tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3843231489136578572024-03-05T04:41:02.570-06:00Family StoriesSharing our past with family and friendsPam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-17132393197624394782023-08-13T10:46:00.000-05:002023-08-13T10:46:28.606-05:00Andrew Albert Burr and WWI Field Hospitals<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In 1917, at the age of 23, Andrew Burr signed up for the
draft, and set out for service in WWI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>His records indicate that he served as a private for Field Hospital Co
No 12.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been a challenge to
determine exactly where he was during the War, but company histories suggest
that he worked with a medical unit that was eventually established at Bonvillers
in Northern France. He could have performed a variety of jobs such as ambulance
driver, stretcher bearer, surgical assistant, cook, or cleaning crew. No
detailed records for Andrew Burr’s particular role have been found.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The term Field Hospital covers several types of medical
units that were set up near the front lines of the war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These were generally the places where wounded
soldiers went for triage (assessment) and stabilization of wounds before
transport. After triage, they were taken by ambulance to the evacuation
hospitals. The Field Hospital Co No 12
moved about to different locations during the war and served both as a triage
location and an evacuation hospital. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiylCpSZ2D22Pq5uJXpeWbZSz2WPYS7tnZGH-BTPAqWIsVZarCeDT_8YZnSyfVqaYew2QXxH73XzeIB5pKZgJ4EZ2ngJ_9vS8rPJHXDJswLOXuSmeMak4JfEQDtNcbhSYKchE2e8D4LPL8nAeqCMt3BcOkYwCfLlpfwah2rTfe9m9lDkeB4KEo3Myp0qIZP/s2862/nlm%20nlmuid-101396534-img.jpg" style="font-family: verdana; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2241" data-original-width="2862" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiylCpSZ2D22Pq5uJXpeWbZSz2WPYS7tnZGH-BTPAqWIsVZarCeDT_8YZnSyfVqaYew2QXxH73XzeIB5pKZgJ4EZ2ngJ_9vS8rPJHXDJswLOXuSmeMak4JfEQDtNcbhSYKchE2e8D4LPL8nAeqCMt3BcOkYwCfLlpfwah2rTfe9m9lDkeB4KEo3Myp0qIZP/w400-h314/nlm%20nlmuid-101396534-img.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">On the 22<sup>nd</sup> of April 1918, Field Hospital No. 12
opened in a large chateau in Bonvillers. It treated the most severe and
non-transportable wounded, of whom it admitted 1,220 between April and July
1918. At some point (unclear) the medical operations at Bonvillers were
referred to as an American Base Hospital, where surgeries and longer term care
was offered.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">An internet search turned up an amazing, first-hand video of
the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS6ufYuRcWo" target="_blank">medical support provided at Bonvilliers</a> during WWI. Very interesting! Under
the topic of WWI Field Hospitals, the description reads - <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Raw footage of ambulances, medical men and nurses around tents;
soldiers walking past other large medical tents on large estate grounds at
Bonvillers, Picardie [France]. </i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As mentioned above, no detailed records of Andrew Burr’s
type of work have been found.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
University of Kansas Medical Center presents an interesting collection of
articles on their website related to the establishment and daily work of
American Base Hospital No 28 in Limoges, France during WWI.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few details from these articles might serve
to “frame a picture” of what Andrew Burr was connected with during the
war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">During stateside training non-medical enlisted men received
training in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">treatment of shock, injuries
from poison gas, limb amputation, identification and removal of shell fragments,
and reconstructive surgery.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The American military set up <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">base hospital clusters located from 50 to 200 miles from the front.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rhythm of the hospitals was largely
determined by the arrival of ambulance trains from the front.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="font-family: verdana;">On 27 July an ambulance
train with 600 wounded and sick soldiers arrived at Base Hospital #28 at 9:30
PM. In spite of the hospital station platform being dark, Dr. Hibbard and all
available staff triaged patients quickly and by 3:00 AM all patients, including
some with very serious wounds, were in appropriate wards in their beds. The
process of "renovation" as Captain Sherman Hibbard described it, was
the transformation of filthy, louse-infested, weary, sick and wounded soldiers
into clean patients with warm meals in their stomachs.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">To accomplish this goal the effort and dedication of a huge
support staff was needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This “unnamed”
group included Andrew Burr, our ancestor. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Andrew Burr was demobilized in August of 1919. He departed
from Brest in France and arrived back in the US at Hoboken New Jersey on the
first of September 1919.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was
discharged from service on 24 Sept 1919 at Camp Dodge, Iowa. After his war
service Andrew Burr spent some time with his family in Nebraska and then
removed with his older brother Edward Burr to homestead in Wyoming.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I4383&tree=clrksn" target="_blank">Andrew Albert Burr</a>, visit his page at
the <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Family Stories website</b></a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Further Reading:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">WWI Field Hospitals. 221694-07; Description:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Raw footage of ambulances, medical men and
nurses around tents; soldiers walking past other large medical tents on large
estate grounds at Bonvillers, Picardie [France]. 10 minutes. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS6ufYuRcWo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS6ufYuRcWo</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.kumc.edu/school-of-medicine/academics/departments/history-and-philosophy-of-medicine/archives/wwi.html" target="_blank">Medicine in the First World War</a>; Base Hospital #28; University of Kansas
Medical Center.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">About the Photo:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Chateau de Bonvillers (no date). United States Army Base
Hospital No 12, Located at Bonvillers in Northern France. Images from the History of Medicine; The National Library of
Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Moving back in time:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kevin
Andrew Germann 1978 > Gary Germann 1958 > Elsie Josephine Burr 1930 >
Andrew Albert Burr 1894.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Andrew Albert Burr is the great-grandfather of my
son-in-law, Kevin Andrew Germann.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></p>
Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-33687643715031736052022-01-20T15:12:00.000-06:002022-01-20T15:12:52.793-06:00Whitchurch Connections to the Past<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>For many years I have been aware of a tradition among Whitchurch descendants, that their Whitchurch ancestor was “the first printer of the King James Version of the Bible”. Like many family traditions (myths) there are elements of truth, coupled with suspect interpretations. In a previous blog post I took a look at Edward Whitchurch (c.1500-1561), printer of the Great Bible. A period of more than one hundred and fifty years passes between Edward Whitchurch, the sixteenth century English printer, and Thomas Gilbert Whitchurch who appears in late eighteenth century America, residing in New York. This blog post looks at a few clues that could eventually provide an ancestral pathway connecting the two men. The path is tenuous at best. Hopefully future work will reveal more. Pam Garrett, 2021.</i><br /><br />Edward Whitchurch lived during the first half of the sixteenth century, in the reigns of the English King Henry VIII and his progeny. He was a prominent printer of London, and was noted for his enthusiastic support of the reforming protestant movement of his age, and for making available the Great Bible. Researchers record four children for Edward Whitchurch, three daughters and one son – Edward Whitchurch jr. Beyond his name, no clear evidence has surfaced to define this younger Edward Whitchurch.<br /><br />A large family of Whitchurchs were established at Frome in Somersetshire by the beginning of the seventeenth century. A significant collection of documents reflect that they were successfully pursuing the merchant, and related trades, of the period. They appear on a list of men licensed to trade in Virginia tobacco (1634), and have connections to the East India Company. A 1681 Will for William Whitchurch of Somersetshire establishes a group of brothers - William, Edward, James, Samuel, and Leonard Whitchurch. <br /><br />A brief biography of James Whitchurch, Apothecary, living during the mid-1600’s, identifies him as the son of Samuel Whitchurch of Frome, “one of a prominent family of mercers, drapers and salters.” He left quite an amazing Will and codicil in 1692, highlighting his activities and possessions. <br />
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<br />Another curious player in the Whitchurch family story is James Whitchurch (1703-1786) of York House in Twickenham, London. He is a descendant of the Whitchurchs at Frome in Somersetshire; a grandson of James Whitchurch, Apothecary. His business connections were extensive, and included trade in Virginia. He and his wife, Mary Rust, purchased York House in Twickenham about 1746, and it remained the Whitchurch home for almost forty years. Mary predeceased her husband and died without issue. James Whitchurch’s 1786 Will, with codicils, runs to fifteen pages, and introduces a broad spectrum of interesting people, connected by family, business and church. A mention of Matthew John Gilbert and his sister Elizabeth Gilbert in his Will, seemed worth pursuing. But, there was nothing to suggest a connection between James Whitchurch of Twickenham and the Whitchurchs in America.<br /><br />In the late years of the eighteenth century a man that Whitchurch researchers name as Thomas Gilbert Whitchurch shows up in New York City. His wife is called Bethia, sometimes Bethia White, and he is noted as the ‘immigrant’ to America for a large family of Whitchurchs scattered throughout the United States today. Evidence for Thomas Gilbert Whitchurch is scant. But, his likely children do present themselves more clearly – Thomas, John, Bethia, Mary, and William Whitchurch. <br /><br />Descendants of Thomas Gilbert Whitchurch hold to the ‘Bible printing ancestor’ tradition. Hints and clues keep that story alive. But, much further work needs to be done to strengthen the pathway.<br /><br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I4666&tree=clrksn" target="_blank">Thomas Gilbert Whitchurch</a>, visit his page at <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com" target="_blank">Family Stories, pamgarrett.com.</a> <br /><br />Further Reading: <br />Edward Whitchurch: Bible Printer; posted on the Family Stories Blog, 17 January 2022.<br />The Twickenham Museum website. Places > Twickenham > York House<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">About the photo:<br />Mansion at Twickenham; print made by James Peller Malcom, 1782-1815; from the collection of the British Museum. Note – The British Museum website gives the description “View of a large neo-classical villa . . “. Other sources identify this illustration as “York House, 1808”. A comparison with more recent photographs of York House in Twickenham suggests that they could be one in the same. James Whitchurch lived at York House about 1746-1786. </span><br /><br />Moving back in time: Otis Sylvester Garrett 1894 > Isaac Sylvester Garrett 1860 > Celia Whitchurch 1833 > William Whitchurch 1778 >Thomas Gilbert Whitchurch c.1750. <br />Thomas Gilbert Whitchurch is my husband’s 4xgreat-grandfather.</span><p></p>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-72049400253566711772022-01-17T07:47:00.000-06:002022-01-17T07:47:52.462-06:00Edward Whitchurch – The Bible Printer<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>For many years I have been aware of a tradition among Whitchurch descendants, that their Whitchurch ancestor was “the first printer of the King James Version of the Bible”. We need to consider a variation on this theme. Over the years I have collected bits and pieces of information related to this story, but after a more considered study, I am beginning to get a clearer picture. The English printer who is being considered is Edward Whytchurch or Whitchurch, who lived about 1500 to 1561, primarily in London. He was not connected with the King James Version of the Bible (printing begun in 1611). He was most closely associated with the printing of the “Great Bible”. Pam Garrett, 2021.</i><br /><br />“Edward Whitchurch or Whytchurch (died 1561), protestant publisher, was a substantial citizen of London in the middle of Henry VIII’s reign. His business was probably that of a grocer. He accepted with enthusiasm the doctrines of the protestant reformation. In 1537 he joined with his fellow citizen Richard Grafton in arranging for the distribution of printed copies of the Bible in English.” <br />from – Edward Whitchurch’s biography published in England’s Dictionary of National Biography.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
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<br />Whitchurch and Grafton worked together for a number of years printing Bibles in English and other protestant literature. Their first printing efforts took place in France, but that shortly met with disapproval and they established their presses in England at the ‘House late of the Graye Freers’. That is where the Great Bible was first published in April 1539. <br /><br />In 1538, the English clergy was directed to provide "one book of the bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it." This was the Great Bible, authorized by King Henry VIII, commissioned by Thomas Cromwell, prepared by Myles Coverdale, and printed by Whitchurch and Grafton. Although called the Great Bible because of its large size, it is known by several other names as well; Cromwell Bible, Whitchurch’s Bible, and the Chained Bible, because it was chained to the church lectern to prevent removal. <br /><br />There are documents recognizing royal support for Edward Whitchurch’s printing efforts, but in 1543, following the fall of Thomas Cromwell, Whitchurch and Grafton, along with other printers, were committed to the Fleet prison for printing unlawful books. They remained for several weeks, but then returned to their printing efforts. <br /><br />During Edward VI’s reign (1547-1553) Whitchurch was noted for a number of projects at the sign of the Sun on Fleet Street; including several further editions of the Great Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, primers for school children, and secular books on philosophy and medicine. The accession of Catholic Queen Mary in late 1553 again brought trouble for Edward Whitchurch, and he determined to leave England. <br /><br />A man of wealth and influence, Edward Whitchurch, gave up much in England, before his flight to the continent, possibly to Germany or the Netherlands. Some of his personal story can be uncovered by looking at the history of Merton Priory and neighboring Growtes Manor.<br /><br />As a part of his scheme to establish an English Church, King Henry VIII dissolved many of his country’s Catholic institutions, including Merton Priory which resided in the beautiful district of Morden*. The main priory building, a significant structure, was physically dismantled and the stones were used in the building of a nearby castle. In June of 1553 Edward Whitchurch had the opportunity to purchase Morden from King Edward VI, and he occupied a manor house, Growtes, on the extensive grounds. Sadly, he did not enjoy it for long. <br /><br />An article of interest, ‘Growtes: The Home of a Rich Man in 1554’, was written by David Haunton, and published in the Merton History Society Bulletin of December 2009. Haunton introduces the article: <br /><br /><i>Edward Whitchurch sold the mansion house called ‘Growtes’, together with the lordship and manor of Morden and all his other lands, houses and rights in Morden, to the Garth family on 7 March 1554 . . for the sum of £460 (at least a million pounds today) . . <br /></i><br />The primary purpose of Haunton’s article is to look at the inventory attached to the Bargain and Sale document, and “explore the taste of a rich man in the mid sixteenth century”. To that end, the article is very interesting. But, for purposes here, Haunton’s work is helpful in giving some clues to Edward Whitchurch’s wives and children. Evidence is scant, but it suggests that Edward Whitchurch was married two or three times. His first wife remains unclear. He may have had a wife named Agnes, who could have been the first wife, but was more likely to be second. Haunton tells us Edward Whitchurch was, “survived by four adult children, presumably of his first marriage; Edward, Helen, Elizabeth and a third daughter whose name is unknown.”