRIS (816) (1673-1737)
Spouse 2: JOHN EDGERTON (733) (1690-1768)
Wedding 2: 5/11/1731 (3rd mrg.)
Child 1: DANIEL (Capt.) EDGERTON (566) (1737-1783)
Note: Widow successively of John Crank and Stephen Prentiss.
If we are to believe the Mormons, Phoebe Harris was the daughter of
Joseph Harris and Mary Stevens. They say she was born 1/24/1700 in
Lyme. 1698 is also posssible. The rest of her ancestry is solid
enough.
Her and Daniel's children were Phebe, Eunice, Daniel (my line),
Temperance, Nathaniel, Sarah, and another Nathaniel.
I can't find her in the Boston Transcript at CGS.
Her headstone reads: "Here is interred the/Body of Phebe
late/Consort of Mr. John/Edgerton Norwich who/died July 29 1763 in/the
63 year of her age".
ID: 735
Name: JOHN EDGERTON
Sex: M
Birth date: June 12, 1662
Birth place: Norwich, Conn.
Date of death: Feb. 26, 1692
Place of death: Norwich
Age at death: 29 years, 8 months, 14 days.
Mother: MARY SYLVESTER (738) ( - )
Father: RICHARD EDGERTON (737) ( -1691)
Spouse: MARY REYNOLDS (736) (1664-1727)
Child 1: JOHN EDGERTON (733) (1690-1768)
ID: 736
Name: MARY REYNOLDS
Sex: F
Birth date: Apr. 1664
Date of death: 1727
Age at death: 62 or 63
Mother: SARAH BACKUS (740) ( -1702)
Father: JOHN REYNOLDS (739) ( -1702)
Spouse: JOHN EDGERTON (735) (1662-1692)
Wedding: 3/20/1662
Wedding 2: c. 1697 to Sam'l Lathrop
Child 1: JOHN EDGERTON (733) (1690-1768)
ID: 737
Name: RICHARD EDGERTON
Sex: M
Date of death: 1691-2
Spouse: MARY SYLVESTER (738) ( - )
Wedding: 4/7/1653 in Saybrook
Child 1: JOHN EDGERTON (735) (1662-1692)
Settled in Saybrook, then was an original proprieter at Norwich.
Probably buried next to his house in a burying ground out behind John
Post's place.
ID: 738
Name: MARY SYLVESTER
Sex: F
Spouse: RICHARD EDGERTON (737) ( -1691)
Wedding: 4/7/1653
Child 1: JOHN EDGERTON (735) (1662-1692)
Kids: Mary, Elizabeth, Anna, John (my line), Richard, Sarah, Samuel,
Lydia, Joseph.
ID: 739
Name: JOHN REYNOLDS
Sex: M
Date of death: July 22, 1702
Mother: SARAH BRADFORD (742) ( - )
Father: STEPHEN REYNOLDS (741) ( - )
Spouse: SARAH BACKUS (740) ( -1702)
Child 1: MARY REYNOLDS (736) (1664-1727)
Note: Settled at Norwich where he was called "The Proprieter".
Much of the Reynolds info here comes from "Christopher Reynolds and
His Descendants", by S. F. Tillman, 1959, at Sutro.
There is a John Reynolds on a map of original settlers of
Wethersfield, Conn. in the Griswold Family Bulletin, #118.
ID: 740
Name: SARAH BACKUS
Sex: F
Date of death: aft. 1702
Father: WILLIAM BACKUS (824) ( -1661)
Spouse: JOHN REYNOLDS (739) ( -1702)
Child 1: MARY REYNOLDS (736) (1664-1727)
Note: Kids: John (killed by Indians), Sarah, Susannah, Joseph,
Note: Mary (my line), Elizabeth, Stephen, Lydia.
ID: 741
Name: STEPHEN REYNOLDS
Sex: M
Father: WILLIAM REYNOLDS (743) (1560- )
Spouse: SARAH BRADFORD (742) ( - )
Child 1: JOHN REYNOLDS (739) ( -1702)
Note: Settled in Conn.
ID: 742
Name: SARAH BRADFORD
Sex: F
Spouse: STEPHEN REYNOLDS (741) ( - )
Child 1: JOHN REYNOLDS (739) ( -1702)
ID: 743
Name: WILLIAM REYNOLDS
Sex: M
Birth date: 1560
Birth place: Kent, England
Father: CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS (744) (1530- )
Child 1: STEPHEN REYNOLDS (741) ( - )
M. Esther Ruth (Roth). Settled in Bermuda, but it's doubtful if he
ever came to America. Kids: Stephen (my line), Jonathan, William,
Christopher, John and James (twins b. 5/13/1625), Catherine, and
another daughter.
ID: 744
Name: CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS
Sex: M
Birth date: c. 1530
Birth place: Kent, England
Child 1: WILLIAM REYNOLDS (743) (1560- )
He settled in London where he and his sons and his brother Nathaniel
engaged in trade and commerce. He had children George, Christopher,
Mary, John, Thomas, Cornelius, Richard, Robert, William (my line) and
several daughters, not necessarily in that order.
"The name Reynolds, also spelled in America as Runnels, Runals,
etc., is of Norman origin, and comes from the family of Renard."
Renard means fox in French. "The family is of great antiquity,
claiming descent from Reynolds - son of Grethferth - The Dane - King
of Northumberland. Grethferth and his two sons were driven from
England circa 944 and took shelter in Mormandy. His descendant
Fitzreynolds - meaning son of - returned to England with WILLIAM THE
CONQUEROR." - S. F. Tillman.
ID: 745
Name: MOSELEY HALL
Sex: M
Birth date: Mar. 15, 1771
Birth place: Wallingford, Ct.
Date of death: Feb. 1, 1861
Place of death: Wallingford, Vt.
Age at death: 89 years, 10 months, 17 days.
Mother: ESTHER MOSELEY (748) (1741-1827)
Father: ISAAC HALL (747) (1737-1796)
Spouse: MARY EDGERTON (746) (1777-1854)
Wedding: 3/12/1795
"They were a very worthy couple. He was a deacon in the Congregational
church, and a man of leading influence also in the business of the
town. He wrote many wills for others, but concluded not to make one
for himself; he owned a good farm, which he improved. He was a man
above suspicion or reproach, and possessed a good practical judgement
and general intelligence; he was a man of firmness, energy, and great
kindness. In personal appearance he was above the medium size, with
somewhat prominent features, and a little stooping as he became old,
but of a dignified bearing. He had heavy overshadowing eyebrows, and
greyish eyes. He was social, and could enjoy a pleasant laugh even in
old age." And he died at a great age. - The Hall Genealogy.
He had a son Robinson who was a "General of the Militia,
Representative in the Vermont Legislature, Director of the Bank of
Rutland, and a man who was highly esteemed for his personal qualities.
He was prominent in building the railroad between Bennington and
Rutland which ran near his house. He was a director of the company and
for a time its president. By this enterprise he lost $40,000." - The
Dickerman book.
ID: 746
Name: MARY EDGERTON
Sex: F
Birth date: Apr. 22, 1777
Birth place: Norwich
Date of death: May 18, 1854
Age at death: 77 years, 0 months, 26 days.
Mother: MARY DOUGLAS (567) (1742-1829)
Father: DANIEL (Capt.) EDGERTON (566) (1737-1783)
Spouse: MOSELEY HALL (745) (1771-1861)
Wedding: 3/12/1795
Note: Grew up in Wallingford, Vt. Lived to an old age.
ID: 747
Name: ISAAC HALL
Sex: M
Birth date: Nov. 4, 1737
Birth place: Wallingford, Ct.
Date of death: Feb. 7, 1796
Place of death: Wallingford, Ct.
Age at death: 58 years, 3 months, 3 days.
Mother: RUTH DICKERMAN (750) (1712-1752)
Father: ELIAKIM HALL (749) (1711-1794)
Spouse: ESTHER MOSELEY (748) (1741-1827)
Wedding: 12/1/1764
Child 1: MARY HALL (568) (1767-1807)
Child 2: MOSELEY HALL (745) (1771-1861)
Note: The death date is from "Halls of New England"; the DAR says
Note: 2/7/1798.
Of Wallingford. Was a Captain of the First Reg. Light Horse, Conn.
Militia, in the Revolution. He's listed as one of nine such captains
in "Connecticut Men in the Revolution", p. 442. His cousin Lyman Hall
was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
From Davis's "History of Wallingford", p. 369: "Isaac Hull, Jun."
- it should be Hall, and the Jun. may mean that there was an older man
of the same name in Wallingford - "was a lieutenant in the third
company, first regiment of light horse in this State. The troops were
ordered by an act of 1776 to the western part of the State, to join
the forces under General Wooster--the captain of the company being at
the time sick--and Hull took command of the company from the 25th day
of October, 1776 to the last day of December, 1776, for which service
neither himself or his company received any pay. The Assembly in
October, 1773," - sic - "ordered the pay-table to adjust the pay roll
of said troop of light-horse, by the rule before allowed by Congress
to the troops of light-horse in this State while in the service of the
country; and 'draw on the Treasurer, and charge the same to the
Continent.'"
Capt. Isaac Hall may have been on duty in 1776 in New York City
under Maj. William Hart.
ID: 748
Name: ESTHER MOSELEY
Sex: F
Birth date: 1741?
