Documents for Kari's Ancestors

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

George Patten History from History of Utah

This history of George Patten was obtained from World Vital Records in pdf. I had to make a picture of them to put on the blogs. I hope you can read them.

Sunday, June 9, 2013

1851 English Census for Joseph Booth Family

1851 English Census for Joseph and Ann Pennington Booth

Civil Parish of Breightmet, County of Lancashire, Country of England

Last family on the page

Images acquired from Ancestry.com

Sunday, June 2, 2013

1870 Census for Thomas Tew, Sr. family

1870 Census for Thomas and Hannah Smith Tew, Sr. Family

Living in Springville, Utah, Utah Territory

Line # 16-21

Note: Surname faint and listed as Tevi. Hannah listed as Anna

Image acquired from Heritage QuestOnline

1841 English Census for Thomas Tew, Sr. family

1841 English Census for Thomas and Hannah Smith Tew, Sr. Family

Living in St. Martin, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England

Right side about half way down

Surname listed as Tea

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1851 English Census for Thomas Tew, Sr. family

1851 English Census for Thomas and Hannah Smith Tew, Sr. family

Living in Parish of Birmingham; Ecclesiastical District of St. Lukes;

Borough of Birmingham:

No. of house holder’s schedule: 178;

Name of Street: do do (Bissell Street);

Thomas Tew, Sr's occupation is listed as Carter

A carter carries or converys goods in a cart.

Last family on the page

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1880 Census for Thomas Tew, Sr. and Thomas Tew, Jr. families

1880 Census for Thomas and Hannah Smith Tew, Sr. family

Living in Springville, Utah, Utah Territory

Line # 38-40

1880 Census for Thomas and Rebecca Bird Tew, Jr. family

Living in Springville, Utah, Utah Territory

Line # 29-35

Image acquired from Heritage QuestOnline

Thursday, May 30, 2013

1861 English Census for Joseph Booth family

1861 English Census for Joseph and Ann Pennington Booth

Living in Holly Bank, Radcliffe, Lancashire, England

Family number 184 (about 6 lines from the top)

Images acquired from Findmypast.co.uk

Sunday, May 19, 2013

1920 Census for Irena Carter Chatwin

1920 Census for William Albert Chatwin and family

Living in Santaquin, Utah, Utah

Line #94-100

1920 Census for Irena Carter Chatwin

Living with son William Albert Chatwin and family

Living in Santaquin, Utah, Utah

Line #1-2

Census images obtained from Family Search

1910 Census for Irena Carter Chatwin

Living in Santaquin, Utah, Utah

Line #24

Image acquired from Heritage Quest Online

1900 Census for Irena Carter Chatwin

1900 Census for William and Irena Carter Chatwin

Listed with surname: Chadwin

Living in Santaquin, Utah, Utah

Line#75-78

Image acquired from Family Search

1870 Census for Irena Carter German

1870 for Irena Carter Jerman

Listed as Irene German

Living in Mona, Juab, Utah Territory

Line #1-3

Image acquired from Family Search

Friday, May 17, 2013

1870 Census for William Furlsbury Carter

1870 Census for William Furlsbury and Sarah York Carter

Living in Santaquin, Utah, Utah Territory

Line #35-38

Image acquired from Heritage Quest Online

1850 Census for William Furlsbury Carter Family

1850 Census for William Furlsbury and Sarah York Carter

and Roxena Mecham Carter Families

Living in District No. 24

Pottawatomie, Iowa

Line # 32-42

Hannah Knight Libby Carter listed with son John Carter #31

Roxena Mecham listed as Roxy Mincom #41

Irena #42

Image acquired from Ancestry.com

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Joseph Booth and Ann Pennington Marriage Record

Joseph Booth and Ann Pennington Marriage.

Middle of second or right column.

Images from Family Search.

James Henry Greenhalgh Family Photos

James Henry Greenhalgh Family

James Henry Greenhalgh Family cropped

Sylvan Booth about 1920 at around 8 years old.

Back of Sylvan Booth's photo.

