tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87036271973491694612024-03-13T15:55:50.814-04:00Kathryn's QuestKathryn's QuestKathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.comBlogger528125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-71968760581651134182024-02-18T17:21:00.000-05:002024-02-18T17:21:14.129-05:00Sunday's Obituary - Susan A. Godwin Sparks<p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdpGcIRDOJaTwVB4W8uMDk9fAzZNYzRC8nVGsxv7gVKTstzO1nKrpn0IsbGGDZf1V4sSJDe9nZdM8XSfE-nifs-507K4q_Mx4hMr1BGUhbOB8SLWQDG1ThWX7HKQufmwz0n485Kr8HMkDZ2dipBw432ldBRrHZfUBRoVf98TCaUKejKDBcQXFDMJufIeg/s2992/SusanASparksFindAGrave1902Usable.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2992" data-original-width="2000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdpGcIRDOJaTwVB4W8uMDk9fAzZNYzRC8nVGsxv7gVKTstzO1nKrpn0IsbGGDZf1V4sSJDe9nZdM8XSfE-nifs-507K4q_Mx4hMr1BGUhbOB8SLWQDG1ThWX7HKQufmwz0n485Kr8HMkDZ2dipBw432ldBRrHZfUBRoVf98TCaUKejKDBcQXFDMJufIeg/w268-h400/SusanASparksFindAGrave1902Usable.JPG" width="268" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Susan A. Godwin gravestone</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This obituary was published in the Centreville Record on November 15, 1902 and was originally transcribed by Trish Surles in her book Obituaries from Maryland </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Newspapers </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Queen's </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Anne County for 1902-1903:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Mrs. Sanuel A. Sparks, wife of the late Samuel A. Sparks, died at the home of her son in law, Mr. J. W. Councill, November 2nd, after a long and lingering illness in the 72nd year of her age. She leaves four children, Charles G. Sparks, of Kent Island, Daniel Sparks, of Ravensdale, Washington, and two daughters, Mrs. R H. Councill, and Mrs. J.W. Councill, of near town.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Susan And <a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2013/12/sundays-obituary-samuel-sparks.html" target="_blank">Samuel A. Sparks</a> were my 3x great-grandparents. Their daughter Ariana Sparks and son-in-law John Wesley Councill were my great-grandparents. Susan is buried in the Chesterfield Cemetery in Centreville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland next to her husband Samuel A. Sparks. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Thanks to Corey and Douglas Marshall-Steele for taking the gravestone photo and posting it on <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16054312/susan-a-sparks" target="_blank">Find A Grave</a>.</span><br /></p>Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-90922431071863947702024-01-12T17:41:00.000-05:002024-01-12T17:41:26.617-05:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Origins<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The theme for this week is "Origins". Genealogists often get the question, "Where is your family from?".</b> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I do get asked that question, so I'm using this post to document what I know about my family's origins and what is still a mystery. Most of my maternal ancestors eventually settled in Queen Anne's County, Maryland or nearby counties. The chart below shows some of my maternal immigrant ancestors and my best guess at where they're from. Italics indicate data where I haven't found any supporting records. While some of these lines can be traced down to my ancestors, some of them get a bit murky in the middle and it's presumed that my lines are related to the immigrant ancestors.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The origins of my Chilcutt, Covey, Godwin and Meredith ancestors are unknown and I haven't traced my Councill line back further than Henry Councill. </span><span style="font-size: large;">There was a Dennis Councill/Councell in the estate records of a Jacobus Seth in Talbot County, Maryland as early as 1698. It's possible that he is Henry Councill's father or other relation, but I haven't seen any proof of that so far.</span><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEPgoZ3rjw3elIeq7L8bCi0DmnrJOKPsMy6FaGZrxxWv1nkzt_0KS_6Hj9Wi56q2d_z_8fnkePGVezWI-Od-US5RglpzZ2NwxASWTOtkLAA6QLzLcVp44FAu22FTBoW1Q7W9wPeDVu5OAVkkn8_CJ02gJJK_OTr5Y8XV2ubNH8xJOZ_xctrtU0ctCOh7E/s593/MaternalChart.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="593" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEPgoZ3rjw3elIeq7L8bCi0DmnrJOKPsMy6FaGZrxxWv1nkzt_0KS_6Hj9Wi56q2d_z_8fnkePGVezWI-Od-US5RglpzZ2NwxASWTOtkLAA6QLzLcVp44FAu22FTBoW1Q7W9wPeDVu5OAVkkn8_CJ02gJJK_OTr5Y8XV2ubNH8xJOZ_xctrtU0ctCOh7E/w524-h340/MaternalChart.PNG" title="Maternal Immigrant Ancestors" width="524" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Maternal Immigrant Ancestors<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: large;">The next chart shows the main lines for my paternal immigrant ancestors. Most of them arrived in the US in the 1800s so the relationships are easier to prove than with my maternal side. The exceptions are my Matson and Clevenger lines. John Matson still remains mostly a mystery. He is the ancestor of my great-great-grandmother Mary Ann Matson Creeden. He was married to Nancy Ann Clevenger and they moved from Virginia to Clinton County, Ohio in the early 1800s. Mary is also related to the Clevengers through her mother Dortha Clevenger.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzmuQdfkEdggcxg9UrpPrX_Cv8sTsEM-YeWnkSROE0PewFlZhw3TSoq4Q3E5Rwdg8vxf8OoP0nJRDsP8bGkhvvZ9TqMkmtJ_nmkN4Isj4pDWYZlTnCj0yDhYva_OrPqY3-9oD6pNxr3qCdlDbw2XfoCbWJxn8-5iy4gL8ZDWhBruuW4AgHvWbrIGuV4S4/s620/PaternalChart.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="620" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzmuQdfkEdggcxg9UrpPrX_Cv8sTsEM-YeWnkSROE0PewFlZhw3TSoq4Q3E5Rwdg8vxf8OoP0nJRDsP8bGkhvvZ9TqMkmtJ_nmkN4Isj4pDWYZlTnCj0yDhYva_OrPqY3-9oD6pNxr3qCdlDbw2XfoCbWJxn8-5iy4gL8ZDWhBruuW4AgHvWbrIGuV4S4/w539-h410/PaternalChart.PNG" width="539" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paternal Immigrant Ancestors<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">A final note is that these origins match up pretty well with the ethnicity estimates from Ancestry DNA tests for me, my sister and my mother. My estimates show roughly 1/3 England/NW Europe, 1/3 Germanic Europe and 1/3 a mix from Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Sweden/Denmark. The English and Welsh are from my maternal side, while the Germanic Europe and Sweden/Denmark are paternal. I have Irish and Scottish ancestry on both sides. The Meredith surname originated in Wales, so that's a possibility for the Welsh ancestry.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span><span color="inherit" style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span color="inherit" style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><i><a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-themes-for-2024" target="_blank">#52Ancestors</a>
is a series of weekly family history prompts developed by Amy Johnson
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He was one of the oldest Irish residents in the county when he died on October 22, 1912. I found three obituaries for Timothy with different dates and stories on his immigration to the US. Details on the obituaries for Timothy Coakley are below.<br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQPGgtClALudXDx7Xy2eZ-6sAm4J6CczLA6A2LE9USlKkR66cNHkiyRr_OBCRTQ58VYKSzRZWeakR2k9qqEm8YmG3Ronlalfa-Gwi7FfjngLbW_qTLdeN2maQPp_XSSVwxmzIByM-jcMTm84859z4ZgMPm99v5zDDipPy07a3hfL06WwJc72_9-8w0/s842/WilmingtonClintonCountyDemocrat24Oct1912Pg1TimothyCoakley_FMPsnip.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="842" data-original-width="489" height="809" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQPGgtClALudXDx7Xy2eZ-6sAm4J6CczLA6A2LE9USlKkR66cNHkiyRr_OBCRTQ58VYKSzRZWeakR2k9qqEm8YmG3Ronlalfa-Gwi7FfjngLbW_qTLdeN2maQPp_XSSVwxmzIByM-jcMTm84859z4ZgMPm99v5zDDipPy07a3hfL06WwJc72_9-8w0/w471-h809/WilmingtonClintonCountyDemocrat24Oct1912Pg1TimothyCoakley_FMPsnip.PNG" width="471" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clinton County Democrat, October 24, 1912<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: large;">From the Clinton County Democrat obituary, Timothy was 83 years old at his death placing his year of birth around 1829. This obituary states that he came to the US with his father Jerry, but it appears that they didn't know exactly when since the year is given as 18--! I don't think I've seen that before, but it's repeated in one of the other obituaries. This obituary mentions Timothy being present at the first mass celebrated in Clinton County and says he is survived by three daughters and two sons.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAsrEpjfpE1vgaabSK2R2SCJ1NtYSv4GQCMR0it0qhgogw1HLNDf4160aHItAcqkygxI_2CAWFtLKrh9rudB_50B1O24YqoSDRl2ozrU8rK7jwjlQuU9iMT6EDVJreR6hosNPIzWfX4sq33P_Y65VvExt75pYP0UJHM0cGRghWb3OUvW0kK4XCLdCZ/s604/TimothyCoakley_The_Wilmington_Journal_Wed__Oct_30__1912_NewsComSnip1.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="604" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAsrEpjfpE1vgaabSK2R2SCJ1NtYSv4GQCMR0it0qhgogw1HLNDf4160aHItAcqkygxI_2CAWFtLKrh9rudB_50B1O24YqoSDRl2ozrU8rK7jwjlQuU9iMT6EDVJreR6hosNPIzWfX4sq33P_Y65VvExt75pYP0UJHM0cGRghWb3OUvW0kK4XCLdCZ/w457-h385/TimothyCoakley_The_Wilmington_Journal_Wed__Oct_30__1912_NewsComSnip1.PNG" width="457" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Wilmington Journal, October 30, 1912<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT_l_dH0RDJZHU2NwcAUGLQrL8-gixTvJP_Bwan00DoooPHZE7T31YXboKf8rOjmscIsFp_NYvdbEFJe8wmcZmgxzY3o3xFQWtzYptH7xYINz7ErBZC0m6qgrbsjVAaZPQKXPUHV2hJrkCr9JHXgJBR-1qp0kLr-hFtKmLPzCfiyatFlgE1z1GLHq3/s630/TimothyCoakley_The_Wilmington_Journal_Wed__Oct_30__1912_NewsComSnip2.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="622" height="459" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT_l_dH0RDJZHU2NwcAUGLQrL8-gixTvJP_Bwan00DoooPHZE7T31YXboKf8rOjmscIsFp_NYvdbEFJe8wmcZmgxzY3o3xFQWtzYptH7xYINz7ErBZC0m6qgrbsjVAaZPQKXPUHV2hJrkCr9JHXgJBR-1qp0kLr-hFtKmLPzCfiyatFlgE1z1GLHq3/w454-h459/TimothyCoakley_The_Wilmington_Journal_Wed__Oct_30__1912_NewsComSnip2.PNG" width="454" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Wilmington Journal, October 30, 1912 part 2<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: large;">The second obituary is from the Wilmington Journal and states that Timothy was 82 years old at the time of his death. This obituary states that he came to Ireland at the age of 18 which would've been around 1848. It gives some details on his work history at Patrick Denver's farm and the railroad. It says he married Catherine Powers on January 3, 1853 and that they had ten children, five that were still living. It also gives Catherine's year of death as 1909 and says that Mrs. John Burke is the only surviving member of the older family. Timothy's sister Mary was married to John Burke. