Seavers in the News - William Earl Seaver Dies in 1955 in Los Angeles, California

  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 Kokomo [Ind.] Tribune newspaper dated 2 March 1955:

The transcription of the article is:

"WILLIAM EARL SEAVER

"William Earl Seaver, 80, former Clay Township trustee, died Tuesday at Los Angeles, Calif., where he had lived the last four years, at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Mazie Davis.  He had been in good health an death came unexpectedly.

"Mr. Seaver was born June 7, 1874, in Switzerland County, Ind., the son of Greenberg and Madaline (Douglas) Seaver.  He came to Howard County as a young man and spent most of his life farming in Clay township, retiring 0 years ago.  For 16 years he served as trustee of Clay Township.

"In 1897 he married Miss Cora Lenora Bell.  She survives with one son, Edgar Seaver of Kokomo and two daughters, Mrs. Mary Kerschner of El Paso, Tex., and Mrs. Davies at whose home he died.

"He leaves three grandchildren, one great grandchild, a brother, Jake Seaver of Reynolds, Ill., and several nephews and nieces.

"The body will be returned to Kokomo and funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Fenn Funeral Home.  Friends may call there after 6 p.m. Thursday.  Burial will be in the Galveston Cemetery."

The source citation is:

"William Earl Seaver," The Kokomo [Ind.] Tribune newspaper, Wednesday, 2 March 1955, page 30, column 4, William Earl Seaver obituary;  Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 19 August 2021).

This obituary provides the name, death date and place, birth date and place, parents names, spouse's name, children's names and siblings names, plus limited information about his life's work.

William Earl Seaver (1874-1955) was born on 7 June 1874 in Patriot, Switzerland County, Indiana, the son of Greenberry McKinsey and Madeline (Douglas) Seaver.  He died 1 March 1955 in Los Angeles.  He married Cora Lenore Bell (1872-1961) on 10 April 1897 in Kokomo, Howard County, Indiana.  They had three children:

*  Mazie Bell Seaver (1898-1987), married 1920 Harry A. Davies (1895-1953).

*  Mary Madeline Seaver (1906-1994), married (1) 1928 Lester Quinton Harness (1901-1949); (2) Richard Ernest Kerschner (1904-1971).

*  Edgar Earl Seaver (1909-1997), married 1947 Lela May Long (1918-1987).

I am not related, as far as I know, to William Earl Seaver.  His Seaver line goes back to German immigrant Henry Seaver (1743-1810), who settled in Virginia in about 1770.

There are over 10,000 Seaver "stories" in my family tree - and this was one of them.   Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and sometimes a person has a lifetime of working hard and serving his community. I am glad that I can honor William Earl Seaver today.  

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

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Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1736 Death Entry For Edward Harrington (1669-1736) of Waltham, Massachusetts

  It's Treasure Chest Thursday - 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 1736 Death entry for Edward Harrington in the Waltham, Massachusetts vital records book:

The marriage entry is the 11th entry in the Harrington listings:

The transcription of this record is:

"[HARRINGTON] Edward, Jan. 21, 1736, in 68th y. G.R."

The source citation for this record is:

Vital records of Waltham, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New-England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904), Deaths, page 270, Edward Harrington entry, 21 January 1736.

This is an entry in a published Watertown vital record book.  It is a Derivative Source with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the death of Edward Herrington on 21 January 1736 in Waltham, Massachusetts.  

   

Edward Harrington (1669-1736) married Mary Ockington (1669-1725) in 1692 in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony.  They had nine children between 1693 and 1711, all recorded in Watertown.

Edward and Mary (Ockington) Harrington  are my 7th great-grandparents, through their daughter Mary Harrington (1693-1774) who married  Joseph Grout (1683-1758) in 1717.

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One More Common Ancestor for an FTDNA Match Found!

 Descendancy research will solve many DNA Match problems, but usually it has to find living descendants of the common ancestor.  That presents a problem because no online family trees show living descendants.  

