William Everly

Who was William Everly and what was his relationship (if any) to my presumed ancestor, Mary (Everly) Roark?


William Everly was enumerated in the United States Census, 1810  Kentucky Muhlenberg Greenville, next to Jesse Everly.

On March 26, 1815, William Everly married Polly Bates in Muhlenberg County.

David Evans and William Roark (securities) were also my ancestors.  The information below indicates a close relationship to the Everly family:

"Caroline Everly and Emily Everly orphans of William Everly deceased. Chose Jesse Everly as their guardian.  David Evans and William Roark were sec."

In 1850 a Caroline Everly, age 24, who was born in Kentucky, was living in the Hugh Martin household in Muhlenberg County.  The Martin and Roark families were related.  Do not know what happened to Emily.

Still working on the relationship (if any) between William Everly and Mary (Everly) Roark.

Josephine Nagel Martin

Josephine's husband, Bernard Martin, married 1st, Gertrude Hemstedt, who was Josephine's cousin.  Josephine's mother, Genevieve Hemstedt, and Gertrude's father, William Hemstedt, were siblings.  Bernard Martin, husband of both women, was my son-in-law's grand-uncle.

 Census 1940

Ward 21, Boston, Boston City, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Last Place of Residence: Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

Household Gender Age Birthplace

Head Mary L Hertig F 54 Massachusetts [nee Hemstedt]

Son Joeseph A Hertig M 28 Massachusetts

Niece Josephine Nagel F 27 Massachusetts

Josephine and Bernard Martin Lived In Oscoda, Michigan [Pictured Above]
[I met Josephine in Oscoda]

Josephine M Martin

United States Social Security Death Index

Birth Date: 14 August 1911

Social Security Number: 023-03-7077

State: Massachusetts

Last Place of Residence: Wixom, Oakland, Michigan

Event Date: 20 December 1999

Age: 88

Colonel Martin, A Confederate Spy In Canada

The Review Of Historical Publications Relating To Canada included an article entitled Confederate Agents In Canada During The American Civil War (text version).

"The secret military and political organization which the Confederacy of the Southern States built up in Canada during the Civil War centered mainly about the personality of the Hon. Jacob Thompson."

However, fellow William Roark descendant, Confederate Colonel Robert Maxwell Martin, made a cameo appearance:

"Meantime Toronto had been the scene of another plot, this time for the burning of New York. A Colonel Martin had reported to the Confederate chief for duty, and the latter tells us that "having nothing else on hand Colonel Martin expressed a wish to organize a corps to burn New York City."

Obituary Of Jacob Rohlman

The obituary of Jacob Rohlman, who died on 7 July 1918, was published on July 9, 1918, in the Daily Mining Gazette [Houghton County, Michigan]:
 :

DEATH OF JACOB ROHLMAN

Highly Respected Old Resident of Hancock Dies at Oskar.

Jacob Rohlman, 80 years of age, for many years a resident of Hancock, died Sunday afternoon at the home of his dauther, Mrs. Michael Webber....was the result of the infirmities of old age.

Mr. Rohlman was one of the best known and most highly respected of the early settlers of the Copper Country.  He had lived in the United States for 65 years and most of that in Hancock, where his family was reared.  Of late years he has made his home with Mrs. Webber.

The surviving relatives are Mrs. Rohlman, Henry of Bridgeport, Conn.; Frank of Hancock; Simon of Pallasades, Wash.; August of Hancock, Mrs. Frank Gravier of Houghton, Mrs. Martin Schwarze of Montana, Mrs. Webber, Mrs. Michael McLean of Oskar, children, and Lawrence of Detroit, a brother.