tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36179159918681193192024-03-13T23:00:00.958-04:00David R. Grinnell's Genealogical NewsDavid R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-20571520117441242212021-02-21T13:47:00.001-05:002021-02-21T13:56:22.595-05:00Matthew Spady, The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot: Audubon Park and the Families who Shaped It (New York: Fordham University Press, 2020)<p> Over the last several years there has been a reemergence in the recognition of the role and influence that George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938) had on the preservation and conservation of the American West, on native avian species and the buffalo, and the recording of the stories recounted by members of several of American Indian nations. These themes have resulted in the rise in publications concerning Grinnell and his activities by authors such as Michael Punke (Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West, 2007), Carolyn Merchant (Spare the Birds!: George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society, 2016), John Taliaferro (Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West, 2019), Thom Hatch (The Father of American Conservation: George Bird Grinnell Adventurer, Activist, and Author, 2020), and Hugh Grinnell (The Father of Glacier National Park: Discoveries and Explorations In His Own Words, 2020). All of these publications point to Grinnell’s interest in the natural world as originating from his</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LeRpRD8hlM4/YDKqRb6iQFI/AAAAAAAAAbs/QM50LzXozEgMQZILFRQerYyBnXOdzptRQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/91wRwZI2YOL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1366" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LeRpRD8hlM4/YDKqRb6iQFI/AAAAAAAAAbs/QM50LzXozEgMQZILFRQerYyBnXOdzptRQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/91wRwZI2YOL.jpg" /></a></div><br /> up-bringing and the instruction of Lucy Bakewell Audubon, the widow of John James Audubon, who was his childhood teacher and neighbor in New York’s upper section of Manhattan Island, now the densely populated neighborhood of Washington Heights. Consistent with my pre-occupation to learn more about this high-profile member of the extended Grinnell family, I pick up a copy of Matthew Spady’s book, The Neighborhood Manhattan Forgot: Audubon Park and the Families who Shaped It (New York: Fordham University Press, 2020), as a way to learn more about the relationship GBG had to his community and neighbors. <p></p><p>Audubon Park was a large parcel of land purchased by John James Audubon in the 1840s as a place to make a home for his family following their return to North American after living in Great Britain during the completion of his massive and influential publication and prints of the Birds of America. The property was placed in the name of his wife and truly his financial rock, Lucy. It consisted of an untamed natural environment several miles north of the center of New York Cities bustling and expanding business and residential metropolis. It wouldn’t take long before the Audubon’s found the need to share their wilderness enclave with others and constructed several other houses and cottages on the property to generate badly need cash in the form of rent payments. The rental property attracted the likes of the growing family of George Blake Grinnell and Helen Lansing Grinnell. George Blake, emerging as a successful businessman and Wall Street broker, desired a place to raise his family of four sons and two daughters that was rural, but in enough proximity for his business dealings in the city. Minnie’s Land, as the Audubon’s called it, was an ideal spot. Here, George Bird Grinnell, George and Helen’s eldest son, would grow up surrounded by trees, birds, the Hudson River, and all the wildlife that would delight the fascination of the young man who would become one of the nation’s well-known naturalists. GBE would live in Audubon Park for five decades.</p><p>Eventually, George Blake Grinnell would acquire a significant portion of the Audubon property and it would become known as Audubon Park. In the last four decades of the 19th century, Audubon Park would attempt to stave off the expanding metropolis. But ultimately, there were many completing interests and with the growth of community intuitions (congregations), mass transportation, industrialization, and many other factors, the bucolic Audubon Park would slowly disappear into the fabric of urbanization. Eventually, real estate investors expanded the residential population with the construction of apartment buildings and new highways that promoted movement through the area with ease and the former suburban community would become a central part of the urban city. For a time in the 20th century, the now named Washington Heights neighborhood would experience decay and crime that would only be reversed by the actions of the residents and their dedication to recreating communities within the early 20th century apartment buildings and learning to work together. This led to recognition of their shared experiences and heightened interest in the historical legacy to the built environment and those that came before, namely – the Audubon's, the Grinnell's, and several others. Today, this section of Washington Heights is home of the Audubon Terrace Historic District and the Audubon Park Historic District.</p><p>Spady weaves together a compelling story of urbanization of a small, yet diverse, area of Manhattan. He examines the lives of many of the early residents, their often conflicting interests in maintaining a rural space, yet having effective access to the city center. He brings the community to life by humanizing it. Understanding the needs of daily life and how those change over time, you witness how a community comes together over needs for clean and usable water, their political voice over placement of mass transit and the priorities for maintaining roadways, their needs for institutions that instill the feeling of community and much more. Spady’s book reflects many intersections of interests for me: community development, neighborhood stories, religious institutions, and cultural memory.</p><p>With this book, Spady has shown us as historical junkies of urban history how examining the microcosm of one relatively small neighborhood can reveal a great amount of understanding of how our communities expand and contract, while providing a glimpse of how successful communities come together around shared desires for sustaining livable spaces.</p><div><br /></div>David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-5976741462178950172020-10-15T21:44:00.003-04:002020-10-15T22:11:46.096-04:00Hector Presbyterian Church and Alexander McCreery<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /> One of the books that got me hooked on genealogical research was published in 1976 and compiled by William and Laura McCreery. It was entitled, <i>The Alexander McCreery Clan</i>. It was the first time I had ever seen my own name in a printed volume and it just enthralled me to read about all these people that I was absolutely connected with -- by blood and by so many family traditions. Recently, while on a short trip to do some genealogical research in Central New York, a friend said to me, "Lets take a ride down to the Lake." Now, I wasn't sure where we were going, but to my amazement we were in the middle of the Finger Lakes, between Cayuga and Seneca Lakes. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PuDnfMjRu-Q/X4jtFkRGxtI/AAAAAAAAAaI/GILb7oXxLuko_5ArTcJ-Htd6M9cdoatbgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/IMG_3947.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PuDnfMjRu-Q/X4jtFkRGxtI/AAAAAAAAAaI/GILb7oXxLuko_5ArTcJ-Htd6M9cdoatbgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3947.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">As we were driving along Route 414 my eyes got a bit bigger as I realized that we were traveling into the area that the McCreery's and the Collver's had settled. As we approached the small settlement of Hector in Schuyler County -- Boom! There it was! The Hector Presbyterian Church one of the only remaining landmarks associated with the McCreery family still standing in this amazingly gorgeous rural setting near the shores of Seneca Lake. So we stopped and I snapped a few pics with my iPhone and found my heart filled with excitement at this totally unexpected adventure.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Alexander McCreery and his wife Eunice and seven of their ten children migrated from Ulster/Orange County in eastern New York State to the wilds of the Finger Lakes in 1799. They first settled in Ulysses and then in Hector in 1810. Of Scottish ancestry, the McCreery's were probably members of the Scottish Presbyterian Church for many generations. As they arrived in Hector, a new congregation had been organized the year before and soon the family became part of this growing fellowship of Christians. By 1818, the congregation had matured and was able to afford the construction of a house of worship. Today, the Hector Presbyterian Church still worships in that beautiful, yet simple structure. Alexander was know to have become a Deacon in the congregation for eighteen years. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Because of this unexpected adventure, I found myself a bit unprepared. I knew from previous map and records research that Alexander's house and property was nearby, somewhere between Hector and Burdett, but for the life of me, I couldn't remember the name of the road. So, I kept reading the road signs as we traveled down to Hector Falls, but alas nothing was sounding familiar. As soon as I got home, I cracked the McCreery Clan book open -- sure enough, I had simply failed to remember Covert Road! It was right there on the left as we traveled north from Hector Falls only a mile or so out of Burdett. In 1974 Alexander and Eunice's farm house was still standing at Cover and Slattery Hill Roads. But Google Maps doesn't have street view for that rural section. DARN! But that is just fine....I had such a wonderfully unexpected adventure and I couldn't be more happy. Now, I just have to plan another trip to visit again.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q4_QVFgxMhk/X4j2crJJkHI/AAAAAAAAAac/Wj2V0sw-AAg2JZ4sso3wvGzHWgUu-Pg1ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_3959.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q4_QVFgxMhk/X4j2crJJkHI/AAAAAAAAAac/Wj2V0sw-AAg2JZ4sso3wvGzHWgUu-Pg1ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/IMG_3959.jpg" /></a></div>Oh! So, Alexander and Eunice first lived in Ulysses when the moved to the region. Another great stop on this adventure was just inside the Town of Ulysses, near Cayuga Lake where we stopped at Taughannock Falls State Park, where I was able to witness one spectacular view of nature at its best....the Taughannock Falls. It just makes me wonder how the indigenous people and the early pioneering farm families must have felt to witness such power and beauty when they first encountered these amazing sites.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Family of Alexander McCreery (1760-1838) & Eunice Armstrong McCreery (1755-1836)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">1) Margaret McCreery Brown (1783-1848) in NY</div><div style="text-align: left;">2) Isabelle McCreery Roushey (1786-1862) in NY</div><div style="text-align: left;">3) Joseph McCreery (1788 -1856) in Michigan</div><div style="text-align: left;">4) Jane McCreery Warner Lewis (1791-1875) in NY</div><div style="text-align: left;">5) Sarah McCreery (1793-1844) in NY</div><div style="text-align: left;">6) Elizabeth McCreery (1795-1875) in NY</div><div style="text-align: left;">7) Robert McCreery (1798-1817) in NY</div><div style="text-align: left;">8) Hannah McCreery Jackson (1801- aft 1875) in NY</div><div style="text-align: left;">9) Eunice McCreery Durland (1805-1877) in NY</div><div style="text-align: left;">10) Mary McCreery Thynne (1808-1886) in NY</div><p></p>David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-64492164741870236932019-10-12T12:32:00.002-04:002019-10-12T12:42:33.013-04:00Joseph & Hannah Patterson and Chestnut Ridge Friends MeetingJust a short comment on a new discovery....Joseph Patterson (1756-1816) and his wife, Hannah Merrimoon [perhaps even Marmon] (1753-1820) were members of the Quaker faith. They were born in North Carolina and eventually migrated with many in their faith community to Belmont County, Ohio in the first decade of Ohio's statehood, settling south of Barnesville on "the Ridge." They were probably members of the original Stillwater Friends Meeting, but later donated land on their property for what would become the Chestnut Ridge Friends Meeting. While the original buildings do not exist, below is an image of the simple structure that continues as a Meeting House today. Joseph and Hannah are reported to be buried in the cemetery, or more accurately burial ground, across the road from the Meeting House.<br />
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Looking forward to a future visit (its only an hour and half west of Pittsburgh) and a lot more research on this family line!<br />
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<br />David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-6821075099381125532019-03-16T14:22:00.003-04:002019-03-17T09:13:15.979-04:00Edward Slocum Burling in NYC (1792-1826)I recently learned about the vast resources of the New York Public Library's Digital Collections through my friend and colleague Kristin. With a day off from work and some time to focus on my own family research this week, I thought I might take a look and see if I could find anything related to my ancestors who lived in New York City....and Bingo! I did indeed.<br />
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Edward Slocum Burling (1741-1831) and wife Kezia Hunt (1742-1804) (my 4x great-grandparents) lived in the city following the American Revolution. They lived in various communities in Westchester County before residing in Manhattan. Later they would return to Westchester.<br />
