Heather's Honor Roll Project (Veterans Day 2019) -- Wallingford, CT World War II Memorial Part 4 -- close up panel photos

This past Sunday, November 10, 2019, I contributed to the 2019 call for additions to the Honor Roll project of Heather Rojo.  My contribution for Veterans Day 2019 continued the process of transcribing the hundreds of men and women from the Wallingford, Connecticut area who served their country during World War II (my father being among them).

As the above photograph of the WWII memorial on the grounds of the Wallingford Town Hall illustrates, there are seven panels each with triple columns of the names of those who served. My 2016 Veterans Day post covered many, but nowhere near all, of the names listed on the first panel. The surnames are in alphabetical order across the entire seven panels. 

My post of November 10th, 2016 transcribed and listed all the names on the first panel from George C. Abbott, Jr. to Joseph E. Buza -- 244 names altogether. My Memorial Day 2017 post listed all the surnames on the Wallingford WWII memorial that begin with C through E -- 298 names in all. My Veterans Day post of November 8, 2017 transcribed an additional 317 surnames covering those beginning with F through I and my Veterans Day 2019 post earlier this week added 242 more names covering surnames beginning with J through L.  In keeping with my intent to also post close-ups of the panels containing names I have transcribed and listed, this is the post of panel close-ups to provide photographs of all the surnames that begin with J through L. This is the process that will be followed for the remaining panels over time in order to keep the transcription posts to a manageable size.  The transcribed names will be posted first and photographs of the panel close-ups covering the posted names will follow shortly thereafter.

In past posts of the panel close-ups I think I have neglected to mention that some of the names have a star preceding the inscribed name.  This means that the starred person gave the ultimate sacrifice and died in service during the war.

I am very indebted to my cousin, Bruce Marquardt of Wallingford, for so willingly photographing the panels in close-up for me after my efforts to do so failed.  Thank you Bruce!

The following six panel close-ups cover the names on the Wallingford WWII memorial from Joseph P. Jacob through Harold O. Lynch.  Please note that in order to be sure all names were photographed, the photos overlap and some names are therefore shown twice.  The repeated names can thus be used to orient the precise order of the names from Jacob to Lynch.  The alphabetical order flows down the first column and then up to the top of the second column and finally up to the top of third column on each of the panels. The surnames starting with J begin in the third column of the first close-up Photo No. 1 below. The surnames starting with K begin in the first column of Photo No. 2 and continue down the first column in Photos 3 - 6 before ending in the second column of Photo No. 3.  Surnames starting with L begin in the second column of Photo No. 3 and continue down the second column in Photos 4 - 6 before ending in the third column of Photo No. 3 where the surnames beginning with M start with Allen A. Macfarlane.  The next transcritions for the Honor Roll Project with begin with Allen A. Macfarlane and continue through all the M surnames and onto N and O surnames. 

Photo No. 1

Photo No. 2

Photo No. 3

Photo No. 4

Photo No. 5

Photo No. 6

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All close-up photographs of the panels of the WWII memorial are by Bruce Marquardt of Wallingford, Connecticut.

Photo of the entire memorial is by the author.

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Copyright 2019, John D. Tew

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Heather's Honor Roll Project (Veterans Day 2019) -- Wallingford, CT World War II Memorial Part 4 -- Surnames J through L

Wallingford, Connecticut Town Hall

Tomorrow -- Monday, November 11,  2019 -- is Veterans Day. 

Among the military Honor Roll memorials located in Wallingford, Connecticut on the grounds of the Town Hall is one for those who served (and in some cases died) in World War II. It is by far the most extensive memorial listing of veterans of war who lived in Wallingford.  The list contains hundreds of names -- in fact so many that it will take several posts to get them all transcribed and published. This is the fourth post of names from the Wallingford WWII Memorial and the first since 2017.  A post was not done in 2018 due to our relocation to New Jersey from Virginia.  This resumed listing will cover all the surnames names in alphabetical order from J through L, which comprises 242 names for this post.  With this post, a total of 1,101 names will have been transcribed from the Wallingford, CT World War Two memorial -- and we still have surnames from M through Z to complete! [For the first post listing the 244 surnames from this memorial that begin with A or B, please see the earliest post here.  The second post listing the 298 surnames that begin with C through E can be viewed here.  The third post listing 317 surnames that begin F through I can be viewed here.  ]  

I know that finding a database of transcribed names is one thing for those who are searching for ancestors and relatives, but for those who cannot make a trip to see the actual memorial, a photograph of their family member's name would be a very useful gift for inclusion in a family genealogy; therefore, it is my intention to do a blog post shortly after posting each list of transcribed names to publish the photographs from which I worked to do the transcriptions. Please check back here periodically after you see a listed name of an ancestor or relative in a post and you will then be able to get a photograph of the name in a close-up of the memorial panel containing your family member's name. 

For readers who take the time to scan the names, you will notice that unlike memorials for earlier wars there are a significant number of women listed on this memorial. Also, apart from the sheer number of names on the World War II memorial, one will note the wonderful ethnic diversity of the surnames in the lists. And there are a number of obvious family members listed so that it appears several possible brother, father/son, and cousin combinations are listed.

