tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48506816272510812942024-03-13T23:48:18.012-07:00THE OLD COLONY GRAVEYARD RABBITA blog devoted mainly to the cemeteries
of Southeastern Massachusetts with occasional forays elsewhere in New England.
A member of the Association of Graveyard Rabbits.Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-48218505133018921422024-02-23T12:44:00.000-08:002024-02-23T12:44:56.292-08:00A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS 17: WILLIAM O'BRIEN & LYDIA DUNHAM<p></p><p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7scuc-c8R1c/TrC7BX8bDOI/AAAAAAAAB2U/jFZIFo_oH4U/s1600/029.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7scuc-c8R1c/TrC7BX8bDOI/AAAAAAAAB2U/jFZIFo_oH4U/w640-h480/029.JPG" width="640" /> </a></p><p> While working on the last blog post about my Dunham cousins buried right here <br />
in Abington (which I posted waaaaay back in August!) I came across the name<br />
Patrick O'Brien. as the husband of Worthy Dunham's youngest sister Lydia<br />
Howard Dunham. So I wasn't surprised to find the O'Brien family buried a few<br />
feet away from Worthy's family.<br />
<br />
The inscription reads:<br />
<i>Patrick O'Brien-1834-1879 Aged 45 years<br />
Lydia H. His Wife 1834-1932 Aged 98 years <br />
Angie F. daughter 1854-1930 Aged 76 years<br />
Mansfield S. O' Brien 1868-1848 aged 79 years<br />
Winifred E. His Wife 1883<br />
Delia H. 1862-1864<br />
________<br />
Helen Florence Cole 1875-1916 Aged 41 years<br />
Leonard M. 1904 Aged 3 days </i><br />
<br />
What I hadn't realized was just how prominent a family this was.<br />
Patrick O'Brien had been born in Ireland and emigrated to America<br />
where he ended up here in Abington at a period when both the<br />
shoe factories and the Irish population were booming. That's probably<a class="cssButton ubtn-disabled" href="javascript:void(0)" id="draftButton" target=""></a></p><div class="cssButtonOuter"><div class="cssButtonMiddle"><div class="cssButtonInner"></div></div></div>
how Patrick met Lydia Dunham, through business dealings in the<br />
shoe industry with Worthy Dunham or another of the male Dunhams.<br />
The fact that a young Irishman was able to marry the daughter of<br />
a Protestant New England family was an indicator of the changes<br />
in the Massachusetts society in the Industrial Age.<br />
<br />
Patrick and Lydia were married on 4Oct 1853. Besides the three<br />
children buried with them there were four other O'Brien children.<br />
Here's the full family as given in The Dunham Genealogy (p169):<br />
<br />
<i>LYDIA H., b. Oct. 17, 1834; m. Oct. 4, 1853; Patrick O'Brien, <br />
of Abington. Issue, b. Abington : 218. I. — Angeline Frances O'Brien; <br />
b. Aug. 15, 1854; milliner, Abington. 219. II. — William Smith, b. <br />
Aug. 16, 1856; boot and shoe heel manufacturer, Abington, Mass. 220. <br />
HI. — Delia Hammond, b. Dec. 22, 1862; d. July 23, 1864. 221. IV. — <br />
Robert Lincoln, b. Sept. 14, 1865, Washington, D. C. ; journalist. 222. <br />
v.— Mansfield, b. 1867. 223. VI.— Charles, b. April, 1870. 224. VII. <br />
— Ellen, b. July, 1872. </i><br />
<br />
Of the children, two had illustrious careers. William S O'Brien had a<br />
successful shoe heel manufacturing company and was a president of<br />
the Abington National Bank. His brother Robert Lincoln Dunham was<br />
even more prominent, being a Harvard University graduate, a secretary<br />
\of President Grover Cleveland and eventually became Editor in Chief of<br />
the Boston Transcript newspaper.<br />
<br />
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I'll have to check around Mt Vernon Cemetery to see if I can find any<br />
of the other O'Brien children buried there.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, I'd found another member of the Dunham family buried<br />
a bit further away from the others as I'll explain in the next post in this<br />
series.<i><br />
</i><p></p>Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-53056614879253192702023-12-31T16:55:00.000-08:002023-12-31T16:55:54.882-08:00A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS 16<p> <i>((First posted in 2011 on my West in New England blog))<br /></i></p><p> I haven't found much online about Worthy C Dunham and his family. Like <br />
the rest of the Dunhams in Abington he made his money in the shoe trade, <br />
more specifically in manufacturing heels. When Benjamin Hobart published his<br />
History of Abington in 1866 he included a list of manufacturers in the town taken <br />
from the 1860 Us Census which showed Worthy Dunham had made $700 dollars<br />
in sales. That doesn't seem like a lot of money by today's standards but that was <br />
pretty respectable for those times , and Worthy probably did much better during<br />
the Civil War when the area around Abington was the shoe manufacturing capital<br />
of America.<br />
<br />
Worthy's son Jotham Ellsworth Dunham apparently preferred to go by the name<br />
J.Ellsworth Dunham and followed his father into the heel business. He did so <br />
well that in 1880 he built a fine house on Adams St in Abington where so many <br />
of the wealthy families lived that the stretch of the street was known as Palace<br />
Row. The house still stands and is on the National Register of historic homes.<br />
<br />
I mentioned in the previous post in this series that there were Dunham children <br />
listed in Hobart's book that weren't buried with Worthy, including J. Ellsworth.<br />
Ellsorth is in fact buried nearby with his wife Lydia and their infant twin children :<br />
<br />
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<br />
<br />
The gravestone reads:<br />
<br />
<i>DUNHAM</i><br />
<i>J. Ellsworth Dunham</i><br />
<i>1842-1930</i><br />
<i>His Wife</i><br />
<i>Lydia Frances Gardner</i><br />
<i>1853-1928</i><br />
<i>Twin Babes 1876</i><br />
<br />
There is another Dunham buried nearby and I'll discuss that in the next<br />
post in this series.<br />
<br />
<tbc><br />
</tbc>Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-59569206652098004232023-12-12T20:21:00.000-08:002023-12-12T20:21:35.688-08:00A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS15 <p> </p><div class="gtxt_body"><div class="gtxt_body">Benjamin Hobart's <i> History of the town of Abington, Plymouth County,</i><br />
<i> Massachusetts, from its first settlement </i>has become my first place to<br />
look for information about my Abington cousins. On page 369 I found the<br />
following:<i></i></div></div><div class="gtxt_body"></div><div class="gtxt_body"><br />
</div><div class="gtxt_body"><i>IV. <span class="gstxt_hlt">Worthy C Dunham, </span>born in Abington June 17, 1815; was married to </i><br />
<i>Irene Shaw of Weymouth, December 24, 1837. Their children were—</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i>V. Rensellaer, born September 16, 1838; died September 17, 1839.</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i>V. Jotham Ellsworth, born May 3, 1842.</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i>V. Sumner Ellis, born September 3,1847; died September 25, 1848.</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i>V. Irene Shaw, born October 23, 1851.</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i>V. Sarah Williams, born July 22, 1855.</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i>V. Abbie Weston, born August 30, 1858; died August 15, 1859.</i></div><div class="gtxt_body"><i>Irene Shaw, wife of <span class="gstxt_hlt">Worthy C. Dunham, </span>died January 4,</i></div><div class="gtxt_body"><i>1860, aged 42 years, 11 months, 9 days; he next married Marilla Pratt, </i><br />
<i>October 4, 1860.</i><br />
<br />
Now I knew there were more children who were not listed on the monument.<br />
Could they have been buried there and the names not inscribed on the blank<br />
western side of the marker? It was far more likely they had survived to<br />
adulthood and were buried elsewhere.<i> </i>But what about the inscription<br />
for Frank, Grace and Robert on the south side? Grandchildren perhaps? <br />
<br />
First though, I wanted to check on Worthy's parents, I looked on the previous<br />
page, 368:<br />
<br />
<i>"III. Mr. Ezra Duuham was born in Plymouth, May 10, 1785; married, first, </i></div><div class="gtxt_body"><i> Susanna Ford, of Abington, January 30, 1806. They had one son, Henry,</i></div><div class="gtxt_body"><i> born October 13, 1806; second, married Polly Cary, daughter of Howard </i></div><div class="gtxt_body"><i> Cary, Esq., of North Bridgewater. They had seven sons and three daughters,</i></div><div class="gtxt_body"><i> viz., Susan, Howard Cary, Worthy Columbus, Charles Atwood, Cornelius </i></div><div class="gtxt_body"><i>Thomas, Ezra Rider, Angeline Huldah, Elbridge Cary, Francis William, </i></div><div class="gtxt_body"><i>and Lydia Howard." </i></div><div class="gtxt_body"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="gtxt_body">So, Worthy's middle name was Columbus and he was the half brother of </div><div class="gtxt_body">General Henry Dunham and full brother to Cornelius T, Dunham, both of</div><div class="gtxt_body">whose graves I had previously discovered in Mt. Vernon Cemetery.</div><div class="gtxt_body"><br />
