Ahnentafel #109 - Susan Hinkle

Susan Hinkle

Born: July 1, 1813, Shelby Co. KY
Died: July 12, 1854 Oldham Co., KY

Buried: Speer Family Cemetery, Floydsburg, Kentucky

Married: Marquis D. Speer July 14, 1836 in Shelby Co., Kentucky

Susan was a woman of leisure and a mother.  Her father gave her two black boys, a good and serviceable woman, who was a good cook, and several other valuables to start out in life with.  Rhoda was this woman's name and she brought with her several children, and she was very useful.  John Speer gave them Mose, a black boy. 

Ahnentafel #108 - Marquis Speer, ver. 2

Speer Family Cemetery

Marquis [de Lafayette] Speer aka Marcus D. Speer

Born: December 20, 1815 in Kentucky
Died: March 18, 1867 in Oldham Co., KY

Buried: Family Cemetery behind the family home in Floydsburg, Kentucky

Marriage:  Susan Hinkle July 14, 1836 in Shelby Co., Kentucky

Occupation: farmer

Marcus D. Speer, third son of John and Mary B. Speer was born December 20, 1815, and married Susan Hinkle, who was born July 1, 1813, a daughter of Charles Hinkle.  They located on a farm  father [John Speer] owned across the creek, and worked with his force as he had always done, under his management, knowing that he would receive a just compensation for the services of himself and his wife.  Her father gave her two black boys, a good and serviceable woman, who was a good cook, and several other valuables to start out in life with.  Rhoda was this woman's name and she brought with her several children, and she was very useful.  Father gave him Mose, a black boy,  and this gave them a strong force to manage the big farm.  This was all utilized to profit, and so the farming went on merrily for a number of years, and was profitable to both.  When father was not with the hands Marcus was, and this made it all less laborious to father and gave him some rest and relief from over much anxiety about the necessary work being done, and well done, as Marcus was a practical good farmer and knew how it should be done.  After a number of years father deeded the farm he lived on to him, and another farm of eighty acres adjoining.  During all these years, when working on that side, all hands ate their dinners there very often, sometimes some going over home, and during all this time there was not a jar or discord between them and all went on smoothly and merrily as a bell.  An immense amount of hard labor was done during that period.

Ahnentafel #107 - Elizabeth Durall

Elizabeth Jane Durall

Born: 1798 North Carolina
Died: after Sep. 1850 in Massac Co., IL

Buried: Unknown

Married:  Alfred Morehead  March 1, 1824 in Muhlenberg Co., KY

Census/Records:

1800 North Carolina, Duplin Co. - age 2 living with her parents and two siblings.  It's possible her paternal grandmother is living with the family.

1810 Kentucky, Muhlenberg Co. - age 12 living with her parents and eight siblings

July 25th - Feast of St. James the Greater & St. Christopher

The Feast of St. James the Greater is celebrated as a national holiday in Spain.  He is considered the country's patron saint.  Years in which the holiday falls on a Sunday are considered Holy Years and even more celebrations occur.  There are processions through Compostela and La Fachada celebrates with fireworks.  

In England those who could not make the pilgrimage to St. James' shrine gathered seashells, sea glass and pretty stones to construct small shrines in his honor. The seashell has become the symbol of St. James from King Ramirez of Leon's vision of the apostle on a horse adorned with cockleshells, waving a banner.  In England it is customary to eat oysters and in France, scallops.

St. James was the son of Zebedee and Salome and the brother of St. John.  Jesus gave the two the nickname "Sons of Thunder."  During his life St. James traveled to Spain to evangelize. He returned to the Holy Land where he was martyred by Herod Agrippa I ca. 44 A.D.

St. Christopher was remembered with a feast day until 1969 when he was removed from the Roman Catholic calendar.  He has become the patron saint of travelers through the Golden Legend written by Jacobus de Voragine.  In this story St. Christopher helped a child crossing a dangerous river nearly collapsing midstream.  It was only after having reached the far shore that the saint realized that the child was in fact Jesus.  The name Christopher translates as Christ bearer.

Ahnentafel #106 - Alfred Morehead

Alfred David Morehead

Born: between 1795 and 1798 in Kentucky
Died: ca. 1849 in Massac Co., IL

Buried: Unknown

Married: Elizabeth Durall on March 1, 1824 in Muhlenberg Co., Kentucky

Occupation: Farmer

Census / Records:
1800 Kentucky, Campbell Co. - Alfred's father Armistead appears on the 1800 tax roll in Campbell County.

July 22 - Feast of St. Mary Magdalene

One of several women who worked with Jesus and his disciples after he had had cast seven demons out of her, see Luke 8:2.  Mary Magdalene is honored as a heroine of the faith.  She is mentioned twelve times in the New Testament more than any other woman.

