Lucius Tanner Burton, 1819 - 1909. Father of Dr. John Clement Burton.
Burton family researcher Bill Johnson has generously shared a number of photographs from his collection, featuring the family of Dr. John Clement Burton and his wife, Dora Ellen Miller. Dr. John was a physician and pharmacist in Oklahoma Indian Territory. His family owned a drug store in Stroud, Lincoln County, OK, for a number of years.
According to one source, Dr. John’s full name was: John Clement Elijah Taylor Levi Jeter Wright Burton.
His children were: Glade Clement Burton, Dora Vest Burton, Lucius Wesley Marmaduke Burton, Mabel Burton, Silva Caecile Burton, Nellie Aleann Burton, and Daisy Ethel Burton.
Bill is actively seeking cousins to trade data with, so if you have a Glade, or a Caecile, or a Lucius Wesley Marmaduke in your family you might be one of them. If you want to contact him, use this comment form, and your message will be passed along.
Click here to see all of Bill’s photo contributions to this database. He has many more in his collection, as well as a number of original documents.
Updates to the Kersey family, descendants of Samuel Kersey and Hannah R. Pearce, have recently been posted.
An interesting discovery was made: a grandson of this couple, George Russell Kersey (1866-1916), was considered to be a giant. Reports of his actual height vary, but it appears he was at least 7 feet tall – something that was quite rare 140 years ago.
According to one source, both his mother and father were over 6 feet, and all of his brothers and sisters were quite tall as well. But it was George who was celebrated as Pennsylvania’s Giant. He served as the drum major in the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania marching band, and for a time he was an attraction in Adam Forepaugh’s Circus. Ultimately he settled down into the same profession as his father – he became a dentist.
I scanned the web and found an old photograph of Dr. Kersey in his prime, but I’m not interested in paying $100 for the reproduction rights, so to view his photo you’ll have to
click here.
Sophia (Taylor Vaughn) Morrill (1848 - 1926) and Charles Valentine Morrill (1846-1932).
Newly discovered:
Quite a few back issues of The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Newspaper, have been archived at the Google News Archive, and you can search them (for free!) here: http://news.google.com.
Thanks to this source, a number of updates and new connections have been made regarding the family of Ira Ellsworth Morrill, and Effie Estella Pearce.
Only recently, great-grandson Ward contributed this photo of Charles Valentine and Sophia Morrill – 2 pioneering partiarchs of this Michigan family – along with additional photos, corrections and new data. Thank you very much for sharing, Ward!
Recent updates include:
the descendants of Ezra McKinstry,
the family of Anderson and Elizabeth (Dipboye) Johnson,
and the family of William and Delia Amanda (Pearce) McCain.
New data regarding the McCain family of Nodaway, Iowa, comes from The Adams County, Iowa Newspaper Archive, which can be searched for free.
Location, location, location . . . the geocoding of this database is currently underway.
Geocodes are latitude / longitude values that can specify any geographical location in the world. In this case, they are used to generate a customized Event Map for any individual in the database.
Look for more and more maps to appear as you cruise this web site.
Event Map for John Jameson Pearce
Pierce sisters, Sarah Eliza Palmateer and Margaret Hannah Barger
Cousin Berniece in Oregon has been kind enough to contribute a second batch of scans from her grandmother’s photo album / scrapbook.
These are quite remarkable and historically significant images that document the Franklin and Matilda (Hollenbeck) Pierce family, pioneers of the Portland area of Oregon.
An index to all of Berniece’s contributions is here.
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Berniece also sent along an Unknown – an unidentified photograph from the photo album kept by Minnie Palmateer Ely. There is some speculation he might be David Hollenbeck, brother of Matilda. The only thing certain about this circa 1880-1890s era cabinet photo is that it was taken in Peoria, Illinois.
W. W. Baker
Many thanks to Marie for her Baker family contributions. She has helped to bring the family of William Warren Baker and Silvia Caecile Burton up to date, and has provided a wonderful biography of W.W. Baker, written by Sinclair Oil Company 1957.
Here’s the list.
With several new items added to the W.W. Baker profile, the question remains: was his name William Warren Baker? or Warren William Baker ? Sifting through a variety of documents, there seems to be about a 50/50 split – even on documents he signed. It is starting to appear as though his legal name was William Warren, but he preferred Warren William.
Over the years, I’ve made a few good acquisitions from eBay to enhance the genealogy research – I’ve also been fleeced there. But with a little healthy skepticism, and a great deal of patience, eBay is a resource that should not be overlooked.
For example, I picked up Huffington Family History Volumes 1 and 2 (actual books, not computer CDs) for a nominal price. It took just over two years from the time I set up my eBay saved search, until the time a set of these books was put up for auction. I sniped successfully, and the books were mine.
The key here is the saved search feature on eBay. This feature is an automated scan for any items that match your saved search terms – if and when there is a “hit” you get an email from eBay with a link to the item. Most auctions on eBay last seven days, so there is still plenty of time to consider your bid.
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