Tombstone Tuesday Elic and Catherine Beiler Coleman

On about this day Catherine Beiler Coleman passed away on December 1st 1884 in Greenwood, Cass county, Nebraska. Catherine (also known as Kate) is one of my great great great grandmother on my father's side.

Catherine was born the 8th of March 1806 to Abraham and Kate (Chapin) Beiler in Maryland. Catherine married Alexander " Elic" Chalker Coleman the 1st of September 1825. To this marriage 11 children born.

Jane 1826 - 1887

Matilda 1829 - 1911

Ebenezer 1831 - 1894

Mary Catherine 1833 - 1905

Lucy 1835 - 1916

William 1837 - 1915

John Henry 1839 ( my great great grandfather) - 1922

Amy 1841 - 1907

Elic Chalker Junior 1843 - 1924

Amanda 1846 - 1919

Martin Luther 1848 - 1921

This is her tombstone along with her husbands Elic's tombstone. They are buried in the Sheffer Pioneer Cemetery and the pictures are taken from the following book.

Sheffer Pioneer Cemetery The Lives of Those Interred fourth edition edited by Rose Anne Hoekstra.

Rest in peace dear grandparents.

Monday Memories Eating Soup In My Mom's Bowls

I was reading a story over at Greta's Genealogy Bog about memories of old bowls and children fighting over one certain bowl. I had those same bowls at one time. They would not break.

My bowls that bring back great memories are these old soup bowls that belonged to my mother. I remember her warming up Campbell's Tomato soup. She would serve in these bowls with a few crackers along side.

I still have them and use them several times a week for my soup or chili. I still feel like a little girl every time I have some soup with a few crackers or a piece of bread on the side.

Got to love those old memories.. Grace

On This Day John Henderson Zion Is Born

On this day November 28th 1831 John Henderson Zion was born in Rush Indiania to McCormic Zion and Mary Gobble Zion. On September 8th 1853 he married Mary Cassell. To this marriage five children were born. Mary 1854, William 1858, Jonathan 1861, Etta 1868 and Annie in 1869. The census reports tell me he was a farmer. John H was my great great grandfather with his son Jonathan being my great grandfather. John H passed away April 22nd 1920 in Foster Missouri. I love this picture of him. Happy birthdayt grandpa.

Wordless Wednesday Almost Sharing Photo of Rachel Zion Pennington

Wordless Wednesday is not for me so I always go for Not So Wordless Wednesday. I want to show you the wonderful photo I found last night on http://www.ancestry.com/. This is my great great great great aunt Rachel Zion Pennington. I just love this picture. That half smile on Rachel is the kind of smile my dad gave us the last years of his life. Rachel was born 22 January 1807 in Washington County, Virginian to John W Zion and Lucy McCormick Zion and passed away 15 June 1885. Rachel married John Dees Parrington 02 January 1823 in Tennessee. Rachel and John had 12 children.

If you look closely you will see that Rachel has her glasses pushed up on her forehead. Thanks to Missy for sharing this on www.ancestry.com .

Hope that you have enjoyed this great photo and will stop by again soon.. Grace

Treasure Chest Thursday My Collection Of Family Photos

One of my most loved treasures is the collection of family photos I have of my ancestors. Most are on my mother's side of the family, but thanks to my aunt Alice I have photos and copies of photos of some of the family.

This darling picture is of my grandfather William H Day 1889 - 1964. He is so adorable with his sweet smile. He was the first child of William A 1867 - 1920 and Carrie ( Lockwood) Day 1870 - 1946. This picture would of been taken in the about 1892 in Ortonville Minnesota. Photographer was Carlson.

This photo has grandpa and grandma Day, in front is me in front of grandpa, my cousin Bonnie, sister Mary and in the front is cute little Cheryl. This was taken some time in the late 1950's at their home.

I adored my grandpa Bill and grandma Grace and to this day miss them terribly. Grandpa was so cute right up to his last days.

Tombstone Tuesday Remember Flavious and Anne Millsap of Kansas

For Tombstone Tuesday this week I am featuring the Tombstone of Flavious and Anne (Woodmansee) Millsap. On the tombstone is written F. A. and Annie. I was able to find this through http://www.findagrave.com/ . They are buried at the Syracuse cemetery, in Syracuse, Kansas.

