tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86106551253904028692024-02-19T02:29:53.196-06:00Family StoriesCarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440331516671118735noreply@blogger.comBlogger221125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8610655125390402869.post-36526092481743531552024-01-19T14:57:00.000-06:002024-01-19T14:57:06.474-06:00Karma, More Asses, and a Tragedy<h3 style="text-align: left;">Karma</h3><p>According to my <a href="https://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2024/01/how-did-harrison-blacketers-life-turn.html">great grandfather's obituary</a>, he became injured while serving in the U.S. Army. But before that tragedy, he also encountered some more mules which they used to drive wagons. At the end of the Civil War, Harrison Blacketer's company was sent to the Plains in order to escort the U.S. Mail between Fort Mitchell in Nebraska and Fort Laramie in Wyoming. [1] While driving the mules to grass to eat, possibly in the fall of 1865, a mule kicked Harrison in the chest. [2]</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbAJSOrgyKcU_BYn8w1mb5JVWDqZjIcuWSECb33b1xkFopDqgCRZtq9iCWUAqFKh2irrTgbtXoNv6JHzd_6Afg5bwn5jKSClR_TBzUhq3kmqSbb3AS6YaEj_3c82mp7udE5jsi66CkMSt3bfiqT40r8KEC1VDO6nhpKGlQELRve36xXLeOYkAVuCBVrZk/s1024/service-pnp-ppmsca-20600-20669v-mule.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="1024" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbAJSOrgyKcU_BYn8w1mb5JVWDqZjIcuWSECb33b1xkFopDqgCRZtq9iCWUAqFKh2irrTgbtXoNv6JHzd_6Afg5bwn5jKSClR_TBzUhq3kmqSbb3AS6YaEj_3c82mp7udE5jsi66CkMSt3bfiqT40r8KEC1VDO6nhpKGlQELRve36xXLeOYkAVuCBVrZk/w400-h263/service-pnp-ppmsca-20600-20669v-mule.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The meditative mule by Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895. <i>Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Civil War Photographs, LC-DIG-ppmsca-20669.</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>A person might think this was just karma for <a href="https://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2024/01/thriller-thursday-whos-ass-now.html">him shooting a mule while stinkin' drunk</a>. And that person might be right. While it hurt, Harrison did not stop what he was doing that day. He just went on about his business.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Tragedy</h3><p>Then on an icy winter evening in January of 1866 he and some of his comrades were headed to Fort Laramie escorting the mail when his horse slipped on ice while crossing Horse Creek. Harrison explained:</p><p>"In crossing Horse Creek, which was frozen, my horse slipped and fell. He fell on me. When he tried to get up he fell on me again. He tried several times to get up, and each time fell on me. The ice was so slick he could not get up. He was not sharp shod. Some of the horses were sharp shod, but not all were shod. When my horse fell I was thrown on the ice, striking my head and stunning me, and while I lay there my horse kicked me in the face in his efforts to get up. In falling the horse fell on me, crushing my left hand, arm and shoulder. I could not get away. I could not move. Although stunned at first, I was not entirely unconscious. But it all happened so quickly that I could not get away. The soldiers who were there rescued me. There were five or six of us...the bones of my left hand, left elbow and left shoulder were broken as well as dislocated. There were two gashes in my forehead. I could not say whether the frontal bone was broken. There was also a gash in my upper lip on the left side. A couple of teeth were knocked out, but my jaw was not broken..."[3]</p><p><br /></p><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" height="450" loading="lazy" referrerpolicy="no-referrer-when-downgrade" src="https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m28!1m12!1m3!1d636078.7142944663!2d-104.69228626894888!3d42.218674533370645!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!4m13!3e1!4m5!1s0x8765b3828e45a49f%3A0x1e4ee4bf0a23a45b!2sFort%20Laramie%20National%20Historic%20Site%2C%20Grey%20Rocks%20Road%2C%20Fort%20Laramie%2C%20WY!3m2!1d42.203663399999996!2d-104.5560459!4m5!1s0x876551615232bc33%3A0x6e9754a963b84558!2sFort%20Mitchell%20Historical%20Marker%2C%201673%2020-502-002%2C%20Mitchell%2C%20NE%2069357!3m2!1d41.8655942!2d-103.7275954!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1705693633509!5m2!1sen!2sus" style="border: 0;" width="600"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p>Despite his injuries, Harrison continued on to Fort Laramie:</p><p>"I went horseback. There was no other way to go. The mail was carried on a mule. At Ft. Laramie there was no hospital or doctor. At Ft. Laramie I was cared for only by the soldiers. I was cared for in the tent of T.J. McBeath by him and James Thibedeaux. They merely tied up my wounds. They couldn't do anything else. I remained at Ft. Laramie a day or two, then returned to Ft. Mitchell with the mail escort. I went horseback. There was no other way to go...there was no hospital at Ft. Mitchell. Sgt. Reynolds took me to the tailor and had him sew up my lip. He sewed it with common black thread and a big needle. I took cold and the wounds of my lip and forehead swelled up and my eyes were affected. My eyes were sore and the sight was affected. My eyes were not wounded...Dr. Linn attended me at Ft. Mitchell for a time, but he was not there all the time...My captain John Collar, and some of the boys took care of me...Dr. Linn dressed my wounds, but did not set any broken bones or replace any dislocated joints...gangrene set in in the wound in my elbow, but not in the other wounds. The wounds had healed by the time I was discharged, except the left elbow, and that healed over afer my discharge."[4]</p><p>I cannot imagine the pain Harrison endured that fateful night or the days after. I think it is safe to say Harrison incurred a traumatic brain injury (TBI) which might explain the blurry vision though his eyes were not directly hit. I can't imagine having to endure the crushing of his left shoulder, elbow, and hand. and them never being fixed. However, much like him dusting himself and going about his business when the mule kicked him in his chest, after discharge, Harrison carried out a pretty active life considering his handicaps after he mustered out on 9 April 1866 at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. </p><p>I'm waiting for some documents to help tell that part of his story after the Civl War, but next up we'll fast-forward and look at his later and, apparently, only marriage to my great grandmother. At least, I think it was his only marriage. I hope. You'll see what I mean. Because ancestors.</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR8uGyGBV7VS0IFIs1U1quivnZJtzaaN13WvEiLbRX-0z5Xio9ULry9_0D_-5Frzhurw5QD9nv8UyEpUrEmWwrXNWKGN8CzvyHysfcun__BNRJAY4xZJ4Uo14D2ynkZKuYXJm7lRJmcQBySd7Hp3h00u4yLOcJt4cu7_hyPNKXgpa6RbYrk9XBvBdrYAw/s1062/Harrison%20Blacketer%20to%20Caroline%20Pointer%20with%20logo.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1009" data-original-width="1062" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR8uGyGBV7VS0IFIs1U1quivnZJtzaaN13WvEiLbRX-0z5Xio9ULry9_0D_-5Frzhurw5QD9nv8UyEpUrEmWwrXNWKGN8CzvyHysfcun__BNRJAY4xZJ4Uo14D2ynkZKuYXJm7lRJmcQBySd7Hp3h00u4yLOcJt4cu7_hyPNKXgpa6RbYrk9XBvBdrYAw/w400-h380/Harrison%20Blacketer%20to%20Caroline%20Pointer%20with%20logo.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harrison Blacketer > James Wesley Blacketer > Carolyn Marie Blacketer > Caroline Martin Marshall</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>Sources:</p><p>1. Harrison Blacketer Civil War Pension File; p.115; Pointer Family Papers; privately held by Caroline Pointer [Address for Private Use,] Conroe, Texas, 2020. This photocopy of the file was made by Judy Hopkins of Boise, Idaho in 2018 from her own family collection. She obtained the file from the Veterans Administration in 2000. Each page was numbered by hand by Judy 1-256, but is missing pages 149-156. The photocopy is easily read. The VA has declared the original file to be lost.</p><p>2. Ibid.; p. 121; Pointer Family Papers.</p><p>3. Ibid.; p. 115-116; Pointer Family Papers.</p><p>4. Ibid.; p. 116-117; Pointer Family Papers.</p><p>~Caroline</p>Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440331516671118735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8610655125390402869.post-7979610586244955612024-01-15T16:38:00.000-06:002024-01-15T16:38:08.618-06:00How Did Harrison Blacketer's Life Turn Out?<p>I thought we'd jump back to my great grandfather Harrison Blacketer. How did his life turn out? We left him <a href="https://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2024/01/thriller-thursday-whos-ass-now.html" target="_blank">doing hard labor with a ball-and-chain on his leg and a sign on his back</a>. Despite his poor choice as a young soldier, he went on to have a good life as far as I have been able to uncover. He and his wife did get caught in a lie at one point, but we will get to that later this week. But I thought I'd share a transcription of his obituary and a picture of his and Mattie's tombstone that I took a year-and-a-half ago. Any genealogist would be elated to find this obituary, I think. It is chock-full of information and stories to unpack. And we will get to those this week with some of the storytelling coming from Harrison himself. The information in the obituary is mostly true. For fun, any guesses of what isn't true? </p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Tombstone</h3><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2_CaPd8p99AhtRfXCZP1OyQqKE4N2_b9aeGWqzbwtSpaWVxd5z-Mbk3IHSZyvaofT8d5WTAPdJB9C4_hWqQT7i7kBbfbOZjwae2mSNDM-cjf34s6EEmoZ_M2enbBjxCjaWzMhgNzvkvpm9Hajv0FnHA9at6BGn_untYlI1MANbFAtvtPAfp_H5cGan1E/s2948/Harrison-Blacketer-Tombstone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1419" data-original-width="2948" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2_CaPd8p99AhtRfXCZP1OyQqKE4N2_b9aeGWqzbwtSpaWVxd5z-Mbk3IHSZyvaofT8d5WTAPdJB9C4_hWqQT7i7kBbfbOZjwae2mSNDM-cjf34s6EEmoZ_M2enbBjxCjaWzMhgNzvkvpm9Hajv0FnHA9at6BGn_untYlI1MANbFAtvtPAfp_H5cGan1E/w400-h193/Harrison-Blacketer-Tombstone.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harrison and Martha Jane Blacketer's Tombstone in Graceland Cemetery.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Obituary Transcription</h3><p>Source: "Harrison Blacketer Dead," <i>The Cameron Sun</i> (Missouri), 22 April 1915, p. 5, col. 5; <i>Newspapers.com</i> (http://newspapers.com : accessed 6 May 2018).</p><p><br /></p><p>HARRISON BLACKETER DEAD</p><p><br /></p><p>Had Been a Resident of Cameron</p><p>For Many Years—Funeral</p><p>Services and Interment</p><p>Saturday</p><p><br /></p><p> Harrison Blacketer was born in</p><p>Indiana, April 21, 1845. Died at</p><p>Cameron, Mo., April 16, 1915, fol-</p><p>lowing an illness of a week. He</p><p>moved with his father when a boy</p><p>to Missouri, locating at Bethany in</p><p>Harrison county. At the age of 16</p><p>he enlisted as a soldier in the Army</p><p>of the Republic, Company H, Twelfth</p><p>Missouri Cavalry, and served three</p><p>years. At the end of the war his </p><p>company was transferred to the</p><p>plains to fight the Indians. It was</p><p>while he was in this service carry-</p><p>ing the mail from Fort Loramie to</p><p>Fort Mitchell he received his injury</p><p>from his horse falling on the ice.</p><p> He was married to Miss Martha</p><p>Jane Smith April 27, 1890. To this </p><p>union were born three children:</p><p>Wesley, 21; Mildred, 13; and Mau-</p><p>rice, 9. Mr. Blacketer moved to</p><p>Cameron in the year 1895 and lived</p><p>here till his death. The funeral serv-</p><p>ices were held at the First Methodist</p><p>Church, conducted by the pastor,</p><p>Rev. G.H. Zentz, Saturday, April</p><p>17. Interment was made at Grace-</p><p>land cemetery.</p><p><br /></p><p>[End of transcription.]</p><p><br /></p><p>~Caroline</p>Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440331516671118735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8610655125390402869.post-83350054591704702192024-01-05T16:18:00.001-06:002024-01-05T17:07:08.772-06:00Paw Paw's Birth—Born in 1913, Filed in 1932<p>Source: Johnson County, Illinois, "Record of Births Reported to County Clerk," delayed birth certificate unnumbered (1932), volume 5, p. 427, Retta May Martin; County Clerk's Office, Vienna.</p><p>[Note: Pre-printed form with transcribed answers in <b>bold</b>.]</p><p><br /></p><p>Record of Births Reported to County Clerk</p><p>427 [stamped]</p><p>Certificate of Birth</p><p><br /></p><p>1. PLACE OF BIRTH</p><p> County of: <b>Johnson</b></p><p> Township of, Road District of, or Village of: [Blank]</p><p> or City of: [Blank]</p><p> Registration District No.: [Blank]</p><p> Primary District No.: [Blank]</p><p> Registered No. (Consecutive No.): [Blank]</p><p> Street and Number, No.: [Blank]</p><p> St.: [Blank]</p><p> Ward: [Blank]</p><p> Hospital: [Blank]</p><p> (If birth occurred in hospital or institution, give its name instead of street and number.)</p><p>2. FULL NAME OF CHILD: <b>Retta May Martin</b></p><p> If child is not yet named, make supplemental report, as directed.</p><p>3. Sex of Child: <b>F</b></p><p>4. Twin, triplet, or other?: [Blank]</p><p>5. Number in order of birth: [Blank]</p><p> (To be answered only in the event of Plural births.)</p><p>6. Legitimate?: <b>yes</b></p><p>7. Date of birth: (Month) <b>May</b> (Day) <b>28</b> (Year) <b>1914</b></p><p>FATHER</p><p>8. FULL NAME: <b>J.A. Martin</b></p><p>9. RESIDENCE (P.O. Address) <b>Buncombe</b></p><p>10. COLOR: <b>white</b></p><p>11. AGE AT LAST BIRTHDAY: <b>41</b> Years</p><p>12. BIRTHPLACE (City or Place): [Blank]</p><p> (Name State, if in U.S.): <b>Ill</b></p><p> (Name County, if Foreign): [Blank]</p><p>13. OCCUPATION: <b>Engineer</b></p><p> (Nature of Industry): [Blank]</p><p>MOTHER</p><p>14. FULL MAIDEN NAME: <b>Lilly may Ally</b></p><p>15. RESIDENCE (P.O. Address): <b>Buncombe</b></p><p>16: COLOR: <b>White</b></p><p>17: AGE AT LAST BIRTHDAY: <b>21</b> Years</p><p>18. BIRTHPLACE (City or Place): [Blank]</p><p> (Name State, if in U.S.): <b>Ill</b></p><p> (Name Country, if Foreign): [Blank]</p><p>19. OCCUPATION: <b>Hwife</b></p><p> (Nature of Industry): [Blank]</p><p>20. NUMBER OF CHILDREN OF THIS MOTHER (Taken as of time of birth of child herein certified and including this child)</p><p> (a) Born alive and now living: <b>3</b></p><p> (b) Born alive and now dead: <b>1</b></p><p> (c) Stillborn: <b>0</b></p><p>WHAT TREATMENT WAS GIVEN CHILD'S EYES AT BIRTH?: [Blank]</p><p>21. CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDING PHYSICIAN OR MIDWIFE*</p><p>I hereby certify that I attended the birth of this child, who was born alive at [BLANK] M., on the date above stated.</p><p>*When there is no attending physician or midwife, then the father, mother, householder, etc., shall make this return. See Sec. 12 of vital stastistics law.</p><p>22. (Signature) (Physician or Midwife): J<b>.A. Martin Father</b> M.D. Midwife</p><p> Address: [Blank]</p><p> Telephone: [Blank]</p><p> Date Certificate Signed: (Month) [Blank] (Day) [Blank] Year 192[Blank]</p><p>23. Given name added from a supplemental report: (Month) [Blank] (Day) [Blank], (Year) 192[Blank]</p><p> Registrar: [Blank]</p><p>24. Filed: [Blank], 192[Blank]</p><p> Registrar: [Blank]</p><p> Post Office Address: [Blank]</p><p>Filed for Record this <b>5/11</b> day of [Blank] 19<strike><b>2</b></strike><b>32</b></p><p>Clerk: <b>Martha. E. Burris,</b> [Signature]</p><p><br /></p><p>**********</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Analysis</h3><p>While not marked as delayed, it is a delayed birth registration. J.A. Martin, or Joel Arthur Martin clearly registered his daughter Retta May Martin's (Paw Paw, my paternal grandmother) birth well after her birth. It is not surprising her parents did not register it earlier since they lived in rural Johnson County, Illinois. </p><p>Handwriting suggests the person who filled out the form is the same person who signed "J.A. Martin Father" but differs from the clerk's signature. It is possible that Joel filled it out himself as he could read and write.[1] There is no registration number assigned to this registration. The spelling of her name differs from how she spelled it, "Rettie Maye". The listed date of birth differs from what Paw Paw reported on her social security application, 28 April 1913, which is also listed on her death certificate.[2]</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">My Notes and Thoughts</h3><p><br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQCEQWh00UVQKjwNeLbMoXIbMFGrFXcGCauOwuM6auLxS4y3VczpnqIR0Fh_aASYwy3gLZYSr72FNe73JTTLyLV672gZ-Ae3lV7uI_4YhGjC05t11hGxO31qp5RNZk68GxLfZm7DtOYsbNxfm0GAtPs8ozPAzpiYzzTJkE1lJuDT5Gtsv0g_gzVYpsSPk/s2151/img020b.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2151" data-original-width="1540" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQCEQWh00UVQKjwNeLbMoXIbMFGrFXcGCauOwuM6auLxS4y3VczpnqIR0Fh_aASYwy3gLZYSr72FNe73JTTLyLV672gZ-Ae3lV7uI_4YhGjC05t11hGxO31qp5RNZk68GxLfZm7DtOYsbNxfm0GAtPs8ozPAzpiYzzTJkE1lJuDT5Gtsv0g_gzVYpsSPk/w286-h400/img020b.jpg" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rettie Maye Martin, 15 years old, abt. 1928.</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Most likley born at her rural home, it is hard to say which birthdate is correct for her because she wasn't exactly truthful about a lot of things for many reasons, some known. Also, I wonder what prompted him to do it on 11 May 1932, specifically. Paw Paw did not apply for a social security number until 1968, but that is usually why a delayed birth certificate would be needed. [3]</p><p><br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsb2Voix4Uq8E_eD3M5lIhpzcHscZzPc2DRJk6bw30AOyiLONsJf2TQISI8PmO8w_0CTW_BPMGymwYnft97yGx8OVfU98-18IeSOb5efVSlfTVMHR_fwkdXOu-pyxMrxC0cGnqHHYqBfBWFyv1bKoqEp4Esbif0i9SS8qerpzvZ1IU51fMMDs5Li5oG64/s2804/1937-02_Rettie-Maye-Martin-and-Joe-Marshall-Jr-01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1764" data-original-width="2804" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsb2Voix4Uq8E_eD3M5lIhpzcHscZzPc2DRJk6bw30AOyiLONsJf2TQISI8PmO8w_0CTW_BPMGymwYnft97yGx8OVfU98-18IeSOb5efVSlfTVMHR_fwkdXOu-pyxMrxC0cGnqHHYqBfBWFyv1bKoqEp4Esbif0i9SS8qerpzvZ1IU51fMMDs5Li5oG64/w400-h251/1937-02_Rettie-Maye-Martin-and-Joe-Marshall-Jr-01.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rettie Maye with her son Joseph Marshall, February 1937</td></tr></tbody></table><p>There are two reasons I am interested in this document. First, I am trying to track down where she was after 1930 and before December 1936, when my father was born.[4] Did she go back to southern Illinois between living in Fort Bend County, Texas in 1930 and living in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas in 1936? Did she go back and forth?</p><p><br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2VnsU58dAHxpONWxb6tbpEzAy6FqMEzZLAaYUlxrGRZnF9Md0w_pdnXB5YONN5sw1_h9_IBgj0yBfSpfhiyHyQcUGUqYvwBx7MyTEHxT0U6tIYcYZEnoKdu6hDRdVYBRFgSNjQX2zMtYNJTqVQ5fRftaeLAprl_D_0RbBHApm9ebby2Br0qBgTxQW8hE/s398/Joel%20Arthur%20Martin%20(3).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="398" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2VnsU58dAHxpONWxb6tbpEzAy6FqMEzZLAaYUlxrGRZnF9Md0w_pdnXB5YONN5sw1_h9_IBgj0yBfSpfhiyHyQcUGUqYvwBx7MyTEHxT0U6tIYcYZEnoKdu6hDRdVYBRFgSNjQX2zMtYNJTqVQ5fRftaeLAprl_D_0RbBHApm9ebby2Br0qBgTxQW8hE/s320/Joel%20Arthur%20Martin%20(3).jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L-R: Carole Marshall, Joel Arthur Martin, and Joseph Marshall, c.1942</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>Second, her father Joel, my paternal great grandfather, is a mystery, too, in this time period and around<b> </b>his death in 1948.[5] This document nails his feet down, so to speak, in Johnson County on that filing date in 1932. When I received her birth certificate after going back and forth with the state archives and the county clerk's office, I was just so happy to have received it that his occupation did not click with me until I transcribed the form. He listed "Engineer" as his occupation.</p><p></p><p>I had previously hypothesized he had worked for the railroad: </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>There isn't much industry in southern Illinois other than agriculture, the railroad, and coal.</li><li>I have a photo of him in a uniform that makes one think "railroad."</li><li>His pocketwatch was one that a railroad worker would have used.</li><li>And in 1930, seemingly randomly since they were from Johnson County, Illinois, his children—Roscoe (19), Rettie Maye (16), and Mabel (14)—are living by themselves on a rented farm in rural Fort Bend County, Texas, near the town of Katy, named after the Missouri, Kansas, Texas (M-K-T) railroad line. [6]</li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO5iDRL1t7-GpZQiwuwpcFDZKqgddDlj2lb-nrSH1gHYY9_Gd4K9Hr_QPxiF0us_nLLpgDtHQDQnirDYK3urIX8Wf-WEXclLwTSZG5cHZFRGDxkjk8uVnkowpqdQXyU9grsZ3mG_Bn6Mfurl6u_p-n9xpG0zlx50H0MXHTIt1CI3_bwR8GyiTynJUu82I/s700/Joel-Martin-Pocketwatch-Des.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO5iDRL1t7-GpZQiwuwpcFDZKqgddDlj2lb-nrSH1gHYY9_Gd4K9Hr_QPxiF0us_nLLpgDtHQDQnirDYK3urIX8Wf-WEXclLwTSZG5cHZFRGDxkjk8uVnkowpqdQXyU9grsZ3mG_Bn6Mfurl6u_p-n9xpG0zlx50H0MXHTIt1CI3_bwR8GyiTynJUu82I/w286-h400/Joel-Martin-Pocketwatch-Des.jpg" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joel Arthur Martin and his pocketwatch.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>When I looked at some railroad maps in that time period, I determined one could take the train from Vienna, Illinois, to St. Louis, Missouri, and hop on a Missouri, Kansas, Texas (M-K-T) train and be on their way down to Ft. Bend County, Texas. Also, the M-K-T had a stop in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, where Paw Paw eventually ended up and gave birth to my dad in 1936. Likewise, one can also hop on a M-K-T train in Texas and head back home pretty easily too. Wild and far-fetched, I know, but...<p></p><p>That one word, "Engineer," on the occupation blank on her delayed birth certificate was exciting to see and lends a little more weight to my theory. Now to find the M-K-T railroad files. The Houston History Research Center has some M-K-T records. I'll contact them to see what all they have. And I'll explore the railroad history in Johnson County, Illinois. Did Joel work for them? Are there any extant records? What kind? By 1940, Joel is not working and living in Bloomfield, Illinois, near his youngest daughter Mabel and her family, but it is possible he did not die in Illinois at all.[7] So, if not, where did he die? Maybe he died there and it wasn't recorded, like his daughter's birth.</p><p>Someone recorded Joel's death on his tombstone and another memorialized it on Find A Grave. It indicates he died in 1948. [8] </p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>The state of Illinois and Johnson County do not have a record of his death. [9]</li><li>He doesn't appear on the Social Security Index.<b> </b>[10]</li><li>He doesn't appear on the Railroad Retirement Index (1934-1987).<b> </b>[11] </li></ul>Presumably family buried him next to his wife Lillie May in the Taylor United Methodist Church in Vienna where their landline is no longer<b> </b>working. [12]😅I contacted the Johnson County Genealogical Society via Facebook, but they directed me to Find A Grave. I then wrote the society, but they did not have any information sbout my Martin family, but they verified the church was still open and passed along my inquiry about the church to someone at the church. That person sent me a random picture of Joel's tombstone (from Find A Grave) via text, but did not return my immediate text response explaining that I was in search of his burial record, nor did they answer my phone call. So, I've explained to my husband that if my letter direct to the church yields nothing, then we need to head to Johnson County, Illinois, because I think being boots on the ground would be easier. And faster. LOL. I could then have a look-see at probate, tax, and land records too.😘 <p></p><p>So, more work to do to flesh out their story and to solve other research problems. Our work is never done is it?</p><p>~Caroline</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div>1. 1900 U.S. census, Johnson County, Illinois, Bloomfield, population schedule, Enumeration District (ED) 36, p. 176 (stamped), sheet 8-B, dwelling 113, family 113, Joel Martin household; image, <i>Ancestry</i> (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7602/ : 12 August 2021), National Archives microfilm T623, roll 309.<div>2. Maye Marshall, SS no. 451-98-8135, 12 August 1968, Application for Account Number (Form SS-5), Social Security Administration, Maryland. Also, Texas Department of State Health Services Vital Statstics Unit, death certificate no. 142-03-036004, Maye M. Marshall, 9 April 2003; Texas Department of Health, Austin.</div><div>3. Maye Marshall, SS no. 451-98-8135, 12 August 1968, Application for Account Number (Form SS-5), Social Security Administration, Maryland.</div><div>4. City of San Antonio Board of Health, birth certificate no. 6441 (1936), Baby Martin; Bureau of Vital Statistics, San Antonio. And, Texas Department of State Health Services, delayed birth certificate no. 843951 (1943), Joesph Kent Marshall Jr; Vital Statstics Unit, Austin.</div><div>5. Ancestry, <i>Find A Grave</i> (http://www.findagrave.com : 25 March 2021), database with images, memorial #50505974, Joel Arthur Martin (1871-1948), Taylor United Methodist Church Cemetery, Vienna, Johnson, Illinois; gravestone photograph by chris cornell.</div><div>6. 1930 U.S. census, Fort Bend, Texas, Precinct 8, population schedule, Enumeration District (ED) 20, p. 283 (stamped), sheet 1-B, dwelling no. 20, family no. 20, Roscow Martin household; image, <i>Ancestry</i> (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6224/ : 11 July 2011), National Archives microfilm T626, roll 2333. </div><div>7. 