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Fellows Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 63 page 22

March 10th, 2010

This entry is part 59 of 59 in the series Deeds in the Family

I am posting information gleaned from land records in the areas where our family’s ancestors resided. You can read more about this project in the overview. You may also check my deed record listing, which I will update frequently, but probably not every day. This group pertain to Papa’s Fellows ancestors who resided in Wexford County, Michigan.

Date:	21 March 1907
Liber:	63
Page:	22
Location:	Wexford County, Michigan
Grantor:	Harry Taylor & Olive Taylor, his wife of Cedar Creek, Wexford, MI
Grantee:	Mrs. Bell Fellows, widow, of Liberty, Wexford, MI
Witnesses:	Lillian Kotts, Isaac Cw. Culer
Type of deed:	Warranty
Rec’d and recording:	6 April 1907
Clerk/registrar:	Elon A Losie
Location of land:	Cedar Creek Twp, Wexford Co., MI
Consideration:	$1,100
Notes:
Description:	NE 1/4 of NW 1/4 Sec 5 T23N R9W 40 acres

Henry Fellows died on 19 Sept 1905. I am not sure where in Liberty Township Belle was living, but Cedar Creek Township lies just south of Liberty and the property Belle purchased is on the township line. This thumbnail illustrates the property’s location, and is taken from the old 1908 on-line atlas.¹

Geo. A. Ogle & Co., Standard atlas of Wexford County, Michigan : including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county…patrons directory, reference business directory…/ assisted in record work and platting by E. A. Losie. Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (Chicago, IL : Geo. A. Ogle & Co., 1908), page 45, The University of Michigan. Michigan County Histories and Atlases. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/3928168.0001.001 : accessed 2 November 2009.

Tags: Culer, Fellows, Kotts, Land Records, Losie, Taylor, Wexford Co MI
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Fellows Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 54 page 359

March 9th, 2010

This entry is part 58 of 59 in the series Deeds in the Family

Date:	26 October 1903
Liber:	54
Page:	359
Location:	Wexford County, MI
Grantor:	Henry Fellows & wife Belle Fellows of Colfax, Wexford, Michigan
Grantee:	Elizabeth McClain of the same place
Witnesses:	Wm Jones, Isaac C. Wheeler
Type of deed:	Warranty
Rec’d and recording:	30 Oct 1903
Clerk/registrar:	Henry Hanson
Location of land:	Antioch Twp, Wexford Co., MI
Consideration:	$256
Notes:
Description:	W 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 Sec 15 T23NR11 W 20 Acres

I do not know how Belle and Henry acquired this land. I obviously have some work to do at the Wexford County Court House. I am planning two genealogy trips this sprint, and one is up to Wexford County. My list is getting longer. I do see the name Jones on the deed as a witness, a surname associated with Belle’s family. Belle’s mother was Miranda Jones, daughter of Robert and Savilla. It remains to be see if William Jones of Antioch Township, Michigan was related, or the name is a coincidence.

This map is taken from the old 1908 atlas of Wexford County¹. Elizabeth McClain is not listed as an owner in 1908. You can enlarge to see the detail, with the family of Geo Jones owning 40 acres which would encompass the 20 referred to in this deed.

Geo. A. Ogle & Co., Standard atlas of Wexford County, Michigan : including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county…patrons directory, reference business directory…/ assisted in record work and platting by E. A. Losie. Geo. A. Ogle & Co. (Chicago, IL : Geo. A. Ogle & Co., 1908), page 45, The University of Michigan. Michigan County Histories and Atlases. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/3928168.0001.001 : accessed 2 November 2009.

Tags: Fellows, Jones, Land Records, McClain, Wexford Co MI
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Fearless Females: Blogging Prompt for March 6

March 6th, 2010

Lisa Alzo, the Accidental Genealogist, has posted some marvelous blogging prompts for Woman’s History Month. For March sixth, I see: Describe an heirloom you may have inherited from a female ancestor (wedding ring or other jewelry, china, clothing, etc.) If you don’t have any, then write about a specific object you remember from your mother or grandmother, or aunt (a scarf, a hat, cooking utensil, furniture, etc).

