Wordless Wednesday

Since I missed this yesterday I am posting a photo of my parents headstone.

~Trish~

Tombstone Tuesday

This is Robert Armstrong McGough born 1 MAY 1854 • Union Parish Louisiana and died 3 OCT 1908 • Farmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana. My GG Grandfather. Son of Joseph McGough and Mary Ann Taylor. The McGough's are from County Down, Ireland as are the Carson's who married into the McGough family,

~Trish~

Sentimental Sunday

Katie Irene Willis and Samuel Willis. Two young children born to George W and Sarah Jane (White) Willis. Katie was born   NOV 1896 • Louisiana  about died about 1901 • Dallas County, Texas. She and Samuel are both listed in 1900 living in Police Jury Ward 5, Ouachita, Louisiana but both have disappeared by 1910. Samuel was born FEB 1899 • Louisiana 
If Katie died in Texas, George and Sarah  must have been visiting someone. I have not found a birth or death record for either one. Sarah lost 3 children who died young.  

Sibling Saturday:

My mother's family. Annie(her mother), Rob (her father), Jay(the oldest), Bud( 2nd), Ruby(3rd), Mary(4th), Betty(5th and my mother), Thelma(6th).

~Trish~

Friday's Faces From the Past

Joseph "Joe Daniel" Hudson (my great grandfather, mom's dad's father)  born 9 NOV 1877 • Farmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana and died 3 MAR 1916 • Farmerville, Union Parish, Louisiana. He was the son of John Thomas Hudson and Susannah Jane Goyne. He was born in eastern Union Parish near Farmerville. On 12 March 1902, Joe Hudson married Mary Elizabeth McGough (Aug 1885 – after 1930), the daughter of Robert Armstrong McGough and Sarah Ann Elizabeth Ward. Joe and Lizzie farmed near Farmerville in 1910. He died in 1916 during a typhoid fever epidemic, along with his younger sister and brother. He and Lizzie had two children, John Robert Hudson (mom's dad) and Thelma Hudson. He was a very good looking young man.  My profile picture is his mother who was also very adorable. 

~Trish~

Treasure Chest Thursday

These were given to me by mom. She made a turkey in this pan every year. She also used it throughout the year for other things. I remember her getting the roaster and this turkey platter at a Five and Dime store when I was young. We shopped for everything there.  She gave me these after she stopped cooking because I was the only one of the kids that would ever use them.  And yes I did. My husband and I use to make the holiday dinners and have my parents over. They enjoyed coming because I was the only one of the girls to to have family gatherings.

~Trish~

Those Places Thursday

While doing research on my father's mother's dad, James Harve Smith born 23 OCT 1879 • Knox County, Tennessee and died 13 JUL 1959 • Clarendon, Donley, Texas I discovered that there were still Smith family living in Stony, Texas. So.... I said to my husband, lets take a little drive. Harve Smith was someone my dad always talked about, aka..."Grandpa Harve". My great grandmother, Josie Mosier had been married to Harve just a short time and they had 3 girls , the oldest being my grandmother, and a infant son who died young. Josie divorced Harve and late re-married to a Funderburg brother of my dad's dad. But trying to locate Harve while doing research has been a hard  hill to climb. Finally I did get a breakthrough and I found that he later had lived in and around the towns of Decatur and Ponder Texas. So we took a drive up there and asked some questions of a lady out in her yard. She made a phone call to one of the Smith's who lived in this tiny area. We were invited to their home. We located this fence along the road going into Stony and took a few pictures. After talking and telling all I knew of my Smith side and getting info and photos of their Smith side, I was told that this fence was on property of another Smith relative. I did not get a chance to stop and talk to these people. The building here was an old store that sat just down the road at one time but was bought by this relative and moved onto his property and he has been adding all these  old saw blades, horseshoes, wheels and whole lot of stuff to it.  Love the old windmill. Love to photograph them.