1940 U.S. census, Johnson County, Illinois, Bloomfield, population schedule, Enumeration District (ED) 44-1, p. 3423 (stamped), sheet 1-B, household 18, James W. Blacketer household; image, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 19 Mar 2020); National Archives microfilm T627, roll 4208.</div><div>8. Ancestry, <i>Find A Grave</i> (http://www.findagrave.com : 25 March 2021), database with images, memorial #50505974, Joel Arthur Martin (1871-1948), Taylor United Methodist Church Cemetery, Vienna, Johnson, Illinois; gravestone photograph by chris cornell.</div><div>9. Illinois Department of Health, "Certification That Record Was Not Found," 14 December 2020, Joel Arthur Martin, date of death 1948, Johnson County, Illinois. And, Johnson County Clerk, Letter indicating record not found, 11 April 2022, Joel Arthur Martin, date of death 1948, Johnson County, Illinois.</div><div>10. "U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014," database and images, <i>Ancestry</i> (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/3693/ : 22 March 2022), negative search for "Joel Arthur Martin"and "J.A. Martin" born in 1871, died in 1948.</div><div>11. "U.S., Railroad Retirement Pension Index, 1934-1987," database and images, <i>Ancestry</i> (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61597/ : 2 April 2022), negative search for "Joel Arthur Martin" and "J.A. Martin" born in 1871, died in 1948. </div><div>12. Ancestry, <i>Find A Grave</i> (http://www.findagrave.com : 25 March 2021), database with images, memorial #50505974, Joel Arthur Martin (1871-1948), Taylor United Methodist Church Cemetery, Vienna, Johnson, Illinois; gravestone photograph by chris cornell.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440331516671118735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8610655125390402869.post-81740505549262224102024-01-04T14:53:00.002-06:002024-01-04T15:03:28.747-06:00Thriller Thursday: Who's the Ass Now?<h3 style="text-align: left;">Bad Decisions</h3><p>Humans have been making bad decisions since the beginning of time. We've all made them. No one gets a pass on bad decision-making, not even our ancestors. Some poor decisions have been quite spectacular, especially when alcohol was involved. On about 20 March 1865, my Great Grandfather Harrison Blacketer made one such bad decision, and, thankfully for us, it was recorded.😅</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Drunkeness</h3><p>During the Civil War, Harrison served as a private in Company H of the 12th Missouri Cavalry Volunteers. Captain Collar ordered ten men and one sergeant from Company H to escort a forage train from Eastport, Mississippi, to a specific spot on Bear Creek. And Harrison was one of those ten privates. The only problem was Harrison was stinkin' drunk.</p><p>All prosecutorial witnesses stated he had been drunk. Pvt. John D. Shelton testified, "He acted very much like he was drunk." Pvt. James J. Thibedeaux simply stated, "Blacketer was light," but then later elaborated that he "...saw him drink and he was making a noise and laughing." When the Judge Advocate asked about any remarkable behavior, Pvt. Thibedeaux replied, "Yes it was remarkable. Sometimes he talked loud." Sergeant William G. Wallace shared Harrison was "...whooping and making a noise and acted differently from what he was when sober."</p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV6rmsA6K2DS1dmi0BJ9DHecXrpz1C-jciYpiaNMyalyPMuolDy0Jv_VS9krOMFyFfiwd28j4YZd1BXD-vuPLTlHXAo0Xsk8boBNJoHegqeYYl3-mFdLr-fBTlrqWdcuOAgGzTJk6HpEiH2iDtqgfYhFx33_oyeTcYqxnQiAAzvNQ-iuPCMDDJwKUP2ZY/s1024/Mule-Team-Virginia-Library%20of%20Congress-Prints%20&%20Photographs%20Division-Civil%20War%20Photographs.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="823" data-original-width="1024" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV6rmsA6K2DS1dmi0BJ9DHecXrpz1C-jciYpiaNMyalyPMuolDy0Jv_VS9krOMFyFfiwd28j4YZd1BXD-vuPLTlHXAo0Xsk8boBNJoHegqeYYl3-mFdLr-fBTlrqWdcuOAgGzTJk6HpEiH2iDtqgfYhFx33_oyeTcYqxnQiAAzvNQ-iuPCMDDJwKUP2ZY/w400-h321/Mule-Team-Virginia-Library%20of%20Congress-Prints%20&%20Photographs%20Division-Civil%20War%20Photographs.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: start;">Virginia. Mule team crossing brook.<i> Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Civil War Photographs, LC-GIG-cwpb-03869.</i></span><i> </i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Destruction</h3><p>But Harrison wasn't just charged with "Drunkeness while on duty," they also charged him with "Destruction of Government Property."</p><p>Sgt. Wallace explained he had gone to the landing for the wagons and when he returned, he had found some of the ten men had been drinking. He thought Harrison '...was so drunk he did not know what he was about." So he kept Harrison and the other inebriated soldiers in the train's rear with him. Pvt. William H. Grover passed them by to move further ahead on his mule when Harrison pulled out his revolver and it went off shooting the mule Pvt. Grover was riding. The mule died the next day.</p><p>Pvt. Thibedeaux further explained that as they were traveling, "Blacketer Said <i>[sic]</i> if he saw a citizen Rebel he would shoot him and pulled out his revolver and it went off." Sgt. Wallace agreed as he thought the shooting of the mule was unintentional because he "...never heard him make any threats."</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Here's Your Sign</h3><p>Though Harrison pled not guilty to the charges, he refused counsel. The Court found him guilty on both charges, but ruled it accidental, not criminal. The Court sentenced him to hard labor for twenty days wearing a ten-pound ball-and-chain on his leg and a board on his back that read, "This is the result of drunkeness on duty."</p><p>I wonder what Harrison felt about it? Any regrets?</p><p><b>Source:</b></p><p>Harrison Blacketer (Pvt., Co. H, 12 Mo. Cav., Civil War), court martial case file no. MM-3053, March 1865–March 1865; National Archives ID no. 1848679; Court Martial Case Files, December 1800-October 1894; Record Group 153: Records of the Office of the Judge Advocate General (Army); National Archives, Washington, D.C.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQFTKl8UojnE0iFYYw4RTwdYr7uptCg5on80wntbxQLwNECpcrlaA9I9Wm0WkJaIB1y1VHJjgvceLmOLLFfg2HJ5ePqlYHfmJzYc6J0ZYVjozhhlzVXK3WlL30mwBzbb9IjYNVJeQNPI9BQdicgxPr8MPIuXn8vem1TBkv7i_p-3mOnFopohCCkyX9Y04/s1062/Harrison%20Blacketer%20to%20Caroline%20Pointer%20with%20logo.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1009" data-original-width="1062" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQFTKl8UojnE0iFYYw4RTwdYr7uptCg5on80wntbxQLwNECpcrlaA9I9Wm0WkJaIB1y1VHJjgvceLmOLLFfg2HJ5ePqlYHfmJzYc6J0ZYVjozhhlzVXK3WlL30mwBzbb9IjYNVJeQNPI9BQdicgxPr8MPIuXn8vem1TBkv7i_p-3mOnFopohCCkyX9Y04/w400-h380/Harrison%20Blacketer%20to%20Caroline%20Pointer%20with%20logo.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p>~Caroline</p><p>Note: Anne Kruszka of <a href="http://geneanotes.blogspot.com/">Gene Notes</a> created the blog post prompt Thriller Thursday as listed in Daily Prompts on <a href="https://geneabloggers.com/genealogy-prompts/daily-prompts/" target="">Geneabloggers</a>.</p>Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440331516671118735noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8610655125390402869.post-15491003281827390292024-01-03T14:15:00.000-06:002024-01-03T14:18:37.179-06:00Wordless Wednesday: Alice Florence (Vaughan) Truitt<p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi09Wr3l4Ypy2dpHKrLK-ILimuqnP0FRG6AzMiLuNZR1Zjim5PQpMPUofkEIibl9PjCU3e2yR3lzPTi9aaoenl_S8xQfgohdNF-b8kjqoF6Of5RZi9TEEbW9Ey0FX4O-0odiIowTjW_uWjIsJf8HmJlEnk_BxNHs1Y-JJOLiv7IU3NRMgRpDw0Sh3p4W44/s1193/Alice_Florence_Vaughan_Truitt__in_middle.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1193" data-original-width="951" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi09Wr3l4Ypy2dpHKrLK-ILimuqnP0FRG6AzMiLuNZR1Zjim5PQpMPUofkEIibl9PjCU3e2yR3lzPTi9aaoenl_S8xQfgohdNF-b8kjqoF6Of5RZi9TEEbW9Ey0FX4O-0odiIowTjW_uWjIsJf8HmJlEnk_BxNHs1Y-JJOLiv7IU3NRMgRpDw0Sh3p4W44/w319-h400/Alice_Florence_Vaughan_Truitt__in_middle.JPG" width="319" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alice Florence (Vaughan) Truitt in middle with gloves.<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />~Caroline<br /><br /> </p>Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440331516671118735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8610655125390402869.post-63380276523256789272017-02-27T21:08:00.000-06:002017-02-27T21:59:02.419-06:00Was Emma Catholic or Lutheran?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Just like <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2016/04/i-knew-emma-was-there.html" target="_blank">I knew her tombstone was there</a>, I knew my Great Grandmother Emma had lived and died in Galveston, Texas, but other than who she married and the children she birthed, I didn't know much else about her.<br />
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Born 14 Feb 1857, Emma's parents were Otto Schleicher and Bertha Schumann and she was baptized a little after her 14th birthday, 30 Mar 1871, at the <a href="https://firstlutherangalveston.com/" target="_blank">First Lutheran Church</a> in Galveston. [1]<br />
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However, all of her children, including my grandfather <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html" target="_blank">Big Paw Paw</a> (Joseph Marschall), were baptized at <a href="http://www.galveston.com/stjosephchurch/" target="_blank">St. Joseph's Catholic Church</a>. [2] When I toured St. Joseph's last summer, I learned that it served the German community, specifically the German farmers and others in the German working class in Galveston. All of the details on the ceiling in the church were painted to make it look like carved wood detail instead of it being actual carved wood detail.<br />
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And it turns out Emma and John were married in St. Mary's Cathedral (Catholic, now a Basilica) in Galveston after obtaining a dispensation from the bishop. [3, 4] Emma was not Catholic and in order to marry John Marschall, who was Catholic, they had to ask for special permission to marry. What's interesting to note here is that Emma did not decide to become Catholic in order to marry John, and that John didn't decide to become Lutheran to marry Emma. (Something to ponder in the wee hours of the night...)<br />
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Lakeview Cemetery, Galveston, Texas.</td></tr>
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After Emma died 30 Jun 1928 in Galveston, she was buried in Lakeview Cemetery. [5, 6] Interestingly, her burial record appears in the First Lutheran Church's records.<br />
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I find that curious, especially since her parents — Bertha Schumann and Otto Schleicher (Listed as "Oston" on the marriage record.) — are married 28 Oct 1846 in Galveston by a Methodist Episcopal missionary, Henry P. Young [7] (<a href="http://www.fumcnb.com/about/history/" target="_blank">a.k.a., Heinrich P. Jung, a missionary from the Methodist Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas</a>).<br />
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And as mentioned, Bertha has Emma baptized at the First Lutheran Church in 1871. I've not found any other church records for Bertha. (Note: I said "church" records. I've found out quite a bit about her in other records. More to come later!)<br />
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However, both Bertha's and Emma's choices in churches seem to have one thing in common — they offered services in the German language. Kind of important considering Bertha immigrated to Texas from Köthen in the Duchy of Anhalt (Prussia) probably arriving 8 days before she married Otto, who emmigrated from Görzig, near Köthen, probably on the same ship. [8] Gee, did they know each other before getting on the ship? Or did they meet during that 3-month voyage? But I digress...<br />
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So, it seems Emma was, indeed, Lutheran, and not Catholic. But her mother and her husband John Marschall had been Prussian and, more importantly, they spoke German.<br />
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While I don't know if Emma spoke it fluently, it's not a stretch of the imagination to believe Emma probably spoke at least <i>some</i> German, especially since her husband spoke it as well. I wouldn't be surprised if she spoke both German and English fluently.<br />
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Not surprisingly, her family's language (and her friends) probably influenced her choices of where she worshiped, and her marriage to a Catholic certainly influenced her to have their children baptized, at least, in the Catholic Church.<br />
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Makes me wish I had taken German in high school instead of French. For my senior year of high school, I had registered for French 3, but they put me in German 1 because the pre-requisite of 10 students didn't register for French 3. (No idea why. *snort*) But even though the German teacher begged me to stay in German 1 (I'd made a 100 on our first quiz.), I chose to switch out of it into Sociology because after taking 9 years of Spanish and 2 years of French, I didn't want to start another language right before graduating. I regret that now.<br />
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However, I'm thinking of taking a German language class locally. Because why not? (I also love German food. It'd be great if I could find a German language/German cooking class, but I'll settle for a German language class, a German restaurant, a German cookbook, YouTube videos, and some spare time...*snort*)<br />
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And I also need to visit the First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Galveston to take some pictures. You know, to complete my collection. ;)<br />
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Which brings me to an upcoming blog post teaser: Emma had a sister who lived to be an adult and at least two other siblings who didn't. More on them and their parents, my 2nd great grandparents, later. But her sister's place of worship changes too. And it's a different church than any listed above. Oh, these Schleicher women!<br />
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~Caroline<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Notes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1. "Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Records, 1875-1940," indexed database and digital image, <i>Ancestry</i> (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 May 2016), Texas > Galveston > First, Baptisms, page 118 (image 712 of 1592), Emma Schleicher entry, 1871; citing original data in: Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. ELCA, Birth, Marriage, Deaths. Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Chicago, Illinois.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2. Josephum Marschall baptism entry (1893); certified translation issued 2016 by Lisa May, Archivist, St. Joseph Catholic Church, Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston Archives, Houston, Texas, citing vol 1, p. 252. Privately held by Caroline M. Pointer, address for private use.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">3. Marschall-Schleicher marriage entry, (1880); certified photocopy of entry issued 2016 by Lisa May Archivist, Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston Archives, Houston, Texas, citing St. Mary's Cathedral, volume 7, p. 10, second entry. Privately held by Caroline M. Pointer, address for private use. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">4. Johanneni Von Marschall-Emilium Schleicher, dispensation granted, 13 January 1880, unpaginated entry; "Marriage Dispensations, Galveston," Dispensation Files; </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston Archives, Houston, Texas.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">5. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">"Texas Deaths, 1890-1976," database with images, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K37W-GNG : 5 December 2012), Emma Marschall, 30 Jun 1928; citing certificate number 25815, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,114,541.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">6. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">"Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Records, 1875-1940," indexed database and digital image, <i>Ancestry</i></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 Apr 2016), Texas > Galveston > First, Burials, page 392 (image 1449 of 1592), line 135, Emma Marschel entry, 1928; citing original data in: Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. ELCA, Birth, Marriage, Deaths. Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Chicago, Illinois.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">7. Galveston County, Texas, Record of Marriages, vol. A (1838-1850): 79, 1846 entry for Oston Schleicher and Bertha Schumann; County Clerk's Office, Galveston. Texas State Library and Archives microfilm No. 1008865. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">8. Chester W. and Ethel H. Geue, <i>A New Land Beckoned: German Immigration to Texas, 1844-1847</i> (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1982), 141. The authors obtain their information from multiple sources including German Immigration Contracts, passengers lists in various archives, etc. Bertha's mother, brothers, and future husband are all listed in this book as coming to Texas in 1846 on the <i>Margaretha</i> ship. I haven't obtained the passenger lists to ascertain if Bertha or her sisters are listed specifically. </span>Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440331516671118735noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8610655125390402869.post-12727851165910930272016-04-11T22:36:00.001-05:002016-04-12T15:56:25.125-05:00I Knew Emma Was ThereI already knew where my <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html" target="_blank">Big Paw Paw</a>'s mother was.<br />
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Luckily, the Galveston County Genealogical Society had transcribed Lakeview Cemetery's records in 1992 and according to the transcriptions, Big Paw Paw's parents...my great grandparents — John and Emma (Schleicher) Marschall — were buried in Block #22, lot # E1/2 of 1. However, their grave numbers are blank. [1]<br />
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And when I went looking for them back in March of 2008, they weren't in the section they should be in.<br />
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Then <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2009/08/disasters-not-today.html" target="_blank">Hurricane Ike hit in September of 2008</a>, [2] and <a href="http://familystoriesinstone.blogspot.com/2009/08/tombstone-tuesday-hanging-out.html" target="_blank">I attempted to look for them again in August of 2009 with no luck</a>. [3]<br />
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Lakeview Cemetery is a very neglected private cemetery though it still has interments. As blog reader and fellow graver, J. Edward Stark, <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8610655125390402869#editor/target=post;postID=1272785116591093027" target="_blank">once commented on my (old) tombstone blog</a>:<br />
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"There doesn't seem to be any order or layout to the place, almost as if someone threw a handful of seeds to the wind and tombstones sprung up in whichever direction or angle they landed in." [4]</blockquote>
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And he's right.<br />
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I've been back a time or two looking for them but after that I'd always been with my family who had become wise to my cemetery and tombstone shenanigans.<br />
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(Especially after on the way to Iowa to a Pointer family reunion no one wanted to attend except the only person in the car who hadn't been born a Pointer (me), I may have tricked them into stopping at this old cemetery that was ... ohmigosh what a coincidence ... right off of I-35 in Cameron, Clinton County, Missouri, where my great grandparent's were buried. Good thing this non-Pointer Pointer did that because we haven't been back to a Pointer family reunion since. And then there was that time in San Antonio looking for Daniel and Annie and it was 97 degrees out... Okay. So judge me.)<br />
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And I'd been on the island a few times for client work, but not to Lakeview Cemetery.<br />
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Then my daughter started attending Texas A&M University at Galveston located on Pelican Island just off of Galveston Island. However, I kept arranging times to go visit on the weekends with family in tow. Who, after grocery shopping at Krogers for my daughter, I might have directed to drive a back way from the Kroger to the dorm knowing that Lakeview Cemetery was behind it. And I might have pointed out to them, "Oh look. There's Lakeview Cemetery where John and Emma are. Somewhere. In there." And they'd not reply but I could feel their nervousness, and their brains were super loud as they wondered if I was going to make them stop and walk the whole cemetery like in Missouri. And in San Antonio. I didn't. But I felt the power I had in that moment and I liked it. (So, judge me.)<br />
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Then I noticed a few months ago on <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Marschall&GSfn=Emma&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=132156623&df=all&" target="_blank">Find A Grave that Emma's tombstone</a> had been found and photographed a couple of years ago! [5] I just hadn't checked back. Clearly her tombstone was broken and laying across the foundation in that photograph and it looks like it had been in the ground just a bit on the bottom right hand side. And I decided I'd put her off long enough. It was time to find Emma for myself. And possibly John.<br />
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So a few weeks ago, I left for the island to find them and take my daughter to dinner. Unfortunately, I picked a week where it had rained on the island and the cemetery was mostly under water especially the ruts in the ground that meander through the cemetery and act as the "roads" inside of the cemetery. However, I drove around the perimeter of the cemetery noting the pockets of older tombstones that are, as Stark so accurately described, "scattered" every which way throughout the cemetery. [6] I also noticed the signs that marked the different sections were gone.<br />
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I did walk the east side of the cemetery which was a bit drier and where John and Emma should have been, but still didn't locate them.<br />
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Last Friday, I went back. The skies were blue. It was about 73 degrees with a nice gulf breeze.<br />
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And the ground was dry. I had decided to start on the west part of the cemetery where last time I had noted some bigger pockets of older tombstones. I stopped the car every so often to get out and look at the older tombstones.<br />
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I uncovered so many stones. And stories...a man who had been born in London, England, whose tombstone was covered with dried grass clippings and two overgrown lilies which were now bushes. (Luckily, there were no snakes in there. *shudder*)<br />
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A Scot born in 1818 whose tombstone was along the crumbling back wall.<br />
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Eight small tombstones with only last names whose stories were cut short.<br />
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All the while, I kept an eye out for a white tombstone with a not-too-sharp point at the top, almost rounded, with no notches on the top corners.<br />
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I was worried that since it was broken in the image on Find A Grave that perhaps it might be lost, misplaced, or stolen.<br />
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I turned away from the too-small tombstones in the middle of the cemetery back towards the west and spotted a small white tombstone with a not-too-pointed, almost rounded top with no notches on the top corners and it was poking out of the ground.<br />
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Was this Emma?<br />
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As I got closer, I noticed it was buried in the ground behind its foundation and dried grass clippings were trapped in the space between it and the foundation.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Emma Schleicher Marschall's tombstone,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Lakeview Cemetery, Galveston, Texas.</span></td></tr>
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I quickly cleaned the clippings away and pulled the weeds surrounding it, and...there was Emma!<br />
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A quick survey all around her only yielded empty spaces where her husband, the Prussian immigrant who first landed in Galveston on Christmas Day in 1878, is supposed to be, but there are no tombstones. [7] Just empty spots.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Emma Schleicher Marschall's tombstone,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Lakeview Cemetery, Galveston, Texas.</span></td></tr>
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Gee, I hope no new tombstones appear there in the future.<br />
