Webster Mysteries, continued

I received a response from Rachel Kuehn yesterday. Her records are essentially the same as what’s available online. There were no clues as to the identity of these children’s parents, birth dates or death dates. Of the five children buried in George Webster’s lot, I know for sure that Wilda and the unnamed infant are [...]

NEHGS findings

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register has open access for the Thanksgiving weekend and it’s hard to get on sometimes. They are swamped. I found a muster roll for Capt John King’s Company, August 1, 1775. Oliver Warren of New Salem is listed. I’ll send the images to Jennifer. I think I may have [...]

Updating stuff

I updated my Gedcom files today. The Ancestors page I created on my laptop is different from the last edition. I guess I’ll have to take a good look at the options. I created a new page from GED4WEB too. I noticed that the previous gen2 folder was about 12.5 MB and the new one [...]

Obituary findings

The obituaries from the Morley Library arrived today. They confirmed what I figured out. That got me going on some of the extraneous Gaines lines. I also upgraded to GedWise 6.0 today. Regarding the Gaines obituary. There were two paragraphs in the August 3, 1909 edition of the Painesville Telegraph-Republican, one under Thompson news and [...]

Webster Mysteries

I did some more research on the Webster line last night, trying to fill out the Folsom-Loveland branch. I wonder what happened to Lillie Folsom Loveland Webster. She disappears after the 1900 census. Her daughter Mabel shows up in Painesville and Perry in 1910 but there’s no sign of Lillie. Her first husband, David Loveland, [...]

Webster children

I did a little bit of research on the daughters of Miles Webster last night. I didn’t find much new information. I sent off an e-mail to Rachel Kuehn, the Thompson town clerk, asking for information on the Websters buried in Section 66, Lot 4 of the Maple Grove Cemetery. Aside from George Wallace and [...]

Waiting on Obits

I received several e-mails from the staff genealogist at the Morley library today. She couldn’t find the Willis Webster in question in the obituary card file. She suggested the Chardon library or the ACGS. I’m fairly certain that this Willis was the son of Willis and Mabel. They were living in Painesville in 1925 and [...]

Plummer-Layman-Warren

This morning I began putting a letter and an e-mail together to request three obituaries from the Morley Library – S. Gaines, Elizabeth (Layman) Warren, and Willis Webster (1925). I’ll see what that gets me. I found two Marvin Laymans in the Ohio Deaths, 1958-2000 database on Ancestry. One would approximately match Libby’s date of [...]

Hotchkiss and Gaines

I posted a query about the S. Gaines obituary in the Telegraph. Got a response from Howard Hotchkiss (3C1R) who gave me some additional information. So today I filled out the Hotchkiss line a bit. Since I don’t know when I’ll get up north, I may try sending an e-mail to the staff genealogist at [...]

Harrison correspondence

I got an e-mail from Chris Tonn this morning. She forwarded the information from Jeanine Knight that Jeanine had told me about from her research to South Dakota last year. I’ll need to go over this information and compare it with what I already have. If I use any of it, I will credit Jeanine [...]