Saturday Serendipity -- February 16, 2013

Here are a few serendipitous discoveries from this week that I commend for inclusion on your reading list.

1.              A great follow up on the DNA story of Richard II at The Legal Genealogist.  It gives a reminder primer on mtDNA, corrects errors in the media, and reminds us all of the difference between an ancestor and a relation. http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/2013/02/10/the-chances-of-dna .   I enjoy the writing style of Judy Russell and the way she finds topics to write about with a twist.  Case in point, have a look at her post from yesterday http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/2013/02/15/questions-of-will .  I found this to be a delightful read – thoughtful and humorous.

  

2.              A nice little story about the serendipitous discovery of ancestors in a photograph on a restaurant wall at Abbie and Eveline by Kathy Morales.

3.       The NEHGS newsletter, The Weekly Genealogist, has a feature known as “Stories of Interest” and it seems I always find the feature title to be true.  This week in The Weekly Genealogist, Vol. 16, No. 7 (February 13, 2013),  there is a link to the story of the murder of 57 Irish laborers who worked  on the Duffy Cut for the Philadelphia and Columbia line in 1832. http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Duffys-Cut-murder-victims-remains-brought-home-to-Donegal-after-180-years-190357551.html 

4.             Also at The Legal Genealogist -- the poignant piece on remembering an ancestor even when you did not really know him or her.  “The Mystery of Marie” http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/2013/02/09/the-mystery-of-marie

            

Friday Fotos (February 15, 2013) – Two Cooke Sisters

Sisters -- Ruth E. Cooke (L) and Dorothy B. Cooke

This picture was taken on a family outing sometime around 1902 (notice the croquet mallets against the tree).  The little girl on the left is my maternal grandmother, Ruth Eaton Cooke.  The girl she has her arm around is her younger sister, Dorothy B. Cooke.

Dorothy B. Cooke

Ruth and Dorothy were two of the six children of Walter Wilson Cooke and his wife, Florence Leonette Flagg.  They had four girls and two boys between 1892 and 1904.  Only three girls survived beyond age seven and into adulthood.  Their mother "Nettie" died in 1904, the same year that her second son died.

The Cooke children were born in an era before the so-called miracle drugs (antibiotics) were developed to combat fatal bacterial infections.  Therapeutic penicillin use, for example, did not come about until after the 1929 publication of a paper by Dr. Alexander Fleming on how penicillin prevented growth of a neighboring colony of germs in a common petri dish.  Streptomycin was not isolated until 1943 at Rutgers University (my alma mater). 

Many of us have discovered that children of our ancestors died at shockingly young ages and often due to diseases or infections that today would rarely be fatal.  This is the fate that befell poor Dorothy, my grandmother’s younger sister.  Dorothy was born on December 6, 1899 in N. Attleborough, Massachusetts and died on January 7, 1907 at Massachuestts General Hospital in Boston.  She was barely seven years old.  As the death certificate below indicates, the primary cause of Dorothy's death was typhoid fever.  Typhoid was a common disease worldwide.  It is a bacterial infection and is usually transmitted by ingestion of water or food containing the bacterium Salmonella typhi.  The contributory cause of Dorothy's death was "purulent otitis media," which is a serious ear infection.  Her fatal illness lasted four weeks and must have been quite painful. 

Death certificate for Dorothy B. Cooke (January 1907)

 

Typhoid fever and deaths from it fell sharply -- especially in the developed world -- with greater understanding and implementation of sanitary techniques in the 20th century.  These days typhoid fever is usually not fatal when it does occur due to treatment with antibiotics.  Antibiotic treatment has reduced the fatality rate to about 1% of established cases.

The classical case of typhoid fever runs its course over four weeks and is divided into four stages or phases that each last about one week -- just as happened with poor little Dorothy.  It must have been horrible to watch as Dorothy and the medical personnel at Mass General fought for her life.  

The onset of the disease arrives with a slowly rising temperature accompanied by headache, cough, and, in perhaps 25% of cases, a bloody nose.  Abdominal pain is also often seen.

