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WikiTree Challenge 7

New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS): Apr 13 - Apr 20

Starting Profiles

  1. Charles Ewer b. 1790 Massachusetts
  2. Lemuel Shattuck b. 1793 Massachusetts
  3. Gov. John Albion Andrew b. 1818 Massachusetts
  4. Mary Martha Corinne “Cokie” (Boggs) Roberts b. 1943 Louisiana
  5. Kenneth Alford b. 1914 Massachusetts
  6. Lucy (Hall) Greenlaw b. 1869 Massachusetts
  7. Julia E. (Winter) Folsom b. 1837 Massachusetts

Needs Work

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Locations

Please add locations the ancestors lived in:
  1. Argentina
  2. Canada
    1. Nova Scotia
  3. Cape Verde Islands
  4. Cuba
  5. England
  6. Honduras
  7. Ireland
  8. Norway
  9. Russia
  10. Scotland
  11. Spain
  12. American colonies
    1. Massachusetts
  13. United States
    1. Alabama
    2. Arizona
    3. California
    4. Colorado
    5. Florida
    6. Georgia
    7. Illinois
    8. Indiana
    9. Kansas
    10. Louisiana
    11. Maine
    12. Maryland
    13. Massachusetts
    14. Michigan
    15. Mississippi
    16. Missouri
    17. Nebraska
    18. North Carolina
    19. New Hampshire
    20. New York
    21. Ohio
    22. Oklahoma
    23. Pennsylvania
    24. South Carolina
    25. Tennessee
    26. Texas
    27. Washington DC
    28. Wisconsin
    29. Vermont

