In Memoriam - Doretta Lathrop

Doretta Kay (Blayney) Lathrop

Born: Aug. 6, 1938, Nevada, Story Co., IA

Died: Nov. 21, 2020, Sterling, Whiteside Co., IL

Married: Aug. 19, 1956 Bob Lathrop, 4th Street Methodist Church, Sterling, IL

Notebooks - Mom's Families No. 4, Part 3

Guthrie, Nelson. Genealogy of J.W. Nelson Slavens Guthrie, typescript, nd.

This information is very convoluted and in some instances contradictory to itself.

Generation 1
John Slavin b. 1723 Tyrone Co., Ireland, d. 1788 Highland Co., VA, md. Elizabeth Stuart b. 1726 Scotland, d. 1796 Highland Co., VA.  John was a weaver.  Lived for a time in Pocahontas Co., WV at Meadow Dale.

Generation 2
1. Isaac/Isaiah Slavens b. 1761 Augusta Co., VA, d. 1840 Putnam Co., IN, md. Martha Stuart.  Isaac was a soldier and moved to Kentucky then on to Indiana. - Isaiah Slavens in DAR b. 6/12/1752 Rockingham Co., VA, md. Martha /Patsy Stuart md. 2) Barbara Perkee. He was a Revolutionary War soldier, fought in the battles of Hot Water Springs, Jamestown. He was in the company of Captain KinCade of Colonel Moffet, Captain Thomas Hecklin, Company of Col. Simpson Mathias, Virginia Regiment, 1780.  Isaiah applied for a pension on April 26, 1833, died 1840.  Said to have had 17 children.
2. Comfort b. 11/4/1750
3. John b. 4/10/1760, soldier in American Revolution
4. William b. 6/3/1753 soldier in American Revolution

Vermont to Indiana and Beyond, ver. 2

Linn County, Iowa

Coming across "new" old information during the filing process and found this to be an interesting description of Rev. Erastus Lathrop's family's migration from Vermont to Indiana.  A journey that Russell's family took in 1837 to Decatur County.

Elkanah Lathrop's known children:

Armon b. ca. 1775 VT, d. ca.  1852

• Vermont
• Clay Co., IL by 1840
• Effingham Co., IL by 1852

Rev. Erastus b. 1776 VT, d. 1827 Decatur Co., IN

• Canada ca. 1800
• Vermont 1812
• Dearborn Co., IN 1817
• Ohio Co., IN 1818
• Decatur Co. IN 1821

Research Log

Additions to Ambrose Maulding: Ancestors, Descendants & Kinsfolk.

Mary Purdy, Ambrose's second wife moved with her youngest children to Henry Co. IA in 1837 after Ambrose's death in 1833.

Eliza Jane Maulding married James Frizzell
Son John b. 1848 md. Francis (--?--) had son Samuel b. 1869
Daughter Artemisia b. 1850
Daughter Eliza Jane b. 1860, d. 1952 md. William Holt 1879, children: Lucy, George, Roy
Son unnamed
Son unnamed
Son unnamed
In Eliza Jane (Frizzell) Holt's obituary it states that "she was the last member of a family of six children.  She was preceded in death by a daughter Lucy, four brothers and one sister."  Her son Roy served as Jefferson County clerk.

Zelphia Maulding listed on 1850 and 1860 Schuyler Co., IL census with her husband Samuel. 
Her son William was born in 1848 in Illinois. 

Rachel (Maulding) Hinkson d. Apr. 28, 1886, buried in Oakland Mills Cemetery in Henry Co., IA
Her daughter Mary C. b. Dec. 23, 1850, d. Feb. 12, 1874, never married
Her daughter Martha aka Mattie b. May 16, 1853, d. Feb. 12, 1875, never married.

In Memoriam August 11th

1713 Elizabeth (?) Blackburn in Loughall, Ireland.  She was the wife of John Blackburn.

1898 Jno. F. Powell died aged 81 y, 10 m, 5 d, Aug. 11, 1898 of chronic nocteas.  He was a merchant born in Richford, VT the son of Jno. & Aurelia (Fassett) Powell.  He was a widower.

1905 Albert Crumbacher age 37 in Wayne Co., IL.  He was born in Wayne Co., IL in 1868 the son of James & Nancy (Gentle) Crumbacher.  He married Ollie Trotter in 1888 and they had three children:  Mabel, Guy and Fred. Albert is buried in Gunion, IL.

1914 John C. Speer, son of Andrew and Nancy Evans Speer, died at the parental home in Jackson township on Tuesday of last week, being a little past forty years of age. While he had been ill for some time, his illness was not known to be of a serious nature until very recently.  He was a young man who was held in high esteem by those of his acquaintances, and his death while in the prime of life, is a deep sorrow to his aged parents, brothers and sisters.  Funeral services, conducted by Rev. Mr. Demgree of Earlham, were held on last Thursday, and burial in the Worthington cemetery.  Besides his parents he leaves four brothers and six sisters.

February 27th

Birthday . . . 

1598 Avis Doggett, sister of William Doggett below.

1599 William Doggett in Boxford, England son of William & Avis (Lappage) Doggett, died 1670 Stepney, England.  He married Anne Langly ca. 1626 in Colchester, England.