Category Archives: Genealogy

Happy 326th Birthday, Grandpa Isham!🎈🎁🎂

It was on 7 February 1693 in Barnstable, Massachusetts, that Isaac Isham was born to John and Jane Parker Isham.   Isaac was my 7 times great grandfather.  Isaac married Abigail Lambert on 3 May 1716, also in Barnstable.  Those Cape … Continue reading

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

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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Still miss you, Grandpa Lee!

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)

  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.

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!🥂

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!

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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163 Years Ago, Charles Norton Lee and Esther Jenks were married.

On Christmas Day, 1855, my great, great grandparents,  Charles Norton Lee and Esther Jenks, were married in the the home of her parent, Morris and Almira Botsford Jenks, in Southfield, Oakland County, Michigan.   Charles (13 March 1833 – 23 October 1905) … Continue reading

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Happy 218th Birthday, Grandfather Lee!🎈 🎂

On 5 December 1800, my three times great grandfather, Horatio Lee, was born in Guilford, Connecticut, to William and Mary Summers Lee.  The family migrated West from Connecticut, stopping in New York, and while in West Bloomfield, Ontario County, New … Continue reading

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It is # 222 for 4 times Great Grandparents Munn!

222 years ago on 26 November 1796, in Gill, Massachusetts, Noah Munn, Jr. and Mercy Simons were wed.  Noah was born on 10 May 1772 in Northfield, Massachusetts to Noah Munn, Sr. and Desire Hitchcock.  He died 13 May 1821 … Continue reading

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