WTC 2023 Work Space 7 Interesting Finds

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This is for Challenge 7 (Challenge 7 Space Page)

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Contents 1 Charles Ewer 2 Lemuel Shattuck 3 Gov. John Albion Andrew 4 Mary Martha Corinne “Cokie” (Boggs) Roberts 5 Kenneth Alford 6 Lucy (Hall) Greenlaw 7 Julia E. (Winter) Folsom 8 Not Yet Sorted 9 Connections to each other 10 More Notable Connections 11 Military

Charles Ewer

1. ❌ (Within 1 gen) Charles Ewer Esq. (1790-1853) had three sisters and a brother. His mother Nancy is buried under the name Ann. Charles did not die in Portsmouth but In Boston.
2. 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.
3. ❌ (Within 1 gen) Silas Ewer was a Revolutionary War Soldier and he was commissioned to be commander of the ship "Camberwell." Silas was the father of Charles Ewer.
4. 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. Ruth is 12 generations from Charles Ewer, being his fifth cousin and also 12 generations from Julia Folsom, being her fifth cousin as well.
5. ✅ During the American Revolutionary War, Jeriah Bass, second cousin once removed of Charles Ewer, 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 privateers working on behalf of the patriot cause on the ship Essex, when the ship was captured in 1781 in the English Channel. They were jailed in England, along with several other men from Braintree, for a number of months, and ultimately were released from British custody due to the intervention of John Adams. (Story to be documented further. Jeriah is 7 generations from Charles Ewer, being his second cousin once removed.

Lemuel Shattuck

1. ✅ 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.
2. ❌ (Within 1 gen) 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 included several domestic servants. Isaac was the son-in-law of Lemuel Shattuck.
3. ✅ 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."
4. ✅ Richard Morgan Wadsworth Ritchie died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty heater on his yacht. Richard is 17 generations from Lemuel Shattuck, being his 6th cousin 3x removed.
5. ✅ Susanna Shattuck Morse Fay Brigham (the 8th great grandmother of a researcher) 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.... Susanna is 7 generations from Lemuel Shattuck, being his third great grand aunt. She is also 8 degrees from Governor Andrew, 9 degrees from Charles Ewer, and 10 degrees from Lucy Greenlaw.

Gov. John Albion Andrew

1. ✅ 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).
2. ✅ John Andrew (1747-1791) - Grandfather of John Albion Andrew was a silversmith.
3. Caroline Frances (Gibson) Jones (1824-1914) was the daughter, mother, wife, and mother of physicians. Caroline is 12 generations from John Albion Andrew, being his 5th cousin.
4. ✅ 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. Joseph is 12 generations from John Albion Andrew, being his 5th cousin.
5. Twins born 2 days apart Clement Gleason and Clifford Gleason were born on the 13th and 15th August 1875. Both twins and the 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)
6. Elizabeth (Andrew) Mason (1886-1958) and her husband Charles Ellis Mason (1884-1973) were wealthy enough to be able to have six servants in 1910: a cook, a kitchen maid, a parlor maid, two chambermaids, and a waitress. Elizabeth is two generations from John Andrew, being his granddaughter.
7. 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. Adolf is 5 degrees from Governor Andrew.

Mary Martha Corinne “Cokie” (Boggs) Roberts

1. ✅ Lewis Robertson Butt Cunningham aka 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. Lewis' second husband, Edward Barrett, was also a journalist and was the owner of the Birmingham Age-Herald. 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. Lewis is 6 degrees from Cokie Roberts.
2. 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. George is 7 degrees from Cokie Roberts.
3. ✅ 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. Norbert is 4 generations from Cokie Roberts, being her grand uncle.
4. ✅ 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. Emery is 5 degrees from Cokie Roberts.