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">An interesting difference between the obituaries is that this one says Timothy's parents and sisters didn't come over until later, but says the family arrived in the early 40s. That doesn't add up with Timothy's age at death and arrival in the US at the age of 18.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The third obituary was published in the Clinton Republican on October 24, 1912 and is available on the <a href="https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll112/id/5011" target="_blank">Ohio History Connection website</a>. This obituary states that Timothy was 82 when he died at his home in Wilmington. It adds some new details about Timothy being from Cork, Ireland and that "with other of his people he came to this country about the year ----". So, this time the year is a complete blank! A few more facts are added including that he worked in New Orleans for some time before coming to Wilmington and that he was Street Commissioner and a fireman after his work on the railroad ended. This obituary names his surviving children as Mary, John, Timothy and Elizabeth living at home and Mrs. Katherine Murphy of Cincinnati. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I often can't find even one obituary, so finding three is a bit unusual. They agree roughly on Timothy's age, work history and surviving relatives, although some provided more detail than others. They disagree on when he came to the US and whether or not he came with other family members.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The 1900 census says Timothy's year of immigration was 1860 and the 1910 census says 1836. Nether of those years seem correct based on the other information about Timothy. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> I wasn't able to find a Timothy Coakley in the 1850
census for Ohio or New Orleans and haven't found Timothy in any
passenger lists so far. Based on the information I have, my guess is Timothy came over between 1847-1852. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> I know he was in Clinton County by 1852 when the first mass was celebrated and also that he was married in Ohio in 1853.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span><i>Sunday's Obituary is a prompt developed by Leslie Ann at <a href="http://ancestorslivehere.blogspot.com/">Ancestors Live Here.</a></i></span></span></span></span></p>Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-3792119075586629912022-10-23T16:32:00.000-04:002022-10-23T16:32:08.638-04:00Church Record Sunday - Baptism of Patrick William Creedan<p><span style="font-size: large;">Patrick William Creedan was born on May 16, 1864 to parents Patrick and Hannah Hoover Creedan. The family lived in Clinton County, Ohio, but Patrick was baptized in St. Andrew's parish in Milford, Clermont County, Ohio. Construction of the Catholic church in Clinton County wasn't completed until 1868 so the family had children baptized in the nearby parishes before the new church opened.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkZolZicw7p9YcpnPISVrEIg2QEuJ_sZ3u2HVtEKVg2c3MRIHOyHKRLtgGOiltn1yRubG1N3dNMDvf4A6oMIqNUZEaDv9wFoTC5ZEeE6-kwTo8BJWixG_kZDTfq6pMf4iedlVHSD4Pk9p3CGCAY30yx_LUp40-nU9KgxAs2C2GBdtYU9s0qGp4lbw6/s1043/PatrickCreedanBaptism29May1864_FMP_cr.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="167" data-original-width="1043" height="139" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkZolZicw7p9YcpnPISVrEIg2QEuJ_sZ3u2HVtEKVg2c3MRIHOyHKRLtgGOiltn1yRubG1N3dNMDvf4A6oMIqNUZEaDv9wFoTC5ZEeE6-kwTo8BJWixG_kZDTfq6pMf4iedlVHSD4Pk9p3CGCAY30yx_LUp40-nU9KgxAs2C2GBdtYU9s0qGp4lbw6/w483-h139/PatrickCreedanBaptism29May1864_FMP_cr.png" width="483" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Baptism record for Patrick William Creedan, May 29, 1864<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: large;">The image above is the entry for the baptism of Patrick William Creedan. The baptism was recorded in Latin and the year 1864 was written on the top of this page. On the left of the record, the baptism date was given as May 29 and the date of birth as May 16. The entry roughly translates to "I baptized Patrick G. son Patrick Credin and Hannah Hoover, sponsors Timothy Kiefe and Margarita Calahan". The priest's name was abbreviated to J. B. OD.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Patrick's name is given as Patrick William in his father's will in 1883, so I believe the initial G in the baptism record stands for Gulielmus, the Latin version of William. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">A transcription of the record was made for the diocese of Cincinnati. The name of the priest is spelled out as J. B. O'Donoghue. The number 23 on the left is the entry number for Patrick's record in the ledger. There are a couple of mistakes in this transcription. Patrick's mother is given as Anna instead of Hannah and Patrick's middle initial is given as J instead of G. </span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj1I_XgWU9HWXSJ-Cv9zNvQ33nLHZm4tM2UdVnYi9Gya-PPIFSY1rPKiIZD_BFQ0NVWzdyPGFSW8QJ--em3Hd1jfuqVOutkv7GBT0Uc1tdW0hqY_bpkszxohV6c2ZkliOvM3wFCcaLW0NjXKHLb4nqfR3PUfxhzHQ9ggYtSLcALj1K66ok9k8wo6fJ/s2983/PatrickCredinSonOfPatrickAndHannahHooverTranscriptionBaptismUS_CINCINNATI_D3_B08_STANDREW-MILFORD_BAP_1862-1866_00034FMP_cr.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1669" data-original-width="2983" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj1I_XgWU9HWXSJ-Cv9zNvQ33nLHZm4tM2UdVnYi9Gya-PPIFSY1rPKiIZD_BFQ0NVWzdyPGFSW8QJ--em3Hd1jfuqVOutkv7GBT0Uc1tdW0hqY_bpkszxohV6c2ZkliOvM3wFCcaLW0NjXKHLb4nqfR3PUfxhzHQ9ggYtSLcALj1K66ok9k8wo6fJ/w437-h269/PatrickCredinSonOfPatrickAndHannahHooverTranscriptionBaptismUS_CINCINNATI_D3_B08_STANDREW-MILFORD_BAP_1862-1866_00034FMP_cr.png" width="437" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">At some point, Patrick started using his middle name William instead of Patrick. Patrick was listed as Patrick in the 1870 census and Patrick W. in the 1880 census for Clinton County, Ohio. His father Patrick's will left a share of the estate to his son Patrick William in 1883. In the distributions from the estate in 1884, Patrick is named as Patrick W. Creeden, minor. In the final account of the estate in 1885, Patrick's name is given as Wm. P. Creeden.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji0wSMpYwoJXQiUutqir3WDLa-4HU9HfwEs_XzOrB68ylw7NGfpf8F2vR9F0ZwlMFXJMuxBWny4ku266KSPW55ekaYygfm2kGCkmH_qHcd1vXw-w6e1V2v69WP8ZF-g7twSQKBk1HvrNk5osTDDu4K_w_nhn8HBGjjotou6gvizv_RUfLv493v-BlK/s1249/PatrickCreedanFinalAcctDistributionPage259Image157WmPCreedanTestamentaryRecords1884-89vol12-13_FSSnip.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1249" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji0wSMpYwoJXQiUutqir3WDLa-4HU9HfwEs_XzOrB68ylw7NGfpf8F2vR9F0ZwlMFXJMuxBWny4ku266KSPW55ekaYygfm2kGCkmH_qHcd1vXw-w6e1V2v69WP8ZF-g7twSQKBk1HvrNk5osTDDu4K_w_nhn8HBGjjotou6gvizv_RUfLv493v-BlK/w487-h235/PatrickCreedanFinalAcctDistributionPage259Image157WmPCreedanTestamentaryRecords1884-89vol12-13_FSSnip.PNG" width="487" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wm P Creeden named in final account of estate in 1885<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">In 1885, <a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2015/12/mystery-monday-patrick-william-creeden.html#comment-form" target="_blank">W. P. Creedan marries Mary C. Snyder</a> in Clinton County, Ohio. <a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2013/06/church-record-sunday-ohio-quaker-records.html" target="_blank">Quaker records</a> in Clinton County from 1887 and 1889 mention a John and William Creeden. John's wife and children are listed in the records and they are match for Patrick William's brother John. The William in the records is most likely Patrick William.</span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMhCoxpDiBWMhyH2I7K3B46sXkfxSZA9pHMOldB0OQ6U-C7lp0Xal_bIDbo6DiuLABOsBVgVO_GHZOoMWLOEq7Yf6ztoQt-hMK4W8nb9einvCmgNiTVZRs10gR6I1N96l95jugY2V_AYbUKBWHc9hei7UtdjYvNOe76uGRdeE7R_tl49lj4UUIjtbV/s400/Encyclopedia%20of%20American%20Quaker%20Genealogy.%20Vol.%20V%20(Ohio%20Monthly%20Meetings)JohnManervaHiramWilliamSnip.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="128" data-original-width="400" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMhCoxpDiBWMhyH2I7K3B46sXkfxSZA9pHMOldB0OQ6U-C7lp0Xal_bIDbo6DiuLABOsBVgVO_GHZOoMWLOEq7Yf6ztoQt-hMK4W8nb9einvCmgNiTVZRs10gR6I1N96l95jugY2V_AYbUKBWHc9hei7UtdjYvNOe76uGRdeE7R_tl49lj4UUIjtbV/w414-h142/Encyclopedia%20of%20American%20Quaker%20Genealogy.%20Vol.%20V%20(Ohio%20Monthly%20Meetings)JohnManervaHiramWilliamSnip.JPG" width="414" /></a> <br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In 1886 or 1887, the birth of Minnie Creeden was registered in Greene County, Ohio to parents Wm. Creeden and Mary Snyder. They are living in Bowersville in Greene County. The date of the birth was given as May 11, 1886 and the location of the birth was Sabina, Clinton County, Ohio. Sabina was also the location in the 1870 census for Patrick and Hannah Creedan.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGnRJAKHJJLYGssCso_6JIIaWfiQvUGpYwxMTqfiwoBiMVsDBk1HOJi1n8oQafLmPwSFunuWaWeMFZyG5dcdTtBCXpvNVvDQIEoT_p-Oqln70WlyGceYhUhN0UgUi4nguPwNfwn7iOrdFU1zj2mvx6jms2j-gxNUbs9K58CxrHWGBP61kfmRIBzgac/s1712/MinneCreedenDaughterOfWmAndMarySnyderCreeden_GreeneCoForClinton_1886Vol2_Image29_FS_cr_cr.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="85" data-original-width="1712" height="39" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGnRJAKHJJLYGssCso_6JIIaWfiQvUGpYwxMTqfiwoBiMVsDBk1HOJi1n8oQafLmPwSFunuWaWeMFZyG5dcdTtBCXpvNVvDQIEoT_p-Oqln70WlyGceYhUhN0UgUi4nguPwNfwn7iOrdFU1zj2mvx6jms2j-gxNUbs9K58CxrHWGBP61kfmRIBzgac/w335-h39/MinneCreedenDaughterOfWmAndMarySnyderCreeden_GreeneCoForClinton_1886Vol2_Image29_FS_cr_cr.png" width="335" /></a></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiguxOD4lmqfLvjsdlFya-uTIzqxDbi03ClhCw56JR3OJDn-ZFRkQ58ka1kU93TigtclGyBw2FM8K818dxJwoola7rTmnBpaUv3wb0T4I-QoadRYC5jBPBfdAqJw2RVGNvHPGGfR1Dgp1sygiJrdh7Z-NWuwpLZugIF1UmmL_DznxMmKMUCpJU4sqpz/s1049/MinneCreedenDaughterOfWmAndMarySnyderCreeden_GreeneCoForClinton_1886Vol2_Image29_FS_cr_cr2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="89" data-original-width="1049" height="27" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiguxOD4lmqfLvjsdlFya-uTIzqxDbi03ClhCw56JR3OJDn-ZFRkQ58ka1kU93TigtclGyBw2FM8K818dxJwoola7rTmnBpaUv3wb0T4I-QoadRYC5jBPBfdAqJw2RVGNvHPGGfR1Dgp1sygiJrdh7Z-NWuwpLZugIF1UmmL_DznxMmKMUCpJU4sqpz/w326-h27/MinneCreedenDaughterOfWmAndMarySnyderCreeden_GreeneCoForClinton_1886Vol2_Image29_FS_cr_cr2.png" width="326" /></a></span></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBUIPkCWE_MjGKKxHv-quR-lK7cYZygC-GpkBhQR7yuGmw1OGdw_qbGI4iFZDZjJU_rat2Kq8xdppXgY3ypABXa56LA_srFRpBXIciVkWZic64ANuuT_GDslzK99SoggFXLjdfU0_qs6e_egz7Art0bpYtbVHzEDAeJo5R0WCFHK62dxymCtADLpcw/s720/MinneCreedenDaughterOfWmAndMarySnyderCreeden_GreeneCoForClinton_1886Vol2_Image29_FS_cr3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="720" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBUIPkCWE_MjGKKxHv-quR-lK7cYZygC-GpkBhQR7yuGmw1OGdw_qbGI4iFZDZjJU_rat2Kq8xdppXgY3ypABXa56LA_srFRpBXIciVkWZic64ANuuT_GDslzK99SoggFXLjdfU0_qs6e_egz7Art0bpYtbVHzEDAeJo5R0WCFHK62dxymCtADLpcw/s320/MinneCreedenDaughterOfWmAndMarySnyderCreeden_GreeneCoForClinton_1886Vol2_Image29_FS_cr3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In 1900, John and William Creedan are listed next to each other in the <a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2015/12/mystery-monday-patrick-william-creeden.html#comment-form" target="_blank">census for Darke County, Ohio</a> along with their wives and children. Note that Williams birth month and year are given as May 1864.