Ahnentafel #105 - Polly (--?--)

Mary aka Polly (--?--)

Born: 1798 North Carolina
Died: ca. 1853, Massac Co., Illinois

Buried: Unknown

Married: William Gurley ca. 1815 in North or South Carolina

Census:
1800 Not found on census

1810 Not found on census

1820  North Carolina, Anson Co., age 22 living with William and three children under 5.

1830 North Carolina, Anson Co., age 32 living with William and seven children ages 1 to 12.

1840 Illinois, Pope Co., age 42 living with William and nine children ages 1 to 22.

1850 Illinois, Massac Co., age 52 living with William and seven children ages 5 to 21.

Ahnentafel #104 - William Gurley

William Gurley 

Born: 1798 in North Carolina
Died: ca. 1853 in Massac Co., Illinois

Buried: Unknown

Married: Mary / Polly (--?--) ca. 1815 in North or South Carolina

Occupation: Farmer

Census / Records:

1800 North Carolina, Anson Co., three families with males under 10 years of age: Isham, Jacob and William / Willis.  William would have been about 2 years old.

1810 North Carolina, Anson Co., Jacob Gurley family includes a male between 10 and 15.  William would have been about 12. 

Research Day - John & Mary (Robertson) Henry

Aged Couple Spend Life of Almost 60 Years in One Home

January 7, 1928, if both are living on that date, will mark sixty years of married life for Mr. and Mrs. John W. Henry, who live on the county line road southeast of Bluford.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry are most likeable old people and their life story is much out of the ordinary in a number of respects.Lived in Only One House

Mr. Henry cleared eighty acres, his original farm, and selecting a favorable site, hewed the logs and erected a log cabin consisting of three large rooms, in which he and Mrs. Henry began their married life, and they have never lived anywhere else, and now, almost sixty years later, "aged and gray," are living as happily as when they started life's journey, young and full of hope for the future. 

The house was unusually large for its day, and its construction and material such that apparently it can weather the storms so common in this section, for a century, if necessary.  The interior of the building is quite attractive, neatly papered, and well lighted and ventilated.

Ahnentafel #95 - Susannah Saltzman, ver. 2

Susannah Saltzman / Salsman

Born: 1791 Kentucky
Died: May 1880 Middleton, Wayne Co., IL

Buried: Farnsworth / Mt. Zion Cemetery, Wayne Co., IL

Married 1) John Hopkins ca. 1815 in Kentucky & 2) Samuel Bradford ca. 1835 in Illinois

Census / Records:

1800 not found on census

July 15 - Feast of St. Swithin

St. Swithin's Day in honor of an Anglo-Saxon bishop of Winchester who died in 862 AD.  He served as bishop for the ten years before his death.  St. Swithin came into legendary fame a hundred years after his death when the Winchester cathedral was restored and he was named the patron saint.  He is best known for a weather legend:

St Swithun's day if thou dost rain

For forty days it will remain

St Swithun's day if thou be fair

For forty days 'twill rain nae mare

For this reason he has become the go to saint in times of drought.

Ahnentafel #94 - John Hopkins, ver. 2

John Hopkins 

Born: ca. 1795 in Kentucky
Died: 1834 in Hamilton Co., Illinois

Buried: Unknown

Married: Susannah Saltzman before 1815

Occupation: stone mason, merchant

John Hopkins, a native of Kentucky, who in early life followed the stone mason trade, and afterward became a merchant in McLeansboro, Ill., keeping a grocery store till 1833, when he came to Wayne County, near Maulding's Mill, just a little east of where Wayne City now stands.  There he sold groceries and dry goods about twelve months, and got sick, and with his whole family returned to Hamilton County, where he died about 1834.  His family, after his demise, returned to their old residence, where his widow married Samuel Bradford. [History of Wayne & Clay Counties, IL]

Census / Records:
1800 not found on census

1810 not found on census

1820 not found on census

1825 not found on census

1830 Illinois, Hamilton Co., age ca. 35 John with the whole family. 

Probate: John left a will in Hamilton Co. IL:

In the name of God amen.  I, John Hopkins of the county of the county of Hamilton, being weake body but of sound mind and memory.  Do make ordain and establish this to be y last will and testament hereby appoint Benjamin Hood to be the executor of this my last will and testament.

Research Day - Colclasure / Colglazier

Once upon a time there was a man named:
1.  Johann Heinrich Kalkgleiser who had a son
2.  Jacob Kalkgleiser who had a son 
3.  John Colglazier who had sons 
4.  David Colglazier and Abraham Colclasure

David stayed in Washington Co., Indiana and Abraham moved to Clay Co., Illinois.  Their sons were:

5. John Colglazier & John Colclasure who had sons
6. William Morton Colglazier & William Lewis Colclasure who had sons
7. John Morton Colglazier & Commodore Perry Colclasure

