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Birthdays on December 23….
Sarah E. Lyons (wife of the 2nd cousin 3x removed)
Golda McKee
Calvin H. Powell (Husband of the 5th cousin 6x removed.
Caroline M. Sherman (3rd cousin)
Josiah Springer (brother in law of the 5th great grandmother)
Marilyn C. Winch (maternal 1st cousin)
Ruth L. Winch (1st cousin 2x removed)
John Wright (husband of the 2nd cousin 5x removed)
December 23, 1776: The first court of the Yohogania county was held at Fort Dunmore (Pitt) December 23, 1776, and that the courts continued to be held there until August 15, 1777. They were then held at the house of Andrew Heath.” This was on the west side of the Monongahela, a short distance above, and in sight of the present town of Elizabeth. The statement has frequently been made that the Yohogania court was at one time held at Redstone Old Fort, but this is a mistake, doubtless growing our of the fact that a board of Viginia commissioners sat at that place in the winter of 1779-80 for the purpose of deciding on land claims and issuing certificates to settlers.
Finally, when the long controverst between the two States was settled by the assignment of the disputed territory to Pennsylvania, the counties of Monongalia and Ohio, though greatly reduced in area, still retained teir names as counties of Virginia (as they are of West Virginia at the present time); but Yohogania, whose limits were wholly within the territory yielded to Pennsylvania, cesed to exist, and was thenceforward mentioned as Viginia’s “lost county.”
December 23, 1776
Of this tract, Virginia first created or erected three counties namely, Monongalia, Ohio, and West Augusta. West Augusta County was split up in 1774-1776, by remaking the dividing lines, and calling the three counties, Monongalia, Ohio and Yohogania.
Courts were promptly established for each. In Yohogania County the first court was held at Fort Dunmore, December 23, 1776. This ‘was near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Among the “Gentlemen Justices” sworn in, were William Harrison (5th great grandfather), James Rogers, and others. The following were given commissions, but were not sworn in Benjamin Harrison (5th great granduncle), James McClean, and Isaac Meason (Mason).
“Yohogania County, December 23, 1776.
“In consequence of an Act of the General Assembly of Virginia putting oft all that part of the District of West Augusta Northward of the following bounds or lines (viz.); Beginning at the mouth of Cross Creek, running up the several courses thereof to the head;
thence southeasterly to the nearest part of the dividing ridge betwee the Ohio and the Monongahela Rivers, thence along the said dividing ridge to the head of Ten Mile Creek, thence east to the road 1eading from Catfish Camp.to Redstone Old Fort, thence with the said roa to the Monongahela River, thence across the said river to the said fort, thence along Dunlap’s old road to Braddock’s Road, and wit said road to the meridian of Potomack River.” The Ohio, Allegheny and Kiskiminetas rivers, and the crest of the Laurel Hill form the remaining boundary of the county, and thus excluded old Armstrong Township in Westmoreland County. At this initial session, also, the following gentlemen justices were appointed and took the oath in that and later sessions: John Campbell, Edward Ward, Thomas Smallman, Dorsey Pentecost, John Gibson, William Crawford, John Stephenson, John Canon, George Vallandingham, William Goe, John Neaville, Isaac Cox, John N’icDowell, Richard Yeates, John McDan¬iel, George McCormick, Phillip Ross, Benjamin Kirkindall, William Harrison, Samuel Newell, Thomas Brown, Thomas Freeman, John DeCampe, Joshua Wright, Oliver Miller, Benjamin Frye, Matthew Ritchie, Jacob Haymaker, Benjamin Harrison, and Zachariah Connell.
This Yohogania court did not use the term taxpayers, but rather chose to call them the Biblical name of “tithables.” The county was divided into thirteen districts, in which the assessment of the “tithables” was to be made, no townships being erected after the manner of Pennsylvania. It does not appear that~the court exacted the full ten per cent. of the income of the pioneers, but some of its members were appointed to prepare the list and make the collections. Two of the districts as described below encroached on the taxable area from which the Hannastown court might derive its revenue:
“Ordered, that Zachariah Connell, Gentleman, take in the list of Tithables within the following bounds, viz.: Beginning at the head of Maryland and extending along Braddock’s Road to Thomas Gist, thence with Froman’s Road to Byer’s Run, thence down the said river to the mouth of Swedley (Sewickley) Creek, thence with said creek and the northern bounds of the county to the beginning.
“Ordered, that Edward Ward, gentleman, be appointed to take the list of Tithables within that part of the county lying east of the Allegheny river and north of the Monongahela river.”
Zachariah Connell was the founder of the future city of Connellsville in present Fayette County, and Major Edward Ward well knew the title contentions from the days of Fort Duquesne, when the French drove him out more than twenty years before. There is no record to tell what kind of a list of tithables each of these justices returned to court, but there is little question that they met with many rebuffs from those who retained their allegiance to Pennsylvania’s jurisdiction.
The Yohogania couit also directed certain “Gentlemen Justices,” as they were designated, “to make a tour of the different districts thereinafter mentioned, and tender the oath of allegiance and fidelity to this Common Wealth (Virginia) to all free male inhabitants above a certain age, agreeable to an act to oblige them to give assurance of allegiance to this state and for other purposes therein mentioned.” Here again Justice Zachariah Connell was appointed for his district, and Justice Isaac Cox for all that part of the county lying west of Sewickley Creek, east of the Allegheny River and north of the Monongahela River. The records of the court do not show but few from these two districts who took such oaths.
Organization; First Day's Business. (i) 1 Yohogania County, December 23, 1776.
In consequence of an Act of the General Assembly of Vir-
ginia putting off all that part of the District of West Augusta
Northward of the following bounds or lines (viz : ) Beginning at
the mouth of Cross Creek, running up the several courses
thereof to the head ; Thence South-Easterly to the nearest
part of the dividing ridge Between the Ohio and the Monon-
gahela Rivers, Thence along the said Dividing Ridge to the
head of Ten Mile creek, Thence East to the road leading from
Catfish camp to Redstone Old Fort, Thence with the said road
to the Monongahela River, Thence across the said River to the
said Fort, Thence along Dunlap's old road to Braddock's
Road, and with said road to the meridian of Potowmac River,
— and a Commission of the Peace and a Commission of Oyer
and Terminer, Directed to John Campbell, Edward Ward,
Thomas Smallman, Dorsey Pentecost, John Gibson, William
Crawford, John Stephenson, John Cannon, George Vallanding-
ham, William Goe, John Neaville, Isaac Cox, John McDowell,
Richard Yeates, John McDaniel, George McCormick, Philip
Ross, Benjamin KirKindall, William Harrison, Samuel Newell,
Thomas Brown, Thomas Freeman, John De Compt, Joshua
Wright, Oliver Miller, Benjamin Frye, Matthew Richie, An-
drew Swearingen, Jacob Haymaker, Benjamin Harrison, and
Zachariah Connell ; Also a Dedimus Potestatum, directed to
William Goe, John Neaville and Isaac Cox, or any two of
them, to administer the oath prescribed by law to John Camp-
bell, Edward Ward, Thomas Smallman, Dorsey Pentecost,
John Gibson, John Cannon and George Vallandingham, or
any two of them, and they to administer the aforesaid oath to
the aforesaid Justices.
