Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - How Many Cousins Do You Know You Have?

It's Saturday Night - 

time for more Genealogy Fun! 

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:

1)  Take both sets of your grandparents and figure out how many first cousins you have, and how many first cousins removed (a child or grandchild of a first cousin) you have.

2)  Extra Credit:  Take all four sets of your great-grandparents and figure out how many second cousins you have, and how many second cousins removed you have.

HINT:  Make a Descendants Chart with your genealogy software program!

3)  Tell us the grandparents and great-grandparents names, but don't give the name of living cousins unless you want to.  

4)  Are there any of those lines that you don't know all of the cousins names?  Do you care?  
5)  Tell us about them in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a Facebook or Google+ post of your own.  Be sure to drop a comment to this post to link to your work.  

Here's mine:

1a)  Lyle Lawrence and Emily Kemp (Auble) Carringer had only one child, my mother, so I have no cousins in this line.

1b)  Frederick Walton and Alma Bessie (Richmond) Seaver had seven children, but only five had children (one died as a child, one married and had no children).  The offspring:

*  Marion had one daughter.  She has no children.

*  Evelyn had one daughter and two sons (3 first cousins).  The daughter had 5 children (first cousins once removed), and the 5 children had 11 children (first cousins twice removed, and those 11  have 5 children (first cousins 3 times removed)); one son had three children (first cousins once removed), and they have 7 children (first cousins twice removed); the second son had 3 children (first cousins once removed) and they have 6 children (first cousins twice removed).

*  Ruth had 2 daughters (first cousins).  One daughter has no children.  One daughter had 2 daughters (first cousins once removed), and those two daughters have 5 children (first cousins twice removed).

*  Ed had a son and a daughter (first cousins).  The daughter has no children.  The son had two children (first cousins once removed), but they have no children.

The count for the grandparents is (to date!):

*  First cousins:  8
*  First cousins once removed:  18
*  First cousins twice removed:  22
*  First cousins three times removed:  5

2a)  Great-grandparents Henry Austin and Della (Smith) Carringer:  They had two children - my grandfather and a baby who died as an infant.  No additional cousins here.

2b)  Great-grandparents Charles and Georgianna (Kermp) Auble:  They had one child - my grandmother.  No additional cousins here.  My mother had no first cousins!

2c)  Great-grandparents Frank Walton and Hattie (Hildreth) Seaver:  They had three children - my grandfather, one son died as a boy, the third married but had no children.  No additional cousins 
here! 

2d)  Great-grandparents Thomas and Julia (White) Richmond had 9 children, and 8 of them married and had children.  

*  Anne had 13 children (first cousin once removed), who had 2 children (second cousins), who had at least 2 children (second cousins once removed).

*  Henry had 2 children (first cousins once removed), who had 2 children (second cousins).  I've lost track of this family line.

*  Everett had 3 children (first cousins once removed).  I've lost track of this family line.

*  Grace had 1 son (first cousin once removed), who had 2 children (second cousins), who had 8 children (second cousins once removed) who had at least 2 children (second cousins twice removed).

*  Emily had 1 child (first cousin once removed) who had one child (second cousin), who had no children.

*  Charles had 1 child (first cousin once removed) who had no children.

*  Edwin had 1 child (first cousin once removed), who had 1 child (second cousin), who had 3 children (second cousins once removed).

*  James had one child (first cousin once removed), and I have lost track of her.

The count for the great-grandparents is (known to date!):

*  First cousins once removed:  13
*  Second cousins: 8
*  Second cousins once removed:  13
*  Second cousins twice removed:  2

4)  I think I know all of the first cousins offspring, although I should double check with my cousins again.

I know that I've lost track of several of the Richmond lines because of marriage.  

The total is 89 known first or second cousins N times removed, and the total is probably higher.  

