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Friday, June 12, 2020

MyHeritage Introduces the Photo Enhancer

I received this from MyHeritage today:

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I’m excited to announce the release of the MyHeritage Photo Enhancer — an incredible new feature that brings blurry faces in any photo into sharp focus. Photos are enhanced using specialized technology that produces outstanding, high-definition results. Please share this news with your followers!

Perhaps you have old photos that look grainy or blurred, or photos of large family gatherings with many faces that are too small to recognize clearly. The MyHeritage Photo Enhancer aims to solve these age-old problems and produces phenomenal results that let you see your ancestors more clearly than ever before.

Try the MyHeritage Photo Enhancer now

This feature uses deep learning technology that was licensed by MyHeritage and seamlessly integrated into the platform to enhance photos by upscaling them (increasing their resolution).

Watch the video to see this feature in action:

You can enhance your photos and colorize them with MyHeritage In Color™, as these two features complement each other. Like colorized photos, enhanced photos are differentiated from the originals using a special embossed symbol, and enhancement does not modify your original photos. The addition of the Photo Enhancer makes MyHeritage the best platform for uploading, enhancing, and sharing historical photos, bar none.

To enhance your photos, visit the My Photos section of your family site, click on any photo in your albums, and then click Enhance. You can also use the MyHeritage Photo Enhancer page to upload photos to MyHeritage and enhance them, or scan your photos using the free MyHeritage mobile app.

Please find more information about the MyHeritage Photo Enhancer below:

Press release: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200612005172/en/MyHeritage-Releases-Photo-Enhancer-Bring-Blurry-Photos

Blog post (including great examples): https://blog.myheritage.com/2020/06/introducing-the-myheritage-photo-enhancer/

We hope that you enjoy enhancing your photos.

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MyHeritage sent me this enhanced photo of my father as a young man, which I have in my MyHeritage family tree. The original has always been somewhat blurry.

And colorized it looks like this:

Very cool!! Thank you, MyHeritage!

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Disclosure: I receive a complimentary subscription to MyHeritage, and gave received other material consideration in past years. I uploaded my autosomal DNA raw data to their DNA product. This does not affect my objective analysis of MyHeritage products.

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52 Ancestors - Week 334: #544 Samuel Smith (1641-1691) of Medfield, Massachusetts

Samuel Smith (1641-1691) is number 544 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandfather, who married #545 Sarah (Clark) Bowers (1651-1704) in 1677 in Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

* their son #272 Henry Smith (1680-1743) who married #273 Ruth Barber (1696-1761) in 1730.

* their son #136 Moses Smith (1736-1806) who married #137 Patience Hamant (1735-1780) in 1762.

* their son #68 Aaron Smith (1765-1841) who married #69 Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850) in 1795.

* their son #34 Alpheus Smith (1802-1840) who married #35 Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869) in 1826.

* their daughter, #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884) who married #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) in 1851.

* their son #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) who married #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) in 1874.

* their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 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 Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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

* Name: Samuel Smith[1–2]

* Alternate Name: Samual Smith[4]

* Alternate Name: Samuell Smith[3,5–7]

* Sex: Male

* Father: Henry Smith (1607-1687)

* Mother: Elizabeth Tailour (1603-1670)

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

* Birth: 13 October 1641, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[1,3–4]

* Death: 25 October 1691 (age 50), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[5]

* Burial: after 25 October 1691 (after age 50), no known gravesite; Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[2]

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

* Spouse 1: Elizabeth Turner (1647-1676)

* Marriage 1: 22 December 1669 (age 28), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[6]

* Child 1: Elizabeth Smith (1670-1671)

* Child 2: Elizabeth Smith (1672-1704)

* Child 3: Samuel Smith (1674-1742)

* Spouse 2: Sarah Clark (1651-1704)

* Marriage 2: 22 February 1677 (age 35), Medfield, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States[7]

* Child 4: Sarah Smith (1679-1769)

* Child 5: Henry Smith (1680-1743)

* Child 6: Daniel Smith (1682-1704)

* Child 7: Nathaniel Smith (1684-1762)

* Child 8: Abigail Smith (1686-1725)

* Child 9: Mary Smith (1688-1774)

* Child 10: Prudence Smith (1691-1784)

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

William S. Tilden edited the book History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650-1886[1]. The family genealogy section of the book provides this summary for Samuel Smith:

"Samuel Smith inherited his father's house lot and buildings. He married in 1669 Elizabeth Turner. When the Indians made their attack upon the town, Elizabeth took her youngest child, then a year and a half, in her arms, and ran toward the fort. When a little way from the house, the savages overtook her, and killed her by a blow on the head. The child was thrown on the ground, stunned, and left for dead, but recovered consciousness, and, when found, had crept to the dead body of its mother. One year from that day, Samuel married Sarah, widow of John Bowers, who had also been killed by the Indians. He died in 1691, his widow in 1704."

