Monthly Archives: January 2019

Happy 247th Birthday, GGGG Grandmother Jenks!🎂🎈🎈🎈🎈

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Pat Shaul

On 25 January 1772, in Norton, Massachusetts, Prudence White was born to Nathaniel and Mehitable Morey White.   At the age of 21, Prudence married Laban Jenks on 22 September 1793, in Cheshire, Massachusetts.  Grandparents Jenks were the parents of 14 … Continue reading →

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Life was hard for early settlers …

Posted on January 11, 2019 by Pat Shaul

My 11th great grandfather, Edward Fuller, is reported to have died shortly after this date, 11 January, in 1621.  Having arrived with the first sailing of the Mayflower with his wife and 12 year old son, Samuel (my 10 times … Continue reading →

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Still miss you, Grandpa Lee!

Posted on January 10, 2019 by Pat Shaul

Lee Norton Goodliff Weaver was born May 15, 1893, in Columbus, Ohio, to Lemuel and Effie Lee Weaver.   It did not take long after starting school that he would forever drop the use of the first of his middle names … Continue reading →

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Uncle Norman (1811-1885)

Posted on January 5, 2019 by Pat Shaul

  Norman Lee, my 4th great uncle, passed away 134 years ago on 5 January 1885 in Mason, Ingham County, Michigan.  Uncle Norman was born 28 November 1811, in West Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York to William and Mary Summers … Continue reading →

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Remembering 8 times great grandfather, Joseph Jenks, Jr.

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Pat Shaul

302 years ago, 4 January 1717, my 8 times great , Joseph Jenks, Jr. died in Pawtucket, Providence County, Rhode Island.  He was English born in 1627 and joined his father, Joseph Jenks, Sr. (the inventor) in Saugus, Massachusetts, at … Continue reading →

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Happy 227th Anniversary, Grandfather and Grandmother Botsford!🥂

Posted on January 3, 2019 by Pat Shaul

It was 3 January 1792, in Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, that my 4 times great grandparents, Simeon Botsford and Esther Clark married.  Simeon was born 11 June 1763 in Derby, New Haven County, Connecticut, to John and Dorcas Warren Botsford.  … Continue reading →

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Happy 157th Anniversary,Grandma and Grandpa Gardner!

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Pat Shaul

On January 1, 1862, in Hartford, Connecticut, my great, great grandparents, William G. Gardner and Mary Ann Cummings were married.  This was the second of four marriages for Grandpa Gardner, born Wilhelm Gotthartd Gaertnter in Kleiningersheim, Württemburg on  10 March … Continue reading →

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