George Edward and Olive Iona Greenhalgh Black

Alvin and Margaret Charlotta Van Ausdal Greenhalgh.

James Henry Greenhalgh's missionary companions. James Henry Greenhalgh is the second from the left.

Back of Missionary Companion picture.

George and Elvira Irena Greenhalgh Finch

James Henry Greenhalgh

James Henry Greenhalgh hauling freight in Mammoth, Utah

Pictures of photos all taken on March 27, 2013, at the home of Glade Greenhalgh, the son of Ronald LaMar Greenhalgh.

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Mary Whiteside Fulkerson History

THE HISTORY OF MARY WHITESIDE FULKERSON

COMPILED AND EDITED BY Mary N. Crook Bursik, a great granddaughter

**Comments by Mary N. Bursik

Mary Whiteside Fulkerson was born at Eddyville, Pope, Illinois on 30 May 1840 to John Barnett Whiteside and Margaret Shufflebarger. The Whiteside Family had made their way into southern Illinois by way of Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee. They were a prominent family and quite wealthy for the times. John B.’s father was a slave owner and owned many slaves. Illinois was a free state so he set his slaves free, gave them land to settle and hired them to work for him.^¹ (I will write a separate history of this remarkable man and his relationship with his former slaves). The Whiteside family was respected and was well represented in local and state politics. People started moving into Illinois about 1808 and there are records of land, marriages and tax lists of the Whiteside family by 1810. The Shufflebarger’s were a prominent family in Montgomery, Virginia. In about 1817 three brothers and a cousin decided to move to southern Illinois. They were Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who were brothers and the cousin was Simon. Abraham is our direct ancestor and Mary Whiteside’s grandfather. They brought with them the means to buy large parcels of land in Pope Co. and became quite prosperous.

John Barnet Whiteside and Margaret Shufflebarger were the parents of six children, the last two children were twins born 30 Jan 1852 and Margaret died 16 Feb 1852, the girl twin also named Margaret died in Jul 1852 and John B. remarried in Sep to Mary Nicholson. John and Mary Nicholson were the parents 8 children. Our Mary was the eldest of all these children. How much formal education Mary had is not known but she reported she could read and write and was probably as well educated as any young lady was at the time.

Mary was married to William Brown Fulkerson in 1857 at age 17. He was a farmer and became quite a successful one, there were several land records of William Brown buying and selling land. The main Fulkerson farm, that was the original land grant of William Brown’s grandfather was a large holding. Our families in that part of Illinois (Fulkerson, Whiteside, Floyd, and Shufflebarger) owned several hundred acres of land, were justice of the peace, served on juries, helped build roads, donated land for schools, ^²churches, and cemeteries. William and Mary were doing quite well there raising their family and farming the land. It is not known why William Brown decided to move to Kansas. He left Illinois after the birth of their sixth child. His father and mother both died after he left Pope County. It is not known whether he ever returned to visit, although Uncle Jim seems to remember that William Brown did go back for a visit. His mother did not die until 1893 so it is very possible he went to visit her. His father died three years after he left Illinois. Mary’s father did not die until 1887 and most of her brothers and sisters and half brothers and sisters lived until the 1920’s and most of them lived and died in Pope Co. Mary’s step mother died in 1913. How much communication her family had with their Whiteside connection is not known, especially after her death.

The children remember her as a good homemaker, keeping a clean house (which must have been difficult on the Kansas prairie) and cooking good meals. She followed her husband to Kansas which was very much a frontier in the 1870’s. She lived the life of a pioneer the last 5 or 6 years of her life. Uncle Dick was eighteen when she died. He remembers living in Illinois where they lived in a large home and had lots of cousins to play with. William and Mary lived in the same area as his parents in Golconda/Lusk and Mary’s parents lived in Eddyville about 25 miles away. Uncle Dick remembers his Fulkerson grandparents and his Whiteside relatives so there must have been good communication between the families. Uncle Dick never liked Kansas. He said it was a very hard life but his father loved it. He thought it was hard on his mother to leave Illinois for Kansas. She evidently loved flowers and tried very hard to grow flowers in Kansas. It is interesting how many of Nora’s brothers and sisters moved away from Kansas although they kept in touch with family there.