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For John is there. Somewhere.<br />
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I just know it.<br />
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~Caroline<br />
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1. Linda Ludgate McBee, <i>Lakeview Cemetery Record, Galveston, Texas, Volume III, 1917-1929,</i> (Galveston: Galveston County Genealogical Society, 1992), not paginated but listed alphabetically by surname.<br />
2. Caroline M. Pointer, <i>Disasters: Not Today</i>, (http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2009/08/disasters-not-today.html : accessed 11 April 2016).<br />
3. Caroline M. Pointer, <i>Tombstone Tuesday: Hanging Out</i>, (http://familystoriesinstone.blogspot.com/2009/08/tombstone-tuesday-hanging-out.html : accessed 11 April 2016).<br />
4. ibid., "J Edward Stark," comment made August 19, 2009.<br />
5. Find A Grave, database and images ( http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Marschall&GSfn=Emma&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=132156623&df=all& : accessed 11 April 2016, memorial page for Emma Marschall (1856-1928), Find A Grave memorial no. 132,156,623, citing Lakeview Cemetery, Galveston, Galveston County, Texas; the accompanying photograph by Floyd Lanny Martin is clear and informative providing enough data to ascertain this is the correct Emma Marschall.<br />
6. Caroline M. Pointer, <i>Tombstone Tuesday: Hanging Out</i>, (http://familystoriesinstone.blogspot.com/2009/08/tombstone-tuesday-hanging-out.html : accessed 11 April 2016), "J Edward Stark," comment made August 19, 2009.<br />
7. Galveston County, Texas, Index to Naturalization Docket, 1860-1890; Declaration of Intentions, Vol. 1; 1860-1871; Vol. 2, 1871-1879, Vol. 3, 1880-1892, unpaginated, chronologically arranged, 4 Oct 1880, "John Marschall;" Texas State Library and Archives, Austin; TSLAC microfilm no. <span style="background-color: white;">1009834, vol. 3, p. 15.</span><br />
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<br />Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440331516671118735noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8610655125390402869.post-86907004631672546762013-08-27T18:03:00.000-05:002013-08-27T18:29:49.439-05:00Auntie Alice Is My New BFF<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love being the recipient of clues from my ancestors. I mean, sometimes, it's like they left them on purpose. Like they were actually writing <i>to me.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But? My 2nd great grandfather's younger sister, Alice Barbara (Vaughan) Parson's notes weren't really meant for me. {Okay. Maybe they were. You don't know. ;) }And it appears that she was probably addressing one of Daniel's and Annie's children. And I'm gonna guess that it was my 1st great grandmother, my Boo {also named Alice} because she ends up with these photos {but it could have been one of their other children and somehow my Boo ended up with them}.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-big-vaughan-family-surprise.html" target="_blank">As I mentioned in my last blog post</a>, there is writing on the photos that is different than Alice's, and because of a note that was with these photos, it's pretty clear that it was Daniel and Annie's daughter, Alice Florence (Vaughan) Truitt {the aforementioned "my Boo"}, who had been trying to identify the photos for her son {my Uncle} to whom she was giving the photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, both these wonderful ladies named Alice wrote on the photos helping to identify the people in the photos to whom they were giving the photos. Makes sense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But? The first Alice is the one who gives the most clues. And my Boo {second Alice} gets confused on the identification of one of the photos. I would imagine she was quite elderly when she passed these photos on to my Uncle, and her memory might have been a bit less than perfect. Anywho, I'm over the moon they decided to identify everyone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, what are the clues the first Alice left?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-big-vaughan-family-surprise.html" target="_blank">Remember how I said that I'd been unable to find Daniel's sister, Alice, between 1850 and 1872?</a> Daniel and Prudence had been taken into families after Susanna's death, but I'd been unable to figure out what had happened to their younger sister, Alice. Well, Alice, herself, left me a clue. Maybe. {I love how these dead folk toy with me. They are definitely the cat, and I am gleefully their mouse being batted around.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">...a William Allison, which explains definitively, I think, who Alice called "Auntie Sarah." Alice states that, "...as they looked when I first met them after my coming from Yo[u]rk state, Rochester..."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, Alice, you're beginning to be my BFF. Now, she could be referring to a trip of a shorter duration that she took, but it's also ENTIRELY possible that she's talking about where she had been in her younger years. I mean, Ypsilanti is a wee town then and now. If she had grown up near there, it's likely that she would have already known what her family members looked like. Possibly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Alice's own photo {below} she states the photo was taken when she was 18 years old in Ypsilanti. Also, who makes up the "they" on Auntie Sarah's photo? Could she mean these set of photos together below? I dunno. But IF so {and that's a big IF}, then is she saying she'd never met her father?!? Something to mull over {Read: Obsess over.}, for sure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is also interesting is that Alice's mother, Susanna, and Susanna's siblings were supposedly born in New York. And while Susanna's father, Mr. Rook, likes to play hide-n-seek too, her mother, Margaret Barbara (Stuck) Rook and the Stuck family had lived in Seneca, County, New York for a while before going to Michigan. So. Curiouser and curiouser. {Yeah, I went there.}</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BTW, the Stuck/Stock line is the Patriot line that I'll be using for my DAR application. Technically, all the proving is done as far as DAR is concerned from the proven Patriot down to Margaret's father. I just need to provide evidence her father was that man, Michael Stuck. {Luckily, her death record says he is, but what else could I find to support that?} But? Because Susanna and her siblings were born in New York and Mr. Rook and Margaret Barbara were their parents, I have to dig around in New York anyways for their marriage and his identity. And I find it more than interesting that Alice Barbara <i>may</i> have lived and been raised near {couple of counties away} where her maternal grandparent's family had lived and in the same state her mother was born. At the very least, according to Alice, she had been there. And that's a very nice clue, Alice. *high-five* {Ah, hell. That's a *double high five*. Put them both up there, Alice.}</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SO Alice is 18 years old when this photo was taken in Ypsilanti, Michigan. And at the top my Boo identified this photo and my uncle's relationship to her as Alice being his 2nd great Aunt Alice. {Me? I would've called her "Auntie." ;) }</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, the handwriting on the top is my Boo's, the second Alice. She identifies him to my Uncle as his "great great grandfather." The first Alice, Daniel's sister indicates that Benjamin is her and Daniel's father, and here's the clue. She infers that this photo of him was "Some years after our mother died." She also points out that Benjamin is "Aunt Sarah['s] Brother."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So Alice is saying this photo of Benjamin was taken after their mother, Susanna, died.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, knock me over with a feather. If this is correct {Don't look at me like that. Alice lived to be 94. No telling when she wrote this and if her recollections were correct. And I'm pretty sure both Alices will give me a stern talking-to in the After Life about how I dared to question them, but, really, who cares by then? :P }, then Benjamin WAS alive when their mother died in 1852.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not that I needed any more reason to keep looking for Benjamin, because I didn't. I have a list of records to order and search in -- like probate, orphan, land, newspapers, etc. I'm also waiting on Daniel's Civil War pension record.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, it's nice to have this clue. If correct, then where was Benjamin and why was he not raising his own children? Not uncommon, but still. And when and where did he die? I want the latter question answered for me and my DAR {Daughters of the American Revolution} and UEL {United Empire Loyalist} applications. The former? I need to know that answer with every fiber of my being.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm passionate {Read: tenacious.} like that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then I'll be checking Rochester, New York, for the young Alice Barbara Vaughan. I don't necessarily need the knowledge for any applications. Unless, of course, she was living with a -- *clears throat* -- Rook family. {Could I get that lucky?} But her early life is a rabbit hole I can't help but dive into. {Yeah, I went there. Again.} I mean, she went to all that trouble of leaving me the clue. The least I could do is follow up on it, eh? Besides, I might find more family members. And you know what they're gonna have, don't you?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's right. Family stories. Duh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many, many thanks to my first cousins who found me on Facebook and shared these photos with me. Together and with my other second cousins who have found me via my blog, we're pulling this story together one puzzle piece at a time. It takes a village to write a family history.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~Caroline</span>Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440331516671118735noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8610655125390402869.post-42686384844206587012013-08-23T13:46:00.001-05:002013-08-27T18:15:15.141-05:00The Big Vaughan Family Surprise<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So. Benjamin Brown Vaughan likes to play hide-n-seek. That's fine 'cause I do too. Bring it, Benji.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2013/08/lost-and-found-hide-n-seek-in-ypsilanti.html" target="_blank">we now know what ultimately happened to Susanna</a>. Sorta. Well, we know the result, just not the details.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And we know all sorts of things about Benjamin's father's life at church, specifically St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Ypsilanti, Michigan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And we have a hunch that Benjamin and Susanna had had a 4th child. {Definitely need more evidence about that, though.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To be perfectly clear about the church records that I consulted {Read: Pored over with intense delight.}, I did look at and record much more than what I mentioned in my post yesterday. I condensed it down in to a more readable story-like format.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I also wanted to explain a little more about the Parish Register and how it was organized because I think that it contributes to the story. Now, this Parish Register was a pre-printed book that came with pre-printed instructions on how to fill-out and use the book for the parish. This is integral for understanding how to read the book now in 2013. It has marks in columns throughout the book and the key for those is in the front with the instructions. So please don't think I skippity-do-dahed my way through the microfilm in search of surnames and dates. I did not. I read it and understood exactly what all the marks meant. It also helps that other than the first 3 years of my life when I was Catholic, I've been an Episcopalian. Can't say I'm a "lifer" but I'm close. And being so, made reading the church history compiled and written at the beginning of the Parish Register all the more interesting because it didn't gloss over the difficulties and politics of the Parish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the instructions and the history in the Parish Register, are some smaller lists like founders, pewholders, tithers, and the like. Then the larger listing of records begins with sections titled Families, Baptisms, Confirmations, Marriages, and Burials. The book then ends with an index.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Vaughan family, as a whole or so I thought, shows up on page 20 indicating when the family was received into the church and also indicating whether each had been received, baptized, confirmed, died, and whether or not they were a communicant in good standing. {All important but especially that last one for being a member on the vestry. I know because my Dad was always on the Vestry, and even my husband has been on one in an Episcopalian Church.} Presumably and usually all the family members would be listed here with their family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, as I mentioned yesterday, I still looked for an Index for all these sections, which seemed like a good idea to do before flipping through all the pages in each section looking for Vaughan family members {and allied family members}. To my surprise, I found Susanna, Prudence, Daniel, Alice, and Rachel all listed in the index. Then when I looked them up under burials and baptisms and saw the dates for the events, that's when I quickly timelined the events and concluded that this kind of indicates a "rush job" of sorts. They weren't ever listed in the front under the family. If Benjamin and Susanna had worshiped there, they would have had a Family Entry either with his father {doubtful} or as a separate family {more likely because he was an adult then}.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And IF Benjamin and Susanna worshiped elsewhere {Which Susanna's burial entry, if correct, indicates she had been baptized, confirmed, and a communicant in good standing but, obviously, I'm doubting it was at St. Luke's.}, then that would explain why they aren't here but she has had the appropriate events marked on her burial entry. But? If they had worshiped elsewhere, why weren't their children already baptized? Why did their grandparents need to get that done? And if they worshiped elsewhere, it wasn't Episcopalian because this is the only Episcopal church around for a ways. And the fact that the 3 older kiddos were baptized in a private ceremony as opposed to physically at St. Luke's is remarkable as well. However, the baby, Rachel, is physically baptized at St. Luke's 3 days before her burial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, page 20 where the Family is listed {or, at least, it all should be listed} is microfilmed twice. Why? Because there was a note in the book. SO the fantabulous microfilmers decided to INCLUDE the note. And the note pertains to the Vaughan family. {I obviously have pleased the genealogy gods and goddesses.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that's when I realized that Rachel DOES appear in the family listing. It's just under the name Roselia Vaughan and a birth month and birth year with the birth year being wrong, or so I think -- April 1850. However, on the note it indicates Rachel Roselia was born April 1851, which matches her age at death recorded in her burial entry. {And why didn't anyone know her DAY of birth?} Plus? Alice was born in March of 1850 so I think {and I could be wrong} that when they were copying the information from the note to the book, they had an oopsy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, Prudence, Daniel, and Alice are listed on here as well with their birthdates {Daniel's off by a year, I think. Or maybe everything else I have is wrong.} as well as the whole Vaughan family's info. SO this tells me this "note" was written on in at least 2 different time periods -- 1840 when John T. Vaughan and his family is received into the church as well as in 1851-1852 when the 4 kiddos are baptized and when Susanna and Rachel are buried. Even John T's marriage date to his 2nd wife Hester up in Canada is written here and NOWHERE ELSE in this book. {Jealous, much?}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And why for goodness' sakes is this the ONLY note microfilmed? {Notice I didn't say it's the only one in the book because I don't know that, now do I?} I dunno. But? I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth. Duh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And while Benjamin is listed on this note with all his siblings and his mother, Prudence (Brown) Vaughan {John T.'s first wife who died up in Canada} and he appears in the Family section with them as well, he's nowhere else in this book. I know because I looked at and read all these handwritten records.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dude is just missing as far as St. Luke's Church is concerned. {Really would love to read the Vestry Meeting Minutes for these time periods. Perhaps a special circumstance would have needed to have been voted and/or decided upon by the vestry.} Further, Benjamin and Susanna are in with their 3 oldest children in Ypsilanti in the 1850 census. Benjamin doesn't have an occupation listed but he does, supposedly, own $300 worth of real estate. And then in 1860, Daniel is living with Susanna's mother {Margaret Barbara Rook} and Susanna's 2 sisters and a brother; Prudence is living with a family across the border in Ohio about 18 miles from her father's brother and his family; and Alice is nowhere to be found in Michigan and Ohio. But, interestingly, Alice is NOT living with her grandparents, John T. and Hester Vaughan there in Ypsilanti. Nor is she living with Susanna's older brother Daniel Rook and his family there in Ypsilanti. Alice is later found married and with children, but her early life and upbringing are a mystery to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So my thoughts on Benjamin is that something had happened to him. He's the last of the "them" that needs to be found. I kinda was thinking he, perhaps, had died.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Until some cousins of mine {1st cousins} found me on Facebook and said they thought their dad {my Uncle} had had some pics of Daniel in his Civil War uniform. SO they found the flash drive with the scanned old pics and? Not only did they have Daniel in his Civil War uniform, but they had pics of Alice {Daniel's younger sister} and some other folks. And? Alice had written on the backs of these photos which had been scanned as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And one of those "other" folks? Benjamin. That's right. Benjamin Brown Vaughan. SURPRISE!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, there you go. Benjamin is finally revealed. Just not the details I was looking for. But? Again, with a gift horse, it's best not to look in the mouth, eh?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The best part is that Alice wrote on the back of these photos and left me more research clues about herself, her aunt, and even one about her father, Benjamin. But? I'll explain all that in the next blog post. {I'm evil like that.}</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2013/04/what-happened-to-them.html" target="_blank">my last blog post, <i>What Happened to "Them"?</i></a> on this ongoing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_the_American_Revolution" target="_blank">Daughters of the American Revolution</a> - <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Empire_Loyalist" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="United Empire Loyalist">United Empire Loyalists</a> saga, I revealed my Vaughan family's possible ties to St. Luke's <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_Church_%28United_States%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Episcopal Church (United States)">Episcopal Church</a> in Ypsilanti as well as my hopefulness at finding "them," which are my 3rd great grandparents, Benjamin Brown and Susanna (Rook) Vaughan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was also hoping that tucked inside that white microfilm box would be confirmation of Benjamin's father's ties to St. Luke's. Had John Towner Vaughan and his family been members there?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I was also hoping to find some more evidence of Daniel's birth and something about his life before he volunteered for the 1st Infantry Regiment when Lincoln first called up the Union troops at the beginning of the Civil War.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Too much to ask from a little white box?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But one thing I've learned in life is you don't get it if you don't ask for it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And in genealogy I've found you don't get answers until you start asking questions and looking for the answers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And in family history you don't get the story until you start writing it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, boy howdy, I was quite pleased with the answers that were jam-packed inside that little white microfilm box. {Opening that box was better than opening a box from Amazon.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to St. Luke's Parish Register, John T. Vaughan and his family had, indeed, been members at St. Luke's. I'd imagine when the Anglican John T. and his second wife Hester settled in Ypsilanti, joining the newly formed St. Luke's Episcopal Church seemed like the thing to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the well-kept records, here's what I also learned about the Vaughan family:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John T. Vaughan was listed as a pewholder in 1840 at St. Luke's.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John T. Vaughan had been baptized and confirmed at some point in his life in the Episcopal/Anglican church and that he had been received into and a communicant in good standing at St. Luke's.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John T. Vaughan had been on the vestry {the elective governing body of an Episcopal parish} at St. Luke's.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John T. Vaughan had died 21 Jul 1865 of "malignant erysipelas" {skin infection} and was buried in Highland Cemetery 22 Jul 1865.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Benjamin Brown Vaughan had been received into the St. Luke's parish, but beyond that had not participated at St. Luke's at all. He had not married Susanna there nor did it look like they were members there.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I knew they'd probably come to Ypsilanti between 1840 and 1850 because the 1850 census is the first one they appear in America. The records go on to confirm all of John's family with his first wife Prudence {Brown} Vaughan {She passed away in Quebec and John remarried there. At least, that's what I've determined.} and the children he had with both wives in Canada and in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.2427777778,-83.6183333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=42.2427777778,-83.6183333333%20(Ypsilanti%2C%20Michigan)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Ypsilanti, Michigan">Ypsilanti, Michigan</a>. And, right there, in really clear handwriting is John's son, my 3rd great grandfather, Benjamin Vaughan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This parish register entry for the Vaughan family is priceless because it pulls together the whole family and lists who was dead {at the time the family was received into the parish}, who had been baptized, who had been confirmed, and who had been married.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, it was a bit disheartening to find that Benjamin and Susanna were seemingly not members of the same church as Benjamin's father. However, I learned bunches about John's life in the church, and the information was definitely needed for my application for United Empire Loyalist membership.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I "skipped" in the microfilm to the back of the Parish Register Book to look for an index before combing through all the baptisms, confirmations, marriages, and burials, which are in chronological order by event. 'Cause duh. I'm lazy like that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And? I wanted to verify there were no other Vaughans in the parish and that there was really no trace of Benjamin and his family, especially Benjamin's son, Daniel Rook Vaughan. I mean, I really need his information for my DAR and UEL applications.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Found: Good News!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were the only Vaughan family in the St. Luke's Parish through 1893.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Found: More Good News!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a Dan'l R, an Alice B., and a Prudence B. listed in the index with their baptismal registry number.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Found: Good & Bad News!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was a Mrs. Susanna Vaughan listed with her burial registry number.