tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89673126009270101142024-02-21T02:31:32.681-05:00Dan's Genealogy BlogDan Babishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17010712152767210321noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967312600927010114.post-64856780506644964962014-03-07T09:22:00.000-05:002014-03-07T09:22:35.530-05:00A Packed Wedding Announcement<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Many times wedding notices in nineteenth century newspapers were simple. "Mr. Jones wed Miss Smith, daughter of Mr. Smith, last Thursday at the Smith home." They provide a small, yet important, amount of genealogical information. Sometimes, however, a great deal of information can be contained in a wedding announcement. Consider the following article from the Sunday, December 3rd, 1893, edition of the <i>Brooklyn Eagle</i>. [1]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The bride, Frances H. Cargain, was Irene's first cousin three times removed, not a direct ancestor. Yet Frances' wedding announcement provides an important view into the family of Irene's third great grandparents, Cornelius M. Currey and Mary Hannah (Conklin) Currey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of the eleven children reported to have been born to Cornelius M. and Mary Hannah (Conklin) Currey, seven were alive in 1893 [2]. Three had died in infancy and one, Sarah Currey, had died in 1885 at the age of thirty four.[3] Six of the seven living Currey offspring attended the wedding according to the newspaper account: Phebe , Amy Frances (Mrs. Joseph G. Hull), Isaac Conklin, Richard Channing Moore, Mary Elizabeth (Mrs. Henry H. Cargain), and Jotham Sherwood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The bride's mother, Mary Elizabeth (Currey) Cargain, was a widow in 1893. Her husband, Henry, had died in 1889.[4] Youngest daughter May, eighteen, was the maid of honor. Her sister, Emma, twenty one, was a bridesmaid.</span><br />
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Irene's 2nd great grandfather, Richard Channing Moore Currey; his wife, Matilda "Tillie" (Hammond) Currey (Mr. and Mrs. R. C. M. Currey); and their three children were there. Henry Channing (Harry) Currey, Irene's great grandfather, was eighteen. Sarah (Sadie) Currey was thirteen and had the honor of participating in the ceremony by forming an aisle of white ribbon with her cousins, Harry and Jessie Hull. Josephine A. H. (Josie) Currey was eleven months old having been born the previous December. [5]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The wedding was at the home of Jotham Sherwood Currey (Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Currey). Daughter Nettie, twenty three, was a bridesmaid. Son Cornelius, twenty, was an usher. Son Jotham S. (J. Currey, Jr.) was seventeen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Phebe Currey (Miss Phebe Currey), who was unmarried, attended.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Amy Frances (Currey) Hull and her husband, Joseph Gardiner Hull (Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Hull) and their three children attended. Daughter Annie C. (Hull) Landis attended with her husband, Thomas (Mr. and Mrs. Landis). Son Harry, twelve, and daughter Jessie, ten, assisted cousin Sadie Currey as mentioned above.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Widower Isaac Conklin Currey and his six year old son, Walter, were there. Isaac's wife Lena (Belline Jonassohn) Currey had just died in February of 1893. [6]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The only living Currey sibling not mentioned specifically was Rebecca (Currey) Bodden. The announcement does state that a Mr. and Mrs. <i>Bolden </i>attended, so perhaps all the Curreys <i>were</i> in attendance, but the spelling difference makes that uncertain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The highly informative wedding announcement in the <i>Brooklyn Eagle</i> provides a glimpse into the lives of a large extended family of brothers and sisters and their children. It shows that the family members kept in touch with one another and were close enough that many of the cousins participated in the wedding ceremony itself. One can only hope that some of the photographs that were undoubtedly taken that day have survived and will surface.</span><br />
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[1] "Wyeth-Cargain", Walter Wyeth - Frances H. Cargain marriage announcement; 3 December 1893, p. 2, col. 6; accessed 23 February 2014, Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn, New York, online archive (eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org (Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1841-1902 online)).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[2] Philip Field Horne, The Currey Family in the Hudson Highlands: Descendants of Richard Currey of Peekskill Hollow, New York (Pleasantville, New York: The Higham Press (privately published), 1970), Cornelius M. Currey and Mary Hannah Conklin children, pp. 29-30.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[3] "Died", Sarah Curry death notice; 21 February 1885, p. 3, col. 7; accessed 23 November 2012, Peekskill Highland Democrat, Peekskill, New York, online images (http://www.fultonhistory.com/fulton.html).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[3] "Died"...CARGAIN; Henry H. Cargain death notice; p. 1; accessed 21 November 2012, New York Herald (The) [genealogybank], New York, New York, online images (Historical Newspapers (1690 - 2007), www.genealogybank.com).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[4] FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/), New Jersey Births and Christenings, 1660-1980," database (Index entries derived from digital copies of originals housed in various repositories throughout New Jersey, ), Josephine A. H. Currey birth, 20 December 1892; FHL film no. 494222.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[5] "Deaths...CURRY"; Lena Curry death notice, p. 1, col. 2; accessed 21 February 2012, New York Herald (The) [genealogybank], New York, New York, online images (Historical Newspapers (1690 - 2007), www.genealogybank.com).</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="danbabish.blogspot.com">Dan's Genealogy Blog</a>"</div>Dan Babishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17010712152767210321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967312600927010114.post-11389174113605926682014-02-17T07:37:00.000-05:002014-02-18T07:06:28.152-05:00A Century<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My mother, Grace Evelyn (Hamill) Babish, was born one hundred years ago, February 17, 1914. She grew up with six brothers and sisters in Rahway, Union County, New Jersey. Here is a photo of Grace at a young age with her dolls. [1] A family story told by Grace to my sister Victoria is that Grace at one time received dolls as a gift from her brother Albert (Albert Hamill, b. 1899, d. 1969) who had won them at at fair. [2] One can't be sure that the dolls in the photograph are the dolls from the story, but Grace seems very pleased with them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Apparently, a birth certificate for Grace was never filed with the state of New Jersey around the time she was born or it was misfiled. I have searched for it in the New Jersey Archives in Trenton without success while finding birth certificates for each of her siblings there. A delayed certificate was issued in 1943 by the city of Rahway. [3]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Grace's mother, Sophie (Bettinger) (Hamill) Hamill, kept a record of her children's births in the back of a small book, "Our Marriage Vow," which she received when she married Richard Hamill, her second husband, and Grace's father. She recorded Grace's birth there. [4]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[1] <span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;">Babish Family Photographs original photographs; privately held by Daniel Babish, Columbia, Maryland, 2014.