Whereupon the aforesaid William Goe and Isaac Cox ad-
ministered the aforesaid oath to the aforesaid Dorsey Pente-
cost, who thereupon did administer the aforesaid oath to the
aforesaid Richard Yeates, George McCormick, Benjamin Kir-
Kindall, Samuel Newell, William Goe, Isaac Cox, Thomas
Freeman, Joshua Wright, Oliver Miller, Benjamin Frye, Mat-
thew Richie, Andrew Swearingen and John Cannon, as Justices
of the Peace.
1 The marginal figures in ( ) represent the original paging of these records.
Minutes of Court of Yohogania County. 79
The court then proceeded to the election of their clerk,
(2) whereupon the said Dorsey Pentecost Esquire was unanimously
chosen and appointed their Clerk, and ordered to take charge
of their rolls.
Dorsey Pentecost took the oath Prescribed by Law as Clerk
of this court.
The court demanded the Records and Papers from John
Madison, Junior, Deputy Clerk of East Augusta, in whose cus-
tody they are, Which he Peremptorily refused, Notwithstanding
he confessed he had seen an Act of assembly directing him so
to do.
Edward Ward, gentleman, came into court and prayed that
the court would receive his reasons for refusing to act as Sheriff
of this county, which was granted and were as follows : — That
he cannot think of acting as Sheriff, or appointing any under
Sheriffs, until the line Between the States of Virginia and
Pennsylvania are fixed or limited, for on the North Eastern
Bounds of this County There is still a Door open for dispute
and Contintion, which has been heretofore the cause of Dis-
turbing the Peace of the People Settled and claiming alter-
nately The Jurisdiction of each Government, and before he
can think of acting or any Person under him, he proposes pray-
ing the General Assembly to have a Temporary line fixed be-
tween them, or the limits of Pennsylvania run, or the Govern-
ment of Virginia Peremptorily running the same, until which
is done he cannot think of acting in any state or Government
to Infringe on the reserved rights of his fellow subjects ; he
further assures that when Government has this done, he is ready
to act with Cheerfulness, and if this Cannot be done he begs
that the Court will Recommend some other gentleman to his
Excellency to serve as sheriff, — and hopes the Court will
acquiesce in Promoting the having the above bounds ascer-
tained ; and further offers to qualify into the Commission of
the Peace.
The Court is of opinion that the said Edward Ward, gentle-
man, may be Permitted to Qualify into the Commission of the
Peace, they being of opinion that he is no sheriff untill he
(3) enters into Bond before this Court, and comply with the Tin-
ner of his Commission as Sheriff ; Whereupon the said Edward Ward came into Court and took the oath of a Justice of the
Peace.
The Court is of opinion that Joshua Wright Gentleman is a
proper person to be recommended to his Excellency the Gover-
nor to serve as Sheriff, the whole of the above gentlemen
named in the Commission of the Peace who are qualified refus-
ing to act in said office on account of the great difficulty they
apprehend will attend the execution of said office until such
time as a line is fixed Between this Commonwealth and the
state of Pennsylvania.
Brice Virgin is appointed Constable to serve the Insuing
year and that he be Summoned before Richard Yeates Gentle-
man to be qualified into said office.
Richard Elson is appointed constable to serve the Insuing
year, and that he be summoned before Isaac Cox, Gentleman,
to Qualify into said office.
William Lankford is appointed Constable to serve the Ensu-
ing year and that he be summoned before Matthew Richie
Gentleman to be Qualified into said office, as also
John Alexander is appointed Constable to serve the Ensuing
year, and that he be summoned before Matthew Richie Gentle-
man to Qualify into said office.
Samuel Clerk is appointed Constable to serve the Ensuing
year, and that he be summoned before William Goe, Gentle-
man to Qualify in said office.
Samuel Griffith is appointed Constable to serve the Ensuing
year, and that he be summoned before William Goe Gentleman
to qualify into said office.
Isaac Sparks is appointed Constable to serve the Ensuing
year, and that he be summoned before Thomas Freeman,
Gentleman to Qualify into said office.
Also John Brown, James Buorass, Matthew Hays,
Bradley is appointed Constables to serve the Ensuing year, and
that they be summoned before Edward Ward, Gentleman to
Qualify into said office.
William Gaston is appointed Constable to serve the Ensuing
(4) year, and that he be summoned before Andrew Swearingen,
Gentleman to Qualify into said office.
Wm Hays is appointed Constable to serve the Ensuing year and that he be Summoned before John Cannon, Gentleman to be Qualified into said office.
John Johnston is appointed Constable to serve the Ensuing
year, and that he be summoned before Joshua Wright Gentle-
man to Qualify into said Office.
Josiah Orsborn and Philip Philips is appointed to Serve as
Constables the Ensuing year, and that they be summoned before
Samuel Newell Gentleman to Qualify into said office.
Andrew Dye & Peter Austurges is appointed Constables to
Serve the Ensuing year, and that they be summoned before
Benjamin Frye, Gentleman to Qualify into said Office.
John Beans is appointed Constable to serve the Ensuing year,
and that he be summoned before Oliver Miller, Gentleman to
Qualify into said office.
Ordered that Dorsey Penticost Esquire be recommended to
his Excellency the Governor as a proper Person to have the
Command of the Melitia of this County ; and that John Cannon
be a proper Person to be recommended as Colonel of the said
Melitia ; Isaac Cox be recommended as Leutenant Colonel of
said Melitia, and Henry Taylor, Major of said Melitia.
Ordered that the Clerk forward a letter to his Excellency &
Council, notifying the general dissatisfaction of the people of
this County against the late Election 1 being held on the Sabath
day, the short notice of the said election, and of the Inconveni-
ency of the Bounds circumscribing the said County.
