An Interesting Feature

 FamilySearch.org is the Mormon church's genealogy web site.  They have a lot of free records and information about their many genealogy libraries all over the country.  Family history is important to them.

This morning, I got an email from them with an interesting feature they've provided; they combed through members' family trees and found ancestors that were living when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, calculated their ages and sent out emails to members showing that information.  It's quite interesting to see.

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863.  This is what they found from my brief family tree posted on their web site:  (The links on the names will take you to their WikiTree profiles)

My great grandmother, Eliza Vandermark, was 13 at the time.  

 

 Her mother, Mary Jane Hogancamp Vandermark, was about 34.

Eliza's father, Simeon Vandermark, was about 41, at the time.

My 2nd great grandfather, Henry Mattice, was about 24.

His wife, my 2nd great grandmother, Georgeanna Dudley, was about 30.

My 2nd great grandfather, Joseph Wormuth, was about 48.

His wife, my 2nd great grandmother, Eleanor Debeck Wormuth, was about 30, then.

My 2nd great grandfather, James Hulse, was about 74.

My 2nd great grandfather, Joseph Odell, was about 2 years old then.

My 2nd great grandfather, Henry Flowers, was 20, and fought in the Civil War.

His wife, my 2nd great grandmother, Martha Hayden Flowers, was 6.  Uh oh, something seems wrong there; but, no, they didn't marry until 1878 when she was 21 and there was roughly 15 years between them.

My 3rd great grandfather, Jacob Mattice, Henry Mattice's father, was about 52.

His wife, my 3rd great grandmother, Mark Parks, about about 53.

My great grandfather, my father's grandfather, Frank Mattice, was 4, at the time.

My great grandfather, my mother's grandfather, Silas Beismer, was about 24.  I'm pretty sure he did not serve during the war.

My great grandmother, my mother's grandmother, Fanny Hulse Wotmuth, was 8.

Her husband, my great grandfather, T. James Wormuth, was 16.

There are more, of course, but I don't put all of my tree everywhere online; mostly at WikiTree.  

I think it's fun to look at this and imagine back then.

I have several ancestors, that I've found so far, who fought in the Civil War for the Union.

Enjoy.

 

Preserving the Vandermark Family Cemetery and other cemetery concerns

 I'm back on this.

But, before that -- there are new and interesting links that I've added.  See the Links tab above.

Rural NYS has a lot of small cemeteries, some of them originally family burial spaces, that should be preserved and, in some cases, promoted as interesting places to visit.

I've tried to get enough people interested in working with me, and to comply NYS regulations, to form a family cemetery association for the Vandermark Family Cemetery in Debruce, NY.  There's also the Henry Family Cemetery, nearby, closer to the road.  The Vandermark Family Cemetery was the burial place of family members of the Vandermark, Hogancamp and Beismer families. It is, unhappily, landlocked so access, in the past, has sometimes been difficult.  There is a road to it but, the last time I was there, that road was on private property.

I have a few new ideas to get this done.

I'm not finding information at the NYS site today, but I'm determined to get this done.  There may be legal work to be done and fees, etc.  That's one of the reasons for the GoFundMe I started, so I can get this and other things done.

I want the cemetery preserved for the families.

I'm also interested in green burial and green funerals which also preserves open space and can provide a natural and historic place for people to visit.

If anyone is interested in working on this, please let me know; I'll appreciate the help.

Awaiting my PIP Voyage guide

I decided to begin the Voyage process with the profile of Hannah Chase, wife of Barnabas Butler who is a brick wall in that family line.  I haven't done much with Hannah's profile because, so far, I haven't found decent sources for information about her.  She was one of my ggg grandmothers on my paternal side.

In the meantime:  These are June anniversaries of various sorts for people I'm researching; they're not all blood relatives, some are profiles that I've adopted for various reasons  The links will take you back to their WikiTree profiles.

June

01 Jun 1862 Minerva Odell was born

01 Jun 1756 Rhoda Griswold was born

02 Jun 1899 Harry Eronimous was born

02 Jun 1924 Mary Ribich was born

03 Jun 1926 Minnie Lowe died

03 Jun 1771 Jobannah Smith died

05 Jun 1889 Ray Wormuth was born

06 Jun 1926 Olive M Vandermark married Harold J Vandermark

06 Jun 1767 Elijah Flower died

06 Jun 1934 Fanny Wormuth died

06 Jun 1973 Elmer Biesemeier died

07 Jun 1881 Clinton Beismer died

09 Jun 1899 Nellie Flowers married Albert Sager

11 Jun 1903 Bertha Steinover married Leroy Steinhover

11 Jun 1923 Iona Bowker married Joseph Bowker

14 Jun 1813 Amy Powley was born 

14 Jun 1893 Florence Squaires was born

14 Jun 1934 William Hulse died

15 Jun 1879 George Odell was born

15 Jun 1926 Eunice Hubble died

16 Jun 1916 Elmer Biesemeier married Violet Biesemeier

16 Jun 1876 Isabel Space was born

17 Jun 1800 Catrina Besemer was born

17 Jun 1938 Jim O'Dell was born

18 Jun 1985 Lois Gergens died

19 Jun 1996 John Tarchine died

19 Jun 1904 Henry Besmer was born

20 Jun 1951 Elting Beesimer died

20 Jun 1939 Eliza Beismer died

22 Jun 1971 Charles Dewitt died

23 Jun 1971 Bertha Kniffen died

23 Jun 1910 Mary Ann Elizabeth Wisor died

23 Jun 1927 Dorothy Schulz was born

24 Jun 1782 Melissa Hoyt was born

26 Jun 1900 David Butler died

27 Jun 1895 Awilda Neail married Andrew Neail

27 Jun 1838 Henry Mattice was born 

27 Jun 1795 Joseph Flower was born 

27 Jun 1907 Beatrice Goodman was born 

27 Jun 1916 Clara Neail died

27 Jun 1908 Rebecca Vandermark died

28 Jun 1839 Lucy Odell died

29 Jun 1782 Hendrick Mattice was born

29 Jun 1860 Joseph Odell was born

29 Jun 1936 Lowell Barnhart died 

30 Jun 1898 George Odell married Fanny Odell 

30 Jun 1878 Henry Flowers married Martha Flowers

30 Jun 1920 Harry Eronimous married Esther Eronimous

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