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;">[2] Babish family traditions regarding Grace Hamill receiving dolls as a gift from her half brother Albert, Daniel Babish compiler (email message, 17 February 2014), as reported by Victoria Babish, Grace's daughter, February 2014.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;">[3] </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><span style="line-height: 18.479999542236328px;">Birth Certificates, City of Rahway (Rahway, Union County, New Jersey, Registrar of Vital Statistics), Grace Evelyn Hamill; Rahway, Union County, New Jersey; 14 February 1914 (delayed) issued 17 May 1943; </span></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;">Original copy in Daniel Babish household, 2014.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;">[4] </span><span style="color: #2a2a2a;"><span style="line-height: 18.479999542236328px;">Thomas Whittaker, Our Marriage Vow: The Service and Minister's Certificate (New York: 2 and 3 Bible House, 1877); "Born", entry of births by Sophie (Bettinger) (Hamill) Hamill; Original copy in Daniel Babish household, 2014.</span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="danbabish.blogspot.com">Dan's Genealogy Blog</a>"</div>Dan Babishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17010712152767210321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967312600927010114.post-91634714681491333952013-08-11T16:22:00.000-04:002013-08-11T16:22:31.863-04:00If I Had A Hammer<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While our kitchen is in the midst of being torn apart and remodeled, I thought I'd look back at some of Irene's ancestors who were carpenters. Five of Irene's direct ancestors, including her father, and paternal grandfather, and, on her mother's side, her great grandfather, and second and third great grandfathers were all carpenters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Irene's third great grandfather, James H. Hammond, was a carpenter in New York City. The earliest record I have listing his occupation is the 1850 U.S. census entry for the household of his father, Joseph. [1] James, age 19, occupation - carpenter, is found on the fourth line of this extract.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Irene's second great grandfather, William B. Hayes, was a carpenter in New York City and Essex County, New Jersey. The 1860 U.S. census entry of his father, William B. Hays, contains his son, also named William B. Hays, a carpenter, age 21. [2] The spelling of the family name</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> didn't settle down to "Hayes" until later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is William B. Hays listed as "</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">carp" or carpenter living at 278 High Street in Orange, New Jersey, in the 1893 City Directory of the Oranges. [3]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Irene's great grandfather, Henry Channing Currey, was a carpenter in Essex County, New Jersey. The earliest record I have showing his occupation is this city directory entry from 1897. [4] It lists "Currey Harry, carp, 183 N Park, EO" or East Orange, New Jersey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Irene's dad, Neil Stoppiello, and grandfather, Michael Stoppiello, were both professional carpenters for most of their lives. They worked in New Jersey and then Florida. I don't have any specific records for either of them showing their occupation. Here is a photograph showing the house Irene lived in on Marconi Avenue in Iselin, New Jersey, from about age 7 to 14. The photograph shows scaffolding Irene's father erected while he was adding wood shake siding. [5]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Irene's direct ancestry includes at least one carpenter for the past five generations spanning from about 1850 until after the year 2000.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[1] 1850 U.S. census, population schedule, New York, New York [543], Database online. <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.1875px;">Census Place: New York Ward 9 District 1; Page 31A, Image 68. Joseph Hammond</span> household, dwelling 191, family 405; NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 543; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com); digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[2] 1860 U.S. census, population schedule, New York, New York [795], Database online. Census Place: New York Ward 8 District 3; Page: 914; Image: 395; Family History Library Film: 803795. page 250 [penned], William B. Hays household, dwelling 766, family 2222; NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 795; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com); digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[3] J. H. Baldwin, Publisher, Baldwin's Directory of the Oranges and Townships of Essex County (Newark, N.J.: Holbrook Printing Company, 1893, 1897), p. 135, 1893 William B. Hays entry, accessed 11 August 2013; digital images, Ancestry.com (U. S. City Directories) (www.ancestry.com).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[4] </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">J. H. Baldwin, Publisher, Baldwin's Directory of the Oranges and Townships of Essex County (Newark, N.J.: Holbrook Printing Company, 1893, 1897), p. 124, 1897 Harry Currey entry, accessed 12 February 2010; digital images, Ancestry.com (U. S. City Directories) (www.ancestry.com).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">[5] </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Babish Family Photographs original photographs; privately held by Daniel Babish, Columbia, Maryland, 2013. Rear of 79 Marconi Avenue, Iselin, New Jersey late 1950s or early 1960s showing scaffolding.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="danbabish.blogspot.com">Dan's Genealogy Blog</a>"</div>Dan Babishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17010712152767210321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967312600927010114.post-7914151229207526452013-06-16T16:45:00.001-04:002013-06-17T14:15:45.089-04:00Father's Day<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My father was John Joseph Babish. He was born November 23, 1916, in Omaha, Nebraska and died October 20, 1985, in Lakewood, New Jersey. His parents were Pietro Tommasso Butera (b. 1892, d. unknown) and Sophie Wiktorija Babiarz (b. 1890, d. 1953). He was known by his given name Libero Butera until his mother left Omaha with him for Pennsylvania in 1922 to escape an abusive marriage. From that point on he was known as John Babish. He legally changed his name in 1940.