Samuel Smith was born 13 October 1641 in Dedham, Massachusetts, the son of Henry and Elizabeth (Tailour) Smith[1,3-4]. The Dedham record says:

"Samual the son of Henry & Elizabeth Smithwas borne the 13 of the 8 mo [1641]"

The Henry Smith family moved from Dedham to Medfield in about 1652, and took a lot on South Street.

Samuel married, first, Elizabeth Turner, on 22 December 1669 in Medfield[6]. She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Marsh) Turner. They had three children, all born in Medfield:

* Elizabeth Smith (1670-1671)

* Elizabeth Smith (1672-1704), married 1692 Eleazer Partridge (1665-1736)

* Samuel Smith (1674-1742), married 1695 Elizabeth Adams (1672-1754).

After his first wife's death on 21 February 1676, Samuel Smith married, second, Sarah (Clark) Bowers, on 22 February 1677 in Medfield[7]. She was the daughter of Joseph and Alice (Fenn) Clark, and the widow of John Bowers (1646-1676), by whom she had had a son, John Bowers (1675-1729). Samuel and Sarah had seven children, all born in Medfield:

* Sarah Smith (1679-1769), married (1) 1701 Mathias Evans (1670-1725); (2) 1726 Henry Harding (1673-1764).

* Henry Smith (1680-1743), married (1) 1703 Deborah Pratt (1684-1705); (2) 1708 Mary Adams (1681-1725); (3) 1730 Ruth Barber (1696-1761).

* Daniel Smith (1682-1704).

* Nathaniel Smith (1684-1762), married (1) 1705 Mary Clark (1687-1717); (2) 1717 Lydia Partridge (1687-1773).

* Abigail Smith (1686-1726), married 1705 John Fisher (1677-1727).

* Mary Smith (1688-1774), married (1) 1706 Henry Plimpton (1684-1731); (2) 1732 Jabez Pond (1677-1749); (3) 1750 Joseph Wight (1681-1756).

* Prudence Smith (1691-1784), married (1) 1711 Joseph White (1683-1737); (2) 1739 Benoni Benson (1684-1761).

Samuel Smith died on 25 October 1691 in Medfield, aged 50[5]. There is a Find A Grave memorial for him, but there is no gravestone photograph[2].

He did not have a probate record in Suffolk or Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

SOURCES:

1. William S Tilden and John A S Monks, History of the town of Medfield, Massachusetts, 1650-1886 : with genealogies of the families that held real estate or made any considerable stay in the town during the first two centuries (Boston, Mass.: G.H. Ellis, 1887), page 481, Samuel Smith sketch.

2. Find A Grave, indexed database and digital image, (http://www.findagrave.com), no known gravesite, Medfield, Mass., Samuel Smith memorial #53565165.

3. Don Gleason Hill (editor), The Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Town of Dedham,1635-1845 (Dedham, Mass. : Town of Dedham, 1886), page 2, Samuell Smith birth entry, 1641.

4. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), Dedham births, Marriages, Deaths, no page number (image 3 of 1961), Samual Smith birth entry.

5. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), Deaths, page 235, Samuell Smith death entry, 1691.

6. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Marriages, page 174, Samuell Smith and Elizabeth Turner marriage entry, 1669.

7. Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Marriages, page 174, Samuell Smith and Sarah Bowers marriage entry, 1677.

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NOTE: In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog. I have extended this theme in 2020 for a seventh year to 364 Ancestors in 364 Weeks. The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.

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Thursday, June 11, 2020

Seavers in the News -- Dr. Alfred Drew Seaver Dies in Brooklyn in 1934

It's time for another edition of "Seavers in the News" - a weekly feature from the historical newspapers about persons with the surname Seaver that are interesting, useful, mysterious, fun, macabre, or add information to my family tree database.