Interesting Finds

List interesting finds to share with the guest at the end of the week. Please add ~~~~ after your discovery so I know who added it. Thanks!!
  1. Lemuel Shattuck (1793-1859) Shattuck-1294. At least two of Lemuel Shattuck's daughters died of consumption (1850 and 1851). Their illnesses may have precipitated his pioneering work in creating the public health system with a particular focus on consumption and other communicable diseases. (Strong-4963)
  2. Julia E. (Winter) Folsom (1837-1912) Winter-7821 Died of Breast Cancer - added Category
  3. Lewis Robertson Butt Cunningham, Barrett Meyer became an owner and publisher of a significant newspaper (Birmingham Age-Herald) when her second husband died in 1922. Her son, Edward Ware Barrett graduated from Princeton University in 1932 and had a remarkable life as a journalist and dean of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, plus more. [1]. Lewis's second husband, Edward Barrett was also a journalist and was the owner of the Birmingham Age-Hearld. Her third husband, Robert Randolph Meyer was an entrepreneur, who built and owned many hotels. Between his obituary and his findagrave profile, he was quite the businessman as well as a philanthropist. [2].
  4. George Butt Cunningham and his wife, Edith traveling in Egypt and Greece on the S.S. Excalibur, (1956) when she became ill, was removed from the steamship, transported to a hospital in Alexandria, died, transported to Cairo, cremated and returned home with her husband.
  5. Father to Charles Ewer Esq. (1790-1853) was Silas Ewer (1752-), who was a ship's captain. (Stanley Baraboo)
  6. Charles Ewer Esq. (1790-1853) Found Charles had three sisters and a brother. Included their spouses and their children. Located where most were buried. His mother is buried under the name Ann. Charles did not die in Portsmouth but In Boston, I found his death record and added it as a source document. (St._Jean-2)
  7. Charles Ewer's great-grandfather, Samuel Bass of Braintree and Boston, Massachusetts, was a slaveholder. In his will, written in 1762, he left the use of his negro woman Mariah to his wife. - Ellen Smith 03:30, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
  8. Rachel (Mcbain) Petrie (abt.1847-1881) and her husband, William Petrie (1840-1910), a Scottish granite/stone cutter, resided in Russia for a few years, a few of their children were born there. After Rachel's death in 1881, their daughter, Daisy Isabel (Petrie) Hearsey (1880-1969), was adopted by her sister, Jessie (Mcbain) Greenlaw (1854-1920) and her husband, Samuel P Greenlaw (abt.1854-1932). Robinson-27225 00:01, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
  9. Isaac Frank Dobson (1828-1914) and his family, including his daughter Clara Bertha Dobson (1858-1941) from his first marriage, were living in a household of 24 people as listed in the 1870 Census. The relationships are not immediately clear (Frank is not the head) but include several domestic servants.
  10. Chandler Marsters Dexter (1911-1988) (the grandson of Julia Elizabeth (Winter) Folsom (1836-1912)) was born Chandler Rodgers Dexter in 1911 and sometime between birth and the 1920 US Census his name became Maxwell Marstens Dexter. Urbach-13 06:22, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
  11. Adeline Ripley (abt.1829-1903) is a triplet. The doctor who delivered the triplets strongly encouraged the parents to name the triplets after himself, his wife and her sister. Ripley is 7 degrees from John Albion Andrew (1818-1867). (Stevenson-3628)
  12. Sarah "Sally" (Atwood) Dobson (1804-1851) created a stir in 1823 when she confronted the Worthington Congregational Church in Connecticut with a list of six written reasons why she disagreed with what the church was teaching. Two male members attempted to "endeavor to enlighten her mind and convince her of her error." They failed. She then joined the Methodist Church and was disciplined for wearing a bonnet with a ribbon now.(Thiel-559)
  13. Lemuel Shattuck (1793-1859) wrote one of the first how-to books for genealogy, advertising in 1841: "A complete System of Family Registration, containing charts, directions for registring, forms and suggestions, and other particulars relating to the biography and history of any family of individuals."(Thiel-559)