<br /><br />About the year 1556, during his exile on the continent, Edward Whitchurch was married to Margaret, widow of the “tragic” Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. Cranmer was in long service to England’s King Henry VIII. During an early diplomatic mission on the continent Cranmer befriended Andreas Osiander, “leading architect of Nuremberg’s reformation movement”. In short order, Thomas Cranmer had married Margaret, the niece of Osiander’s wife. Margaret’s maiden name is not known. Edward Whitchurch and Thomas Cranmer worked on a number of publishing projects together, and Whitchurch was known to be “Cranmer’s favorite printer”. After Cranmer’s murder on the 21st of March 1556, the Whitchurch family made an effort to shield and protect his widow and children. <br /><br />Not long after Elizabeth came to England’s throne, 1558, Whitchurch returned to his English presses and completed several more projects before his death. Evidence suggests that he is the “Maister Wychurch”, buried on the 1st of December 1561, at Camberwell in South London. <br /><br />It is a challenge for today’s researchers to draw a connection between Edward Whitchurch, the sixteenth century English printer, and Thomas Whitchurch who appears in late eighteenth century America, residing in New York. Evidence for both men remains sparse. Whitchurch family researchers have worked toward drawing a connection but no clear picture has emerged. There are a few clues of interest. Hopefully future work will reveal more.<br /><br /><br />*Today Morden is part of busy south London. Morden Hall Park, operated by the National Trust, is one hundred and twenty-five acres of parkland with the River Wandle running through it. Morden Hall, at the park’s center, was built by the Garth family in the 1770s. Morden’s Tudor past, represented by Merton Priory, is the subject of an interesting archaeological study. <br /><br /><br />Further Reading: <br />∙ Edward Whitchurch; Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900; Sidney Lee article.<br />∙ Edward Whitchurch; Alec Ryrie, 2008; published in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.<br />∙ An Auncient Zelous Gospeller . . Desirous to Do Any Thing to Common Good: Edward Whitchurch and the Reformist Cause in Marian and Elizabethan England; Scott C Lucas; 2016.<br />∙ A Century of the English Book Trade: Short Notices of All Printers; E Gordon Duff; Cambridge, 2011.<br />∙ Growtes: The Home of a Rich Man in 1554; David Haunton; published by Merton Historical Society, Bulletin 172, December 2009. Available online at the Merton Historical Society website.<br />∙ Merton Historical Society website. Excellent!<br />∙ Merton Priory - History Unearthed; sixteen minute documentary film on UTube. Also Excellent!<br /><br />About the photo:<br />Title page from The Byble in English (The Great Bible), prynted by Richard Grafton and Edward Whitchurch, 1539; located through wikimedia commons.<br /></span><p></p>
Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-13071202212171867892021-12-22T15:39:00.001-06:002021-12-22T15:39:46.433-06:00The Whitchurch Family at Silver Creek<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">St Clair County Illinois rests in the southwestern part of the state and includes the towns of Belleville and Mascoutah. It borders with the state of Missouri, and the famous prairie town of St Louis-East St Louis, which straddles the border, is within twenty miles of Belleville Illinois. St Clair County’s earliest form of government divided the county into precincts, but later used the township system. The Whitchurch farms were located about equidistant from the small St Clair communities of Freeburg and Fayetteville. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /> A description of the area in a St Clair County history, gives detail:<br /><br /><i> . . Silver creek, which enters the township on its northern boundary, flows a southerly course, emptying into the Kaskaskia; tributaries furnish water for stock and other purposes. The streams are skirted with a fine growth of timber. The surface is gently undulating, with considerable stretches of rich prairie. The noted Tamarois prairie . . lies partially in this township. The soil is well adapted to all cereals, and produces abundant crops.</i><br /><br />Some of the earliest surveys and land grants to immigrant settlers were taken out around the turn of the century. Family names included Teter, Mitchell, Shook, Griffen, Biggs, Rutherford and Edgar. By 1814, public domain lands were being purchased from the federal government. These early purchasers included – James Adams, Matthew Atchison, Pierre Menard, *David Howell, William McIntosh, Samuel Griffith, G Hendricks (to Stephen Whiteside), Samuel Mitchell, William Goings, Thomas Pulliam and Daniel Stookey.<br /><br />It is not clear exactly when William Whitchurch arrived in the area. According to family history, William Whitchurch was born in New York City in 1778, and he was married to Elizabeth Howell in 1801 in Knox county Tennessee. The first record of note in Illinois is when William Whitchurch appears in the 1820 Census, placing him near the Silver Creek “settlement” in St Clair county. It seems likely that he came to the area about 1815, around the time that *David W Howell, his brother-in-law, purchased, “. . 160 acres, being the NE quarter section 25, April 27th, 1815.“<br /><br />William Whitchurch was married three times. He was first married to Elizabeth Howell, with whom he had nine identified children. After her death he was married to Celia Carr in 1824, St Clair county Illinois. William and Celia had four children. His final, brief marriage was to Sarah (maiden name unknown). Sarah was the widow of a Mister Herrin and brought three Herrin children into her marriage with William Whitchurch in June of 1848. William Whitchurch died three months later, in September 1848. <br /><br />William Whitchurch and his son built a mill in 1828. The county history tells us, “. . They did all the work themselves, except the blacksmithing. The stone, which they dressed themselves, was found in David Pulliam’s branch, about three miles south-east of FayettevilIe. It was a round rock about 5 feet in diameter. It was claimed by millers to be equal to any French burrstone. By changing teams, the mill would turn out seventy-five bushels per day. Oxen were mostly used in grinding . . . “<br /><br />On 21 March 1811, seven families organized the Silver Creek Baptist Church. They met in homes until 1817, when a log church was built. The church was constituted on the Bible of the Old and New Testament, and stated a stand against slavery. Members of the Whitchurch family participated in the life of the Silver Creek Church. The deaths of William Whitchurch’s second wife, and two sons appear in the records: Celia Whitchurch in November 1845, Wessel Whitchurch in January 1849, and James [White] Whitchurch in Nov 1852.<br /><br />Today the Old Silver Creek church is gone. Families joined with the congregations of Freeburg, Fayetteville and Mascoutah. An 1863 township map for St Clair County, shows William Whitchurch’s son Gilbert Whitchurch still in possession of the family farms along Silver Creek. But, by 1870 Gilbert had moved on to Dekalb County Missouri. A number of Whitchurch descendants remained in the Silver Creek area well into the twentieth century. <br />
<br /><br />*The History of St Clair County Illinois refers to the early settler of the NE corner of section 25 as Daniel Howell. But, a review of the land records confirms that it was David W Howell. <br /></span><br /><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sources: <br />History of St Clair County, Vol 2; Wilderman, 1907.<br />St Clair County History; Brink, McDonough and Co, 1881.<br />Freeburg Centennial Booklet, 1859-1959; available online.<br /><br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I4655&tree=clrksn" target="_blank">William Whitchurch</a>, visit his page at <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com" target="_blank">Family Stories, pamgarrett.com. </a><br /><br />About the photo:<br />Turkey Hill Farm; from History of St Clair County Illinois; Brink, McDonough and Co, 1881.<br /><br />Moving back in time: Otis Sylvester Garrett 1894 > Isaac Sylvester Garrett 1860 > Celia Whitchurch 1833 > William Whitchurch 1778. <br />William Whitchurch is my husband’s 3xgreat-grandfather.<br /></span><br /></p>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-82776045709334627342021-12-06T16:04:00.002-06:002021-12-06T16:04:59.008-06:00Lippe Detmold: German Homeland of the Biesemeier Family<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Our Biesemeier ancestors were settled in the Principality of Lippe by the 1600’s. Many Biesemeier births, marriages, and deaths appear in the Evangelical church records at Horn and Bosingfeld beginning in the late 1600’s. <br />
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<br />Lippe is a small but ancient region in northwestern Germany. It is located between the Weser River and the Teutonburg forest. On a modern map you would find it about 200 miles north of Frankfurt and 180 miles east of Amsterdam. Originally included in the duchy of Saxony, Lippe became a lordship in the twelfth century and a county in 1529. By the 1700’s Lippe was a principality of the Holy Roman Empire. As Lippe underwent several divisions, the area where the Biesemeier family lived became known as Lippe-Detmold. Detmold was the largest town in the area. By 1815, Lippe was a member of the German Confederation. Today Lippe is part of the state of North Rhine - Westphalia. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2697&tree=clrksn" target="_blank">Cord Biesemeier</a> was probably born between 1780-1790 in the Lippe region. Some researchers record his birth in the year 1771 in Stumpenhagan (Bega) in Lippe Detmold, but this seems early. His marriage to Wilhelmine Ellerbrock is recorded in the town of Horn, Lippe Detmold in 1818. <br /><br />From his 1818 marriage agreement we learn that Cord Biesemeier is a Kotter – a farmer or cottager, who rents his land. And, that he and his bride will be living on, and operating the Biesemeier farm at number 18 in Leopoldthal. His father, Friederich Biesemeier will continue to operate half of the farm, until he goes into retirement. His bride, daughter of Johann Ellerbrock, hails from Frommhausen number 18. <br /><br />The towns of Horn, Leopoldstatt (Leopoldthal), Stumpenhagen (Bega), and Fromhausen are all listed as historic towns of Lippe Detmold. Horn is the largest, and today adjoins the town of Bad Meinberg, an early spa location. All of these towns lay within about a 15 mile radius of the city of Detmold.<br /><br />In the mid-nineteenth century, the farms of Lippe were clustered together in hamlets. The land belonged to the nobility and was leased to tenant farmers. Farms tended to stay in the hands of one family for generations, most often passing to the oldest son, but occasionally being divided for use by the next generation. Families tended to be relatively small and not all the children married.<br /><br />The valleys of the Lippe region sport good amounts of arable land and supported numerous small, but prosperous, peasant farmers. The climate is considered mild and agreeable. This allowed for the raising of grains, beans, tobacco, and a variety of vegetables and fruits. Apple wine and plum brandy were popular in the area. Dairy products abounded and the Lippe families raised horned cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and fowl. Game hunting and fishing provided further protein. <br /><br />Researcher Maggie Blanck includes this delightful description of typical farm buildings in 1865, northern Germany. It comes from an article titled, The Sacristan’s Household, published in Anthony Trollope’s Saint Paul Magazine: <br /><br /><i>The whole centre of the building is a large and lofty barn, piled high with hay and straw and store of grain. It is, too, a storehouse for farm implements, and so huge are its proportions, that a harvest waggon laden with sheaves, and drawn by three or four sturdy horses, can pass easily through the doorway, and stand beneath its ample shelter. From the barn, which entirely occupies the central length and breadth of the building, is the only possible ingress to the dwelling-house. On the right hand and on the left are doors and windows giving access to the living and sleeping rooms of the family. Nearly all the light and air which reaches these apartments gains admission through the wide-open double doors of the barn . . </i> <br />
<br />Interesting studies of German House Inscriptions (Hausinschriften) have been helpful to family historians. In certain rural regions of the German-speaking world they were part of the cultural tradition and custom for many centuries. They were often carved into wooden beams of half-timbered houses, but are also found over driveways and entrances. Several inscriptions related to the Biesemeier family appear in the Lippe region. One of particular interest was located in Leopoldstal, number 3 Kuhlmanns. It represents the household of Johan Biesemeier and Frederica Kuhlman. Johan is a possible brother of Cord Biesemeier. The German inscription reads: <br /><br />ES IST O GOTT DEIN WILLE DAS BAUEN NUR AUF ERDEN DU GIEBST DEINEN KINDERN BROD UND WOHNUNG HIER AUF ERDEN<br />JOHAN BERNHARD BIESEMEIER AUS DEN LEPPOLDSDAHL FRIEDERIKE KUHLEMANS DASELBST DEN 5. JULIUS 1810 M.T.S.P<br /><br />English: <br /><i>It is O God your will to build only on earth, you give your children bread and accommodation here on earth; Johan Bernhard Biesemeier from Leopoldstal, Friederike Kuhleman, this is 5 July 1810.</i><br /> <br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2697&tree=clrksn" target="_blank">Cord Biesemeier</a>, visit his page at <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com" target="_blank">Family Stories, pamgarrett.com. </a><br /><br />Further Reading:<br />LWL Open Air Museum at Detmold; lwl-freilichtmuseum-detmold.de/en/ <br />Lippe Detmold DE; Geographical DNA Project for the area now known as Lippe, North Rhein-Westphalia; <br />https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/lippe-detmold-de/about/background <br />Maggie Blanck Website; http://www.maggieblanck.com/index.html <br />Der Genealogische Abend: Naturwissenschaftlicher und Historischer Verein für das Land Lippe [Genealogy: Scientific and Historical Association for the state of Lippe]; http://nhv-ahnenforschung.de/<br /><br />About the photo:<br />The district of Leopoldstal in Horn-Bad Meinberg, Lippe, North Rhein-Westphalia; shared by Grugerio, Aug 2014; Creative Commons.<br /><br />Moving back in time: Elba Josephine Hoffman 1898 > Josephine S Biesemeier 1866 > Rev William Biesemeier 1833 > Cord Biesemeier 1796.<br />Cord Biesemeier is my husband’s 3xgreat-grandfather.</span><p></p>
<br /><p></p>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-67295417590417263822021-11-21T07:01:00.000-06:002021-11-21T07:01:50.115-06:00Richard White Hancock and the American Civil War <p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In April of 1862, when Dick Hancock was a few months short of his seventeenth birthday, he joined the Missouri State Militia, supporting the Union troops. He was a member of the 6th Missouri Regiment, Company E, cavalry unit. He inflated his age by a bit, in order to enlist. The company Descriptive Book gives details: <br /> <br /><i>Richard W Hancock; Co E, 6th Regt Mo State Militia Cavalry; enlisted 12 April 1862 at Cameron Missouri by Capt Murphy for a term of 3 years; age 18; 5 feet 10 inches; fair complexion; blue eyes; dark hair; born Scott Kentucky; occupation farmer.</i></span></p>
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</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2642&tree=clrksn" target="_blank">Richard White “Dick” Hancock</a> was born in 1845 in Scott county Kentucky, one of the younger of Edward Hancock and Jemima White’s nine children. About 1855 his family removed to Missouri, where the Hancock family lived for a number of years near the community of Victoria in Daviess County. In the early years of America’s Civil War young Dick answered the call to serve with the Union.<br /><br />Dick Hancock’s military “returns” show him serving in several different capacities through the war years. In February of 1863 he was recorded as a hospital nurse, and in January 1864 he was “absent” doing recruiting service in Northwest Missouri. Several returns listed him as “away for service in the field”. By late 1864, during the months of November and December, he was working as a cook for the troops. <br /><br />The Missouri State Militia forces were authorized, subsidized, and equipped by the federal government. Their primary activity remained within the state. The war in Missouri was more of a local affair. Union supporters were in the majority. Confederate sympathizers and secessionists made guerilla style attacks on their neighbors. Engaging these guerilla bands became the primary work of the State Militia. After enlistment, Dick Hancock was stationed at Cameron Missouri, but within a short time the troops of the 6th Regiment began to move around the state. In the Fall of 1862, “guerrilla bands of every size and description, sometimes operating in conjunction with small Confederate forces based in Arkansas, swarmed out of the woods and swamps and attacked towns and railroads, carried off horses and weapons, and killed Unionist civilians by the hundreds.”<br /><br />The leaders of the State Militia began an effort to “starve out” the opposition by identifying the civilian population that provided food, shelter, horses, and new recruits. Relatives and supporters of the guerillas were often fined or imprisoned; their properties and communities were sometimes put to the torch. “This was a war of stealth and raid without a front, without formal organization, and with almost no division between the civilian and the warrior.”<br /><br />Toward the close of the War the 6th Regiment was called to Westport (today a part of Kansas City). The Battle of Westport occurred on the 23rd of October 1864, and is sometimes referred to as the “Gettysburg of the West”. It is probably the only formal battlefield that Dick Hancock attended. The Union forces of Major General Samuel R Curtis soundly defeated the Confederates. This was one of the largest actions to occur west of the Mississippi River, involving more than thirty thousand troops. It was also the last major action in the area. <br /><br />Dick Hancock continued with his regiment for several months after the Westport battle. This was the time period when he was noted as a cook for the troops. Discharges began for the 6th Regiment in February of 1865. About this time Dick Hancock’s horse and equipment was valued by the government at sixty-five dollars. After his service, young Dick, still a teenager, returned home to the family farm near Victoria Missouri. He was soon to turn twenty years of age, and in the following year he married Elizabeth Taylor, and settled in neighboring Dekalb county Missouri. <br /><br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2642&tree=clrksn" target="_blank">Richard White Hancock</a>, visit his page at <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com" target="_blank">Family Stories, pamgarrett.com</a>. <br /><br />About the Photo: Encampment of Union cavalry scouts near Hancock Maryland; WW Charles for Harper's Weekly, 1 Feb 1862; from the National Park Service Historical Collection.<br /><br />Moving back in time: Otis Sylvester Garrett 1894 > Margaret Susan Hancock 1869 > Richard White Hancock 1845.<br />Richard White Hancock is my husband’s greatgreat-grandfather.</span></p>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-85006419969331591342021-11-20T06:36:00.000-06:002021-11-20T06:36:33.034-06:00Oswego Kansas – A Home for the Garrett Family <p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In 1867 President Johnson ratified a treaty with the Osage tribe which facilitated more confident settlement in the southeast corner of Kansas. Families began to come into Labette county in greater numbers – establishing farms and populating several new or informally established communities. One of these communities was called by the name Little Town. It had started up a few years prior to 1867, and was showing promise. Not long after the Osage treaty, Little Town incorporated, changed its name to Oswego, and set out on a rigorous program of growth.<br />