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is the earliest picture I have of my father. My grandmother marked it on the back sometime later. Note how she calls him John Babish, even though the picture was presumably taken in Omaha in 1917 when he was still Libero Butera. I can't figure out whether she intended the date to read, July 18, 1937, or July 18, <i>1917</i>, which is when my father would have been eight months old. Perhaps she was writing on the photo in 1937, and mistakenly wrote that year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a picture of my father and grandmother. It is marked on the back, "9 yeares [sic] old John Babish," in my grandmother's handwriting. This was taken when they were living in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, the town in which my father lived while growing up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is John Babish in his army uniform. It is stamped on the back, November, 1938 or 9 (the last digit of the year is not clear). John served in the U.S. Army from October 25, 1937 until March 15, 1940. He spent World War II working in war related industries in New Jersey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a picture of my father taken in July 1940. It is marked, "Avon-by-the-Sea," on the back. He and my mother, Grace (Hamill) Babish, had been married about seven months when the photo was taken.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The final picture is my mother and father taken in May, 1983, near their retirement home in Lakewood, New Jersey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Source: Babish Family Photographs original photographs; privately held by Daniel Babish, Columbia, Maryland, 2013.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="danbabish.blogspot.com">Dan's Genealogy Blog</a>"</div>Dan Babishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17010712152767210321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967312600927010114.post-34374516943922549322013-06-09T11:11:00.000-04:002013-06-11T06:47:53.143-04:00Thomas Hamill Answers the Call - For a Price<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My great grandfather, Thomas Hamill, served in the Civil War. He enlisted on September 3rd, 1864, right near the end of the war and served less than ten months before being mustered out in June, 1865. [1] I thought I'd focus on the circumstances surrounding his decision to enlist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On July 18, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 500,000 volunteers in order to supply enough troops, hopefully, to end the Civil War, then in its fourth year. [2] Newspapers, like the <i>Newark Daily Advertiser</i>, were quick to print the proclamation. [3] The following image is from the July 19th issue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A key feature of the call for volunteers was the payment of a bounty. The Federal government offered a bounty of $100 for one year's service as described below in this excerpt from the July 19, 1864, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Newark Daily Advertiser</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. [4]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Along with the call for volunteers was the threat of a military draft if not enough men signed up. As the proclamation states, "And I hereby proclaim, order and direct that immediately after the fifth day of September, 1864...a draft for troops to serve for one year shall be held in every town, township, ward of a city, precinct, election district, or a county not so sub-divided, to fill the quota assigned to it..." [5]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The threat of a draft was enough make local jurisdictions scramble to fill their quotas. In Elizabeth, New Jersey, Thomas Hamill's home, the Union County Board of Freeholders voted to pay its own bounty, <i>in addition to the Federal bounty</i>, to volunteers from that county. Other towns in Union County also began offering their own bounties. The article below from August 10, 1864, states that the Third Ward in Elizabeth offered a bounty of $400. [6] </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As I mentioned above, Thomas Hamill enlisted on September 3, 1864, right before the September 5th deadline in the call for volunteers specified by President Lincoln's proclamation. I've already included the front of Thomas Hamill's enlistment document in another post (<a href="http://danbabish.blogspot.com/2013/05/decoration-day.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Decoration Day</span></a>), but the back of the paper shows Thomas was paid $33.33 as the first installment of his government bounty. [7] Although I haven't located documentation, I think it's likely that Thomas was also paid a local bounty, either by Union County, New Jersey, or by the City of Elizabeth, or his local ward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It seems reasonable to assume that Thomas enlisted not only to serve the cause, but to help his family financially. The large and growing Hamill family was poor. The 1860 U.S. census record for the Hamill family shows Thomas, his wife Elizabeth, and six children. [8] By 1864 a seventh child had been born. [9] Thomas' occupation is listed as "Day Labor" in the census. Thus, he had no consistent job at that time. The lure of two bounty payments, a Federal one and a local one, which would help feed his family may have been enough to cause Thomas to answer the President's call.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[1] Thomas Hamill, Pvt., Battery B, 1 N.J. L. Artillery, Volunteer Enlistment, Compiled Military Service Records; Civil War; Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917, National Archives record Group 94; National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[2] <span class="ver10" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">Abraham Lincoln: </span><span class="ver10" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">"Proclamation 116 - Calling for 500,000 Volunteers," July 18, 1864. </span><span class="ver10" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, <i>The American Presidency Project</i>. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=69996.</span></span><br />
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<span class="ver10" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">[3] </span><span style="line-height: 16px;">"Half a Million Men Called for, by the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation; 19 July 1864, p. 2, col. 1; accessed 24 May 2013,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16px;">Newark Daily Advertiser</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">, Newark, New Jersey, online images (www.genealogybank.com).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="ver10" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">[4] </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16px;">"Half a Million Men Called for..."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="ver10" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">[5 </span></span><span class="ver10" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16px;">Lincoln: </span><span class="ver10" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16px;">"Proclamation 116 - Calling for 500,000 Volunteers."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="ver10" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">[6] </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">"Volunteer Movements in Union County;" 10 August 1864, p. 2, col. 4; accessed 24 May 2013,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16px;">Newark Daily Advertiser</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">, Newark, New Jersey, online images (www.genealogybank.com).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[7] </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thomas Hamill, Pvt., Battery B, 1 N.J. L. Artillery, Volunteer Enlistment, Compiled Military Service Records, Civil War, RG 94, NA-Washington.