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During the American Revolution, we know that ESB was a member of the Westchester Militia under the command of Joseph Drake. He was at Frog's Neck and West Farms during a portion of his 1776 enlistment. This was a critical time, because the British forces occupied Manhattan, Long Island, and much of the surrounding area. (suggested reading of David McCullough's <i>1776</i>) One of the only documents that confirms his service that has been found is a payroll log at the National Archives. Even more intriguing is the fact that his brother-in-law, Charles Vincent, was providing information to the British, thus there is a loyalist in his family and probably someone we might label a "spy." Ultimately Vincent and his wife, Hannah Burling would retreat with the British and settle in Nova Scotia. Need to do some more sleuthing on that story soon!<br />
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Immediately following the Revolution, ESB was able to purchase land that had previously been owned by Tory families that had fled. Evidence of his outlook on civic duty begins to emerge at this time as well. He served as an assessor, elected as a supervisor and justice of the peace. Prior to the creation of the U. S. Constitution, he would represent Westchester County in various state assemblies for New York.<br />
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From 1792 to 1826, ESB resided in New York City where he continued his public service. He held the office of associate judge, customs inspector, and revenue officer. However, it was in 1797 that we find the he was elected to represent the citizens of NYC on the City's Assembly. A document found on the NYPL's digital collections site is basically a certification of his election, along with several other individuals. But what I find fascinating is seeing the names of these others along side my ancestors name....including names like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeWitt_Clinton" target="_blank">DeWitt Clinton</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Burr" target="_blank">Aaron Burr</a>. Not to forget that the document was created and signed by then Mayor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Varick" target="_blank">Richard Varick</a>. This just blows my mind to know that my ancestor would have known, worked with, and perhaps argued with these leaders that I have learned about throughout my education. Just one more example of how family history and genealogical research can make our nations history come alive in very personal ways.<br />
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ESB and Kezia were the parents of eleven children:<br />
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-Gilead Burling (1762)<br />
-Rebecca Burling Moriarty (1765)<br />
-Ebenezer Burling (1766) (my direct line, whose son Henry Burling migrated to Michigan in the 1830s)<br />
-Sarah Burling (1767)<br />
-Jeremiah Burling (1767)<br />
-Elizabeth Burling Waning (1769)<br />
-Susannah Burling (1771-1778)<br />
-Lydia Burling (1772)<br />
-Thomas Burling (1775)<br />
-Deborah Burling Bernard (1779)<br />
-Anne T. Burling Bennett Pintard (1783)<br />
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Many thanks to Kristin Britanic for pointing me to the NYPL site and to Jane Thompson-Stahr for her excellently and professionally researched books entitled, <i>The Burling Books: Ancestors and Descendants of Edward and Grace Burling, Quakers [1600-2000]</i>.David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-52904378479822363382017-10-17T22:12:00.002-04:002017-10-17T22:18:39.637-04:00Celebrating the life of Ida Jane Galusha Hagaman<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Ida Jane Galusha was born 16 October 1856 in the small community of Woodstock, Lenawee County, Michigan. Her mother, Sarah Ann (Sweet) Galusha delivered Ida with the assistance of Dr. Root. Ida's dad was Giles Galusha, a farmer who was assisting his father and brother raising livestock and tending fields of their 200 acre farm in near the county boarder with both Jackson and Hillsdale Counties in lower Michigan. Today, this is area is know as the Artisian Wells at the intersection of US-127 and US-12 with a postal address of Cement City. Ida joined her older sister Marietta and the family of four would subsist with many aunts, uncles, and cousins all living as neighbors.<br />
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Soon, the Galusha's would move into Somerset Township, Hillsdale County, where Giles operate his own farm. The family would continue to grow with the addition of son George in 1860.<br />
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The American Civil War would cause a major scar in this family. Towards the end of this bloody conflict, Giles would volunteer for service in Company A of the 4th Michigan Infantry. On 4 January 1865 he would died of some communicable disease in a makeshift army hospital in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He would later be laid to rest in a "unknown" grave at the National Cemetery in Murfreesboro. Giles death left his family of 4 without any means of support. As soon as widow's were able to apply for a pension from the Federal Government, Sarah did so and it is through those documents that we know details of the births and marriages of this little family.<br />
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Within a few years, Ida would have a loving step-father come into her life in the person of Isaac Young, a veteran of the Civil War and a neighboring farmer. Mr. Young would fill the void left by her father's death.<br />
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At an early age Ida learned to play the piano. We know that after becoming a member of the little Methodist Episcopal congregation in the village of Somerset Center, she would play the piano in church regularly. Probably playing many familiar hymn tunes that one might hear today in the United Methodist churches throughout lower Michigan. Ida would pass her love of music and her talented musical abilities on to her many children. Today, one of her great-granddaughters tenderly cares for and has preserved several instruments that were played by members of the family.<br />
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In the village of Somerset Center there was a store owned by Jacob Hagaman. Hagaman was the father of four, one being Mr. George Henry Hagaman, who would marry Ida on 7 November 1875 at Liberty Mills, in Jackson County with the Rev. James H. Tanner of the Methodist Episcopal church officiating. George's father had died the year prior to the marriage and the assets of the little store in Somerset Center were sold off. But George would remain working the farm his father had purchase and continue to provide for his mother, siblings, and his new bride.<br />
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Soon, the Hagaman family would grow to include 4 daughter and 2 sons: Arminta (1876), Nina (1878), George "Dick" (1881), Verne (1888), Bertha (1891), and Hazel (1892).<br />
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By 1900, the Hagaman's had left their farm near Somerset Center and move near the communities of Leoni and Grass Lake in Jackson County. We know that Ida had relatives in this vicinity and one could imagine that some great opportunity must have prompted them relocate closer to these relatives.<br />
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During this early period, Ida would become involved in the Leoni Methodist Episcopal church and become a leader in the Women's Suffrage movement in her community. We know from a newspaper account that she was the Chairwomen for the suffrage organization for Leoni township. Wish we knew more about the activities of this part of her life...perhaps more will surface at a later date.<br />
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George and Ida would continue to live in the Grass Lake Area for several years, mostly on rented farms. George would died 14 March 1934 at the age of 77 in Leoni Township from chronic kidney disease. Ida would survive him for a few years, dying on 27 October 1939 at the age of 83 from <span style="font-weight: normal;">arteriosclerosis. Her funeral services were held at the Methodist Church in Leoni and her nephew the Rev. Lynn Young, a famous radio and later television evangelist from Toledo, officiated.</span></div>
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<br />David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-32989125666322593172017-08-17T22:28:00.000-04:002017-08-19T11:01:29.787-04:00Burling Ancestry, Quaker Heritage, & Anti-Slavery Advocate!<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Several years ago I wrote about the discovery of Mary
Elizabeth (BURLING) REAMS’ (b1845-d1918) ancestry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a huge revelation because I had spent
years working hard to discover the names of her parents, both of whom died
while she was yet a baby.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the time, I
was so overwhelmed by the facts of so many new generations to record in my
genealogical software that I could scarcely absorb the significant family
history connected with Mary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Mary’s BURLING ancestors were Quakers in England and in North America and they had strength of spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Mary (BURLING)
REAMS (1845-1918), daughter of:</div>
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Henry BURLING
(1803-1848) and Charlotte Wilburgher WILSIE (1812-1845), he was the son of:</div>
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Ebenezer
BURLING(1766-1824) and Eve BLOOMER (1765-1843), he was the son of:</div>
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Ebenezer
Slocum BURLING (1741-1831) and Kezia HUNT (1742-1804), he was the son of:</div>
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Ebenezer
BURLING (1717-1758) and Mary LAWRENCE (1718-aft 1776), he was the son of:</div>
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*William
BURLING (1678-1743) and Rebecca SLOCUM (1682-1729), he was the son of:</div>
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*Edward
BURLING (1638-1697) and *Grace NORINGTON (?-1715) , he was the son of:</div>
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Edward
BURLING (c1613-1677) and Katherine BOWLER (?-1678) of Barking, Essex Co.,
England</div>
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*denotes the ancestors who emigrated from England to North
America.</div>
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We learn from the amazing thorough and well sourced
genealogy and family history by Jane Thompson-Stahr (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Burling Books</i>, Vol, 1 & 2, 2001), that the first three
generations of Burling’s were members of the Quaker faith and practiced it at a
time of religious intolerance in England.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In fact, both generations of Edward BURLING’s were imprisoned for
practicing their faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither of which
would pay the fine, though they were presumably wealthy enough to do so, and be
freed from their jail cells.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They stood
on their principles in the Borough of Barking, which is now part of the City of
London.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clearly that principled streak
was inherited by son and grandson William.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have learned from no less than four sources on Quaker history that
William BURLING of Flushing, NY was an early member of the Friends faith to
embrace the view that slavery was a sin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>During much of the 17<sup>th</sup> and 18<sup>th</sup> century in
Colonial America, Quakers were known to be slave holders and slave traders in
New England and the Mid-Atlantic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many
today find this surprising because of the popular notion that Quakers were some
of the most outspoken advocates of abolitionism in the antebellum period;
therefore it’s somewhat hard to believe that they were ever involved in the
holding of others in bondage. But many did!</div>
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About 1718, William BURLING spoke out against the sin of
slavery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His words are somewhat
difficult for our 21<sup>st</sup> century reading, but I have confirmed through
multiple sources that indeed, William BURLING was talking about slavery when he
wrote the following, which had reprinted in several book since 1734.</div>
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(William Burling’s Anti-slavery text, published in 1718 and
quote in Benjamin Lay’s 1738 book.)</div>
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TITLE: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">An Address to
the Elders of the Church, upon the occasion of some Friends compelling certain
Persons, and their posterity , to serve them continually and arbitrarily,
without Regard to Equity or Right, not heeding whether they give them any thing
near so much as their Labour deserveth.”</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Dearly Beloved
Friends, and Elder Brethren, whom, as it behoves me, I would entreat as Fathers,
a weighty Concern from the Lord, is and hath been at times for many Years on my
spirit, in consideration of this unchristian Liberty, being indulged in the
Church, for it is in itself none of the least of the World’s Corruptions, </i>[
no, say I, but the greatest, that ever the Devil brought into the Church in
America;]<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> and indeed the Lord by his Spirit,
manifested the Evil to me before I was 12 Years of Age, and since from time to
time, I have had drawings in mind to reproved and testify against it,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>nor have I been altogether silent, altho’
much discourag’d by reason of it’s being practiced by so many Friends, yea
Elders too, and tho’ I have formerly thought it strange, that the Church did
not exclude it, by her discipline, and fix the Judgment of Truth upon it, yet
now I am sensible such a thing is not easily done or accomplished, there being
so strong opposition in many, that it cannot be brought to the Test, and
Judgment brought forth into Victory in the cause at present, without danger of