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<br />William Cutler’s 1883 History of the State of Kansas, includes a brief, but informative account of JH Garrett. From this short bio we discover that in August 1867 Joseph Henry Garrett left his home in Illinois, and “located on a claim one mile and a quarter southwest of Oswego Kansas . . . “<br /><br />Joseph H Garrett was the son of <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2579&tree=clrksn" target="_blank">John Garrett</a> and Jemima Walker. The earliest of the John Garrett family is not clearly defined, but records suggest that they came from Virginia to Tennessee, and first appear in the records of Benton county Tennessee in the late 1830s. Most of John and Jemima’s seven children were born during their years in Tennessee, including their sons Isaac Walker Garrett in 1831, and Joseph Henry “Joe” Garrett (above mentioned) in 1841. About 1850 the Garrett family removed to the county of St Clair in Southern Illinois, where they lived for the next seventeen years. <br /><br />August of 1867 is the time pinpointed for the move of Joe Garrett from Illinois to Kansas. The 1870 census suggests that his parents and several siblings also moved to Labette county Kansas about that time. In the 1870, John Garrett, age sixty-five, and Isaac W Garrett*, age thirty-nine, are living in the town of Oswego, along with their families. Joseph Garrett, age twenty-nine, is living with his wife and young daughter in nearby Richmond Township. <br /><br />Like most people of that time, the Garretts had always farmed, but they also were skilled wood craftsmen and builders. By 1870, farming probably primarily supplied family needs, while the building trade produced income. The 1870 census gives Isaac W Garrett’s profession as builder. His younger brother Joe Garrett farmed outside of Oswego for three years before moving into town, and “giving his attention almost exclusively to contracting and building”. <br /><br />The Garretts certainly arrived in Oswego Kansas when builders were in demand, and their hands assuredly contributed to many of the new construction projects. <br /><br />The History of Labette County Kansas and its Representative Citizens, by Nelson Case 1901, gives a detailed account of the growth of Oswego Kansas in the late 1860’s and early 1870’s. The Garretts are not specifically mentioned in the history, but there can be little doubt that they played their part in the early development of the town. Case’s history describes how the first buildings (1865-1867) were of hewn logs, but with the advent of a sawmill in 1867, frame structures began to appear. “At the close of 1867 there were in Oswego ten frame buildings and eleven log houses, with a population of sixteen families numbering about one hundred individuals. There were in all five stores . . . one blacksmith shop and one hotel.” A year later, “ . . . at the close of the year (1868), there were one hundred frame buildings in town, a very fair proportion of which were occupied by business of one kind or another. Nearly all of the lines of business usually found in frontier towns were at that time fairly represented.”<br /><br />Old John Garrett and his wife Jemima are shown as operators of a boarding house in 1870 Oswego Kansas. They are listed among the eight or ten business people and families who established the First Baptist Church of Oswego. Garrett family names appear occasionally in a scattering of records of early Oswego organizations, including the GAR (Grand Army of the Republic), and the AOUW (Ancient Order of United Workmen). <br /><br />By the 1880 census, John and Jemima Garrett, in their seventies, are living with their son Joe Garrett’s family in the town of Oswego. Their home is on Wisconsin Street, and Isaac W Garrett is nearby. They are continuing with the construction projects, but the flurry of activity is slowing. Sometime between 1880 and 1900 the family moves on to Missouri, and then Oklahoma. <br /><br />Certainly the Garrett family left their mark on the town of Oswego Kansas. A question remains as to when John and Jemima Garrett died, and where they are buried; - during the 1880’s in Oswego Kansas, seems a likely scenario. One or two Garrett family members are buried in the Oswego Cemetery, but John and Jemima are not listed. Perhaps a visit to the cemetery, and a search through local newspapers could provide some further clues, or answers.<br /><br />*Note - The 1870 Census of Labette county Kansas mistakenly records Isaac Walker Garrett as John Garrett, age thirty-nine, born in Tennessee, wife Celia.<br /><br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2579&tree=clrksn" target="_blank">John Garrett</a>, visit his page at <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com" target="_blank">Family Stories, pamgarrett.com. </a><br /><br />About the photo:<br />A bird's eye view of the city of Oswego, Kansas, the county seat of Labette County. Created by Augustus Koch, 1877; part of the Kansas Memory Project of the Kansas Historical Society.<br /><br />Moving back in time: Otis Sylvester Garrett 1894 > Isaac Sylvester Garrett 1860 > Isaac Walker Garrett 1831 > John Garrett 1805 (of Benton county Tennessee).<br />John Garrett is my husband’s 3xgreat-grandfather.</span><p></p>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-18997255647794898732021-11-11T05:43:00.000-06:002021-11-11T05:43:02.580-06:00Rev William Biesemeier and the German Evangelical Church in Ogle County Illinois<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHuuvyeeNwT0_V6QC4VBV-MJeOu0W1ZSf0l708GlJoWlO-5Ho0fcWL9lygvkTwlIC2Bokvhl00B0uO1A4-tVShCIrI8C7tnVV69UmLcsL4aZsyHO6KnKbPQ8nPeT0MgULRo_lO1I6gexfZ/s639/northgrovechurch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="639" height="379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHuuvyeeNwT0_V6QC4VBV-MJeOu0W1ZSf0l708GlJoWlO-5Ho0fcWL9lygvkTwlIC2Bokvhl00B0uO1A4-tVShCIrI8C7tnVV69UmLcsL4aZsyHO6KnKbPQ8nPeT0MgULRo_lO1I6gexfZ/w379-h379/northgrovechurch.jpg" width="379" /></a></div>North Grove Evangelical Church of today is a country church that sits about five miles northeast of the small town of Forreston in Ogle County Illinois. The lovely stone edifice, dedicated in 1862, graces a relatively quiet lane – West Coffman Road. A parsonage adjoins the church and behind rests the North Grove Evangelical Zion Cemetery. <br /><br />Adeline Zion Evangelical Church is located about one mile south of the North Grove Church, in today’s small community of Adeline. The original church structure was destroyed in the Cyclone of 1898, and was rebuilt thereafter. This generally quiet northwestern corner of Ogle County seems bucolic in contrast to Chicago, one of America’s largest cities, sitting one hundred miles to the east. <br /><br />In 1860 the German Evangelical churches at North Grove and Adeline were combined into one charge, with alternating services led by the first official pastor, Rev William Jung. By 1867, Rev <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2594&tree=clrksn" target="_blank">William Biesemeier</a> was called to this work, and served the two churches for the next thirty five years, until 1901. The 1870, 1880 and 1900 censuses place William Biesemeier and his family in Maryland township of Ogle county Illinois, and it seems likely that he lived for some years in the parsonage adjoining the North Grove Church. <br /><br />A biographical account for William Biesemeier indicates that, beyond his pastoral duties, he also taught school. This teaching sojourn may have happened at the Green Prairie School, a one-room rural school located nearby. He is said to <i>“have had in all three hundred pupils.”</i> Accounts suggest that the churches and schools of the area were conducted in German well into the early twentieth century. <br /><br />Rev William Biesemeier had been married in 1863 to Hermine Gassman of adjoining Stephenson County. They were the parents of six children, four of whom survived to adulthood. The North Grove Church, and community, was their particular home throughout their childhoods. In the 1952 obituary of their daughter, Josepine Biesemeier Hoffman, we learn that she <i>“was a talented musician, serving as church organist for fifteen years in the Evangelical Church at North Grove, Illinois . . She received her education in the German and English School of the North Grove community.”</i><br /><br />The North Grove Evangelical Zion Cemetery rests quietly behind the church. William Biesemeier and his wife Hermine “Nina” Gassman Biesemeier are buried there, along with two of their sons who died in 1870 – Johannes, age five and Jonathan, age two. Nina died in 1888, at the age of forty-two years. William lived many more years, remaining unmarried and serving his congregations until 1901. He died in 1913, at the age of eighty years.<br /><br /><br />A brief history of the North Grove church included at the USGenWeb site for Ogle County Illinois gives insights into the life of the community at the dawn of William Biesemeier’s tenure as pastor: <br /><br /><i>The history of North Grove Church as an organized congregation officially began on October 20, 1860. However several families came to this area about 1845 and formed a Christian fellowship. These families came from the state of Maryland. The name - North Grove - seems to have been given to the area because it was the northern most timber land in Ogle County, Maryland Township.<br /><br />The Coffman family was the first to locate in this area. They built their first log cabin in 1840. In the next years after Ogle county had been opened for settlement, these first families wrote to their family and friends in Lippe-Detmold Germany encouraging them to move here. Among the early families who came were the Fosha, Kaney, Schure, Korf, Kilker, Brockmeier, Moring, Paul, Runte, Stukenberg, Tadtman, Vietmeier and Zumdahl families. One of the main reasons for the exodus from Germany at this time was the unsettled political situation there and the compulsory military service.<br /><br />The little group of Lippurs - so called because of the area they came from and the dialect they spoke - soon grew and prospered. They had not only a common bond of language, origin, thrift and energy but all had a deep interest in the church. In the early days they were served by a pastor from Freeport. The services were first held in the home of a Kaney family and later in the Green Prairie school house. The Rev. W. Kampmeier succeeded in uniting the Adeline and North Grove congregations into one charge and on October 20, 1860; both churches subscribed to the Constitution of the German Evangelical Synod of North America. Mr. Fredrick Moring attended a conference in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1862 and at this time the congregation was officially accepted into the denomination.<br /><br />At the same time that the North Grove congregation was organized the members decided to construct a church building. The land for the building was purchased from the Schure family for $50.00 and a promise to keep up the fences around the land. Construction was begun in the summer of 1861. The stone for the building was quarried near Adeline on the banks of Leaf River, on land which was later owned by Earl Gesin. The stone was hauled in carts drawn by oxen or horses and most of the work on the building was done by members. This project cost a total of $2.745.00 part of which was raised by assessing each household a certain amount of money for each 80 acres owned. This practice of assignment was used for the building of the parsonage and for the school house on the church grounds. The church was dedicated on February 19, 1862. 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Jung was the first pastor . . </i><br /><br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2594&tree=clrksn" target="_blank">William Biesemeier</a>, visit his page at the <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com" target="_blank">Family Stories website.</a><br /><br />Further Reading:<br />North Grove Evangelical Church; from USGenWeb site for Ogle County Illinois.<br />Zion United Church of Christ of Adeline, Now Zion Evangelical; from the book "The First 100 Years," a book about Leaf River, Illinois, 1982.<br />“Little Markers”, a history of one room schools in Ogle County Illinois, 1990s; from the historyoglecounty.info website.<br />Cyclone of 1898 (18 May 1898) from newspaper accounts given at the genealogytrails website for Carroll County Illinois.<br /><br />About the Photo: <br />North Grove Church in Maryland township of Ogle County Illinois; from northgrovechurch.weebly.com.<br /><br />Moving back in time: Elba Josephine Hoffman 1898 > Josephine S Biesemeier 1866 > Rev William Biesemeier 1833.<br />Rev William Biesemeier is my husband’s great-great grandfather.<br /><br /><br /><p></p>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-22668780145528697382021-11-09T05:52:00.000-06:002021-11-09T05:52:20.561-06:00William Biesemeier and the German Evangelicals <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgByoGviPF6xDJuAKwPQhnfrSgcgsKF7zQtPzC75zb0N09Ep8DGtpvhaSeNCu5zkNzsoVSEaX7BHB5cIhgSFVaq7ezgNmQOEvfrssHeYJOYHCbn7DlQ4s61tYsGvU7gLHBlnZZi3cWBFSsX/s640/Emmaus-Home-3.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgByoGviPF6xDJuAKwPQhnfrSgcgsKF7zQtPzC75zb0N09Ep8DGtpvhaSeNCu5zkNzsoVSEaX7BHB5cIhgSFVaq7ezgNmQOEvfrssHeYJOYHCbn7DlQ4s61tYsGvU7gLHBlnZZi3cWBFSsX/w393-h221/Emmaus-Home-3.jpeg" width="393" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: verdana;">The German Evangelicals who came to America found their roots in several European church traditions – Reformed, Lutheran, and Pietism. When <a href="www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2594&tree=clrksn " rel="nofollow">William Biesemeier</a> began his studies for the pastorate in 1858 he was associated with the Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchenverein des Westens (German Evangelical Church Society of the West). This congregation of believers has passed through a long series of name changes, unions and mergers, both in Prussia (Germany) and America. Today it is recognized as part of the United Church of Christ.<br /><br />Pietism originated in Germany with the work of Philipp Spener (1635-1705), who emphasized “personal transformation through spiritual rebirth, individual devotion, and piety.” Several of his early proposals to reform the church have become the undergirding of modern Evangelicals: <br />Earnest and thorough study of the Bible in private meetings (little churches within the church)<br />Respectful evangelism that demonstrates kindness to the unbeliever<br />Theological training that encourages faith and devotional life<br /><br />Smaller groups within the larger Pietistic movement included more rigorous practices: <br />Meeting together in conventicles (small groups) in order to mutually encourage piety<br />Identifying in their life an inner struggle with sin, a crisis, and a decision for a Christ-centered life<br />Shunning of worldly amusements such as dancing, theatre, and public games<br />Seeking union with God through spiritual exercises and the contemplative life<br /><br />These Pietistic practices and beliefs, coupled with the traditions of the Reformed and Lutheran denominations, were significant pieces of the Evangelical movement in 18th and 19th century America. <br /><br /><br />William Biesemeier emigrated, along with two brothers, from his home in the Lippe Detmold area of Germany to Ogle county Illinois in the year 1854. After settling in his new American home, he set out for the Seminary of the German Evangelical Church in Marthasville Missouri, where he entered for the 1858-59 school year. This must have been a brave undertaking. It is unknown what educational opportunities William had participated in during his German childhood. But, he likely attended the Prussian Volksschule, which provided an eight year course of “. . basic reading, writing, singing and Christian religious education in close cooperation with the churches and tried to impose a strict ethos of duty, sobriety and discipline.”