I am lucky enough to have some nice items I inherited from my female ancestors, but today I am describing one that I do not have, and sure wish I did.

I remember a little mesh purse, with a little chain for a handle. It was a brass color, and it resided in my mother’s jewelry box. The chain that served as a handle could be put through a larger chain and worn around the neck. The cute little purse was just large enough to hold a dime, and Mom said that it was for a subway ride home. I do not have a photo of it, but it was similar to this little item, but not so fancy.

As a small town girl from northern Michigan, riding a subway seemed so romantic to me, even at my advanced age the only subway I have ridden was in London (yes England) a few years ago.

When my mother died, I looked high and low, through everything in the house, trying to find the little purse, and I never did find it. I can not help but wonder what happened to it, and also wishing I had asked when my Mom was still well. But I did not want to appear to be asking for something.

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Scipio Township Cemetery, Seneca County Ohio

March 4th, 2010

This entry is part 60 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

Over the past ~~few~~ ~~several~~ 25 years, a mystery that has eluded me is the origin and parents of Erastus G. Fellows, who claimed Ohio birth, but for whom no document that I have found lists parents. In the course of my search, I have encountered other men named Fellows living in proximity to Erastus and his family, and have chased them (almost) to the ends of the earth. Two of those men surnamed Fellows claimed Ohio birth, and parents named Ruth Smith and Erastus Fellows (who died young). Census records for Seneca County, Ohio are promising, with minor children surnamed Fellows living in the County with other families in 1850.

In the course of the search, a researcher of one Joseph Fellows, who we believe to be the son of Erastus, and a brother of our ancestor, dug around the handy-dandy internet and forwarded me a link to the transcription of a cemetery. Scipio Township Cemetery, Seneca County, Ohio, to be exact. Papa and I visited the cemetery about eighteen months ago, checked it all out, took photos, and came away disappointed. The cemetery has been damaged since the transcription had been made. The marker that we suspected to be our ancestor’s, one “Erasts Fellows”, was not anywhere to be found. There was no marker in the location for the Smith family, either; we suspect they are connected in some way. Unfortunately, there were broken markers piled at the edge the cemetery.

All views of the cemetery are thumbnails, click to enlarge.

These photos are from east to west, looking mostly south west, and capture the entire cemetery.

I want to thank Kristina Kuhn Krumm, who generously gave permission for me to use the transcription posted on her cemetery site to help identify the photos of the graves for this post. I sorted the transcription from her site by grave number, then we walked through the cemetery to figure out how it had been read. The markers I could identify are linked. Those which I could not identify are posted as thumbnails at the end of this document. I noticed that number 23 was listed twice on the transcription, and that several numbers had no transcription listed.

1	Cornell Cynthia A	11 Feb 1861 43y 2m 10d
2	Leister Jonathan	19 Sep 1848 41y 2m 7d
3	Smith Cornelia d/o Ethan & Elizabeth	14 Sep 1850 2y 5m 11d
4	Cook Nelson W s/o H & A	29 Nov 1840 17y 3m
5	Cook Asenath w/o Hiram, b in Stamford ?, d in Delaware O	23 Mar 1863 62y 10m 3d
6	Fox Mary A d/o H & J	14 Jan 1848 12y 4m 14d
7	Hartsough Hannah	20 Jul 1842 89y
8	Green Mary	22 Sep 1841 66y
9	Ogden inf s/o G M & M A	27 Sep 1836 28d
10	Gray Mary d/o H & J	31? Dec 1841 1y 8m
11	Ogden Mary H d/o David D & Elgy M	1 Jun 1847
12	Ogden Amos c/o D D & E M	4 Apr 1839 2m 28d
12	Ogden Sarah c/o D D & E M	9 Jun 1845 1m 3d
13	Ogedn Elgy Mariah w/o David D	27 Jun 1845
14	Green Sarah A d/o Timothy & Mary A	25? Jun 1844 4y 7m 27d
15	Number not listed on transcription
16	Jones Mary A w/o Elisha	3? Feb 1839? 20y
17	Smith Josiah	4 July 1828 60y
18	Smith Mary w/o Josiah	5 July 183? 64y
19	Fellows Erasts	22 Aug 1843
20	Lester James	30 Apr 1785 27 Aug 1848?
21	Number not listed on transcription
22	Kellogg Amos c/o N & L Kellogg	8 Jun 1845 26y 6m 5d
22	Kellogg Pamelia c/o N & L Kellogg	11 Feb 1836 22y 5m 22d
23	Finch Jason	9 Jan 1850 26y 1m 19d
23	Ford Esther d. Attica (Seneca County History 1886 pg 687)	19 Mar 1829

Here are the markers that were standing that I could not read/identify/match up.

