A Dismal Close For The Union Cause

Jim's Photo From Wilson's Creek

From the History of the Twenty-Fourth Michigan of the Iron Brigade:

In the West a battle was fought at Wilson's Creek, Missouri, in August, in which Gen. Lyon of the Union army was killed. In October the Union Gen. Baker lost his life at Ball's Bluff on the Potomac. In November two rebel emissaries, Mason and Slidell, were forcibly taken from the British steamer Trent, and a war with England barely averted. The South had been the best prepared to fight. Most of the army and many of the navy officers were from that section and joined the Southern forces with a few notable exceptions. And thus the year 1861 closed dismally for the Union cause.

Lt. Sherwood And The Battle Of Martin's Point

Second Lieutenant Walter Sherwood was killed on December 28, 1840, as he was escorting an officer's wife near Fort Micanopy in Florida in an incident known as the Battle Of Martin's Point:

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7th Regiment of Infantry

Sherwood, Walter, 2d lieut. Co. "K," died near Fort Micanopy December 28, 1840; while escorting Mrs. Montgomery from Micanopy to [Fort] Wacahoota...

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Lieutenant Sherwood's death and circumstances surrounding it noted in Letters Received by the Office of the Adjutant General Main Series 1822-1860, at the NARA via Fold3:

The Battle of Martin's Point from Southern History:

"Within twenty yards from a hammock, they were fired upon; two privates were killed. Lieutenant Sherwood rallied the group to defend themselves. He persuaded Mrs. [Elizabeth Fanny or Sarah] Montgomery to dismount and get into the wagon, when she was shot in the breast."

"Lieutenant [Nevil] Hopson returned to Micanopy for reinforcements. Lieutenant Sherwood and the remaining party fought hand to hand with the advancing Indians."

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"Her husband [Lieutenant Montgomery] arrived on the ground soon after, but she was dead, and a soldier [Private Lansing Burlington] was lying by her side in the agonies of death, but had strength enough to say to her husband, "Lieutenant, I fought for your wife as long as I could," and then expired!  Mrs. Montgomery was an accomplished lady from Cincinnati and had not been married but about three weeks."

Establishing Boundaries With Greer Testimony

My Greer family, making a difference in early Maryland:

 In the year 1732 a land commission was held on a tract called "Heathcoat's Cottage," which lies on the northeast side of Great Gunpowder Falls... . John Roberts alias Campble testified...that "about twenty years ago or upwards this deponent was in company with his father-in-law John Campble...on the north side of the Main Falls of Gunpowder River and that his said father told this deponent that poplar was the beginning tree of Heathcoats Cottage...".

John Greer testified before the same commission of having been informed fourteen or fifteen years before by his uncle John Taylor then Deputy Surveyor that the beginning tree of Heathcoats Cottage... .

Many years later, in 1769, Moses Greer testified before a commission held to determine the bounds of Sewell's Fancy...three heaps or piles of stones are known by the name of the Indian Graves was the place where a tract or parcell or land called Heathcoats Cottage began or formerly had its beginning.

In 1814 depositions were taken before the Chancery Court in the case of Day and Kell vs Todd concerning the bounds of Heathcoats Cottage, Gassaway's Ridge, Leafe's Chance and Clarksons Hope, all of which tracts lie adjacent one to another.

 John B. Ford testified that thirty-five years before he had been with Moses Greer when the latter proved one of the boundaries of Gassaway's Ridge to be at the three Indian graves sixty-six yards to the southward of the CB Tree.  The remains of the CB Tree and a stone marked CB are still to be seen about a quarter of a mile west of the old Ishmael Day house which stands on the Joppa Road between Kingsville and Fork. [Source]

James H. Rice's Probate File

Illinois, Probate Records, 1819-1970, White County:

White Co., IL

Probate journal v. A 1820-1849

Rice, James H.  Page 209 and Page 210  

Page 211

28 December 1846

James H. Rice's estate

Anna Rice, Admin., by H. F. Rice, her agent

Abel Rice [mentioned in the page below]

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More about the White County Rice family here.

Gamelin Family And The Detroit Obligations

The Gamelins from John Askin's Letters And Papers:


"On the petition presented to us by Eustache Gamelin, an inhabitant of the Straits of Lake Erie, praying that we would grant and concede to him a tract of land situated on the said Straits...suburbs of Fort Pontchartrain... ."