Date of death: Mar. 22, 1827
Place of death: Wallingford, Ct.
Age at death: 85 or 86
Mother: ELIZABETH LYMAN (790) (1702- )
Father: ABNER MOSELEY (806) (1699- )
Spouse: ISAAC HALL (747) (1737-1796)
Wedding: 12/1/1764
Child 1: MARY HALL (568) (1767-1807)
Child 2: MOSELEY HALL (745) (1771-1861)
Note: Died at age 86.
Children: Abner & Elizabeth (twins), Esther, Mary (my line), Eliakim,
Moseley, Dickerman, Isaac, Abigail, Day, Lyman and maybe Eunice. Not
only did Moseley marry Mary Edgerton, but the name Laura shows up in
the Edgerton family again: Lyman married Laura Edgerton, Mary
Edgerton's older cousin. (This is from "Halls of New England"; the DAR
has the children a little differently.)
ID: 749
Name: ELIAKIM HALL
Sex: M
Birth date: Aug. 9, 1711
Birth place: Wallingford, Ct.
Date of death: Apr. 19, 1794
Place of death: Wallingford, Ct.
Age at death: 82 years, 8 months, 10 days.
Mother: MARY LYMAN (752) ( -1740)
Father: JOHN HALL (751) (1670-1730)
Spouse: RUTH DICKERMAN (750) (1712-1752)
Wedding: 10/17/1734
Wedding 2: 1/1/1756
Child 1: ISAAC HALL (747) (1737-1796)
Note: Left a widow, 5 children, 40 grandchildren, and 15 great-
Note: grandchildren. Uncle of Lyman Hall, signer of the Declaration.
Hinman's "Connecticut in the War of the Revolution", p. 263, says
Capt. Eliakim Hall was appointed to a committee to talk some of the
soldiers into re-enlisting. Whether this is the same man I don't know.
He was a representative to the General Assembly. His children were
Isaac, Mary, Eliakim, and Hezekiah. His second wife was Elizabeth Day
Stow (DAR).
His funeral sermon was preached by his son-in-law, Rev. Nathan
Williams, from which the following outline was taken by Rev. David B.
Hall:
"1. There shall be no pain in heaven arising from uneasy
reflections, as remorse of conscience, or fom any of the things which
tease the mind in this life.
"2. No pain in heaven arising from future evil.
"3. No pain from fear of losing happiness or pleasure in the
presence of the Redeemer.
"4. No pain arising from bodily disorders.
"5. There will be no cause of pain, as there will be no sin, and
no curse.
"6. There will be no need of pain to embitter sin, to mortify
remaining corruption; to brighten graces; to convince of the vanity of
earthly pleasures, and enjoyments; to remind of mortality; and to
reconcile us to death.
"Reflections
"1. Advantages of saints in heaven over those on earth.
"2. This should make us patient under trials, while looking for
and expecting the happy exchange.
"3. The importance of being of that happy number, contrast the two
states beyond this world.
"4. The subject teaches to moderate our grief at the loss of
Christian friends; and make it our concern to be ready to follow
them."
From the Dickerman book: The sermon itself says he was a kindly
man who ministered to the relief of the poor, without regard to what
sect or party they belonged to. He "took great pleasure in the society
of worthy men", and was a churchgoer extraordinaire.
ID: 750
Name: RUTH DICKERMAN
Sex: F
Birth date: Dec. 13, 1712
Birth place: Ct.
Date of death: Dec. 8, 1752
Age at death: 39 years, 11 months, 25 days.
Mother: MARY ATWATER (777) (1686- )
Father: ISAAC DICKERMAN (776) (1677-1758)
Spouse: ELIAKIM HALL (749) (1711-1794)
Wedding: 10/17/1734
Child 1: ISAAC HALL (747) (1737-1796)
Children: Isaac, Mary, Eliakim, Hezekiah, Eunice, Ruth.
Much of the info here about her ancestors and other relatives
comes from "Families of Dickerman Ancestry", by E. D. Dickerman and G.
S. Dickerman, at Sutro.
ID: 751
Name: JOHN HALL
Sex: M
Birth date: Dec. 23, 1670
Date of death: Apr. 29, 1730
Age at death: 59 years, 4 months, 6 days.
Mother: HANNAH WALKER (754) (1646-1728)
Father: SAMUEL HALL (753) (1648-1725)
Spouse: MARY LYMAN (752) ( -1740)
Wedding: c. 1691
Child 1: ELIAKIM HALL (749) (1711-1794)
Child 2: JOHN HALL (813) ( - )
Note: This may have been Hon. John Hall the Representative.
Note: His funeral sermon was printed.
ID: 752
Name: MARY LYMAN
Sex: F
Date of death: Oct. 16, 1740
Mother: DORCAS PLUM (772) ( - )
Father: JOHN LYMAN (771) ( - )
Spouse: JOHN HALL (751) (1670-1730)
Child 1: ELIAKIM HALL (749) (1711-1794)
Note: Kids: John, Esther, Samuel, Caleb, Eunice, Benjamin, another
Note: Benjamin, Sarah, Eliakim (my line), Elihu, Nancy.
ID: 753
Name: SAMUEL HALL
Sex: M
Birth date: May 21, 1648
Birth place: New Haven
Date of death: Mar. 5, 1725
Place of death: Wallingford, Ct.
Age at death: 76 years, 9 months, 12 days.
Mother: JEAN (JANE) WOOLEN (757) ( - )
Father: JOHN HALL (756) (1605-1676)
Spouse: HANNAH WALKER (754) (1646-1728)
Wedding: 5/1668
Child 1: JOHN HALL (751) (1670-1730)
Note: Moved to Walling for in 1670; beacme a deacon.
Was an original planter in Wallingford, along with his brothers. "In
1696, a protest was signed disapproving of making expense for the town
in settling a dispute between Yale and Royce about a watering place,
among the signors were John Hall, Jr., David Hall, Thomas Hall, Sen.;
but lieutenant, Samuel Hall, dissented." - Rev. David B. Hall.
ID: 754
Name: HANNAH WALKER
Sex: F
Birth date: Sep. 26, 1646
Birth place: New Haven?
Date of death: Dec. 20, 1728
Age at death: 82 years, 2 months, 24 days.
Father: JOHN WALKER (755) ( -1652)
Spouse: SAMUEL HALL (753) (1648-1725)
Wedding: 5/1668
Child 1: JOHN HALL (751) (1670-1730)
Note: Kids: John (my line), Hannah, Sarah, Samuel, Theophilus,
Note: Elizabeth.
ID: 755
Name: JOHN WALKER
Sex: M
Birth place: England, no doubt.
Date of death: 1652?
Child 1: JOHN HALL (751) (1670-1730)
Note: Of New Haven in 1639. Died early. Had 2 daughters, Mary and
Note: Hannah. His widow Grace m. Edward Watson.
ID: 756
Name: JOHN HALL
Sex: M
Birth date: c. 1605
Date of death: 1676
Age at death: 70 or 71
Spouse: JEAN (JANE) WOOLEN (757) ( - )
Child 1: SAMUEL HALL (753) (1648-1725)
Note: Died age 71.
He probably went from Boston to New Haven with the first settlers in
1639. His signature is found in the colonial records there for that
year. He was freed from training in 1665 at age 60. Three or four of
his sons helped settle Wallingford in 1670, and he shows up there soon
after. Selectman, 1675.
ID: 757
Name: JEAN (JANE) WOOLEN
Sex: F
Spouse: JOHN HALL (756) (1605-1676)
Child 1: SAMUEL HALL (753) (1648-1725)
"She had lived with William Wilkes in Boston, and probably came over
with him, as he paid her fare and gave her 3 pounds a year for her
services in his family for five years, also promised her 10 pounds as
a gift when she should marry; but this he did not do, and Mr. Hall
obtained it from his estate by litigation..." - from the Hall book.
Her connections in England have a coat of arms.
Kids: John, Sarah, Richard, Samuel (my line), Daniel, Thomas,
Jonathan, David.
ID: 771
Name: JOHN LYMAN
Sex: M
Mother: SARAH OSBORNE (774) ( - )
Father: RICHARD LYMAN (773) ( - )
Spouse: DORCAS PLUM (772) ( - )
Child 1: JOHN LYMAN (807) (1660-1740)
Child 2: MARY LYMAN (752) ( -1740)
ID: 772
Name: DORCAS PLUM
Sex: F
Father: JOHN PLUM (775) ( - )
Spouse: JOHN LYMAN (771) ( - )
Child 1: JOHN LYMAN (807) (1660-1740)
Child 2: MARY LYMAN (752) ( -1740)
ID: 773
Name: RICHARD LYMAN
Sex: M
Spouse: SARAH OSBORNE (774) ( - )
Child 1: JOHN LYMAN (771) ( - )
Note: Boston, 1631; Hartford, 1636.
He and his wife came from England to Boston in 1631, and were among
the original settlers of Hartford in 1640. He came from High Ongar,
Essex County, and was baptized in 1580.