My father is listed on the World War II memorial in Wallingford since he briefly attended a year of post-high school education at Lyman Hall in Wallingford before he entered Kings Point, the United States Merchant Marine Academy.  Prior to 1957 what is the present Town Hall was the Lyman Hall High School. [1]  I previously posted a close-up of the section of names containing my father's listing here. This post continues the transcription of the hundreds of other names that are honored on the World War II memorial. The transcription posts will be submitted as part of Heather Rojo's wonderful Honor Roll project to create a searchable listing of all U.S. war veterans on memorials erected in this country.

One other point to make on this Veterans Day regarding memorials to World War Two veterans .  .  .

The names on this and other WWII memorials around the country list members of what has often been called "The Greatest Generation."  The names on these memorials recognize the hundreds of thousands of men and women who sacrificed years of their youth or middle age -- and in many cases their very lives -- to combat an undeniable evil.  Since the last post about this memorial, my father died on May 2, 2018.  He was about six months shy of age 96.  He turned 19 years old in November, 1941 and the United States declared war on Japan and Germany on December 8th and December 11th, 1941, respectively.  Before my father turned 20 years old he was attending the United States Merchant Marine Academy at King's Point in Great Neck, Long Island, New York and shortly thereafter he was making voyages to deliver supplies and materiel in the war effort. Today as we commemorate those members of the greatest generation who served and died in WWII, it is important to pause and realize -- with respect to this particular memorial and so many others like it -- that almost all of the men and women enumerated on WWII memorials are no longer with us. If they survived the war, the great majority have lived their lives and passed on. Very, very few remain with us today. Lift a glass tomorrow to all of those who made the ultimate sacrifice and to those who served! 

The World War II memorial on the grounds of the Wallingford Town Hall

The names of the men and women honored on the Wallingford World War II memorial with surnames beginning with J through L are as follows . . .

Joseph P. Jacob                    Paul Jacobowitz                    Edward L. Jacobs

John S. Jakiela                     Walter E. Jakiela                   Edward James

Everett S. James                   Leo F. Janeczek                    Francis E. Janik

John Januszewski                 Henry J. Jasiewicki               Joseph W. Jasinski