Flavious and Annie are one of my great great grandparents on my father's side of the family.

Flavious was born the 10th of November 1832 in Bedford, Indian to William Bella and Elizabeth (McGuyer) Millsap. William passed away the 10th of April 1910 in Syracuse, Kansas.

Anna Woodmansee was born the 10 of July 1841 in Jackson, Green County, Missouri to James White and Rachel (Burrell) Woodmansee. She passed away the 02nd of July 1904 in Syracuse, Hamilton county, Kansas.

Flavious and Anna were married the 01 September 1857. To this marriage were born 10 children.

Rachel Ann 1862 - 1945 my great grandmother

Mary Elizabeth 1864 -1950

George 1867

James 1870

Armenious 1873

John R 1874

Susan 1876

Eula 1878

Carl 1880

Ora 1833 - 1968

Surname Saturday Cheuvront Family

I am up to the Cheuvront Family in my Surname Saturday postings.

(1) Grace Zion daughter of (2) Arthur Zion and (3) Muriel Day


this picture is of Arthur and Muriel mid 1940's in Texas

Arthur Zion born 30 April 1921 Craig Colorado and died 15 September 2008 in Duluth Minnesota son of (4) Perry Zion born 12 December 1886 Kendal Kansas died 21 December 1958 Winlock Washington and (5)Alta Hall born 26 June 1892 Evansville Wisconsin died 21 February 1944 Winlock Washington. Alta and Perry were married 11 June 1913 in Taylor, Nebraska. Arthur married Muriel Day born 21 February 1922 and died February 28, 2000. Arthur and Muriels married 30 October 1943.



Mabel Coleman Hall and Arthur Reynolds Hall. Alta is pictured in the middle.

(5) Alta Louise Hall daughter of (10) Arthur Reynolds Hall born 19 September 1863 Evansville Wisconsin and died 08 July 1919 Craig Colorado and (11) Mabel Coleman born 01 July 1872 Greenwood, Nebraska and died 14 March 1946. They were 28 August 1891.


(11) Mabel Coleman daughter of ( 22) John Henry Coleman born 16 June 1839 died 20 September 1922 and (23) Alta Cheuvront born 27 May 1848 Mt Vernon, Ohio and died 28 September 1937 Taylor Loup Nebraska. They were married 20 September 1922.



Alta Cheuvront Coleman is on the left back row. Sitting in front is Lemuel Cheuvront and Mary Rouse.

(23) Alta Cheuvront daughter of (46) Lemuel Green Cheuvront born 12 November 1812 in Vermont. Died 12 November 1896 and ( 47) Mary A Rouse born 30 October 1813 and died 21 January 1904.

(46) Lemuel Green Cheuvront son of (92) Aaron Cheuvront born 14 March 1780 in Fredricksburg, Virginia died 09 February 1863 in Jackson, West Virginia and (93) Sarah Richards

(92) Aaron Cheuvront son ( 184)Joseph Cheuvront 01 February 1755 in France died 31 March 1832 in West Virginia and (185) Elizabeth Ellsworth born in France and died 1800 in Good Hope West Virginia

(184) Joseph Cheuvront son of (368) Francois Cheuvront and (369) Nichole Febvre both of France

Thanks for stopping by for Surname Saturday. If any names sound familiar please let me know.. Grace

Family Funeral.. Obituary for Emma Moiser Lockwood

I recently found this on http://www.ancestry.com/ thanks to my cousin Nancy. She had been at the historical center and found the obituary of Emma Moiser Lockwood.

Emma Moiser Lockwood

4 March 1820 - 4 October 1900

Mrs. Emma Lockwood, the aged mother of Ferdinand, Fred and

John Lockwood, died at the home of the former, town of Malta

on Thursday last. Mrs. Lockwood was born in Columbia

County, N.Y. March 4th 1820, and has been a resident of this

county since 1868. The funeral occured from her late

residence on Saturday last, and was largely attended by a

sorrowful company of relatives, old neighbors and friends. Rev.

Meske of this city conducted the services and the internment was made at

Otrey Cemetery.