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I knew something bad had happened to Susanna. I've written about it before. It's just not always a thrill to find out you're right about some things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I quickly jumped back in the microfilm to the burials section to look for the details of Susanna's burial. And there, on page 314, is listed Susanna as having been buried 12 Jan 1852 in Ypsilanti at the tender age of 26. No cause of death and no date of death were listed. However, she is listed as having been baptized, confirmed, and a communicant at the time of her burial. {Really? Which church?}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the date, that means she left behind a 5-year-old Prudence, a 4-year-old Daniel {my 2nd great grandfather}, and an almost-2-year-old Alice. {Big sigh.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Found: Good & Bad News!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But then listed right underneath Mrs. Susanna Vaughan's burial register entry was an entry for an 11-month old Rachel Roselia Vaughan who had been buried 24 Mar 1852 in Ypsilanti. And, again, no cause of death or date of death was listed.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just who was Rachel Roselia Vaughan? Had she been a younger and until-now-unknown-to-me sibling of Daniel's? And if so, then the "them" who had been lost between 1850 and 1860 had really been 3 and not 2.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With a heavy heart, I quickly looked up Prudence's, Daniel's, and Alice's baptismal entries for my records and society applications. {Oh yeah. The societies. That's why I was here in the first place. *snort*} And then I found some more surprises. The 3 children had been baptized in a private ceremony under their full names -- Prudence Brown Vaughan, Daniel Rook Vaughan, and Alice Barbary Vaughan -- in a private ceremony all on the same day, 30 Aug 1851. And because the mythical genealogy gods and goddesses didn't want to make anything too easy for me, their grandparents -- John T. and Hester Vaughan -- are listed as their parents and Daniel's birth year is different by 1 year from what I know it to be based on other pieces of evidence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, then, listed right underneath their baptismal entries is a baptismal entry for Rachel Roselia Vaughan who was baptized 21 Mar 1852 at St. Luke's, which was just 3 days before her burial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So. What's the story? Well, I dunno for sure, but it seems that Susanna became incapacitated in some way and, by the end of August in 1851, was unable to take care of her children. It doesn't seem that Benjamin, Susanna, and their kiddos had been members of St. Luke's either. At least, not at first.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, it seems that Benjamin's father and step-mother -- John and Hester -- came in and took their grandchildren in order to care for them and by the end of August in 1851, they had Prudence, Daniel, and Alice baptized at St. Luke's in Ypsilanti. And then almost 7 months later, they had Rachel Roselia baptized there as well 3 days before her burial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good for me, paper-trail-wise. Sorta.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But? I wonder how Susanna had been incapacitated? Illness? Postpartum depression? Accident?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And what about the baby, Rachel Roselia? I'm definitely assuming that she is Benjamin's and Susanna's baby. But I could be wrong about that. Regardless, why did she die? Illness? Birth defect?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And? Forget Waldo. Where in the world is Benjamin in all this upheaval and crisis? Hurt? Ill? Working elsewhere?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So. Some losses and finds in Ypsilanti. And one is still playing hide-n-seek.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And? O Susanna, how I cried for you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And your babies. For just when I found you and Rachel Roselia, I lost you both. And so did your family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">{Stay tuned for Part 2 tomorrow and the Vaughan Family Surprise -- some things found and shared with me because of what I wrote. Will Benjamin be revealed?}</span><br />
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I knew something had happened to them. At first I thought the "them" was made up of
three, then after finding the youngest of the "them" alive and well
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I've written about the
name "Alice" being used in my family before. My Gran and
her mother, my "Boo", were both named Alice, and I have some cousins
named Alice as well. So when I traced back Boo's father, Daniel Rook Vaughan,
to the 1850 census and found him with his parents, Benjamin Brown &
Susanna Vaughan, and his 2 sisters, Prudence and Alice, I thought to myself,
"Huh. So this is the Alice whom everyone is named after." {<a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2010/05/why-didnt-you-name-me-alice.html" target="_blank">The Alice who my daughter wishes I had named her after</a>.} {<a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/08/viola-vyla-prudence-vaughan-sproul.html" target="_blank">And Vyla's -- one of my Boo's younger sisters -- middle name is Prudence.}</a></div>
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By the 1860 census,
part of the family seems to fall off the grid. Daniel is living with his
grandmother, Margaret Barbara Rook, a couple of aunts, and an uncle there in
Ypsilanti. His older sister Prudence is living across the border in Ohio with a
family that seemingly has no connection to her {I've looked. But don't you go look because I'm not done trying to figure it out. I'm stubborn like that.}, but she's about
18 miles from her uncle, her father's brother -- Harmon Vaughan.<br />
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No Benjamin. No Susanna. No Alice.<br />
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Or so I thought. I did some census voodoo and traced all of the people named Alice
I could find born in Michigan in about March of 1850 with a mother born in New York and a
father born in Canada. {On the 1850 census, they list her age in months.} And I found one who seemed to move around a bit because she was
married to a preacher -- an aptly named man by the name of Almond Parsons -- who must have traveled a circuit of some kind
in lower Michigan where Ypsilanti is located. After skippity-doo-dahing across
southern Michigan, they settle in Kalamazoo, Michigan {which is almost as fun
to say as Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan where Alice was born}. Finally, she is found in the 1940
census living with her daughter Nellie and family at the age of 90, and Alice Barbara Parsons passes away 4 years later in 1944. I did discover her and the Reverend's other
child as well, but I'll save that story for another day. {I'm evil like that.}</div>
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So I found Alice. {Of
course, that begs the question, <i>"Who was this Alice named after?"</i> A relative, a friend, a pet cat? I'll keep my suspicions to myself for now.}</div>
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But what happened to
Benjamin Brown & Susanna (Rook) Vaughan -- Prudence's, Daniel's, and
Alice's parents? I consulted <i>The History of Ypsilanti</i> by Harvey C. Colburn at
The Clayton {<a href="http://wetree.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Amy Coffin's</a> nickname for the <a href="http://www2.houstonlibrary.org/clayton/" target="_blank">Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research</a>}, and in it I found the Hawkins family mentioned. This
was an important clue because my fourth great-grandfather's second wife in
Ypsilanti was a Hester A. Hawkins and they live near a Hawkins family in Ypsilanti
in a couple of censuses. {And Ypsilanti is a wee town -- then and now.} I then found a John Vaughan mentioned in the book as a
vestry member and as a sexton for <a href="http://stlukesypsi.org/" target="_blank">St. Luke's Episcopal Church</a> there in
Ypsilanti which is still open today. {In fact, I started following the church's Facebook
Page because there's something about following your 4th great grandparent's
church on Facebook, especially since I'm Episcopalian too.} </div>
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Finding a John Vaughan mentioned as a member of the Episcopalian Church was another
important clue because I had already found Benjamin's baptismal record near Iberville, Quebec in Anglican records in Caldwell's Manor (Foucault) and Christie's Manor (Noyan) naming his
parents as John T. & Prudence (Brown) Vaughan. I knew my John had been an Anglican/Episcopalian. Had he remained in the same denomination after they immigrated to America?</div>
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So I emailed St. Luke's and asked where their church records for
the 1800s were archived, and they said they were located at the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.289425,-83.7124555556&spn=0.01,0.01&q=42.289425,-83.7124555556%20(Bentley%20Historical%20Library)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Bentley Historical Library">Bentley
Historical Library</a> at the University of Michigan. So I had a look-see at their
website and found, at the time, all lookups needed to be in person. Then I
checked the catalog on <a href="http://familysearch.org/">FamilySearch.org</a>, but they hadn't been filmed. So I put it off, and then picked the trail back up when I decided to apply for Daughter's of the American Revolution membership and United Empire Loyalist membership through Daniel's maternal and paternal lines, respectively. At the same time. {There's just something about a Civil War musician's mother's line being a Patriot line and his father's line being a Loyalist line, no?}</div>
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I thought perhaps I'd need to hire someone to go through those church records because I couldn't figure out how to convince my family that a family vacation to Michigan was a fabulous idea. They tend to like the Gulf Coast beaches in the summer. Go figure.</div>
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But then
I checked FamilySearch.org again -- about two years later -- and found they'd
been filmed. Well, at least the parish records containing baptisms,
confirmations, burials, etc., had been filmed. The vestry minutes have not been filmed. But a girl can't be picky, right? {And all of this is why I don't really think I have too many research brick walls. Many times -- for one reason or another -- I just haven't looked everywhere yet.}</div>
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So I ordered/rented the film for St. Luke's
Episcopal Church in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.2427777778,-83.6183333333&spn=0.1,0.1&q=42.2427777778,-83.6183333333%20(Ypsilanti%2C%20Michigan)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Ypsilanti, Michigan">Ypsilanti, Michigan</a> from the FHL {Family History Library} and had it sent to my
local library, MCML, {My nickname for the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_County_Memorial_Library_System" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Montgomery County Memorial Library System">Montgomery County Memorial Library
System</a>.}, which recently became an affiliate of the FHL. </div>
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Had my 4th great
grandfather, John T. Vaughan, been on the vestry at St. Luke's? Had he and his
family worshiped there? Had Daniel been baptized there? More importantly, would
I finally have my answers to what happened to my 3rd great grandparents, Benjamin
Brown & Susanna (Rook) Vaughan? </div>
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Would my answers be on
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Would I find out what happened to "them"? <br />
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~Caroline</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like tangents. Some of my very best genealogical finds come when I go off into tangents. Unfortunately, though, it's making my <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_the_American_Revolution" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Daughters of the American Revolution">Daughters of the American Revolution</a> and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Empire_Loyalist" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="United Empire Loyalist">United Empire Loyalists</a> research journeys much, much longer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-annie-archdiocese-of-new-orleans.html" target="_blank">In my last blog post</a>, I stated that the only way to find out about Annie's mother's maiden name was to go ahead and order a copy of Daniel and Annie's marriage record from the <a href="http://www.archdiocese-no.org/archives/genealogy.php" target="_blank">Archdiocese of New Orleans Archives</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And? I lied. That's not <i>the</i> only way. It was just the way I thought would be the easiest because I had not found a cousin {or the cousin} who had a copy of their church marriage record or a Family Bible or, really, anything that indicated what Annie's mother's name was.<br /><br />You see, it all started about 2008 when I first started researching Daniel and Annie. When I joined the NGS the first time, I searched their database of family group sheets and found one submitted by a lady. It didn't give me anything I hadn't already found online. But? The name and address of the lady who had submitted it to the NGS was stamped across the front of it.<br /><br />I tried writing her, but I never received a response, and I wasn't really surprised because the family group sheet had been submitted <i>ages</i> ago, like back in the 1980s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then? I Googled Daniel and Annie's names together and came across a Vaughan/Vaughn family website which was just a database of submitted info, and? It didn't contain anything I didn't already have about Daniel and Annie. After accessing it just that one time, it became infected with malware. Over the years, I've periodically checked it while searching online, and every time, the browser indicated that the site was infected with malware. {And, yes, I had cleaned out my cache and used different browsers.}<br /><br />And then I ran into some clues online involving the same lady who had submitted the family group sheet to NGS. Some very nice unsubstantiated pieces of info like how</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Annie had 8 or 9 brothers one of whom is named Henry and, oh by the way she had a partial letter that Henry had sent Annie and it had Henry's address in Dublin and there was a date too...</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> . And? There was an email address. So, of course I emailed her. And? No response. One of the best pieces of info that she left, though, was that she was Annie's great granddaughter through Henry Lewis, which is my Boo's older brother making her my second cousin once removed. But after about 2001, she seemed to drop off the online internet forums and sites.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />So in reviewing all of this when I was gathering everything together for my DAR application, I thought, well, I just need to get the documents myself if possible.<br /><br />And about the same time I started blogging about my DAR and UEL application journey, which, if you'll remember, has also included <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-baby-boy.html" target="_blank">tangents along the way</a> because I just can't help myself. I mean, it's a no-brainer when the archivist emails you and says, "I found your great-grandmother's baptismal record, but I also found her siblings' baptismal records. You want those?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, I want those. But for me, having them in my hand led me to blog about each one. For some, documents are cold with clues and facts...just names and dates. For me, though, a document comes alive. Each one is a soupy mixture of tidbits of stories and it seems when I hold one in my hands - even if it is just a photocopy, the stories seem to bubble up in my head until they start to spill over. And that's exactly what happened when I received all those baptismal records. I couldn't <i>not</i> speculate about each one's baptismal day based on what I already had found about each one's life and about what I personally have experienced on that ferry ride between Bolivar Point and Galveston Island.<br /><br />For me, it's kind of like the movie <i>Night at the Museum</i> or book <i>The Night at the Museum</i> by Milam Trenc. You know how the statues and history come alive when the museum closed? Well, when I get a document and look at each piece of information and when I start to piece things together within the context of what I know already or what I've found, well, the people in my tree start to come alive...the stories start to become more real...and then my imagination starts playing with possibilities and then I write stories about the possibilities. I mean they're always open-ended because I don't usually have everything yet. But I always stop to look at a document and wonder...And instead of wondering in my head or on a piece of paper, I blog it. I blog my questions and possibilities as I go.<br /><br />And, in this case, with my great-grandmother's {Boo's} siblings, blogging about each one's baptismal record was one of the best things I could have done because a descendant of one of my Boo's sisters contacted me because he'd been Googling. And since I had been off on one of my tangents with the baptismal records that have absolutely nothing to do with my DAR and UEL apps, Google matched us up and he emailed me. <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/08/viola-vyla-prudence-vaughan-sproul.html" target="_blank">He also confirmed all of Vyla's names throughout the years.</a> {Google has got to be the best distant cousin matchmaker. At least it is for me. Ancestry's trees come in at a close second though.}<br /><br />Anywho, this cousin is also a second cousin once removed because he descends from Vyla. And he and his wife were supposed to come to Texas last October to photograph tombstones and do some research. But then life happened and then the trip got rescheduled to January. And then life happened again and the trip got pushed off to March.<br /><br />And then in the meantime, um, life happened to me as well, but somehow I've found the time here and there to keep digging and to even keep blogging a bit. And every time I blogged, I tweeted about my blog post. You know, just to share it and what-have-you.<br /><br />Then one of those times a fellow tweeter, who I had started following because she's a photographer/Photoshop kind of person<i> </i>and then she followed back and then she started following some other fellow genealogists and then we, um, kind of got her hooked on genealogy {I swear to you I didn't do it on purpose.}, direct messaged me after I tweeted a link to one of my blog posts. She said that she was really enjoying Daniel's and Annie's story unfold, that she had Googled their names, found this Vaughan Family Website and asked if I'd seen it.<br /><br />And?<br /><br />It was that original site that I hadn't checked in a year. You know, the one with the malware. It had been taken down and redone. And? This time it had some more info. And it was from that same lady/2nd cousin who descends from my Boo's older brother, Henry Lewis. This time there was a <i>ton of detail and verbiage that made it clear that she has some documentation of some kind.</i> It just wasn't listed on there anywhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So then I went to Facebook and found her and sent a friend request. Then I messaged her. {Which I should have done before, but, you know, life happens...}<br /><br />And?<br /><br />No response. *big sigh*<br /><br />So I kept going with Daniel's and Annie's civil marriage record and ordered microfilm for other parts of the tree for my DAR and UEL applications. And then I started combing through all those clues from that Vaughan/Vaughn family site. Like...<br /><br />...the clue where she states that their marriage record indicates Annie's mother's maiden name...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...the clue where she states that Annie had been just visiting her cousins - the Browns - in New Orleans when she met Daniel because Daniel had been doing some carpentry work for her cousins and they were married by a Rev. Gleason in St. Alphonsus Church in New Orleans...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...the clue where she states Annie's cousin's husband was the city engineer for the City of New Orleans and that there was a family rumor that Annie's father had been an engineer in Dublin too...</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I started checking out some of these clues online, and I never got around to ordering Daniel and Annie's marriage record from the Archdiocese of New Orleans Archives. You know, the one I said might contain Annie's mother's maiden name? Yeah, that one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But wait. She stated that the Browns were Annie's cousins. So I skipped off to Ancestry.com and did a little census and city directory work and found found a Kate Lennon living in a household with a Henry Brown, a Jennie L. Brown, and some other Brown family members. And? Henry Brown's occupation was listed as a civil engineer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then? I decided to take the plunge with Annie's info on irishgenealogy.ie. I mean, I had her possible-and-completely-unsubstantiated parent's names now and one of her brother's names. I was feeling kind of lucky and optimistic about being able to find Annie's baptismal record if it had been placed online. And I was on the couch with my iPad and thought, "Why not just have a peek?" So I looked, and...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">None with the right date and/or parents. So then I searched for her parents together because it allows you to look for one person as well as another at the same time, and...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found a James O'Brien who had married a Jane Lennon in 1831 in St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin. But? Nothing conclusive to say they were, indeed, Annie's parents. And sadly, there was no address and the blanks for <i>their </i>parents were empty. Then another marriage record came with up when I searched their names but the one getting married this time was a Henry O'Brien in 1887 and his parents were James and Jane (Lennon) O'Brien. And his address was 61 Lr. Mecklenburgh in Dublin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Which jogged my memory of those clues about Annie's brother Henry from Dublin from my second cousin. Remember that partial letter? Well, it was sent in 1886 and his address, according to my wonderfully generous but elusive lady cousin, was 61 Lr Mecklenb---h (?) in Dublin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So unless Henry O'Brien from the 1886 letter who was Annie's brother moved out of the 61 Lr Mecklenburgh residence and then a Henry O'Brien from 1887 whose parents were also a James O'Brien and Jane Lennon moved in, well, I'm pretty sure they are her parents. Maybe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>However, I still need to see that church marriage record. </b>I want/need verification. I also need to familiarize myself with Irish records. You know, what's available for what time periods, and where are they located?<i> I can't just blindly keep on drifting along the Internet looking at Irish records here and Irish records there never knowing for sure that I've looked at everything that exists, online or off. </i>{Which is why I just bought <i>Tracing Your Irish Ancestors: Irish Genealogy</i> by John Grenham.} I need to get a lay of the land, so to speak.<br /><br />So this week, I decided to take a look at the microfilm that I had previously ordered and I started with Daniel's family up in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and found some interesting information that I needed for both my DAR and UEL applications, and I'll get into the details of that in another blog post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, after a lovely day at the library perusing those handwritten parish records from about 1830s to the 1880s of St. Luke's Episcopal Church of Ypsilanti, Michigan, I came home and checked my email, and found an email from someone I didn't know {which happens a lot, btw} with 2 PDF attachments and no message. I usually delete those, but I knew my 2nd cousin was somewhere in the state taking photos of tombstones and the sender's email address was for a copy and print place in Giddings, Texas. {I Googled it.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I guessed that my 2nd cousin from Alabama had probably found my 2nd cousin that had left all those online clues. So I emailed him to see if he had been the one to send me these pics, and he called me later on that evening and confirmed that he'd found her!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Apparently life had happened to my other 2nd cousin and she hadn't been able to respond, but that she'd been doing genealogy for 50 years. And she had pictures and books and documents and letters and you name it. And when my 2nd cousin from Alabama was at the local copy/print place copying everything that my other 2nd cousin had so generously shared with him and he saw that pic of the Daniel and Annie, he said he knew I'd want to see it!<br /><br />Oh my, was he ever right about that! Did you <i>see</i> Daniel's awesome 'stache!!!! And Annie! I love how she has one hand on Henry Lewis and the other around Genevieve. And then Vyla's hand is on Annie's shoulder. And my Boo! {She's Alice on the left.