Kenneth Alford

1. 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. William was the father of Kenneth Alford.
2. 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. Thomas was the grandfather of Kenneth Alford.
3. 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. Lawrence is 4 generations from Kenneth Alford, being his grand uncle.
4. ✅ Thomas Alford went to the Freedmen's Bureau in December 1865 in Robeson County, North Carolina, asking them to order Zachariah Cade Fulmore 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. Thomas is 3 generations from Kenneth Alford, being his great grandfather.
5. Lula (Alford) McIver (1899-1928) was shot to death by her husband James McIver, who claimed she had attacked him with an ice pick. Lula is 5 generations from Kenneth Alford, being his first cousin once removed.
6. ✅ Benjamin H. Alford 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. Benjamin is 5 generations from Kenneth Alford, being his first cousin once removed.

Lucy (Hall) Greenlaw

1. ✅ Rachel (Mcbain) Petrie (abt.1847-1881) and her husband, William Petrie (1840-1910), a Scottish granite or stone cutter, resided in Russia for a few years. Some of their children were born there. After Rachel's death in 1881 their daughter, Daisy Isabel (Petrie) Hearsey, was adopted by her sister Jessie (Mcbain) Greenlaw (1854-1920) and her husband, Samuel P Greenlaw (abt.1854-1932). Rachel is 4 degrees from Lucy Greenlaw.
2. ✅ 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 the money was to be had in treating patients rather than searching for gold. Then he served as a surgeon for the Union Side in the Civil War before settling in Boone County, Illinois. George is 8 generations from Lucy Greenlaw, being her 2nd cousin twice removed.
3. ✅ Lucy Ellen (Hall) Greenlaw was a member of the DAR. Her husband was not just the librarian of the New England Historical Society but also the treasurer of that organization.
4. Nancy Jane (Poole) Kimball is four degrees from starting profile Lucy Ellen (Hall) Greenlaw. Nancy's family was very creative. 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.
5. 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.
6. Union soldier and homesteader, New Yorker, John B Ireland (1835-1924). Severely wounded in the line of duty, foot amputated. Homesteaded in Nebraska. Moved to Denver, Colorado. Then moved back east to Massachusetts. John is also connected to Lemuel Shattuck, Charles Ewer, Julia Folsom, and Governor Andrew - all within 18 degrees or less.

Julia E. (Winter) Folsom

1. ❌ Julia E. (Winter) Folsom (1837-1912) died of Breast Cancer.
2. 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.
3. ✅ 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. Sally is 14 degrees from Julia Folsom.
4. ❌ (too recent) 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. Charles is 2 generations from Julia Folsom, being her grandson.
5. ✅ George Cockayne (1762-1830) married a 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. George is 2 generations from Julia Folsom, being her granfather. George is also 12 degrees from Lemuel Shattuck and 13 degrees from Governor Andrew.

Not Yet Sorted

Done

Connections to each other

• Charles Ewer Esq. (1790-1853) is 15 generations from Governor John Albion Andrew (1818-1867), being his 6th cousin once removed.
• Lemuel Shattuck (1793-1859) is 13 generations from Governor John Albion Andrew (1818-1867), being his 5th cousin once removed.
• Mary Martha Corrine (Boggs) Roberts (1943-2019) is 17 generations from Lemuel Shattuck (1793-1859), being his fifth cousin five times removed and 19 generations from Governor John Albion Andrew (1818-1867), being his 6th cousin five times removed.
• Kenneth Thomas Alford (1914-1980) is 34 degrees from Mary Martha Corrine (Boggs) Roberts (1943-2019).
• Lucy Ellen (Hall) Greenlaw (1869-1961) is 15 generations from Governor John Albion Andrew (1818-1867), being his fifth cousin three times removed. She is also 19 generations from Lemuel Shattuck (1793-1859), being his 7th cousin three times removed.
• Julia Elizabeth (Winter) Folsom (1836-1912) is 16 generations from Lemuel Shattuck (1793-1859), being his 6th cousin twice removed.

More Notable Connections

• ✅ John Albion Andrew (1818-1867) is 18 generations from David Lambert, being his fourth cousin twice removed.
• ✅ Lucy Ellen (Hall) Greenlaw (1869-1961) is 18 generations from David Lambert, being his 6th cousin four times removed.
• ✅ Melanie McComb is 17 degrees from Lemuel Shattuck (1793-1859) and 19 degrees from Governor John Albion Andrew (1818-1867).

Military

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.