Another Birthday, Happy Birthday Clementine Murillo

To our loving Great Grandaughter who is turning 3.  She has such a terrific smile and great personality.  She  makes her  GGrandpa so happy to see her. He loves those hugs.

Steve hope your day ends well and we are looking to see you soon.

See everybody I told you we are starting Birthday, Anniversary time.

Special Day Congratulations on your MBA, Happy Birthday

Today, I am writing to share that our second grandson has earned his MBA. We are so proud of the hard work and effort he had to put in to get there. Job changes, moves, a baby and more moves, and working for an very interesting company, Skybound Comics, that was the innovators of the Walking Dead.

Today is also his birthday, we remember that day also with great excitement and joy.

Wow, how time marches on.

Candy's boys have both graduated now from college and we are so looking forward to learn who
else down the road will succeed with their goals.

We have five more in college now, one wants to be a Chef, another is working towards more knowledge about theatre and music, another working towards a major medical goal, one may become a History professor and awaiting to learn what the other one has decided to move forward in.

I suspect Stage, Lights, Productions.

This last June marked the  end of an era. All our Grandchildren have graduated from High School.

All  grandchildren are working in some field or another and seeming to be successful.  It seems we have more than one Car Salesperson in the mix of family. One in Michigan one in Washington.

We are thankful.

We are approaching the Birthday, Anniversary Season of the family.

We wish you all the best with your Birthdays and Anniversary's.

Stephan Murillo may you always be Blessed and remember to give thanks, you are an awesome Dad.

Joseph Murillo you are a week away from being wished the same, May you also always be Blessed and remember to give thanks. You are an awesome Dad.

Best wishes from your Grandparents.

Church Record's Sunday, Perry Co. PA, Cumberland Co. PA and Dauphin Co. PA

Church Record's Sunday, Perry Co. PA, Cumberland Co. PA and Dauphin Co. PA

Okay family we are going to  try an different approach.  We are missing some things that just might help us crack up our brick wall.

1. I heard from Mary Myers, what a delight.

2. I have gone over some older documents and may have found a clue missed.

3. As I am looking at sources we are critically lacking Church sources.  ????? Anyone
     Yes, I have tombstone pictures and church where buried for some but lacking what we
      truly need for solving some questions.

4.  Family chose a certain person as ancestor via their research. Missing that the 1820 census does not      fit the bill but it could just be an normal error of lack of knowledge .???

5.  I wish the Sister of John Myers that was in the county next to him, family would recontact me.
     My system died and I have lost their address.  John Myers was in Troy Grove, ILL. His sister was
     next county over, according to the communication I received from them in early 2000's.

6.  So we need to look for a female Myers descendant around Troy Grove, Ill. prior to his death in            1865.

7. John Myers(Meyers, Moyer, etc) stated to his children he was born near Harrisburg, Dauphin Co.
    PA.  They wrote this  on paper we believe after his death to not loose more information on family.

8.  We have a birth date discrepancy, we have a mother name discrepancy.

9.   Surely someone in the family had more data but never coughed it up as important.

10.  John's wife was SARAH ELIZABETH (JANE) FOULK b 28 July 1813 Perry Co. PA.
   
11.  I find them on census 1840 Rye Perry Co. PA.
 John Myers

HOME IN 1840 (CITY, COUNTY, STATE):

Rye, Perry, Pennsylvania

FREE WHITE PERSONS - MALES - UNDER 5:

2

FREE WHITE PERSONS - MALES - 30 THRU 39:

1

FREE WHITE PERSONS - FEMALES - 20 THRU 29:

1

PERSONS EMPLOYED IN AGRICULTURE:

1

FREE WHITE PERSONS - UNDER 20:

2

FREE WHITE PERSONS - 20 THRU 49:

2

TOTAL FREE WHITE PERSONS:

4

TOTAL ALL PERSONS - FREE WHITE, FREE COLORED, SLAVES:

John Myers stated he was born near Harrisburg, Dauphin Co. PA.

Father supposedly Valentine and wife (?) written in family records was Betsey Blessing/er Moyer, Myers, Meyers. 

There is one listed here. Only 1 I have looked for a long time for any other.