In the second week the victim of the disease runs a fever of perhaps 104 F.  The fever usually increases in the afternoon.  There is often a slowed heartbeat, frequent delirium and rose colored spots on the lower chest and abdomen in about 33% of those afflicted.  The abdomen is usually distended and painful and can be accompanied by diarrhea with a distinctive green color sometimes compared to pea soup.  The spleen and liver are enlarged and quite tender.

During the third week, things get worse for the poor victim.  Intestinal hemorrhage is seen.  Symptoms such as picking at bed linens or at imaginary objects can occur along with "muttering delirium."  Encephalitis (swelling of the brain) is also a complication that can be seen during the third stage of the disease.

From the third to the fourth and final phase of the disease, the fever remains quite high and steady over the day.  The victim becomes dehydrated and delirious until the fever begins to subside in the fourth and final week. 

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My connection to Dorothy B. Cooke

1.            Walter Wilson Cooke m. Florence Leonette Flagg

                        (1)  Helen Raeder Cooke (1892 - 1987)

                        (2)  Russell Cooke (1893 - 1894)

                        (3)  Lois Vinal Cooke (1894 -    )

                        (4)  Ruth Eaton Cooke (1897 - 1979)

                        (5)  Dorothy B. Cooke (1899 - 1907)

                        (6) Russell Church Cooke (1902 - 1904)

2.          Ruth Eaton Cooke m. Everett Shearman Carpenter (my grandparents)

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Copyright 2013, John D. Tew

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Finding A Cousin -- Kismet, Karma, Fate or Simple Serendipity Made Possible By The New Golden Age of Genealogy??

The modern era of digital genealogy research, and the growing popularity of genealogy as a hobby, leads to many stories of discovery that would have been almost impossible in years past absent a near obsession with genealogy -- and some serious wealth that allowed the luxury of time and travel to indulge the obsession!  It is fun to read about the discoveries of previously unknown family connections made by others, but it is quite a different matter when you get to experience it yourself.  This is the story of how I found a 9^th cousin 1x removed through the modern world of genealogy blogging! 

The January 11, 2012 issue of NEHGS’s The Weekly Genealogist, Vol. 15, No. 2, introduced a new occasional feature by Editor Lynn Betlock.  Based on a popular article by Randy Seaver about blogs and blogging in the November 30, 2011 issue of the newsletter, Lynn decided to feature, from time to time, blogs that focus on genealogy.  The first featured blog was one based in New Hampshire, but that also covers other parts of New England.  Because I was born in New England and lived for more than six years in New Hampshire, I immediately checked out the inaugural featured blog.  Since I was new to genealogy blogs, I spent some time perusing some of the postings to familiarize myself with the content and lay out.  Much to my surprise, I discovered the surname links under the blog’s “Labels” list included a link for the Tew surname – a fairly rare, but always welcome discovery in a genealogy resource.  Following the link, I found a posting about the Rhode Island Pirate, Thomas Tew.  Ol’ Thomas was my entry character into genealogy back when I was a teenager.

Meeting between Thomas Tew and the Royal Governor

of New York, Benjamin Fletcher, as imagined by American

 illustrator Howard Pyle (1853 – 1911) 

It was discovery of the huge success of Thomas Tew, coupled with the fact that Ol' Thomas was known to be from Newport, Rhode Island, that captured my interest long ago.  My 8x great grandfather, Richard Tew, came to Newport from Maidford, Northamptonshire, England in 1640 – about 50 years before the storied piracy exploits of Ol’ Thomas!

