Ancestor Archaeology

Thursday, June 29, 2017

Video Of The Week: Ways To Clean Up Your Family Tree

We watch a lot of videos in the Cave. Webinars, instructional videos, continuing education videos, you name it! If it helps with our genealogical pursuit we are all over it!

Each week we thought we'd share one we've enjoyed.

Hope you enjoy it too!

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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Frasers Of Fife: Generation Four | Janet Fraser and John Jarvis

53 Janet Fraser (Duncan - 18, Alexander - 5, Duncan - 1) born May 29th 1829

married 1854

John Jarvis born 1828

children of this union:

i. Helen Jarvis b. 10/1/1855 d. 10/1/1855

ii. John Jarvis b. 8/14/1856 in Canada

iii. Duncan Jarvis b. 13/1/1859 in United States

iv. George Jarvis b. 14/3/1861 in Scotland

v. Alexander Jarvis b. 19/6/1864 in Scotland

vi. Margaret Jarvis b. 9/3/1866 in Scotland

note: Generation Four was (mostly) still living when the Original Tree was created.

~ all information provided here has been taken directly from the John Fraser family tree compiled in 1880 and as such is the only source for these writings - the objective being to record his work for further study and documentation ~

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Finding Faulkner: The Progeny | Esther Ann Faulkner {Gen 3}

It started, as good quests always do, with a family tale.

Esther Ann Faulkner (Robert, Samuel, William) was born in Wayne Co, New York, February 4th 1828 to parents Robert Faulkner and his wife Sally Ann.

Esther Ann married (1) Asa West (b. abt 1820 d. UNK) about 1843 in New York. She married (2) James Ryan (b. abt 1813 d. 1876) on June 19th 1852 in Kosciusko, IN.

One child was born to Esther Ann and Asa West:

Sarah West b. 1843 d. UNK m. Alonzo Sherburn

Children born to Esther Ann and James Ryan include:

Michael Ryan b. UNK d. 29 Oct 1871
James G Ryan b. 1854 d. UNK
Esther A Ryan b. 1856 d. 31 Oct 1874
Mary Ryan b. 1858 d. 2 May 1873
John W Ryan b. 5 Jun 1859 d. 7 Feb 1937 m. Mary J Ralston
Alma Emily "Emma" Ryan b. 12 Apr 1865 d. 4 Oct 1910 m. Wilson E Thrush

Esther Ann Faulkner West Ryan had a perhaps difficult life. It is not know what happened to her first husband, Asa West, but less than 9 years later she was married to James Ryan. Life with husband #2 wasn't any easier. Esther Ann is found on the 1850 census as Esther Ann West living with her parents in Indiana. Her daughter Sarah is not in the household. On the 1860 census Esther Ann Ryan is found living with the McClanahan family, again none of her children are with her. In 1870 she is living with the Leedy family, and in 1880 she is living alone, listed as divorced. Her children appear together on only one census, 1870, living with their father James. Both Esther Ann and James remained in Kosciusko Co, Indiana.

Indianian Republican 2/6/1890

Indianian Republican 2/13/1890

Her obituary 2/6/1890 Indianian Republican, noted that her death was reported a suicide from poison. It was reported that she was partially demented and on more than one occasion had tried to commit suicide. On 2/13/1890 in the Indianian Republican, her son and daughter disputed the suicide because there was no evidence.

Esther Ann Faulkner West Ryan died February 6th 1890. Her burial location remains unknown.

Monday, June 26, 2017

Notes From My Grandmother | Ashby Lineage and Genealogy, Part 3

Somehow, much of my grandmother's hand written and (badly) typed notes and research wound up in my possession. Traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles and back to Chicago again. It sat, in the dark of my mother's closet, until my dad passed and my mom decided to begin her great purge. Knowing I had picked up the torch, the next generation to pursue the Greatest Hobby on Earth, the papers came to live with me. Unsure for many years on just what to do with them, I have decided to bring them out and share them with you - transcribed, of course - no one can read my grandmother's handwriting! But in her own words; mistakes, rambling sentences, and all. I think she will be pleased her work and her writing are once again out in the light.

