My Trails into the Past

I checked my genealogy database calendar and found the following birthday and marriage anniversaries. I wondered how they celebrated their birthdays and marriages on Christmas. Or was Christmas the more important day? I always found it interesting that couples married on Christmas. Perhaps it was because family was altogether to help them celebrate. Or perhaps it was a day when they didn’t have to work and had time to have a wedding. My Dad’s side: Maria Catharine Trösster was born 25 December 1813 in Oberhundem, Westfalen.   Maria is my 2nd great grandmother. She was the daughter of John Joseph Trösster and Maria Elisabeth Döbener , and married Joseph Henrich Horoch 2 Aug 1825. My Mom’s side: J ohn Stubbs Stackhouse was born 25 December 1854 in Copiah County, Mississippi.   John Stubbs Stackhouse married Laura Ellen Coor 29 Apr 1886, who was the daughter of Daniel K. Coor & Susan Allen .  Laura is my first cousin 4 times removed. John Samuel ...

The Christmas season would not begin until the Burl Ives "Twelve Days of Christmas" record was played. I cannot imagine anyone else singing that song. That record was played to death; literally. So I was saddened when I didn't have one to play to my girls. A co-worker was kind enough to find the album on eBay, so now I begin our Christmas caroling season with good ole Burl Ives. You can hear him sing here . Here are the lyrics. I've only included the last verse to keep this post short. On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me: 12 Drummers Drumming 11 Pipers Piping 10 Lords a Leaping 9 Ladies Dancing 8 Maids a Milking 7 Swans a Swimming 6 Geese a Laying 5 Golden Rings 4 Calling Birds 3 French Hens 2 Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree Copyright © 2014 by Lisa Suzanne Gorrell, My Trails into the Past. All Rights Reserved.

I found the newspaper item where Jacob Bishop requested the partitioning of a piece of property in Huntington Township, Ross County, Ohio, and listed all of the children and heirs of Henry Bishop and Catherine Schreyer. [1]   You can find that post here . Then on 31 May 1838, another item was found in the Scioto Gazette . [2] It was a notice of the public sale at the Courthouse in Chillicothe of the same tract of land from the previous notice.  Here is the transcription. Ross Common Pleas. Scioto (Chillicothe Ohio) Gazette , 31 May 1838, p 3 Jacob Bishop,                    }        vs.                                }  Petition for Partition . David Bishop and others   } By virtue of an order made in the above cause at the April Term...

It's been a while since I posted. I am currently working on my husband's Bishop line. I found this notice in the Scioto Gazette , a newspaper published from 1835 to 1854 in Chillicothe, Ohio, which is in Ross County. [1] Family names that were searched in this newspaper were GORRELL, SHOTTS, and BISHOP. What brought my attention to this article was Mary Shotts’ name along with her husband, Daniel Shotts. These are my husband’s paternal 2nd great-grandparents. Mary’s maiden name was Bishop. Notice. “Notice,” Scioto Gazette, 18 Jan 1838, p3, GenealogyBank.com ( http://www.genealogybank.com  : 17 Nov 2014). JACOB BISHOP, of Ross county, Ohio, hereby gives notice To David Bishop, who resides in Indiana, Amos Bishop, Mary Shotts, late Mary Bishop, and her husband, Daniel Shotts, Eliza Toops, late Eliza Bishop, and her husband Tho- mas Toops, and Catharine Bishop, all of whom reside in Ross county, Ohio; Daniel Bishop who resides in Ross county, Ro- bert Bis...

Randy Seaver over at Genea-musings has another assignment for Saturday Night Genealogy Fun. Tonight, it's to create a timeline for one our our ancestors. I used RootsMagic software to create my timeline of my second great-grandfather, Vincent Sievert. Because I have added various "facts" to the software, my timeline has quite a few events of his life. The small superscript numbers at the end of each line refer to the sources. I elected to have them be endnotes and they are here: I have sources for most of the events in his life once he arrived in the United States in 1852. What I don't have are original sources for his birth and marriage. Between 1860 and his death, I have quite a few events about his life, but the time between their ship arrival and the 1860 census is unknown as well. Someday I'd like to search for local Joliet, Illinois newspapers. I'll probably have to visit Joliet and read the microfilmed versions myself. Copyright © 2014 by...

Raymond Joseph Hork was the eighth child of John Anton Hork and Julia Ann Sievert. He was born on 11 Nov 1889 in Stuart, Guthrie Co, Iowa. [1] The family had lived there at least since 31 Oct 1886, when his next oldest brother, Anthony was born. [2] By the 1890’s, they were living in Oregon, where the next sibling, Urselle was born. [3] Raymond lived a short life, dying on 1 Dec 1917. [4]    He was only 28 years old. So what happened in his short life? Two census records give some minute detail. The family finally settled for good in Hamilton, Ravalli County, Montana, where they were found in the 1900 census. [5] His father was a tailor and they were renters. Raymond was listed as being born Nov 1890 and 9 years old. In 1910, he was a 21 year old, living at home with his widowed mother, Julia, three brothers, Albert, Tony, and Cyril, and two sisters, Carrie and Urselle. Raymond was a printer. Newspaper accounts give some information. He was invited to children’s part...

Pehr Alfred Andersson Lundquist was my husband’s maternal great grandfather. He was born in Sweden 19 May 1856 in Wädbäcken, Grolanda, Skaraborg to Anders Eliasson and Cajsa Pehrsdotter. [1] Last week’s 52 Ancestors post on Anders Eliasson is here . Pehr Alfred immigrated to America when he was just 9 years old, arriving with his family in New York on 9 Jul 1866 aboard the City of Manchester . [2]  Once in America, the family's surname became Lundquist. By 1870, he was the only child still living with his parents on a farm in Jefferson County, Iowa. [3] He purchased 80 acres of land on 11 Oct 1883 in Montgomery County, Iowa from the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company for $1120. [4] The railroads only needed the land wide enough to lay their tracks and build a few stations and yards, so then sold the excess land to farmers. Pehr Alfred married Mathilda Lovisa Ericksdotter-Holm on 15 Mar 1892 in Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa. [5] Their marriage application...