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Friday, May 27, 2016

Battle of Jutland service records available to search this Findmypast Friday - 27 May 2016

I received this update from Findmypast today:

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Battle of Jutland service records available to search this Findmypast Friday

Over 38,000 records of Royal Marine and Royal Navy service men who fought at the Battle of Jutland are available to search this Findmypast Friday.

The publication marks the 100th anniversary of the largest naval engagement of the First World War and has been specially put together using various service records held by The National Archives and Naval and Military Press. British Royal Navy & Royal Marines, Battle Of Jutland 1916 Servicemen gathers together the names of those who served with the British Grand Fleet between 31 May and 1 June 1916 to form a single, easily searchable index of Jutland servicemen.

The records contain the names, ranks, service numbers, enrolment dates, dates of birth and birth places of Royal Marines and Royal Navy personnel. Scanned images of original documents also reveal if they were promoted, the names of the ships on which they served and their dates of service. Many will also include a home address, occupation prior to joining the service and a full physical description. Each record consists of a transcript and a scanned image of the original document.

The Battle of Jutland was a collision of the world’s two largest naval powers, fought in Skagerrak, a strait on the North Sea off of the coast of Denmark. It was the largest naval battle of the First World War, with 250 ships and about 100,000 men. Of the total number of ships involved, 25 vessels were sunk: 14 British and 11 German. The battle also resulted is a large loss of life: 6,094 on the side of the British and 2,551 on the side of the Germans died. It was a confusing and bloody battle that resulted in an indecisive victory.

Paul Nixon, military expert at Findmypast, says: “The Battle of Jutland was the defining naval engagement of the First World War – and one which cost the British Navy over 6000 dead sailors. Today, one hundred years on, it is both timely and fitting and that we should be able to re-trace their heroics through Findmypast’s naval records of the First World War.”

Other new additions released this week include:

Irish Newspapers

Over half a million new articles have been added to our Irish Newspaper Collection. The latest updates include 4 brand new titles as well as additional articles in a further 7 existing ones. This brings the entire collection to 119 different national, regional and local Irish newspapers covering 248 years of history from 1708-1956. In all, you can now delve into over 20.9 million fully searchable articles.

Ireland, Poverty Relief Funds 1821-1874

Over 5,000 records have been added to our collection of Irish Poverty Relief Fund records. The records come from The National Archives at Kew and relate to the Irish Reproductive Loan Fund. Each record includes an individual transcript and an image of the original record. The majority cover the years 1824-1846 and provide unique information about your ancestors from before and during the Irish Famine. Many of the records are loan application forms, which include the name of the borrower and two names of guarantors, who were often close family members or neighbours. Other details recorded include occupation, notes of health, family circumstances and whether the borrower emigrated.

Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania, Bethany Children's Home Indexes

Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania, Bethany Children's Home Indexes contains just under 8,000 records that can help you trace your displaced ancestor who may have ended up in a children’s home due to parents’ deaths or their inability to care for the child.

Each record consists of a transcript and an image of the original index. The images may reveal which parent died, when the parent died, and their religious denomination. There may also be notes about the health and next of kin of the child, as well as information on whether the child was baptised and confirmed. Some entries will also include detailed notes about a child’s disposition and time at the home. Discharge notes can provide you with a wealth of information and direction on where to look for your ancestor next. The notes may include death dates (and cause of death), a relocation address or place, next of kin or new guardian information, or the names of the individuals who adopted your ancestor.

Don’t forget to regularly check our dedicated Findmypast Friday page to keep up to date with all the latest additions.

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52 Ancestors - Week 126: #149 Abigail (Stone) Sawtell (1736-about 1800)

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 #125:

Abigail (Stone) Sawtell (1737-1800) is #149 on my Ahnentafel list, my 5th great-grandmother, who married #148 Ephraim Sawtell (1734-1800) in 1757.

