Granny's Genealogy

Blessings From a New-found Cousin

May 31st, 2011 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (7 Comments)

Not too long ago, I was excited when a cousin of Papa’s contacted me by e-mail. She had read what I had written here about our Warren family, and knew she was related. After a couple of exchanges of information, we determined that she and Papa are second cousins, once removed. Since Papa’s grandfather, Edward I. Warren, was part of a family of six children, and his great-grandparents had eight or more children, we did know there were dozens of cousins out there somewhere. She was the second one that found us through the internet.

This morning, I was greeted with a huge surprise and blessing in my e-mail. These photographs of Papa’s great-grandparents, who are also his cousin’s second great-grandparents, are the first we have seen of them.

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Isaac Warren, 1838-1922

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Emily (Cowling) Warren, 1843-1932

Isaac Warren was the son of William Warren, an immigrant and soapmaker from Canterbury, Kent, England, and Eliza Eats/Eates. Isaac was also a soapmaker in New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. His wife, Emily Cowling, was the daughter of James Cowling, 1810-1881 and his wife Emily Leach, 1810-1869. The Cowlings also immigrated from England to Pennsylvania.

Our cousin, Susan Brubaker Knapp, is a fiber and graphic artist. Please take a minute to look at her website, I am sure you will be as amazed as I was!

A huge shout-out to Susan for sharing these treasures!

Sources:

Warren, Isaac. Photograph. unknown date. Reproduction of original photograph in the possession of Susan Brubaker Knapp, address for private use.

Cowling, Emily. Photograph. unknown date. Reproduction of original photograph in the possession of Susan Brubaker Knapp, address for private use.

Cowling, Warren

Funeral Card Friday – Lillie Warren

February 25th, 2011 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

I am sharing funeral cards on Friday, following a Facebook meme which you an see here.

Lillie Warren funeral card

Lillie Mae Warren was born in Paw Paw, Lee County, Illinois; her parents were Edward I. Warren and his wife Susan Foreman. The Warrens had migrated west from their home in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, where they resided at 1533 Penn Avenue, Beaver Falls, according to a city directory published in 1905.

The family was in Wexford County, Michigan by 1917, when E.I. Warren purchased land there. Lillie and her husband, Wellington Bruce Dunbar operated Ben Franklin stores in Cadillac, and later in Zion, Illinois where she passed away.

Lillie was Papa’s aunt, an older sibling of his father, William Warren.

Funeral Card Friday, Warren

Until We Meet Again

November 10th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in What's going On - (3 Comments)

Papa’s Dad left us nine years ago today. In many ways, it seems like yesterday, but it was not yesterday. Our niece, who is his youngest granddaughter, had traveled the distance between a little girl and a teen. We have two granddaughters he never saw or held. Our youngest grandson does not remember him, and our older grandsons, his great-grandsons that he was so proud of, are far from the safety of home, one in the Navy and the other the Army.

This picture of him hangs in M-in-L’s home. It looks so much like him, that I expect him to say something every time I see it. But he has said all he had to say, and helped us all he could. He never said a disparaging word about anyone. His family, the neighborhood, and the world are richer for his passing this way.

I am not sure if it is the tractor, or the man on it, or the beautiful scene behind him that looks so like home, but today looking at this gives me a sad feeling.

William R. Warren, Sr., 7 March 1918 – 10 November 2000.

Warren

Maple Hill Cemetery, Cadillac, Wexford, Michigan – Block 2 Lot 49

September 4th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Papa's Ancestors - (2 Comments)

This entry is part 32 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

Maple Hill is a larger city cemetery, located on the south side of Cadillac, Michigan. I have collected a number of photographs from this cemetery and will post my photographs by lot number.

This lot was purchased 8 March 1920, according to the cemetery records.

Dorothy Warren, 19 March 1905 – 5 March 1920. Dorothy was Papa’s aunt.

Edward Isaac Warren, 30 Dec 1880 – 10 Jan 1962; and Susan Amelia Foreman , 21 Nov 1884 – 24 May 1956, Papa’s paternal grandparents.

Foreman, Maple Hill Cemetery Cadillac MI, Warren

Grove Cemetery, New Brighton Pennsylvania

August 10th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

This entry is part 12 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

We found this cemetery by driving around New Brighton. It is on a hill in the east side of town. Thee photos are from our first visit there.

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Hannah E. Warren married Claude Eugene Brashears 16 February 1898 in New Brighton, Beaver County Pennsylvania. Hannah was just a year or so older than her sibling Edward Isaac Warren, who was Papa’s grandfather. One of the Brashears’ children traveled to Michigan several times to visit his uncle, and Papa remembers meeting him in the 1950′s.

Beaver Co PA, Brashears, New Brighton PA, Warren

Belle’s Box – 3-18

June 24th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

This entry is part 271 of 342 in the series Belle's Box

Read about this series of posts, regarding items in a box originally owned by Belle (Lamunion) Fellows Tinker here. The cast of characters is located here. And, there is an accounting of people about whom I have little information here.

The numbering of these posts had been modified to signify that I am posting items from my archival book three, a three precedes the item number.

A Merry Christmas

To wish you all the
joy of old
And many that are new.
To wish you everything
that will
Make Christmas bright
for you.

Fred J. Warren

This is not the first greeting from Fred Warren. I have no idea who he is. He is not related to our Warren family, which came from Pennsylvania. Please contact me if you know of a Fred Warren who might have a connection with Wexford County, Michigan.