According to family Mary never recovered after the birth of her last child. A widow neighbor, Mary E. Brockman, helped to take care of her and the children. Family say it was Mary’s desire to have William remarry if she were to die and she hoped he would marry Mary E., whether that is true or not that is what happened.

In the Xerox photo I have of Mary, she looks very feminine and ladylike. I believe she was that in life, trying hard to make a home for her family and be a help to her husband. As I said earlier I love this lady and hope to meet her and sit down and talk with her.

1 Article in Outdoor Illinois

2 Census history of Pope co. Land records, tax records, marriage and cemetery records plus County histories.

William Brown Fulkerson History

THE HISTORY OF WILLIAM BROWN FULKERSON

Compiled and edited by Mary N. Bursik, granddaughter

William Brown Fulkerson was born in Lusk, Pope Co., Illinois on 8 Mar 1838. Lusk is a very small town on the outskirts of Golconda, the county seat. William Brown’s grandfather Richard Fulkerson had received a land grant in Pope Co. for his service in the War of 1812. Richard and his wife, Grissey Cowsert Fulkerson crossed the river from Livingston Co. Kentucky with their four small children and settled in Pope Co. Richard died in 1821 leaving Grissey with five children, with the sixth being born three weeks after the death of her father. William Brown’ father was James Fredrick Fulkerson, the oldest son of Richard and Grissey. He was ten years old when his father died. In 1827 Grissey remarried to a river boat operator named William Brown. William Brown raised Grissey six children and they had seven of their own. Richard’s land grant was by law given to his children as the lawful heirs. After the children were married they signed over the land grant to their step father William Brown.

It is touching that James Fredrick Fulkerson gave his third son the name of William Brown Fulkerson after his step father. It gives us a picture of what a good man William Brown was and the closeness of the Fulkerson family. The Fulkerson family had a great tradition of naming the male children after fathers, grandfathers and uncles. This tradition continued until after 1900.

William Brown Fulkerson’s parents were then James Fredrick Fulkerson and Priscilla “Martha” Floyd. He grew up with nine brothers and sisters, numerous cousins, uncles, aunts and others. All of his siblings settled in the southern tip of Illinois. There are still Fulkersons in that part of Illinois. It is not known how much formal education William Brown had but he could read and write. He was taught farming by his father, and blacksmithing by an uncle. He married Mary Whiteside 8 Sep 1857 and there are records of land transactions where he bought and sold land. He is on the 1860 census of Pope Co. as a 21 year old with a wife Mary age 20 and a son Johnson age 1. He is on the 1870 census of Pope Co. age 31, wife Mary age 30 and 5 children ranging from 1 year to 12 years. Sometime around 1872 William B. and Mary decided to sell their property in Pope Co. and head for Kansas. Our grandmother Lenora always said she was born in Springfield, Illinois and it could be on the way to Kansas. Their next child Lafayette was born in Kansas in 1874. William B.’s wife Mary died in Jan 1878. It is family tradition that she had her last child William Penn in Sep 1877 and never fully recovered. When she died this left William B. with a family of eight children. He remarried in July 1878 to a widow who had taken care of Mary during her illness. This second wife was Mary Elizabeth Lovell Brockman. She brought to this marriage three children and then William Brown and Mary Lovell had six children of their own. On the 1880 federal census of Rooks, Kansas there are 8 Fulkerson children and 3 Brockman children. The oldest son Richard J. was married and living next door.

William Brown and Mary E. are on the 1885 state census of Rooks Kansas and on the 1895 state census of Graham Co. Kansas. Graham County is next door to Rooks. After moving to Graham county William B. and Mary E. bought a hotel in Bogue/Hill City. On the 1900 federal census of Graham, Kansas only Etta, Ella, Newton and Grover are living at home. William Brown died in 1906 and is buried in Hill City Cemetery.