</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCmj0_peqqnN_ApOreHG1CgWA70HN8oYtXPKPHulafMDB3pVZy1ArvWxBYMLXFvDEfo3DQiJXNld2HhB4iJUtHMe4U548wrpHda8TO0TJfDUOgPEozwlsXoO4hFi4gLqtEw0uzw2Z0HuSmy9biwxWtfmzqdmzyu8xMqg2bfdn_TpOOlyMLpweNCMa2/s400/JohnAndWilliamCreedanSonsOfPatrickOhioDarkeED59_1900Snip.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="400" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCmj0_peqqnN_ApOreHG1CgWA70HN8oYtXPKPHulafMDB3pVZy1ArvWxBYMLXFvDEfo3DQiJXNld2HhB4iJUtHMe4U548wrpHda8TO0TJfDUOgPEozwlsXoO4hFi4gLqtEw0uzw2Z0HuSmy9biwxWtfmzqdmzyu8xMqg2bfdn_TpOOlyMLpweNCMa2/w393-h243/JohnAndWilliamCreedanSonsOfPatrickOhioDarkeED59_1900Snip.JPG" width="393" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: large;">By 1905, William Patrick Creeden and his family were living in Kansas and appeared in the 1905 state census for Kansas. William's age was given as 42 and Mary's as 43. William died in 1909 and is buried in Kansas. His tombstone in Kansas gives his year of birth as 1862. I have a few cases in my family tree where the wrong year appears on a tombstone, so it's possible that a family member gave the wrong information.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">My conclusion is that Patrick William and William P. or W. P. Creeden are most likely the same person. Most of the records indicate that he was born in 1864 with the exception of his tombstone. That discrepancy leaves some room for doubt, but all of the other records with a date seem to indicate that he was born after 1862. Mary's tombstone also gives her year of birth as 1862 and this is more consistent with the census records which indicated she was a year or two older than her husband.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">A final note is that my sister and I have several DNA
matches to descendants of William and Mary Creeden. They are similar in
size to our matches from the other children of Patrick and Hannah Hoover
Creedan. The matches form a cluster where we are all sharing the same
matches, so that indicates there is a relation between the Kansas and Clinton County Creeden families.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Sources: The Roman Catholic baptism registers for the diocese of Cincinnati are available on <a href="http://www.findmypast.com/" target="_blank">FindMyPast.com</a>. The Quaker index is available on Ancestry.com. The other images in this post are available from FamilySearch.org.</span><br /></p>Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-51903167655516544912022-09-04T17:16:00.003-04:002022-09-04T17:16:28.576-04:00Sunday's Obituary - Opal Mary Creeden Wagner<p><span style="font-size: large;">Opal Mary Creeden Wagner was the daughter of W. P. Creeden and Mary Catherine Snyder. She was born in the Jackson township of Darke County, Ohio in late October or early November 1899. The entry for her birth in the Ohio County Births ledgers for Darke County appears below and gives her date of birth as November 8, 1899. The ledgers are available to browse by county on FamilySearch.org.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij_qwFUvmV8Iz39OkDCSvC-xE049_7Mq4i2t54szgO2JGA4Kiji8UQZF-RRc06hNN17LPuuVz7zEjcLvB5AWQy46zz9hlfysyhAvgUgSjJx9C_ITJcRhn4VE1jTpyuxNqfxhlrTkes9yZ0Sb9HkZ3RfI_y0YpJq94EmgPzOjqt_JMxJxisSqY1fO4W/s761/OpalMaryCreedenBirth1899SnipFS.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="73" data-original-width="761" height="58" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij_qwFUvmV8Iz39OkDCSvC-xE049_7Mq4i2t54szgO2JGA4Kiji8UQZF-RRc06hNN17LPuuVz7zEjcLvB5AWQy46zz9hlfysyhAvgUgSjJx9C_ITJcRhn4VE1jTpyuxNqfxhlrTkes9yZ0Sb9HkZ3RfI_y0YpJq94EmgPzOjqt_JMxJxisSqY1fO4W/w607-h58/OpalMaryCreedenBirth1899SnipFS.PNG" width="607" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKFKudDW4NzrE7TZoholQ7MJDPuoYYbtkxkeK3FWf2pl-XQxSz0XE3kRg7_2ESoE3QerRYu_KNtj68hgRtXqCHmKHzzGtgWzZjDZi7wgs9B3geftvqLpLzYrCrDHtStlCxK6k3dw9K9Uy8KMGt94oDm6dhtP8yfcV7hzUl4dK-O0987BHrSK5iYIeS/s816/OpalMaryCreedenBirth1899SnipFS.2PNG.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="74" data-original-width="816" height="54" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKFKudDW4NzrE7TZoholQ7MJDPuoYYbtkxkeK3FWf2pl-XQxSz0XE3kRg7_2ESoE3QerRYu_KNtj68hgRtXqCHmKHzzGtgWzZjDZi7wgs9B3geftvqLpLzYrCrDHtStlCxK6k3dw9K9Uy8KMGt94oDm6dhtP8yfcV7hzUl4dK-O0987BHrSK5iYIeS/w604-h54/OpalMaryCreedenBirth1899SnipFS.2PNG.PNG" width="604" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I posted the <a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2022/08/sundays-obituary-w-p-creeden.html" target="_blank">obituary for Opal's father</a> last week. His name was given as W. P. Creeden in his obituary and Wm. Creeden in the birth entry for Opal. In Opal's obituary, his name is given as Patrick Creeden, so that might be a little more evidence that he was Patrick William, the son of
Patrick Creedan and Hannah Hoover of Clinton County, Ohio. It's also possible that this was just an error by the newspaper or person that provided the obituary
information. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Opal also went by her middle name. In the birth register, her name is given as Mary Opal and she appears in the 1900 census in Darke County as Mary O. After that, the records show her name as Opal or Opal Mary.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Opal's obituary was published in the Hutchinson News in Kansas on Friday, September 7, 1990. The cities referred to in the obituary are in Kansas with the exception of Greenville, Ohio.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Opal was married to James Maurice Wagner in 1947 when Opal was 46 years old. I haven't found any records of the couple having any children.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">OBITUARY:<br /><br />COLDWATER - Opal Mary Wagner. 90, died Thursday, Sept. 6, 1990, at Comanche County Hospital, Coldwater.<br /><br />She was born Oct. 28, 1899, at Greenville, Ohio, the daughter of Patrick and Mary Catherine Snyder Creeden. She graduated from Fort Hays State Teachers College, Hays. A former resident of Stafford and Gravette, Ark, she was a homemaker and retired school teacher.<br /><br />She was a member of the Baptist Church, Ye Olde Tyme Club, Vashti Chapter No. 64 Order of the Eastern Star and the Rebekah Lodge, all at Stafford.<br /><br />On Aug. 17, 1947, she married James Maurice Wagner at Sublette, he died Jan. 3, 1983.<br /><br />Survivors include: a sister-in-law and several nieces and nephews.<br /><br />Funeral service was 2 p.m. Saturday at Peacock-Milton Funeral Chapel, Stafford, with the Rev. Glen O. Morford officiating. Burial was in the Stafford Cemetery.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span><i>Sunday's Obituary is a prompt developed by Leslie Ann at <a href="http://ancestorslivehere.blogspot.com/">Ancestors Live Here.</a></i></span></span></span></span></p>Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-44143723868298655352022-08-21T16:15:00.000-04:002022-08-21T16:15:03.483-04:00Sunday's Obituary - W. P. Creeden<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The following obituary was published in The Pratt Republican in Kansas on September 30, 1909.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhftcY-l-iXyQnUI9Mpne2neFT4O16ry3KxPTX9QVF8-XNzoE1ddLjVccQQFvIgtJ9udQhtoSp1rqXlHdo_hSoQwFH5bDLKTKYPDTd2nPBpXCOZ1LB1JxbL8q44lUigwwL4mPcUKYUuraYcqLM_eOid7DSHe8_jdA528yog-9Vf2uYVtkCGs_m2p12r/s4494/WPCreedenThe_Pratt_Republican_Kansas_Thu__Sep_30__1909_Pg7NewsCom_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2009" data-original-width="4494" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhftcY-l-iXyQnUI9Mpne2neFT4O16ry3KxPTX9QVF8-XNzoE1ddLjVccQQFvIgtJ9udQhtoSp1rqXlHdo_hSoQwFH5bDLKTKYPDTd2nPBpXCOZ1LB1JxbL8q44lUigwwL4mPcUKYUuraYcqLM_eOid7DSHe8_jdA528yog-9Vf2uYVtkCGs_m2p12r/w540-h240/WPCreedenThe_Pratt_Republican_Kansas_Thu__Sep_30__1909_Pg7NewsCom_.jpg" width="540" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>W. P. Creeden died at his home in the second ward last Monday, of consumption. The remains were interred at Green Lawn Tuesday. Mr. Creeden has lived in Pratt but a short time, having come from Meade.</b></i></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>William P. Creeden is buried in Greenlawn cemetery in Pratt, Kansas. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>William was only in his 40s when he died. </span></span>He was married to Mary Catherine Snyder in Clinton County, Ohio in 1885. The family was living in Darke County, Ohio when the 1900 census was taken. By 1905, William and his family had moved to Sedgwick, Kansas. Children listed in the 1905 census were Minnie, Elsie, Orval, Ralph, Ellsworth, William, Opal and Violet.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>In the 1900 census, William and his family were living next to John Creedan and his family. John was the son of Patrick Creedan and Hannah Hoover of Clinton County, Ohio. I suspect that John and W. P. were brothers or cousins. Patrick and Hannah had a son named Patrick William that may have gone by William. I lose the trail of Patrick William around the time that W. P. married Mary Snyder. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>My sister and I have several DNA matches to descendants of John and William, so we're related to both of these families. The matches are similar in size which indicates our relationship to John and William could be the same. John was a half-brother of my 2x great-grandfather Timothy Creeden.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>I've seen several Ancestry.com trees giving William's parents as Timothy and Ellen Creeden from Hamilton County, Ohio. An obituary for Timothy and Ellen's son William shows he died in 1901. This William was married to Margaret Nolan and some of their children were born in the same years as W. P. and Mary's children.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Related posts:</span></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2015/12/mystery-monday-patrick-william-creeden.html#comment-form" target="_blank">Patrick William Creedan</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2013/05/mystery-monday-which-william-is-which.html" target="_blank">Which William is which?