I am descended through:

* their son, #74 Josiah Sawtell (1768-1847) who married #75 Hannah Smith (1768-1827) in 1789.
* their daughter, #37 Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857), who married #36 Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857), 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: Abigail Stone[1–3]

* Alternate Name: Abigail Sawtell[4]

* Sex: Female

* Father: Deacon James Stone (1702-1783)

* Mother: Mary Farwell (1709-1804)

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

* Birth: before 6 February 1736/7, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1]

* Baptism: 6 February 1736/7 (after age 0), Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1]

* Death: before 1800 (before about age 63), probably Brookline, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States

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

* Spouse 1: Ephraim Sawtell (1734-1800)

* Marriage 1: 22 December 1757 (after age 20), Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[2–3]

* List of Children: 1758–1772 (about age 21–about 35, list of children born in Groton; Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4]

* Child 1: Abigail Sawtell (1758-1817)

* Child 2: Lucy Sawtell (1760-1815)

* Child 3: Josiah Sawtell (1762-1766)

* Child 4: Molly Sawtell (1763-1795)

* Child 5: Eli Sawtell (1765- )

* Child 6: Josiah Sawtell (1768-1847)

* Child 7: Ephraim Sawtell (1770- )

* Child 8: Sarah Sawtell (1772- )

* Child 9: John Sawtell (1773- )

* Child 10: Ede Sawtell (1778- )

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

Abigail Stone was the daughter of James and Mary (Farwell) Stone of Groton, Massachusetts. The baptism record of Abigail Stone says[1]:

"STONE, Abigail, d. James and Mary, bp. Feb. 6, 1736 C.R. 1"

The Groton, Massachusetts town record book provides the marriage of Ephraim Sawtell and Abigail Stone[2]::

"[December] 22d [1757] Ephraim Sawtell & Abigail Stone boath of Groton"

The Groton, Massachusetts town records record the births of the first eight of the children of Ephraim and Abigail Sawtell[4]. The record says:

"Abagail Sawtell the daughter of Ephraim Sawtell and Abagail his wife born at Groton November 3'd 1758

Lucy Sawtell the daughter of Ephraim Sawtell and Abagail his wife born at Groton January 20'th 1760

Josiah Sartell the son of Ephraim Sawtell & Abigail his wife was born at Groton January the 30'th 1762

Molley Sartell the daughter of Ephraim Sartell and Abigail his wife born at Groton December 3'd 1763

Eli Sartell the son of Ephraim Sartell jnr & Abigail his wife was born at Groton Nov'r 26'th 1765

Josiah Sawtell the son of Ephraim Sawtell & Abigail his wife born at Groton January 24'th 1768

Ephraim Sawtell the son of Ephraim Sawtell & Abigail his wife was born at Groton June 23'd 1770

Sarah Sawtell the daugh'r of Ephraim Sawtell & Abigail his wife was born at Groton November 20'th 1772"

During the period from 1773 to 1775, Ephraim Sawtell moved from Groton, Massachusetts to the north to Mason, New Hampshire. He and his wife, Abigail, had one daughter recorded in the Mason, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire Town Records in 1778.

There is no record for the death or burial of Abigail (Stone) Sawtell in Massachusetts or New Hampshire records. There are no probate records for her in Massachusetts or New Hampshire records.

The assumption is that she died between 1790 and 1800, probably in Brookline, New Hampshire where the family resided in the 1790 U.S. Census.

5) SOURCES

1. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1926-1927), Two volumes, Volume 1, Births, page 230, Abigail Stone baptism entry.

2. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Groton, Births, Marriages and Deaths," no page number, image 106 of 990, Ephraim Sawtell and Abigail Stone marriage entry.

3. Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, Marriages, page 165, Ephraim Sawtell and Abigail Stone entry.

4. Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com, "Groton, Births, Marriages, Deaths," image 86 of 990, births of children of Josiah and Abigail Sawtell.

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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Finding Published Surname Books for My Ancestors

There have been several significant advances in the number of online digitized genealogy books beyond Google Books and the Internet Archive. I'm talking about FamilySearch Books with over 200,000 genealogy books, the "Compilation of Published Sources" on MyHeritage with over 447,000 genealogy books, and the Ancestry.com collection of "North American, Family Histories, 1500-2000."