Grandma didn't write a story about the Ashbys. At least not one that I found in my collection. She incorporated some of her research in other family lines and just left typed bios and snippets in her "Ashby" envelope. I will share the contents over the next few weeks - and add the genealogy as I have come to know it.

Ashby Family misc, con't ........

Priscilla B Ashby was the second child and second daughter of the seven Ashby children born to Jesse Ashby and his wife Elizabeth Hays Wilson. Her biography reads as follows:

Mrs Priscilla B Twining Nonagenarian

This Good Lady Is Nearly 92 Years Old and Has Been a Resident of Iowa Since 1839

We this week present the likeness of Mrs Priscilla B Twining. She is well known to most Adams county people as was also her husband, who resided in this city previous to his death in 1897. Her maiden name was Priscilla B Ashby, and she was the daughter of Jesse Ashby, who died in 1879 at the advanced age of 92 years. It will thus be seen that Mrs Twining comes from a long lived stock. She was born in Preston County, Virginia, July 18, 1817, and is at present time almost 92 years of age. For some time after her birth her father owned a plantation in the "Cheat River country" of Virginia. At a later date, 1828, he removed with his family to Ohio, from which state he came in 1839 to Iowa, settling in Washington County where he resided 37 years. It was here that Mrs Twining became acquainted with her future husband, Rev E W Twining, a Methodist itinerant minister, to whom she married August 28, 1849. One son, Jesse L Twining, of this city was the issue of this union, and Grandma Twining makes her home with this son in Corning at the present time, tenderly cared for by her son and his family.

After their marriage, Mrs Twining and her husband made their home in Washington for a season and later in various places, as is the case in the ministerial life. Mr Twining had assignments at Des Moines, Iowa City and other important places beside being presiding elder of the Muscatine district. From the character of these assignments it will be seen he was regarded as one of the most prominent Methodist divines in the Hawkeye state.

As the wife of an itinerant minister, Mrs Twining has had quite an interesting experience with the frontier life of Iowa, especially in and around Washington and Des Moines. Mr Twining had the latter charge in 1856, preaching in the church where now stands the magnificent Iowa Loan and Trust building.

The family remained in Des Moines for five years and Mrs Twining remembers well when the capital was removed from Iowa City to that place. She also remembers the big war dance participated in by about 500 Indians on the "commons" where the court house and many of the largest business blocks of Des Moines now stand.

Necessarily the record of her life is very much identified with that of her husband, who was more than ordinarily successful in the ministerial field. When advanced age made it necessary for him to retire from active duties of the ministry, he and Mrs Twining came to this city, where they made their home in 1876. Rev Mr Twining was one of the most active gentleman interested in the founding of Cornell College, at Mount Vernon, Iowa, and it is said he personally secured the first teacher for the institution. He died on May 24, 1897, at the advanced age of 84 years, and since that time Grandma Twining has made her home with her son.

Mary Ashby, sister of Mrs Twining and the oldest child in the family taught the first school ever held in Washington, Iowa over 65 years ago, when only a few settlers had squatted on the prairies of Iowa. The school house was a log cabin; her pupils sat on benches hewn out of logs, in front of a fireplace, and wrote with goose quill pens, with ink made from indigo. Mrs Twining's has been an eventful life, and in her old age it is a pleasure for friends and loved ones to minister to her, and in some small measure recompense for the great service her life has been to her family and to the world.

We have remarked upon the coincidence of her birthday anniversary and that of Rev Father Rowley, father of Mrs J L Twining, being on the same day. Both old folks live in the same home and each succeeding year sees a celebration of the event. Ms Twinning is one year the senior of Father Rowley.

~March 31, 1909

Priscilla B Ashby Twining b. July 18, 1817 d. September 2, 1911

buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery

Corning, IA

.......... END ..........

Saturday, June 24, 2017

Book Of The Week: A History of Adams County, Ohio

A History of Adams County, Ohio: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Including Character Sketches of the Prominent Persons Identified with the First Century of the Country's Growth ...

Nelson Wiley Evans, Emmons B. Stivers

E B. Stivers, 1900 - Adams County (Ohio) - 950 pages

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