</a> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2013/06/mystery-monday-which-william-is-which.html" target="_blank">Which William is which? - Part 2</a></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span><a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/search/label/Obituary" target="_blank">Obituary for Timothy and Ellen's son William</a> <br /></span></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><i>Sunday's Obituary is a prompt developed by Leslie Ann at <a href="http://ancestorslivehere.blogspot.com/">Ancestors Live Here.</a></i></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p>Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-62142889650126189262022-03-21T14:06:00.001-04:002023-01-03T19:03:48.904-05:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 11 - Flowers - Rose Creeden<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The theme this week is<b> "Flowers." Spring isn't far off for those of us in the northern hemisphere, and with that comes thoughts of flowers — which, not coincidentally, is this week's theme! Any Roses, Daisys, or Petunias in the family?</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4PU35UNTnGHkV8SMg_zPJ6jN8HfEphqZRJrAhLVVTpRxmpMZ8Z73gPRFAZibSipRa0MTxN9io50S49asFn-hIq1rCe0REwEUVWA1Z84nxDibRK6ou-AmmhocyhFUdloaiJlHTfTUl1B-nDPcpc0fEDhArMO_hdiCnmROazeN79SKI2zs_YJ3le0NQ=s600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4PU35UNTnGHkV8SMg_zPJ6jN8HfEphqZRJrAhLVVTpRxmpMZ8Z73gPRFAZibSipRa0MTxN9io50S49asFn-hIq1rCe0REwEUVWA1Z84nxDibRK6ou-AmmhocyhFUdloaiJlHTfTUl1B-nDPcpc0fEDhArMO_hdiCnmROazeN79SKI2zs_YJ3le0NQ=w160-h160" width="160" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rose Creeden was the half sister of my 2x great-grandfather Timothy Creeden. I've posted about Rose before, but have found a couple of new records for her since then. Timothy became her guardian after their father Patrick's death in 1883 and the <a href="http://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2012/12/guardians-bond-amanuensis-monday.html" target="_blank">guardianship papers</a> showed that they moved from Clinton County to Mercer County, Ohio. These records helped to provide proof that Timothy was the son of Patrick Creedan of Clinton County.<br /><br />Rose was born on 02 May 1861 in Clinton County, Ohio to Patrick Creedan and Hannah Hoover. She was baptized in St. Brigid's parish in Xenia, Greene County, Ohio. I've only recently become aware that a lot of my family's church records are in Greene County probably due to that being the closest Catholic church during the 1850s and 1860s. The baptismal record from St. Brigid's is shown below. The full record is available on FindMyPast.com.</span><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGXgFQbAjmq83ZwiX8L0Y4Jp3j6ydnv_HPsgOnUK2WE6CTRJz-nQAtU4qiOSJuoSUAtPg0x5k-CQFhorIEQWFWOdjm0kFnTWRzyiqYEKkn9vs1ixogyjaPNioxwqN6Jhyk20Lc0IFS3Q5pLR-7mPYZTAp3E1saFNnyRZc8RvuV0CZ4ZBzvAOapDlWy=s1274" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="193" data-original-width="1274" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjGXgFQbAjmq83ZwiX8L0Y4Jp3j6ydnv_HPsgOnUK2WE6CTRJz-nQAtU4qiOSJuoSUAtPg0x5k-CQFhorIEQWFWOdjm0kFnTWRzyiqYEKkn9vs1ixogyjaPNioxwqN6Jhyk20Lc0IFS3Q5pLR-7mPYZTAp3E1saFNnyRZc8RvuV0CZ4ZBzvAOapDlWy=w566-h100" title="Baptism record for Rose Creeden" width="566" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Patrick's will of 1883 left two shares of his estate to be used for the care of Rose. According to the will and <a href="http://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2012/12/guardians-bond-amanuensis-monday.html" target="_blank">guardianship probate records</a>, Rose was unable to care for herself. Timothy served as her guardian until at least 10 December 1895 when Rose was admitted to the Mercer County Infirmary. I don't know if she was admitted to the home because Timothy could no longer care for her financially or if her condition became worse. The money set aside for her care in Patrick's will may have run out by then. Timothy died in 1899 and there was no mention of Rose in his will.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In 1914, the infirmary underwent renovations and an inspection according to a newspaper article in <i>The Coldwater Chronicle</i>, published on 05 May 1914. The article states: "The women that were not too feeble to be about greeted the visitors warmly... Rose Creeden was busy with her day’s round of cleaning, in which she takes extraordinary pride.". Rose was also listed as a housekeeper in the 1880 census, so it does seem like she was able to do some tasks. The paragraph of the article the mentions Rose is shown below. The full article is available at <a href="https://coldwaterpl.advantage-preservation.com/search?t=32937&i=t&d=01/01/1905-12/31/2018&bcn=1" target="_blank">The Coldwater Chronicle archives</a>.</span><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0uSJFxy9LV8lFg5rmrDA2lZFHJ0SQ2Ln6JRjmQbXgotv6nlt6tHrvAErw8_Ot8pxXMkGszQOXV7WXpRI1voyWVLvaXsySbThhFQ2ilBbmvln3jA7O19Kl-9wjyfpe4V45S8dsTwxiEfxwaFgK8OkhtpIICCxRlq97lY2k1O7phBKjT_kqYfvJ6BRj=s554" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="554" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0uSJFxy9LV8lFg5rmrDA2lZFHJ0SQ2Ln6JRjmQbXgotv6nlt6tHrvAErw8_Ot8pxXMkGszQOXV7WXpRI1voyWVLvaXsySbThhFQ2ilBbmvln3jA7O19Kl-9wjyfpe4V45S8dsTwxiEfxwaFgK8OkhtpIICCxRlq97lY2k1O7phBKjT_kqYfvJ6BRj=s320" width="320" /></a></div> <p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Rose lived out the rest of her life in the Mercer County Infirmary and <a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2013/07/sundays-obituary-roseanne-creeden.html" target="_blank">died on 30 June 1922</a>. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span color="inherit" style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span color="inherit" style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><i><a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/" target="_blank">#52Ancestors</a>
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Creeden will be buried Saturday morning at Reading, O., near which place he was born.</span></i></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A death notice was also published on the same day:<br /><i><b>CREEDEN -- William, beloved husband of Margaret Creeden, suddenly, <br />Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 9:30p.m. Funeral from residence, 3554 Haven Avenue, Avondale, Saturday, Nov. 23. Requiem high mass at St. Andrew's Church at 8 a.m.</b></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is one of the William Creedens that I've been researching in the hopes of identifying the correct families for each of them. This is a quick tree I've done for this William on Ancestry.com:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6JY0LYRKOsw/YWyMQNK_aYI/AAAAAAAAFCc/dZzTE62upp0NdF2zsAPaVdXTMtu1rScEwCLcBGAsYHQ/s895/TimothyEllenCreedenTree.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="895" height="345" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6JY0LYRKOsw/YWyMQNK_aYI/AAAAAAAAFCc/dZzTE62upp0NdF2zsAPaVdXTMtu1rScEwCLcBGAsYHQ/w572-h345/TimothyEllenCreedenTree.PNG" width="572" /></a></div> <p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A baptism record shows that William was born on 22 Feb 1863 and baptized on 15 Mar 1863 at the Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Reading, Hamilton County, Ohio. The parents were given in Latin as Timotheus Creeden and Helena Callaghan. One of the sponsors was John Creeden. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">William married Margaret Nolan on 31 May 1883. There is a note on the marriage license where his father Timothy gives his consent for the marriage. The civil record is shown below. A church record shows that the marriage was at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Reading, Ohio and one of the witnesses was Daniel Creeden.</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xlqtvEnL_p4/YWyNYRibfwI/AAAAAAAAFCk/ZEhfFgfULzsT09_RIJS0-qXAgMC5A9KoACLcBGAsYHQ/s672/HamiltonCountyMarriageWilliamCreedenToMargaretNolan1883SonOfTimothyopt_cr.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="672" height="402" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xlqtvEnL_p4/YWyNYRibfwI/AAAAAAAAFCk/ZEhfFgfULzsT09_RIJS0-qXAgMC5A9KoACLcBGAsYHQ/w550-h402/HamiltonCountyMarriageWilliamCreedenToMargaretNolan1883SonOfTimothyopt_cr.jpg" width="550" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">William and Margaret had 3 sons: Thomas W. born in 1886, Michael J. born in 1888 and Lawrence born in 1892.</span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">After William's death in 1901, Margaret appears in several Cincinnati city directories and is named as his widow.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VxPJqWcRyHY/YWyQJygH54I/AAAAAAAAFCs/PS-5IxFHZbM9BhJLMixg7ZUXcv95WdLsgCLcBGAsYHQ/s787/MargaretCreedenWidowOfWm_Thomas_1903CincinnatiCr.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="68" data-original-width="787" height="35" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VxPJqWcRyHY/YWyQJygH54I/AAAAAAAAFCs/PS-5IxFHZbM9BhJLMixg7ZUXcv95WdLsgCLcBGAsYHQ/w403-h35/MargaretCreedenWidowOfWm_Thomas_1903CincinnatiCr.PNG" width="403" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Margaret and Thomas Creeden, 1903 Cincinnati City Directory</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wftPH_6uY6g/YWyQjI48XUI/AAAAAAAAFC0/j3NxJAvd9qQiWLwyGJbwmmAFXgPiytV2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s821/MargaretCreedenWidowOfWm_Otherss_1913CincinnatiCr.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="69" data-original-width="821" height="36" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wftPH_6uY6g/YWyQjI48XUI/AAAAAAAAFC0/j3NxJAvd9qQiWLwyGJbwmmAFXgPiytV2QCLcBGAsYHQ/w425-h36/MargaretCreedenWidowOfWm_Otherss_1913CincinnatiCr.PNG" width="425" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Margaret and Michael Creeden, 1913 Cincinnati City Directory</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Margaret eventually moved to California where her son Lawrence and other relatives lived. She lived there until her death in 1930.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Updating to add that none of the records I have show the middle name or initial for this William. I think I can rule him out as being my Patrick William or the William Patrick Creeden that went to Kansas. <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Related posts:</span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2015/12/mystery-monday-patrick-william-creeden.html#comment-form" target="_blank">Patrick William Creedan</a></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2013/05/mystery-monday-which-william-is-which.html" target="_blank">Which William is which?</a> </span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2013/06/mystery-monday-which-william-is-which.html" target="_blank">Which William is which? - Part 2</a><br /></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><i>Sunday's Obituary is a prompt developed by Leslie Ann at <a href="http://ancestorslivehere.blogspot.com/">Ancestors Live Here.