  14. William Thomas Alford (1882-1976) escaped serious injury in 1950 when the porch he and another man were working on collapsed. He was 68-years-old at the time.(Thiel-559)
  15. Rev. Thomas F. Benbury (1854-1943) and his wife Dora Clifton (Small) Benbury (1859-1945) received a gold purse on their 50th wedding anniversary in 1932. Thomas had worked his way up from being a janitor to becoming the African-American pastor of the Morgan Methodist Church of All Nations in Cambridge, Massachusetts.(Thiel-559)
  16. John Andrew (1747-1791) - Grandfather of John Albion Andrew was a silversmith. Cole-12288 16:55, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
  17. Caroline Frances (Gibson) Jones (1824-1914) was the daughter, mother, wife, and mother of physicians.(Thiel-559)
  18. Joseph Augustus Gibson (1812-1875) is listed as a painter in the 1850 and 1860 censuses. The Historical Society of Early American Decoration has a collection of stencils that he used to decorate homes in the New Ipswich, New Hampshire area.(Thiel-559)
  19. Twins born 2 days apart Clemennt Gleason and Clifford Gleason were born on the 13th and 15th August 1875 both twins and Mother survived they are a blood relation through the Gleason / Goodnow line to Lemuel Shattuck (1793 - 1859) and 7 degrees from John Albion Andrew (1818 - 1867) Jenkinson-562
  20. George Norris Woodward (1820-1874) a physician and surgeon born in New Hampshire and raised in Cortland, New York, headed out in 1858 to the Rocky Mountains for the Colorado Gold Rush. He decided he could make more money treating patients instead of searching for gold. Then he served as a surgeon for the Union Side in the Civil War before settling in Boone County, Illinois.
  21. Elizabeth (Andrew) Mason (1886-1958) and her husband Charles Ellis Mason (1884-1973) were wealthiest enough to be able to have six servants in 1910- a cook, a kitchen maid, a parlor maid, two chambermaids, and a waitress.(Thiel-559)
  22. Ewer-359 Silas Ewer was a Revolutionary War Soldier and commissioned to be commander of the ship, "Camberwell". Found and sourced another daughter, Nancy Ewer. All documentation has been sourced on each profile. (St._Jean-2)
  23. Hall-67026 Lucy Ellen (Hall) Greenlaw was a member of the DAR. I added this information to her profile. Her husband was not just the librarian of the New England Historical Society but also the treasurer of that organization. I have added the source of his obituary on his profile. #Greenlaw-503 (St._Jean-2)
  24. Charles Sewall Barrell (1911-1941) was a United States citizen who joined the Royal Air Force in England prior to the United States joining World War II. He was killed in an air accident in September 1941.(Thiel-559)
  25. Norbert Claiborne managed sugar plants in South America; married an Argentian, had four children in Argentina. After his wife died, he brought his children to Louisiana, where they were all successful. Norbert lived in Tahiti, Cuba, Mexico, and Columbia, as well as forty years in Argentina.
  26. Emery Moore was living in Violeta Camaguey, Cuba, with his wife, where he managed a Sugar Company. He died suddenly and his sister, in the US requested the FBI to investigate his death. His death was investigated and found to be of natural causes. He is buried in New Orleans.
  27. Cockayne-373 married first wife Millicent Gregory, but the marriage was declared null and void due to the couple giving wrong birth dates. Both were under 21 so the marriage lasted only three days. Brandes-347 15:19, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
  28. Webb-27239 Ruth Webb's parents are Nathaniel Webb (1752-1832) and Linda Sanford (1760-1842) This means her 4th great grandparents are Samuel Bass and Anne Saville, and John Alden and Priscilla Mullins (Bradbury-1922)
  29. Susanna Shattuck Morse Fay Brigham (my 8th great grandmother) and Lemuel Shattuck's ancestor, John are siblings. They are two of several children of William Shattuck. Susanna was married 1st to Richard Norcross, 2nd to Joseph Morse and 3rd to John Fay. In "The Fay Genealogy, John Fay of Marlborough and his Descendants," written in 1898 page 16, 2nd paragraph, it states "(With) The descendants of the Brigham, Shattuck and Fay families ... blood has mingled through every generation for the past 250 years....The Fays are also connected by marriage with the Morse family."  : https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/253346/?offset=0#page=14&viewer=picture&o=&n=0&q=