"That the said Eustache Gamelin...shall be held to carry their grain to be ground at the common mill, when one shall have been erected...that he shall keep, or cause to be kept thereon house and home within one year at the latest; that he shall open the clearings of his neighbors as they may require it...that he shall pay each and every year to the receiver of His Majesty's domain in this country, or to the clerk of the said receiver residing at Detroit... ."  "...half a bushel of wheat for the...whole payable every year on the festival day of St. Martin, the first year whereof shall become due on the eleventh day of November, 1748...".  Done at Quebec, May 1, 1747.

The Gamelin family was both prominent and numerously represented in eighteenth-century Detroit. Its American founder was Michael Gamelin dit Lafontaine, a native of St. Aubin, diocese of Blois, France, who became a surgeon and migrated to Canada, where in 1663 he married Margaret Crevier, a native of the diocese of La Rochelle and widow of James Fournier. Their grandson, Laurence Eustache Gamelin, born in 1704, married in 1740 Mary Joseph Dudevoir dit Lachine, born in 1721, daughter of Claude Dudevoir dit Lachine and Barbara Cardinal. Laurence Gamelin engaged in the Indian trade and was living at Detroit as early as 1741. In 1755 he was captain of militia; he was buried at Detroit, March 7, 1771. Mary Joseph Dudevoir was buried, Jan. 10, 1803. 

Battle Of Okeechobee

Okeechobee Is The Big Lake On The Map Of Florida

"The news of Col. Zachary Taylor's battle of Okeechobee, fought on Christmas Day, 1837, reached Captain Backus at Fort Affer [have not identified a Fort Affer]."  [From the Diary of Electus Backus, Jr.]

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Christmas At Belmont

From the Tennessee State Library and Archives, William Luther Bigelow Lawrence Diary Excerpts (Adelicia Acklin's brother-in-law):

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Dec 25th Christmas.  Took dinner at Belmont  Addison Hayes & his two daughters, Oliver & wife & two boys Hal Hayes, Mrs. Pointer, Self & wife & three children & Mrs. O. B. Hayes__ present, had a merry time eating, drinking, chatting & c.  At night attended the girls Sallie A & Adie H. to a small party at Mrs. Louis's.

Belmont In Nashville, Tennessee

A blog about Adelicia Acklin's twins' portrait at Belmont can be seen here.

Christmas Eve

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George Rogers Clark's Northwest Campaign

"The one event of the Revolution the most far-reaching and important in its results, was the conquest of the Illinois by that gallant Kentucky pioneer, George Rogers Clark, with a handful of Kentuckians and Virginians."

"A more thrilling and romantic enterprise than the conquest of the Northwestern Territory has seldom, if ever, been recorded." [Source]

Rudolph Backus Found In The WWI "Census"

While sorting through Backus's in Michigan I found Rudolph B. Backus on a World War I "Census" - At The Archives of Michigan (from what I remember, participation was voluntary and the results were compiled on index cards).  Since he was born in Russia and our Backus lineage stems from William Backus who was in New England in the mid 1600's, this family is not part of ours.

Backus, Rudolph BridgemanSon of John & Minnie BackusBerrien Co.

Berrien County, Michigan, was where this family was living in 1920:

United States Census, 1920

Name:     Rudolph Backus

Residence:     , Berrien, Michigan

Estimated Birth Year:     1893

Birthplace:     Russia

Relationship to Head of Household:     Son

Marital Status:     Married

Household    Gender    Age

Parent     John Backus     M     61y

Parent     Minnie Backus     F     57y

    Marie Backus     F     21y

    Rhine Backus     M     17y

    Edward Backus     M     15y

      Rudolph Backus     M     27y

    Agusta Backus     M     21y

Rudolph Backus was married with a family and the head of the household in 1930 (he was married in the 1920 census, though he was still living with his parents):

United States Census, 1930

Bridgman, Berrien, Michigan, United States

Household Gender Age Birthplace

Head  Rudolph Backus M 38 Russia

Wife Gusta Backus F 34 Russia

Daughter Ruby Backus F 9  Michigan

Son Rudolph Backus M 7  Michigan

Daughter Ruth Backus F 6  Michigan

Son Raymond Backus M 5  Michigan

Daughter Roene Backus F 4  Michigan

Daughter Romona Backus F 1 Michigan

Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947

Name:   Rudolph M. Backus

Death Date:  23 Mar 1931

Death Place:  Proviso Township, Cook, Illinois

Birth Date:     20 Jul 1891

Birthplace:     Russia

Father:     John Backus

Father's Birth Place:     Germany

Mother:     Minnie Ott

Mother's Birth Place:     Russia

Occupation:   County Drain Worker

Residence:  Bridgman, Michigan 

Spouse:   Gustie Backus

Burial Place:  Bridgman, Mich.