</div><div class="gtxt_body">Now what else could I find out about him and his family?</div><div class="gtxt_body"><br />
</div><div class="gtxt_body"><to be="" continued=""><i><br />
</i></to></div>Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-66996605654095439112023-11-07T20:08:00.003-08:002023-11-07T20:10:09.933-08:00A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS14 <p><i> ((first posted on West in New England in Aug. 2011))</i><br /></p><p> </p><p>Ever since discovering the Cornelius T.Dunham family plot only<br />
a few yards away from my parents' grave in Mt Vernon Cemetery<br />
here in Abington, I've looked for more Dunham cousins buried <br />
there. I thought I'd found all of them but apparently, I was <br />
wrong. A few days before I discovered David Ellinwood's grave,<br />
I discovered another Dunham family plot.<br />
<br />
I found it as I was photographing the graves on the hillside <br />
above the family of Henry Dunham. This is the east side of the<br />
monument:<br />
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The inscription reads:<br />
<i>"Worthy C Dunham</i><br />
<i> 1815-1882</i><br />
<i> His Wife</i><br />
<i> Irene Shaw</i><br />
<i> 1817-1860</i><br />
<i> His Wife</i><br />
<i> Marilla Pratt</i><br />
<i> 1819-1904"</i><br />
<br />
On the south side:<br />
<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L8E4-KRhB-Y/ThVGHCf65DI/AAAAAAAABcA/-JjqtxLoA8c/s1600/065.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L8E4-KRhB-Y/ThVGHCf65DI/AAAAAAAABcA/-JjqtxLoA8c/s320/065.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>The inscription here lists three children:<br />
<br />
<i> "Rensellaer </i><br />
<i> 1838-1839 </i><br />
<i> Sumner Ellis</i><br />
<i> 1847-1848</i><br />
<i> Abbie Weston</i><br />
<i> 1858-1859</i><br />
<i> Children of</i><br />
<i>W.C.& I.S. Dunham" </i><br />
<br />
On the north side:<br />
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<i>"Frank E. Dunham</i><br />
<i> 1879-1951</i><br />
<i> Grace E.</i><br />
<i> 1881-1970</i><br />
<i> Robert E. </i><br />
<i> 1918-2005"</i><br />
<br />
So, not only do I have Dunham cousins buried here in Abington, some of them<br />
were living here while my Dad was still alive, and there may still be some here<br />
living in town.<br />
<br />
I'll discuss how I'm related to these latest discoveries in the next post in this series.Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-55805157463811561122023-11-06T15:30:00.000-08:002023-11-06T15:30:04.539-08:00A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS13: FROM ABINGTON TO BRAZIL PT2<p> So far everything I had found about Sarah M(Sadie)Dunham , her husband<br />
Clinton R(ufus) Dorr and their son Richard Dorr had been from the Federal<br />
Census images at Ancestry.com. Now I started checking some of the other<br />
historical documents there and began to fill in more pieces of the puzzle.<br />
First, I found Clinton Dorr in the 1884 South Abington Directory(p143) listed <br />
as the stitching room foreman for the C S & L Company. After South Abington<br />
became Whitman, Clinton is in the 1889 and 1892 directory as the foreman<br />
at the Stetson Shoes stitching room. <br />
<br />
Next I turned to Richard Dorr and reasoned he was of the right age to have<br />
served in World War 1. Sure enough I found his draft registration card and <br />
got a surprise. Richard was no longer living in Massachusetts in 1918, nor <br />
was he an electrical engineer! Instead, he was a teacher at the Hill School<br />
in Pottstown, Pa. (The school was a private boy's high school and is still<br />
around in the present day as a coed private school). Richard is described as<br />
tall and of medium weight with blue eyes and brown hair along with a limp.<br />
He lists Sara Dorr as his next of kin, but she was living at 15 Centre St back in<br />
Brockton, Ma. I wondered what subject Richard taught? Science, perhaps?<br />
But I soon found other records that pointed to another change in jobs,<br />
and that helped answer another question besides.<br />
<br />
I found passenger list and passport application images that showed Richard<br />
had become an employee of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. A<br />
letter from the vicepresident of the company dated October 9th, 1919 <br />
is attached to the first passport and confirms Richard had been recently hired.<br />
There's also an affidavit from Sarah identifying Richard as her son. From this I<br />
learned Sara was now a saleswoman living in New York City at 43 West 48 St .<br />
Best of all is the photograph of the now thirty eight year old Richard. Apparently<br />
Richard made three trips back and forth to Brazil to purchase coffee beans for the<br />
company. His first stay lasted three years and on the second passport application<br />
for his return home I learned of the fate of his father Clinton Dorr.<br />
<br />
Richard states that his father had died in 1908 in Taunton, Ma. A search of the 1900<br />
Federal census told me Clinton had been an inmate at the Taunton State Mental<br />
Hospital. Perhaps he was still there at the time of his death. Now I knew what<br />
had gone wrong in the Dorr family sometime after 1884 when Clinton Dorr worked<br />
at Stetson Shoes.<br />
<br />
My search ended on a happier note though. On the passenger list for the ship <br />
Pan American'a arrival in New York City from Brazil is not only the name of Richard<br />
door but Sarah Dorr as well. Richard had taken his mother with him to spend the <br />
winter in Brazil. I have their passport photographs as well:<br />
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<br />
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<br />
Richard Dorr passed away in 1931 and Sarah followed a year later in 1932. I don't <br />
know yet about their lives between that trip together to Brazil and their deaths.<br />
I hope they had happier times. If not, I hope there was at least pleasant memories<br />
of Brazil to see them through dark times.Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-26133898010559089892023-11-05T15:35:00.006-08:002023-11-05T15:36:04.087-08:00A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS13: FROM ABINGTON TO BRAZIL PT1<p>The history of my distant Dunham relations buried here in Abington in<br />
Mt Vernon Cemetery would make, I think, a good historical epic. Their <br />
family fortunes were tied to the rise and fall of the shoe industry in this <br />
area, and with a Brigadier General, an inventor, and a Civil War veteran <br />
in the family there's no shortage of interesting characters to consider<br />
(and I have still to post about their ancestor, Captain Cornelius Dunham!). <br />
But the last grave in the Henry Dunham family plot led me to a story that<br />
has some particularly dramatic elements.<br />
<br />
I mentioned in my post on Andrew Jackson Dunham that even though <br />
he was still listed as married on the 1880 Federal Census he was living <br />
alone in Rockland Ma. except for his housekeeper and that subsequently<br />
he and his wife Mercie Whitcomb Dunham were divorced. I found her<br />
and their two daughters Sarah and Emma living on Beulah St. in South <br />
Abington (now Whitman)Ma. on the same census. Mercie is listed as a <br />
dressmaker and her two daughters are employed in a shoefactory. Quite<br />
possibly Sarah Dunham had already met her future husband Clinton R <br />
Dorr who lived nearby on Washington St and who likewise worked at <br />
a shoe factory. She's listed as Sadie Dunham instead of Sarah.<br />
<br />
I knew from the gravestone that Sarah's son Richard Clinton Dorr was <br />
born in 1881. There's no way of telling but I hope Sarah had a few years <br />
of happy family life because by 1900 things had taken a drastic turn.<br />
(It's not unusual for me to mentally curse the loss of the 1890 censuses <br />
while researching. This case is no exception.) I found Sadie Dorr and her <br />
son Richard as boarders halfway across the state in Worcester. Sadie <br />
was working as a dressmaker while nineteen year old Richard was at <br />
school. There was no mention of her husband Clinton. It's possible that <br />
Richard was attending a technical school because he turns up in Boston <br />
on the 1910 census as an electrical engineer living in the same boarding <br />
