tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65271791968960317702024-02-19T02:01:56.931-08:00Branches Of My Family TreeJamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136329140852228888noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527179196896031770.post-35240172403848598142019-02-11T15:34:00.001-08:002019-02-11T15:34:23.871-08:00Living on the Prairie
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<a href="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/courses-images-archive-read-only/wp-content/uploads/sites/884/2015/08/23202809/CNX_History_17_02_Homestead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="220" src="https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/courses-images-archive-read-only/wp-content/uploads/sites/884/2015/08/23202809/CNX_History_17_02_Homestead.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hot summers,
cold winters, dirt, bugs, mice, and snakes were an everyday part of living on
the prairie during the expansion of our United States. Pioneers moving to the Great
Plains soon realized that a log cabin was not going to be built on their
homestead. Buffalo grass, a thick grass with heavily matted roots was to the
prairie as trees were to the forest. Buffalo grass was the raw material
available to build shelters for the new settlers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Many pioneers
began their life on the prairie in a dugout cut into a hillside later to be expanded
on several sides with sod to create a “cozy,” if not very clean, home. As time
</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">went on, the settlers would build an actual sod house with a door and windows. The
laborious job of cutting sod with a spade was soon replaced with the use of the
grasshopper plow that greatly eased the work of building a soddy. Strips cut approximately
six inches deep and one foot wide by two feet long were used to build the
walls. Laying the sod, grass side down and two to three rows wide, created a
wall about three feet thick. A space was left for the door and windows were
framed. Every few rows, the direction of the sod was changed to increase the
strength of the wall. The roof was made in several ways most commonly by
creating a wooden frame, sometimes covered with tar paper or straw, with a
thinner layer of sod on top. Eventually, the roof might sprout a spring flower
garden. Inside the house, the homeowner might hang cheese cloth from the
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The sod
house was cool in the summer and warm in the winter although susceptible to
heavy rain. They lasted a long time, frequently becoming a storage room or barn
when a newer home was built. Wood was sparse so most of the soddies were heated
with buffalo or cow chips. Eventually the family got used to the smell. Water
was precious and hard to come by. Fortunate settlers settled near a spring or
stream otherwise it was necessary to dig a well, a chancy and dangerous
activity. Winter brought long days of loneliness with the nearest neighbor
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We might
think that this life was unimaginable and wonder why anyone would choose to
live in this way, but although failure was high, the sodbusters brought
settlement to the Great Plains by the early twentieth century thereby helping
to expand the United States. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“There are
no renters here,” Homesteading a Sod House.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Women of the West Museum. <a href="http://theautry.org/explore/exhibit/sod/daily.html">http://theautry.org/explore/exhibit/sod/daily.html</a>.
(accessed 15 June 2014).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Vick Fite
and Nancy Hendrickson, Frontier Traveler, The Kansas Soddy, <a href="http://www.frontiertraveler.com/kansas/the-kansas-soddy/">http://www.frontiertraveler.com/kansas/the-kansas-soddy/</a>.
(accessed 15 June 2014).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sod house.
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Homestead
Act: The Challenges of Living on the Plains. Nebraskastudies.org, , <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0500/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0500/stories/0501_0108.html">http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0500/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0500/stories/0501_0108.html</a>
(accessed 15 June 2014).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Homestead
National Monument of America. National Park Service. <a href="http://www.nps.gov/home/index.htm">http://www.nps.gov/home/index.htm</a>
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</style>Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136329140852228888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527179196896031770.post-38441123375787268542018-03-09T12:32:00.000-08:002018-03-09T12:32:06.239-08:00Trying to understand triangulation<style>
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I am trying to discover how I am related to person M.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have no surnames in common but have
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I used Gedmatch to find all the kits that match Nikki,
person M, and me and then painted chromosome 1 using the new DNA Painter
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Each of these people is in common with me and M.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the only in-common-with segment and
it ranges from 13 to 25 cMgs. All of the data are from GEDMatch. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part of this area is a common pile-up area,
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Using the Triangulation tool at GEdmatch, only B, N, M, and
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Why are there not more people who triangulate? Why would A,
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Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136329140852228888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527179196896031770.post-74879861859252332592018-03-08T10:11:00.000-08:002018-03-08T10:11:38.288-08:00How are we related Nikki and I?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Over a year ago I was contacted by Nikki in an attempt to discover how we are related. Nikki and I are not of the same race, she's Black and I'm White. I've known for a long time that this would eventually happen. All of my family, both sides, comes from North and South Carolina, through Georgia and into Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Some of my ancestors owned slaves. It's a history that is hard to wrap your head around. You want to respect and think well of your ancestors but the whole institution is hard to accept. <br />
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Nikki and I must be related through slavery.<br />
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We have no ancestral names in common but we do have locations. The Cheraws District of South Carolina and Woodville, Wilkinson, Mississippi. My father's family lived in Woodville and neighboring Amite County, Mississippi and East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. <br />
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This is our journey to discover how we are related. <br />
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<br />Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136329140852228888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527179196896031770.post-20551219273169698422017-02-15T23:32:00.000-08:002017-02-15T23:32:04.878-08:00Roots Tech - The ExperienceThis was the first time I brought my husband to Roots Tech.<br />
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Bill has been to NGS, FGS and Jamboree. Usually he spends most of his time in the vender hall and attends a couple classes. He's been known to skip the classes entirely. And, he's been known to stay home. </div>
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We got to Salt Lake two days early to have time to work in the Library. I jumped on him for not taking advantage of the people at the Family History Library and what a difference it made. I took him down to the British floor to work on his Mayhew/Mayo line and he met some excellent helpers who lite a fire under him. </div>
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How does this relate to Roots Tech? I wish I had a really good answer for that but it did make a difference in how he viewed the conference. Roots Tech is hard not to like even with zillions of people. The keynotes were a combination of pop culture and family history and definitely worth your time to watch. Remember that all the keynotes and about four classes each day are posted on the Roots Tech website. </div>
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The vender area is the largest I've ever seen at a genealogy conference. It's full of small venders, innovators and book/photo scanners in addition to the normal suspects. We talked to the people at Excelsior College about their "Practicum in Genealogical Research." Also visited The Georgia Genealogical Society about IGHR. Bill's favorite is always American Ancestors. In reality, we visited just about everyone. </div>
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Josh Taylor's class " Tracing Families Online, 15 amazing Tools" was his favorite class, at least the one where he took the most notes. Bill's been attending GSNOCC meetings for years and must not have listened very well, everything seemed new.<br />
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He loved the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Hammerstein program. Found the MyHeritage party great fun. Enjoyed meeting Peggy Lauritzen on our drive to Dear Myrtle's after Party and found plenty of people to talk to.<br />
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Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136329140852228888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527179196896031770.post-66469509077355654282017-02-11T08:05:00.000-08:002017-02-12T10:58:09.637-08:00Friday at RootsTechLaVar Burton was the highlight of the morning. It's a good thing that this is one of the recorded offerings as we missed some of it. I'll have to catch up at home.<br />
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I attended <i>Creating an Effective Research Plan </i>with Angela McGie. She's a great presenter and has a thorough handout. <br />
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This time, several attendees asked if they could take pictures of her slides and received the expected, on my part, negative answer. I noticed, throughout the day, that more people asked about taking pictures than yesterday, which is good. There was a lengthy rant on Facebook about the indiscriminate taking of pictures of slides. This seems to be a problem at RootsTech. In my opinion it's because the attendees are not regular conference goers. For many of them this is the only conference they attend. We need to make sure they understand the concept of intellectual property.<br />
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I spent lunch wondering the vendor hall. Even bought 10 AncestryDNA kits. It helps to have your husband along.<br />
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<i>Military Pension Law</i> with Rich Sayre was my one o'clock class. That man is a wealth of knowledge. I wish that I was closer to Washington DC so I could use NARA on a regular basis.<br />
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I was somewhat disappointed in Kip Sperry's <i>Finding Your Ancestors in US Church Records</i>. It was very basic. I have trouble finding church records for my ancestors and I need some magic lessons that I don't think exist. Church records are one area where on site research is necessary.<br />
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The MyHeritage after party was another unique experience at RootsTech. The karaoke was fantastic.I wish I had the personality to get up there and sing and dance. I came home with a souvenir bent spoon from one of the magicians. It's quite art piece. Picture attached. Talked to a number of genealogists.<br />
