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.
==============================================
The URL for this post is: http://www.geneamusings.com/2017/06/saturday-night-genealogy-fun-which_24.html
Copyright (c) 2017, Randall J. Seaver
Please comment on this post on the website by clicking the URL above and then the "Comments" link at the bottom of each post. Share it on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or Pinterest using the icons below. Or contact me by email at randy.seaver@gmail.com.
Copyright (c) 2017, Randall J. Seaver
Please comment on this post on the website by clicking the URL above and then the "Comments" link at the bottom of each post. Share it on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or Pinterest using the icons below. Or contact me by email at randy.seaver@gmail.com.