Valentine Mayer

HOME IN 1820 (CITY, COUNTY, STATE):

Hummelstown in Derry, Dauphin, Pennsylvania

ENUMERATION DATE:

August 7, 1820

FREE WHITE PERSONS - MALES - UNDER 10:

2

FREE WHITE PERSONS - MALES - 10 THRU 15:

1

FREE WHITE PERSONS - MALES - 45 AND OVER:

1

FREE WHITE PERSONS - FEMALES - UNDER 10:

2

FREE WHITE PERSONS - FEMALES - 10 THRU 15:

1

FREE WHITE PERSONS - FEMALES - 26 THRU 44:

1

FREE WHITE PERSONS - UNDER 16:

6

FREE WHITE PERSONS - OVER 25:

2

TOTAL FREE WHITE PERSONS:

8

TOTAL ALL PERSONS - WHITE, SLAVES, COLORED, OTHER:

8

http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?new=1&gsln=Myers&rank=1&gss=angs-g&mswpn__ftp=Perry+Co.+PA&msbdy=1785&pcat=ROOT_CATEGORY&h=4813138&db=1850usfedcenancestry&indiv=1&ml_rpos=8

The oldest boy would by John ?   Looking for guardianship approval and settlement of estate after the first picked guardian of the above mentioned Valentine rejects guardianship.

Lots that just doesn't fit story. But lots to be rechecked and dug deeper into.

Desperately need names of children which should be in Guardianship papers. That also would rule this Valentine in or out.  

( Theory only) Did Valentine marry Betsey B and she die after John born then marry Catherine Jones and she had the other children?   Is that why it was stated Betsey Blessinger was his Mom?

 Or did family get generations backwards writing them on paper in Bible.?

12.  Church of God was the listed faith.  We have pictures of Sarah's family buried in cemetery and the church in Perry Co.

Any help appreciated and if your a Myers Meyers, Moyer, Mayer, variant from this region please share if anything rings a bell or even may potentially be kin. 

We need to locate the sisters.

 This line seems to go back to Berks Co. PA which is where the Folk line also was from.

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Next a heads up that a family member needs help for  those that  can do it.  My niece's daughter and family lost their  home in the Cobb or Lake Fire.  Total Ashes.  Any help appreciated.

My niece's husband's business was destroyed, they lost their business and it put a few people out of work. So immediate family help is there but any outside help appreciated.  The other niece did not loose their home but likewise was evacuated and trying to reestablish life.

http://abc7news.com/988306/

On this page are related place for knowledge of this fire. more below

7-year-old Middletown fire evacuee lifts spirits of Calistoga Red Cross shelter | abc7news.com

Help the Treadways start over by Kristi Owens Watson - GoFundMe


Below is what the shop now looks like.       https://www.gofundme.com/8442wf3m

Our nephew and his wife did not loose their home but his job is gone temporarily. She did not loose the school completely. I know as a teacher she has asked for books for students whom lost their homes. 

This community took a horrendous beating. There are various pages set up on Facebook that shows the flames as it came through and leveled the town. Alas there was also loss of life.  Lake County Strong pictures and data of fire.

Ironic, as the Butte Fire was burning a classmate and I learned we share kinship.  This was on a Friday, on a Monday her son is out a home in the Butte Fire.  They also could use some help. So if you graduated from Tomales High School in 1958, a classmate's, son could use support. Marilyn Troutman Cardwell's family.

Ken&Diane Smith Home Lost to Fire by Marilyn Cardwell - GoFundMe\

WE  ARE THANKFUL NO ONE WAS INJURED PHYSICALLY. PRAYERS I AM SURE ARE APPRECIATED FOR STRENGTH AT THIS TIME.

Read and Help Stop this Rip Off to Genealogists

I posted on my Educational blog what is happening to a site that I am a member of that offers free pictures to the members.  Some one is taking them and selling them on another site.  Most Illegal.

Ancestor Seekers by the Root Bound- Alert, Heads Up and Save, so

Since many are family down of these people I wanted to share this here also.

Fire and Family

Fire and Family

On the blog Ancestor Seekers by the Root Bound- Information for Fall, I posted a link to saving documents by a company.

But it stares us in the face, "Have you saved Your DOCUMENTS, PHOTO"S etc ?"

Ironically, I was exposed to fire before the age of 5 as the flames crept up the hill towards my favorite tree about 5 in the evening.  It came from over the hill and thankfully it was put out before it was into the buildings and our homes.  I remember standing and watching them in the window. Morelli's, my Uncle's Dairy ranch Ollimac Diary. on road to Pt Reyes from Petaluma about 18 miles out?

Again when I was at our next home, a dairy, chicken ranch, Dad was a Milker and Ranch hand.
Mom candled the eggs with the owners wife in the evenings. Moretti's. on west side of Petaluma, Ca going to Point Reyes out of Petaluma.  About 7 miles out of town.  I was 7 + years maybe 8 at the time.