} I have memories of Boo from when I was real little. And thanks to another cousin who found me on Facebook, I have some other photos of her including one from 1920, but to see her here with everyone one else? Wow.<br /><br />And then Henry Lewis. Another wow. When he grew up, I knew he had become a Master Mariner because I have his death certificate, and <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/he-had-salt-water-in-his-veins.html" target="_blank">my literary mind wondered about the stories he could tell</a>. In these photos, he looks bigger than life! And look at him on the boat. Just wow.<br /><br />I'm meeting with my 2nd cousin from Alabama either Sunday or Monday, and I can't wait to see what our other cousin shared about the Vaughan and O'Brien families with him. And if a copy of Daniel and Annie's church marriage record is in there with her mother's maiden name, well, then I won't have to order it. If not, I'll still order it because it's important that I have something that links Annie to James O'Brien and Jane Lennon. Of course, there might be other things that have been found. I won't know until I see everything and assess it all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then many of you probably saw my Facebook update the other day about all of this, but what you didn't see is that another first cousin who recently started following me messaged me that evening and said she remembered that her dad had some photos of Daniel from the Civil War, and that it'd been a while since she had seen them, but that she thought that he had had a drum in those photos. But she was gonna contact him and see what happened to those photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">{Dramatic pause.}</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is why I blog about my ancestors. {This isn't the first time I've hit the collaborative jackpot via my blog.}</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is why I don't wait until I have the whole story or all the facts. {If you want a cousin to contact you real quick-like, then blog something wrong. I mean, wrap it up with words like I think or I wonder or I guess, but my point is there is always someone who is gonna respond to that.}</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is why I not only research collaterals, but I blog about them as well. I just never know who is going to be Googling about their ancestor who might be related to my ancestor.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is why I Tweet. {Others are accessing my blog posts by the social media platform of their choosing, whether it be Twitter, Facebook, or Google+. And I meet <i>the most</i> remarkable people from around the world there. And then for some reason a few of them start looking for their ancestors. It's contagious, I think. I should probably come with a warning like, "Beware: following or interacting with me could very possibly lead you to wanting to learn about your family and where you come from."}</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is why I Facebook. {Even though I don't really like Facebook. It's not about me and what I prefer, but about the fact that so many others are on and like Facebook. And even when I post my blog posts there, life happens and they just don't click through on those links to my blog posts, but they certainly are reading Facebook updates. Note to self: Remember that.}</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-annie-archdiocese-of-new-orleans.html" target="_blank">In my last blog post</a>, I explained how the <a href="http://www.archdiocese-no.org/archives/genealogy.php" target="_blank">Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans Archives</a> seemed pretty serious about their instructions for genealogists. If I want a copy of my 2nd grandparent's marriage record, I either need to give them the church they were married in or the address of the residence(s) of participants in the marriage {In my case, Daniel and Annie's }, and preferably the bride's address.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And all I had was the info on their returned marriage license that indicates that the marriage was performed in NOLA and the returned marriage license was signed by a Rev. Gleason. And I knew from family lore that Annie was a devout Catholic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, <a href="http://www.archdiocese-no.org/archives/genealogy.php" target="_blank">as suggested by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans Archives' page for genealogists</a>, I attempted to consult the city directories for New Orleans for the time period around Daniel and Annie's New Orleans marriage in 1874. I did this by first surveying where all the directories are available to me {where I am located, a northern suburb of Houston}. And? If I could get it for free, that'd be nice. {Can I get an Amen?}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to FamilySearch.org and the New Orleans' public library, there are 2 different city of directories for this time period - Sourds and Edwards. Sourds is available on Ancestry.com to which I have a subscription, but? No listings for "my" Daniel Vaughan or no listing for "my" Annie O'Brien. {There are others, but I ruled them out by following them in the later city directories and censuses for NOLA when I know and can prove that my Daniel and Annie were living in Galveston, Texas with city directories, censuses, and their children's baptismal records.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I thought about ordering the films from the FHL, but I already have 4 films on order with them so I don't have to go meet {or bother} Brother Ed at the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.archsa.org/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio">Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio</a> Archives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I checked out what my local genealogical library, Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research, in Houston had on microfilm the last time I was there. In the online microprint database it indicated it had the NOLA city directories on microfilm, but didn't indicate from which publishers. So I went to Clayton.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And? They had both Sourds and Edwards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And? Not one Daniel Vaughan or Annie O'Brien in either one of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So? I looked up the witnesses listed on their returned marriage license in the city directories. I only found a "Katie S. Lennon" listed several years after Daniel's and Annie's marriage {when they were already living in Galveston, Texas according to the Galveston city directories and their children's baptismal records}.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then? I looked under the Gleason surname in the 1874 and 1875 city directories looking for the {or a} Re</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">v. Gleason that married them {or might have married them} and signed their marriage license before returning it. Bingo! A Rev. James Gleason {spelled 'Gleeson in 1874 and 'Gleason' in 1875} was listed as an "Assistant Pastor" at St. Alphonsus Church while living at the "Convent of Redemptorists".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This information matched the info that Finn so graciously found in that GenealogyBank.com newspaper article that he said indicated a Rev. Gleason {a deacon} had presided over a Father Duffy's funeral at St. Alphonsus Church in NOLA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But? Is this the church where Daniel and Annie were married in 1874? So, I decided to find out quickly what I could about St. Alphonsus and the Catholic Church in NOLA for this time period. So, of course, I Googled it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And these are the websites I found:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://tulane.edu/news/newwave/031711_irish.cfm" target="_blank">Irish Changed the Face of New Orleans by Ryan Rivet from tulane.edu</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.neworleansonline.com/neworleans/multicultural/multiculturalhistory/irish.html" target="_blank">The Irish in New Orleans from neworleansonline.com</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.gonola.com/2010/10/20/nola-history-the-three-churches-of-the-irish-channel.html" target="_blank">NOLA History: The Three Churches of the Irish Channel by Edward on gonola.com</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.stalphonsusneworleans.org/about.html" target="_blank">The Founding of FOSA from the About Page of stalphonsusneworleans.org</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Channel,_New_Orleans" target="_blank">Irish Channel, New Orleans from Wikipedia.org</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/projects/katrina/Campanella.html" target="_blank">An Ethnic Geography of New Orleans by Richard Campanella from journalofamericanhistory.org</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Alphonsus_Church,_New_Orleans" target="_blank">St. Alphonsus Church, New Orleans from wikipedia.org</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.stalphonsusneworleans.com/scripts/HostedSites/Org.asp?ID=19833" target="_blank">St. Alphonsus Parish - St. Mary's Assumption Church's from stalphonsusneworleans.com</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And this is my summary of what I found for what I need {But there's more & I highly recommend reading those links especially if you have Irish Catholic NOLA heritage}:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">St. Alphonsus Church parish in NOLA served the Roman Catholic Irish community in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.9338888889,-90.07&spn=0.1,0.1&q=29.9338888889,-90.07%20(Lower%20Garden%20District%2C%20New%20Orleans)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Lower Garden District, New Orleans">Lower Garden District</a> of NOLA, and that it was located right across the street from <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.9290972222,-90.074725&spn=0.01,0.01&q=29.9290972222,-90.074725%20(St.%20Mary%27s%20Assumption%20Church%20%28New%20Orleans%2C%20Louisiana%29)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="St. Mary's Assumption Church (New Orleans, Louisiana)">St. Mary's Assumption Church</a>, which served the German immigrant community in this time period. If you have the time and inclination, please read all about this community in the above links. {Wow. I learned a lot.}</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also found in these links that while St. Alphonsus is no longer an operating church it is open for visits to the public 3 days a week and that the Irish Channel, which is where the Irish immigrants lived in the Lower Garden District in this time period, throws "the best" St. Patrick's Day Parades every year</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. You know what all this means right? I NEED to go back to NOLA for St. Patrick's Day. You know, for research purposes. ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So. While I couldn't find an address for Daniel or Annie, I think I found the church they were married in. And there's only one way to find out for sure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mail or email the <a href="http://www.archdiocese-no.org/archives/genealogy.php" target="_blank">Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans Archives with the exact information they have so carefully and explicitly asked for when a genealogist is making an inquiry</a> naming St. Alphonsus Church as the church Daniel in Annie were married in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay, <b><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2013/01/annie-and-archdiocese-of-new-orleans.html" target="_blank">in my last post I mentioned I needed to find Annie's address in order to order her church marriage record from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans' Archives</a>.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I mentioned that I'd already looked - albeit half-heartedly and really I'd been looking for Daniel at the time - in Ancestry.com's database at the New Orleans City Directories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And it was suggested by Randy Seaver in the comments {Thank you, Randy! =) } that I should look at fold3.com's city directories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then it was suggested by Donna that I shouldn't need the address because I have the name of the priest and that's what they'd need the address for - to determine the parish/church. Thanks, Donna!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then Finn looked in the GenealogyBank.com database and found a newspaper mention of a Father Gleason, a Deacon, who had presided of a Father Duffy's funeral in September of 1874 at St. Alphonsus Church in New Orleans, but wasn't sure if a deacon could preside over a marriage in the Catholic church. Thanks Finn!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then Jennifer mentioned that a deacon can preside over a Catholic wedding nowadays, but wasn't sure if that was true in 1874. Also, Jennifer mentioned using the city directories to get a listing of the Catholic churches in 1874. Thanks Jennifer!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And? All of them were excellent suggestions, and I greatly appreciate their input. =)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, I was suggesting - and obviously I didn't do it very well - that I needed to get a better idea of what's available for city directories {and other information} for New Orleans for the time period. I know from previous research that there can be multiple publishings of city directories by multiple publishers for any given year for a city, and in my last post, I was hinting at needing to take a step back and getting a lay of the land on the city directories {not to mention for Catholic records}.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are there multiple city directories for NOLA for this time period? Where do I find a listing of them all that either once existed or still exist?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While I could go and renew my fold3.com subscription, how do I know if they have all the directories from all the publishers? While it's a different database, Ancestry.com only has 1 publisher's city directory for that time period - the one published by Sourd. And I can't tell just by glancing at their title, what fold3.com includes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, Donna is correct. Pick up the phone and call or email. But? <b><a href="http://www.archdiocese-no.org/archives/genealogy.php" target="_blank">Maybe I'm reading too much into their long and detailed page for genealogists, but I get the impression they mean business with their rules.</a></b> And while some archives have it all together, some don't. <b><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/12/dar-some-secrets-brother-ed-and-mayans.html" target="_blank">Remember my post about Brother Ed?</a></b> I'm looking for the info but they're busy and I haven't looked under every rock on the Internet or in my vicinity yet, IMO. {I was extremely kind and generous in my telling of my experience over the phone with Brother Ed in San Antonio. To my simple, polite, and direct inquiry - not demand - he was rather rude. However, he might have been having a bad day.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I do have a GenealogyBank.com subscription, but as I'm writing these blog posts, I'm performing the search, so I hadn't looked there yet for this particular information. However, we can't assume it's the same Rev. Gleason and we can't assume that was his parish. Probably, possibly, or maybe, but who knows? But a very, very good clue. Thank you for looking, Finn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Jennifer, you are correct. One good place to look for a listing of churches would be the city directories. {As a side note, I had looked in Sourd's city directory under the occupation of 'carpenter' for Daniel because in Galveston - where they are living after their marriage - Daniel had been a carpenter.} I've also used city directories for looking at businesses and such for other research problems. Thanks, Jennifer!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But? As I mentioned up above, I was - in my mind - thinking I needed to pause and take a survey of what's available to me for the city of New Orleans. I live near Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research in Houston, Texas, and since New Orleans is only 7 hours away and is in the state next to me, it would behoove me to check out what Clayton might have for this problem.<br /><br />Also, I checked the <b><a href="http://nutrias.org/~nopl/info/louinfo/citydir.htm" target="_blank">New Orleans main public library's website</a></b> as suggested by the Archdiocese of New Orleans' website to see if it listed not only years, but publishers of what they had and to see if they did look-ups. They have years but not publishers and they do look-ups. So I need to contact them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/results#count=20&query=%2Bplace%3A%22Louisiana,%20Orleans,%20New%20Orleans%22&subjectsOpen=368663-50" target="_blank">And I checked FamilySearch.org's online digital records - no city directories have been digitized, but they have quite a few directories for NOLA for the time period on microfilm listed in their catalog.</a></b> And? There are different publishers for the time period I'm looking for. They have Sourd's, which is what Ancestry.com has. But for the time period I'm looking at, they have Edwards' Annual Directory of the Inhabitants of New Orleans and then they have one published by an outfit in Connecticut in the 1980s that seems to include many, many years, but who was the original publisher of those directories? Is it all of the directories? If I were a betting woman, I'd bet that what they have is exactly what the NOLA public library has. But for all of them, each year is on a different roll. At $7.50 per roll and several years and possibly 2 publishers, that's going to get expensive. {Especially since I saved myself from meeting the contrary and definitely overworked and exasperated-sounding Brother Ed at the San Antonio Archdiocese Archives by ordering the films I needed from FHL concerning St. Mary's Catholic Church in San Antonio. I already have $30 worth of rental films coming my way. =) }</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So then I checked to see what Clayton had on microfilm. They definitely have some city directories for NOLA, but I can't tell which ones online. So then I checked their online catalog. What kind of books do they have for Orleans Parish, Louisiana? Books, of course, usually mean indices and not copies of originals, but, you know,<i> I'm looking to see</i> what and where everything is before deciding which avenue is the best to take for me considering, well, everything {including over-worked and under-funded archives}.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And they have some books covering city directories. But?<b> <a href="http://catalog.houstonlibrary.org/search~S1?/XOrleans%2C+Louisiana&l=&m=&b=icla&SORT=D/XOrleans%2C+Louisiana&l=&m=&b=icla&SORT=D&SUBKEY=Orleans%2C+Louisiana/1%2C95%2C95%2CB/frameset&FF=XOrleans%2C+Louisiana&l=&m=&b=icla&SORT=D&49%2C49%2C" target="_blank">Lo and behold, they had 10 volumes entitled <i>Sacramental Records of the Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of New Orleans</i> from the Archives of the Archdiocese of New Orleans.</a></b> What does it have in it exactly? I dunno. Is it just indexed info of what the archives has? I dunno. If it is just indexed info, which info did they include? I dunno. Is it transcriptions? I dunno. Does it include 1874? It has a list of years included, but 1874 isn't listed. But I need to double check it. Could be wrong or incomplete.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I'm going to found out what's in those 10 volumes of Roman Catholic NOLA awesomeness. I'm going to see what info they contain as well as what publishers Clayton includes in their microfilm and book offerings for NOLA city directories because I want their marriage record, but I want Annie's address too. I've been to NOLA several times, and I've been tempted to take one of the tours that takes you to the area where Irish immigrants lived back then {or I could just save the money and drive down the street myself}, but it's always bothered me not knowing where Annie lived exactly. I wanna know what I'm looking at when I go and see. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">{And I need to go to Clayton anyway.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I want their marriage record as well to see if it gives me any more clues as to who Annie was and who her parents were. I wanna see if the info on their church marriage record matches the info I found on Daniel and Annie's returned marriage license. Did Rev. Gleason accidentally write down married names for their mothers, or is that what was on their church marriage record as well? What other info could be on there? Quite a bit or not much more?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But when I contact the archives and maybe the library for the info, I want to make sure I have as much info as possible so that it's easier on them as well.</span><br />
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<i style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Note: If you have some recommendations of places to look for those Louisiana records or any others, please let me know in comments below. However, please refrain from doing the actual research yourself. I know it's tempting and I appreciate the gesture, but I'd like to do it myself unless it's totally impossible for me to do it. Thanks! ~C</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Other blog posts relating to my DAR and EUL application research:</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/04/dar-or-bust.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Family Stories: DAR or Bust</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-do-you-get-when-loyalist-line.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Family Stories: Loyalist + Patriot = ?</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/06/boos-baptismal-records-came-in-youre.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Family Stories: Boo's Baptismal Records Came In! </a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-baby-boy.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">A Baby Boy</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/he-had-salt-water-in-his-veins.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">He Had Salt Water in His Veins</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/i-knew-it-genevieve.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">I Knew it Genevieve</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/08/viola-vyla-prudence-vaughan-sproul.html" style="color: #d52a33;" target="_blank">Viola "Vyla" Prudence Vaughan Sproul Clifton Brandenburg</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/08/stories-within-old-lighthouse.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Stories Within the Old Lighthouse</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/12/james-wesley-blacketers-story-continues.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">James Wesley Blacketer's Story Continues...</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/12/dar-some-secrets-brother-ed-and-mayans.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">DAR, Some Secrets, Brother Ed, and the Mayans</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/12/collaborative-genealogy-works.html" style="color: #7d181e; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">Collaborative Genealogy Works</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2013/01/annie-im-one-step-closer-to-finding-you.html" target="_blank">Annie, I'm One Step Closer to Finding You</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2013/01/annie-and-archdiocese-of-new-orleans.html" target="_blank">Annie and the Archdiocese of New Orleans</a></span><br />
