Rev. Thomas Hansford had many brothers and sisters, and I'm not sure how accurate some of the information on Ancestry is. Rev. Hansford was my 4 times great grandfather. Let's explore some more of my great times 5 aunts and uncles. Yes, they become 5 times greats, because a grandfather's brother is already a great uncle. Thus a great grandfather's brother is a great great uncle.
Richard Hansford, (1763-1813) has 2 birthplaces listed on Ancestry, but no original documentation. I'll just accept it was somewhere in VA at this point. He married in 1791 to Catherine Acree, and they have 3 sons recorded. The oldest was named after his brother (or maybe Richard's father) William Sallis Hansford. The second son carries his mother's surname as his middle name, which often happened, John Acree Hansford. And the third was David William.
The Virginia Military Records Appendix of State-wide and Miscellaneous Records, pg 542 lists Richard Hansford as receiving payment for "provisions furnished Capt Lynn's company. These payments were from the Revolutionary War. There are 1032 pages of microfilms of these payments, and this section just says to Virginia Militia in the Revolution. Apparently many of theses pages were loose and have dates anywhere from 1775 to 1781. As Richard may have been only 12 in 1775, it's more likely he did provisions toward the later date. But since he didn't even marry until he was 28, it's hard to see that he had his own farm at the age of 18 (in 1781).
A lot of conjecture on my part. Who knows the truth.
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Sarah (Sallie) Hansford White (June 17, 1767 - ?) has little information about her on Ancestry...like many women who weren't part of the written records of early America. She married Samuel White in 1787 in Botetourt County VA. I've never heard of that county, so did a bit of a search. It's in the Appalachian Mountains area near Roanoke.
Great Aunt Sallie had at least 4 children, Susannah, Nathaniel, Samuel Morris White, and William Henry White, the last of whom was born in 1795. So though we don't know when Sallie died, it must have been after 1795. The records on Ancestry have her 4 children born in 4 different counties of VA, and though she had been born in Orange County VA, her death (of unknown date) is listed as being in Pratt, Kanawha County WestVirginia.
But of course we know it wasn't West Virginia at that time since the state didn't come into being until 1861. And I just found that Charleston, WV (the state capital) is in Kanawha County. Having driven through that area last year, I am in awe that anyone grew any food in those mountains, which are such a great source of coal but give very few flat areas for fields. But that's just my perspective. The town of Pratt used to be Clinton (until 1905) so again the records would have changed names...but how did anyone decide that was where she died, I wonder. So this is conjecture on top of geography which got names changed through history. Phaw!
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Elizabeth Hansford
may have been born 17 May 1768, in Orange County VA. The Ancestry records seem to depend upon some from England, Dorset County. But I think there was another couple named William and Mary Hansford having their children in England, and there's no way this family went over there and had any of their children. The Elizabeth that I have listed doesn't necessarily have a husband on 33 out of 35 Ancestry trees, but on one of them she married a William Boone, but there's nothing to substantiate it. Again she died on an unknown date in Pratt, Kanawha, West Virginia.
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Great times 5 Aunt Frances Hansford Whitmore was born 17 July 1773 in Russell County VA. She died in in 1813 in Rockingham County VA. She married in 1805 to John Whitmore, and they had daughters, Catherine and Mary. She died at age 40, leaving very young daughters. So of course I want to check and see if Uncle John remarried. I know he lived until 1850, and died in Ohio. It looks like he'd been married before marrying Frances, and possibly he married again after her death. He also spelled his name either Whitmer or Whitmere.
Research for 3 branches of my family: Rogers, Booth and Swasey
Saturday, July 6, 2019
Friday, July 5, 2019
Early St. Louis summertime
Of course little girls don't pay much attention to how much work it took my dad to keep his cars running, as well as a daily grind of 8 hours behind some desk or another. And then to have time to enjoy life on a picnic. I do know that he was very good to all us girls, and we held him in our hearts all his life.
