1872 :: Birth of First Set of Henry Twins

On this date, the 31st day of January, in the year 1872, Josephine Wingfield Henry nee Davis gave birth to her first set of twins* . . . this event occurred while the family was living at Old Independence in Washington County, Texas . . . the new babies were named Emma and Edgar . . . Edgar is a maternal great-grandpa to the Keeper of this family history blog . . .

On the 31st day of January in the year 1889, Emma Henry would marry Samuel Houston Sharp, Jr. in Milam County, Texas . . . on the 2nd day of January in the year 1895, Emma's twin brother, Edgar, would marry Sam's little sister, Berta Mary Sharp . . . Sam and Berta were two of the children born to Samuel Houston Sharp, Sr. and Mary Alexandrien Lemaire . . .

The twins were 59 years of age when the following photos were taken at a Henry family reunion held at the Hamilton home in Rockdale, Milam County, Texas . . .

We have not yet figured out just how the Henry twins and the Sharp siblings happened to meet . . . the Sharp siblings were born and raised on the Hall Plantation in Houston County, Texas . . . the Henry family was in Milam County, Texas by 1876 . . .

* A second set of twins would be born in Grayson County, Texas in 1875 . . . only one would survive to maturity . . .

1868 :: Death of Little Maggie

 

On this date in our family history . . . in Grimes County, Texas . . . it is the 19th day of April in the year 1868 when little Maggie Henry succumbs to the burns she received when she fell into a pot of boiling water a few weeks earlier . . . she had attained the tender age of two years, five months, and 20 days . . . Margaret Ann "Maggie" Henry was a great-grand-aunt to the Keeper of this family history blog . . . and from various records, we know that Maggie was born on the 30th day of October in the year 1865 in Brazoria County, Texas . . . 

 

 

In 1867, the 10th of February, Maggie's mother, Josephine, sat down in Navasota, Grimes County, Texas and wrote the following in a letter to Aunt Lucy Laura regarding her [at the time] only child . . . 

 

Well Aunt my darling sweet little Maggie has grown to be a great big girl she will soon be 16 months old & healthy & fat as a Guinea pig is large to her age she is slow in teething she has but 7 & another nearly out, she can say a good many words very plainly, she has the Whooping Cough now but it dont hurt her her cough troubles her some, she so much company for us all, . . . Mr. Henry & Maggie join me in love to you all . . . Maggie sends Kisses to you all, . . .

Seventeen months later . . . it is the 12th of July in 1868 when a bereaved Josephine again writes to Aunt Lucy Laura . . . 

 

. . . you cant imagine the comfort your kind epistle brought to my sad and aching heart. I could scarcely peruse it for the incessant flowing of tears, tears of sorrow & joy, oh, Aunt words are inadequate to express my troubles, . . .

 

none compared with what I have experienced this year, I could have given my precious darling sweet Maggie up much easier had she taken sick and died, but to think that she was scalded in a tub of boiling water which took the skin all off her left arm hand & side & she then suffered two weeks in that situation, oh! how it grieves me to think of her suffering & oh how sweet she was playing just a minute before she fell in the water, precious one she bore her suffering so well . . .

 

I never thought she could recover from the time the accident occurred, still I hoped & prayed that she would be spared us, we done all we could for her tried every way possible to alleviate her pains she knew every thing that happened, . . .

 

sweet child was conscious to the very last, the day she died she would call her Father & me to her & kiss us not a great while before she died I washed & dressed her sores & she never murmured & when we saw she was dying I knelt by her side & kissed her & asked her if she knew her papa & mama, & she looked at us both as good as to say, I know you both, Aunt I can never forget the last look from her, How much we miss our darling babe, but we know she is happy and its so wrong for us to wish her back in this wicked world, Sweet one, she was too pure too good for this world. she was born to comfort & cheer us awhile . . .

 

I have lost a kind Mother Father brother & little sister, but none was so dear or near to me as my own precious child was, . . .

 

 

1824 :: Death of Isabel Davis nee Grant

 

On this date in our family history . . . the 20th day of November . . . in the year 1824 . . . Isabel Davis nee Grant dies in Morgan County, Georgia . . . it is recorded that she is laid to rest in the "Old Davis Cemetery" . . . this Isabel is a 5th great-grandma to the Keeper of this family history blog . . . according to Stevens-Davis and allied families; a memorial volume of history, biography, and genealogy by Marie Walker Wood nee Stevens, it is said that . . .