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Tomorrow I'm spending some time in the Library. Too much research...to little time.<br />
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#rootstechJamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136329140852228888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527179196896031770.post-16125414574965618052017-02-09T21:51:00.003-08:002017-02-09T21:51:34.435-08:00RootsTech Like No Other Conference You've Ever Attended. Have you ever been to a genealogy conference--a local all day event, Jamboree, NGS, or FGS? <br />
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You've seen nothing yet until you've been to RootsTech. RootsTech is unique unto itself and I really do love it.<br />
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True, it has things in common with other conferences: keynotes, classes, workshops, luncheons, and a vender area but, where else do 30,000 genealogy enthuseists from beginner to professional get together to share their passion? If you drop names like Tom Jones or Judy Russell you're just as likely to get a blank stare as an "I love him or her".<br />
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Where else do you start the day with Alvin and the Chipmonks and end it with Rogers and Hammerstein's <i>Climb Every Mountain</i>?<br />
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In between I attended some fantastic sessions.<br />
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I started the day with Kitty Cooper and <i>How to Use DNA Triangulation to Confirm Ancestors</i>. She began by asking how many had tested their DNA and invited those who had not to leave, no hurt feelings, this was an advanced class. The man sitting next to me chose to stay even though he said he knew very little about DNA. At the end, I was delighted and he was totally confused.<br />
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I went to the Family Search Luncheon. Nice lunch, nice conversation and an interesting talk including the history and future of the Family History Library. <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Diane Loosle</span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> With her talk </span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Who Moved My Microfilm? The truth behind the library you have always loved</i> assuaged some of my </span>concerns about the loss of books to digitizing. She talked about the enormous number of linear feet of new books they receive each year and the problem of making decisions about what can stay and what can go - many become digitized.<br />
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For my next class I chose one I was sure I would like, Tom Jones' <i>Writing About and Documenting DNA Test Results.</i> Big take away, read all the sample NGSQ articles in the syllabus. Well that and follow all the steps for beginning, middle, and end ( notice the Oxford comma, Tom uses them a lot)<br />
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After that I decided to skip my 3 o'clock class and take a look at the vender hall. You can't make it through in an hour so I'll have to go back tomorrow.<br />
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My last class was another with Tom Jones <i>Organizing Evidence to Reveal Lineages</i>. Each time I hear him, I learn a little more. I've got two problems that this method could work really well with.<br />
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Tonight we topped the day off with the opening event, <i>Music - It Runs in the Family. </i><br />
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Nothing beats the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the music of Rogers and Hammerstein.<br />
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Now it's time for bed. Another big day tomorrow.<br />
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#rootstechJamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136329140852228888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527179196896031770.post-17376559022275235082015-06-20T20:17:00.001-07:002015-06-20T20:54:34.489-07:00FathersIn honor of Father's day - pictures of my father and grandfathers.<br />
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This is a horrible picture of me on the left but a great picture of my dad holding my sister, Terri. He would be under 40 at this time, probably closer to 35. In the picture below he was about 20. I think this was an ROTC picture although it could be when he first joined the army.<br />
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Here is my grandfather, James H. McManus Sr., My father said he was about 25 when this picture was taken.</div>
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And my other grandfather, Dr.Milton Lee Orr.<br />
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If I had a chance I would talk to each of them about their lives. I know they told me many things but I just do not remember it was all so many years ago that they were gone.Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136329140852228888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527179196896031770.post-67012945516702849642013-03-28T18:45:00.000-07:002013-03-28T18:55:32.178-07:00Percy George Mayhew- Man of Many Trades<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">by Jamie Lee McManus Mayhew</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiJkV0HJp_SrYr6dmGhTxpgHV9ebkeyZXJUtTJQ62qKK4V-waxp5rx0TbZTtDZPzFR2Bg-TmLrJ9UPo00HP1hoqcH2ENsivtalDG5hyphenhyphenKEgd8OaV_hMBfPTBBQuj_zPYbpjiegGAx5CZdw/s1600/Percy+G.+Mayhew2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Percy G. Mayhew picture" border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiJkV0HJp_SrYr6dmGhTxpgHV9ebkeyZXJUtTJQ62qKK4V-waxp5rx0TbZTtDZPzFR2Bg-TmLrJ9UPo00HP1hoqcH2ENsivtalDG5hyphenhyphenKEgd8OaV_hMBfPTBBQuj_zPYbpjiegGAx5CZdw/s200/Percy+G.+Mayhew2.jpg" title="Percy G. Mayhew " width="123" /></a><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">1. percy george mayhew </span>was born in Grand Rapids, Kent
Michigan on 25 June 1882 to George<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""> </a></span>Richmond Mayhew and Lucy Anne (Tucker) Mayhew.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">[<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">1]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
He died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California on 2 October 1937<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
and is buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena, Los Angeles, California.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
He married Helen Frances Mason born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio 29 August
1882, daughter of Albert G. Mason and Loretta “Lettie” (Howe) Mason, on 14
November 1908 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[4]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
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Percy George Mayhew was the second child born to
George Richmond Mayhew and Lucy Anne Tucker.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[5]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
This was the second marriage for Lucy who had married first, William E. Osgood<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
and was presumably left a widow with a young son, Harry Osgood, who she brought
to her marriage with George R. Mayhew.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a>
</span>George and Lucy’s first child was a daughter, Blanche Mayhew, born in 1880.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[8]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
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The Mayhew’s were a well-to-do family in Grand
Rapids. George Richmond Mayhew, father of Percy, was a prominent businessman in
Grand Rapids first as an owner of Loomis, Mayhew & Company at 30 Canal Street
and later as G. R. Mayhew Boots and Shoes at 86 Monroe.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[9]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
The family, especially Percy and Blanche, are frequently mentioned in the
society pages attending parties and other social events.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
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Percy’s father, George Richmond Mayhew, died 3 April
1899 of paralysis, the terminology used at that time for a stroke.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[11]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Lucy Mayhew was appointed guardian of Percy and Blanche.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[12]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
In 1900, after the death of his father, Percy graduated from the exclusive Howe
Military School at Lima, Indiana attending for his junior and senior years of
high school.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[13]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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Percy began his employment career as a clerk,
presumably at the store now owned by his mother. Local <span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""></a></span> directories list him as
a pattern maker beginning in 1892.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn14" name="_ftnref14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[14]</span></span></span></a></span> In 1906 Percy G. Mayhew received his first
patent for a waterproof shoe that by 1909 he was selling at the P. G. Mayhew
Shoe Company. While in Grand Rapids, Percy became associated with Arthur Ford
in the Michigan Felting company. When this business failed about 1910, he moved
to Holland, Michigan where he started the P.G. Mayhew Company doing business as
the Mayhew Textile Manufacturing Company. He continued to manufacture the
creeping blanket for babies and interchangeable comforter filler, his second patent, until further
financial troubles hit.<br />
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Percy married Helen Frances Mason of Cleveland Ohio
on 14 November 1908.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn15" name="_ftnref15" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn15;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[15]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
There followed four children, Josephine Anne Mayhew, Nell Elizabeth Mayhew,
George Richard Mayhew, and Jack Mason Mayhew.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn16" name="_ftnref16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[16]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
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By 1914, Percy’s mattress business was in trouble, and
Percy went to his mother for help. The following excerpt from a news article in
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Miss Blanche M. Mayhew,
sister, in an affidavit says her brother came to her last January, claiming he
needed more collateral on which to raise money for his business. She says she
had heard talks between her mother and Percy and understood that she would not
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">She deposes that later he
came to her and she took $3,400 in Commonwealth securities from the safety
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The brother was also given
$7,000 in Citizens Telephone company stock. Later he was given $1,000 in lumber
company stock. Later he threatened his sister and she says she gave him more
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">In January, 1914, Miss Mayhew
and her mother, who was critically ill, went to Chicago where the mother was
treated by specialists. Percy followed them and again importuned his sister for
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">“I gave him the keys to the
Michigan Trust box,” she deposes “I never knew until this trouble came up that
he forged mother’s name to the letter of attorneyship, through which he gained
admission to the box.”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn17" name="_ftnref17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[17]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></div>
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There followed a series of articles in the Grand