I solved one more common ancestor problem today because of my descendancy research.  Here is a description of it so that I can protect living persons (using anonymized initials):

1)  FamilyTreeDNA improved its matching algorithms, eliminated under-6 cM segments, and changed their website look and feel.  See https://blog.familytreedna.com/updates-to-family-finder-matching-and-chromosome-painter/.  

2)  In working in FTDNA today, I found that the top autosomal DNA match was a person  ABC, with 67 cM.  Hmm, I wondered who else on my match list he was ICW (In Common With), so I clicked on that and the top match was DEF, who was #2 on my list at 61 cM (and one of the few FTDNA matches that I know a common ancestor for).  I match ABC with 17 cM on chromosome 8, 34 cM on chromosome 11, and 16 cM on chromosome 20.  I match DEF with 19 cM on chromosome 2, 32 cM on chromosome 6, and 10 cM on chromosome 20.  ABC and DEF match me on chromosome 20 in essentially the same location.  Here is the FTDNA chromosome map with ABC (in blue) and DEF (in red):

3)  I know from earlier research that DEF's common ancestors with me were my 2nd great-grandparents, James Richman and Hannah Rich who migrated from Wiltshire to New England in 1856.  I figured it was likely that these were the 2nd great-grandparents of ABC also.  ABC had a 4 person tree on FTDNA with everyone but him private, so that was no help.

4)  Over the past several years, I have added many descendants of my 4th great-grandparents to my RootsMagic family tree using classical genealogy research, and really worked hard on the Richman/Richmond and Rich families.

5)  I looked in my RootsMagic file to see if I could find a descendant of my 2nd great-grandparents with the surname C and easily found BAC and his wife.  Could that be ABC's parents?

6)  I looked at the Web Hints for BAC and saw that he had a Newspapers.com obituary, so I clicked through and saw that his obituary listed six children, and the first one was ABC.  Cool!

7)  A Google search for ABC found a professional biography, some people finder links, a birth date and birth place, an address, a phone number, and more.  

In summary, I solved a DNA match problem, can add ABC to my chromosome painting on DNA Painter, and found six more living 3rd cousins!  Descendancy research works!  Chromosome browsers help!

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Taking Papa Lee to Lunch at Rockaway Beach -- Post 681 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

  I can't help it, I can't do a wordless post! This is one of my favorite photographs:  

This photograph was taken in Rockaway Beach, California, just south of San Francisco on the Pacific Ocean, in August 2001. 

This is my wife Linda (at age 58) and her father Lee Leland (age 90) going into Nick's Seafood Restaurant right on the beach.  Every time we visited Papa Lee in San Francisco, and several times when we visited him at his care facility in San Jose, we drove to Nick's on a weekday for lunch.  The whole family went when Linda and Paul were children and teenagers.  It was one of their favorite restaurants.  The food was excellent, and the staff greeted us like old friends every visit.

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Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 17 August 2021

Where has this feature been?  On hiatus as I dealt with my wife's hip fracture and ensuing hospital and care facility issues.  I'm sorry for the delay...

Welcome to Genealogy News and Education 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 since the last issue.    

1)  News Articles:

*  New season of Finding Your Roots begins January 2022

*   MyHeritage DNA Helped Me Find My Real Grandfather

2)  New or Updated Record Collections:

*  Added and Updated FamilySearch.org Record Collections - Week of 7 to 13 August 2021

*  FamilySearch New and Updated Collections – August 1-15, 2021

*  Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 7 to 13 August 2021

*  Findmypast Friday: New British Army, English Parish, and Newspaper Records

*  Over Half A Million New Tithe Plots Added to Map Explorer, with Maps!