Revolutionary War Soldier Onesimus Risdon

More about Onesimus Risdon from a newspaper article at the Fulton History website:

Revolutionary War veteran Onesimus Risdon died at the home of his daughter, Charlotte (Mrs. George Pratt) in Livonia, Livingston County, New York.

Not related; no further information.

Alida Livingston

From The magazine of American history:

The love story I found in an old sole-leather trunk of family letters, and I finished it myself from an original portrait.

Very little of incident occurred in that ice-bound winter with the exception of the arrival of distinguished foreigners with letters of introduction to her father, and she had met several British officers. But the spring opened a vista of pleasure to her, for she had been included in a select ball to be given by some prominent officers at West Point.

Here the letters ended, nor could I find a clue to any other correspondence, although I hoped I might still learn something more of her. Years passed, and the letters were forgotten, when one day in visiting a friend I was attracted by an unfinished portrait of an old lady, upon an easel. 

She was some colonial grandmother who married an officer in the army. As I was leaving the room, I turned again to the portrait and asked her maiden name, and was indeed startled and delighted to meet my girlfriend of the past in Alida Livingston.

See portrait of Alida Livingston Woolsey here.

From Memories, Recollections of Susan Man McCulloch, 1818 - 1898:

General Melancthon Woolsey came to Plattsburg soon after my ancestors – his wife was Alida Livingston, the daughter of the signer of the Declaration of Independence. Her sister Helen was the wife of Judge Jonas Platt, both were beautiful and accomplished women, besides being very fine housekeepers. Mrs. Woolsey lived to be nearly one hundred years old. I was named for her daughter Susan who married my mother’s cousin James Platt.

Nicholas Snow' And His Possible Ancestry

The Snow Genealogy in the NEHGS:

Nicholas Snow came in the Ann in 1623, and had share in the division of land in Plymouth, 1624; settled in Eastham in 1645; a man of much note. We find where he lived, and his neighbors, from Plymouth Colony Records.

He was freeman 1633. He with six others — Mr. Thomas Prence, John Doane, Nicholas Snow, Josias Cook, Richard Higgins, John Smally, and Edward Bangs — seven families, in all forty-nine souls, began the settlement of Eastham — at first called Nauset, early in 1645.

He died at Eastham, Nov. 15, 1676. He married in Plymouth, Constance Hopkins, daughter of Mr. Stephen Hopkins, and a former wife. They came in the Mayflower.

Constance (Hopkins) Snow died Oct. 1677. 

Possible ancestry:

Henry F. Waters, in his Genealogical Gleanings in England (Register, vol. 39, page 166), states that Joseph Walker of St. Margaret's, city of Westminster, gentleman, in his will dated 13 Feb. 1666, proved Feb. 27,
1666, bequeaths "to my kinswoman Mary Snow, wife of Nicholas Snow, citizen & armourer of London, whome I nominate executrix." Also the will of George Upham Wiveliscombe, Somerset, dated 1653, mentions testator's brother-in-law Nicholas Snow. This Nicholas Snow and Mary his wife may have been the parents of our Nicholas. He names his oldest daughter Mary.

More Information:

Did Mary Snow, daughter of Nicholas Snow, Sr., and Elizabeth Rowlles, marry George Upham?  This site indicated it was so. 

Nicholas Snow's (father-in-law of Constance Hopkins) memorial at FindAGrave.

A post on the Massachusetts And More blog featured Nicholas Snow and Constance Hopkins.

Journal Of Lincoln's Attending Surgeon

Part of a collection, Lincoln North, belonging to McGill University in Canada and a virtual exhibit online.

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Journal of attending Surgeon C.S. (Charles Sabin) Taft

Lincoln's Last Hours, from the notebook of Charles Sabin Taft can be seen here.  C. S. Taft's father also kept a diary about the events.

