Surname Saturday : Generation Nine

For this edition of Surname Saturday, I'm going to list generation nine of my family tree in hopes of making a connection. Many times people find my blog through Google searches, and I'm hoping to reach more cousins.  If you are related to any of these families, I'd love to hear from you.

Generations 1 through 6
Generation 7
Generation 8

Generation 9
272. JESSE CHEW : born 25 Nov 1738 in Gloucester Co., New Jersey; married 21 Oct 1760 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania; died 31 Jan 1812 in Gloucester Co., New Jersey.
273. MARY RICHARDS : born 18 Dec 1738 in New Jersey; died 7 May 1816 in New Jersey.
280. CORNWELL WOOLSTON : born 1738 in Burlington Co., New Jersey; married Apr 1762 in Burlington Co., New Jersey; died 22 May 1814 in Northampton, Burlington Co., New Jersey.
281. HANNAH ARISON : born 1739-1744 in Burlington Co., New Jersey; died 28 Oct 1788 in Burlington Co., New Jersey.
282. ABEL BRIGGS : born circa 1740 New Jersey; married 25 Jan 1773 in Burlington Co., New Jersey; died before 1839 Burlington Co., New Jersey.
283. LETTICE WOOLSTON : born 15 Oct 1752 in Burlington Co., New Jersey; died 11 Dec 1787 in Burlington Co., New Jersey.
284. SAMUEL WOOLSTON : born 18 Apr 1719 in Burlington Co., New Jersey; married 25 Dec 1749 in Mt. Holly, Burlington Co., New Jersey; died 4 Aug 1773 in Burlington Co., New Jersey.
285. CYLLANIA WOOLSTON : born 13 Feb 1726 in Burlington Co., New Jersey; died 30 Dec 1772 in Burlington Co., New Jersey.
286. ROBERT HAINES : born 17 Dec 1741 in Burlington Co., New Jersey; married 17 May 1766 in Burlington Co., New Jersey; died 21 Jun 1821 in Burlington Co., New Jersey.
287. RACHEL VENICOMB : born circa 1742; died 30 May 1817 in Burlington Co., New Jersey.
292. LEONARD SABEL : born circa 1725; died 1794 Baltimore Co., Maryland.
300. GEORGE KALTENREUTTER : born Waldmoor, Zweibrücken.
301. ANNA URSULA HOLTZBAUM : born Sintzheim, Palatine.
312. JOSEPH MAXSON : born 10 Mar 1692 in Westerly, Rhode Island; married circa 1715; died 1747 Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co., New Jersey.
313. BETHIA MAXSON : born 19 Oct 1693 in Westerly, Rhode Island; died 1747 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co., New Jersey.
314. THOMAS WILLIAM DAVIS : born 15 May 1719 in Westerly, Rhode Island; married 8 Dec 1737 in Westerly, Rhode Island; died 15 Jul 1791 in White Day Creek, Monongalia Co., Virginia (West Virginia).
315. TACY CRANDALL : born circa 1720 in Westerly, Rhode Island; died 1 Jun 1795 in White Day Creek, Monongalia Co., Virginia (West Virginia).
316. (?) AMOS SUTTON : born 16 Jul 1723 in Piscataway, Middlesex Co., New Jersey.
317. JANE CLAWSON : born bef 3 Apr 1728 in Basking Ridge, Somerset Co., New Jersey; died after 1735 in Greene Co., Pennsylvania.
318. BENJAMIN APPLEGATE.
319. REBECCA WALL.
336. ULRICH SCHERCH : born 20 Aug 1704 in Sumiswald, Canton Bern, Switzerland; died Oct 1763 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania.
337. ANNA SWARR : born 1720; died 1810.
338. JACOB ERB : born 11 Apr 1724 in Canton Bern, Switzerland; died 20 Dec 1810 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania.
339. MAGDALENE SCHRANTZ : born 1731; died 1809.
344. JOHAN MICHEL JACOBS : born circa 1742 in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; married 18 Jul 1771 in Dover Twp., York Co., Pennsylvania; died before 1790 in Dover Twp., York Co., Pennsylvania.