Rapids and Holland newspapers until Percy was apprehended in early December
2014 by the Pinkerton detectives.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn18" name="_ftnref18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[18]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
This strange family saga ended on Christmas day 2014 when Percy’s mother had a
change of heart and telegraphed from the East to the authorities in Grand
Rapids asking them to “let her poor boy go.”<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn19" name="_ftnref19" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn19;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[19]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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Ever the <span class="st">entrepreneur</span>, Percy
moved to Aurora, New York in 1915 where he leased the WaySide Inn.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn20" name="_ftnref20" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn20;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[20]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Six months later he formed a group that purchased the <i>St Lawrence Inn</i>, in
<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Gouverneur</span> NY.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn21" name="_ftnref21" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn21;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[21]</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span> </span>Percy and Helen’s last child, Jack Mason
Mayhew, was born while they were in Gouverneur, New York.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn22" name="_ftnref22" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn22;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[22]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
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In 1918, according to Percy’s daughter Nell, the
cost of heat for the St. Lawrence Inn was too high and Percy brought his family
to California where he started a new company making candy.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn23" name="_ftnref23" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn23;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[23]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Percy became a widower on 22 August 1935 on the
death of his wife Helen.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn24" name="_ftnref24" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn24;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[24]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Percy George Mayhew died in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California on 2 October
1937 at the age of fifty-three years, three months, and seven days of malignant
nephroslerosis,<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn25" name="_ftnref25" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn25;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[25]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
rapidly progressing kidney failure caused by uncontrolled high blood pressure.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn26" name="_ftnref26" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn26;" title=""><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[26]</span></span></span></a></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">
</span>Percy and Helen were cremated and are buried in Altadena at the Mountain View Cemetery.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn27" name="_ftnref27" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn27;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[27]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
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Children of Percy George Mayhew and Helen Frances
Mayhew</div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">i.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>Josephine Ann Mayhew born 25 May 1910 in Grand Rapids,
Kent, Michigan.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn28" name="_ftnref28" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn28;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[28]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
Married Jack Curtis 14 March 1931.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn29" name="_ftnref29" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn29;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[29]</span></span></span></span></a>
</span>Died 8 Sept 2001 in Pawnee City, Pawnee, Nebraska.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn30" name="_ftnref30" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn30;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[30]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">ii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>Nell Elizabeth Mayhew born 18 April 1912 in Holland,
Ottawa, Michigan.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn31" name="_ftnref31" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn31;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[31]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
She married first Freeman Henry Argetsinger 6 Jul 1935,<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn32" name="_ftnref32" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn32;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[32]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
second Glenn Eugene Miller 16 November 1978.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn33" name="_ftnref33" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn33;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[33]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
She died 14 January 2001 in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn34" name="_ftnref34" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn34;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[34]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="mso-list: Ignore;">iii.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span>George Richard Mayhew born 7 August 1913 in Holland,
Ottawa, Michigan.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn35" name="_ftnref35" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn35;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[35]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
He married Cleo Dorothy Hopp 14 February 1937 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles,
California.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn36" name="_ftnref36" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn36;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[36]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
He died 30 December 1980 in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn37" name="_ftnref37" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn37;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[37]</span></span></span></span></a></span></div>
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<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">iv. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Jack Mason Mayhew born 18 February 1917 in
Gouverneur, St. Lawrence, New York.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn38" name="_ftnref38" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn38;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[38]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
He married Ethel Dutcher 25 February 1938 in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftn39" name="_ftnref39" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn39;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[39]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
He died 25 March 1988 in Newport Beach, Orange, California.</span>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span>“Michigan,
Births, 1867-1902,” index and images, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">FamilySearch
</i>(<a href="http://www.familysearch.org/">http://www.familysearch.org</a> :
accessed 15 Feb 2013) Perry Mayhew, 25 June 1882.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a>
</span>California Department of Health Services, death certificate no. 37-063727,
Percy Mayhew (1937), Vital Statistics Branch, Sacramento.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[3]</span></span></span></span></a></span> Mountain
View Cemetery (Altadena, Los Angeles, California), Percy Mayhew and Helen
Mayhew marker, personally read, 2007. </div>
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“Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Marriage Records and Indexes, 1810-1973,” index and
images, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (<a href="http://www.ancestry.com/">http://www.ancestry.com</a> : access 15 Feb
2013) volume: 70-71; page 224; application and return no. 59895, Percy G. Mayhew
and Helen F. Mason marriage 14 Nov 1908. </div>
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1884 Michigan state census, Kent County, population schedule, 3<sup>rd</sup>
Ward City of Grand Rapids, p. 112, dwelling 382, family 427, for Blanche Mayhew
in George R. Mayhew household; FHL microfilm 984,118. </div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[6]</span></span></span></span></a></span> “Massachusetts,
Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988,” index and images, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (<a href="http://www.ancestry.com/">http://www.ancestry.com</a>
: access 15 Feb 2013) “Out of Town Marriages for the City of Boston for the
year 1870,” pg 55, entry 22, William T. Osgood and Lucy A. Tucker 28 April
1870. </div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[7]</span></span></span></span></a> </span>No
record has been found of the death of William T. Osgood nor of a divorce
between Lucy and William Osgood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>George and Lucy
Mayhew with Harry Osgood, are enumerated in 1880 U.S. census, Kent County,
Michigan, population schedule, Grand Rapids, Enumeration District (ED) 138, p
6, dwelling 32, family 35, George R. Mayhew household; digital image, (<a href="http://www.ancestry.com/">http://www.ancestry.com</a> : access 15 Feb
2013), citing FHL film 1254588.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn8" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div align="left" class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[8]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
1884 Michigan state census, Kent County, population schedule, 3<sup>rd</sup>
Ward City of Grand Rapids, p. 112, dwelling 382, family 427, for Blanche Mayhew
in George R. Mayhew household; FHL microfilm 984,118.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn9" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[9]</span></span></span></span></a></span> See
Grand Rapids City directories from 1867 through 1890. Also see Dan O’Reiley,
“In the city,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Michigan Tradsman</i>, 27
Jun 1884 “G. R. Mayhew is building a fine residence on South Prospect street,
adjoining the home of Amos. M. Musselman”</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn10" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[10]</span></span></span></span></a></span> “From
the Summer Resorts,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grand Rapids Press</i>,
Grand Rapids, Michigan, 17 August 1901, digital images, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogybank.com</i> (<a href="http://www.genealogybank.com/">http://www.genealogybank.com</a>
: accessed 15 February 2013) citing original page 6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See also “Social News of the Week,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Plain Dealer</i>, Cleveland, Ohio, 15
November 1908, digital images, Genealogybank.com (<a href="http://www.genealogybank.com/">http://www.genealogybank.com</a> : accessed
15 February 2013) citing original page 39,42.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></div>
</div>
<div id="ftn11" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[11]</span></span></span></span></a></span> “Geo.