They can all be put on the Richmond Descendants Chart:

This really points out to me that we usually know the names of our first cousins, but often lose track of the second cousins.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2014/05/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-how-many.html

Copyright (c) 2014, Randall J. Seaver

Surname Saturday -- MORGAN (Wales > New Amsterdam > New Jersey)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am in the 7th great-grandmothers and I'm up to #955, but I don't know who she is, nor #957, so we're up to Ancestor #959, who is Mary MORGAN (1672-????).   [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 7th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through three generations in this MORGAN family line is:

1.  Randall J. Seaver (1943-living)

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

6.  Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976)
7.  Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977)

14.  Charles Auble (1849-1916)
15.  Georgianna Kemp (1868-1952)

28.  David Auble (1817-1894)
29.  Sarah Knapp (1818-????)

58.  William Knapp (1775-1856)
59.  Sarah Cutter (1785-1878)

118. Stephen Cutter (1745-1823)
119. Tabitha Randolph (1752-1845)

238.  Samuel Fitz Randolph (1730-????)
239.  Martha Gach (1729-????)

478.  Thomas Gach (1702-1770)
479.  Elizabeth Bloodgood (1703-????)

958.  Jan Bloetgoet, born Bef. 04 August 1672 in New York, New York, United States; died before 18 May 1716 in Flushing, Queens, New York, United States.  He was the son of 1916. Frans Janszen Bloetgoet and 1917. Lysbeth Jans.  He married before 1694 in New York, United States.
959.  Mary Morgan, born about 1672 in Flushing, Queens, New York, United States; died after 24 August 1730 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.  

Children of Jan Bloetgoet and Mary Morgan are:
*  Francis bloodgood (1694-1766), married 1717 Judith.
*  John Bloodgood (1696-1756), married 1728 Sarah Brinckerhoff (1709-1760).
*  William Bloodgood (1698-1756), married 1726 Mary Gach (1700-1760).
*  Jeffrey Bloodgood (1700-????)
*  Elizabeth Bloodgood (1703-????), married 1721 Thomas Gach (1702-1770).
*  Deborah Bloodgood (1705-????), married 1735 Byerly Ashford (1705-????)

1918.  Charles Morgan, born about 1649 in Gravesend, Kings, New York, United States; died about 1720 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States.  He married about 1672 in Queens, New York, United States.
1919.  Elizabeth

Children of Charles Morgan and Elizabeth are:
*  Mary Morgan (1672-1730), married (1) 1694 Jan Bloetgoet (1672-1716); (2) James Savage.
*  Joseph Morgan (1674-1740), married 1676 Sarah Van sicklen (1676-????).

3836.  Charles Morgan, born about 1625 in Newport, Wales; died 1668 in Flushing, Queens, New York, United States.  He married  09 February 1648 in New Amsterdam, Dutch Colony.
3837.  Helena Applegate, born about 1628 in Wales.

Children of Charles Morgan and Helena Applegate are:
*  Charles Morgan (1649-1720), married 1672 Elizabeth.
*  Thomas Morgan (1650-????), married 1672 Margrietje Gerritsen (1654-????).
*  John Morgan (1652-????)
*  Daniel Morgan (1654-????)

There are several derivative sources with information about these Morgan families:

*  Robert Gordon Clarke,  "Early New Netherland Settlers," website, Rootsweb Freepages (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rclarke/), "Charles <George> Morgan" sketch.

*  Evelyn Beran, "Sanford-Shulsen Family," website, Rootsweb WorldConnect (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=sanford-shulsen&id=I10630), "Charles Morgan" sketch (ID 110630).

The Bloodgood/Bloetgoet family is treated well in:

Howard L. Swain, "Frans Bloodgood (Bloedtgoedt) of Flushing, New York," New Netherland Connections, Volume 12, Number 1 (January-March 2007), pages 1-11

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2014/05/surname-saturday-morgan-wales-new.html

Copyright (c) 2014, Randall J. Seaver

Looking for Cousins in MyHeritage SmartMatches - Post 1: Finding SmartMatches

I must admit that I have been a very bad participant in the MyHeritage family tree website.  I uploaded a large tree several years ago and have found it difficult to update it without replacing it.