  30. Adolf (Martinsen) Gundersen (1865-1938) was the founder of the Norwegian Lutheran Hospital in La Crosse, Wisconsin (Now called Gundersen Lutheran Health Systems of Wisconsin and he received a Knighthood of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav, 1st class from King Haakon in 1926.Wall-7415 17:11, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
  31. John B Ireland (1835-1924), Union soldier and homesteader, New Yorker, was severely wounded in the line of duty, foot amputated. Homesteaded in Nebraska. Moved to Denver, Colorado. Then moved back east to Massachusetts. Robinson-27225 18:09, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
  32. During the American Revolutionary War, Jeriah Bass, second cousin once removed of Charles Ewer (6 degrees from him), and Edward Savil, who later was to become Jeriah's brother in law (and is 7 degrees from Charles Ewer), and apparently also Nathaniel Beale (another relative by marriage, and 7 degrees from Charles Ewer) were privateering in behalf of the patriot cause on the ship Essex, when the ship was captured in 1781 in the English Channel. The crew members, consisting mostly of men from Braintree and Milton, Massachusetts, were imprisoned in England for a number of months. They wrote letters from prison seeking help, and ultimately were released from British custody in 1782 due to the intervention of John Adams (their townsman and an American Founding Father who later served as U.S. President). (Story to be documented further Smith-62120 16:36, 16 April 2023 (UTC)).
  33. Lula (Alford) McIver (1899-1928) was shot to death by her husband James McIver, who claimed she had attacked him with an ice pick.(Thiel-559)
  34. Ben Alford (1892-1922) was implicated in the shooting of Mr. Lacy Prevatt and the theft of goods thrown from a freight train in February 1921. He spent the next 11 months on the run from the law, before being run over and killed by a train.(Thiel-559)
  35. Lawrence Alford (ca. 1863-after 1930) murdered Ed McKellar, who he thought was too intimate with his wife, in 1904. The Governor of North Carolina offered a $100 reward for his capture. He was caught two years later and after a trial was sentenced to 15 years in prison.(Thiel-559)
  36. Richard Morgan Wadsworth Ritchie died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty heater on his yacht. Gardner-10299 22:07, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
  37. Nancy Jane (Poole) Kimball four degrees from starting profile Lucy Ellen (Hall) Greenlaw. Nancy's family was very artsy. In the 1865 census, her husband Joseph was a painter, her 19-year-old son Charles was a photographer, and her other son Fred (17) was an artist. Smith-159364 00:50, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
  38. Eleazer Flagg Poole five degrees from starting profile Lucy Ellen (Hall) Greenlaw was a Lieutenant in the American Revolutionary War. He enlisted as a minute man just days before the midnight ride of Paul Revere. He served at The Lexington Alarm and at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Smith-159364 02:33, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
  39. Thomas Alford ca. 1810/1816-after 1880 went to the Freedmen's Bureau in December 1865 in Robeson County, North Carolina, asking them to order Zachariah Cade Fulmore 1808-1894 to allow his family to leave. Analysis of the 1850 and 1860 Slave Schedule reveals that Fulmore had enslaved the Alford family. In 1870 the Alfords lived next door to Fulmore.(Thiel-559)
  40. David Harvey Goodell was the 42nd Governor of New Hampshire. He is five generations from Lucy Hall Greenlaw, being her first cousin once removed.
  41. Joseph Ware (1908-1994) was an architectural engineer and the son of a prominent doctor. In 1939, he enlisted in the Army Corps of Engineers and was the Army/Navy liaison for the Manhattan Project. Gardner-10299 21:08, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
  42. Charlotte Hall (Kirby) Dickinson (1831-1913) when 16, was the subject of a painting by Shepard Alonzo Mount, dated 1848. It portrays Charlotte shortly before her marriage to James Church Loder (1827-).