R. Mayhew Dead,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grand Rapids Herald</i>,
Grand Rapids, Michigan 4 April 1899.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn12" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[12]</span></span></span></span></a></span> “Court
Records: Probate,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grand Rapids Herald</i>,
Grand Rapids, Michigan, 8 April 1899, digital images, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogybank.com</i> (<a href="http://www.genealogybank.com/">http://www.genealogybank.com</a>
: accessed 15 February 2013) citing original page 5.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn13" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div align="left" class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref13" name="_ftn13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[13]</span></span></span></span></a>
</span>“Society,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grand Rapids Herald</i>, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, 23 Dec 1900, digital images <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogybank.com</i> (<a href="http://www.genealogybank.com/">http://www.genealogybank.com</a>
: accessed 15 February 2013) citing original page 3.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn14" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div align="left" class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref14" name="_ftn14" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn14;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[14]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
“Burns Agents Searching for Percy Mayhew: Young Business Man, Well Known in
this City and Holland, Missing,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grand
Rapids Press</i>, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 24 September 1914, digital images, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Genealogybank.com</i> (<a href="http://www.genealogybank.com/">http://www.genealogybank.com</a> : accessed
15 February 2013) citing original page 2.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn15" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div align="left" class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref15" name="_ftn15" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn15;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[15]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
“Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Marriage Records and Indexes, 1810-1973,” index and
images, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ancestry.com</i> (<a href="http://www.ancestry.com/">http://www.ancestry.com</a> : access 15 Feb
2013) volume: 70-71; page 224; application and return no. 59895, Percy G.
Mayhew and Helen F. Mason marriage 14 Nov 1908.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn16" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div align="left" class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref16" name="_ftn16" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn16;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[16]</span></span></span></span></a>
</span>1920 U.S. Census, Los Angeles, California, population schedule, Hermosa Beach,
Enumeration District (ED) 541, sheet 14A, dwelling 126, family 141, Percy G.
Mayhew household; digital image, (<a href="http://www.ancestry.com/">http://www.ancestry.com</a>
: access 15 Feb 2013), citing National Archives microfilm publication<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>T625, roll 118. </div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref17" name="_ftn17" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn17;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[17]</span></span></span></span></a>
</span>“Holland Mattress Man Soon to be Nabbed,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Holland
City News</i>, Holland, Michigan, 10 December 1914, page 1, column 5.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn18" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref18" name="_ftn18" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn18;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[18]</span></span></span></span></a></span>
“Holland Citizens Heavy Creditors: Percy G. Mayhew Co., Went Bankrupt for
Thousands,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Holland City News</i>,
Holland, Michigan, 16 February 1915, page 1, column 4.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn19" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref19" name="_ftn19" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn19;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[19]</span></span></span></span></a></span> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ibid</i></div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref20" name="_ftn20" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn20;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[20]</span></span></span></span></a></span> “News
of the Nearby Towns: Arrora and Wells,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Auborn
New York Citizen</i>, Auborn, New York. See also, “Wanted in Michigan,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Auborn New York Citizen</i>, Auborn, New
York, 10 December 1914, page 6, column 3;digital image <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Old Fulton Postcards</i> (<a href="http://fultonhistory.com/">http://Fultonhistory.com</a>
: accessed 20 February 2013)</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn21" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref21" name="_ftn21" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn21;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[21]</span></span></span></span></a></span> “St
Lawrence Inn to be Reorganized; Corporation to Purchase Gouverneur Inn,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Watertown Daily Times</i>, 27 December 1916,
page 3, column 3; digital images, Genealogybank.com (<a href="http://www.genealogybank.com/">http://www.genealogybank.com</a> : accessed
23 February 2013) Historical Newspapers (1690-1980)</div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref22" name="_ftn22" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn22;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[22]</span></span></span></span></a></span> Nell
Argetsinger, (Pawnee,Nebraska) to Jamie Mayhew (Hacienda Heights, California,)
letter,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>undated approximately 1975,
privately held by Jamie Mayhew [<span style="font-size: 8.0pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Researcher’s
Contact Information</span>) 2013.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn23" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref23" name="_ftn23" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn23;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[23]</span></span></span></span></a></span> Argetsinger
to Mayhew, 1975. See also “St. Lawrence Inn Closed,” The Free Press,
Gouverneur, New York, 6 December 1917, unpaginated, column 4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
</div>
<div id="ftn24" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref24" name="_ftn24" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn24;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[24]</span></span></span></span></a></span> <span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">"California, Death Index, 1905-1939," digital
images, FamilySearch (</span><a href="https://familysearch.org/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 10.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">https://familysearch.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">:
accessed 23 April 2012), 1930-1939 >Heslop, Nellie-Rzechtalski, Leon , image
384of 836, Mayhew, Helen, 22 August 1935 </span>
</div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref25" name="_ftn25" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn25;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[25]</span></span></span></span></a></span> California
Department of Health Services, death certificate 37-063727, Percy Mayhew
(1937), Office of State Registrar, Sacramento.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn26" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div align="left" class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref26" name="_ftn26" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn26;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[26]</span></span></span></span></a> </span>“<span class="mmheadertext">Malignant Hypertensive Nephrosclerosis” The Merck Manual
Home Health Handbook for Patients and Caregivers, (</span><a href="http://www.merckmanuals.com/home/kidney_and_urinary_tract_disorders/blood_vessel_disorders_of_the_kidneys/malignant_hypertensive_nephrosclerosis.html">http://www.merckmanuals.com/home/kidney_and_urinary_tract_disorders/blood_vessel_disorders_of_the_kidneys/malignant_hypertensive_nephrosclerosis.html</a><span class="mmheadertext"> : accessed 23 February 2013) December 2007.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref27" name="_ftn27" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn27;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[27]</span></span></span></span></a> </span>Find A
Grave, Inc., <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Find A Grave</span></i></a>, digital
image (<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/" target="_blank">http://www.findagrave.com</a>
: accessed 24 February 2013), photograph, “gravestone for Percy Mayhew (1882-1937)
and Helen Mayhew(1882-1935), <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15616487" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Memorial No.
