With their relations to other Tanners, Huletts, Wrights,
Lyons, Shumways, Babcocks, Crandalls, & Related Families

By

Howard Charles Tanner, Jr.

This will be an account of my antecedents, myself, the town I grew up in, my friends, and my descendants. I would like to think there is something of interest to everyone who picks it up, although there no doubt will be uninteresting parts to many. It is a labor of nearly fifty years, and remembrances of my lifetime.

Forty years ago, my first descendant, Margaret Jane Tanner, was born in Chicago at Henroitin Hospital. I was unemployed at the time and her birth and hospital stay encompassed nearly a week. Being restless by nature, I visited the Newberry Library across the street from the hospital. It was a genealogical library. Then and there I began the hobby of genealogy.

The first book I read there was William Tanner, Sr., of South Kingston R. I. It was written in 1913 and contained a transcript that exactly matched a handwritten entry in a Tanner family bible of the children of John Tanner of North Granville, N.Y. One of these was my great-great-grandfather Joseph Tanner, and it was noted that he "went west". This book, a family bible, an obscure family genealogy, and personal childhood memories were the beginning.

Over twenty years later, Celeste Sengstock, my first grandchild was born, and I continued genealogy again in earnest, and since that time have collected many books, records and data on the families' ancestors. There are two file cabinets and a bookcase of genealogical material. I found records, of varying authenticity, of some three hundred ancestors, extending back some five hundred years

Genealogy is an interesting pursuit on its own merits. With it comes travel, new approaches to reading and writing, and new social contacts and organizations. Perhaps the greatest pleasure comes with the vitality and color it gives to reading and study of history. World and American history come alive, when we consider that here are our real roots.

I have also added a short account of the town of Marengo, Illinois where I spent my first eighteen years, and visited there intermittently for another ten. This was an unremarkable town, but the one in which I spent more years than in any other, and were certainly my happiest.

There are many Tanners who are of the faith of the Church of the Latter Day Saints. One of our forebearers, Nathan Tanner, migrated to Connecticut early in the 18th century and became a believer in Mormonism. His conversion is described in the book Sidney Tanner and a number of his antecedents went to Salt Lake City and were members of the church hierarchy. The useful of the great library in that city should also be noted. Since it is a belief of the Mormons that the family will be together after death, and those long departed can be baptized into the church, extensive material has been preserved in their library and is available to all interested parties.

This consolidation of information was acquired over many years, and I hope it will preserve my efforts. It was a work of pleasure and think it will be of interest to my family, friends and "cousins". Perhaps someone, someday, will be stimulated to pursue the matter further. As I have not obliged myself of professional help in this book and have printed and published it on my home computer, it no doubt has many errors.

The numbering system I have used in this book for my ancestors is one that I found a number of years ago, and seemed to work well with "computerization" of my records. It is not commonly used today. In this system, the individual doing the research is number one. The mother of his children is his number plus one. The father of each ancestor is double the number of the individual. The mother of the individual is the father's number, plus one. Thus, my father is number two and my mother is number three. My grandfather is number four and grandmother, number five; and so forth down the family tree. The author's wife can be designated one "A", and the "A" added to her antecedents. The children can be numbered using multiple numbers, but since I have not numbered my descendants, it is not used in the book. It has been useful to me in keeping track of my ancestors, and the interested reader will find it helpful if he wishes to find a particular individual or family group from the index.

The bibliography is obviously incomplete. I have only included all of the genealogical books in my own library, a few such books as I have referred to and are generally available, and other books that I believe may be of interest to those who would like further information on the subjects of which I have written.

I also want to thank the many individuals who have helped me and enjoyed corresponding with other genealogists. Particularly, those that come to mind, over the years are Mr. and Mrs. Robert McKinney of Lompoc, California; and my distant and shirttail cousins, Donald Huth of the United States Department of State, and Dorothy Bennett Inderkum, Eva Prior, and Anita Sorensen, whom I met through the Connecticut Society of Genenealogists, and last but not least my wife, Jacqueline Funkhouser who assisted me in my travels and with my hobby.

Howard Tanner
February 1, 1994
Nipomo, California

My father passed away in February, 1994, just short of completing this edition of his book. While I knew that he had been working on it, I had not seen the first edition and was overwhelmed by the amount of research he had completed and the quality of publication he had achieved with limited tools, but much creativity. I resolved at that point to ensure that this edition was completed. I know little of geneolgy, so my contribution has been limited to improving the presentation of the material and some minor editing.

My deepest thanks go to my stepmother and his wife of 25 years, Jacqueline Tanner, who give me the opportunity to edit the second edition and organized his notes and photographs for me.

William C. Tanner
Bloomington, Illinois
1998

It is difficult to draw a line in genealogy between truth and fiction, whether they are of personal memories or from written sources. The personal memories are primarily of the Tanner line. Many are of my paternal grandfather, Jonas Charles Tanner, and of the family farm he was born on and then owned in Marengo, Illinois. He was a fine gentlemen and much loved by his family. Now I am the last living person to remember him and his only grandson. I was fortunate to have spent sixteen years close to him. These were his last and my first years. He taught me how to drive a car, farm, play cards, and do many of my other lifelong pleasures. We lived together as a family for a number of years and next door for more. Since he was retired for most of the time we spent as much time together as his poor health would permit. I have one of his watches, his desk, and his shotgun. Some of the later chapters contain personal recollections of him.

Other memories upon which I have drawn for the autobiographical portion could have been of greater length, but since I have done nothing of any great interest in my life, I have tried to keep the words limited. The same is for my father, to whom I was not particularly close, and for my mother, who while she was the most influential person in my life, and who I knew for the most of my years, lived and died in relative obscurity.

As to the written sources of the Tanner family, there are for the most part few obvious fanciful interpretations of the family history in America. When the overseas roots are examined however, the situation becomes quite murky. Since I have never had the opportunity to study any genealogical records except in the United States, I have relied completely on secondary sources regarding the various families origins.

It is difficult to know if William Tanner, the immigrant, was literate. The high rate of literacy in 17th century England, where he spent his youth, would tend to indicate that he could read and write. I could not exam all the source documents where he might have written his name, but in Fones Records there are clues. In legal documents of that era, there were principals, witnesses and recorders. These people attested in two ways - by signing their name (which was not usual), making their "mark", or drawing a "seal". The mark was in the form of an initial, or in the case of Indians, usually serpentine in nature, while in others it was an initial letter of the name, sometimes crude, other times well written. The seal was in the form of a circle, and seemed to be used only by freemen. In none of the documents in Fones Records was there a mark or seal by William Tanner, although his name appeared at least twice. This indicated to me that he was literate, but an examination of earlier and later documents with his name could give proof one way or the other.

Another example that was not determined, and more directly related to genealogical lines, is the antecedents of Francis West, one of the first emigrants in our Soule line. There is some evidence, but no proof that he migrated directly to New England and his parentage is unknown. However there is also evidence from the memoranda book of Samuel West, that he came to New England via the colony of Virginia and was related to one John West, the Lord De La Ware, and English Royalty. This is suggested by a headstone in New England which calls attention to such ancestry. This matter evoked considerable controversy a number of years ago, and was not completely resolved. Since the connection to the Tanner line is unproven, I have not included it in this book, but would like to believe such a relationship exists. There seems to always be a desire to include royalty in family trees.

I have also interspersed in the Tanner story, information on the parallel histories of the area and times in which these ancestors lived, with the intent of making a narrative of greater interest. It also will serve to properly place the people, places and events in the reader's minds. There are also some inclusions of poems and other literary items that describe some situations that I am unable to equally describe, and that I think the reader will enjoy.

There have been at least four books written on the Tanner genealogy, the latest in 1982. This book , Sidney Tanner, His Ancestors and Descendant, was written by Elizabeth Brouwer of the Sidney Tanner Family Organization, using the resources of the library of the Church of the Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was comfortable with the conclusion that William Tanner came to Rhode Island as an attendant to Mr. Francis Houlding.

There are numerous other family traditions - he came with Roger Williams, he was kidnapped from the streets of London while carrying a bible under his arm, and there were two brothers who immigrated from England. In another, a Mr. Fisk, in his History of New England, states that the early settlers of New England came from the southeast of England, and the name of Willam Tanner in Great Coggerhall in the east of England seems to agree in date with the subject of our genealogy. Finally, another tradition has William Tanner coming to New York at age fourteen, and thence "escaping" to Rhode Island. That there was an immigrant William Tanner, and he came from the London area, certainly is compatible with drawing some conclusions about him, his times and early history.

Ms. Brouwer too, seems comfortable with these conclusions. Other Tanners appear in early colonial America, the name is found in Wales, Ireland, Switzerland, and the Scandanavian countries. Given the history of the populating of the British Isles, it would be safe to assume that there are some Celtic, Roman, and Scandanavium ancestors in the Tanner family. A reader of the novel of England, Sarum, by Edward Rutherford, can arrive at these and other explanations of the derivation of the Tanners in America. Through later records, this hypothesis receives even greater credence.

There is a John Tanner of Southern Illinois, who traces his family to Virginian Tanners', and I am inclined to think they too were English immigrants, but unrelated except "across the seas". There is no doubt that there were more than one early Tanner immigrants to America.

A direct Tanner line runs from William Tanner, the American Immigrant, born about 1660 near London, England to the grandchildren of the author. These would be the eleventh generation of Tanners in America, encompassing a time period of over three hundred years.

An old Tanner family tradition says that William Tanner, at the time of Oliver Cromwell, was kidnapped when a boy, from a street in London, England while going home from school. He had a large bible under his arm and was hurried aboard a vessel where he served as a cabin boy during the voyage and was left in America. However, in old court records of Oxfordshire it is stated on March 1680, that, ...Tanner, William of Ducklington is reprieved (of a felony) upon his emigration to America.

Crimes at that time in England were of two types and dealt with according to the person's social status. Severe crimes of the royal classes were dealt with by beheading or exile. Other crimes by this class were ignored with perhaps a loss of social standing. For the poor and common people, severe crimes also called for execution. Minor crimes, felonies and misdemeanors called for "ducking", time in the stocks, or forced emigration. Repeat offenders were judged by the Assize Court. This court was an annual occurrence in each shire and the cause of great ceremony and celebration. The king or parliament appointed judges and their staffs, who visited a town and judged each miscreant cited by the local sheriffs,, wardens or officials. Punishment could be terms in the almshouse or banishment by emigration or military service. Jurried courts were appointed on rare occasions, and usually only conducted in the presence of parliament or the royal court. Imprisonment was a rare occurrence, and when used was only temporary.

The cause of William Tanner's citation could probably be found in the shire archives, since that was a time when record keeping was done with fervor. He probably was involved with agriculture, since he was later called a "planter" in many records in Rhode Island. There is no evidence that he possessed any skill except that of a farmer.

Religion was an integral part of English life in the seventeenth century, and while it was often in congregation, it was powerfully personal in nature. William Tanner no doubt felt the hand of God upon him, and whatever transgression caused his emigration to America, it could not have been lost upon him.

Randall Houlding was a wealthy and adventuresome colonial entrepreneur from Rhode Island with connections to the Lord of Warrick, the wealthiest man of his time. Houlding had secured land in Rhode Island and traveled between England and America in attempts to gain clear title to the property which he had claimed. In addition, it was necessary to bring settlers to the land he and other adventurers claimed. It was through this connection that our ancestor gained passage to Rhode Island as an indentured servant to the proprietary company. The latter no doubt had connections of some importance to Houlding.

Crossing the Atlantic from England to New England in the seventeenth century was hazardous and uncomfortable. Since so many of our English ancestors were subjected to the journey, in addition to William Tanner, a text is taken from a contemporary writer:

The Narragansett part of Rhode Island remained unsettled until 1640, and none of the land had been chartered by England. After about 1670 settlers came, purchasing land with questionable titles. By the time of the Pequot Indian War, there were about five thousand people in the area, a small port and a trading store. The war caused decimation of the whole area, and many fled. However an army of Indian fighters from New England responded vigorously to the Indian massacres, and the Indians were driven from the Narragansett country. The settlers returned in 1678.

William Tanner thereby came to a peaceful Rhode Island in the company of both the land and the religious truth seekers. The latter came to be known as those that "thought otherwise" and the future state acquired this motto and reputation. He can be first identified in 1682 when he witnessed a deed for his apparent mentor Randall Houlding, although whether he was still a bonded servant or a freeman is uncertain.

In Fones Records, Vol I., page 70, the deed is written:

Shortly thereafter, Tanner married a daughter of Henry Tibbets. This first wife probably died in childbirth and the son, also named William, was cared for by his maternal grandfather Tibbets. The grandson was bequeathed land in the will of Henry Tibbets, which had been purchased from a Henry Stanton who was a partner in the local land holding company. The records are silent as to the exact relationship, but it is well assumed that this was the first born son of the immigrant William Tanner.

William Tanner next settled in the Westerly area. He is on the tax roll of the town of Rochester (Kingston) Rhode Island under Governor Andrus for 1687, where he is taxed one pole, the equivalent of one and a half pounds. He bought a tract of land of one hundred acres, more or less, of Henry Hall, a weaver of Westerly. The deed bore the date of July 4, 1693. This deed is on record in the town of Westerly and was not recorded in South Kingston until August 1, 1728. In the deed he is said to be of Kingston, a planter.

This parcel of land lies on the east side of a river, about a mile below the village of Usquepaugh and adjacent to Mumford's Mill. It is described as follows:

The "Hall Purchase" contained about two square miles, and the house of John Sheldon appears to have been one of the first built on the purchase, being a well known landmark in other deeds.

By the end of the seventeenth century, William Tanner had gathered around him his sons and daughters - Benjamin (the first born in 1692, by his second wife, Mary Babcock) , John, Avis and Mary. After Mary's death he married Elizabeth Colgrove and Francis, Nathan, Anna, Rebecca, Elizabeth, and Abigail were born into the family. Francis later went to Connecticut and from him stems a Mormon Tanner family.

There, William was surrounded by family, and the neighbors of Babcock, Wells, Sheldon, Crandall, and others in a safe and friendly environment. He lived to a good age, marrying for the fourth time, as a widower, Elizabeth Gardner. He made his will in 1730 giving to a son Nathan,

He also left to his son John Tanner of Westerly, blacksmith,

In this congenial environment of Usquepaugh in the territory of Rhode Island this first American John Tanner was born about 1696. He married first, Jean, a lady of unknown parentage, who gave him two children, Joseph and Jane. She died in 1722 in childbirth. Severe diseases were rampant. The Baptist church at this time concluded,

Her grave is marked by a rude stone simply inscribed JT, in the walled Tanner burial place near the Usquepaugh River.

Next, in 1723, John married Susannah West, whose ancestors were Mayflower passengers. She bore him nine children, George, our direct descendant being the first. John Tanner the blacksmith and planter, lived a long and apparently uneventful life. He appears infrequently in the vital records except for his birth, marriage, and the birth of his children. He left no will nor is there a record of his death. However, is was recorded on September 9th, 1777, a Mr. John Tanner is exempted from paying any "Pool Tax" for the future, either town or state. This was an exemption given to those over four score years of age. Hence, John Tanner lived past the age of eighty and was buried in the family cemetery.

An observer in 1880 reported:

In 1977 I visited this area and found the land to be occupied by the Laurel Lane Golf Course. The burial ground was adjacent to the third green. I was told the land had been grown over every fifty years, and at that time was uncultivated and uninhabited except for the golf course.

George Tanner, son of John, was also a farmer who spent his life on the original Rhode Island family homestead. He was married in 1754 to Mary (Marcy) Wilcox. They had at least five children including John, named for his grandfather. The Rhode Island census of 1774 lists the family as consisting of one male and three females above the age of sixteen, and three males and two females under sixteen. George is on one list of militiamen of the Revolutionary War in the winter of 1776-77. He received pay for the month of September of 1776. He was in Colonel Lippitt's regiment. This regiment had been with General George Washington at the Battle of Princeton in February of that year, but records were destroyed by fire, during the War of 1812, and no records seem to exist as to the soldiers involved.

He died in 1791, at the age of sixty eight, before pensions for the veterans of the war were established. It remained for his son John, who was as a militiaman and a soldier, to leave the family farm and participate as a soldier in the War for Independance.

In 1777 John Tanner left the family farm in Rhode Island and joined the continental army. There had been relatively little revolutionary activity in the Narrngansett country of Rhode Island., and sympathies there varied, but tended to favor the colonists. He and his father had both been registered as militiamen. The majority of the loyalists were located in Newport. They were surrounded by water for the most part, except to the Bristol area to the east.

John Tanner had served as a substitute for his kinsman Isaac Wilcox in September and October of 1776 under Captain Gordon St. Louis in the regiment of Colonel Cornwallis at Port Bristol on the east side of Newport Island. That November he moved to Hancock, Massachussetts where he enlisted in Captain Barnes company. This company was stationed at Claverack on the Hudson River in New York State between the British forces to the north and New York City to the south.

Boston had been evacuated earlier by the British army, after the Battle of Bunker Hill and Massachusetts was then secure for the colonists. The British on the other hand were well entrenched in Newport, Rhode Island, which had a large number of loyalists.

In the fall and winter of 1776, General Washington's army had only moderate success in forays in the mid-Atlantic. In the northern and western parts of New England, loyalties were still divided among the sparse settlers and Indians. The settlers were inclined to favor the Continental Congress while the Indians were on the side of whoever gave them the most trinkets and whiskey. The French were not a factor, having been driven out by the British previously, but the latter army controlled the St. Lawrence waterway, Montreal, and the upper reaches of the Hudson Valley.

In the winter of 1776-77 a large force was poised to march south, under the command of General Burgoyne, to join with other English forces marching northward from New York City. Between were a few settlers and a poorly organized and ill-equipped army of colonists commanded by a prosperous local farmer, John Schuyler.

In the early spring of 1777, Burgoyne began to move his army south through Lake Champlain and Lake George. At that time the future of the independent colonists did not seem favorable. John Tanner was then reported as being in Colonel Bailey's regiment and Captain Dunham's company, a portion of the army of General Benjamin Lincoln. The British army, its German mercenaries, and Indians advanced through the Champlain Valley, past Lake George. When they reached Fort Edwards, between Lake Champlain and Lake George, a young American girl, Jane McCrea was killed and scalped by one of Burgoyne's Indians. This scalping was completely contrary to Burgoyne's "rules of war". The guilty Indian was found, but pardoned. The colonists in the area were incensed, and the fear and hatred of both the British and their Indian allies increased. Most of all, it strengthened the resolve of all Americans.

Shortly thereafter, a note to Burgoyne was found nailed to a tree. It stated prophetically, ...not to be elated over progress and to beware of crossing the Hudson, for thus far shalt thou go and no farther. The Jane McCrea incident prompted General Washington to send reinforcements to the American General Schuyler. Burgoynes's progress had been slow and his supplies were running low. He therefore sent a detachment of the German mercenaries into neighboring Vermont where they were met by the Vermont militia commanded by General John Stark, and a contingent of the Continental Army under Colonel Seth Warner, These militiamen were the "Green Mountain Boys" of Ethan Allen. On August 15, 1777, at the "Battle of Bennington" the Americans sustained a significant victory, and Burgoyne lost a large amount of supplies and troops. John Stark, a veteran of Bunker Hill, said before the battle, We'll beat them before nightfall or Molly Stark will be a widow. Molly Stark still had a husband at nightfall, and Burgoyne had lost as prisoners or casualties one thousand men, nearly a seventh of his army.

