Wordless Wednesday--George Henry Hughes at Stonehenge

St. Patrick's Day

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY

My Irish roots:

Orr
McElroy

Tombstone Tuesday--Bernard McGovern of LeConte's Mills, Pennsylvania

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I am featuring one of the many Irish immigrants of my Michigan Hughes cousins--Bernard McGovern. He would be their maternal great great great grandfather.

-Bernard McGovern and Susannah Jury
--daughter, Roseanna McGovern married Bernard Green
---daughter, Clara Green married Michael Joseph McGoey
----son, Francis Regis McGoey married Augusta Mitchell
-----daughter, Barbara Ann McGoey married John Aiden Hughes


Bernard, a carpenter and farmer in Girard Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, was born in Ireland in 1815. By about 1840 he married Susannah Jury in Pennsylvania. Between 1853-1854, Bernard is listed on the Military Men Listing for Girard Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania.


The 220 acre McGovern farm was located south of LeConte's Mills, Girard Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania where they raised eleven children(Caldwell, 191).

Bernard died on March 09, 1892 in Girard Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania and is buried beside his wife, Susannah, in Saint Mary of the Assumption Cemetery, Frenchville, Girard Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania.


Sources:

-Caldwell's Atlas, 1878, Clearfield County, Girard Township, Pennsylvania, page 191

© 2010, copyright Linda Hughes Hiser

52 Weeks To Better Genealogy - Challenge #10--Family Search Pilot

Investigate Family Search Pilot, which is part of FamilySearch.org. This is a wonderful collection of records which literally grows every day. In the middle left of the page is a link that says “Browse our record collections.” Click it and pick a region. Search collections outside your research interest. Investigate the types of records collected all over the world and see how they differ from those with which you are familiar. If you are a genealogy blogger, pick a type of record from another country and share your observations about it.

This search engine is not new to me, but I did not find it on my own. My husband's aunt, a genealogist from way back, introduced me to it back in the fall. She does not own a computer; however, she is a member of the local genealogical society where is lives and there was an article about the site in her newsletter. Thankfully, she passed it along to me.

Living in Ohio and researching numerous Ohioans from the past, this site has been a HUGE help to me as all the early to mid 1950's death certificates are on line. Granted I sometimes have to play around with the spelling of the names to find the documents, but detective work IS a BIG part of genealogy, isn't it! West Virginia is another state I work in and they have also put a death certificate website on line. I wish other states would follow suit.

To be honest, until this challenge, I had not looked to see what other information was out on the Family Search Pilot. I do have family from England, so I decided to poke around those records. I did not have any success finding my family.

So, I am searching back in the good old USA--Columbiana County, Ohio since there are early tax records and I have NEVER seen those before. WOW....this is a HAPPY DANCE time....here is one of the records I found.


Lindsay Cannon or Lindsey Cannon is my maternal ggg grandfather. I had found an early Columbiana County newspaper article years ago mentioning that he was the owner of a mill in St. Clair Township, Columbiana County, Ohio. There is in that area a village called Cannons Mills, which I had to believe was named for his mill. Here is a tax record that proves he DID have a mill in St. Clair township--a gristmill, distillery and sawmill. I need to explore more of these tax records for Lindsey as well as for other ancestors in the Columbiana County area.

COOL BEANS!

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Wordless Wednesday--H-e-l-l-o Kitty

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Tombstone Tuesday--Joseph Orr

My maternal great great great grandfather, Joseph Orr, is buried under the shade of a very old and sprawling tree in Carlisle Cemetery, Elkrun Township, Columbiana County, Ohio. He is at one end of a row of Orr tombstones. Joseph, his wife Jane, son Franklin Orr, son William Morlan Orr, granddaughter Mary A.Orr and two grandsons killed in the Civil War, Benjamin F. Orr and Joseph F Orr.

Joseph Orr was born in Ireland on December 15, 1788 and died in Elkrun Township, Columbiana County, Ohio on October 26 1857.

Joseph and Jane raised twelve children. Joseph's first Columbiana County, Ohio records show the family living in Lisbon, Centre Township, Columbiana County, Ohio. Joseph was employed as the town tailor. By 1826 the Orr's moved one township over to Elkrun, where Joseph owned property in Section 30 and 31 and a portion in Section 19. He was enumerated as a farmer in 1830 and 1840. In 1850, his last census, Joseph is running a hotel in Elkrun.

Joseph was elected to a one year term as a trustee in Elkrun Township. His wife Jane died on December 28, 1847 and Joseph had two unsuccessful and marriages in 1849 to Elizabeth Bowman and in 1850 to Elizabeth Cushman. His third marrige to Elizabeth Cushman ended in divorce a month before he died.

© 2010, copyright Linda Hughes Hiser

Fearless Females #8--Journal

March 8 — Did one of your female ancestors leave a diary, journal or collection of letters? Share an entry or except. Thank you to Lisa over at The Accidental Genealogist for supplying a month's worth of prompts celebrating Women's History Month.





BABY BOOK OF MARTHA JEAN STARK HUGHES

     This is my mother's, Martha Jean Stark Hughes, baby book. Her mother, Martha Marie Frederick Stark--aka Teek, kept it from birth until about age 6 1/2. My grandmother was a stenographer before she married and must have owned a typewriter as her journal is typed and the pages are glued into the baby book.




This is typical of each page.
     I enlarged these two entries. The first is the story of my Mom's first outing to downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to meet her Dad and have lunch. After lunch they met my Mom's Aunt Edna (Edna May Frederick Gween) for a little shopping trip. Note the prices--2 pairs of children's shoes for $6.25 and a little bonnet for $4.00. The second entry gave me a good laugh--my little 2 year old Mom somehow locking her Mom in a closet!

     Here is an entry mentioning Mom's Uncle Mont Munger, Lucy Wilma Stark Munger and Junior (Mont Munger, Jr.) Note that they needed a ride home in Uncle Mont's machine....my grandmother's term for a car.

     This was interesting--the wedding of my mother's cousin, Mary A. Zeigler and Robert B. Quinn . Mary is the only child of Aunt Edna. Edna married twice. Mary's father is the first husband, Harry G. Zeigler . Edna married second, William Clinton Gween .

     One of my favorite "finds" in this little book was the note above. It is handwritten by my maternal great grandmother, Wilhelmine Catherine Schwarz Stark, aka Granny Stark.

     Mom's Baby Book has been a reference I poke into when I need to source something in my Mother's early years. Additionally, there are numerous references to her aunts and uncles who lived in and around the Avalon, Pennsylvania area. Also, my grandmother has a variety of memorabilia attached to the pages--a little handmade valentine card, my mother's first lost tooth !, a lock of her hair, first picture drawn at school, a little Christmas Toys book made by my Mom when she was 6 years old, plus a listing of Mom's "Firsts".

Thank you Teek.

© 2010, copyright Linda Hughes Hiser