A street in the small village of Maidford, Northamptonshire, England 

Maidford, Northamptonshire, England still surrounded by farmland

English road sign to "The Tews" -- three villages in Oxfordshire
adjacent to Northamptonshire and roughly 20 miles from Maidford 

English road signs to the villages of Great Tew, Little Tew and Duns Tew 

Great Tew is known for its fine examples of thatch roofs.
This shows the thatched roof of the Great Tew Post Office

At the linked Tew post, the owner of the featured blog raised possibilities about descendants of Thomas Tew, the Rhode Island Pirate.  After reading the post I engaged in some email exchanges with the blog owner and the exchange resulted in a kind invitation to me to do a guest post on the blog about the mysteries surrounding the genealogy of Thomas Tew.  I noted in passing that the blog owner mentioned personal descent from Seaborn Tew and her husband Owen Higgins, but to be honest, I was focused more on drafting a readable guest post for the blog than on the implications of the revelation about Seaborn Tew.  In my Tew tree, I only showed Seaborn as having two daughters by her first husband, Samuel Billings, and the blog owner was revealing a descent from Seaborn and her second husband, Owen Higgins, about whom I had little information.   Seaborn came by her unusual but entirely appropriate name because she was born to Richard Tew and his wife, Mary (Clarke) Tew, on the voyage to America in 1640.  Seaborn was the older sister of my 7x great grandfather, Henry Tew, a Deputy Governor of colonial Rhode Island.

My guest piece on the mysteries of the genealogy of Thomas Tew was posted on the featured blog on February 16, 2012 and I then became immersed in other projects on my genealogy “to do” list.  One of the top items on the list was to consider starting my own blog based on inspiration from the featured blog and the invitation to write a guest post there.  My blog, “The Prism,” was born on the very last day of 2012 and one of the earliest posts on The Prism (January 2, 2013) was an approved re-posting of The Genealogical Mystery of Thomas Tew, the Rhode Island Pirate.

Last week I finally contacted the owner of the featured blog to inquire about sharing a full lineage from Seaborn Tew and Owen Higgins to the present.  The response providing the requested lineage arrived within three hours!  After entering the lineage information into my database yesterday, my suspicion was confirmed by the thorough nature of the lineage facts.  The featured blogger I stumbled across due to a lead from Lynn Betlock in The Weekly Genealogist . . . the blogger who had invited me to submit a guest post . . . the blogger who introduced me to the world of genealogy blogging and inspired the creation of The Prism turns out to be my 9^th cousin 1x removed!

And who is this featured blogger and my distant cousin?  She is none other than Heather Wilkinson Rojo, genealogy blogger extraordinaire of Nutfield Genealogy fame!  Heather is the 9x great granddaughter of Richard Tew and Mary (Clarke) Tew through their daughter Seaborn.  I am the 8x great grandson of Richard and Mary (Clarke) Tew through their son Henry.

It is indeed a small, interconnected genealogy world – but this serendipitous discovery is one that in all likelihood would never have been discovered before this new digital golden age of genealogy! 

Heather’s and my lineage from our common ancestors Richard and Mary (Clarke) Tew:

                        Richard Tew                        m.                        Mary Clarke

                        (1605 – 1673)                                                   (1618 – 1687)

1.             Seaborn Tew (b. 1640)

2.             Elnathan Tew (b. 1644)

3.              Mary Tew (b. 1647)

4.             Henry Tew (b. 1654 – d. 1718)

Seaborn Tew m. Owen Higgins                                    Henry Tew m. Dorcas _?_ (2^nd)

Mehitable Higgins m. John Mayhew                              Richard Tew m. Ruth Sisson

John Mayhew m. Ruth Davis                                         William Tew m. Jane Carr

Mary Mayhew m. Caleb Rand                                        John Tew m. Hannah Stafford

Mary Rand m. Asahel Bill                                              John Tew m. Anna Kenyon

Ingraham E. Bill m. Isabella Lyons                                Adam Tew m. Susan A. Walker

Caleb R. Bill m. Ann Margaret Bollman                        John A. Tew m. Margaret Conner

Isabella Lyons Bill m. Albert M. Wilkinson                  Arnold Tew m. Huldah

                                                                                      Hasselbaum [my grandparents]

Donald M. Wilkinson m. Bertha L. Roberts

[Heather’s grandparents]

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The Howard Pyle illustration above is from the Time-Life Seafarers volume, The Pirates (p. 68).