The American troops were gathered for the Battle of Saratoga. There the Americans won a great victory, and with Burgyone's surrender on October 17, 1777, the war in northern New York was essentially over. Burgoyne and his army were not detained however, and a garrison of American troops remained stationed in the Albany area for three more years, until the end of the war. There John Tanner's company was stationed. In November, he was dismissed, but reenlisted in Captain Paramester Allen's company and stationed further north in the Hudson Valley at Skenesborough. This was later called Whitehall in Washington County, New York. In 1781 he was discharged permanently and settled in Granville a few miles to the southeast.

John Tanner had been in upstate New York for nearly four years and had become familiar with the area and liked what he saw. Upon discharge, he settled permanently in the area. He was discharged at Albany and took up residence at North Granville. There he married Esther Childs, a daughter of Isaac Childs. She was from Rhode Island also. He began farming land which he later purchased, and raised a family of ten children. He became a respected citizen of the town, and was a founder of the Truthville Baptist Church, in which he participated for many years.

In North Granvillle John Tanner and his wife had eight sons and two daughters. They grew to maturity, married and a large legacy of Tanners occupied the area for many years, being reinforced by many relatives and neighbors from Rhode Island, including the Shumways, who were to become an integral part of Tanner family and history. Cemeteries in the Granville town, are filled with Tanners and Shumways - Williams, Esthers, Josephs and others.

John Tanner received a military pension, and lived successfully, as he purchased more land in 1793 for 400 pounds of English money, from John Backus and his wife Elizabeth. The family was respectfully documented in A History of Washington County, New York in 1880. His son James stayed on his father's farm. It was still in the family in 1880 and owned by a Wm. W. Russell and his wife, suggesting that Mrs. Russell was a descendant of James Tanner. A daughter Thirza, married and went to Indiana. One of the sons went to Texas, while the other sons and daughter remained in New York. The sons William and Joseph served in the War of 1812 and continued living in Washington County, New York until John's death in Harmony, New York, on February 19, 1833.

Esther Tanner continued to receive the government pension and after John's death on February 19, 1833 at Hamony, New York, she moved to Marathon in Cortland County to live with her son William. She died in 1849, outliving him by seventeen years, and was buried in North Granville.

Joseph Tanner, the second son of John and his wife Esther, moved from eastern to north central New York through the Mohawk Valley. He remained nearly thirty years in the Black River area of Lewis County New York, and acquired modest wealth. During this time, the Erie Canal was completed, and a connecting canal constructed from Lowville, where the family lived, to Rome, New York. This certainly contributed to his good fortune, along with hard work, good luck and intelligence. He married Electa Shumway, of a family whose roots could be traced back for generations in New England, England, Ireland and France. Five children were born to them. These were William Shumway, Mary Jane, Esther L., Cornelia and Jonas. In 1842, the family's life changed significantly when his wife Electa and daughter Mary Jane died of cholera the same spring. Again, the canal was a major force in this event, since cholera is a water born disease.

The eldest son, William, first went west from Washington County, New York in the late 1820's. It is unclear whether Uncle William lived for a time in Lewis County or in other parts of New York State. By the nineteenth century there were many William Tanners living in the United States. There were no Tanners with the given name of William in McHenry County, Illinois in that era. John Shumway Tanner, his brother Joseph, and sister Cornelia first went to Illinois where they settled. They probably traveled by the Erie Canal, one of the modern wonders of the world, and during its colorful history was a significant factor in the history of the United States and the Tanner family.

Nathaniel Hawthorne traveled on a packet boat on the canal in 1840. He described the "bedding" process as:

The brothers, William and Jonas married Morris sisters, Julie Ann and Jane Ann, in 1843 and 1852 in Marengo. William, his wife and children James, Charles and Harriette went to Amador County, California in 1850. Jonas and sister Cornelia, who also married a Morris brother, remained in Marengo.

A railroad, the Chicago and Galena, was built after 1850 just north of Marengo village. There too ran the Kishwaukee River, fed by Coon and Rush Creeks. Adjacent to the latter, four miles west and north of the village, lay the land for the Tanner homestead. When the Indians had moved out the settlers from the east had moved in. Among these, in the 1840's, among these were the Tanners. In 1846 John purchased land from Enock Cronk, land that was part of the 120 acres destined to be the family homestead. Later, more land was purchased by John, Joseph and Jonas. Exchanges were made until the farm was complete.

Father Joseph had been the last of the family to arrive. He was in transit during the census of 1850, staying at an inn in Port Leyden on the Black River Canal, when he received a letter from his son Jonas who was then living in Marengo.

This letter, on the original paper tells an interesting story:

After Joseph arrived in Marengo, he accumulated land that became the original Tanner homestead. He married Ann Yale in 1851 and died on May 15, 1859. He was buried in the Bonus Cemetery in Boone County.

Jonas and his sister Cornelia followed their brother John S. along the route of the Erie Canal and the Great Lakes. Jonas C.'s brother, John had before 1850 purchased a parcel that became a part of the final 120 acres, and in that year Jonas and his sister moved to the parcel and began "keeping house". They were neighbors to John Tanner and his wife, on the same section of land that was in McHenry County, and across the road or line from Boone County. Two years later, in 1852, Jonas married Jane Morris. The Morris family had come to be neighbors, and sister Cornelia married Charles Morris, a brother of Jane. Another Morris brother, Hiram, while working as a carpenter, was killed in a fall from the steeple of a church he was building.

John and his family left for California around 1855 but Jonas and Jane stayed. Father Joseph purchased more land bordering on Jonas' property. Jonas and Jane had their first child, a girl they named Ella, in 1853, followed by Emma, Mary and the first son, Frank. These children arrived every two years. There was then a respite of nearly eight years, before another son, George was born in 1867. The chances of still births during those eight childless years was high, since such an event was quite common Then at age thirty-six, Jane had son Fred, followed by Jonas just over ten months later. The family was then complete.

The original farmstead land had been accumulated in a series of transactions. John Shumway had made the first purchase in the area of the farm. Jonas had purchased land close by when he came to McHenry County. Father Joseph also had purchased land there. When John Shumway went to California, his land was added to the farm. Deeds still exist for all of this land. A curious fact is a portion of the land was acquired in a "sheriffs sale" from John S. by his father Joseph. The land still exists as an intact one hundred and twenty acres, with a house dating from about 1870. The farm remained in the family until 1960, over one hundred years from its original acquisition, passing through at least five generations of Tanners.

Corn was the first crop favored by the American farmer, and its cultivation brought prosperity to the Illinois country. The town, state and nation bounded towards the twentieth century. But misfortune came to the Tanners. Father Jonas, died in 1873 at the age of fifty-one and was buried along side his father Joseph in the Bonus Cemetery, in the rural part of nearby Boone county

Mother Jane Tanner was determined to keep the family intact. The oldest daughter, Ella E., who was born in Wisconsin, but only a few miles from the homestead, married Robert Marvin, and they moved to Colorado in 1872. The second oldest, daughter Emma J. married Lot Swain in 1875. He was from a nearby farm. My fifth grade teacher was their daughter Norene. A son, Earl, built and crashed an airplane on their farm. He survived and I was taken to view the wreckage. Later Em and Lot moved to Marengo. My Grandmother took me often to visit them in their Victorian home. Lot and I played dominoes while the women chatted by the hour. "Visting" was a common form of recreation.

The eldest son Frank A. became the male head of the household at age 16. He died some years before I was born, but I can recall visiting his widow at their home in Harvard. I heard of him being incapacitated or killed by a kick from a horse. A violent temper was present in the family into which son Lorenzo, called "Ren", married. Ren was seriously injured by his brother-in-law by a hammer blow to the head. Frank and his wife Nellie MacDougal had a grandson, John Hazen Tanner. This family lived in another part of the county and I have no remembrances of John Hazen, except meeting him at a family reunion when I was quite young.

Frank became a prosperous and respected citizen as he was chronicled in The History of McHenry Couny written in 1922. It well typifies the life of Frank Tanner and his times. It is interesting reading and a part of it is copied here.

The US census of 1880 described the family. A male servant, age twenty-two, and a farmer were living with the family. There were eight people residing on the homestead, and George was the "man of the house" at age fourteen. Other bits of information are revealed by this 1880 U.S. census. Jane's father, Joseph Morris (suffering from lung disease), a servant and a boarder also were living with the family. An inscription in the family bible is written:

After father Jonas's death, each son in succession became the male head of the family. After son Frank left, son George K. assumed this position. The third brother, Fred J. was unable to be a farmer for very long, due to ill health. He was though able to be an undertaker and furniture store owner. He also, about 1900, built a fine house in Marengo. This house was that of my Grandfather and Grandmother, who owned and lived in it nearly fifty years.

George was the head of the family from 1880 until 1895, when he married Lillian Veale and moved to St. Charles, Illinois. My Grandfather Tanner succeeded him. George was in the automobile business and close contact was kept with the family. He was a friend of a Colonel Baker, who owned the famous trotting horse, "Greyhound". He was a friend to his nephew, my father, and willed him his fishing equipment. I have no knowledge of any progeny.

My Grandfather Tanner was born December 28, 1871, the last child of Jonas and Jane Tanner. He received twelve years of formal education. At what age he followed his brother George I do not know. About 1890 he moved to South Dakota, where his sister Mary (Porter) lived. There he taught school. A short time later he returned to the family homestead, and in 1898 married Nellie Mae Wright, and took over the farm.

Nellie was the youngest child of Columbus Perry Wright and Mary Lyon. The Wright farm was across the road from the Tanners. After farming only a few years Grandfather Tanner purchased the homestead from other members of the family. Later he leased the farm, with the usual arrangement where the owner provided the capital and the tenant the labor, the profits then divided equally. They moved to Marengo village.

There, Grandfather Tanner was a justice of the peace and census taker. The former was a job that required considerable time in the beginning of the twentieth century, and carried significant prestige. In later years it required less time, and he held the position until his death in 1943. He "held court" in the den of his home and in the insurance office, marrying people, settling petty disputes and exacting crimes for minor law infractions. The 1910 U.S. census shows his handwriting and preciseness. He also was an insurance agent later processed and sold hybrid seed corn.

After their move to town, the Tanners lived all their lives in Marengo on Prairie Street. They first lived a few blocks from the main street, and about 1919, purchased and lived in the house his brother Fred had built a few blocks to the west, where they spent the remainder of their lives. While they had an automobile, both walked to town daily for work and shopping. The car was generally reserved for weekends or special occasions. I can recall riding in his 1928 Buick, falling from the car when it was moving, and dropping coins along its windows. Later he owned a 1935 Ford, and finally a 1940 Ford.

Every Sunday a family gathering was held after church, for dinner. There were usually eight or ten relatives in attendance. All of his siblings except sister Emma had left Marengo by 1920, but Grandmother Tanner's brothers and sisters remained nearby. Other relatives and friends would come to visit in the afternoons. Chicken and dressing, with pie was the usual fare. Playing cards was a common form of recreation. He was a golfer and played every Sunday for as number of years at a local golf and country club of which he was a founding member. The course was located along the Kishwaukee River, but was destroyed by flooding in 1936 and never rebuilt. He also participated in team golf play, and during one of these matches made a hole-in-one, which was written up in a local paper. He received a case of Scotch whiskey for the feat.

As the years passed, life became slower for him. He was known to his acquaintances as J.C. and also called Charlie, but never used his first given name of Jonas. In 1933 he had a stroke that left him a partial invalid. This was a complication of surgery for a kidney stone. The insurance business was sold after the illness, but his desk and Oliver typewriter retained. The typewriter disappeared but I still have his desk. The building was later purchased by my father and used by him for his news agency.

Their Yankee frugality served them well and they lived comfortably, spending numerous winters in Florida. Mother and Father were much devoted to them, and this feeling was reciprocal. He gave Mother her first piano, which she greatly appreciated. I had the good fortune to always have a car at my disposal from the time I could drive until I left for the army. He had another stroke in 1942 and died February 25, 1943. His body was viewed in the den of their home and he was buried in the family plot in the Marengo cemetery after a Masonic service in the Presbyterian Church.

The first Howard Charles Tanner was born July 17,1903 while his parents, Jonas Charles and Nellie Mae Tanner lived in the town of Marengo. He received his primary and secondary education in the Marengo public schools. At the latter, he participated in the Boy Scout program, and played guard on the high school basketball team. Other hobbies he pursued during these years were hunting and fishing in the field, rivers and streams around Marengo. He attended Lake Forest College for one year and later, the Elgin Business College. After finishing his formal education, he first worked as a surveyor's assistant, helping in building the early concrete roads in the area. Foillowing this, he became a mail carrier. In 1923 he married Ruth Hulett, the only daughter of Clarence Earl Hulett, and his wife, Helen Eggers, an Icelandic orphan who had come to Marengo on an "orphan train." She had a brother Clarence Earl Jr., who lived the greater part of his life in Louisiana and Texas, and left a number of antecedents.

Father became disabled after over eighteen years of carrying mail. He obtained a disability pension and received generous benefits for a number of years. These continued for Mother for thirty more years.

As his back partially recovered, he went into the feed, seed and farm equipment business. Later he abandoned this and he became a newspaper dealer and distributor. The Tanner News Agency, also selling candy, tobacco and other sundries, was an institution in Marengo for many years. During those years he traveled extensively by automobile throughout the United States, and took many photographs, including still and moving pictures. He had many close personal friends and they were of much pleasure to him.

The store was closed at his death. He gave considerable time to public service, serving without pay on the school boards, planning commissions and county supervisory positions which he thoroughly enjoyed. He died in 1966, at the age of sixty-three, of heart disease, and was buried in the Marengo Cemetery after another Presbyterian funeral with Masonic Freemason services.

At his death, he was lauded as a friend and public servant.

I was born in nineteen-twenty-six. At that time there were no wars, financial crisis, or notable events. Taxes were low and reduced even further that year. The world was between two great wars, and the United States was "dry" from the alcohol prohibition of the Volstead act. It was reported then that only five percent of the illegal alcohol was being confiscated, at cost of three billion dollars to the government. A new car cost five hundred dollars. Ten dollars a day was big wages. There was practically no unemployment, the stock market was going up, and there was no indication of the depression that was to come.

This all changed after 1930, but my family was well insulated from the hard times surrounding them, since my father was employed by the government, and Grandfather and Grandmother Tanner had acquired considerable property, even though a portion was lost during the depression. Neither my father or I had siblings. During my first years we lived in a one room apartment in Marengo over a tire shop owned by one of my paternal great-uncles and rent was ten dollars a month.

Memories of my childhood are pleasant. High school days became the years of World War II. For many people in many places the years of the depression and war were a great time in which to live. I have many pleasant memories of my years at the Marengo Community High School and the house in which I lived on Washington Street. For three years I was president of my class, won many "letters" in sports, and graduated second scholastically. These were done with a minimum of study and practice. I must admit honors were easily come by. The classes and teams were small, with little competition.

I particularly enjoyed hunting, fishing, basketball and my many good friends. Boys were more interesting companions, but I was attracted to girls. After graduation from high school, I joined the army and spent the majority of my two years service in the Philippines and Japan. When I was discharged, I attended two years at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and joined the Sigma Chi fraternity.

In 1948 I began dental school at Northwestern University, attending the downtown Chicago campus. During dental school I married Sally Lou Kuhlman, who had graduated from the same school as a dental hygienist. She was the daughter of Hazel Sorille and Herman Kuhlman of Spokane, Washington, where we were married. Our first child, Margaret Jane was born the same year I graduated from Northwestern., 1952. We then moved to Faribault, Minnesota where our first son, William Charles was born. Shortly thereafter I lost contact with Marengo, visiting on once every few years, even though my parents continued to reside there. After my father died in 1966, visits were even more infrequent. I visited them during Christmas of 1963, with son John and daughter Helen Elise.

I practiced general dentistry and Sally practiced dental hygiene while raising a family. After four years, in 1957, following a trip to California with children Jane and Bill we went to Rochester, Minnesota where I was a "fellow" in oral surgery for three years. During that time son John Kuhlman and daughter Helen Elise were born, the latter during a severe snowstorm. After finishing the fellowship and receiving a master's degree from the University of Minnesota, we lived in Los Angeles, California for a year. There, daughter Martha Susan was born. In the spring of 1961 we moved to Santa Maria, California where I practiced oral surgery for fifteen years. In 1967 Sally and I divorced and I married Jacqueline Funkhouser Kelley, the mother of two daughters Sharon and Tamara.

From 1968 until 1979 we lived on a small ranch in Nipomo, California where we raised and trained harness race horses. Getting an interest in horses started insidiously. John wanted a horse so we bought Redwood. Then we wanted a second and smaller horse. That was a mustang we called Freckles. Then another. Then I began thinking of writing off the horses for taxes, so we bought a standardbred broodmare, Gomme, in foal and with a suckling foal. And then a racehorse, Powderhorn. Everyone enjoyed the horses, and it was a good tax write off, but I was intent on showing a profit. We had Mable, Howdy Babe, GoMon, Richard, Pride, Darn Lusty, and others, but no luck. Then I bought three yearlings - Rebid, Howdy Doll and Andy's Yankee. Paul Shank was hired as a part-time trainer and finally success came our way.

The first time I felt I had a real race horse was with Howdy Doll. Powderhorn tried, but just couldn't win. Howdy Doll won our first race at Bay Meadows, and then Rebid won and she was the first one we saw win, since John and Sharon were at the races with me that afternoon. Racing success continued well in 1971 and 1972. Powderhorn was sold. Rebid, Howdy Doll, and Andy's Yankee all raced profitably. Battlelord was claimed, won money

and was reclaimed at a profit. Howdy Doll and Rebid were first and second in a California Stakes race. Howdy Direct won a stakes race a year later. Three or four other horses were claimed with success.

Then came a stroke of great good luck. A yearling was purchased in Kentucky, True Gypsy, and a colt was born on the ranch, Howdy Boy out of our first broodmare, Gomme. He later won eight races in a row and was sold for a nice price. True Gypsy returned to training after her foal was weaned, and she went to the racetrack six months later. She raced for four years and won and won. Finally she took a world record as an aged pacing mare. Her first born colt gave me the greatest pleasure of any of the horses, since I had bred, raised and trained him without professional help. He finished second as a two year old in a stakes race and it appeared that he had a good future. Unfortunately he escaped from his paddock one night and was killed by a passing car. After her racing career was over, True Gypsy returned home and produced ten more foals. These were sent to professional trainers and driver. All were good race horses, but none had the ability of their mother. She is still alive today, at age twenty two, and perhaps her last filly can repeat her accomplishments. Her success allowed Jackie and I to acquire a small ranch and to travel extensively.

The accident with Gypsy's first colt took away much of my interest in horse racing at that time. The following year I disposed of most of the horses. Since all the children had left our house, except daughter Tami, who was then married, we left the Nipomo ranch, sold the house, and dental practice, and moved to Lompoc. There I continued to practice oral surgery and began to play golf and make wine. The latter led to a commercial winery called Ross Keller, but success did not come easily, and when I became discouraged, Jackie assumed the business, with moderate success and pleasure.

A year later I returned to the horses where there was more success. The first horse I purchased, Howdy Oop, raced well and was sold. A homebred Howdy Sprite, raced well too, until she died at the racetrack.

In the fall of 1983, at the age of fifty seven, I lost my good health. I partially recovered and returned to work, golf and the horses. Within a year though, I suffered a stroke, related to the previous problem, vasculitis, and was disabled. After six months, I again resumed some activity, but could not function as before. I was plagued with headache, dizziness but gradually began to feel better. The practice and house in Lompoc were sold and I retired with Jackie back to Nipomo and the ranch.

Training of horses began again and was enjoyable. We purchased a condominium in Hawaii for vacationing and to be with John, his wife Lynn and their daughter more frequently. Retirement was not as I had hoped, but I now live in comparative comfort. I have the company of good friends, and most of my family are close by. Mother died at eighty-five from a stroke due to vasculitis. I have had a prosperous and fortunate life, but would like to have had greater talents and have been more considerate of my family and friends.

