Ahnentafel #519 - Esther Gallop

Esther Gallop

Born: March 24, 1653 New London, CT or July 21, 1653 Taunton, MA
Died: Unknown

Buried: Unknown

Married: Captain Henry Hodges on Dec. 17, 1674 in Taunton, Massachusetts

Notebook - Illinois No. 3, Part 1

December 3, 1818

Beeson, Betty. Wayne County Illinois Birth Records, 1886-1903, Geff, IL: Beeson Enterprises, 1985

• Boswell, Gracie Marie b. 31 Dec. 1887, Wayne City, IL father Jullman N. [Pullium F.] Boswell, 28 b. IL, mother Hannah L. Robertson 29 b. KY
• Crumbacher, girl b. 23 August 1894 Bedford Twp. father Albert Crumbacher, 28 b. IL, mother Ollie Trotter 26 b. IL
• Crumbacher, girl, b. 9 April 1895 Bedford Twp. father Edward M.L. Crumbacher, 28 b. IL, mother Lizzie Simmons, 29 b. IL
• Crumbacher, Elmer James White b. 1 Nov. 1889, father Albert Crumbacher 21, b. Wayne Co., IL, mother  Ollie A. Trotter 18 b. Wayne Co., IL 
• Irwin, boy b. 6 Dec. 1886, Four Mile Twp., father Carbon [Corbin] Irwin 38, b. OH, mother Charlotte Lathrop 36 b. IL
• Lawrence, Wilna (girl) b. 22 Jan. 1888 Long Prairie, IL, father Wm. L. Lawrence, 22 b. Wayne Co., IL, mother Athalia Robertson 18 b. Johnson Co., IL
• Meeks, Cox b. 4 December 1886 Barnhill, father Samuel Meeks, mother (--?--) Cox 20 b. IL
• Maulding, Ada E. b. 16 January 1887, Long Prairie, father Theodore Maulding 36 b. Hamilton Co. IL, mother Janettie I. (--?--) 28 b. VA
• Whalen, boy b. 10 March 1887, Four Mile, father John W. Whalen 32 b. IN, mother Mary S. Maulding 29, b. IL

Ahnentafel #518 - Henry Hodges

Hear lies the Body of Elder Henry Hodges, aged 65
Died in the year 1717, September the 30th.
Reset by the Old Colony Historical Society, 1905

Captain Henry Hodges

Born: 1652 in Taunton, Massachusetts
Died: September 30, 1717 in Taunton, Massachusetts

Buried: Neck O'Land Cemetery in Taunton, Massachusetts

Married: Esther Gallop, December 17, 1674 in Taunton, Massachusetts

Religion: Congregational Church Elder

Henry Hodges lived near the residence of his brother John.  His house, it is stated in the first edition of this genealogy, was "within a few yards of the place where a red school house stood in 1820.  At that time there were some indications on the surface of the earth of the spot where the cellar had been."  The site of the red school house, on High street, opposite the Central Railroad Station, is now occupied by the old Niagara Engine House, used at present as a ward room, and during the winter months, the Niagara Evening School is held here.  The exact location of Henry Hodge's home is difficult to fix.  Henry Hodges certainly owned the ground here, and the city authorities have placed on the engine house a tablet inscribed "Homestead of Elder Henry Hodges, 1681-1717."  From an examination of the ground, a consideration of the manner in which the roads were laid out in this vicinity, and the testimony of persons (some now deceased) who have been well acquainted with the locality for many years, it seems probable that Elder Henry's house stood where the freight house of the railroad now stands, on the corner of Tremont and Oak streets.

Notebook - General Stuff No. 2, Part 3

Crume, Rick. Say What? Family Tree Magazine, June 2003.

Genealogists wear many hats, detective, historian, archivist, sociologist, interviewer - even translator. Solving some family history mysteries may hinge on your ability to decipher old documents or modern web pages written in a foreign language, or to communicate with someone who doesn't speak English.

Google Ease - use the Translate this Page option for foreign language sites. To access all the Google foreign-language resources, go to the home page and click on Language tools. Here you can search websites written in a specific language or located in another country and you can translate text or a web page.