His ancestry can be trced back thru his great-great-grandmother
Elizabeth Lambert Lyman, daughter of William Lambert (twelfth in
descent from Sir Rudulphus Lambert who came to England with William
the Conqueror) and his wife Johannah de Umphreville to Sir Robert de
Umphreville, a kinsman of William the Conqueror who came with him to
England, and also to Matilda, daughter of Malcolm, fifth Earl if
Angus, from whom the line can be traced to the Kings of Briton,
Ireland, and Normandy, and back to the beginning of the ninth century.
(The Dickerman book.)
ID: 774
Name: SARAH OSBORNE
Sex: F
Father: ROGER OSBORNE (789) ( - )
Spouse: RICHARD LYMAN (773) ( - )
Child 1: JOHN LYMAN (771) ( - )
Daughter of Roger Osborne of Halstead in Kent. I can't find a Halstead
in Kent, but there's one in Essex.
ID: 775
Name: JOHN PLUM
Sex: M
Child 1: DORCAS PLUM (772) ( - )
Note: Of Wethersfield, 1636; of Branford, 1646.
ID: 776
Name: ISAAC DICKERMAN
Sex: M
Birth date: 1677
Date of death: 1758
Age at death: 80 or 81
Mother: MARY COOPER (779) ( - )
Father: ABRAHAM DICKERMAN (778) (1634-1710)
Spouse: MARY ATWATER (777) (1686- )
Wedding: 1709
Child 1: RUTH DICKERMAN (750) (1712-1752)
He was Deputy to the General Assembly in Hartford from New Haven more
times than any other Deputy. He was a consistent advocate of Yale
College, arguing for its location at New Haven (this being one of the
few issues where New Haven won out over Hartford). He was Ensign of
the militia, then Captain. He was a Townsman, a Deacon, and served on
a number of committees.
He got involved in the controversies surrounding the Great
Awakening of 1735, a revivalist movement started by Jonathan Edwards
and other maverick preachers. The reformers tried to start their own
church, which was successfully resisted for a while by Rev. Noyes of
the First Church and other traditionalists because some of the
reformers really were too exteme. At one point the Rev. Samuel Finley
- later President of Princeton - was arrested and carried out of the
colony as a vagrant. Isaac Dickerman, then 64, at first stood aloof
from both parties, according to the Dickerman book, and therefore lost
his seat in the Connecticut General Assembly from 1740 to 1744. The
people of New England basically believed in religious freedom, though,
and pretty soon it became apparent that if there was going to be
peace, they would have to obtain a colleague for Rev. Noyes. Isaac
Dickerman was on the committee meant to accomplish this. Eventually
they got Rev. Samuel Bird to be the minister of the new church, and he
did well, which was a defeat for Noyes. The Yale people sided with the
reformers. "President Clap" - of Yale - "once undertook to expostulate
with Mr. Noyes for not preaching better. 'You do not konw', said Mr.
Noyes, 'what an ignorant people I have to preach to.' 'Yes, I do',
said the President, 'and I know that as long as you preach to them in
this way, they will always be ignorant." Eventually it became clear
that Noyes would not compromise, so Isaac Dickerman left the First
Church, and gave it a silver cup as a parting gift which was still
being used in 1897. After 18 years the separatists won out.
ID: 777
Name: MARY ATWATER
Sex: F
Birth date: 1686
Mother: RUTH PECK (781) ( - )
Father: JOMATHAN ATWATER (780) ( - )
Spouse: ISAAC DICKERMAN (776) (1677-1758)
Child 1: RUTH DICKERMAN (750) (1712-1752)
ID: 778
Name: ABRAHAM DICKERMAN
Sex: M
Birth date: 1634?
Date of death: 1710?
Place of death: New Haven?
Age at death: 75 or 76
Father: THOMAS DICKERMAN (782) ( -1657)
Spouse: MARY COOPER (779) ( - )
Wedding: 1/2/1658-9
Child 1: ISAAC DICKERMAN (776) (1677-1758)
Came to New Haven 20 years after it was founded, from Massachusetts,
when he married John Cooper's daughter. There had always been
connections between the two colonies, ever since the New Haven people
had stayed in Boston for a while before founding New Haven. Her father
was a man of growing prominence there, and he gave the newlyweds some
land. They probably also got to live in the house in New Haven, since
by that time John Cooper had moved to East Haven where the iron works
was. He eventually got some land of his own, and became a Townsman,
Deputy to the General Assembly, and a Lieutenant. He and his
father-in-law were also involved in establishing the town of
Wallingford.
"It is interesting to see what safeguards this community provided
against intemperance. These were in the way of having an 'ordinary'
or authorized inn, and making this the only place where wine or strong
drink could be sold. On one occasion, between 1648 and 1649, the
ordinary being closed, wine was sold by a dealer in private, and the
chief parton was the governor, 'who obtained it at great charge for
the ship carpenters that came from the Bay to work upon the ship,' for
which he had to make explanations to the Court and pay a fine of 40
shillings." The ordinary didn't pay very well, for some reason, and it
passed thru different hands til Abraham Dickerson agreed to give it a
try. "A great difficulty was the lack of currency. People used
'wampum' for small change, and this was not easily turned into gold
or silver, nor was it taken in payment of bills." He kept the business
for 4 years, then tried to get rid of it, but couldn't find a taker,
so he had to keep it for 4 years longer. "The New Haveners of the
first century cannot have been excessively convivial.
"Still they had their temptations, as the following vote tells us:
"Oct. 1, 1694, 'Whereas, some inconvenience is observed in the use
of Rum or Strong Drink at Funerals, the Town recommends it to the
inhabitants that may from time to time be concerned, that they would
use their liberty and prudence in laying down the custom for the
future, only as there may be need of some refreshing in a private way
by persons living remote.'"
This entry gives us an idea of the treatment of the poor: "Abraham
Dickerman propoundid unto ye town about a poore fellow named Richard
Bloxum: yt he had kept him six weekes & could not tell how to keep him
longer, therefore he desired they would consider some way for his
dispose.
"Mr. Jones acquainted ye town what means had been used by the
Authorities to free ye town of him.
"The towne after debate and consideration agreed that some
cloathing (soe much as is necessary) be provided for Richard Bloxum at
the towns charge, and yt what is already expended & what is necessary
for his livelihood for the future be payd out of the towne treasury.
John Cooper senior, Jno. Winston & Jeremiah Osborne were desired and
appointed to look after the providing for Richard Bloxum according to
ye former order."
ID: 779
Name: MARY COOPER
Sex: F
Father: JOHN COOPER (783) ( -1689)
Spouse: ABRAHAM DICKERMAN (778) (1634-1710)
Wedding: 1/2/1658-9
Child 1: ISAAC DICKERMAN (776) (1677-1758)
Note: Kids: Mary, Sarah, Hannah, Ruth, Abigail, Abraham, Isaac (my
Note: line), Rebekah.
ID: 780
Name: JOMATHAN ATWATER
Sex: M
Father: DAVID ATWATER (784) ( - )
Spouse: RUTH PECK (781) ( - )
Child 1: MARY ATWATER (777) (1686- )
ID: 781
Name: RUTH PECK
Sex: F
Mother: JOANNA KITCHELL (787) ( - )
Father: JEREMIAH (Rev.) PECK (785) ( - )
Spouse: JOMATHAN ATWATER (780) ( - )
Child 1: MARY ATWATER (777) (1686- )
ID: 782
Name: THOMAS DICKERMAN
Sex: M
Date of death: June 11, 1657
Place of death: Dorchester, Mass.
Child 1: ABRAHAM DICKERMAN (778) (1634-1710)
Note: Of Dorchestrer, 1636. Tailor and farmer. Wife's name was
Note: Ellen. Kids: Thomas (probably), Abraham (my line), Isaac, John.
Probably came to Dorchester with Rev. Richard Mather in 1635 from
Bristol in the ship "James". They signed a covenant to start a new
church (month is spelled "moneth".) Thomas Dickerman was among its
earliest subscribers. He may have come from Germany originally;
"Dickerman" means "stout man". His son Abraham was born not long
before they left; he was probably named after the biblical Abraham who
struck out for reasons of conscience "not knowing whither he went."
Thomas was a landowner in Dorchester in 1637. Dorchester seems to have
been the first community known to have a tax-supported public school.
Thomas put his signature to a document in 1641 that gave the land for
the school to the town. (In it portion is spelled "porcon".) In 1651
he was a selectman. When he died he had 2 pounds 3 shillings worth of
books, worth about a tenth of what the furniture was worth. In those
days books all had to be shipped from England.
ID: 783
Name: JOHN COOPER
Sex: M
Date of death: Nov. 23, 1689
Child 1: MARY COOPER (779) ( - )
Note: Magistrate. Of New Haven, 1638. Kids: Mary (my line),
Note: Hannah, Sarah, John. Hannah m. John Potter Jr., son of 629.
Was with Davenport and Eaton when they established New Haven in 1638.
The leaders of New Haven were able, educated, and wealthy. They had
done well in England, and they expected to do well here. The Bible was
going to be their law book. Things looked promising at first. They
built big houses like in London, one of which had 19 fireplaces. But
things went wrong. The political situation improved in England,
stopping the flow of immigrants to America, and some people actually
went back. They had trouble with their Dutch neighbors. They tried to
start a settlement in Delaware which was defeated by the Swedes there.
They put together a big ship and put some of their best people on it;
it sailed away and was never heard from again. Malaria prevailed.