I have quite a few ancestral families who were the first generations in colonial New York and colonial New England that I need to add information about to my database. Published surname books, if done well, are really useful to define vital records, relationships, social and political events, and so on. While these are compiled works, they are often based on records in original sources and often have source citations to those original sources.

Today, I received an Ancestry Hint for Robert Treat (1624-1710), one of the colonial governors of Connecticut. He is my 9th great-grandfather. The Hint was for the book:

John Harvey Treat, The Treat Family : A genealogy of Trott, Tratt, and Treat : for fifteen generations, and four hundred and fifty years in England and America: Containing more than Fifteen Hundred Families in America; with Illustrations, Autographs, and a Map of Somersetshire (Salem, Mass. : The Salem Press, 1893).

This book has 706 images on Ancestry.com. I have four generations of Treats in this book, and there is significant biographical and historical information about the first three generations of my Treat ancestors who settled in Connecticut, including:

1) Richard Treat (1584-1670) starting on page 26 (image 95):

2) Robert Treat (1624-1710) starting on page 130 (image 199):

3) Samuel Treat (1648-1717) on page 167 (image 236):

There is a wealth of information on these three families that I could add to my database, and plenty of references to original source material that may be available in digitized records (I've already found Richard Treat's will indexed on Ancestry.com). I will probably try to summarize the information for each of these persons into a number of paragraphs, instead of trying to transcribe tens of pages on these pages, and attribute the information to this book.

I will download the useful pages from this book to my Treat surname file folder on my computer in order to have a good record from this book. It is out of copyright protection, so I can do this.

I will use the book information as a source citation for many of the events in these families, since the book seems remarkably complete and well researched, but it does not provide source citations for each event (it does provide some in-text source citations). When I do find other sources, I will add source citations for those records in the person profiles in my RootsMagic database.

I had not found this book before - it is in the UCSD library in La Jolla, but I've never been there (bad boy, eh?). The next closest place, according to WorldCat, is Stanford library, over 400 miles to the north). It is available for free on Google Books and Internet Archive. I added it to My Books collection on Google Books.

Do any Genea-Musings readers share my Treat ancestry? Have you seen and used this Treat surname book? If not, go read it on Ancestry.com, Google Books, or Internet Archive.

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Treasure Chest Thursday - Post 315: Birth Records of Children of Joseph and Mary (Bowden) Richards in Southborough, 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 records of the children of Joseph Richards (1703-1758) and Mary Bowden (1705-1755) born in Southborough, Massachusetts:

The snippet of the list of children is (from the top of the left-hand page above):

The transcription of the list of children of Joseph and Mary (Bowden) Richards is:

1: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Son Named

William Richards: on Feby 25 day in the year ---- 1729-30

2: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Son Named

Joseph Richards: on April 1st day in the year ---- 1731

3: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Daughter Named

Mary Richards: on Sept 27th day in the year ---- 1733

4: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Son Named

Ebenezer Richards: on Feb. 25 day in the year ---- 1738

5: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Daughter Named

Martha Richards: on Jan 31st day in the year ---- 1740

6: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Son Named

John Richards: on Dec 10th day in the year ---- 1742

7: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Daughter Named

Hannah Richards: on Jan 24th day in the year ---- 1744

8: Born to Joseph Richards & Mary his wife a Daughter Named

Esther Richards: on Feb 25th day in the year ---- 1746

Born to Mary Richards ???? Son Named

Isaac Buck Reputed by her to be a Son

of Isaac Buck on Sep 27 1757

The source citation for this record is:

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), "Southborough Births, Marriages and Deaths," page 66 (image 114 of 1007), list of children of Joseph and Mary Richards, 1730-1746.

Amazingly, three of the eight children were born on February 25th, and also amazingly Mary Richards and her son born out of wedlock were born on September 27th.

Joseph and Mary (Bowden) Richards are my 6th great-grandparents, and Mary Richards is my 5th great-grandmother. The out-of-wedlock son of Mary Richards, named Isaac Buck, is my 4th great-grandfather.

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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Keeping Up With the Seaver Folks on GenealogyBank

One of the sporadic tasks I try to perform is to keep up with the obituaries available online for my Seaver folks. I do this on GenealogyBank, MyHeritage, Findmypast and Google.