Several email messages arrive every day titled "2 New Confirmed Smart Matches on MyHeritage.com" that say "xxxxx yyyyyyy, a MyHeritage member from USA, just confirmed NN Smart Matches between her family tree and yours, for the following people..." and provides a link to the persons in the other tree that match my tree.

I have so many Smart Matches that I rarely read more than the name of the matching person.  I don't click through to see the match.  So they've piled up - to the extent of about 192,000 of them, and about 6,000 waiting to be confirmed.  Yikes...how long will that take?  

I've been thinking about "how do I find close or distant cousins who may have my ancestors in their trees?"  Then I thought - "MyHeritage has a lot of trees, and I get a lot of Smart Matches, I wonder how I can find those cousins?"

I do have an ulterior motive - posts for this topic should provide information for my society colleagues and Genea-Musings readers who have the same questions, and/or are considering creating a MyHeritage tree.

This will probably be a multi-post series, since the task is not simple, although I will try to break it up into manageable pieces.

1)  Starting on my MyHeritage page (after logging into my MyHeritage account), I ran the mouse over the "Family Tree" menu item and saw the dropdown list:

2)  I selected the "Smart Matches" link and clicked on it, and saw that page on my account:

The text with the light green background told me "There are 6,461 Smart Matches™ confirmed by others pending your confirmation."  The text with the light purple background told me "There are 56 Smart Matches™ you confirmed, that are pending confirmation by others."  Below those two areas, the really good news is "Good news, you have 192,272 Smart Matches™. View the matches below to confirm them."  Then it told that those 192,272 matches are in 22,265 matching family trees!

There are two tabs below that text information - one for "By family trees" and one for "By people."   The default appears to be the "By family trees" tab.

The screen above showed me the list of MyHeritage Family Trees with Smart Matches, ranked by the number of matches in each tree.  #1 on the list is the "Popiel Web Site" and I share 760 matches with that site.  

3)  I clicked on the "Popiel Web Site" name, and saw the top of the list of Smart Matches between persons in my tree and persons in the other MyHeritage tree:

I could go through that list of 760 persons that match between the two trees, but after a quick look at them, they seem to mostly be for siblings of my ancestors rather than the ancestors themselves.  In this particular tree, they are all from early New England families.  I'm more interested in finding cousins for my more recent ancestors, like my second or third great-grandparents.

4)  I went to the top of the screen above, and clicked on the "By people" tab and saw:

The screen above provides a list of my 192,272 smart matches, ranked, I think, by number of matches.  It tells me that I have 8,763 people in my tree with a Smart Match.

There are other "sort by" options on the line above the list of people - for "New matches," "First name," "Last name" and "Relationship."

5)  The "Relationship" sorting sounds like exactly what I want - perhaps it will provide a list in some order from closest to farthest ancestor?  Here is the top of the "Relationship" sorting list:

I reviewed that list, and it had me first, my mother second, my brother third, my wife fourth, my father fifth, and so one, down through my family tree using some sort of algorithm to decide relationship closeness.

6)  I clicked on the blue "View matches" link next to my mother's name on the screen above, and saw:

On the screen above, the program provides a summary of the information about my mother in my tree, and a summary of the information in the 9 Smart Matches for my mother in other trees.

7)  Further down the screen above is a list of the "Pending confirmation" matches:

There are tabs for "Confirmed" and "Rejected" matches also.

8)  On the screen above, I can review each Smart Match for my person by clicking on the blue "Review match" button.  The information for the first tree match above is:

The person profile in the other tree may have information that I don't have about my person, or not (in the case above, it does not.  But that's OK).

9)  I have several options for what to do next with the Smart Match - i'll review some of the options in the next post in this series.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2014/05/looking-for-cousins-in-myheritage.html

Copyright (c) 2014, Randall J. Seaver

CVGS RootsMagic Workshop on Saturday, 3 May 2014 at Bonita-Sunnyside Library

The next Chula Vista Genealogical Society Saturday Workshop is Saturday, 3 May 2014 from 12 noon until 3 p.m. at Bonita-Sunnyside Library (4375 Bonita Road) in the Community Room.