Church members such as their first clerk and first schoolmaster
misbehaved and had to be disciplined. The governor's wife did wrong
and was excommunicated. To top it off they were put under the
governance of Hartford. Of the 151 proprietors there in 1641 hardly
half ever became permanent residents. This visionary outlook of the
founders was now less useful to the colony than the more practical one
of people like John Cooper. He was not as well educated as the
leaders. "He saw things at close range". His name shows up often in
the records of the first 50 years of New Haven. Early on it was for
things like chimney inspecting and fence viewing. He was a Coproral in
the militia when there was trouble with the Dutch. About 1655, he
became agent for a new "bloomery and forge" in East Haven. His name
now also started appearing frequently as an attorney at the General
Court, and as an appraiser of estates, and then as a Deputy to the
General Court and a townsman. "But perhaps the highest mark of esteem
was given in 1661. It was soon after the restoration of Charles II. to
the British throne. The regicides Goffe and Whalley" - who had sent
Charles I to the chopping block - "had fled to this country and were
in hiding at New Haven. Officers of the King had been sent to arrest
them, but had failed because of the protection given to the fugitives
by the people. Great indignation had been aroused, and Edward Rawson,
the royal Secretary at Boston, had written to Governor Leete a sharp
and threatening letter. This caused general alarm." Somebody had to go
to the General Court and represent New Haven on this. Nobody wanted to
do it. John Cooper was one of two elected, but they both declined. Two
others were elected - they both declined. Finally he and James Bishop
caved in and went. "His acceptance of the election of Deputy,
therefore, shows his courage. The people were not slow to see this and
looked to him as whom they could depend on." Then the General Court
chose him as one of two men to go to Boston and explain the situation
to the unhappy secretary. So he was the kind of guy willing to take on
jobs no one else wanted to do.
He employed for a while in his house a young girl named Mary
Betts, who, getting angry at some punishment, burned his barn down
with all the corn that was in it, worth about 100 pounds, which was
real money in those days. In the trial it came out that her mother and
sister had put her up to it. Regarding the penalty, Mr. Cooper said
that "He desired that what was done might be that all might heare and
feare & doe noe more so wickedly." The sentence was: "That the said
Mary Betts be publickly whipped & at the same time weare an halter
about her necke visibly, the crime perpetrated being capital by law,
deserving death were she of age, capable of such censure.... It is
also ordered that he" - John Cooper - "may at his liberty sell or
dispose of said Mary as a bond servant for and toward his satisfaction
to any person and into any place within some or other of the English
plantacons of one of the 4 united colonies in New England & not
elsewhere, that she may live under publicke ordinances for her soules
good," and "Hannah Betts to be sett in ye stocks for the space of one
houre." (This all from the Dickerman book).
ID: 784
Name: DAVID ATWATER
Sex: M
Child 1: JOMATHAN ATWATER (780) ( - )
Note: Of New Haven, 1638.
ID: 785
Name: JEREMIAH (Rev.) PECK
Sex: M
Father: WILLIAM (Deacon) PECK (786) ( - )
Spouse: JOANNA KITCHELL (787) ( - )
Child 1: RUTH PECK (781) ( - )
ID: 786
Name: WILLIAM (Deacon) PECK
Sex: M
Child 1: JEREMIAH (Rev.) PECK (785) ( - )
Note: Of New Haven, 1638.
ID: 787
Name: JOANNA KITCHELL
Sex: F
Father: ROBERT KITCHELL (788) ( - )
Spouse: JEREMIAH (Rev.) PECK (785) ( - )
Child 1: RUTH PECK (781) ( - )
ID: 788
Name: ROBERT KITCHELL
Sex: M
Child 1: JOANNA KITCHELL (787) ( - )
Note: Magistrate, Of Guilford, 1639.
ID: 789
Name: ROGER OSBORNE
Sex: M
Child 1: SARAH OSBORNE (774) ( - )
Note: Of Kent, England.
ID: 790
Name: ELIZABETH LYMAN
Sex: F
Birth date: 1702
Mother: MINDWELL SHELDON (808) (1666- )
Father: JOHN LYMAN (807) (1660-1740)
Spouse: ABNER MOSELEY (806) (1699- )
Child 1: ESTHER MOSELEY (748) (1741-1827)
ID: 791
Name: JOSEPH MOSELEY
Sex: M
Birth date: 1670
Date of death: 1719
Age at death: 48 or 49
Mother: MARY NEWBERRY (794) ( - )
Father: JOHN MOSELEY (793) ( - )
Spouse: ABIGAIL ROOT (792) (1668- )
Wedding: 1696
Child 1: ABNER MOSELEY (806) (1699- )
ID: 792
Name: ABIGAIL ROOT
Sex: F
Birth date: 1668
Mother: ABIGAIL ALVORD (796) ( - )
Father: THOMAS ROOT (795) ( - )
Spouse: JOSEPH MOSELEY (791) (1670-1719)
Child 1: ABNER MOSELEY (806) (1699- )
ID: 793
Name: JOHN MOSELEY
Sex: M
Father: JOHN MOSELEY (797) ( - )
Spouse: MARY NEWBERRY (794) ( - )
Child 1: JOSEPH MOSELEY (791) (1670-1719)
ID: 794
Name: MARY NEWBERRY
Sex: F
Mother: MARY ALLYN (800) ( - )
Father: BENJAMIN NEWBERRY (798) ( - )
Spouse: JOHN MOSELEY (793) ( - )
Child 1: JOSEPH MOSELEY (791) (1670-1719)
ID: 795
Name: THOMAS ROOT
Sex: M
Father: THOMAS ROOT (802) ( - )
Spouse: ABIGAIL ALVORD (796) ( - )
Child 1: ABIGAIL ROOT (792) (1668- )
ID: 796
Name: ABIGAIL ALVORD
Sex: F
Mother: MARY VORE (804) ( - )
Father: ALEXANDER ALVORD (803) ( - )
Spouse: THOMAS ROOT (795) ( - )
Child 1: ABIGAIL ROOT (792) (1668- )
ID: 797
Name: JOHN MOSELEY
Sex: M
Child 1: JOHN MOSELEY (793) ( - )
Note: Of Dorchester, 1630, and Windsor, 1664.
Note: Wife was named Cicely.
ID: 798
Name: BENJAMIN NEWBERRY
Sex: M
Father: THOMAS NEWBERRY (799) ( - )
Spouse: MARY ALLYN (800) ( - )
Child 1: MARY NEWBERRY (794) ( - )
ID: 799
Name: THOMAS NEWBERRY
Sex: M
Child 1: BENJAMIN NEWBERRY (798) ( - )
Note: Of Dorchester, 1630.
ID: 800
Name: MARY ALLYN
Sex: F
Father: MATTHEW ALLYN (801) ( - )
Spouse: BENJAMIN NEWBERRY (798) ( - )
Child 1: MARY NEWBERRY (794) ( - )
ID: 801
Name: MATTHEW ALLYN
Sex: M
Child 1: MARY ALLYN (800) ( - )
Note: Of Cambridge, 1639, and Hartford, 1635.
ID: 802
Name: THOMAS ROOT
Sex: M
Child 1: THOMAS ROOT (795) ( - )
Note: Of Salem, 1637, of Hartford, 1639, and of Northampton, 1659.
ID: 803
Name: ALEXANDER ALVORD
Sex: M
Spouse: MARY VORE (804) ( - )
Child 1: ABIGAIL ALVORD (796) ( - )
Note: Of Windsor, 1645, and Northampton, 1661.
ID: 804
Name: MARY VORE
Sex: F
Father: RICHARD VORE (805) ( - )
Spouse: ALEXANDER ALVORD (803) ( - )
Child 1: ABIGAIL ALVORD (796) ( - )
ID: 805
Name: RICHARD VORE
Sex: M
Child 1: MARY VORE (804) ( - )
Note: Of Dorchester, 1635, and Windsor, 1640.
ID: 806
Name: ABNER MOSELEY
Sex: M
Birth date: 1699
Mother: ABIGAIL ROOT (792) (1668- )
Father: JOSEPH MOSELEY (791) (1670-1719)
Spouse: ELIZABETH LYMAN (790) (1702- )
Wedding: 1722
Child 1: ESTHER MOSELEY (748) (1741-1827)
ID: 807
Name: JOHN LYMAN
Sex: M
Birth date: 1660
Date of death: 1740
Age at death: 79 or 80
Mother: DORCAS PLUM (772) ( - )
Father: JOHN LYMAN (771) ( - )
Spouse: MINDWELL SHELDON (808) (1666- )
Wedding: 1687
Child 1: ELIZABETH LYMAN (790) (1702- )
ID: 808
Name: MINDWELL SHELDON
Sex: F
Birth date: 1666
Mother: MARY WOODFORD (810) ( - )
Father: ISAAC SHELDON (809) ( - )
Spouse: JOHN LYMAN (807) (1660-1740)
Child 1: ELIZABETH LYMAN (790) (1702- )
ID: 809
Name: ISAAC SHELDON
Sex: M
Spouse: MARY WOODFORD (810) ( - )
Child 1: MINDWELL SHELDON (808) (1666- )
Note: Of Windsor (1640) and Northampton.
