1598 – Margaret Reade in Essex, England the daughter of Edmund & Elizabeth (Cooke) Reade. She married ca. 1616 John Lake in Essex, England. The couple had eight children before she divorced him for desertion. Sometime between 1631 and 1635 John Lake's wife, Mrs. Margaret Reade Lake, left him and emigrated with her sisters and their families to New England, taking with her, her two daughters, Ann and Martha Lake. She left a son in England who never came to America. For many years she lived in the family of her brother-in-law, Gov. John Winthrop, Jr., at New London, CT, and is mentioned repeatedly in the Winthrop family correspondence.
Letter from Margaret Reade Lake to Governor Winthrop,
18 Jan. 1661/62: Might I not be too
troublesome to you I would have desired yours to have done me yet courtesy as
to have inquired concerning my husband’s death and how he ended his days, as
also to have inquired of my cousin Thomas Cooke, whether he knew whether there
was anything left me or no . . . I would desire you inquire whether my sister
Breadcale [sic] who dwells in Leigh, in Essex, be living. You may hear of her, if living, at Irongate
where boats weekly come from Leigh.
The
last decade of her life was spent at Ipswich, Mass., the home of her daughter,
Martha Lake Harris, and of her brother-in-law, Deputy Gov. Samuel Symonds. She died there in 1672.
1812 – Matilda
Hinkle daughter of Charles & Susannah (March) Hinkle. She married Joseph Taylor and she died in
1897.
1890 – Nettie Jones
daughter of Isaac & Alice (Goss) Jones born in Wayne Co. IL.. She was the step-daughter of William Dove and
died Mt. Vernon, IL in 1970.
1912 – Rebecca Spry
daughter of John & Josephine (Summers) Spry
Donna Ledet the
daughter of David & Carol (Cornwell) Ledet
Anniversaries:
1825 – Washington
Colclasure & Phoebe Stalcup in Orange Co., IN. Washington born 1810 in Washington Co. IN the
son of Jacob & Elinor (Dennen) Colclasure.
He died there in 1869 .
1880 – John Zeller
& Clara Erkman in Enfield, IL. John,
the son of John & Maria (Damm) Zeller was born 1859 in Mt. Vernon, IN. Clara born 1861 in Mt. Vernon, IN was the
daughter of Jacob & Eva (Bechtold) Erkman.
The couple moved to Omaha, IL ca. 1884 and then to Sikeston, MO ca.
1891. After two years they moved on to
East Lake, AR and were in St. Joseph AR by 1897. By 1899 they were living in St. James AR and
moved onto Crawford, WY ca. 1900. They
were in Lovell, WY in 1906 and Basin, where John died in 1907. The couple had 11 children. Clara married second George Plummer and third
William Fred. She died 1937 in Lovell,
WY.
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