From this website:

Medical and Surgical Reporter Philadelphia, April 22, 1865

Murder of President Lincoln

Surgeon-General Barnes, with other medical men, was in attendance upon the President during his last hours, and post mortem was made. Appended will be found a detailed account of the sad event, with the progress of the symptoms, and an account of the post-mortem. It was prepared for our columns by Dr. C.S. Taft, A.A. Surgeon, U.S.A.


Memorial for Charles Sabin Taft (1835 - 1900) at FindAGrave.

Married In Detroit

Reverend Lucius Rouse, from the Congregational Quarterly:

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Lucius Rouse, son of Whiting and Deborah (Bierce) Rouse, was born in Cornwall, Connecticut, 25 June 1796.  He married 1st, Charlotte Birdseye, who died in 1838.  His second wife was Frances Stead (see above), daughter of Benjamin Stead and Francis Morley. [Source]

United States Census, 1850

Edwardsburg, Cass, Michigan, United States

Household Gender Age Birthplace

Lucius C Rouse M 52 Connecticut

Frances S Rouse F 42 Maine

Eliza Rouse F 13 New York

Frances L Rouse F 4 Michigan

United States Census, 1870

Iowa, United States

Household Gender Age Birthplace

F S Rouse M 24y Michigan

Harriett Rouse F 25y New Hampshire

Frances Rouse F 1m Iowa

Frances S Rouse F 63y Maine

United States Census, 1880
Colorado Springs, El Paso, Colorado
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Self Frank L. Rouse  M 36 Michigan
Wife Harriet B. Rouse F 36 New Hampshire
Mother Francis S. Rouse F 73 Maine
Daughter Francis L. Rouse F 10 Iowa
Son T. Brainerd Rouse M 9 Iowa
Son Loucious H. Rouse M 6 Colorado
Other Debbie Sharpless F 40 Pennsylvania
Other Walter S. Sharpless M 5 Michigan
Other Oscar A. Sharpless M 0 Colorado
Other Wm. N. Burr M 28 Illinois

Not related; no further information.

James Oglethorpe's Georgia

A blog post about James Oglethorpe (from information found in this source)...

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...it could be readily shown that Oglethorpe never coveted or acquired, except to a very limited degree, the proprietorship of Georgia lands... .

His connection with the foundation and development of the colony was characterized by disinterested benevolence, and all his services in behalf of the trust were rendered voluntarily and without remuneration. In advancing the welfare of the colonists, and in supplying their wants, he drew largely upon his private fortune. Often the trust was heavily in debt to him.

The only home he ever owned or claimed in Georgia was located on the island of St. Simon. The only hours of leisure he enjoyed — and they were but few — were spent in sight and sound of his military works along
the southern frontier... . Just where the military road connecting Fort St. Simon with Frederica, after having traversed the beautiful prairie constituting the common pasture land of Frederica, entered the woods, General Oglethorpe established his cottage.

Jim's Photo Of Frederica

Now in tent in Savannah, now in open boat reconnoitering the coast, now upon the southern islands, his only shelter the wide-spreading live-oak, designating sites for forts and look-outs, and with his own hands planning military works and laying out villages; again in journeys oft along the Savannah, the Great Ogeechee, the Altamaha, the St. John, and far off into the heart of the Indian country, frequently inspecting his advanced posts, undertaking voyages to Charleston and to England in behalf of the trust, and engaged in severe contests with the Spaniards, his life was one of incessant activity, danger, and solicitude.

What Did Mrs. Thiers Do?

Found Mary Thiers' name in a Wayne County, Michigan, probate file index.  While doing further research, this article was found in the Canton [Ohio] Repository, published December 15, 1895 (text also found here).

A suburban doctor, Hector Emerson, was charged with burglary and convicted.  His devoted wife stayed by his side during the trial.  Mrs. Emerson then discovered that her husband signed over property to Mrs. Mary Thiers when he was in jail.  Her love turned to hate and she was granted a divorce from the good doctor.

It was discovered that Mary Thiers had been living with John Thiers (a friend of Dr. Emerson), who died in July (1895), and that all of John's property was left to Mary, but that the two were not married.

Source (GenealogyBank)

Was Casper Wittman, AKA John Thiers, ever divorced from Mrs. Wittman of Buffalo, New York?  How much fraud, if any, is part of this story?