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[8] </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">1860 U.S. census, population schedule, New Jersey, Union [710], Database online. Census Place: Elizabeth Ward 1; Page: 424; Image: 422; Family History Library Film: 803710. page 86-7 [penned], Thomas Hamul household, dwelling 591, family 716; NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 710; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com); digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[9] </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 16px;">1870 U.S. census, population schedule, New Jersey, Union [890], Database online. Census Place: Elizabeth Ward 2; Page: 378A; Image: 154; Family History Library Film: 552389, Thomas Hamel (Hamill) household, dwelling 355, family 375; NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 890; digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com); digital image, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="danbabish.blogspot.com">Dan's Genealogy Blog</a>"</div>Dan Babishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17010712152767210321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967312600927010114.post-11676108233050685042013-06-02T11:29:00.000-04:002013-06-11T06:48:18.354-04:00Not Only the Wealthy and Famous Lived at The Dakota<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Not every family has a famous ancestor, but every family has some connection in its history with the great, famous, or noteworthy. It's the six degrees of separation rule. The connection doesn't always have to be to another <i>person</i>, however.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Consider <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dakota" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">The Dakota</span></a>, an imposing apartment building located at 1 West 72nd Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Completed in 1884, it has been home to the very wealthy and famous since it opened. Among its more well known residents over the years were Judy Garland, Rudolph Nureyev, Boris Karloff, Lillian Gish, John Lennon, Leonard Bernstein and Gilda Radner. [1]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A review of census records for the period 1910 to 1925 reveals that a number of heads of households at The Dakota were presidents of manufacturing or railroad companies, real estate or stock brokers, or lawyers. [2] [3] [4] [5] Many others were simply 'retired,' but living with several servants. Here is the Frederick F. Steinway family entry in the 1925 New York State census of The Dakota. Mr. Steinway's occupation is 'mfr [manufacturer] pianos.' [6]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the book </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>Life at the Dakota: New York's most unusual address</i> puts it: </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"The Dakota was not only different and special, it was better - 'The only </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">really</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> good address on the West End,' as Mrs. M. A. Crate used to remind her friends." The book goes on to state, "Mrs. Crate was the building's first housekeeper and served in that capacity until her death in 1931 [sic]." </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">[7] Mrs. Crate (who actually died in 1926, not 1931) was Irene's great great grandmother, Margaretta Argyle (Jones) Crate. [8] From at least 1910 and perhaps earlier, she lived and worked at The Dakota.<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Four census records document her residence and employment there.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the 1910 U.S. census of Manhattan, Margaretta is listed as "Crate, Margareta," and her occupation is shown as "housekeeper." [9] I've marked the census page below to show the address of the building and her entry on line 44.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 1915 New York state census of Manhattan also contains an entry for Margaretta Crate. [10] In this entry she is listed as "Crate, Margaret A.," and her occupation is listed as "servant (housekeeper)" on line 28. She appears to be residing with the Edward Clark family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the 1920 U.S. census of Manhattan, Margaretta is listed as "Crate, Margaretta." Her occupation is "Housekeeper/Hotel" as shown on line 36. [11]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">At some point in the early 1920s, it appears The Dakota came to contain another of Irene's ancestors, her grandmother, Ida Mae Currey. When Ida married Irene's grandfather, George Richard Crate, on August 21, 1923, her address as listed on her marriage certificate was "1 W. 72 Street" - The Dakota. [12] Ida's new husband was the grandson of Margaretta A. Crate!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 1925 New York state census of Manhattan contains Margaretta's last census entry. On line 18, Margaretta is listed as "Crate, Margaretta," and her occupation is noted as "Housekeeper." [13]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The last year of Margaretta's life was spent living at her daughter Bertha's house in Cranford, New Jersey. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bertha made sure Margaretta's obituary mentioned her mother's famous address when she died on October 27, 1926, but apparently she couldn't assure that the local paper would spell Crate or Dakota correctly. [14] "Mrs. Crape [sic] was born at Minersville, Pa., but for many years had lived at The Dacotah [sic], New York City, until making her home here."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[1] <span style="background-color: #f5faff; line-height: 19.1875px;">Wikipedia contributors, "</span>The Dakota," <i style="background-color: #f5faff; line-height: 19.1875px;">Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia</i><span style="background-color: #f5faff; line-height: 19.1875px;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dakota">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dakota</a> (accessed 31 May 2013).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[2] </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.1875px;">Ancestry.com.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.1875px;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.1875px;">1910 United States Federal Census</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.1875px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.1875px;">[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">Year: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">1910</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Census Place: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">Manhattan Ward 22, New York, <span class="srchMatch" score="142" type="country">New York</span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Roll: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">T624_1045</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Pages: 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">3A</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Enumeration District: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">1304</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; FHL microfilm: </span><i style="line-height: 1.2em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1375058, citing </span></i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.1875px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">NARA microfilm publication T624.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[3] <span style="line-height: 115%;">Ancestry.com.