I am sharing the blanket (wearing polka-dots on the left) with cousin Claudette behind me, then sis Mary Beth beside me, cousin Sandra next and then my father. I'm thinking that we're someplace in Forest Park, St. Louis to have a lake next to us. The food stuffs in the foreground include one of my favorites still, Cheeze-Its! This was the days before plastic grocery bags, so there are several paper bags with some yummys in them, probably chips and sandwiches. They would have been wrapped in wax paper, as plastic sandwich bags were still to be invented.
Claudette and Sandra were 11 months apart in age, and had come to St. Louis on the train probably from their home in Houston. Sandra was just 2 years older than myself with a December birthday. Now that I think about it, I wonder if they traveled alone all that way. I kind of doubt it. When my mom and myself and sis went to San Antonio by train several years later, it was a 16 hour trip.
Claudette will turn 80 this Sept. 28, 2019. I've been out of touch, so I hope she's well.
Sharing with Sepia Saturday, which has a photo of a lot of cars...thus my link to it this week.
Thursday, July 4, 2019
Another sibling of Rev. Thomas Hansford
To continue...
Let's look at other children born in the family of William and Sarah Mary Polly Hyde Hansford siblings of Rev. Thomas Hansford, my 4 greats-grandfather.
An interesting brother was Major John Hansford 1765-1850.
I didn't find who Martha Jane Hansford Smith might have been, who had seen him when this description was written. It does say he was a Capt. of the militia of Virginia as of 1809.
As mentioned above, he received some of his property from his father-in-law. He (John Hansford) wrote his own will, where he named his 10 sons and 1 daughter (but left off her last name) and 3 grandsons (just by their first names.) Actually with a bit of search on Ancestry records I found his daughter Sary's husband's name as Morris (like her mother's family) but there are 2 possible men, and many children but only 2 of whom are among those grandchildren mentioned by John Hansford in his will. I'm not going to spend any time trying to figure out who Sarah (Sary) married, and she had died before her father, John actually.
John Hansford's wife, Jane Morris Hansford was mentioned in her mother's will, Catharine Morris.
I also can't find any records of his being a Major, or having served in the Revolutionary War. But in his will he gives each of his 10 sons (or had already given them) one thousand dollars. That's pretty well off, I'd say. There is an inventory of his estate, as well as a list of the enslaved people he owned, those on whose backs he made his fortune, you might say. Most of the plantation owners in Virginia did the same, unfortunately. But I'll give them credit whenever I see their names listed in a census or a will.
And another interesting note is that his home was in what became West Virginia...Kanawha...though it had been part of Virginia at the time.
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So to continue to see if there's anything interesting to learn about other siblings of Rev. Thomas Hansford...next time, folks!
Let's look at other children born in the family of William and Sarah Mary Polly Hyde Hansford siblings of Rev. Thomas Hansford, my 4 greats-grandfather.
An interesting brother was Major John Hansford 1765-1850.
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| Major John Hansford House |
(Copied from Early West Virginia settlers 1600-1900's, page 41-45)
Major John Hansford
Genealogy.com Family Archive Image
Genealogy.com Family Archive Image
John and Jane lived near the home of William Morris until they built in 1798 on the opposite side of the river.His house that he first lived in was near where J.G.W. Thompkins built his brick house, which is not far from the mouth of Kelly's Creek.
John Hansford built his house in 1798, below Paint Creek on land given
to him by his father-in-law William Morris. John had patent for 530 acres on
Kanawha River which he obtained in 1793, also for 400 acres on Paint Creek
in 1800, and for 410 acres on Kanawha River in 1818, and for 197 acres on
Paint Creek in 1822. His house was the best when built that was in the valley.