Whereas by an act of the General Assembly the Suits &c
brought and Instituted in the Court of the District of West
Augusta are directed to be determined in this Court, and the
Papers and Records relative thereto are now in the hands of
John Maddison, Junior, Deputy Clerk of East Augusta, who
hath this day been Called upon to deliver the said Papers and
records to this Court, which he, the said John Maddison, in
(5) contempt of the said Act and the demands of this Court refuses
to deliver, to the manifest Injury of Individuals and evident
hurt of the Publick : Ordered, therefore, that a Process be
Issued to apprehend the said John Maddison and forthwith
bring him before this Court to answer the above misdemeanor.
Court adjourned until Court in Course. Edw? Ward.
December 23, 1777. The Court met according to adjournment.
Present : John McDowell, Isaac Cox, Richd Yeates, Oliver
Miller, Gentlemen Justices.
The mark of Mayberry Evans a Swallow fork in the right
ear and a Slit in the left, on motion of said Mayberry Ordered
to be recorded.
The mark of Richard Evans, a Swallow fork in the right ear
and a Crop in the left ordered to be recorded.
The Ear Mark of William Anderson two under half Crops
on motion ordered to be recorded.
The Mark of Michael Teggert a crop and three Slitts in the
left Ear, on motion of said Michael ordered to be recorded.
Bill of Sale Alexander Young to Joseph Wherry for 300
Acres of Land acknowledged by said Young party thereto or-
dered to be recorded.
On the Complaint of James Murphy and wife that a certain
Jacob Jones hath for some time past forcibly detained George
Alervine, the son of the wife of the said James Murphy to the
great damage of the said James and Wife and against the peace
and dignity of the Common Wealth. Ordered that the Said
Jacob Jones forthwith deliver the said George Alervine to the
said James Murphy and wife.
Charles Morris
v In Debt
Thomas Rouse On Motion of Plff Ordered that this Suit be
dismissed.
(51) On the Petition of Andrew Heath &c, Ordered, that Robert
Henderson, Zadock Wright, John Robertson, John Crow,
Thomas Applegate and Andrew Dye, view a road, the nearest
and best way from Pittsburg to Andrew Heaths ferry on the
Monongahela River, and from thence to Becket's fort.
Upon the motion of Andrew Heath, ordered that he have
leave to keep a ferry at his house across the Mongahala River.
Benn Kekendal Wilm Goe, Gent present.
On the Information of Oliver Miller Gent, that William
Dunaghgan did on this day swear two prophane Oaths Ordered,
that the said William William Dunaghgan be fined 10s for the
same.
Oliver Miller Gentleman returns five Shillings received from
Martin Owens for Swearing. Ordered that the Sheriff receive
the same.
Isaac Leet returns that he hath received five Shillings from
James Johnston for prophane swearing. Ordered that the Said
Isaac Leet, Sheriff retain the same in his hands.
Thomas Dickenson came into Court and enters himself
Defendant in an Action of Ejectment at the Suit of James
Roberts.
Inventory of the Estate of Garret Newgill deceased returned
by the appraisers & ordered to be recorded.
Bargain and Sale. Paul Froman to Dorsey Pentecost for
fourteen hundred acres of Land in this County was proved by
the Oaths of James Allison, Isaac Leet, John Crow & John
McDowell Gent, also the receipt thereunto annexed was proved
by the oaths of the said John McDowell and John Crow, the
Subscribing Witnesses to the Said Bargain & Sale & Receipt as
aforesaid & ordered to be recorded
(52) Bill of Sale. Isaac Cox to James Allison for one one thou-
sand acres of Land in the County of Kentucke, acknowledged
by the said Isaac Cox party thereto and ordered to be re-
corded.
David McClure Then came David McClure The Plain -
v tiff, and John Crow personally appeared
Patrick McElroy in Court and undertook for the said
Defendant that in Case he shall be Cast in this Action he shall
pay and Satisfy the Condemnation of the Court or render his
i Body to prison in execution for the same or he the said John
Crow will do it for him. Whereupon the Defendant prays and
has leave to imparl untill next Court and then to plead.
Upon the motion of Oliver Miller Gent on behalf of Cathe-
rine Dabler a servant to William Anderson that a certain Peter
Brandon of the town of Pittsburgh now unjustly detains an
Infant Girl born of the Body of the said Catherine. Ordered
that the said Peter Brandon deliver the said Infant to the said
William Anderson, it is also ordered to bring the said Infant
before the next Court and that a Summons do issue to Cause
the said Peter Brandon then to attend to Shew Cause wherefore
he detains said Infant.
Ordered, that the Sheriff collect from every Tythable person
within this County, the sum of three Shillings as County Levies,
and that he account with the Treasury of the Common Wealth
for the same.
(53) Ordered that the Sheriff pay John Campbell Gent out of the
County Collection, the sum of Eleven Shillings and one penny
for holding an Inquisition on the body of John Kelso.
Ordered that the Sheriff of this County pay John Bradley out
of the County Collection the sum of four Shillings and two
pence, for summoning an Inquisition on the body of John
Kelso.
Ordered, that the Sheriff pay out of the County Collection to
Richard Yeates, the sum of six pounds for laying two floors in
a Goal formerly built for this district. 1
Ordered that the Sheriff pay out of the County Collection to
Dorsey Pentecost the sum of Sixty four Pounds ten Shillings
and Six pence for Record Books, County Seal, and other papers
for the Clerk's office of this County.
1 Doubtless this "Goal formerly built for this district, " was the jail on the late
Wm. Gabby farm, at Augusta Town, about half a mile west of Washington.
Zadock Wright produced a commission from his Excellency
appointing him Captain of the Militia which being read, the
said Zadock Wright came into Court and took the Oath of Capt
of the Militia.
The Ordinary Keepers within this County are allowed to sell
at the following rates
one half pint wiskey One Shilling
The same into Tody One Shilling Six pence
A larger or lesser Quantity in the same proportion.
Beer per Quart One Shilling
For a hot Breakfast One Shilling & Six pence
For a Cold Do One Shilling
For a Dinner Two Shillings
Lodging with Clean Sheets pr Night Six pence
Stablidge for one horse 24 hours
with good hay or fodder Two Shillings
Pasturage for Do do One Shilling
Oats or Corn per Quart Three pence
Supper One Shilling & Six pence
(54) Ordered that the above rates commence the fifteenth day of
January next and not before.