Photographs above of Maidford, Northamptonshire, England; road signs to the three villages known as The Tews in nearby Oxfordshire; and, the Post Office in Great Tew, are by the author, John D. Tew (2004).

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Copyright 2013, John D. Tew

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Saturday Serendipity -- February 9, 2013

Here are a few serendipitous blog discoveries from this week that I commend for inclusion on your reading list.

1.            Judy G. Russell at The Legal Genealogist  has three posts well worth reading.  February 7th, "The Majesty of the Magistrate" explains the office of the magistrate and its interchangability with justice of the peace.  Two excellent posts on February 3 and 4, "Rewriting History Through DNA" & " "And the Answer is . . . " respectively, are fine reads about the discovery and positive identification of King Richard III of England.  Judy explains why both DNA science and genealogical research were needed to solve the problem of positive identification AND why it might not have been possible in just a few more years.  

2.            As New England gets walloped by a winter storm this weekend, it is interesting to read accounts of the big snowstorm that hit New England in January 1831.  Heather Wilkinson Rojo has provided that opportunity at Nutfield Genealogy.  Note that 1831 was a time before snow plows, road salting and fairly reliable predictions that the storm was even on its way.  Also, notice that there is no mention of runs on the grocery stores for eggs, bread, milk and toilet paper as we often

read or hear about these days.  :-)

3.            Having started my schooling in Holyoke, MA in kindergarten at the now non-existent Highland Grammar School, I like to check in from time-to-time at Holyoke, Mass.  The February 7th post about a 1934 furlough without pay of postal carriers and curtailment of delivery service resonates with events today.  The recent announcement of the end of Saturday mail deliveries and the nightly news about the agonizing crawl toward possible furlough without pay of federal civilian workers for up to 22 days between mid-April and October 1st makes this an interesting read.  http://holyokemass.com/2013/02/07/tuesday-mail-service-cut-to-one-delivery  Furloughs without pay and curtailment of government services are apparently nothing new! And note how postal customers in 1934 complained about having carrier deliveries only once a day!

4.            The NEHGS newsletter, The Weekly Genealogist, Vol 16, No. 6 (February 6, 2013), brings attention to an interesting article in an English on-line publication about the search for relatives of Abraham Lincoln in England today.  The English article explains how a Lincoln family dispute back in Hingham, Norfolk, England led to Abraham Lincoln being born in America. http://www.edp24.co.uk/what-s-on/the_hunt_is_on_for_norfolk_people_with_links_to_abraham_lincoln_1_1856953 

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Copyright 2013, John D. Tew

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Friday Fotos – This Old House [551 High Street, Cumberland, Rhode Island]

551 High Street, Cumberland, Rhode Island.
The small extension with the tall chimney is the kitchen.

551 High Street showing the barn beyond the kitchen

My grandmother, Ruth (Cooke) Carpenter, by her flower garden
 at 551 High Street, Cumberland, Rhode Island

The house at 551 High Street in Cumberland, Rhode Island was home to the Miller and Carpenter families for several generations from roughly 1767 until 1963 when my maternal grandmother, Ruth Eaton (Cooke) Carpenter, sold the property after the death of my grandfather, Everett Shearman Carpenter.  The Miller/Carpenter property was located on the east side of High Street immediately south of where Blackstone Street meets High Street.  The property was about 3 - 4 acres in size and was run as a small farm into the late 1800s.

It is presently believed that the first of the Millard/Miller family to live in Cumberland was Daniel Millard and his wife, Hannah Thayer.  Daniel was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts in 1713.  Hannah was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island in 1710.  Their son, Peter Millard, was born in Rehoboth on June 16, 1745.  [At some point Peter changed the spelling of his surname to Miller.]  He married Anne Aldrich in Cumberland on November 13, 1766.   It is believed that Peter and Anne built the house at 551 High Street in approximately 1767.

When the property was sold in 1963, it was originally intended to be the location for a funeral home, but apparently there was neighborhood objection to such a business locating in what was predominantly a residential area.  Ultimately a fire station and community baseball field were located on the property (as pictured immediately below).