Isabel Grant was born 13 January, 1759, Halifax County, Virginia, the daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Tate) Grant. On 9 January, 1777, she was married in Granville County, North Carolina, to Richard Davis. He served as a private in the War of the Revolution, First North Carolina Regiment. After the war was over, Isabel and Richard settled in Lincoln County, Georgia, moving after two years to Wilkes County. Washington then was little more than a cluster of log houses. Later they moved to Elbert, then to Morgan County, where they lived the remainder of their lives. She died, 20 November, 1824, in Morgan County, Georgia. The grandparents of Isabel were Thomas and Isabel (Richardson) Grant. Her great grandfather was Thomas Grant who immigrated from Scotland.

1899 :: A Well Known Lady Dragged to Death Near Rockdale

TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.

A Well Known Lady

Dragged to Death Near Rockdale.

 

 

 

Austin American-Statesman
Austin, Texas
31 Oct 1899, Tue  •  Page 4

 

Special to The Statesman.

ROCKDALE, Tex., Oct. 30. -- A horrible accident occurred near here Saturday, which resulted in the death of Mrs. W. P. Henry, a well known and most estimable lady, wife of a farmer. She was alone in her buggy, and from some cause her horse ran away. She was thrown from the buggy and her hair coming down, caught in a wheel and winding around the axel of the buggy, Mrs. Henry's neck was broken and she was horribly injured in other ways, having been dragged about two miles. She leaves a husband and several children.

 

 

1822 :: Death of Joseph Kimball

 

On this date in our extended family history . . . the 28th day of October . . . in the year 1822 . . . ninety-one year old Joseph Kimball dies in New Hampshire, and is laid to rest in the Gilkey Cemetery . . . more than a month later, his death is reported in a Vermont newspaper . . . this Joseph is a third cousin eight times removed to the Keeper of this family history blog . . .

This is a 19th century sketch* of cousin Joseph . . . Joseph's future grandson-in-law, Dr. Elias Frost, had moved to the neighborhood ca. 1808 . . . and it is recorded that it was Elias who convinced Joseph to have his portrait done . . . it is written of cousin Joseph that . . . "He was a soldier in the Revolution, and took part in the battles of Fort Ticonderoga and Bennington. . . . He settled first in the town then known as Plainfield Plain, and later removed to a farm near the village of Meriden, New Hampshire, where he lived until his death."

 

 

*Unfortunately, various versions of this portrait [with the name cropped off] have been widely distributed in the genealogy community as representing the image of the RICHARD KIMBALL who died in 1675 in Ipswich, Massachusetts . . . e.g., more than 250 versions of this portrait are now attached to hundreds and hundreds of trees on Ancestry dot com and incorrectly identified as RICHARD KIMBALL . . . this RICHARD KIMBALL is my 10th great-grandpa . . . and the extent of this case of misidentification came to my attention just recently when somebody posted a version of Joseph's portrait to RICHARD KIMBALL's findagrave page, which I currently manage . . . findagrave admins have since removed that portrait of Joseph from Richard's page . . . source of the portrait . . . Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire . . .

 

1898 :: Death of Alvin C. Gove

On this date in our family history . . . the 4th day of September in the year 1898 . . . a widowed Alvin C. Gove dies in Biddeford, York County, Maine . . . also known as Alvan or A. C., DNA is indicating that this man is a 3rd great-grandpa to the Keeper of this family history blog . . . in The Gove Book, it is written of Alvan C. Gove that . . .

Alvan Chadbourne Gove, born at Limington, Me., April 10, 1813. He was a builder and contractor ; removed to Biddeford, Me., in 1847, and resided in 1849 on Hill street, being a butcher. In 1853, he went to California as a miner, and returned [to Maine] in 1863. In 1880, he lived at 53 Water street, Biddeford. Mr. Gove married Mary Susan, daughter of Dea. Samuel Edgerly of Limington Feb. 13, 1836. She was born July 13, 1817 ; and died May 26, 1880. He died at Biddeford, of diarrhoea, Sept. 4, 1898, at the age of eighty-five, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.

If the data contained in the previous paragraph is accurate, that means that when Alvin C. Gove developed "gold fever" and left Maine for California ca. 1853, he left his wife home alone with six young daughters [the firstborn daughter had recently married] and a six-year-old son [my 2nd great-grandpa] . . . and it would seem that this Alvin did not return to Maine until about ten years later, which would have been right in the middle of the war between the states.