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Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440331516671118735noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8610655125390402869.post-82933120570373168672013-01-15T00:00:00.000-06:002013-01-15T00:00:11.091-06:00Annie and the Archdiocese of New Orleans<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay, I looked. Well, I Googled. <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2013/01/annie-im-one-step-closer-to-finding-you.html" target="_blank">After the marriage record success of yesterday's find which came by mail from Louisiana</a>, I took a 10 minute break to eat lunch and then Googled the Archdiocese of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.9647222222,-90.0705555556&spn=0.1,0.1&q=29.9647222222,-90.0705555556%20(New%20Orleans)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>. And according to <a href="http://www.archdiocese-no.org/archives/genealogy.php" target="_blank">their very helpful and very long and detailed information concerning how a genealogist goes about finding a marriage record for their 2nd great grandparents who married somewhere in New Orleans {and hopefully in a Catholic church} in 1874</a>, I found the following information useful for my needs:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cut-off for privacy and full access is 1930. {Excellent.}</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I don't know the exact church of where the sacrament took place, I must include detailed information like parent's names, exact date of sacrament, who performed the marriage, if it was a marriage, etc. {No problemo.}</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For marriages after 1845, requests must include the name of the church or the address of the applicants, especially the bride's. {Crap.}</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have previously checked the city directories for New Orleans on Ancestry.com with no luck for Annie and maybe some luck for Daniel although it's not conclusive. One Daniel Vaughn/Vaughan is definitely not him, but a Dan Vaughn may be him. Can't tell for sure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So. I will check other online places for the directories. Does Ancestry have them all? According to the 1900 census, Annie came to America in 1872 {And who knows how accurate that is? I've previously looked for her on passenger records and on immigration records with no success}, and I believe the city directories on Ancestry.com had thru 1871 and not 1872, 1873, or 1874 and then they pick up after that . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I'll also check to see if Clayton Library has them or if FamilySearch.org lists anything for them or if they have them on microfilm. And I'll definitely check to see if the New Orleans main library does lookups of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So. I need to survey what is available for New Orleans City Directories and look for an address for Annie if I want the Archdiocese of New Orleans Archives to look for Daniel and Annie's marriage record. Or send in the request with the so-so address I have for a Dan Vaughan. And I really don't like that option.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or? I could do some in-depth looking for a Rev. Gleason in city directories and newspapers to try to narrow which Catholic Parish he was working in around 1874. Surely he presided over a funeral that was written up in an New Orleans newspaper in 1874, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This past weekend, I had the honor and privilege of attending a wedding in a small country Texas town, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.1352777778,-96.2569444444&spn=0.1,0.1&q=30.1352777778,-96.2569444444%20(Chappell%20Hill%2C%20Texas)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Chappell Hill, Texas">Chappell Hill</a>. The exchange of vows took place in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaus_of_Szczepan%C3%B3w" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Stanislaus of Szczepanów">St. Stanislaus</a> <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Catholic Church">Roman Catholic Church</a> which was established in 1889, and it's very beautiful, and the ceremony was beautiful as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And as I was listening to the priest conduct the ceremony, it wasn't very hard to let my genealogy and family history imagination take over. Who else had been married in this church? Is this hardwood floor original to the church? Where do they keep their records? Who was baptized here? And did the original Polish-German settlers and communicants of this church here in Chappell Hill have as hard of a time understanding their priest as I do this one? Probably not because they would have spoken Polish or German, and I do not. {Yes, the priest on Saturday spoke English, but it was with a very heavy German accent.} Of course, Catholic services in 1889 would probably have been spoken in Latin, right? So, perhaps past parishioners had been just as in the dark as I was on Saturday. {I'm <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_Church_%28United_States%29" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Episcopal Church (United States)">Episcopalian</a>, and our liturgical services are quite similar so I was able to follow fine, but I do like to listen and understand the Gospel and sermon. Most of the time. ;) }</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Needless to say, my mind wandered on Saturday evening during the ceremony. I even thought about Daniel and Annie's {my 2nd great grandparent's} marriage in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.nola.gov/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="New Orleans">New Orleans, Louisiana</a>, in 1874. Yes, I'd ordered a copy of their marriage record from the Secretary of State, Archives Division in Louisiana thanks to </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">Jennifer Sepulvado'</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">s suggestion for my Daughter's of the American Revolution (DAR) and United Empire Loyalist (UEL) applications, but knowing from family stories handed down orally in my family that Annie was a devout Irish Catholic, and knowing from my research that Daniel might have grown up as an Episcopalian {like myself}, I've often wandered what church they were married in. Who stood up for them? What were they wearing? Who married them? What kind of flowers did Annie hold, if any?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You know, the usual stuff that goes on in a genealogist's or family historian's mind during a wedding in a very old church.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, if I'd been at home on Saturday I would have checked my mail, and I could have had some answers to my questions about Daniel and Annie's wedding. And more clues. But then on this cold and drizzly day, it sure was nice to find their marriage record in the mailbox.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's right. My marriage record copy order was completed in a very timely fashion. A huge thank you goes out to the Archives Division, Secretary of State of Louisiana because I now have in my possession a copy of Daniel and Annie's marriage record from 1874.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I've ordered other marriage records before for other branches in my tree {and for other people}, and sometimes you get less information or clues than you were expecting and sometimes you get more. I prefer to just not think about it and expect less so that when I open up the envelope, and find out more than what I expected, then I'm pleasantly surprised. {Read: Jumping up and down with joy.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And this is definitely one of those occasions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to their marriage a copy of their returned marriage license filed in Book No. 5, Folio 255, Mr. D.R. Vaughn and Miss Annie O'Brien were married by Rev. Gleason on 19 Mar 1874. The returned marriage license clearly states that D.R. Vaughn was 27 years old and a native of New Orleans, and his parents {That's right HIS PARENTS.} were B.J. Vaughn and Susanna Vaughn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It also clearly states that Annie O'Brien was a native of Ireland and that she was the daughter of James O'Brien and Jane O'Brien. Their witnesses were a W.L. Leibrock and a Katie L. Lennon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The marriage license was issued on 17 Mar 1874 by the Hon. John Daley and received back and filed in Book 5, Folio 255 on 23 Mar 1874.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, just because this is a photocopy of the of it does not mean the information is 100% correct. It's not. First, This is a photocopy of the returned marriage license filed in Book 5, Folio 255, and because of its photocopied state, it's considered a derivative of the original. However, in my opinion, it's a very good photocopy and it's clear to read and understand.<br /><br />The other thing to consider is that the information on the returned marriage license was filled out probably by Rev. Gleason. It was probably signed by him, Daniel, and Annie. They were a part of the ceremony. The witnesses would have signed as well and, duh, they were witnesses. So the information on here <i>concerning Daniel and Annie's marriage</i> is as accurate as I can get without seeing the original returned marriage license with my own eyes and without attending their wedding ceremony {which would have been impossible}. The information concerning their marriage is primary. It also is direct information to my research question for my DAR and UEL applications. When {date} and where {city, county, state} were Daniel and Annie married? They were married 19 Mar 1874 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. And it corroborates other information and documents I have found concerning their marriage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, the information concerning Daniel's age and parents would have come from Daniel and not very close in time to the actual event. Yes, Daniel was there when he was born, but I was there when I was born, and I cannot attest to, well, anything on that day. {And you can't either concerning your own birth.} But according to what I've known all my life and my birth certificate, my age that I know it to be is correct. {Unfortunately.} So while I don't have his birth information nor his baptismal information {Microfilm is on order.}, I do have census information, his death certificate, and military information and the age recorded on his marriage record is in line with what I've found on those documents. And the same goes for his parent's names. {And I'm not even upset that his mother's maiden name isn't given. I already have it. It would've been nice for corroboration, though.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, the same kind of thinking goes for Annie's given information. Interestingly, her age isn't listed. Annie would have been *counts on fingers* about 20 years old. I say, about because according to her death certificate, she was born 21 Jul 1853 so IF that's correct, when she married, she hadn't turned 21 yet. {If my math is correct. I hate math.} And, apparently, she told the priest who married them, Rev. Gleason, that she was a native of Ireland, and this corroborates everything I've learned about Annie via family lore as well as census records, her death certificate, her children's baptismal records, and her children's death certificates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What's really awesome about this marriage record is the listing of Annie's parents. I assume Annie volunteered the information to Rev. Gleason. {Who else would have? Okay, maybe Daniel, but I've NO evidence that he knew them at all. Ever. Which means I know nothing.} So. This photocopy of the marriage record corroborates the information given on her death certificate by her youngest son, Daniel Warren Vaughan, that her father was, indeed, a James O'Brien. All still very secondhand, but I love clues that don't contradict each other, especially since trying to find an Annie J. O'Brien whose father might be a James O'Brien in Catholic Irish records in maybe Dublin Ireland seems so very daunting. {Amen?}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And? This marriage record reveals Annie's mother's name...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jane O'Brien. Which is totally new news for me. Now, I'm going to suggest that just as Daniel's mother's surname listed on the marriage record was not her maiden name, that probably Jane's maiden name is not O'Brien. But? Hello? I have her first name {if it's correct}! Unfortunately, it's a very common name, but I'm SO not gonna complain. {It could've been Mary. My tin cup is always half full and <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-bet-my-tin-cup.html" target="_blank">according to family lore so was Annie's</a>.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/i-knew-it-genevieve.html" target="_blank">remember, from Genevieve's {Daniel's and Annie's daughter's} baptismal record</a> we learned that one of Genevieve's real names {As opposed to the one she went by her almost entire life because why make it easy on me?} was Jane. And from the census records and elsewhere, I've learned that Annie's middle initial is a "J." So the hint of Annie's naming patterns surfaces once again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It also surfaces on the marriage record in another place - in the revealing of the the witnesses names. As I mentioned above, the second witness was a Katie L. Lennon.<a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/i-knew-it-genevieve.html" target="_blank"> And we know from Genevieve's baptismal record and census records that Genevieve's middle name was Lennon.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This clue leads me to 2 additional research paths. I need to research both of these witnesses to discern their relationship to the happy couple. Who were they to Daniel and Annie? Also, it means if there is no relationship between Katie and Annie I probably don't need to keep the name 'Lennon' in mind when I eventually look for Annie's origins in Ireland. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last clue that it gives me is that they were married by a Rev. Gleason. This indicates they were married in a church...a church that has records. {Oh yeah.} So now I need to track down a Rev. Gleason in probably a Catholic church in 1874. I think that's do-able. At least trying to find him is do-able. Certainly, I don't need it for my DAR and UEL applications, but who knows what kind of info it contains? Does it corroborate or contradict this marriage record or anything else I've found or know? And wouldn't it be nice the next time I go back to New Orleans to be able to visit and photograph the church where they were married if it's still there? So, I'll definitely hunt down {or at least try to} Rev. Gleason and the church Daniel and Annie were married in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As far as my DAR and UEL applications are concerned, this marriage record is just what I needed for acceptable evidence of their marriage event for both applications. And since it's Daniel's maternal and paternal lines that hold the Patriot and Loyalist, respectively, needed for my applications, it would seem it's all good in this respect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But it's also given me many clues for further research on Annie's origins and the rest of her line and hers and Daniel's wedding day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm a step closer to the completion of my DAR and UEL applications.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, Annie, I'm one step closer to finding you. {Um. Not physically, just your origins. And whatever stories I can find about you and anyone remotely related to you. And me.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~Caroline</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other blog posts pertaining to my DAR & UEL quests & some related tangents {In case you're really bored.}:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/04/dar-or-bust.html" target="_blank">Family Stories: DAR or Bust</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-do-you-get-when-loyalist-line.html" target="_blank">Family Stories: Loyalist + Patriot = ?</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/06/boos-baptismal-records-came-in-youre.html" target="_blank">Family Stories: Boo's Baptismal Records Came In! </a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-baby-boy.html" target="_blank">A Baby Boy</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/he-had-salt-water-in-his-veins.html" target="_blank">He Had Salt Water in His Veins</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/i-knew-it-genevieve.html" target="_blank">I Knew it Genevieve</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/08/viola-vyla-prudence-vaughan-sproul.html" target="_blank">Viola "Vyla" Prudence Vaughan Sproul Clifton Brandenburg</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/08/stories-within-old-lighthouse.html" target="_blank">Stories Within the Old Lighthouse</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/12/james-wesley-blacketers-story-continues.html" target="_blank">James Wesley Blacketer's Story Continues...</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/12/dar-some-secrets-brother-ed-and-mayans.html" target="_blank">DAR, Some Secrets, Brother Ed, and the Mayans</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/12/collaborative-genealogy-works.html" target="_blank">Collaborative Genealogy Works</a></span><br />
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Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440331516671118735noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8610655125390402869.post-46187505704216027602012-12-22T07:44:00.001-06:002012-12-22T07:50:08.250-06:00Collaborative Genealogy WorksOkay. This is awesome. I shared in my last post quite a bit on where I was on my DAR & UEL applications. {Probably too much. Boring, no?}<br />
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Anywho, I posted and then went about my Christmas preparations which are quite a bit right now, a couple of days before Christmas.<br />
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But? I had had asked a question to y'all at the end of my post which is something I suggest on my blog, BloggingGenealogy.com, family history bloggers do at the end of their blog posts to get readers engaged as well as to encourage collaboration from readers and most especially potential cousins.<br />
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I asked y'all if y'all had any suggestions especially on the Louisiana records that I needed to survey more.<br />
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And I received some awesome suggestions, some of which I knew about {and that's good because I may not have known about them}. <br />
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And then Jennifer Sepulvado suggested the online index of marriages from the Louisiana Archives and if its there, then a copy of the marriage license can be ordered online for $5.<br />
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So, guess who just ordered a copy of Daniel and Annie's marriage license from 1874?<br />
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The same person who owes Jennifer a huge BIG THANK YOU!<br />
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Me. Daniel & Annie's 2nd great granddaughter.<br />
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So, how's that for fast collaborative genealogy?<br />
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Note: Thank you to everyone for your suggestions. Keep them coming! :)<br />
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Another Note: I quickly did this blog post on my iPhone using the Blogger app. It's an on-the-go-post 'cause I'm on-the-go with Christmas prep {Read: shopping & baking.}.<br />
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And Another Note: The Mayans were wrong and it turns out I have to do the work.<br />
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~Caroline<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every time I go to a DAR event [and I'd say even the meetings are events...pomp and circumstance...which is a very nice surprise amidst my usual days filled with mediocrity] and every time I go to my GenSoc meetings, I feel the pressure to get my DAR app completed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's not a bad kind of pressure, and it certainly comes from myself. So while working on several app reviews for my 4YourFamilyStory.com site and while monitoring the new Google Plus Communities that Kenneth R. Marks [from <a href="http://theancestorhunt.com/">TheAncestorHunt.com</a> blog] and I created and while Christmas shopping, I've been going over my research plans trying to figure out what I need to do so I can get my DAR [<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_the_American_Revolution" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Daughters of the American Revolution">Daughter of the American Revolution</a>] and my UEL [<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Empire_Loyalist" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="United Empire Loyalist">United Empire Loyalist</a>] applications completed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then I got my 23andMe DNA results and I was sidetracked for a while. {And, no, the results won't help me with this research problem. That would have been nice though.}</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But now I'm back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So. I thought I'd list what I need to do next. {And, no, this is not my research plan, my research plans, or my research log. This is a very informal update of where I am and what I plan to do next and some of the reasons why. My formal research plans and research log are located in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://office.microsoft.com/onenote/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Microsoft OneNote">OneNote</a> in table and narrative formats.} </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After consulting with my DAR Chapter's Registrar by phone a month ago, I found that I don't need to take my supposed Patriot line back to my supposed-but-proven-for-others-Patriot, Melchior Stock because his son, who is my proposed ancestor, Matthias Stock is also a proven-for-others-Patriot. [That's right 2 of them are proven Patriots.] But? I don't even have to prove Matthias' relationship to his son Michael Stock/Stuck [my ancestor] because it's already been done via another descendant of Michael's, through one of <i>his</i> sons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I don't descend through that same son of Michael's. Nope. I descend through one of his daughters, Margaret Barbara Stuck who married a Mr. Rook and their daughter, Susannah Rook married Benjamin Brown Vaughan, and it's through their son, Daniel Rook Vaughan, that I descend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, him and the very Catholic Annie J. O'Brien from Ireland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">{As a sidenote, my cousin who descends from Daniel and Annie & who found me through this blog, is coming to Texas in January to photograph tombstones, including Daniel's and Annie's. And since I think I found it last year, but it's broken and was too heavy to turn over and verify, we're looking into identifying it and getting it repaired. So we've been collaborating on family info and such via email. Bonus!}</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anywho. My work was lessened somewhat by my local DAR Chapter's Registrar and I found a cousin and I got my DNA test results back. It's raining genealogy here, no?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, and I checked with my local DAR Chapter's Regent about my grandfather. {We're in the same GenSoc and I strategically sat by her at the Christmas Party a little over a week ago, which was a blast, BTW.} Anywho, <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/12/james-wesley-blacketers-story-continues.html" target="_blank">I told her about my grandfather probably not being divorced before he married my Gran</a>, and she asked if they'd married, and I said yes, and she said no problem. So. My wayward grandfather isn't going to be a stumbling block on my road to DAR membership. {At least, not yet.}</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So. Here's what I still need to get and what I have for each generation:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Death</b> - Can I order a copy of my Gran's death certificate? No. Her death occurred less than 25 years ago here in Texas and for recent deaths {less than 25 years} only immediate-to-her family members can order them. So. I have one aunt and a couple of uncles that could order it, but I'm not close to them nor in touch with them. However, I do have an aunt-by-marriage that I am in touch with so I can ask her if she happens to have a copy. If not, then I'll need to turn to some secondary documentation. An obit would be nice and since I was there at my Gran's funeral and know that my Mom created the obituary, I happen to know my Gran had one. So I need to look for that. She does appear in the Texas Death Index as well as the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Disability_Insurance" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Social Security Disability Insurance">SSDI</a>. <a href="https://secure.ssa.gov/apps9/eFOIA-FEWeb/internet/main.jsp" target="_blank">So once I get a copy of her obituary, I can send off for a copy of her Social Security Application.</a> Also, when I go to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.4166666667,-98.5&spn=0.1,0.1&q=29.4166666667,-98.5%20(San%20Antonio)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="San Antonio">San Antonio</a>, I need to visit Gran and snap a photo of her tombstone. {Of course, tombstones can be wrong and not very reliable information-wise - especially for birth info - but I'd like it for my records. And I'll be there, so why not?