</a></i></span></span></p>Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-47829956302481636902021-07-07T15:08:00.001-04:002021-07-08T15:25:49.786-04:00FeedBurner Email Lists Discontinued<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J3An2vYqykQ/YOX3cU7ZvaI/AAAAAAAAE_w/w7qkBefXc2g0aKrYPx2-7DbkqXD9AeswwCLcBGAsYHQ/s123/FeedBurner.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="123" data-original-width="121" height="155" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J3An2vYqykQ/YOX3cU7ZvaI/AAAAAAAAE_w/w7qkBefXc2g0aKrYPx2-7DbkqXD9AeswwCLcBGAsYHQ/w153-h155/FeedBurner.PNG" width="153" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The FeedBurner team is discontinuing their email subscription service by the end of July 2021. 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The free version of Feedly allows you to subscribe to up to 100 sources.</span></div>Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-3432884137636294082021-06-12T22:52:00.002-04:002021-06-12T22:52:57.033-04:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 23 - Bridge - Nowland Land Patents in Maryland<p><span style="font-size: medium;">The theme this week is<b> "Bridge." </b><i>A bridge connects two things that are separated, whether it's land or people (maybe even time?).</i> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm going to use this prompt to write about land records for<i> </i>tracts of land called Woodbridge and Bandon Bridge in Cecil County, Maryland. Bandon Bridge was granted to Darby Noland and Woodbridge to Dennis Nowland.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">My Nowland ancestors came from Ireland to Maryland in the 1600s and settled in Cecil County. I'm still sorting out some of the relationships, but my current Nowland tree is shown below. Dermond and Dennis are thought to have been born in Ireland. Dermond's wife Anne is referenced as Anne Browning/Browne in some of the land sale and probate records, so she most likely remarried to a Browning. The Browning name is also mentioned in the Rent Rolls for the land.</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-95N3SAt6fiE/YMUt9bJiCWI/AAAAAAAAE9A/UlZsQMAaBIwZ6hmsg36ZzudjtGBinPH8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s509/NTr1.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="509" height="293" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-95N3SAt6fiE/YMUt9bJiCWI/AAAAAAAAE9A/UlZsQMAaBIwZ6hmsg36ZzudjtGBinPH8gCLcBGAsYHQ/w466-h293/NTr1.PNG" width="466" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The book <i>Settlers of Maryland, 1679-1783. Consolidated Edition</i> has the following entries for Dermond and Dennis: The book is available on Ancestry.com.</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9MvMyiKz1Dg/YMU1FOAXGNI/AAAAAAAAE9I/-7xqX_lc_dU4JyPUbyf9_8ZWwTc-5VgrQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1007/DaNBBdgeSofM.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="99" data-original-width="1007" height="58" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9MvMyiKz1Dg/YMU1FOAXGNI/AAAAAAAAE9I/-7xqX_lc_dU4JyPUbyf9_8ZWwTc-5VgrQCLcBGAsYHQ/w609-h58/DaNBBdgeSofM.PNG" width="609" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2Xc3DmIt4XY/YMU2RG2FwNI/AAAAAAAAE9g/qrJywukNF3Ey_bHpMzFM9jnVMkCw_dBOwCLcBGAsYHQ/s953/DeNWBdgeSofM.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="77" data-original-width="953" height="59" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2Xc3DmIt4XY/YMU2RG2FwNI/AAAAAAAAE9g/qrJywukNF3Ey_bHpMzFM9jnVMkCw_dBOwCLcBGAsYHQ/w560-h59/DeNWBdgeSofM.PNG" width="560" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Note that the entry for Dennis Nowland should be for Woodbridge and not Moodbridge. I included the entry for Pierce Noland since he was in Cecil County at the same time. He sold his land without developing it and settled in Virginia. His will didn't mention Darby or Dermond, so I don't know if they were related.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The patent record for Bandon Bridge is in Book NS B, page 535. The patents are available on the <a href="http://guide.msa.maryland.gov/pages/series.aspx?id=SM2" target="_blank">Maryland Archives website</a>. The patent record entry is long, so I'm showing a shorter transcription from Book 22, page 351 below.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YeS1dfzDLWE/YMVAwG8TcYI/AAAAAAAAE9w/uUW7K6p4kQI6H9kSI0HnOoeSIOFb0L-ZACLcBGAsYHQ/s1565/DaNPg351_Im179_mdsa_sm2_25.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="1565" height="209" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YeS1dfzDLWE/YMVAwG8TcYI/AAAAAAAAE9w/uUW7K6p4kQI6H9kSI0HnOoeSIOFb0L-ZACLcBGAsYHQ/w573-h209/DaNPg351_Im179_mdsa_sm2_25.PNG" width="573" /></a></div> <p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The record shows that Darby Nolan was granted 60 acres of a tract of land called Bandon Bridge on the South of St. Augustine Creek in Cecil County in May 1687. It describes the location of the land and says that it bounds a tract of land called Woodbridge and also mentions a tract called Coch's Forrest.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The patent record for Woodbridge is in Book EE 6, page 76 and is dated September 9, 1714. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-79yXkMhTiAI/YMVqrXICfYI/AAAAAAAAE-A/8K1oWlAb9b49Fhvd1A4NgTXm2n5PiC1wQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1214/EE6Pg76DeNWBPt1714_MSA.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="1214" height="272" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-79yXkMhTiAI/YMVqrXICfYI/AAAAAAAAE-A/8K1oWlAb9b49Fhvd1A4NgTXm2n5PiC1wQCLcBGAsYHQ/w607-h272/EE6Pg76DeNWBPt1714_MSA.PNG" width="607" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The record states: "Patent to Dennis Nowland of Cecil County, son heir at law and devisee of Dermond O'Houllaughane aka Nowland late of the said county for a tract of land lyeing in the said county called Woodbridge originally laid out in the year of our Lord 1680 for one David Mackinna for two hundred acres and by him conveyed to one Cornelius Machneahin? and the Dermond in Joint Tenancy with said Dermond being the survivor became possessor of the whole."<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The names given in the Woodbridge record are interesting and I'm guessing spellings may have been mangled. I can't find any references to the surname O'Houllaughane, although I found a few with similar spellings. Darby can be a nickname for Dermot, so Dermond might not be the correct spelling either. An <a href="http://research.ucc.ie/doi/atlas" target="_blank">index of Irish surnames from 1659</a> lists Holaghan, Hologhane, Hologhan and O Hollahan and a <a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Hoolihan_Name_Study" target="_blank">Hoolihan name study</a> lists variants for Ó hUALLACHÁIN including Nolan.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I found a little more history of Woodbridge on page 200 of <i>The History of the Society of Jesus</i>. The text states that David Mackenny sold Woodbridge to Darby Nowland and that his son Dennis sold the land to James Heath.</span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zguuTFknUUw/YMVIdiTRHgI/AAAAAAAAE94/WFgTxukGj7o9MjVB2DMom1ijMe6MO7CxQCLcBGAsYHQ/s979/HistSocJePg200.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="979" height="111" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zguuTFknUUw/YMVIdiTRHgI/AAAAAAAAE94/WFgTxukGj7o9MjVB2DMom1ijMe6MO7CxQCLcBGAsYHQ/w557-h111/HistSocJePg200.PNG" width="557" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I was able to find more about the Nowlands in the rent rolls, land sales and probate records for Cecil County, so I'll follow up on those records in future posts.</span><br /></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span color="inherit" style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span color="inherit" style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><i><a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/" target="_blank">#52Ancestors</a>
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Crow. </i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-69774674774575756222021-03-28T20:16:00.001-04:002021-03-29T02:44:10.603-04:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2021 - Weeks 11 and 12 - Fortune and Loss - Edward C. Councell<p><span style="font-size: large;">Week 11's theme is "<b>Fortune</b>." <i>Merriam-Webster gives several definitions for fortune: A large sum of money; prosperity attained partly through luck; or destiny, fate.</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"> Week 12's theme is "<b>Loss</b>." <i>Loss is universal. There are many ways to explore this theme, whether it's the loss of a loved one, a livelihood, freedom.</i><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Edward C. Councell was working for The Charleston Daily Courier newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina when he had the good fortune to win $15,000 in the Union Canal lottery of May 1828. </span><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hT4X8QXTyK0/YGA4OtbRQoI/AAAAAAAAE64/EPcQENL9ICAbqnSA5HQctHGLT0Fi_HlzwCLcBGAsYHQ/s830/EdwardCCouncellLotteryTheCharlestonDailyCourier16May1828FridayPg2_NewsComSnipOpt.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="830" height="237" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hT4X8QXTyK0/YGA4OtbRQoI/AAAAAAAAE64/EPcQENL9ICAbqnSA5HQctHGLT0Fi_HlzwCLcBGAsYHQ/w468-h237/EdwardCCouncellLotteryTheCharlestonDailyCourier16May1828FridayPg2_NewsComSnipOpt.PNG" width="468" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Charleston Daily Courier, May 16, 1828</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: large;">In June of the same year he married Agnes Wallace, daughter of Thomas Wallace of Charleston.</span></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uwidc7c9CCQ/YGA5SJKHurI/AAAAAAAAE7A/QehXxiFC-0A05OkYDOHNTUMB3VjM7onDwCLcBGAsYHQ/s696/EdwardCCouncellToAgnesWallaceTheCharlestonDailyCourier09Jun1828MondayPg2_NewsComSnipOpt.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="130" data-original-width="696" height="81" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uwidc7c9CCQ/YGA5SJKHurI/AAAAAAAAE7A/QehXxiFC-0A05OkYDOHNTUMB3VjM7onDwCLcBGAsYHQ/w453-h81/EdwardCCouncellToAgnesWallaceTheCharlestonDailyCourier09Jun1828MondayPg2_NewsComSnipOpt.PNG" width="453" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Charleston Daily Courier, June 09, 1828</span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Edward worked at several newspapers in Georgia and South Carolina before branching out to run his own book and job printing business. He was running a successful business in 1852 when misfortune struck and he was forced to sell his shop due to rapidly declining health. Edward died in May of 1854 due to consumption.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of my Maryland ancestors is Edward Carey Councell of Maryland, so
I was intrigued to see whether or not the lotto winning Edward C.