Ordered that this Court be adjourned to tomorrow morning
at 7 oClock William Goe
December 23, 1776
By the end of 1776 the American cause was indeed at low ebb. On December 23 there appeared a pamphlet, the first of Thomas Paine’s Crisis papers, which began, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” But three days later, the morning after Christmas, Washington struck at the celebration-befuddled Hessian camp at Trenton. He made a happy report to Congress.
ORGANIZATION; FIRST DAY’S BUSINESS. (i)1 Yohogania County, December 23, 1776.
In consequence of an Act of the General Assembly of Virginia putting off all that part of the District of West Augusta Northward of the following bounds or lines (viz:) Beginning at the mouth of Cross Creek, running up the several courses thereof to the head; Thence South-Easterly to the nearest part of the dividing ridge Between the Ohio and the Monongahela Rivers, Thence along the said Dividing Ridge to the head of Ten Mile creek, Thence East to the road leading from Catfish camp to Redstone Old Fort, Thence with the said road to the Monongahela River, Thence across the said River to the said Fort, Thence along Dunlap’s old road to Braddock’s Road, and with said road to the meridian of Potowmac River, and a Commission of the Peace and a Commission of Oyer and Terminer, Directed to John Campbell, Edward Ward, Thomas Smallman, Dorsey Pentecost, John Gibson, William Crawford, John Stephenson, John Cannon, George Vallandingham. William Goe, John Neaville, Isaac Cox, John McDowell, Richard Yeates, John McDaniel, George McCormick, Philip Ross, Benjamin KirKindall, William Harrison, Samuel Newell, Thomas Brown, Thomas Freeman, John De Compt, Joshua Wright, Oliver Miller, Benjamin Frye, Matthew Richie, Andrew Swearingen, Jacob Haymaker, Benjamin Harrison, and Zachariah Connell; Also a Dedimus Potestatum, directed to William Goe, John Neaville and Isaac Cox, or any two of them, to administer the oath prescribed by law to John Campbell, Edward Ward, Thomas Smallman, Dorsey Pentecost, John Gibson, John Cannon and George Vallandingham, or any two of them, and they to administer the aforesaid oath to the aforesaid Justices.
Whereupon the aforesaid William Goe and Isaac Cox administered the aforesaid oath to the aforesaid Dorsey Pentecost, who thereupon did administer the aforesaid oath to the aforesaid Richard Yeates, George McCormick, Benjamin KirKindall, Samuel Newell, William Goe, Isaac Cox, Thomas Freeman, Joshua Wright, Oliver Miller, Benjamin Frye, Matthew Richie, Andrew Swearingen and John Cannon, as Justices of the Peace.
The marginal figures in ( ) represent the original paging of these records.
December 23, 1782: The Board wrote the following Letter to the Executive Dated December 23 1782
SIR
We received your Excellencies favour of the 16th’ of October by Mr Netherland Novr 24th and yours of the 4th of Novr by Colo. Buford the 18th Inst and shall pay due attention to their contents. Gen(1) Clark has consulted the Board with regard to erecting Posts at the Mouths of Kantucky Licking & Limestone, in consequence of your Excellancys orders to him on maturely considering the affair, We are of opinion that a Fort at the Mouth of Kantucky would be of great service to the Country and may be more easaly supported than one at Licking, that a Fourt at the mouth of Licking would not be an effectual security to the Inhabitants of Fayette as it is more than 6o Miles distance from them & the Indians not being oblidged to come that way, they may penetrate into the Country without the Garrison having it in their power either to prevent them or warn the Inhabitants of their danger that to the greater part of the Enemy Indians the mouth of Kantucky is more immediately in their course, and a Fort there would cover the Inhabitants of Jefferson Lincoln & Fayette to more advantage than either of the others proposed—and by it the watter carrage from the Ohio to the internal parts of both the Counties of Lincoln & Fayette would in some measure be sup¬ported, Drenings Salt Lick a place of great consequence would be commanad by it which would greatly distress the Enemy as it is much resorted to by them for game, here they kill and cure meat to serve them in their incursions, for these reasons the Board advised the Gen’ to have a Fort erected at the mouth of Kantucky as soon as posible, they look upon the mouth of Limestone which is further up the river, more out of the way of the Indians and much more dificult to supply with provisions to be still more inconvenient, but if a post is thought necessary in that Quarter the blue Licks on Licking for the same reasons that were given about Drenings Lick may be a proper place, but it is our opinion that neither the state of you Treasury, nor the State of this Country are equal to the expence of money to support three additional Posts, nor to furnish men if to be Garrisoned by the Militia, When we arrived in this Country the 24~ of October all the officers civil & Military & the generality of the men being engaged under Gen1 Clark in an Expe¬dition against the Miami Indians we found that little could be done untill the return of the Troops, Notwithstanding the Board met at Harodsburg the first of November with design to get in what Ac¬counts they could, afterwards went over to Lexington in Fayette County with the same intent and there prepared Letters for Genl & Clark the Militia Offers Debtors to the State &cc. In that to Gen¬eral Clark he is required to lay before us copies of the orders & Instructions, he had given either to Quartermasters Pay Masters Commissaries Contractors Agents in the commercial department or superintendents of Indian affairs, and informing him We call upon all who have been concerned in the disbursements of public Monies to appear with their Accounts & the proper Vouchers for their expenditures; That those who have drawn Bills are required to attend with their powers for drawing &c: and those who have commanded Posts are to make out returns of the strength of their Men from Time to Time that we may be able to judge of the ex¬penditures In return to which the Board received a Letter from Gen’ Clark assuring them of his chearfully complying with our re¬quest, as it was what he earnestly wished for; that some persons alluded to in theirs did not come— within his line in the settlement of their Accounts as John Dodge Commercial Agent Cob Will. Harrison purchaser for the Campaign Eighty one & Capt~ Rowland Madison Quarter Master &c: As the Gen’~ Papers are at Louis¬ville we can not enter into a thorough investigation of his Accounts till we sit at that place, and the parties concerned are collected, We have despatched a Messenger to Kaskaskias and St Vincent and wrote to Cob. Montgomery, Dodge &c: and ordered MT Madison to lay his accounts before us and expect to be at Louisville before the return of our Messenger from ye Illinois Country, Capt~ George went with the Chickesaw Indians to their Towns and is not yet returned, Cob. Harrison, Cob. Lynn, Cob Todd and MT Lindsay are all killed; Their affairs will require time to investigate & great care to come at the truth, as some of them have kept no regular accounts, these reasons have prevented us from advanceing in the business with that Expedition we could wish. They Survyors Offices in Fayette and Jefferson Counties being opened to recieve Land Warrants the attention of the People