Margaret Jane Tanner was the first born of Sally Lou Kuhlman, and myself.

She entered the world in Chicago, Illinois at Henroitin Hospital on the near north side of Chicago. I had recently received a degree in dentistry from Northwestern University. At the time were living in a small apartment on Junior Terrace in Chicago. Jane stayed there for only two weeks, and we moved to Faribault, Minnesota where I had purchased a general dental practice. She spent the first four years of her life there and Sally and I enjoyed the challenge of making new friends, a place in the community, and a successful practice. When we had accumulated a modest savings, the warmer climate of Southern California beckoned. We made a journey through the western United States, Jane began her education in Rochester, Minnsota, where I had been accepted as a fellow in oral surgery. Her first three grades were there in Minnesota, but then after the completion of my fellowship, we removed to Torrance, California for one year, and subsequently Santa Maria. There she remained for ten years, graduating from Ernest Righetti High School. Next, she enrolled at Alan Hancock Junior college, and just short of a degree there, transferred to the University of Idaho at Moscow.

At the end of her freshman year at Idaho, she was employed during the summer at Sun Valley in the state, where she met her first husband Frank Sengstock, of Seattle, Washington. They were married and lived in that city where her first offspring, Celeste, was born.

Jane obtained a college degree from the University of Washington, and divorced Frank. Next, she married Tim Walker, a high school friend who had moved to Seattle. Mathew Timothy born to them in February of 1983. They also amicably divorced. During this time she worked in merchandising, primarily as a buyer. When she tired of this career, she returned to college and obtained a teaching certificate from Central Washington College. Returning to Seattle, she took a job teaching business in the high school system. She married Jerry Hayes in 1990. Presently they and her two children live and work in Kent, Washington.

William Charles Tanner, the first son of Sally Kuhlman and I, was born in Faribault, Minnesota on June 26, 1954. We had come to Faribault from Chicago some two years earlier. He spent his first three years in our new home there. In the fall of 1956, we left Faribault, having sold our house and practice, and traveled to California with a trailer. After touring about California, we returned to Minnesota, this time to Rochester and the Mayo Clinic. There Bill spent his next three years, while I completed training there. Then we made their home in Torrrance, California where I was employed in a clinic as an oral surgeon. Bill started first grade in that city. He insisted on going to school alone at age six. When he became lost on the way home from school, which was about a mile away, he had the presence of mind to inquire of a postman as to where his home was and returned without incident. The following year a move was made to Santa Maria. There he attended second grade, and after a move to another house in Santa Maria, completed his grammar school days.

While in grammar school, Bill was a Boy Scout, which he did with enthusiasm, along with hobbies of electronics and reading. After graduation from Joe Nightingale school, he attended Righetti High School and a short time at Alan Hancock Junior College. When he was a senior at Righetti, he was elected chairman of a group of YMCA student delegates to the California State Assembly in Sacramento. In the session he presented a mock bill making the wearing of helmets by bicycle riders mandatory. A similar bill was passed by the legislature some ten years later.

Then it was off to college at the University of California at Davis. The course was completed in four years when he received a bachelors degree in mathematics, with courses in computer technology. During this time he was on the track team and drove a bus for the university bus system. At graduation he received a Ford Mustang automobile.

During his early years, Bill had a great interest in hiking, camping, backpacking and mountaineering, and spent much time in the High Sierra Mountains of California. Skiiing was a later hobby which he enjoyed.

He then joined the United States Coast Guard. In service, he first attended officer's training school in Virginia. A cruise on a ship was a high adventure for him. He was commissioned an ensign and was assigned to the quartermaster division on Governor's Island, New York., where he was able to use his abilities in the computer and electronics field. While living in Brooklyn at this time, he developed symptoms of a mysterious illness. Finally, after a number of months, a diagnosis of a myxoma of the heart was made at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. Open heart surgery was done at that institution and recovery was complete. He returned to duty, and concurrently attended college in Brooklyn. Previously he had disposed of his car, the Mustang, and in New York acquired a Volkswagon "bug" which he drove with great enthusiasm and short temper, always at as high a rate of speed as traffic in that city would allow.

He survived the rigors and hazards of New York City, the East Coast, and the military and after three years in the Coast Guard, was discharged and returned to California. There he was accepted in the business school of the University of California in Los Angeles. Upon graduation, with a masters degree in business, he worked as a business consultant and subsequently took employment with the Kal Kan company in Los Angeles.

While in Los Angeles she met Christine Lynch, an attorney employed by the State Farm Insurance Company.and they were married at her parent's home in Santa Monica in 1982. They lived in that city for a few years and then purchased a home in Long Beach, California.

During employment with the Kal Kan company, he traveled throughout the United States and abroad. He was also extensively involved with personal computers, which he also used as an avocation, as well as traveling, and ardently pursued, with his wife, the good life. In 1993, he and Chris moved to Bloomington, Illinois, where she was an executive with the State Farm Insurance Company, and he worked in Chicago for the M&M/Mars company.

In 1957, on September 26, our second son, John was born in the St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, Minnesota, under the care of the Mayo Clinic. He was a robust youngster from birth with an extensive curiosity and a winning personality.

His first two and a half years were spent in that city, living in a Quonset hut in the company of his siblings, mother, me, and families of other fellows of the clinic. We then moved to Torrance, California where I was employed as an oral surgeon for a year. We then moved to the town of Santa Maria in California's Central Coast. He began his early grammar school grades in Santa Maria, but at age twelve, transferred to the Dana Elementary School in nearby Nipomo. He graduated from that school without distinction, and entered Arroyo Grande High School, from which he also graduated with minimal effort. During one summer vacation he worked as a groom for race horses at the California State Fairgrounds in Sacramento, and appeared in the winner's circle. He thus acquired a working knowledge of horse training, in addition to riding and roping. In high school, he participated enthusiastically in sports, particularly water polo, in addition to 4-H and Future Farmers Clubs. During these years, he also developed significant skill at bicycling and in the workshop.

Upon graduation John entered the University of Idaho, as his sister had done before him. He pledged a fraternity, but found higher education not to his liking, and shortly thereafter left for Crescent City, California, where he first went to work for his step-father, John McMurray, a veterinarian. An opportunity then arose for him to work in the sporting goods and bicycle business in Brookings, Oregon.

While living in Crescent City, he met Lynn Thompson and they married in 1981. When his bride's father retired from the U.S. Forest Service, they moved with them to the islands of Hawaii. The in-laws tired of Hawaii, but John and Lynn remained. They settled on the beaches of Kauaii and John was employed as a bicycle mechanic on that island. An opportunity came to open his own cycle business, which was quite successful and enjoyable. Meanwhile Lynn worked in retailing, restaurants and the resort industry.

In 1980 a daughter Amanda was born. Amanda grew as a beautiful child, the source of great pleasure and pride to her family. They lived comfortably and happily in Kapaa and Lihue, Kauaii, Hawaii and frequently made trips to the mainland. In 1992, Hurricane Iniki destroyed much of Kauai but John was able to recover from his losses and opened two new bicycle stores. In 1993, they purchased a new home in Lihue.

On March 3, 1958, during a blinding snowstorm, Helen Elise Tanner was born at St. Mary's Hospital, a part of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She was our second daughter and third child.

Lise lived in Rochester for her first two years and in 1980 came to California and the city of Torrance, a suburb of Los Angeles. One year later we moved to Santa Maria. Her education began with kindergarten in the Orcutt area of the city, and formally started at Alice Shaw Elementary School. At the age of twelve, she moved to Nipomo with her father, step-mother Jackie, brother John, and step-sisters Tami and Sharon Kelley. There with her siblings, she attended Dana Elementary School, and then Arroyo Grande and Righetti High Schools on the central coast.

At her graduation from Dana School, she was active in music, and upon graduation, received honors. Her greatest talents were on the guitar and with music composition. She was a soloist in a school concert in her junior year. She dutifully participated, without enthusiasm, in equestrian and 4-H activities.

Helen Elise married young, and had a daughter, Danielle, with her husband, Eugene Geaslen. That union did not last, and Lise went alone to Seattle, Washington to be with her older sister, Margaret Jane. After a few years as a dental assistant in that city, she returned to California. The first year, she was employed in the oral surgery office of her father in Lompoc. The following year she moved to San Jose where her sister Martha Susan lived. There she was accepted and attended Foothill College. She obtained an associate of arts degree, and then graduated from the dental hygiene school, as her mother had before her. After obtaining state licenses in California and Washington, she moved with her daughter to the latter state, where she practiced dental hygiene and Danielle attended school.

Torrance, California was the birthplace of Martha Susan Tanner. Her birthday was appropriately Thanksgiving eve of 1960 on November 23. After only five months in Torrance, the family moved to Santa Maria. The first few years were quite uneventful. She started kindergarten and grammar school with her sister Lise in the "Y" area of Santa Maria. Early on, a move was made from Lake Marie to Crescent City, California in the northern part of the state. There she completed her lower education, graduating from Del Norte High School. Her graduation present was a vacation on the island of Maui in Hawaii.

Then, again in the northern portion of the California, but easterly, she attended Chico State College, graduating with a bachelor's degree in accounting. She acquired her first car during her college years. The degree served her well in obtaining employment with numerous firms in the San Francisco Bay area. While working for the Space Boosters division of United Technologies, a defense firm located in Santa Clara County, her major activities were in the field of computer programming and accounting. Hobbies were generally oriented towards sports and physical fitness. She had a cat for a pet.

The Loma Prieta earthquate happened while she was living in the area. Many hours were spent studying while attending at Golden Gate University in San Jose, during her off-hours. As a result, she was awarded a masters degree from that school in a ceremony in the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco. She has resided in her own condominium in San Jose for a number of years. In 1993 she married Tom Cavallo.

I was close to Grandmother Wright, but she did not often speak of the family. I met many of her brothers and sisters and their immediate family when I was quite young, but she never spoke of her father or mother, although I did meet the latter when I was two years old, and have only extremely vague recollections of her.

Written information on the Wright line was difficult to come by since the family name was so common. There were no written genealogical information, and only a few personal, newspaper or other documents. The earliest source of genealogical information was of my great-grandfather Ransom Wright, whose father-in-law, Peter Thom(p)son, was a Soldier of the Revolution. I was unable to obtain any source records on the family, all of what I know coming from a third cousin who was also a genealogist in Illinois. The fact that the family came from Schoraie County, New York would be a clue for those seeking information on the line.

He was born on March 11, 1802 in Schoharie County, New York, probably the son of Cyrus Wright. He went to Geagua County, Ohio, in the Western Reserve. The Western Reserve was nearly four million acres of land that was retained by Connecticut in 1786 when that state gave up claim to land which extended to the Pacific Ocean. Citizens who had suffered property losses during the Revolutionary War, and veterans of that war were given land in 1792. Ransom Wright and his future father-in-law, Peter Thom(p)son, who was a veteran of the conflict, and as such received land in the eastern part along the shores of Lake Erie, in what was to be Geagua County.

He married Elizabeth Thompson, the daughter of Peter Thompson, on February 11, 1825, and they moved to Ohio after the birth of their first child, Cyrus Jerome. He died in 1839, after just fourteen years of marriage and eight children.

His death was described in the Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois:

Ransom and his father-in-law were buried side by side in a cemetery in Munson, Ohio and the service to his country of Peter Thomson was duly noted on his tombstone. He was of Hale's New Hampshire Regiment.

The cemetery and the tombstones exist to this day.

He was born in 1832 in Munson, Ohio. After his father died, at age twelve, he was sent to live with a neighbor family until his twentieth birthday. He then moved with his mother and siblings to Illinois. He farmed in Plum Valley, Jo Davies County, Illinois, and married Mary Lyon there in 1856. About 1880 they moved to Boone County, Illinois where he purchased a farm and prospered. All of their children were born near Stockton, Illinois. Jerome was the eldest, and followed by Viva, Ellsworth, Delos, Omar and Nellie. All of them married and lived in Marengo, except El, who farmed and made his home in Garden Prairie, six miles to the west. They were a close family, and I can recall all of them, as prosperous and highly regarded citizens. They had numerous children, and both my father and I had their progeny as friends and classmates.

About 1900, he moved to the village of Marengo in Illinois, and lived in a fine house with his wife on Washington Street, where he and his wife lived until his death in 1909. It was said he was a small man with great energy, and chopped a cord of wood a week for the home.

At his death, he left each of his six children a farm, each over one hundred acres, which he had acquired for investment. A copy of his will reveal that he was a man of considerable wealth. In this will, which was filed in Marengo in December of 1919, he left to each of his children or their survivors, $10,000 and a farm, along with other personal property. He was small of stature, but had a strong constitution and it was recalled that he began each day, after his retirement from farming, by chopping a pile of wood.

His wife outlived him by fifteen years, living during that time in the home in Marengo.

Grandmother Tanner was an interesting and enigmatic character as I reflect upon her. I lived within a few houses of her for over twenty years. She was very devoted to me, and quite interested in having me succeed in life. She provided me with an automobile, retaining a 1940 Ford for my use after Grandfather died, even though she herself never drove. She did though enjoy riding in an automobile immensely. When I graduated from dental school, she bought a new 1952 Ford for me. In the following years I had much less contact with her, not living in Marengo again. She made a trip to Faribualt in 1953 to visit us; I saw her on the few occasions we visited Marengo; and returned for her funeral in 1955.

She was the youngest of her siblings, and as was the custom in her day, stopped going to school after eight grades. The boys in the family went on to a high school education as was the custom of that period. She did have a good education in housekeeping, and had an active mind, enjoying card playing, crossword puzzles and painting. She was a superb cook, and every Saturday made doughnuts for the enjoyment of all. Monday was washday, Tuesday ironing, Wednesday shopping, and Thursday cleaning. She spent her entire life in only four houses: the family farms and two houses in the town of Marengo.

Her relationship with Grandfather Tanner was, I thought, unusual. Having only one child was quite normal for the times. They always slept in the same bed, unless illness prevented it, but yet I never saw her express any affection towards him. She seemed to enjoy being dependent upon my father in later years and there seemed to be a love-hate relationship with my mother. She never spoke harshly to her, or to anyone else as a matter of fact, yet I sensed she felt Mother was socially inferior to her. She was devoted to all of her family, yet never became emotionally involved.

In spite of her sparse education, she was very skillful in money management, leaving a greater estate than she received when Grandfather died. She was most businesslike in all her dealings, even extending it to my father, her only child. She was never employed, but successfully managed two farms and numerous businesses in her lifetime.

The diagnosis of cancer was devastating to her, and she tolerated the futile treatments poorly. She was on the surface a devout Christian, attending church every Sunday either alone or with my accompaniment, but never expressed any opinion of religious matters, except to be intolerant of sin and fearful of death. She died in her seventy-third year.

I was close to Grandmother Wright, but she did not often speak of the family. I met many of her brothers and sisters and their immediate family when I was quite young, but she never spoke of her father or mother, although I did meet the latter when I was two years old, and have only extremely vague recollections of her.

Written information on the Wright line was difficult to come by since the family name was so common. There were no written genealogical information, and only a few personal, newspaper or other documents. The earliest source of genealogical information was of my great-grandfather Ransom Wright, whose father-in-law, Peter Thom(p)son, was a Soldier of the Revolution. I was unable to obtain any source records on the family, all of what I know coming from a third cousin who was also a genealogist in Illinois. The fact that the family came from Schoraie County, New York would be a clue for those seeking information on the line.

He was born on March 11, 1802 in Schoharie County, New York, probably the son of Cyrus Wright. He went to Geagua County, Ohio, in the Western Reserve. The Western Reserve was nearly four million acres of land that was retained by Connecticut in 1786 when that state gave up claim to land which extended to the Pacific Ocean. Citizens who had suffered property losses during the Revolutionary War, and veterans of that war were given land in 1792. Ransom Wright and his future father-in-law, Peter Thom(p)son, who was a veteran of the conflict, and as such received land in the eastern part along the shores of Lake Erie, in what was to be Geagua County.

He married Elizabeth Thompson, the daughter of Peter Thompson, on February 11, 1825, and they moved to Ohio after the birth of their first child, Cyrus Jerome. He died in 1839, after just fourteen years of marriage and eight children.

His death was described in the Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois:

Ransom and his father-in-law were buried side by side in a cemetery in Munson, Ohio and the service to his country of Peter Thomson was duly noted on his tombstone. He was of Hale's New Hampshire Regiment.

The cemetery and the tombstones exist to this day.

He was born in 1832 in Munson, Ohio. After his father died, at age twelve, he was sent to live with a neighbor family until his twentieth birthday. He then moved with his mother and siblings to Illinois. He farmed in Plum Valley, Jo Davies County, Illinois, and married Mary Lyon there in 1856. About 1880 they moved to Boone County, Illinois where he purchased a farm and prospered. All of their children were born near Stockton, Illinois. Jerome was the eldest, and followed by Viva, Ellsworth, Delos, Omar and Nellie. All of them married and lived in Marengo, except El, who farmed and made his home in Garden Prairie, six miles to the west. They were a close family, and I can recall all of them, as prosperous and highly regarded citizens. They had numerous children, and both my father and I had their progeny as friends and classmates.

About 1900, he moved to the village of Marengo in Illinois, and lived in a fine house with his wife on Washington Street, where he and his wife lived until his death in 1909. It was said he was a small man with great energy, and chopped a cord of wood a week for the home.

At his death, he left each of his six children a farm, each over one hundred acres, which he had acquired for investment. A copy of his will reveal that he was a man of considerable wealth. In this will, which was filed in Marengo in December of 1919, he left to each of his children or their survivors, $10,000 and a farm, along with other personal property. He was small of stature, but had a strong constitution and it was recalled that he began each day, after his retirement from farming, by chopping a pile of wood.

His wife outlived him by fifteen years, living during that time in the home in Marengo.

Grandmother Tanner was an interesting and enigmatic character as I reflect upon her. I lived within a few houses of her for over twenty years. She was very devoted to me, and quite interested in having me succeed in life. She provided me with an automobile, retaining a 1940 Ford for my use after Grandfather died, even though she herself never drove. She did though enjoy riding in an automobile immensely. When I graduated from dental school, she bought a new 1952 Ford for me. In the following years I had much less contact with her, not living in Marengo again. She made a trip to Faribualt in 1953 to visit us; I saw her on the few occasions we visited Marengo; and returned for her funeral in 1955.

She was the youngest of her siblings, and as was the custom in her day, stopped going to school after eight grades. The boys in the family went on to a high school education as was the custom of that period. She did have a good education in housekeeping, and had an active mind, enjoying card playing, crossword puzzles and painting. She was a superb cook, and every Saturday made doughnuts for the enjoyment of all. Monday was washday, Tuesday ironing, Wednesday shopping, and Thursday cleaning. She spent her entire life in only four houses: the family farms and two houses in the town of Marengo.

Her relationship with Grandfather Tanner was, I thought, unusual. Having only one child was quite normal for the times. They always slept in the same bed, unless illness prevented it, but yet I never saw her express any affection towards him. She seemed to enjoy being dependent upon my father in later years and there seemed to be a love-hate relationship with my mother. She never spoke harshly to her, or to anyone else as a matter of fact, yet I sensed she felt Mother was socially inferior to her. She was devoted to all of her family, yet never became emotionally involved.

In spite of her sparse education, she was very skillful in money management, leaving a greater estate than she received when Grandfather died. She was most businesslike in all her dealings, even extending it to my father, her only child. She was never employed, but successfully managed two farms and numerous businesses in her lifetime.