William I. Jenkins                    Alex J. Jobbagy                    Frank F. Jobbagy
Louis T. Jobbagy                    William P. Jobbagy                    Frank Jobby
Clarence E. Johnson                Thomas H. Johnson             Walter G. Johnson
John H. Jones                         William T. Judge                   Alexamnder Juhase
Paul Juliff                               Stanley F. Kacprzynski          George W. Kahl
John E. Kahl                          Kenneth F. Kallaway              Peter J. Kamen
Peter Kamen, Jr.                      Stanley M. Kaminski             Andrew Kapi, Jr.
Alexander Karacsonyi, III      John S. Karpie, Jr.                   Robert F. Kast
John Kastukevich                   Nicholas Kastukevich             Thomas F. Kavanough
Alexander Kazersky               John Kelenosy                         Nicholas J. Kelley
Charles R. Kelly                     Robert G. Kelly                       Robert J. Kelly
Savilla M. Kelly                     William J. Kelly                       Norman J. Kelman
Robert T. Kennedy                  Joseph R. Kenney                   James D. Kenny
Nicholas L. Kern                     Ernest G. Kezi                        John Kilar
Albert E. Killen                       Albert E. Killen, Jr.                Arthur J. Killen
John T. Kinell                          William Kinell                       Bertrand A. King
Charles J. King                         Donald J. King                      Edwin J. King
Irving C. King                          Wallace J. King                      Charles P. Kingsland
Anthony V. Kinievich              Alex Kischkum                      Michael Kischkum
Edward J. Kiselewski               George Kish                           Peter J. Kliarsky
William J. Kliarsky                   Joseph Klish                          Bernard Klisky
Clarence J. Knope                     William Knope                      Francis E. Kober
Joseph F. Koblish                      Alexander Koch                    Stephen M. Koch
Alex Kockis, Jr.                         John Kofchur                        Peter J. Kolodziej
Stanley J. Kolodziej                  Walter V. Komerowski         Charles Kondracki
Paul Kondracki                          Edward Konopka                 Frank J. Konopka
Francis F. Konyu                       Steve Konyu                         Walter Korostynski
Alex Kovach                             Bertha Kovach                       Esther E. Kovach
Margaret Kovach                      Alex S. Kovacs                      Andrew F. Kovacs
Andrew S. Kovacs                    Bertha Kovacs                       James G. Kovi
Robert F. Kowalczyk                Edmund F. Kowalski             Julius J. Kowalski
Matthew B. Kowalski               Stanley E. Kowalski              Stanley J. Kowalski
Theodore J. Kowalski               Walter E. Kowalski                Zigmond Kowalski
John S. Kozak                           Thomas W. Kozak                 John Kranyak
Joseph J. Kristan                       Adolph W. Kubacki               Edwin J. Kubeck
George H. Kubeck                     John R. Kubeck                     Joseph F. Kubeck
Stanley J. Kubeck                      Thomas Kubeck                     Thaddeus G. Kuchinski
Joseph J. Kuczo                          Joseph D. Kuczynski             Joseph D. Kudla
Emil H. Kumnick                       Kenneth F. Kumnick             Edward J. Kupiac
Elmer Kurty                               John G. Kurty                         Joseph P. Kurty
Steven Kurty                              Anthony J. Kurylo                  Michael J. Kurylo
Joseph Kuzub                             Joseph W. Kwasniewski        George F. Lacoske
Ernest J. Lacroix                        John F. Lacroix                      Joseph E. Lacroix
Lester E. Lacroix                       William J. Lacroix                  Henry L. Ladd, Jr.
Thomas C. Laden                       William G. Lahey, Sr.             William G. Lahey, Jr.
Frank Lajewski                           John Lajewski                        Kenneth E. Lajoie
Richard B. Lake                         James H. Lamothe                  Harold W. Landow
Sydney S. Landow                     Donald C. Lane                       Emil W. Lange
Henry A. Lanouette, Jr.              James E. Lanouette                 Robert Lanson
Edward G. Lanzoni                    Robert A. Lanzoni                  Walter J. Lanzoni
John C. Lapinski                        Stanley A. Lapinski                 Ted C. Latall
Carl Laterra                                Thomas J. Latham                   Stanley P. Lathrop, Jr.
Edward J. Latournes                   Robert Latournes                    James M. Latto
Edward C. Laville                       Frances E. Lawler                  Alex R. Lawrence, Jr.
Arthur J. Lawrence                     William J. Lawrence               George Lawson
Edward C. Layman                     Edward K. Layman                 George J. Layman
John F. Layman                           John H. Leahy                         Thomas H. Leahy
John W. Leavenworth                 Henry P. Leblanc                      James A. Lee
James V. Lee, Jr.                         Peter Paul Lee                          Raymond J. Lee
Robert J. Lee                               Raymond H. Lefebvre             Edward A. Leibe
William H. Leibe                        Marc R. Lemay                        William W. Lemza
Andrew B. Lenart                       Ernest R. Lendler                     Walter J. Lentz
Harmon C. Leonard                    Robert J. Leonard                     William P. Leonard
Michael J. Lesniak                      Joseph Lesocke                         Edward S. Levack
John J. Levack                            George A. Leveille                    Louis J. Leveille
Walter E. Leveille                       John J. Lewis                             Robert L. Lewis
Paul A. Lidtke                            Bernard J. Lindauer, Jr.              Bernard J. Lindauer, Sr.
Robert H. Lindauer                    Edwin G. Lobb                           Kenneth G. Lobb
Robert Lobb                               Emil T. Lochowski                     Thaddeus C. Lochowski
William Logvin                          John M. Loin                              Joseph M. Loin
Peter Loin                                   Joseph J. Lombardi                    Angelo P. Losi
Louis Losi                                   Benjamin F. Loudon                  Edward R. Loudon
Emil J. Lovisone                         Anna M. Luby                           John W. Luby
Walter J. Luby                             William E. Luby, Jr.                  Jerry J. Lucas
Raoul F. Lufberry                        Michael Lukas                          Jeremiah Lunney
John B. Luparia                           Alfred J. Lussier                       Arthur J. Lussier
William J. Lussier                       Harold O. Lynch



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[1]  Lyman Hall (1724 - 1790) was born in Wallingford and served as a representative to the Continental Congress from Georgia.  He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and later served as a Governor of Georgia.

Photographs of the extensive list of names on the World War II memorial in Wallingford, Connecticut were provided to me for transcription by my cousin, Bruce O. Marquardt, of Wallingford.  This transcription contribution would not have been possible without Bruce's very kind and willing efforts to make sure I had legible photos from which to do the transcriptions.  THANK YOU BRUCE!
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Copyright 2019, John D. Tew
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Saturday Serendipity (November 9, 2019)

Below are some suggested reads for this weekend.

1.  DNA profiles can be faked??  This week James Tanner of Genealogy's Star blog posts about why this is possible based on an article in Forensic Science International: Genetics (FSI Genetics).  You can read the post here and get a link to the FSI Genetics article.  The post also references a New York Times piece about fabrication of DNA evidence.  You can check the NYT piece where a lead scientist states that with access to a DNA profile in a database, "You can just engineer a crime scene. Any biology undergraduate could perform this."  You can see the NYT article here.

2.  A new Guinness  World Record has been announced -- the oldest living married couple in the world.  Go here to see a photo of the couple and learn how long they have been married, their present ages, and where they live.

3.  Janine Adams of Organize Your Family History blog is asking for input from other genealogists on the subject of her upcoming Roots Tech presentation on the subject of perfectionism as an impediment to progress in genealogy research.  Learn more here and see how you can comment and perhaps assist Janine in preparing her talk titled, "The Imperfect Genealogist."

4.  And there is another blogger this week who would appreciate any assistance other genealogists could lend.  Laura Mattingly of The Old Trunk in the Attic blog periodically posts old photos that need information about the identity of those in the picture.  Laura would like to not only identify those in the photos, she would like to reunite the photo with existing descendants.  See Laura's latest orphan photo here and get a link to past photos also needing assistance.