is so much engaged as greatly to retard the getting the Militia Accounts settled. Our Letters to the County Lieutenants required them to order Pay Rolls of their different Comp~ or Parties of their Militia that have been on actual service and which have not been settled by the State, to be made out, and after having been attested by the Capt~ or Com¬manding officer on Oath and certified by them to be laid before the Board. All Commissaries Accounts or others furnishing provissions by their Orders with proper Vouchers are likewise to be laid before us, also Vouchers for Provisions and other articles impressed for the use of their Militia, and when Vouchers cannot be had Witnesses to prove facts are to attend, We expected by this method to have settled the Militia accounts with expedition, but calling on the County Lieutenant of Lincoln for his returns, he informed us he could not now attend, as his business called him to wait on the N. Carolina Com¬missioners at Cumberland. Your Excellencys Letter of NovT the 41h informs us that many demands have been made by MT Nathan and some others for payment of Bills drawn on the Treasurer or Governour of this State, by Cob Todd & Gen1 Clark, and that from the enormity of the sums demanded and the high price of every article where an Account has been rendered, there is just cause to suspect that the goods were bought for depreciated Money, and that some advantage has been taken of the Drawers, And that it now rests with us to take such measures as may be in our power to investigate the truth which you requst we will do as soon as posible and give our opinion at large. We beg leave to observe that we are not furnished with a list of the Bills in whose favour drawn the sums drawn for, nor the invoices or accounts referred to by your Excellency there must be an oversight in the Clerk not transmiting such necessary copies. Genl Clark informs us that he is altogether a stranger to what Bills Cob. Todd drew, and that he cannot at present charge his memory with what Bills he has drawn himself. so that until he can have recourse to his papers at Louisville he can only refer your Excellency to his certificate upon the Scale of De…
December 23, 1784
Advocating civil equality for the Jewish population of Pennsylvania, the Reverend Charles Crawford in 1784 argued that “the drawing of a political line between us and them has a tendency to prevent their conversion…[while] the unlimited toleration of them has a tendency to bring them over to the gospel…the unlimited toleration of them is the cause of God”. Conversionist sentiments such as these may well have contributed on the Christian side to friendship and intermarriage with colonial Jews, thereby hastening the complete absorption of some within the larger community.
In 1784 he reprinted George Gox’s old missionary tract, “A Looking-Glass for the Jews, with a new preface. In it he appealed to the Jews, as Fox himself did, to heed the call to conversion, but he also chided his fellow-Christians for their ill-treatment of the Jews. He pointed out that Christian prejudice might well “have a tendency to confirm them in their disbelief.” His real plea, however, was for the removal of religious tests in states where they existed.
Crawford’s psychology was more perceptive than he could have realized. A large percentage of the descendants of those eighteenth-century Philadelphia Jews-once political and social prejudice against them disappeared-did in fact become Christians. As had already occurred in the case of the children of Samnpson Levy, Sr., and David Franks, intermarriage and full acceptance were to beguile many away from their ancestral faith.
A letter, signed “A Protestant,” who may have been the religious poet and minister, Charles Crawford, which appeared in the “Pennsylvania Packet” on December 23, 1784, rather unseasonably chided his co-religionists for their levity and lack of solemnity on Good Friday. “That day in my opinion ought to be observed, if possible, more holy than the Sabbath,” he wrote. “The Jews set us an example; who, at the time of their Passover, refrain from the tempting gain of lucre during the course of almost a week.”
December 23, 1784
12/23/1784 Dispute between Yohogania and Westmoreland CO's settled giving Miller's Run area to Washington CO.
December 23, 1784: An interesting report of the running of Mason and Dixon's line to the western extremity thereof, dated December 23, 1784, will be found in the Pennsylvania Archives, Vol. X., p. 375. The meridian line itself from the
southwest corner of the state, was finally run and marked, by David
Rittenhouse and Andrew Porter, on the part of Pennsylvania, and
Andrew Ellicott and Joseph Neville on the part of Virginia, on August
23, 1785. 9 For the Pennsylvania commissioners and their assistants,
in order to insure the prompt and effective performance of their work,
there was made the liberal provision of sixty gallons of spirits, twenty
gallons brandy, and forty gallons of Madeira wine. And thus was the
matter ended.
December 23, 1807
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“Der Virginische Volksberichter” Soloman G. Henkel (1777-1847) New Market Virginia 1807 newspaper.
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Rev. Paul Henkel had five sons that became Lutheran ministers. Andrew and Charles were in Ohio. Phillip went to North Carolina. Ambrose served in North and South Carolina and maybe Tennessee. This information is from Rev. Paul Henkel’s Autobiography, recently published by the Hinkel association. In his book, he states he had nephews in Ohio named Saul and Joel, son of Moses, his brother, who was a minister also.
The Methodists built the first church in 1807 in Champaign County.
1808
The following records reveal James and Effa (Effelia) Rowland being connected with Fairfield County, Ohio in 1808.
1808, no. 59, James Rowland from Thomas and Joanna Davis, 51 acres for $200.00, in Range 17, Township 17, Section 31. Book G. and page 394.
1808
In 1808, he (James Foley) married Mary Marsh, also a native of Virginia, born 1784, to whom were born Griffith, Catherine, Susan, John and James. Mr. Foley was one of the first County Commissioners, on the erection of the county in 1818, and served several years; was also in the Legislature two terms, and became one of the largest land-owners in Clark County. He died in 1864, aged eighty-four. John Ward settled in the township about the same time as Foley. Judge John R. Lemon settled on Section 2, in the southeastern part of the township, in 1808; he was also a Virginian. In the same year, David Crabill and his wife Barbery came from Virginia and settled on Buck Creek. They had born to them twelve children; seven yet survive, and are among the leading families of the county. David was a native of Virginia, and his wife of Pennsylvania; her maiden name was Bear, and he was in the war of 1812.
1808
. A comparatively early settler, and one whose name is well known throughout the township, was Judge Daniel McKinnon, a Virginian (5th great grandfather), who came to this section in 1808, and settled on the ground where New Moorefield now stands, in Sections 3, 4; 9 and 10, corner. He had a family consisting of his wife, three girls and five boys, all of which children are, now scattered over the country outside of the township. The father died on the land he entered, and was buried in the old graveyard.