This week's entry is from the Times Union [Brooklyn, N.Y.] newspaper dated 25 September 1934:

The transcription of the article is:

"DR. ALFRED D. SEAVER

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Was Dental Practitioner in This Borough Since 1888

"Dr. Alfred Drew Seaver, 68, dental practitioner in Brooklyn since 1888, when he was graduated from the New York College of Dentistry, died Sunday in Methodist Hospital after an illness of several months. He lived at 134 Park pl., where he also maintained his office.

"Dr. Seaver was born in New Jersey. He was a former member of the Montauk, Crescent Athletic-Hamilton and other clubs in Brooklyn, but resigned some years ago. At the time of his death, he was affiliated with the Second District Dental Society.

"Surviving are his wife, Anna; a daughter, Mrs. Charles Ott, of Montclair, N.J., and a son, Drew Seaver. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 8 P.M. in the home. Burial in Moravian Cemetery will take place Thursday."

The source citation is:

"Dr. Alfred D. Seaver," Times Union[Brookly, N.Y.] newspaper, obituary, Tuesday, 25 September 1934, page 20, column 5, Dr. Alfred D. Seaver obituary; Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 11 June 2020).

This obituary provides a death date (implied as Sunday, 23 September 1934), an age and birth state, the spouse's name, and the married name of a daughter and a son.

I had Alfred Drew Seaver (1866-1934) in my RootsMagic database. He was born 17 September 1866 in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Joseph Alfred and Mary Elizabeth (Haulenbeck) Seaver. He married Anna Lambertson (1866-1945) in 1891 in Brooklyn, and they had three children:

* Serena Seaver (1893-1970), married (1) 1917 Emory Gale Felton (1892-1918), and (2) 1924 Charles James Ogg (1894-1982).

* Drew Seaver (1897-1968), married 1945 Julia Pauline Hull (1900-1972).

* Spencer William Seaver (1899-1903).

Alfred Drew Seaver is my 7th cousin, 3 times removed. The common ancestors are Robert Seaver (1608-1683) and Elizabeth Ballard (1616-1657).

There are over 9,000 Seaver "stories" in my family tree - and this was one of them. Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and some people serve their communities. I am glad that I can honor Dr. Alfred Drew Seaver today.

You never know when a descendant will find this blog post and learn something about their ancestors, or will provide more information about them to me.

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Disclosure: I have a complimentary subscription to Newspapers.com and have used it extensively to find articles about my ancestral and one-name families.

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Copyright (c) 2020, Randall J. Seaver

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Genea-Musings Is One of Family Tree Magazines 101 Best Genealogy Websites of 2020

Family Tree Magazine has several "Best Of" lists each year, and Genea-Musings is on the 2020 list of "101 Best Genealogy Websites" - see https://www.familytreemagazine.com/best-genealogy-websites/.

They sent me a "badge" to put on my blog:

The websites are arranged in these categories:

David A. Fryxell summarized the content of each site.

The Best Genealogy News Websites and Blogs include these sites:

Please review the entire list and visit those sites that you find that look interesting or helpful. There are several that I was not aware of before seeing this list.

Thank you to Family Tree Magazine for this honor - I appreciate it!

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Disclosure: I am a longtime subscriber to Family Tree Magazine, and have not received financial or other considerations from the magazine or its parent company.

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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1641 Birth Record for Samual Smith (1641-1691) in Dedham, Mass.

It's Treasure Chest Tuesday - a chance 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 1641 birth record of Samual Smith in the Dedham, Massachusetts town record book:

The Samual Smith birth record is the 2nd from the bottom on the left-hand page:

The transcription of this record is:

"Samual the son of Henry & Elizabeth Smith
was borne the 13 of the 8 mo [1641]"

The source citation for this record is:

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, indexed database and digital image, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), "Dedham births, Marriages, Deaths," no page number (image 3 of 1916), Samual Smith birth entry, 13 October 1641, son of Henry and Elizabeth Smith.

This is probably an Original Source record for the birth of Samuel Smith. It is Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the birth date, place, parents names and the name of Samual.

Samuel Smith (1641-1691) is my 7th great-grandfather, the son of Henry and Elizabeth (--?--) Smith. He married (1) Elizabeth Turner (1647-1676) and they had three children. He married (2) Sarah (Clark) Bowers (1651-1704), and they had seven children. I am descended through their son, Henry Smith (1680-1743) and their daughter, Abigail Smith (1686-1726).