3)  Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes

*  Conference Keeper Calendar

4)  Genealogy Education - Seminars, Webinars and Online Classes (times are US Pacific):

*  GeneaWebinars Calendar

*  Family History Library Class Calendar - August 2021

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 17 August, 5 p.m.:  Standards for Genealogical Documentation, by Thomas W. Jones

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 18 August, 11 a.m.:  Using Zotero to Organize and Annotate Your Family History Research, by Colleen Robledo Greene

*  Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Tuesday, 17 August, 5 p.m.:  Early Ontario Research, by Janice Nickerson

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts, by Bernice Bennett

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar: New tools for DNA Matches research, by Ran Snir

*  Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Introduction to Researching Your Mississippi Ancestors, by Angela Walton-Raji

*   Archived Family Tree Webinar:  Tech Zone:  Write Faster with Word Editing Tips, by Marian Pierre-Louis

5)  Genealogy Education - Podcasts:

*  Genealogy Connection:  #077 - Pat Richley-Erickson, AKA DearMYRTLE

*  Research Like a Pro:  RLP 162: Tracing 19th Century Germans Part 3 

*  Ancestral Findings:  AF-525: Obituaries: A Closer Look at Death Records #2 | Ancestral Findings Podcast

*  Ancestral Findings:  AF-526: Walt Disney an American Icon: His Early Life | Ancestral Findings Podcast

6)  Genealogy Videos (YouTube and Facebook):

*  BYU Family History Library:  Resolving “Data Problem” Errors in FamilySearch Family Tree – Kathryn Grant

*  Cheri Hudson Passey:  GenFriends Genealogy Chat Show: Freedmen's Bureau Records with Bernice Bennett

*  DearMYRTLE:  DearMYRTLE's CensusGenie - Who won't appear in the 1950 census

*  DearMYRTLE:  Mondays with Myrt - 16 Aug 2021

*  Family History Fanatics:  Genetic Genealogy: Clustering DNA Matches - 3 Methods

*  Family History Fanatics:  Do You Like the New Ancestry.com Hinting System? (2021)

*  FamilySearch:  Surprising Discoveries in Australian Births, Deaths, and Marriages

*  Findmypast:  Fridays Live 13 August 2021 | Findmypast

*  Findmypast:  Finding Philadelphia Ancestors | Findmypast

*  Lisa Louise Cooke:  Family History at Home - Find it, identify it, share it!

*  MyHeritage:   Ask The Expert - Family Tree Builder: Advanced Features II

*  MyHeritage:  Take a tour of the MyHeritage Photo Tools with us!

*  WikiTree:  WikiTree Livecast (11 August 2021) - WikiTree Challenge feat Drew Smith

7)  Did you miss the last post in this series -  Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 22 June 2021?

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Carringers in the News -- Helen Carringer Dies in 1982 in Ohio

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

This week's entry is from The Daily Herald [Provo, Utah]  newspaper dated 5 September 1982:

The transcription of this article is:

"Helen Carringer

"AKRON, Ohio (UPI) -- A funeral was Saturday today at the Arnold Funeral Home in Canton for Helen Carringer, a prize-winning reporter and editorial writer for the Akron Beacon Journal, who died Thursday after a short illness.  She was 59.

"Miss Carringer perhaps is best known for her nine years on the education beat for the newspaper.

"In 1972, Miss Carringer was awarded the Ohio Education Association's highest honor, the Doer's Award, for service to education.  She was praised for her understanding of the complex problems facing education.

"In addition, the National Mental Health Association recently selected an August 1981 series on the treatment of the mentally ill, written by Miss Carringer for its top journalism award.

"Beacon Journal associate editor David B. Cooper said Miss Carringer was "a fine writer and reporter who poured enormous energy and dedication into everything she tackled.

"Her analysis of complex state issues in this area was insightful and well respected.  We will miss her professionalism as well as her friendship."

The source citation is:

"Helen Carringer," The Daily Herald [Provo, Utah] newspaper, obituary, Sunday, 5 September 1982, page 4, column 5, Helen Carringer obituary;  Newspapers.com   (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 16 August 2021).