house as his grandmother Mercie Whitcomb Dunham. I haven't found <br />
any trace of Sadie on the 1910 Census as yet.<br />
<br />
I had lived for nearly ten years near the Abington-Whitman town line <br />
not far from where Sarah Dunham and Clifford Dorr had lived in the <br />
previous century. Our house was on Bicknell Hill Rd off of Washington <br />
St. and I used to play wiffleball and basketball on Beulah St. I still drive <br />
down either Washington or Beulah Streets on the way to visit my sister. <br />
and there's an old shoe factory that takes up most of a block between the<br />
two streets that has been renovated into an apartment building. Perhaps<br />
it's where Sarah worked and met Clinton Dorr.<br />
<br />
Maybe knowing the area so well is the reason why this kept niggling away <br />
at my mind and I kept digging away at it.<br />
<br />
What I found will be in my next post.<br />
<br />
<br />
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that overlooks a small pond within Mt.Vernon Cemetery. On the crest<br />
of another hill on the opposite side of the pond is a gravestone with the<br />
following names:<br />
<i>Susan M Dunham<br />
1836-1920<br />
Edward E Dunham<br />
1835-1919<br />
Melissa H Dunham<br />
1834-1913</i><br />
<br />
It took me awhile to get around to looking up these Dunham family members.<br />
Cornelius and Henry Dunham were descendants of Ezra Dunham. Susan and<br />
Edward Dunham were descended from George Dunham, Ezra's uncle. Their<br />
father was Jesse Dunham. Melissa was Edward's wife but I haven't as yet<br />
found her maiden name. <br />
<br />
Another of Jesse Dunham's sons, George Augustus Dunham, was a Chicago <br />
lawyer and Jesse must have gone west to live with his son because that is<br />
where he died and was buried. I'll have to wait for the snow to melt off<br />
before I start hunting for any more of the family at Mt.Vernon Cemetery.<br />
<br />
I thought this would be the last post on the subject for a bit but there's <br />
Captain Cornelius Dunham to discuss and perhapos one other post after<br />
that.<br />
<br />
And once the Spring comes, there's the rest of the cemetery to explore!
</p>Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-18133293988443337812023-10-30T13:18:00.004-07:002023-10-30T13:18:26.698-07:00A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS11<p> Brigadier General Henry Dunham's family seems to have suffered a<br />
reversal of fortune in the latter half of the 19th century. The General had<br />
commanded forty companies and five regiments at the celebrations<br />
marking the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument (Dunham<br />
Genealogy p167) and his son Henry had been a successful shoe<br />
manufacturer and inventor. The rest of the General's were not quite so<br />
prominent in Abington society.<br />
<br />
After the younger Henry's death, his widow Ella became embroiled in<br />
lawsuits against shoe manufacturers who'd copied her husband's inventions.<br />
She and daughter Ida appear on the 1910 Federal Census for Holden<br />
in Worcester County, Massachusetts as renting their home but neither<br />
was employed. Perhaps son Harry B. Dunham paid their rent. According<br />
to the <i>Dunham Genealogy</i> he was a doctor in nearby Rutland, Ma.<br />
Younger son Arthur moved to New York and pursued a career as an<br />
electrical engineer. He married and had two sons.<br />
<br />
Brackley Cushing Dunham married Elizabeth Hunt. There was a Hunt<br />
family that were leading shoe manufacturers in Abington but as of yet I<br />
don't know if she was from that line. I do know that Brackley stayed in<br />
the shoe business but it wasn't in management from what I've been able<br />
to find in the Federal Censuses up to 1910. The couple was childless.<br />
Brackley and Emma are not buried in the Henry Dunham family plot.<br />
<br />
Emma Annett Dunham married Richard L Hunt. I've yet to establish any<br />
ties to either the Hunts of Abington or Brackley's wife Elizabeth Hunt.<br />
Emma and her husband lived in Weymouth, Ma. and they too died<br />
without children. <br />
<br />
This brings us to Andrew Jackson Dunham. Andrew followed his father<br />
in serving in the military and the inscription on his gravestone tells us he<br />
served <i>"Civil War Three Years 1st Mass Cav, Also Minute Men T</i><br />
<i>hree Mos."</i> In other words, Andrew was in the Massachusetts State<br />
Militia , then enlisted in the regular Union Army. I found his record<br />
over at Ancestry.com in <i>U.S. Civil War Soldiers and Profiles</i>, and<br />
with it, this picture:<br />
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Andrew J Dunham enlisted on 15April 1862. He'd been married for<br />
seven years to Mercie Florence Holcomb and their second daughter<br />
was born the week after he enlisted. Upon his return from the war he<br />
went back to work in the shoe business but then something changed.<br />
Although he was listed as still married on the 1880 Federal Census,<br />
Andrew was living alone except for his housekeeper Amelia Peterson.<br />
He and his wife may have been in the process of getting a divorce<br />
already because his marital status was given as divorced in the<br />
subsequent Censuses up to 1910. In his final years, Andrew turned to<br />
poultry farming and was an officer in a local association of poultry<br />
farmers.<br />
<br />
Andrew's gravestone intrigues me. It gives his year of death as 1917<br />
but <i>The Dunham Genealogy</i> says it was 1910. And although he and<br />
Mercie were divorced they are buried together. Was this the triumph<br />
of a determined woman or the decision of their daughters?<br />
<br />
But I found something even more interesting about Andrew Jackson<br />
Dunham and I'll discuss that next!Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-71843168093910073852023-10-29T20:27:00.005-07:002023-10-29T20:27:20.275-07:00A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS10<p> I haven't forgotten my new discovered Dunham cousins buried here in <br />
Abington's Mt. Vernon Cemetary. I've been reseaching them on the <br />
internet with success in some cases and not so much in others.<br />
<br />
I discovered a few things about General Henry Dunham. Apparently<br />
he was a successful merchant here in Abington and worked his way up<br />
as an officer in the Massachusetts Militia until he achieved the <br />
rank of Brigadier General of the Second Brigade of the First Division of<br />
the Third Regiment of the Light Infantry in the late 1840's. He retired <br />
from that position in 1850.<br />
<br />
One interesting note was the discovery of another connection with the<br />
Gurney family. Henry's wife Mary Cushing was the daughter of Sarah <br />
Gurney.<br />
<br />
I had more luck researching their son Henry Jr. (He's listed erroneously<br />
as "Hervey Dunham" in <i>The History of the Town of Abington</i>). In a<br />
continuation of the ties between the Dunham family with Charleston,<br />
S.C., he married a girl from there named Ella Bristol and a history of her<br />
ancestry contained the following:<br />
<br />
<i>"Ella Bristol, born May 18, 1845. She married, March 31, 1869, </i><br />
<i>Henry Dunham of Abington, Mass., an inventor of leather machinery. </i><br />
<i>He died Sept. 22, 1884.</i><br />
<i><br />
</i><br />
<i>From the Abington Herald:—" In the death of Henry</i><br />
<i>Dunham, which occurred Monday morning at his home on</i><br />
<i>Center Avenue, of inflammation of the bowels, the town</i><br />
<i>of Abington loses one of its most prominent, widely</i><br />
<i>known, and esteemed citizens. Mr. Dunham was one of</i><br />
<i>twelve children. His father was Gen. Henry Dunham,</i><br />
<i>son of Ezra, whose grand-father was Cornelius Dunham,</i><br />
<i>born in Plymouth in 1724. The name is among the</i><br />
<i>oldest and most distinguished of the Old Colony names.</i><br />
<i>The mother of the deceased, still living at the age of eighty-</i><br />
<i>one, was Mary Cushing, daughter of Col. Brackley Cush-</i><br />
<i>ing — another old and honored Old Colony family name.</i><br />
<i>Mr. Dunham began business life as a shoe manufacturer</i><br />
<i>in the large factory on Lake Street that bears his name.</i><br />
<i>He retired in 1873, and turned his attention to shoe</i><br />
<i>machinery, and has given to the world some very important </i><br />
<i>inventions and improvements in this direction. The</i><br />
<i>three most important are the Dunham riveting machine,</i><br />
<i>the toe nail machine, and the Dunham quilting, machine;</i><br />
<i>a detailed description of all these appeared in the Herald</i><br />
<i>of Sept. 5. Mr. Dunham made the first quilting nail</i><br />