12638889</span></a>, Records of the Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum,
Altadena, Los Angeles, California;” photograph © Shiver.</div>
</div>
<div id="ftn28" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref28" name="_ftn28" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn28;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[28]</span></span></span></span></a></span> Find A
Grave, Inc., <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Find A Grave</span></i></a>, digital
image (<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/" target="_blank">http://www.findagrave.com</a>
: accessed 24 February 2013), memorial, “for Josephine Anne Mayhew Curtis (1910-2001),
<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15616487" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">Memorial No.</span>
<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">57751294</span></a>, Records of
the Pawnee City Cemetery, Pawnee City, Pawnee, California.” </div>
</div>
<div id="ftn29" style="mso-element: footnote;">
<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref29" name="_ftn29" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn29;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[29]</span></span></span></span></a> </span>Cleo
Mayhew, (Arcadia, Los Angeles, California)1975, address book containing birth,
death and marriage information; privately held by Jamie Mayhew [Researcher’s
Contact Information) 2013. This address book was held by George R. Mayhew after
his wife, Cleo Mayhew died 3 September 1975 and came to the researcher on the
death of George R. Mayhew 30 December 1980. </div>
</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref30" name="_ftn30" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn30;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[30]</span></span></span></span></a> </span>Find A
Grave, Inc. <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/" target="_blank"><i>Find A
Grave</i></a>, memorial, “for Josephine Anne Mayhew Curtis (1910-2001), <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15616487" target="_blank">Memorial No. 57751294</a>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref31" name="_ftn31" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn31;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[31]</span></span></span></span></a></span> Cleo
Mayhew, (Arcadia, Los Angeles, California)1975, address book.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref32" name="_ftn32" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn32;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[32]</span></span></span></span></a></span> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ibid</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref33" name="_ftn33" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn33;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[33]</span></span></span></span></a> </span>“Nevada
Marriage Index, 1956-2005,” Ancestry.com (<a href="http://www.ancestry.com/">http://www.ancestry.com</a>
: accessed 15 February 2013), marriage of Nell E. Argetsinger and Glen Eugene
Miller, 16 November 1978; citing Nevada State Health Division, Office of Vital
Records. <i>Nevada Marriage Index, 1966-2005</i>. Carson City, Nevada: Nevada
State Health Division, Office of Vital Records.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref34" name="_ftn34" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn34;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[34]</span></span></span></span></a></span> David
Argetsinger, son of Nell E. Argetsinger (Orland, California), interview by
Jamie Mayhew, 6 June 2011; notes privately held by interviewer, Yorba Linda,
California, 2013.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref35" name="_ftn35" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn35;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[35]</span></span></span></span></a> </span>George
R. Mayhew (Long Beach, California), interview by Jamie Mayhew, 1978; notes
privately held by interviewer, Yorba Linda, California, 2013.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref36" name="_ftn36" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn36;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[36]</span></span></span></span></a></span> “Certificate
of Marriage,” couple’s copy, George R. Mayhew to Cleo D. Hopp, Mayhew family
records held by Jamie Mayhew 2013. Held by George R. Mayhew after his wife,
Cleo Mayhew died 3 September 1975 and came to the researcher on the death of
George R. Mayhew 30 December 1980. </div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref37" name="_ftn37" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn37;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[37]</span></span></span></span></a></span> Jamie
Mayhew, personal knowledge of death of George R. Mayhew 30 December 1980.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref38" name="_ftn38" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn38;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[38]</span></span></span></span></a></span> Argetsinger
to Mayhew, letter, 1975.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6527179196896031770#_ftnref39" name="_ftn39" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn39;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[39]</span></span></span></span></a></span> Undated
newspaper clipping, “Mrs. Jack M. Mayhew” marriage of Jack M. Mayhew and Ethel
Dutcher 25 February 1938 in Cleo Mayhew, scrapbook, ca. 1937-1975; Mayhew
family records held by Jamie Mayhew 2013. Held by George R. Mayhew after his
wife, Cleo Mayhew died 3 September 1975 and came to the researcher on the death
of George R. Mayhew 30 December 1980. </div>
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Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136329140852228888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527179196896031770.post-3225511768113227912012-02-08T12:00:00.000-08:002013-03-28T20:00:41.848-07:00Ida Ruth Eaglebarger - My Grandmother<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Geneva,Arial;"> <span style="color: black;">I never met my grandmother, Ida Ruth Eaglebarger, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica,Geneva,Arial; font-size: small;">as she died 5 August 1927 at the age of twenty-nine from breast cancer. In one
of the pictures I have of her she looks like Annie Oakley. She's
kneeling on one knee wearing a split skirt, a wide brimmed straw hat and
holding a large shotgun. I have no idea why this picture was taken. <br />
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Ida Ruth was called just Ruth. She was born in Petty, Lemar, Texas on
27 February 1896. Her father, P. R. Eaglebarger was editor of the
Western Christian Advocate. He also served as a Methodist Episcopal
minister. Ruth was found as a 14 year in the 1910 census living in
Little Rock, Arkansas with her parents and her older sister, Ross . In
September her mother died and within a year she had a new stepmother.
Ruth married James H. McManus in 1916 at the age of 20. In 1920 she had a
son and a daughter in 1922. When her son, my father, was 7 and her daughter 5, she
died. Her husband, my grandfather, never remarried. <br />
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My father described his mother as strict, someone to be afraid of. His
life from the time of her death was a series of boarding houses with his
father and spare rooms (sometimes the bathroom) with his aunts. He
never lived with his grandfather and step grandmother.</span></span></div>
Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136329140852228888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527179196896031770.post-55071039223764245942012-02-07T14:32:00.000-08:002012-02-07T14:32:58.494-08:00Looking for LucyLucy Mayhew has been an enigma for a number of years. She was the wife of George Richmond Mayhew. George became a fairly well-to-do shoe proprietor in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Before his death, he purchased a family plot in Oakhill Cemetery. He reinterred his father who had died and been buried in Ionia, Ionia, Michigan and buried his mother who died 29 May 1898<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span> in the same plot. When George died 3 April 1899 he became the third and last family burial in his family plot. Lucy was nowhere to be found.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWN8azjiiQ9UFSDixfEtJp-1nLmTkEIdnfcP6CQsi1QUXMBqDTAM5raD6cKtXbY06ip4aTLFrkGK5Ysrxc87ppWHMTSBGKWsJJBekV-O0IuvhQuTK44Mb8amGes_OUqzqzKr22t0anOuo/s1600/DSC00682.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWN8azjiiQ9UFSDixfEtJp-1nLmTkEIdnfcP6CQsi1QUXMBqDTAM5raD6cKtXbY06ip4aTLFrkGK5Ysrxc87ppWHMTSBGKWsJJBekV-O0IuvhQuTK44Mb8amGes_OUqzqzKr22t0anOuo/s320/DSC00682.JPG" width="320" /></a><br />George Richmond Mayhew was born 23 July 1850 in Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span> The <i>History of Kent County, Michigan,</i> by Chapman, indicates that George R. Mayhew married Mrs. Lucy Osgood, born May 1855 in Massachusetts<span style="font-size: xx-small;">,3</span> in 1878 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">4</span><br /><br />