Source: Ortonville, Mn. The Hearld Star v22 (12) Thursday October 11, 1900

Emma was married to Hiram Lockwood 1804 - 1883. She also had a daughter Isabella 1842 - 1922 who was living in Idaho. I find it interesting and sad that she is not listed in the Obit.

I went to http://www.findagrave.com/ and found this cemetery. There is only one name listed so I have requested for some one to try to find her grave and to take a picture of it and her husband if he is there. With winter coming this probably will not happen till snow melts next year.

Thanks for visiting.. hope that you will take a moment and read some of my other postings before leaving... Grace

Breaking Down The Brick Walls In Our Family Research

We all have our brick walls in our family research. You go so far and hit the brick wall. Over and over that brick wall is does not move. Then by chance some how you crack that brick wall and hit pay dirt.

I have cracked a few brick walls just by blogging about a certain ancestor right here. Next thing I know I get an email from a distant relative and I get documented information to the Mayflower on my Lockwood family. From John Lockwood who fought in the Civil War to the Mayflower because of this blog. How great is that.

Other brick walls are unmovable. But with hints from others and continual research I may get another brick wall to come down. Andrew Daly I will not give up on you.

Tonight I visited Randy Seaver to read his post about breaking down brick walls at Genea-Musings Target the FAN Club to tackle "Elusive Ancestors" problems

Briefly from the posting we are to see our family research as the bull's eye and our ancestor as the target. As we search for information on our ancestor we may find information by moving out one ring of the target. Search for family members. Next search for those who lived in the area. Search for others with the same surname. By spreading out our research we may hit our target.

After reading Randy's post I was in search for other articles on brick walls.

All I had to do was go to http://www.google/ and post the question " brick wall in genealogy research " to come up with articles, books to buy and free charts to print.

Want to read more articles just go to http://www.cyndislist.com/hitbrick.htm There is more than enough to read for many nights.

I also found from my google search a new blog for me and this is just part of her article. She keeps it simple, brief and clear, which I like.

She writes
7 Keys to Getting Over Your Genealogy Brick Wall
By Corinne Bridgewater
Here are her 7 Key steps

Post questions on forums
If you know the area where the person lived try the white pages
Check into and then subscribe to Google alerts
Join RSS feeds from good strong genealogical sites
Put an ad in a newspaper, even overseas if need be
Put up a website about your search
Put up a hubpage or Squidoo lens about your search

She also writes...
If you need to break down the genealogy brick walls try these 6 steps
Write down everything that you know
Do not assume that you wrote it all down before. Go through your notes
Know exactly what it is you are looking for. If it is maiden names, birth, death, surnames, ports of entries then go and Google it. You may get ideas from what comes up.
Try different ways of spelling their names
Come at it from a different angle. Find a small bit of information that you are missing and follow the clue.
What about the property they owned? Follow land deeds
Read the whole article at http://ezinearticles.com/?7-Keys-to-Getting-Over-Your-Genealogy-Brick-Wall&id=2413086

And for forms to help us do our research just go to http://www.cyndislist.com/supplies.htm for a start. Or you can go to family tree for more forms .. http://www.familytreemagazine.com/info/researchforms

I have always had my research on the computer and no master list on each relative to what I have and do not have. I have time lines on some and not on others. That is one of my goals to work on. Getting time lines on my relatives to see what I have and do not have on each of them.

For tonight and for a few more nights this is plenty for me to read. Hope that you enjoy some of the articles and forms. Please look around at some of my other postings before leaving and I hope you visit again. Grace

Tombstone Tuesday John H and Mary Cassell Zion

For today's Tombstone Tuesday I am remembering my great great grandparents John Henderson Zion and Mary Cassell Zion.
John was born 28th of November 1831 in Indiania and died 22 April 1920 in Foster Missouri. Mary was born the 19th October 1834 in Illinois and died 20 November 1919 in Iowa.
John and Mary were married 8th of September 1853 and had 5 children. Mary, William, Jonathan, Etta and Annie. Their son Jonathan is my great grandfather.

The pictures of John and Mary plus the picture of the tombstone were found on http://www.ancestry.com/. They were shared by Sue a distant cousin. They are buried in Decatur, Iowa.