ID: 810
Name: MARY WOODFORD
Sex: F
Mother: MARY BLOT (812) ( - )
Father: THOMAS WOODFORD (811) ( - )
Spouse: ISAAC SHELDON (809) ( - )
Child 1: MINDWELL SHELDON (808) (1666- )
ID: 811
Name: THOMAS WOODFORD
Sex: M
Spouse: MARY BLOT (812) ( - )
Child 1: MARY WOODFORD (810) ( - )
Note: Of Roxbury (1632) and Hartford.
ID: 812
Name: MARY BLOT
Sex: F
Father: ROBERT BLOT (815) ( - )
Spouse: THOMAS WOODFORD (811) ( - )
Child 1: MARY WOODFORD (810) ( - )
ID: 813
Name: JOHN HALL
Sex: M
Father: JOHN HALL (751) (1670-1730)
Child 1: LYMAN HALL (814) (1724- )
ID: 814
Name: LYMAN HALL
Sex: M
Birth date: 1724
Father: JOHN HALL (813) ( - )
Note: Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of
Note: Georgia.
Many of the Signers fell on hard times at the hands of the British and
others. "Vandals, soldiers, or both looted the properties of Ellery,
Clymer, Hall..." (From the Ancestor Hunt, May 2002.)
ID: 815
Name: ROBERT BLOT
Sex: M
Child 1: MARY BLOT (812) ( - )
Note: Of Charleston, 1634.
ID: 816
Name: JOSEPH HARRIS
Sex: M
Birth date: Jan. 16, 1673
Birth place: New London? Guilford?
Date of death: Aug. 26, 1737
Age at death: 64 years, 7 months, 10 days.
Mother: ELIZABETH ABBOT (819) ( -1702)
Father: GABRIEL HARRIS (818) ( -1684)
Spouse: MARY STEVENS (817) (1677- )
Wedding: 12/1/1696?
Child 1: PHOEBE HARRIS (734) ( -1763)
Note: Of Killingworth. The death & marriage dates are courtesy of
Note: the LDS.
ID: 817
Name: MARY STEVENS
Sex: F
Birth date: Nov. 2, 1677
Birth place: Killingworth, Ct.
Father: WILLIAM STEVENS (820) (1630-1703)
Spouse: JOSEPH HARRIS (816) (1673-1737)
Child 1: PHOEBE HARRIS (734) ( -1763)
She was probably William Stevens' daughter by his second wife, Sarah
Hough Carpenter. (His first wife was Mary Meigs.) Sarah Hough was born
3/23/1651 in Gloucester, daughter of William Hough and Sarah Caulkins.
ID: 818
Name: GABRIEL HARRIS
Sex: M
Birth place: England?
Date of death: 1684
Mother: MARY FRY (822) ( -1656)
Father: WALTER HARRIS (821) ( -1654)
Spouse: ELIZABETH ABBOT (819) ( -1702)
Wedding: 3/3/1654
Child 1: JOSEPH HARRIS (816) (1673-1737)
Note: Of New London.
"The inventory of Gabriel Harris, compared with that of his father,
illustrates the rapid march of improvement in the plantation. The
homestead, consisting of a new house, orchard, cider-mill, and smith's
shop, valued together at 200 pounds, was assigned to Thomas, the
eldest son, for his double portion. The inheritance of the other
children, six in number, was 100 pounds each. Among the wearing
apparel were:
"A broad-cloth coat with red lining.
"Two Castors, [beaver hats.]
"A white serge coat; a Kersey coat.
"A serge coat and doublet: a wash-leather doublet.
"Two red wescotes--a stuff coat and breeches.
"Four looms and tackling: a silk loom.
"An Indian maid-servant, valued at 15 pounds.
"Three canoes", and so on.
Thomas Harris, the oldest son of Gabriel, died in Barbados in 1691.
(This from "The History of New London", at Sutro.)
ID: 819
Name: ELIZABETH ABBOT
Sex: F
Birth place: England?
Date of death: Aug. 17, 1702
Spouse: GABRIEL HARRIS (818) ( -1684)
Wedding: 3/3/1654
Child 1: JOSEPH HARRIS (816) (1673-1737)
Note: Kids: Walter, Elizabeth, Thomas, Peter, John, Samuel, Mary,
Note: James, Joseph (my line).
ID: 820
Name: WILLIAM STEVENS
Sex: M
Birth date: 1630
Birth place: England
Date of death: Jan. 1703
Place of death: Guilford
Age at death: 72 or 73
Father: JOHN STEPHENS (823) ( -1670)
Wedding: 3/3/1653
Child 1: MARY STEVENS (817) (1677- )
Note: First wife was Mary Meigs.
"William was associated with his father and brother" - Thomas - "in
joining the Connecticut colony and probably removed with them to
Killingworth, as he was a member of the church there in 1670. He sold
all of his land holdings in Guilford to William Seward on March 26,
1671." - "The Steevens Genealogy", CGS.
Savage says he moved from Guilford to Killingworth in 1665, and
probably died before 1685. His children were John, Samuel, Nathaniel,
another Nathaniel (all b. Guilford), Judith, Josiah, and Mary (my
line; these three b. Killingworth). All but the last one were probably
by his first wife.
ID: 821
Name: WALTER HARRIS
Sex: M
Date of death: Nov. 6, 1654
Spouse: MARY FRY (822) ( -1656)
Child 1: GABRIEL HARRIS (818) ( -1684)
Note: Of Weymouth, 1632; Dorchester, 1649; New London, 1653.
Came on the William and Francis in 1632. After about 20 years, he came
to Pequot Harbor (Dorchester may have been a temporary residence). Two
sons, Gabriel and Thomas. Thomas seems to have been lost at sea when
he went back to England to recover some property that had fallen to
the family at the time of his father's death. He is given 10 shillings
in his mother's will, "if he doe come home or be alive."
ID: 822
Name: MARY FRY
Sex: F
Date of death: Jan. 24, 1656
Spouse: WALTER HARRIS (821) ( -1654)
Child 1: GABRIEL HARRIS (818) ( -1684)
Died soon after her husband. They were apparently rather affluent for
those days. In her will she divides up lots of clothes and household
items. "I give to my eldest daughter, Sarah Lane, the bigest brass
pan, and to her daughter Mary, a silver spoone. And to her daughter
Sarah, the bigest pewter dish and one silken riben. Likewise I give to
her daughter Mary, a pewter candelsticke." And, "I give to Rebekah
Bruen, a pynt pott of pewter, a new petticoate and wascote wch she is
able to spin herself; alsoe an old byble, and a hatt wch was my sonn
Thomas his hatt." "Blue mohair" is "blew mohere", "brass" is "brasst",
"basin" in "bassen", "whistle" is "whissle", "cousin" is "cosen".
ID: 823
Name: JOHN STEPHENS
Sex: M
Date of death: Sep. 1, 1670
Child 1: WILLIAM STEVENS (820) (1630-1703)
Note: Wife's name was Mary.
May have come out of Kent. His wife probably died before he left
England. Four kids, all born in England: John, who remained in
England; Thomas; William (my line); and Mary. The last three came to
America with their father in 1639. He was in Guilford by 1645, when he
was a judge there. "The Steevens Genealogy" says he died 9/1/1670, but
Savage says 10/2/1670. His daughter married Henry Kingsnorth first and
John Collins second. He was probably a gentleman ("Mr.") rather than a
commoner ("Goodman"). He belonged to the Church of England.
ID: 824
Name: WILLIAM BACKUS
Sex: M
Birth place: Norwich, Norfolk, Eng?
Date of death: 1661?
Child 1: SARAH BACKUS (740) ( -1702)
Note: Kids, all by his first wife: William, Sarah (my line), Mary,
Note: Lydia, Stephen, Samuel.
"Backus" seems to be a phonetic rendering of the old pronunciation of
"Backhouse", which is how the name is usually written in the English
records. One theory about the origin of the name is that Backhouse is
a corruption of the French name of Bayeux or Bayou (Ranulf de Bayou
was William the Conqueror's step-half-brother), but it's hard to see
how you get from Bayeux to Backhouse. Backhouse is one of those names
that could easily originate more than once in different places. Such
as Holland. Evidence indicates that the name Bekhuis probably came
from the province of Limburg in southern Holland, and that they left
to escape religious persecution by the Duke of Alva in the 1500's and
were invited to Norwich in Norfolk by the Duke of Norfolk to help the
weaving trade that was in trouble there. "Upon the duke's application,
and at his own charge, the queen granted letters patent for the fixing
here thirty master workmen, with ten servants to each of them, in the
whole three hundred and thirty Dutch and Waloons; who immediately on
their arrival set up manufacture of bayes, says, arras, mockades, &c.
and in a very short timr their numbers increased to three thousand and
upwards." Tradition says William Backus came from Norwich.
One reference says he was born 1589/90, which if it's right, makes
him a little on the old side for a 1630's immigrant. He may have come
over on the ship Rainbow, which lists William and Francis Backus from
Yorkshire. He was in Saybrook by 1637. Saybrook was located on a
peninsula about a mile long on west side of the mouth of the
Connecticut river, which was connected to the mainland by a narrow
neck. This afforded protection from the Indians, but it also limited
the growth of the town. First, in 1648, he got some land on the other
side of the river, in Lyme. Then, about 10 years later, another
opportunity came along, "in the form of warfare between two of their
neighboring Indian tribes. Mohegans under a sachem, Chief Uncas,
occupied the valley of the Connecticut. To the east lived the
Narragansetts, a related tribe, but one with whom they were frequently
on bad terms. During this new conflict, the home stockade of the
Mohegan was surrounded and placed under siege for some days. A plea to
the English colonists from Chief Uncas for help against the
Narragansetts caused a relief party to set out from Saybrook under
Lieut. Leffingwell, breaking the siege and turning the tide of battle.