Lucy Osgood came to the marriage with a son from her previous marriage, Harry Osgood, born 9 February 1871 in Avon, Norfolk, Massachusetts.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span><br />
<br />Lucy and George Mayhew had two children, Blanche Mayhew born March 18813 and Percy George Mayhew born 25 June 1882<span style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span> both born in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan. George R. Mayhew died 3 April 18996 at just under 49 years of age. George Mayhew purchased a large family plot in Oakhill Cemetery in Grand Rapids where he is buried along with his mother, Lucretia Mayhew, and father, Abijah L. Mayhew. Lucy is not buried in the family plot.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">8</span><br />
<br />After her husband’s death, Lucy is found in the 1900 US Census in Grand Rapids Ward 3, Kent, Michigan as head of household with her daughter Blanche Poler, both living in the same house she had lived in previously with her husband. Lucy is listed as a widow born May 1855 in Massachusetts with both parents born in Massachusetts. Although Blanche is listed with the last name Poler, she is also listed as being single.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">3</span> In 1910 Lucy is again found in the same location in the US Census in Grand Rapids with her daughter who is now enumerated as Blanche Mayhew. The census indicates that Lucy had three children with two living although all three of her children are still alive at this time.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">9</span><br />In 1914 the family was involved in a crisis in which the son, Percy George Mayhew, stole a large sum of money, reportedly $30,000 in bearer bonds, from his mother’s safe deposit box. Newspaper articles describing the events indicate that Lucy was now in Aurora, New York.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">10</span> Lucy is not found in the 1920 US Census .<br />
<br />Several years ago, Ancestry.com first published passport applications and three applications were found for Harry Osgood. The first application dated 11 June 1917 contained a notarized letter from Harry’s aunt, Helen S. Tucker, attesting to the birth of Harry E. Osgood, son of William Osgood and Lucy Tucker Osgood on 9 February 1874 at the home of Lucy Tucker Osgood’s father Ebenezer Tucker in Avon, then East Stoughton, Massachusetts. Lucy did not provide any documentation for her son’s application.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">6</span><br /><br />DISCUSSION:<br />Women frequently lived in the same area as a close relative or friend. It is probable that Lucy lived in the same area as one of her children after her husband’s death giving a starting point for this research. Harry Osgood was living in New Rochelle, Westchester, New York at the time of his passport application and is found there in the 1920 US Census<span style="font-size: xx-small;">11</span> but not the 1930 US census. Information from the passport application indicates that Lucy lived in East Stoughton [later Avon], Norfolk, Massachusetts prior to her marriage to George Richmond Mayhew.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">5</span> In a letter from Jo Curtis, daughter of Percy Mayhew, Jo Curtis says that her father and their family moved to California in 1918 from Governor, New York. No mention is made of Lucy Mayhew.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">13</span> Blanche Mayhew is not found in a cursory search of census records after 1910. My hypothesis is that Lucy Mayhew died between 1914 and 1917 in the state of New York, probably with her son Harry Osgood in New Rochelle.<br />
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So...Where's Lucy?<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">1. Michigan Department of State-Division of Vital Statistists, "Death Records, 1897-1920"; Seeking Michigan (http:seekingmichigan.org: accessed February 2012), transcript of certificate of death for Lucretia J Mayhew, Kent County, page 1064, registered number 498.<br />2. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841–1910. (From original records held by the Massachusetts Archives) Online database: <i>AmericanAncestors.org</i>, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004.) vol 43:229 accessed April 2011.<br />3. 1900 U.S. Census. Kent County, Michigan, population schedule, Ward 3 Grand Rapids, Enumeration District [ED] 54, p 309 (stamped), dwelling 4, family 4, Lucy A. Mayhew; digital images, <i>Ancestry.com.</i> (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed January 2012); from National Archives microfilm publication T623, roll 721.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">4. History of Kent County, Michigan: Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens : History of Michigan, Embracing Accounts of the Pre-Historic Races, Aborigines, French, English and American Conquests, and a General Review of Its Civil, Political and Military History. Chicago: C.C. Chapman & Co, 1881. Pg 1075 Internet resource.<br />5. U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: <i>Ancestry.com </i>Operations, Inc., 2007, citing National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Washington D.C.; Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 - March 31, 1925; ARC Identifier 583830 / MLR Number A1 534; NARA Series: M1490; Roll #1001.<br />6. Birth Certificate for Percy George Mayhew, State of Michigan Vital Records office, held by Jamie Mayhew.<br />7. <i>Grand Rapids Press</i>, 3 April 1899, Obituary, George R. Mayhew, pg 3 digital images <i>GenealogyBank.com.</i> (http://www.genealogybank.com. Accessed January 2012.)<br />8. Cemetery record card, Mayhew Plot, Oakhill Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Michigan.<br />9. 1910 U.S. Census. Kent County, Michigan, population schedule, Ward 3 Grand Rapids. enumeration District [ED] 0060, p 10A, image 813, dwelling 190, family 198, Lucy Mayhew; digital images. <i>Ancestry.com.</i> (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed January 2012); FHL film number 1374669 from National Archives microfilm publication T624 </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">10. <i>Auborn NY Citizen, 1916</i> image 1912 Old Fulton Postcards [images online] (http://www.fultonhistory.com; accessed 2007).<br />11. 1884 Michigan State Census. Kent County, Michigan, population schedule (LDS Family History Library).<br />12. 1920 US Census, Westchester County, New York, population schedule, New Rochelle Ward 1, Enumeration District [ED] 111, page 9B, image 765, dwelling 144, family 175, Harry E. Osgood; digital images. <i>Ancestry.com</i>. (http://www.ancestry.com: accessed January 2012); from National Archives microfilm publication T625, roll 1278.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">13. Jo Curtis, undated letter, in possession of Jamie Mayhew.</span>Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136329140852228888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527179196896031770.post-62755295452613248092011-11-10T20:07:00.001-08:002011-11-10T20:47:48.376-08:00Honoring two World War II soldiersI've been away from blogging for a year now and since my last post was Veteran's Day 2010, I think it is fitting that I continue on Veteran's Day 2011.<br />
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My Dad, James H. McManus, Jr., was in the US Army during WWII. This is an unlabeled picture, aren't most of them, so I'm not sure where it was taken. I remember my parents always looking older than other children's parents. Here he is under 25 years old which I find amazing. <br />
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This is my uncle, John William Orr (1922-1973). Uncle John never married and has no descendents and he was my mother's favorite brother. There are lots of family stories about Uncle John. John is a very common name in my family. Uncle John was born and grew up in Montevallo, Shelby, Alabama, a very small town, at the time, outside Birmingham. In the family he was known as Country John while his Uncle John who lived in Birmingham was City John. My Uncle John lived most of his life after the war in New York City but remained Country John to the family. <br />