Thanks for stopping by... Grace

This Week in the Family History - November 7 - 13

This week in my Family History and the relatives I am especially thinking of this week

Nov 7th Anna Day was born in 1742 and passed away 3rd June 1815. She is my 4th great grand aunt and her parents are Isaac and Anna (Foote) Day

Nov 10th Flavious Millsap was born in 1832 in Indiana and passed away 10th of April 1910 in Kansas. He married Anna Woodmansee and is my 2nd great grandfather. I am related through his daughter Rachel Millsap who married Jonathan Adam Zion


Nov 12th Ephrain Lockwood was born in 1814 in New York. Ephrain was married to Jane ? and then to Katherine Philo. He died 31 May 1877 and is my 3rd great uncle

Nov 12th Reuben Asher Chapin was born in 1830 in New York. Reuben was married to Lourinda Cheuvront. He passed away 07 of September 1906. He is my 5th great grandfather and I am related through his daughter Kate. Kate married John Beiler.

Nov 12th Lemuel Cheuvront was born 1812 in Virginia and also passed away Nov 12th Lemuel Cheuvront died in 1896 in Colorado . Lemuel was married to Mary Rouse. He is my 3rd great grandfather and I am related through his daughter Alta
Nov 13 Ebenezer Coleman was born in 1831 in Ohio and died 25th of July 1894. He is my 2nd great uncle and his parents are Alexander ( Elic ) Coleman and Catherine Beiler Coleman


Thanks for stopping by.. Grace

Was Great Great Great Grandpa Coleman Counted Twice In The 1860 Census?

Just this week I was on http://www.ancestry.com/ and searching for information on my Coleman line. My great great great grandfather Alexander ( Elic ) Coleman was born 10 January 1805 in Connecticut, traveled west and ended up in Nebraska where he passed away on 01 September 1873

I found him in the 1860 Iowa census on 21st of July listed as Alexander. Living with him is his wife Kate and 9 children.

I was on the hunt for Alexander in the 1870 census and could not find him. At this time I decided to add his nick name of "Elic' at http://www.ancestry.com/ and a leaf came up with a hint.

I though Yea it is the 1870 census, but no it was another 1860 census for Elic Coleman. First thought was no way but went and looked at it. It was from the area in Nebraska where he had lived but I did not recognize any names of the people in the house he was living There was another Coleman listed in the home . I left that census and keep searching for him in 1870 with still no luck.

I then decided to go back to the 1860 Nebraska census and look again to the name of a Coleman man living in this house with Elic and it was William which was one of Elic's son's name.

I looked at the others living in the area and they are all names that I recognized.

This census was taken 17th August 1860. It seems that Alexander / Elic was in Iowa when that census was taken then left and traveled to Nebraska with his son William to visit family and friends and get land to settle with his family.

So while being counted twice in the 1860 census can be confusing, I did find when he went to Nebraska to settle, bringing the rest of his family at a later time.

The Nebraska state census taken in 1877 I have found Alexander's son John Henry and his family.

Checking the 1880 census I found Catherine as head of house and living with her is daughter Jane and a Hester Paul. Hester was unknown to me but by looking at the relationship I found that she was the younger sister of the head of house and that she was widowed. I now have a sibling of Catherine that I did not know of. A new relative to search in the future.

The census's are great tools. They can tell us where our family lived and who were their neighbors.

The hunt continues another day..

Thanks for stopping by.. Grace

A Vintage Postcard of Princeton Minnesota adds mysteries to my family research

I started this post on my vintage postcard blog and after turning around found out that it was written to my Appleton Esler so decided it fit in my family blog also and even more.

Great vintage postcards are not only fun to look at but can be great additions to our genealogy family histories.

Today's posting is of an old card of Princeton Minnesota and the street scene of Eastern Ave. The post mark is hard to read, but with magnifying glass it looks like could be 1909 . At the bottom left of the post card is written copyrighted 1909. So that makes this postcard 101 years old.

The street scene has many businesses including Williams Paint on a sign on first building on the left. On the right side in the middle of the block is a sign for a bakery and restaurant plus other signs that I can not make out. I did a http://www.google.com/ search on Sherwin Williams and found they started in 1866 so this is an old sign advertising their paint

There are residents on the left and one person walking on the right hand side. Most interesting is in the middle of the postcard are two wires in the sky and something is hanging from one. My thought is that it is a person crossing the street on the wire some how.