Fellows, Lamunion, Tinker, Warren

Belle’s Box – 2-7

March 7th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

This entry is part 161 of 342 in the series Belle's Box

The numbering of these posts had been modified to signify that I am posting items from my archival book two, hence the 2-xx numbering. The posts from this book will contain more thumbnails, you will find that the pages with signatures, text and other important details will enlarge upon clicking.

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Item 2-8 is another sympathy card, probably received at the time of Charles’s death. The senders, Mrs. Maud Colley and Fred & Charles Warren are not familiar to me.

Colley, Fellows, Lamunion, Tinker, Warren

Beaver Cemetery, Beaver Pennsylvania

January 2nd, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Cemeteries | Papa's Ancestors - (2 Comments)

This entry is part 3 of 60 in the series Cemeteries

This cemetery is downtown in Beaver, Pennsylvania. It is pleasant, and many people walk or jog through it.

Section D, Lot 15. Owner, Warren, Catharine. Date: May 4, 1878, Deed 117. The deaths of two individuals buried here pre-date the date of the lot card. They may have been moved to this cemetery, or perhaps the lot card was made up after the first burials. The one we viewed was typed, and looked like it was created after the fact from a log book. These burials were made on this lot with no markers, it is unclear if the date is the interment date, or the death date.

Catharine Warren, July 17, 1877 (wife of the elder Isaac Warren)
Ethel Warren Wick, February 6, 1956
Wilmer L. Ward, Jan 24, 1970
Hilda N. Ward (Nee Wick), Oct 7, 1984

Catherine Warren Baker –half sibling of Isaac Warren
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Isaac Warren ca 1791 – 1870. This uncle of Catharine (Warren) Baker and Isaac Warren raised the children from a young age. According to the cemetery records, the elder Isaac’s wife Catharine is also buried on the lot, but there is no marker on her grave. The lot card says: “First Soapmaker from Canterbury England – 5th Generation Soapmaker”
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There are several babies who were descendants of Catharine Warren Baker also buried on this lot.

Section 4, Lot 93

Isaac Warren and Emily Cowling Warren his wife. These are Papa’s great-grandparents.

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Also on this lot with no marker, Mary (Molly) Warren Malone (moved from Grove Cemetery, New Brighton). Mary, a daughter of Emily and Isaac was born about 1865 and died in 1910.

Baker, Beaver Cemetery, Cowling, Ward, Warren, Wick

Catharine Warren’s ( ca1891 – 1877) Will

September 13th, 2008 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

Recorded in Volume F, p 258 of Beaver County, Pennsylvania Will Records, transcribed from Family History Library US/CAN Film 1289062.

Will of Catharine Warren Registered 8th? day of March 1878

I Catherine Warren, residing in Beaver Falls Beaver County Pennsylvania, being of sound and disposing mind, memory, and understanding do make and publish this my last will and testament as follows to wit: First, I direct that all my just debts, funeral expenses and expenses attending the executing of this will be fully paid. Second, I will bequeath and devise all the rest and residue of my estate, real and personal and mixed, whatever the same may be found or situated to my niece Catharine Warren her heirs and assigns. Finally, I hereby constitute and appoint my said niece Catharine the executor of this my last will and hereby revoking all former wills by me made. Witness by hand and seal this 24 day of March A.D. 1872.

/S/ Catharine Warren

Signed, sealed, published and declared by said Catharine her Testatrix as and for her last will and Testament in the presence of us who have subscribed the same as witnesses.

John (Bind?)
Wm Reed

Beaver County }ss

Be it remembered that on the 30th day of March A.D. 1875? personally appeared before me the Register of Wills in and for said County James (?) and William L. Reed who after being duly sworn according to law did depose and say that they were well acquainted with the handwriting of William Reed one of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing Will having often seen him write and that they hereby believe that the signature of the same William Reed to said will is his own proper handwriting and that the said William Reed is now a non resident ? ? for about two years last past a non resident of the State of Pennsylvania and further his ? ? ?.

James H???
W. S. Reed
State of Pennsylvania

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Catharine, wife of Isaac Warren

September 10th, 2008 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)

Mrs. Catharine Warren ca 1797-1877
Maiden name unknown
Wife of Isaac Warren, ca 1791-1870

There are few records of Mrs. Catharine Warren. Her husband, Isaac, is listed on the 1840 census of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, the household contains one male 40-50 and one female 40-50.

On the 1850 census of Patterson Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, the household is recorded as containing, Isaac Warren, age 60, Catharine, age 50, Catharine age 11, and Isaac age 9. The 1850 census does not list relationship to the head of household later census’ did.

In 1860 Catharine is listed in the same household, age 62, born England.

The burial of Catharine Warren is recorded in the records of Beaver Cemetery and Mausoleum and listed in their online index :

Catharine Warren, age 80 died July 17, 1877 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, buried Section D, Lot 15, Grave 4.

We visited this cemetery in 2002 and there are markers on the lot for Isaac Warren, Catharine’s husband; Catharine Warren Baker, Isaac and Catharine’s niece; and infant great-grandchildren of Catharine Warren Baker. There is no marker at the grave of Catharine Warren, wife of Isaac.

The will of Catharine Warren, registered in Beaver County, Pennsylvania in March of 1878 is the final record we have found. The will clearly describes Catharine’s relationship to the younger Catharine Warren as aunt. I will post it soon.

Baker, Warren