<br /><br />The Seminary, informally known as the Preacher’s Seminary at Marthasville, had been conceived by a small group of German pastors and teachers in about 1850, and was incorporated in the year 1859. The original campus included, “. . a Farm House, Bake Oven, Friedensbote (Messenger of Peace) Publishing House, and the Dormitory.” The seminary existed at this site until 1883 and then moved to St Louis (Webster Grove) and eventually became Eden Theological Seminary. <br /><br />A list of the students for the year 1858-59 includes William Biesemeier:<br />1. Kirschmann <br />2. Haas <br />3. Christoph F. Stark* <br />4. Andreas Muller* <br />5. Haberle <br />6. Buchmiiller <br />7. Ehlers <br />8. Kirchhoff <br />9. Gobel <br />10. Heinrich Siekmann* <br />11. Joachim Fr. Schulz* <br />12. Wilhelm Biesemeier* <br />13. Johannes A. Reidenbach* <br />14. J. Christoph Feil* <br />15. Karl F. Off* <br />*New Students; Of the nine new arrivals only three could write, and the remainder were not able to write correctly. <br /><br />During the 1830s and 40s a large number of German families settled up and down the Missouri river, west of St Louis. The Preachers Seminary at Marthasville was “founded to prepare ministers to serve the growing number of German-immigrant congregations on what was then the western frontier.” The early German settlers believed that their leader’s Christian faith should be supported by critical scholarship. Today’s Eden Theological Seminary maintains an active and diverse archive. A series of brief articles at their website, under the heading This Week in Eden History, give insight into the life of the seminary and the larger church.<br /><br />This delightful photo from the Eden archive, is dated late 1850’s, and could possibly include William Biesemeier. It adjoins the archive article titled Opening of Evangelical Preachers Seminary.<br /><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">A biographical account of William Biesemeier informs us that he was ordained by the German Evangelical denomination in 1862 in Cincinnati Ohio and received a placement near Ackerville, Wisconsin in Washington County. An effort was underway to more firmly establish the German Evangelical church in Wisconsin, and over the next five years William Biesemeier served St John’s Church at Station and St Peter’s Church at Jackson. In 1867 he was called to Ogle County Illinois where he served the churches of North Grove and Adeline for thirty-five years.<br /><br /><br />For more details on <a href="www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2594&tree=clrksn " rel="nofollow">William Biesemeier</a>, visit his page at <a href="www.pamgarrett.com " target="_blank">Family Stories, pamgarrett.com</a>. <br /><br />Further Reading:<br />The German Church on the American Frontier; Carl E Schneider, 1939.<br />Evangelical Minister Studied At Seminary in Marthasville; Sue Blesi, Franklin County Historian; 2016.<br />The Archives at Eden Theological Seminary; www.eden.edu/the-archives-at-eden-theological-seminary<br /><br />About the photo:<br />Early building of the Seminary of the German Evangelical Church in Marthasville Missouri.<br /><br />Moving back in time: Elba Josephine Hoffman 1898 > Josephine S Biesemeier 1866 > Rev William Biesemeier 1833.<br />Rev William Biesemeier is my husband’s great-great grandfather.</span><br />
<p></p>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-77258429008014180062018-07-17T06:28:00.000-05:002018-07-17T06:28:17.219-05:00“Springfield don’t look like it did during the war” – A Hancock Family Letter<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1912, Richard W Hancock, age sixty-four, wrote a letter to his son Ed who was living in Seiling Oklahoma. The letter was postmarked 23 February 1912, Memphis Tennessee. For family historian, the letter is of value because it lists the birthdates of the nine children of <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2642&tree=clrksn">Richard White Hancock</a> and his wife Elizabeth Ann Taylor. It also mentions a few bits of family miscellany.<br /><br />For more general historians, Dick Hancock’s description of Springfield Missouri in 1912 might be of interest. At the time of the letter the Richard Hancock family had been living, farming and pursuing the building trade near Maysville, Dekalb county Missouri for nearly forty years. The town of Springfield Missouri resided about two hundred and thirty miles to the south of Maysville – a long trip. During the Civil War Dick Hancock had served more than three years with the Missouri State Militia (Federal Troops), and was stationed at Springfield in the Spring of 1863. Following the War, he stood witness to the growth and change of the town. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reading through his letter, it was fun to note his mention of “. . . a wagon factory that turns out 100 wagons a month.” This must have been impressive to a man whose father, Edward Hancock, had been noted as a “wagon-maker” in the 1850 census of Scott county Kentucky. <br /><br />Enjoy the letter: <br /><br /><b>RW Hancock to his son Ed Hancock of Seiling Oklahoma, postmarked 23 Feb 1912, Memphis Tennessee -</b><br /><br /><i>I have had several calls for mill work and may go back to Springfield soon if things go alright. Your mother said to send you all the dates of the childrens births:<br /><br />Charley was born 5 July 1867<br />Maggie, 27 Feb 1869<br />Kate, 28 Jan 1871<br />Bess, 28 Jan 1875<br />Julia, 17 Apr 1877<br />Jack, 20 Aug 1879<br />Spencer, 5 Nov 1882<br />Fred, 13 Nov 1884<br />you, 2 Feb 1873.<br /><br />We have letter from Maggie . . . 12 days. They were all well. Their children had the measles.<br /><br />I have not seen any of Jhn Ballingers folks since I came home. Jack weights 170 Spencer 150 and Fred about 130.<br /><br />We have 2 spring calves and will have 2 or 3 more during the summer. We will not raise any colts this year. Springfield dont look like it did during the war. It is a large town now. Two railroads and both have large . . . and employ a great many men. Electric lights and water works and is a good manufacturing town. Iron works and a wagon factory that turns out 100 wagons a month. A furniture factory and lime works 3 large mills corn plant and . . . small concerns. Brewing and everthing namely found in large cities. Population between 25 and 20 thousand. I would like to live there if it was not so full of negroes they number 5 or 6 thousand and steal everything thats loose.<br /><br />Mr E H Brant moved to Maysville and went in the Poultry business. Ben Taylor rented his farm and went to Excelsior Springs . . .<br /><br />Your mother is doing her work but she suffers with rheumatism all the time.<br /><br />Hoping this will find you and family well<br /><br />I will close write soon<br />Your father RW Hancock</i><br /><br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2642&tree=clrksn">Richard White Hancock</a>, visit his page at <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/">Family Stories, pamgarrett.com. </a><br /><br />Moving back in time: Otis Sylvester Garrett 1894 > Margaret Susan Hancock 1869 > Richard White Hancock 1845.<br />Richard White Hancock is my husband’s greatgreat-grandfather.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">About the photo:<br />The image above come from Springfield, Missouri, and Surroundings, a 35-page illustrated booklet containing numerous engraved prints of Springfield scenes . . . The digital collections of the <a href="https://thelibrary.org/lochist/digicollections.cfm">Local History and Genealogy Collection of the Springfield-Green County Library</a> (Springfield, Missouri) are excellent. Be sure to visit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Back in the 1980’s my husband’s grandfather, Otis Sylvester Garrett, shared some photos with me that had belonged to his mother, <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2584&tree=clrksn">Margaret Susan Hancock Garrett</a>. The envelope contained about thirty-five photos of Margaret’s Hancock family members around Dekalb County Missouri. I would estimate that most of the photos were taken in the 1920’s and 1930’s. At the time Otis showed me the photos, I had negatives and copies made at a local photo store, and then returned them to Otis. Otis Garrett died in 1994, at the age of ninety-nine years, and I don’t know where the photos are today. But, I am so thankful for the copies I made. Recently I have digitized the copies for storage and sharing on my Family Stories website.</i> <br /><br />The earliest notes I have on the Hancock family introduce Edward Hancock and his wife Jemima White who were living in Scott county Kentucky in the 1850’s. Edward Hancock was noted as a wagon maker. By 1860 the census places them in Daviess county Missouri with four of their younger children still in the household. My husband’s family branch comes down from their son, Richard White Hancock, who lived most of his life in the adjoining counties of Daviess and Dekalb in the northwest corner of Missouri. <br /><br />Richard White Hancock, and his wife Elizabeth “Betty” Taylor, were the parents of nine identified children. Six of these children, along with their spouses and offspring, are the subjects of the photograph collection. At the Family Stories website, you can find these photographs among the families of <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2740&tree=clrksn">Kate Hancock</a> (Henry Murray); <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2742&tree=clrksn">Ben Hancock</a> (Stella Peaslee); <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2743&tree=clrksn">Julia Hancock</a> (Worthy Redman); <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2745&tree=clrksn">Jack Hancock</a> (Alice Estes); <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2746&tree=clrksn">Spencer Hancock</a> (Vesta Fisher); and <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2747&tree=clrksn">Fred Hancock</a> (Fannie Baker). <br /><br />The photos are representative of everyday farm life in rural Missouri – couples, children, and cousins, doing the things that families do – with horses and cars, washtubs and hogs. It is a lovely collection of photos. Besides running their farms, several of the Hancock men were involved in construction, and there are photos identifying Hancock building projects. Like their wagon-making ancestor, the Hancock’s were noted as builders. One of the more thought provoking photos remembers Vesta Fisher Hancock and her young son Randall visiting Mount Moriah Cemetery in Kansas City, shortly after the 1928 death of her husband Spencer Hancock, at the age of forty-six.<br /><br />Finding ancestor photos has been an inspiring piece of the family history puzzle. Perhaps this blog post will be the spark that reconnects a Hancock descendent with faces from their past.<br /><br /><br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2642&tree=clrksn">Richard White Hancock</a> and his family, visit his page at <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/">Family Stories, pamgarrett.com</a>. <br /><br />Moving back in time: Margaret Susan “Maggie” Hancock 1869 (wife of Isaac Sylvester “Ves” Garrett) > Richard White Hancock 1845 > Edward Hancock 1808.</span>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-52458817398837878632018-06-12T16:36:00.000-05:002018-06-12T16:36:40.363-05:00The Hospitality of “Bathing” – The Fry Family, part 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1785&tree=clrksn">Charles William Fry</a> (1842-1922) was one of seven sons of Philip Slaughter Fry and his wife Pamelia Anderson. He grew up in Orange county Virginia, and at the age of seventeen or eighteen he set out to teach school in Chicot county Arkansas. It is not certain what drew him there, but he clearly had a relationship with the Abner Gaines family (former Virginians), with whom he lived. He returned to Virginia for the term of the Civil War, and served with distinction. But, following the war he again made his home in Arkansas, where he married Fannie Davies, the daughter of Anthony Harpin Davies and Mildred Pollard Gaines. Fannie Davies Fry died young, leaving him with two children. A more detailed biography of Charles William Fry can be found at the Family Stories website. <br />
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Charles Fry was known by friends as “Willie” Fry, and by family members as “Uncle Willie”. Many records show him as CW Fry. Willie Fry remained in Chicot county Arkansas for a number of years after his wife’s 1870 death. He never remarried. In 1878 he determined to remove to Hot Springs Arkansas, and following up on the “family tradition”, became involved in the Hot Springs bathing, health, and tourist industry. Charles William Fry was a resident of Hot Springs Arkansas for more than forty years.<br />
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In 1832 the US Congress set aside the area now known as Hot Springs National Park to preserve the springs for public benefit. Because the land was reserved for federal use, it became known as the Hot Springs Reservation. But, despite this designation, many private citizens laid claim to land, and by 1875 there were “five bath houses, twelve good hotels, and many smaller hotels and boarding houses” making use of the Springs. Finally, in 1877, the US Supreme Court ruled against the private land owners, and the government established greater control of the area. <br />
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CW Fry served the Hot Springs community in a number of capacities - real estate agent, circuit court clerk, and early bath house operator. He may have been attracted to the area by his mother-in-law’s brother, William Haney Gaines, a significant figure in the development of the Hot Springs bathing and tourist industry. In 1888, CW Fry was identified as the manager of the newly built Horseshoe, along bath house row. Albert Belding Gaines, son of William Haney Gaines, was one of the primary owners. The Horseshoe was named for its Moorish, horseshoe shaped windows – and it charged $3.50 for a series of twenty-one baths. An 1890 report to the Secretary of the Interior states: <br />
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It [the Horeshoe] obtains water from the spring at the northeast corner of Big Iron. There is no cut off valve. This being one of the new houses, it is in a fair state of preservation and with proper attention and repair will probably last from eight to twelve years yet. The management seemed to be better than the average.<br />
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By the 1880s much of the bathing was overseen by physician who prescribed detailed regimens for the “invalid”. The hot baths were usually taken once a day for three weeks, when a rest was necessary . A second three weeks' course was then taken, followed again by an abstinence from bathing for several days. The usual stay at the springs was from one to three months. Drinking the water, taking supplemental medicines, resting, and participating in light exercise were all a part of the healing process. Vapor cabinets also became popular. Beyond the bathhouse activities there were all kinds of amusements and entertainments to enliven the visitors. <br />
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Willie Fry eventually managed two of the largest Hot Springs establishments, the Majestic Hotel Baths and the Arlington Hotel Baths. The Arlington, which still graces the Hot Springs Historic District, was originally opened in 1875, and was rebuilt in a much grander style in 1893. The finance partners were Samuel Fordyce, William H Gaines, and Samuel Stitt (married to William Gaines sister). The 1893 building was under the management of CW Fry around the turn of the century. <br />
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The history tab of today’s Arlington Hotel website gives this description of the 1893 structure:<br />
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<i>The original building was razed to make way for a new 300-room Spanish Renaissance structure in 1893. The new Arlington was referred to as “the most elegant and complete hotel in America” in Charles Cutter’s 1892 Guide Book. Designed in three sections, but with five levels, the “new” Arlington featured a spacious veranda with arcades running the full length of the hotel. Photographs and records in the 1894 and 1896 Cutter’s Guide show a rotunda, grand ornamental oak stairway circling a beautiful glass dome, the lobby, a pink parlor, and grand ballroom. The building was destroyed by fire April 5, 1923.</i><br />
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Charles William Fry died on the 6th of September 1922, seven months before the burning of the Arlington Hotel. He is buried in Hot Springs’ Hollywood Cemetery. <br />
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For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1785&tree=clrksn">Charles William Fry</a> visit his page at <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/">Family Stories, pamgarrett.com</a>.<br />
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Further Reading: <br />
<a href="http://pamgarrettblog.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-hospitality-of-bathing-fry-family.html">The Hospitality of “Bathing” – The Fry Family, part 1</a><br />
<a href="http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=437">Bath House Row; from the Encyclopedia of Arkansas.</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">About the photos: <br />
Bath house row, Hot Springs, Arkansas; Detroit Publishing, c.1900; Photograph retrieved from the Library of Congress.<br />
note – This lovely photo from the LOC collection is of the Horse Shoe Hotel on Bath House Row. It has been identified from a less accessible photo that describes the horseshoe shaped window.</span><br />
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Moving back in time: <br />
Charles William Fry 1842 > Philip Slaughter Fry 1801 > Reuben Fry 1766 > Rev Henry Fry 1738 > Joshua Fry c.1700.<br />