We are five months into 2016, and the last time I did this search on GenealogyBank was at the end of 2015. So I went to GenealogyBank, and put "seaver" in the last name field and put "2016" in both Date fields to limit it to only 2016. Here is the search results:

So there are 16 matches for my search terms in the Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977-current) collection. Here is the top of the matches page:

I went through each of these and added the family content to my RootsMagic database for those persons I had in my database. Four of the 16 matches were for another Randall Seaver (wow - seeing your name in a headline like that was a wake-up call!):

Another match had a real obituary, rather than a newspaper article about his death, for Randall Seaver, son of Dale and Ina (Zahler) Seaver. I already had him in my database. so now I can add a death date with a source citation.

Whew! You know, this can happen to any of us at any time (well, most folks don't kill a deer on the road). My condolences to the Seaver family on their loss. Randall was not my Seaver cousin, since he is descended from another family with the surname Seaver, but I have tried to include all Seaver/Sever folks in my database.

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Virtual Institute of Genealogical Research (VIGR) Announces Summer and Fall 2016 Courses

I received this press release recently from the Virtual Institute of Genealogical Research:

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Virtual Institute announces summer and fall 2016 courses.

RALEIGH, North Carolina, 22 May 2016. The Virtual Institute of Genealogical Research would like to announce several exciting new courses that will be offered during the summer and fall 2016. The schedule sees new courses from several of our popular past instructors as well as a few new instructors with their first Virtual Institute courses. We would also like to announce the beginning of a whole new endeavor to bring even more educational opportunities to the genealogical community.

Registration for all of the following courses are now open:

 21 May–28 May 2016, Blaine T. Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D., “Third-Party Tools for Genetic Genealogists”

 4 June–11 June 2016, Michael Hait, CG, “Working with Sources and Information”

 6 August–13 August 2016, Craig Roberts Scott, CG, FUGA, “A Day in the War of 1812: Researching Your Ancestor”

 20 August–27 August 2016, Jean Wilcox Hibben, PhD, MA, CG, “Learning About Your Ancestor Through Culture and Folkways”

 1 October–8 October 2016, Melanie D. Holtz, CG, “Italian Genealogical Evidence Practicum”

 12 November–19 November 2016, D. Joshua Taylor, MA, MLS, “Harness the Power of the Web”

 3 December–10 December 2016, Blaine T. Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D., “The Essential Copyright Guide for Genealogists”

As usual, each of these courses costs $69.99 for six hours of instruction (including the recordings), syllabus material, and a practical exercise. All of the upcoming courses will be offered with the Plus option, which provides additional instruction, direct instructor feedback, and a certificate of completion.

The Virtual Institute of Genealogical Research would also like to announce the beginning of our Occasional Lecture series. On Thursday, 21 July 2016, the Virtual Institute will sponsor an evening session at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh:

Michael Hait, CG, on “Finding and Using Online Legal Resources.” This lecture will be delivered simultaneously live in Pittsburgh at GRIP and broadcast as a free webinar. Webinar seating is limited to 100 seats. Click here for more information and to register.

The Occasional Lecture series will supplement our six-hour courses by bringing one-hour webinars from international genealogical educators. The series will host unique lectures as our instructors and special guest lecturers are available, rather than producing a regular schedule. Announcements for future webinars in the Occasional Lecture series will appear in the Virtual Institute newsletter. Seating will always be limited so be sure to subscribe to email newsletter so that you do not miss any of these upcoming lectures.

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Visiting Queenstown NZ #3 -- Post 414 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) Our major excursion in Queenstown that we did not take was the five hour (each way) bus trip to Milford Sound. Instead, we stayed in Queenstown and had a nice ride up to the top of the Queenstown gondola station:

2) The view of beutiful downtown Queenstown from the top:

3) The view of the lake from the gondola station:

4) We had a nice dinner that evening in the hotel restaurant:

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 24, 2016

Making Progress on My Auble Cousins - Post 9: Was Sarah Auble Elizabeth's Sister?