The diagnosis of cancer was devastating to her, and she tolerated the futile treatments poorly. She was on the surface a devout Christian, attending church every Sunday either alone or with my accompaniment, but never expressed any opinion of religious matters, except to be intolerant of sin and fearful of death. She died in her seventy-third year..

I can lay no claim to any original research on the Lyon line. On a visit to the genealogical section of the Los Angeles County Library, I stumbled on two books, Lyon Memoirs, Volumes 1 and 4. In the latter, there appeared the name of my maternal great-grandmother, Mary Lyon Wright. It was a rare coincidence that this was really my great-great grandmother, but I had heard of many of the names of her brothers and sisters as the appeared in the book. It was a good fortune that I was able to buy an original 1905 edition of volume one from a genealogical book dealer. This was a long, well-written work, and with little embellishment of the truth. Since I enjoyed reading many parts of it, and did indeed use much of its form for this book, I have copied many parts of it in my history of the Lyon line.

A. B. Lyon wrote in his introduction to the Lyon Memorial, the motto of Lords de Rohan (of which the Lyons belonged) was:

Many years ago, professional genealogists traced the Lyon family in Europe. Sir Roger de Leonne, son of a follower of the Conqueror, born in 1040, joined himself to King Edgar and received land in Perthshire, called Glen Lyon. His son went to the Holy Land and afterwards settled in England. His son had lands in Norfolk and his son, John Lyon, born in Norfolk in 1150. The line thus continued and A. B. Lyon devoted twenty-two pages to the Lyon family in England. There were many land, baptismal, marriage, and other records in England. He claims to have thereby traced the family to my ancestor, William Lyon of Roxbury, Massachusetts, the American immigrant. A reader of Mr. Lyon's book can well judge for himself, the validity of his introduction to our Lyon family.

William Lyon came to America at age fourteen on the Hopewell and settled in Roxbry, Massachusetts. He was perhaps an orphan, but well established as the son of William and Anne (Carter) Lyon. He was in the care of Isaac Heath, an armorer. He married Sarah Ruggles in 1646. Her parents were a member of the "Nazing Colony", a group of Puritans known for their great piety. He received in 1648 a grant of six acres of land in Roxbury, and was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Roxbury. When the new settlement of New Roxbury, now Woodstock, Connecticut, was determined in 1686, he was one of the "goers" and was assigned a lot there. He did not actually occupy it, since he was then at the age of seventy and died six years later, but several of his grandsons became prominent members there.

The first William Lyon in New England was well documented in the vital records of Roxbury, appearing in town and church records, as to his marriages, numerous land transactions, and a lengthy will. He sired eight children, my ancestor John, being the first. He married after the death of his wife Sarah, Mrs. Martha (Philbrick) Casse, widow of John Casse, but had no more children. He also used the family name "Lion" in many documents.

Since the mid-seventeenth century in New England, was a time of many small Indian wars, his occupation of an armorer, allowed him to prosper. His house still stands in the town of Roxbury, and a street is named after him.

The oldest son of the pioneer was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts in April 1647. He inherited the landed property of his father, and lived and died in Roxbury. He married May 10, 1670, in Roxbury, Abigail Polley, born June 4, 1654, daughter of John and Susanna Polley. Her father, John Polley had been born in England about 1618, was in Robury as early as 1650, when his wife Susanna was admitted to the church. He died in 1688 and made bequests to his son-in-law, "John Lion".

John Lyon and his wife died (it is said of smallpox) on the same day, Jan 15, 1670 and were buried in one grave in West Roxbury Cemetery. Their headstone still exists.

He died intestate. Administration of his estate was granted to his oldest son John. This extensive estate was divided among his eleven children, four of whom were minors. The oldest, again John, was my ancestor.

John Lyon, II was born May 14, 1673, and died January 23, 1725, at the age of fifty-two. He had moved in 1698 to Woodstock, Connecticut, to land granted to his grandfather twelve years before. His wife's name was Elizabeth. They had nine children, Caleb being the seventh. He also lived in Pomfret, Connecticut and moved frequently. He was a husbandman, and did not prosper as his grandfather, leaving only a house, orchard and twenty acres of land.

The first Caleb Lyon was born April 15, 1709. He was sixteen when his father died, and Daniel Carpenter was appointed his guardian. In his seventeenth year on February 29, 1729, he married his own cousin, Margaret Lyon. He took his freeman's oath in Woodstock in 1749. Several of his sons and at least one son-in-law left records of distinguished service in the Revolution. Among his descendants were General Nathaniel Lyon and the Hon. Caleb Lyon, first territorial governor of Idaho. They had fifteen children. His third son, and fourth child, was my ancestor, Caleb Jr. Caleb Sr. died in 1792.

Caleb Lyon, Jr., was born June 29, 1734, and baptized in the Newman Congegational Church, Seekonk, Massachusetts. He moved to Woodstock, Connectict with his family in 1742. In 1756 he married Elizabeth Hodges. Only one child was born in Woodstock, and they then presumably moved to East Windsor, Connecticut where son John was born in 1757. There are no further records on the family.

He was born in 1757 in Greenfield, Massachusetts. He and his first wife had passed from the remembrance of the family one hundred years later, but his grandson, Alva E. Lyon of Perry, Iowa, says that he was one of twelve or thirteen children, one of them named Horace. They were probably not of the same mother. Another of the brothers was named Rufus. One of the sons of Rufus was named Horace. This branch of the family remained in Massachusett, New York and Vermont. My great grandfather William, also named a son Rufus, indicating that the family remained in contact, although separated by nearly two thousand miles, from New England to Illinois.

This namesake of the immigrant William Lyon was born July 25, 1790, in Greenfield, Massachusetts. He had a long and migratory life. He left home at the age of fourteen, his mother having died and his father having married again, and went to Vermont where he lived ten years. It seems likely that he spent those years in Craftsbury, where Nehemiah Lyon, his father's own cousin, had settled. About 1814 he moved to Allegheny County, New York where he married Rhoda Millett on March 22, 1815. There were many Millet families in Colonial America, but I was unable to place her in a particular family. This could probably be done through a search of the census and vital records of New York State during the early 1800's.

He remained in that region twenty-eight years, then went west, locating in Jo Daviess County, Illinois. There he was probably a miner. When his wife died, he moved in with his daughter Mary and his father-in-law, Columbus Perry and moved to Marengo, Illinois with them. He died April 25, 1881, at the age of ninety-one years.

My great-grandmother was the fifth of six children of William Lyon and his wife Rhoda Millet. She was born in 1843 in Allegheny County, New York. She married Columbus Perry Wright in 1856, in Jo Daviess County, Illinois. In 1880 they moved to rural Boone County, Illinois. Their home and farm were across the road and county line from the Tanner homestead. She bore him six children, the youngest being my grandmother. I can recall going with my Grandmother Tanner to visit her. At that time, she was of an ancient vintage, but apparently was quite comfortable. She lived in Marengo in a large Victorian house, with an attendant who was called "Sadie". This was no doubt in the early 1930's, since listening to the radio was in vogue at that time. All of her children survived her and were devoted to her. However I heard stories after her death, of much family quarreling over her possessions. In particular was a silver tea service, which I had many years later.

Tracing my Hulett ancestors was interesting. I had very little information to go on, with the exception of what my Mother had told me. On the Hulett matter, she did know her grandfather had come from New York state and that her great grandfather's name was Resolved. There were also some relatives (Prays) in Marengo that she was aware of, but did not know what the relationship to us. She also knew her Father's brother's and sister's names and histories, but not much else. She also thought the Huletts were French, but I have only been able to find information that is inconclusive. The most information I received on the Huletts came by chance when I was researching the Tanner line in upstate New York. Curiously, both families had come to Marengo from Washington County in New York. My mother's brother, Jim, who is still alive at this writing, and with whom I have kept in touch with for many years, was of little help also on the family tree although he always expressed interest. There were no books written on the Huletts, and only one obscure article. Early on in my search, a family bible entry appeared which was of help on later lines.

Significant detective work was needed, and in the investigation I apparently became a foremost authority on the descendants of Mathew Hulett. In spite of making many queries, information from other genealogists was not forthcoming. There is a "southern branch" of the family that apparently had its origination in England and Virginia. This was again curiously similar to the Tanner line that had a similar origination. There also was a faint early connection in both families between the North and South. I had correspondence from southern Hulett genealogists but none that had as much information as I had. There was a "Reverend Hulett" in the South, and indications were that all the colonial Huletts came from England and had a Protestant background

All Huletts in the United States are descended from one of two immigrants whose relationship is not known. A John Hulett was in Virginia in 1630 and Mathew in New England in 1633. Many "southern Huletts" descend from this John and "northern Huletts" from Mathew. A Long Island New York branch generally spelled their name "Hewlett" but was associated with the Connecticut Huletts. The spelling Hulet, Hulett, Hulette and Hewlett was used and generally refers to the same clan.

The first Hulett to New England in America was Mathew, probably a Huggenot, who came to New England on the Hercules and according to a Charles Banks, went to Windsor, Connecticut in 1633 with a company of adventurers and pilgrims. He was first listed as a passenger on the ship Mary and John, but shortly thereafter was removed and placed on the list of a companion ship, the Hercules. This entire company then went westward overland to the upper reaches of the Connecticut Valley. Mathew Hulett's name did not again appear, although a contemporary writer, Mathew Grant made numerous references to a Mr. and Ms. Hulett, their deaths, and of Nathaniel Hulett.

The Pequot Indian War in the upper Connecticut River Valley caused much hardship and dislocation of the colonists there and many fled back to Massachusetts. Among these was Nathaniel. Nothing further is known of this ancestor.

It is not surprising that John Hulett was recorded as living in Massachusetts when his son Michael was born. Little is known of his wife except that his wife was Elizabeth Newton and they had a son name Michael. This information is all that the vital records contain.

It has been definitely established that this was the Michael Hulett who was one of the original settlers of what became Killingsley, Connecticut. He is without doubt in the lineage of my Huletts and lived for six decades with his wife Experience Newton, close to his many children and their families. Land records indicate that these Huletts were very active buying and selling real estate in the eighteenth century.

This wilderness country in the Northeast corner of the state had been bought from the Indian Chief Owaneco about 1700, and was in Windham County and the town of Thompson, which later became Killingly. Development was rapid in the next one hundred years and the line of descent from Michael was Oliver, who married Sarah and thence David who married Martha Whittemore. The Whittemore family was quite a colorful group of seafarers and builders and a lengthy article appeared in an early issue of the New England Genealogic Register. A Hulett cousin went with the militia to Fort Ticonderoga in the Upper Hudson Valley of New York, and it was there that both the Hulett and Whittemore families migrated after the Revolutionary War.

Oliver Hulett, a son of Michael, lived an unremarkable life in Killingsley. His wife was named Sarah, but nothing is known of her or her origins. The only references to her are in the vital birth records. They had only five children, my descendant David being the last, born in 1758. Sarah died between David's birth, and Oliver's marriage to Sarah Searles a year and a half later. They had five more children, Oliver thereby being the father of ten or more children.

All the Huletts in Killingly, Connectict were descendants of Michael. During this time there was correspondence, and even extended visits from the Hewletts of Long Island. Since there is no evidence of a Hewlett immigrant to Nerw York and the names "Hewlett and Hulett" were used interchangeable in the 18th century, it is quite possible that the Long Island Hewletts were indeed also descendants of either John Hulett or his son Michael.

Little is known of David Hulett's early years except that he served in the Revolutionary War and migrated after to Washington County, New York. He married Martha Whittemore in Connecticut after his discharge, and they moved with parts of her family to that area. In later 19th century census records, the Hulett's and Whittemore families appear as neighbors. A brother of David's had established a home near Lake George with Dresden, New York being the nearest town. Hulett's Landing was at first a small landing, then a settlement then acquired a post office. It later became a large, luxurious, and popular summer retreat for citizens of New York in the 19th century, but about 1890 it was destroyed by fire and never rebuilt. All that exist today is a small pier and shack.

Hulett's Landing is mentioned in the book A History of Washington County, New York written in 1880. This book also mentions many Huletts, as office holders, and a particularly interesting story of David's death. He and a grandson were looking for rattlesnakes along the shore of Lake George, when he fell and broke a leg. The grandson went for help, but after the rescue, David died following the amputation of the broken leg.

The second son of David and Martha was Resolved, born in 1778. He served in the War of 1812 and at the age of thirty-five, married Delena Sweet. She was also of early colonists. There were many Sweets in New England from 1830, but I was unable to trace her lineage. David and Martha had one other son, Harvey, and three daughters. They all married in nearby Wells, Vermont. The names of their spouses, Heath, Glass, Noble and Pray were also all of English derivation and these families later lived in Marengo, Illinois, as I recall both from memory and records.

The last born of Resolved and his wife Delena Sweet (another family name in McHenry County, Illinois) was Warren.

Warren was born in 1836. When he was eight years old his mother died at age forty-four. His father, Resolved was then seventy-four. Warren went to Wells, Vermont and lived with relatives. On New Years day of 1859, in his twenty-third year he married Amanda Pray. Three years later, he was in the 14th Vermont Regiment, Company B. I do not know anything about his service, but, after the Civil War, he left Vermont and New York for Illinois with his wife and elderly father, Resolved, who was by then nearing ninety years of age. Money and land were no doubt acquired by both father and son as a result of serving in the War of 1812 and the Civil War, although little is known of the actual military activities of either. A thorough search of government records and local newspapers would no doubt shed more light on the matter. Resolved died in Marengo, Illinois and is buried in the Marengo Cemetery. I can recall seeing the headstones of both Resolved and his son Warren in the old graveyard in the 1930's, but understand they were later vandalized.

Warren and Amanda had three children, all of which I can recall. The first born was George who left Marengo at an early age, but later visited Marengo. He moved to Los Angeles, had a family, and as late as 1980, heard of Hulett's in the area. Warren was a barn builder, and by newspaper accounts and family stories, built as many as six in one year. A newspaper article told of Resolved and Warren, but has eluded my records. Since the latter died at age sixty-six, before my mother was born, she knew little of his life. Neither did she have recollection of her grandmother Amanda, but recalled her uncle, Frank Pray, no doubt a brother to Amanda. I can also recall him as an elderly man living a large house in Marengo, with his wife, whose name I cannot recall.

My great-aunt was named Carrie, and I can recall her and her husband John Kitchen. There was some cloud of legitimacy surrounding her and John. During my childhood, I was quite familiar with their son Cliff, and his son Roger. The former was some twenty years my senior, and the latter about ten years my junior. Members of the family still live in Marengo.

My grandfather Clarence was the youngest of the three children. I have and have seen many pictures of him, recall him vividly, and my mother told many stories of him. He was born in Marengo on December 12, 1881, the youngest of Warren and Amanda Hulett. I knew little of his early years, except that his musical talent was developed young, and he played the guitar and sang skillfully, both in solo and in a quartet. He graduated from Marengo High School in 1899 and married Helen Eggers, who was also called Helen Jaycox after her adoptive parents in Marengo. Like Clarence, little is known of her childhood.

Clarence worked as a railroad conductor, store clerk and gardener and they had two children and beside my mother, a son, Clarence Earl Jr. (known as Earl), Jim, and Bud. He apparently was a good father, although in later years he became a confirmed alcoholic. My mother tells of finding empty whiskey bottles around the yard when she was young. When Grandmother Helen died at age forty-four of erysipelas, a form of scarlet fever, his drinking became more pronounced although he cared for his son Earl for a number of years.

Earl Jr. later moved in with my parents and me for a number of years. He was very good to me, building and giving me a model airplane. He also interested me in ham radio and music. He was quite disdainful of my ability in the latter, and rightly so. Earl graduated from Marengo High School, and attended one year at the University of Illinois on a scholarship. During this time he played trumpet on a cruise ship in the Carribean and then left college and joined a number of "big bands" for a number of years. Among these was a particular favorite of mine, "Tiny" Hill. He also claimed to have written the song You Are My Sunshine, which was published by and under the auspices of Jimmy Davis, who was later to be governor of Louisiana.

During the war, he met his future wife Edna in Shrevport, Louisiana, left the band and went to work in a wartime shipyard in Beaumont, Texas. They remained in the area where Jim worked in the oil, marine and fishing industries. He also continued with his musical career, but gradually abandoned that pursuit. They had two daughters, Patty and Ruth Ann. Both of these, my cousins, married and had families. They distinguished themselves in many ways, but the older Patty died young. Many of their descendants survive, particularly in the southern part of the United States, and have a predilection for academics and medicine.

Meanwhile, Grandfather Clarence continued to live in and around Marengo, and in and out of trouble and alcoholism. He too was kind to me, and taught me to play the guitar, which I did with enthusiasm but little skill. He was unable to hold any job but was befriended by many people, and was a fine gardener when sober. I had little contact with him after the war in 1946, but attended his funeral when he died in 1952, at age seventy-one, of tuberculosis in a sanitarium. He was a kind and gentle man, and I have only good memories of him as I do of Grandmother Hulett, although she died when I was only three years old.

Grandmother Hulett had a short but interesting life. Being an orphan and married to an alcoholic must have been difficult, but she managed to maintain a modest inheritance and owned a small farm, until it was lost. She encouraged and educated her talented children in music, and was a proficient seamstress.

My mother, Ruth, was born on January 15, 1906. We always considered it quite a coincidence that she was twenty years older then I, to a single day. She too graduated from Marengo High School, and aspired greatly to attend a musical school, but it was financially impractical. Her best friend had gone to college, then to teaching school in Minnesota and had married a musician. They moved back to Illinois within a few years, and their friendship continued through their lifetimes. Since I had no real aunts, I called her "Auntie Dort" and she was also my friend for many years. Since I had no real blood aunts and family friendships in Marengo were long lasting, I had many other "shirttail" aunts: Aunt Ula, Aunt Viva, and many others.

Mother loved my father dearly and I can well imagine her marriage was a good escape for a relatively difficult and impoverished family life since her father was an alcoholic. Her marriage lasted until Father's death at sixty-two in spite of his faults of selfishness, apparent lovelessness, practicality, and tight-fistedness. Whenever I needed money or other favors, they always came from her. Her musical talents gave her a nice, separate income and, as a result, we had a nice home and lived in comparative luxury. Being only a three-member household, with relatively prosperous paternal grandparents, and a government job for my father, we lived in comparative luxury during the depression of the 1930's. After Father's death, she never remarried and lived thereafter very comfortably in both Illinois and California.

Mother certainly loved Father, but he maintained an authority that she resented. Financially the income she received from her music gave her a certain degree of independence, but in other matters, such of the use of the car, Father regulated strenuously. She expressed a resentment to me in that and other matters, but her devotion to him was complete, and his careful management of money served the family well. She rarely spoke a harsh word of him. Both Father and Mother supported me well all through my many school years, and she was much distressed when I left Illinois after I graduated from dental school, even though Father was still alive.

Mother's interests besides her family and music, was with her friends and hobbies of hand crafts, socializing, gardening, card playing and homemaking. All of these she taught me and I can remember as a youngster, standing beside her at the bridge table, and as a result became a proficient card player, even to the extent of winning a minor bridge championship in college. Even in her ninth decade Mother liked to play bridge and Scrabble; she had a fierce competitive spirit and, despite our age differences, she could consistently beat me at Scrabble in our later years.

Mother was a widow for nearly thirty years, and enjoyed her later years thoroughly, until suffering a stroke, from which she died two years later in Santa Barbara. She was cremated, a memorial service was held for her at the retirement home where she lived, and her ashes scattered over the Pacific Ocean. A headstone was placed next to my father's grave in the Marengo Cemetery, where many generations of Huletts and Tanners had been buried for over one hundred and fifty years.