Randy Seaver will lead the discussion and demonstration of RootsMagic 6, including:

*  Overview of menus, views and Help function
*  Starting a new tree - basic steps to enter/edit names, relationships, events, dates, places, notes, etc.
*  Adding source citations using Evidence Explained source templates
*  Adding media to persons and events
*  FamilySearch Family Tree interface - access and add/edit information to or from the FSFT
*  The WebSearch feature - searching online, and adding more sites to the WebSearch

*  Attendee questions about RootsMagic 6 features and capabilities.

Attendees should bring their laptops with RootsMagic 6 installed.  The latest version of RootsMagic is 6.3.1.0 which was recently updated, and users should have the latest version if possible.  Many features in RootsMagic are the same for earlier versions, but some new features are unique to the latest version.  

If you are going to attend this workshop, and have a specific question, please email it to Randy at rjseaver@cox.net.

The URL for this post is:  http://www.geneamusings.com/2014/05/cvgs-rootsmagic-workshop-on-saturday-3.html

Copyright (c) 2014, Randall J. Seaver

52 Ancestors Week 18: #25 Rebecca (Spangler) Carringer (1832-1901)

Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post Challenge:  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  Here is my ancestor biography for week #18:

Rebecca (Spangler) Carringer (1832-1901) is #25 on my Ahnentafel List, and is my 2nd great-grandmother. She married #24 David Jackson Carringer (1828-1902) in 1851.

I am descended through:

*  their son, #12, Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946), who married  #13 Abbie Ardell "Della" Smith (1862-1944) in 1887.
*  their son, #6 Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976), who married #7 Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977) in 1918.
* their daughter, #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002), who married #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) in 1942.
*  their son, #1 Randall J. Seaver (1943-....)

To create this post, I made an Individual Summary report in RootsMagic 6, then saved it into an RTF file.  I then copied and pasted the Person, the Individual Fact List, the Marriages/Children, the General Notes, and the Source Citations into this blog post.  Unfortunately, the source citations superscripts did not survive this process as superscripts, so I put them in brackets in the lists and notes below, and without brackets in the Source Citation list.  I have images of many of these records, but have not included them in this blog post due to the length of the post.  Many of them have been transcribed or shown in Amanuensis Monday and Treasure Chest Thursday posts.

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):


*  Name:                   Rebecca Spangler [1, 3]
*  Sex:                      Female   
*  Father:                  Daniel Spangler (1781-1851)   
*  Mother:                 Elizabeth King (1796-1863)   
  
*  Alternate Name:     Rebeccah Spangler [2, 13]
*  Alternate Name:     Rebecca Caringer [4]
*  Alternate Name:     Rebecca Carringer [6 - 10]
*  Alternate Name:     Rebeca Carenngtr [5]
*  Alternate Name:     Rebecca S. Spangler [12]

2)  INDIVIDUAL FACTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
   
*  Birth:                    2 April 1832, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States [2]
*  Census:                 1 June 1850 (age 18), Sandy Creek, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States [3]   
*  Census:                 1 June 1860 (age 28), Columbus City, Louisa, Iowa, United States [4]   
*  Census:                 1 June 1870 (age 38), Jackson, Washington, Iowa, United States [5]
*  Census:                 1 June 1880 (age 48) Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States [6]   
*  Census:                 1 June 1885 (age 53) Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States [7]
*  Census:                 1 June 1900 (age 68), San Diego, San Diego, California, United States [8]
*  Death:                   13 December 1901 (age 69), San Diego, San Diego, California, United States [9 - 10]
*  Burial:                   15 December 1901 (after age 69), La Vista Memorial Park, National City, San Diego, California, United States [11 - 12]
  