~Trish~

Wordless Wednesday

My mysterious Great Grandpa, George Washington Willis. Born 10 NOV 1865 • Mississippi and died 5 OCT 1941 • Monroe, Ouachita, Louisiana. Great Grandma Sarah Jane White born 28 AUG 1875 • Winfield, Winn Parish, Louisiana and died 3 MAY 1965 • San Jose, Santa Clara, California.  Married 25 Sept 1894 • Mineola, Wood, Texas. These are my mother's, mother's, parents. Grandpa, your birthplace is unknown for certain because almost every census gives a different state, however, your youngest son's death certificate says Mississippi.  I have four census and they each give a different state! Are you trying to be elusive for me? Supposedly........Sarah had one son prior to her marriage to George out of wedlock. Or so goes the stories that were told to cousins when we were growing up. The story goes that "Granny Willis" met and fell in love with a married man, got pregnant and then he would not leave his wife. So she married George, possibly under protest. They married, had a family. He raised the oldest boy, Jack Brady,  as if he were his own. That's him behind George. We were always told she was mean and spiteful to her husband George so I can only imagine that you  must have been a ball to live with. Anyway many years later and a few great grandchildren later who do genealogy, we find that that was a story that you most likely made up. And little did you  know that in 1910 you  revealed the truth yourself!!! There it is, the census record shows that you  both had had a previous marriage. Granny, how could you lie about it.  I will always be searching the family tree for any clues. And though I have not found the marriage record for either one of the marriages for you or Grandpa Willis, YET, I will not quit. So thank you for telling the truth in 1910 and for not lying to the census taker. As for Grandpa, I will keep digging until I can locate his birthplace and his parents.....

As far as John Wiley "Jack" Brady,  I have tracked down his real father through the U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index. Shows his father as Kelley Brady and his mother as Sarah White.  His birth date and his birth place, Munroe, Ouachita,  Louisiana, match up.

~Trish~

Working on the Smith Family

I have been absent for a while, taking a break. We took an extended trip up North for a while to visit family and since coming back I have been working on my dad's mother's family. My dad would mention "Grandpa Harve" Smith often but being a kid I did not pay attention to the stories. Since coming to Texas I have learned quite a lot about Harve and his family and also visiting the  Krun Jackson Cemetery in  Denton County. His parents, George Washington Smith and Emily Rebecca Barker, both buried in this cemetery along with many other Smith Family, were married in Knox County, Tennessee, where extended family lived many years. There is a story on Find A Grave that George was born on a river boat while his parents were enroute between the two counties on the Ohio River. He was born Mar 1, 1850 in East Tennessee, the oldest child of  six children born to William Smith and Ellen (Meyers) Smith, who, in 1850 are living in Hamilton, Tennessee and in 1860 are in District 7, Hawkins, Tennessee . William's parents were David Smith of Virginia and Elizabeth "Betsy McGill of Tennessee. William's grandparents were (Louther Smith and Barbara Louderback but I have not confirmed the grandparents of  William Smith), all of Hawkins Co., TN.

William married Ellen Myers also of Hawkins Co., TN, but for a short time early in their marriage they lived in Hamilton Co., TN. It appears George and all his siblings were born in  Hawkins County.

According to the 1830 census of Hawkins County, Tn., David H Smith has 2 males under 5, 1 male between 5 and 9, and one 20 thru 29,  2 female under 5 and 1 between 30 and 39 for a total of 7 in this household. So his wife must have been a bit older than him.

In the 1840 census of Hawkins County, he has an older female so it appears that his widowed mother is probably living with them. 1 male under 5, 1 male 30 thru 39, 2 female under 5, 1 female 10 thru 14, 1 1 female 15 thru 19, 1 female 30 thru 39 and 1 female 60 thru 69.

According to the Tennessee Marriages to 1825, David married Betsy McGill 30 Dec 1823in Hawkins County. Then William was born in 1824, which is the one male age 5 thru 10 in the 1830 census, then another son John born 1823, which would be the one male under 5. He had 2 daughters who were born before 1830 and under 5 years and one other who was born between 1830 and 1840. I have not accounted for the females yet. David and Elizabeth are both still alive in 1860 in Hawkins County and son John is living at home with them and possibly a daughter named Nancy.

                                  

1. Will of William PHIPPS - Hawkins Co., TN -...

   genealogytrails.com/tenn/hawkins/willabstracts2.html

In the Hawkins County, Tennessee
Wills

Random Will Abstracts
Hawkins County, Tennessee Marriages and Wills, by Lucy Kate McGhee
Transcribed by, Vickie Bryan 

1..Louther Smith August 13, 1821
Wife - Barbara Smith
Heirs - David Smith

2..Peter Smith October 8, 1808
Executor - John Smith
Heirs - Joshua Smith, Samuel Smith, Able Smith, John Smith 

3.. Samuel Smith September 6, 1798
Wife - Ann Smith
Executors - Samuel Smith and James Law
Heirs - Henry Law, Joseph H. Smith, heirs of Thomas Smith

4.. Alexander Smith August 10, 1842
Executor - Alexander Smith Jr.
Heirs - John Smith, Alexander Smith, Joseph Smith, Elizabeth Hicks and heir, Wm. Smith, George Smith

5.. William Smith May 7, 1805
Wife - Elizabeth Smith
Executor - Samuel Smith
Heirs - Sally Smith, George Smith, Wm. Smith, Joel Smith, Betsy Smith, Peter Smith, John Smith, Samuel Smith