}</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Birth</b> - The problem with her birth is that it </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">seems to vary by 1 or 2 years in the census records {which is not unusual, but in her case it doesn't make sense because of her birthday versus the date of enumeration on the census records} and is {maybe} unclear on her U.S. Passport Application. And I'll write more in detail later after I try to obtain some better documentation, which brings me to her Good-Better-Best documentation options for her birth event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><u>Best case scenario</u></i> would be a copy of her birth record. However, according to <i>The Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists: The Essential Guide to American County and Town Sources</i>, edited by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack and Erin Nevius, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">statewide birth recordings didn't start until 1914 in Louisiana; Rapides Parish is an original Parish; and there is no information listed for birth records in the Parish at all (pp.282-283 and pp. 293-294). And further general information about birth records is given for after statewide recordings began and Catholic church records are suggested for before (pp.282-283). Additionally, a survey of Clayton Library for Genealogical Research's Microprint Collection and their online card catalog yielded nothing for finding birth records before statewide recordings in Louisiana around my Gran's birth year. And a look at FamilySearch.org's online databases as well as their online card catalog yielded nothing as well as for birth records for Rapides Parish, Louisiana before statewide recordings of births and for around the time she was born. So, unless someone out there knows of anything else, I'm going to say - right now - that it probably doesn't exist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u style="font-style: italic;">Better case scenario</u> would be her baptismal record. I</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> found on an index on FamilySearch.org that she was baptized in San Antonio, Texas in 1913 at St. Mary's Catholic Church downtown. So after such a resounding success with obtaining my Boo's {Gran's mother} baptismal record from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston Archives, I thought this might not be as difficult as I once thought. However, I talked to a very over-worked Brother Ed at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio Archives, and they're understaffed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And he informed me it'd be quicker if I could just come down there and do it myself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So. A trip to San Antonio {3 hours away} to rummage around the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio Archives looking for my Gran's baptismal record is now on my agenda.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><u>Good case scenario</u></i> would be a copy of her Social Security Application, it should have her birth date and place and her parent's names, but depending on when that was applied for, this will more than likely be a secondary document for her birth information and second best to her baptismal record, in my opinion, even though she would probably have needed her birth certificate {which I think doesn't exist}or an affidavit to apply for it, but it's direct because it should answer the question of her birth event. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And this is the thinking behind my opinion: If her 'later' baptism was in 1913, then her baptismal record would be preferable because that would have been created closer to the event of her birth. And would clear up {or maybe not} her birth year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But then what evidence did they provide for her Social Security Application and what, if any, did they provide for her baptism? Thus, I'm gonna try to get both. So, we'll see what we can get. And we'll see what we can see with what we get. {And perhaps her SSA is the <i>better case scenario</i> and her baptismal record is the <i>good case scenario</i>.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">{My suspicion is that my Gran was born before my Boo and Claudius were married and my very Catholic Boo tried to keep this under wraps. {And may be the reason my Gran was born in Cheneyville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana while the rest of the family was in Texas.} So, through trying to find evidence, I'll be exposing her secret, which I'm sure I'm going to hear about it from her in the After Life, which may be tomorrow, according to the Mayans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I need to collect what evidence I can, and write a proof argument for her birth based on the evidence and my interpretation of the evidence. {But not before tomorrow because I may not have to do the work.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then I'll go downtown to the courthouse and look for their civil marriage record and their divorce record. {Thanks to my Big Paw Paw's, my Dad's Dad, penchant for women and lawsuits in Bexar County, I know where to go for divorce records.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...St. Mary's Catholic Church downtown San Antonio. So. I'll snap a pic of that. {And perhaps I'll partake of some Holy Water on the forehead, some prayer, and maybe even light a candle. Lord knows my family lines and research need it, eh?}</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>James Wesley Blacketer</b> {My naughty grandfather. The naughty one that is NOT<a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2011/04/was-it-really-worth-it.html" target="_blank"> Big Paw Paw, who also happens to be quite naughty in his own right and lived in San Antonio as well.</a>}</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Death</b> - I have his death certificate compliments of FamilySearch.org and<a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2009/12/tombstone-tuesday-my-grandfather.html" target="_blank"> I already visited him at his grave located at Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio and snapped a photo of his tombstone.</a> {But his birth date is off by 2 years on his tombstone.} Oh, and I have his 2 obituaries, which the second has proven to be quite enlightening on some future stories of him, but nothing I need for my applications.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Birth</b> - According to all documentation that I've collected on him, he was born in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa. Now, <a href="http://www.idph.state.ia.us/apl/common/pdf/vital_records/birth_application.pdf" target="_blank">according to Iowa</a>, I can order it as long as no one really dwells too much on the 'legal' part. {You know, that part where I'm not quite too sure he ever divorced his first wife before he married my Gran.} But while searching in FamilySearch.org, an index indicates that he was baptized a month after his marriage to my Gran at St. Mary's Catholic Church downtown San Antonio. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, why would he do that? Simple. {I think.} To get the marriage blessed by the Catholic Church. Because if you don't think that my Gran's Gran, the very Catholic Annie O'Brien from Ireland and her mother, my very Catholic Boo {Alice Florence Vaughan Truitt} weren't fit to be tied when they found out about my Gran entering into marital bliss with James via a civil union, you're just plain crazy. Well, that's my {maybe intelligent but could be very wrong} guess anyways. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So. While I'm rummaging around the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio Archives for my Gran's baptismal record and their marriage blessing, I'll have a look-see for James' very-late-but-very-necessary-to-my-Gran {and her mother and her Gran and the Catholic Church} baptismal record as well. At the same time, though, I'll order his birth record from Iowa. It's $15 and what's the worst they can say? No? And why would they? He was born in Iowa and grew up and married the first time in Missouri. {Not that he actually <i>told</i> anyone that. I've just dug around a lot for that info. And wouldn't you know? <i>That </i>marriage record was much easier to get.}</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Birth</b> -<a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/08/stories-within-old-lighthouse.html?utm_source=BP_recent" target="_blank"> I already obtained her baptismal record.</a> And many thanks to the <i>not</i> understaffed </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston Archives for that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Marriage</b> - Boo and ol' <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2010/01/aaaaah-shyuuuddup.html" target="_blank">Claudius Roy Truitt {a.k.a., The Jerk}</a> were married in San Antonio, or so says a book of San Antonio marriages in the genealogy department at my local library {15 minutes away.}, Montgomery County Memorial Library. And? Because the lovely local library is in possession of the microfilm that contains their marriage record in Bexar County, I need to go snap a copy of that. {It's there. I've seen it. I just didn't get a copy at the time.} But? My Boo divorced 'The Jerk' in San Antonio, so while I'm at the courthouse in San Antonio, I might as well snag that record too, no? {'Cause I've learned from Big Paw Paw that sometimes divorce records are boring and sometimes they're not, but they're always full of info and stories.} And maybe I'll even look for their marriage record at the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio Archives. 'Cause why not? {Of course, they may not have married there. But I'll be there right next to the very over-worked Brother Ed. <i>So why not look?</i>}</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Death</b> - I have his death certificate via FamilySearch.org, and<a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2010/01/aaaaah-shyuuuddup.html" target="_blank"> I hunted down his tombstone here in Houston and snapped a photo of it already.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">{So. Basically, 'ol Claudius was reportedly a jerk in real life, but so far, he's not been a jerk to me and my research. So there's that.}</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Birth</b> - Daniel was born in 1847 in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co, Michigan. And because his father's line is the Loyalist line, and because his father was baptized in the Church of England up in Noyan, Quebec, and because I have a suspicion {Thanks to a published history of the wee town of Ypsilanti.} Daniel's grandfather was the sexton of the still-open <a href="http://www.stlukesypsi.org/" target="_blank">St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Ypsilanti</a> and may be buried in the church's cemetery, I think Daniel's - if he was baptized and his family was Episcopalian {like me} like I suspect, baptismal records just might be there. I've already contacted them and they informed me that their records are archived in Ann Arbor which at the time didn't take email or snail mail lookup requests. But according to a recent search in FamilySearch.org, they've microfilmed them since the last time I searched. So I'll be placing a rental order. Of course, I could be wrong about their church membership, but I'll deal with that when I have to, if I have to. {His mother's line was decidedly Lutheran and Ypsilanti is a wee town.} So, on second thought, maybe I'll order the microfilm of the local Lutheran Church's records too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>And here is the Loyalist-Patriot split. </b>Daniel's paternal line is the Loyalist line, and his maternal line is the Patriot line. But? I'll save that for another time. {And if you've made it this far in my ramblings, you should receive a reward from me,<i> like me</i> <i>stopping for now</i>.}</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So. Me and some cemetery visits, some picture-taking, a new cousin, some microfilm ordering and reading, <i>another</i> visit to the Bexar County Courthouse, a visit to St. Mary's Cathedral, a visit to the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio Archives, and Brother Ed are all on the horizon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other folks go to San Antonio for The Alamo. I'm going for some naughty ancestors. Again. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Note: If you have some recommendations of places to look for those Louisiana records or any others, please let me know in comments below. However, please refrain from doing the actual research yourself. I know it's tempting and I appreciate the gesture, but I'd like to do it myself unless it's totally impossible for me to do it. And this is partly why I didn't give full dates even though I am aware of them and they are in my research plans. And I'm sure I glossed over a bunch of stuff including my complete thought processes, so if you're confused or have any questions or suggestions, please let me know in comments below.</i></span></div>
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Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440331516671118735noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8610655125390402869.post-69589671123201458702012-12-06T13:30:00.002-06:002013-04-22T10:18:16.368-05:00James Wesley Blacketer's Story Continues...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"He used to walk around in his underwear."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"Excuse me?"<br /><br />"He used to walk around in his underwear in their house. Didn't matter who was around either. Boo never liked it at all. But he thought he was 'something'."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'd imagine that my great grandmother,<b> <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2009/05/he-irish-eyes-they-were-smilin.html" target="_blank">affectionately known and called 'Boo'</a></b>, thought it was highly improper and scandalous for her son-in-law {my grandfather}, James Wesley Blacketer, to walk around in his underwear. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I'd overheard when I was a child that my grandfather was a 'jerk' and <b><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2010/07/shockingly-pink-shell.html" target="_blank">I knew from my mom that he'd divorced the family -my Gran and all 8 children- because he really had been in love with my Gran, but wasn't too keen on being a father, or at least that was what my mom told me how she felt about it. And him.</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I also knew he'd been married before because I have a copy of his marriage certificate and his World War I draft registration card that shows he'd been married before. Couple that with the carefully guarded but often whispered rumors in the family about another family of his, and, well, the whole I-like-to-prance-around-in-my-underwear-while-at-home-but-not-alone tidbit about my grandfather, while not surprising, was, um, definitely shocking.<br /><br />And, really, at the time I spoke with my aunt I was kind of in awe because I'd never met this aunt, or don't remember meeting her because there'd been a family feud in my mom's family when I was younger. So, while I knew her name and knew {by name only} which brother of my mom's she had married, I'd never really known her. And thanks to Facebook and a first cousin who found me there {son of a different aunt and uncle who'd been on the other side of the feud}, I met him in person and my aunt by telephone. And they were all too willing and extremely generous with their family stories, remembrances, rumors, and pictures of the family. {And I cannot thank them enough.}<br /><br />That's right. Family pictures. Ones that included my grandfather...with his clothes on. {Thank goodness.}<br /><br /><i>"So, how did you learn about him walking around in his underwear?"</i> {Not that I doubted her. I mean, who can make this kinda stuff up? And who would want to?!?}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"I used to do Boo's hair at my house later on in her life and she used to tell me things. She never liked your grandfather."</i> {Not hard to guess why.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"...and your grandfather's niece got a hold of Gran many years ago. She had done the family's genealogy and tracked Gran down. And that's when Gran found out he had had another family."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">{Whoa! Right?} My aunt went on to explain how this niece told my grandmother that while my grandfather, James Wesley, had been away from home in Missouri during World War I, he just never came back. They assumed he had died. And by 'they' I mean his mother, father, siblings, his first wife, and their 2 children. Of course, they never received confirmation of his death, but they never knew what had had happened to him. With some Ancestry.com searching, where I originally found the record of his marriage to his first wife, I had already known that his first wife went on to remarry. {So, that wasn't new news to me, but the niece contacting my Gran was.}<br /><br />And my grandfather met my grandmother and married by 1919 in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.4166666667,-98.5&spn=0.1,0.1&q=29.4166666667,-98.5%20(San%20Antonio)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="San Antonio">San Antonio</a>. {I hope there's some kind of divorce to his first wife on record because otherwise, I can say buh-bye to my DAR - <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_the_American_Revolution" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Daughters of the American Revolution">Daughters of the American Revolution</a> - application with this bit of info. Although, the UEL - <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Empire_Loyalist" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="United Empire Loyalist">United Empire Loyalists</a> - may still take me.} Anywho, lots of detailed offline researching is in order for my DAR and UEL membership quest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, like I mentioned previously, my cousin {who found me on Facebook} shared his family history notebook that he'd compiled with photos and documentation from my Gran's niece {obtained through my aunt} as well as from his own personal collection of photos of his side of the family taken over the years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, remember,</span><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/06/james-wesley-blacketer-and-his-legacy.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank"><b> I never met my grandfather because he committed suicide in 1951. And the only image I've seen of him is a black and white photocopy of him from the backside of his passport application that I found on Ancestry.com.</b></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, to say that I was thankful and fascinated by my grandfather's images shared with me by my cousin is an understatement. {I mean, I actually had tears in my eyes in the middle of a crowded Starbucks where my cousin and I met and swapped stories and family information. That's right. My cousin lives nearby.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My cousin later emailed me more photos that he had of the family that hadn't yet made his notebook <i>including color images of my grandfather's passport with the original passport photo of which I'd only seen the photocopy version</i>. {My grandfather<b><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2009/05/he-irish-eyes-they-were-smilin.html" target="_blank"> needed said passport when he worked and lived in Tampico, Mexico right after he married my grandmother.</a></b>}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And when I gaze at my grandfather's photos - after the emotion over the enormity of the situation lessens - all I can think is, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"He used to walk around the house in his underwear in front of everyone."</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, that and the fact that I just found out that my grandfather appears on an arson investigation list in San Antonio less than a year before he committed suicide and those records are located in the City of San Antonio Archives which is open to the public. And that according to a recently found obituary of my grandfather's {different from the one that I had originally found}, there had been an inquest after his death to prove suicide and he'd been unable to work for the past 3 years due to his illness. {And I'll need to find out where <i>those</i> records are located.}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">{And, whoa!?! <i>What illness?!?</i>}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And you know what all that means? Another fact-finding mission to San Antonio to investigate - this time - my other jerk of a grandfather who walked around in his underwear all the time and shocked and irritated his mother-in-law. {<b><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2011/04/was-it-really-worth-it.html" target="_blank">And I thought my Dad's dad, Big Paw Paw, was naughty. </a></b>*snort*}</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">James Wesley, my grandfather, had been a deeply troubled man.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And he keeps me on my genealogy-family-history-storytellin' toes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~Caroline</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">{Sources available upon request.}</span><br />
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Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440331516671118735noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8610655125390402869.post-81934399643839926572012-11-29T11:55:00.001-06:002012-11-29T11:57:58.568-06:00It's Going To Be a Great Day Today<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">I was brought up listening to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.ziglar.com/" rel="homepage" target="_blank" title="Zig Ziglar">Zig Ziglar</a> motivational <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Cassette" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Compact Cassette">cassette tapes</a>. Literally. My parents had the set of all 25 cassette tapes and his book, <i><a href="http://www.ziglar.com/seeyouatthetop.php" target="_blank">See You at the Top</a>. </i>Every car ride to just about anywhere ~ no matter who was in the car ~ was hosted by Zig Ziglar.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">And my parents followed his advice {and then taught it to me}: to sit on the side of the bed upon waking every morning, to clap your hands, and tell yourself, "It's going to be a great day today!"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">And then? They taped notes with the same message to their bathroom mirror so that as they got ready in the mornings they'd be reminded of what a great day today was going to be.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Did that mean every day turned out great?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Oh, hell no. My family has gone through a ton of personal crises, tragedies, and horrors over the years just like many other families. And just like many of our ancestors and yours.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">The difference? The attitude. How you handle the situation. And when you start out your day telling yourself it's going to be a great day today, what you're really telling yourself is, "Not only am I gonna make it through today, but it's not gonna squash my attitude!"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><i>I got this.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"><i>Bring it.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">To say that this kind of thinking affected me as a child and as an adult is an understatement.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">It gets me through those bad days.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">It's the difference between the day running me and the me running the day.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">My parents were an awesome example of how a positive attitude can completely change your life.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">And while it saddens me that both my parents and Zig Ziglar have now passed away, I know they're all in Heaven. They're actually seeing each other "at the top." {Who knew he meant literally?!? LOL.}</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">They're clapping and saying,</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">"It's going to be a great day today!"</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">And you know what?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> It is. It really is.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">~Caroline</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">How does a
daughter say goodbye?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I remember
most mornings you woke me up with, “Top of the mornin’ to ya and the rest of
the day to me.” And that always woke me up because you made me giggle. And no matter how much I tried, I never, ever could beat you to saying it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I remember
your big smile and the twinkle in your eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And your
fierce loyalty. I may have been completely and utterly wrong about something,
but you were always there to back me up – no matter what. Do you know how rare
that is?!?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I remember
Saturday morning shopping at the mall and your generosity to everyone. No one
ever caught you on Christmas unawares - even if they showed up on Christmas Day. You always had a present for them. And what about the Christmas where you made up all those rhyming clues and made
me hunt for each of my Christmas presents? Oh, how I loved that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I remember
your stories and pep talks. How could I ever, ever forget <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2009/04/mom-they-called-me-bossy.html" target="_blank">the life-altering story you told me of our long line of managing women</a>? Or when I turned thirteen you said, “Now,
Caroline, I’ve already been through three teenagers. So, I’ve heard it all. I
don’t want to ever hear you say you want to do something just because everyone
else is doing it. Would you jump off a bridge if everyone else were doing it?