5.    The Legal Genealogist, Judy Russell, posted another thought provoking useful piece this week titled, "When it's not online."  Go here to read Judy's post and the list of alternatives she suggests when a source document one needs is not available on the web. [N.B. As is often the case, readers should also pay attention to the comments made on this post.]

6.  There are many stories now about the amazing discoveries that DNA technology and commercial testing have made possible.  People magazine had one such story recently and The Weekly Genealogist of NEHGS linked to it this week.  You can read the article here.  It involves a man who found the biological parents he thought died 50 years ago.

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Copyright 2019, John D. Tew
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A Goose Here, A Goose There Every Day, But Never The Elusive Moose! -- Friday Fotos (November 8, 2019)

In the early 1970s, Molly's parents bought a lakeside Adirondack "camp"[1] out Mt. Whitney Rd. on Lake Placid.  They had the camp for just over three decades.  Our sons went up there every summer from the year each was born until the early 2000s when the camp was donated to Cornell University (where both of Molly's parents attended undergraduate and/or graduate school).

Molly's parents' camp on Lake Placid

The Adirondack Park in upstate New York is a gem of protected nature and wilderness.  It encompasses about a third of New York State's total land mass. [2]  It is unique within the United States.  The Park was created by the state legislature in 1892 and now comprises about 9,375 square miles (six-million acres) of northern woodlands and lakes.  This means the Park is about the size of the state of Vermont and it is three times the size of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming; in fact it is larger in size than Yellowstone, Everglades, Glacier, and Grand Canyon National Park combined!  The park is a combination of both public and private land and more than half of its land mass is privately owned.  About 45% of the land has been designated as "forever wild" in the New York state constitution.  The private land is committed to 105 towns and villages, farms, businesses, etc.  The year round population in the Park is around 130,000 and another 200,000 seasonal residents arrive in the summer.  About 10 million people visit the Adirondack Park each year and unlike national parks there are no entrance toll booths and no fees for entering the Park.

The Adirondack Park -- especially in the forever wild areas and in areas that have not been over developed with camps -- has a wide variety of wildlife.  Over the years we have seen deer, coyotes, beavers, otters, eagles, black bears, a Great Horned owl, loons, Canada geese, herons, skunks, hawks, and other wildlife too numerous to list here.  But, despite the numerous signs such as the one below warning of moose in the area -- and our constant vigilant eyes when in "moosy areas" -- we never saw a moose in the wild .  .  . until this past August when we visited Molly's sister Kathy who lives in Saranac Lake, NY.

A typical Adirondack roadside sign warning of moose habit ahead

When we arrived in the late afternoon, Kathy announced as soon as we pulled into her driveway that a moose had been sighted numerous times in late afternoon feeding in the shallows on the banks of the Saranc River north of the village.  She had seen it and so we got back into the cars and went off to finally find and see an Adirondack moose.

It is estimated that there are only between 500 and 700 moose in the entire state of New York, but the only population outside the Park is near Lake Desolation south of Great Sacandaga Lake, which is in the southern-most part of the Park.  With that said, sightings of an Adirondack moose are rare and in more than 40 years of trying to see one we failed until this past August!  They are out there, but they are basically very shy and not comfortable near human populations.  Yet, the greatest danger to the moose is collisions with fast-moving vehicles on roads in the Park.  Luckily for us, the five most likely places within the Park to see a moose include the Saranac Lake area (the other four are Vermontville, Limekiln Lake -- Cedar River Road,  and Lake Lila).

We drove slowly up along the Saranac River a couple of times and finally on the last pass Kathy spotted the moose.  We parked and walked back on the shoulder of the road.  I was armed with my digital camera and two telephoto lenses.  Below is the result .  .  . FINALLY!  😊😊

      

Three views of the real Adirondack moose in the wild finally caught on camera

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[1]   In the Adirondacks a lakeside or woodland cabin is often referred to as a "camp" rather than a cottage or even a cabin.  The so-called "Great Camps" were not the summer camps for children that we most often think of when talking about camps today.  Instead, a Great Camp was a lakeside, grandiose compound of a main residence and associated cabins for guests to sleep in or for other uses.  One Great Camp even had an outdoor bowling alley with a roof and open sides.  The Great Camps were mostly built in the late 1800s and early 1900s as summer homes for the wealthy to enjoy cooler weather, swimming, boating, fishing and other activities in nature's wilderness areas.  [For more info on Great Camps see, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Camps]  As the lakes and woods of the Adirondacks developed, just as "a man's home became his castle," the later more modest summer homes on a lake or out in the woods became known as a "camp" rather than a cottage or cabin."

[2]  See https://parks.ny.gov/regions/adirondack/default.aspx

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Saturday Serendipity (November 2, 2019)

The following are recommended reads for this weekend.

1.  The Weekly Genealogist of NEHGS highlights a "Story of Interest" this week from Smithsonian.com about the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University in California and a project to preserve a million war letters.  You can read the article here. 

2.  Much as we all know that we should back-up our genealogy files, it is instructive and a good reminder tool to read the frequent stories and blog posts about the failure to back-up.  This week Russell Worthington of Family Tree Maker User blog shares his experience with a version of FTM when he discovered that his source citations were gone.  It is a back-up caution tale, but "Cousin Russ" also explains his plan for rectifying the situation.  You can read the original post here and then read his updates as he posts them.