My number 54, taken just after the Amos and Sarah Ogden marker, looking almost due west, toward the neighboring property:

My number 55, a marker just north of that of #5 Asenath Cook, perhaps Nelson Cook #4.

My #61.

My #62.

On another trip to Ohio, we researched Fellows family records in Richland County and researched the Fellows family records at the Ohio Genealogy Society library. Although we did find information on families with the surname Fellows, even found an Erastus Fellows, the families that lived in Richland County did not appear to be our ancestors.

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Roger Gives Sage Advice

February 27th, 2010

The library of Michigan is again severely threatened, again. Or perhaps it is “still threatened”. I am sad and upset about the assault on this fine facility, and it’s collection.

You can a statement from the Michigan Genealogical Council on their site. Since MGC is soliciting ideas, please feel free to send suggestions to they at their posted address.

Roger posted a little on the issue, it is a worthwhile read, check it out here.

If you just want to vent, feel free to post “G” rated suggestions right here.

Tags: Library Funding, Library of Michigan
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Final Accounting GeneaBloggers 2010 Winter Games

February 26th, 2010

1 – Go Back and Cite Your Sources! My award: Platinum

Complete. This requirement fit in nicely with my current push to reformat my citations recommendation by Mills, in Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace. I reformatted 59 of those sources February 17-18. The drudgery will continue, I have a lot left to do here.
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2 – Back Up Your Data! My award: Platinum

I am still slightly confused by the wording of this requirement, BUT, I feel safe and comfortable about my backup system.

2A – complete: http://xrl.in/4jhg

2B – http://xrl.in/4jhg

2C – complete: http://xrl.in/4jhg

2D – complete: http://xrl.in/4jhg

2E – complete: http://xrl.in/4jhg

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Category 3 –Organize your Research! My award: Diamond

Although I feel well organized, I am not sure how an “outsider” who had never looked at my information, would view my system. I had no clue that it was hard for someone else to understand until my daughter tried to help me file. Trying to explain about filing woman’s item under their maiden name gave me a headache. I am working on an explanation which will work for the non genealogist in the family. There are a lot of them.

I have not completed the final task in this category, but will aim to do so soon.

3A – I filed 32 new items properly in their notebooks on February 17, these hard copies are not original documents and can be replaced, so they are organized by Surname, First Name and added into my huge ring-binder collection. http://xrl.in/4kab

3B - I have organized hundreds of files and added tags. It feels great to have this complete.

3C – complete http://xrl.in/4ljr

3D – I have completed many more than twenty of these. I actually added tags to all my saved photos. I am going to be ready to scan some more, now.

3E – I entered 35 new facts into my database, most linked to newly scanned documents from my pile of unentered research. I wish the whole thing was done. Hopefully, soon.

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Category 4: Expand Your Knowledge! Award: Platinum

4A – complete: http://xrl.in/4it6

4B – complete: http://xrl.in/4lj0

4C – complete: http://xrl.in/4ljr

4D – complete: http://xrl.in/4ljr

4E – complete: http://xrl.in/4j12

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Category 5: Write, Write Write! My award: Diamond

5A – Complete: http://xrl.in/39ye

5C – Complete: http://xrl.in/4j12 , http://xrl.in/4it6 ,

http://xrl.in/4j14, and this one.

5E – Complete, I added Ahnentafel pages for both my husband and me.

5F – complete: http://xrl.in/4it6

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Category 6 Reach out and perform Genealogical Acts of Kindness. My award: Gold

I look weak here, but I believe, overall in my genealogical life, I am strong. I do make every effort to help others. I am an active member of my local Genealogical Society; and belong to several others. Until you have experienced assistance from someone who happens to have access to information you cannot otherwise get, it is hard to realize how important this is. I have also participated in some cooperative research and data sharing with newly found cousins during the Games, but it is not the same as gifting someone with information. I encourage everyone to help others as much as possible; we can all with with an attitude of helping.