Here's an article about more drama from the Thiers/Wittman family.

Possession Of The French Posts

Menard & Valle House In Ste. Genevieve, Missouri

From The Mississippi Valley historical review:

Once in possession of the French posts of the northwest at the close of the French and Indian war, British authorities sought to extend their supremacy over the entire Mississippi valley.

To accomplish this, Spanish influence had to be overcome. The trade of the Missouri river centered at St. Louis. Notwithstanding the protests of English officials and the decrees of Spanish governors, traders from that post pushed their way up the Ohio, the Wabash, and the Illinois and trafficked with the Indians of the Wisconsin and the Fox rivers. French traders from the Illinois posts carried their packs of furs across the river to trade with their friends in St. Louis or transported them down the river, a trip of twelve days by flatboat, to the New Orleans market.

Kit Acklin: The Report Of His Death Was Greatly Exaggerated

Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas, by Andrew Jackson Sowell:

From Henri Castro's Diary:

Texas August 26th [1844]

Today five or six Comanches came within two hundred yards of the house I occupy on Soledad Street and succeeded in capturing eleven mules that were grazing in the in closure.

Alarm was given in the town and the robbers were pursued but without any result. The mules were lost. Such acts of audacity on the part of the Indians intimidate my colonists and tend to injure my enterprise.

Four volunteers who were sent by Captain Hays to reconnoiter on the Nueces River, ninety miles from San Antonio, were surprised while bathing in the river by a large party of Indians. Two were reported killed.

(This surprise of the rangers which Mr. Castro has thus described occurred at the three forks of the Nueces as the place was then called by the rangers and was in Nueces Canyon. The men were Kit Ackland, Rufe Perry, James Dunn and John Carlin. The two last named were in bathing when the attack was made on their camp and they went to San Antonio and reported Ackland and Perry killed, but they although badly wounded, made their way back to San Antonio on foot.)

Note: Christopher "Kit" Acklin died in California on 13 December 1871.

The Rest Of William Roark's War Story?

Here's the gist of William Roark's Revolutionary War story, the way I understood it.  A note* attached to my WorldConnect Rootsweb database may tell the rest of the story.

Was he actually a deserter?

*Actually, William Roark was not originally among Lochry's command that was on its way to join George Rogers Clark's main body. Roark was one of most of the small Monongalia County, VA Militia Company of Capt. Michael Catt that deserted from George Rogers Clark's group and made their way up the Ohio toward home until apprehended by Lochry's contingent from Westmoreland. The 17 deserters were detained, and 10 survived the ambush.

The note also included a link to the Message Boards > Topics > Military > American Revolution > General > Captured and killed, Aug. 1781, "Lochry's Defeat."

William Roark survived the ambush, but may not have been the willing participant I thought he was.

Tragic End - A Ghost Story

I found the ghost story in the pretty quaint hamlet of Stratford, Connecticut, last summer, when visiting a kinswoman of my own, whose home is in a dignified colonial house built about one hundred and fifty years ago to replace an older family mansion close by. It was built by the first president of Columbia college— then known as King's college.

The heroine of my story was the beautiful Sally Johnson, the acknowledged belle and beauty of the period in that part of the country, and her position and loveliness attracted the admiration of a young British officer.  [Note:  Was Sally the daughter of William Samuel Johnson?]

Her father was a stanch patriot, and was deeply grieved at the discovery of a sincere attachment between the young people. The English family were equally indignant at a possible union with a " rebel family"... .

Filial obedience was as stringent in those days as military laws, and the unfortunate lover saw no alternative before him but death, and ended his life with a bullet at the feet of his betrothed.

The...disconsolate maiden was only allowed to remain under her father's roof upon one condition, that her sorrow should never again be referred to. Gradually she fell into a decline, and soon followed the spirit of her departed lover. These sighs and the rustle of her trailing gown are still heard in. the present generation.

From "The magazine of American history with notes and queries"

If Sally was the daughter of Wm. S. Johnson, perhaps the identity of the British officer could be found among his (her father's) papers.