3.  With Halloween occurring this past week, there was a plethora of posts on the subject.  Janice Brown of Cow Hampshire: New Hampshire's History Blog posted "An 1873 New Hampshire Halloween" that describes the Scottish Halloween tradition of Hallowmas.  Janice also helpfully appends an explanation of "Halloween Sports and Customs" that appeared in an 1885 volume of Harper's Young People Magazine.  You can read the post and addendum here.

4.   For those of us who like to use our devices until they are worn out or we are forced by the technology giants to update/renew or die, Apple has been publicizing a warning regarding older iPads and iPhones (those from 2012 or earlier).  Genealogy's Star author James Tanner obligingly posted a good explanation of the notice with helpful instructions.  If you think this warning might affect you and you do not want to lose the ability to connect to the internet on an affected device, you better read the post here.  You have to act before  midnight UTC on November 3rd (meaning midnight tonight)!  Mr. Tanner also has a new series called "Photography basics for Genealogists" that is interesting and useful.  You can read the first installment here and then check out Part 2 from this past week here.

5.  Judy Russell, The Legal Genealogist, had a post this week that illustrates a few lessons.  Her primary point for the post was to give an example of why one should always consider local jurisdiction laws a valuable research tool.  Another implicit lesson could be the need for caution in accepting indexing transcriptions when the transcription is unfamiliar and the handwriting is not easily read by you.  Judy's example is an index transcription of a woman's occupation as a "Public Shafter."  The handwriting and spelling leave much to be desired, but to me it clearly did not say "Public Shafter."  In fact it looked to me like the handwriting was three words not two.  See what you think before reading down to the ultimate reveal in the comments (with which I agreed) and keep this one in mind next time you come across indexing transcriptions that just do not look right. Read the post here. 

6.  Did you know that you can have your immigrant ancestors' names carved into the Ellis Island Wall of Honor?  I did not know that this was possible until I read a post by Marian Wood of Climbing My Family Tree blog this week.  There is a cost associated with ordering an ancestor's name to be carved into the wall and, as Marian informs us, there are only five panels left in the memorial wall.  If you have immigrant ancestors, you might want to read Marian's post here.

7.  This week Barbara Poole of Life From the Roots blog celebrated 10 years of blogging, 30 years of doing genealogy, and 50 years of life with her travel companion, genealogy partner, and husband.  Read about these ongoing adventures here.  

8.  And finally, reminders for two annual November events by genealogy bloggers.  Heather Rojo of Nutfield Genealogy is also the originator of the Honor Roll Project to gather the names from all war memorials and honor rolls to be put into a searchable database.  Read about the project and an explanation of how to take part by going to Heather's notice posted here.  There is just over a week left to participate in the Veteran's Day posts.  Bill West of West in New England blog hosts an annual genealogy poetry challenge.  You can read about how to participate by going here.  Bill posts the submissions on Thanksgiving Day (November 28th this year), but he needs your submission by on or by November 21st!

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Friday Fotos -- Three generations of Cider Fun (November 1, 2019)

Freshly washed drops ready to make into apple cider.

Last weekend we gathered "drops" at a local pick-your-own apple orchard.  Drops are those apples that have dropped from the trees due to wind, wildlife foraging for apples, or people who dislodge apples while apple picking and then do not want to pick up apples that have touched the ground OR have picked a blemished apple and upon realizing it simply drop the apple and pick another unblemished one.  Many drops are perfectly fine apples or merely blemished.  They are excellent apples for making cider because the chopped apples are caught in a filter bag before crushing and therefore stems, leaves, blemished skins, etc., are caught and do not make it into the juice runoff.  More importantly, drops are usually sold at a much lower cost than pick-your-own prices ($3.00/basket as opposed to $1.25/pound at our local orchard).  Many, if not most, apple orchards are happy to have drops cleaned up by hunters who use apples as bait or cider makers who don't mind blemished apples or apples that have been sitting on the ground.

Getting apples for cider with our two granddaughters.

Today Molly and I and our daughter-in-law with our two granddaughters made some cider on a manual press that has been in the family for decades.  Our granddaughters are the third generation to make gallons of homemade, unadulterated autumn apple cider.  It seems it is becoming a Tew family tradition.

The girls crushing the apple mash to make the fresh cider.

In the above photo, apples have been placed in the black hopper at the top center of the press.  The wheel to the left was then turned so that the drum with metal teeth inside the hopper grabs and chops up the apples into a mash that then drops through the bottom of the hopper into the filter bag in the round, wood-slatted basket.  The girls are lowering a long screw that will then press a wooden block inside the basket against the apple mash to squeeze the juice out of the fruit mash and .  .  .  produce the wonderfully fresh apple cider that is shown running out of the collection tray into a stainless steel pot before it is divided into half gallon plastic jugs.

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All photos by Pamela Winkler Tew.

