What Date was Grandfather Born?

Digging through the files and checking here and there, I found nothing exciting happening but the fact my ancestor was born on a Saturday, and he survived. Many of his siblings did not.  He had only two living siblings. An older brother and a older sister, with the sister marrying his wife's brother down the road.

He was born 9 May 1891 Moravia, Ia to Franklin Cornelius Hoffman and Samantha Abigail Duvall. This was a Saturday.

The world seemed very quiet at the time he was born. No Famous People, no famous event but he survived.  For his family that itself was a major event.
Cecil Lee Hoffman we are glad you made it. I am still trying to prove and disprove all the stories you shared with Rich and Hartley and I.

1896 First horseless carriage show in London 10 models.

Jun 29th - Anjer (Carnation) Day-anniversary of Prince Bernhard
Jun 29th - US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register
Jun 29th - Batman Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan

 1940 Jul 22nd - Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks  

   I was born on this day.  

Grandad Carl Fremont Jones was born 10 October 1887 on a Monday. He was also the last living born child of his family. He had older brothers and 1 sister. He was also born in Iowa and somewhere near Nashua area. 

Grandad we are glad you and your brother were not killed in that crazy horse and buggy and horse race to the house. We are sad your brother ended up with a broken back. You both survived and had families. Thank you to you both.

Rie Cramer, (Marie Holman), Dutch Cartoonist/author was born on his birthday.

Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London 1887. May 9th

I found this information by doing research on the dates and years of these two birthdays.

Family Information and no I did not go to Google.

2 October 2014 Followup Water Tower in Wyoming.

On 2 October I posted a picture of an old water tower.  My question to the history buffs and genealogists was do you know where this is?  Do you know what it represented?

It is the first thing the eye sees coming into town that is visible for visitors.

It is the water tower for the Old Rawlins Prison or as known today as the Wyoming Frontier Prison.

It was closed before we got there, missed it by 15 minutes. I wanted to see it for myself. Since we have
knowledge of a family member being there until someone else recanted their story. It decimated this human being beyond comprehension.  It is still not known how long they were incarcerated, still digging.

Yes, it was closed some years ago. They run Halloween Tours there.  What a thought.

We took many pictures walking around the outside.
http://www.wyomingfrontierprison.org/pages/history.html

Of course we had the Hole in the Wall Gang not far away and many other characters of scruples not accepted by society. Range Wars and political offsets happened to create even more prisoners.

Abraham D Young Sr with wife Hannah Wright

Abraham D Young Sr was born 3 Oct 1784 in Andover, Essex Co., Mass.

* Vital Records of Guilford, Maine, Genealogy Archives p126.

Hannah Wright his wife was born in Lewiston, 11 March 1781

* same source

CHILDREN

Anna J. Young, born in Lewiston, December 1st, 1803

Jonathan W. Young, born in Lewiston, October 12th, 1805

George W. Young, born in Avon, December 11th, 18O7

Hannah Young, Jr., born in Avon, December 1st, 1809

Abraham D. Young, Jr., born in Avon, April 23rd, 1812

Elmira Young, born in Avon, April 12th, 1814

Elvira Young, born in Avon, May 29th 1816

Rolla Young, born in Avon, July 11th, 1818 Young

Joseph Young, born in Philips, April 18th, 1820

Julia Young, born in Guilford, October 20th, 1823

http://www.genealogywise.com/group/wrightfamily

* P163  ie pge 64  Pge 126  also

Abraham Young b 1756 Oct 16th is implied his father. He served in the Rev War. #:A129695
Served: Massachusetts, Rank PRIVATE, Birth 10-16-1756,  Gray York Co. ME Dist MAssachusetts, Death: 2-19-1829 Cumberland Co. Maine  Pension No. *535163 Service Source: *535163 Service Description: 1) Capt. Paul Ellis; Col Timothy Bigelow

Our line is from Abraham D Young Jr born in Avon, 23 April 1812
His first wife was Eliza Grover ( Shirley Lee's Lineage) b 23 Feb 1816 Pittston m 11 July 1833 Maine
Source and children below

http://www.mainegenealogy.net/2007/02/vital-records-of-guilford.html

p 162-3

Emily Young, born in Dover October 21st, 1833

Bothwell Young, born in Dover, February l0th, 1834

Grimsley Young, born in Dover, August 29th, 1835

Augusta Young, born in Dover, November 13th, 1836

Edwin Young, born in Dover, April 13th, 1838

Lucy Jane H. Young, born in Guilford, January 30th, 1840

 m 2nD hannah Owen OEN?

1856 St Charles

1870 Fremont Butler Co IA

1880 Fremont, Butler Co IA

Vital records of Guilford, MAine

Hannah O born 1826 Germany or Russia records ?

d 29 April 1896 Iowa

Abraham died 9 June 1883 Nashua, Chickasaw Co., Ia 

Their daughter Hannah is our line.

About Scottish Prisoners of War

Last Saturday at the workshop I was telling attendees that there are lists of the early Scottish
Prisoners of War who came to America early.

1650 to be exact for when the information refers to.

No I do not get credit but I did read it and want to share it with you all whom read this.

Passenger List – Ship “Unity” | Scottish Prisoners of War…

This blog is probably extremely helpful for anyone with early Scottish ancestry.

