Saturday, December 31, 2022

In Memoriam - Edgar Wolfe

Edgar Wolfe

Born; Sept. 29, 1957, Indiana
Died: Dec. 26, 2022, Granger, St. Joseph Co., IN

Buried: Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola, Indiana

Ahnentafel:
1. Edgar Wolfe
2. Delmar Wayne Wolfe b. 1930, d. 1979
3. Mary JoAnn Byars b. 1934, d. 2022
4. Clarence Ellsworth Wolfe b. 1909, d. 1981
5. Sarah Estes Bailey b. 1910, d. 1988
6. John Edgar Byars b. 1909, d. 1948
7. Mary Ritchie b. 1910, d. 2005
8. John Alfred Wolfe b. 1872, d. 1941
9. Elizabeth McElhaney
10. William Bailey b. 1884, d. 1955
11. Myrtle Cates b. 1890, d. 1970
12. Benjamin Byars b. 1885, d. 1940

Research Log - December 2022

Using Elephind.com newspaper search engine I found the following items in the Fairplay Flume (Colorado) newspaper:

1915 - July 23 - Commissioner's Proceedings (column) - [bills allowed] - John Barr, work road 18 road district no. 3, $21.00

1923 -  October 12 -  Black Mountain News (column) - John Barr has been helping Mr. Corliss with his hay the past week.  Most of the hay is still in the shock on account of the rains.

1923 - October 12 - Commissioner's Proceedings (column) - Oct. 2, 1923 The Board of County Commissioners of Park County, Colorado met in regular session at 8 o'clock AM October 2, 1923 for the transaction of any and all business that may properly come before them. . . . The following bills were allowed . . . John Barr, jurors fees Hopkins case, $2.65.

1924 - March 7 - Black Mountain News (column) - Mrs. John Barr and little son Jackie left last week for Wayne county, Ill., where they will visit friends and relatives for a few months.  

 This is Ruby (Gurley) (Barr) Musteen and her son John Barr, Jr.  Ruby was the daughter of J.R. & Lou Emma (Speer) Gurley. She and her husband John Barr were married in Colorado Springs, CO in 1921, Jackie was born in 1922.  John & Ruby attempted to obtain

Thursday, December 29, 2022

Ahnentafel #1237 - Sarah Vowels

Sarah Vowels

Born: 1640, probably in Connecticut
Died: 1697 probably Rye, Westchester, New York

Buried: Unknown

Married: 1665, William O'Dell in Rye, Westchester, New York

Other Names: Vowels sometimes spelled Vowells, Vowles, Fowels, Fowler

Monday, December 26, 2022

Ahnentafel #1236 - William O'Dell

William O'Dell

Born: November 14, 1634, Cranfield, Bedford, England
Died: by 1700 Rye, Westchester County, NY

Buried: Unknown

Married: Sarah Vowels/Vowles, 1665 in Rye, Westchester Co., NY.  

Other names: Used spelling Woodhull instead of O'Dell in a petition dated Oct. 2, 1662.  

Biography: Odell. William, was perhaps a son of William Odell of Concord, Mass. (Savage.) If so, he came over at the age of five years in 1639 with his father, who settled in Fairfield. William Odell was one of the first settlers of Rye. He was with the Hastings planters in 1662, and continued here apparently until his death, which occurred between 1697 and 1700. He had land in the various divisions during his life. His house-lot, afterward John Brondige's, was about the northern part of Mr. J.E. Corning's garden. He married a daughter of Richard Vowles of Rye. Our records mention his sons John and Samuel. The latter is not mentioned by Mr. Bolton in the pedigree which he gives of William Odell's descendants (History of Westchester Co., Vol. II, p. 536); according to which, William had five sons, Stephen, John, Michael, Isaac and Jonathan. Perhaps the first name should read Samuel.

Friday, December 23, 2022

Notebook - North Carolina #7

Absher, Mrs. W.O.  Surry County, North Carolina Court Minutes, Vols. I & II 1768-1789, Southern Historical Press, 1985. 

Page 10 - ca. 1778
  • Ordered  Jacob Speer, overseer, road from Fortrees Creek to Rowan County line and hands from Crersons old place and waters of Turners Creek work thereon.
  • Ordered Robert Speers Mill already built on Little Yadkin be deemed a publick Mill.
  • Ordered Brazalia Rose, now 15 years old, orphan of Brasalia Rose, deceased, be bound to Robert Speer until he arrives age 21 to learn art and mistry of a carpenter and at end apprenticeship be given set carpenters tools and suit woolen clothes and learn him to read, wright [write] and cypher. 
  • Order citation against Mary Nowlen produce her children and show cause why they not be bound out to some suitable trade and employment agreeable to law. 
  • Ordered following attend next County Court second Monday May as Jurors:  . . . Andrew Speer

Tuesday, 11 May 1779 - Ordered copy oath & certificate for Joseph Cloud, Junr. to act as Deputy Surveyor in this county be recorded.

Wednesday, 12 May 1779

Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Ahnentafel #1233 Mary Smith

Mary Rock Smith

Born: 1640 Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA
Died: after 20 March 1713/14 Hempstead, Nassau Co., New York

Buried: probably in Prospect Cemetery, Long Island City, Queens Co., New York

Married: 1656 Samuel Denton in Hempstead, Nassau Co., New York

Records:
1698 - August 31 - Hempstead, Long Island, New York - on census with husband Samuel and children:
  • samuel Denton [age 67]
  • mary Denton [age 58]
  • abraham Denton [age 23]
  • Jonas Denton [age 21]
  • Elizabeth Denton [age 14]
  • Samuell Denton [age 33]
  • abegall Denton [daughter-in-law]

Saturday, December 17, 2022

Ahnentafel #1232 - Samuel Denton

Samuel Denton

Coley Church built ca. 1513
Born: May 1631, near Halifax, Yorkshire, England

Baptized: 29 May 1631, Coley Chapel, Halifax, Yorkshire, England. Now known as St. John the Baptist Church

Died: March 20, 1712/13 Hempstead, Nassau Co., New York

Buried: Prospect Cemetery, Long Island City, Queens Co., New York

Married: 1656 Mary Rock Smith, Hempstead, New York

Immigration; 1635 with his parents to Wethersfield, Connecticut


Biography:
Samuel Denton was baptized in Coley Chapel, Halifax, Yorkshire on 29 May 1631 probably by his