German Lutheran Cemetery

A message regarding the German Lutheran Cemetery in Detroit:

If you need records the St. Thomas church in Eastpointe...has written records of baptism, marriage and death records.. They will let you look at them.Records date from 1850's. They will do a look up for you for a donation. Here is the address and phone number:

SAINT THOMAS LUTHERAN CHURCH

23801 Kelly Road (at Stephens)

Eastpointe, Michigan 48021 

586-772-3370

Buried In A National Cemetery

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Harville, James, Hickman, Tenn. Enlisted in company F, Fourteenth Infantry [Michigan], Feb. 2, 1864, at Columbia, Tenn., for 3 years, age 18. Mustered Feb. 2, 1864. On duty with Sixteenth Illinois Infantry March 24, 1864. Died at Chattanooga, Tenn., May 2, 1864. Buried in National Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tenn.Grave No. 1154. [Source]

An 1844 Guide Book To West Point

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In the cemetery:

"We notice here a beautiful column in memory of Lt. Col. Alexander R. Thompson--a victim in the Florida war. The delicate sculpture particularly attracts our attention."

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See papers for three generations of Thompsons at the University of Michigan's Clements Library.

Mount Auburn Cemetery

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"Mount Auburn is at present a place of peculiar interest the people of Boston and vicinity."

"The tender feelings of friendship and solemn thoughts of the spiritual world are awakened...". 

"The whole tract is with evergreens and other common forest trees some places quite thick but in other parts scattered. A variety of rose bushes have planted here and in Summer add much to the of the whole scene."

7 Yards South From James Patullo's Stone

From Elie [Scotland] Burials (1799-1822)

[1818] 9th Oct David Marr, Blacksmith, Elie - 7 yards South from James Patullo's stone. [Source]

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Woodmere Cemetery

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Information is available at the cemetery's online site.

Man With The Branded Hand

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Captain Jonathan Walker was a Massachusetts boy who went to sea.  He was incarcerated in Pensacola, Florida, at which time he was branded with the letters "S.S." [slave stealer].  Captain Walker settled in Muskegon, Michigan, and that is where he died.

From Michigan History, Volume 5:

Whittier has immortalized in verse the Man with the Branded Hand.

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Others listed in Walker's narrative concerning his incarceration and trial in Florida included Francis Torward [Francisco Touart], Robert C. Caldwell, Walker Anderson, and Ebenezer Dorr.

In 1873 there was a second marriage in Milford, Massachusetts.  His parents were named as Seth Walker and Mercy Bassett.

Maria Mitchell's Probate #21796

Michigan Probate Records, Wayne Probate packets...:

Probate File #21796

Maria Mitchell

Died: 21 January 1896

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She and her husband were buried in Elmwood Cemetery

Mitchell, Thomas C. (dec'd son) Elmwood Cemetery

Vinton, George Jay, Heir and Executor, Detroit, Died 23 Dec. 1910

(Nee) Allen or Allyn, Annie (Reissner) Niece, Trustee, Detroit, Later Chatham, Ontario

Allen or Allyn, Maria, Niece

Wilson, Ann, Sister, Executrix, Detroit

Vinton, Warren Jay, son of George Jay Vinton, Detroit

Irving, Avis, Heir, Indianapolis, Indiana

Morris, Alice, Niece, Detroit

Vinton, Rose B., Guardian of Minor Heirs Of George Jay Vinton

Vinton, Robert K., Minor

Vinton, Donald, Minor

Vinton, Elizabeth, Minor

Morris, William, Heir, Detroit

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Letter Addressed To The

Consul Of Great Britain At New York

Henry Morris, Tilbury, Ontario, Canada

George Morris, Tilbury " "

Charles Morris, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Thomas Morris, Cottam, Canada

Henry Morris, Tilbury, West Canada

Emma Morris Dodson, Tilbury, West Canada

Census 1870

Michigan, United States [Detroit, Wayne Co.]