Councell from Charleston was related to him. </span>An obituary for Edward from May 19, 1854 in The Baltimore Sun confirmed my suspicion that Edward was from Maryland.</span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-24Hz7jdCXTA/YGBAGrmGJnI/AAAAAAAAE7Q/f-W-kuUQGckRUqFgr-Hm7RUPXRLtwhQCgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1206/EdwardCCouncellTheBaltimoresunMD19May1854Fri_NewsComSnip_cr.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="1206" height="146" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-24Hz7jdCXTA/YGBAGrmGJnI/AAAAAAAAE7Q/f-W-kuUQGckRUqFgr-Hm7RUPXRLtwhQCgCLcBGAsYHQ/w454-h146/EdwardCCouncellTheBaltimoresunMD19May1854Fri_NewsComSnip_cr.png" width="454" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Baltimore Sun, May 19, 1854<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Another article from the Charleston Courier printed on June 22, 1854 states that Edward was a native of Talbot County, MD and left behind a widow, sister and an only son.</span><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I found some mentions of Edward in Talbot County records that show he was the son of John Council. Edward C. Council was indentured to a printer in 1813 at the age of 15, placing his birth year at 1798. The following image is from the book <i>Bound to serve: the indentured children of Talbot County, Maryland</i> by R. Bernice Leonard. The book is available on FamilySearch.org.</span><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-48j_BQRQJik/YGBEB47aixI/AAAAAAAAE7Y/AKMjCKFIz88APqtqn_rFJ08nAaXRcN5_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1100/EdwardCCouncilIndentureToPrinterInTalbot1813_SeeFSTalbotFolderForBook.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="120" data-original-width="1100" height="76" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-48j_BQRQJik/YGBEB47aixI/AAAAAAAAE7Y/AKMjCKFIz88APqtqn_rFJ08nAaXRcN5_QCLcBGAsYHQ/w414-h76/EdwardCCouncilIndentureToPrinterInTalbot1813_SeeFSTalbotFolderForBook.PNG" width="414" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Indenture of Edward C. Council in 1813<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: large;">Edward was named as a grandson in the will of Elizabeth Browning written in 1807 and filed in 1809 in Talbot County, MD. She left most of her estate to her three daughters Eleanor, Elizabeth and Mary and grandchildren Edward, Eleanor and John Council Jr., but also mentions her sister Ann Council, wife of John in the will.</span><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">From Maryland, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1655-1850 on Ancestry.com, Eleanor Counsell married Henry Newcomb in January 7, 1823 in Talbot County, MD. Eleanor Newcomb was named as a niece in the will of Mary Browning in 1826 in Talbot County.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">In a Talbot County land sale recorded in book JP 62, page 288 Edward C. Councell and his wife Agnes sold land to Nicholas Willis. The record states that Edward and Agnes are living in Chatham County, GA and are selling land in Island Creek, Talbot County, MD. The tract of land was known by the names Hier Dyer Lloyd and Clora Dorsey and was from the estate of their deceased mother Ann Marie Councell. The deed was recorded on September 25, 1849.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">There are additional land records in JP 59, starting on page 510 that show sales of parts of Hier Dyer Lloyd and Clora Dorsey from John Councell and his wife Ruth and from Ellen Newcomb. Both of these sales are also to Nicholas Willis and mention their deceased mother Ann Marie Councell. The land records are available on MDLandRec.net.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The records and articles listed above establish that John Councell and his wife Ann Marie Browning had at least 3 children: John Jr., Edward C., and Eleanor and that their child Edward was the one from Charleston. I believe that John the father may be the brother of my 4x great-grandfather Edward Carey Councell, but need to do more research to be sure.</span><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span color="inherit" style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span color="inherit" style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><i><a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/" target="_blank">#52Ancestors</a> is a series of weekly family history prompts developed by Amy Johnson Crow. Newspaper articles in this post are available on Newspapers.com.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-71342569919775437652021-02-28T14:59:00.003-05:002021-03-01T16:10:36.600-05:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2021 - Week 8 - Power<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The 52 Ancestors prompt for this week is <b>Power</b>.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is a new prompt in the 52 Ancestors series this year and it reminded me of an article I came across about the power of Mother Nature. The article tells the story of a young girl who was struck by lightning in her home in Clinton County, Ohio. My Creeden family also lived in Clinton County, but had moved to Mercer County, Ohio by the time of this story.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">The following article was published in The Journal Republican in Wilmington, Ohio on March 26, 1913. Mary Creeden was dressing for school when a lightning bolt struck the house and knocked her unconscious. The article mentions that she was in the house of Mrs. John Creeden.and that Mary was the fourteen year old daughter.</span><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oCR9QyqsYhM/YDvhpw5EMUI/AAAAAAAAE54/1eaYUFF4GMMTO0LGEh_qeHSoUD5uX62-gCLcBGAsYHQ/s686/TheJournalRepublican_Wed_Mar26_1913_MaryCreedenLightningNewsComOpt.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="686" data-original-width="402" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oCR9QyqsYhM/YDvhpw5EMUI/AAAAAAAAE54/1eaYUFF4GMMTO0LGEh_qeHSoUD5uX62-gCLcBGAsYHQ/w376-h640/TheJournalRepublican_Wed_Mar26_1913_MaryCreedenLightningNewsComOpt.PNG" width="376" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>During the hard thunder shower that prevailed for several hours Tuesday morning, the house of Mrs. John Creeden in south-east Wilmington was struck by lightning and the fourteen-year-old daughter, Mary, was very seriously injured. The sharp dash of lightning came at about twenty minutes of 8 o'clock as many people about town remember. Mary was in her room dressing for school when the bolt struck the house. She was rendered unconscious and for a time it was believed that she had been killed. Others of the family in other parts of the house did not feel the effects of the lightning to any serious extent. It seems that the full force of the bolt was directed upon the room in which Mary was dressing and she alone of the family felt its deadly power. Some members of the family were at the church and they, with Rev. Father Higgins, hastened to the home. Dr. Austin was summoned and rendered medical aid to relieve her sufferings. Though she was badly burned about the face and the right side of the body, it is believed that she will recover. The fright and great pain have produced a nervous condition that augments the gravity of the danger.</b></i></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Given how severe Mary's injuries were, I wondered what became of her. From census records for Clinton County, Ohio, Mary was the daughter of John Creeden and Margaret Ann Dooley. Mary's father died in 1909 in Clinton County according to Ohio death records. In the 1920 census, Mary is living with her sister Sarah in Washington DC and both are working as clerks for the government. Mary is working for the Department of the Treasury. In the 1930 census, Mary is living in Alexandria, VA with her mother and has a government job as a clerk. Her brother Joseph is also living with them and is a fireman. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>In the 1940 census, Mary is again living with Sarah and still working as a government clerk. She owns her home and is making a salary of $2000 a year. The census shows that she completed 4 years of high school and that Sarah completed 4 years of college.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>A short obituary for Mary appeared in The Cincinnati Enquirer on March 8, 1976. It appears that she moved back to Ohio maybe to be closer to family after retiring.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sGsvtq-pj7M/YDvxBOSnfkI/AAAAAAAAE6A/cpFU0br-hdM9_ke5DoltG5vLAmeeS2W1ACLcBGAsYHQ/s262/MaryCreedentheCincinnatiEnquirer08Mar1976Pg31_NewsCom.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="176" data-original-width="262" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sGsvtq-pj7M/YDvxBOSnfkI/AAAAAAAAE6A/cpFU0br-hdM9_ke5DoltG5vLAmeeS2W1ACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/MaryCreedentheCincinnatiEnquirer08Mar1976Pg31_NewsCom.PNG" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span><span color="inherit" style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span color="inherit" style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><i><a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/" target="_blank">#52Ancestors</a> is a series of weekly family history prompts developed by Amy Johnson Crow. Newspaper articles are available on Newspapers.com.<br /></i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></p>Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-53210701410554069372020-10-18T18:05:00.000-04:002020-10-18T18:05:36.169-04:00Sunday's Obituary - Jeremiah Creeden (1841 - 25 Nov 1916)<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jeremiah Creeden came from Ireland and settled in Indianapolis, Indiana with his wife Mary Toomey. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have a DNA match to a descendant of Jeremiah</span></span></span>, but don't know for sure if they connect to my Creeden family. I don't recognize any of the other surnames in the trees I've seen for Jeremiah, so he seems like a possible connection for this match.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This funeral notice for Jeremiah was published in 1916 in The Indianapolis News. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">From the notice, Jeremiah died on November 25, 1916 and was buried at the Holy Cross cemetery. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0u1qARf129s/X4y2JXpsmPI/AAAAAAAAE2w/kJoYWaJPL1oHGGb887WtHF4-k-jPF5s8gCLcBGAsYHQ/s874/JeremiahCreedenTheIndianapolisNews27Nov1916NCopt.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="874" height="118" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0u1qARf129s/X4y2JXpsmPI/AAAAAAAAE2w/kJoYWaJPL1oHGGb887WtHF4-k-jPF5s8gCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h118/JeremiahCreedenTheIndianapolisNews27Nov1916NCopt.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: large;">I did a little digging in other newspaper articles and found that Jeremiah and Mary had a large family including the following children: Daniel G., John B., Catherine, Jeremiah M., Nora Gertrude Mosher, Rev. Leo Francis, Hannah R., Mary, Margaret A. Finn and William Henry Creeden. Most of them also lived in Indianapolis and were buried at Holy Cross.</span><br /></p>Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-75478059291001738492020-01-13T13:25:00.000-05:002020-01-13T13:25:46.251-05:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2020 - Week 2 - Favorite Photo<span style="font-size: medium;">The 52 Ancestors prompt for this week is <b>Favorite Photo</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-size: medium;">This was one of the first photos I saw in my dad's collection and it's always been one of my favorites. It's one of the few photos I have of my great-grandfather Charles Creeden when he was younger. I love the clothes and hats in the picture. The back of the photo is labeled with "Charles and brothers". I know that Charles is the one in the middle, but I'm not sure which of his brothers are in the picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Charles was born in 1886 and was married in 1907. The family picture in the header of my blog shows Charles and his young family around 1911. I think he looks a little older in the family picture, so maybe the picture of the brothers was taken before then. The clothes in the picture are consistent with being in that time period and may provide some clues.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">My guess is that Charles' younger brother Joshua is on the left and his brother Edward is on the right. Joshua was born in 1894 and Edward in 1884. Just for fun, I uploaded the photo to Microsoft's <a href="http://how-old.net/">how-old.net</a> site. This site is not known for being accurate and I do think it's quite a bit off in this case! It did suggest that Charles was the older brother in the picture and I agree with that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">The other possibilities for brothers would be Daniel, born in 1879 and Dennis, born in 1878. Since they were both a few years older than Charles, I don't think they are in the picture. I don't have any other photos of Edward and the ones of Joshua were taken when he was quite a bit older. The brother on the right doesn't look like Joshua, so I'm going with the theory that he is Edward for now. And of course, one other possibility is that the picture was labeled wrong and those aren't Charles' brothers after all!