much strife and disorder in the Church, which is generally hurtful where-ever
it prevaileth; therefore to be carefully avoided; however I hope was are all
unanimous in our judgement, that whatever Friend hath any thing from the
movings of the Spirit of Truth to communicate to his Brethren, either by word
or writing concerning this or any other matter, ought to be allowed and
received in his Testimony, and borne with by his Brethren, so long as he keeps
to the counsel and direction of the Holy Spirit, and therefore delivers nothing
but what is according to Truth, altho’ it happens to be never so contrary to
the interest or inclinations of the Readers or Hearers.</i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Now I would such
Friends as Practice or Pleas for the abovesaid Sin, Evil or Liberty, to
consider solidly what Hardship the impose on such as are concern’d to bear
Testimony against it; for while so many Friends continues in said Practice, no
one can reproved it, and give it that deserved Character, which is agreeable to
it’s nature, without implicitly condemning many of his Brethren</i>, [Ministers
and all say I, for they are the worst Enemies in this case the Church has to
War with, or that Hell itself, or Devil can procure in this case. (This is very
pinching,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>B. L.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>canst thou prove thy Allegations?) if not,
what will become of thee? Never fear, Friend; Fear suprises, thou knows who;
but the Truth is stronger than all the Powers of Hell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blessed for ever is the God of Truth, the
Truth of God, the Truth which is God: So be it, faith my Soul.</div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Brethren and Elder Brethren,
as Transgressors in this Thing, which is very hard to do, yet if the Lord
require such a Thing or Testimony of any Friend he is necessitated so to judge
his Brethren, or quench the Spirit in its Motions, in his own Heart; for the
case admits of no medium. Again I intreat those who slight and disregards the
Testimony of any whom the Lord concerns to appear against this flebly Liberty,
to consider whom they oppose, and withstand; and the inspired Apostle speaking
concerning the Lord’s Instruments, whom he was pleased to make use of, faith </i>I
Thess. iv. 8. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">He therefore that
despiseth, despiseth not Men, but God, who hat also given unto us his Holy
Spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>O! That I could prevail so far
with all my dear Brethren, that none would any more plead for or endeavor to
defend the aforesaid unjust Practice; neither endeavor to shield it from the
judgment of Truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We may do well to
remember, the Devil is the Author of all Sin, and Sin is the Transgression of
the Law.</i></div>
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It gives me great pleasure to know that at least one of my
ancestors was outspoken on such a moral and ethical issue, especially when it
was not popular to hold such a position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So, today in our world that is filled with much divisiveness over our
national legacy concerning race relations, I draw on the strength of my
ancestor, William Burling to help guide me.</div>
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Sources:</div>
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-Drake, Thomas E. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Quakers
and Slavery in America, </i>1950, pp.36-37</div>
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-“Early Anti-Slavery Advocates --<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>William Burling.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journals</i>, November 24, 1855,
Volume 29, Number 11, page 85.</div>
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-Lay, Benjamin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">All Slave-keepers that keep the Innocent in
Bondage… </i>Philadelphia: Benjamin Franklin, 1738, pp. 6-8.</div>
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-Maxwell, John Francis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“The Charismatic Origins of the Christian Anti-Slavery Movement in North
America, “ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Quaker History, </i>Volume 63,
Number 2, Autumn 1974, pp. 108-116.</div>
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-Thompson-Stahr, Jane. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Burling Books,</i> 2001</div>
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David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-87846274980265302442017-07-04T10:12:00.005-04:002017-07-04T10:13:47.123-04:00United Congregational Church of Little ComptonI recently purchased this watercolor by Julie A. Shoen of the United Congregational Church of Little <br />
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Compton, Rhode Island on Ebay. The congregation was organized in 1704 and this building was constructed in 1832 and is situated on the southeast corner of the Commons. My 6th Great Grandparents, Jonathan Grinnell and Abigail Ford Grinnell were members of the congregation in the 1740s.<br />
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This site is one of my favorite spots to visit when I travel to Little Compton. Several years ago on one of those visits, the church was hosting an open house and I was able to view the interior which is spectacularly simple and beautiful. There is a second level gallery, with access through narrow stairway, which the entire room can be in full view.<br />
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The burial ground outside of its walls are filled with the remains of so many early colonial settlers, including many Grinnell's. It is one of only two "New England" styled towns which includes a commons in Rhode Island. It is worthy of a visit.David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-26720412855647502122017-04-03T22:53:00.001-04:002017-04-03T23:14:18.664-04:00Sakonnet Point at Little Compton....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In line with my current reading habit of focusing on Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island, I just finished reading a charming little book entitled, <i>Sakonnet Point Perspectives</i> by James C. Gaman and Michelle G. Styer. Sakonnet Point is the southern tip of the Town of Little Compton and extends out in between the Atlantic Ocean on the Sakonnet River estuary. In the several short trips that I have taken to Little Compton, only once have I had the fortune of seeing the Point.<br />
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This neighborhood or area of Little Compton has been the site of planning and commercial schemes for many generations. The vast area was once dominated by the Sisson Farm, and today the only hotel in the vicinity is located in the Old Stone House, which was built by the Sissons, and is in close proximity to the Sakonnet Yacht Club and the Sakonnet Point Club. But the history of this spot is complex. Following the American Civil War and into the 1920s it was a resort community where people could escape the hot summer of the cities. During Prohibition, the people of Little Compton had a great deal of financial success because it was a great place for "Rum Running" and few of these outlaws and their conspirators were ever caught. It was also the site of Fort Church, a US Army installation, during the World War II created to defend the Atlantic shoreline. Fishing and lobstering have also dominated the location. With public access to the water and public access to docks made it a great place for many small scale business ventures, equipped with a boat, fishing nets, and a crew, one could make a decent living--even today.<br />
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Just off shore from Sakonnet Point are East Island, West Island and the Sakonnet Lighthouse on Little Cormorant Rock. All places with storied pasts, but help to keep to legends of Sakonnet Point to be more than just a memory.<br />
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This rugged point has seen a lot of destruction through the years and few buildings from the early days of Little Compton can be found there, unlike the area around the Commons, where 18th and 19th century buildings abound. Sakonnet Point had virtually been whipped off the map during several hurricanes in the 20th century. The first one of note, and the most destructive was in 1938. It sounds as if only two structures really survived it---The Old Stone House and the Watch House (which would be demolished later). Then there were hurricanes in 1954 and 1955. So, needless to say, the Point was often being rebuilt.<br />
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There are two things about the Point that pique my interest as a Grinnell. First is the fact that just west of the Long Pond is Grinnell Road. This is clearly named for Benjamin Grinnell's farm from the mid-19th century. Most likely he obtained this land through his wife's family the Church's.<br />
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The second area that is of interest is the Grinnell's Fishing shack, which was destroyed during the 1938 hurricane. Who was the Grinnell? Never named in any references yet. There is a picture of the Point before the devastating storm and you see that the building was one of the largest buildings there and located in the vicinity where Sakonnet Point and Maryland Roads intersect. We learn that the second floor of the "shack" is where many of the workers on the fishing boats lived during the season. On the day of the storm, ten people were hunkered down in the building in hopes of riding out the storm, but the winds and the waves were too much for the wooden building. It was blown off its foundation and into the river. Of the ten, four of the occupants were lost and never to be found. They were Al Sabin, Ebenezer Keith, and Mr. and Mrs. Vasco Souza. This loss is considered the most tragic of the storm at the Point. (I need to know more about this place!!!!)<br />
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The book is filled with many first hand accounts of living, visiting, summering, partying, and working at Sakonnet Point. Its a fast read but for those of us not familiar with the various names of Atlantic coast wildlife and fishing boat terms, keep Google handy. The volume is richly illustrated and in particular the cover art is fascinating. Both the front and back covers show a depiction of a the Point and fishing vessels by a 19th century artist that was painted on the brick wall above a mantle piece in a home in Little Compton. Simply beautiful!<br />
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<i>Sakonnet Point Perspectives</i> was produced as a joint project between the Friends of the Sakonnet Lighthouse, Little Compton Historical Society, and the Sakonnet Preservation Association in 2011. I purchase my copy from the LCHS for $12.00.David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-62578381845200286112017-03-26T19:01:00.000-04:002017-04-03T22:56:15.942-04:00Dave Johnson in the Great War, 1918-1919<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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In a little over a week from now our nation will be commemorating
the centennial of the US entering into the Great War, now known as the First
World War. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the war raged in
Europe since 1914 the United States, led by President Woodrow Wilson remained
in a neutral position for several years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Following the German U-boats sinking of several American vessels in the
Atlantic, neutrality was no longer possible and on April 2, 1917 Wilson addressed
Congress and asked for a Declaration of War against Germany.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon the affirmative votes in the Senate
followed by the House of Representatives, the United States went to war on
April 6, 1917.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The war continued to rage
until November 11, 1918, which was known as Armistice Day for generations and
is now celebrated at Veteran’s Day here in the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ultimately, 4.7 million American’s would
serve in the Army and Navy during the war with approximately 120,000 killed in
action. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">David B. Johnson, 1918 <i>USS Georgia</i></td></tr>
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Serving in the armed forces was a hard decision in many
parts of the United States, given that there were large numbers of American’s
of German descent living in both urban and rural communities, they often experienced divided loyalties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The maternal side of my family lived in one
of those communities where the German language was still being taught alongside
English in many of the rural one-roomed school houses in northeastern Jackson
County, Michigan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>patriotism ran deep in the Johnson family and
they would send two of their son’s off to fight for the US and the Allies.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dave's New Testament<br />
during his time in the Navy</td></tr>
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David and Nina Johnson lived in Leoni Township and by time
the US entered the war they had six children at home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two would go off to war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, their eldest son, John Vernon Johnson (1898-1970)
would serve in Battery B of the 21<sup>st</sup> Field Artillery Unit, which had
just recently been organized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John would
attain the rank of Sergeant by the time he was discharged and sent back home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then their second son David Benjamin Johnson
(1900-1967) would volunteer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although
Dave was only seventeen at the time, he lied about his age and stated that he