This obituary provides a death date and place, an age, a summary of her professional life, but nothing about her family.

Helen L. Carringer was born 28 May 1923 in Canton, Stark County, Ohio, the daughter of James Clare and Margaret E. (Kammerer) Carringer.  She died 2 September 1982 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio. She did not marry.

I am a 4th cousin one time removed to Helen L. Carringer.  Our common ancestors are my 4th great-grandparents Martin Carringer (1758-1835) and Maria Magdalena Hoax (1768-1851). 

There are hundreds of Carringer "stories" in my family tree - and this was one of them.   Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and sometimes a person has an impressive journalism career  I am glad that I can honor Helen Carringer today.  

You never know when a descendant or relative will find this blog post and learn something about their ancestors or relatives, 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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Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 16 August 2021

 Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week.

1)  Hosted the Chula Vista Genealogical Society Research Group Meeting on Wednesday with 37 in attendance.  I reported on the Ancestry.com Terms and conditions kerfuffle, improvements to the MyHeritage online family tree, the Webtember Family Tree Webinars, and my weekly amanuensis Monday posts.

2)  Transcribed  a deed record in Amanuensis Monday -- 1823 Deed of Benjamin Seaver Selling Land in Westminster, Massachusetts to Isaac Seaver.

3)  AncestryDNA added 70 new DNA matches this past week, with one new ThruLines and  MyHeritage added 20 new DNA matches.   Reviewed the new DNA matches on  AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  Added Notes to 1 more AncestryDNA match with cM values, relationships and known shared ancestors, and added 0 ThruLines to RootsMagic.  

4)  There were several sessions working in the RootsMagic software program to match with and update FamilySearch Family Tree profiles for Seaver families and my ancestral families, with occasional additions to the RootsMagic profiles. I have matched 43,702 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 53).

5)  Used Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and source citations to my RootsMagic profiles.  I now have 64,840  persons in my RootsMagic file (up 58), and 140,995 source citations (up 242).   I TreeShared with my Ancestry Member Tree two times the past week updating 117 profiles, and I resolved 666 Ancestry Hints.  I've fallen behind on the Ancestry Record Hints with 155,140 to be resolved, but I work on them almost daily. 

6)  Wrote 13 Genea-Musings blog posts the past week, of which three were a press release.  The most viewed post the past week was Carringers in the News -- Martin Carringer Dies in 1906 in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania with over 411 views.   

7)  I am still fine here at the Genea-cave, hunkered down and not going out much after Week 74 of COVID-19 isolation.  Linda is at a memory care and skilled nursing facility in Chula Vista 7 miles from home and I visit her for an hour every day.  Daughter Lori and grandson Logan came to visit on Wednesday through Saturday on vacation, and helped decorate Linda's room.  Her new wheelchair was delivered on Friday ad she has been out in the Great Room every day since.  The Padres season continues, and the Padres are now 67-53 (3-4 the past week).  I went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Other than that, it was stay-at-home on the computer doing (mainly) genealogy, plus eating, sleeping, laundry, cleaning, cooking, and a little yard work.

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Amanuensis Monday -- 1823 Deed of Benjamin Seaver Selling Land in Westminster, Massachusetts to Isaac Seaver

 This week's document for transcription is the 1823 land deed record for Benjamin Seaver, yeoman of Westminster, selling land in Westminster, Massachusetts to Isaac Sever, yeoman of Gardner, Massachusetts for $780: 

[Worcester County, Mass. Deeds - Volume 301, Page 153]:

The transcription of this deed is (starting near the top of page 153 (right-hand page of first image):