It was a frame two story, the lumber was made by hand and the nails were hand
made. The bricks were brought from England. The inside finish was of cherry and
walnut.
to him by his father-in-law William Morris. John had patent for 530 acres on
Kanawha River which he obtained in 1793, also for 400 acres on Paint Creek
in 1800, and for 410 acres on Kanawha River in 1818, and for 197 acres on
Paint Creek in 1822. His house was the best when built that was in the valley.
It was a frame two story, the lumber was made by hand and the nails were hand
made. The bricks were brought from England. The inside finish was of cherry and
walnut.
Mrs Martha Jane Hansford Smith says that he was a handsome clean shaven
man, and dressed in blue broadcloth and silk hat and entertained most hospitably.
That at the age of eighty years he could mount and dismount from his pony and
would come into the house as gay as a boy.
man, and dressed in blue broadcloth and silk hat and entertained most hospitably.
That at the age of eighty years he could mount and dismount from his pony and
would come into the house as gay as a boy.
He represented Kanawha County in the House of Delegates of Virginia at Richmond
in 1811 thru 1818. He was a Magistrate of his county, and was a Capt. in the Militia
of his state. The original commission was signed by George W. Smith, Lt. Gov.
of Virginia, dated July 3,1809. It appointed him Capt. of the 80th. reg. in the 13th.
brigade in the 3rd. division of the Virginia militia. He was a Whig and a baptist, a
farmer and a salt maker and a man of affairs. He owned two salt furnaces,one of
which he ran himself and the other he rented out.
in 1811 thru 1818. He was a Magistrate of his county, and was a Capt. in the Militia
of his state. The original commission was signed by George W. Smith, Lt. Gov.
of Virginia, dated July 3,1809. It appointed him Capt. of the 80th. reg. in the 13th.
brigade in the 3rd. division of the Virginia militia. He was a Whig and a baptist, a
farmer and a salt maker and a man of affairs. He owned two salt furnaces,one of
which he ran himself and the other he rented out.
He died Oct.6,1850 and is buried on his property on a hill where other members of
his family are buried.
his family are buried.
1850 census Kanawha Co.Virginia family #1040
Hansford,John age 83 born VA.
Jane age 79 born VA.
Alva age 47 born VA.
Marshall age 43 born VA.
Milton age 39 born VA.
-----------------------Jane age 79 born VA.
Alva age 47 born VA.
Marshall age 43 born VA.
Milton age 39 born VA.
I didn't find who Martha Jane Hansford Smith might have been, who had seen him when this description was written. It does say he was a Capt. of the militia of Virginia as of 1809.
As mentioned above, he received some of his property from his father-in-law. He (John Hansford) wrote his own will, where he named his 10 sons and 1 daughter (but left off her last name) and 3 grandsons (just by their first names.) Actually with a bit of search on Ancestry records I found his daughter Sary's husband's name as Morris (like her mother's family) but there are 2 possible men, and many children but only 2 of whom are among those grandchildren mentioned by John Hansford in his will. I'm not going to spend any time trying to figure out who Sarah (Sary) married, and she had died before her father, John actually.
John Hansford's wife, Jane Morris Hansford was mentioned in her mother's will, Catharine Morris.
I also can't find any records of his being a Major, or having served in the Revolutionary War. But in his will he gives each of his 10 sons (or had already given them) one thousand dollars. That's pretty well off, I'd say. There is an inventory of his estate, as well as a list of the enslaved people he owned, those on whose backs he made his fortune, you might say. Most of the plantation owners in Virginia did the same, unfortunately. But I'll give them credit whenever I see their names listed in a census or a will.
And another interesting note is that his home was in what became West Virginia...Kanawha...though it had been part of Virginia at the time.
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So to continue to see if there's anything interesting to learn about other siblings of Rev. Thomas Hansford...next time, folks!
Monday, July 1, 2019
Douglas Martin Heym
Born July 1, 1939, Owasso, Michigan.
Happy eightieth birth anniversary to Doug, my ex-husband, father of my two oldest sons!