1808 Judge Daniel MCKINNON 3 girls, 5 boys A Virginian
Thomas Voss, a native of Virginia, settled where Nathan Marsh now lives, in 1808. Silvanus Tattle and his wife; Mary (Brown) Tuttle, came to Ohio from Virginia in 1806, settling first-in Champaign County, close to Catawba Station, and, in the spring of 1808, removing to the southeastern part of Moorefield Township, where both died, he in January, 1843, aged eighty-two, and his wife in May, 1848, aged eighty-five. Of their numerous family, Eunice, Thaddeus, Hetty, Thomas, John, Dorcas, Caleb, Zebedee and David, all are dead but Caleb and Zebedee, who reside in Springfield Township, aged eighty-two and eighty-one respectively. The Tuttles incline toward the Baptist Church, and many of them are actively identified with that denomination. In 1808, Charles Bodkin and John Runyon settled in the township, and Jacob Richards a couple of years previous; all were from Virginia.
1808 - Benjamin Harrison "died sometime about 1808 leaving certain children)" etc.
Benjamin Harrison (1750 - 1808)
Orange Co., VA > Harrison Co. KY Abt 1783 > Washington Co. MO
Surnames Mentioned: CRAWFORD HARRISON MEASON NEWELL VANCE
Repository ID #3468 - extensive ancestry available in our online database.
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A History of His Life And Of Some of the Events In American History In Which He Was Involved
By Jeremy F. Elliot
1978
Benjamin Harrison was born in Orange County Virginia (1) in about 1750. He was the son of Lawrence Harrison of Virginia. He had brothers named William, Lawrence Jr., and Battaile.(2) One known sister was Catherine who married Isaac Meason. Lawrence was living in what is now Fayette County, Pennsylvania in 1768. Since Benjamin would have been about eighteen years old at this time, it seems likely that Benjamin moved to this area with his father's family.
1808: Tecumseh and the Prophet moved their respective followers to Prophetstown near the Tippecanoe River in the Indiana Territory in 1808. The two men continued to espouse their message, and their followers continued to grow in number.
1808
The Holy Bible by Charles Thomson (the first English translation of the Septuagint into English and the first English New Testament translated and published in America.)
1808: The Life of Washington is published by Parson Weems in 1808:
Mason Locke Weems Biography
About 3 pages (965 words)
Parson Weems Summary
Name: Mason Locke Weems
Birth Date: October 1, 1759
Death Date: May 23, 1825
Place of Birth: Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States
Place of Death: Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Minister
December 23, 1811: VALENTINE CRAWFORD,(3rd cousin 5x removed) b. December 23, 1811, Estell County, Kentucky; d. 1859, Breathitt County, Kentucky.
December 23, 1814: The last major battle (of the War of 1812) occurred after the surrender December 23, 1814, it had been learned that the British had amassed over 10,000 troops in Jamaica and were heading for New Orleans. Andrew Jackson had lost only 13 men but the British left over 2000 dead in the cane fields and the War of 1812 was finally over.
December 23, 1814
The British and American Armies skirmished at Villere Plantation.
December 23, 1814
United States United Kingdom
24 killed 46 killed
115 wounded 167 wounded
74 captured 64 captured
Total 213 Total 277
After that the British cautiously advanced north, steadily closer to New Orleans, while Jackson dug in with his artillery batteries along Chalmette’s prime defensive ground, a small irrigation ditch known as Canal Rodriguez that faced the open Chalmette plain. The American soldiers took to calling their breastworks “Line Jackson.”
THE ERECTION OF CLARK COUNTY
Tuesday, December 23, 1817, "the Senate received a message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Hawkins:" Mr. Speaker, the House of Representatives have passed the bill entitled an act to erect the county of Clark." Thursday, December 25, 1817, the bill was signed by the Speakers of both branches of the Legislature, as being duly enrolled; Mr. Lucas from the joint committee of enrollment deposited it with the Secretary of State, and took his receipt therefore.
And so the long fight was ended. Ohio had gleaned another wisp for the sheaf on her escutcheon, and had added one more dart to its bundle of arrows. As a "Christmas gift" she had granted the right of local representation and self-government to the plucky pioneers of "Little Clark," and made them a community by themselves with a "local habitation and a name," the retrospect of which confirms even the brightest visions of those who struggled for this conclusion.
The creation of Clark County was the most bitterly contested of any of the early counties of Ohio. The nominal objection urged was that the territory proposed did not fill the constitutional requirements of 400 square miles. The real trouble seems to have been personal dislike and jealousy, between the leading citizens of the principal settlements in Green and the proposed county of Clark. It is unfortunate that the names of the principal actors in the controversy cannot be learned from the journals of the Legislature of that day, for, names excepted, the records furnish, to an active mind, a detailed history of the long struggle.
Perhaps more Governors of Ohio participated, in one way or another, in the passage of this bill than in that erecting any other county in the State; they were Thomas Kirker, Othniel Looker, Thomas Worthington, Jeremiah Morrow,. Duncan McArthur, Robert Lucas and Joseph Vance. The passage of the bill and its excellent management throughout the unequal contest was more directly attributable to Daniel McKinnon, Senator from Champaign County, and one of the first Associate Judges of Clark County; Joseph Tatman also did good work, as a Representative, and was made one of the first Associate Judges. At the time of its erection, the taxable acreage of the county was 229,624 acres, then valued at $528,644, or an average price of less than $2 per acre.
The whole number of voters was 4,648, and the total population amounted to 8065.
"When the news of the passage of the bill reached Springfield, the citizens assembled at the tavern kept by my father (Cooper Ludlow), on the northwest corner of Main and Factory streets, and celebrated the occasion by the burning of tar barrels in the street, and a free use of apple toddy and the other accompaniments belonging to a great jollification of that day."*
Of the authors of the petition, or those who signed it, or any of the details, there is no known evidence, except that of hearsay. At this late day it would be interesting to know who first suggested the name of Clark, who circulated the petition, and some of the incidents concerning its rise and progress at home, as well as in the Legislature.
December 23, 1823: “A Visit from St. Nicholas” published anonymously in the Troy (New York) Sentinel.
December 23, 1823: Permelia Smith12 [Gabriel D. Smith11 , Gabriel Smith10, John “LR” Smith9, Ambrose J. Smith8, Christopher Smith7, Christopher Smith6, Thomas Smythe5, Thomas Smythe4, John Smythe3, Richard2, William1] (b. March 6, 1824 in Franklin Co. GA / d. January 3, 1909 in Carroll Co. GA) married Calving Howard Powell (b. December 23, 1823 in NC /d . April 2, 1911 in Carroll Co. GA) on October 30, 1844 in Carroll Co. GA.