HOUSEHOLD

Maria Mitchell F 38 England

Annie A Mitchell F 10 Upper Canada

Thomas Mitchell M 5 Michigan

Next Door is Ann Wilson (Maria's sister)

Unidentified Dragoon Officer's Remains

Early Military Uniforms - Dragoons Among Them?

Information found on a Rootsweb message board [another discussion was found here]:

• Skeleton found on the Arkansas River in Colorado [Lake County]
• Also Found were coffin nails
• Dragoon buttons [used between 1821 and 1855] Found

So we still have an unknown white male with red hair that was wearing a Great Coat with Dragoon buttons on it and have NO idea where he came from or who he was. His remains are going to be buried in the military cemetery in Grand Junction, Colorado.
 

The burial cemetery was written about in this newspaper article.

New Albany National Cemetery

Christina Wildt's Probate

Michigan, Probate Records, Wayne Probate packets:

Probate File# 8721 [Image 655]

A lot was purchased in Elmwood Cemetery

Died: 26 February 1878

Christina Wildt's children  [Image 663]

Elizabeth Drake of Ann Arbor

Catherine Kemp of Detroit

Louise Clark, Ann Arbor/Detroit

Frederick Wildt, Detroit

Census 1870

[Detroit, Wayne] Michigan, United States

Christine Wildt F 50 Württemberg

Fredric Wildt M 18 Michigan

John Wibel M 24 Switzerland

Michel Grant M 40 Prussia

Rebecca Talaski F 20 Prussia

Ehrfried Talaski M 20 Prussia

Name Emanuel Wildt

Event Type Marriage

Event Date 07 May 1838

Event Place Washtenaw, Michigan

Spouse's Name Christina Schambacher

Give To My Son Newman Acker

The Will of Silas Acker was posted on the Livingston County NY GenWeb, Abstracted Wills & Probate Records.

"6th I give to my son Newman Acker the amount that I have already let him have being about three hundred dollars which amount is also considered paid & satisfied"

Bloomfield Cemetery, Walworth County, Wisconsin

A biography of Newman Acker's son (and Silas Acker's grandson), Marvin W. Acker:

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Also mentioned in Marvin's biography were Elijah Richmond and his wife, Elizabeth Fowler.  They were my 4th great-grandparents.

Jean Blackburn Cusick

Picture From The Midwest (Missouri)

Jean Blackburn Cusick was a descendant of John Black and Elizabeth Colville, as am I.  There's also a Bandy connection among the Cusick descendants; I, too, have a Bandy connection.

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Memorial at FindAGrave.  The marriage of Joseph Cusick and Jean Blackburn was listed here.

Why was the Cusick Bible in the possession of Macklin Bandy of Columbia, Missouri?  Here's a clue from the Founding Bandy Fathers page:

John Rufus McLin Bandy  (1865 - 1943)
Father John Kennedy (Canady Bandy (1841 - 1885)
Mother Martha Ann Cusick (1843 - 1917)
Burial Memorial Park Cem, Columbus, MO

THE John Brown Almost Lost To History

From The Plains Of Abraham, A History of North Elba and Lake Placid:

"...Old Mountain saw use for many more years by the wagons of local farmers... . The abolitionist John Brown of Harper’s Ferry fame was almost lost to history on Old Mountain. Then farming in North Elba, two miles from Lake Placid, he came near to death by freezing while walking home alone in mid-winter of 1850."

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[See John Brown's grave located on the map above]

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"John Brown's grave, at North Elba, Essex county, New York.  This tombstone was his grandfather's, Capt. John Brown, who died in the War of 1776 in a barn near New York City and was buried at Torrington, Conn., and while John Brown lived at North Elba, he went to Connecticut and helped to put a monument at his grandfather's grave, and when he came home he brought this stone with him."

"....have this stone that stood at his grandfather's grave set at the head of his and such additional inscription on it as were necessary just below that of his grandfather's which reads as follows "In memory of Capt John Brown...John Brown born May 9, 1800, was executed at Charlestown, Virginia, December 2, 1859."