So glad to have shared part of our lives together. And I am thrilled that he's made it to the big eight oh. He is happily married to Millie now. They have a houseful of cats (I'm told.)
I will try to pull up some photos of him. I've sure posted a lot over the years, but somehow no one blog post is focused oh him!
Birth of Russell Heym, August, 1967...Doug then Barbara then Marty holding Russ.
Doug and Millie facing the camera, with granddaughter Caroline to their right. Millie is lit by her phone. The dinner before Barbara Baker and Marty Heym's wedding April 22, 2019..
The Heym family reunion...Doug on left, then Marty then Russ
Doug flew in a bi-plane, perhaps his 70th birthday?
We have actually something in common these days, besides our grown sons and grandchildren!
Doug was glad to take over as editor of my Heym Family Ancestry tree which was for our sons, if they ever wanted to know that side of their family. And I was glad to give Doug the connection to the Mayflower, which he'd just heard of, but didn't have data for.
Russ, Doug and Marty, Thanksgiving 2017.
Marty and Doug...pretty recently.
A bunch of soccer lovers who met at my apartment in St. Augustine to go to Jacksonville for a soccer match... Left to right, Tai Rogers, Barb Rogers, standing behind her a friend of Tai's from Eckerd College, Marty Heym, Millie Heym, Doug Heym, Michelle Naglieri, Russ Heym. Probably 1997-99. It was after the World Cup was held in Orlando (1994), thus the US shirts on my 3 sons, but after Tai started college thus his friend coming for the game (in 1997) And it was before Russ and Michelle married in 2001!
And just added, photos that were posted on Facebook, of his party in 2019...just have to include them for this photo journal to be complete!
Marty & Doug Heym
Marty's kids, Michael Thurston, Cayenne Heym, Will Heym
He's finally an old man!
Doug and Millie Heym
Marty, Doug, unknown, Michael Cayenne, Will, Millie and Bev Baker
Better photo with everyone looking at camera! Marty, Doug, unknown, Michael, Cayenne, Will, Millie, Barbara Baker, Bev Baker.
Happy eightieth birth anniversary to Doug, my ex-husband, father of my two oldest sons!
So glad to have shared part of our lives together. And I am thrilled that he's made it to the big eight oh. He is happily married to Millie now. They have a houseful of cats (I'm told.)
I will try to pull up some photos of him. I've sure posted a lot over the years, but somehow no one blog post is focused oh him!
We have actually something in common these days, besides our grown sons and grandchildren!
Doug was glad to take over as editor of my Heym Family Ancestry tree which was for our sons, if they ever wanted to know that side of their family. And I was glad to give Doug the connection to the Mayflower, which he'd just heard of, but didn't have data for.
Marty and Doug...pretty recently.
And just added, photos that were posted on Facebook, of his party in 2019...just have to include them for this photo journal to be complete!
Saturday, June 29, 2019
Gone Fishing
Annie Lou Rogers Wilson's skiff...
a repost from When I Was 69...
a repost from When I Was 69...
Gone Fishing
I've shared these 2 photos before, among the few that were rescued from a fire my Rogers family (grandparents) had in Fort Worth, TX in the 1920s.
Annie Lou Rogers Wilson was my grandfather's little sister, both of them raised by an aunt and uncle most of their childhoods. But their mother moved from Walker County TX where they had been born, and lived the rest of her life in Galveston TX. And at times the children are listed on census records living with her, like the 1900 Galveston Census. Annie Lou would have been 25 in 1904. She didn't marry until 1906.
10-30-1904 Annie Lou's Skiff - I'm pretty sure there was also a sailboat attached to this dingy.
10-30-1904 on Hannah's Reef Galveston Bay.
These gentlemen seem to have a fair catch of fish on display themselves, don't they? I don't see anyone resembling a woman who could have been Annie Lou.
For Sepia Saturday this week, we've got a nudge to go out on a boat, or sit by the water, and perhaps catch some dinner as lovely looking as their gentleman has.