A. Children of Permelia Smith and Calvin Powell:
. i. Missouri Martha Powell (b. December 16, 1847 in GA / d. February 15, 1918)
+ . ii. Mary Clark Powell (b. December 21, 1847 in GA / d. October 27, 1901 in GA)
+ . iii. Diedna Evelyn Powell (b. abt. 1849 in GA / d. June 3, 1907 in AL)
. iv. Nancy E. Powell (b. October 21, 1851 in GA / d. May 3, 1930)
. v. Infant Powell (b. abt. 1853 in GA)
. vi. Thomas J. Powell (b. abt. 1855)
. vii. Charles O. Powell (b. December 13, 1856 in GA / d. June 22, 1871)
. viii. James Darius Powell (b. July 31, 1859 in GA / d. April 7, 1932)
+ . ix. John Marion Powell (b. May 1862 in GA / d. abt. 1937)
. x. Calvin R. Powell (b. February 22, 1863 in GA / d. October 18, 1930)
. xi. Sarah Adalina Powell (b. March 8 1865 in GA)
. xii. Indiana Hassie Powell (b. February 3, 1867 in GA / d. January 6, 1894)
More about Calvin Powell
Calvin married Christina Annie Stogner (b. June 11, 1867 in GA / d. January 6, 1936) on May 21, 1882 in GA.
More about Indiana Powell
Indiana married James E. Eason (b. November 19, 1865 / d. August 21, 1930 in GA) on July 25, 1886 in Carroll Co. GA.
Winter 1823 – The last battle between the Cherokee and the Osage in Arkansas Territory takes place, after which both nations agree to an end to hostilities.
A page from Abraham Lincoln's sum book
Abraham was only able to attend school a few short times after this between 1820 to 1824. The total time of his schooling was between one year and eighteen months. He mostly would borrow books from other people if he wanted to keep learning.
1824 – Whitepath (Nunna'hi-dihi') of Turniptown (near Ellijay), influenced by the teachings of the Seneca prophet Handsome Lake, leads a protest movement of traditionalists against acculturation; it forms its own council under Big Tiger; the schism last for four years. • After years of legal action and negotiations over rights to land within the bounds of the State of North Carolina, the Cherokee living beyond the bounds of the Cherokee Nation after the treaties of 1817 and 1819 are confirmed in their lands, the center of which was Quallatown on the Oconaluftee River. Yonaguska was chosen as their principal chief.
1824: In 1824 the first congregation west of the Appalachians, K.K. Bene Israel, in Cincinnati, Ohio was founded.
Decemberf 23, 1840: JOHN C.27 CRAWFORD, b. December 23, 1840.
December 23, 1861: Albert, Prince Consort
Prince Albert
Photograph by J. J. E. Mayall, 1860
Prince consort of the United Kingdom
Reign February 10, 1840 – December 14, 1861
Spouse Queen Victoria
Issue
• Victoria, Princess Royal, German Empress
• Edward VII
• Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse
• Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Helena, Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
• Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll
• Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught
• Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
• Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg
Full name
Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel
House
House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Father Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Mother Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
Born August 26, 1819
Schloss Rosenau, Coburg, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, German Confederation
Died December 14, 1861 (aged 42)
Windsor Castle, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Burial December 23, 1861; December 18, 1862
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle; Frogmore, Windsor
Albert's body was temporarily entombed in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle,[114] until a year after his death his remains were deposited at Frogmore Mausoleum, which remained incomplete until 1871.[115] The sarcophagus, in which both he and the Queen were eventually laid, was carved from the largest block of granite that had ever been quarried in Britain.[116] Despite Albert's request that no effigies of him should be raised, many public monuments were erected all over the country, and across the British Empire.[117] The most notable are the Royal Albert Hall and the Albert Memorial in London. The plethora of memorials erected to Albert became so great that Charles Dickens told a friend that he sought an "inaccessible cave" to escape from them.[118]
All manner of objects are named after Prince Albert, from Lake Albert in Africa to the city of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, to the Albert Medal presented by the Royal Society of Arts. Four regiments of the British Army were named after him: 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars; Prince Albert's Light Infantry; Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry, and The Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade. He and Queen Victoria showed a keen interest in the establishment and development of Aldershot in Hampshire as a garrison town in the 1850s. They had a wooden Royal Pavilion built there in which they would often stay when attending reviews of the army.[119] Albert established and endowed the Prince Consort's Library at Aldershot, which still exists today.[120]
Biographies published after his death were typically heavy on eulogy. Theodore Martin's five-volume magnum opus was authorised and supervised by Queen Victoria, and her influence shows in its pages. Nevertheless, it is an accurate and exhaustive account.[121] Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria (1921) was more critical, but it was discredited in part by mid-twentieth-century biographers such as Hector Bolitho and Roger Fulford, who (unlike Strachey) had access to Victoria's journal and letters.[122] Popular myths about Prince Albert—such as the claim that he introduced Christmas trees to Britain—are dismissed by scholars.[123] Recent biographers, such as Stanley Weintraub, portray Albert as a figure in a tragic romance, who died too soon and was mourned by his lover for a lifetime.[49] In the 2009 movie The Young Victoria, Albert, played by Rupert Friend, is made into an heroic character; in the fictionalised depiction of the 1840 shooting, he is struck by a bullet—something that did not happen in real life.[124][125]
December 23, 1863: The “Union Light Guard,” also known as the Seventh Independent Troop, Ohio Cavalry, was ready and began heading to Washington.
It was mustered out at Washington, September 9, 1865.. (included David McKinnon.)
The relationship of David McKinnon to the family is not known at this time.
Later in the war, the Union Light Guard from Ohio, also known as the Black Horse Cavalry, guarded Lincoln on his commute. The President complained about his escorts, particularly because he thought noisy and possibly too inexperience for their new duties.
President Lincoln protested to Army Chief of Staff Henry Halleck against a small detachment of cavalry which had been detailed without his request, and partly against his will, by the lamented General Wadsworth, as a guard for his carriage in going to and returning from the Soldiers’ Home. The burden of his complaint was that he and Mrs. Lincoln couldn’t hear themselves talk for the clatter of their sabers and spurs; and that , as many of them appeared new hands and very awkward, he was more afraid of being shot by the accidental discharge of one of their carbines or revolvers, than of any attempt on his life or for his capture by the roving squads of Jeb Stuart’s cavalry, then hovering all round the exterior works of the city.