345. MARIA CATHERINE CHERDRON : born bef 16 Feb 1730 in Otterberg, Bayern; died after 1790 in Dover Twp., York Co., Pennsylvania.
348. CHARLES BYERS : born circa 1730; married circa 1759; died Aug 1799 in York Co., Pennsylvania.
349. ELIZABETH ________ : born in 1739; died 20 Mar 1832 in Franklin Twp., York Co., Pennsylvania.
350. JACOB STICKEL : born bef 21 Jan 1742 in Eginhausen, Württemberg; married circa 1765 in Warrington Twp., York Co., Pennsylvania; died 2 Jan 1796 in Warrington Twp., York Co., Pennsylvania.
351. ANNA MARIA ________ : born 22 Sep 1742; died 13 Apr 1820 in Warrington Twp., York Co., Pennsylvania.
368. SAMUEL MOULTON : born 19 Oct 1710.
369. PHOEBE ________ : born circa 1730.
370. ISRAEL HURLBUT : born bef 18 May 1740 in Woodbury, Connecticut; married before 1762; died Vermont.
371. JERUSHA ________ : born circa 1740.
372. EDWARD FINEL : born 1747-48 in Granville, Massachusetts.
373. SARAH GREEN : born 30 Jan 1730/1 in Shrewsbury, Worchester Co., Massachusetts; died 8 Feb 1811 in Granville, Massachusetts.
374. JONATHAN MORGAN : born 6 Jul 1711 in Springfield, Massachusetts; died 1 Jan 1796.
375. RUTH MILLER : born 18 Feb 1718/19.
376. JOHN PHILBRICK : born 26 May 1712 in Hampton, Province of New Hampshire; married 26 Dec 1734 in Hampton Falls, Province of New Hampshire; died 16 Feb 1748 in Hampton Falls, Province of New Hampshire.
377. JUDITH SANBORN : born 8 Jan 1715 in Hampton Falls, Province of New Hampshire.
378. SAMUEL JEWETT : born 30 Dec 1725 in Bradford, Massachusetts; died 20 Dec 1791 in Hollis, New Hampshire.
379. SARAH ________ .
382. NOAH WORCESTER : born 4 Oct 1735 in Sandwich, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts; married 22 Feb 1757; died Hollis, New Hampshire.
383. LYDIA TAYLOR : born 11 Oct 1733; died 6 Jul 1772.
384. JOHN WRIGHT : born bef 13 Apr 1755 in Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died 15 Oct 1810 in Brown Co.,Ohio.
385. SARAH FLEMING
386. OBADIAH ROBINS 
387. SUSANNAH HODGKINS : born circa 1756 in Pennsylvania; died before 1814 in Ohio.
388. ROBERT WARDLAW : born circa 1745 in Augusta Co., Virginia; married circa 1768; died 28 May 1802 in Pleasant Twp., Clermont Co., Northwest Territory (Ohio).
389. JANET DOWNEY : born circa 1750; died 4 Oct 1817 in Brown Co., Ohio.
390. SAMUEL NESBIT : born 1754 in Scotland; died bef Jul 1814 in Harrison Co., Kentucky.
391. MARY BERRY : born 1748 in Virginia; died 28 Oct 1828 in Livonia, Washington Co., Indiana.
392. JOHN HEATON : born 1716 Wrentham, Massachusetts; died 1799.
393. ABIGAIL PAXTON : died circa 1814.
396. WILLIAM JACOBS : born 1765 in Virginia; married 1787 in Morgantown, Virginia (West Virgina); died 1841 in Brown Co., Ohio.
397. SIBELL LITTELL : born 5 May 1769 in Virginia; died 9 Sep 1853 in Adams Co., Ohio.
412. DANIEL HECK : born 1751 in Bracken Co., Kentucky; married 1772; died March 1817 in Bracken Co., Kentucky.
413. CATHERINE ________ : born in 1752.
414. NICHOLAS KIMMER : born circa 1763 in Berks Co., Pennsylvania; married 27 Sep 1784 in Berks Co., Pennsylvania; died 19 Oct 1841 in Fayette Co., Indiana.
415. SARAH FAYLER
416. SETH PIERCE : born 12 Sep 1744 in Woburn, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; married 17 Apr 1767; died 1835 in Homer, Cortland Co., New York.