Know all men by these presents that I Benjamin Seaver of Westminster in the

County of Worcester and Commonwealth of of Massachusetts yeoman for and in consid-

eration of seven hundred and eighty dollars paid me by Isaac Seaver of West-

minster aforesaid yeoman the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge do hereby

give grant sell and convey to the said Isaac Seaver his heirs and assigns a certain

tract and parcel of land lying in the Northerly part of Westminster aforesaid and

bounded as follows viz. beginning at a stake and stones on a town road running

S. 48.20 W. by land of Merari Spaulding forty four rods ten links to a stake and

stones from thence on land of the heirs of Jabez Farebank N. 40 W. ninety two rods

eighteen links to a stake and stones from thence on land of John Jackson and Asa

W. Rand N. 80 E. twenty nine rods to a stake and stones from thence on said

Rand's land N. 11 W. forty six rods thirteen links to a stake and stones from thence on

said Rand's land S. 89 W. eleven rods twelve links to a stake & stones from thence on land

of John Jackson S. 57 W. seven rods and seven links to a stake and stones from thence on land

of Caleb Witherbee N. 2-1/2 W. seven rods six links to a stake and stones from thence by

land of Daniel Howe John Jackson and Hannah Whitney N. 81-1/2 E. eighty two

rods thirteen links to a town road from thence on said town road fifty rods to

the first mentioned bound together with all the privileges and appurtenances

thereunto belonging.   To have and to hold the same to the said Isaac

Seaver his heirs and assigns to his and their use and behoof forever and I do cove-

nant with the said Isaac Seaver his heirs and assigns that I am lawfully seized

in fee of the aforegranted premises that they are free of all incumbrances and

that I will warrant and defend the same to the said Isaac Seaver his heirs and

assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this nineteenth

day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three.

Signed sealed and delivered                                      Benjamin Seaver   {seal}

in presence of                                                            Abigail Seaver       {seal}

Merari Spaulding     }   Worcester ss  April 19'th 1823  Then the sbove named Benjamin

Walter Spaulding     }    Seaver personally appeared and acknowledged the above in-

strument to be his free act and Deed  Before me

                                                              Merari Spaulding     Just of Peace

Rec'd June 28'th 1834 at 9'h 30'm A.M.  Ent'd & Ex'd By Art's Ward, Reg'r.

The source citations for this land record is:

"Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 15 August 2021), Worcester County, "Deeds 1834, vol. 300-301," Volume 301, Page 153 (images 433 of 695), deed of Benjamin Seaver to Isaac Seaver, executed 19 April 1823, recorded 28 June 1834; citing original records in County Courthouses, and on FHL Microfilms.

This deed is for a parcel of land in the northern part of Westminster, Massachusetts with irregular boundaries, one of which is a town road.  This land may have been part of Benjamin Seaver's (1791-1825) inheritance from his father, Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816).  

Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825) of Westminster married Abigail Gates (1797-1867) in 1817, the daughter of Nathan and Abigail (Knowlton) Gates of Gardner.  They had four children.  Isaac Seaver (1802-1870) was Benjamin Seaver's brother who probably lived with Benjamin Seaver's family, and their mother, in 1823, when he turned 21.  After Benjamin died in 1825, and Benjamin and Isaac's mother, Martha (Whitney) Seaver (1764-1832) died in 1832, Abigail (Gates) Seaver married Isaac Seaver (1802-1870) in 1832 as her second husband, and they had two children.  

 Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825) and Abigail Gates (1797-1867) are my 3rd great-grandparents through their son Isaac Seaver (1823-1901).  

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NOTE: Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday." John offers this definition for "amanuensis:"

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

Read other transcriptions for my ancestors in Amanuensis Monday Posts.

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Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 8 to 14 August 2021

 Scores of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.

My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for daily blog prompts or meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.

Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:

*  The Aftermath and The Funeral Cortege by Paul Chiddicks on Old Palace School Bombing.

*  Finding Cousins: About families, death, online trees and DNA by Wayne Shepheard on Discover Genealogy.

*  Works Progress Administration & Genealogy:  Historical Records Survey by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

*  Sometimes You Need to Re-Evaluate by Donna Moughty on Irish Family Roots.