Ahnentafel #93 - Fanny Crissel

Fanny Crissel

Born: ca. 1789 Kentucky
Died: ca. 1820 Hamilton Co., IL

Buried: Unknown

Married: Ennis Maulding on December 4, 1804 in Logan Co., Kentucky

Census:
1790 Kentucky, Woodford Co. - an Andrew Crissel living there

1800 family living in Logan Co., Kentucky

1810 Kentucky, Henderson Co. - living with Ennis and two children under six

1820 not found on census

Children: 
Unnamed son 
Mary b. 1805
Salina b. ca. 1815
Andrew
Louvina b. ca. 1819

Revised 4/24/2023

Ahnentafel #92 - Ennis Maulding, ver. 4

Ennis Maulding

Born: ca. 1783 in either Tennessee or Kentucky
Died: ca. 1843 in Wayne Co., Illinois

Buried: probably in Maulding-Mayberry Cemetery, no stone

Married 1) Fanny Crissel on December 4, 1804 in Logan Co., Kentucky, 2) Sophia Burbank on March 1, 1820 in White Co., Illinois & 3) Matilda (Collingsworth) Medley ca. 1841

Religion: Methodist - Charles Koker and Thomas Cottonham, both Methodist preachers from McLeansboro, Illinois visited the people here in an early day, and they organized the first Methodist Church, and preached at the house of Ennis Malden, which was located on a spot included with the limits of Wayne City.  [History of Wayne & Clay Counties, Illinois]

Ahnentafel #91 - Mary Darby

Mary Darby

Born: July 17, 1768 in New Jersey
Died. ca. 1806 probably in Virginia

Buried: Unknown

Married: Samuel Clark, March 13, 1791 in Westfield, NJ

Census:
1790 not found on census

1800 not found on census

Children:
Samuel
Cornelius
Joel
Hannah
James
Amos
Rebecca
Sarah

Ahnentafel #90 - Samuel Clark

Samuel Clark

Born: March 11, 1768, Elizabeth, NJ
Baptized: November 16, 1768 St. John's Episcopal Church, Elizabeth, NJ
Died: October 7, 1854 Clinton Co., MO

Buried: Gash Cemetery, Kansas City, MO

Married: Mary Darby, March 13, 1791, Presbyterian Church,  Westfield, New Jersey

Occupation: a carpenter

Geography: 

Elizabeth, NJ west to Westfield, NJ, 7 miles 

Elizabeth, NJ west through Westfield to Scotch Plains, NJ, 10 miles 
Scotch Plains, NJ west to Ironton, OH about 600 miles 

Ironton, OH west to Clinton Co., MO about 730 miles

History of Lawrence County, Ohio:

Census records of birthplaces indicate that this family started moving westward about 1800.  Gilruth, in articles published in the Ironton Register, identified this family as having settled, by purchase of the land, near the mouth of Osburn's Creek.  Gilruth named the children and stated that the mother had died before they reached Ohio.  Research into land records show that Samuel was the original proprietor of 160 acres just east of Hanging Rock, where the Ohio Rt. 650 interchange with US52 is located. 

Excerpts from a series of articles "Gilruth on Early Settlers in Lawrence County" published in the Ironton Register between February 1 to July 18, 1872.

 In this vicinity below, lived old Mr. [Benjamin] Carpenter, a Baptist, and the first preacher of any kind in this bottom.  He had one son named William.  He became an ensign in Captain John Kelly's company of militia, learned surveying, kept the first store between Storms Creek and the French Grant.  He made one of the most intellectual men raised in those times in this vicinity; married Hannah Clarke; sold out and moved to Missouri.

Below Carpenter's settled Tilman Short, a tall, raw boned, active man.  After the Short family on the same place as, landowner lived Samuel Clark.  I never knew his wife's name, or that of her parent's; (she died before Clark moved on this place).  The children were Samuel, Cornelius, Joel, Hannah, James, Rebecca and Amos.  Mr. Clark was a house carpenter, and wrought at that business, there being no other in those days in that bottom.  He also wrought at building horse mills, in connection with Peter Lionberger, Sr., Samuel Jr. left and went to Letart Falls, and married Miss Darby and settled there.  Hannah married Mr. Carpenter; I lost track of the rest.

Ahnentafel #89 - Mary Henry

Mary Ann Henry

Born: 1779 in Virginia
Died: unknown

Buried: unknown

Married: David Robertson, Aug. 1796 in Virginia

Census:

1790 not found on census

1800 not found on census

Ahnentafel #88 - David Robertson

David Robertson

Born: ca. 1775
Died: 1829 in Sangamon Co., Illinois

Buried: Unknown

Married: Mary Ann Henry,  Aug. 1796 in Virginia

Census/Tax Lists/Deeds:
1790 not found on census

1800 not found on census

1810  not found on census

1812 Ohio, Gallia Co. -  David Robertson paid taxes on 3 horses and 6 cattle

1817 Ohio, Gallia Co. - David Robertson living in Section 30 of Ohio Twp.

1818 Ohio, Gallia Co. - David Robertson paid taxes on 5 horses and 5 cattle

July

 

Shearing of sheep and some harvesting of grains continues. The Palace of Poitiers is seen in the background.