Notes: Kith 'n Kin

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8251	Text in South Bend News-Times 7-25-1919 "The funeral for Henry F. Swartz will be held in the home, Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock with Rev. Green of First Methodist,"	SWARTZ, Henry Longbrake (I7014)
8252	That portion of Virginia which is now West Virginia.	MONTEITH, John (I6227)
8253	That she was buried here appears to be conjecture on the part of Roger Peterson who suggests that she might have been buried in this cemetery.	MCMICHAEL, Mary (I13765)
8254	The "History of Logan County and Ohio" says that Mary's maiden name was Wellan and that she came from England.	SMITH, Mary Mercy (I3941)
8255	The "Watkins Genealogy" originally published by Aaron Sherman Watkins says that Nancy's name was Nancy Ann White. However, both James Watkins' marriage bond and James and Nancy's marriage record show her as Nancy D. White. "Ann" is a nickname for "Nancy," and so it is likely that "Ann" was a nickname used for her. In the 1850 census, assuming I have actually found their listing, Nancy was listed as Ann.	WHITE, Nancy D. (I112)
8256	The 1810 Census lists him as John Smith, Jr. Right above him in this census is a John Smith, Sr., presumably his father.	SMITH, John Jr. (I9932)
8257	The 1841 Census shows her as Jean.	CHARTERIS, Jane (I17210)
8258	The 1850 Census gives her age as eight and the 1860, as eighteen. Records of Sherry Pees gives her birthdate as 7/8/1842	HAUENSTEIN, Barbara (I7946)
8259	The 1850 Census lists a Sarah Butler, age 75, living with David and Susanna Marmon. It is likely that this is Sarah Watkins Butler who died two years later.	WATKINS, Sarah (I124)
8260	The 1850 Census said his birthplace was Germany, but the 1860 and 1870 Census records said it was France.	LUGIBILL, Christian (I7798)
8261	The 1850 Census would suggest her birth was 1795, but the 1860 suggests 1794.	SPROUELS, Sarah Ann (I14418)
8262	The 1860 census is hardly visible, but from what someone transcribed, I am able to determine who the members of Melita's family were at that time.	JOHNSON, Melita Jane (I16422)
8263	The 1860 Census says he was born in South Carolina	WATKINS, David Coonrod (I19880)
8264	The 1880 Census says he was 11, but the marriage record says he was born in 1871	WEST, William A (I15103)
8265	The 1880 Census says he was 11, but the marriage record says he was born in 1871	WEST, William A (I15103)
8266	The 1880 Census says that she was 40 which would have made her birth year 1840, and her place of birth was Ireland	WULF, Anna Mariah (I4895)
8267	The 1900 census lists her as Eliza Jane, the same as her mother, but in other census records she was listed solely as Jane Kelley	KELLEY, Eliza Jane (I16026)
8268	The 1900 census reported that Ida's mother had given birth to two children and only one, Benjamin, was alive at that time.	BUTLER, Ida O. (I6529)
8269	The 1900 census says he was 11 and born in 1898. Clearly the latter is in error; so I have saved the birth month and changed the birth year to 1888.	BOTHE, Ernest (I15669)
8270	The 1900 census says she was born in 1878, but her age was 11 so 1888 is more likely.	GARDNER, Lillie H. (I13511)
8271	The 1900 Census says that Benjamin and Pleasant had twelve children, five of whom were still living in 1900.	Family: Benjamin Taylor ELLIOTT / Pleasant N HUNT (F576)
8272	The 1900 Census says that Deborah gave birth to six children and only two of them were still living in 1900.	Family: Lorenzo Calvin STEPHENSON / Deborah S ELLIOTT (F573)
8273	The 1900 census says that only two of the three children born to Sarah Charters Smith were still living. As his siblings lived long after 1900, it must be Francis who died.	SMITH, Francis (I15158)
8274	The 1900 census says that they had been married for twenty years which would make their marriage in 1880, and they were already married by the 1880 census recorded on 7 Jun 1880.	Family: Thomas MCGLAUGHLIN / Martha BOWDEN (F514)
8275	The 1900 Census says that this was the second marriage for both Harry and Fannie.	Family: Harry J MILLER / Frances Harriet ADAMS (F1073)
8276	The 1900 Census says that three of four children were still living, and since Pearl was not one of the three listed, she must have been the one who died.	LUGIBIHL, Pearl (I10673)
8277	The 1900 Census shows her birthday as being April 1893.	TAYLOR, Mayme Rowena (I18932)
8278	The 1910 Census is very faint; so it is unclear what his middle initial may have been.	ZELLER, John H. (I8024)
8279	The 1910 Census taken in May says that Mary was then four months old.	WATKINS, Mary Gladys (I3029)
8280	The 1916 census says he arrived in Canada in 1906.	ZELLER, Winfield Warren (I4427)
8281	The 1920 Census does not list him with his parents, and the 1930 Census says he was eight years old. So apparently he lied about his age in order to be married without his parents' consent.	WEBBER, Robert W. (I3770)