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One Place Studies:

This profile is part of the Tyrie, Aberdeenshire One Place Study.
This profile is part of the Blue Hill, Maine One Place Study.

Military Profiles

  1. Charles Sewall Barrell (1911-1941) was a United States citizen who joined the Royal Air Force in England prior to the United States joining World War II. He was killed in an air accident in September 1941.
  2. First Lt. George Peyton Cole was killed by machine gun fire in the Battle of Argonne Forest, France in Nov 1918.
  3. Jeriah Bass (born 1759) had American Revolutionary service in 1776 and later died in military service in the War of 1812. Young Edward Savil, son of Edward Savil (born 1759) and a nephew of Jeriah Bass, died in battle in the War of 1812. (Jeriah Bass is a 6-degree connection to Charles Ewer and Edward Savil (born 1759) is a 7-degree connection, so the son who died in battle is an 8-degree connection.)
  4. John B Ireland (1835-1924) 7° from Hall-67026. Served in the New York 8th Heavy Artillery, during the Civil War. Severely wounded during the Second Battle of Deep Bottom in Deep Bottom, Virginia. Robinson-27225 18:02, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
  5. George James Yates four degrees from starting profile Lucy Ellen (Hall) Greenlaw served as a Captain with Massachusetts during the American Revolution. Captain Yates is also a DAR Patriot Ancestor. Smith-159364 02:51, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
  6. Ewer-359 Silas Ewer was a Revolutionary War Soldier and commissioned to be commander of the ship, "Camberwell".
  7. Eleazer Flagg Poole was a Lieutenant in the American Revolutionary War.
  8. Nathaniel Cobb (1787-1871) was private in the War of 1812 out of the Vermont Military.
  9. George Alford Cunningham graduated from West Point in 1857 and was assigned to the First Cavalry as a second Lieutenant. He was appointed second lieutenant in the Fifth Cavalry, the crack cavalry regiment of the army in 1858. Stationed at Carlisle barracks until the Spring of 1858, he served with the Utah expedition and was afterward stationed at Camp Cooper, Texas, where he commanded a company until 1860, during which time he served with the Cimarron expedition. He resigned from the U. S. Army on Feb 27, 1861, which ended his services for the Union. In April of 1861, Colonel Cunningham entered the Confederate service as 1st Lieutenant of Artillery and was promoted for conspicuous services in the battle to Captain, Major, and Colonel of Artillery. He served at Fort Jackson, Louisiana until Sep 1861, when he was assigned to Floyd's command in West Virginia. He was in the battle at Carnifex Ferry, Cotton Hill, and Laurel Creek. He was then transferred to Kentucky and was engaged as a major of artillery at Fort Donelson, Tennessee, where he was wounded. His fold3 compiled service record is 151 amazing pages.
  10. General Michael Davison entered command during World War II. In 1963 he was commandant of cadets at West Point. In 1970 he commanded the United States Second Field Force. In 1971 he planned and carried out the highly controversial invasion of Cambodia. From 1971–1975 he was Commander-in-Chief, US Army, Europe (CINC, USAREUR). He is six degrees from Julia Elizabeth (Winter) Folsom through his second wife's ex-husband, having married as a widower in his retirement.
  11. General Michael Davison's father Lieutenant Colonel Paul Root Davison was a captain with the 15th United States Cavalry in World War I, having enlisted in 1912. He served with the Ordinance Department during World War II.

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  1. Mount Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, Fountain Inn, South Carolina
  2. Mount Carmel AME Church Cemetery, Gray Court, South Carolina
  3. Poplar Springs AME Cemetery, Laurens, South Carolina
  4. Woodland Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charlotte, North Carolina
  5. Henry's Chapel Church Cemetery, Belmont, North Carolina
  6. Pinehurst Cemetery, Norwell, Massachusetts
  7. New Durbin Baptist Church Cemetery, Fountain Inn, South Carolina
  8. White Plain Baptist Church Cemetery, Mountville, South Carolina
  9. Rice Cemetery, Sullivan, Ohio
  10. Mount Moriah Baptist Church Cemetery, Clinton, South Carolina
  11. New Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Laurens, South Carolina
  12. Beauty Spot United Methodist Church Cemetery, Rowland, North Carolina
  13. Flat Ruff Baptist Church Cemetery, Gray Court, South Carolina
  14. Duncan Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Laurens, South Carolina
  15. Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Laurens, South Carolina
  16. Jersey Cemetery, Laurens, South Carolina
  17. Saint Anne Catholic Cemetery, Napoleonville, Louisiana
  18. Glenwood Cemetery, Collinsville, Illinois
  19. Mayo Graveyard, Mount Airy, Missouri

After the challenge:

  1. Great Migration (African-American), North Carolina to Massachusetts
  2. Great Migration (African-American), South Carolina to Massachusetts
  3. Scotch Cemetery, Waddington, New York

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Brick Wall Ancestors

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  2. Stephen Bedlow (abt.1760-) b. abt. 1760 Massachusetts Bay
  3. Hannah (Unknown) Pierce b. abt. 1725 in Massachusetts Bay
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Langsdorf-34 Deb (Langsdorf) Gunther
Re: the comment above on Unknown-42284, I have done a review of those comments and find them to be unsupported at this time. Please see the explanation at Elizabeth (Franklin) Laughton (1590-aft.1612). I wasn't a part of this project above, and didn't want to edit it; please edit as you find appropriate. ~ Deb
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Smith-62120 Ellen Smith
Watch out for edit conflicts when adding to this page! I found that an "interesting find" that I had added was overwritten by someone else's "interesting find," possibly due to an edit conflict that wasn't properly detected by the system.
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