Charles William Fry is my 2nd great-granduncle.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5WX56Dj6uoXRJcc9pY9aUQ9XMW5fc1Rr85pY4KzUDJA28rhG82hqEtEK6w0uIvRdqupFVMUs3QkyWW7X7a7oW5dnXmugdfszScp6k3kPfLJW26_RP-eXm6CRnnLhX2ca_-BigBW40s0v/s1600/warmspringsjeffbath.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="900" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5WX56Dj6uoXRJcc9pY9aUQ9XMW5fc1Rr85pY4KzUDJA28rhG82hqEtEK6w0uIvRdqupFVMUs3QkyWW7X7a7oW5dnXmugdfszScp6k3kPfLJW26_RP-eXm6CRnnLhX2ca_-BigBW40s0v/s320/warmspringsjeffbath.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the early years of my family history searches it was mentioned that my greatgreat-grandfather’s brother, <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1785&tree=clrksn">Charles William Fry</a>, operated a bath house in Hot Springs Arkansas in the 1880’s and 90’s. This seemed an intriguing story, and I thought I would pursue it someday. Eventually I did learn a bit more about Uncle Willie Fry’s bath house, and as I studied my more extended Fry family I discovered that “the hospitality of bathing” was rather a family tradition. Actually, Charles Fry’s great-uncle had operated a bath house in Virginia in the 1830’s and 40’s, and Charles’ father and a cousin were invested in other Virginia bathing projects. <br /><br />The first bath house to come under the Fry family influence was located at Warm Springs in Bath county Virginia. <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1727&tree=clrksn">John Fry</a>, “proprietor”, was born about 1775 in Albemarle county Virginia, son of Rev Henry Fry and Susan Walker. He married Deborah Haywood (Heywood), and by 1820 they had taken up residence, with their eight children, in Bath county. <br /><br />It is difficult to say exactly when John Fry took over the running of the Warm Springs, but it was probably during the 1820’s. Perceval Reniers’ 1941 account of the Virginia Springs area gives delightful “snapshots” of Colonel Fry and his Springs: <br /><br />People loved the Warm as they did the companionship of an old friend, for its very homeliness, for the luxury of the pool, for the food and particularly for Colonel John Fry. As long as that short-legged, fat, joking, jumping-jack of a man was on hand, the huts and mean pillows could be overlooked . . . Even Harry Humbug . . found handsome things to say of Fry: “one of the most polite, accommodating and facetious landlords that ever lived”. <br /><br />Further extracts from Reniers’ book, related to Warm Springs, can be found under John Fry at the Family Stories website. Long after John Fry’s death in 1844, the Warm Springs resort became known as Jefferson’s Pools. The Gentlemans and Ladies Bathhouses still stand today, but in a poor state of repair. In the 1960’s the bathhouses were placed on the National Historic Register, but in 2017 they were closed from public use. Preservation efforts are under discussion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The second Fry family “bathing” story centers on John Fry’s nephew, <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1771&tree=clrksn">Philip Slaughter Fry</a> (1801-1859). He was the son of Reuben Fry and Anne Coleman Slaughter, and he served as Clerk of the Orange county Virginia courts for more than thirty-five years. Philip Fry never operated a bath house, but he was an investor in the development of Rawley Springs in Rockingham county Virginia. Rawley Springs saw its first commercial use as a spa in the 1820s, mostly under the hands of the Waterman and Sites families. Then, “in 1836, Sites sold a one-half interest in the property to Philip Fry and John Blakely, from Orange County, for $1250.” It is not clear what involvement Philip Fry had as an investor, but over the next twenty-five years the area saw many changes. Rawley Springs was never large, or grand, but it prompted plenty of visitors to its “healing waters” in the 1840’s and 50’s. Following Philip S Fry’s death in 1859, his ownership was sold off to several newer investors who carried it forward to its “heyday” in the 1880’s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About the same time Philip Fry was promoting the Rawley Springs enterprise, a Fry cousin was discovering his own water connection - Fry’s Spring – today a historic neighborhood in Charlottesville Virginia. In the 1850 Virginia census, <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1812&tree=clrksn">James Francis “Frank” Fry</a> owned substantial real estate in the area of Fry’s Spring valued at $15,000. Frank Fry (1799-1880) was the son of Henry Fry and Mildred Maury, and the great-grandson of old Joshua Fry. He came into possession of the Fry Springs property in the 1830’s, when it was conveyed to him by his father-in-law, Nelson Barksdale. About 1839 he built his home there, known as Azalea Hall. There is no clear story of when the nearby spring – actually two abundant natural springs - became known as Fry’s Spring. There is no evidence that Frank Fry ever operated a bathing establishment connected to Fry Springs, but in the latter part of the 19th century his successor (and likely cousin), S Price Maury, set out a plan under the guise of the Jefferson Hotel and Land Development Company. His grand plans for a hotel, lake, and summer cottages never met with much success, but it did lay the ground work for what latter became the Fry’s Spring neighborhood. Today Fry’s Spring neighborhood is a National Register Historic area.<br /><br />This Fry family penchant for bathing carried forward. Uncle Willie Fry’s bath house in Hot Spring Arkansas is the subject of an upcoming blog post.<br /><br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1727&tree=clrksn">John Fry</a>, <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1771&tree=clrksn">Philip Slaughter Fry</a>, and <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1812&tree=clrksn">James Francis Fry</a> visit their pages at <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/">Family Stories, pamgarrett.com</a>. <br /><br /><br />Further Reading:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/summer02/cure.cfm">Taking the Cure - Colonial Spas, Springs, Baths, and Fountains of Health</a>; Harold B Gill Jr; published in the Colonial Williamsburg Journal, 2002.<br /><br /><a href="http://exhibits.newportmansions.org/the-expansion-of-the-springs--from-primitive-beginnings-to-notable-accommodations.html">19th Century Watering Holes – From Infirmary to Social Itinerary 1820-1870</a>; from the Newport Mansions website; includes a drawing of the Warm Spring Spa.<br /><br />The Springs of Virginia: Life, Love and Death at the Waters, 1775-1900; Perceval Reniers, 1941. <br /><br /><a href="https://tclf.org/landslides/jefferson-pools-suffering-from-neglect">Historic Jefferson Pools Suffering from Neglect</a>, from the blog of The Cultural Landscape Foundation; 10 December 2012.<br /><br />Mixing Pleasure and Profit at the Springs: The Harrisonburg-Rawley Connection; Diane Rafuse; published in the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society News, Spring 2009. (available online)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.livingplaces.com/VA/Albemarle_County/Charlottesville_City/Frys_Spring_Historic_District.html">Fry’s Spring Historic District</a>; adapted from Maral S. Kalbian and Margaret T. Peters’ nomination document, 2014, National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places, Washington, D.C.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">About the Photos:<br />This photo of the Gentleman’s Bathhouse at Warm Springs (Bath County Virginia) was probably taken in the mid-20th century. It appears on many websites and blogs around the internet, but I have not been able to apply original source information. Today the Warm Springs resort area is known as Jefferson’s Pools.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Fry Springs Neighborhood sign, in Charlottesville, Virginia.</span><br /><br /><br />Moving back in time: <br />John Fry 1775 > Rev Henry Fry 1738 > Joshua Fry c.1700. <br />James Francis Fry 1799 > Henry Fry 1775 > Rev Henry Fry 1738 > Joshua Fry c.1700.<br />Charles William Fry 1842 > Philip Slaughter Fry 1801 > Reuben Fry 1766 > Rev Henry Fry 1738 > Joshua Fry c.1700. <br />Philip Slaughter Fry is my 3xgreat-grandfather.</span><br />
<br />Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-69888049896322161412018-05-25T10:15:00.000-05:002018-05-25T10:15:56.656-05:00Garrettsburg Tennessee<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Following is a brief account of the town of Garrettsburg Tennessee. It is drawn primarily from the work of researchers who have told its story before. It is re-presented here to accompany the bios and records of the Garrett family for whom it was named. A few thoughts about Garrettsburg residents and their relationships with the Garrett family are included.</i></span><br />
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The Garrettsburg community centered around a mill, built and operated by <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I3086&tree=clrksn">Jeremiah Marr “Jerry” Garrett,</a> and probably came into existence in the 1880’s. Jerry Garrett, born in 1845, was the son of Stephen Garrett and Nancy Walker. He grew up in Benton county Tennessee where he married, in 1868, Harriett Ann Aden, daughter of Winston King Aden and Jane Farrar. Jerry and Harriett eventually established their home in neighboring Carroll county, and raised a family of five children.<br />
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When James E Jones was reminiscing in 1972, he gave some good detail on Jerry Garrett’s mill - “Powered by a mill wheel, this mill (said to have been three stories high) not only ground corn and flour but carded wool and operated a lathe . . . In its heyday, The Garrettsburg Mill was so popular that it had customers from as far away as Decatur County.”<br />
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Garrettsburg neighbors and buildings were also included in James E Jones descriptions of the town – “An ice house was dug into the bank of the road on the same side as the mill . . . On up the road there were two stores - one run by Martin Butler - then the houses of Terry [Jerry] Garrett and Levi Butler. Lewis' barn was across the road.” A Post Office graced the town of Garrettsburg from 1892 to 1903. Caswell Cole (nephew of Jeremiah Garrett) was the original postmaster, and he was followed by Jerry Garrett.<br />
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Browsing through the 1880 and 1900 census records brings to light a few interesting neighbors of Jerry Garrett. It is difficult to determine if they lived in the “town” of Garrettsburg, or in the general vicinity. But, several were bound to the Garrett family by ties of kinship. Descendants of Eli Butler, Joseph Townsend, John King, and Calvin Cole all intermarried with the Garrett family. Many of these families lived in the area of Garrettsburg. <br />
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Census records show all of Jerry Garrett’s siblings living in Carroll county Tennessee – Joseph H Garrett (wife Julia Harmon), Mary Ann Garrett Cole (widow of Calvin Cole), Nancy Garrett Holland (Greenberry Holland), Martha Jane Garrett Wyatt (William Wyatt), and Susan J Garrett Sanders (Ferman Sanders).<br />
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The 1880 census introduces an interesting, but unidentified, character to the story – Jerry Garrett’s near neighbor <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I3788&tree=clrksn">George W Garrett</a>, born 1820, and his wife Isabel (Ibby). To date, they do not appear on Jerry Garrett’s family tree, but it is hoped that they might shed new light on the Garrett family story. This George Garrett appears to be the same man who married Isabel Stover, and is living in 1860 Overton county Tennessee, and then 1870 Allen county Kentucky, before appearing 1880 in Carroll county Tennessee. He may not be closely related to Jerry Garrett.<br />
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Jeremiah King and his wife Maude Holland (niece of Jeremiah Garrett) appear next door to Jerry Garrett in the 1900 census of Carroll county Tennessee. King’s occupation is given as Miller. Also, appearing in their own households in the 1900 census are two of Jerry Garrett’s children, Hulen (Jeremiah Ulan) Garrett and his new bride Lillie Cole, and Vandelia Garrett Butler with her husband Levi Butler.<br />
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Researchers record that Jerry Garrett eventually sold the Mill to his partner, <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I3789&tree=clrksn">Gideon Spellings</a>, and removed with most of his family to the community of Marmaduke in Greene county Arkansas. This move probably took place not long after the turn of the century. The “sell-out” to Gideon Spellings raises a few questions of interest to “understanding the Garrett family.” Gideon Spellings owned a stave mill across the road from Jerry Garrett’s operation. He was married several times, and researchers name his last wife as <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I3787&tree=clrksn">Malinda Lutisha Garrett</a>. Her identity remains in question! Spellings research suggests that Gideon and Malinda were married in 1877 and had several children. Gideon then died in 1879. This timeline seems unlikely, and the question remains as to when Garrett sold the Mill to Spellings. Gideon Spellings’ son, Edward Spellings, operated the mill for a time. Malinda G Spellings, born 1850, does appear as a widow in the 1900 census of Carroll county Tennessee. She has two daughters and a grandson in her household, and the youngest daughter was born in 1883. Jerry Garrett’s brother, Joseph H Garrett, is one of her near neighbors.<br />
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Garrettsburg storytellers mention a row of unique pine trees that were planted and tended by Jerry Garrett before his family moved on to Arkansas. During the first decade of the twentieth century the work at the Garrettsburg Mill declined. In James E Jones’ 1972 reminiscence he closes, “ . . The mill burned about 1910. After that, the town went down, and now-a-days, a stranger would never guess that there had ever been a town there. Nothing is left but Levi Butler's house and the tall old pines.” <br />
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For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I3086&tree=clrksn">Jeremiah Marr Garrett</a>, visit his page at <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/">Family Stories, pamgarrett.com</a>. <br />
Jeremiah Marr Garrett is my husband’s first cousin, four times removed.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">About the Photo: The photo included here is not the Garrett Mill at Garrettsburg Tennessee. It burned about 1910, and I have not been successful in locating a photograph. Any photos of Garrettsburg would be warmly received. The photo above is of the grist mill at Cade’s Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is listed on the National Historic Register, and this photo is available at Wikimedia Common, 2007.</span></span>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-42321046452318982942017-06-25T07:50:00.000-05:002017-06-25T07:50:07.262-05:00The Turkey Herding Garretts <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The search for family history can point us to interesting pastimes, practices, and occupations that our ancestors followed. It caught my attention when my husband’s grandfather told me that his Garrett family used to herd turkeys in Tennessee. <br />
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During the 1820’s, 30’s, 40’s the John Garrett family was living in Benton county Tennessee, about ninety miles west of Nashville. Farming was their primary pursuit, but they may also have done some building in the area. Isaac Walker Garrett , born in 1831, was the second son of John Garrett and his wife Jemima White Garrett. He grew up in Benton county Tennessee, and his grandson, Otis Garrett, gave me this little clue to some of his youthful activity:<br />
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<i>When the Garrett family was still living in Tennessee IW Garrett had a horse, a dog and a gun and he travelled around buying Turkeys and driving them to New Orleans to market.</i><br />
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When I closely considered this statement, I found it pretty amazing! - first, because the Garrett family removed from Tennessee to Illinois in the early 1850’s, suggesting that Isaac Garrett was a rather young lad when he pursued this turkey-herding avocation, and second because New Orleans was five hundred miles to the south. Driving turkeys five hundred miles would have been no small feat! <br />
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I had a great time reading through several turkey-herding “memories” posted on the internet. One article suggested that turkeys were sometimes moved great distances overland. For the Garretts in Middle Tennessee, it seems slightly more plausible that their turkeys were gathered locally, and driven west to the Mississippi River for a boat ride to New Orleans. But, I can’t confirm that scenario. Whatever the case, the process of moving, hundreds, or sometimes thousands of turkeys, must have required monumental patience, tempered with a dose of good humor. Turkeys are not counted among the most intelligent of creatures, and it took quite an effort to keep them moving along in the right direction. Apparently, young boys were often hired to scatter feed, and entice the turkeys forward. This might have been an appropriate task for a boy with “a horse, a dog and a gun”. Otis Garrett’s statement describes the “buying” and “driving” of turkeys though; which might suggest the entrepreneurial pursuit of a young man.<br />