New York, State Census, 1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations, Inc., 2012; citing New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State
Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 08; Assembly District:
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[4] <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.1875px;">Ancestry.com.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.1875px;"> </span><i style="line-height: 13.1875px;">1920 United States Federal Census</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.1875px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.1875px;">[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2em;">Year: </span><i style="line-height: 1.2em;">1920</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2em;">; Census Place: </span><i style="line-height: 1.2em;">Manhattan Assembly District 7, New York, <span class="srchMatch" score="101" type="country">New York</span></i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2em;">; Roll: </span><i style="line-height: 1.2em;">T625_1197</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2em;">; Pages: 12A, 12B, 13A, 13B, 14A, </span><i style="line-height: 1.2em;">16A, 16B, 17A</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2em;">; Enumeration District: </span><i style="line-height: 1.2em;">553</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2em;">; Image: </span><i style="line-height: 1.2em;">827, citing </i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.1875px;">NARA microfilm publication T625</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2em;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[5] </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">New York State Archives; Albany, New York; </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">State Population Census Schedules, 1925</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Election District: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">21</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Assembly District: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">07</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; City: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">New York</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; County: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">New York</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Pages: 13-</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">16</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">Ancestry.com.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">New York, State Census, 1925</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[6] </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">New York State Archives; Albany, New York; </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">State Population Census Schedules, 1925</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Election District: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">21</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Assembly District: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">07</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; City: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">New York</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; County: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">New York</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Page: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">13, Frederick Steinway entry</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">Ancestry.com.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">New York, State Census, 1925</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[7] <span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stephen Birmingham, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Life at the Dakota: New York’s most unusual address</span><span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996), 63; digital image, Google Books (</span><a href="http://books.google.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; line-height: 12px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://books.google.com</span></a><span style="color: #222222; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: accessed 21 March 2010).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[8] <span style="color: #333333; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 19px;">Division of Archives and Records Management, Death Certificates, New Jersey State Archives (Trenton, New Jersey, New Jersey State Archives), Margaretta Argyl Crate; North Plainfield, Somerset County, New Jersey; State of New Jersey, Certificate of Death; 27 October 1926.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[9] </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.1875px;">Ancestry.com.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.1875px;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.1875px;">1910 United States Federal Census</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.1875px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.1875px;">[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">Year: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">1910</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Census Place: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">Manhattan Ward 22, New York, <span class="srchMatch" score="142" type="country">New York</span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Roll: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">T624_1045</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Page: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">3A, Margareta Crate entry</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Enumeration District: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">1304</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; FHL microfilm: </span><i style="line-height: 1.2em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1375058, citing </span></i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13.1875px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">NARA microfilm publication T624</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[10] </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18px;">Ancestry.com. New York, State Census, 1915 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012; citing New York State Archives; Albany, New York; State Population Census Schedules, 1915; Election District: 08; Assembly District: 15; City: New York; County: New York; Page: 36, Margaret A. Crate entry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[11] </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.1875px;">Ancestry.com.