Elvira Elizabeth Johnson's Family

At the request of a Graves Family Association representative who wanted an update on the Graves descendants of James and Nancy (Graves) Johnson, I worked on this family in order to proved the Association with an update.

Elvira Elizabeth Johnson was born on 6 May 1864, to James and Nancy (Graves) Johnson.  She m (1) Benjamin F. Rice (1862-1900) 11 Nov. 1884, m (2) Hampton B. Lamont, c. 1905.  She d. 10 Oct. 1932.

Kansas City On The Mural

Elvira (then of Kansas City, Missouri in 1918) was the first-listed heir of James Johnson on the document found here.

Elvira E. Johnson and her first husband, Benjamin F. Rice, had a daughter, Gertrude.  [Note:  We are related to Gertrude Rice through her mother and her father.  Elvira and my great-grandfather, James Dudley Johnson, were siblings.  Benjamin F. Rice was a 1st cousin 3x removed; Ransom and Ann (Hinds) Rice were our mutual ancestors.]

Gertrude married Fred J. Patterson and had four children (Elizabeth, Thomas, Frederick and Frank). Elvira Elizabeth (Johnson) Rice Lamont was living with her daughter and son-in-law in 1920.

Elvira's daughter Gertrude and granddaughter Elizabeth were living in Harrisburg in 1940:

United States Census, 1940
Name Elizabeth Patterson
Harrisburg, Harrisburg Township, Saline, Illinois
Marital Status Divorced
Last Place of Residence Cairo, Alexander, Illinois
HOUSEHOLD
Gertrude Patterson Head F 54 Illinois
Elizabeth Patterson Daughter F 34 Illinois
T J Patterson Brother-in-law  M 18 Illinois

Gertrude (Rice) Patterson died in 1945.  Her Find-A-Grave memorial included an obituary.  The obituary stated that she had recently learned that her eldest son, Captain Tom Patterson, had been held as a POW in Japan and was freed.  Her sons Fred and Frank were employed by a coal mining company and her daughter, Elizabeth Cozby operated the Cozby Printing Company.  David Patterson and Tom Patterson were the only two grandchildren.

It appeared as though Elizabeth (Patterson) Cozby was married to Paul Henry Cozby who died in 1944.  Per her brother Tom's obituary, she was identified as Elizabeth Kerrigan of Benson, Arizona, in 1990.

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas David Patterson (the former POW) married E. Eames Harrison.  He died in Florida and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.  No children were listed in his obituary.

Should They Be Buried There?

University of Notre Dame Archives has a digital collection, including"Diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas, 1576-1803."

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1793 Mar. 4

Henriquez, Theodoro thirso Henrique
New Orleans

He orders that in future no one is to be buried in the old cemetery under any pretext.



1793 Mar. 4

Quinones, Estevan de
New Orleans

On this day he informed Father Joachin de Portillo, O.M.Cap. of the foregoing decree and he stated that he was ignorant of the reason for the decree since no one has been buried in the old cemetery since 1791, when David Hoge was buried there with the approval of Governor (Estevan Miro). (Notes follow stating that Quinones) informed Rev. Tirzo de Peleagonzalo, O.M.Cap., Rev. Luis de Quintanilla, O.M.Cap., Assistant Pastors of the Church of St. Louis, New Orleans.

Captain Benjamin Palmer

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Wequetequock Burial Ground, Stonington, New London, Connecticut

From this Palmer ancestry site (Benjamin was the son of Walter and Rebecca (Short) Palmer):

Capt. Benjamin Palmer was born on 30 (3) 1642 in Charlestown He was baptised on 6 (4) 1640 in the First Church in Charlestown. He died on 10 Apr 1716 in Stonington.   He married an unknown wife in Antigua.