was born a year earlier. David B. Johnson would enlist in the US Navy on 22 March 1918
for 4 years of service in Cincinnati, Ohio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A description of him at the time indicates he was 5 foot 9 inches tall, weight
175 lbs., had blue eyes, brown hair, and a Rudy complexion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was then sent to the Great Lakes Naval
Training Station, located just north of Chicago and then to the Naval
Operations Base at Norfolk, Virginia where on 24 May 1918 he was assigned about
the<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> USS Georgia, </i>a Virginia-class
battleship that was constructed at the Bath Iron Works in Maine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> USS
Georgia </i>was commissioned in 1906.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>During the war the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Georgia</i>
would serve in the Atlantic Fleet mainly as a convoy escort for the many
vessels that were transporting American Troops to France.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dave would be ranked as a Firemen 2<sup>nd</sup>
Class while on the Georgia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>USS Georgia</i> at Brest, France in June, 1919</td></tr>
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Brest, France was one of the main ports of entries and exits
for the American Troops.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know that
Dave was on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">USS Georgia</i> in Brest
on at least two occasions, December, 1918 and June, 1919.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His assignment on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">USS Georgia</i> ended on June 28, 1919.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Following his service on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Georgia</i>,
he would be assigned to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">USS Florida</i>
as his final vessel during his service, but this was a short 2 month assignment
and it isn’t known to me what activity he may have been engaged during that
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ultimately, Dave was discharged
from the US Navy on 7 August 1919 at the Naval Demobilization Center in
Pittsburgh, PA, where he was given $16.55 for his transportation back home to
Jackson, Michigan.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Souvenir post card from France, 1918</td></tr>
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While no correspondence survives from the time Dave served in
the Navy, we are fortunate that there are a number of photographs and official
documents that he kept to from his war service and they help us peak into his
world as a Navy man.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once Dave returned
home, we know that he went back to work as a farm hand and also worked for
short periods of time on the Michigan Central Railroad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But work was difficult to find following the war
and by 1922, Dave re-enlisted in the service, this time into the U. S. Army,
where he would be stationed at the Schofield Barracks in Hawaii for several
years.</div>
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We here in the United States are very fortunate that our service members saw such a brief period of the Great War. Other members of the Allies, and also those of the Central Powers, experienced huge loss of lives and many soldiers that did return home were diagnosed with "shell shock," what we know of today as "post traumatic stress syndrome." So many peoples lives were devastated during this conflict, both physically and emotionally. </div>
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John and David Johnson were fortunate to be able to return home to their families and to adjust to life after war with few major problems. We are all thankful because they both established new generations of our family. Thank you for your willingness to serve and know that we remember!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">David B. Johnson's Discharge Papers, 1919</td></tr>
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David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-90883667902854802672017-03-19T21:17:00.001-04:002017-04-03T22:56:51.497-04:00The History of Little Compton (Volume II) <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Some of my readers will recall that back in July, 2016 I
wrote about a wonderful little book that I read by Janet Lisle entitled, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The History of Little Compton: First Light
Sakonnet 1660-1820, </i>published by the Little Compton Historical Society<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. </i>Little Compton, Rhode Island is one of
the earliest places of settlements of my Grinnell ancestors in North America
and I have been fascinated by this rural New England village since my high
school days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately, the Grinnell
Family Association of America through the years hosted reunions in the vicinity
of Little Compton and I have been able to visit the town on three separate occasions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With each visit, I feel myself become more
connected and pulled into this place, which is located on the Atlantic shore
and situated on a peninsula just east of the Sakonnet River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Riding down the RI Route 77 from Fall River
(MA) through Tiverton (RI) and into Little Compton you see small fences made of
fieldstones, large sweeping fields extending to the river, and a host of 17<sup>th</sup>
& 18<sup>th</sup> century homes and barns-- all setting the stage for the feeling
that you are stepping back in time.</div>
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Janet Lisle authored a second volume entitled, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The History of Little Compton: A Home by the
Sea 1820-1950, (</i>2012—375 pages) also published by the historical
society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be honest, I wasn’t going to
purchase this book because my direct line of Grinnell’s had left Little Compton
and Tiverton by 1796, so I told myself that I didn’t need to read this
one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well I changed my mind and order a
copy after I read Lisle first book and I’m glad that I did.</div>
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In Lisle second volume, she weaves together such vivid stories
of the lives of the people in this community through the years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You really feel like you get to know them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The names of the families of the town are so consistent
through the centuries. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surnames like
Wilbour, Manchester, Simmons, Almy and Church are always present.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While there are several times that Grinnell’s
are mentioned up through the 1940’s, they are rarely main characters presented,
but it drives home the point of how many generations these families have
remained part of this town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another
contributing factor to the stability of the stories Lisle presents and also reflects
the stability of the community is also the size of the population:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1820—1,580 and 1950—1,556.</div>
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In the book, Lisle takes us through each decade and connects
the activity in Little Compton to those of the growing country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Specific events that take place in town are
placed well into their historical context of our national narrative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She presents how the community grows up
following the maturing of the new Republic and brings to life the struggles
that a small town has with law, order, taxation, care for the needy and the
struggle between the role of the church and government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later she deals with issues about how the
community dealt with the mentally ill, slavery and the abolitionist movement,
the women’s movement, the Civil War, the exodus of young people, industrialization
and the effect on the farming community, and the rebirth of farming in new
forms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With the industrial age, and the
growth of a middle class and wealthy class in urban centers, Little Compton
finds itself as a place for vacationing outsiders and some of its own returning
home, juxtaposed against the growing fishing industry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coming into the 20<sup>th</sup> century she
presents issues confronting the town too become a modern community with electricity,
paved road, new school structures, fire and police service, and the
mobilization for war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Natural disasters
and recovery efforts are part of the story, as well.</div>
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While this book deals with weighty issues, it is highly
readable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lisle is an experienced writer
and uses her abilities to create a publication that tells stories and instructs
without being bogged down in dense language or details.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is not to say that it should be viewed as
light-weight history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has an
extensive bibliography and has utilized primary sources and newspaper accounts
as source material throughout the book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In particular, she used oral histories collected by the Little Compton
Historical Society in a very rich manner to help tell 20<sup>th</sup> century history.</div>
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Another very appealing feature of the book is the colorful
illustrations used throughout.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only
does she use photographs and images of documents, but also artwork that depicts
this picturesque town in vivid colors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thus, she brings the 19<sup>th</sup> and early 20<sup>th</sup> century
into real color and not a sepia toned dreamy state.</div>
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For all my Grinnell family genealogy and history enthusiasts,
the book is well worth your time to read.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As I stated before, members of the Grinnell family are included
throughout the text.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From Angelina
Palmer Grinnell at her home at Warren’s Point, or her husband Thomas Bailey
Grinnell’s name on a list, they are present.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then there is Gideon Henry Grinnell’s trial for illegally fishing, and
Thomas and Hannah Grinnell employ of some of the first Portuguese immigrants to
the town, and finally Frank Grinnell and his large building that housed both
his fishing business and its upper level that was a domicile for his fishing
crew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The building was swept off the map
at Sakonnet Point by the massive hurricane in 1938….the Grinnell’s are present
throughout this gem of a community history of Little Compton.</div>
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This book has continued to feed my longing to experience
Little Compton in a more personal way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Floating in my head are plans to make it the location of a future
vacation, where I can breathe in the area and explore that land where my
ancestors walked and worked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Visit the
Town Clerk’s office and do some research to establish the location of their
land, worship in the beautiful Little Compton United Congregational Church on
the Common, experience the beauty that Janet Lisle has so richly described in
her volumes….It will be an excellent vacation for sure!</div>
David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-34018184491013512702017-03-05T17:40:00.002-05:002017-04-03T22:57:27.054-04:00A Day to RememberNo one today can recall the special occasion that happened in our family on Wednesday, January 10th 1906 because it was more than one hundred and ten years ago and none of us were alive to witness the joyous event. On that day, Florence Mabel Reams and Amos Randall Grinnell were married in a ceremony at the residence of the bride's brother and sister-in-law, Martin and Lola Reams at 175 West Street in Battle Creek, Michigan. I have assumed for years that this was probably a simple affair with a few family members gathered to join in on the event, but I might have been wrong with new evidence shedding some light on the events of the evening. Both the <i>Battle Creek Daily Journal</i> and <i>The Morning Inquirer</i> carried detailed accounts of this solemn event on the following day.<br />
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The ceremony started at 8 pm, so it must have been dark and there was probably snow on the ground which would have been typical of a Michigan January. Rev. William S. Potter, the popular preacher from the First Presbyterian Church of Battle Creek officiated at the wedding with 40 friends and relatives in attendance. Miss Reams is described as wearing<br />
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While this description is confirmed by the photographs that have been passed down in the family, the actual color was not known due to the sepia tone images captured by J. Howard Baker, a well-known portrait photographer of Battle Creek.<br />
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Lottie Grinnell the sister of the groom was the maid of honor and Earl Reams, the nephew of the bride was the grooms attendant. Earl was the oldest son of Martin and Lola Reams, who were the hosts for the ceremony. Although Earl was Mabel's nephew, they were only a year apart in age.<br />