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.1875px;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.1875px;">1920 United States Federal Census</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.1875px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.1875px;">[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">Year: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">1920</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Census Place: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">Manhattan Assembly District 7, New York, <span class="srchMatch" score="101" type="country">New York</span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Roll: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">T625_1197</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Page: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">16A, Margaretta Crate entry</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Enumeration District: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">553</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">; Image: </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">827, citing </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13.1875px;">NARA microfilm publication T625</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.2em;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[12] </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">New York, New York, Marriage Records NY City Municipal Archives, no. 30692, George R. Crate and Ida M. Currey marriage certificate, 21 August 1923; New York City Department of Records and Information Services, New York.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[13] <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2em;">New York State Archives; Albany, New York; </span><i style="line-height: 1.2em;">State Population Census Schedules, 1925</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2em;">; Election District: </span><i style="line-height: 1.2em;">21</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2em;">; Assembly District: </span><i style="line-height: 1.2em;">07</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2em;">; City: </span><i style="line-height: 1.2em;">New York</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2em;">; County: </span><i style="line-height: 1.2em;">New York</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2em;">; Page: </span><i style="line-height: 1.2em;">16, Margaretta Crate entry</i><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2em;">. </span><span style="line-height: 1.2em;">Ancestry.com.</span><span style="line-height: 1.2em;"> </span><i style="line-height: 1.2em;">New York, State Census, 1925</i><span style="line-height: 1.2em;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.2em;">[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">[14] </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Mrs. Margaretta Argyle Crape [Crate]," obituary, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cranford Citizen and Chronicle</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 28 October 1926, p. 10; online images, </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Cranford Library</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (<a href="http://www.cranford.com/library/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.cranford.com/library/</a> : downloaded 25 January 2010), Searchable Cranford Archive.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="danbabish.blogspot.com">Dan's Genealogy Blog</a>"</div>Dan Babishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17010712152767210321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967312600927010114.post-54007703144200961992013-05-26T10:59:00.001-04:002013-06-11T06:48:41.186-04:00Decoration Day<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My mother, Grace (Hamill) Babish always called Memorial Day 'Decoration Day', referring to the practice of decorating the graves of those who had died in war. Over the years, the practice has been extended to placing flags on the graves of war veterans to honor their service and sacrifice, even if they had not died in battle. An image of rows of uniform white grave markers each with its own flag comes to mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My mother's grandfather (my great grandfather), Thomas Hamill, did not die in battle, but he enlisted in the Union Army in 1864 at age 38, perhaps to serve the greater good, but perhaps to help his family with the bounty money he received.[1]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When he died in 1904, his widow, Ann (Fulton) Hamill, applied for a government supplied stone for his grave. The card filed by the contractor who supplied Thomas' grave marker is shown below. [2] The card correctly identifies that Thomas served in Co. B of the New Jersey Light Artillery and that he died April 22, 1904. [3] [4] Curiously, it shows his burial location as Holy Name Cemetery in Jersey City. Thomas was actually buried in </span><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=185168&CScn=evergreen&CScntry=4&CSst=33&CScnty=1926&" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Evergreen Cemetery, in Elizabeth</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. [5]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A notice in <i>The Evening Journal</i> of Jersey City on January 5, 1905, states that headstones for deceased veterans had been received by County Overseer P. H. O'Neill, superintendent of soldiers' and sailors' burials. [6] Thomas Hamill is mentioned first in the article. The notice incorrectly identifies Thomas' unit as 'First New Jersey Infantry' and his death date as 'May 25, 1904'. It identifies his widow, 'Anna' Hamill, as the applicant. Her address, 396 Grove Street, matches the Hamill family residence at the time of Thomas' death a year earlier. [7] Presumably at Overseer O'Neill's direction, Thomas Hamill's stone was subsequently placed on his grave in Evergreen Cemetery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have visited Evergreen Cemetery several times over the years searching for the graves of my ancestors and relations. The first time I found Thomas Hamill's grave was on a rainy spring morning in 2006. [8] </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The stone was wet and covered with moss and dirt, not pristine like veterans' graves in National cemeteries. On Memorial Day, this is my tribute to Thomas Hamill's service and sacrifice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[1] </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thomas Hamill, Pvt., Battery B, 1 N.J. L. Artillery, Volunteer Enlistment, Compiled Military Service Records; Civil War; Records of the Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917, National Archives record Group 94; National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">[2] Ancestry.com. Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, 1879-1903 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: Card Records of Headstones Provided for Deceased Union Civil War Veterans, ca. 1879-ca. 1903; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1845, 22 rolls); Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Record Group 92; National Archives, Washington, D.C.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">[3] Thomas Hamill, Pvt., Battery B, 1 N.J. L. Artillery, Volunteer Enlistment, Compiled Military Service Records, Civil War, RG 94, NA-Washington.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[4] Division of Archives and Records Management, Death Certificates, New Jersey State Archives (Trenton, New Jersey, New Jersey State Archives), Thomas Hamill; Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey; State of New Jersey, Certificate of Death; 22 April 1904. Transportation of Dead Human Body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">[5] Evergreen Cemetery (Elizabeth, New Jersey) to Daniel Babish, plot records, Thomas Hammill plot record entry [two burial dates] 25 April 1904, unknown location; 11 November 1912, section W, lot 132, grave 3.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[6] "More Headstones for War Veterans"; 12 January 1905; Thomas Hammill headstone; accessed 21 August 2011, Evening Journal (The), Jersey City, New Jersey, online images (www.genealogybank.com).