I shall be purchasing some salmon at the Tailgate Market this morning, shipped in from Canada.
Annie Lou Rogers Wilson was my grandfather's little sister, both of them raised by an aunt and uncle most of their childhoods. But their mother moved from Walker County TX where they had been born, and lived the rest of her life in Galveston TX. And at times the children are listed on census records living with her, like the 1900 Galveston Census. Annie Lou would have been 25 in 1904. She didn't marry until 1906.
These gentlemen seem to have a fair catch of fish on display themselves, don't they? I don't see anyone resembling a woman who could have been Annie Lou.
For Sepia Saturday this week, we've got a nudge to go out on a boat, or sit by the water, and perhaps catch some dinner as lovely looking as their gentleman has.
Friday, June 28, 2019
Life interrupted
I'm blissfully going along looking at the information available on Ancestry about my ancestors, and their siblings. Then wham, a deadline approaches on a newsletter I've volunteered to edit.
So no more ancestor stuff for a while. Drat. But oh the joy of taking what others have written and making that be a creation to share!
I'll be back next week, dear departed ancestors, many of whom don't have graves or markers. But they did lead their lives, and most of them had children, who became my cousins. I just was contacted by one yesterday...so that will be fun, getting to know his story!
I'll be back.
So no more ancestor stuff for a while. Drat. But oh the joy of taking what others have written and making that be a creation to share!
I'll be back next week, dear departed ancestors, many of whom don't have graves or markers. But they did lead their lives, and most of them had children, who became my cousins. I just was contacted by one yesterday...so that will be fun, getting to know his story!
I'll be back.
Thursday, June 27, 2019
Rev Thomas Hansford's siblings Part 1
Before we go back another generation I need to pursue the siblings of Rev. Thomas Hansford. There were a lot of them too! But it isn't easy getting information that I can count on. So I'm presenting some information which may need to change later, as I may find different information.
Rev. Thomas Hansford (my four times great grandfather) was the son of William Jr. Hansford (that's the way he is listed on various ancestry tree) (1727-1779) and Mary Sarah Hyde (1729-1779). They had married in Virginia in 1753.
First son was William (Sallis) Hansford born 1754. The Sallis in his name was his father's mother's maiden name. Since it's in parentheses on Ancestry, it was probably added by a descendent, rather than being known a his name.
William S. married someone named Mary, (b. 1752) and they had one son named Thomas (b. 1784). William S. is probably the soldier listed on Revolutionary War Rolls for Dec. 1777 in Virginia.
He and wife Mary Hansford moved to Kentucky by 1800. He died either in 1810 or after 1821.
And now let's look at the first of the confusing attempts to understand who was related to whom.
1. Benoni Hansford.
2. Mary Hansford married John Short. Source: tanjean59, an Ancestry member.
William (Sallis) Hansford, doesn't seem to have married his mother...but again, having a father of the same name makes it hard to discern, and the records now are giving his mother the name Mary Sarah Hyde Hansford...rather than mother being Sarah Hyde and wife being Mary Hyde. I give up!
Next child (on my Ancestry tree) is Mary Ann Hansford, born 13 Jan 1756, married to John P. Short in 1780. Here's the entry on Find A Grave.
There were several other children of the Shorts on my Ancestry Tree...but I won't go into them, as they are about first cousins 5 times removed.
Next comes Benjamin Hansford:
He may have been born in 1763, or maybe 1770 or as late as 1793...but I'll take the average date.
Rev. Thomas Hansford (my four times great grandfather) was the son of William Jr. Hansford (that's the way he is listed on various ancestry tree) (1727-1779) and Mary Sarah Hyde (1729-1779). They had married in Virginia in 1753.
First son was William (Sallis) Hansford born 1754. The Sallis in his name was his father's mother's maiden name. Since it's in parentheses on Ancestry, it was probably added by a descendent, rather than being known a his name.