In his diary, Thomas Minor says, " [On 8 May 1681] I received Brother Benjamin his Letter from Antego ... about the .10th. of Agust .1681 Benjamin palmer brought whome his wife ". [Ref, p. 166]

On 5 Jun 1684 he agreed to a division of his father's lands which was to have been done by his mother, but she had not. [Ref, p. 27]

Benjamin gave his land in Stonington to his nephews Daniel Palmer, Esq., Moses Palmer, yeoman, and Jonathan Palmer by a 17 Feb 1715/6 deed. His nephew Jonathan was to have land adjoining Benjamin's brother Jonathan's land when he was 20. Daniel and Moses were to care and provide for Benjamin thereafter. [Ref, p. 27-8]

A Gaggle Of Goodloes

A plaque on the fence surrounding the gravestones of Confederate soldiers at Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, included R. W. Goodloe.

Richard W. Goodloe

General register of the members of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, 1850-1920; Richard Winter Goodloe, Canton, Miss.

Born near Livingston, Miss., October 5, 1842. Son of David Short* and Annie (Winter) Goodloe. Enlisted as a private in the Ninth Mississippi Regiment, C. S. A., 1862, and was killed at the battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn., December 31, 1862. His body was recovered and buried at Huntsville, Ala., April 5, 1863. Relative
in Fraternity, brother, David S. Goodloe, Lambda, '58. *Son of David Short Goodloe and Mary Hill


Lineage Book - National Society of the Daughters of the ..., Volumes 61-62

Albert Theodore Goodloe, grandson of David Short Goodloe and Mary Hill, wrote a book described here.

A Goodloe family genealogy found here.

Eulogy On Zachary Taylor

Jim's Photo Of The 50 Foot Monument

Monuments and Memorials

A 50-foot granite monument topped with the life-size figure of former president Zachary Taylor was erected by the state of Kentucky in 1883. Taylor died July 9, 1850.

Eulogy on Zachary Taylor, Delivered July 19, 1850, by George Barker Little:

William Richardson Davie's Early Years

A biography of General Davie (1756 - 1820) was found in the Magazine Of America here.

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The brave, handsome, eloquent soldier and statesman, General William R. Davie, is a national character, and by no means unknown; but the materials are meagre for the life-story of one whose career was so full of deeds, so varied, so eventful that a volume could scarce do it justice. A dashing cavalry officer, a patriot spending his entire fortune as well as his blood for his country; a lawyer of the largest attainments and an orator of superb eloquence; one of the framers of the Constitution in 1787, a member of the North Carolina convention of 1788, the founder of the state university of North Carolina, grand master of masons, governor of the state, minister to France — we rarely hear of him now.

He was born at Egremont, near Whitehaven, England, June 20, 1756, [son of Archibald and Mary (Richardson) Davie]. He came to this country with his father in 1763, and was adopted by his maternal uncle, Rev. William Richardson, who lived in the Waxhaw settlement on the Catawba, in South Carolina. He was sent to Princeton... and in the summer of 1776 we hear of him, with the consent of the president, among a party of students raised to serve as volunteers in the patriot army.
...[In]  September, 1779, Davie being unfit for service, applied for and received his county court license, and was sent by the governor to attend the courts on the Holston river, then in North Carolina, that he might ascertain public sentiment in that section. In the spring of 1780 he received his superior court license. About the same time he obtained authority from the legislature of North Carolina to raise a troop of cavalry and two companies of mounted infantry. The authority was all that the state could give, its funds being too low to provide the means. Major Davie, with a patriotism worthy of perpetual remembrance, disposed of the estate inherited from his uncle, and thus raised the funds to equip his command. 

From the Lancaster, SC, Library's website:
...William Richardson Davie, founder of the University of North Carolina. Also here [Waxhaw Presbyterian Church] are his parents and several other members of his family including his uncle, Reverend William Richardson and Rev. Richardson's wife, Agnes (Craighead) Richardson Dunlap, daughter of Rev. Alexander Craighead.