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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Dipping Into Denmark Church Records: 1880 Birth of Jens/Hans Lauritzen Hede

My grandsons have Danish ancestry through their father. His grandparents came from Denmark in 1906 and settled in Chicago.

FamilySearch has a nice list of 28 Denmark record collections, and many of them are indexed and have record images. Here is the list (two screens):

I want to look for the birth record for Hans Jauritzen Hede, who family records say was born in 1880 to Hans Lauritzen Hede and Kristine Sorensen.

The "Denmark Church Records, 1484-1941" look like an obvious candidate collection to explore.

I entered the name and birth year in the search field and received matches:

There are two matches with the same parents, and the correct parents - Hans Lauritzen Hede and Kristine Sorensen:

* A confirmation record, with a birth date, for Hans Lauritzen Hede for 7 April 1895

* A birth record on 4 June 1880 for Jens Lauritzen Hede, in Toftlund, Haderslev, Danmark.

Here is the birth record summary image:

And the actual record image is:

The birth record is the 5th from the bottom - with the name "Hede Jens Lauritzen". The parents are Hans Lauritzen Hede and Kristine Sorensen. Column 2 has the birth date - 4 June 1880. I don't know if the first column (19 June 1880) or last column (25 June 1880) has the baptism date. I can't translate the headings well.

The source citation for this birth and baptism record is:

"Danmark Kirkebøger, 1484-1941," database with images, FamilySearch , (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGW6-RHHP : 4 June 2020), Jens Lauritzen Hede, birth, 4 June 1880; Rigsarkivet, København (The Danish National Archives), Copenhagen.

The confirmation record in 1895 is:

Jens Lauritzen Hede is the 5th entry from the bottom. This record provides the birth date as 4 June 1880 and the baptism date as 19 June 1880.

Although this record is indexed as Hans Lauritzen Hede, the name appears to be Jens Lauritzen Hede. The father's name appears to be Jens Lauritzen Hede also.

Is Hans is a diminutive of Jens? Or vice versa?

The source citation for the confirmation record is (courtesy of FamilySearch):

"Danmark Kirkebøger, 1484-1941," database with images, FamilySearch , (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGWX-S1L9 : 10 November 2017), Hans Lauritzen Hede, Confirmation, 07 Apr 1895; 2, Rigsarkivet, København (The Danish National Archives), Copenhagen.

The World War I Draft Registration card for Hans Lorenson Hede, and the Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths Index for Hans Hede, give his birth date as 4 June 1880.

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Copyright (c) 2020, Randall J. Seaver

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Lori and Tami at Yosemite in 1987(?) -- Post 621 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

I can't help it, I can't do a wordless post! I found some more family photos hiding in Linda's family photo boxes. This is one of my favorite photographs:

We often went to the San Francisco Bay area at Christmas time in the 1970s to the early 1990s to visit Linda's parents and her brother. Some years, we took a side trip to visit other friends or sightsee at a park or feature. In 1987 (I think) we went to Yosemite National Park and did some sightseeing. On this trip, I think we left San Francisco in the morning, stayed in a motel west of Yosemite, then visited the park (the valley, the lodge, waterfalls) during the next day, and then stayed overnight in Fresno with one of Linda's cousins.

The photo above shows Lori (age 13?) and Tami (age 10?) with a view toward one of the waterfalls. Which one? I'm not sure any more! Anyway, we had fun!

These photos were scanned from photographs created from developed film prints and are not particularly sharp, but they are what we have!

Several times a year when our children were growing up, Linda sent photographs to her parents and brother in San Francisco. When her father died in 2002, her brother sorted out the photos and gave Linda the ones that were of our family and the ones interacting with them. They were given to us in a big box of stuff back in 2006, and we finally looked at them last year! I've started digitizing them for use in these Wordless Wednesday posts.

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Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Genealogy News Bytes - Tuesday, 9 June 2020

Welcome to Genealogy News Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon and Friday afternoon, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news and education items that came across our desktop over the past four days.

1) News Articles:

* NGS 2020 On-Demand! Now Available

* 7 New Reports Added to MyHeritage Health

* Announcing the Launch of New Parish Chest Website

* Free Collections on MyHeritage Daily During June 2020

2) New or Updated Record Collections:

* Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 31 May to 6 June 2020

* Added and Updated Record Collections at FamilySearch.org - Week of 30 May to 5 June 2020

* [MyHeritage] Historical Record Collections Added in May 2020

3) Genealogy Education - Webinars (times are US Pacific):

* GeneaWebinars Calendar

* View RootsTech 2020 Videos for FREE!