**The marriage of  Louther Smith and Barbery Loudeback is recorded in the abstract of the records of old Linville Creek Baptist Church, beginning on page 48, Rev. John Alderson

*Married June the 28, 1791 in Green Brier County, West Va.*
Just a note from my research on William & Samuel: Samuel Smith is shown on Fold3 as being in Co "B" of the 12th Calvary and on a "recruiting service since 22 Oct 1863" and a "deserter since 29 Feb 1864" and then detached in Leavenworth, Kansas since June 28,1865. His age is 41 as of Oct 7, 1865 which would put his birth at about 1824. The record stated he was charged with desertion and restored to duty without trial but with loss of pay in Oct 1865 in Leavenworth(per letter in his file-41 pages). Shows his residence Carter County, Tenn, married, and nearest living relative as "Nancy" Smith. William, also in Co. "B" died at Camp Gillem Tenn May 28, 1864. His notes say William A not H. His age is 43 in 1863, puts his birth at about 1820. He apparently was captured at Jackson, Miss Aug 6, 1863 and confined at a hospital in Richmond, Va Sept 7-10, 1863. His file 43 pages. ** I have not yet figured where these two fit in  to my lines**

William Penn's Role in getting German's to Come to America

 The German Immigration into Pennsylvania:

   Colonists were needed to found colonies and at 

once every available agency was employed to make these

 new lands profitable to their new owners. 

Government companies were chartered, expeditions

 were authorized, princely land grants were made to

 individuals and each and all of these offered inducements 

to the lower ranks in life, the husbandmen, the 

mechanics and men of all work to enlist themselves

 in these new enterprises. Of course the 
most attractive inducements were held out to set

 this spirit of emigration in motion.

   Scores of small pamphlets of from ten to one hundred

 or more pages each were written, printed and scattered

 throughout almost every country in Europe.

   Allusion had already been made to the crushed,

 oppressed and poverty-stricken character of the

 peasantry in certain parts of Germany, notably in

 the Rhine provinces, 

commonly known as the Palatinate. Religious 

persecutions were carried out against them even more

 relentlessly than the red hand of domestic and 

foreign wars. To a people ready to 

sacrifice and suffer all for conscience sake, the

 persecution by creed was as unbearable as that which

 despoiled them of their homes and their substance.

 Among these people thus affected, 

carnage in the year 1671 and again in 1677. He could

 enter into persecution for conscience the true inwardness

 of the men of the Palatinate, console, soothe and encourage. 

It was William Penn, 

the Quaker, whose religious tenets they found in comparison

 differed little from those held by the followers of 

Menno Simon, which was in itself a strong bond of sympathy.

 Penn's heart went 

out to these resolute but amiable people. Still another bond, 

one of kinship, drew them to him. His mother, 

Margaret Jasper, was a Dutch woman and it has been alleged 

that Penn spoke and wrote in 

Dutch and in German also, although this is not certain. 

    At the period of his travels through Germany, Penn had

 not yet acquired the ownership of Pennsylvania; it came

 four years after his last visit. Naturally, 

one of the first things he undertook 

was to secure colonists for his newly acquired province.

 A writer had referred to the influence exercised by the

 personality of Penn upon the Germans in the Rhine 

provinces in these words: 

"To all of them the news in 1681 that the tall young 

Englishman who four years before had passed through the

 Rhine country, preaching a doctrine of religious life 

not very different from that 

of Menno Simon, was now the proprietor in America of a 

vast region greater than all Bavaria, Wurtemburg and 

Baden together and that he had invited them to come and

 live there, without wars and persecutions, 

under laws which they should share in making such news 

must indeed have roused and stirred many a discouraged 

peasant household."

    Benjamin Furly, an English Separatist, was perhaps 

the principal and most active of these and to him a large

 measure of credit is due for giving direction to the 

rising tide of Teutonic immigration. 

As early as March 10, 1682, he had sold several 5000 acre

 tracts of land to merchants of Crefeld. This was before 

Penn had himself visited his princely domain. In 1683 the

 elder Pastorius, an agent for a number 

of German friends, bought 25,000 acres, and on these, the

 town of Germantown was soon after located. 
   That was the beginning, and thenceforward many other

 agencies were at work to increase the number of German

 immigrants. The Frankfort Land Company did its utmost to

 attract settlers to its lands. 

Such colonists as were already here wrote home attractive

 accounts of the new home they had found in the forests 

of Pennsylvania. 