For this act, the Mohegans later granted to the English a generous
tract of land 'nine miles square' around the head of the Thames
River." William Backus got some land there, in Norwich, but he died
not long after.
In his will (1661) he puts together a complicated arrangement
whereby his son "Steevin Backus Heier" will take care of his second
wife, Ann Fenton Bingham Backus, "who hath beene both loving unto me
and carefull of me". (We know nothing about his first wife.) If she
and "Steeven" don't get along, "by reason of his undutifull cariage
towardes her or any other way of Discouragement proceeding from him",
he has to give her "Twenty bushells of corne a yeere that is Twelve
bushells of Indian and eight of wheate as also a Third part of the
milke of the cattle and a sixt part of garden stuff as squashes and
pumpkins turnips and the like". On the other hand, if she up and
leaves him, he still has to give her "fowr bushells of wheate and sixe
bushells of Indian a yeere". (From "The Backus Families of Early New
England", by Reno Warburton Backus, 1966.)
ID: 858
Name: JAMES ELLIOTT
Sex: M
Birth date: 1799?
Birth place: New Hampshire
Father: OLIVER ELLIOTT (859) (1766-1852)
Spouse: ESTHER SCOTT (860) (1801- )
Child 1: LAURA ANN ELLIOTT (076) (1820-1895)
Married Esther (Betsey?) Scott. Lived for a few years near his
father's mill in Portland, NY, then moved to North East in the late
1830's. His farm was in section 132; the eastern tip of it was just a
stone's throw away from New York State.
In 1830, he's still in Portland living near Oliver:
1 boy 5-10;
1 boy 10-15;
1 man 30-40 (James, about 31);
2 girls under 5;
1 girl 5-10 (Laura Anna, maybe);
1 girl 10-15;
1 woman 20-30 (Esther).
He's in the 1840 census for North East:
2 boys 5-10 (One of these must have been Henry);
1 boy 15-20;
1 young man 20-30;
1 man 40-50 (James);
1 girl under 5;
2 girls 10-15;
1 girl 15-20 (Laura Anna, maybe);
1 woman 20-30;
1 woman 30-40 (Esther).
In 1850 he's still in North East:
James Elliott, 51, farmer, worth $824, b. N. H.;
Esther " , 49, b. Vt.;
Henry " , 15, laborer, b. NY;
Mary " , 9, b. Pa.;
Huldah " , F, 4, b. Pa.
On 5/7/1853 James Elliott of Erie Co. bought 132 acres in North
East on the NY state line from Henry Cramond.
In 1860, still in North East:
James Elliott, 61, farmer, real estate $2000, personal estate
$500, b. N. H.;
Ester, 59, b. N. H.;
Henry Elliott, 21, b. NY;
May J, 18, b. Pa.;
Huldah, 15, b. Pa.; <-- the Huldah M. Cherry of later years?
Asa Scott, 35, farmer, personal estate $25, b. Vt.;
Phidelia (?), 33, b. NY;
Geo., 11, b. NY;
Jefferson, 7, b. NY;
Alphonzo, 5, b. NY;
Alace A, 2, b. NY.
Asa Scott (Jr.) was Esther's nephew.
In 1860, James Elliott of North East Twp. was assessed $463 on the
list of taxables (Erie Co. Official Directory, p. 130, Sutro).
On 4/5/1867 James Elliott and Ester his wife sold 50 acres for
$455 bordering on NY to E. Stone. There is another deed on the same
day in which Ebenezer Stone sells 25 acres in North East to James
Elliott for $700. Also on that day, James and Esther sold to Julia A.
Stone about 56 acres in North East for $5500. James would have been
about 68 at this time.
He is not in the tax list for the 1867/68 Erie Business Directory,
and he and his wife are gone from the PA and NY censuses by 1870; but
in the 1870/71 Erie City and County Directory there is a "James
Elliott, farmer" listed in the North East Twp. part. And on 9/11/1874
James Elliot of North East sold 24 acres in North East for $1000 to H.
S. Elliot - there is no mention of Esther in this deed so she was
probably dead by then. And there is a J. Elliott still listed as
owning a farm in North East right next to NY in 1876. But The Erie
County Register of Wills has nothing on him. There's an obit for a
James Elliott from 10/8/1872 in the Erie library obituary index, which
Scott Coyle got, but it's for "a painter employed at Yale's carriage
shop", so it doesn't sound like a match.
Scott did find James and Esther buried in Grahamville cemetery:
"Attached is the cover and a page from 'Burials in Grahamville
Cemetery'. It shows Esther Elliott buried in Section B, Lot 200 next
to James Elliott buried in Section B, Lot 201. Also attached are
photos of their headstones. There are no dates noted in the book or
marked on the headstone." From his e-mail to me of 9/25/09. Since
Grahamville Cemetery is in North East, maybe that's where he died, and
that would help explain why there's no record of his death in Erie. He
may even have moved back to New York. Someday maybe I'll check the
death listings in the Erie city directories.
Regarding the Henry Elliott in 1850 & 1860, in the Erie County
Directory list of taxables for 1859/60 Henry Elliott was assessed
$200. And there is a Henry Elliott listed in the Erie City Dir for
1874/75 as a clerk. And Henry S. Elliott of Michigan bought land from
James Elliott in the above-mentioned transaction of 9/11/1874. And in
1881 H. S. Elliott bought 50 acres in North East from G. D. Loop, who
was living right next to James in 1876. There is also an "Elliott,
Henry, lab" in the 1907/08 Erie Directory. Karen Michaelis says he
never married. Scott Coyle e-mailed me (1/30/09) a letter written by
Franklin Wilkinson to Emory Walling dated Oct. 2, 1920 about who
contributed to the funeral expenses of H. E. Elliott, so a look for an
obit a little before this might be productive. He probably died in
Findley Lake, NY.
Here's what Scott Coyle has on Henry's line. According to his info
Henry did get married:
Henry Smith Elliott b. 3/1835 in NY d. 1919/1920 Findley Lake NY
+ Sarah A. ---; b. 4/1837 in PA m. 1861 d. 1900-1910 in North East
Alice Elliott b. Jul 1861 in PA PA d. 1943 Bur Pleasant Valley
Cemetery, Sherman, Chautauqua, NY
+ Alfred Darling b. 5/1862 in NY m. 1891 d: 1920 in Sherman
Edith Elliott b. 1871 in MI d. Bet. 1919 - 1971
Flora M. Elliott b. 3/1873 in MI d. 1905 NE Bur Grahamville Cem
This family is in fact in the 1880 census (on the LDS website) in
North East. It says Henry was born in PA. Now, if he had a family,
that doesn't explain why the people who contributed to his funeral
expenses had names like Hartley and Wilkinson; in other words they
were nephews and nieces. There is, to be sure, an unexplained Mrs. J.
P. Burch on the list. In any case, Scott found Flora M. Elliot, along
with the names James Elliot and Esther Elliot, in an alphabetical list
of cemetery inscriptions at the Erie library compiled by Hutzelman. "I
found her marker at Grahamville. I couldn't find a marker for James &
Esther. But that's not very surprising considering that all that was
visible 50 plus years ago was their names." And, "Flora is buried near
the Wilkinsons (George & Roby, Thomas & Asenath, etc.) - most of whom
died in the early 1900s. There are actually no markers near to Flora.
Her grandparents James & Esther would be buried in another, older
section. (In the section where Thomas & Laura Ann Walling are
buried.) There are several unreadable markers in that section." From
Scott's e-mail of 4/6/09.
I reconstruct this tree of Huldah's line from Karen Michaelis'
e-mail to me of 11/21/2000:
Huldah M. Elliott
+ Hiram Cherry
Harriet Cherry
+ DeWitt Wallace
Robert DeWitt Wallace <-- my grandmother's second cousin
+ Jean Porter
Karen: "Now Robert (Bob) and his wife Jean are still living. I just
visited them this past September in Clymer, NY. Bob is the one that
gave me the Elliott family picture." That's the composite one. "He and
his wife never had children. They are retired and travel around the
country in a big motor home. Jean does all the driving. Usually once a
year in the summer they head back north for a few weeks and then are
gone again for the rest of the year. What a life.... Bob says he
remembers going to the Walling/Wilkinson/Elliott Reunions when he was
younger."
Aunt Lulu remembers them too. She says the Cherrys were real
country-folk, not too citified. Mom remembers that they did itinerant
farm work. Aunt Lulu says there was a lot of that in the 30's. Mom
remembers "Cherry" being pronounced "Churry" at those reunions.
The following intersting comment came from Asenath to Emory in
1919, concerning the aging Uncle Henry: "We understand you have been
sending money to Aunt Huldah thinking it would go to help support
Uncle Henry. You can see by reading those letters that the money you
send Aunt Hulda goes into her pocket. She does nothing to help support
or care for Uncle Henry." Asenath and her daughter Grace offered to
take him in. Sent to me by Scott Coyle, 30 Jan 2009.