8282	The 1930 Census says that they were first married at the ages of 32 and 38 respectively. For each of them this would mean that they had been married for nineteen years. This suggests that the information was based solely on their own marriage and did not include Ray's previous marriage. So this would put their marriage about 1919.	Family: Ray E. WATKINS / Catherine Gertrude RAFFENSPARGER (F953)
8283	The Bellefontaine Republican - Apr 21 1903 Text: "21, 1903-3U and HON. I. F. MACK. Death of Mrs. Mary Neel. Mrs. Mary Neel, aged 80 years, died Sunday morning, at her home in West Liberty. She was a widow. Three sons..."	KELLY, Mary Katherine (I3629)
8284	The Belleville Telescope, February 26, 1885 Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Stephenson, of Belleville, lost a child about six years old, last Monday, with diphtheria.	STEPHENSON, Inez O. (I3936)
8285	The Belleville Telescope, March 5, 1885 Death has again entered the family of Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Stephenson, of Belleville, and taken their last child, a bright girl about four years old. She was buried yesterday. They have the heartfelt sympathy of the people in their sad bereavement.	STEPHENSON, Vinna L. (I3937)
8286	The Bible of Henry Kelly says, "Harriette [sic] a daughter / John Kelly and his wife / Susannah ... was Born in the year of our lord 1819 March / the 20th [In Logan O]"	KELLY, Harriet P. (I14806)
8287	The bill for her mother's funeral expenses listed her as E. Hadley Wyburn.	WYBURN, Elizabeth Hadley (I6100)
8288	The birthplace of both of them was listed as Upland, Indiana. His occupation was laborer and hers, housekeeper.	Family: Chester Nathan WATKINS / Myrtle PEARSON (F2579)
8289	The birthplaces of John's parents is totally wrong. Perhaps this is because the information was provided by his wife who really did not know.	Family: John Newton SWARTZ / Laura Rose QUACKENBUSH (F4068)
8290	The book lists the groom as P.N. Sharp.	Family: Pleasant Norton THARP / Mary Elizabeth WATKINS (F284)
8291	The brick main house and the brick mill at Valley Mill Farm were built by William Helm, a grandson of Meredith Helm, one of the first judges of Frederick County (1744) and county sheriff (1753). In 1770 William Helm acquired a tract of land situated on Abram’s Creek, a branch of Opequon Creek, from the Frederick County Parish Vestry. The land had been granted to the Vestry by Lord Fairfax to serve as a glebe and residence for the Rector but was found “unsuitable” for that purpose. In 1809 Helm purchased an additional 400 acres “on the low lands of Abram’s Creek and on the north side of the Opequon.” Although Winchester historian Garland Quarles suggests a construction date of circa 1775, it seems more likely that Helm’s brick dwelling dates from the early nineteenth century. Certainly the small but handsome brick house with end chimneys and a symmetrical façade is representative of the Federal style in the lower Shenandoah Valley. The Valley Mill Farm house was one of 23 extant examples of Federal-style houses noted in the Virginia Department of Historic Resources survey of historic resources in rural Frederick County conducted by Maral Kalbian in 1988-1992. The house is also pictured and described in Kalbian’s Frederick County, Virginia: History through Architecture, in which the date is assumed to be early nineteenth century. Milling was a major industry in wheat-rich Frederick County in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the Charles Varle map of 1809 shows more than fifty gristmills.5 As a 1992 cultural resource study of the general area suggests, while “high-farming activities concentrated on prime limestone lands [in western Frederick County],. . . the steep stream gradients these lands produced proved ideal for the development of the milling industries.” Thus, while the “unsuitability” of the land for a glebe, or farm, capable of supporting a minister’s family may have been due to its location on shaley land along the creek, this early disadvantage was clearly overshadowed by the site’s eminent suitability for the erection of a water-powered mill, a necessary adjunct to Frederick County’s grain-driven economy in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Judging from its similar brickwork, the mill appears to have been built at the same time as the house. It is likely that Helm may have used at least some slave labor in the operation of his mill, as Frederick County property tax records indicate that he owned 21 slaves over the age of 12 years in 1828. Helm apparently had abolitionist leanings, however, and he seems to have been a relatively benevolent master. His will stipulated that all of his slaves over the age of 28 were to be emancipated within nine months of his death. He also ordered that younger slaves were to be emancipated as soon as they achieved the age of 28, and that prior to that time they should be hired out and the income from their hire used, along with other money from Helm’s estate, to support those of his slaves who were unable to support themselves. An “appraisement” of his personal property made after his death makes no mention of slaves, and there is no indication that any of his slaves were sold; nor does