<i>ever produced, and is believed to be the originator of</i><br />
<i>the idea of inserting nails into the sole while off the boot.</i><br />
<i>The funeral took place at his late residence Thursday</i><br />
<i>afternoon, Rev. Messrs. Pettee and Warren officiating, with</i><br />
<i>music by the new church choir. The esteem in which the</i><br />
<i>deceased was held was attested not only by a profusion</i><br />
<i>of flowers, but also by the presence of many prominent</i><br />
<i>citizens of this and other towns. Mr. Dunham leaves a</i><br />
<i>wife and three children, two boys and a girl." </i><br />
<br />
John E Morris <i>The Bontecou genealogy: A record of the descendants </i><br />
<i>of Pierre Bontecou, a Huguenot refugee from France, in the lines </i><br />
<i>of his sons (</i>Hartford, Conn. Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard<br />
Company, 1885) pp179-180<br />
<br />
After Henry Dunham Jr's death his widow became involved in several <br />
lawsuits involving infringements on his patents by other shoe <br />
manufacturers.<br />
<br />
In the Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910, the cause of his death<br />
is listed as peritonitis and his occupation as "Inventor".<br />
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<tbc>To be continued.... </tbc></p>Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-60826359800187529762023-10-28T20:58:00.000-07:002023-10-28T20:58:07.392-07:00A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS9<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RqpsXE2aHNI/TP7-cIfZ-lI/AAAAAAAABMw/1TbaJFzUCDM/s1600/DCFC0012.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RqpsXE2aHNI/TP7-cIfZ-lI/AAAAAAAABMw/1TbaJFzUCDM/s320/DCFC0012.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RqpsXE2aHNI/TP7921E0p7I/AAAAAAAABMs/sFMjKHtvjvw/s1600/DCFC0011.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RqpsXE2aHNI/TP7921E0p7I/AAAAAAAABMs/sFMjKHtvjvw/s320/DCFC0011.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Sunday was the coldest day of the year so far but I wanted to<br />
take a quick look around to see if I could find anymore Dunham<br />
family graves sites in Mt. Vernon Cemetery. This time I spent<br />
more time in the front end which is closer to Island Grove Pond.<br />
There might have been a view of the water back in the 19th<br />
century but now it's blocked by the Police Department and the<br />
Highway Department. The older family plots have taller monuments<br />
and some are situated along several hillsides overlooking a fenced<br />
in pond. <br />
<br />
<br />
I drove through the older section over narrow gravel roads with<br />
the late afternoon sun blinding me at times, but on the crest of one<br />
of the hills I spotted another Dunham headstone. I got out of my<br />
car with my camera and walked over to take pictures:<br />
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<br />
I'd found another branch of the family which I'll blog about later.<br />
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On the way out of the cemetery I passed the Henry Dunham family<br />
plot and noticed two broken headstones that I had missed when<br />
I first found it:<br />
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<br />
These are located at the left rear corner of the lot and I couldn't make<br />
out the names as the light was beginning to fade. I hoped I could<br />
bring them out a bit on the computer but I think I need to go back<br />
earlier in the day on Thursday.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, I've found more information on Henry and his family,<br />
<br />
<br />
To be continued....Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-76007545223792486252023-10-27T18:55:00.001-07:002023-10-27T18:56:11.685-07:00A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS8 <p><i> (First posted on West In New England in 2010)</i><br /></p><p>These are the gravestones in the second Dunham family plot that<br />
I found Thursday at Mt.Vernon Cemetery in Abington:<br />
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Henry Dunham. 1835-1884. Located to the left of the front stairs.<br />
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A headstone for seven children, Located on the left hand border of the<br />
plot. The inscription at the base reads: <i>"Children of Henry Dunham and</i><br />
<i>Mary his wife."</i><br />
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Henry Dunham 1800-1878(?) Located to the right of the stairs.<br />
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Mary C Dunham 1805-1880, located right front corner.<br />
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Andrew Jackson Dunham and wife Mercie Florence Dunham, located<br />
right side corner.<br />
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"Gertie". Located on the right side border.of the plot. Was this a daughter<br />
of Henry and Mary Dunham or of Andrew J. Dunham and his wife?<br />
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Sarah M, Dorr and her son Richard Clinton Dorr. Located right side<br />
rear corner. Where is Sarah's husband and what was his name?<br />
<br />
Armed with the information from the gravestones I began searching for<br />
information on the family when I got home. First I checked <i>"History</i><br />
<i>of the town of Abington"</i> and found the following:<br />
<br />
<div class="gtxt_body"><i>"IV. General <span class="gstxt_hlt">Henry Dunham, </span>born October 13, 1806; married Mary </i></div><div class="gtxt_body"><i>Cushing, born April 2, 1805, daughter of Colonel Brackley Cushing, </i></div><div class="gtxt_body"><i>of <span class="gstxt_hlt">Abington, </span>April 8, 1826. Their children were—</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i>V. Charles Henry, born October 30, 1827; died June 17, 1832.</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i>V. Brackley Cushing, born September 2, 1829 ; married Elizabeth </i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i> T. Hunt, November 2, 1859.</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i>V. Sarah Maria, born November 9, 1831; died December 18, 1840.</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i>V. Andrew, born November 25, 1833 ; married Mercy F.<span class="gtxt_body"> Whitcomb, </span></i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i><span class="gtxt_body"> January 20, 1855. Children—</span></i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i><span class="gtxt_body"> VI. Sarah Maria, born January 20, 1856 ; </span></i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i><span class="gtxt_body"> VI. Emma Gertrude, born April 23, 1862.</span></i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i>V. Hervey, born October 18, 1835.</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i>V. Mary Cushing, born July 2,1838 died November 23, 1843.</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i>V, Caroline, born January 18, 1841; died September 10, 1841.</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i>V. Emma Annette, born January 1, 1844.</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i>V. Josephine, born June 8, 1846; died September 17, 1846.</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i>V. Susan Ford, born May 20, 1848.</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i>V. Frank, born.May 25, 1850; died September 7, 1850.</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i>V. Annie Poyas, born August 20, 1852; died December 14, 1854."</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i> ((pp368-369) </i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;">So "Gertie" was Andrew Jackson Dunham's daughter Emma</div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;">Gertude and Sara Dorr was his daughter Sarah Maria.<i> </i>Those </div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;">questions were now answered, but as always with family</div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;">research, there were more to come.</div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;"><br />
</div><div class="gtxt_body" style="text-indent: 1em;">To be continued.<i><br />
</i></div>Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-27855391791189124602023-10-26T15:51:00.004-07:002023-10-26T15:51:52.712-07:00A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS7<p> ((First posted on West in New England 3Dec 2010))</p><p>Today was my day off and after a walk in Ames Nowell Park I returned<br />
to Mt Vernon Cemetery to see if I could find more Dunham relatives. I<br />
started looking close to the Cornelius Dunham family plot but instead of<br />
Dunhams I found some Packards and Edsons:<br />
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My Packard and Edson ancestors are from my Dunham line so I'll be<br />