This post card is addressed to Appleton Esler of Mora Minnesota who was my grandma's step father .
What is written in pencil is hard to understand.
Dear Appleton
? cant possibly meet ? this week and I am not able to do my work now
Please don't send her ? a few days yet as I cant get any one to help me.
signed by maybe Jane? ( who is this )

This post card is a mystery to me. I do not know a lot about my great grandpa Appleton as of now. He married my great grandmother Katherine in 1893 in LaCrosse Wisconsin. He raised my grandmother Grace as his.

I do know he was married once or twice before and brought 2 children to the marriage. He and Katherine had 2 children together so they were a true Brady Bunch of the early 1900's. They moved to Mora Minnesota and lived and died there.

So the mystery is who is this postcard from and what is the meaning of the message and why was it necessary to send to Appleton. This is on my future researches at http://www.ancestry.com/ in the future. I want to learn more about Appleton and who his relatives were.

If you have not thought of adding vintage postcards to your family history books you may want to think about that. This post card was passed down to me from my mother.

Thanks for stopping by.. Grace

Tombstone Tuesday Margaret Maston Loder at Shaffer Cemetery

Today for Tombstone Tuesday I am highlighting my

Margaret Maston Loder

born 2 March 1811 and died 23 Nov 1884

Margaret is buried in Sheffer Pioneer Cemetery in Nebraska

Margaret was married to William Loder

Margaret is not directly related to me . She is the mother in law of my 2nd Great Grand Uncle

Elic Chalker Coleman Jr who married Nancy Jane Loder

Sheffer Cemetery is a small cemetery in Nebraska with tombstones of mainly Colemans, Loders

and Shaffer's. It is one of those cemeteries that is on my wish list to visit some day.

Thanks for stopping by for Tombstone Tuesday.. Grace

I received a friendly reminder that I should source this picture which is very accurate. I found this photo on www.ancestry.com and Susan Peterson was kind enough to take it and post it.

She is also related to Margaret so some how Susan and I are related. Will be contacting her to find out how. Thanks again Susan

Amanuensis Monday Post 03 Hartford Memorial Includes My Robert Day

Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the TransylvanianDutch blog) started his own Monday blog theme many months ago called Amanuensis Monday.

What does "amanuensis" mean?John offers this definition:"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

I have been working on my ancestor Robert Day born about 1604 In Ipswich, Co, Suffolk, England and died 04 September 1648 at Hartford, Connecticut. Robert first married Mary last name not known in England. Robert and Mary emigrated from Ipswich, England to Boston in April 1634 aboard the ship Elizabeth. Mary died in 1634 in Cambidge Massachusetts at the age of 29. Robert remarried Editha Stibbins in 1635. They had four children Thomas, Sarah, Mary and John. I am a descendant of John. Robert Day is my 8th Great Grandfather.

A picture of this memorial will be added to my family notebook on Robert Day for future generations to see.

For today's posting I am sharing a memorial in Hartford Connecuit in memory of the courageous Adventures who traveled with Thomas Hooker

The memorial is as is

In memory of the courageous

Adventurers

who inspired and directed by

Thomas Hooker journeyed through the

wilderness from the Newtown ( Cambridge )

in the Massachusetts Bay to

Suckiauc ( Hartford) October 1635

Mathew Allyn William Lewis

John Barnard Mathew Marvin

William Butler James Olmsted

Clement Chaplin William Pantry

Nicholas Clarke Thomas Scott

Robert Day Thomas Stanley

Edward Elmer Timothy Stanley

Nathaniel Ely Edward Stebbins

Richard Goodman John Steele

William Goodman John Stone

Stephen Hart John Talcott

William Krusly Richard Webb

William Westwood

From the Society of the Descendants

of the founders of Hartford

to the people of Hartford

October 15 1935

This was found on http://www.ancestry.com/. I am searching the sites of Hartford Connecuit memorials to find exactly where this plaque came be found. http://hartford.omaxfield.com/monuments.html has many different memorials pictured.

Thanks for stopping by.. Grace