When the President and his escorts left the Soldiers’ Home grounds, they turned south onto the Rock Creek Church Road, a winding dirt roadway that led to several wartime hospitals. Mount Pleasant Hospital, Columbia College Hospital, and Carver Hospital were all located near Rock Creek Church Road to the west, but the closest hospital was Harewood Hospital, established on the former Corcoran estate just south of the Soldiers’ Home. Living near so many hospitals, the President often saw ambulances carrying the wounded as he road to and from the Soldier’s Home.
On his way there he often passed long lines of ambulances, laden with the suffering victims of recent battle. A friend who met him on such an occasion, says, “When I met the President, his attitude and expression spoke the deepest sadness. He paused, and, pointing his hand towards the wounded men, he said, “Look yonder at those poor fellos. I cannot bear it! This suffering, this loss of life, is dreadful!” Recalling a letter he had written years before to a suffering friend whose grief he had sought to console, I reminded him of the incident, and asked him, “Do you remember writing to your sorrowing friend these words: “And this too shall pass away. Never fear. Victory will come.” “Yes” replied he, “victory will come, but it comes slowly”.
December 23, 1963: Civil War prison camp on Arsenal
ARSENAL ISLAND -- On a crisp winter day, the Stars and Stripes lapped softly in the icy breeze coming off the Mississippi River. The sunlight bathed a field of uniform white stones marking the graves of American patriots -- graves many Americans don't know exist. It's not that soldiers in the graves are unknown. Each grave is identified. It isn't that they're historically insignificant. They fought and suffered valiantly.
They were just fighting for what many say was the wrong side.
The Civil War was long ago, and to northerners, far away. However, in 1863, the Union brought the war to a small, rocky island in the Mississippi.
Two days before Christmas, a train rustled into Rock Island and passed over a wooden bridge to the island where a landmark clock tower was being built, and unloaded 468 Confederate soldiers captured in battles near Chattanooga, Tenn.
They were the first prisoners of war incarcerated on the 12-acre Confederate prison camp on the northern side of the island. Before the camp closed 20 months later, 1,964 prisoners died and were buried in the cemetery on Rodman Avenue.
Dan Whiteman is director of the Rock Island Arsenal Museum and resident expert on the cemetery's history. He said it has a fascination for the 50,000 people who visit the site each year.
``The romance of the Confederacy has been, even for northerners, a rather persistent thing,'' Mr. Whiteman said. ``Americans love the underdog. It's interesting to walk through, but it is all the same. That's part of the drama of it, of course.''
The white marble gravestones, in rows of 100, contain only the soldier's name, regiment and grave number. Unlike the rounded stones in the National Cemetery down the road, the tops are pointed. Mr. Whiteman isn't sure why.
``The story among (Confederates) was it was to keep the Yankees from taking their ease'' atop the gravestones, Mr. Whiteman said.
The camp wasn't operating long before a cemetery was needed. The winter of 1863 was exceptionally cold, something Southern soldiers weren't accustomed to.
To make matters worse, prisoners on the first train were infected with smallpox, pneumonia and dysentery. Ninety-eight died within the month. Before spring, the Confederate cemetery held more than 900 graves. Nearly 30 Union guards also died.
The first prisoners to die were quickly buried adjacent to the prison grounds. Not long after, in February 1864, the bodies were moved to the present site to improve sanitary conditions and end the plague. The prisoner death rate then dropped considerably.
In June, the Secretary of War ordered prisoner rations cut in response to conditions Union soldiers faced in the infamous prisoner of war camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
Malnutrition contributed to the scurvy deaths of at least 12 prisoners, and while it remained a problem, the subsequent drop in the death rate belied rumors of starvation.
After the war, prison buildings were razed. Ornate stone officers' quarters were erected along what is now Terrace Drive.
In following years, the camp gained an allegedly unearned reputation as a place of suffering, torture and death. Many referred to it as the ``Andersonville of the North.'' The myth was fed by articles written by Confederate veterans and published in Confederate magazines.
In her epic Civil War novel, ``Gone with the Wind,'' author Margaret Mitchell noted these accounts in a paragraph which claims ``at no place were conditions worse than at Rock Island.'' The fictional character Ashley Wilkes was said to have been held at Rock Island, in the ``hellhole of the north.''
Although camp conditions certainly were not pleasant, many of those ``memories'' were proven false. ``The death rate here was not extraordinary,'' Mr. Whiteman said, ``compared to what the soldiers would have faced in the field.''
While nearly 2,000 Confederate soldiers died at Rock Island, more than 13,700 Union soldiers died in Andersonville.
The Union kept fairly good records of prisoners who came through the camp, which Mr. Whiteman said he refers to often, particularly when he's contacted by prisoners' ancestors, trying to trace their genealogy.
Sometimes, he can't help them, he said. ``They want to know if (their relative) was married, what was his wife's name,'' information that isn't in the records, he said.
Over the years, families of about a dozen of the dead Confederates moved their relatives' bodies from the cemetery to family plots. Most however, remain in the cemetery. On Memorial Day, a Confederate flag is placed at every grave and ``Taps'' is played.
Through it all, the American flag flies. For the Confederates, it's perhaps an insult to forever lie in the shadow of the flag they defied. However, Mr. Whiteman said it is there to claim them as our own, although they died swearing allegiance to another banner.
He said the men are honored as Americans who gave their lives for a cause they deemed sacred.
-- By Marcy Norton (January 22, 1998)
December 23, 1942: The last Jews in Pinsk are killed.
December 23, 1941: In Kolomyia 1,200 Jews, holders of foreign passports, are arrested and subsequently killed at Sheparovtse.
December 23, 1942: The last Jews in Pinsk are killed.
December 23, 1978: In Iran, an American and two Iranians were shot and killed in Ahwaz. The American, Mr. Paul Grimm, was deputy head of the Oil Service Corporation of Iran.
December 23, 2009
Hi Jeff. Item from Myrtle Goodlove's scrapbook, dated 30 Nov 1930. Source newspaper unknown, but probably Cedar Rapids Gazette:
"Central City News-Letter
December 22, 1910
Twenty Years Ago This Week
Birth announcements have been issued proclaiming the arrival of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Goodlove on Monday, December 12. The baby has been named Covert Lee."
Best wishes! Linda
Thanks Linda! I have not seen this! I received your Holiday report and I loved the pictures. Thanks for finishing the family history documentary, "Our Grandmother's". I hope others will pick up a copy if they are still available. Jeff
Jeff, You probably have this already, but just in case you don't, please see attachment.
Linda
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