No. No, you wouldn’t.” [The 'Duh.' was understood.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I remember
watching our T.V. shows together. I still watch them. When I'm watching <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designing_Women" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Designing Women">Designing Women</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Girls" target="_blank">The Golden Girls</a>, you’re always right there laughing with me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I remember
watching you cook, learning how to measure ingredients in my hand, and now I
can’t make <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2011/07/my-grans-gonna-kill-me.html" target="_blank">Gran’s potato salad</a>, Gran’s sausage stuffing, <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2009/12/feliz-navidad-goodies.html" target="_blank">Gran’s peanut brittle,Gran’s refrigerator cookies, and Gran's pralines</a> without thinking of you and Gran
while doing it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6PUQd63GMuTv0_9NkeDPU8UqZkFZ5gCVrv_vBDUhOwNLktuE0Gvrh6Vw_v5udRwujBVn7gmv8MYzuw-sV3w9AAsvNJ4gQviXLXhZ0e-5lldasyyTVKeMZQa0TlkRnEqRWAFvFbc0Hvb4/s1600/CarolynBlacketer-1955.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Carolyn Marie Blacketer 1954 1955 Providence High School San Antonio Texas" border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6PUQd63GMuTv0_9NkeDPU8UqZkFZ5gCVrv_vBDUhOwNLktuE0Gvrh6Vw_v5udRwujBVn7gmv8MYzuw-sV3w9AAsvNJ4gQviXLXhZ0e-5lldasyyTVKeMZQa0TlkRnEqRWAFvFbc0Hvb4/s400/CarolynBlacketer-1955.jpg" title="Carolyn Marie Blacketer 1954 1955 Providence High School San Antonio Texas" width="283" /></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I remember
all those times you took me to the library. And now I can’t walk into a library without
thinking of you. [And considering what I do, that happens a lot.] And what about all those romance books you used to read? I somehow picked that up from you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I remember
your big strong hugs when I needed them the most. And every time you said, “I
love you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I remember
being grounded by Dad numerous times and not being able to go outside or watch T.V. for a
week. And how while we’d read in the living room together after dinner during that week, you’d stop reading and say, “When
is your father going to learn taking away your reading would be a better
punishment?” And I’d answer, “I dunno.” Then we’d go back to reading. *snort*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And your
other words of wisdom? “People in hell want ice water, Caroline. Doesn’t mean
they’re gonna get it.” And, “If wishes were horses, beggars could ride.” And
the sayings I know you got from Gran: like saying “God bless America and all the
ships at sea,” when all you wanna do is damn whatever it is that’s upsetting
you. And the ever-so-wise, “’To each his own,’ said the old lady when she
kissed the cow and the old man who peed in the sea to keep the boat from
sinking.” And now whenever I'm upset or stumped, I can't help but think of blessing America, of blessing her ships at sea, of an old lady who must have really loved that cow, and of an old man with creative problem-solving skills.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">So. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><i>How does a daughter say goodbye?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The answer,
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">...she doesn't.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">She laughs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">She cries.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">She
remembers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">She laughs
some more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Then she
cries again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Then she
tells.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And then
cries some more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">And then she says, “I
love you. And I’m gonna miss you somethin' fierce, Mom.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Then she
sighs. And smiles with tears in her eyes as she says,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">“Top of the
mornin’ to ya and the rest of the day to me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">~Caroline</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Carolyn Marie (Blacketer) Marshall</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">b. 3 Mar 1939, San Antonio, Texas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">d. 28 Sep 2012, San Antonio, Texas</span></div>
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Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440331516671118735noreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8610655125390402869.post-51917747352513610642012-08-22T16:20:00.002-05:002013-04-22T10:20:18.217-05:00Stories within the old lighthouse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One hundred twenty-five people sought refuge in the Bolivar Point Lighthouse during <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="1900 Galveston hurricane">the Storm of 1900</a> that devastated <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.2855555556,-94.8272222222&spn=0.25,0.25&q=29.2855555556,-94.8272222222%20(Galveston%20Island)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Galveston Island">Galveston Island, Texas</a>, and the surrounding area including <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.4644444444,-94.6077777778&spn=0.1,0.1&q=29.4644444444,-94.6077777778%20(Bolivar%20Peninsula%2C%20Texas)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Bolivar Peninsula, Texas">Bolivar Peninsula</a>. And I cannot even imagine the horrors those lighthouse refugees and those like them on Galveston Island went through.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2010/03/dancing-with-storms-pt-1.html" target="_blank">Luckily my 2nd great grandparents had already moved their family clear to the other side of Texas.</a> [<a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2010/03/part-2-of-dancing-with-storms.html" target="_blank">And there was a part 2 to that story as well.</a>]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anywho. The lighthouse was built in 1872 and has survived all of the storms that have hit this part of the Gulf Coast of where it still stands today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And o</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ther than its color being changed from black and white striped to the solid black that it is today, it is the same lighthouse </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my great grandmother, Alice Florence Vaughan, would have seen on a daily basis as she grew up on Bolivar Point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And it's the same lighthouse that stood there on the day Daniel and Annie boarded the ferry for Alice's baptism which would take place later on Galveston Island in St. Mary's Cathedral. And as they sailed across the bay, I wonder if either Daniel or Annie looked back at it? Surely they would have gazed at it on their way back home after Alice's baptism, for it would have been, as it is now, the tallest structure on Point Bolivar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wonder if, as she grew up, Alice ever stopped to look at the lighthouse. Did she ever ponder its stories it held inside? Did she marvel at its strength?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know every time I gaze at the old lighthouse I ponder the stories located within its steel-covered brick walls. I wonder if it could ~ or even if it would ~ share its stories with me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~Caroline</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note: I'm in the process of getting all my records together in order to apply for membership into the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_the_American_Revolution" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Daughters of the American Revolution">Daughters of the American Revolution</a> as well as the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Empire_Loyalist" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="United Empire Loyalist">United Empire Loyalists</a>. At the same time. With the same line. [Scandulous, I know.] <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-do-you-get-when-loyalist-line.html" style="color: #00d4dd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">And I've blogged about this quest previously. </a>Also,<a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/06/boos-baptismal-records-came-in-youre.html" style="color: #00d3ff;" target="_blank"> when I ordered my great grandmother's baptismal record from the Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston Archives, the awesome archivist sent me my great grandmother's sibllings' records as well. [At least, the ones who had been baptized in the same diocese.] </a>Therefore, I've been blogging about their records and the resulting stories: <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-baby-boy.html" style="color: #00d4dd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">James Cornel</a>, <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/he-had-salt-water-in-his-veins.html" style="color: #00d4dd; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Henry Lewis</a>, <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/i-knew-it-genevieve.html" target="_blank">Genevieve Lennon</a>, and <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/08/viola-vyla-prudence-vaughan-sproul.html" target="_blank">Viola Prudence</a>, and now, finally my Great Grandmother, Alice Florence (Vaughan) Truitt, <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2009/05/he-irish-eyes-they-were-smilin.html" target="_blank">but we just called her 'Boo', a shortened version of her nickname 'Bamboo'</a> [And you know you wanna click on the link to read *that* story. =) ]</span><br />
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Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440331516671118735noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8610655125390402869.post-84997767879356787172012-08-01T00:05:00.000-05:002012-08-01T00:05:00.600-05:00Viola "Vyla" Prudence Vaughan Sproul Clifton Brandenburg.<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are histories and stories that can be found just in names, and my Great Aunt Vyla's full name is proof of that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Great Aunt Vyla is one of the lucky ones because I've been able to trace all of her names. [Even though I'm pretty sure she was doing all that marrying and name-changing just to try to trip me up.]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's where I found the various forms of her names:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Vyla</b> ~ I found her nickname in census records and from a letter she wrote vouching for her niece's [my Gran's] identity attached to her passport application on Ancestry.com. I'd also heard it in family lore.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Viola</b> ~ On her baptismal record and her death certificate.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Clifton </b>~ Heard it in family lore and it was the surname she used in her letter she wrote
vouching for her niece's [my Gran's] identity.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Sproul</b> ~ I found this surname for her in census records, both of her daughters used the surname in census records as well as their wedding announcements found in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.4166666667,-98.5&spn=0.1,0.1&q=29.4166666667,-98.5%20(San%20Antonio)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="San Antonio">San Antonio, Texas</a> newspapers.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Brandenburg</b> ~ This is the surname listed on her death certificate.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then about one or two months ago, a distant cousin of mine stumbled across this blog and contacted me. He's a descendant of Great Aunt Vyla's and he confirmed all of her names listed above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And he wanted to swap info with me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And he told me that he and his wife lived in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.0,-86.6666666667&spn=1.0,1.0&q=33.0,-86.6666666667%20(Alabama)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Alabama">Alabama</a> but that they'd be coming to Houston, Texas in October of this year for the big quilt show. And that they wanted to meet me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that they were also planning to run over to San Antonio, Texas [about 3 hours from Houston] to take tombstone photos. And they asked me if I knew where Daniel and Annie were buried.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[And, no, this is not the cousin I recently met here in Houston. That's a different one. It's like my summer is raining cousins, no?]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I replied that, yes, I was pretty sure where they were buried. [It's a long story for another time. [And sooner rather than later because it's Daniel's paternal and maternal lines who are the Loyalist and Patriot lines, respectively.]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And? I had just received Great Aunt Vyla's baptismal record in the mail along with my great-grandmother's baptismal record as well as that of their siblings who had also been baptized on Galveston Island.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indeed, Viola Prudence Vaughan was born to Daniel R. Vaughan and Annie O'Brien 23 Jul 1883 and was baptized by Father J.K. Crowley 27 Sep 1883 at <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.3041,-94.7906&spn=0.01,0.01&q=29.3041,-94.7906%20(St.%20Mary%27s%20Cathedral%20Basilica%2C%20Galveston)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="St. Mary's Cathedral Basilica, Galveston">St. Mary's Cathedral</a> on Galveston Island.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've no clue as to where Annie came up with the name Viola, but the name Prudence probably came from Daniel's older sister Prudence. [I'm clever like that.] Surprisingly, her name didn't come from her baptismal sponsor, Emily Eves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But? Another baby girl was born to Daniel and Annie, and it's a wonderful reason to celebrate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another momentous ferry ride from Bolivar Point to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=29.2855555556,-94.8272222222&spn=0.25,0.25&q=29.2855555556,-94.8272222222%20(Galveston%20Island)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Galveston Island">Galveston Island, Texas</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another joyful trip to Galveston Island and this time to St. Mary's Cathedral for Viola's first of seven sacraments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tears mixed with smiles is anyone's guess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But a reason to rejoice in the family!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And certainly now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~Caroline</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note: I'm in the process of getting all my records together in order to apply for membership into the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_the_American_Revolution" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Daughters of the American Revolution">Daughters of the American Revolution</a> as well as the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Empire_Loyalist" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="United Empire Loyalist">United Empire Loyalists</a>. At the same time. With the same line. [Scandulous, I know.] <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-do-you-get-when-loyalist-line.html" target="_blank">And I've blogged about this quest previously. </a>Also,<a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/06/boos-baptismal-records-came-in-youre.html" target="_blank"> when I ordered my great grandmother's baptismal record from the Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston Archives, the awesome archivist sent me my great grandmother's records as well. [At least, the ones who had been baptized in the same diocese.] </a>Therefore, I've been blogging about their records and the resulting stories: <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-baby-boy.html" target="_blank">James Cornel</a>, <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/he-had-salt-water-in-his-veins.html" target="_blank">Henry Lewis</a>, and <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/i-knew-it-genevieve.html" target="_blank">Genevieve</a>, and now Viola Prudence. Finally, next up is my Great Grandmother Alice Florence (Vaughan) Truitt, whose record is the one I needed in the first place. The genea-powers-that-be were quite generous, oui?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">St. Mary's Cathedaral (Galveston, Galveston County, Texas). Baptismal Registers. Roman Catholic Church Archdiocese og Galveston-Houston, Texas.</span><br />
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Vaughan, one of my great-grandmother's [Alice Florence Vaughan's] younger
sisters, was born 2 Dec 1884 on Bolivar Point and baptized a ferry ride
away at St. Joseph's Catholic Church on
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And so was Genevieve
Lennon Vaughan and to the same parents ~ Daniel and Annie (O'Brien) Vaughan.</div>
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How? Why? Were they
twins?<br />
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No. They're the same
person. It's just that for whatever reason [Probably just to mess with my
mind.], they called Jane or Joanna Lennon Vaughan by the name
"Genevieve." [Joanna is the name given in the handwritten registry. However, Jane is the name used for indexing purposes.]</div>
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When I had traced the
family through the census records and when I'd found her daughter's wedding announcements in the San Antonio newspapers, I had thought the name Genevieve was a
little odd for this family. And then when I found Genevieve had married a man
by the name of Claiborne Leander Bouquet, I thought to myself, "Hm. What a
coincidence."</div>
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I mean, she had a
French-y kinda name and then she ended up marrying a man with a French-y kinda
name. [Ends up his paternal grandfather had been French-born. No surprise
there.]</div>
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Just thought it was
note-worthy that 2 non-French-y people ~ 1 of which was Irish-born ~ named only
one of their children with a French-y name, oui? But? Perhaps Annie was enamored
with the name. Who am I to judge?</div>
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However as mentioned
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-baby-boy.html" target="_blank">James Cornel</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/he-had-salt-water-in-his-veins.html" target="_blank">Henry Lewis</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Alice Florence [My
Great Grandmother, a.k.a., Boo.]</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Viola Prudence</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Daniel Warren</span></li>
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And unlike her 2
siblings ~ <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-baby-boy.html" target="_blank">James Cornel</a> and <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/he-had-salt-water-in-his-veins.html" target="_blank">Henry Lewis</a> ~ both of whom I've blogged about
recently, her baptismal sponsors' names offer no clues as to the origins of any
parts of her names:</div>
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[However, her younger
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And like I've
mentioned in previous posts,<a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2010/05/why-didnt-you-name-me-alice.html" target="_blank"> I've eliminated names from Daniel's side of thefamily, identifying the names, Alice and Prudence, as more than likely comingfrom his sisters' names.</a></div>
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Therefore, when I
eventually jump across the pond to scour Irish parish records for an Annie
O'Brien who was probably born in Dublin, Ireland; who was hopefully baptized
there as well; and who is maybe the daughter of a James O'Brien, I need to keep
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jane</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Joanna</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lennon</span></li>
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And then, of course, I
need to keep in mind <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/he-had-salt-water-in-his-veins.html" target="_blank">her older brother's name Henry</a> which the origin of is
unaccounted for by me.</div>
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Granted, Annie could
have named her kids after neighbors, friends, pet cows, a character from her
favorite book of poems [That is, if she had one.], etc. Anything is possible.
But so is the fact that Annie may have used some names from her side of the family
other than her father's name, James.</div>
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They are definitely
clues to keep in mind.</div>
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Oh, and I'd be remiss
at this point if I didn't mention the fact that in several records, Annie's
middle initial is "J". Of course, this begs the question,
"Jane or Joanna?" Or maybe something else entirely?</div>
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All very interesting,
but still nothing to help me with my <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_the_American_Revolution" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Daughters of the American Revolution">Daughters of the American Revolution</a> and
my <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Empire_Loyalist" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="United Empire Loyalist">United Empire Loyalists</a> membership applications.</div>
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Just another reminder
of a joyous birth of a baby girl to Daniel and Annie, my 2nd great
grandparents.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of a modern day Bolivar Peninsula - Galveston Island ferry. ©Copyright 2010 Caroline M. Pointer.</td></tr>
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Another eventful ferry
ride from Bolivar Point to Galveston Island, Texas.</div>
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A memorable trip to
<a href="http://www.galveston.com/stjosephchurch/" target="_blank">St. Joseph's Catholic Church ~ the first German Catholic church built in Texas and the oldest still-standing wooden building in Texas </a>~ where Jane or Joanna
"Genevieve" Lennon Vaughan received her first of seven sacraments.</div>
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We can only guess as
to how Daniel and Annie were feeling that day. Smiles? Laughter? Tears of happiness? And if
<a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-baby-boy.html" target="_blank">Genevieve's older brother, baby James, had already passed by this time</a>, a
bittersweet tear may have made its presence known. And did baby Genevieve cry
as she was christened by Father Gurry [sp]?</div>
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We'll probably never
know.</div>
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But one thing is for
sure, my Great Aunt Genevieve.</div>
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I knew you were
Genevieve.</div>
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And at the same time I
knew you weren't.</div>
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I knew it, Genevieve.</div>
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~Caroline</div>
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Note: I'm in the process of getting all my records together in order to apply for membership into the Daughters of the American Revolution as well as the United Empire Loyalists. At the same time. With the same line. [Scandalous, I know.] <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-do-you-get-when-loyalist-line.html" target="_blank">And I've blogged about this quest previously.</a> Also,<a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/06/boos-baptismal-records-came-in-youre.html" target="_blank"> when I ordered my great grandmother's baptismal record from the Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston Archives, the archivist graciously sent me my great grandmother's siblings' baptismal records as well. [At least, the ones who were baptized within that diocese.]</a> Therefore, I've been blogging about their records and the story they reveal: <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-baby-boy.html" target="_blank">James Cornel</a>, <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/he-had-salt-water-in-his-veins.html" target="_blank">Henry Lewis</a>, and now Genevieve. Next will be Viola Prudence, and then finally my great grandmother, Alice Florence, whose record is the one I needed in the first place. The genea-powers-that-be were quite generous, oui?<br />
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<span style="background-color: #1c1c1c; color: white; font-size: xx-small;">St. Joseph's Catholic Church </span><span style="background-color: #1c1c1c; color: white; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Galveston, Galveston County, Texas). Baptismal Registers. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Houston, Texas.</span></span>
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Carolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02440331516671118735noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8610655125390402869.post-28256659227240944792012-07-09T16:00:00.000-05:002013-04-22T10:21:45.387-05:00He had salt water in his veins<br />
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I can still remember
the first time I learned what "situational irony" meant. I was in my
literature class in junior high, and the following example of it was given. If a world
traveling big game hunter were to retire and then be run over by a car and killed,
that would be situational irony because you would think he would have been
killed while hunting big game. [Of course, they never said if he was being
chased by a bear, but I can be difficult
about these things.]</div>
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So when the Crocodile
Hunter, Steve Irwin, died from a heart attack caused by a sting ray stinging
him in the chest, I thought to myself, "situational irony" because
you'd think he would've died by one of those big ferocious crocodiles that he usually hunted and not by
a sting ray. Okay, it was a similar activity, but still not the same dangerous
activity he was known for. And it had reminded me of that first example about situational irony.</div>
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<tr style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Copy of Henry Lewis Vaughan's Death Certificate.</td></tr>
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Moreover, while researching, I discovered from
his death certificate and his World War I Draft Registration Card that my
Great-Uncle, Henry Lewis Vaughan, had been a master mariner, had supposedly participated
in the Spanish-American War, had been an instructor for the U.S. War Department
in 1918, but had died at the age of 78 from a head-on automobile collision.</div>
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And I thought to myself at the time,
"situational irony." Again.</div>
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He has a colorful
history. There's something about someone working on the high seas that gets my
literary self excited from imagining the tall tales this man could have and
might have told.</div>
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<tr style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Copy of Henry Lewis Vaughan's WWI Draft Registration Card.</td></tr>
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So what does this have
to do with my applications to the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)
and the United Empire Loyalists (UEL)? Admittedly, not much. However, I did
receive a copy of his baptismal entry along with my great-grandmother's as well
as some of their siblings. According to the entry he was born after <a href="http://yourfamilystory-cmpointer.blogspot.com/2012/07/a-baby-boy.html" target="_blank">his older brother Baby James</a>, on 7 April 1878, and was baptized 2 Jun 1878 at St. Mary's
Cathedral in Galveston, Galveston County, Texas.</div>
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All other pieces of
documentation indicate he was, like my great-grandmother, born on Bolivar
Peninsula, which was and still is today a ferry ride away from Galveston
Island.</div>
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<tr style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Copy of Henry Lewis Vaughan's Baptismal Register Entry.</td></tr>
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There are 4 items of
note about his baptismal entry that do shed some light on the Vaughan
family. One is that the surname was first spelled "Vaughn" on Henry's register entry then
corrected to "Vaughan". Indeed, throughout Henry's
life, just like his father's (Daniel Rook Vaughan's) life, it was consistently
spelled both ways. So I find it interesting that on Baby James' baptismal
entry, it was spelled "Vaughn" and on Henry's it's corrected to
"Vaughan". I do know that on Daniel's father's baptismal record it's
spelled "Vaughan" as well. As I mentioned, just something to note.</div>
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The 2nd item of note
is that his middle name is spelled "Louis" on the entry, but on other
documentation I've found on him, it's spelled "Lewis". However, I
think this is pretty minor.</div>
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Likewise, the 3rd item
of note is that Annie's maiden name was added to the document and it looks to
have been added at the same time the document was made, but after they had
originally written it out, as if<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they re-read
it and said, "Oopsie Daisy. You're Annie O'Brien Vaughan, not Annie
Vaughan." I could be wrong [and it wouldn't be the first time, nor will it
be the last], but that's what it looks like.</div>
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Sadly, the 4th item of
note is that I had had no clue as to where Daniel and Annie had come up with
the name Henry Lewis before I had received his baptismal entry. Neither one can
be found [or least I haven't found them] on Daniel's side of the family. So,
where did they come from? I'd hoped that perhaps they'd be a clue to Annie's
side of the family, but, alas, Henry's baptismal sponsors were Louis Moore and
Lucy Moore. But? Where did the name "Henry" come from? My luck? Annie named him after the captain of the ferry boat, but I'm going to try
and stay positive about this. [Really, I am.] I'm just not real excited about
the name Henry. It's common. So when I begin to look for Annie J. O'Brien maybe
born in Dublin, Ireland [and hopefully baptized there], with a father maybe
named James, I need to keep an eye out for the name Henry. Great. All I'm
missing is a Mary to round out these common names. But? I've some hints that
Annie may have been Mary Anne J. O'Brien. So you can see why I'm not really
happy with this name Henry. [But I'm not bitter about this. I promise.]</div>
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Anywho. So nothing
here that helps me out for my applications, but I've found, as with Baby James'
baptismal entry, having it in hand makes me think of his day of baptism. </div>
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No matter the year,
June 2nd on the island and peninsula is hot and humid. And very breezy. I know
this because I've ridden on the ferry between the peninsula and the island.
I've stood<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>there gazing at the bay with the
strong breeze whipping my hair around my head, I've felt the sea spray on
my face, I've heard the shrill sounds of the sea gulls flying nearby, and I've felt the sweat dripping down my back. [In other words, I was sweaty, sunburned, wind burned, my hair was tangled, and there was bird poop on the ferry.]
And it makes me wonder if Baby James had still been alive when Henry was baptized,
or had he already passed? Were Daniel and Annie standing on that ferry [or
sitting] with both James and Henry?</div>
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And considering Henry
Lewis grew up to become a master mariner, I think it very fitting he started
out his little life taking a ferry ride to the island to be baptized. The old
saying,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"He had salt water in his
veins" seems apt for this wee one. The way in which Henry Lewis died can
be labeled as "situational irony," but the start of his life seems almost, I
dunno, prophetic. [Definitely coincidental, but the romantic in me likes
the idea of it being prophetic. So I'm going with it.]</div>
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<tr style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the ferry from Bolivar Peninsula to Galveston Island. © Copyright 2009 Caroline Pointer</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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~Caroline</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">"Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976," index and images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/J6Y5-LHC : accessed 2012),
Henry Lewis Vaughan, 1956.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">" World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918.<i>" </i>Database and images. <i>Ancestry.com</i> (http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=6482&iid=VA-1984908-4124&fn=Henry+Lewis&ln=Vaughan&st=r&ssrc=pt_t1884615_p-764111646_kpidz0q3d-764111646z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgPLz0q3dpid&pid=21558721 : accessed 2012). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">St. Mary's Cathedral</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span>(Galveston, Galveston County, Texas). Baptismal
Registers. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Houston,
Texas.</span></span></div>
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