Jefferson County Bulletin
 

 July 2005  

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This month’s specials are found at the end of this Bulletin.  ~ Now to our regular features ~
 
1.  Lost & Found – Excerpts of Jefferson County natives found in:
                     ”Death Notices from the Christian Guardian” 1836 – 1850
                                   by Donald A. McKenzie, 1982 (self-published)
IRVINE,  Rev. James, b. Ireland; immigrated to Quebec, 1829; moved to Cape Vincent, 1830.  Entered ministry, 1832; served 7 years in the Cape Vincent circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church’s Black River Conference.  Left for health reasons; moved to Kingston.  Died 3 Sep 1848.  Survived by wife and family.  (More to obit, p. 164.  Newspaper date: 1 Nov. 1848.)

HINMAN, Helim: b. 21 Sep 1805 Ellisburgh; d. 1849. 
(More to obit, p. 152.  More to obit.  10 Jul 1850)

          ”Obituaries from the Canada Christian Advocate,” 1873 – 1884
                        by Donald A. McKenzie, 1998 (self-published)

MERRILL, Rachel: b. 6 Feb 1795 Watertown; immigrated to Haldimand twp, Canada, 1800; married ___ MASSEY; mother of Solon Massey.  Died at son Samuel’s home in Haldimand, 1 Jan 1878.  Had 9 children.  Husband died about 40 years ago.
(More to obit, p. 145.)

TOURJE, Philip: b. 1790 in Rhode Island; spent most of his life in Adams, NY.  Immigrated to Canada in 1852; settled in Coburg.  Died in Coburg, 12 Mar 1875. 
(More to obit, p. 233.  Newspaper date: 2 Jun 1875.)

KEACH, Mrs. Cynthia L: b. Jefferson County.  On her 8^th birthday, her father, _______ TANNER, was drowned.  Married Harvey Keach of Fredericksburg, 10 Mar 1854.  Died Bay of Quinte, 13 Dec 1880.  Survived by husband.  (No age at death given.)
(More to obit, p. 124.  Newspaper date: 16 Feb 1881.)

MORGAN, Daniel: b. 1802 Jefferson County; immigrated while young to Canada.  Married Mahala NOBES (?); settled on Big Island, Prince Edward County.  Died 8 Aug 1881.  His wife died 20 years ago.  Two children deceased; ten children survive.
(More to obit, p. 154.  Newspaper date: 23 Nov 1881.)

WOOD, Mrs. Mary Ann: b.1833 Jefferson County; immigrated to Canada at age 7.  Married Peter Wood. (Her maiden name not given.)  Died 8 Nov 1873 in Sophiasburg. Survived by husband and eight children.
(More to obit, p. 253.  Newspaper date: 8 Apr 1874.)

                                        ”More Obituaries from Ontario’s Methodist Papers,” 1873 – 1884
                                                        by Donald A. McKenzie, 2001 (self-published)
MC CULLOUGH, Rev. James B:  Born 9 Dec. 1838, Gloucester.  Served in the Cape Vincent circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church’s Black River Conference in 1866.  Died 11 Sep 1882.
(More to obit, p. 257.  Newspaper date: 20 Sep 1882.)

VALLEAU, Mrs. Mary Jane (nee BOYCE): b. 16 Sep 1841 Henderson Harbor, NY; emigrated to Canada at age 13 and lived with her uncle, Henry SWEET, in Richmond twp, Ontario until her marriage to W. Valleau in Feb. 1859.  Died 23 Feb 1881 Selby.  Survived by husband and 3 children. 
(More to obit, p. 375.  Newspaper date: 11 May 1881.)
 
2.  Website WeView – The monumentous work of Coralynn Brown    http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hubbard/NNY_index/surnames.html

If you’ve spent any time in researching northern New York resources in genealogical and historical libraries, etc., you’ve probably come across a series of works done in 1910 by William Richard Cutter.  He authored massive works entitled “Genealogical and Family History” for northern New York, central New York and western New York each.   The No. NY set  is 1225 pages by itself!  (Reprints available for $135.00 through the Genealogical Publishing Company.  This 3 volume set is also available on microfiche at or through LDS’ Family History Libraries.)


Separated by family surname and further divided via one particular descendant lineage is chosen, name after name after name (with date and sometimes place) can be found in Cutter’s works.  Each set of volumes had its own index – of sorts: the names that found their way into the original indexes were the names of the chosen lineages only.  For instance, Nathaniel BALL (p. 203 in Vol. 1), of Newark, NJ (fourth generation from William Ball of New Haven, CT who immigrated from England ca. 1643), had children Phoebe, Rhoda, Rebecca, James, Salome, Esther, Aaron (who married Petty WADE first and Hannah WELLS second), Nehemiah, Paul, Davis, and Eunice (who married Dr. Wats BONNEL).  Of Nathaniel’s 11 children, only one’s name appears in the original index: that of his son, Nehemiah, who is featured as the 5^th generation of this particular BALL lineage. 

As a researcher, you might have been willing to slog through all the BALL names in the original index in the hopes that you might eventually find out that your ancestor, Davis BALL, was Nathaniel’s son.  However, if you were researching the WADE lineage, you would never have found Petty (WADE), wife of Aaron BALL, without a lot of hard, time consuming research. 

That is, until now!!!  Coralynn Brown has transcribed the 3 volume set  for northern NY– all 1225 pages. There are probably some surprises awaiting you!  So, good luck and happy hunting!  If you want to drop a personal ‘thank you’ to Coralynn for her untold, unsung hours of work, you may email her at: CL39811@cox.net.  She told me she spent 8+ months completing this project.

3.  Eye Spy – Books, etc. found at www.ABE.com featuring rare (out-or-print or otherwise valuable) works that have a genealogical or historical slant re: Jefferson County.  More details can be found at the end of this Bulletin. 

4.  Check it out – a brief summary of our most recent addition at NewYorkAncestry.com.  
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The Genealogical Journal of Jefferson County, New York for August 2005
            1) Famous Jeffersonians: Clark BELL, creator & publisher of the Medico-Legal Journal
                      (This is the lawyer who defined what essentially became the insanity defense.)
            2) Vitals Statistics of Jeffersonians: Marriages found in Early Onondaga County records
            3) Cornell University sources: New York statesmen from Jefferson County, 1858 - 1898
            4) Marriages in Universalist Newspapers, 1842 – 1865, part 2, C – F
                             See list of surnames at the bottom of this page. 
                                                                   
5.  FYI – The Gravestone Scribes (John and Ellen Bartlett with Gus Rogers) have some years hence published a series of books detailing cemetery transcriptions of many Jefferson County Towns.  (Folks, they did ALL the work themselves by going to the cemeteries and rubbing the stones, etc. and more where necessary.)  This is their email address: dudlle@aol.com.  (That’s 2 L’s as in ‘lady’ in the middle of that address – not number 1’s!) When ordering a specific work by email, please put the book title in the subject area. 
Otherwise, your email may wind up in the spam folder and summarily deleted. 
You can find a list and description of their titles at Rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer.

Sincerely,
     Pat and Rex James of  www.NewYorkAncestry.com

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