417. BETHIAH FIELD : born 8 Apr 1746 in Stafford, Windham Co., Connecticut; died 18 Sep 1807.
418. FRANCIS SMALLEY : born circa 1744; married 17 Nov 1767 in Norwich, Province of New Hampshire; died after 1811 in Norwich, Windsor Co., Vermont.
419. SARAH HUTCHINSON
420. JOHN PAGE
424. NICHOLAS GROENENDYKE : born 20 Mar 1749 in Kingston, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; died Feb 1808.
426. PIETER ANTONIDES : born 31 Jul 1726 in Marlboro, New Jersey; married 10 Nov 1750; died 27 Apr 1796 in Flatbush,New York.
427. CATHERINE VANDERVEER : born 11 Aug 1732; died 8 May 1796.
432. GEORGE PENISTEN : born circa 1740.
433. MARY McCULLY : born circa 1740 in New Jersey.
440. RICHARD ALDERMAN 
452. MAHLON WILLSON : born 20 Aug 1760 in Hunterdon Co., New Jersey; married 11 Jun 1789 in Hunterdon Co., New Jersey; died 11 Feb 1852 in Sussex Co., New Jersey
464. JOHN BEALS : born 9 Mar 1763 in Guilford Co., North Carolina; married 23 Oct 1748 in Guilford Co., North Carolina; died 5 Jul 1848 in Hamilton Co., Indiana.
465. MARY CARTER : born 17 May 1767 in Chester Co., Pennsylvania; died 11 Oct 1799 in Grayson Co., Virginia.
466. ANDREW CHEW : born 1770 in Spotsylvania Co., Virginia; married 26 Apr 1797 in Mason Co., Kentucky; died 1827 Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio.
467. ANNA MARIE BARTHUS : born 1777 in Virginia; died after 1860 Hamilton Co., Indiana.
468. CHARLES DAVIS : born 4 Feb 1771 in Chatham Co., North Carolina; married 17 Oct 1793 in Chatham Co., North Carolina; died 24 Feb 1850 in Randolph Co., North Carolina.
469. HANNAH PIGGOTT : born 9 Jul 1774 in Orange Co., North Carolina; died 25 Oct 1812 in Randolph Co., North Carolina.
470. ABNER BARKER : born 11 Aug 1768 in Guilford Co., North Carolina; married 26 May 1791 in Guilford Co., North Carolina
471. LYDIA OSBORNE : born 24 Jan 1767 in Guilford Co., North Carolina
474. ANTHONY RAINS : born 13 Oct 1757 in Caroline Co., Virginia; married 2 Mar 1787 in Randolph Co., North Carolina; died 25 Mar 1837 in Randolph Co., North Carolina.
475. NANCY GRAHAM : born 10 Jul 1760.
476. AARON MILLS : born 22 Dec 1749 in Virginia; married 18 Jan 1774 in Guilford Co., North Carolina; died 15 Dec 1794 in Guilford Co., Virginia.
477. CHARITY MENDENHALL : born 19 Jan 1754 in Guilford Co., Virginia; died 19 Feb 1836 in North Carolina.
478. WILLIAM WOODWARD : born 29 May 1768 in Guilford Co., North Carolina; married 6 Nov 1788 in Guilford Co., North Carolina; died 17 Oct 1812 in Jefferson Co., Tennessee.
479. ELIZABETH MILLIKAN : born 8 Apr 1769.
502. JAMES PUTMAN : born circa 1777 Culpepper Co., Virginia; married 29 Aug 1799 in Bourbon Co., Kentucky; died Aug 1854 in Monroe Co., Indiana.
503. ELIZABETH KENDRICK : died before 1849 in Monroe Co., Indiana.
504. JACOB SWAFFORD : born 1762 in Greenville, South Carolina; married in 1790; died 1845 in Bledsoe Co., Tennessee.
505. SARAH LARKIN : born circa 1772 in Virginia; died 1852 in McMinn Co., Tennessee.
508. ALEXANDER CROCKETT : born circa 1760; married 21 Mar 1793 in Jefferson Co., Tennessee; died 15 Sep 1816 in Anderson Co., Tennessee.
509. ELIZABETH WATKINS : born 1775 in Pennsylvania; died 1855 in Newton Co., Missouri.
510. CONRAD NOSLER : born circa 1770; married 2 Jun 1801 in Montgomery Co., Virginia; died 1838 Owen Co., Indiana.
511. SARAH PAINS : born circa 1782 in Virginia; died after 1870 in Owen Co., Indiana.