checking these names out to see if these folks are my relatives and how<br />
we are related. <br />
<br />
Mt Vernon is a good sized cemetery so I decided to work my way <br />
down towards what I think is the older part of it. This direction<br />
leads toward Island Grove Pond is a bit hilly. While it was a bright<br />
day it was chilly and my fingers were cold, so I decided to walk<br />
to the end of the lane I was on, take some pictures and then return to<br />
my car.<br />
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I don't know if you can tell how steep the decline is here from this shot.<br />
Thinking that it might show better if I shot a picture facing back up the<br />
hill, I walked down to the end of the hill, then turned and took a shot of<br />
a monument near a tree:<br />
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<br />
I started walking back up the way I'd come, but now I could see the<br />
family name on the monument: Dunham! I started taking pictures of the<br />
headstones around it. When I came home, I researched the names online.<br />
<br />
I'd found the family plot of Cornelius Dunham's older brother, Henry<br />
Dunham.<br />
<br />
<br />
To be continued....Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-24883417247672135792023-09-28T20:56:00.001-07:002023-09-28T20:56:48.167-07:00A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS6<p> When I Googled for a connection between Cornelius Dunham and Abiel<br />
Silver, one of the hits was a real find. Abiel and Ednah Hastings Silver's <br />
daughter Ednah Silver had written a book on the American<br />
Swedenborgian church, <i>The History of the New Church in America</i>.<br />
There's a sizeable section in it on her father including pictures of all<br />
three members of the family: <br />
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<br />
There's also one of their home in Jamaica Plain.<br />
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<br />
One of the stories Ednah told in her book was of how her father Abiel<br />
lost an arm. He'd cut his hand peeling a piece of fruit and an incompetent<br />
doctor's mistreatment of the wound started a blood infection which<br />
eventually caused the arm to be amputated. Now this fact made me<br />
wonder about Abiel Silver's death: he drowned. How did a one-armed<br />
man end up drowning in the Charles River? I found the answe to that<br />
at Googlebooks, contained in this article from <i>Morning Light, The</i><br />
<i> New-Church Weekly:</i><br />
<br />
<br />
<i>"The Rev. Abiel Silver, chiefly known on this side of the Atlantic as</i><br />
<i>the author of some popular works, met with a painful end by</i><br />
<i>on March 27. It is supposed that when the train stopped he imagined</i><br />
<i>it had entered the station at Boston, instead of which it had halted on</i><br />
<i>Prison Point Bridge In stepping out it is thought he stepped directly</i><br />
<i>into the water. His struggles were heard, and a railway man extended</i><br />
<i>a board toward him, but being exhausted and having only one arm,</i><br />
<i>Mr. Silver could not clutch it sufficiently long to obtain further</i><br />
<i>assistance. The Boston Weekly Transcript of March 29 contains </i><br />
<i>the following account of him:—</i><br />
<i><br />
</i><br />
<i>'Mr. Silver was a native of New Hampshire, and was nearly if not quite </i><br />
<i>eighty-four years of age. He was formerly an Episcopal clergyman, but </i><br />
<i>about thirty years ago he was ordained as a preacher of the </i><br />
<i>Swedenborgian faith. He lived for some time in Michigan and Northern </i><br />
<i>Indiana, where he was known as Judge Silver. Whilethere he met </i><br />
<i>with an accident that rendered necessary the amputation of his </i><br />
<i>left arm. He came east and for a while preached in Brooklyn, and</i><br />
<i> afterward in Hull and the Boston Highlands, for the Society of </i><br />
<i>which he afterwards became pastor.When he first went to the </i><br />
<i>Highlands the Society was worshipping in a hall, but the present</i><br />
<i> church edifice at the corner of Regent and Cliff Streets was </i><br />
<i>afterwards built, and Mr. Silver was settled as its pastor. </i><br />
<i>Since coming east Mr. Silver has supplied pulpits at many places </i><br />
<i>throughout New England, and became widely known. He has also </i><br />
<i>preached in New York State and in Wilmington, Del. He has written </i><br />
<i>many books and pamphlets on religious topics. Among these were </i><br />
<i>books entitled "The Holy Word in its Own Defence," "The Symbolical</i><br />
<i> Character of the Holy Scriptures," and "The Philosophy of the Christian</i><br />
<i> Religion." In personal character he was a quiet and unostentatious but</i><br />
<i> industrious worker, and did a great deal of good without display.</i><br />
<i> He was remarkably strong and rugged for one of such advanced age, </i><br />
<i>and took vigorous exercise daily, nearly always preferring to walk </i><br />
<i>rather than ride. He leaves a widow and one unmarried daughter.' "</i>Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-90438485729346656552023-09-15T19:38:00.000-07:002023-09-15T19:38:22.510-07:00A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS5 <p> When I was researching the family Cornelius T. Dunham, I ran into a<br />
small mystery. I could find no family tie with three people buried in the<br />
Dunham family plot: Abiel Silver, Ednah Hastings, and Ednah Silver.<br />
So I did a Google search on <i>"Abiel Silver"+Dunham </i>and found<br />
that the connection was not blood but religion.<br />
<br />
Abiel Silver was the minister at the Swedenborgian church in Boston<br />
that CT Dunham attended. The two men must have been good friends<br />
for Cornelius to allow Abiel and his family to be buried along side his<br />
own. <br />
<br />
Now here's where synchronicity or coincidence or luck, call it what you<br />
will once more comes into play: one of my Dad's maternal great<br />
grandparents was named Amos Hastings Barker but I didn't make <br />
the connection with Abiel Silver's wife Ednah Hastings right away<br />
because I was so caught up investigating the Dunhams. I mean,<br />
what are the chances that another cousin from a different side of<br />
the family would be buried in the same plot near my parents?<br />
<br />
Yes. Ednah Hastings is not only a relative, she's actually even a<br />
closer relative than Cornelius Dunham. Here's a relationship<br />
chart I made with RootsMagic4:<br />
</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RqpsXE2aHNI/TPXobc26LBI/AAAAAAAABKo/DJKO5iqQ310/s1600/ednah+hastings-001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RqpsXE2aHNI/TPXobc26LBI/AAAAAAAABKo/DJKO5iqQ310/s320/ednah+hastings-001.jpg" width="247" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RqpsXE2aHNI/TPXon5J71hI/AAAAAAAABKs/CvIa35YeBXQ/s1600/ednah+hastings-002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RqpsXE2aHNI/TPXon5J71hI/AAAAAAAABKs/CvIa35YeBXQ/s320/ednah+hastings-002.jpg" width="247" /></a></div> Ednah Hastings is Dad's 2nd cousin 4x removed through their<br />
descent from John Hastings. To add even more to the irony, they<br />
are also related through the Abbott and Farnum lines, since Ednah's<br />
mother is descended from them as well! <br />
<br />
I'm still gobsmacked.<br />
<br />
To be continued....Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-76301952089795967752023-09-13T20:06:00.002-07:002023-09-13T20:06:48.590-07:00A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS4<p><i> ((First posted om my West in New England blog in 2010))</i><br /></p><p> I like to think I'm a reasonably intelligent person but there are some<br />
things that are just beyond my ken. One of them is legalese. I've<br />
been struggling to make heads or tails out the legal case cousin<br />
Cornelius T. Dunham became embroiled in with an apparently<br />
tenacious woman named Catherine Carson over a rice plantation<br />
in South Carolina. Sometime during the Civil War a man named<br />
Edmund Hyatt had taken out a mortgage on it with two men named<br />
McBurney and Gillespie. Then C.T. was "assigned" the mortgage<br />
and sought to foreclose, but by this time Ms.Carson was in possession<br />
of the property and the lawsuits began to fly.<br />
<br />
It appear the legal war was waged through the courts of South Carolina<br />
and Massachusetts with two appearances at the United States Supreme<br />
Court, one of which is described in the following record. I find it ironic<br />
that Catherine Carson's case hinged on her claim that C.T. Dunham was <br />
a resident of South Carolina, not Massachusetts While he had once lived<br />