At various times in the last quarter-century of his life, Alvin is listed as living in Biddeford at 53 Water Street [1875], and then after the death of his wife in 1880, at 83 Clifford Street [1882], 35 Clifford Street [1890], Pool Street [1891], and 35 Clifford Street again [1892]. According to current maps, Water Street turns into Clifford Street which blends into Pool Street, which once led to a beach community known as Beachwood.

About 1890, a group photo was taken at a Gove family gathering which was held at a place mentioned only as Beachwood. This photo would have been taken around the time when Alvin's youngest daughter, Lydia, and her family [the Dudleys] were selling their apothecary business in Biddeford and relocating to Massachusetts. They had been living on Pool street at the time. News clippings from that time period indicate that Alvin's granddaughter, Carrie Gordon, was a frequent visitor with two of her maternal aunts in Biddeford, i.e., in the Dudley and Freeman households.

In the following family photo, Alvin is the gentleman standing in the middle of the back row, wearing the bowler hat.

As mentioned earlier, Alvin and Mary had seven daughters and one son before he left to spend a decade in California. Four of those daughters are in this photo [listed by age] ::

• Josephine Lois Freeman nee Gove [1837–1922]. She had just married when her father left to spend a decade in California in 1853.
• Triphena S Piper nee Gove [1842–1926] She was about 11 when he left.
• Julia Howe Hottel nee Gove [1849–1924] She was about 4 when he left.
• Lydia Murch Dudley nee Gove [1852–1936]. She was only a year old when he left.

Also two of his sons-in-law ::

• William Prentiss Freeman [1833–1898]
• Martin Van Buren Hottel [1837–1915]

Also seven of his grandchildren [listed by age] ::

• James Randal Freeman [1854-1894]
• Prentiss A Freeman [1856-1930]
• Caroline L Gordon [1868-1962]
• Beatrice Hottel [1873-1953]
• Grace C Dudley [1875-1952]
• James Freeman Hottel [1876-1973]
• Byron H Dudley [1888-1972]

 Also his granddaughter-in-law ::

• Carrie E Twambley [1854-1919]

 Also his great-granddaughter ::

• Maud M Freeman [1878–1957]

1823 :: Birth of Lucy Laura Davis

On this date in our family history . . . the 3rd day of September, in the year 1823 . . . Lucy Laura Davis is born in Morgan County, Georgia . . . by the time this baby girl was born, both of her parents were just shy of their 40th birthdays . . . this Lucy Laura is a 3rd great-grand-aunt to the Keeper of this family history blog.

When Lucy Laura was eleven years of age, her 49-year-old father died . . . at age twenty-two, on the 15th of January, 1846, she married Jesse Mercer Perry in her hometown . . . they are known to have had at least six children during their marriage, with the youngest being born in 1855.

Lucy Laura was apparently a keeper of family history, family letters, etc., e.g. . . . a small collection of letters written to Lucy Laura by various kith 'n kin has survived for more than a century . . . and somehow those letters made it from Lucy Laura's home in Morgan County, Georgia, to Waco, Texas, where they are now a part of the Texas Collection at Baylor University . . . these various stories of our family history were written between 1851 and 1891 . . . and the storytellers [i.e., letter writers] include our JOSEPHINE as well as Josephine's sister, Margaret . . . the letters which were written specifically by these two sisters began in 1859, and were all written back home to Morgan County, Georgia from various locations in Texas.


Although existing records indicate that Lucy Laura probably never left Georgia, it is a known fact that Texas would be the future home [after 1850] for several of her family members, including her sister, Sarah, and her family, as well as their brother, MILTON*, and his family . . . the wisdom (or not) of moving to Texas was probably talked about frequently at family gatherings. [*Milton Grant Davis, who is a 3rd great-grandpa to the Keeper of this family history blog]


In May of 1899, a neighborhood friend, T. J. Walker, wrote of a pleasant visit with our Aunt Lucy Laura, describing her as "an aged lady, whose husband, Mr. Jesse Perry, died some years ago. This is one of the best pioneer families of our state, and is of the old school with the energy, thrift and foresight of the old settlers."

Dr. Walker describes in detail the "good dinner" he enjoyed and goes on to say that . . . "The progenitors of this very practical and thrifty family were of the pioneers of our state. This old lady is a daughter of GRANT DAVIS, who came to middle Georgia among the first settlers. He was decidedly a practical and thrifty man of superb energy, but not more so than his daughter, Mrs. Perry, who even now, in her old age, superintends and helps to provide so beautifully for her family."


