June 30th

Fred Lathrop

Happy, happy birthdays:

1893 – Martha Clemans in Franklin, NE wife of Wiliam Miller

Twins Ronnie & Roddie Withrow sons of Tillman & Susie (Hale) Withrow

Melody Chapman daughter of Bernard & Mabel (Davis) Chapman.  She married Paul Hale.

Fred Lathrop son of George & Nancy (Pruitt) Lathrop.  He is married to Colleeen (?) and they have two children.

Andrew Shaw son of Arthur & Marcia (Johnson) Shaw

Emily Shelton, daughter of Rodney & Beth (Reynolds) Shelton

The last of the June weddings:

1614 – Joseph Loomis & Mary White in Messing, England.  Joseph born 1590 the son of John & Agnes (?) Loomis.  Mary the daughter of Robert & Bridget (Allgar) White was baptized 1590 in Shalford, England.  She and Joseph had eight children.  Joseph Loomis is known to have been a woolen draper, a merchant engaged in the puchase of cloth from the many weavers who wove on hand-looms in their cottage-homes.  He had a store in Braintree stocked therewith and with other goods which a 'draper' dealt in.  These products, he sold at large, both wholesale and retail, to tailors and consumers in general.  The couple and their children sailed for Boston, MA in 1638 aboard the Susan & Ellen.  They settled first in Dorchester, MA and moved to Windsor, CT in 1639.  The Loomis home was situated near the mouth of the Farmington river on 'The Island' so called because at every great freshet it became temporarily an island by the overflowing of the Connecticut River.  Mary died in Windsor 1652 and Joseph died there in 1658.  Joseph left and estate valued at £178, 10 d. 

1698 – Jabez Perkins & Hannah Lathrop in Norwich, CT.  Jabez born 1677 in Ipswich, MA the son of Sgt. Jacob & Elizabeth (Lovell) Perkins.  Hannah, the daughter of Samuel & Hannah (Adgate) Lathrop was born 1677.  She and Jabez had 8 children  and Hannah died in Norwich, CT in 1721.  This marriage makes Jabez an uncle.  He married 2) Charity Hodges in 1722 and became our grandfather.  He died in Norwich in 1742.

1973 – Earl Robertson & Idella Lane at the Church of the Nazarene in Markham City, IL.  Earl is the son of John & Helen (Caudle) Robertson.  Idella is the daughter of Harvey & Betty (Buchanan) Lane.  The couple have three sons.

1979 – Orson Laughlin & Cynthia Warren.  Orson is the son of Rex & Wanda (Lathrop) Laughlin.  He and Cynthia have two children.

Census record:

1880 – Pendleton Twp., Jefferson Co., IL, house #273, family #273

Williamson, Jarvis, w, m, 60, farming, KY, NC, NC

Helena, w, f, 53, wife, keeping house, IL, VT, GA

George H. w, m, 19, son, laborer on farm, IL, KY, IL

Charles w, m, 15, son, laborer on farm, IL, KY, IL

Gertrude (?) w, f, 15 granddaughter, IL, TN, IL