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm once again going to do some blog posts based on Amy Johnson's <a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/" target="_blank">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a> prompts. Thanks to Amy for developing the prompts! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first 52 Ancestors prompt for 2020 is <b>Fresh Start</b>. <i>The themes are meant to be open to interpretation :-) Perhaps you have an ancestor who had to make a fresh start after a loss or setback. Maybe you had to make a fresh start on researching a particular ancestor.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm going to use this prompt to make a fresh start on my genealogy goals for 2020. Every once in awhile, I refer back to a post<span style="color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"> about my <a href="http://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2014/03/motivation-monday-research-on-my-2x.html" target="_blank">2x great-grandparents</a> and my research progress for each line. A lot of those goals still apply and I plan on doing a more detailed update of my progress for each line as I review my research.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">Here are my initial 2020 goals. I hope to apply these to each of my lines shown below.</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">Review my digital files and identify information I haven't posted yet.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">Update my surname posts for each line with any new information.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">Identify areas to concentrate my research on for 2020.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">Continue with the 52 Ancestor prompts. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Use <a href="https://www.familytreemagazine.com/strategies/genealogy-research-plan/" target="_blank">Family Tree Magazine's 2020 Genealogy Research Plan </a>as a guide to setting additional goals. There are some great ideas here!</span></span><span style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The graphics below show my great-grandparents and 2x great-grandparents.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great-grandparents for my Councill and Sparks families - Maryland</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great-grandparents for my Willis and Chilcutt families - Maryland, Delaware</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great-grandparents for my Pulskamp and Gast families - Ohio, Germany</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If anyone is interested in any of these lines, please leave me a comment on this post. I'd love to hear from you and would be glad to share information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span>COUNCILL -- On December 16, 1929, ARIANNA, age 65 years, beloved wife of the late John W. Councill. Funeral from her late residence, 749 East McCabe avenue, Govans, on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment Baltimore Cemetery. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Sunday's Obituary is a prompt developed by Leslie Ann at <a href="http://ancestorslivehere.blogspot.com/">Ancestors Live Here.</a></i></span>Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-12325004160089334272019-07-14T16:10:00.000-04:002019-07-14T16:10:39.755-04:00Sunday's Obituary - John Shawler<span style="font-size: large;">This obituary was published in the Celina (Ohio) Advocate on August 11, 1906 and is available on the <a href="http://coldwaterpl.advantage-preservation.com/" target="_blank">Coldwater Library site</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i> John J. Shawler was born August 20, 1829, near Pittsburg, Pa. He left Pennsylvania at the age of four years with his parents, coming to this state where he resided until his decease. He departed this life at noon of July 30, 1906, aged 76 years, 11 months and 10 days.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> Deceased was married to Trian Matson October 21, 1868. To this union were born seven children, six sons and one daughter. He was a volunteer of Co. E. 59th Ohio regiment, serving until the close of the war. His life of many years was spent in hard labor caring for his family, to which he was sincerely devoted. Although the family and friends feel the deepest regret at losing a faithful husband and father, as also an old comrade and friend, yet they are wholly submissive to God's will. The last words he was heard to utter were praises to his Heavenly Father. May the Lord bless and comfort the bereaved family and grant them all a home in the Father's house.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><i> The funeral was conducted by Rev. J. L. Buyer of the Evangelical church. Interment was at Hopewell cemetery.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">John was the brother-in-law of my 2x great-grandparents Timothy and Mary Matson Creeden. His wife's name is normally spelled as a variation on Terressa, Teresa or Trina and their last name was sometimes spelled Sholler or Shaller. In 1887, Timothy leased 10 acres of his property in Hopewell to John Shawler. After Timothy's death in 1899, Mary and her children moved to the town of Celina, but Mary may have continued to lease the property in Hopewell to the Shawlers.</span><br />
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<i>Sunday's Obituary is a prompt developed by Leslie Ann at <a href="http://ancestorslivehere.blogspot.com/">Ancestors Live Here.</a></i>Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-14754221184890195852019-05-26T15:19:00.000-04:002019-05-26T15:19:49.813-04:00Sunday's Obituary - John Creedan<span style="font-size: large;">The <a href="http://coldwaterpl.advantage-preservation.com/" target="_blank">Coldwater Library</a> of Mercer County, Ohio provides online access to several local newspapers from the early 1900s to 2018. This obituary of John Creedan was published in the Coldwater Chronicle on December 21, 1923. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was excited to find this since it's the first time I've seen anything in print that clearly states the connection between my Creeden family and Patrick and Hannah Hoover Creedan of Clinton County, Ohio. According to the obituary, my great-grandfather Sheriff Chas. Creeden was a nephew of John Creedan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Charles' father Timothy Creeden was </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">the son of Patrick and his previous wife Mary Coakley </span>and was a half-brother to John. Patrick married Hannah Hoover in Clinton County, Ohio and had several children with her including John. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The obituary states that John was married to Ida Phillips, but doesn't mention a previous wife or children. In the 1900 census, John is living with Ida and his two daughters Flora and Stella. Flora married John Norris and Stella (Estella Catherine) married Issac Pyle. John also had a son named <a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2013/08/sundays-obituary-hiram-h-creeden.html" target="_blank">Hiram H. Creeden</a>. The three children were from John's earlier marriage to Minerva McFarland.</span><br />
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<i>Sunday's Obituary is a prompt developed by Leslie Ann at <a href="http://ancestorslivehere.blogspot.com/">Ancestors Live Here.</a></i>Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-73607216035358093152019-05-22T14:55:00.000-04:002019-05-22T14:55:23.521-04:00Wedding Wednesday - Mary Elizabeth Creeden to George J. Fisher<span style="font-size: large;">The <a href="http://fortrecovery.advantage-preservation.com/" target="_blank">Ft. Recovery library</a> of Mercer County, Ohio has digitized several local newspapers, including some hard to find issues from the 1890s. This marriage notice for Mary Elizabeth Creeden and George Fisher (usually spelled Fischer) was published in the Mercer County Observer on January 23, 1896.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Married. On Wednesday morning by Rev. Hartman at the St. Marys Catholic church, Geo. J. Fisher, the popular young butcher of Logan street, and Miss Mary Creeden, both of Celina. The young couple left on the afternoon train for Wellington, Ohio, where they will visit relatives for a few days and then return to Celina. May success ever be your lot.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The notice places their wedding date at January 22, 1896. Mary was the daughter of my 2x great-grandfather Timothy Creeden. Mary and George lived in Pueblo, CO for a few years and later settled in Los Angeles, CA. They had three children: Hilda, Beatrice, and Godfrey. Beatrice was married to Paul Kenneth Weddell. </span><br />
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<span style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">My mother's father's father was John Wesley Councill and as I looked through my blog posts I realized I haven't written too much about him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">John was born on Feb. 9, 1959 in Centreville, MD to Francis Councill and Mary Ann Meredith. John married Ariana Sparks on Feb. 2, 1887 in Maryland and the couple had 14 children from 1888 to 1907. My grandfather Royce Councill was one of the younger children and was born in 1902 in Queen Anne's County, MD. </span><br />
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<span style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">In the 1860 census, John is listed with his parents in Queen Anne's County, MD. His father Francis is a farmer. I've found that his birth years vary quite a bit in the census records and in this one, he appears to be 6 years old, placing his year of birth around 1854. </span><br />
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<span style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">In the 1870 census, John's age is given as 13, placing his birth year around 1857.</span><br />
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the 1880 census, there is a 21 year old John Councill living with his
uncle Thomas Councill in Talbot County, MD. John is working as a farm
hand.<br /><br />John's father <a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2013/04/amanuensis-monday-francis-councills-will.html" target="_blank">Francis died in 1887</a> and he inherited a section
of land in Queen Anne's County. By 1900, John and Ariana have 9
children. Some of his wife's family are also living with them on their
farm in Queen Anne's County.</span><br />
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<span style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">A
newspaper article published in the Baltimore Sun on May 20, 1908 shows
that John had a Queenstown, MD address and was opening a boarding house
called the Chester Hotel. It's not clear from the ad whether the hotel
was in Queenstown or Baltimore, but this may be the same boarding house as the one listed in the 1910 census.</span><br />
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1908, John and Ariana <a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2014/05/amanuensis-monday-councill-land.html" target="_blank">sold their land</a> in Queen Anne's County and
according to the 1910 census, they were operating a boarding house in
Baltimore, MD. There were 8 boarders living at the house. This census shows that they had 14 children with 12 still living. Their son Julius didn't want to move to the city and was living with an aunt and uncle in Queen Anne's County. I couldn't find their oldest son Herbert in the 1910 census, but he is living in Pennsylvania in the 1920 census.</span><br />
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<span style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">John
died on Dec. 5, 1916 in Baltimore and his occupation on his death
certificate was listed as a watchman in a bank. He is buried in the
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<i><a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/" target="_blank">#52Ancestors</a> is a series of weekly family history prompts developed by Amy Johnson Crow.</i>Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-51511803221799090812018-12-30T14:46:00.004-05:002018-12-30T14:46:39.711-05:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 52 - ResolutionThe 52 Ancestors prompt for this week is "Resolution". <b><span style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">It's
the time of year when many people look ahead and make resolutions. Is
there an ancestor you plan to concentrate on researching next year?
