I never met this gentleman. But I learned his large dogs once refused to let the Fed-Ex guy leave my husband's Christmas package anywhere near his porch. The delivery receipt indicated "Barking dogs by front door. Left box near shed."
My paternal 5x GGrandmother Sarah Jane was born to Susanna and Jehu Price on September 4, 1762 in Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey. She married John Parker in 1782, and had one son. Poor Mr. Parker died in 1788.
In 1790 she married Daniel Ackley with whom she had six children. But was widowed again in 1815 when Daniel drowned. One account is told of Sarah packing up and, with seven children in tow, she "traveled unescorted with her family" to what is now Greene County, Pennsylvania.
Sarah Ackley died in September of 1851 at age 89. In 1940 she was honored with a monument placed near the Ackley Creek near where she had homesteaded. See her plaque below.
The 1940 paper above mentioned Lucille Ackley Carroll. If you are my paternal 1st or 2nd cousin and wonder how you relate to her or to Daniel and Sarah (Price) Ackley, this may help.
That same Sam Ackley was buried near Lake Keystone in Pawnee County, Oklahoma.
While working my family tree, Ancestry suggested a hint for a distant cousin. A cousin I never knew but now can't forget.
It was 50 years ago yesterday that Andy met with a horrible accident.
150+ years ago there were several Lydicks and McCardles in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Many had similar names.
The Indiana Democrat paper published this September 11, 1873, page 6:
From March 12, 1874, The Indiana Democrat, page 3:
The Indiana Democrat paper on page 3, June 24, 1875:
This jail break made the paper on 22 Jul 1875 in The Indiana Democrat, page 3:
This database on Ancestry shows when Union soldier David McCardle first applied for a pension. And after his death, his wife, Barbara Ann (Lydick) McCardle then applied for his widow's pension. From: U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934.
I found that Mr. McCardle served in the Civil War with Co. E, 177th Regiment PA Infantry and also with Co. F, 206th Reg. PA Infantry.
This was copied from Ancestry's Pennsylvania, U.S., Veterans Burial Cards, 1777-2012:
His birth year was recorded as 1817. He was 81 when he passed. Two local papers carried death notices for Mr. McCardle on their front pages. From March 23, 1898 of The Indiana Gazette and The Indiana Democrat:
-- With appreciation to volunteer photographers Debi and Rob Felten who shared this on Findagrave in July 2015. Nice work!
At age 77 Barbara Ann McCardle died at her daughter's home in Missouri. From The Sedalia Democrat, page 1, November 5, 1906:
The Indiana Democrat paper, page 9, on November 7, 1906:
Happy to find my ancestors living in Dinuba, Tulare County, California in the newly-released 1950 Federal Census. Woo hoo!
FROM: https://1950census.archives.gov/ at ED No. 54-8
Line 20 - Coffee, John W, head, age 75, married, born in Texas
Line 21 - Coffee, Dorothy E, wife, age 74, married, born in Illinois
Now drop down to the questions asked at the bottom of the page, Mr. Coffee is one of six residents who was asked further questions. See No. 20 that is circled? That line shows his replies.
via URL: https://1950census.archives.gov/search/?county=Tulare&name=Coffee&page=1&state=CA
NOTE: I had earlier posted an incorrect link and image that has since been corrected. Thank you, Carolyn
The National Archives suggests clues in census records:
via https://www.archives.gov/research/census/1850-1940
I laughed at the peculiar article placed just under a distant cousin's obituary:
-- The Circleville Herald newspaper, Circleville, Ohio, page 2, Friday, 2 Sep 1955.
I'm placing these two links here because the question arose today from my favorite fair-skinned blue-eyed Celtic-descended warrior:
The documentary on this link gives more details:
Now I'm craving a Guinness. Here's another of my favorite guys who has Irish DNA:
Nearly all of us have 64 great-great-great-great grandparents. I'm getting to know mine.
Below are two pages on three sheets showing the marriage of Abram Prim to Nancy Cook in Wilson County, Tennessee on February 19, 1819.
The second and third image show the backside of the document. I flipped the last page so you could read the bridegroom's name.
Source: Ancestry.com. Tennessee, U.S., Marriage Records, 1780-2002 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.
The 1850 Fed. Census tells me Nancy Elizabeth Cook was born about 1798 in North Carolina. It follows she was about 21 when she married Abram Prim in early 1819.
Abram and Nancy were my mother's 3x GGrandparents through her father's side. If you too are related to Arthur, this shows how his dad descends from Abram:
Abram acquired some land in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Today it is the fifth-most populated area of Tennessee. But then? I wonder if his property was already cleared. Was it "wooded", flat, hilly? Was it good farm land? He and Nank appear there in the 1810 and 1820 Federal censuses.
Several land registers at this database mention Abram or Abraham Prim(m) as owner of property. He appears at the bottom of this second image:
Source: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Ancestry.com. Tennessee, U.S., Early Land Registers, 1778-1927 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.
The 1830 census finds Nancy and Abram in Limestone County, Alabama--with six children. (It wasn't until 1850 that censuses gave names and ages of wives and children). And that's the last record I have for my Abram. I don't know his birth year nor when he died. The 1830 census indicates he was between the ages of 40 and 49 that year.
See Abram as the fourth name on the left of this 1830 Fed. census excerpt:
Abram's widow Nancy (also called Elizabeth) next appears in the 1850 Fed. Census in Johnson County, Arkansas. She is 52, gives a birth location of North Carolina, and lives with her eldest son's family. Both she and daughter Louise are "unable to read or write." That census did not ask marital status as did most others after 1850.
This is the last record I find on Nancy (Cook) Prim. No burial location known. She was not living with her son James in the 1860 census, nor with her daughters.
It is dangerous to assume in genealogy. Yet it is a fair assumption that Abram died in Alabama or Arkansas. Well, then. I can't rule out he didn't up and journey to California in 1849 with a few thousand others, can I? #GoldRush.