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See my last post to learn about my mother who also served in the war. <br />
<br />Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136329140852228888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527179196896031770.post-87446548326749962392010-11-12T13:49:00.000-08:002010-11-12T13:49:16.505-08:00Thanks to the Veterans<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCi9aICyR80T31-JRBJ6rs_9Tj3KbqbfQxK6k_Cn3rqkqRakkrcvePlk3SdGp1NbubzHuqoNKszExB1mdAzeRH7e5utF8eI9YImqPTRdYfbuvJqm_zytZYms_pdknEMkqyMEn2cUtoaR8/s1600/Marie+Orr+navy+c1940.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCi9aICyR80T31-JRBJ6rs_9Tj3KbqbfQxK6k_Cn3rqkqRakkrcvePlk3SdGp1NbubzHuqoNKszExB1mdAzeRH7e5utF8eI9YImqPTRdYfbuvJqm_zytZYms_pdknEMkqyMEn2cUtoaR8/s320/Marie+Orr+navy+c1940.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Yesterday was Veterans Day and we went to the Nixon Presidential Library for the annual concert. One of the traditions of the Placentia Symphonic Band is a US Military Medley. As each of the songs associated with the military services is played all those in the audience who were in that service stand to be honored. My mother, Marie Orr McManus, was in the WAVES (<b>W</b>omen <b>A</b>ccepted for <b>V</b>olunteer <b>E</b>mergency <b>S</b>ervice) a division of the Navy during WWII. If she were still alive, and there were a number of the age she would have been, she would have been standing to be honored. So here's to you Mother, thank you for your service.Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136329140852228888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527179196896031770.post-38851235681323342012010-06-28T22:35:00.000-07:002010-06-28T22:42:17.216-07:00Tombstone Tuesday - Maple Grove Cemetery, Ravenna, Ohio<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8lWBO6jyAvrv31WX1oOXrl3drwd6tU83Jv0X5IzhM2cingwssjLf-8IkBNew7VbfoUBrQ6uQl7sN2vCxcgS4UnUjcztqA_XQ4R1toujamCZTcUbaRqz2rfABMNAzd9KOycKhzmvXHhek/s1600/Mason's+headstones.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8lWBO6jyAvrv31WX1oOXrl3drwd6tU83Jv0X5IzhM2cingwssjLf-8IkBNew7VbfoUBrQ6uQl7sN2vCxcgS4UnUjcztqA_XQ4R1toujamCZTcUbaRqz2rfABMNAzd9KOycKhzmvXHhek/s200/Mason's+headstones.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuj8agH9ds_DJrth-HFbe5aDTT_J7tYzTsmvw5ABXVFwiywB5LzBx3ZlAYaKEvZ7jQMKEEJmJ6KhyL1fzN_cN1ijPnivWHFssX_c7pB94HFeVrJR0cXuQIS0QlOhAW0nidjD-EK7YYoiQ/s1600/Amelia+Mason.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuj8agH9ds_DJrth-HFbe5aDTT_J7tYzTsmvw5ABXVFwiywB5LzBx3ZlAYaKEvZ7jQMKEEJmJ6KhyL1fzN_cN1ijPnivWHFssX_c7pB94HFeVrJR0cXuQIS0QlOhAW0nidjD-EK7YYoiQ/s200/Amelia+Mason.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisa8UvHW-buNWBwwzohhrHp4OAGwhkN43Xq927BbJ78LTaId4Eld2bsTcjyH4-OmdibJsIkIQntRhuS-pAgXk-4JkRj7ZBuW05-Npg9ROh1MqZ1qHFJczGGtRR7oEnmh-VsSBNovIDDmo/s1600/Maria+H.+Mason+grave.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisa8UvHW-buNWBwwzohhrHp4OAGwhkN43Xq927BbJ78LTaId4Eld2bsTcjyH4-OmdibJsIkIQntRhuS-pAgXk-4JkRj7ZBuW05-Npg9ROh1MqZ1qHFJczGGtRR7oEnmh-VsSBNovIDDmo/s200/Maria+H.+Mason+grave.jpg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpZ3c9DIjqPMmJ3wHQTuc4xFNJ7K7e_SU0iP7JnZwIvo9zdvOuOFj_vzOYL9QvpFBkRliSLfrpwX-FsM9EU23VXiOZyOmqKndNOE7B32uoSiZsxMfhFXrBHbY8tB3oS6QQYItJ2rMlfag/s1600/Samuel+Mason+headstone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpZ3c9DIjqPMmJ3wHQTuc4xFNJ7K7e_SU0iP7JnZwIvo9zdvOuOFj_vzOYL9QvpFBkRliSLfrpwX-FsM9EU23VXiOZyOmqKndNOE7B32uoSiZsxMfhFXrBHbY8tB3oS6QQYItJ2rMlfag/s200/Samuel+Mason+headstone.jpg" width="200" /></a>In 2007 we visited Ohio looking for cemetery records for my husband's Mason line. These pictures come from the "MAPLE GROVE CEMETERY in Ravenna and Ravenna Twp.; 6698 SR 44, .3 mile north of Ravenna City limits on the east side of the road; originally named Evergreen Cemetery." according to the Portage County Historical Society <http: cemeteries.html="" www.history.portage.oh.us="">. There are other graves in the newer section of the cemetery but these draw a certain emotion just looking at them. It was a sweltering day and near closing time for the cemetery and we had little time. Maple Grove is actually a beautiful cemetery with a lovely, peaceful lake. These graves are located toward the front of the cemetery way over on the right hand edge. Maria (1820-1865) and Samuel Mason (1813-1852) were my husband's ggggrandparents. They had three children, Albert G (1846-1916), Samuel (1848-1856), and Amelia (1851-1852). To the far right are Samuel, Maria, and Amelia's headstones. These tombstones do haunt me.<br />
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</http:>Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136329140852228888noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527179196896031770.post-53792739773694029432010-06-27T22:29:00.000-07:002010-06-27T22:29:39.574-07:00More About Daddy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwawp-0MjFQSrS_Dxjqhm2bF3qzX4pAeTDYMeBd96ph6E2H6-aSrAbHoadF5sAb-EJv_5LHghBGyc1dCV-81csx0mYiAAQIbzTV7KNbV89C_xouXuyzULwu0yPULc6pU5xWvwxlsU95w0/s1600/James+McManus+10+mths.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwawp-0MjFQSrS_Dxjqhm2bF3qzX4pAeTDYMeBd96ph6E2H6-aSrAbHoadF5sAb-EJv_5LHghBGyc1dCV-81csx0mYiAAQIbzTV7KNbV89C_xouXuyzULwu0yPULc6pU5xWvwxlsU95w0/s200/James+McManus+10+mths.jpg" width="136" /></a></div>James Hoard McManus, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, January 31, 1920, was the son of James Hoard McManus (1887-1971) and Ida Ruth Eaglebarger (1896-1927). His mother died at the age of 31 of breast cancer leaving a husband and two small children. The 1930 census shows the family enumerated under the name James H. Mcmannus as boarders in the Wisener household. I remember my father talking about living with the Wisener's but, at this time, I don't know how long they stayed there. I know my aunt went to live with her aunt and, most of the time, my father stayed with his father. My grandfather was a machinist with the railroad and my father sometimes lived with him and sometimes with relatives. Daddy talked about living in the bathroom and sleeping in the tub. He built a shelf over the tub to hold his clothes. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilqHXTXcYTde-KEG18sdB4t7nMxjn-v__r1Z55rgJnEyk-fah05bj0xpOzhBgelRa_Z27VA95SRXBd3D8yD4f9AbaedQ_0Qanh7-hzgjVhdnUKX0ARv2fSfex-2w9GgEeMETqpju6dsBs/s1600/James+age+22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilqHXTXcYTde-KEG18sdB4t7nMxjn-v__r1Z55rgJnEyk-fah05bj0xpOzhBgelRa_Z27VA95SRXBd3D8yD4f9AbaedQ_0Qanh7-hzgjVhdnUKX0ARv2fSfex-2w9GgEeMETqpju6dsBs/s200/James+age+22.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>He went to Louisiana State University for a two years prior to World War II and enlisted in the Army Air Corps 22 Dec 1941. Daddy never fought in the war, spending most of his time working on transport planes.He was released from the service after the war in California and decided to stay. He met my mother at UCLA saying that they were in a class together and he heard her southern accent, the only one in the room, and decided he had to meet her. They were part of the post WWII marriages that produced the baby boomers of today, living in track homes that were built by the thousands in the suburbs of Los Angeles.Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136329140852228888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527179196896031770.post-70435327614443902422010-06-20T12:39:00.000-07:002010-06-20T12:39:29.888-07:00Daddy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJWR4I90L5KGzvIVz7TQSLgc9MuZo4ljcuzUYhb03BTE1BUZv59xaeugUX7QrrKmhmPCScZw3lN3jeIXbkPSMrqJXIKTKumaCFbMPeQ_jgqHO54HxFcPYX5DRKhITTvHj6ru6O1ncllrk/s1600/James+McManus+Jr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJWR4I90L5KGzvIVz7TQSLgc9MuZo4ljcuzUYhb03BTE1BUZv59xaeugUX7QrrKmhmPCScZw3lN3jeIXbkPSMrqJXIKTKumaCFbMPeQ_jgqHO54HxFcPYX5DRKhITTvHj6ru6O1ncllrk/s200/James+McManus+Jr.jpg" width="133" /></a></div>My father was a traditional dad of the 50's. My mother raised us kids and my dad worked. I don't even think there were sports activities like there are today, but Daddy, and we all called him Daddy, was not a coach. Daddy was always there but not there. He worked long hours, he always drove, he sat in the living room and read the papers. Those are the most significant things I remember about him when I was a child. My father died at the age of 74. He was the last living grandparent my children had.<br />