Mother had a modest amount of information on the Eggers from Iceland, including some cards, photographs and letters; a small journal; a bible written in Icelandic, a birth certificate, and a few newspaper clippings. These were helpful in tracing the family back a few generations. She was also able to remember some things of her Mother's child hood and early life. There were also some items in the Mormon Library in Salt Lake city, and a history of the "orphan train". These were pursued with pleasure and profit, and although there are no related Eggers that I am aware of in the United States, there are numerous ones still in Iceland, stemming from the offspring of my great-great grandfather's brothers. There was a student from Iceland in my dental class at Northwestern, but I did not obtain any information from him.

The Eggers line completes the quartet of my maternal and paternal lines. It compromises one-quarter of my gene pool and is the only portion that is not entirely English in derivation. It is the shortest, since the early generations have their roots in Iceland, and was difficult to research since most of the vital records resided in Reykavik and written in Icelandic. Practically the whole of the information came from letters and newspaper clippings that my mother had accumulated, and I was unaware of until her death. She had communicated with relatives two generations removed, but for the most part they had no knowledge of the parentage beyond my grandfather Paul Eggers. There is a good possibility that, even from the sparse information I have, there would much to be learned from the library of the Church of the Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City Utah. They have many Icelandic records and a genealogist who is versed in the Icelandic language. Limited as it is, I include it here, particularly since my mother was quite proud of her Icelandic background.

Peter Eggers was born in Iceland according to a letter from a sister of his son Paul. They did not know of his parents, but were aware that he was the third of ten children. His father had married twice, and had four children by his first wife, but there were no descendants of them living in Iceland. By a second marriage he had six children, four of whom were still alive in 1934. There were many descendants of these four still living in Iceland.

Paul Eggers was born about 1840 in Iceland. He married Ruth Sigursdottir in 1882; they had four children, Helga (my grandmother Helen), Hrefna (her sister Edna), and Sigurden who went to the United States with their father in the year 1889. The fourth child, Helgi remained in Iceland and was educated by a widow who had married a brother of his mother Ruth, a clergyman who died in early age. Helgi went to the U. S. and died there. Sigurden, who was one of the three children that went to the U.S. with their father, died as a young man. About Helga and Hrefna he knew nothing. He contradicted my mother on the matter of her uncles. She had always called him "Uncle Paul", but the letter said his name was Sigurden. He apparently had changed his name when he came to the U.S. since my mother was in close touch with him, and spoke of him often as living in Chicago. I never heard her speak of another uncle, Helgi, who also came to the U.S., but it was stated in the letter, died there, before 1934.

Paul Eggers was a sea captain and owned his own ship. He died enroute to New York, the ship was sold, and his estate settled. It is my feeling that Sigurden was the eldest son, and was able to preserve most of it and send his sisters to Marengo on an "orphan train".

My grandmother, Helen Eggers Hulett, was born in Iceland in 1883. At age six her mother died. She was aboard her father's ship, on a trip to New York with her brother and sister when her father died and was thus orphaned with her sister and brother in New York City. As was fairly common then, she was placed on an "orphan train" with her sister. The older brother did not apparently go on the train, and probably was responsible for preserving the estate, and placing his two sisters on the train. Under this arrangement, the train stopped at various towns on the trip west, and, at each stop, some of the children would be taken in by the local people. When the train arrived in Marengo, she and her sister Edna, were taken in by the stationmaster in Marengo, a man named Jaycox. While there was no record of an adoption, she took the name Jaycox. Her step-father Jaycox apparently died young and I knew nothing of him. She graduated from the Marengo High School and owned a small farm, from her step-father's inheritance, when she married Clarence Hulett. My mother referred to her as "Grandmother Jaycox" and as a person who worked the girls very hard, regarding them as servants rather than as members of her family. I can recall visiting her in Evanston, Illinois when I was very young, and believe she was employed caring for an invalid couple there. My mother told me she was an inveterate seamstress and insisted on my mother practicing much on the piano. Mother stated she was embarrassed to bring her friends home, since the house was always so cluttered with sewing materials. Grandmother Hulett died in 1929 in Marengo, and my memories of her are faint, and reinforced only by a few photographs of her. Her death certificate stated that she died of erysipelas, a form of scarlet fever. She had contracted the disease while caring for a patient.

This section is intended as a reminiscence to my favorite town, and that which I spent more time than in any other location. I do not know of any complete accounts of the town, although much of it has been written in at least two books on McHenry County, and numerous newspaper accounts. It lacks renown in that it has no really illustrious citizens, products or history. It is a typical Midwestern city, even today, I understand. I will allude to some of its long-dead citizens and industries. Perhaps the best characterization of the hamlet is that at one time it produced more mousetraps than any other place in the world. I have written of Marengo previously in this book, but I shall now add a few more pages of history of that quaint, but yet typical Midwestern town. The only things I can probably add are my personal remembrances from the 1930's and 40's. The reader may wish to consult these books on the county for further information.

McHenry County lies in a transition area of the Midwest. It is essentially flat, fertile land. To the north, the land gradually becomes more hilly, and to the south, the land is mostly devoid of hills and changes to the typical prarieland as one proceeds south and east, for many miles until the hills and mountains are reached. Practically any moderate climate plant will grow, both for food and ornamentation. Corn and soybeans were the principle crops, but orchards produced well, except for exotic tropical fruits and wine grapes. Corn and barley were used for production of alcohol, and breweries were common, although McHenry County had none. There never has been to my knowledge a brewery or distillery in the county. All alcoholic beverages were brought in from Wisconsin, Kentucky, California, or other areas. Marengoens of my time certainly consumed their share of spirits, and probably still do.

There were many small, shallow lakes, rivers and streams. None were commercially useful, but they provided recreation. However, for many years raw sewage was emptied into the main river, the Kishwaukee, making it quite unattractive for recreation. Two small creeks, Rush and Coon, empty into the Kishwaukee, and these are clear and beautiful, as well as producing trout, bass, pickerel and other game fish. Rush Creek ran behind the Tanner farm and in the mid-nineteenth century was called "Marengo Creek". Originally these creeks and rivers were pristine and clear, but they were polluted by sewage for many years, and extensive changes made in their configuration through drainage of adjacent farmland and dredging for gravel. Swimming in these creeks, as well as in the river above Marengo, above the sewage plant was popular.

The hills were gentle and many could be cultivated to their summit. There was barely enough slope to ski downhill or coast in a car or bicycle. The highest hill was called "Mt. Pelia". This was an exaggerated name, but was a lovely setting, with meadows and leafed hickory, elm, walnut and other large deciduous trees in summer, brightly colored in the fall. The hill was covered with snow intermittently during the winter, and provided the best downhill skiing at that time of the year, as well as hiking the remainder of the year. There were gentle hills north and south of the village, but east and west the roads curved through relatively flat land.

In the town itself, the crowning glories were the magnificent elm trees. Nearly all residential streets were lined with them, arching gracefully across, to give the illusion of tunnels. I had heard that all of these elms were destroyed by disease, When I returned to Marengo in the late 1960's I was shocked by the appearance of the town without these great trees. I was fortunate to always have lived on a street lined with elms. One street my parents lived on was in fact called "Elm Avenue" and another street was called "Forest". A particularly picturesque street, called "Washington", on which I lived was paved with brick and had a gentle hill that gave it an almost a storybook appearance.

My first personal memory of the town is of a parade in 1932 on the hundredth anniversary of the town. This anniversary may or may not be based on fact, or my memory may be faulty, but my search leads me to believe that the town actually became such about 1850, placing this anniversary some eighteen years later. I would not dispute that Calvin Spencer was the first settler, nor that in was in some way connected with the Chicago and Northwestern Railrod through the area. However, it has been written that the rail line did not actually pass through Marengo until after 1850. No doubt a road of sorts existed between Chicago, Galena and the Mississippi River much earlier and certainly there was an inn in the town shortly after Calvin Spencer's arrival in the 1840's.

I shall begin my description of the village with this date of 1932 when I was six years old. I have many photographs of the city from that time one that I used to jog my memory of my years in the town. In the 1930's, the village was populated by some two thousand souls, and probably a like number in the surrounding area. This population remained relatively constant until the 1950's when an influx of suburbanites from Chicago exceeded the number of people who died or left for supposedly greener pastures. Before the second world war the population of the town was quite stable. A majority of the young people stayed in or near the town. Deaths and births balanced each other. Newcomers came and replaced those few that moved away. A few of the rural people moved to town and a few townsmen moved to the country. After the war, migration began from the town to schools and colleges. Many of the local soldiers had seen too much of the world to remain satisfied with Marengo, but the attractiveness of the town, and a tendency to migrate from Chicago, balanced the loss of native youths.

The town was a quiet, peaceful and prosperous town during my youth. It was approximately one mile square, with perhaps eight commercial city blocks. In the 1930's and 40's there were three drug stores, three grocery stores, at least four taverns, a junk yard, two grammar schools with about two hundred students, and various one room school houses in the surrounding farming areas. There was one community high school serving the area with also somewhat over two hundred pupils. It was served by as railroad for passengers for over a hundred years, and longer for freight. There was a bus stop and short travel by bus was popular, but limited to an east-west direction. Personal automobile transportation was the most popular during my years in the town.

There was only one nearby village, Union, of perhaps three hundred inhabitants. The nearest towns were neatly spaced about twelve miles apart, but there was little social activity between the towns. Elgin and Rockford were the nearest towns of much larger size and Chicago was sixty-five miles away, but exerted a considerable influence on the commercial and recreational activities of Marengo. Numerous lakes also provided recreation nearby, as did the Kishwaukee River.

A mayor, town council and one clerk ran the town in the 1930's. The fire department was entirely volunteer with one truck. The police force consisted of two officers, and a small jail with one cell. Drunkedness, vagrancy and truancy were the most common crimes. I can recall that my father always left the keys in the car, parked on the street overnight. Doors to the houses were generally always unlocked. There were no union activities to my knowledge, except the Pure Milk Association and numerous "granges" in the rural areas.

The first inhabitants were apparently the Blackhawk Indians. All of these had disappeared by 1850 as the pioneer settlers arrived. Illinois was fraught with danger before 1840, and a "Blackhawk War" raged with loss of life of both Indians and settlers. The former either drifted north and west or were displaced by the government. How the land was divided, I am uncertain. It had originally been a part of the Northwest Territory, and the land no doubt divided, sold and developed by the United States and the State of Illinois. There were probably land grants to veterans of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. As mentioned previously, the land my family owned was purchased privately in the 1840's, but the history of ownership before that is not clear. The railroads also no doubt received land grants but I found no record of either of these dispositions of public lands. I do not know of any Federal parks, preserves or forests, in the immediate area, although there are numerous large private, city, county, and state land holdings and parks.

The majority of early settlers began arriving after 1840 and the numbers swelled until probably 1890, when the population seemed to level out. Between 1840 and 1860, a majority of the newcomers were from New England and New York. It must have been more than a co-incidence that the people and families I knew in Marengo, also appeared frequently in the local history and genealogical publications of New England. The names Belden, Vail, Coon, Stockwell, Adams, Gray, Curtis, Wilcox and Conant were all common family names both in Marengo and New England. There was a particularly large contingent of these living both in New England and Washington County, New York. While migration of whole communities has always been a historical fact, the reason for this typical American migration of over two thousand miles, I have been unable to discover. That my Tanner and Hulett lines both came from an area less than thirty miles in radius in New York and Vermont and within twenty years of each other, must surely have been more than coincidence.

Very few settlers came from directions other than the East. About 1880 many German immigrants came to McHenry County to work as hired people in the fields and as domestics. These hard working central Europeans eventually owned a good portion of the land in the 1930's and 40's. Among these were the Dahlmans, Kreugers, Zenks, Hauschildts, Kaminskys and Kamholtses. Another group of Scotch-Irish also came between 1850 to 1890. These were primarily Presbyterians and among them were the Patricks, Redpaths, McKees, Metcalfes, and McMackins.

By 1940 the town was ethnically composed primarily of people of Northern European descent. I know of no Negro, Asian, or Hispanic families. There were only three Jewish families to my knowledge, and none of them Orthodox Jews. I can recall only one or two black persons in Marengo in my time, transients. One Japanese group that was relocated to Marengo during the second world war worked in agriculture. The lack of diversity of the city is reflected in the churches. There was a Baptist, a Methodist, Presbyterian, and a Lutheran church in the town. A Catholic church completed the religious institutions to my memory. There was a Masonic Hall, but no Knights of Columbus.

Marengo had very few native sons of any repute. The only ones I know of I heard about from my Mother. Egbert Van Alystine had been born and raised in the town, in a house owned by an uncle of mine. Egbert was a musician who had gone to New York City where he composed the song In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree and Memories among others. My mother also told me a piano teacher of hers had written a number of well-known hymns, but I do not know if he was a native of Marengo. Also, a past vice-president of the United States under President Harding, a General Dawes, had lived in a house that my family occupied at one time. Del Coon had a popular dance orchestra during the 1920's and 1930's. He was a skilled violinist, but his band and career were destroyed by alcoholism and he never attained national recognition. I know of no sports figures, politicians, gangsters or persons of great wealth from Marengo. There were some families of more modest wealth: the Patricks and Pattersons come to mind, and I am sure there were others, but their fortunes were decimated by the Depression of the 1930's or a scattering of the heirs.

There were never any institutions of higher learning to my knowledge in Marengo, nor any musical groups of significance. There were two grammar schools of grades' one through eight. One was a public school that my father, mother, and I attended and a smaller like school supported by the Lutheran Church. German was taught at the latter school, and church services conducted in that language regularly. The high school had originally been located in the same building as the grade school. It was a handsome stone structure, surrounded by large trees and located near the center of the town. About 1930 a separate high school was constructed on the east side of town. It was from there I graduated. The high school also had students from the small one room rural schools, as well as the larger Union Elementery School. The result was an approximate doubling of class sizes at the high school. The schools were run by iron-willed and dedicated teachers and principals, and crime and drugs were non-existent. Only moderate use of alcohol and tobacco existed, and this was not tolerated within the school grounds. Sexual activity was minimal except for a rare romance or unwanted pregnancy. Petting was accepted, but not on the campus, even to the extent of hand holding. Perhaps I missed or forgot something.

The town grew slowly and industry with it. Probably the first industry was that of transportation. There was a railroad station that handled passengers, freight and agricultural products. Calvin Spencer had the first the first inn, and there was never a building dedicated to a hotel or hospital before or during my time. There were I believe, a few rooms for rent for transients, and at least three restaurants in the 1930's. I cannot recall any truck terminals, although a post office handled parcel post as well as mail. Newspapers and magazines came by bus from Chicago, and no doubt train before the 1930's. Before 1930 there was an electric rail line that ran from Rockford to Elgin. I can recall the rails still in place on Prairie Street in 1935, but it never carried cars to my remembrance. Trains, buses and private cars carried all the passengers and a majority of the freight.

The first factory was perhaps a Borden milk processing plant located in the northwest portion of town. Milk was collected from the many dairy farms by truck in cans, transported to the plant where it was inspected, pasteurized and loaded onto large trucks where it was taken to Chicago. I did not know of any butter, cheese or other processing of the milk. A vivid recollection I have as a small child, is that of people stopping a milk truck as it passed along Prairie Street, and emptying its entire contents onto the street during a milk strike. A pickle factory was also located for many years on the east side of town, near the high school. The pickles were always sold in bulk, both in the local grocery stores and nearby towns. There were no commercial grain elevators in use, or community storage of any other agricultural products in my time, although I do recall an unused grain elevator located in town on the railroad tracks.

Manufacturing in Marengo had its ups and downs. A stove factory and foundry were located in the northern part of town, but my recollection is that only the foundry was in operation during the 1930's. At one time stoves were produced in large quantities, but as central heating became usual, wood, oil and coal stoves disappeared. A modest foundry also was in operation by 1940 in what had been the old car barn for the street cars that had previously run between Rockford and Chicago. This slowly grew in size and importance until the second world war, when production of magnets was of great significance. I was employed there in the summer of 1943. This was quite a large defense plant, and was staffed by part-time farmers, students, housewives and others. This factory was bought in the 1940's by a large steel group, and it is my understanding that it is still in operation and the largest employer in the town.

The McGill Metal Products was the biggest employer in the town during the early 1930's. It was privately owned in my time and then produced more mouse traps and coin changers that any other town in the world. It had moved out from Chicago about 1938. George and Grace McGill were the owners and became good friends with my parents. This factory figured significantly in the war effort. It survived for many years and may still be in production.

There were a few other metal and wood fabricating shops during my time, but usually consisted only of a proprietor and two or three employees. Contractors too, were few in numbers, and limited to few employees. There were very few houses built from 1930 to 1946 in Marengo, and most of these were built by one, two or three individuals. Painters, electricians and plumbers worked for the most part alone or in pairs. This was an era of "do-it-yourself", in greater proportion than existed in later times, although houses were painted both inside and out every few years, often by home owners. Most of the homes were owner occupied, largely a result of the prosperous agricultural industry. There were no apartment houses, duplexes, or government subsidized housing. A few homes were vacant, but this was most often the result of significance financial losses during the Depression.