No one, however, was more industriously engaged in this 

work than Penn himself. As early as 1681, he issued a pamphlet 

giving information concerning his province to such as

 wished "to transport themselves or servants into those

 parts". 
German and Dutch translations were also printed and

 scattered through the Low Countries and Germany. 

In 1682 he sent out in English and German his brief 

account of the Province of Pennsylvania. 

   There can be no manner of doubt that, scattered 

throughout Central and Western Europe in various 

languages, it was a mighty factor in directing 

immigration

 from the Fatherland towards Pennsylvania.

   Then follow his several schemes for the settlement

 of immigrants upon his lands. The amount of lands to be

 allotted to each family; the improvements that will be

 built for them, the stock and farming tools 

that will be supplied, even their seed for the first

 year's harvest; this is followed by the easy terms upon

 which payment may be made, this for those who have the

 means to transport themselves, but no more. 

Still another plan provides for such as are destitute of

 any resources. To each family of such 100 acres are allotted,

 with 15 in hand before starting to provide 

adequately for the journey. 

TIMES FOR MAKING THE VOYAGE: 
   While it was possible for ships to reach and leave 

Philadelphia during every month in the year, except 

occasionally during the inclement season of mid-winter,

 the late winter and autumn months were generally 

chosen for the departure from Europe. Accordingly, found

 the ship arrivals were most numerous in early spring and

 late in the fall. April and May, September, October and 

November witnessed the largest influx of 

immigrants during the year. The Passage was not to be 

set by any man; for ships will be quicker or slower. 

Some have been four months, and some, generally between

 six and nine weeks. 

 The very minuteness with which every detail is given 

indicates the desire to leave no room for misunderstandings.

 He was anxious that there should be no cause for complaint. 

His very frankness must have convinced his 

readers and won them.

 All this became apparent to the new immigrant and this was 

no doubt one of the principal 

reasons why the reports sent back to Germany were almost 

universally favorable, and proved instrumental in keeping up

 the immigration movement so many years.

 The German Immigration into Pennsylvania:

   Swiss-Huguenots, who came over in 1708 or 1709 and located

 themselves in the Pequea Valley, Lancaster county, forming the

 first settlement of Europeans within that County. 

13 some members of that colony almost immediately 

returned to Germany to bring over relatives and friends, 

and between the years 1711 and 1717, and for some years later there 

were large accessions to the colony. 

It was one of the most substantial and successful settlements ever made in 

Pennsylvania. Even then, as in later years, most of the colonists

 came from the Palatinate, "which sent forth her children from 

her burned cities and devastated fields, their faces turned towards the land of promise". 

Just how many Germans landed at the port of Philadelphia prior to the passage 

of the registry law of 1727. is unknown, but the number was undoubtedly large as may be 

inferred from the quotation above from Jonathan Dickinson. It was not until 1707 

however that Germans in considerable numbers began arriving. 

From that time onward the number increased from year to year, and ten 

years later began to attract the attended of the 
Provincial Government. 

   The country seemed to be filling up with Germans, and as a 

result of the alarm that was caused thereby, Governor William 

Keith soon after his arrival, on September 7, 1717, observed to

 the Provincial Council sitting at Philadelphia 

"that great numbers of foreigners from Germany, being imported into this Province 

daily dispersed themselves immediately after landing, without 

producing any Certificates, from where they came from 

or what they were, without making application to himself or 

to any of the magistrates. This practice might be of very 

dangerous consequences, since by the same method any number of

 foreigners from any nation whatever, as well enemies as friends,

 might throw themselves upon us. The Governor, therefore, 

thought it requisite that this matter should be considered, & thus

 ordered that all the masters of vessels who have lately imported

 any of these foreigners be summoned to appear at this Board, 

to render an account of the number and 

"Characters of the Passengers" respectively from Britain; and

 all those who are already landed be required by a Proclamation, 

to be issued for that purpose, to Repair within the space of one 

month to some Magistrate, particularly to the Recorder of this 

City (Philadelphia), to take such Oaths appointed by Law as are necessary 

to give assurances of their being well affected to his Majesty 

and his Government.

   The Provincial Council perhaps never did an act that so much 

deserved the thanks and the gratitude of those of German descent 

in the State of Pennsylvania today as in embodying the 

foregoing views in an Act of the Assembly a few years later. 

It resulted in the registration of the many thousands of German and 

other immigrants, and these ship masters' lists as we find them today in the 

Colonial Records, Rupp's "Thirty Thousand Names", and Volume XVII

 of the Second Series of Pennsylvania Archives are a 

priceless treasure, a store house to which thousands of people

 of German ancestry have gone on to find information concerning the 

names, ages and time of arrival of their ancestors. Never was a government scare 

so productive of good results.