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We learn from the newspaper accounts that there was indeed music at the festivities. Pearl Reams, the daughter of Martin and Lola, played the piano for the guests and ushered the bride and groom in with the sounds of the wedding march. Ms. Fern Rogers (later Mrs. Jeffs) sang the popular song "Oh Promise Me," which must have been a special treat for those gathered. <br />
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<![endif]-->This song was written
in 1887, music by Reginald De Koven and lyrics by Clement Scott, and was a popular performance at wedding
ceremonies for decades. Its lyrics are:<br />
<br />
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Oh, promise
me! Oh, promise me!</div>
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<br /></div>
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Oh, promise
me that you will take my hand,</div>
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The most
unworthy in this lonely land,</div>
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No love less
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Oh, promise
me! Oh, promise me!</div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_5KsfYt8MM">(Click here</a> to listen to Jan
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Today, our impressions are often colored by the fact that we have only black and white or sepia toned images to help us look into the past. Therefore, it was delightful to read in the articles that the house was decorated with greenery and the dining room was deck-out in white and pink. Not surprising when you think about today's weddings with all the trappings and themes, but perhaps to us knowing that their surroundings were filled with such happy hues of color places helps confirm that this was a very joyous occasion.</div>
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Although I have many treasured documents related to my grandparents wedding, the discovery of the newspaper articles breaths some reality into these pages of family history. Amos and Mabel had seven children, twenty-one grandchildren, and at least forty great-grandchildren who celebrate their memory.<br />
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now demolished (pic from Willard Library of Battle Creek.</td></tr>
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<br />David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-37150393810128978102016-12-23T20:56:00.003-05:002017-04-03T22:58:00.564-04:00Don Grinnell in France 1918<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Donald Ivan Grinnell served in the United States Army in France during the First World War. He spent Christmas overseas, but returned to his home in Bellevue, Michigan the following January. Don was assigned to the 56th Engineers of the American Expeditionary Forces, he was 23 years old and had rarely been away from the comfort of his parents home, just south of Bellevue. His older brother Harry was also stationed in France, serving in a hospital facility caring for the wounded.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">This letter is especially revealing. In it he tells of the close calls and details of his deployment that a son would only share with his father or a brother. I doubt very much that he would have wanted his mother to know such details.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Almost 100 years ago this season, Don was spending his holiday's away from his family surrounded by perhaps a strange and unfamiliar landscape. So, with the coming of Christmas Day, I hope we remember all those who, past and present, sacrifice so much for us all.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Envelope states: <b>Dad's X-Mas Letter</b></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">To Mr. James T. Grinnell</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Bellevue,</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Langres,
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Nov[ember]
24, 1918</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dear
Father,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Well as this is Fathers day I will
write you a letter and as the sensorship is raised maby [maybe] I can say a
little more than usual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am well as
usual and hope this finds you folks better than the last I heard from you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was very sorry to hear of the sickness in
Amos's family and have worried about them and mother ever since and am anxiously
waiting for a letter to arrive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well I
will try and tell you some of my experiences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I left Washington<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>July 8 for New York.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were three companies of us each 250
men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We arrived at New York Wednesday morning the ninth and
imediatly went aboard but the boat did not leave the docks until noon Thursday then we sailed out past
the statue of Liberty
and anchored in the harbor until just before dark when we pulled anchor and put
to sea and by dark, land was out of sight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After we were at sea a day or two we begin<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to pick up other transpoorts and finaly a
battleship and one destroyer joined us making in all fourteen boats in the
convoy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ours was about the smallest boat
and had only about 11 or 12 hundred men aboard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On the eighteenth there were about ten submarine chasers joined us and
escorted us to the port.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In all we were
eleven days on the way, we had a level sea all the way but some of us were sick
and dident care what happened although we did not sight a sub, we kept a watch
all the way and had boat drill every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On Sunday<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>July 21 we anchored in
the harbor at Brest
France
and were ferried ashore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We marched
through Brest and about three miles into the country where we pitched our
little tents in the mud and stayed for three days, then one morning at two
oclock we marched back to Brest got on a train of little French horsecars and
after a three day and three nights ride we landed at eleven oclock at night in
Langres where we were hauled in trucks to a little town of Longeau.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We stayed at this place about a week then
marched back through<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Langres about seven
miles to my present camp at Champigny about a mile from Langres.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After nearly a week here we marched to the
train at 5 o'clock one
morning and left for the British Front, we had a ride of about three days and
passed through Troys, Parris, Raven, and landed at Amien in the Northern part
of France
on August 10th.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At that time the front
lines were just outside of Amiens
which was then under shell fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
night we passed through Paris
there was an air raid and we could hear the allarms and see the city as it was
put in darkness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we arrived at the
front our company was divided up among the five British Armies our platoon was
divided among the 4th Army and sent out about five men to a search light
section and that was our first experience of the war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The section which I was with had about fiften
men one searchlight and two motor trucks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The big advance began on August 8 and we followed it until October
22.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We would have to move nearly every
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we moved we would pack our
light and all</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> equipment
on the trucks and move about three miles or sometimes as far as ten miles, pick
out or location, dig an implacement for our light, set up our tents and be
ready for action by dark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We stood guard
all night long, each man doing about two hours and when the guard heard an
plain [airplane] aproaching, which he could distinguish by the sound of its
motor, he would call out the other men and when the plain was near enough which
is anywhere up to five or six miles we would turn the light on and search the
heavens for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is very hard to find
a plane with a search light as one has nothing but the sound to direct the
light, but when a hostile plane appears on the seen the whole heavens seem to
be split by searchlight beams because there are so many lights looking for
him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When once found all the lights
within range are turned upon him and he can be seen very planely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the antiaircraft guns begin to fire and
the air is full of shell bursts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Usually
the enemy is so stunned or scared that he drops all of his bombs and imeadiatly
begins to retreat unless he has an extra strong nerve or is hit by the shell
fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes an enemy intent upon
gaining his object or at least doing some damage will continue on after being
spoted by a light and will drop his bombs at a searchlight and machine gun them
but he usualy does little damage to them for they are safely dug in the ground
again sometimes he will drop his bombs among some troops, hhorses, on an
amunition dump or an air droom in that case great damage is done.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have had them drop bombs all around our
light but never hurt any of us also I have had them fire on us with their
machine guns and if he was within range we did the same thing but usualy they
fly too high for a machine gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best
method of bringing them down seems for one of our scout planes to attack them
when the light shows them up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nearly<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>always the enemy is set a fire and falls in
flames when this method is used.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have
seen as many as four planes brought down in one evening like this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our lights were nearly always under shell
fire from the enemys heavy guns and sometimes we had pretty warm times when one
hears one of these heavy shells come screaming towards him it dosent take him
long to git [get] close to the ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>About the closest I ever came to being hit<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by one of these was when I was sitting by the
campfire after dinner one day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A big
shell struck about one hundred yards from me and a piece of shrapnel about the
size of an hens egg went into the dirt bank so close to me that I could have
caught it in my hands and another which was much larger passed so close over
head that I could see it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the
bombs used held a ton of explosive and I have seen them blow holes six feet
deep and thirty feet in diamiter so you can imagine what damage one would do
when it hit its target.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One morning just at dawn we had
eight enemy come over at one time and were also being shelled by the heavy
artilery but there were no antiaircraft guns close by so they all got away
safely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were all taken off the English
lights on October 21 and bidding our tommy friends good by boarded a train at
Perone which was then some thirty miles behind the lines, and left for
Langres.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the most hardly
contested towns have hardley a brick left standing and some of the battlefields
are just one continual shell hole after another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I passed through the famous Von Hindenburg
line which is a master piece of machinery with miles and miles of barbed wire
entanglements and concrete dug outs which go to eighty or ninty feet deep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also I passed over the famous DeNord Canal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the Germans asked one of our boys how
they got the tanks across it he told him we had tanks that walked on water
now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes we were so close to the
lines that we could see the infantry when they went over the top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well we arrived here on Oct[ober] 25 and
expected to get our own lights and be sent up to the American sector but before
they arrived the Armistice was signed so we did not go and now we will have to
pack our outfits and ship them home again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are all prepared to leave now just waiting the orders to go which
wont be many days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some think we will be
in the states in 15 days but I think new year or Christmas is nearer to the day
we will probably leave from either Brest
or Le Harve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well I expect this letter
wont reach you much before your birthday so will wish you many happy returns of
the day although I hope to be with you on that day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good By.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Your
Loving Son.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Donald
I. Grinnell</span></div>
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F 23 Platoon 56 Engrs.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Amer.