1Howard Charles Tanner, Jr. b1926

2 Howard Charles Tanner b1903

3 Ruth Tanner b1906

4 Jonas Charles Tanner b1871

5 Nellie Mae Wright b1876

6 Clarence Earl Hulett b1882

7 Helen Eggers b1883

8 Jonas Charles Tanner b1822

9 Jane Ann Morris b1829

10 Columbus Perry Wright b1832

11 Mary Lyon b1843

12 Warren Hulett b1836

13 Amanda Pray b1839

14 Paul Eggers b1840

15 Ruth Sigurdottir b1853

16 Jonas Childs Tanner b1794

17 Electa Shumway b1786

18 Joseph Morris b1786

19 Betsey b1796

20 Ransom Wright b1802

21 Elizabeth Thomson b1805

22 William Lyon (2) b1790

23 Rhoda Millet

24 Resolved Hulett b1778

25 Delina Sweet b1800

26 Elijah Pray b1793

27 Lucinda Glass b1799

28 Peter Eggers

30 Peter Eggers

32 Joseph Tanner b1774

33 Electa Shumway b1786

34 David Shumway b1742

35 Rhoda Eddy d1833

42 Peter Thompson b1756

43 Susannah

44 Caleb Lyon (2) b1757

48 David Hulett b1758

49 Martha Whittemore b1754

52 John Pray, Jr b1766

53 Elizabeth Bellamy d1833

54 Rufus Glass b1755

55 Huldah Fuller b1756

64 John Tanner (2) b1754

65 Esther Childs b1774

66 Isaac Childs

68 David Shumway b1705

69 Esther d1751

70 Zachariah Eddy b1720

71 Marcy Burch b1717

84 Caleb Lyon (1) b1734

89 Elizabeth Hodges

96 Oliver Hulett b1718

97 Sarah d1759

98 William Whittemore b1710

99 Mary Eliathorpe b1710

104 John Pray b1740

106 Anthony Glass b1729

109 Eunice Bennett b1721

110 William Fuller b1729

111 Rebecca Spencer b1736

128 George Tanner b1694

129 Marcy Wilcox b1730

130 George Wilcox b1708

131 Margaret - b1712

136 Peter Shumway b1678

137 Maria Smith b1677

140 Joshua Eddy b1680

141 Hannah Stevens

142 Jonothan Birch b1767

143 Mary Rathbun b1687

176 Caleb Lyon b1709

177 Margaret Lyon b1708

192 Michael Hulett b1690

193 Experience Newton b1683

196 Daniel Whittemore b1763

197 Lydia Bassett b1687

198 Henry Eliathorpe

199 Mehitable Aspinwall

216 Richard Glass b1687

218 Samuel Bennett d1769

219 Sarah Harrington b1722

220 John Fuller b1697

221 Mary Cornwall b1694

222 Micajah Spencer b1690

223 Sarah Bogue

256 John Tanner (1) b1660

257 Susannah West b1759

258 George Wilcox b1758

259 Sarah Meakins b1660

260 Thomas Wilcox b1664

261 Martha Hazzard b1668

272 Peter Choumet b1633

273 Francis -

274 Robert Smith b1624

275 Mary -

280 Zachariah Eddy b1639

281 Alice Paddock

284 Jeremiah Birch b1713

286 Thomas Rathbone b1657

287 Mary Dickens

352 John Lyon b1673

353 Elizabth

354 William Lyon (1) b1675

355 Deborah Colburn b1680

384 John Hulett b1706

386 John Newton

387 Elizabeth Larkin b1660

392 Daniel Whittemore b1633

293 Mary Mellins d1693

394 Joseph Bassett

432 Richard Glass b1662

436 John Bennett b1666

437 Elizabeth Parke

438 Isaac Harrington b1666

439 Sarah d1747

440 John Fuller b1656

441 Mehitable Rowley b1660

442 William Cornwall b1670

443 Esther Ward b1675

444 William Spencer b1650

445 Sarah Ackley b1660

512 William Tanner (1) b1660

513 Mary Babcock d1704

516 Francis West (1) b1609

517 Susannah Soule

518 Thomas Meakins b1643

519 Mary Bunce b1645

520 Stephen Wilcox b1633

521 Hannah Hazzard b1637

522 Robert Hazzard b1635

523 Mary Brownell b1639

550 Thomas French d1680

560 Samuel Eddy b1608

561 Elizabeth Savery b1607

562 Robert Paddock b1584

563 Mary Holmes b1610

568 Thomas Birch d1657

572 John Rathbone b1634

573 Margaret Dodge

574 Nathaniel Dickens

575 Joan

704 John Lyon b1647

705 Abagail Polley b1654

708 William Lyon (1) b1675

709 Deborah Colburn b1680

710 John Colburn b1648

711 Experience Leland

760 Michael Powell b1676

761 Abagail b1676

704 Thomas Whittemore b1593

705 Hannah Chawlkley b1612

768 Mathew Hulett

786 Richard Mellins

788 William Bassett b1620

872 John Bennett

873 Ursula White

874 Samuel Parke b1621

875 Hannah

876 Benjamin Hearnden d1727

877 Elizabeth White b1630

880 Samuel Fuller b1612

881 Jane Lathrop

884 William Cornwall b1640

885 Mary Bull b1650

886 John Ward

887 Nichols

888 Jared Spencer d1685

889 Hannah -

890 Nicholas Ackley d1695

1022 Henry Leland

1023 Margaret Babcock

1026 James Badcock b1612

1027 Sarah -

1028 Job Babcock b1646

1029 Jane Crandall b1706

1030 John Crandall

1032 Francis West b1586

1034 George Soule

1035 Mary Bucket

1036 Thomas Meakins b1628

1037 Sarah

1038 Thomas Bunce d1670

1039 Bull d1680

1040 dward Wilcox b1600

1042 homas Hazzard b1610

1043 Martha

1044 Ibid.

1042

1046 Ibid 1043

1120 William Eddye

1121 Mary Fosten

1122 Thomas Savory

1123 Mary Woodrorke

1124 Jean Paddoc b1550

1125 Jeanette Jennin

1126 Peter Holmes

1127 Elizabeth Ireland

1144 John Rathbone b1610

1148 Tristam Dodge

1408 William Lyon b1620

1409 Sarah Ruggles b1629

1410 John Polley b1618

1411 Susannah Bacon b1623

1416 William Lyon b1675

1417 Deborah Colburn b1680

1420 Nathaniel Coalburne

1421 Priscilla Clarke

1422 Henry Leland b1630

1423 Mary Babcock d1690

1570 Richard Mellins

1672 Andrew Ward d1672

1746 William White d1673

1747 Elizabeth

1748 Robert Parke b1580

1749 Martha Chaplin b1583

1760 Edward Fuller b1575

1762 John Lathrop b1584

1763 Hannah House d1633

1768 William Cornwall b1610

1770 William Bull b1676

2056 James Badcock b1580

2072 Thomas Meakins b1580

2073 Catherine

2078 Thomas Bull

2080 John Wilcox b1580

2092 Robert Brownell b1590

2093 MaryWilson b1590

2242 John Fosten

2243 Ellen Munn

2244 Robert Savory

2248 Paul Paddoc b1507

2249 Francoise Traillour

2250 Francois Jennin

2251 Louise Moron

2254 Lawrence Ireland

2288 Richard Rathbone b1574

2289 Marion Whipple

2818 Thomas Ruggles b1584

2819 Mary Curtis

2822 George Bacon d1642

2844 Hopestil Leland

3498 Robert Parke d1593

3497 Martha Chaplin

3520 Robert Fuller b1550

3524 John Lathrop b1530

3540 Thomas Bull b1606

3541 Susannah

4496 Henri Paddoc b1462

4497 Marie Broquin

5636 Thomas Ruggles

5638 Thomas Curtis

6992 William Parke

6994 William Chaplin

6995 Joan Greengrass

7048 Robert Lathrop

8992 Jacques Padoch b1429

8993 Adelaide Blabon

8994 Guillaume de Broquin

10256 John Bourne b1514

10257 Margaret

10260 William Cowper

10261 Margaret Spencer

10262 John Ironside

11276 Nicholas

13988 Robert Chaplin

13989 Elizabeth

14096 John Lathrop

16984 Jean Padoc

16985 Marguerite Breman

16986 Pierre Blabon

16987 Marguerite la Grosse

22522 Thomas Ruggles

33698 Guillame Padoc b1375

67396 Guillame Padoc

67397 Adelaide Charpentier

134792 Henri Padoc

134793 Marie Dudevant

Husband: Howard Charles Tanner Jr Wife: Sally Lou Kuhlman

Born: 1/16/1926, Marengo, IL Born: 5/20/1930, Spokane, WA

Married: 8/15/1950, Spokane, WA

Died: 2/22/94, Nipomo, CA

Father: Howard Charles Tanner Father: Herman Kuhlman

Mother: Ruth Elizabeth Hulett Mother: Hazel Sorille

Father's History: He attended elementary and high school in Marengo, IL, served in infantry in South Pacific in World War II. He attended Wabash College, Northwestern University Dental School and Mayo Clinic and practiced dentistry and oral surgery in Minnesota and Santa Maria, CA. His hobbies were woodworking, horse racing and golf. He married (2) Jacqueline Funkhouser.

Mother's History: She was born and raised in Spokane, WA, attended the University of Idaho and Northwestern University Dental School and was a dental hygienist. She married (2) John McMurray.

References: State, county, and city vital records; newspaper accounts and personal remembrances.

Husband: Howard Charles Tanner Wife: Ruth Elizabeth Hulett

Born: 7/17/1903, Marengo, IL Born: 1/15/1906, Marengo, IL

Died: 11/7/1966, Marengo, IL Died:5/15/1991,Santa Barbara, CA

Father: Jonas Charles Tanner Father: Clarence Earl Hulett

Mother: Nellie Mae Wright Mother: Helen Eggers

Father's History: He was born, raised and educated in Marengo, IL and attended Lake Forest College and the Elgin Business School. He worked as a mail carrier for twenty years and was later self employed in agriculture supply and newspaper distribution. His hobbies were public service and travel. He died of heart disease.

Mother's History: She was born, raised and educated in Marengo, IL and was a professional pianist and organist. Her hobbies were church music, teaching and card playing. In 1979 she moved to Santa Barbara, CA where she died of a stroke.

References: Family records, personal remembrance and vital state and county records.

Husband: Jonas Charles Tanner Wife Nellie Mae Wright

Born: 12/28/1871, Marengo, IL Born: 1879, Marengo, IL

Married: 4/20/1898, Marengo, IL

Died: 2/25/1943, Marengo, IL Died: 1955, Marengo, IL

Father: Jonas Tanner Father: Columbus Perry Wright

Mother: Jane Morris Mother: Mary Lyon

Father's History: He was born and raised in Marengo, IL. He was a teacher, farmer, justice of the peace, and insurance agent. He died of heart disease.

Mother's History: She was born, raised and educated through eight grades in rural Marengo, IL. Her hobbies were home and family and she died of cancer.

References: Family, state and county records and personal remembrance.

Husband: Clarence Earl Hulett Wife: Helen Eggers

Born: 12/12/1881, Marengo, IL Born:11/14/1882, Reykavik

Married: 1904, Marengo, IL

Died: 1952, Marengo, IL Died: 4/1/1929, Marengo, IL

Father: Warren Hulett Father: Paul Eggers

Mother: Amanda Pray Mother: Ruth Sigursdottir

Father's History: He was raised and educated in Marengo. He was a clerk, gardner and musician. He died of tuberculosis.

Mother's History: Born in Iceland, her father was a ship captain and was orphaned at age seven in New York City. With her sister, they came to Marengo, IL on an orphan train and were adopted by a Jaycox family. She was nurse and died of erysipelis.

References: Family, state and county vital records and personal rememberance and correspondence.

Husband: Jonas ChildsTanner Wife: Jane Morris

Born: 8/25/1822, No. Granville, NY Born:10/18/1831, Broome, Co. NY

Married: 12/18/1831, Marengo, Il

Died: 1875, Marengo, IL Died: 1900, Marengo, IL

Father's History: He spent his early years in Washington Co., NY and moved to Lewis Co., NY about 1825 with family and Illinois about 1849 with sister Cornelia. He homesteaded 120 acres at Marengo, IL. and died at age 51 of unknown cause. He is buried at Bonus Cemetary.

Mother's History: She was born about 1840 in Alleghenny Co. New York. She moved with her family to Galena, IL and then to Marengo, IL. where they were neighbors to the Tanner's. She maintained the family and farm after Husbands' death.

References: Family, state and county vital records. U.S. census records. Book, "History of McHenry County Illinois", 1920.

Husband: Columbus Perry Wright Wife: Mary Lyon

Born: Munson, OH, 2/10/1832 Born:Alleghany Co NY 1/23/1834

Married: Stockton, IL, 4/10/1856

Died: Marengo, IL, 12/15/1906 Died:6/20/1930, Marengo

Father: Ransom Wright Father: William Lyon

Mother: Elizabeth Thompson Mother: Rhoda Millett

Father's History: He was born and raised in Geauga Co, OH, and moved to Jo Daviess Co IL about 1850 and McHenry Co IL in 1880 where he prospered in farming.

Mother's History: She was born and raised in Allegany Co NY. and moved with her family to Jo Daviesss Co IL, then Marengo, IL

References: State, county and family vital records. Book, "Lyon Memorial", and personal correspondence.

Husband: Warren Hulett Wife: Amanda Pray

Born: 5/25/1836, Granville, NY Born: 1839, Wells, VT

Married: 1/4/1859, Wells, VT

Died: 1/14/1901, Marengo, IL Died: Marengo, IL

Father: Resolved Hulett Father: Elijah Pray

Mother: Delena Sweet Mother: Lucinda Glass

Children:

Father's History: He was born and raised in Washington, Co, NY., served in the Civil War. He moved to Marengo, IL about 1865, where he was a carpenter.

References: Family, state and county vital records, newspapers. "History of Pawlet VT".

Husband: Paul Eggers Wife: Ragenheider Sigurdardottir

Born: 12/25/1839,Reykavik, Iceland Born:3/21/1853, Iceland

Died: 1890, New York Died:6/30/1887,Iceland

Married: 1/6/1882, Iceland Father: Sigridur Sigridarson

References:Icelandic Vital records, Personal Correspondence

Husband: Joseph Tanner Wife: Electa Shumway

Born: 12/24/1794, No. Granville, NY Born: 2/10/1844, Martinsburg, NY

Married: before 1817

Father: John Tanner Father: David Shumway

Mother: Esther Childs Mother: Rhoda Eddy

Children:

Father's History: He left No. Granville in the 1820's and went to Lewis Co. NY. His wife and a daughter died about 1840 and in 1850 he moved to Marengo, IL, following his sons and daughter. He bought and sold much land in New York and Illinois. He married Ann in 1855 and died 1859 at Marengo, IL He was buried in the Bonus cemetary.

Mother's History: She appears in the Shumway family genealogy.

References: Family, city, and state vital records. U.S. census records. Books, "History of Washington Co. NY", and "Genealogy of the Shumway Family".

Husband: Ransom Wright Wife: Elizabeth Thompson

Born:3/11/1802, Schoharie Co. NY Born: 4/10/1805, Schoharie Co.

Married: 2/11/1825 at Schoharie, Co. NY

Died: 4/19/1839, Munson, Geauga Co. OH Died: 12/14/1867, Jo Daviess Co.

Father: Father: Peter Thompson

Mother: Mother: Susannah ?

Father's History: He was born and raised in NY state, moved to OH about 1827 He died at age thirty seven, due to an accident while lifting a mantle for the family fireplace.

Mother's History: She was born in NY state and moved to Ohio and after her husband's death, moved to Illinois. She married (2) an "English Peddler" and lived out her life in Stevenson Co. IL.

References: Family, state, and county vital records. U.S. census records. Books, "Lyon Family Memorial", "History of McHenry Co.ILL." Personal correspondence.

Husband: William Lyon Mother: Rhoda Millet

Born: 7/25/1790, Greenfield MA

Married: 8/22/1815, Alleghany Co. NY

Died: 4/24/1881, Stockton, IL

Father: Caleb Lyon

Father's History: Much of his history is conjectured. He apparently left home at age 14 after his mother's death, moved to Vermont, then Alleghany Co. NY, and eventually Jo Daviesss Co. IL.

References: Family, county and state vital records. U.S. census records. Book, "Lyon Family Memorial".

Husband: Resolved Hulett Mother: Delena Sweet

Born: 4/9/1778, Killingly CT Born: 2/17/1800, Hebron, NY

Married: 12/7/1817, NY state

Died: 2/21/1865, Marengo, IL Died 3/21/1844, Hebron, NY

Father: David Hulett Father:

Mother: Martha Whitemore Mother:

Father's History: He was a soldier in the War of 1812, moved to Illinois with his son Warren where he died and is buried in the Marengo, IL cemetery.

References: County and state vital records. U.S. census records. Hulett Family Bible: Books, "History of Washington County, New York", 1880, and "History of Pawlett, VT"

Husband: Elijah Pray Mother: Lucinda Glass

Born: 7/18/1793, Wells, VT Born: 9/9/1798, Wellls, VT

Married: Wells, VT

Died: 1867, Ft. Ann, NY Died: 8/14/1857, Wells, VT

Father: John Pray Jr. Father: Rufus Glass

Mother: Elizabeth Bellamy Mother: Huldah Fuller

Father's History: He came to Wells, VT. with his father at an early age. The Pray's were early colonists and while the family has been well researched, this branch has not been identified.

Mothers History: She was identified since her mother was a descendant of Edward Fuller of the Mayflower.

References: Books,"History of Wells, VT", Paul & Parks and "Mayflower Descendants".

Husband: Peter (Pedier) Eggers

Born: Reykavik, Iceland

Fathers History: By a second wife, he had four more children Grudmundir, Signurder, Solveig and Ragnheider, leaving many descenants.

References: Family and church vital records. Newspapers. Personal correspondence.

Husband: John Tanner Mother: Esther Childs

Born: 7/16/1760, Richmond, RI Born: 5/31/1774, Westerly, RI

Married: No. Granville, NY

Died: 2/19/32, N Granville, NY Died: 4/1/1849, Granville, N,

Father: George Tanner Father: Isaac Childs

Mother: Mary Wilcox

Father's History: He was a militiaman and soldier in the Revolutionary War. He was discharged at Albany, NY and settled in Granville where he acquired land and was a founder of the Truthville Baptist Church in New York.

Mother's History: She was born in Rhode Island and moved with her family to Washington Co. NY. She outlived her Husband and received a pension from his military service.

References: State and county vital records. U.S. census records. U.S. military records. Books, "History of Washington Co. NY" and "William Tanner Sr. of South Kingson RI"

Husband: David Shumway Mother: Rhoda Eddy

Born: 5/12/1742, Sturbridge, MA Born: Belcherton, MA

Married: 6/28/1770, Belcherton, MA

Died: 1818, NY Died: 4/9/1883, NY

Father: David Shumway Father: Zachariah Eddy

Mother: Esther Mother: Marcy Burch

Father's History: He was one of the Minutemen of the Revolution and was in the Battle of Bennington.

References: County and state vital records. U.S. census Records. Books, "Genealogy of the Shumway Family" 1909 and "The Eddy Family in America", 1980

Husband: Peter Thompson Mother: Susannah ? ? ?

Born: 1756, New Hampshire

Married: 1793, New York State

Died: 12/19/1845, Munson, OH Died: 1833, Munson, OH

Father's History: He was a soldier of the Revolution and an early settler of Geauga County, Ohio.

References: State and County vital records. Books, "Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois and Biography of McHenry Co. Citizens", and "DAR Linneage Book #83320", Family correspondence.

Husband: Caleb Lyon

Died: 1798, MA

Father's History: This ancestor is unproven. This person could also have been his brother or cousin John. A grandson, Alvah E. Lyon of Perry, IA, said in 1900 that the name of this grandfather had "passed from remembrance", but the line of descent is positive.

References: Book, "Lyon Family Memorial".

Husband: David Hulett Mother: Martha Whittemore

Born: 2/22/1758, Killingly, CT Born: 6/9/1754, Thompson, CT

Married: 1/1/1778, Thompson, CT

Died: 10/3/1832, Hulett's Landing, NY Died: 2/25/1847, Dresden, NY

Father: Oliver Hulett Father: William Whittemore

Mother: Sarah ? Mother: Mary Elliathorpe

Father's History: He was a soldier of the Revolution and settled at Hulett's Landing, Washington County, NY. His death was due to amputation of a leg following an accident.

Mother's History: She is in the family genealogy in the New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1954.

References: "History of Washington Co. NY", NEHGR 1953, Barbour Vital Records, personal correspondence.

Husband: John Pray Jr Mother: Elizabeth Bellamy

Born: 1770, CT Born: Wells, VT

Married: 1793, Wells, VT

Died: 1844, Harmony, NY Died: 1833, Wells, VT

Father's History: He came to Wells VT with his father in 1778.

Mother's History: She was a descendant of Samuel Bellamy of Saybrook, CT.

References: Book, "History of Wells, VT".

Husband: Rufus Glass Mother: Huldah Fuller

Born: 4/7/1799, Canterbury, CT Born: 1762, CT

Married: 11/16/1779, East Haddam, CT

Died: 3/21/1813 Wells, VT Died: 4/4/1813, Wells, Vt

Father's History: He came from Connecticut in 1786 and died of cholera.

Mother's History: She was a descendant of Edward Fuller of the Mayflower, and came to New York state with her husband and first three children.

References: Book, "History of Wells, VT."

Husband: George Tanner Mother: Mary (Marcy) Wilcox

Born: 11/9/1723, Westerly, RI Born:

Married: 7/23/1754, Westerly, RI

Died: 1791, Richmond, RI Died: 5/3/1761, Westerly, RI

Father: John Tanner Father: George Wilcox

Mother: Susannah West Mother: Margaret ?

Father's History: He was a farmer and militiaman of the Revolution.

References: U.S. census records. Books, "History of Washington County, New York" and "William Tanner, Sr. of South Kingston, RI". RI vital records.

Husband: David Shumway Mother: Esther ?