Baseball field at the site of the former 551 High Street, Cumberland, RI

Looking north on High Street at the baseball field and
the fire station behind the large tree (center).

My lineage from Daniel Millard and Hannah Thayer . . .

Generation 1:                Daniel Millard m. Hannah Thayer

Generation 2:                Peter Millard/Miller m. Anne Aldrich

Generation 3:                Asquire Miller (1775 – 1825) m. Amey Bishop (1781 – 1864)

Generation 4:                Eber Miller (1805 – 1877) m. Abby Hunt (1807 – 1893)

Generation 5:                Ruth Miller (1828 – 1893) m. Samuel Carpenter (1828 – 1904)

Generation 6:                Samuel Eber Carpenter (1853 – 1929) m. Sarah Freeman (1858 - 1945)                                  

Generation 7:                Everett S. Carpenter (1891- 1962) m. Ruth E. Cooke (1897 – 1979)

                                      . . . my grandparents.

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Copyright 2013, John D. Tew

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Military Monday -- Samuel Carpenter

Samuel Carpenter (1828 - 1904)

My 2X great grandfather, Samuel Carpenter, was born in Rehoboth, Massachusetts in 1828.  He was one of the fourteen children of Joseph and Nancy (Bullock) Carpenter.  He had a twin sister, Jane Buffum Carpenter, who died in 1830 not quite three months shy of three years old.  Sam, his older brother William Wallace Carpenter (b. 1826), and his younger brother Newton Francis Carpenter (b. 1831), were the three brothers (out of nine) who were referred to as “three boys of the most undesirable ages” in Emily Aplin’s November 1842 letter of eviction to Joseph and Nancy Carpenter when she accused Joseph of being a “Dorrite.” [See, the January  14, 2013 posts here and here on The Prism.]

Samuel was thirty-three years old, married to Ruth Ann Miller, and the father of two young children (Samuel Eber b. 1853 and Abby Laura b. 1859) when he was enrolled in Company H, 14^th Regiment of the United States Infantry on July 16, 1861 for three years of service in the Union Army.  He was discharged in Alexandria, Virginia with the rank of Corporal by reason of a “Surgeon’s Certificate of Disability” on January 13, 1863.  There was indication on his discharge paper that he was not fit for re-enlistment.  [Other records indicate that his wound was a gun shot wound to the right thigh contracted in May 1862 at Bull Run, Va.]  The reverse side of his discharge paper states that pursuant to “Act of July 1861” Samuel was paid a $100 bounty “for wounds rec’d in Battle.”  It also states that on July 26, 1886 Samuel was again paid a bounty of $100.  This is despite a notation on the front upper left corner of the discharge paper that sates, “No evidence that wound was rec’d in battle.”

Samuel spent the last ten years of his life living in Togus, Maine at the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.  He died there on December 28, 1904 and his body was shipped home to Cumberland, Rhode Island where he is buried.

The Togus Home for soldiers (often referred to simply as "Togus") began with the purchase of the former Togus Springs Hotel by the federal government in 1866 for $50,000.  It began operations as the “Eastern Branch of the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers” on October 6, 1866.  The name was changed to “National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers” in 1872.  By the time of Samuel’s death there in the closing days of 1904, the population of the facility had peaked at almost 2,800 veterans.  Men who resided there lived mostly in dormitories, although there were cottages for some.

Eastern Branch of the National Asylum
for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers ca. 1891

My lineage from Samuel Carpenter 

Generation 1:    Samuel Carpenter m. Ruth Ann Miller

                          (1) Samuel Eber Carpenter ((1853 - 1929)

                          (2) Abby Laura Carpenter (1859 - 1929)

                          (3) Nancy Bishop Carpenter (1864 - 1928)

Generation 2:    Samuel Eber Carpenter m. Sarah Etta Freeman

                          (1) Ruth Ann Carpenter (1889 - 1920)

                          (2) Everett Shearman Carpenter (1891 - 1962)

Generation 3:    Everett Shearman Carpenter m. Ruth Eaton Cooke

                            (my grandparents)

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For more information on Togus, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togus,_Maine 

Eastern Branch of the National Soldiers Home in Togus, Maine  (1891). Lithograph created by A.B. Graham Co. ca. 1891.  No known restrictions on publication.  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540 USA.  http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003688758/ 

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Copyright 2013, John D. Tew

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Saturday Serendipity -- Ground Hog Day, 2013

This is my version of the popular “Follow Friday” blog prompt where bloggers provide links to posts on other genealogy blogs that they have found interesting, or useful, or both. 