3)  MARRIAGES/CHILDREN (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
   
*  Spouse 1:               David Jackson "D.J." Carringer (1828-1902)   
*  Marriage Date: 16 October 1851 (age 19), Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States [13]
*  Child 1:                 Harvey Edgar Carringer (1852-1946)   
*  Child 2:                 Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946)   
*  Child 3:                 Effie Eva Carringer (1858-1874)   
  
4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):    

Rebecca Spangler was the 7^th daughter, and the 8th of 10 children of Daniel and Elizabeth (King) Spangler in the Spangler family history book.[1]  Rebecca's section says:

"8.  Rebecca, wife of Daniel J. Carringer, born April 2, 1833, living Boulder, Col. [in 1896].  Children:  Edward Carringer; Austin Carringer; Effie Carringer; San Diego, Cal."

The birth date of Rebecca Spangler was on the "Births" page of the D.J. and Rebecca (Spangler) Carringer family Bible.[2]  The birth entry says:

Rebeccah Spangler
born April 2 1832
Mercer Co. Pa

The Spangler book provides no sources, and the birth date of Rebecca in the Carringer/Spangler family Bible was written in her own hand.  The census records from 1850 to 1995 are consistent with 1832, but the 1900 U.S. Census record says she was born in April 1833.[9]  Her gravestone says 1832.[12, 13]  I concluded that the 2 April 1832 date is probably the most accurate. 

In the 1850 US census, the Daniel Spangler family resided in Sandy Creek township in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, and was enumerated just after the Henry Carringer family.[3]  The household included:

*  Daniel Spangler, age 68, male, a farmer, real property worth $1500, born PA
*  Elizabeth Spangler, age 54, female, born PA
*  Rebecca Spangler, age 18, female, born PA, attended school
*  Loiza Spangler, age 12, female, born PA, attended school
*  Margaret Spangler, age 11, female, born PA, attended school
*  George Con (?), age 11, male, born PA, attended school
*  Matilda McKight, age 23, female, born VA
*  Elliott McKight, age 28, male, laborer, born PA

Daniel Spangler died intestate on 19 July 1851, leaving a wife and eight daughters, three below age eighteen. All were named in the probate papers, including Rebecca. A portion of the land was sold to pay debts and provide support for the widow and the minor children.

Rebecca Spangler (age 19), married David Jackson “D.J.” Carringer (age 23), son of Henry and Sarah (Feather) Carringer, on 16 October 1851 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.

In the "Marriages" section of the D.J. and Rebecca (Spangler) Carringer Bible:[13]

Oct. 16 by Rev. McAdams
D.J. Carringer Miss Rebeccah Spangler
Mercer Co. Pa. 1851 AD

David Jackson Carringer and Rebecca Spangler had the following children:

* Harvey Edgar Carringer was born on 6 May 1852 in Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States, died 22 April 1946 in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States..

* Henry Austin Carringer, born 28 November 1853, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States; married Abbey Ardelle Smith, 11 September 1887, Wano, Cheyenne, Kansas, United States; died 30 November 1946, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States.

* Effie Eva Carringer was born on 24 November 1858 in Louisa, Iowa, United States. Effie died on 8 June 1874 at the age of 15 in Caribou, Boulder, Colorado, United States. She was buried after 8 June 1874 at Columbia Cemetery in Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States.

D.J. and Rebecca moved their growing family to Louisa County, Iowa before 1858, accompanying his widowed father and several of his siblings.

In the 1860 US Census, this family resided in Columbus City, Louisa County, Iowa.[4]  The family included:

*  David J. Caringer -- age 31, male, carpenter, $200 in real property, $100 in personal property, born PA
*  Rebecca Caringer -- age 28, female, born PA
*  Harvy E. Caringer -- age 9, male, born PA, attended school
*  Henry A. Caringer -- age 7, male, born PA, attended school
*  Epha E. Caringer -- age 2, female, born PA

In the 1870 US census, this family resided in Jackson township in Washington County, Iowa.[5]  The household, indexed as Carenngtr on www.Ancestry.com, included:

*  D. Carenngtr -- age 40, male, white, farmer, born PA
*  Rebeca Carenngtr -- age 38, female, white, keeps house, born PA
*  Harvy Carenngtr -- age 18, male, white, school, born PA
*  Henry A. Carenngtr -- age 16, male, white, school, born PA
*  Effie Carenngtr -- age ??, female, white, school, born PA

Sometime during the 1860's, D.J. and Rebecca Carringer bought land in Jackson township, Washington County, Iowa where they resided for several years.