* FREE! Family History Library Online Classes June 2020

*  MyHeritage Online Events in May–June

*  June 2020 Virtual Genealogy and Local History Calendar

*  More FREE Genealogy Webinars for June 2020

* Free Webinar Weekends in June with FamilyTreeWebinars.com

* Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 10 June, 5 p.m.: Using DNA to Answer Real Research Questions: Three Case Studies, by Gail Blankenau

* Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Friday, 12 June, 11 a.m.: Your DNA questions answered live with Diahan, by Diahan Southard

* Archived Family Tree Webinar: The FamilySearch/MyHeritage partnership and its tools for members of the LDS church, by James Tanner

4) Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

* Research Like a Pro: RLP 100: Top Ten Tips to Research Like a Pro

* Extreme Genes: Episode 331 – Family Storytelling with Amy Johnson Crow / Family Discovers Their “Original African” / CeCe Moore on New “Genetic Detective” Episode

* Ancestral Findings: Anne Neville: Who’s Who in the Wars of the Roses | AF-352

5) Genealogy Videos (YouTube):

* American Ancestors: The English Garden: Perfection on Earth

* Ancestry: Back to Basics | Ancestry Extra | Ancestry®

* Ancestry: Newspapers | Ancestry Extra | Ancestry®

* Ancestry: Spring Cleaning | Ancestry Extra | Ancestry®

* BYU Family History Library: How to Use the FamilySearch Wiki and Catalog - Amber Oldenburg

* BYU Family History Library: Immigration and Naturalization from 1790 to 1945 - Suzanne Hoffman

* Family History Fanatics: Photoshop Elements: Quickly Create Slideshows for Family History Memories

* Findmypast: Genealogy Secrets in Old Photographs - Findmypast Live 1 May 2020 | Findmypast

* Genealogy Adventures Live: S03 E28 Genealogy Adventures Live: African American Genealogy with LaBrenda Garrett Nelson

* GeneaVlogger: Update! Identifying People in Old Film - 1911 A Trip Through New York City (VLOG #44)

* Lisa Lisson: How Joanna Gaines Makes Me A Better Genealogy Researcher

* Lisa Lisson: WHY YOU ARE NOT FINDING YOUR ANCESTOR'S MARRIAGE RECORD | Tips To Find the Genealogy Clues

* MyHeritage: 75 Years After Mother and Child Separated at Auschwitz, Their Families Reunite Thanks to MyHeritage

* MyHeritage: MyHeritage Ask The Expert - Different Views of Your Family Tree

* WikiTree: WikiTree Livecast (6 June 2020) - Weekly Recap + Tree Chat

6) Genealogy Bargains:

* Genealogy Bargains - Tuesday, June 9th 2020

7) Did you miss the last Genealogy News Bytes - 5 June 2020 ?

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Tombstone Tuesday -- Humphrey White (1757-1814) in Acotes Hill Cemetery, Glocester, R.I.

I have collected a number of gravestone photographs from my own camera and from Find A Grave memorials over many years, and thought I would share them one at a time for Tombstone Tuesday.

Here is the gravestone of my 4th great-grandfather, Humphrey White (1757-1814) in Acotes Hill Cemetery in Glocaster, Rhode Island:

The inscription says:

Humphrey White

1757-1814

The source citation for this gravestone is:

Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 9 June 2020), memorial page for Humphrey White (1757–1814), Find a Grave Memorial no. 80231179, citing Acotes Hill Cemetery, Glocester, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA ; Maintained by Bobbi Lynn (contributor 47031746) .

Thank you to Bobbi Lynn for creating this Find A Grave memorial and to Bobbi for taking the photograph.

It looks like this Humphrey White stone has been broken and repaired.

Humphrey and Sibel (Kirby) White are my 4th great-grandparents. Humphrey White (1757-1814) was the son of Jonathan and Abigail (Wing) White of Dartmouth, Massachusetts. He married Sibel Kirby (1764-1848) in 1786 in Dartmouth, Mass. They had 10 children including Jonathan White (1803-1850), my 3rd great-grandfather, who married Miranda Wade (1804-1850).

A biographical sketch for Humphrey White is in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 73: #88 Humphrey White (1757-1814).

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Copyright (c) 2020, Randall J. Seaver

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