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It is unlikely we will ever know just what role young Isaac Garrett played in the movement of turkeys in 19th Century Tennessee. But, the memory of driving turkeys to market must have come out of a real experience. So, the next time we are enjoying our Thanksgiving turkey we can consider the challenge of the Great Turkey Walks, and appreciate Isaac Garrett’s commitment. <br />
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For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2581&tree=clrksn">Isaac Walker Garrett</a>, visit his page at <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/">Family Stories, pamgarrett.com.</a> <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Wild Turkey in twilight found in Zion National Park, USA; by Philipp Kuchler, 2011 (CC, Wikimedia Commons).</span><br />
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Moving back in time: Richard William “Dick” Garrett 1925 > Otis Sylvester Garrett 1894 > Isaac Sylvester Garrett 1860 > Isaac Walker Garrett 1831 > John Garrett 1805.<br />
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For further Reading:<br />
<a href="http://www.vpr.net/episode/46135/long-haul-gilbert-on-turkey-drives/">Turkey Herding</a>; Peter A. Gilbert, director of Vermont Humanities Council.<br />
<a href="https://bullittcountyhistory.org/memories/turkeyherd.html">Bullitt Memories - Herding Turkeys</a>; David Strange, originally appeared in The Courier-Journal (Louisville Kentucky), 21 November 2012. <br />
<a href="https://okramagazine.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/herding-turkeys-in-hancock-county-tennessee/">Herding Turkeys in Hancock County</a>; Fred Sauceman, 2013.<br />
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Just for fun: <br />
The Great Turkey Walk; a novel for young people by Kathleen Karr (2000). <br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Big, brawny Simon Green, who's just completed third grade (for the fourth time), may not be book smart, but he's nobody's fool. When it's time to be done with school and make his way in the world, Simon hatches a plan that could earn him a bundle. He intends to herd a huge flock of bronze turkeys all the way from his home in eastern Missouri to the boomtown of Denver, where they'll fetch a mighty price. In the year 1860, the hazards of such a trek are many - how does one shepherd the birds across a river, for instance? - but Simon is undaunted. Accompanied by a faithful drover, and eventually to be joined by two boon companions, he undertakes the biggest journey of his young life, in this high-spirited Wild West adventure by an acclaimed author of historical fiction.</span></span></span>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-2425377183695165862017-06-17T14:45:00.000-05:002017-06-17T14:45:53.762-05:00Back to Blogging<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Life Happens, . . . and sometimes it changes our direction. Over the past year I have needed to focus more attention on my living family, and have mostly set aside my search for family in the past. Now I have an opportunity to return to some work on my Family Stories website and blog, and I am delighted to be posting new notes and stories on some of my husband’s family lines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />I will be adding all that I know about my husband’s Garrett and Hancock families to my database at the Family Stories Website, and I hope to add a few articles here at the Family Stories Blog to introduce these family branches.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />So far, I can only carry the Garrett line back to the 1820’s in Benton county Tennessee, where my husband’s 3xgreat-grandfather, John Garrett, was living with his wife Jemima Walker. All the research I have done seems to point to John Garrett being a descendant of Stephen Garrett of Buckingham county Virginia, but the connection remains elusive. Recent DNA evidence is suggesting that there might be more to the Stephen Garrett story than researchers have credited.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />I am also excited to share a collection of mostly early 20th century photographs for the Hancock family of Dekalb County Missouri. Isaac Sylvester Garrett, grandson of the above mentioned John Garrett and Jemima Walker, married Margaret Susan Hancock in 1890 Dekalb County Missouri. She was the daughter of Richard White Hancock and Elizabeth “Betty” Taylor, and the granddaughter of Edward Hancock and his wife Jemima White. The Hancock photos will appear, along with family data, at the Family Stories website. <br /><br />Coming up next – The “Turkey Herding” Garretts.<br /><br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2579&tree=clrksn">John Garrett</a> and <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I2706&tree=clrksn">Edward Hancock</a>, visit their pages at <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/">Family Stories, pamgarrett.com</a>. <br /><br />Moving back in time: Richard William “Dick” Garrett 1925 > Otis Sylvester Garrett 1894 > Isaac Sylvester Garrett 1860 > Isaac Walker Garrett 1831 > John Garrett 1805.</span><br />
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It is hard to say just when James Clarkson first donned his “Redcoat”, to join the 54th British Regiment of Foot. He must have been a young man in his early twenties. Already trained as a weaver by his father, Peter Clarkson, James’s was leaving behind his parents and siblings in the little town of Blackley, outside of Manchester England. <br />
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What drew him to the military life? In the early 1770s most British soldiers were volunteers, signing on for a career rather than a fixed-term commitment. Whether James Clarkson was seeking stable employment, or an adventurous interlude, we really cannot say. It seems likely that James Clarkson was recruited around Manchester, and shortly sent across the Irish Sea to Cork. <br />
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The first clear record that we have of James Clarkson is the muster role in Cork Ireland, dated 5th August 1774. He was a member of George Ridsdale’s Company of the 54th Regiment of Foot. There are some <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/histories/clarjame058_bio2.pdf"><b>“lingering questions”</b></a> related to an earlier James Clarkson in this regiment. The port city of Cork was a busy commercial location in the 1770’s. It served as a training and provisioning site for the British military. Cork became home-base to James Clarkson for several years. Soldiering life in Ireland probably did not satisfy any pent up longing for adventure. According to newspapers of the time, the garrison kept busy guarding the local goal, and shooting off canons in honor of every royal birthday that appeared on the calendar. James Clarkson did have the opportunity to move out to other port cities in Ireland; Dingle in July 1775, and Carrick on Shannon in October of that same year. <br />
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Finally, in January of 1776 James Clarkson found himself aboard the “Lord North”, preparing to sail with John Breese’s company (54th Regiment of Foot) to the American colonies to “subdue the rebellion”. After a storm ravaged crossing of eight weeks or more, John Breese’s company arrived at Cape Fear on the North Carolina coast in the spring of 1776. They encamped for several weeks before resuming ship and sailing south toward Charleston South Carolina. They attempted to fire on the partially completed fort that guarded Charleston harbor, but several factors worked against their success, and British forces eventually withdrew. <br />
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On the 11th of August 1776, James Clarkson’s name appears with John Breese’s Company (54th Regiment of Foot) at Staten Island New York. He was among 32,000 British troops that were occupying the small island, and preparing for battle. A few days later, August 27-28, the 54th Regiment of Foot participated in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Island"><b>Battle of Brooklyn</b></a>. Through a series of assaults, they were able to push back the troops led by General George Washington until the rebel troops were trapped in the Brooklyn Heights area. The British set in for a siege, but to their great surprise, discovered that Washington had pulled off a quiet and orderly escape. Rebel fortifications came under British control and James Clarkson remained garrisoned there for several months.<br />
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In December of 1776 the 54th Regiment of Foot joined in a British force that set out to take possession of Rhode Island. The long Rhode Island coastline and sizable harbor at Newport would be a helpful prize. On 7 December 1776, “83 ships and transports carrying some 6000 British soldiers sailed into Narragansett Bay . . By the time the British arrived, about half the population of the island had fled. With virtually no opposition, the British captured Newport . . The British held Rhode Island for nearly three years. . “ (Rhode Island in the American Revolution; An exhibition from the Library of the Society of the Cincinnati) <br />
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James Clarkson was once again settled into garrison life, this time around Newport Rhode Island. Life was generally relaxed. Soldiers were invited into the homes of local Tories, and often won the confidence of the general populous. But, outside of the town the rebels kept things stirred up, and British regiments were called out for service in surrounding camps. In April of 1777 the 54th Regiment of Foot joined in a series of raids and skirmishes in nearby Connecticut, including the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ridgefield"><b>Battle of Ridgefield</b></a>. <br />
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We don’t know what might have occurred in early July of 1777, to incite James Clarkson to desert his post. Researcher Don Hagist gives this helpful insight: <br />
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<i>According to the muster rolls of the 54th Regiment of Foot, he [James Clarkson] deserted from Rhode Island on 18 July 1777. A British officer even made note of it in his diary: "18th [July 1777]... A Soldier of the 54th deserted last night. The Rebels send over some people to the Necks almost every evening about Sunset. They do this principally to induce our men to desert, by shewing them how easy it is for them to get off." If you look at a map of Rhode Island, focusing on the largest island in Narragansett Bay, you'll see that the northern end of the island is very close to the mainland - these are "the Necks" that this officer refers to.</i><br />
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What happened next for James Clarkson is a mystery! About three hundred miles, and ten weeks passed between his July 18th desertion and a “passport” that was issued to him on the 29th of September 1777. <br />
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<i>Headquarters, Rawlings Mill, Sept 29, 1777; Permit James Clarkson, a deserter from the British army, to pass from hence to Reading[Pennsylvania] to find employment. He is by trade a weaver. James Pickering, Agent</i><br />
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No doubt, this ten week period was the great adventure of James Clarkson’s life. I am wondering where to begin searching for clues.<br />
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James Clarkson eventually settled in Essex county Virginia, where he resumed the weaving trade, married and raised a family. We do have some evidence that he kept up with his English family by letter, but it is doubtful he ever returned to England.<br />
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As I was researching on the internet in preparation for this blog post, I came across some rich and helpful resources written by Don N Hagist, “an avid historical researcher [who] has spent much of his life studying and researching the history of the American Revolution, focusing on the British soldiers who served in America during that war.” If you want to give further consideration to James Clarkson’s life in the British Military, I highly recommend Hagist’s blog, <a href="http://redcoat76.blogspot.com/"><b>British Soldiers, American Revolution</b>.</a> Don’t miss his post titled, <a href="http://redcoat76.blogspot.com/2010/07/employed-soldier-john-hopwood-54th.html"><b>Employed soldier: John Hopwood, 54th Regiment</b></a>. The comments following the post include mention of James Clarkson. I am looking forward to reading Don Hagist’s recently published book also titled, British Soldiers, American Revolution. <br />
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Another delightful resource is a collection of photos by Frank Cabral, housed at Flickr, and titled, <b><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/franksplanet/9449835610/">54th Regiment of Foot: Redcoats & Rebels 2013 at Old Sturbridge Village</a>.</b><br />
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For more details on <b><a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I58&tree=clrksn">James Clarkson</a>,</b> visit his page at the <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/"><b>Family Stories website</b></a>.<br />
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Moving back in time: Albert Luther Clarkson 1901 <b>></b> Samuel Edwin Clarkson 1875 > Richard Albert Clarkson 1845 > Richard Henry Clarkson > Richard Clarkson > James Clarkson 1749<br />
Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-78591169920620049962015-03-01T13:08:00.001-06:002015-03-01T13:08:07.384-06:00Elim, A Fry Family Home in Virginia<br />
<i>And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? . . . And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters. Exodus 15: 24 and 27</i><br />
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The Biblical Elim was an oasis in the desert, a place where God showed his compassion to the thirsty refugees traveling out of Egypt, toward the Promised Land. When the Fry family built their home in what was then Orange, or perhaps Culpeper county Virginia, they may have been looking toward God’s provision in an oasis. <br />
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Two plantations are attributed to Joshua Fry in the beautiful countryside surrounding the city of Charlottesville Virginia. Elim, located near the community of Locust Dale is about thirty-five miles north and east of Charlottesville, while Viewmont is ten miles south of Charlottesville. Viewmont was probably built and occupied by the Joshua Fry family about 1744, when they moved west from Essex county Virginia to Albemarle county Virginia. Elim was constructed sometime between 1745 and 1766. Opinions differ on whether it was the home of Joshua Fry, or his son Henry Fry (my 5x great-grandfather). <br />
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Henry Fry was married to Susan “Sukey” Walker in 1764, and Elim was the home where they raised their large family. The home remained in the hands of descendants (the Lightfoot family) into the early 1900s.<br />
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Today Elim operates as an upscale Virginia Wine Country Bed and Breakfast - The Inn at Meander Plantation. Online reviews are highly complementary. Ten guest rooms are provided, including the lovely Colonel Fry’s Suite.<br />
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The Inn’s website gives this brief historical context: <br />
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<i>The plantation was patented in 1726 by Col. Joshua Fry, a member of the House of Burgesses and professor at William and Mary. Col. Fry and his partner Peter Jefferson, father of Thomas Jefferson, surveyed and drew the first official map of the area known as Virginia. Fry commanded the Virginia Militia at the start of the French and Indian War, with George Washington as his second in command. After Col. Fry died [1754] from injuries sustained in travel to battle, Washington assumed command of the forces and “locals” say Washington encamped here [Elim] for about a month to pay tribute to Fry’s widow and children.<br />
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Originally named Elim, the manor was enlarged in 1766 by Joshua’s son, Henry Fry. (He is buried in the family cemetery located in the field behind the house.) His lifelong friend, Thomas Jefferson, visited here often, as did General Lafayette. William Wirt, famous 18th Century American lawyer and counsel for the prosecution against Aaron Burr in 1807, spent much of his youth here. At that time, the plantation encompassed more than 3,000 acres.<br />
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During the Civil War, the mansion housed a Union official, Col. Baynard. Numerous important Civil War battles were fought near the property, which is only 4 miles from Cedar Mountain, site of one of the war’s largest and fiercest cavalry battles. Local historians believe the Battle of Cedar Mountain actually began at Meander’s front gates.<br />
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The property name was changed to Meander in the early 1900s by owner George Shearer, who maintained the property as an estate for his daughters, Judith and Julia. They lived their entire adult lives here, and as noted breeders of horses, cattle and dogs, the colorful, locally-storied sisters are credited with introducing Whippets to America. The Meander Whippet still sets the breed standard.<br />
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Suzie Blanchard and Suzanne Thomas bought the property in 1991 with the specific intentions of converting it to its current status as a 10-room Virginia wine country inn. A working agricultural property thoughout its history, the land continues to be farmed for hay, corn and soybeans, as well as a small vineyard producing cabernet franc, petite manseng and cabernet-norton hybrid wine grapes.</i><br />