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Halloween - Grandparents as Sonny and Cher, 1966

"Sonny & Cher" , 1966
William Lee & Bonnie Mae (Lambertson) Wright

While scanning some photos from my mom's album, I came across this Halloween photo of my maternal grandparents getting ready to head out to a party at the Alexandria Elks.

Postal Letter Sorter

My maternal grandfather, William Lee "Johnny Bill" Wright (1919-1973) worked for the post office.  My mom took these pictures at the Pony Express Museum because they reminded her of a story about her dad:

I took these pictures at the Pony Express Museum because they reminded me of the clerk letter sorter that my dad had to use.  It was about half this size.  He had a long box of cards and he would practice sorting the cards into the pigeon holes.  He had to take a test yearly to see how fast he could sort the mail and not make a mistake.  I think he was given about 100 letters and could only miss less than 5? in about a minute.  I thought you would like this information.

Mom

Young Family Reunion, 1911

Steuben Republican
Angola, Indiana
August 16, 1911, page 6

Found this mention of the Young family reunion at Newspapers.com from 1911. This was the 10th annual reunion of the family.  I recognize many of the names, but there are quite a few that I need to research to see how they fit into the family.

YOUNG REUNION

The tenth annual meeting of the Young families was held at the pleasant home of George Straw at Clearlake, Indiana, August 10, 1911.  All nature seemed to aid in the pleasure of the visits, bathing, boating and other sports for the young, and the cheerful greetings of the older ones filled up the forenoon, and in the afternoon business, speeches, etc.  There were six deaths and eight births during last year.  The next reunion will be held at Carey, Ohio, about the 15th of August, 1912.

The following persons gave interesting talks: L.I.C. Young, Rev. Phillip Lemasters, Miles Mulholand, Rev. G.W. Staley, Chauncey Young, Mary J. Young, S.D. Young, L.W. Lemasters, Sarah Staley and J.W. Young.  There were fifty-one who came from a distance: Mrs. Jennie Brown, of Chattanooga, Tenn.; Mrs. Blanche Foster and daughter, of Unity, Maine; S.D. Young and wife, Rev. G.W. Staley and wife, J.W. Young, wife and son. Grant Shaley, wife and daughter, Mrs. Dill and daughter and Bessie Murphy of Anna, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Jas. G. Young and daughter, of Belle Center, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Miles Mulholland and daughter, Mrs. E. Brashears and Mrs. Essie Rangers, of Carey, Ohio; W.F. Huber and wife, V.D. Huber, wife and daughter and son, of Green Springs, Ohio; Mrs. Delilah Young, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Cole and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. James Smith and Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Hutchins, of Fremont, Ohio; Rev. Phillip Lemasters of Spencerville, Ohio; Mrs. Edith Meinholtz and daughter, of Oklahoma; L.W. Lemasters of Jay county, Indiana; Geo. Ralston and family, (by auto) from Sherwood, Michigan.  There were 103 enjoyed a very satisfying dinner of all good things to tickle the pallet, also ice cream and cake at time of dispersing.

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Of those listed in this announcement, the L.W. Lemasters listed is my paternal 2nd-great grandfather, Luman Walker Lemasters Jr. (1842-1931), son of Rev. Luman Walker and Nancy (Young) Lemasters.  The Rev. Phillip Lemasters (1836-1915)  listed is his brother.  The Edith Meinholtz of Oklahoma is Edith Mabel (LeMasters) Meinholtz (1879-1949), daughter of Luman Walker and Mary Keziah (Chew) LeMasters.  The daughter mentioned would be Mary Wilhelmina Meinholtz (1911-1935), who had just been born in February of 1911, one of the births mentioned during the year.

The L.I.C. Young who gave a talk was Lewis I. Charles Young (1837-   ) who later wrote a genealogy of the Young family.  He was the son of Charles and Nancy (Scothorn) Young.

The Miles Mulholland who gave a talk was the son of Hugh and Mary (Young) Mulholland.  This Mary Young was the daughter of Phillip and Nancy Ann (McLane) Young.

The members of the Staley family are not yet in my database, but may be descendants of Catherine Young and John Staley.  Catherine (1813-1898) was the daughter of Phillip and Nancy Ann (McLane) Young.

I have a lot more research to do on this rather extensive family, but it was nice to find mention of the attendees at this family reunion.

Goofing with the Grandkids

Time sure does have a way of getting away from you when you least expect it, and all my good intentions of keeping up with blog posts on family history have been for naught.  But life is more than just genealogy, so today I want to share a couple of pictures of the grandkids.

If only they lived closer we could see each other more, but I'm grateful for the time I do have.  Last weekend, Eileen and I went down and spent some time with Corinne and the kids and had a good time.  Of course, grandpa spoiled them all with some ice cream after a long shopping trip.

Miss Piper enjoyed taking advantage of my phone and tried to make her own selfies while we were waiting on mom to pick out some shoes at Shoe Carnival.

Baby Brayden was happy as could be and cute as a button.  At only 3 months, he's really growing - he'll be a big boy!

Miss Piper found a way to keep herself entertained while we are the thrift store. She has a very good imagination!

Love these two and hope that someday they will pick up the family history research bug!  In the meantime, will just let them be adorable kids.