The Spanish-American War And The Family Tree

From the Library of Congress:

Important Dates:

April 25, 1898: The U.S. Congress declares war on Spain.
May 1, 1898: In the first battle between Spanish and American Forces, U.S. Commodore Dewey and his Asiatic squadron defeat the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay in the Philippines.
June 22, 1898: U.S. troops land in Cuba.
July 1, 1898: U.S. forces defeat the Spanish at the Battle of San Juan Heights.
July 3, 1898: U.S. forces destroy the Spanish Fleet off Santiago Bay, Cuba.
July 17, 1898: The Spanish surrender at Santiago.
August 12, 1898: The U.S. and Spain sign the Protocol of Peace, ending hostilities between the two.
December 10, 1898: The Treaty of Paris is signed by representatives from the U.S. and Spain. After extensive debate, the treaty is ratified by the U.S. senate on February 6, 1899. Under the treaty, the U.S. acquires control over Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines.


Russell A. Alger, who was the Secretary of War at the time, wrote a book about the Spanish-American War:

Russell A. Alger was the son-in-law of Huldana (Squier) Henry; Huldana and my grandkids' ancestor, Wait Squier, were siblings.

My grandmother's cousin, George Millar, was a captain in the Spanish-American War.

John Reynolds, Sarah Backus And Me

Much of the information about John Reynolds and Sarah Backus found at the Reynolds Family Association was excerpted from The history and descendants of John and Sarah (Backus) Reynolds .

John Reynolds, the immigrant, died at Norwich July 22, 1702... .  On a record dated January 31, 1701/2, he is mentioned as one of the first settlers "now surviving." His will is dated July 15, 1702, seven days before his death. The will mentions as survivors his wife Sarah, only son Joseph, and four married daughters, Sarah Post, Mary Lathrop, Elizabeth Lyman and Lydia Miller.  At his death John owned about 79 acres or more in Norwich.

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2. SARAH, b. November 1656; d. 1703; m. John Post, Jr., 1685. When her father died in 1702, she was a widow. [She was the last Reynolds in my line]


My descent from Sarah Backus and John Reynolds:

William Backus* m. (perhaps Sarah Charles)

his daughter Sarah Backus m. John Reynolds

their daughter Sarah Reynolds m. John Post

their daughter Sarah Post m. Timothy Backus [grandson*]

their son John Backus m. Joanna Cleveland

their son John Backus m. Jerusha Baker

their son John Backus m. (perhaps Hannah Fuller)

their daughter Laura Backus m. Thomas Richmond

their daughter Cynthia Richmond m. James More

their daughter Addie More m. William Powers

their son Ralph Powers m. Beatrice Cameron

their son Richard Powers m. (Living)

Me

Lucy And The First Ohio Divorce

Lucy was the daughter Dudley and Lucy (Backus) Woodbridge and the wife of Dr. John [Jean] Gilbert Petit, a native of France.

Before Ohio became a state, the obtaining of a divorce was no matter of the Court of Common Pleas, but to be taken before the House of Representatives and the Council of the Territory, and a divorce could be granted only by their act by and with the approval of His Excellency, Arthur St. Clair, governor. Almost the first, if not the first divorce granted in the territory, was by an act of the Legislature and Council, on the 8th day of December, 1800, the day before the session of the Territorial Legislature closed. The divorce, which thus became an event in the history of Chillicothe, Ross County, was entitled "An Act for the relief of Lucy Petit,"... ". [Source - click to see the details of the divorce action]

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Lucy Petit died November 9, 1816, and is buried in Mound Cemetery, Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, according to FindAGrave.

Lucy (Backus) Woodbridge (Lucy Petit's mother) was the daughter of Elijah Backus and Lucy Griswold.

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Valeria Trousdale's Secret

Civil War sentiments played an instrumental role in hiding family ties according to The Bean Station Story, Valeria Trousdale's Secret:  excerpted from the Walton Family History at Rootsweb.  The family roots of  (Caroline) Valeria Trousdale Lafferty and her daughter, Ophelia, were obfuscated.... (see the "Secret" link):

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There's an Ophelia living in former Governor William Trousdale's household in 1870 [listed under Trousdale, not Lafferty].  In 1880 Ophelia is living with her husband and Walton in-laws.

It is an interesting story on its own merit, but as a Trousdale descendant, too [Alexander, son of John, not a descendant of Gov. William Trousdale], there was an added interest for me.