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For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1712&tree=clrksn">Joshua Fry</a> or his son <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1715&tree=clrksn">Henry Fry</a>, visit their individual pages at <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/">Family Stories, pamgarrett.com. </a><br />
And, be sure to visit <a href="http://www.meander.net/">The Inn at Meander Plantation </a>website.<br />
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Moving Back In Time: Albert Luther Clarkson 1901 > Aubin Mildred Fry 1878 > Reuben Macon Fry 1847 > Philip Slaughter Fry 1801 > Reuben Fry 1766 > Henry Fry 1738 > Joshua Fry 1700.Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-65755266342489079412015-02-14T07:43:00.000-06:002015-02-14T07:43:16.279-06:00Valentine’s Day 1850 – James Jones married Phebe Mouser<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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James Jones married Phebe Mouser on the 14th of February 1850. We don’t know anything about the wedding ceremony, but it may have taken place in the Mouser home, near Rocky Mound in Hempstead county Arkansas. The little community where the Mousers lived no longer appears on modern maps. But, in its day, Rocky Mound sat about four miles east of the town of Hope in the southwestern corner of Arkansas. <br /><br />Did the young couple purposefully choose a Valentine’s Day wedding? In 1850, the 14th of February fell on a Thursday. It was not uncommon during this period to have a “weekday” wedding. In the mid-nineteenth century wedding traditions were shifting from a church ceremony, to a more intimate gathering in the bride’s family home. Weddings were often held in the morning, and were followed by a breakfast for the guests. <br /><br />But, what of the Valentine’s Day connection? The origin of Valentine’s Day is probably related to a St Valentine who was celebrated on the Catholic liturgical calendar on the 14th of February. In the fourteenth century, Geoffrey Chaucer was the first to link the Christian feast day to romantic love, by the writing of a poem. Gradually the practice of exchanging cards and gifts grew up around the feast day. By the 18th century, traditions of homemade cards with lace, ribbons, cupids, and hearts were popular in England. America followed after. <br /><br />Only a few years before the Jones and Mouser wedding a new epoch in Valentine’s Day celebrations had begun. In 1847, Esther Howland, a young woman in Worcester Massachusetts, began a business of mass producing Valentine cards. The story goes that Esther, inspired by a lovely valentine card she had received from England, began a “cottage industry”. Her father, a prominent stationer in Worcester, was able to import supplies of paper lace, ribbon and decorations, and her brother was her first salesman. The business, under her direction for almost thirty-five years, proved wildly successful. <br /><br />It is satisfying to think that James and Phoebe chose the “traditional day of romance” for their wedding. The surging popularity of the holiday around 1850, suggests this as a real possibility. But, whether true or not, the day was likely filled with wishes for love and happiness from their family and friends. <br /><br /><br />For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I271&tree=clrksn">James Jones</a> and <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I297&tree=clrksn">Phoebe Mouser</a>, visit their individual pages at <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/">Family Stories, pamgarrett.com. </a><br />
<br />Moving back in time: Edith W Tanner 1902 (wife of Robert Hutchison) > Mary Lula Smith 1879 > Eliza Alice Jones 1859 > James Jones 1824 (married Phoebe Mouser)<br />Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-86780487083888658192015-02-08T11:56:00.000-06:002015-02-08T11:56:01.458-06:00Joshua Fry at William and Mary College<div style="text-align: left;">
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When Joshua Fry removed from England to America in the 1720s, he settled himself in the bustling town of Williamsburg Virginia. In short order he took up the position of Master of the Grammar School at the College of William and Mary. Whether he came to Virginia for that specific purpose, or received the appointment after his arrival is unknown. For a single young man in his twenties, with considerable energy and industry, this was an opportunity. Eighteenth century teachers were noted with respect in a community. <br />
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The College of William and Mary had been opened in 1694, after years of dreaming and preparation by its founders. The Rev James Blair held the position of President, from the founding until his death in 1743. The initial plans for the college called for “a college president and six masters or professors”. Five of the masters would lead classes in Greek and Latin (the grammar school), mathematics, moral philosophy, and divinity. The sixth master would head a separate school “for the instruction and conversion of the Indians”. For the first thirty-five years, the grammar school was the center of the college, usually serving from twenty to forty students. The upper divisions of the college were spare in both students and faculty. <br />
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The year 1729 was pivotal in the life of William and Mary College. By former agreement, the direction of the college was transferred from the hands of eighteen trustees to the faculty itself. A full faculty was functioning by that time, and, according to the record, “Joshua Fry, a gentleman of Williamsburg, was appointed master of the grammar school, which was early established ‘for the immediate education of the youth of the colony in the Latin and Greek tongues.’” We know, by a deed of 1726, that Joshua Fry was already serving as master at the college at that time, so it is likely that he headed the grammar school for at least five years, until 1731. <br />
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The chief aim of the grammar school was to instruct young boys in Latin and Greek, in preparation for entrance into the School of Philosophy. A proficiency in Latin and Greek was necessary, as most textbooks of the day were written in those ancient languages. As the eighteenth century moved towards its mid-point, more texts were being developed in English. <br />
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Before entering the grammar school at about age twelve, a boy had to be able to read, write, and understand simple arithmetic, and the basics of language. If the number of students was large, the schoolmaster was assisted by an usher (under-teacher). The grammar school course was studied over a term of three or four years, and besides languages, included mathematics, writing, and exercises in logic. The school master also gave regular instruction in the catechism of the established church, and attended twice daily chapel, and all meals with his students.<br />
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An earlier William and Mary Grammar School master, Mungo Ingles, described a typical day in the classroom, in a letter of 1704: <br />
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<i>It is nothing to be (all ye year long except in ye breaking up) Confin'd to College from 7 to 11 in the morning; & from 2 to 6 in the afternoon, and to be all day long spending ones Lungs upon a Compa. of children, who (many of them) must be taught ye same things many times over.</i><br />
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Today, Colonial Williamsburg preserves several rooms of the old Wren Building at William and Mary College in their colonial appearance. The Grammar School classroom, which sits just to the north of the main entrance, is one of those rooms. I had the opportunity to visit the room in the 1990’s. What fun to sit upon one of the classroom benches, and imagine my great-grandfather at the head of the class!<br />
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In 1731, Joshua Fry left the Grammar School to become the college’s Master of Natural Philosophy. This likely suited him well. In basic form, Natural Philosophy was the study of the “workings of nature”. Individuals had long studied the natural world, but in the mid eighteenth century, it was still a fairly new topic of study in the classroom. At William and Mary College it probably included physics, astronomy, and mathematics. <br />
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One of Fry’s predecessors at the college, Rev Hugh Jones, had proposed in 1722, that William and Mary College serve as a “training school for the civil service of the colony.” This was a revolutionary idea. He suggested that county clerks, assessors, and surveyors might be trained, and then appointed by the college. It is not clear that such a plan was adopted by the college at that time, but it seems reasonable that Joshua Fry, during his time at William and Mary College, trained many young men in the craft of surveying. By the latter half of the eighteenth century county surveyors were appointed by the governor, “after a candidate had been examined and approved by the faculty of the College of William & Mary.”<br />
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It is not certain exactly what year Joshua Fry left his work at the college to pursue new things. It was probably sometime between 1732 – 1737. He had led a bachelor’s life for many years, and at about the age of thirty-five, he was ready for a wife and family. Sometime between 1734-1736, he married Mary Micou, the daughter of Dr Paul Micou, and the wealthy widow of Leonard Hill. Joshua Fry, in the twenty years that followed, accomplished extraordinary things. <br />
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As surveyor, map-maker, explorer, husband, father, burgess, and head of the Virginia forces during the French and Indian War, he demonstrated that his years as schoolmaster at William and Mary College could be practically applied to a rich and full life.<br />
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For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1712&tree=clrksn">Joshua Fry,</a> visit his page at <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/">Family Stories, pamgarrett.com</a>. <br />
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Moving Back In Time: Albert Luther Clarkson 1901 > Aubin Mildred Fry 1878 > Reuben Macon Fry 1847 > Philip Slaughter Fry 1801 > Reuben Fry 1766 > Henry Fry 1738 > Joshua Fry 1700.<br />
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Further Reading:<br />
<a href="http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/">Colonial Williamsburg</a><br />
<a href="http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/View/index.cfm?doc=ResearchReports\RR0210.xml">Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library Research Report Series – The College of William and Mary, by Mary Goodwin, 1967.</a><br />
<a href="http://cms.educ.ttu.edu/uploadedFiles/personnel-folder/lee-duemer/epsy-5314/documents/Development%20of%20a%20curriculum%20in%20the%20early%20American%20colleges.pdf">The Development of a Curriculum in the Early American Colleges; Joe W Kraus; published in the History of Education Quarterly, Vol 1, No 2, June 1961.</a>Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-90350410920651573292015-02-06T17:07:00.000-06:002015-02-06T17:07:05.715-06:00Markham of Chesterfield, A new website<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After a generous year’s work, I finally have a new genealogy website up and running – <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/"><b>Markham of Chesterfield</b></a>. It is a project that has been long on my heart. It tells the story of my 6xgreat-grandfather, John Markham of Chesterfield county Virginia, his ancestors and descendants. <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/getperson.php?personID=I1&tree=mkchest"><b>John Markham</b></a> was born in county Kilkenny Ireland, just after the opening of the Eighteenth Century. As a young man, about 1730 – 1735, he immigrated to America, settling first in Orange county New York, and eventually moving his large family to Chesterfield county Virginia. I have been researching and gathering stories on the Markham family for thirty-five years. <br /><br />In December 2013 I determined to set aside work on the Family Stories website and blog until I could complete my Markham project, and get it up onto the web. I hoped for a four to six month hiatus. But, as those things go – here I am, almost fourteen months later – ready to return to my Family Stories project. I look forward to picking up where I left off – with some accounts of my Fry and Tanner families. <br /><br />Coming soon – Joshua Fry at William and Mary College <br /><br />I would love to have you visit at my new <a href="http://www.markhamchesterfield.com/"><b>Markham of Chesterfield</b></a> website. I have also made some recent additions on the Van Lear family at the <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/"><b>Family Stories, pamgarrett.com</b> </a>website. To help place the Van Lears on the family tree - <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I140&tree=clrksn"><b>Jane Van Lear</b></a> and her husband Archibald Robinson are the grandparents of Elizabeth Robinson Clarkson.<br /><br /><br />Moving back in time: Albert Luther Clarkson 1901 > Aubin M Fry 1878 > Eliza Brooks Hutchins 1844 > Aubin M Markham 1817 > John Markham 1770 > Bernard Markham 1737 > John Markham of Chesterfield, abt 1700.<br /><br />Moving back in time: Albert Luther Clarkson 1901 > Samuel Edwin Clarkson 1875 > Elizabeth Jane Robinson 1848 > Preston McGready Robinson > Jane Van Lear 1795 > John Van Lear 1747 > Jacob Van Lear 1710.Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-13624269135604650452013-12-07T14:22:00.004-06:002013-12-07T14:22:48.141-06:00Edmund Anderson, Promoting Charlottesville Virginia<br />
Edmund Anderson was born in 1785 in Virginia, near the close of the revolutionary era. He is likely to be the son of Richard Anderson and his second wife Mildred “Milly” Thomson. I like to think of this 4xgreat-grandfather of mine as a “visionary”. But, “dreamer” might be closer to the truth. <br />
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<a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1937&tree=clrksn"><b>Edmund Anderson</b></a> grew up in Louisa and Albemarle counties in Virginia, and as a young man, he looked to his future in Charlottesville, Albemarle’s county seat. The town of Charlottesville was established by the Virginia General Assembly in 1762. It is of particular interest to our family, that the land was donated by another of our grandfather’s, <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1899&tree=clrksn"><b>Dr Thomas Walker</b></a> of Castle Hill. It has been told that Thomas Walker drew up the earliest deeds and offered prizes to encourage settlement of the new town. The original plan set aside fifty acres of land for lots and streets, with the courthouse sitting outside of the town to the north. Growth for the new town was slow. Almost fifty years later, in 1810, the town had only grown to “forty five houses, a courthouse, a jail, and an academy.“ <br />
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By that 1810 date, one of those forty-five Charlottesville houses may have been the home of Edmund Anderson, or he may have lived outside the town proper. Others in the household were his wife, <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1975&tree=clrksn"><b>Frances Moore</b></a>, and infant children, <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1781&tree=clrksn"><b>Pamelia Mildred Anderson</b></a> (my 3xgreat-grandmother) and <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1976&tree=clrksn"><b>John Mortimer Anderson</b></a>. A few years later, in 1813, Edmond Anderson purchased sixty acres, near the courthouse and established his “Anderson Addition”. He had plans to be a part of Charlottesville’s further growth! <br />
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Author, Edgar Wood, in his “History of Albemarle County Virginia”, 1901, tells us:<br />
<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">In 1813, Edmund [Anderson] purchased from Clifton Rodes, Executor of John Jouett, sixty acres of land lying east and north of Charlottesville, and extending from the present Ninth Street east to the hill overlooking Schenk's Branch, and laid it out in town lots. This tract was known as Anderson's Addition. He sold a number of lots, chiefly on East Jefferson and Park Streets, during the decade of 1820 . . . </span></i><br />
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The property Edmund Anderson purchased outside of Charlottesville had some interesting history. As indicated above, he purchased it from the estate of John Jouett who had died in 1802. Jouett had acquired the property as part of a one hundred acre purchase from John Moore in 1773. It included Jouett’s Tavern (also called Swan Tavern) which had been erected by John Jouett to serve the Charlottesville community and travelers through the area. It sat directly across from the courthouse, and its claim to fame arrived during the Revolutionary years. <br />
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The Albemarle-Charlottesville Historical Society website tells the story this way:<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>The Swan tavern resided at 300 Park Street, where a brick townhouse now stands. Jack Jouett, whose father owned The Swan, made the tavern famous. In 1781, Jefferson and Virginia’s government quit Richmond under threat of capture by the British, and reconvened in Charlottesville. Jouett rode through the night on back roads from Louisa County to warn Governor Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee and other members of the General Assembly of the approach of British forces under the command of Colonel Banastre Tarleton. Eluding capture, most legislators fled to safety in Staunton. Tarleton’s men destroyed some court records and military stores, but spared the town from destruction . .</i></span><br />
