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Friday, May 13, 2016

52 Ancestors - Week 124: #147 Elizabeth (Fletcher) Keyes (1720-1761)

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. I am extending this theme in 2016 to 156 Ancestors in 156 Weeks. Here is my ancestor biography for week #124:

Elizabeth (Fletcher) Keyes (1720-1761) is #147 on my Ahnentafel list, my 5th great-grandmother, who married #146 Jonathan Keyes (1722-1781) in 1746.

I am descended through:

* their daughter, #73 Elizabeth Keyes (1759-1793) who married #72 Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1829) in 1777.
* their son, #36 Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857), who married #37 Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857) in 1810.
* their son, #18, Edward Hildreth (1831-1899), who married #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) in 1852.

* their daughter, #9 Hattie Louise Hildreth (1847-1920) , who married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.

* their son, #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942), who married Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.

* their son, #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983), who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.

* their son, #1 Randall J. Seaver (1943-....)

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

* Name: Elizabeth Fletcher[1–2]

* Alternate Name: Elisabeth Keyes[3–4]

* Alternate Name: Elisabeth Fletcher[6–7]

* Sex: Female

* Father: Samuel Fletcher (1684-1749)

* Mother: Hannah (1689-1759)

2) INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

* Birth: 9 March 1719/20, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1–2

* Death: 23 July 1761 (age 41), Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4–5]

* Burial: after 23 July 1761 (after age 41), Fairview Cemetery, Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[5]

3) SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

* Spouse 1: Jonathan Keyes (1721-1781)

* Marriage 1: 20 January 1745/6 (age 25), Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[6–7]

* List of Children: 1746–1761 (about age 26–about 41), Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[3]

* Child 1: Joseph Keyes (1746-1823)

* Child 2: Joanna Keyes (1748-1753)

* Child 3: Aaron Keyes (1751-1753)

* Child 4: Stephen Keyes (1754-1758)

* Child 5: Joanna Keyes (1757-1845)

* Child 6: Elizabeth Keyes (1759-1793)

* Child 7: Hannah Keyes (1761-1833)

4) NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

Elizabeth Fletcher was the 5th child of nine born to Samuel and Hannah (--?--) Fletcher of Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The birth record in the Chelmsford, Massachusetts town record book has this entry for the birth of Elizabeth Fletcher[1]:

"Elizabeth Fletcher daughter of Samuel and Hannah

Fletcher born March 9th 1719+20"

The marriage record for Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth Fletcher in the Westford town records says[6]:

"1746 Jan 20 Jonathan Keyes to Elisabeth Fletcher both of Westford"

The births of the 7 children of Jonathan Keyes and his first wife Elisabeth are listed in the Westford town records as[3]:

"Joseph Keyes son of Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth his wife was born

November 26, 1746

Joanna Keyes daughter of Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth his wife was born February 14, 1748

Aaron Keyes son of Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth his wife was

born August 27, 1751

Stephen Keyes son of Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth his wife was born November 14, 1754

Joanna Keyes daughter of Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth his wife was born February 20, 1757

Elisabeth Keyes daughter of Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth his wife

was born April 8, 1759

Hannah Keyes daughter of Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth his wife was born May 7, 1761"

Three of her children, Joanna (the first one), Aaron and Stephen, died as small children.

Elisabeth Keyes died soon after the birth of her seventh child, Hannah. She left four children aged 15 years, 4 years, 2 years, and 1 month old.

The Westford, Massachusetts vital record book provides a death record for Elisabeth[4]:

"KEYES, Elisabeth, w. Jonathan, July 23, 1761, a. 41 y. 4 m 3 d. G.R.1"

Elisabeth (Fletcher) Keyes is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Westford, Massachusetts. The inscription on her gravestone says[5]:

"Here lies the body of

Mrs. Elisabeth Keyes the wife of

Mr. Jonathan Keyes

who departed this life

July the 23d 1761

aged 41 years 4 months."

5) SOURCES

1. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Chelmsford Births, Marriages and Deaths," image 384 of 1719, Elizabeth Fletcher birth entry.

2. Town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1914), Births, page 63, Elizabeth Fletcher entry.

3. Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com, "Westford Births, Marriages and Deaths," page 41 (image 267 of 1750), list of children of Jonathan Keyes and his two wives.