William S. married someone named Mary, (b. 1752) and they had one son named Thomas (b. 1784). William S. is probably the soldier listed on Revolutionary War Rolls for Dec. 1777 in Virginia.
He and wife Mary Hansford moved to Kentucky by 1800. He died either in 1810 or after 1821.
And now let's look at the first of the confusing attempts to understand who was related to whom.
William Hansford, Jr., son of William and Sarah Hansford, lived in Orange Co., Va., but did not appear on the 1790 census. Researcher Mildred Hansford, however, has concluded that William and wife, Mary Hyde, moved to the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia where they died in a smallpox epidemic. Researcher Penny Fields Gardner in an e-mail of March 2002 noted:"William Hansford and his wife, Mary Sarah Hyde. They both died of a Smallpox epidemic in 1779 in Orange Co., VA. This was just before their daughter, Mary, married John Short.. Their second child and only daughter, Sarah, was my ancestor. She married Stephen Fields and they are buried in the same pioneer cemetery with John and Mary, in Lawrence Co, Indiana, close to where both my parents were born and raised." She identified William, Jr. as an uncle, not the father of William, Jr. The only other possibility then would be John Hansford. "Hansford" has William, Jr. as the father of Benoni Hansford.Known issue:
1. Benoni Hansford.
2. Mary Hansford married John Short. Source: tanjean59, an Ancestry member.
William (Sallis) Hansford, doesn't seem to have married his mother...but again, having a father of the same name makes it hard to discern, and the records now are giving his mother the name Mary Sarah Hyde Hansford...rather than mother being Sarah Hyde and wife being Mary Hyde. I give up!
Next child (on my Ancestry tree) is Mary Ann Hansford, born 13 Jan 1756, married to John P. Short in 1780. Here's the entry on Find A Grave.
| Name: | Mary Hyde Short |
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| Maiden Name: | Hansford |
| Gender: | Female |
| Birth Date: | 13 Jan 1756 |
| Birth Place: | Frederick County, Virginia, United States of America |
| Death Date: | 30 Jul 1821 |
| Death Place: | Lawrence County, Indiana, United States of America |
| Cemetery: | Ferguson Cemetery |
| Burial or Cremation Place: | Lawrence County, Indiana, United States of America |
| Children: | Sarah Short Fields Ezekiel Short Hansford Short Thomas P. Short Wesley Short Samuel Short John Short |
There were several other children of the Shorts on my Ancestry Tree...but I won't go into them, as they are about first cousins 5 times removed.
Next comes Benjamin Hansford:
He may have been born in 1763, or maybe 1770 or as late as 1793...but I'll take the average date.
BIRTH APRIL 17,1770 • Culpeper County, Virginia,
DEATH 15 NOV 1853 • Pulaski, Kentucky,
Other Benjamin Hansford's seem to have not had this William and Sarah Handsford as parents, one moving to GA, another staying in Virginia.
But to go backwards in his life, here's a KY hand written list of deaths, and he is there, with his father William P. and mother as Polly Hansford, dying himself on Nov 15. in Pulaski KY.
It states his condition as widower, and I believe the next entry says formerly Baptist pastor, dying of pneumonia. Though it does clearly state his age as 90, he had been giving his age as 80 in the 1850 census, just 3 years earlier.
I here include the 1850 Census for Pulaski County, KY. I'm so glad to have some people finally named.
Lydia Hansford at 40 was his daughter. And she had married Samuel Hawk, thus the 2 children with surname of Hawk are Benjamin's grandchildren.
Though Benjamin might have been listed as born in 1763, I believe that he was only 83 when he died, rather than 90. I doubt that he celebrated many birthdays in his life, or maybe the person (was it Lydia?) who gave the information didn't know his real birth.
There were other children born in the family of William and Sarah Mary Polly Hyde Hansford. But they will have to wait till another date.
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