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[7] </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Division of Archives and Records Management, Death Certificates, New Jersey State Archives, Thomas Hamill, Certificate of Death, 22 April 1904.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[8] Evergreen Cemetery (Elizabeth, New Jersey), Thomas Hamill grave marker; Section W, lot 132, photographed by Daniel Babish, 19 May 2006.</span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="danbabish.blogspot.com">Dan's Genealogy Blog</a>"</div>Dan Babishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17010712152767210321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967312600927010114.post-33874037956940643232013-05-19T15:53:00.000-04:002013-06-11T06:49:06.819-04:00Finding the Graves of Cornelius M. Currey and Mary Hannah (Conklin) Currey<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every genealogist knows the satisfying thrill that comes with a successful hunt. We're all detectives at heart. My search for and ultimate discovery of the burial place of my wife's third great grandparents, Cornelius M. Currey and his wife, Mary Hannah (Conklin) Currey, provided that thrill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I knew that Cornelius and Mary were buried in <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=64829" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Hillside Cemetery, near Peekskill, New York</span></a>, on the far northern edge of Westchester County. A transcription of the cemetery containing a r</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ecord of their graves had been published by William P. Horton in 1928. [1] I located it several years ago on Ancestry.com. The entries for Cornelius are about halfway down the page below. As can happen with transcriptions, Mary Hannah's death date is incorrect. She died October 16, 1878, not 1885, as evidenced by her death certificate. [2]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On a research trip to Peekskill in 2011, I tried to find the graves. The Hillside Cemetery office is in a ranch style house on the cemetery property. Inside I found a nice woman who tried to look up Cornelius Currey's record on an ancient Gateway computer. She succeeded in finding his name, but there was no grave location listed. I spent at least an hour </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">searching</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> in fading light walking back and forth among the rows of graves with no luck.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In October, 2012, I brought Irene with me on another visit to Peekskill to look at graves in the old Van Cortlandtville Cemetery which is adjacent to the Hillside Cemetery. She has numerous ancestors buried in that cemetery, and we were able to view and photograph their graves and interesting stones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As we were about to leave, I suggested we try our luck finding Cornelius and Mary Hannah once more. We parked by the Hillside Cemetery office and walked to the door. Inside was the same woman as before and the same Gateway computer. This time, when looking at the Curry listings (spelled without the 'e'), I noticed that one Curry entry had a grave location. (Isn't </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">noticing often a key step in finding?) When I pointed it out, t</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">he woman used that Curry entry to find a 'Curry' folder in a creaky old file cabinet. Inside was a sheet of paper, the record of Plot 64, Block One, Avenue "C", which was the Curry family plot record containing Cornelius M. Currey, Mary Hannah Currey, four of their children and the husband of their daughter, Mary Elizabeth. [3]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">With a plot number in hand the woman led us to a creased old map where she located and pointed out the Curry plot. [4]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We drove into the cemetery and parked on a narrow lane. A few minutes of searching led to the eureka moment - the Curry plot! [5]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The gravestone of Cornelius M. Currey is on the far right hand side of the plot. [6] A</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">s best as I can make out, t</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">he inscription reads :</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jan. 30. 1854.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The grave marker of Mary Hannah (Conklin) Currey is next to that of her husband. [7] The stone has come off its base and leans against it. The inscription reads:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">DIED OCT. 16, 1878,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">AGED 65 YRS. & 6 MOS.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In my excitment at finding the graves, I failed to notice that the brilliant October sun and a large tree/shrub had cast stark shadows on the stones when I photographed them. Darn! I'll need another trip to Peekskill to fix that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[1] <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">William P. Horton, Cemetery Inscriptions of Westchester County, N.Y. (1928), Vol. 2, Peekskill, p. 78; digital images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">[2] </span><span style="background-color: #f8f8f3; color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">Death Certificates, New York City Department of Records and Information Services (New York City, New York, Municipal Archives), Mary Hannah Currey; Brooklyn, New York; Health Department, City of Brooklyn Death Certificate; no. 08846; 16 October 1878.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #f8f8f3; color: #333333; line-height: 19px;">[3] </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Hillside Cemetery (Cortlandt Manor, New York) plot records, Curry family plot record, block one, avenue "C", plot 64; photographed by Daniel Babish, 5 October 2012.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">[4] Hillside Cemetery (Cortlandt Manor, New York) plot map, showing Curry family plot; photographed by Daniel Babish, 5 October 2012.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">[5] Hillside Cemetery (Cortlandt Manor, Westchester County, New York), Curry family plot; block 1, avenue "C", plot 64; photographed by Daniel Babish, 5 October 2012.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">[6] </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">Hillside Cemetery (Cortlandt Manor, Westchester County, New York), Cornelius M. Currey grave marker; block 1, avenue "C", plot 64; photographed by Daniel Babish, 5 October 2012.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">[7] </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 19px;">Hillside Cemetery (Cortlandt Manor, Westchester County, New York), Mary Hannah Curry grave marker; block 1, avenue "C", plot 64; photographed by Daniel Babish, 5 October 2012.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="danbabish.blogspot.com">Dan's Genealogy Blog</a>"</div>Dan Babishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17010712152767210321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967312600927010114.post-37209146692809365272013-05-11T14:02:00.000-04:002013-06-11T06:49:27.679-04:00Mother's Day<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In honor of Mother's day, I thought I'd post a few pictures of my mother, Grace (Hamill) Babish through the years. Grace was born February 14, 1914 and died October 8, 1998. Her parents were Richard Hamill (b. August 27, 1870, d. April 7, 1924) and Sophie Bettinger (b. November 28, 1874, d. January 14, 1943).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first picture is marked on the back with the year 1917, and shows Grace at about age three with her parents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Next, Grace is pictured with her mother and step-grandmother, Ann (Fulton) Hamill in 1926. Ann Fulton was the second wife of Grace's grandfather, Thomas Hamill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Grace married my father John Babish on December 30, 1939. This is her wedding picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Grace had four brothers and two sisters. One additional brother was stillborn a year after Grace's birth. The photograph shows all seven siblings with their mother in the early 1940s.</span><br />