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My father was James Hoard McManus. When he signed his name, the c was always raised with two little lines under it. Daddy was left handed and color blind, traits he's passed down to his grandchildren and great grandchildren.<br />
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His name has always been a puzzle to me. My father was James Hoard McManus, his father was James Hoard McManus, and his grandfather was James Hoard McManus. None of them were officially juniors or seniors. My father went by James Hoard McManus Jr. for a long time. I've always pronounced my maiden name as "MicManus" although my father pronounced it "MacManus." We called him Daddy, my mother called him Jim and his colleagues and friends outside our family sphere called him Mac. I remember being in the car one time and getting gas. The attendant called him Mac not Jim and that surprised me. But I digress.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7WK1X8SysDV_BU_G7XnZeI4U-vdIH0Lx75IyaQ4rRU74Eq5GxfF6jWXObhxPkElgiACMSoVw-SJsx0KSocAjzVZYVUY4SPCwSIVSL2XY93-aOAk83jGHN_z-lf3yjgq8nPBeAkZmTcn4/s1600/Daniel+Hoard+Col.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7WK1X8SysDV_BU_G7XnZeI4U-vdIH0Lx75IyaQ4rRU74Eq5GxfF6jWXObhxPkElgiACMSoVw-SJsx0KSocAjzVZYVUY4SPCwSIVSL2XY93-aOAk83jGHN_z-lf3yjgq8nPBeAkZmTcn4/s200/Daniel+Hoard+Col.jpg" width="145" /></a></div>Hoard is not a common middle name and you would guess that it was possibly a mother's maiden name. Not so, but close. Thomas Hugh McManus (1815-1865) and Johanna Wild Tritt (1829-1915) were the parents of the first James Hoard McManus (1849-1905). Johanna's father was Baker Tritt who died in 1835 when she was six year old. Her mother Verona Regular Wild married second Daniel Hoard (1787-1869) in 1849 the same year Johanna married Thomas Hugh McManus. Johanna and Thomas named their first son James Hoard McManus. What surprises me is that this name then continued down two more generations. <br />
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I will continue my story of my father in a part 2.Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136329140852228888noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527179196896031770.post-75412969577751745792010-06-16T13:46:00.000-07:002010-06-16T13:46:43.890-07:00Ebenezer MacIntoshWhile researching my husbands family, I discovered that his 4th ggrandfather is Ebenezer MacIntosh. MacIntosh was the leader of the mob of Indians that were part of the Boston Tea Party. What a fascinating person to research. I've been trying to find some books/articles that were written about him and am having some trouble. My first difficulty has been finding <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1276718857_4" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; cursor: pointer;">Anderson</span>, George P., “Ebenezer Mackintosh: Stamp Act Rioter and Patriot,” Publications of the Colonial Society of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1276718857_5" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">Massachusetts</span>, Volume XXVI, Transactions 1924-1926. On the society website it says that the Transaction is not for sale. An email requesting to purchase a copy of the article led to another email saying that you can't purchase the article just the Transaction. (By-the-way, what is a Transaction?) Not listed in the Family Search catalog. I've now written to NEHGS to see if they have a copy and can copy the article. I'll keep looking. <br />
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Researching Ebenezer MacIntosh is difficult because his name is spelled so many different ways. I've found the first name spelled Ebenezer or Ebeneezer. His last name has even more varieties including the spaces - MacIntosh, Mac Intosh, McIntosh, Mc Intosh. Guess everybody has this problem.<br />
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Other books I'm looking for are, none of which are in the Family Search Catalog nor Fullerton University Library:<br />
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"Mackintosh, Ebenezer". 1999. <i>American National Biography. </i>14. (World Cat says they have at Kansas State.)<br />
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Jones, Calvin L. 2000. <i>"Captain General of Liberty Tree": Ebenezer Mackintosh and the "lower sort" crowds in pre-Revolutionary Boston, 1765-1774</i>. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Houston, 2000. (WorldCat says at the University of Texas)<br />
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Mills, Jane Johnston. 1979. <i>First cap'n general of Liberty Tree: a biographical novel based on the life of Ebenezer Mackintosh, 18th century Boston shoemaker</i>. La Jolla, Calif: Jupiter Books. (Fiction but should be interesting although it is out of print)<br />
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Anderson, George Pomeroy. 1924. <i>Ebenezer Mackintosh, Stamp act rioter and patriot, c by George Pomeroy Anderson</i>. Cambridge: J. Wilson and son. (WorldCat says they have at a number of East Coast libraries and Institutions. I contacted the New York Public Library and they say it is the reference area and not available for interlibrary loan. Other possibilities are Yale, Harvard, Boston Athenaeum, and the University of Colorado at Boulder ) <br />
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Anderson, George Pomeroy. 1924. <i>Ebenezer Mackintosh Stamp act rioter and patriot</i>. Cambridge: J. Wilson and son. Available at Yale on microfilm. Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136329140852228888noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6527179196896031770.post-49363582398865991052010-06-15T13:48:00.000-07:002010-06-15T23:05:37.054-07:00Beginning the Journey<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhSTagUWsfM14L1PJLgivdW8rTRngffgHY0Ir4mAiFmpUsnMixO6rdzz8A2CgwsSQop2RfnteV-SlPDkplc5YS7Wu13BQrJc5Ig6-GEyThZaKU0I3I3DTkE360fxPvsqDSRwlpzBPrMdE/s1600/Guys+Hopp+Cuba.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhSTagUWsfM14L1PJLgivdW8rTRngffgHY0Ir4mAiFmpUsnMixO6rdzz8A2CgwsSQop2RfnteV-SlPDkplc5YS7Wu13BQrJc5Ig6-GEyThZaKU0I3I3DTkE360fxPvsqDSRwlpzBPrMdE/s200/Guys+Hopp+Cuba.jpg" width="160" /></a>I started this blog to record the discoveries I come across while researching my family tree. It's hard to start because I am starting in the middle. I want this to start from the beginning but that can't be. So - this is the beginning of the journey.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTW1ki_GdFFfV2BwOQoOEvIZ0x-5bzzbQ4ToCe5JdmURGMDTR8rW1XyXc7nMJqfa3nrxxs7JZDxtY1UhRVaYv_ABkE7gRi9o8NpgXGrhNSrRMfcIC5BQdF0riVd2LEYGny6ixIi8GYiD8/s1600/Gus+Hopp+soldier.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTW1ki_GdFFfV2BwOQoOEvIZ0x-5bzzbQ4ToCe5JdmURGMDTR8rW1XyXc7nMJqfa3nrxxs7JZDxtY1UhRVaYv_ABkE7gRi9o8NpgXGrhNSrRMfcIC5BQdF0riVd2LEYGny6ixIi8GYiD8/s320/Gus+Hopp+soldier.jpg" width="185" /></a>This last weekend, my husband and I attended the SCGS Jamboree in Burbank. Ancestry provided a setup to digitize attendees pictures. My mother-in-law was an avid scrapbooker, not like they do now but by cutting circles around pictures and mounting them with glue in construction paper scrapbooks. The books are now falling apart and I am so grateful that I was able to digitize almost 200 pages.<br />
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Some of the pictures are fantastic. It's a little late for Memorial Day and a little early for 4th of July, but this seemed the best start for my blog.<br />
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My husband Bill's grandfather was August Hopp. Born in 1878 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He served during the Spanish American War as a bugler with Company A Infantry, Hood's Regiment of New Orleans. These pictures are from that time.<br />
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Agustus Ignatz Hopp known as Gus Hopp. Born 20 June 1878 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana. He appears in the World War I draft registration in New Orleans and is enumerated in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California in the 1920 Census. Gus Hopp died 11 March 1932 in Alhambra, California and is buried in the Melun Tomb in New Orleans. <br />
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Gus Hopp was married to Henrietta Clementine Schmidt (7 Aug 1894), 16 years his junior on 3 June 1911 when he was almost 33 and she was not yet 17. They had two children Roy Clyde Hopp and Cleo Dorothy Hopp. They were married almost 20 years on his death at the age of 53.Jamiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06136329140852228888noreply@blogger.com5