Born: 12/23/1705, Boxford, MA

Married: 1735

Father: Peter Shumway :

Mother: Maria Smith

Father's History: He moved with his parents to Oxford, MA in 1713 where his father was one of the pioneer settlers. In 1728 he moved to Sturbridge, MA and took up land on what was later known as "Shumway Hill" and was admitted into partnership with the original grantees in 1729. His name appears as Lt. in a roll of Captain Joseph Chaney's Co., Colonel John Chandle's Regiment, showing he entered service August 11, 1757. He marched for relief of Fort William Henry, 180 miles. For fifteen days service he received four pounds. He married (2) Alice Ainsworth and had more children - Cyril, Elijah, Alice, Abagail, Lavinia, Chloe, Jemima, and Danforth.

References: "Genealogy of the Shumway Family in the United States of America", Compiled by Asahel Adams Shumway, Atlantic City, NJ, Tobias Wright, NY 1909. Edition limited to 200 copies.

Husband: Zachariah Eddy Mother: Marcy Burch

Born: 7/23/1720, Swansea, MA Born: 8/18/1717, Stonington, CT

Married: 5/9/1741, Stonington, CT

Died: 8/7/1781, Sturbridge, MA Father: Joshua Eddy Father: Jonothan Burch Mother: Hannah Stevens Mother: Mary Rathbun

References: "The Eddy Family in America", by Ruth Allendorf Breck, Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor, MI 1980.

Husband: Caleb Lyon Mother: Ruth Hodges

Born: 4/15/1709, Reheboth MA Born: 11/19/1708, Woodstock, MA

Married: 2/29/1728, Woodstock, MA

Died: 11/14/1792, Woodstock, MA Died: 11/26/1781, Woodstock, MA

Father's History: When his father died, Daniel Carpenter was appointed his guardian. He was a freeman in Woodstock, MA in 1749. Several of his sons were in the Revolutionary War. Among his descendants were Gen. Nathaniel Lyon and the Hon. Caleb Lyon, first territorial governor of Idaho.

Mother's History: She was a removed cousin to her husband.

References: Books, "Lyon Memorial" and "History of Woodstock, CT"

Husband: Oliver Hulett Mother: Sarah?

Born: 1/15/1718, Killingly, CT Born: c1726

Married: 2/25/1744, Killingly,CT Father: Michael Hulett

Mother: Experience Hulett

Father's History: He married (2) Elizabeth, 11/15/1759 and had five more children.

References: Killingly, CT vital records.

Husband: William Whitmore Mother: Mary Ellithorpe

Born: 1/9/1710, Malden,MA

Married: 12/5/1744, Thompson, CT

Died: 1791

Father: Daniel Whitmore

Father's History: He served as a mate on the "HMS Province Snow" in 1742. His first Wife died about 1740, and he took to sea again. He left MA then, and went to Killingly CT with his brother Richard and he married (2) Mary Tolman and had four more children. He settled in the northern part of that large township in what became the town of Thompson where he was a successful house carpenter and lived the remainder of his life.

References: NEHGR, 1953

Husband: John Pray

Died: af1778

Father's History: His wife died before 1778. He came from CT in 1778 and was buried in the first town cemetery, a little east of "Pond Bridge" in Wells, VT.

References: "History of Wells, VT", Paul and Parks, 1869.

Husband: Anthony Glass Mother: Eunice Bennett

Born: 1719

Married: 6/19/1740, East Haddam, CT

Father: Richard Glass Father: Samuel Bennett

Mother: Sarah Harrington

Father's History: He was admitted to the Canterbury Congegrational Church on May 19, 1753. His four oldest children were baptized there, probably in 1747. He was a charter member of the "Westminster Society" when this westerly portion was divided from Canterbury in October 1769.

References: Books, "Pember Family History", "History of Windham County CT", and "Records of the Congregational Church in Canterbury, CT", 1932.

Husband: William Fuller Mother: Rebecca Spencer

Born: 6/16/1729, E. Haddam, CT Born: c1736, E. Haddam

Married: 3/8/1757, E. Haddam, CT

Died: 12/25/1768, E. Haddam CT Died: c1780, E. Haddam

Father: John Fuller Father: Micajah Spencer

Mother: Mary Cornwall Rowley Mother: Sarah Bogue

References:"Fuller Genealogy", William Hyslop Fuller (1908).

Husband: John Tanner Mother: Susannah West

Born: c1694, Westerly, RI Born: c1700, N. Kingston,

Married: 5/9/1723, N. Kingston, RI

Died: af1777, Usquepaugh, RI

Father: William Tanner Father: Francis Soule

Mother: Mary Babcock Mother: Susannah ?

Father's History: He lived on the Usquepaugh River, opposite the land of his father. He lived at least eighty years.

Mother's History: She was a direct descendant of George Soule, a Mayflower Passenger.

References: Books, "Genealogy of William Tanner of North Kingston, RI" and "Mayflower Families, Vol III.", Revolutionery War Pension Files, 1790 Washington Co., NY US Census, NY State Census 1810, Tanner Family Bible, Personal correspondence.

Husband: George Wilcox Mother: Margaret ?

Born: c1708, N. Kingston, RI Born: c1712

Died: 1/8/1761, Hopkinton, RI Died: af1761

Father: Thomas Wilcox Mother:Martha Hazzard

Father's History: His will was dated 3/10/1760, from which the names of his Wife and children come., and called himself "late of Exeter".

References: RIGHR Vol 4 No2 & Vol 2, pp93-94.

Husband: Peter Shumway Mother: Maria Smith Born: 6/6/1678, Boxford, MA Born: 1677, Boxford

Married: 2/11/1700, Boxford, MA

Died: 1751, Boxford, MA Died: 1/6/1738, Boxford

Father: Peter Shumway Father: Robert Smith

Father's History: He was a pioneer of Boxford, MA. All of the Shumways in the United States descend from him.

References: "Genealogy of the Shumway Family in the United States of America", 1909.

Husband: Joshua Eddy Mother: Hannah Stevens

Born: 2/21/1680, Swansea, MA Married: 5/3/1708, Swansea, MA

Died: 11/13/1768, Colchester, CT Died:10/22/1757, CT

Father: Zachariah Eddy

Mother: Alice : Paddock

Father's History: Left a will naming children, and Nathaniel as deceased.

References: "The Eddy Family in America", 1980.

Husband: John Lyon Wife: Elizaabeth ?

Born: 5/14/1673 Died: 2/1725, Rehoboth, MA

Father: John Lyon

Mother: Abagail Polley

Father's History: He moved about 1678 to Woodstock. In 1705 he went to Mashamoquet, now Pomfret and later was of Rehoboth again. He died intestate in Suffolk Co. Probate records granted his son John of Rehoboth, a boatman of Rehoboth administer of his father's estate, who was called a husbandman. The inventory of property in Reheboth was a house, orchard, and 20 acres of land of value 11350 pounds.

References: "Lyon Memorial".

Husband: Michael Hulett Mother:Experience Newton

Born: c1676, Newton, MA Born:5/1/1683,Newton

Married: Newton, MA Died: Killingly,Ct Died: Killingly, CT

Father: John Hulett Father: John Newton

Mother: Abagail Powell Mother: Elizabeth Larkin

Father's History: He purchased rights to the "Owaneco land" and one hundred acre shares were divided and given to him. A nephew, Michael Hulett went to the Lake George area of NY in the French & Indian War, and others in the family followed later.

References: Barbour's Vital Records, Archival Records, Central New York Genealogy, Vital Records of Newton, MA, "History of Woodstock, CT".

Husband: Daniel Whitemore Mother: Lydia Bassett

Born: 4/27/1663, Malden, MA Born:1671, MA

Father: Daniel Whittemore Father: Joseph Bassett

Mother: Mary Mellins

Father's History: He lived out his long span of 93 years on the original family farm he inherited 75 years before. He was a good citizen and churchman. He is well documented in the MA vital records.

Mother's History: She was a granddaughter of William Bassett who came to Plymouth from England in the "Fortune" in 1621.

References: NEHGR, Vol. 106, April 1952.

Husband: Richard Glass

Born: 3/15/1687

Father: Richard Glass

Children:

References: Personal correspondence.

Husband: Samuel Bennett Mother: Sarah Harrington

Born: 9/7/1694, Stonington, CT Born: Preston, CT

Married: 1714, Preston, CT

Died: 1/4/1766, Coventry, RI Died: 1722, Preston, CT

Father: John Bennett Father: Isaac Harrington

Mother: Elizabeth Parke Mother: Sarah ?

Children:

Father's History: He married (2) Jane Clark and she had Elijah, Elizabeth, Elisha, Bette, Exekial, and Daniel. Thirdly, he married Sarah Payne and she had Abel, Asaph, and John. He is well documented in vital records of Stonington, CT, Preston, CT, Coventry, etc. His descendants went to VT, NY, OH, WI, MN, RI and CA.

Mother's History: First wife died young, about age 28 since she was not mentioned in her father's will of 1744.

References: Rhode Island Genealogic Register, Vol (3) No. (2), p177.

Husband: John Fuller Mother: Mary Cornwall

Born: 11/10/1697, Haddam, CT Born: 1694, Barnstable

Married:: 5/1/1721, E. Haddam, CT

Died: Winter 1757/1758, E. Haddam, CT

Father: John Fuller Father: William Cornwall

Mother: Mehitable Rowley Mother EstherWard

References: "Fuller Genealogy" by William Hyslop Fuller (1908).

Husband: Micajah Spencer Mother: Sarah Bogue

Born:E. Haddam, CT

Married: E. Haddam, CT

References: "American Fuller Genealogy", p199, "Genealogical Notes or Contributions to the Family History of some of the First Settlers of CT and MA", p203, by Nathaniel Goodwin, 1856.

Husband: William Tanner Mother: Mary Babcock

Born: c1660, England Born: N. Kingston, RI

Married: 1690, N. Kingston, RI

Father's and Mother's History: Their lives are detailed in chapter two of the book referenced.

References: Books, "Babcock Genealogy" and "William Tanner Sr. of S. Kingston, RI".

Husband: Francis West Mother: Sarah Meakins

Born, N. Kingston, RI Born: Hatfield, CT

Married: 5/12/1699, E. Greenwich, RI

Died: 9/1724, N. Kingston, RI Died: N. Kingston, RI

Father: Francis West Father: Thomas Meakins

Mother: Susannah Soule Mother: Mary ?

Father's History: His will was proved in 1724. He used surname Weast and Wast Mother's History: She was born in CT and moved to RI with her mother when her father was killed by Indians. She married first a Millard.

References: "Mayflower Families", Vol. III by George Soule.

Husband: Thomas Wilcox Mother: Martha Hazzard

Born: 2/18/1664, Westerly, RI Born: 1668, Portsmouth, RI

Married: Westerly, RI, 1690

Died: 4/9/1728, N. Kingston, RI Died: 1/9/1753, Exeter, RI

Father: Stephen Wilcox Father: Robert Hazzard

Mother: Hannah Hazzard Mother: Mary Brownell

References: RI vital records.

Husband: Peter Shumway Mother: Francis ?

Born: 4/10/1635 Died: 1695

Father's History: The family name is spelled Chomway, Showmway, Chamois, de Chamois, Shamway, Shownwaye, etc. His given name could be Peeter, Pierre,or Pet. They were probably French Huguenots, since the name appears at the period of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

References: "Genealogy of the Shumway family in the United States of America" by Asahel Adams Shumway, 1909; "The Hugenots in the Nipmuck Country", George F. Daniels.

Husband: Robert Smith Mother: Mary French

Born: 1623, England Died: 8/30/1693, Boxford, MA Died: Boxford, MA

Father: Father: Thomas French

Father's History: He came to Boston at age 12 from London and became an inhabitant of Boxford about 1661. He was a tailor and owned 200 acres of land. He was the first American ancestor of the Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith.

Mother's History: She was accounted in the register list of the Topsfield church as a member in "full communion".

References: Personal correspondence, "Joseph Smith, An American Prophet", by John Henry Adams, 1946.

Husband: Zachariah Eddy Mother: Alice Paddock Born: 1639, Plymouth,MA Born:3/7/1640, MA.

Married: 5/7/1663, E. Bridgewater, MA

Died: 9/4/1718, Died:9/24/1692, MA

Father: Samuel Eddy Father: Robert Paddock

Mother: Elizabeth Savery Mother: Mary ?

Father's History: He married (2) Abagail Smith, widow of Dermit (Jeremiah) Smith. She died 9/12/1720.

References: "The Eddy Family in America", by Ruth Allendorf Breck, 1980.

Husband: Jeremiah Birch Mother:

Born: Dorchester, MA

Died: c1713, Stonington, CT

Father: Thomas Birch

References: Personal correspondence.

Husband: Thomas Rathbone Mother: Mary Dickens

Born: 1657, Block Island, RI

Married:4/21/1685

Father: John Rathbone Father: Nathaniel Dickens

Mother: Margaret Dodge Mother: Joan?

Father's History: He was made a freeman in 1696, was a deputy in 1700, 1703, 1704, 1705, 1730, and 1731, was admitted a freeman of New Shoreham in 1711 and was a representative in the General Assembly of Rhode Island in 1709, 1711, and 1731. In 1702 he was appointed to audit the General Treasurer's accounts and other debts.

References: "A Complete History of the Rathbone Family", 1898.

Husband: John Hulett Mother: Abagail Powell

Born 1645 Father: Michael Powell Father: Nathaneil Hulett Mother: Abagail ?

Died: 11/6/1708, Rehoboth, MA

Father's History: A mariner, he bought and sold land in Boston in 1678. He was related to the Long Island Huletts, George, John, Lewis and Nathaniel of of Windsor, CT.

Mother's History: She lived in Boston in 1716 and is in the will of her mother.

References: "Utah Genealogical Magazine, " Vol. 25, 1934.

Husband: Daniel Whittemore Mother: Mary Mellins

Born: 7/31/1633, Hitchin, England

Married: 3/7/1662, Charleston, MA

Died: 5/11/1683, Malden,MA Died: 1693

Father: Thomas Whittemore Father: Richard Mellins

Mother: Hannah Chawlkly

Children:

Father's History: He is in "The Whittemore Family in America."

References: NEHGR Vol.106, Jan 1952.

Husband: Richard Glass

Born: 1662

Married: 1683

References: Personal correspondence.

Husband: John Bennett Mother: Elizabeth Parke

Born: 2/10/1666, Stonington,CT Born:

Died: 12/20/1743, Preston, CT

Father: John Bennett Father: Samuel Parke

Mother: Ursula White Mother: Hannah ?

Father's History: Known only as in Stonington and Preston, CT vital records.

Mother's History: Known from Suffolk, MA and Stonington, CT vital records.

References: Rhode Island Genealogical Register, Vol. 3, No. 2, p177.

Husband: Isaac Herrington Mother: Sarah ?

Born: 1666, Providence, RI

Died: 1727, Norwich, CT Died: 4/30/1744, Preston, CT

Father: Benjamin Herrington

Father's History: His name was spelled Herington, Hearnden, and Harington.

References: Personal correspondence.

Husband: John Fuller Mother:Mehitable Rowley

Born: 1656, Barnstable, MA Born: 1/11/1660, Barnstable, MA

Died: 1725, E. Haddam, CT Died: 1731, E. Haddam, CT

Father: Samuel Fuller

Mother: Jane Lathrop

References: "Fuller Genealogy".

Husband: William Cornwall Mother: Esther Ward

Born: 1665, Middleton, CT Born: 1670

Married: 1691 Died: 7/13/1735

Father: William Cornwall Father: John Ward

Mother: Mary Bull

Father's Histrory: He removed to E. Middleton, CT, back of Wangauk Meadow, about 1703

References: Genealogies of CT Families": Vol. 1, Gen. Pub. Co.

Husband: William Spencer Mother: Sarah Ackley

Born: 1650, MA Born: 1660 E Haddam CT

Father: Jared Spencer Father: Nicholas Ackley

Mother: Hannah ?

References: "Genealogic Notes or Contributions to the Family History of some of the First Settlers of CT and MA", p203, Nathaniel Goodwin.

Husband: Job Babcock Mother: Jane Crandall

Born: 1646, Portsmouth, RI Died: 4/7/1718, Westerly, RI Died: 1715, Westerly, RI

Father: James Badcock Father: Rev John Crandall

Mother: Sarah ?

Father's History: He was a first settler of Westerly, RI and owned a blacksmith shop and gristmill on the Pawtucket River. He was made a freeman and took the oath of allegiance in 1669. He was elected constable in 1680 and was an Indian interpretor. In 1678 he and his Wife were members of the Seventh Day Baptist Church of Westerly and Newport, RI.

References: "Slade-Babcock Genealogy", by Carl Boyer III.; "Stephen Babcock Genealogy" by Rev. Charles Henry Babcock, 1903.

Husband: Francis West Mother: Susannah Soule

Born: Born: 1642, Duxbury, MA

Died: Died: after 1684

Father: Francis West Father: George Soule

Mother: Mother: Mary Bucket

Father's History: Governor Andrus took over King's Province in 1687 and levied taxes on the people of Kingstown, RI, including Francis West. He was possibly related to Sir John West of Virginia and England.

References: "Mayflower Families", Vol III., George Soule.

Husband: Thomas Meakins Mother: Mary Mott

Died 1676, Hatfield, CT

Father's History: He was killed by Indians in 1676 in Connecticut. A John Meakins, Sen'r of Hartford, CT, about 1650 m Mary Bidwell and had children John, Joseph, Samuel, Mary, Sarah and Hannah..

Mother's History: She had three husbands - Thomas Meakins, John Downing (by whom she had two children, John and Jonothan), and lastly Gershom Mott.

References: "William Tanner of South Kingston, RI", 1910, by Rev. George Tanner, Faribault, MN.

Husband: Stephen Wilcox Mother: Hannah Hazzard

Born: 1633, Portsmouth, RI Born: 1637, Portsmouth

Married: 1/30/1658, Portsmouth, RI

Died: 1690, Portsmouth,RI

Children:

References: RIGR Vol.2, No. (2)

Husband: Robert Hazzard Mother: Mary Brownell

Born: 1653, Boston, MA

References: "Slade-Babcock Genealogy", personal correspondence.

Husband: Thomas French

Died: 1680, Essex, MA

Father's History: It is believed that he is the one mentioned by John Winthrop, son of the Massachusetts governor of that name, as a "schollar" of his and that Thomas came to America in the good ship "Lion". The Frenches, originally perhaps from the land of the Parisian, entered this country from Scotland. He was an ensign, and when he died in 1680, left some property in a will - as in the Essex probate records.

References: "Joseph Smith, An American Prophet", John Henry Evans, 1946.

Husband: Samuel Eddy Mother: Elizabeth Savery

Born: 5/15/1608, Cranbrook, England Born: 1607

Died: 11/12/1687, Swansea, MADied: 5/24/1689, Swansea, MA

Father: William Eddye

Mother: Mary Fosten

References: "The Eddy Family in America", Ruth Alendorf Breck, 1980.

Husband: Robert Paddock

Mother: Mary Holmes

Born: 9/16/1584, Dublin, Ireland

Married: 10/12/1630, Ireland

Father: John Paddock Father: Peter Holmes

Mother: Jeanette Jennin Mother: Elizabeth Ireland

Father's History: Only one linneage has been found that traces to a Robert Paddock, blacksmith of Ardee, County Louth, Ireland. Mary Holmes was apparently his second Wife. He was a blacksmith and constable of Plymouth Colony.

Mother's History: She was a sister to Francis Holmes, who settled in Stamford, CT in 1648 and made his will in 1671.

References: "The Paddock Genealogy: Descendants of Robert Paddock of Plymouth Colony, 1646.", Fort Collins Co. 1977.

Born: 1600, England

Died: Dorchester, MA

References: Personal correspondence.