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Back row, left to right, Marie (Hamill) Papirnik, Lillian (Hamill) Pickens, Sophie (Bettinger) (Hamill) Hamill, Grace (Hamill) Babish, and Herbert Hamill</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Eventually, I came along in 1952. This is a photograph of Grace and me on the day of my pre-school graduation, about 1957.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The final picture is of Grace and her sisters, Lillian and Marie, and brother Herb in 1973. It appears to have been taken in my Uncle Herb's yard in Iselin, New Jersey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Source: Babish Family Photographs original photographs; privately held by Daniel Babish, Columbia, Maryland, 2013.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><a href="danbabish.blogspot.com">Dan's Genealogy Blog</a>"</div>Dan Babishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17010712152767210321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8967312600927010114.post-62934091740261154902013-05-05T16:38:00.000-04:002013-06-11T06:49:51.977-04:00A House in Elizabeth<div class="WordSection1">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a story for those who have ever wondered how their grandparents or great grandparents could possibly have met. What if they were of completely different backgrounds, one the child of German immigrants and one of Irish immigrants at a time when mixing of such groups was more rare? Did they know each other because they attended the same church, or because family members worked in the same factory, or because their mothers shopped at the same market? Maybe a simple explanation is the most likely. Perhaps they lived in the same house. At some point in the 1890s two such families came to live in one house at 413 East Jersey Street, in the Elizabethport section of Elizabeth, New Jersey. One family was headed by an Irish immigrant, Thomas Hamill, my great grandfather, and the other by a German immigrant, Margaret Metzler, my great grandmother.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The two story frame dwelling at 413 E. Jersey Street was located near the corner of Fourth Street only blocks from the immense Singer sewing machine factory and the coal docks. It was set off by itself with open lots on either side and across the street. The 1889 Sanborn Fire Insurance maps of Elizabeth show the house and also show E. Jersey Street in relation to the Singer factory and the coal docks (see below).[1]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The 1895 New Jersey State census shows the Hammill and Metzler families living in the house, dwelling number 171 in the census. [2] The 1895-96 Elizabeth City Directory confirms that the address was 413 E. Jersey Street. [3] The first family (number 249) was the family of Thomas Hamill (spelled Hammill), born in Ireland, which also included Thomas' second wife Ann, also born there, his sons Richard (my grandfather) and Robert and his daughter Lillian. Son Robert and daughter Lillian were the children of Ann Fulton Hamill, but Richard was the son of Thomas' first wife, Elizabeth (Fulton) Hamill (my great grandmother). (See the census and city directory images below.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The second family was that of Anna Margaret (Weimar) (Metzler) Bettinger (number 250). Anna Margaret, listed as Margaret Metzler, an immigrant from Germany, was living with her sons, John and Walter and daughter Sophie Bettinger (my grandmother). Sophie was listed as Sophia Metzler on the top of the next census page. Curiously, Anna Margaret, seemingly married at the time to Daniel Bettinger (my great grandfather) since no divorce records have been found, was evidently using the last name of her first husband, John Adam Metzler, who had died in 1872. Sophie was the daughter of Anna Margaret and Daniel. (See the census and city directory images below.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It appears the two families, the Hamills and Metzlers, lived in the same house only for a short time. Two years after the 1895 census, when Sophie Bettinger and Robert Hamill married, he was still living at 413 E. Jersey, but Sophie's family had moved to 242 Franklin, only blocks away. [4] In 1908, after Robert’s death in 1903, Sophie married his older half-brother, Richard. [5] [6]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Perhaps Sophie, Robert, and Richard first met on the day one of their families moved into the house on East Jersey Street in Elizabethport, New Jersey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">[1] Sanborn Map Company, <i>Elizabeth & Elizabethport, New Jersey </i>(New York, N.Y.: Sanborn Map & Publishing Co., Limited, 1889), sheets 1 & 43, accessed 13 August 2011; digital images, <i>Princeton University Library </i>(library.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/).<br />[2] 1895 census, New Jersey State Census, 1895 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc.; Original data: New Jersey Department of State. 1895 State Census of New Jersey. Trenton, NJ, USA: New Jersey State Archives. 54 reels schedule, Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey, Thomas Hammill and Margaret Metzler households; Elizabeth Ward 3, Roll: V227_105, Page: 41, dwelling 171, families<br />249 and 250; digital image, <i>Ancestry.com </i>(www.ancestry.com).<br />[3] Cook & Hall, Compilers and Publishers, Cook & Hall's Elizabeth City Directory (Elizabeth, N.J.: Cook & Hall's, 1895), p. 186 Richard, Robert, and Thomas Hamill entries; p. 286 John and Walter Metzler entries, accessed 31 December 2008; digital images, Ancestry.com (U.S. City Directories) (<a href="http://www.ancestry.com/">www.ancestry.com</a>).<br />[4] Marriage Records, New Jersey State Archives (Trenton, New Jersey, Division of Archives and Records Management), Robert Hamill and Sophie Bettinger marriage return; 23 September 1897; no. H75.<br />[5] Division of Archives and Records Management, Death Certificates, New Jersey State Archives (Trenton, New Jersey, New Jersey State Archives), Robert Hamill; Rahway, Union County, New Jersey; State of New Jersey, Certificate of Death; 6 September 1903.<br />[6] Thomas Whittaker, <i>Our Marriage Vow</i>: <i>The Service and Minister's Certificate </i>(New York: 2 and 3 Bible House, 1877), Richard Hamill and Sophie Bettinger Hamill marriage record, 19 January 1908; Original copy in Daniel Babish household, 2011.</span></div>
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