*  Announcing DNA Beginnings - A New Series by Roberta Estes on DNAeXplained - Genetic Genealogy.

*  Which Part of Your Ancestry Ancestry Needs To Be Private? by DiAnn Iamarino on Fortify Your Family Tree.

*  Finding Unknown Biological Ancestors With DNA by History Chick on Genealogical Musings.

*  Research Your 23andMe Relatives by Margaret O'Brien on Data Mining DNA.

* Hiring a Professional Genealogist: Why, What and How by Diane Elder on Family Locket.

*  Decoding Why Ancestors Died by Marian B. Wood on Climbing My Family Tree.

*  Considering the Future of FamilySearch Family history Centers by James Tanner on Genealogy's Star.

Here are pick posts by other geneabloggers this week:

*  Friday's Family History Finds by Linda Stufflebean on Empty Branches on the Family Tree.

*  Friday Fossicking 13 Aug 2021 by Crissouili on That Moment In Time.

* This Week's Creme de la Creme - August 14, 2021  by Gail Dever on Genealogy a la Carte,

Readers are encouraged to go to the blogs listed above and  read their articles, and add the blogs to your Favorites, Feedly, another RSS feed, or email if you like what you read. Please make a comment to them also - all bloggers appreciate feedback on what they write.

Did I miss a great genealogy blog post? Tell me! I currently am reading posts from over 900 genealogy bloggers using Feedly, but I still miss quite a few it seems.

Read past Best of the Genea-Blogs posts here.

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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Three (Or More) Things About a Great-Grandparent

 Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: 

 It's Saturday Night again - 

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music):

1)  Pick a great-grandparent of yours - any one of your eight.  Tell us three (or more) things about him or her.

2)  Tell us in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or on Facebook.  Be sure to leave a comment with a link to your blog post on this post.

Here's mine:

I choose to share about my great-grandfather, Thomas Richmond (1848-1917).  He was my father's mother's father.  Here are my things (I can't do just three!):

*  Thomas was born on 10 June 1848 in Hilperton, Wiltshire, England, and was baptized on 16 June 1848, the son of James and Hannah (Rich) Richman.  He was the oldest of nine children.

*  Thomas came to the United States aboard the British ship Osprey on 14 November 1856, sailing from Bristol, with his mother and siblings.  His father, James, had arrived in the United States in 1855 and the family lived in Burrilville, Rhode Island in 1860.  He had 

*  Thomas Richmond (note the name change!) married on 20 June 1868 in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut to Julia E. White (1848-1913) and they resided in Stonington, Connecticut in 1870, in Killingly, Connecticut in 1880, in Leominster, Massachusetts in 1900, and in Killingly in 1910.  They had 9 children.  Thomas worked in a woolen mill for many years.

*  Thomas Richmond of Killingly, Connecticut became a citizen of the United States on 10 September 1890 at a Superior Court held in Putnam, Windham County before the Hon. S.A. Robinson, Judge. 

*  Thomas Richmond was musically talented - he was the choir director at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Putnam, Connecticut for many years, and there is a plaque honoring him in that church.

*  Thomas Richmond died of pernicious anemia on 9 November 1917 in Clinton, Massachusetts at the home of his eldest daughter, and is buried in Grove Street Cemetery in Putnam, Connecticut.  

*  Thomas Richmond died intestate in Clinton, Worcester County, Massachusetts.  His probate records are in Worcester County Probate Records (Enclosure 65,803B).  Administration of the estate was filed on 18 April 1918 and was granted to son Edwin T. Richmond on 7 May 1918 by the Court.  Edwin T. Richmond, George S. Boynton and James C. Smith, all of Leominster, were bondsmen, with a bond of $700 posted on 16 April 1918.  The heirs-at-law were identified, and an inventory indicated an estate of no real estate at $509.27 in personal property, including bank accounts, a piano and household furniture.

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