Husband: John Rathbone Wife: Margaret Dodge

Born: 1634

Father: John Rathbone Father: Trusturum Dodge

Father's History: He was one of those, who on the 17th of August, 1660, met at the house of John Alcock, M.D. in Roxbury, MA to confer about the purchase of Block Island.

References: "A Complete Historyof the Rathbone Family, Dating from 1574 to date", by John C. Cooley, Syracuse, NY, 1898.

Husband: Nathaniel Dickens Wife: Joan ?

Born: 1640

Died: 1690, New Shoreham, RI

Father's History: He and his wife "Sarah" sold land in New Shoreham in 1680. She was called a widow 12/26/1693. He was a cooper.

References: Personal correspondence, RIGR, Vol 2 & (3)

Husband: John Lyon Wife: Abagail Polley

Born: 4/1647, Roxbury, MA Born: 6/4/1654, Roxbury

Married: 5/10/1670, Roxbury, MA

Died: 1/15/1670, Roxbury, MA Died:1/15/1703, Roxbury

Father: William Lyon Father: John Polley

Mother: Sarah Ruggles Mother: Susannah ?

Father's History: He inherited the land and property of his father, and lived and died in Roxbury. He and his wife died of smallpox on the same day, and were buried in one grave. He had two sons named Benjamin, who both died in infancy. Son Nehemiah was lost at sea between Jamaica and Virginia at age 20.

Mother's History: She united with John Eliot's church in 1672 and died as above with her husband.

References: "Lyon Memorial".

Husband: John Colburn Wife: Experience Leland

Born 7/29/1648, Dedham, MA

Died:5/16/1656, MA

Father: Nathaniel Coalburne Father:

Mother: Priscilla Clark Mother: Margaret Babock

References: "Lyon Memorial".

Husband: Michael Powell Wife: Abagail ?

Died: 1667 Died: 3/14/1676

References: Will of Abagail Powell, widow of Michael Powell, Boston MA. 1676.

Husband: Thomas Whittemore Wife: Hannah Chawlkley

Born: 1593, Hitchin, England Born: 1612, Hitchin

Married: 10/26/1632, Hitchin, England

Died: 5/26/1661, Malden, MA Died: 5/19/1677, MA..

Father's History: He came with his third wife to America and settled on the Mystic River, between Charleston and Chelsea. He was proprietor of 70 acres called Sagamore Hill. The first mention of him in America is when he was listed as one of the 36 owners of the "Ancient Line Fields" of Charleston about 1639.

Mother's History: She remarried after the death of her husband and moved to Massachusettss.

References: NEHGR Vol 106, Jan 1952.

Husband: John Bennett Wife: Ursula White

Born: 1630, England Born: 1648, Boston, MA

Died: 1691, Stonington, CT

Father: Edward Bennett Father: William White

Mother: Elizabeth Mother: Elizabeth ?

Father's History: He came with his father, mother and three brothers to Weymouth MA in 1636.

References: RIGR, Vol 3, No2, p177, "Pioneers of Massachusetts", by Pope, "Bennett Family History", by Dorothy Inderkum Bennett, 1984.

Husband: Samuel Parke Wife: Hannah ?

Born: 1621, Bildestone. England

Married: 1670

Died: 1684, Stonington, CT

Father: Robert Parke

Mother: Martha Chaplin

References: Personal correspondence.

Husband: Samuel Fuller Wife: Jane Lathrop

Born: 1612, England

Father: Edward Fuller Father: Rev John Lathrop

Father's History: He came as a child on the "Mayflower". His parents died the first winter and he was raised by his uncle, the Rev. Samuel Fuller.

References: "The Fuller Genealogy", by William H. Fuller, 1908. "Mayflower Descendants" 1984.

Husband: William Cornwall Wife: Mary Bull

Married: 11/30/1670

Died: Middleton, Died: 1717 Middleton, CT

Father: William Cornwall Father: William Bull

Mother: Joan ?

Father's History: He died leaving nuncupative will. Estate of #415.

References: "Genealogies of CT Families", Vol (1) Personal correspondence.

Husband: John Ward Wife: ? Nichols

References: "Genealogies of CT Families", Vol 1, Gen Pub Co.

Husband: Jared Spencer Wife: Hannah ?

Born: 1620

Died: 1685

Father's History: He was first of "The New Town", Cambridge, MA. then of Lynn, MA and afterwards one of the first settlers of Haddam, CT. At a meeting of the council at Hartford, CT, September 14, 1675, "the inhabitants of Haddam having presented Jarrad Spencer for an Ensigne of their Trayn Band, affirming him to be legally chosen, the council do accordingly commissionate him to be their Ensigne and to commande them according to lawe."

References: "Genealogical Notes or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of CT and MA", p197, by Nathaniel Goodwin, 1856.

Husband: Nicholas Ackley

Died: 4/29/1695, Haddam, CT

Father's History: He moved from Hartford, CT to Haddam, CT. He lived at 30 Mile Island, owned the little island at the lower end of the cove and a six acre lot towards Saybrook near Middleton. He was a chimney viewer of Hartford in 1662.

References: "Catalogue of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecticut", pps 882, 13, 110. 1846, by R R Hinman.

Husband: James Badcock Wife: Sarah ?

Born: 1612, England

Died: 6/12/1679, Westerly, RI Died: 1665, Westerly, RI

Father: Richard Badcock

Children:

Father's History: He was one of the original inhabitants of Plymouth, RI, property holder and official. He moved to Westerly, RI as an original proprietor in 1661. He was a blacksmith and gunsmith.

References: "Saturday's Children - A History of the Babcock Family in America", 1974, C. Merton Babcock.

Husband: George Soule Wife: Mary Bucket

Born: 1593, England Born: England

Married: 1626, Plymouth,MA

Died: 1/22/1679, Duxbury, MA Died: 1676, Duxbury, MA

Father's History: He was a Pilgrim, and although he came originally as a servant, was a signer of the Mayflower Compact, and well-to-do leader, businessman and office holder of the Plymouth. Colony.

References: "Mayflower Families, George Soule", Vol III.

Husband: Edward Wilcox

Born: 1600, England

Died: 1660, Portsmouth, RI

Father: John Wilcox

Father's History: He was on a list of inhabitants admitted to the island of Aquidneck (Block Island) 1638.

References: RIGR Vol. 2 No. (2)

Husband: Thomas Hazzard Wife: Martha ?

Born: 1610, Nottingham,England

Died: 1680, Kingstowne, RI Died: 1670

Father's History: He sailed from Wales to Boston in 1635. He was a freeman 25 March 1636 and a ship carpenter. He moved to Portsmouth, RI in 1638 and was one of the founders and owners of Newport, RI 28 April 1639 where he was a freeman, member of the General Court of Elections and the Governor's Council. He moved to Middlebury, LI in 1635, but shortly moved to Kingstowne, RI where he left a will. He married twice.

References: "Harper-Hazzard-Hearne Genealolgy", p47.

Husband: William Eddye Wife: Mary Fosten

Born: 1560, Bristol, England

Married: 11/20/1587, Cranbrook, England

Died: 11/23/1616, Cranbrook, England Died:7/1611

Father: John Fosten

Mother: Ellen Munn Cranbrook

Father's History: He married (2) Sarah Taylor and had a child who died young.

References: "The Eddye Family in America", by Ruth Allendorf Breck, Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor, MI, 1980.

Husband: John Paddock Wife: Jane Jennings

Father: Paul Paddoc Father: Francois Jennin

Mother: FrancoisenTraillour Mother: Louise Moron

Father's History: He was called Blacksmith of Stephenstown and later of Tullyt govan nearn Killany, Barony of Ardee, County Louth, Ireland.

References: "The Paddock Genealogy"

Husband: John Rathbone

Born: 1610

Married: 1633

References: "A Complete History of the Rathbone Family, Dating from 1574 to Date", by John C. Cooley, Press of the Courier Job Print, Syracuse, NY, 1898.

Husband: William Lyon Wife: Sarah Ruggles

Born: 12/23/1620, Heston (London) England Born: 4/19/1629,Nazing, England

Married: 6/17/1646, Roxbury, MA

Died: 10/27/1692, Roxbury, MA Died: 9/30/1677, Rowley, MA

Father: William Lyon Father: John Ruggles

Mother: Anne Carter Mother: Mary Curtis

Father's History: He emigrated to America in the "Hopewell" at age (14) He is #1 in the "Lyon Memorial" and extensive information on him and his antecedants is contained therein.

Mother's History: She came to America as an infant with her parents who were members of the "Nazing Colony" in Roxbury

References: "Lyon Memorial".

Husband: John Polley Wife: Susannah Bacon

Born: 1618, England Born: 1623, Suffolkshire, England

Married: 1648

Died: 4/2/1689, Roxbury, MA Died: 1648, Roxbury,MA

Father: George Bacon

Father's History: He received land in Rehoboth North Purchase in 1672. He married three or four times, and had two more daughters. He was called a "proprietor" in his will. He served in King Phillips War. His estate held property at Roxbury in 1689.

Mother's History: Information on her is all from secondary sources.

References: "List of Emigrants to America", Hotten, p512; "Ship Increase of London Passenger Lists", p55, 973; "Genealogies of Woodstock, CT Families", p280-281; "Deeds of Suffolk Co. MA," Vol. 12, p357, Rehoboth Vital Records.

Husband: William Lyon Wife: Deborah Colburn

Born: 9/15/1675, Roxbury, MA Born 1680, Dedham, MA

Married: 11/8/1699, Dedham, MA

Died: 9/17/1741, Woodstock, MA Died:4/18/1714,Dedham MA

Father: John Lyon Father: John Colburn

Mother: Abagail Polley Mother:Experience Leland

Father's History: He was one of the pioneer settlers (1686) of Woodstock, CT. He served many years as a deacon in the Congregational Church and moderator of the town meeting. He married (2) Martha Morris and had son Nehemiah on 10/16/1719.

Mother's History: Her father Hopestill Leland was an early settler of New England..

References: "Lyon Memorial".

Husband: Nathaniel Coalburne

References: Personal correspondence.

Husband: Edward Bennett Wife: Elizabeth ?

Born: 1600, England Born: 1605, England

Married: England

Died: 1660, Providence, RI

Father's History: He came to Weymouth, MA with his wife Elizabeth and four children in 1636. He joined Rev. Samuel Newman's company and became one of the original proprietors of that part of Rehoboth known as Seekonk.

References: "Bennett Family History", by Dorothy Bennett Inderkum, 1984.

Husband: William WhiteWife: Elizabeth ?

Born: 1621, England

Married: 16456, Boston, MA

Died: 10/13/1673, Boston, MA

Father's History: He came in the ship "Increase" on April 15, 1635 at age (14) He was a bricklayer in Boston in 1646. His will dated 10/13/1673 in Boston bequeaths salt-works, soap works, mills, stone cutter's tool, soddering tools, etc. He married twice.

References: "Pioneers of MA", by Pope.

Husband: Robert Parke Wife: Martha Chaplin

Born 1580, Gesting Thorpe,England Born: Semer, Suffolk,

Married: 1602, Semer England

Died: 3/14/1664, New London, CT

Father: Robert Parke

Mother: Alice Chaplin

Father's History: He was of Acton, Suffolk and Gestingthorpe Essex. He sold 2 messauges in Acton by fine in 1606 and sold land in Gestingthorpe in 1603. He went to Salem MA on the "Arabella" in 1630. His will was recorded 3/14/1664 at New London, CT. He married (2) Alice Freeman Thompson.

References: "Newsletter Parke Society", 1983, Vol XX, No.2

Husband: Edward Fuller

Born: 9/4/1575, Redenhall, England

Died: 1620, Plymouth, MA

Father: Robert Fuller

Father's History: He came to America with his brother Samuel on the "Mayflower" from Leyden, Holland and London England. He died the first winter.

References: "Fuller Genealogy", Vol I, by William Hyslop Fuller, 1908, "Mayflower Families", Vol (1)

Husband: John Lathrop Wife: Hannah House

Born: 12/24/1584, Etton, Yorkshire, England

Married: 10/10/1610, England

Died: 11/3/1653, Barnstable, MA Died: 1633, England

Father: John Lathrop Father: Rev John House

Father's History: He was of Egelteton, Kent and later pastor in Southwork. He came to New England in the "Griffin" in 1634 with thirty members of his children and flock, his wife having died. With him came his brother-in-law Samuel Hose. He was pastor at Scituate, MA and later at Barnstable, MA. He married in MA (2) Elizabeth Hammond and had seven more children, five surviving to adulthood.

Mother's History: She died at age 33 in England.

References: "Lo-Lathrop Family Memoirs", Huntington 1884, NEGR Vol. 66.

Husband: William Cornwall

Born: 1610, England

Married: 1639

Died: Middleton, CT

Father's History: He was called a "sergeant" in history. He lived in Roxbury, Hartford and Middleton. He married twice, to (1) Joanna ? and (2) Mary. It is not known which was the mother of Mary Bull, although the latter is most likely.

References: "Genealogies of CT Families", Vol 1, Genealogical Publishing Company.

Husband: William Bull

Born: 1625

Father: Thomas Bull

Mother: Susannah ?

References: Personal correspondence.

Husband: Andrew Ward Wife: Hester ?

Died: 1659, Fairfield, CT

References: "Genealogies of CT Families", Vol I, Genealogical Publishing Company. "Genealogical Notes - Contributions to the Family History, etc.", p287, Nathaniel Goodwin.", 1856.

Husband: Paul Paddoc Wife: Francoise Traillour

Born: 6/14/1507, France

Died: Ireland

Father: Henri Padoc

Mother: Marie Broquin

References: "The Paddock Genealogy: Descendants of Roberrt Paddock of Plymouth Colony, Blacksmith and Constable, 1646.", Fort Collins Publishing Company, 1977.

Husband: Francois Jennin Wife: Louis Moron

Born: France Born: France

References: "The Paddock Genealogy", Fort Collins Publishing Co., 1977.

Husband: Richard Rathbone Wife: Marion Whipple

Born: 1574

Died: 1616

Father's History: He was the first Rathbone America of whom there is any record. Apparently none of the children left issue except John. The eldest, Rev. William, resided and preached in Vermont in 1630.

Mother's History: She was a sister to Captain John Whipple who mentions her in his will, made at Ipswich, Essex County, MA, December 19, 1616 and probated 1/28/1618.

References: "A Complete History of the Rathbone Family, Dating from 1574 to Date", by John C. Cooley. Press of the Courier Job Print, Syracuse, NY, 1898.

Husband: William Lyon Wife: Isabel Wightman

Born: 1540, Little Stemmer Co, Middlesex, England Born: Harrow, England

Died: 9/16/1624, Little Stemmer, England

Father: John Lyon Father: Wlliam Wightman

Mother: Joan ? Mother: Audry Deering

Father's History: His son Thomas had a son William, who was called the Marquis de Southwold and was owner of the ship "Lyon" which brought many emigrants to America.

Mother's History: She was called "Heiress of Harrow on the Hill" in English Court Records.

References: "Lyon Memorial".

Husband: George Bacon

Born: 1600, Suffolkshire, England

Died: 1642, Hingham, Suffolk County, MA

Father's History: He emigrated to Hingham, Suffolk County MA, New England about 1630 andmarried a second wife by whom he had James, Thomas and Peter.

References: "List of Emigrants to America", Hotten, p512. "Ship Increase of London Passenger Lists", p973; "Genealogies of Woodstock, Ct Families", pp280-281; "Deeds of Suffolk Co. MA", Vol.2, pp 357, 493, 935.

Husband: Robert Fuller

Born: 1550, England

Died: 5/31/1614, Norfolk, Norwich, England

Children

Father's History: He was a butcher. His will was proved 5/31/1614 and is recorded in the Norfolk Archdeaconry Court, Norwich Register, 1614 folio 259.

References: "Mayflower Families", Vol (1)

Husband: Thomas Lathrop

References: "Lo-Lathrop Family Memoirs", Huntington, 1884, NEHGR Vol. 66.

Husband: Thomas Bull Wife: Susannah /

Born: 1606, England Born: 1610

Married: 1643

Father's History: He came to America in 1635 on the "Hopewell" (Captain Babb) and went to Hartford, CT the following year. He and his wife's stones are the oldest standing in the Old Central Burying Ground of Hartford. He was a Lt. in the Pequot Battle of 1637 and received 500 acres of land for his valor. He was a juror, townsman and held other offices of trust.

References: Personal correspondence. "Catalog of the Names of the First Puritan Settlers of the Colony of CT., etc", p16. Hinman, 1846.

Husband: Henri Padoc Wife: Marie Broquin

Born: 1462, France

Father: Jacques Padoch

Mother: Adelaide Blabon

Father's History: He was of Le Cateau, Cambrai, Nord, France, Esquire, Sieur de Le Cateau et d'Orchies (Lord of the Manors of Le Cateau and Orchies).

References: "The Paddock Genealogy: Descendants of Robert Paddock of Plymouth Colony, Blacksmith and Constable, 1646.", Fort Collins Co. 1977.

Husband: John Lyon Wife: Joan ?

Born: 1500, Little Stanmer, England

Father: John Lyon

Mother: Emma Hedde

Father's History: Three brothers of the same family name - Thomas, Richard and John came to Fairfield Co. CT in the 17th cerntury.

References: "Lyon Memorial".

Husband: Robert Lathrop

Born: England

Died: 1558, England

Father: John Lathrop

References: "Lo-Lathrop Family Memoirs", 1884, by Huntington. NEHGR Vol. 66.

Husband: Jacques Padoch Wife: Adelaide Blabon

Born: 1429, France

Married: 6/7/1429, Nord, France

Father: Jean Padoc Father: Pierre Blabon

Mother: Mother: Marguerite la Gross

Father's History: He married "by contract" and was of Le Cateau Cambrai, Nord, France.

Mother's History: She was of Douai, Nord, France.

References: "The Paddock Genealogy: Descendants of Robert Paddock aof Plymouth Colony, Blacksmith and Constable, 1646". Fort Collins, CO., 1977.

Husband: John Lyon Wife: Emma Hedde

Born 1470, Ryslippe, England Born: Ryslippe, England

Father's History: His antecendants, including Henry Lyon, fourth in descent from Baron John de Lyon. Their ancestral home for more than two hundred years had been Norfolk, England.

References: "Lyon Memorial".

Husband: John Lathrop

Born: Lowthorpe, Yorkshire, England

References: "Lo-Lathrop Family Memoirs", by Huntington, 1884, NEHGR Vol. 66.

Husband: Jean Padoc

Children:

Father's History: He was of Bavay, Nord, France and appeared in Latin records as Padochius.

References: "The Paddock Genealogy, 1646", Fort Collins, CO 1977

Husband: Guillaume Padoc

Born: 1375, Nord, France

Died: 9/9/1459

Father: Guillame Padoc

Mother: Adelaide Charpentier

Father's History: He was lord of the Manoaar of Bavay, Nord, France and is well identified as son of Guillame, father of Jean and grandfather of Jacques.

References: "Paddock Genealogy, Descendants od Robert Paddock of Plymouth Colony.", Fort Collins, CO. 1977.

Husband: Guillaume Padoc Wife: Adelailide Charpentier

Born: 1350, Nord, France

Died: 8/14/1427

Father: Henri Padoc

Mother: Marie Dudevant

Father's History: He was of Cambrai, Nord, France and leased fief rents from Robert and Jeanne Dudevant.

References: "The Paddock Genealogy", Fort Collins, CO. 1977.

Husband: Henri Padoc Wife: Marie Dudevant

Father: Robert Dudevant

Mother: Jeanne ?

Married: Adelailide Charpentier

References: "The Paddock Genealogy", Fort Collins CO. 1977.

Husband: Robert Dudevant Wife: Jeanne

References: "The Paddock Genealogy", Fort Collins, CO.

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