To translate foreign languages - just type the text in Google's Translate text box. Other options:

• Babel Fish 
• Free Translation

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Greene, David.  Needful Things: Genealogy - & the Future, Part I, New England Ancestors, Holiday 2001.

Ahnentafel #517 - Elizabeth Lovell

Elizabeth Lovell, some people say she was Elizabeth Whipple.

Born: 1629
Died: February 12, 1686

Buried: Unknown

Married: Jacob Perkins, ca. 1648 in Ipswich, Massachusetts 


Records:

ca. 1648 - marriage - U.S. New England Marriages Prior to 1700 entry: Perkins, Jacob (1624-1700) & 1st wife Elizabeth [Whipple] (ca. 1629-1686); ca. 1648 in Ipswich. 

1668 - August 9 - Her father-in-law's original house, which she and her family lived in, was destroyed by fire, through the carelessness of a servant, who knocked the ashes from her pipe upon the thatch of an outbuilding.  Elizabeth was about 39 with five children ranging in age from 3 to 16 living at home and her oldest daughter Elizabeth was married and living out of the house.  

Notebook - General Stuff No. 2, Part 2

Fitch, John. Photographing Gravestones, Nexus, Vol. XVI, No. 1.

Consider the matter of the sun being on the wrong side of the subject about half the time. Most tombstones face the west. Take pictures in the afternoon. Noon is standard time, in summer the sun will reach it's zenith at 1:00. Have a picnic and wait for the sun.

Take a tripod and a mirror. The first to steady the camera and the second to use to reflect sunlight onto the tombstone when the sun is not in the right place. The mirror should be about 2' x 4' to work well with all sizes of stones.

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Gleason, Michael.  Switch to Gregorian Calendar was Unpopular with Colonists, The Virginia Genealogical Society Newsletter, Vol. XVII, No. 3, May/June 1991.

The last thing Virginians needed in 1752, amid rumors of French & Indian raids along the Ohio River frontier, was a new calendar system that included a new New Year's Day. Still, that's what they got from the British Parliament. 

Great Britain that year adopted the Gregorian calendar, eliminating 11 days and switching New Year's Day from March to January. 

Vera (Richardson) Webb

Vera M. Webb, 88, of Mount Vernon, Illinois passed away at 11:32 P.M. November 6, 2018 at Nature Trail Health Care Center in Mount Vernon, Illinois. She was born January 17, 1930 in Wayne County, Illinois to the late Earl and Grace (Shaw) Richardson. She married Robert Q. Webb on April 23, 1949 in Mount Vernon, Illinois and he preceded her in death on November 8, 1988.

Vera is survived by her two sons, William R. “Bill” Webb and wife, Susan of Marion, Illinois and Randall W. Webb and wife, Connie of Mount Vernon, Illinois; two daughters, Ouetta Karcher and husband, Roger of Marion, Illinois and Janet Champ of Urbana, Illinois; eight grandchildren, Justin Webb, Mark Webb, Krista Harbaugh, Kyle Karcher, Josh Webb, Shaun Champ, Melanie Champ-Heroux, and Bradley Champ; ten great-grandchildren; brother, Owen Richardson and wife, Shirley of Mount Zion, Illinois; sister-in-law, Wanda Richardson of Wayne City, Illinois; and several nieces and nephews.

Ahnentafel #516 - Jacob Perkins

Jacob Perkins

Born: 1624, Warwickshire, England
Baptized: 12 Sept. 1624 St. John the Baptist Church, Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England
Died: 27 Jan. 1699/1700, Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts

Buried: Old Burying Ground, Ipswich, Massachusetts

Married: 1) Elizabeth Lovell ca. 1647
2) Demaris (--?--) Robinson after 1677, widow of Nathaniel Robinson

Occupation: Farmer - He was the youngest son, and by his father's will was to come into possession of his homestead and lands after his mother's death. His lands lay at the eastern part of the town near the river and also near to.  Manning and Jeffries' necks. Jacob was literate and signed his name on several documents. 

Military Service: chosen sergeant of the military company of the town in 1664.