4. Vital Records of Westford, Massachusetts to the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1915), Deaths, page 293, Elisabeth Keyes entry.

5. Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Fairview Cemetery (Westford, Mass.), Elizabeth Fletcher Keyes memorial # 36127440.

6. Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com, "Westford, Births, Marriages and Deaths," page 53 (image 33 of 1750), Jonathan Keyes and Elisabeth Fletcher marriage entry.

7. Vital Records of Westford, Massachusetts to the Year 1849, Marriages, page 194, Jonathan Keyes and Elizabeth Fletcher entry.

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Thursday, May 12, 2016

2017 International Germanic Genealogy Conference—July 28-29, 2017

I received this press release via email recently:

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2017 International Germanic Genealogy Conference—July 28-29, 2017

Hosted in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Dear friend in genealogy—
An exciting international genealogy conference that offers researchers new dimensions in German-American cooperation and information-sharing is scheduled for July 28-29, 2017, in Minneapolis, Minn.

Your society is part of the German-American Genealogical Partnership organizing this international conference, and you as a member are invited to participate.

This is a unique conference, organized through an international Partnership of societies across the United States and Europe. The 2017 conference “CONNECTIONS: International. Cultural. Personal” is hosted by the Minnesota-based Germanic Genealogy Society. It is a great opportunity for real progress in your genealogical research:

* Make personal connections with people from other organizations both in the United States and in Germany.

* Learn new insights directly from Germanic genealogy experts worldwide. Choose from more than 30 presentations over two full days.

* Become part of the conference surname and locality database to match up with others attending, including visitors from Germany and other countries worldwide.

* Use study rooms equipped with computers and experts there to help you, including help with German script, language, and online research.

* Take advantage of opportunities for impromptu gatherings by region or special interest.

* Settle down in casual seating for 1-on-1 discussions with others you’ve connected with.

* Explore the large field of major genealogy vendors.

And much more.

We hope you can join us in the German-American Genealogical Partnership’s first-ever international conference. It’s a wonderful and unique opportunity.

Save the date: July 28-29, 2017.

Conference location: Minneapolis, Minnesota — at the Minneapolis Marriott Northwest Hotel and conference center (in Brooklyn Park, a Minneapolis suburb).

Early-bird registration begins in January 2017 at an early-bird discounted conference rate. There will also be an additional partner discount available through your society as a Partnership member. Beginning April 1, 2017, registration is at the regular conference rate. You will be able to register by mail or online. Watch for more information.

Lodging: A block of rooms is reserved for conference attendees at the Minneapolis Marriott

Northwest Hotel, 7025 Northland Dr. N., Brooklyn Park, MN 55428.

Hotel reservations will open by early August 2016. We will send out an announcement when the special phone number and Marriott reservation link for our conference are set up. You may want to reserve your room early to ensure availability.

For more information: See the Germanic Genealogy Society website “Partnership” pages. Go to www.ggsmn.org, click “German Partnership” in the left menu.

We are looking forward to a great conference next year, with Germanic family researchers coming together from across the continents. We very much hope you will be able to join us.

Please watch for more information over the coming months. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to email us at Partnership@GGSMN.org.

Members of the German-American Genealogical Partnership (as of April 1, 2016)

Germanic Genealogy Society, Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Genealogischer Verbände (Germany) (includes 65+ member societies), Pommern Regional Group of Minnesota, Ahnenforscher Stammtisch Unna und Umgebung, Anglo German Family History Society (England), German-Bohemian Heritage Society (Minnesota), Germans in St. Louis, German Interest Group of the Hamilton County (Ohio) Genealogical Society, German Interest Group of the San Diego Genealogical Society, German Interest Group for Temecula Valley Genealogical Society, Immigrant Genealogical Society of Burbank, Calif., Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society (Maryland), Palatines to America (includes 7 states chapters), Pommern Special Interest Group of the Immigrant Genealogical Society, Sacramento German Genealogy Society, Southwest Florida Germanic Genealogy Society

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Crestleaf.com’s 12 Months of Fascinating Family Finds -- April 2016: Elizabeth Auble's Will

I am participating in the Crestleaf.com "12 Months of Fascinating Family Finds" contest - see the blog post Crestleaf.com’s 12 Months of Fascinating Family Finds Challenge for details.