Ex. F.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A. P. O. 731A</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>P.S.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Have mother write the Quarter Master General at Washington D. C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And tell him about my allotment and all of
the sircomstances [circumstance].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Lieutenaut said to have you do this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
has already writ[t]en him.</span></div>
David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-5939969256144309092016-12-03T20:52:00.001-05:002016-12-13T19:17:17.495-05:00Nina Johnson Benn: A Rural Life<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nina Johnson with her sons Bob, Dave and George at Christmas</td></tr>
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There are very few people alive today that knew my great-grandmother, Nina Mae (Hagaman) Johnson Benn. Earlier today I sat down to do some family history research only to discover that fifty-four years ago today Nina died at the age of 83 years in Jackson, Michigan. So, I thought I should take the opportunity to write something about the life of this women who worked hard in the rural area of Leoni and Grass Lake townships. Nina was a daughter, a wife, mother and grandmother to many. So lets explore her life together.<br />
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Nina Hagaman was born on 18 December 1878 in Somerset Center, Hillsdale Co. Michigan to George and Ida (Galusha) Hagaman. The Hagaman's lived on a farm a little north west of the small village of Somerset Center, where Nina's grandfather Jacob Hagaman owned and operated what was probably a general store. Not far from this store sat a small white framed church that would be a important center for the Hagaman families spiritual and social life. Here, at the Somerset Center Methodist Episcopal Church Nina's mother played the piano for Sunday services and probably a number of other actives, such as recitals and plays, which were common in rural 19th century communities. The Hagaman's resided with Nina's paternal grandmother, Elizabeth. It is clear that following Elizabeth's death in 1890, fortunes must have changed for Nina's parents. The farm was sold and the family would move to the Grass Lake area, first living on a small farm in southern Waterloo Township and then later on property that they probably rented.<br />
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Following the move to Grass Lake, Nina met a young farmer named David Rattler Johnson of Leoni. They were married on 20th of January 1897 by Rev. John F. Orwick, the Chaplain for the State Prison of Southern Michigan, located in downtown Jackson. The witnesses listed in the marriage records are Charles and Carrie Johnson, the brother and sister-in-law of the groom. I suspect the Rev. Orwick was affiliated with the Trinity Lutheran Church in Jackson, where Carrie Fisher Johnson's family had been members.<br />
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It would be only a few short years and David and Nina would become parents to a large group of children, they were: 1) John (1898-1970), 2) David (1900-1967), 3) George (1904-1957), 4) Ida (1908-1977), 5) Alfred (1911-1966), and 6) Robert (1915-1980).<br />
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The Johnson's would live on rented farms throughout Leoni Township for many years, never owning their own place, as far as I'm able to determine. Using the 1910 and 1920 Federal Censuses I have pin pointed their residence in the area just east of the Michigan Center Mill Pond/Center Lake, probably along Napoleon, Lee, and Noon Roads. By the 1930 and 1940 Federal Censuses the Johnson's were living in the northern sections of Leoni Township, on farms that my mother always referred to as the Whipple Farm.<br />
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In the late 30s David would become ill with Tuberculosis and was hospitalized periodically, finally succumbing to the often fatal illness on 8 October 1940 after a four month stay at the Jackson County Tuberculosis Sanitarium.<br />
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As a 62 year old widow, Nina would now be on her own. She rented various apartments around Leoni and Grass Lake until she married a widower Mr. Stewart Benn in 1942. Before her second marriage, its not clear what her source of income was, but I would guess that like so many women at the time she would have done domestic work for large families in the community, helping with the cooking, cleaning and the washing of cloths was a very common activity for older women that could be turned into a way of support. Also, at this time Social Security was a new benefit and perhaps she was eligible to receive a monthly check based on her first husbands previous work.<br />
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It is unclear to most of her descendants how long she shared a domestic situation with Mr. Benn. Concluding from stories we have heard, it appears that domestic life as a married couple with Nina and Stewart was tense and uncomfortable. Eventually Nina left her second husband, but they never divorced. It was about this time that my sister remembers Grandma Nina. At the time she was living in an apartment in Grass Lake....it was in what is today the home of the Grass Lake Historical Society, the Coe House Museum. How long Nina lived at the corner of East Michigan Avenue and Wolf Lake Road is not certain. Eventually Nina would no longer be able to live on her own and she took up residence with her daughter, Mrs. Ida Johnson Meyer at 1900 Wolf Lake Road.<br />
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Nina Johnson Benn died of a heart attack on 3 December 1962 at the W. A. Foote Memorial Hospital in Jackson. Her funeral service was held at the Stormont Funeral Home in Grass Lake with the Rev. Archie H. Donigan of the Grass Lake Methodist Church officiating. She was to be buried next to her first husband, David at the Leoni Cemetery on South Portage Road, just south of the village of Leoni. However, when the sexton began to open the gravesite an existing interment was discovered. This necessitated finding another final resting place for Nina. It is said that she was interred "nearby". But the gravesite was never marked and attempts to locate it have proven difficult. Last year, I contacted the Leoni Township Clerks Office thinking they would have a record where Nina's final resting place is located (The township is now the owner and operator of the cemetery). Unfortunately, they can find no record of where she was buried. While we are certain that she is buried at the Leoni Cemetery because "Burial Permits" were issued, it has become one of my goals to locate her grave and make sure that it is marked for future generations of her descendants.<br />
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While Nina has not been memorialized with a marker signifying the location of her mortal remains, on this day I hope she knows that she is Remembered!<br />
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UPDATE!<br />
<i>Received a letter from the Burden's Funeral Home yesterday. Burden's is the successor to the Stormont Funeral Home, which is the company that managed Nina's final services. Unfortunately, Burden's has no knowledge of the whereabouts of records for the former Stormont Funeral Home. Sad news....I was hopeful that they would be another source of information on Nina's final resting place. </i>David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-2918497769538379082016-07-10T18:46:00.000-04:002016-07-10T18:52:45.092-04:00Little Compton, Rhode Island....Cradle of Grinnell's<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Little Compton is a picturesque town located on the east side of the Sakonnet River and overlooking Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island. The main "village" consists of the Commons, which is a beautiful triangular shaped lot filled by the United Congregational Church and the burial ground. Around the roads that border the Commons are a mixture of historic Colonial and 18th century buildings. The main "highway" is a road running north and south (from Fall River, MA to Little Compton) called "West Main" that is dotted with many historic homes of colonial era families that settled the area when it was still part of "Plymouth Colony." Little Compton was the home to many of my Grinnell ancestors from the mid-1600's through the American Revolution and I have visited it a number of times and with each visit feel a spiritual connection to this land that my early American ancestors walked, lived, worked, worshiped, and were laid to rest.<br />
Last summer, when I last visited, I purchased Janet Lisle's <i>First Light Sakonnet: The History of Little Compton</i>, published in 2010 by the Little Compton Historical Society. The time frame Lisle used for this volume is 1660-1820, pretty much the exact time that my ancestors called this place home. I found this publication very worthwhile reading. Although it is not a lengthy book, Lisle paints a lively picture of life in the community. The book is filled with colorful reproductions of artworks depicting the town, which bring so much energy and imagination to her text. Lisle utilized many primary sources to compose the narrative of life in Little Compton. She used pages of town records, diaries, and court records to uncover personal narratives of the inhabitants of this small town that were faced by trails and tragedies as the town transformed from a distant outpost to a thriving colonial settlement faced by political realities of the day. The town struggled between the rule of Puritan dominated Massachusetts and separated itself from the confines of their laws to the more accepting (or perhaps libertarian) Rhode Island Colony. During the War of Independence, Little Compton farmers found themselves arming themselves and creating organized militias to help defend themselves from British invasion, but also to keep a look out on the British who had occupied Newport and Aquidneck Island.<br />
There are many mentions of the Grinnell surname in the pages of <i>First Light</i>, perhaps none more heroic to me than the list of Patriots from the town who served in the Revolution bearing the name. Overall, the book is an excellent short read (only 158 pages of text) for anyone wishing to understand the early life of a small and often isolated New England village. My first read on this years summer vacation.<br />
<br />David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-28996407918167603522016-05-30T11:24:00.000-04:002016-05-30T18:54:19.969-04:00Remembering on Memorial Day 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Remembering my ancestor who served:</div>
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Alfred Fuller Aldrich—Michigan Engineers and Mechanics<br />
Abel Aldrich--9th Michigan Infantry </div>
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Phylander S. Aldrich—Michigan Engineers and Mechanics</div>
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Robert G. Burling—42<sup>nd</sup> Illinois & 19<sup>th</sup>
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Edward Carley—9<sup>th</sup> Michigan Infantry (James Island
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Oren A. Carley—8<sup>th</sup> Michigan Infantry<br />
John C. Crofoot--13th Michigan Infantry<br />
Vinson Detterich--2nd Missouri Cavalry</div>
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Giles Galusha—4<sup>th</sup> Michigan Infantry (Stones River
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Henry H. Hoyt—122<sup>nd</sup> New York Infantry</div>
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Lawrence Hobart McCreery—Michigan Engineers and Mechanics</div>
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James Nelson McCreery—12<sup>th</sup> Michigan Infantry</div>
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George Wightman McCreery—6th Michigan Infantry<br />
James Z. Murray--1st Michigan Infantry<br />
Nicholas Neiderlander--98th New York Infantry</div>
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Uriah Reams—12<sup>th</sup> and 19<sup>th</sup> Michigan
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Oscar Reams—U. S. Engineers (Alexandria Nat. Cemetery)</div>
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Erastus E. Reams—19<sup>th</sup> Michigan Infantry</div>
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Samuel Colyar Reams—13<sup>th</sup> Michigan Infantry</div>
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Zephaniah Reams—11<sup>th</sup> Michigan Infantry (Nashville
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Jonathan Reams—177<sup>th</sup> Ohio Infantry (Arlington
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Josiah A. Risdon—1<sup>st</sup> California Cavalry</div>
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William Henry Skelcher—8<sup>th</sup> Michigan Infantry</div>
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Isaac S. Young—2<sup>nd</sup> Michigan Infantry</div>
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Ross R. Reams—U. S. Army (c1904-1910)</div>
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Donald Ivan Grinnell—56<sup>th</sup> U. S. Engineers</div>
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Harry Duane Grinnell—U. S. Army Medical Corps</div>
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David B. Johnson—U. S. Navy & U. S. Army (1917-1925)</div>
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John V. Johnson—U. S. Army</div>
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Howard J. Berry</div>
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Jack D. Crabtree</div>
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Harley R. Grinnell</div>
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Darrell R. Grinnell</div>
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John J. Marsden<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-18424807871148141742016-03-20T12:13:00.000-04:002016-05-30T11:40:49.061-04:00Red Cross activities in Munith during World War I<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I recently ran across this column entitled "Red Cross News and Notes" in the Jackson Citizen Patriot on May 8, 1918. It includes a short report on the activities of the Munith Branch, which states that Annie Carley's three daughter had pieced together three quilts for the Red Cross. While the article don't get their names correct--Ida Pearl (should be Ila Pearl), and Eva May (should be Iva May), and Clara Bell...it helps me confirm some of the stories my grandmother shared concerning community involvement during the war effort. Sometime about 1992, I interviewed grandma about this subject and she told of how the women and girls would collect rags, clean them, and bring them to the Munith church where they would cut them into strips for bandages. What she didn't tell me was about the quilts that she and her sisters made! Can you image a 11, 10, and 9 year old sewing something for wounded military personnel today? Not sure I can.<br />