Regarding her family history, there is a letter written by Lucy Laura, and published in a Georgia newspaper in 1902, regarding some of her family members, i.e. . . .

The Atlanta Constitution
Atlanta, Georgia
15 Jun 1902, Sun  •  Page 22

Being fully aware that her time on earth was drawing to end, in 1904 Lucy Laura Perry penned a letter which was published in Signs of the Times, and Doctrinal Advocate and Monitor, Volume 72 . . .

Lucy Laura would live a long life of 85 years, and at long last was laid to rest in the family cemetery in Morgan County, Georgia.

1873 :: Death of Sadie and Nannie

On this date in our family history . . . the 30th day of August, in the year 1873 . . . in Morgan County, Georgia . . . 27-year-old Sarah B. Carter and 21-year-old Nancy Tate Carter die on the same day at the home of their widowed mother . . . affectionately known as Sadie and Nannie, these sisters are first cousins four times removed to the Keeper of this family history blog . . .

At the home of their mother, Mrs. Mary A. Carter, near Madison, Georgia, on Saturday, August 30th, 1873, Miss Sadie Carter died at half-past twelve o'clock, and within less than one hour her youngest sister, Miss Nannie Carter, followed her. Both died of congestion after suffering from bilious fever for about one week. The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, Sunday, September 7th, 1873

Appreciation for Hometown Newspapers

Just wanted to take a minute to share something I received in my email today . . . it talks about today's final issue of a small town newspaper [i.e., the Journal Tribune] . . . and is from a library in Biddeford, Maine . . . where I have spent many pleasurable hours looking for tidbits about the lives of Mom's New England kith 'n kin while digging thru their newspaper archives . . . both onsite and online . . .

Which prompted me to write a little about how much I enjoy and appreciate both the current Rockdale Reporter as well as the archives of . . .

• The Rockdale Messenger [est. 1873] 
• The Rockdale Reporter [est. 1893]  
• The Rockdale Reporter & Messenger 

For more than a century, the Reporter family has memorialized countless tidbits about our kith 'n kin, e.g., there was . . .

• the tragic death of Mom's paternal great-grandma in 1899 
• the surprise birthday party for Dad's maternal grandma in 1936 
• the write-up about the marriage of our Mom and Dad in 1950 

And the numerous reports thru the years from the little communities of Bethlehem and Cole Springs and Tanglewood give us a delightful snapshot of their day-to-day lives . . . which we would not have if not for the Reporter, so . . .

To all of the Reporter family . . . both past and present . . . I will quote from the McArthur Library blogpost . . . 

"Thank you for being a part of my story." 

P.S. . . . and just as an additional FYI . . . some of the HERNDON ancestors of the COOKE family were / are near neighbors [both in life and in death] of some of Dad's kith 'n kin who came to Texas from Alabama and Mississippi . . . to wind up living and dying, and resting for eternity, in a little country cemetery in Tanglewood . . . 

1692 :: Warrant for Arrest of Barkers and Marston

On this date in our family history . . . the 25th day of August . . . in the year 1692 . . . after being accused of the supposed crime of witchcraft, a warrant is issued for the apprehension of certain individuals from our family tree, i.e. . . . 

Essex To the Constables of Andov'r

Complaint being made to me this day, by Sam'l Martin of Andover & Moses Tyler sen'r of Boxford, against Willia Barker sen'r Mary Marstone the wife of John Marstone jun'r & Mary Barker the daughter of Lef't John Barker , all of Andov'r in that the aboves'd William Barker Mary Marstone & Mary Barker, have woefully afflicted & abused, Abigail Martin & Rose foster of Andov'r, & Martha Sprague of Boxford by witchcraft, Contrary to the peace of o'r sovereigne Lord & Lady #[King] William & Mary King & Queen of England &c: & to their Majes'ts Laws in that Case provided:

These therefore require you in their Majes'ts names upon sight hereof, to apprehend & seize the bodies of William Barker sen'r Mary Marstone the wife of John Marstone jun'r & Mary Barker the daughter of Lef't John Barker all of Andov'r & them safely Convey to Salem, before their Majes'ts justices of the peace there, to be examined & proceeded with according to law, for which this shall be yo'r warrant: given und'r my hand & seal this #[eighteenth] 25'th [25] day of August Anno Domini 1692: in the fourth year of their Majes'ts Reigne:/ *Dudley Bradstreet justice of Peace

The s'd Martin & Tyler have given suffitient bond to prosecute s'd persons to effect, which bond remains with me:

(Reverse) [torn] In Obediance Two this warant I have aprehended the within Riten persons and have brought them to Salom the 29'th of August 1692 Before their honours mentined in the Rit: pere me *Ephraim Foster
Constable of Andover

W'm Barker
Mary Marston Mary Barker
Exa'd 29: 6. 92

The names mentioned in this warrant and their kinship to the Keeper of this family history blog are as follows . . . 