I was looking for SCOTT, but I did find STEWART, TAYLOR, JAMESON and GRIMES
many other family or collateral family names just on this list from Captured at Dunbar in 1650.

Looking at the second set of names I see MURRAY and IRWIN.

Looking farther down I see MERROW,(Morrow), lots more STEWARTS and the names go on.

Please go to this persons site request to follow them because they have much information here for you to learn.

Passenger List – Ship “Unity” | Scottish Prisoners of War…

Diane Rapaport  does an excellent job on more references at the bottom also.


Geni - Scots Prisoners and their Relocation to the Colonies, 1650-1654 Project

This is all I can say but blogs are very helpful in research.
Thanks Diane for this information and others.

Idaho Falls, Idaho Sept 2014

Idaho Falls, Idaho, has made many changes since I visited there in the late 1990's.

They have taken along the Snake River and made a River Walk, hotel, this large display of the eagles and the babies in the nest and other items.

I loved the man made falls when I was there before, something about the water falling and splaying about is calming and beautiful.  I did not take pictures of the Falls this time since I had done that before.

My younger brother lived in this area for some time and is now near it again.

They appear to have lots of water yet I heard mention of not as much rain fall as needed and water is more scarce.

This is part of my time line for this year.  What are you doing with yours?

Craig Englund, of James Fuller If you see this contact me.

Ok this is what happens when we are covering lots of bases at once and some things slide by.
I found this note from Craig Englund, of southern CA who is kin with at least 1 name maybe 3 or more.

If anyone out there knows Craig Englund  I would appreciate being put in touch with him.

Thanks
Susi

Bosler, Wyoming, not far from Wheatland, and Mom's home.

Bosler, Wyoming and who has been there.

Map of Bosler WY | Bosler Wyoming | MapQuest.com

Bosler is in Albany County of Wyoming.

Jalan Crossland sang about Bosler in a song called Bosler.

Bosler - Wyoming Ghost Town

 I did not visit the Furniture Store but I did buy a STARBUCKS drink at the General Store.
Having not set foot in the town since 1994, my heart was sad at the remnants of the town.

Of course, I have different reasons for wandering through this area.  My Dad punched cattle in the region and he was aware of the HOLE in the Wall Gang, as a youth.  His brother told a very chilling tale as a 5/6 year old in Wheatland about one of the gang.

Mixed feelings because this route through Wyoming is some of the prettiest there is to see. The new freeway saved the state from probably becoming over run and turned into the mess Jackson, Wyo is dealing with. The highway was smoother and easier to travel than #80 with the thump thump thump going down the road. If you ever broke your back that vibration wears on you after awhile.

No you can't go 80 on that road there is farm equipment on it and they are generally very large in nature and take up most of the road.  These Ranchers and Farmers are courteous drivers also.

I love to wind up the ridges and down the valleys below and see the Antelope and the cattle and the other critters out and about in the fields.  We stopped many times on this last trip and took some great pictures of nature and animals.  After all it may end up like Bosler and not be there when I try this trip again.

The strip mining is everywhere it seems.  Mixed feelings about the strip mining. Oil rigs and other
digging is happening on a daily basis.

Fortunately, we still saw cattle out on the open range area.  Not near as many as days gone by but they have not gone away yet.


Tom Horn--Wyoming Tales and Trails

Tom Horn Photos - View of the Clay Ranch

I have been up on Laramie Peak, my deceased cousin took me there for the view. It is awesome to be
able to see so far and so much.

The other pictures on the Tom Horn page are accurate for how buildings were built then. Grandad's barn was built like that and my brothers home barn in Idaho has the same log structure for it's base.

A Wyoming Titan of Industry: Frank Bosler | American Heritage Center (AHC) News

Dad and family all talked about the famous horse Steamboat that was a bucking horse.

Hopefully, reading about places like this give you a better idea of life and times, in not to far back in time.

I wish Dad had wrote his book.

Workshop Review

Wished I had taken pictures, the interaction between members between events was the best we have seen in a super long time.

We were happy you came and shared and shared and cared.

We all came home happy and tired but feeling you were really getting what we were attempting to share with you.

Much credit goes to the Chart Chick for her ideas and thoughts and charts she shared.

Research is always easier when you can share and cross check and discuss the potentials of information. It can be regionally, locally or distantly it makes a difference to share.

All of the events went better than we hoped and it was awesome to see the idea catch as it moved around the room and people shared.

I am hoping the 20 attendees will share in January if these ideas helped to get the family to think a little more about family and how we lived in the past. Even if the past was only 20 years ago, it makes a difference.

As one person said, if we did this question every 4 or so years the answers would so many times change.

It would almost be like a running diary of their growing up and living life from small child to full fledge adult.

The easy to make heirloom of a tablecloth with signatures and some one suggested dates added is even more fun.  We started the societies to have for future generations.  Just think if you were there your name is going to kick around for quite some time. Or at least that is our hope to happen idea.

Some said for small families use a pillow for the signatures.  Wedding gifts, baby shower gifts, birthday party gifts all same theme idea.

I was thrilled to see some of the things I have been speaking on for years was reiterated by Cyndi Ingle's when she was here. Some forms are definitely more helpful and can reverse negative results by thinking in reverse.

We gained one new member, four new faces and 16 members attended, those who didn't really lost out on a super event.