It is not that I am some kind of inveterate contrarian incapable of joining a Follow Friday community, it is just that I have this inconvenient thing called “a job” that prevents me from devoting as much time to genealogy and The Prism as I would like to.

I decided recently to do a series on Fridays that I call Friday Fotos.  I do this series because I am so frequently unsure what my commute home from the office will have in store and consequently how much time I will have to post a blog after decompressing and having a little supper.  Delving into my photo archive and preparing ahead of time a “Foto” with a brief contextual explanation seemed suited to time-challenged Fridays.  By the same logic, Saturdays often allow a more leisurely approach to life and I can post links to some blog posts I have discovered during the week, or even to those discovered during a Saturday morning coffee and extended blog surf.

Here are a few serendipitous blog discoveries from this week that I commend for inclusion on your reading list.

1.            Judy G. Russell at The Legal Genealogist http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog had a very nice post on February 1^st about when a blog crosses the line into commercial territory and thus needs to be very careful about posting borrowed content.

2.            Diane MacLean Boumenot at One Rhode Island Family http://onerhodeislandfamily.com posted an informative piece on her strategy and approach for trying to break through a brick wall.  The post illustrates why persistence is a necessary trait for genealogists.

3.            I have long had an interest in the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and blogged on January 20, 2013 about my grandfather surviving the first wave of the deadly flu.  Heather Wilkinson Rojo at Nutfield Genealogy http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com did the great service of posting a collection of links to blog posts about the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 on her blog yesterday.  The links are on my reading list for today.  Thank you Heather!

4.            In The Weekly Genealogist, Vol 16, No. 4 (January 23^, 2013), the NEHGS newsletter published a brief guest piece by Jason Newton about rediscovering the Old Connecticut Path. http://www.americanancestors.org/enews-2013  The OCP was a route followed by pioneers from Massachusetts Bay to Connecticut.  Jason has a wonderful site documenting his rediscovery of the Path that his ancestors walked to get to Connecticut from the Massachusetts Bay.   

https://sites.google.com/site/oldconnecticutpath

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Copyright 2013, John D. Tew

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Friday Fotos (February 1, 2013) -- Do You Know What This Is??

What is this???

In the days before cigarettes became popular, cigars were all the rage.  And quality cigars were branded and distinguished from stogies by an often colorful silk band or wrapper.  The silk bands were actually used to wrap bundles of cigars.  

Well, bands of such fine material and color could not just be thrown away (especially by famously frugal New England yankees), and so it became fashionable to hand-sew the bands into table covers, scarves, bandanas, kerchiefs, pillow covers and even large quilts.  [See a cigar band quilt here http://content.statelib.wa.gov/cdm/singleitem/collection/enumclaw/id/1791/rec/1] 

As can be seen in the foto at the top, the bands from a number of cigar manufacturers are used to make the bandana-size piece.  What might not be obvious immediately is that many of the bands used in the piece above are from New England cigar manufacturers/merchants.   My cousin, who lives in New England, owns the piece pictured above.  It is probably from the period of the late 1800s to 1910 or so when cigars were hugely popular in the U.S. and, it has been estimated, about 80% of American men smoked cigars.  You can see a similar-sized New England silk cigar band piece here and get some idea of the value of these Victorian era works of art.  http://www.rareamericana.com/rare-id-145836.html  

Does anyone else have examples of these colorful works of art in their families?  If so, please post and link to your photos so we can enjoy more of these. 

  
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Copyright 2013, John D. Tew

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