The farm in Jackson apparently failed, since a public notice announcing the sale of the farm and its contents on Friday, 11 Oct 1872 was published

Rebecca (Spangler) Carringer was visiting a friend in Washington County, Iowa on 23 May 1873 when a tornado came through and blew the house away.  According to a newspaper article, Rebecca, her friend and her friend's two children, went into the cellar for shelter, but when the house blew away they were lifted out of the cellar, carried for some distance, and thrown to the ground.  Rebecca was rendered insensible but was not seriously hurt.

Soon after the tornado, the Carringer family moved to Caribou, Boulder County, Colorado.  Tragedy soon befell them there when their daughter Effie died on 8 June 1874 at the age of 15 years, 6 months, 12 days.  The obituary notice reads, in part:

"The deeply afflicted family have the sincerest sympathy of all the community.  The form of their loved one fades from earth 'but a fair maiden in the Father's mansion, clothed with celestial grace, and beautiful will all the soul's expansion, shall they behold her face.' "

In the 1880 US Census, the D.J. Carringer family resided in Boulder, Boulder County, Colorado.[6] The household included:

*   D.J. Carringer -- white, male, age 51, married, a carpenter and joiner, born PA, parents born PA
*  Rebecca Carringer -- white, female, age 48, wife, married, keeping house, born PA, parents born PA
*  Harvey E. Carringer -- white, male, age 27, son, single, farming, born PA, parents born PA
*  Henry A. Carringer -- white, male, age 26, son, single, millwright and carpenter, born PA, parents born PA

In the 1885 Colorado State Census, the David J. Carringer family resided in Boulder County, Colorado.[7] The household included:

*  D. J. Carringer - white, male, age 56, married, a fruit grower, born Pa., parents born Pa/Ohio
*  Rebecca Carringer - white, female, age 53, wife, married, housework, born Pa., parents born Pa./Pa.
*  Harvey E. Carringer - white, male, age 28, son, single, a clerk, born Pa., parents born Pa./Pa.

Their son, Henry Austin Carringer, married in September 1887 and moved to San Diego, California with his wife. They had two children, Devier David Carringer (1889-1890) and Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976).

By 1898, D.J., Rebecca and Harvey Edgar Carringer had moved to San Diego. The San Diego Union newspaper, dated 15 November 1898 reported that:

"D.J. Carringer has been granted a permit to build a cottage in Choate & Seaman's addition, east of the city park, to cost $800."

The home was located on the present northwest corner of 30th Street and Ivy Street in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of San Diego, near the home of their son, Henry Austin Carringer (sited on the present southwest corner of 30th Street and Hawthorn Street).

In the 1900 U.S. census, the David J. Carringer family resided at the corner of Horton and Ella Streets (now 30th and Ivy) in the 4th Ward of San Diego, San Diego County, California.[8] The household included:

*  David J. Carringer -- head of household, white, male, born Nov 1828, age 71, married 49 years, born PA, father born PA, mother born OH, no occupation, owns home free of mortgage
*  Rebecca Carringer -- wife, white, female, born Apr 1833, age 67, married 49 years, had 3 children, two children living, born PA, parents born PA
*  Harvey E. Carringer -- son, white, male, born Aug 1852, age 47, born PA, parents born PA, no occupation

D.J. and Rebecca celebrated their 50^th wedding anniversary with a party in their home – the San Diego Evening Tribune newspaper dated 19 October 1901 says:

"A GOLDEN WEDDING

"A merry party of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. D.J. Carringer assembled at their home on Brooklyn Heights last night to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage.  The evening was appropriately and pleasantly passed.  Mr. and Mrs. Carringer being the recipients of many valuable and useful presents among which was included gold coin and other substantial tokens of regard.  It was an especially enjoyable affair for the aged couple both of whom are invalids.  Mr. Carringer is 72 years old and Mrs. Carringer 71."