ID: 859
Name: OLIVER ELLIOTT
Sex: M
Birth date: 1766?
Birth place: N. H.?
Date of death: Dec. 7, 1852
Place of death: Portland, NY
Age at death: 85 or 86
Child 1: JAMES ELLIOTT (858) (1799- )
"OLIVER ELLLIOTT--Came to P. from Vt. probably in 1818, and settled on
p't of lot 28, T. 5, house standing a few rods N. of the schoolhouse
in district No. 2. This house, with the one afterward built, has been
entirely removed. He was twice m." Then it says when they died and
that they're buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
"Family of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott--(1) Rebecca: m. Henry Smith of
Mayville; d. there a few years since." She was born 7/2/1793 in Mason,
and her mother was named Rebecca. "(2) Oliver: m. Betsey Logan, and
eventually moved to Ill. (3) James: m. Betsey" - sic - "Scott; lived
for a few years near his father's mill, but now at North East, Pa."
The State of New Hampshire doesn't seem to have the birth records for
either Oliver Jr. or James. "(4) Hutchinson: m. and lives in Cherry
Creek, this county. (5) Betsey: m. 1st, Titus G. Carley; 2nd, Stephen
Stillwel, and lives in Dunkirk, this county. (6) Jonathan B.: m. Eliza
Lilly; settled on N. W. p't of lot 40, T 4, farm now owned by David
McGregor, where he d. Feb. 15, 1866." There's no record in Montpellier
of Jonathan's birth in Winhall. "(7) Sarah. (8) Roxana: m. Moses
Elkins. (9) Joseph; m. and settled in Ill. (10) Sally: m. Linus
Hopson. (11) Polly: m. W. P. Moore; lives in Dunkirk, this county. (12
& 13) Twins; names not remembered."
Oliver Elliott had a sawmill there: it "was built by Oliver
Elliott in 1819 or '20, on the headwaters of Fay 'screek, on lot 40,
T. 4. It was rebuilt in 1851 by Henry Mosher, who sold it in 1842" -
sic - "to Hiram Arnold. Mr. Arnold removed it to south part lot 33, T.
5." This is all from "Historical Sketches of the Town of Portland", by
H. C. Taylor, 1873, Sutro.
In 1790, there's an Oliver Elliott in Mason Town, Hillsborough
County, New Hampshire; he's next to some other people named Elliott,
and there are 3 men 16 and up in his household, and one female.
On 10/3/1799 Oliver Eliot of Londonderry bought 110 acres for $100
from Jonathan Aiken in Londonderry, Windham Co. Vt., not more than
about 50 miles from Mason. It seems to have been a part of lot #5 in
the first division of lots, in a gore (triangular piece of land) first
granted to Edward Aiken and later annexed to Londonderry. (There's
also a mention of Winhal, Bennington Co., where Oliver is in 1820, but
I can't tell what that's doing in this deed.) Then on 5/24/1800 he
sold the western half of it to Esther Scott (that's how it's written
in the index, but it looks like Easter Scoat or Scoot in the deed
itself) and her children of Mason NH for $55, and the eastern half to
"Elizabeth Eaton" - also of Mason - "and her children after my death
to have and to hold..." for $55. Now, evidence indicates that Esther
Scott's maiden name was probably Eliot. If she was Oliver Eliot's
sister, that would explain why her husband isn't mentioned in the deed
- Oliver wanted his blood relatives to have it. This also makes it
probable that Elizabeth Eaton was another sister of his. There is a
deed where Abijah and Elizabeth Eaton, Isaac Eaton, William Eaton, and
John and Betsey Bragg sold 55 acres in the east (looks like) part of
lot 5 (excepting 2 square rods where the graves of ?Hallet Eaton and
child, and Esther Eaton were), the same part Oliver sold her, on
10/9/1823. So probably Abijah was Elizabeth's husband, Isaac and
William were her sons, Betsey was her daughter, and John Bragg was her
son-in-law.
I can't find a record of Esther Scott and her children selling the
west part of lot 5, but Esther Winslow sold it to John Scott 4/4/1825,
then he sold it back (or actually mortgaged it) 11/12/1827.
Note that if all the above is true, that means the marriage
between Esther Scott (b. 1801, daughter of William and Esther Scott)
and James Elliott (b. c. 1799, son of Oliver Elliott and ?) was a
first-cousin marriage.
Anyway, in 1800, Oliver is still, for some reason, counted in
Mason:
2 boys under 10;
1 man 26-45 (Oliver, age 34);
1 girl under 10;
1 young woman 16-26;
1 woman 26-45 (Betsey, probably, age 28).
On 1/19/1801 Oliver Eliot - of Londonderry again - bought 20 acres
in Londonderry from Jonathan Chafee for $43. There is a mortgage
clause in the deed that says that if Chafee can pay Oliver $43 by a
certain date, then the deal is void; and in the margin there is a note
that says that on 6/17/1805 he did receive full payment of the
mortgage.
In 1810, there's an Oliver Elliott in the town of Winhall,
Bennington County, Vermont:
2 boys under 10;
1 boy 10-16;
1 man 26-45 (Oliver);
3 girls under 10;
1 young woman 16-26;
1 woman 26-45.
In a deed which is undated but which probably happened on
11/29/1817, Oliver Elliot of Winhall sold 51 acres in Londonderry to
John Scott for $250. It was in the south part of lot #5 in Aikins Gore
(?).
In 1820, he's still there in Winhall:
3 boys under 10;
2 boys 10-16;
1 man 26-45;
1 man 45+ (Oliver, age about 54);
3 girls under 10;
1 girl 10-16;
1 woman 26-45.
By 1830, Oliver is in the census for Portland:
1 boy 10-15;
2 boys 15-20;
1 young man in his 20's;
1 man in his 60's (Oliver);
1 girl 5-10;
1 girl 15-20;
1 woman 50-60 (Betsey, probably, age 58).
Betsey was probably too old to have been the mother of the youngest
girl, so maybe she was a granddaughter.
In 1840, he's still there in Portland; he's in his 70's now and
his wife is in her 60's, and there's a man in his 30's there, but
everyone else is gone.
I can't find him in 1850, though he didn't die until 1852; maybe
he's living with one of his children.
He didn't leave a will, but there are letters of administration
for him at the Chautauqua County Office of the Surrogate in Mayville.
He was a resident of Portland at the time of his death. His heirs are
listed twice: "Oliver Elliott, Rebecca Smith wife of Henry Smith,
James Elliott, Hutchinson Elliott, Jonathan B. Elliott Betsey Carley,
Polly Moore, wife of William P. Moore, Roxana Elkins," - then above
the preceding, "wife of Moses Elkins" - "Elliott" - then above the
preceding, what looks like "Joseph" - and then again between the
lines, what looks like "Jacob Elliott" - ", Oliver Hopson & James
Hopson ___". In the next paragraph are listed: "Oliver Elliott, James
Elliott, Hutchinson Elliott, Jonathan B. Elliott Joseph Elliott, Jacob
Elliott Samuel Elliott," - who's this? - "Oliver Hopson and James
Hopson." The last four may be grandchildren. The surrogate's name
looks like Emory F. Warren, and it looks like one of the appraisers is
named Alfred Mosher. Moses Elkins and Roxana his wife presented the
petition on 6/1/1853 and it was witnessed on 8/3/1853.
He's buried next to his wife Betsey, who d. 9/10/1845 in her 73rd
year, so she must have been born about 1772.
ID: 860
Name: ESTHER SCOTT
Sex: F
Birth date: July 9, 1801
Birth place: Londonderry, Windham, Vt.
Father: WILLIAM SCOTT (505) ( - )
Spouse: JAMES ELLIOTT (858) (1799- )
Child 1: LAURA ANN ELLIOTT (076) (1820-1895)
Regarding her first name, the 1850 & 1860 censuses have it as Esther,
and her birth name in the IGI is Esther. A deed from James Elliott to
Ebenezer Stone recorded May 30, 1867 also has it as Esther (LDS roll
1378940), as does another to Julia A. Stone of 11/14/1867 (film
1378940). But the Taylor book (see Oliver Elliott's record) has
James's wife as Betsey, and it doesn't say anything about him being
married twice. Maybe Betsey was her middle name. (Esther also had a
sister named Betsey, according to the IGI.) And if I'm not mistaken,
James Elliott is buried next to Betsey Scott Elliott, though I seem to
have lost track of the source for this information.
I conclude that Esther, daughter of William Scott, is the wife of
James Elliott for the following reasons. The IGI has Esther, daughter
of William, born 7/9/1801, which matches the 1801 birth year implied
for Esther Elliott in 1850 and 1860; the Taylor book says Mrs.
Elliott's maiden name was Scott; and Katherine Johnson assures me that
Esther Scott's brother Asa had a son Asa who is in Carroll, Chautauqua
Co. in the 1855 NY state census, and his family members match up well
with those of the Asa Scott who was living in the same household with
James Elliott in 1860.