My most fascinating family find from April 2016 was: Finding the will of Elizabeth Auble (1814-1899), who never married and had no children.

I have written these posts to date about the finding the will, analyzing it, and searching for all of the heirs mentioned in the will:

* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins - Post 1: Finding Elizabeth's Will (25 April 2016).
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins - Post 2: Transcription of Elizabeth Auble's Will (28 April 2016)
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins - Post 3: Identifying Elizabeth Auble's Heirs (29 April 2016)
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins -- Post 4: The William Auble Challenges (3 May 2016)
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins -- Post 5: The Sophia Auble Challenges Part 1 (5 May 2016)
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins -- Post 6: Solving the William Auble Challenge (6 May 2016)

* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins - Post 7: Sophia Auble's Descendants (10 May 2016)

It seems counter-intuitive at first glance - why would a will or probate record be of much value if the testator did not have a spouse or any children? Actually, the will or probate record of a childless person is very helpful, because the heirs-at-law are usually the person's siblings and their descendants, and in some cases, the heirs-at-law may be the person's parents siblings and their descendants.

Elizabeth Auble's will is an excellent example. In Post 3 on the list above, I identified each heir and described their relationship to Elizabeth, if known. The will mentioned six of Elizabeth's siblings, and several of their children and grandchildren. Before this will, I did not know that William Auble, Sophia Auble or Nathan Auble were siblings of Elizabeth's. In the process of analyzing the will, I have been adding descendants for all of the siblings of Elizabeth Auble using classical genealogy research techniques in online resources.

Since my ancestor was Elizabeth's brother, David Auble (1817-1894), who is my second great-grandfather, the descendants of her siblings are my relatively close cousins - second great-grandchildren of other siblings are my third cousins. They should share a significant portion of their autosomal DNA with me.

The will also mentioned a number of other persons as heirs without identifying a relationship. They may be family friends, colleagues, neighbors or distant relatives. I will try to identify how these persons are related to or are acquainted with Elizabeth Auble.

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Treasure Chest Thursday - Post 313: 1734 Birth Record of Ephraim Sawtell in Groton, Mass.

It's Treasure Chest Thursday - time to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the birth record of Ephraim Sawtell (1734-ca 1800) of Groton, Massachusetts:

The snippet of the birth record from the left-hand page above:

The transcription of this record is:

"Ephraim Sawtell Son of hezekiah Sawtell & Joanna

his wife was born of Groton January 18th 1734."

The source citation for this record is:

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Groton Births, Marriages and Deaths," page 29 (image 435 of 990), Ephraim Sawtell birth entry, 1734; citing original data from Massachusetts town and city clerk records in Jay and Delene Holbrook, Massachusetts Vital and Town Records (Provo, Utah : Holbrook Research Institute), Microfiche collection.

Ephraim Sawtell was the 6th child and 5th son of Hezekiah Sawtell (1703-1779) and Joanna Wilson (1701-1786) of Groton, Massachusetts, who had the births of all 11 of their children recorded in the Groton town record book. Ephraim Sawtell married Abigail Stone (1737- ca 1800) in 1757, and had 10 children. They are my 5th great-grandparents. Their 6th child, Josiah Sawtell (1768-1847) is my 4th great-grandfather.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Ancestry Member Tree Quirk - Fact Notes Showing as Sources

I uploaded a small family tree with my Auble research to a new Ancestry Member Tree recently in order to capitalize on the Hints. I had a surprise that I had not seen before, mainly because I usually upload a new tree to Ancestry using Family Tree Maker so that my attached images and documents are uploaded. Perhaps others have wondered about this quirk also.

Here is the profile for my great-grandmother, Georgianna Kemp (1868-1952):

In the middle column, under the heading "Sources," are a number of "Unsourced Citation" entries. I have not seen these before.