and worked in Charleston, by the time this case was argued he and his <br />
family had long since returned to his native Massachusetts and taken up<br />
residence there as the Federal Censuses show. My best guess is that<br />
it was a delaying tactic on Ms. Carson's part since she'd been fighting<br />
the foreclosure tooth and nail. It's at times like this that I had the legal<br />
expertise of Perry Mason or Craig Manson!<br />
<br />
So here are some of the particulars of the appearance of my cousin <br />
before the U.S. Supreme Court. Oh, by the way, he won.<br />
<br />
<i>CARSON v. DUNHAM.<br />
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES </i><br />
<i>FOR THE DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA.<br />
<br />
Submitted March 28,1887. — Decided April 25,1887.</i><br />
<i><br />
When a case is removed from a state court to a Circuit Court of the<br />
United States on the ground that the controversy is wholly between<br />
citizens of different states, and the adverse party moves in the Circuit<br />
Court to remand the case, denying the averments as to citizenship,<br />
the burden is on the party at whose instance the suit was removed <br />
to establish the citizenship necessary to give jurisdiction to the <br />
Circuit Court.<br />
<br />
Opinion of the Court.<br />
A petition filed in a state court, showing on its face sufficient ground <br />
for the removal of the cause to a Circuit Court of the United States, <br />
may be amended in the latter court by adding to it a fuller statement<br />
of the facts, germane to the petition, upon which the statements in <br />
it were grounded.<br />
<br />
In order to give jurisdiction to a Circuit Court of the United States <br />
of a cause by removal from a state court, under the removal clauses <br />
of the act of March 3, 1875, c. 137, it is necessary that the construction <br />
ether of the Constitution of the Uuited States, or of some law or <br />
treaty of the United States, should be directly involved in the suit; <br />
but the jurisdiction for review of the judgments of state courts <br />
given by § 709 of the Revised Statutes extends to adverse decisions<br />
upon rights and titles claimed under commissions held or authority <br />
exercised under the United States, as well as to rights claimed <br />
under the Constitution laws or treaties of the United States.<br />
<br />
A mortgage made in enemy's territory to a loyal citizen of the United<br />
States does not necessarily imply unlawful intercourse between the <br />
parties, contrary to the non-intercourse proclamation and act.<br />
<br />
A petition for the removal of a cause from a state court should set <br />
out the facts on which the right is claimed; not the conclusions of <br />
law only. This was an appeal from an order of a Circuit Court </i><br />
<i>remanding a case to the state court from which it had been </i><br />
<i>removed. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.<br />
<br />
Mr. Clarence A. Seward and Mi: James Lowndes for appellant. </i><br />
<i>Mr. A. G. Magrath and Mr. H. E. Young also filed a brief for</i><br />
<i> same.</i><br />
<i><br />
Mr. William E. Earle for appellee.</i><br />
<i><br />
Mr. Chief Justice Waite delivered the opinion of the court.<br />
<br />
This is an appeal under § 5 of the act of March 3, 1875, c. 137, 18 <br />
Stat. 470, from an order of the Circuit Court remanding a suit which<br />
had been removed from a state court. The record shows that on the<br />
11th of August, 1886, C. T. Dunham, the appellee, filed a bill in equity <br />
in the Court of Common Pleas of Berkeley County, South Carolina, <br />
against Caroline Carson, to foreclose a mortgage made by William <br />
McBurney and Alfred L. Gillespie to Edmund Hyatt, which had been <br />
assigned to Dunham. Is is alleged that Mrs. Carson is in possession <br />
of the mortgaged property, and that she and the plaintiff are the <br />
only necessary parties to the suit. Service was made on Mrs. Carson <br />
by publication, for the reason, as shown by affidavit, that she did <br />
not reside in South Carolina, but in Rome, Italy. On the 9th of October, <br />
1886, which was the day service on her was completed, she entered <br />
her appearance by counsel, and at the same time filed her petition <br />
for the removal of the suit to the Circuit Court of the United States<br />
for the District of South Carolina, on the following grounds:<br />
<br />
" I. That all the matters therein have been already adjudged in her<br />
favor by the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of <br />
South Carolina.<br />
<br />
"II. That the complainant is barred of his present action by a <br />
judgment of the said court in her favor on the matter in controversy.<br />
<br />
" III. That this court is without jurisdiction because a prior suit on the<br />
like matter is pending in the aforesaid court of the United States, <br />
which, by its receiver, has possession of the subject matter of <br />
this suit.<br />
<br />
" IV. That the bond and mortgage sued on are void under the laws <br />
of the United States.<br />
<br />
"V. That the defendant holds title to Dean Hall plantation, the property <br />
involved in this suit and mentioned in the complaint in the above-<br />
entitled suit, under an authority exercised under the United States,<br />
to wit, under a conveyance from the United States marshal for the <br />
district of South Carolina, made under a decree of the United States <br />
Circuit Court, for the said district, all of which will more fully <br />
appear by her answer.<br />
<br />
"The controversy in said suit is also wholly between citizens of <br />
different states, viz., between the said C. T. Dunham, who, as your<br />
petitioner is informed and avers, was, at the commencement of said<br />
suit, and now is, a citizen of the state of South Carolina, and your<br />
petitioner, who was, at the commencement of said suit, and now is, <br />
a citizen of the state of Massachusetts; or the controversy in said <br />
suit is wholly between Mary A. Hyatt, who was, at the commencement <br />
of said suit, and now is, a citizen of the state of New York, and who is <br />
the sole and only real party in interest in said suit and in said </i><br />
<i>controversy, and your petitioner, who was, at the commencement of </i><br />
<i>the said suit, and now is, a citizen of the state of Massachusetts, and </i><br />
<i>which controversy is the only controversy in said suit; that the said </i><br />
<i>Mary A. Hyatt is the real party plaintiff in said suit, and the said </i><br />
<i>C. T. Dunham is but a nominal and colorable plaintiff, and that his </i><br />
<i>name has been used merely for the purpose of defeating the </i><br />
<i>jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of the United States for the </i><br />
<i>District of South Carolina, and that said suit is, in fact, a <br />
controversy wholly between the said Mary A. Hyatt and your </i><br />
<i>petitioner, notwithstanding the assignment to the said C. T. </i><br />
<i>Dunham in the complaint in said suit mentioned."<br />
<br />
On the 11th of November Dunham filed in the Circuit Court an answer <br />
to the petition of Mrs. Carson for removal, in which he denied that he <br />
was a citizen of South Carolina, and averred that he was a citizen of the<br />
same state with her, namely, Massachusetts. The issue made by this <br />
answer was set down for trial in the Circuit Court, accompanied by an <br />
order " that on such trial the burden shall be upon the defendant, <br />
Caroline Carson, to show that the plaintiff, C. T. Dunham, is not a<br />
citizen of Massachusetts."<br />
<br />
Upon this trial it was substantially admitted that Dunham was at the <br />
commencement of the suit a citizen of Massachusetts, and thereupon <br />
the suit was remanded. From an order to that effect this appeal was </i><br />
<i>taken.<br />
<br />
The Circuit Court did not err in holding that the burden of proof was on <br />
Mrs. Carson to show that Dunham was not a citizen of Massachusetts. <br />
As she was the actor in the removal proceeding, it rested on her to <br />
make out the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court. Dunham having denied <br />
that he was a citizen of South Carolina, as she had stated in her petition, <br />
and having claimed that he was in fact a citizen of Massachusetts, the <br />
same as herself, the affirmative was on her to prove that his claim was<br />
not true, or, in other words, that he was a citizen of another state<br />
than her own. </i><br />
<i><br />
</i><br />
Davis, J. Bancroft<i>, United States Reports Vol 121: Cases Adjudged </i><br />
<i>in the Supreme Court at October Term, 1886, Banks and Brothers,</i><br />
