Saturday, June 24, 2017

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Which Ancestor Do You Admire the Most?

It's Saturday Night, 
time for more Genealogy Fun!!


For this week's mission (should you decide to accept it), I challenge you to:


1)  The Family History Hound listed 20 Questions about your Ancestor, and I'm going to use some of them in the next few months.  

2)  Please answer the first question - "Which ancestor do you admire the most?"

3)  Write your own blog post, make a comment on this post, or post  your answer on Facebook or Google+.  Please leave a link to your answer in comments on this post.

Here's mine:

I have at least two favorites for this question; for me, the answer is "who overcame their  life hardships and succeeded?"

1)  Isaac Buck (1757-1846) was an illegitimate child - it was written that way in the Southborough town records when he was born and in the Sterling town records when he died.  He served in the Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1780 or so as a matross.  He married in 1780 to Patty Phillips and they had 9 children.  He worked his land and in his Pension File it was noted that he had $30 in personal property in 1820.  He is my 4th great-grandfather.  

2)  Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) is my 2nd great-grandfather, and my only Civil War soldier.  His father died when he was two years old, his mother married his uncle Isaac Seaver when he was 9 years old, and he selected his uncle Jeremiah Knowlton Gates to be his guardian at age 14.  He married, first, in 1846 to Juliette Glazier who died in 1847 after the birth of their first child.  He married again in 1851 to Lucretia Smith (who died in 1884) and they had four children, and he married a third wife, Alvina Matilda (Bradley) Lewis in 1888.  Isaac had a Civil War pension as a result of varicose veins, rheumatism, prostate problems, and a carbuncle on his neck;  he worked as a blacksmith in Westminster and Leominster, and in the war effort.  


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Surname Saturday -- WALTER (England to colonial America)

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

I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm  up to Ancestor #1907, who is Safronie WALTER (1643-????) 
[Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations of this WALTER family line is:


1. Randall J. Seaver (1943-????)

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 (1862-1952)

28.  David Auble (1817-1894)
29.  Sarah G. Knapp (1818-1904)

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

118.  Stephen Cutter (1745-1823)
119.  Tabitha Randolph (1752-1841)

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

476.  Jacob Fitz Randolph (1706-1779)
477.  FNU LNU

952.  Samuel Fitz Randolph (1668-1754)
953.  Mary Jones (1672-1760)

1906.  Jeffery Jones, born about 1635 in New York, United States; died before 31 December 1717 in Elizabeth, Union, New Jersey, United States.  He married about 1662 in Elizabethtown, Union, New Jersey, United States.
1907.  Safronie Walter, born about 1643 in Connecticut, United States.

Children of Jeffery Jones and Safronie Walter are:
*  Edward Jones (1663-1721), married 1677 Lydia LNU (1662-????).
*  Susanna Jones (1666-1739).
*  Abigail Jones (1670-1776, married 1707 Jeremiah bird (1665-1738).
*  Mary Jones (1672-1760), married 1693 Samuel Fitz Randolph (1668-1754).

3814.  John Walter, born about 1620 in England; died about 1710 in Connecticut, United States.  He married about 1640 in Connecticut, United States.
3815.  Patience Wooten, born about 1622 in England; died about 1710 in Connecticut, United States.

Child of John Walter and Patience Wooten is:
*  Safronie Walter (1643-????), married 1662 Jeffery Jones (1635-1717).

I have no reference material - books, periodic als, website - with reliable information about this Walter family from early Connecticut.

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