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Witch and Warlock?? -- How a Genealogy Journal Article Led to an Accused Witchy Woman and Her Warlock Husband Hiding in My Genealogy (October 28, 2019)

                          

I've been waiting for an appropriate time to post this recent genealogy discovery and, given the subject matter, the month of October seems to be just right.  The timing also coincides with two items on this blog in recent Saturday Serendipity posts: (1) Item #7 in the September 28th Saturday Serendipity noting a New England Folklore story related to the Salem Witch Trials; and (2) Item #1 in the September 21st Saturday Serendipity about the value of reading academic genealogy journals published by various genealogical organizations.  This post gives me the opportunity to weave together items of interest from some Saturday Serendipity posts with recent probable additions to my genealogy.

The story begins with the fact that one of my 4th great grandmothers is Amey Bishop.  Amey was born in Cumberland, Rhode Island on April 22, 1781.  She married Asquire/Asquare Miller before 1800 when the first of their children, Aurin Miller, was born on April 22, 1800 (his mother's birthday).  Amey died in Cumberland on October 31, 1864.  Both Amey [Bishop] Miller and her husband Asquare/Asquire Miller are buried in Rhode Island Historical Cemetery, Cumberland 3 [1]   located on Dexter Street  in Cumberland, RI.  The cemetery is a short walk from what was the Miller homestead at 551 High Street (also now known as Rte. 114) in Cumberland.

    

Amey [nee Bishop] Miller's parents were Naamon/Namon Bishop and his wife, Hannah [nee Grant] Bishop. Hannah [Grant] Bishop (1753 - 1805) is also interred at Rhode Island Historical Cemetery, Cumberland 3.

Cumberland Cemetery 3 was incorporated by an Act of the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1870. Among the eight incorporators of the cemetery was Eber Miller (1805 - 1877), my 3x great grandfather and the son of Amey [Bishop] Miller (1781 - 1864) and Asquire Miller (1775 - 1825).   Eber Miller and his wife, Abby Hunt (1807 -1893) are also interred in Cumberland Cemetery 3.  I have known for some time about my Bishop ancestors and that they are interred in the historical Cumberland Cemetery 3 along with several of my Miller and Carpenter ancestors and relatives. [2]  

As many genealogists habitually do, I review all the genealogy journals I receive as a result of membership in genealogy organizations, and I peruse other genealogy journals I come across in libraries or elsewhere.  Whenever I browse such journals, the first thing I am looking for is surnames that I know are in my genealogy.  It is not often that I come across a familiar surname that appears to deserve additional attention and research to determine if there is a family connection, but recently I did just that with the Bishop surname.

Because of my Bishop ancestors, when I received the Winter 2019 issue of The Register the first item that caught my eye in the table of contents was the article by Nancy R. Stevens, "Edward Bishop (ca. 1618 - 1697) of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts." [3]  

The goal of the Nancy Stevens article (hereafter "Stevens") was to further clarify the confusion found in the well-known work, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey.  Torrey's original compilation of marriages lists a total of five Edward Bishops who lived at one time in Salem, Massachusetts. Three of the five Edward Bishops are designated as Edward [1] and the two others are designated as Edward [2] and Edward [3], respectively. [4]  The Third Supplement to Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Melinde Lutz Sanborn (2003) adds yet another Edward Bishop who is noted as being "not Edward [1]."  The Supplement addition of the Edward Bishop who was not the same as Torrey's Edward [1] was undoubtedly based on the 1981 - 1982 work of David L. Greene [5] who established that a sawyer named Edward Bishop married Bridget Playfer/Wasselbe/Oliver in Salem sometime before 1680.  As both Greene and Robert Charles Anderson [6] noted, Bridget Playfer/Wasselbe/Oliver/Bishop had the unfortunate fate to be the first person executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials.  Torrey had originally (and erroneously) attributed the marriage of "Bridget (Warsilbe) (Oliver)" as the second marriage of Edward [1], widower of Hannah Bishop.  [Stevens also points out in her article that the third marriage Torrey originally attributed to Edward [1] -- that to Elizabeth (Lambert) Cash -- "is probably for Edward the sawyer as well."]

In reading and re-reading the Stevens article, it was the carefully documented story of Edward [1] that grabbed my attention and sent me to my maternal Carpenter/Miller/Bishop line to do further research on my 4th great grandmother, Amey Bishop's, paternal genealogy.  The Stevens article had as its central purpose the indentification of "records created by or about Edward [1] Bishop and [to] present a genealogical summary of his children and grandchildren."  My purpose was to try to work backwards from Amey's parents to see if her genealogy (and thus mine) connected to Edward [1], and particularly his son Edward [2] who left Salem and moved to Rehoboth, Massachusetts where he was an innkeeper until he died in Rehoboth on May 12, 1711. 

The presence of Edward [2] and his wife Sarah in Rehoboth was of great interest to me because my 2x great grandfather, Samuel Carpenter, was born in Rehoboth as were both his parents and all his male line back five additional generations.  Samuel Carpenter (1828 - 1904) married Ruth Ann Miller (1828 - 1893) of Cumberland, Rhode Island who was the granddaughter of Amey [Bishop] Miller and her husband, Asquire/Asquare Miller.  And Amey Bishop's father, Naamon Bishop, was born in Rehoboth in 1746.    