6A – I read 10 new blogs 15 February 2010, and commented on several.

6B – Added 32 memorials and grave photographs to Find-A-Grave to satisfy this requirement on 15 Feb 2010

6G – Complete, I have used the Google follow feature for a couple of blogs. I will probably change them over to my feed reader, since what is how I prefer to follow, but I did meet this condition and will leave them as followed for the duration of the Games.
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The ten inches of snow we received slowed me down this week. I am expecting to have three VIP’s (grandchildren) visit for the weekend, so I am writing this in advance, for posting on Friday, the closing day.

I believe this exercise has proven to me that I can make progress, it is a matter of how high a priority I can assign to the tasks. I hope all the participants have benefited as much as I have during the games.

See you all next year.

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Geneablogger 2010 Winter Games

February 24th, 2010

I am rolling down the the finish on my Winter Games activities. I will have limited time after today to complete more activities, so my summary will probably list my accomplishments through today.

In response to task 4C, I created a memorial page for my father, James Austin Yearnd, Sr., on Footnote. I was pleasantly surprised when it easily converted to an “I Remember” page on Facebook.

I switched to the present for task 3C in organize your research. I found hunted up all the photographs we have taken at the reunion of M-in-L’s family, and organized them in archival quality pages in notebooks, by year. I will take them to next year’s reunion and try to get the names of the unidentified (mostly children) people. A great task to have out of the way, with benefit for everyone.

In response to item 4D, I headed over to the FamilySearch.org Research Helps Page. I selected New York State, an area where I need to do much additional research. In reviewing the New York State Research Outline, I noted a link to the Family History Library Catalog for New York resources. There were also a variety of links and listings of books, internet sites, and other resources. The research outline may contain information about sources I was not familiar with, and I will be consulting these research outlines for each State when I am beginning to research here. There was also a index of indexes and sources for finding references to ancestors, arranged by time period, and pointing to Family History Library microfilm and print resources.

I believe it would be helpful to combine this reference with Cyndi’s List, which points to internet resources; and World Cat, along with your local library catalog. I also look for local and county Historical and Genealogical Societies, in the area I am researching, since they often contribute indexes and publish information.

Last, but not least, I completed Task 5A by revising and re-publishing my “About Granny’s Genealogy” page.

I decided to use the rest of today to continue posting photos on Find-A-Grave, a feel good task that may assist other researchers, now or in the future.

I want to conclude this summary by saying that I am glad I decided to participate in the Games! Even though I have not done every task, I have learned from each one I did complete. There is nothing that makes life more worthwhile than learning!

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Progress Report Number 5, GeneaBloggers 2010 Winter Games

February 24th, 2010

1 – Complete. This requirement fit in nicely with my current push to reformat my citations recommendation by Mills, in Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace. I reformatted 59 of those sources February 17-18. The drudgery will continue!

Category 1 – Platinum

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2A – complete: http://xrl.in/4jhg
2B – Hoping for clarification, help me out, read and comment here: http://xrl.in/4jhg
2C – complete: http://xrl.in/4jhg
2D – complete: http://xrl.in/4jhg
2E – complete: http://xrl.in/4jhg

Category 2 – ????

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3A – I filed 32 new items properly in their notebooks on February 17, these hard copies are not original documents and can be replaced, so they are organized by Surname, First Name and added into my huge ring-binder collection. http://xrl.in/4kab
3B - I have organized hundreds of files and added tags. It feels great to have this complete.
3C
3D – I have completed many more than twenty of these. I actually added tags to all my saved photos. I am going to be ready to scan some more, now.
3E – I entered 35 new facts into my database, most linked to newly scanned documents from my pile of unentered research. I wish the whole thing was done. Hopefully, soon.
3F

Category 3 — Gold

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4A – complete: http://xrl.in/4it6
4B – complete: http://xrl.in/4lj0
4C
4D
4E – complete: http://xrl.in/4j12