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)
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins - Post 7: Sophia Auble's Descendants (10 May 2016)
* Making Progress on My Auble Cousins - Post 8: Nathan Auble's Descendants (17 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.

1) In the will, these persons were listed among those who received a bequest of money:

* Elizabeth Schunover -- relationship to Elizabeth not stated. She was bequeathed $500. I did not know of Elizabeth Schunover before reading Elizabeth's will.

* Anna Dickerson -- relationship to Elizabeth not stated, wife of Wesley Dickerson. She was bequeathed $500. I did not know of Anna Dickerson before reading Elizabeth's will.

* David Schunover -- relationship to Elizabeth not stated. He was bequeathed $300. I did not know of David Schunover before reading Elizabeth's will.

* Louie Dickerson - relationship to Elizabeth not stated, and the daughter of Wesley Dickerson. She was bequeathed $300. I had no knowledge of Louie Dickerson before reading Elizabeth's will.

I started to research these Schunover (or Schoonover?) and Dickerson persons, knowing that Anna was the wife of Wesley Dickerson, and figured that Louie was probably related to Anna and Wesley. I had no clue who the Schunovers were.

2) Since Anna and Wesley were apparently married, I decided to start with them - where did they live in the 1880 and 1900 U.S. census, who were their children? I expected that they might be living in Sussex or Warren County, New Jersey. I quickly found Anna with several children, and her mother, in the 1880 U.S. Census:

Source: 1880 United States Federal Census, Population Schedule, Warren County, New Jersey, population schedule, Pahaquarry, ED 197, page 396C, dwelling #179, family #186, Anna Dickerson household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 May 2016); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication T9, Roll 799.

This indicates that Anna Dickerson is age 30, widowed, with four children (Bias, Loretta, Edward and Gertie), and with am other, Sarah Schoonover, aged 65.

Now I have some more names to work with, so I checked the 1900 U.S. Census, and found:

Source: 1900 United States Federal Census, Population Schedule, Essex County, New Jersey, population schedule, Newark Ward 4, ED 34, page 2A, dwelling #14, family #19, Anna Dickeson household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 May 2016); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication T623, Roll 963.

In this record, Anna "Dickeson" was born Feby 1851, age 48, widowed, had 6 children born and living, with children Sadie (born 1876), Gertrude (born 1879) and Lucella (born 1881).

So I have evidence of the six children of Anna Dickerson - Bias, Loretta, Edward, Gertrude, Sadie and Lucella. Is Lucella the "Louie" Dickerson in the will? I don't know, but it's possible.

But is this the correct Anna Dickerson? There were several in New Jersey in the 1880 and 1900 census records. After all, it says she is widowed in both the 1880 and 1900 records. There is no sign of Wesley Dickerson, Anna's purported husband. Amazingly, there is another family of Wesley and Anna Dickerson residing in Morris County, New Jersey with different names for their children.

3) I wondered if there was a Find A Grave record for Anna Dickerson, so I searched and did not find one for that spelling. Only when I searched for Ann Dick (Find A Grave lets you use the first letters of names in their search fields) and New Jersey did I find this:

Source: Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Newton Cemetery, Newton, N.J., Anna Schoonover Dickisson memorial #14629082.

The stone says "Anna Schoonover, wife of Wesley Dickisson, died Nov 26 1917 aged 67 years."

Apparently, this Anna Dickisson was a Schoonover at birth. That matches with the mother's name on the 1880 U.S. Census - Sarah Schoonover.

I never did find any record for the Wesley Dickerson who married Anna. She was listed as widowed in both 1880 and 1900, but she apparently had another Dickerson child - Lucella - in 1881 according to the 1900 census.

4) I did a search for Sarah Schoonover and quickly found Sarah Schoonover in the same cemetery:

Source: Jim Tipton, indexed database, Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com), Newton Cemetery, Newton, N.J., Sarah Auble Schoonover memorial #63414330.

The gravestone says: "Sarah Auble Schoonover, died Feb. 26, 1890, aged 79."

What? Sarah Auble? I don't have a person with that name born about 1811 in my database!

5) Who was her husband? Did she have children other than Anna (Schoonover) Dickerson (1851-1917)?