The basic biography for Edward [1] was summarized by Stevens as follows: "Edward [1] Bishop was born about 1618 (age in 1680 and 1681), probably in England, and died by 7 November 1697, probably in Beverly, where he lived.  He married probably in Salem about 1645, Hannah _____."

Through careful analysis of the record trail left by Edward [1], Stevens established his presence in Salem and then Beverly from about 1641 until his death in 1697.  Edward [1] and his wife Hannah had three children (two daughters and one son) who were all baptised in Salem: Hannah Bishop married Wiliam Raymond and had five children; Edward [2] Bishop married Sarah Wild and had eleven children; and Mary Bishop married Robert Coburn and had eleven children.

All of the eleven children of Edward [2] Bishop and his wife Sarah [Wild] Bishop were born in either Salem or Beverly, Massachusetts according to the Stevens article.  But only two of their nine sons had any stated connection to Rehoboth -- Jonathan Bishop, who married Abigail Averill, died in Rehoboth in February 1752, and John Bishop, who married twice, died in Rehoboth in September 1748.  So the question for me became, "Did Amey [Bishop] Miller's father Naamon Bishop, who was born in Rehoboth, have any genealogical connection to either Jonathan Bishop (abt. 1675 - 1752) or his younger brother John Bishop (1689 - 1748) and thus to Edward [2] Bishop and his wife Sarah [Wild] Bishop who moved to Rehoboth in 1703?" 

Naamon Bishop's parents were Gould Bishop (born 1703 in Beverly) and Mary [Pullen] Bishop (1712 in Rehoboth - 1756).  Gould Bishop's parents (and thus Naamon's grandparents and Amey [Bishop] Miller's great grandparents) were .  .  .  Jonathan Bishop and his wife Abigail [Averill] Bishop!  And so the answer to my question is that there was a genealogical connection between my 4x great grandmother Amey [Bishop] Miller and both Edward [2] Bishop and his father Edward [1] Bishop.  It appears that Edward [2] Bishop and Sarah [Wild] Bishop are my 8x great grandparents.

So why did the possibility of this genealogical connection back to Edward [1] and Edward [2] interest me so much?  It is because both of these Edward Bishops lived in Salem, Massachusetts during the period of February 1692 to May 1693 when the Salem witch trials occurred.  During that time more than 200 people were accused and 19 were found guilty and executed by hanging (14 women and 5 men).  In addition, one man was crushed to death for refusing to plead and five other people died in jail. [7]

Neither Edward [1] nor his wife Hannah were among the accused during the Salem witchcraft hysteria even though both of them signed a petition in defense of Rebecca Nurse.  Tragically, Rebecca was nonetheless executed on July 19, 1692 for witchcraft involving the killing of seven babies supposedly by using her spirit!

Edward [2] and his wife, Sarah [Wild/Wildes] Bishop daughter of John and Priscilla [Gould] Wild, were not so lucky because both of them were accused of witchcraft and imprisoned in the spring of 1692!  They were transferred to the jail in Boston, but escaped in October 1692. [8]  Eventually they removed to Rehoboth where Edward [2] became an innkeeper.  Both of them died in Rehoboth.  Their son Jonathan Bishop, a sadler, also died in Rehoboth and he and his wife, Abigail [Averill] Bishop, had a son Gould Bishop (who appears to have been named after his great grandmother, Priscilla [Gould] Wild).  Gould Bishop married Mary Pullen in Rehoboth on March 15, 1733 and the second of their three sons was Naamon Bishop born in Rehoboth on January 24, 1746.  Naamon married Hannah Grant in Cumberland, Rhode Island on December 24, 1778.  Naamon and Hannah had two daughters -- Nancy Bishop [9] and Amey Bishop.  As mentioned at the top of this post, Hannah [Grant] Bishop is buried in Cumberland Cemetery 3 and so is her daughter Amey, who is buried with her husband Asquire/Asquare Miller [10]. 

And so, with Halloween and depictions of witches and warlocks popping up on lawns, in stores, and in the costumes of trick-or-treating children, 'tis the season to contemplate the existence of witchcraft.  While I do not believe my 8th great grandparents were a witch and warlock couple, clearly some in Salem, Massachusetts in the spring of 1692 believed they were and accused them of such fabricated evil.  The accusations were taken seriously enough by the supposedly godly powers that governed Salem and nearby communities, that Edward [2] Bishop and his wife Sarah were imprisoned to await trial and possible execution -- but they were fortunate enough to escape and live a full life in Rehoboth, Massachusetts!  

All of the above having been said, however, perhaps I might reconsider if a witch and warlock are sitting in my geneaology IF on Halloween night either of my young granddaughters twitches her nose and things start flying about the room.

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[1]  See the six-part series on Cumberland Cemetery 3 beginning with the initial post of May 20, 2016 and the documents and photos presented there.

[2]  As explained in my blog series on Cumberland Cemetery 3, my mother's father (my maternal grandfather), Everett S. Carpenter (1891 - 1962), was the last Secretary/Treasurer of the Cumberland Cemetery and it was from him that all the documents relating to the Cumberland Cemetery eventually came to me so that the information and names contained in them could be published and shared with others.  See also, John D. Tew, "Discoveries About Cumberland Cemetery 3," Rhode Island Roots, Journal of the Rhode Island Genealogical Society, 43 (December 2017): 211 - 226.