When those flames came up over the hills into the trees and started down the west side it was like a freight train.  At first I did not believe what I saw. I ran into the house and told MOM who then had me go to the Barn and tell the Milkers (Dad, etc).  Mom drove to house above us, for help and they called the  other neighbors to tell them it was headed their way.  The fireman were able to stop it before it burned the barn and candling house and our home and garage.  They went across the ditch and set up a perimeter between us and the fire.  The wind was wiping it more west ward along the ridge but it would creep down at times and head towards the main part of the ranch.  They lost 4 chicken buildings. They were long buildings and wide with laying hens in them.  I think there was 8 others not damaged.  But the chickens backed off on eggs and the cows backed off on milk production big time.  We then got a phone.  That  fire started on the back side of San Rafael.

We moved then after much searching for a different home.  We ended up in Valley Ford, CA.
Two of the ranchers on the other side (near Morelli's) had moved also to this region into Bloomfield, CA. Atkinson's and Fred Zimmerman's.  We were about 5 miles apart and we used to ride bikes back and forth to each others homes.  I also rode my horse over a couple times to Bloomfield.  I had grown up with the Atkinson children and the Zimmerman children along with my cousins the Morelli's.. They were also affected by both of these fires.

We had a couple small fire skirmishs in the school yard after 1948 (when we moved there) a couple years in a row and the Board of Trustees finally got the grass cut so our fence did not get burned.  The school was my front yard. We had several acres and the  road run down the side of the school grounds to our home.

I married and moved away in fall of 1959.  We had moved in in 1948 just as school had started.

In 1961, my parents were celebrating their Anniversary at Dinucci's and boys set fire to the grass by the railroad berm. Dad had just completed the Grade A Dairy and inspection was to be the next day.

The fire roared into action and wiped out the new barn, never used, Cement mind you, the feed barns, the chicken, pig and calve pens.  The firemen did a gallant stand and saved their home.  We have always had a Volunteer Fire Department there. So it was our neighbors both near and far and 4-H families from near and far that fought the blaze. The 1848 barn  near the county road was saved, our we would have lost several more homes across the street.

For years, every time you stepped on a spot you had not already stepped, ash would fly up. Even at the time of clearing Mom's home we had ash particles in her upper closets, I bet we had cleaned  them at least 5 times before. 2012.

Neighbors helped them empty house into trucks and cars but we lost a few things.  But no lives were lost.

My first trip home after the fire,  consisted full of massive allergy pills to breathe and the amazement of the silting ash everywhere no matter how you cleaned.  This was at Thanksgiving.1961. As I said in 2012 we still were sifting ash, in drawers, cupboards and various shelves.

We traveled to many places and then back to San Diego.  When we bought our home it was clean, new and as a just developed area no Fire Department. Not even Volunteer.

Before we moved in, in the fall (1970) fire came screaming from the east and literally was stopped by the Cal Fire and other units before our new, (not moved into home) was not burned. It took us almost a week to clean 3+ inches of ash out of the house before we could move in.

We stood on the front yard, porch area of our house we rented on Palomar  St. CV(apartments there now) and watched the fire come over the hills heading south west towards our home and the bottom of Chula Vista.  We learned the next day they stopped the fire on what is today Firethorn St.

 In later years we were at our dear friends who helped us move, who helped us watch that fire, in 1970, almost have fire consume their home in Spring Valley. We had gone to have a BBQ.  Suddenly we looked up the hill in their back yard to see smoke then see flames. Mrs or Mr. Austin called in the Fire Department and our children grabbed water hoses and started spraying the lower part of the hill. Someone opened the gate and the Fire men and truck went up to the edge of the fence and their big power hoses shot higher up the hill and stopped the fire.  Ice plant run along the chain link fence line.

That fire took many homes on the other side of the hill.

I did not mention the fires we experienced with the cotton fields in Lemoore but it was a smoke issue then.

So for our children who do not remember,  and were not yet born. Here is an mini update on some of the Fires I have been experienced with.

Send your special pictures via copy to another family member some where else. Do the same for the special documents. Thumbdrive, disc, cloud anything.  Please do not loose the past by not taking care of the now, for the future.

I have found I have pictures of Aunt Bethel Jones Coopers' children family.  My Aunt and Uncle lost much of their home many years ago. I am now trying to catch up with Aubie Dee, David, James, Little Bethel and Aden  Cooper and get these pictures to them.  I suspect the pictures came from what they shared with (Her MOM) my Grandmother because Dad was given the pictures.  Or maybe from another Great Aunt that they shared with that Dad got the pictures from. I know my Aunt told me they lost their pictures in that fire in their home.. I had sent her some long ago. Now she passed this spring and I am attempting to find all the children for them to become the keeper of the treasurers.

Aubie Dee Cooper Jr.  You took your first steps walking to me and I have pictures for you.