Esther Scott (or Easter Scoot) and her children of Mason NH bought
55 acres of land in the west part of lot number 5 in the first
division of lots from Oliver Eliot of Londonderry on 5/24/1800. Now,
the Esther of this record wasn't born til 1801. So it may have been
her mother. There is also a deed from 7/12/1819 where John Scott sold
?51 acres in the SW part of lot 5 to Esther Scott. And another from
3/26/1825 (witnessed by Bitsey Scott) where Asa Scott sold 20 acres to
John Scott in lot 5, just north of Esther Scott's land - probably the
mother again, since the daughter seems to have been married by then.
The land deeded by Oliver Elliot to Esther Scott and her children is
again mentioned in a deed of 3/13/1826, where John Scott sold
apparently the same 20 acres to John Milliken.
From her husband's land records I gather that she was still alive
in 1867 but probably dead by 1874.
ID: 940
Name: JAMES WILLIAM GREENMAN
Sex: M
Birth date: June 5, 1861
Birth place: North East, Pa.
Date of death: Nov. 6, 1954
Place of death: Chicago, Ill.
Age at death: 93 years, 5 months, 1 day.
Spouse: CORA ELOISE EDGERTON MARSHALL (532) (1862-1948)
Wedding: 2/22/1882, North East
Child 1: GRACE INEZ GREENMAN (942) (1885-1971)
His parents and his wife's parents owned adjoining farms.
They lived in North East. Barbara Reeder: "They moved to
Leadville, CO sometime after birth of 1st child. They lived in
Leadville only a few months. They started back towards OH when they
ran out of money in Iowa and lived there for a few years. Will got a
job working a farm. They left IA and traveled to Cleveland, OH where
Will's (re-married) mother mother removed."
"In Cleveland he worked as a carpenter and cabinet maker. In 1899,
his cousin helped get him a job with Wister Institute (of
Philadelphia). The company moved his family to Chicago where he was to
'over-see' all the property that Wister Institute owned in Chicago.
Will moved to Morgan Park, IL in 1904. There he was curator of grounds
and buildings and was given the title of 'Captain' by the IL governor
because he worked for the Morgan Park Military Academy. He enjoyed
playing golf."
ID: 941
Name: ROBERT McCLURE BROOKES
Sex: M
Birth date: Jan. 24, 1874
Birth place: Chicago, Ill.
Date of death: July 25, 1932
Place of death: Morgan Park, Ill.
Age at death: 58 years, 6 months, 1 day.
Spouse: GRACE INEZ GREENMAN (942) (1885-1971)
Wedding: 9/24/1909, Morgan Park
Child 1: ROBERT McCLURE (JR.) BROOKES (943) (1910- )
Barbara Reeder: he "was head of the cheese department of the Produce
division of Armour and Company. He was a semi-pro baseball player and
had a chance to tryout for the New York Giants but the pay was better
playing semi-pro! He taught Mary Gorden (famous opera singer) to ride
a bicycle. He was a good friend of J. L. Kraft (founder of Kraft
Cheese), and of C. E. Blodgett (the first white man to arrive after
the massacre of Custer). He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago,
IL."
ID: 942
Name: GRACE INEZ GREENMAN
Sex: F
Birth date: Jan. 23, 1885
Birth place: Ida Grove, IO
Date of death: Nov. 28, 1971
Place of death: Cloverdale, OH.
Age at death: 86 years, 10 months, 5 days.
Mother: CORA ELOISE EDGERTON MARSHALL (532) (1862-1948)
Father: JAMES WILLIAM GREENMAN (940) (1861-1954)
Spouse: ROBERT McCLURE BROOKES (941) (1874-1932)
Wedding: 9/24/1909, Morgan Park
Child 1: ROBERT McCLURE (JR.) BROOKES (943) (1910- )
Her children were Robert McClure Brookes, Jr. (m. Erdwine Holekamp),
Helen Olive Brookes (b. 8 Jun 1911; m. James Watt), and James Greenman
Brookes (6 Jan 1914 - 31 May 1982). James had a lifelong ladyfriend,
but he never married. His mother threatened to throw herself in front
of a train if he did. (She had tried this threat once before with her
husband, and he said "Go ahead".) Her granddaughter Barbara Brookes
Reeder says that she was standoffish and unaffectionate, but that her
parents (Barbara's great-grandparents, Aunt Cora and Uncle Will
Greenman) were just the opposite - the perfect loving couple, no
arguing, very affectionate great-grandparents. Barbara says Grace Inez
enjoyed golf and bowling and cards. She's buried in Oakwood Cemetery
in Chicago.
ID: 943
Name: ROBERT McCLURE (JR.) BROOKES
Sex: M
Birth date: Apr. 4, 1910
Birth place: Chicago, Ill.
Mother: GRACE INEZ GREENMAN (942) (1885-1971)
Father: ROBERT McCLURE BROOKES (941) (1874-1932)
Wedding: 6/27/1936, Webster Groves
Child 1: BARBARA JEAN BROOKES (944) ( - )
Note: M. in Webster Groves, Mo.
Lived in Chicago, then moved to Toledo in 1937, then to Lima in 1955.
His Uncle Carlton Greenman was married to his wife Erdie's Aunt
Fannie Dubois. His daughter Barbara says he "was a salesman. He
attended Granell" - Grinell? - "University, IO until the depression.
He worked for Mr. Kraft" - of Kraft Cheese - "and was a friend of his
family. He enjoys playing golf, fishing, card games and meeting
people. He makes furniture, shelves, etc. and usually gives what he
makes to family and friends." I spoke to him on the phone once. He
comes to California occasionally. Barbara, 11/19/2000, says he is 90,
his wife is 84, and they are living in a retirement home in
Cridersville, OH. "My father moved all of his woodworking equipment
into the attached garage and continues to make quilt racks, shelves,
hat racks and picture frames. He is remarkable!" He's not much into
computers, though. "I taught some of the people at the retirement
place to use e-mail--my father fell asleep during my talk and
demonstration." (11/21/2000.)
His wife Fanie Erwine went to Washington U. in MO amd Miss
Hickey's Secretarial School. She "made all her daughter's clothes
throughout all her school years and also made her grandsons' clothes
until they were in jr. high." She was the third bride to wear the
family wedding dress. Their children are William Holekamp (b.
4/4/1939) and Barbara Jean.
ID: 944
Name: BARBARA JEAN BROOKES
Sex: F
Birth place: Toledo, OH.
Father: ROBERT McCLURE (JR.) BROOKES (943) (1910- )
Wedding: 7/27/67, Lima Oh.
Note: M. Michael S. Reeder. Genealogist. Has lots of old pictures.
Barbara on herself: "lived in Toledo and Lima, OH. Graduated from
Bowling Green State University, OH. She taught physical education in
Fresno, and Los Gatos, CA and is currently teaching typing,
wordprocessing, and physical education in Saratoga, CA. She enjoys
snow and water skiing, golf, sewing, crafts, and working on the
computer. She was the 7th bride to wear 'THE' wedding dress." Her
husband Michael S. Reeder is a branch manager for Wells Fargo. They
have 2 kids: Brookes Michael (b. 12/13/1972) who is a graphic
arts/designer; and Todd William (b. 6/7/1975) who is big on drumming
and computing.
ID: 949
Name: ANNE FOLLMAR CRAWFORD
Sex: F
Birth place: Bellefonte, Pa.
Father: THOMAS WALLING CRAWFORD (547) (1920-1990)
Wedding: 6/29/1968, Erie, Pa.
Note: Genealogy fan. DAR National #783480.
M. James Bernard Lurie, son of Sidney Lurie and Annabelle Shulan; he
graduated from Lehman HS, Canton, Ohio 1965, and Mich. State, 1968.
Anne graduated from Fairview, Pa. HS 1964, and from Mich. State Univ.
1968. Her grandmother Marion suggested she follow her to Wells, but
Anne was more interested in MIT or MSU.
Since college, she has lived in North Dakota, New York City,
Nutley, N. J., and Raleigh, N. C.
They have a son David Alexander Lurie, Mekinock
ND, who m. Elisabeth Graham Kraus on 6/22/96 in York, Me. He graduated
from Cornell with a degree in Physics, 1992; and she graduated from
Wellesley, then from Cornell vet school.
Much of the information in Aunt Marion's part of the family tree
comes from Anne.
ID: 950
Name: JOHN WALLING CRAWFORD
Sex: M
Father: THOMAS WALLING CRAWFORD (547) (1920-1990)
Wedding: 9/23/1978
M. Kathleen McNally. Daughter: Jennifer Marie Crawford b. on her
parents' first wedding anniversary.
ID: 951
Name: WILLIAM HERRENDEEN
Sex: M
Birth date: 1658
Father: BENJAMIN HARRINGTON (952) ( - )
Child 1: ELISHA HERENDEEN (499) ( - )
Wife was Esther Hoage. Children:
Thomas b. 3/17/1686(87)
William b. 1690, m. Elizabeth ?
Benjamin b. 1692 in Providence
Abigail, b. 1694
Elisha (my ancestor)
Esther, b. 1696 in Providence
Preserved, b. 1699
Solomon, b. 1700, m. Penelope ?
Keziah, b. 1701
Meribeh, b. 1708
Martha, b. 1709
The information for his record and his father's record comes from
Peg Henderson.
ID: 952
Name: BENJAMIN HARRINGTON
Sex: M
Child 1: WILLIAM HERRENDEEN (951) (1658- )
Note: M. Elizabeth White.