Curious, I clicked on the Birth Fact and the Fact was highlighted and two lines were extended from the Fact to the first "Unsourced Citation" and to another source further down the list:

I clicked on the "View" button on the first Unsourced Citation and saw:

The screen for this Unsourced Citation opened, and I can see that there is text in the "Other information" field.

From the information, I realized that this is the Fact Note that I have for the Birth Fact in my Person Profile in my RootsMagic database.

Apparently, the presence of a Fact Note in a GEDCOM file gets put into the "Sources" column on a person profile in an Ancestry Member Tree.

Here is the proof - I highlighted the Birth Fact in my RootsMagic program, and clicked on the "Note" button to see the content of the Fact Note for the Birth Fact:

The text is the same.

I looked at the GEDCOM file text and saw for the BIRTh fact:

1 BIRT
2 _PRIM Y
2 DATE 4 AUG 1868
2 PLAC Middleton, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada
2 NOTE A birth date of 4 August 1868 in Ontario, Canada is provided on the dea
3 CONC th certificate of Georgia Kemp Auble.
3 CONT
3 CONT Census records are consistent with 1868, and the 1900 U.S. census recor
3 CONC d says she was born in August 1868.
2 SOUR @S682@
3 PAGE Georgia Kemp Auble entry, 1952
3 QUAY 2

There is a 2nd level NOTE tag for the text of the Fact Note under the first-level BIRTh Fact. The SOURce is also a second-level item.

There is really no other place on a person profile in an Ancestry Member Tree to put it, although it would be more sensible to have an additional heading called "NOTES" in the middle column for these Fact Notes, because they are not really Source Citations.

Is this an error in the Ancestry Member Tree importing of a GEDCOM file? Or is this "normal" or "standard" for a Fact Note and I just have not seen it before because I haven't recently uploaded a GEDCOM file to Ancestry?

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SDGS Meeting on Saturday, 14 May - Blythe Stokes on "Find A Grave"

The next program meeting of the San Diego Genealogical Society (SDGS) is Saturday, 14 May, at 10 a.m. at St. Andrews Lutheran Church (8350 Lake Murray Drive in San Diego).

The speaker for both sessions is Blythe Stokes, on "Find A Grave: Gone But Not Forgotten"

Find A Grave can be a great resource for genealogical research. It can also provide a wonderful feeling when you can “see” the resting places of loved ones. Personally, Blythe has been able to find family grave sites that she never thought would be possible. Find A Grave allows you to search for ancestor resting places even around the world.

In this presentation you will learn how to search for ancestors using a variety of options including name, birth date, death date and location. If you know the cemetery, you can also search by the cemetery name.

You will also learn how to narrow your research options to provide the best results. If your ancestor has yet to be added to Find A Grave you will learn how to set up a memorial and request photographs from the numerous volunteers around the world.

Becoming a contributor (no cost, no volunteering necessary) will open the door to even more tools such as Virtual Cemeteries where you can place your ancestors into a cemetery that you name. This allows you to place family members together even if their resting places are around the globe. This is just one of the great tools available to you on this website.

Bring your computer charged and ready to go. After the formal presentation Blythe will spend time helping you find your own “gone but not forgotten” family ancestors.

About Blythe:

Blythe has been involved in genealogical research since the 1970’s. She just recently received her certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University. She has given genealogy presentations to a variety of groups from the Orange County California Genealogy Society, The Jewish Genealogy Society of San Diego and the North San Diego County Genealogical Society. She has taught genealogy classes offered by the Cole Genealogical Library in Carlsbad and in cooperation with the North San Diego County Genealogy Society.

She was a science educator for 16 years and a Mentor teacher for the State of California. In the early 1990’s she worked for NASA, California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She assisted in researching the effects of cosmic radiation on small nematodes. The experiment rode on the Discovery Space Shuttle for nine days.

May 14th Class at 9 a.m.:

Dona Ritchie will present "Sourcing" in the Upstairs classroom at 9 a.m.

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Visiting Queenstown #1 -- Post 412 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

I'm posting old (and sometimes new) family photographs from my collection on Wednesdays, but they won't be wordless posts like others do - I am incapable of having a wordless post.