Category 4 — Diamond

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5A
5B
5C – complete: http://xrl.in/4j12 , http://xrl.in/4it6 ,
http://xrl.in/4j14, and this one.
5D
5E- I added my Ahnentafel to this blog, placing it on a new page. http://xrl.in/4ljg
5F – complete: http://xrl.in/4it6

Category 5, Gold

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6A – I read 10 new blogs 15 February 2010, and commented on several.
6B – Added 32 memorials and grave photographs to Find-A-Grave to satisfy this requirement on 15 Feb 2010
6C
6D
6E
6F
6G – Complete, I have used the Google follow feature for a couple of blogs. I will probably change them over to my feed reader, since what is how I prefer to follow, but I did meet this condition and will leave them as followed for the duration of the Games!

Category 6, Gold.

The ten inches of snow we received today slowed me down some today. I am expecting to have three VIP’s (grandchildren) visit later this week, so I have just a little time to continue with the competition. I will be writing a summary for the closing games before they arrive.

No matter how much more I accomplish, this exercise has proven to me that I can make progress, it is a matter of how high a priority I can assign to the tasks!

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GeneaGlogger’s 2010 Winter Games, Task 4B

February 23rd, 2010

This task asks that I create a timeline using a free application; I used the suggest application, Timetoast.

This subject of this timeline is my dead-end great-grandfather, Charles Yuen/Ewen/Ewens/Yournd/Yearnd, about whom I have previously written.

The genealogy program I use, RootsMagic, displays a wonderful timeline in the individual’s view, but I tried this anyway.

To illustrate, I added a date of birth for every indirect source I had. I also added his children’s births, which don’t show up on an individual’s detail screen. A weakness that I noted was that day, month and year were required. To be honest, the farther in my research I travel, the less sure I am of dates. Since many dates are hard to pin find myself using “about” or “between” quite often. This tool did not allow for that, so that info had to be placed in the notes.

I prefer the list view, not because the timeline is not pretty, but because I can see all the information at one time, in the order they occurred. I do not have to click or highlight a dot to see an individual fact. I can not make the list show here, but you can look at it that way from the public link.

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Some Wexford County Obituaries

February 20th, 2010

As part of the 2010 Geneablogger Winter Games, I have been organizing my files, renaming some, adding tags and so on. While doing that I came across some information which may help some of you! I posted these on the Wexford, Michigan RootsWeb e-mail list years ago. I think adding it here might reach some people who just “Google” their names. I am often surprised at the search terms which land people on this blog.

While I was copying obituaries from a scrapbook, some “extra” obituaries which were on the pages with my subjects hitchhiked home with me. If you are researching any of these people, please click the “contact me” link at the top right of this page, and e-mail me the name of your subject. I will e-mail you a copy of the obituary.


Last	First	Year
Agren	Gordon Lee	1942
Albright	John	1942
Badder	Caroline	1942
Baird	Mrs. Richard	1942
Benson	John	1942
Boggs	Kate	1942
Brewer	Smith	1942
Brooks	Ruppert	1942
Bruyette	Mose	1942
Clark	Almeda L.	1949
Edelman	Mrs. Charles Anna Lindberg	1942
Flynn	Frank W.	1942
Fourman	Pharon	1942
Greef, Jr.	Karl	1949
Ingemanson	Mrs. Ola Selma Samuelson	1941
Johnson	Mrs. Albert G	1942
Ketchum	Alton	1942
Lamunion	Glen A.	1940
Long	Mr & Mrs George + 4 children	1942
Manktelow	Mrs. Albert Florence Chapin	1940
Merrill	Lt. Donald W.	1942-1949
Meyer	William F.	1942
Miller	William R	1942
Miller	Frank W.	1949
Monroe	Charles Edward	1942
Nelson	Baby of Mr. & Mrs. George Nelson	1942
Older	Mrs. John Susana Shirer	1942
Rogers Mrs.	Charles Blanche Smith	1942
Russ	Luie	1942
Servis	Clyde	1949
Servis	Mrs. Frank Mary Ellen Krager	1942
Stevens	Harvey H.	1949
Thompson	Orlo	1942
Van Ocker	William	1942