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<span style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">It's hard to believe we're on the last week of 2018! First of all, much thanks to Amy Johnson Crow for the 52 Ancestors prompts. I didn't have as much time as I'd like to spend on the blog this year and they helped keep me going.</span><br />
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<span style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">I've posted previously on my <a href="http://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2014/03/motivation-monday-research-on-my-2x.html" target="_blank">2x great-grandparents</a> and where I'm at with research on each of them. I have more mysteries to solve on my maternal side, so plan to concentrate on that next year. Most of them are from Queen Anne's County, MD and the surrounding counties.</span><br />
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<span style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">For my Councill and Sparks lines, I plan to concentrate on the Meredith and Godwin families. I have some DNA matches that might help with these lines, so plan to delve into that a bit more.</span><br />
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<span style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">For the Willis and Chilcutt lines, I plan to concentrate on George Chilcutt. My brick wall for most of my Queen Anne's County lines is finding the evidence to link my direct ancestors with the research others have done on these families. </span><br />
<span style="color: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span><span><span><span style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial", "helvetica", "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span><span style="font-family: "arial", "helvetica", "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><i><a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/" target="_blank">#52Ancestors</a> is a series of weekly family history prompts developed by Amy Johnson Crow.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-65882037193207906752018-09-23T17:43:00.000-04:002018-09-23T17:43:39.213-04:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 38 - Unusual Source - Sisters of Charity EmailThe 52 Ancestors prompt for this week is "Unusual Source". The prompt had the following questions:<i><b></b></i><br />
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<i><b>What is the most unusual source you've ever used? </b></i>An email<i><b> </b></i>from a nun working at the <a href="http://www.srcharitycinti.org/contact.htm" target="_blank">Sisters of Charity Archives</a> in Mount St. Joseph, Ohio.<br />
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<i><b>What did it tell you?</b></i> The email told me that Julia Creedan entered the Sisters of Charity convent in Cincinnati in
1870. She took her vows in 1872 and received the name of Sister Mary
Felix. The email also gave some of Julia's work history with the Sisters and gave her date of death as February 18, 1918. A big surprise was that the email included a picture of Julia. It's the only picture of her that I've seen and she showed a resemblance to her brother Timothy, my 2x great-grandfather.<br />
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<i><b>What question were you trying to answer when you found it?</b></i> I was trying to find the names of Timothy and Julia Creedan's parents and where they came from in Ireland. Timothy was one of my <a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2012/11/monday-madness-cracks-in-my-irish-brick.html" target="_blank">biggest brick walls</a> and I'd been unable to find any records for him that showed his parents' nsmes or his place of birth in Ireland.<br />
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With Julia's new name, I was able to find <a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2012/12/sister-mary-felixcreeden-death.html" target="_blank">Julia's Ohio death certificate</a>
which named her parents as Patrick Creedon and Mary Coakley. That led to
her <a href="http://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2015/08/church-record-sunday-clondrohid-parish.html" target="_blank">baptism record</a> in Ireland which gave her address as Carrigapooka in
Clondrohid, County Cork, Ireland. Since <a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2018/03/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-9-theres.html" target="_blank">Patrick Creedan's will</a> stated Timothy was her
full brother, I finally had names for my 2x great-grandfather Timothy's
parents and a specific location in Ireland!<br />
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Before receiving the information from the Sister, my only information on Julia was from the 1860 census and a clue in her father Patrick's will stating that she was a "religious" in the Sisters of Charity. With the Sister's information, I was able to fill in the timeline above. (Click on the image for a larger picture.) Since then, I've located <a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2015/10/sundays-obituary-timothy-creeden.html" target="_blank">Timothy's obituary</a> which told the story of their mother dying in Ireland and their immigration to the Port of New Orleans sometime between 1849-1850. <br />
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I thought this was a long shot when I sent the email to the Sisters requesting information on Julia and I'm still amazed that it unlocked so much information!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><i><a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/" target="_blank">#52Ancestors</a> is a series of weekly family history prompts developed by Amy Johnson Crow.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-78602175624770470192018-08-26T14:36:00.000-04:002018-08-26T14:36:56.094-04:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 34 - Non-Population SchedulesThe 52 Ancestors prompt for this week is "Non-Population".<br />
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<i><b>The federal census that we use in the US is sometimes comprised of more than one schedule. The one that we usually use is called the "population schedule." However, there are some censuses that have addtional schedules, such as:<br />- 1850-1880 Agricultural schedules<br />- 1850-1880 Industry and Manufactures schedules<br />- 1880 Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes<br />- 1890 Schedule of Union Veterans and Widows<br /><br />Have you found your ancestor on one of these schedules? What did you find?</b></i><br />
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I've found quite a lot of information in the non-population schedules. Here are a few of my previous posts about them:<br />
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<a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2013/04/amanuensis-monday-down-on-farm.html" target="_blank">Timothy Creeden - Down on the Farm</a> - The 1880 Agricultural schedule was one of my favorite finds since it gave me so much insight into the farming life of my 2x great-grandparents Timothy and Mary Creeden in Clinton County, Ohio. I'd pictured fields of single crops like corn or wheat, but they had so much more going on!<br />
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<a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2014/10/census-sunday-hannah-creedan-in-us-1880.html" target="_blank">Hannah Hoover Creedan - 1880 Mortality Schedule</a> - This schedule lists information about people that died in the year before the 1880 census was taken. It links the deceased to their family in the 1880 census and gives some additional information such as cause of death and length of residence in the county. Hannah lived in Clinton County, Ohio and was the second wife of my 3x great-grandfather Patrick Creedan.<br />
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<a href="http://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2012/03/military-monday-civil-war-veteran-john.html" target="_blank">John Matson in 1890 Schedule of Union Veterans and Widows</a> - This schedule provided more insight into John Matson's service and included the reason for his disability which was "wounded hand".<br />
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This last one is a bit of a mystery. I was surprised to find a Mary A. Matson in the 1880 Agricultural schedule for the Hopewell township of Mercer County, Ohio. According to the schedule, she was renting the farm land for a fixed amount of money. The rest of the information on the schedule is blank for Mary, so maybe she wasn't actively farming the land.<br />
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I would guess this was the same Mary Matson listed in the 1870 census for Mercer County. If so, she was born in Virginia in 1833. This is intriguing since my Matson family came from Virginia to Clinton County, Ohio. It appears that some of the Matsons went to Mercer County instead, so I'll have to see if I can figure out her relationship to my Matsons.<br />
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One thing to be aware of is that the non-population schedules are only available online for certain states. This is the information for the schedules available on Ancestry.com: "This database contains U.S. federal non-population schedules from 1850-1880 for the following states: California, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Washington Territory. Additional states will be added in the future. Non-population schedules contained in this database include: agriculture, industry/manufacturers, social statistics, and supplemental schedules".<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial", "helvetica", "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span><span style="font-family: "arial", "helvetica", "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><i><a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/" target="_blank">#52Ancestors</a> is a series of weekly family history prompts developed by Amy Johnson Crow.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8703627197349169461.post-34081549476453425602018-08-19T13:00:00.000-04:002018-08-19T13:00:33.880-04:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 33 Family Legend - A Bible and a Gun<span style="font-size: large;">The 52 Ancestors prompt for this week is "Family Legend". <i><b>It isn't unusual for a family to have some sort of legend. Maybe it's a legend surrounding the family's arrival in a country or that there's an ancestral castle waiting to be claimed. Maybe it's a story about how you're supposedly related to someone famous. You could explore how you proved or disproved the story. Then there are the "tall tales" that seem to get taller at every telling!</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My father told me quite a few stories about his grandfather's adventures as county sheriff during the 1920s. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Charles Creeden was the County Sheriff of Mercer County, OH from 1923-1927. </span>One legend I've been able to prove during Charles' time as sheriff involved a skirmish at the <a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2012/08/ancestor-legend-52-weeks-of-abundant.html" target="_blank">opening of the Mercer County courthouse</a> where Charles turned the fire hoses on an unruly mob. </span><span style="font-size: large;">I was also able to find an article about</span><span style="font-size: large;"> the <a href="https://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2013/05/thriller-thursday-hootch.html" target="_blank">arrests of farmers for having stills (or hootch!)</a> on their farms during prohibition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another of my father's stories involved a gunfight that broke out when Charles and his deputies tried to serve papers on a local pastor. They approached the person in question on his way to church and he pulled a gun out from under his bible and shot at them! A bullet grazed Charles in the head and left a scar. The sheriffs shot back and the shooter was arrested.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've searched for a newspaper article on this story before with no luck, but this time I had some success.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The above article was published in the News-Journal in Mansfield, OH on March 24, 1925 and is available on <a href="http://newspapers.com/" target="_blank">Newspapers.com</a>. It seems to confirm most of the story. It's interesting that it doesn't mention Charles being shot, but I'm guessing the injury was fairly minor. It also doesn't mention the details about a pastor or pulling the gun out from under a bible, so hard to say if that is true or if my great-grandfather was just adding a bit of color to the story! Given that Hein was on his way to church, it certainly seems possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One final thing I wondered about was the levy of execution mentioned in the article. According to <a href="http://nolo.com/" target="_blank">Nolo.com</a>, this is a court order </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">authorizing a levy on (or seizure) of property or other asset to satisfy a creditor. </span>No wonder Mr. Hein didn't want to answer the door when the sheriffs came to his house!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">This prompt reminded me that I have a <a href="http://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/2018/07/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-29-music.html" target="_blank">mystery photo</a> that I'm still curious about. I first posted about this in 2012, but wanted to see if I could find some new information. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">My grandmother gave this photograph to my mother, but the identity of
the woman in the portrait is a mystery. My mother's family was from
Queen Anne's County, Maryland and the surrounding areas. Some of the
surnames in my grandmother's family are Willis, Chilcutt, Adams, and Covey, so it's possible that the woman is
from one of these families.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;">The photograph is in a hinged case which opens up and has a plush velvet-like material on the left side. From everything I could find online, the style of dress looks like it could be from the 1860s. Her jewelry looks like it might have been enhanced in the photograph. The photograph is behind a glass plate which is very reflective and a bit tricky to capture with my camera. I think the photo is most likely an ambrotype.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The <a href="https://www.daguerre.org/page/DagFAQ?&hhsearchterms=%22union+and+case%22" target="_blank">Daguerreian Society</a> has some good information on the history of daguerreotype and ambrotype photographs and their cases. The outer case for this photograph looks like a Union Case which dates it to sometime from 1855-1865. A Union Case was a mixture (or union) of shellac and wood fibers that were pressed into a steel mold. <a href="http://www.phototree.com/gallery.asp?cat=60s&f0=1860s" target="_blank">Phototree.com</a> has some examples of women's clothing that also leads me to believe the photo is from this time period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wondered if the design on the case could shed any light as to its origins or time period. I found a match for the case on <a href="https://civilwartalk.com/threads/the-6-sided-star.122426/" target="_blank">CivilWarTalk.com's forum</a> where they were discussing the meaning of the six-sided star. It was mentioned there that the US Army Eighth Corps adopted the six-sided star as their insignia in the summer of 1864.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War_Corps_Badges" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>, the Union Army VIII Corps badge looked like this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A short <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIII_Corps_(Union_Army)" target="_blank">history of the VIII Corps</a> states that they were based in Maryland, so that at least matches the location of my mother's family. Of course, I don't even know for sure that the picture is of one of her ancestors! I can't really draw any conclusions from any of this, but it was interesting to find a match for the case. I don't know of anyone from her mother's family that served in the Civil War, but I don't have a lot of details on some of them. If anyone has suggestions on finding more out about this photograph, I'd love to hear from you!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "arial", "helvetica", "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span><span style="font-family: "arial", "helvetica", "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "sans"; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: inherit;"><i><a href="https://www.amyjohnsoncrow.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/" target="_blank">#52Ancestors</a> is a series of weekly family history prompts developed by Amy Johnson Crow.</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span>Kathrynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13983843990930490265noreply@blogger.com2