[3]  Nancy R. Stevens, "Edward Bishop (ca. 1618 - 1697) of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register -- The Journal of American Genealogy 173 (Winter 2019): 52 - 65.

[4]  With respect to Edward [2] and Edward [3], Stevens observes that the one entry in Torrey's original compilation for each of these Edwards "have stood the test of time" and they are the son of Edward [1] and the grandson of Edward [1] respectively.

[5]  David L. Greene. "Salem Witches I: Bridget Bishop," The American Genealogist 57 (1981): 129 - 138; 58 (1982): 163.

[6]  Robert Charles Anderson, "Bridget (Playfer) (Wasselbe)(Oliver) Bishop: Her Origin and First Husband," The American Genealogist 64 (1989): 207.

[7]  See, "Salem witch trials" at Wikipedia.

[8]  See, "Edward Bishop (Salem witch trials)" at Wikipedia.

[9]  My 2x great grandfather, Samuel Carpenter (who married Ruth Ann Miller, daughter of Eber Miller), had tthree children: my great grandfather Samual Eber Carpenter and his two sisters Abby Laura Carpenter, and Nancy Bishop Carpenter.  Nancy Bishop Carpenter was named after her great grandmother Amey [Bishop] Carpenter's sister, Nancy Bishop.

[10]  My Miller ancestors in Cumberland, Rhode Island also originally came from Rehoboth.  The Millard/Miller family had been living there for four generations when Peter Miller (who was born in Rehoboth) married Anne Aldrich of Cumberland in November 1766 and relocated to Cumberland.  It was Peter Miller who built (sometime around 1767) what became the Miller/Carpenter homestead on High Street in Cumberland. 

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Saturday Serendipity (October 26, 2019)

1.     Since the month of October is on the wane and temperatures are dropping in many areas of the country, it is the time of year to talk about "when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock."  If you have never read the poem that is the source for the fall expression "the frost is on the pumpkin," then Bill West of West in New England blog has done the favor of posting James Whitcomb Riley's entire poem this week.  You can read it here.

2.     I'm not the only one who has wondered just how Randy Seaver keeps up the blogging pace he has maintained for years.  At some point I even wondered if Randy had a secret staff that read and fed him articles, posts, and links for all the amazing content he manages to include on his blog.  This week Randy responded to the specific inquiry of some other John (not me) about how he gathers his weekly Best of the Genea-Blogs and his bi-weekly Genealogy News Bytes.  It turns out Randy does not have a hidden staff and he reveals his secret in a post this week that you can read here.

3.     With Halloween a mere five days from today, an interesting post was contributed this week by Peter Muise of New England Folklore blog.  Peter explains about special names associated with the actual Day of Halloween and the few nights before Halloween.  The author's mother remembers that in the 1940s there were three nights associated with Halloween in Haverhill, Massachusetts!  I lived in Salem Depot, NH and then Concord, NH in the late 1950s through 1965 and I only recall Halloween as the night of October 31st.  The worst thing associated with Halloween in Concord was the older teens who stole candy from younger kids.  Back then, many of us used old cloth pillow cases as our bags for collected candy.  Teenagers with no costumes except some kind of mask would come up and talk nicely asking if we had any good candy, etc. and then in a flash they would knife our bags so the candy scattered.  They quickly collected the best of the candy they could locate.  It was dangerous and outright mean.  But when my family moved to south central New Jersey I was exposed to "Mischief Night," which was the night before Halloween when kids would egg houses, throw toilet paper into trees, soap car windows, spray shaving cream all over anything they desired, and commit other acts of vandalism such as smearing fudge or butterscotch toppings on house picture windows.  I guess the grocery stores saw exploding sales of eggs, TP, shaving cream, soap bars, and dessert toppings in the days before the week of Halloween, but home owners hated it and often stood watch over their properties until past midnight -- and that in many cases just added to the challenge.   Read about the special names associated with the time of Halloween by reading "Pickets, Cabbages, and the Pigman: Halloween Lore" by going here.

4.     They say that drinking warm milk can help one fall asleep.  But what does drinking warm goat milk the way Heather Wilkinso Rojo illustrates in a family photograph do for someone?  Perhaps it is what one does after having a lot of wine with your friends? 😀  See Heather's funny Photo Friday here.  [Oh, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Heather.]

5.     This week Judy Russell, The Legal Genealogist,  posted a very interesting photo of an unknown antique device.  Have a look here first and then scroll down to read the comments.

6.     At some point all genealogists come to learn about the extremely sorrowful destruction of the 1890 Federal Census "due to a fire in the building where the records were stored."  And that usually is as far as the explanation goes.  This week The Weekly Geneaologist of NEHGS provided a link to an article that gives us all a more detailed explanation of the loss of the 1890 Census due to two fires (1896 & 1921).  You can read it here.

7.     And finally, most genealogists are fascinated by photographs (and especially old photographs).  Another "Story of Interest" highlighted in The Weekly Genealogist by NEHGS is an article titled "19 Of The Oldest Photographs From The History of Photography."  Have a look here.

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