Here are some of the most precious (to me) images from my Seaver/Leland photograph collection:

In March 2010, we visited Australia, New Zealand and Fiji on a three week Grand Circle Travel Tour to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary, and I took some photographs with my trusty digital camera.

1) Leaving Christchurch, we had a ten hour bus trip to Queenstown in New Zealand. Upon arrival, we had to have our photo taken next to the large fake kiwi bird on the harbor landing:

2) We took a boat from Queenstown to Walter Peak Station. Linda got a window seat:

3) And she was the second person off the boat:

4) We got to the Walter Peak Station and they gave us a talk about the work on the station:

5) Linda and Lynda (our great tour guide) had a rest at Walter Peak:

More on our New Zealand visit in coming weeks.

Unfortunately, I've lost the memories of all the details of this vacation - I know what we saw but can't remember what we were told. Fortunately, I found my Facebook photo albums from our 2010 vacation with pictures and some captions so all is not lost. I found that I posted very few photos from this vacation on Genea-Musings.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Making Progress on My Auble Cousins - Post 7: Sophia Auble's Descendants

Previous posts in this series include:

* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins - Post 1: Finding Elizabeth's Will (25 April 2016).
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins - Post 2: Transcription of Elizabeth Auble's Will (28 April 2016)
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins - Post 3: Identifying Elizabeth Auble's Heirs (29 April 2016)
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins -- Post 4: The William Auble Challenges (3 May 2016)
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins -- Post 5: The Sophia Auble Challenges Part 1 (5 May 2016)
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins -- Post 6: Solving the William Auble Challenge (6 May 2016)

In this series of posts, I am discussing the challenges that I found with the heirs of Elizabeth Auble named in her 1893 will.

In Post 5, I started discussing the Sophia Auble challenges, and got as far as answering several of the questions I formulated, but not all of them. In this post, I'm going to wrap up the Sophia Auble study (I hope!).

1) If Euphemia Foster, born in December 1828, was the daughter of Sophia Auble, who was her father?

I found three records in the New Jersey, Wills and Probate Records collection on Ancestry.com. The first is a Sussex County, N.J., Probate Proceedings Index entry for Alley H. Foster of Stillwater township:

A letter of administration was filed on 24 September 1833, as was an Inventory of the estate. Later, an allowance of the account was filed in 1834, and a Receipt was filed in 1845. The Letter of Administration is not in the Ancestry.com volumes for Sussex County, New Jersey. The Inventory record is:

The Inventory of Alley H. Foster totaled $672, but did not mention the names of his heirs. The source citation is:

New Jersey, Wills and Probate Records, 1656-1999, indexed database with digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 April 2016), Sussex County, "Inventories, Vol. D-F, 1819-1840," Volume F, page 144-145, Inventory of Alley H. Foster, 1833.

A conclusion can be made that Alley H. Foster died before 23 September 1833.

The 1834 Account Allowance is not in the Ancestry.com collection, but the 1846 Receipt names Euphemia [Foster] as the heir of Alley H. Foster:

The source citation for this record is:

New Jersey, Wills and Probate Records, 1656-1999, indexed database with digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com :, accessed 26 April 2016), Sussex County, "Receipts, Vol. A-B, 1813-1858," Volume A, page 299 (image 185 of 515), Alley H. Foster's heir's receipt, 1846.

Note that Euphemia Foster was just 17 years of age when she received her inheritance from Alley H. Foster's estate.

What I don't have is a record that says Sophia Auble married Alley H. Foster, or a record that says Euphemia Foster was a daughter of Alley H. and Sophia (Auble) Foster. But I have direct evidence on a record that says Euphemia is the heir of Alley H. Foster, and I have direct evidence on another record that says Euphemia was the daughter of Sophia Auble (later Hulse), and two census records where Euphemia resided in the same household as Sophia Hulse. I have found no contradictory records, but I have not done an exhaustive search.

While there is no direct evidence that Sophia Auble married Alley H. Foster, there is indirect evidence, and my working hypothesis is that they were married, and that their daughter was Euphemia Foster.