• Samuel Martin [step 9th great-grand-uncle] 
• Moses Tyler [9th great-grandpa] 
• William Barker [8th great-grandpa]
• Mary Marston [stepdaughter of 8th great-grand-aunt]
• Mary Barker [7th great-grandma]
• Abigail Martin [wife of step 9th great-grand-uncle]
• Rose Foster [7th great-grand-aunt]
• Martha Sprague [step-8th-great-grand-aunt]
• Dudley Bradstreet [father-in-law of 8th great-grand-uncle] 
• Ephraim Foster [8th great-grandpa]

1655 :: Death of Robert Brooke

On this date in our family history . . . the 20th day of July in the year 1655 . . . Robert Brooke dies in Calvert County, Maryland . . . this Robert Brooke is a 10th great-grandpa to the Keeper of this family history blog . . . he is credited with bringing fox hunting to America, and left a written memorandum of his family, and of the time of his settlement in Maryland, i.e. . . .

"The before-named Robert Brooke, Esquire, arrived out of England in Maryland the 29th day of June, 1650, in the 48th year of his age, with his wife and ten children. He was the first that did seat the Patuxent, about twenty miles up the river at Delabrook, . . . In 1652 he removed to Brooke Place, being right against Delabrook ; . . ."

 

He departed this world the 20th day of July, and lieth buried at Brooke Place Manor ; . . . 

Image from
Old manors in the colony of Maryland
by Sioussat, Annie Leakin

1896 :: Death of Kate Eliza

On this date in our family history . . . the 16th day of July in the year 1896 . . . Katherine Elizabeth Waring died in Maryland . . . this "Kate Eliza" is a first cousin four times removed to the Keeper of this family history blog . . . 

On July 16, 1896, at Southampton, St. Mary's county, Md., KATE ELIZA, eldest daughter of Ann Maria and the late Dr. James Waring, and grand daughter of the late Gov. James Thomas. A noble woman, gifted with rare intellect cultivated by association and study -- a heart warm, tender, and true -- a spirit of self sacrifice that is learned only in treading the footsteps of Him she served so faithfully. The truest monument to her will be found in the memory of the many to whom her life was a benediction and a comfort. Saint Mary's Beacon, Leonard Town, Maryland, August 6th, 1896

1867 :: Death of Kitty Waring

On this date in our family history . . . the 12th day of July in the year 1867 . . . Catherine Ann "Kitty" Waring nee Waring dies at Southampton, home of her son, in St. Mary's County, Maryland . . . according to the DAR "Eye on Elegance" website . . . 

Catherine “Kitty” Waring lived in southern Prince George’s County and married her cousin Edward Gantt Waring before their move to Texas in 1840. In the 1850 slave census, three African-Americans, including two women, lived at the Waring farm [in Liberty County, Texas]. Perhaps they were there to help with the quilt a few years earlier. Edward died in [sic, i.e., before] 1850, and by 1860, Kitty had returned to Maryland.

  
Back in Maryland, Kitty would apparently live out her days in the Southampton home of her son, Dr. James Waring . . . 

This Kitty is a 4th great-grandma to the Keeper of this family history blog . . . 

1943 :: Southampton burns in Maryland

Seventy five years ago, sometime in the month of April in the year 1943, it is said that a Waring family home burned in Maryland . . . that home is pictured in the below collage . . . 

Johnston, Frances Benjamin, photographer. Southampton, Chaptico vic., St. Mary's County, Maryland. Chaptico Vic Maryland St. Mary's County, 1936. to 1937. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017887724/.

This centuries-old home, which had been known to several generations of the Waring family as Southampton, was located near Chaptico in St. Mary's County, Maryland. According to Maryland, a Guide to the Old Line State (1940) . . .

SOUTHAMPTON . . . ancestral home of the Bond family, now a two-and-one-half-story clapboarded house, with a gambrel roof and porches along the front and rear. The ivy clinging to the huge double brick chimneys -- which have a pent between and pent flanking -- is said to have been brought from Kenilworth Castle shortly after SOUTHAMPTON was built by Richard Bond in the seventeenth century. The wall-of-Troy panel above the fireplace is the only carved wall panel remaining. The old witch door has H hinges, a brass lock, and a pendant handle. 