I easily found Sarah Schoonover in the 1850 and 1860 U.S. census records. Here she is in the 1850 census:

Source: 1850 United States Federal Census, Warren County, New Jersey, population schedule, Hardwick, page 344A, dwelling #56, family #60, Elijah Schoonover household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 May 2016); citing Natinoal Archives Microfilm Publication M432, Roll 465. [Note: This family is indexed correctly, but the source and the links on Ancestry go to the wrong image].

Sarah Schoonover (age 35) was married to Elijah Schoonover (age 36), and their purported children in the 1850 census are Morris (age 12), Lucilla (age 11), James (age 9), Martha E. (age 7), Euphemia (age 4), and Samuel S. (age 1).

In the 1860 U.S. Census, the family includes:

Source: 1860 United States Federal Census, Population Schedule, Warren County, New Jersey, population schedule, Pahaquarry, page 540, dwelling #349, family #349, Elijah Schoonover household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 20 May 2016); citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M653, Roll 709.

In this record, Elijah Schoonover is age 48, Sarah is age 47, Morris is age 23, Martha is age 15, Samuel S. is age 11, and Amy is age 6.

6) Amy? Is Amy really Anna? Perhaps.

Then I found this record in the "New Jersey Births and Christenings Index, 1660-1931:"

Source: "New Jersey Births and Christenings Index, 1660-1931," indexed database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Ann Schoonover entry, 1851.

While this is a derivative record, it is from the New Jersey birth record microfilms on FamilySearch. The date also matches the 1900 U.S. Census birth month and year for Anna Dickeson.

7) My conclusion is that Ann Schoonover was the daughter of Elijah and Sarah (Auble) Schoonover, was enumerated as Amy in the 1860 census, was enumerated as Anna Dickerson in the 1880 census, Anna Dickeson in the 1900 census, and is the Anna Schoonover Dickisson in the Newton N.J. Cemetery grave.

It appears that Elijah and Sarah (Auble) Schoonover had at least 7 children - Morris, Lucilla, James, Martha, Euphemia, Samuel, and Anna.

I tried to find families for each of these children besides Anna, and was successful in finding that James K. Schoonover married Sarah Stire and two of their 11 children were Elizabeth Schoonover (born 1873) and David Schoonover (born 1886). Of course, there may be some other Elizabeth and David Schoonover persons also related to Sarah (Auble) Schoonover, but I haven';t found them yet.

I also found that Euphemia Schoonover (born about 1846) to Elijah and Sarah (Auble) Schoonover, married Bison Rosenkrans and had two children. Rosenkrantz was mentioned as the grandfather of Elizabeth Snover in Elizabeth Auble's will.

I have done a lot more searching for records of these Schoonover and Dickerson families, and have an Ancestry Member Tree for all of the Auble folks to help me sort them out.

8) My conclusion is that Sarah Auble (1811-1890), who married Elijah Schoonover (1810-1892) and had 7 children, was the mother of Anna (Schoonover) Dickerson, and the grandmother of Lucella "Louie" Dickerson, Elizabeth Schoonover and David Schoonover. The latter four persons were heirs to Elizabeth Auble in her 1893 will.

9) My second conclusion is that Sarah Auble (1811-1890) is the sister of Elizabeth Auble (1814-1899), and to my second great-grandfather, David Auble (1817-1894).

This evidence stream is direct evidence of the events involved, but is indirect evidence as to the relationship of Sarah (Auble) Schoonover with Elizabeth Auble. I have found no conflicting evidence for that relationship, but I have only the one link from Sarah's gravestone as far as her maiden name.

However, it makes sense to me - Elizabeth Auble named some of her closest relatives (siblings, nieces, nephews, etc.) as heirs in her 1893 will. I think that all of the persons named in the will as her heirs were related to her. In this case, Sarah Auble had died and Elizabeth named the youngest child of Anna, Anna's youngest child, and two children of Sarah's son, James Schoonover.

There are still "mystery persons" in Elizabeth Auble's will, and my research has slowed down a bit due to other priorities. I will return to finish off the list!

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