United States Census, 1850

Sumner county, Sumner, Tennessee, United States

Household Gender Age Birthplace

Wm Trousdale M 58 North Carolina [Governor]

Mary Trousdale F 39 Virginia

Valeria Trousdale F 17 Tennessee

Charles Trousdale M 12 Tennessee

Augustus Trousdale M 10 Tennessee

Frances Trousdale F 8 Tennessee

Jno S Bugg M 44 Virginia

H W Bugg M 50 Virginia

Richd Payne M 35 Virginia

Benjn Malone M 24 Tennessee

James Lafferty

Tennessee, State Marriage Index, 1780-2002

marriage: 8 December 1854 Sumner, Tennessee, United States

spouse:  Caroline Valeria Trousdale

Death record of William Trousdale Lafferty at FamilySearch, son of James Lafferty and "Unknown."


At Bean Station, James Lafferty, well known at that day as a noisy Democratic politician who had been a militia General on the staff of Governor Trousdale, indignant that such a traitor, as he esteemed Johnson to be, should escape called on the people assembled there to aid him in arresting the fugitive. [Source]

Related Through My Clevelands

From the Cleveland book written by Edmund Janes Cleveland:

Bangs, Hicks, Snow, and Hopkins ancestry.

John Doan(e) married Hannah Bangs; their daughter Rebecca married Elisha Paine, who was the son of Thomas Paine and Mary Snow.

Edward Cleveland married Rebecca Paine, daughter of Elisha and Rebecca (Doane) Paine.

Children Of Anton And Elizabeth Fuhrmann

Information from Wayne County, Michigan, Probate File# 8203; Jacob Fuhrmann, et al (Jacob and Elizabeth Fuhrmann, minor children of Anton Fuhrmann).

The Petition For The Appointment Of A Guardian by Elizabeth Fuhrmann, mother of minor children, for Jacob, age 6, and Elizabeth, age 4, (father Anton Fuhrmann, deceased) dated 18 September 1876.

Guardian's Bond of Elizabeth Appel, formerly Fuhrmann, dated 20 August 1877.  Christopher Appel signed the document.

"Michigan, Deaths and Burials, 1800-1995"

Name: Anton Fuhrman

Gender: Male

Death Date: 28 Nov 1874

Death Place: Wayne Co., Michigan

Age: 54

Birth Date: 1820

Birthplace: Germany

Occupation: Grocer

Race: White

Marital Status: Married

United States Census, 1870

Michigan, United States

Household Gender Age Birthplace

Antoine Fuhrman M 52y Prussia [saloonkeeper]

Elizabeth Fuhrman F 30y Prussia

Peter Fuhrman M 18y Michigan

Margaret Fuhrman F 15y Michigan

Catherine Fuhrman F 14y Michigan

Antoine Fuhrman M 11y Michigan

Joseph Fuhrman M 3y Michigan

Jacob Fuhrman M 6m Michigan

United States Census, 1880

Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States

Household Gender Age Birthplace

Self Christoph Appol M 38 Germany

Wife Elisabeth Appol F 40 Germany

Son Fred Appol M 13 Canada

Daughter Margeretha Appol F 11 Canada

Son Jacob Appol M 10 Michigan, United States

Son William Appol M 8 Michigan, United States

Daughter Elise Appol F 7 Michigan, United States

Daughter Lizzie Appol F 6 Michigan, United States

Michigan, Births, 1867-1902

Name: John Appel

Birth Date: 29 May 1891

Birthplace: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan

Gender: Male

Father's Name: Christopher Appel

Father's Birthplace: Germany

Mother's Name: Lizzie Appel

Mother's Birthplace: Germany

This one?

Michigan, Deaths, 1867-1897

Elizabeth Appel

13 Jul 1891

 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan

Age (Expanded): 51 years

Birth Year (Estimated): 1840

Marital Status: Married

Christopher Appel's place in Detroit.

Possible Origins Of The Term Scotland

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From Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland: With an Accurate Travelling Map ..., by Adam and Charles Black (Firm) 1841:

Scotland is the northern and smaller division of the Island of Great Britain. The origin of the term is involved in much obscurity. That part of the country which lies beyond the Firths of Forth and Clyde received from the Romans the appellation of Caledonia and its inhabitants were denominated Caledonians. They were afterwards known by the name of Picts, and from them the country was for some centuries called Pictland. The term Scotland began to come into use for the first time in the eleventh century, and this name is supposed to have been derived from a colony of Scots who had previously left Ireland and planted themselves in Argyleshire and the West Highlands. Source

A map of Edinburgh from the same source.