A Potpourri Of Blog Posts

A retrospective compilation from my six blogs:

Detour Through History is my first blog:


Murder of a Roark descendant, the Robert Maxwell Martin family
A Palm caricature
Kit Acklin, Texas Ranger 
Native born Great-Grandma Addie Was An Alien
Shared Ancestor with Herbert Hoover


From my "In Deeds" blog:


An Elvis Presley sighting in the Shelby Co., Tennessee, deeds.
Searching for property information about my childhood home led to the Jimmy Hoffa investigation by RFK
My ancestor, Christopher Acklin, was deposed in a case involving (explorer) Dr. Thomas Walker's land
Confederate General James Longstreet's connection to Michigan
Abraham Lincoln and the Gallatin Co., Illinois, deed


The Cameron Collections blog is more of a "one name study," including Camerons not related to me:

Alexander Cameron, step-father of a "Princess" 
My Dad, son of a Cameron


My Richmond family blog focuses on ancestors and descendants found in a lineage book by Joshua Bailey Richmond.  


Included in the Richmond & Connected Lineages blog:


Helen Pitt Douglass, wife of Frederick Douglass
My Mayflower lineage [Cynthia (Richmond) More and her father, Thomas Richmond]
Senator Charles Sumner (was beaten with a cane on the Senate floor)



Relatively Fiction ties in books with genealogical and/or historical events:


John Brown, Frederick Douglass and Detroit in this blog post
The connection between Mrs. Richmond and Edgar Allan Poe here
Mrs. Kenneth Price* mentioned in Madame Castel's Lodger
*My niece and nephew's great-grandmother


War Of 1812 Chronicles is my newest blog:


Hiram Cronk, the last survivor


As a finale, a picture of me and my Dad a few decades ago!

Higgins Lake Camping

One of our camping trips to North Higgins Lake State Park was memorable because as we kids were busy setting up camp, one of us (not me!) was invited to go boating with the campers at the site next to us.

The Powers kids and Dad (I'm the oldest in the dark orange bathing suit)

Historical Pinckney, Michigan, Newspapers Online

Pinckney [Mich.] Dispatch newspapers online here.   A random example in the Thursday, March 14, 1889, issue, was a Livingston County, Michigan, probate order for Juliaetta Lake, deceased.

The Trousdales Of Montgomery Co., TN, In Ansearchin' News

From Ansearchin News (page 67) online:

6-1-1809

Petitions of citizens of Montgomery County asking for an extension of the time limit allowed for obtaining testimony of the original land surveyor and chain carriers as required by law.  30 Oct 1809

Included among the petitioners were Alex'r Trousdale and John Trousdale.

Edmund Hobart - A Possible Ancestor

Biographical information about Edmund Hobart found in Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts ...  Hobart is my ancestor IF his daughter, Rebecca, was Edward Bangs' wife.  Apparently the jury is still out on that one.... .

(I) Edmund Hobart, from Hingham, in the County of Essex, England, and born that parish about 1570, came to this country, arriving in 1633 at Charlestown, and with his son, Thomas, and several others, came to "Bare Cove" the same year probably for the purpose of assisting in establishing a new plantation... .
He was an early settler of Hingham, one of those who drew their home lots on Town (North street) Sept 18, 1635.  He married first, Margaret Dewey, who was the mother of his children, and second, Oct 10, 1634, Mrs. Sarah Lyford, widow of Rev John.  

Here's my lineage:

Edmund Hobart married Margaret Dewey [Ancestors Only If Rebecca m. Edward Bangs]

Daughter Rebecca Hobart* married Edward Bangs

Daughter Hannah Bangs married John Doane 

daughter Rebecca Doane married Elisha Paine

daughter Rebecca Paine married Edward Cleveland

daughter Joanna Cleveland married 2nd John Backus

son John Backus married Jerusha Baker

son John Backus married 2nd possibly Hannah Fuller

daughter Laura Backus married Thomas P. Richmond

daughter Cynthia Richmond married James More

daughter Addie More married William S. Powers

son Ralph N. Powers married Beatrice Cameron

son Richard N. Powers married (Living)

[Me]

*Not Conclusive 

The Mayflower message list has a discussion of Rebecca Hobart.
A Maine Family's History includes very early English Hobart ancestors of Edmund Hobart.

Rebecca Hobart was in Merryann Palmer's tree  -- I attended a meeting of a genealogy club in Mission, Texas, that she and her husband organized.  Small world!

A View Of Detroit For Canadian 5th Graders

From the Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Public Library site, The Folklore of le Detroit.  There's an introduction, folktales, old songs, and legends.

The introduction explains about the Detroit river French and includes maps.  Among the legends is Nain rouge or the Red Dwarf (which even has its own Facebook page!).

2012 Memorial Day

Watrous Family In Wisconsin

The article about the Watrous Family Reunion (descendants of Orrin and Jane (Smith) Watrous) in Calumet County, Wisconsin, from "Wisconsin History," emphasized pioneering in Wisconsin.  Incidental information named Samuel Vincent as a Watrous in-law (husband of Demice).  Henry O. Watrous, son of Orrin and Jane, died in the Civil War battle of Port Hudson.  A newspaper editor from Colorado Springs, Colorado [Ansel Watrous], and a Watrous sister from Minnesota were attendees at the reunion.

Another Wisconsin History article featured Colonel J[erome] A. Watrous, age 78 (in 1918) and a third article mentioned Watrous family member(s) in his brother, Ansel's, reminisce in "Over the old trail."

United States Census, 1850

event place: Calumet county, Calumet, Wisconsin

Orrin I Watrous M 35

Jane Watrous F 35

 Hansel Watrous M 15

Henry O Watrous M 12

Jerome A Watrous M 10

Dennis L Watrous F 7 [Demice]

Catharine M Watrous F 1

Delia and Esther Watrous, daughters of my 3rd great grand aunt, Lorenza (Backus) Watrous, moved from New York to Wisconsin as did the Watrous family celebrating their family reunion. My Watrous relatives do not appear to be part of the reunion Watrous family, although a connection in more distant generations is possible.