the will or the accounting made after his death indicate that any slaves were distributed to his heirs (two surviving sisters, a niece, a nephew, and the children of four other siblings) or to settle debts. The estate settlement records of 1834 show that some slaves were indeed hired out, and that some slave children were cared for with funds from Helm’s estate. The 1831 appraisal of Helm’s landed estate included the “new house lot”, containing just over 531 acres, and exclusive of the interests of the heirs of his deceased sister, Anne Berry; the “old house lot”, containing slightly over 412 acres, also exclusive of Anne Berry’s heirs’ interests; and the “mill lot” containing approximately 75 acres. Following William Helm’s death, the farm was sold to a succession of owners. An 1831-32 map identifies it as “Harrison’s Mill”, an apparent reference to George Harrison, who bought the property in 1830. In 1862, it was purchased by William N. Eddy. Eddy operated the mill until about 1875. The roof and upper portions of the building had been severely damaged by fire in 1864, apparently during the Battle of Opequon (Third Winchester) on September 19 of that year. The National Park Service’s Study of Civil War Sites in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia refers to the Opequon battle as “the largest and most desperately contested battle of the Civil War in the Shenandoah Valley” and “a turning point of the war in the Valley, marking the rise of Sheridan and the decline of Confederate power.” The report lists Valley Mill Farm among the sites and features associated with the battlefield. Whether the fire in Eddy’s barn resulted from torching by Union troops under General Philip Sheridan, from shelling during the battle, or from other causes is not clear. It is known, however, that Eddy borrowed money in late 1865 to repair the mill, declaring in a deed of trust against his house, mill, and 140 acres of land on Abram’s Creek that he wanted the money to rebuild the mill, which had “recently burned”. Around 1875 Eddy gave up active management of the mill and moved to Winchester. His sons-in-law, Cunningham and McKinster, took over the mill operations. The mill continued to be called Valley Mill and is so designated on an 1885 map of the area. Following the death of William N. Eddy in 1888 and that of his wife some years later, the property including the mill and house descended to Eddy’s daughter and her husband, George J. Cunningham. It was sold in 1909 by Cunningham heirs and made its way through a long string of later owners. At some point, apparently in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, the mill was converted to use as a barn. Little physical evidence of the mill’s wheel, internal machinery, or supply and tail races remains today. However, the 1880 Manufacturing Census of Frederick County indicates that Eddy’s mill had a 400-bushel grain elevator built into it, being the only gristmill functioning with such sophisticated equipment in Winchester at that time. Following the purchase of Valley Mill Farm by Dr. Mark Andrew McHale in 1958, the barn was adapted to serve as a veterinary office. Also during the McHale ownership, a rear-facing garage was added to the house in the mid-twentieth century; the garage was recently remodeled as living space.16 The property, now consisting of approximately 83 acres, is owned today by Valley Mill Farm, LC, managed by Mary McHale Stafford.	EDDY, William N. (I8194)
8292	The bride is recorded as Mary A. Bloome	Family: John RUGGLY / Mary Ann ZELLER (F3493)
8293	The Calverts left Penn. shortly after 1800, and they settled near the Ohio River in Belmont County, Ohio. This tradition was told by John Calvert Cole, Columbus, Ohio, to his daughter, Gwendolyn. "Great-Grandfather John Calvert John Calvert and family crossed over the Allegeny Mountains of western Pennsylvania and came into the state of Ohio. His wife, Esther , rode horseback and had two of their children on the horse with her. One child rode behind her, and the other child, an infant, she held in her arms. John Calvert walked." Source: Gwendolyn Coe in a letter dated May 11, 1981, she was the daughter of Jessie D. and John Calvert Coe.	CALVERT, John (I3932)
8294	The Campbell Cemetery is also known as the Flackville Cemetery	BOWDEN, Martha (I3453)
8295	The Campbell Cemetery is also known as the Flackville Cemetery	MCGLAUGHLIN, Thomas (I3463)
8296	The card has her listed as Catherine C. O'Hrien.	Family: William Elwell TODD, Jr. / Katherine Claire O'BRIEN (F615)
8297	The card lists him as Alexander O'Hrien. This is probably a clerical error.	O'BRIEN, Alexander Wesley (I13900)
8298	The census actually shows Sarah Sophia Kelley Watkins living on 16 January, but she died a few days prior to this and was buried before that date.	WATKINS, William Jasper (I86)
8299	The census called her Ellen, but her gravestone says Ella.	HERR, Ella (I9299)
8300	The census does not indicate that his surname was Wyburn	WYBURN, Henry Elms (I6287)

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