Albany& New York 1887 pp421-430</p>Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-76119270576330514212023-09-08T20:11:00.001-07:002023-09-08T20:11:10.283-07:00A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS3<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RqpsXE2aHNI/TPHxMeW6L8I/AAAAAAAABKU/sqZl-NdcS5s/s1600/DCFC0013.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RqpsXE2aHNI/TPHxMeW6L8I/AAAAAAAABKU/sqZl-NdcS5s/s320/DCFC0013.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<i>If you click on this photo to enlarge it, you'll see how close Cornelius </i><br />
<i>and his family are buried to my Dad and Mom. Their graves are in </i><br />
<i>the Veteran's Plot just beyond my car. </i><br />
<br />
So just what sort of man was my distant cousin Cornelius Thomas<br />
Dunham and what was his life like?<br />
<br />
When I started researching him online I had the information from the <br />
Dunham monument and the headstones in the plot:<br />
<br />
<i>Edward F Dunham<br />
1851-1937<br />
Annie S.B. Dunham<br />
1852-1932</i><br />
<br />
<br />
<i>Marion Dunham Seaborn<br />
1853-1938<br />
John E. P Seaborn<br />
Nov 30, 1835-Dec 23, 1900<br />
Louise Seaborn Humphries<br />
1889-1946</i><br />
<br />
<br />
<i>Abiel Silver<br />
April 3, 1797<br />
March 27, 1881<br />
"He is risen"<br />
<br />
His wife<br />
Ednah Hastings<br />
May 30th, 1797<br />
Jan 12, 1892<br />
<br />
Their daughter,<br />
Ednah Charlotte<br />
April 27, 1888 </i><br />
<br />
I had recently downloaded a history of Abington from Google Books<br />
and started off my search with that. I found Cornelius and his family,<br />
as well as his ancestors, listed on page 370 of Benjamin Hobart's<br />
<i>"History of the town of Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts,</i><br />
<i> from its first settlement".</i><br />
<br />
<i>"IV. Cornelius T. Dunham, born in Abington, April 27, 1820; was </i><br />
<i>married on the 7th of July, 1847, to Mrs. Ann B. Jenkins, (formerly </i><br />
<i>Poyas,) of Charleston, S. C. Their children were—<br />
<br />
V. Henry Lucius, born September.8, 1848.<br />
V. Edward Francis, born July 24, 1851.<br />
V. Marion Porcher, born April 29, 1853.<br />
V. Mary Emma, born August 7, 1857.<br />
V. Elizabeth Ann, born February 18, 1859.<br />
V. Cornelia Thomas, born April 24, 1862. <br />
Of these, all were born in Charleston, S. C., excepting Mary Emma,<br />
who first saw the light in Abington; and Cornelia, in Winthrop, Mass."</i><br />
<br />
<br />
So now the question was, how did somebody born and raised in the<br />
town of Abington, Ma, end up living in Charleston, S.C.? The answer<br />
is simple: shoes. Abington is situated in the middle of an area that once<br />
was the shoe manufacturing capital of America, and Cornelius, like<br />
many of his Dunham relatives, made a career out the shoe industry.<br />
I don't know when or how he moved to Charleston but he shows up<br />
in the Charlotte Street directories listed as "CT Dunham, Boots &<br />
Shoes" at about the time of his marriage. His wife Ann Ball Poyas<br />
was a member of a prominent South Carolinian family whose<br />
ancestor had immigrated to America from France in the late 18th<br />
century but I've found no information as to how the marriage was <br />
viewed by her relatives.<br />
<br />
The Dunhams were living in Charleston as late as the 1860 Federal<br />
Census but since their youngest child was born back in Massachusetts<br />
in 1862 it is possible they moved north after the outbreak of the Civil<br />
War. By the 1870 Census the family, along with two domestic servants,<br />
was living here in Abington and Cornelius' occupation was listed as<br />
"Boot and Shoe dealer". Business must have been good for Cornelius<br />
because ten years later the Dunhams were lving on Pembroke St in<br />
Boston where Cornelius was a prominent member of the newly<br />
established Swedenborgian Church. He died of apoplexy on 15Aug<br />
1895.<br />
<br />
My research into cousin Cornelius T Dunham turned up two major<br />
surprises. The first is that Cornelius was involved in a courtcase<br />
that made it up to the Supreme court of the United States. <br />
<br />
The second surprise involves Abiel Silver, his wife Ednah Hastings<br />
and their daughter.<br />
<br />
These will be the subjects of the posts to follow.<br />
<br />
To be continued..... <br />
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When I got home from the laundromat on Thursday night I started<br />
researching Cornelius Thomas Dunham. I found him on quite a few<br />
family trees on Rootsweb, along with records at FamilySearch <br />
Record Search and Ancestry.com. Matters were complicated by<br />
the existence of a Cornelius Livingston Dunham born in Abington <br />
in March 1823 while the birth record for Cornelius Thomas Dunham<br />
listed his birth as April 1820, not the April 1823 date on the <br />
monument at Mt Cedar Cemetery. ((Cornelius L was the son of <br />
another Cornelius Dunham, and the father of yet another Cornelius.<br />
((It's a New England thing: find a good name and keep using it until<br />
it's all used up.)). Best of all I found an image of the Boston Deaths<br />
registry for August 1895 which had the cause of death (apoplexy)<br />
and the names of Cornelius T.'s parents, Ezra Dunham (born in<br />
Plymouth) and Polly Cary(born in North Bridgewater).<br />
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Using that information I was able to work back to our common<br />
ancestors John Dunham and Abigail Barlow/Ballou. My family<br />
is descended from their son Samuel Dunham, while Cornelius<br />
was descended from Joseph Dunham. Cornelius Thomas Dunham<br />
was my Dad's 6th cousin 3x removed through our Dunham line.<br /> </p><p>There's also a connection through Patience Barrows by way of<br />
my Ellingwood line. My 3x great grandfather John Ellingwood<br />
Jr was married to Rachel Barrows, Patience Barrow's grandniece.<br />
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Besides establishing the degree of relationship between my Dad<br />
and Cornelius Dunham, my research also turned up some other <br />
interesting facts on Cornelius T. and his branch of the Dunham <br />
family, such as his wife and children being born in South Carolina,<br />
I'll explore these in the next post<br />
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To be continued...</p>Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-57954095053035277952023-08-30T20:16:00.002-07:002023-08-30T20:16:50.400-07:00A FAMILY REUNION OF SORTS<p>((Originally posted on my West in New England genealogy blog in 2011)) <br /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> I got off to a late start today so I decided to stay close to<br />
home for my Thursday Road Trip and take a walk at<br />
Mt. Vernon Cemetery here in Abington. My parents are<br />
buried there in the Veterans Plot but I never really paid<br />
much attention to the rest of the cemetery on my previous<br />
visits. Today I took a look around after I visited them.<br />
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Both the Veterans' Plot and the nearby G.A.R. Civil<br />
War Veterans Plot had been decorated with flags for<br />
Veterans' Day. I took some pictures of both, then<br />
a nearby family plot drew my attention. In its center<br />
stood a monument with a headless statue seated on the<br />
top. I took a picture and then walked over to see the<br />
inscription on the side. This is what I saw:<br />
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It reads:<br />
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<i>"Cornelius T. Dunham</i><br />
<i>April, 1823-August, 1895</i><br />
<i>`Blessed are the pure of heart,</i><br />
<i>For they shall see God" </i><br />
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<i>Ann Ball Dunham</i><br />
<i>September 1823-February (year is illegible)</i><br />
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<i>Cornelia T. Dunham</i><br />
<i>April 24, 1862-November 8, 1944" </i><br />
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I was, as we geneabloggers say, gobsmacked. Recently I've<br />
been wrapped up in adding my Dunham ancestors and <br />
collateral lines to my family tree on Ancestry. Chances were<br />
very good that Cornelius was a distant cousin who I just<br />
hadn't found yet in my research. I took more pictures of the<br />
other sides of the monument and the other markers in the<br />
plot for further reference and went off to do my laundry.<br />
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Needless to say, I had a lot to think about while at the<br />
laundromat and once I got home, I started researching<br />
Cornelius and his family. As it turns out, there's more <br />