Euphemia Foster died 6 October 1895 in Blairstown, Warren County, New Jersey, aged 66 years, 10 months, according to her Find A Grave record. The source citation is:

Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Union Brick Cemetery, blairstown, N.J., Euphemia Foster memorial #130762000.

There was no probate record in Warren or Sussex County, New Jersey, for Euphemia Foster.

2) I also have no direct evidence that Sophia (Auble) Foster married Seth W. Hulse before 1850, but the 1850 census of Sophia Hulse with Seth W. Hulse is indirect evidence that they were married. A death record for Seth W. Hulse was published in the Sussex [N.J.] Register newspaper dated which provided daily highlights from years past. For 19 July 1856, the newspaper item was:

"Seth W. Hulse, a native of Orange County, committed suicide by throwing himself into the Paulinskill between Stillwater and Middleville. Body floated down the stream and was not found until midnight. He had been in a dejected state of mind for several days."

The source for this record is:

"Newspaper Clippings from the Sussex Register," online database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com) citing newspapers from Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey, page 284, 19. July 1856, Seth W. Hulse death item.

There was no probate record for Seth W. Hulse in the New Jersey, Wills and Probate Records database on Ancestry.com.

Sophia (Auble) (Foster) Hulse continued using his name until her death in 1887, as indicated by her death record and probate record.

4) There is a birth record for a Samantha Foster on 23 April 1855 in Stillwater, N.J. in the New Jersey birth records in Sussex County, daughter of Euphemia Foster. The source citation for this record is:

"New Jersey Births and Christenings Index, 1660-1931," indexed database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org), Samantha Foster entry.

As discussed in Post 5, Ann C. Buit, age 5, was enumerated in the 1860 U.S. Census in Stillwater, N.J. with Sophia Hultz and Ann Auble. Samantha Bales, age 16, was enumerated in the 1870 U.S. Census in Stillwater, N.J with Sophia Hulliz. Annie C. Foster, age 23, was enumerated in the 1880 U.S. census in Blairstown, N.J. with Euphemia Foster.

The 1900 U.S. Census indicates that Anna S. McCracken (born Apr 1857, age 43) married John McCracken in about 1882.

The last question to be answered is "Are Samantha Foster (1855 birth record), Ann C. Buit (1860 census), Samantha Bales (1870 census), Annie C. Foster (1880 census), Annie S. McCracken in the 1893 will of Elizabeth Auble, and Anna S. McCracken (the 1900 and 1910 census) the same person?"

I think they are the same person. My working hypothesis is that Euphemia Foster had the child Samantha Foster in April 1855 out of wedlock by a man with the surname Bales or similar; that she was called Annie or Anna throughout her life; that she resided with her grandmother Sophia Hultz in 1860 and 1870, and with her mother in 1880; that she is mentioned in Elizabeth Auble's 1893 will; and that she married to John McCracken in 1882, according to the 1900 census.

John and Anna S. (Foster) McCracken had a daughter, Gertrude H. McCracken, born in November 1882, who married Cleveland Shuster (1884-1967) before 1920, and died in 1956, all in Blairstown, Warren County, New Jersey, apparently without children.

5) I recall that Elizabeth Auble's 1896 codicil to her will defined some of these persons:

"And WHEREAS, my niece Euphemia Foster has departed this life; Now Therefore I do revoke the said legacy, and give the Sum of Three hundred dollars ($300) free of tax to Gertrude McCracken, the daughter of John McCracken, of Blairstown, New Jersey."

Working backwards, Gertrude (McCracken) Shuster (1882-1956) was the daughter of John and Anna S. (Foster) McCracken; Anna S. Foster (1855-????) (also known as Samantha?) was the daughter of Euphemia Foster; Euphemia Foster (1828-1895) was the daughter of Alley H. and Sophia (Auble) (Foster) Hulse. Euphemia Foster was mentioned in the probate records of her father and mother. Sophia, Euphemia, Anna/Samantha and Gertrude were all named in Elizabeth Auble's will and codicils.

That's the working hypothesis - there are several assertions without direct evidence, but there is indirect evidence of these relationships that is consistent with my working hypothesis. What other records do I need, or might I find in northwestern New Jersey to help me draw conclusions about this Auble line?

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