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Not long after Edmond Anderson’s 1813 purchase of the Jouett property, he removed his family to Richmond Virginia. His wife Frances Moore Anderson died around this same time, and he was secondly married to <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1978&tree=clrksn"><b>Nancy Cole</b></a>. He took up other pursuits in Richmond Virginia, but continued to manage his Albemarle county property. In 1818 the property was annexed to the town of Charlottesville. This was about the same time that Thomas Jefferson’s Central College was established in Charlottesville. Over time, Central College grew into the University of Virginia, and ensured the continued growth of the town. <br />
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But, as Charlottesville’s prospects improved, Edmond Anderson’s vision faded. It seems that his endeavors in Richmond were draining his pockets. “The History of Albemarle . . “ gives this clue:<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>[speaking of Edmund Anderson] . . he removed to Richmond, and entered into business under the firms of Anderson & Woodson . . , but the business failing, he transferred all his property in Albemarle to John R. Jones as trustee, who in 1829 sold it for the payment of his debts.</i></span><br />
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Edmund Anderson struggled on in Richmond, investing in other properties, operating several businesses, and even serving as the city’s postmaster. But, the few available records do not suggest that his “visions” ever brought financial success. When he died of “old age” in 1861, his Charlottesville years were long behind him. I like to think his “dreams”, and his willingness to invest, made a worthwhile contribution to a lovely and enduring community. <br />
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For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1937&tree=clrksn"><b>Edmund Anderson</b></a>, visit his page at <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/"><b>Family Stories, pamgarrett.com</b></a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Moving back in time: Albert Luther Clarkson 1901 > Aubin Mildred Fry 1878 > Reuben Macon Fry 1847 > Pamelia Mildred Anderson 1810 > Edmund Anderson 1785.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Further Reading: <br />
<a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/features/andeedmu1937.pdf"><b>Bio for Edmund Anderson</b></a>, by Pam Garrett, at Family Stories, pamgarrett.com.<br />
History of Albemarle County Virginia, by Rev. Edgar Woods, 1901. Look for this as a scanned ebook on the internet. Details about the Anderson Family are found on page 139.<br />
<a href="http://allthingsliberty.com/2013/03/from-cuckoo-to-charlottesville-jack-jouetts-overnight-ride/"><b>From Cuckoo to Charlottesville: Jack Jouett’s Overnight Ride</b></a>, by Rick Britton, 5 Mar 2013; at the Journal of the American Revolution website.<br />
<a href="http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Cities/Charlottesville/104-0072_CharlottesvilleAndAlbemarleCountyCourthouse_HD_1982_1995_Final_Nomination.pdf"><b>Charlottesville and the Albemarle County Courthouse Historic District</b></a>; National Register of Historic Places Inventory.</span><br />
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<br />Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-38206525761593183352013-10-20T08:33:00.001-05:002013-10-20T08:33:36.978-05:00Growing Up With Jasper Indiana: The Edmonston Family <span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>In November 2012 I wrote a blog post titled <a href="http://pamgarrettblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/bazil-brooke-edmonston-indiana-pioneer.html"><b>Bazil Brooke Edmonston, Indiana Pioneer</b></a>. It gave of brief biographical account of my 5xgreat-grandfather, mentioning his move to Dubois county Indiana. Now, almost a year later, I want to return to his story.</i></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I555&tree=clrksn"><b>Bazil Brooke Edmonston sr</b></a> and his wife <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I556&tree=clrksn"><b>Hannah Rose Edmonston</b></a>, settled in Dubois county Indiana in 1818, living near the White River in Harbison township. Later they moved closer to the future town of Jasper. Three of their ten children remained in Dubois county – <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I563&tree=clrksn"><b>Bazil Brooke Edmonston jr</b></a>, <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I564&tree=clrksn"><b>Benjamin Rose Edmonston</b></a>, and <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I561&tree=clrksn"><b>Nancy Edmonston</b></a> who did not marry. <br />
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The town of Jasper was established in the mid 1820’s, and became the county seat for Dubois county in 1830. Tradition suggests that the town name, Jasper, comes from Revelations 21:19, “and the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones . . . the first foundation was of Jasper.”<br />
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The Edmonston family is frequently mentioned in George R Wilson’s, “<a href="http://books.google.com/books/about/History_of_Dubois_County_from_Its_Primit.html?id=E1Q0AQAAMAAJ"><b>History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910</b></a>”. According to <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I604&tree=clrksn"><b>Nancy Edmonston Weathers</b></a>, "the first house erected in the original town of Jasper was built on lot 153, by B. B. Edmonston, Sr (her grandfather), about 1830 . . The house became the first post office at Jasper and its owner was the first postmaster. Mail then came from Vincennes and Paoli once a week.” Nancy Edmonston Weathers was the daughter of Bazil B Edmonston jr. She tells about her school room in the first Court House at Jasper, and the oxen teams that pulled goods between the towns of Troy and Jasper. <br />
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Besides being the first Postmaster of Jasper, Bazil B Edmonston (sr) served as Associate Judge and Probate Judge until his death in 1841. According to George R Wilson, Col B B Edmondson (jr), namesake of his father, was “for a long time one of the most prominent officials of Dubois county. His hospitable home stood at the west end of Eighth street in the town of Jasper, and here he fed and housed hundreds of guests.<br />
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It is thought that most of the Edmonstons were Presbyterian, probably participating at the Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church near Jasper. Several members of the family are buried in the adjoining cemetery. Wilson’s Dubois County history informs us: <br />
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<i>Shiloh camp ground was for years a place of Protestant worship, and here gathered the Armstrongs, Alexanders, Andersons, Dillons, Stewarts, Normans, McMahans, Kelsoes, Roses, Brittains, and many other pioneer families from the northwest quarter of Dubois county. It is said that the most eloquent sermons of pioneer days were delivered at Shiloh. Log houses or huts were erected forming a hollow square, and in this square church services were held. This was long before a meeting-house had been <br />
Erected . . Meeting House. The church edifice was built in 1849. A cemetery was started in what was once the hollow square, in 1860. Miss Minerva Edmonston, a daughter of Col. B. B. Edmonston, was the first to find a grave at Shiloh . . Protestants, strict in their church creed, both at Ireland and Jasper, favor Shiloh as a burial ground. Here lie the remains of many of the most prominent pioneer families associated with Jasper and Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church.</i><br />
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More details on the Edmonston family, and their years in Dubois county Indiana, are available at <b><a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/">Family Stories, pamgarrett.com</a>.</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church, southeast of Ireland in Dubois county Indiana. Built in 1849, the church and cemetery are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Photo, by Nyttend, was submitted for use to Wikimedia Commons in 2011.</span><br />
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Moving back in time: Albert Luther Clarkson 1901 > Samuel Edwin Clarkson 1875 > Elizabeth Jane Robinson 1848 > Sarah Nugent Edmonston 1821 > William Edmonston 1796 >Bazil Brooke Edmonston (sr) 1766.<br />
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My Own Edmonstons and a Few Others; Charles Ninian “Chuck” Edmonston, 1971.<br />
<a href="http://www.ingenweb.org/indubois/">Dubois County Indiana GenWeb</a> <br />
<a href="http://www.irelandindiana.com/Shiloh/">Shiloh Meeting House at the Ireland Indiana Website</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ingenweb.org/indubois/shiloh%20cemetery/shiloh%20cemetery%20with%20photos.html">Shiloh Church and Cemetery at Indiana GenWeb</a></span><br />
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<br />Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-75555385021155093172013-09-28T06:47:00.001-05:002013-09-28T06:47:39.779-05:00Riding With Isaac Parker: Deputy Marshall RM Fry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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In the 1980’s I made a trip, along with other family members, to Fort Smith Arkansas. We were in pursuit of stories about our Clarkson and Fry ancestors, who had lived in Fort Smith during the latter 19th and early 20th centuries. One of our exciting finds was the name of my 2xgreat-grandfather, <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I191&tree=clrksn"><b>Reuben Macon Fry</b></a>, on the list of Deputies that “Rode With Isaac Parker”, the noted “hanging judge” of the US District Court of Western Arkansas. It was an intriguing find, but it has taken me almost twenty-five years to set about learning more about this interesting grandfather. <br />
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To give a brief biographical account – Reuben Macon Fry was born in 1847 in Orange Court House Virginia. As a student of the Cadet Corp of Virginia Military Institute he may have participated in some minor skirmishing during the Civil War. After the war years, as he moved into young adulthood, he removed with his older brother to Lake Village in Chicot county Arkansas. There he served as county clerk, operated a retail business, and married Eliza Brooks Hutchins, a “refugee” from Natchez Mississippi. Business losses probably induced him to move on, and in 1880 he settled his family in Fort Smith Arkansas. <br />
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Reuben Macon Fry’s obituary, twenty-five years later, gives an account of his career in Fort Smith: <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_XNeKM7MRBL-a1C_Y4DA1vfrCyaIfi0JOfCoMj2HhJIh4qmRkynNuoKu78qM0eKU5hLMtF9coGoIEloFygHCusieew2tW3Bb9rL0O-zq3bj-DfEFErSfL_TlDOAx_esEIAsHJpoOZlcwC/s1600/fryreub191a_photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_XNeKM7MRBL-a1C_Y4DA1vfrCyaIfi0JOfCoMj2HhJIh4qmRkynNuoKu78qM0eKU5hLMtF9coGoIEloFygHCusieew2tW3Bb9rL0O-zq3bj-DfEFErSfL_TlDOAx_esEIAsHJpoOZlcwC/s200/fryreub191a_photo.jpg" width="165" /></a><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>. . He followed mercantile pursuits for several years and then became connected with the revenue service. He afterward served as deputy circuit clerk during the incumbency of AA McDonald [circuit court clerk] and was also chief deputy sheriff during the six years' administration of Sheriff William Bugg. After Captain Bugg retired he was elected justice of the peace, which position he held until he died.</i></span> <br />
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Reuben M Fry was commissioned as a Deputy Marshal of the Western District Court at Fort Smith in February 1884, and again in November 1887. These were the years that he served as a Revenue Officer, and one of his occupations was to incapacitate “moonshiners”. In the summer of 1888 he participated in an operation in Montgomery county Arkansas, during which one of his fellow officer, John Trammell, was killed. I have come across several accounts of this 1888 event in newspapers and biographies. <br />
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A report in the St Louis Post Dispatch (St Louis Missouri); 28 June 1888, begins: <br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Hot Springs, Ark., June 28: News of a desperate fight between revenue officers and moonshiners; which took place near Black Springs, Montgomery County, yesterday, has just reached this city. Internal Revenue Collector R. M. FRY, in charge of a posse, was in that vicinity raiding moonshiner's camps and destroying illicit distilleries. They had succeeded in ferreting out and destroying three. Shortly after they had destroyed the last one they were attacked from ambush by a band of moonshiners armed with Winchester rifles when a desperate battle ensued,. . </i></span>. <br />
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Reuben Fry was accompanied by Deputy Marshals, John D Trammell and Otis K Wheeler. Trammell was killed in the ambush. An inquest was held which revealed that two of Trammell’s killers were relatives, a brother and cousin, of Bill Cogburn who was being held in custody. The primary characters in the bootlegging scheme were Carter Markham, Matthew Pervine, Joseph Pepper, J.D. Hollifield and several members of the Cogburn family. Community fear held back any witnesses, and the murderers were never convicted. <br />
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A detailed account of this incident can be found online in Brett Cogburn’s recently published book, Rooster:<br />
The Life and Times of the Real Rooster Cogburn, the Man Who Inspired True Grit, 2012; beginning on page 52.<br />
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For more details on <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I191&tree=clrksn"><b>Reuben Macon Fry</b></a>, visit his individual page at <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/"><b>Family Stories, pamgarrett.com</b></a>. <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">To learn more about the Deputy Marshals of Isaac Parker’s court: <br />
Law West of Fort Smith; Glenn Shirley, 1957.<br />
Larry McMurtry's 1997 novel Zeke and Ned tells the story of Zeke Proctor, one of Parker's deputy marshals.<br />
Loren D. Estleman's 2009 novel The Branch and The Scaffold relates to Parker's tenure at Fort Smith.<br />
Charles Portis features Judge Parker in his novel, True Grit, which has twice been adapted as films of the same name.<br />
Movie – Rooster Cogburn, 1975, based on Charles Portis novel; starring John Wayne and Katherine Hepburn.</span><br />
<br />Pam Garretthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17320396383584305838noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-384323148913657857.post-18251612325766043862013-09-13T05:46:00.000-05:002013-09-13T05:46:19.633-05:00Into the FRY Pan!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAtDX0ewdRSFlD1Uw6I8-6Y99xD35sPVsfA0aJ5Kq7qwdkF1jBUnj0sDW6d1X-IuL6B2ihiRJGKQMMopGxmo7RSjPDekUwkkeEtwQ7ueIQlcB4QIwV99yBcNCYYuzeC4TUsHBWcUkKZ79q/s1600/pan_frying_105753_tns.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAtDX0ewdRSFlD1Uw6I8-6Y99xD35sPVsfA0aJ5Kq7qwdkF1jBUnj0sDW6d1X-IuL6B2ihiRJGKQMMopGxmo7RSjPDekUwkkeEtwQ7ueIQlcB4QIwV99yBcNCYYuzeC4TUsHBWcUkKZ79q/s200/pan_frying_105753_tns.png" width="198" /></a>This Family Stories Blog was established to share with family, friends and fellow genealogists some of the stories I have gathered during nearly thirty years of family history research. It links with my companion website, <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/"><b>Family Stories, pamgarrett.com</b></a>, that houses my genealogy database and an extensive collection of documents, notes, biographies, and photos. I’m delighted to announce that my database website is growing again!<br /><br />Recently I have added about three hundred new family members to my online database, along with significant details about many of their lives. This is my FRY family, descendants of my 6xgreat-grandfather, <a href="http://www.pamgarrett.com/getperson.php?personID=I1712&tree=clrksn"><b>Joshua Fry</b></a> of Albemarle county Virginia. Joshua Fry is a most interesting grandfather – immigrant from England, teacher at William and Mary College, friend to George Washington and Peter Jefferson, significant player in the history of Virginia. And, many of his descendants have led interesting and note-worthy lives. <br /><br />Joshua Fry, and some of his descendants, have been the subject of many biographies and histories. Philip Slaughter’s, “Memoir of Col. Joshua Fry . .”, 1880, has made its way around the genealogy circuit for years. I have not been interested in “duplicating” well established genealogies. But, it is the nature of a genealogy database to link individuals and families together, and most of the well-known relationships of the Fry family are repeated in my database. I have tried to include some new bits and pieces of information that might add to the Fry family story. I have particularly emphasized my own “branches” of the Fry family – a visual of my branch, Moving Back In Time, is given at the close of this post. <br /><br />I am gathering materials for a few upcoming blog posts on my Fry Family. Some proposed titles include: <br />Riding with Isaac Parker<br />Joshua Fry in the Classroom, a Williamsburg Story!<br />The Hospitality of “Bathing” <br /><br />I’m excited to introduce these ancestors, and to share a few of their stories. I hope you will join me for the fun!<br />
<br /><br />Moving Back In Time: Albert Luther Clarkson 1901 > Aubin Mildred Fry 1878 > Reuben Macon Fry 1847 > Philip Slaughter Fry 1801 > Reuben Fry 1766 > Henry Fry 1738 > Joshua Fry 1700. <br />
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