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Two things this brings to the mind--How even a small community like Munith was empowered to contribute to national wartime efforts and secondly, the great traditions of Munith women coming together to make at difference in the world, whether it was their activities in the Red Cross, the 4-H, the Henrietta Helping Hands or the Waterloo Needlework Club...well done!David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-34738515675677816122016-03-06T14:50:00.001-05:002016-03-06T14:57:12.104-05:00<h2>
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In the last few years, I've developed a desire to collect vintage postcards related to the communities where my ancestors and extended family took up residence. Searching Ebay is always a lot of fun during my hunting for postcards and once in while I find a gem...particularly if its an image that I had <br />
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always hoped to find, but had little hope that one existed. Last week was one of those great moments when I made a rare discovery....a real photograph postcard of the Greenwood Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. This congregation was the home church for Lillian (Reams) Secord Smith, the oldest sister of my grandmother Mabel Reams Grinnell. Aunt "Sis", as she was called by my dad, appears to have moved to Jackson about 1916 from Decatur. In Decatur, she had been married to a widower, Mr. Royal A. Secord, who was a carriage painter and wall paper hanger. While living in Decatur, Lillian worked as a milliner and in the 1910 Census it is recorded that she owned her own shop. Sounds pretty remarkable for a married women...you rarely hear about married women owning their own business. Leads me to think the Mr. Secord must have been at least somewhat supportive of his wife's entrepreneurial endeavors. Mr. Secord died in 1915 which must have been a financial blow to Aunt "Sis". Just a few months over a year following Secord's death, we discover that Aunt "Sis" has married again, to Mr. Rufus Carlton Smith, a traveling salesmen residing in Jackson. The marriage is recorded in the records of the Greenwood Avenue Church on May 15, 1916 and indicates that there was a 20 year difference in their ages. Mr. Smith, like Mr. Secord, was a widower so It appears that Aunt "Sis" must have been fulfilling a role as a mother and housekeeper in the family. While in Jackson, it is clear that Aunt "Sis" ran their home as a boarding house, but its not clear if she maintained her career as a milliner. Soon, her mother, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Burling Reams would come to live with her and Mr. Smith at their 1019 Griswold Avenue home. It is here where Mrs. Reams would spend her remaining years and where she eventually passed away on November 24, 1918.<br />
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Aunt Sis would once again finder herself a widow in only a few short years, for Mr. Smith passed away in 1921, only 5 years following their marriage.<br />
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I believe that Aunt Sis was the person who laid the groundwork for my grandparents, Amos and Mabel Grinnell, to relocate to Jackson. Jackson was a booming town and there were many opportunities for work. Amos had previously worked at Kellogg's and Post's in Battle Creek and then found himself as a farm hand in Assyria. Upon moving to Jackson about 1925, we find Amos as a truck driver. Eventually, Amos and Mabel would be living in their own home on Levan Street in 1929, but we know that they arrived in Jackson several years earlier and Aunt Sis would have had the space to provide the Grinnell's a temporary home.<br />
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During her life spent in Jackson, Aunt Sis became an active member of the Greenwood Avenue Church, which was located only a few blocks from her home. Dad remarked that as young adults the family would attend church with Aunt Sis....even though the only thing that really interested him and his brother Merle were the girls who attended. <br />
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Membership at the church had a lasting impact on Aunt Sis, for when she became too old to live on her own, she moved to the Methodist retirement home in Grand Rapids. The M. J. Clark Memorial Home on Sherman Avenue in Grand Rapids became her residence by between 1938-1940. She passed away on December 10, 1954 at the Clark home, just 5 days shy of her 86th birthday. She was laid to rest next to her first husband, Mr. Secord at the Lakeside Cemetery in Decatur, Michigan.<br />
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Aunt Sis was held in very high regard by her numerous nieces and nephews. Although she had no children of her own, she had a very special place in the hearts of her extended family. Today, the Greenwood Avenue church is known as Trinity United Methodist Church and it remains an active congregation. The Clark Home also remains in Grand Rapids and provides many services to meet the needs of the elderly.<br />
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<br />David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-26133058264913644922016-02-13T15:16:00.001-05:002016-02-13T15:24:25.869-05:00Henrietta Helping Hand--Munith, Michigan<br />
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It was 1910 and a group of twenty-nine women met at the home of Augusta Pixley near Munith, Michigan to discuss what they could do to help people in need. This was the beginnings of the Henrietta Helping Hand, a women's organization that was active in the Munith area for more than 70 years. The group met monthly in the homes of one of its members and they would knit socks, make quilts, pack boxes of holiday baked goods, pretty much anything that was needed. During World War I they would gather rags that could be cut into bandages for the American Red Cross but generally most of their charitable work was for community members in Henrietta Township, Jackson County. When ever there was a family left homeless following a fire or other disaster, the ladies of the Helping Hand were ready to help supply the family with needed quilts and other household items.<br />
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Shown here are members wrapping boxes of homemade baked good for distribution to shut-ins in the late 1970s.<br />
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Four generation of my mothers family were part of the Helping Hand. Through those years, my grandmother saved so many mementos about the organization. I'm lucky to have the several anniversary program booklets (25th, 50th, 65th), newspaper clippings, and photographs that document the work of these busy women who always had time to do a bit extra for those that needed "a helping hand" in their community.<br />
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As a young boy, I remember attending some of the meetings with my mom and grandma. They always began their time together with singing "The More we get together...the happier we'll be." They would then work on their projects together and would end their time with a light luncheon. <br />
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Its hard to know how many people these women provided service to over the years. The Henrietta Helping Hand was still functioning in 1980, but I'm sure that it didn't last much longer. During their 70th Anniversary, all the press coverage of their celebration showed a very elderly group, which by that time also included a few of the guys.<br />
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Here is a list of the names of members that I have been able to determine from the various anniversary programs. When I review this list, I can only identify my Aunt Esther Marsden as the lone survivor of the group. <br />
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Ella Coin</div>
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Ella Spears</div>
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Eunice
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Orpha Disler</div>
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Tina Carley*</div>
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Many hands that made so much difference in the lives of their community.....lets never forget the work these folks did as good neighbors in Munith.<br />
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It would be great to know if anyone in the Munith area might have the record books of this organization. I would be delighted to know..... </div>
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This little plastic light up Santa Claus has been a favorite Christmas decoration since I was very young. I must have been 4 or 5 years old when my half sister Phyllis took me shopping in the great Toy House in Jackson. She told me that I could pick out something and I choose this awesome little figure that stands about a foot tall. Each year, this little guy has held a prominent place under my Christmas tree. But, that wasn't the only purchase that day....I remember saying to Phyllis, can't we get something for my sisters at home? She agreed and we found this package of 6 colorfully clothed angel ornaments for the tree. It was perfect because, as I remarked at the time, there was one to represent each of my sisters--Phyllis, Sandy, KenNetha, Shelley, Mary and Annie. I don't know what ever happened to that little package of angels that adorned our tree for many years, but each time I pull out this Santa Claus, I think about my family and the wonderful Christmas seasons we had in our little house on Sunnyheart.David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-33910823446388192192015-11-15T11:08:00.002-05:002015-11-15T11:11:21.924-05:00The "Ladies Extension" in Munith, Michigan???Here is a group picture that was taken in the front yard of Iva Carley Johnson's residence on Coon Hill Road in Munith, Michigan. Written on the back is "Ladies Extension." Does anyone know what the group did or was related too? I believe this group must have been related to something like the Farm Bureau or some other organization that was prevalent in a rural farm district. What I know is that it wasn't part of the American Legion Auxiliary, or the Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Church, or the Women's Society for Christian Service of the Methodist Church. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. The picture was likely taken sometime in the mid-to-late 1950s.<br />
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We are able to identify many of the women pictured in this image, but not all...so any help in identifying the remaining would be greatly appreciated.<br />
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Back Row L to R: Iva Johnson, Helen Palmer, Elsie Drew, Mary Shew, Pauline Dixon, and Emma Carley.<br />
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Front Row L to R: unknown, Ruth Carley (?), and unknown.<br />
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<br />David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-76302804428147197952015-08-16T20:08:00.000-04:002015-08-16T20:08:03.722-04:00HAGAMAN-BARNHART Clue uncovered....<br />
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For sometime now I have been trying to uncover the linage of my 3x great grandmother, Elizabeth (Barnhart) Hagaman. This weekend I found a nugget that might just prove to be the link. Elizabeth was born 4 December 1818 and we learn from a brief death notice (she died on 15 October 1890 and is buried in the Somerset Center Cemetery) that appeared in the Jackson Citizen Patriot that her birthplace was Macedon, Wayne County, New York. Macedon is located just southeast of Rochester, NY and the Erie Canal runs right through that community. In the past three years we have also learned that her husband, Jacob Hagaman's family was from Walworth and Macedon. With a known location, this triggered a more in-depth hunt to discover Elizabeth's family. What I discovered was a large family of several generations of Barnharts living in Macedon and the neighboring community of Palmyra (Palmyra, the birth place of Joseph Smith the founder of the Mormon faith). But each male Barnhart I look at in an effort to see if Elizabeth could have been a daughter didn't work out. So, I wasn't sure what I could do to narrow this down until this weekend--what I discovered was a Jacob Barnhart (and his wife Elizabeth) who were from Wayne County, NY and had migrated to Branch county, Michigan in the 1830s. They had several children that were listed on their <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Barnhart&GSfn=Jacob&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=24&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=43163108&df=all&" target="_blank">findagrave.com</a> post, which indicated a gap between one of their oldest son's and the rest of their children....could this be a clue?<br />
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Next I notice that Jacob's spouse, died in Litchfield, Michigan in 1859. OK--that can't be a coincidence...Litchfield is a small town in Hillsadale County and I discovered that when Jacob and Elizabeth Hagaman migrated to Michigan in the 1840s they first settled in Litchfield where Jacob was a merchant and it was there in 1858 that their youngest child, George Henry Hagaman was born in 1857. Then I examined the 1850 census and two sons of Jacob and Elizabeth Barnharts were living in Litchfield. OK--that seems more of a possibility in my mind now. But, we really need to figure out what documentation we can find to help prove these relationships. <br />
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--death certificates prior to 1897 are pretty sparse<br />
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--several of Jacob and Elizabeth Barnharts children remained in Girard, Branch County...which is only about 20 miles from Litchfield. So, I'm going to pursue looking at their known children to see if there are any published genealogies or biographical sketches in the vanity press books of the late 18th century.<br />
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Cross your fingers for me!!!!David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-50762468996909245372015-08-16T19:20:00.000-04:002015-08-16T19:20:31.138-04:00Anniversary of the marriage of Jesse Carley and Anna Smith<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On August 16, 1905 Jesse Carley, age 22, married Ms. Anna A. Smith, age 19 at the parsonage of the Baseline United Brethren Church near Munith, Michigan. The ceremony was officiated by the Rev. H. Hollis. Acting as Matron-of-Honor was Ms. Minnie Iva Larkins and as Best Man, Mr. Lawrence Hobart Smith, brother of the bride.<br />
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While the spring time has traditionally become the wedding season, August was that special month for the Carley brothers. The three, Edward, Alton and Jesse Carley were all married that month.<br />
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--August 23, 1894 Alton O. Carley married Ms. Tina E. Harris of Leslie, Michigan. The ceremony was held at the Leslie Baptist Church with the Rev. H. A. McConnell, officiating.<br />