Rebecca (Spangler) Carringer died 13 December 1901 in San Diego of cancer. D.J. Carringer died one month later on 20 January 1902 of kidney and bladder trouble.

In the "Deaths" section of the D.J. and Rebecca (Spangler) Carringer Bible:[9]

San Diego Calif
Rebecca Carringer
Aged 69 yrs 8 Months & 11 days
died Dec 13 1901 - She was Daughter
of Daniel & Elisabeth Spangler

Rebecca (Spangler) Carringer's gravestone is in La Vista Memorial Park in National City, California,[11, 12] next to her husband's stone and the stone of her grandson, Devier D. Carringer.  The inscription on Rebecca's stone is:

Rebecca S. Carringer
1832-1901.

A death notice was published in the San Diego Evening Tribune newspaper on 14 December 1901.[10]  It says:

"Mrs. Rebecca Carringer, wife of D.J. Carringer, died at her home on Brooklyn Heights yesterday.  The funeral will be held from Whitson's tomorrow morning."

5)  SOURCES:

1. Edward W. Spangler, The Annals of the Families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler Who Settled in York County Respectively in 1729, 1732, 1732 and 1751, with Biographical and Historical Sketches, and Memorabilia of Contemporaneous Local Events (York, Penn. : n.p., 1896), page 192, John Daniel Spangler sketch.

2. Rebecca (Spangler) Carringer, Carringer Family Births, Marriages and Deaths (loose pages, 1828-1946) (n.p. : n.p., n.d. before 1901), Births, Rebeccah Spangler entry, 2 April 1832.

3. 1850 United States Federal Census, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, population schedule, Sandy Creek township, Page 312, dwelling #854, family #901, Daniel Spangler household, online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, Roll 796.

4. 1860 United States Federal Census, Population Schedule, Louisa County, Iowa, Columbus City,  Page 857, house #558, family #558, D.J. Carringer household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives Microfilm Series M653, Roll 331.

5. 1870 United States Federal Census, Population Schedule, Washington County, Iowa, Jackson township: Page 131, house #49, family #49, D.J. Carringer household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M593, Roll 424.

6. 1880 United States Federal Census, Population Schedule, Boulder County, Colorado, Boulder: Page 525B, D.J. Carringer household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication T9, Roll 89.

7. "Colorado State Census, 1885," online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), County of Boulder, Enumeration district 1, Page 102 (penned), dwelling #1163, family #1177, D.J. Carringer entry.

8. 1900 United States Federal Census, Population Schedule, San Diego County, California, San Diego City 4th Ward; ED 194, sheet 19B, house #440, family #496, D.j. Carringer household, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com), citing National Archives Microfilm Publication T623, Roll 99.

9. Rebecca (Spangler) Carringer, Carringer Family Births, Marriages and Deaths (loose pages, 1828-1946), Deaths, Rebecca Carringer entry, 13 December 1901.

10. San Diego [Calif.] Evening Tribune, print edition (San Diego, Calif. : San Diego Union Publishing Company), 14 December 1901, page 6, column 1, "Obituaries" section, Mrs. Rebecca Carringer obituary.

11. La Vista Memorial Park (National City, San Diego, CA), Grave markers, Rebecca S. Carringer Gravestone, 1901.

12. Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), La Vista Cemetery (National City, Calif.), Rebecca Spangler Carringer memorial.

13. Rebecca (Spangler) Carringer, Carringer Family Births, Marriages and Deaths (loose pages, 1828-1946), Marriages, entry for D.J. Carringer and Rebeckah Spangler, 16 October 1851.

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