The following news clipping from 1867 mentions that the death of my 4th great-grandma occurred at this residence.

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DIED. On Friday, the 12th instant, at Southampton, the residence of her son, Dr. James Waring, after a long and painful illness, which she bore with Christian patience and resignation, Mrs. KITTY* WARING, widow of the late EDWARD G. WARING, of Prince Georges county, in the eightieth year of her age. St. Marys Gazette, Leonardtown, Md., Thursday morning, July 25, 1867.

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And then in 1883, the following news clipping mentions that Kitty's son, Dr. James Waring, dies at the same residence . . .

Many of our readers will be pained to learn of the death of Dr. James Waring, which occurred at Southampton, his residence in St. Mary's county, on Friday, the 19th last. . . . He married a daughter of the late Gov. Thomas, of Maryland, who survives him. . . . Prince George's Inquirer by way of the Saint Mary's Beacon, Leonard Town, Maryland, Thursday, February 8, 1883

In 1896, Kate Eliza (daughter of Dr. Waring) died at Southampton . . . 

On July 16, 1896, at Southampton, St. Mary's county, Md., KATE ELIZA, eldest daughter of Ann Maria and the late Dr. James Waring, and grand daughter of the late Gov. James Thomas. A noble woman, gifted with rare intellect cultivated by association and study -- a heart warm, tender, and true -- a spirit of self sacrifice that is learned only in treading the footsteps of Him she served so faithfully. The truest monument to her will be found in the memory of the many to whom her life was a benediction and a comfort. Saint Mary's Beacon, Leonard Town, Maryland, August 6th, 1896

In 1901, Dr. Waring's widow died, also at Southampton . . . 

WARING. -- On November 15, 1901, at Southampton, St. Mary's county, Maryland, ANNE MARIA, in the 84th year of her age, widow of Dr. James Waring, and daughter of the late Governor James Thomas and Eliza Courts Thomas. [Washington D. C. papers please copy.] The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, Maryland, Thursday, November 28, 1901

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Then, just two months ago today, the death of another Kitty brings about the mention of Southampton in yet another news clipping . . . 

Catherine Ann "Kitty" Waring Barnes, known all her life as Kitty, passed away peacefully on February 7, 2018. Born in Chicago, Kitty and her family returned to Southampton, the Waring family farm in Chaptico, during the Great Depression. [from her obit]

The Kitty who died in 2018 was apparently living at Southampton when it burned. She is also the Kitty who gifted the DAR with a Lone Star Quilt which once belonged to our Grandma Kitty.

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Image courtesy C.W. Barnes

<---*This KITTY WARING is the one who is a 4th great-grandma to the Keeper of this family history blog . . . she is also the Kitty who made the quilt referred to above. 

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The following chart shows the kinship between benotforgot and Dr. James Waring. Note that this chart was generated by Ancestry, and that Ancestry chooses to show him as a 4th great-uncle. But since this Dr. Waring is the brother of my 3rd great-grandma, it makes much more sense to me to refer to him as my 3rd great-grand-uncle.

See also . . .

Tech Tuesday :: Kinship Chart

1843 :: A Vanishing out of Bermuda

175 years ago today . . . on the 23rd day of March in the year 1843 . . . the following news clipping appeared in a Louisiana newspaper . . .

One of the passengers on "the French brig Amanda" was Alexander Lemaire, who is a 3rd great-grandpa to the Keeper of this family history blog . . . the Amanda was never heard from again after leaving Bermuda . . .

P.S. Please do contact me if you happen across a passenger list for this ship. benotforgot at gmail dot com

1844 :: Report of Missing Ship

On this date in our family history . . . the 25th day of February in the year 1844 . . . the following news clipping was published in a New Orleans newspaper . . .

Missing Vessel. -- Letters have recently been received, stating that the French brig Amanda, which put into Bermuda in distress, last February, on a voyage from Texas to Havre, and sailed thence the same month, for her destined port, has not since been heard of. The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 25, 1844.

One of the passengers on the brig Amanda (which sailed from Galveston, and was never heard from again) was Alexander Lemaire, who is a 3rd great-grandpa to the Keeper of this family history blog.

P.S. Please do contact me if you happen across a passenger list for this ship. benotforgot at gmail dot com