than the Dunham connection and I'll be blogging next<br />
about what I found. But above all that, I am struck <br />
once more by what I call the "circle game" of my Dad's<br />
family history.<br />
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What are the odds that my Dad who was born and raised<br />
in Maine would end up being buried only a few yards away<br />
from his distant unknown cousin in Massachusetts?<br />
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<br />Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-37892641285222632142016-02-08T22:01:00.001-08:002019-01-05T19:55:35.182-08:0052 GRAVESTONES IN 52 WEEKS 4: TILDEN FAMILY PLOT, MARSHFIELD HILLS CEMETERYAnother photo from my 20111 visit to the Marshfield Hills Cemetery in Marshfield, Ma.<br />
It's another family plot for members of the Tilden family, so these are more distant cousins. I'm<br />
descended from Nathaniel Tilden, my 9x great grandfather. His son Stephen (my 8x great<br />
grandfather) lived in Marshfield with his wife Hannah Little, who he married there in 1661. <br />
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The family name is easily visible at the bottom of the monument... <br />
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<br />Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-84189777955791800002016-02-06T23:09:00.001-08:002016-02-06T23:09:44.257-08:0052 GRAVESTONES IN 52 WEEKS 3: REV. GEORGE LEONARD OF MARSHFIELD, MA. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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REV. GEORGE LEONARD,<br />
Son of <br />
REV. ELIJAH LEONARD.<br />
Born in Marshfield May 26, 1801.<br />
Graduated at<br />
Harvard University 1823.<br />
Ordained vat Marshfield 1836.<br />
Pastor of Second Congregational<br />
Society for 25 years.<br />
Died July 9, 1881.<br />
A faithful and beloved minister.<br />
A preacher direct and sincere in speech.<br />
An affectionate husband, a kind father.<br />
An honored and trusted citizen.<br />
His memory will be a legacy of honor<br />
and inspiration to the community.<br />
<i> "Blessed are the dead who died in the Lord."</i><br />
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CHARLOTTE E.<br />
His widow<br />
Died Nov.21, 1884.<br />
Aged 78 years.<br />
<i> "Her children shall arise up and call <br /> her blessed."</i><br />
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Charlotte's full name is Charlotte Emmeline (Washburn) Leonard. It turns out she is a distant cousin<br />
through my Edson, Fobes, and Packard family lines. I didn't know we were related until just now as<br />
I wrote this blog entry. <br />
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Despite the great esteem Rev. George Leonard was held in at the time of his death in 1881, when I<br />
visited the Marshfield Hills Cemetery in 2011, the Leonard family plot was overrun by weeds and<br />
young trees:<br />
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I'll have to go back to the cemetery this summer to see what condition the plot is in now.Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-7710173485314065102016-01-12T22:42:00.000-08:002016-01-12T22:42:44.580-08:0052 GRAVESTONES IN 52 WEEKS 2: PHINEAS PRATT OF WEYMOUTH, MA.<br />
For this week I'm returning to one of my favorite cemeteries, Cohasset Central Cemetery.<br />
This family monument caught my eye:<br />
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It's a memorial to Phineas Pratt and some of his descendants. Here's a closer view<br />
of the inscription:<br />
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And my transcription:<br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>This stone erected to the memory of </i><br />
<i>the Pratt family by their descendants.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i><u>Phineas</u> Pratt came over from England</i><br />
<i>with the <u>Weston</u> Colony in <u>1622</u>, and</i><br />
<i>first settled at Weymouth. The Indians</i><br />
<i>threatening to destroy the colonies, he</i><br />
<i>traveled in the then wilderness with the</i><br />
<i>Indians threatening to destroy him.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>He died at Charlestown April 19, 1680,</i><br />
<i>aged 90 years, and had a tombstone yet</i><br />
<i>to be seen. One of his sons, Aaron,</i><br />
<i>settled in this place, and died in 1735</i><br />
<i>aged 81 years. Aaron his son died in </i><br />
<i>1767 aged 77 years. Thomas, son of</i><br />
<i>Aaron 2 died 1818 aged 85 years.</i><br />
<i>Sarah his wife died 1806 aged 62 </i><br />
<i>years.</i><br />
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<i>It is hoped and believed that their</i><br />
<i>memory will be handed down to the</i><br />
<i>latest generations and that when this </i><br />
<i>stone has crumbled to dust, that our</i><br />
<i>descendants will erect another more</i><br />
<i>durable.</i><br />
<i><br /></i>
<i>__________________</i><br />
<i>Time and weather having erased the</i><br />
<i>inscription on the reverse of this stone,</i><br />
<i>the descendants of Phineas Pratt have</i><br />
<i>placed here this more durable legend,</i><br />
<i>as the original charged us to do.</i><br />
<br />
<u><i>AD 2000</i></u><br />
<i>___________________</i><br />
<i>Underlines mark correction to original text</i><br />
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The story about Phineas Pratt can be found in many books on Plimouth Plantation.<br />
Because I live in Abington, just south of Weymouth, I've also seen it mentioned in<br />
a book about the history of Abington.<br />
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I think it's great that the family descendants added a more lasting copy of the inscription<br />
as their ancestors wished.<br />
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And I think that bird is a red-tailed hawk. <i><br /></i>Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-11382480781145137792016-01-06T22:18:00.001-08:002016-01-06T22:23:20.072-08:0052 GRAVESTONES IN 52 WEEKS 1: URIAH BARTLETT OF KINGSTON, MA.The Old Burial Ground is located in Kingston, Ma., the town just north of Plymouth. It's located<br />
behind the First Congregationalist Church on Route 106 and has some very interesting headstones. <br />
Some of them have quite a bit of information about the people buried there. Here's one for a gentleman named Uriah Bartlett: <br />
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The stone reads:<br />
<i> In Memory of<br /> URIAH BARTLETT </i><br />
<i> Born July 23, 1789,<br /> Died August 2, 1883,<br /> in his 95th year.<br /> He served in the War of 1812<br />and was a representative in the<br />General Court in 1813 and 1815.</i><br />
<i><br /> As a boy he had talked with the<br />venerable Ebenezer Cobb of this<br />town who was born in 1694 and<br />died in 1801, and who in his own<br />boyhood had known Peregrine White<br />who was born on the MAYFLOWER<br />in 1620 and died in 1704.<br /> ________<br /> "Thou shall go to thy fathers in <br />peace, thou shall be buried in a<br />grand old age." Genesis XV., 15.</i><br />
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It's amazing to think that a man who died in 1883 had spoken with a man who had known<br />
Mayflower baby Peregrine White!<br />
Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4850681627251081294.post-54491838789423552572016-01-06T20:53:00.000-08:002016-01-06T20:53:07.625-08:00NEW YEAR, NEW LEAFIt's 2016 and like every New Year of the past few years I've made a resolution to write more<br />
posts for this blog. If you look at the total posts for each year over on the right hand side of<br />
the screen its obvious I haven't kept that resolution. To be honest this blog has always taken a<br />
backseat to my genealogy blog, and that won't change this year. But I'm adopting a new strategy<br />
to help me do better here.<br />
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Two years ago Amy Johnson Crow of the No Story Too Small geneablog started the 52 Ancestors<br />
in 52 Weeks Challenge and it has been a big help in keeping me writing and researching. So I thought the same method might help me here, a sort of "52 Gravestones in 52 Weeks".<br />
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I live in Southeastern Massachusetts in Plymouth County, and the cemeteries here have gravestones<br />
that tell interesting stories of Pilgrims, Revolutionary War and Civil War veterans, and sea captains who died far from home. I should have plenty of material for those 52 weeks.<br />
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Now all I have to do is write those 52 (or more) posts. Bill Westhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01266937924453737084noreply@blogger.com0