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--August 29, 1899 Edward R. Carley married Ms. Ede E. Walz at the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Jackson, Michigan, Rev. Levi Master, officiating.David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-69421400601278668252015-05-17T20:23:00.000-04:002015-05-17T20:35:49.474-04:00Jesse Carley (1883-1958) and Carley migration to Michigan<br />
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Jesse Carley was born this day, 17 May 1883 in Henrietta Township, near Munith, Michigan. Today would have been his 132nd birthday. Jesse was born on the Carley farm on Sayers Road where he lived his entire life.<br />
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This wonderful little portrait of Jesse was made by the Novelty Studio Co. in Jackson, Michigan and probably dates to about 1900, just five years before his marriage to Annie Smith (hope you read yesterday's post).<br />
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Now how do you suppose the Carley family came to settle in Michigan? <br />
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Jesse's grandfather, James Carley immigrated to the United States from Hastings in southern England at the age of 15 aboard the <i>Obit, </i>and arrived in New York on April 30, 1830 with his parents, James and Elizabeth Carley, his grandmother Mary Hunt Carley, and 5 or 6 of his siblings (only three are listed on the ships manifest, younger children were not always listed).<br />
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The Carley's would settle for the next 20 years in the Syracuse, NY where James would learn his fathers profession as an upholsterer. It is probable that other Carley relatives immigrated and settled there prior the family of James and Elizabeth's voyage across the Atlantic. But the family would not remain in NY, rather they all emigrated to Sacramento, California following the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill. Sacramento at the time was called Fort Sutter. By this time James, the younger, had become a man and married a neighbor, Ms. Julia Ann Hoyt and had started a family of his own. By 1850, all the Carley's, including James, the younger, had left for California. However, Julia Ann remained in Syracuse with her parents and her children for a short time.<br />
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Family tradition states that James did well in the gold fields, and wished to return to the east to be with his wife and five children. He then left California, leaving his parents and his siblings in the growing City of Sacramento, where most of them would remain for generations. In 1853, Julia Ann ventured to Michigan with her parents, children and several of her siblings to settle on property that her father, Rev. Keeler Hoyt, had purchased in the early 1840s situated in Section 19 of Waterloo Township. James would travel to rejoin his family now located in Michigan.<br />
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Within a short time of his arrival, James purchase a tract of farm land adjacent to his father-in-laws in Waterloo, not far from Portage Lake. Judging from a 1858 plat map, it would appear that this tact would have only been about 20-30 acres of land, therefore, I would guess that was pretty small to raise enough crops to make a living for a family of seven. By the outbreak of the American Civil War, James and his family had purchase a new farm tract only about a mile to the west, located in Section 23 of Henrietta Township. Here, James and Julia would live out the remainder of their lives.<br />
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Oren A. Carley, Jesse's dad and James' second son, through the years enlarged the family's real estate holdings. He would purchase an additional 50 acres from William E. Pickett and then about 40 acres across the road from Calvin Silsbee. Ultimately, Oren Carley would own 156 acres in Section 23. The family would move to the house across Sayers Road sometime in the 1870's and this house was to become the permanent domicile for the next two generations of Carley's. It was in this house that Jesse was born. Oren continued to expand his real estate holdings by purchasing 80 acres in Section 14, located across Sayers road from the Kennedy School House (this would eventual be owned by Ed and Ede Carley). He again purchased another 80 acre farm on Kennedy Road in Section 15 from C. M. Shearer (across the road from Pleasant Grove Cemetery). In total, Oren's land holdings in Henrietta Township would include more than 300 acres. Jesse would inherit all 156 acres in Section 23.<br />
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In England, the Carley's were considered "non-Conformists" because of they were members of the Wesleyan Methodist congregation. When James, the elder, came to this country, he was known to have continued to preach as a laymen in what had become the Methodist Episcopal denomination in the United States. Many of the Carley's continued to follow Methodism and were members of the Munith Church (today, its the Munith United Methodist Church).<br />
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Keeler Hoyt, the father of Julia Ann Carley, however was a reformer within the Methodist Episcopal denomination while still living in Syracuse. An ardent abolitionist, Hoyt became a preacher in what was to become the Wesleyan Methodist denomination, a faith that traveled with him to Michigan. It is know that a small band of Wesleyan's formed a congregation in Waterloo Township as early as 1853, but this religious society does not appear to have survived into the 20th century. It was also during the 1850s that the Wesleyan's created a college for the education of young people at Leoni, Michigan, some 20 miles to the south of Waterloo Township. We know from a newspaper account in 1856 of a Wesleyan Methodist preacher who was traveling through the western parts of the country met up with "old friend" Keeler Hoyt on his visit to the college at Leoni on his way back to Syracuse. Knowing these tid bits of information, I've been on the hunt to discover whether Keeler Hoyt had any formal connection with the creation of the Wesleyan school at Leoni.<br />
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So, have we answered the question on how the Carley's came to live in Michigan? Well, perhaps we know a little more about it, but I do wish to know what was the factors that motivated the Hoyt side of the family to relocate. We have a good timeline here, but more digging is needed.David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-64469897861029550982015-05-16T10:53:00.005-04:002015-05-17T22:17:55.865-04:00Anna Smith Carley (1886-1981)<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gYaQHzh00d8/VVdObEYqHLI/AAAAAAAAAGY/6m7AMO6TSqY/s1600/Carley_Anna_Smith_FGCopy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gYaQHzh00d8/VVdObEYqHLI/AAAAAAAAAGY/6m7AMO6TSqY/s320/Carley_Anna_Smith_FGCopy.jpg" width="228" /></a>Born Annice Ann Smith on 16 May 1886 in rural Henrietta Township, Jackson County, Michigan, she would live to see more than 100 descendants brought into this world before her death at 94 years of age. Throughout her life, she would be known as "Anna A." or simply by "Annie" to most of her family and friends, although she was named after her grandmother, Annice Ann Aldrich McCreery (1836-1924).<br />
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As a young girl, she attended the McCreery School, which was the first school in the township and built by her great grandfather, Joseph McCreery. After her parents moved to a farm on Kennedy Road, she and her siblings would attend the Kennedy School. Annie would become a teacher and taught for one year at the Holling School, a one roomed schoolhouse, located on Territorial Road in the northwest corner of Henrietta Township. But her career would end when she became married to her former school mate, Jesse Carley on 16 August 1905.<br />
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Following her marriage to Jesse, Anna would reside at the Carley Farm are Sayers Road and for a time would include her in-laws Oren and Mary Carley. Soon, Anna and Jesse would begin to have a family of their own, starting off with three daughters born in a row: Ila Pearl (1906), Iva May (1908) and Clara Bell (1909). Soon these three would be a great help to their mother with cleaning, cooking and caring for their many younger siblings.<br />
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On the farm, the family would raise some livestock, such as cattle, pigs and chickens. They also grew crops like corn and wheat. Jesse's two older brothers, Edward and Alton both had farms adjacent to the Sayers Road homestead, and we assume that they all helped each other out when the time came for many hands to work the fields during harvest or with butchering.<br />
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The next four children to bless the Carley home were all boys: Oren D. (1912), Clifford (1916), J. Edwin (1917) and Lynn (1919), who undoubtedly became essential farm hands for their fathers growing farm operation. The next decade would bring the final four siblings into the family, four girls: E. Ilene (1921), Esther (1922), Vera (1925), and Joyce (1927). <br />
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The Carley's lived about 3 miles from the village of Munith, where uncle Ed Carley also operated a General Store and the rural telephone company. They also attended the Methodist Church there. To get to Munith for church activities or to see their friends they had to walk. The most direct route to the village was walking along the Grand Trunk Railroad tracks that ran on the southern property border of the farm, only a short distance from their farmhouse.<br />
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Jesse and Anna wanted to keep their family close by and upon each of their children's marriages gave them 1 acre of land of the farm, where they could build a home and get a good start on life. At least five of their children built homes on Sayers and Coon Hill Roads, adjacent to "Mother and Dads." <br />
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Anna and Jesse would host many holiday's and other celebrations in their home during their lives. But perhaps one of the most special was their Golden Wedding Anniversary in 1955. Hundreds of their family and friends filled their home with good wishes and cheer. Jesse would only survive three more years and died in the same home where he was brought into life in 1883.<br />
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Anna would remain in the farmhouse for a couple of more decades living on her own, but just a few years before her 90th Birthday, she found that it was becoming too difficult to manage on by herself. Not long after she went to live with her daughter Iva, where she remained until her death as a result of a battle with cancer in 1981.<br />
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So today, we remember Anna Smith Carley on the 129th Anniversary of her birth. Here is to a long and prosperous life!David R. Grinnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12040819836792166015noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3617915991868119319.post-23901406192280029862015-05-03T11:52:00.003-04:002015-05-03T11:52:46.963-04:00Farm Fires in Calhoun County, Summer of 1891.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I found a letter to <b>James T. Grinnell</b> of Convis Township from the <b>Farmer’s Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Calhoun</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> in October, 1891. It was a statement and bill which provided a list of farmers that had claims during the previous quarter that just happened to be the summer season. This was probably the height of bad weather that was the cause of so much damage to their homes, livestock and crops. Grinnell was insured for $750 at a cost of $75., I'm guessing that was a quarterly statement, although this is the only document from this company that I have located. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Here is the list--</span></div>
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“Since the last Assessment of May, 1891, our Company has
sustained and adjusted nineteen losses as follows:"</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jas. A. Kissenger,</b>
Leroy Twp., May 2, 1891—Damage to barn and carriage, Lightning</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arthur Crampton</b>,
Convis Twp., May 5, 1891—Contents of house burned. Cause unknown</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Frank H. Long</b>,
Leroy Twp., June 3, 1891—Cow killed by lightning.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Robert C. Williams</b>,
Lee Twp., June 8, 1891—House and contents burned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Supposed spark from chimney.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Norman Ellis</b>,
Fredonia Twp., June 19, 1891—Colt killed by lightning.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">John H. Spencer</b>,
Leroy Twp., July 13, 1891—House burned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">H. W. Backofen</b>,
Lee Twp., July 18, 1891—Stack of wheat burned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Incendiary</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chas. E. Woodliff</b>,
Homer Twp., July 29, 1891—Horse killed by lightning.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I.D. & B.F.
Warner</b>, Homer Twp., July 29, 1891—One cow and two sheep killed by
lightning. </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">W.W. French</b>,
Tekonsha Twp., July 29, 1891—Three horses killed by lightning.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Wm. Krenerick</b>,
Clarence Twp., July 29, 1891—Horse killed by lightning.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Geo. R. Sanford</b>,
Tekonsha Twp., Aug. 1, 1891—Rooking chair and tidy damaged by fire.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Geo. W. Mellen</b>,
Athens Twp., Aug 2, 1891—House and contents damaged by fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unknown.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">G. W. Davis</b>,
Leroy Twp., Aug 7, 1891—Barn damaged by lightning.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Myron Snyder</b>,
Clarence Twp., Aug 9, 1891—Straw burned by lightning.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">W. E. Thompson</b>,
Sheridan Twp., Aug. 9, 1891—House damaged by lightning.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">J. C. Gutekurest,</b>
Fredonia Twp., Aug. 17, 1891—Colt killed by lightning.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">P.I. Simons</b>,
Athens Twp., Sept. 19, 1891—Cow and calf killed and barn damaged by lightning.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">W. B. Shepard Estate</b>,
Battle Creek, Sept. 22, 1891—Barn and contents burned. Incendiary.</div>
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