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551	Ernest "Bob" Simpson was adored by his daughter, Goldie, the only surviving child from his third marriage to Susan Belle (Stanwood) Clark. Goldie was only 17 years of age when her father died in 1939, but she recalled many facts and details of his life, which were passed down to her granddaughter and recorded in notes taken in 1991. The following history of Ernest's life comes from these notes as well as details learned through research into the Simpson family. Ernest had two wives prior to his marriage to my great grandmother; he told Goldie that he divorced one of these wives as he came home to find her in the act of adultery. Goldie only knew of her eldest siblings - Clarence, Jessie and Horace, but never met them. It was a surprise when genealogical research uncovered her father's second marriage to Maggie Hoag and their six children, Margaret, George, Mamie, Frank, Edna, and Dorothy the youngest two who were just a toddlers when Ernest and Maggie divorced, likely about 1915-1916. Ernest had written the address of his eldest son, Clarence, on an envelope, so it assumed he continued to have contact with his son. His nickname for Horace was "Happy," and he severed contact with his daughter, Jessie Pearl, who was later known to her immediate family as "Deloise." It's unknown what caused the family rift, nor why he apparently did not have contact with (nor discuss) the children from his second marriage. In January 1916, Ernest penned a poem, and wrote "Passing the Nite away": As I sit here To Nite, Sad and Dreaming While Memories, Cum back to Me I just have to stop And Wonder If theres any wone, Thinking of Me... I would be just so glad, If only I had A card or a Telephone Call Just sumthing to take, my mind off from This And Know I've a Frend, after All If Only I had, a Frend like This Just Sum Wone, who understood Me I know I could make a Much better Fight And Oh how, Happy Ide Be... If Bob is Your Frend, Just Remember That he is your Friend, All the Time Wiling to share all your Troubles And redy to give, His last Dime Its Off time I've been, without Money But I never Robed, any wons Till For I've always Tried, to be Honest That won, Gleme of Sun Shine Still I wonce had a home and happy The futcher looked cheerful and bright But how quickly the shadows can gather I was robed of that home in a night It certainly seems likely Ernest is reflecting on his wife's infidelity, and the wound was still quite raw. Ernest and Susan married January 12, 1918, having met at a funeral in 1917. It is likely this was the funeral of Ernest's brother, O. Fred Simpson, who was married to Susan's aunt, Flora (Stanwood) Howe. Fred died July 18, 1917. On August 6, 1917, Ernest wrote a poem entitled, "Facts," obviously written about his new love, Susan: As I site here to nite, Sad and Lonely As memories cum back to me It makes me stop and wonder If thers anyone thinking of me Our strole to the bridge in the evening And Guys back porch at nite Whare we sat in the dark not a bad thing you know For Lidie had turned off the light As we sat ther unbinding the hours or time Wraped up in each other just love blind And mother up stairs spent a sleepless nite The stars they had faided twas broad day light Now if to nite was an other such nite With Guys back porch and Lide dark lights And Mother in dreamland with out a care I would give all I have got sweetheart to be there But what is the use of wishing my dear When your over ther and I am over here And Guys back steps he can take them in For I don't think we will need them again One week and a day the times flying fast At a depotless platform I kissed you last The rest of the bunch and my sister was thare But you got the last kiss so why should we care Now little woman you know this is true I am just riting out my thoughts to you Its an offul quere thing how love is made So cum love me up for I am not afraid Composed and Ritten by Bob Simpson One rainy nite at Lakefield Minn Aug 6 - 1917 One other poem written by Bob that same night: Twas just a little smile Just a little look Just a little hand Laid upon my coat Just a little flutter From eyelash I could see Just one word of comfort And the world had changed for me. These and others of Ernest's many poems were saved by Goldie, and are now in the possession of her granddaughter. Shortly after Ernest and Susan married, they moved to Rock Rapids, Iowa, and later to Havana (near Owatonna), Steele County, Minnesota, where Goldie was born in 1921. They owned a farm there in Owatonna, and sold it about 1924. They used part of the profits from the sale of the farm to purchase a car, which is believed to be the Ford Model T which Ernest was very proud of. They went and visited relatives in Iowa and then went on to South Dakota to visit Ernest's brother Frank Simpson and his wife Emma. Sometime after this, Ernest and family moved to Iowa, possibly Rock Rapids, where they owned a hotel and restaurant. It is unclear when or how long they operated the business, but it was during Goldie's early childhood. They sold the business when the cook killed his wife and then himself in the kitchen of the restaurant. Also during the early '20s, Ernest temporarily resumed horse racing, which he had done during the time prior to his marriage to Susan. He was also a painter and hung wall paper, and it was likely this occupation that had allowed him to work in trade for a phonograph, which he gave his to his daughter Goldie when she was about 6 or 7 years of age. She gave the phonograph to cousin Grover Elphick when she married and moved to California about 1940. In 1961 Goldie wrote of her father, "Daddy was a vigorous Paladin sort of man. He was much older than Mama, and his past was colored with numerous tales, many of which I am sure were not told to me. An ordinary deck of playing cards came to life under his fingers. To see him shuffle and deal was a lesson in not playing cards with a stranger. He often remarked that he preferred a fine horse or dog to most people any day. His horses were a constant source of fascination to a very small me. I loved the smell of stables, and the velvet softness of a horse's nose. Daddy bred, trained, and drove many superior harness horses. I was crammed with information regarding trotters, pacers and ever "mudders", (which are not colt's mothers), also I recall he would shudder and speak disgustedly of 'stump suckers'. I wonder if such a beast was troubled with emotional insecurity. "My daddy had a temper that was as black and sudden as a Mid-Western storm. He once soundly beat a farmer that was forcing tired, under-fed horses. There is no true way to describe the complexities of his nature, with all his masculine sternness there was an old-world courtliness toward the gentle sex. He completely, worshiped my mother, and I was bathed in the same sunshine, perhaps because I was hers, yet bearing the blackness of his eyes and hair. Daddy was Welsh. "As I grew as a skinny little weed I often did many things which I knew were forbidden and not to be tolerated. But they were things I wanted to do so badly that the punishment would be minor compared to the fun of the moment. There was the time I went over the brick garden wall at twilight to join the games of the neighboring children. I didn't ask permission or - horror of horrors, answer, when my name was called with increasing emotion. As always, my little bloomers ended up around my knees, I was placed across Mama's lap and calmly and thoroughly paddled. It was always thus, Daddy never lifted a finger toward me in anger. "This reluctance to punish I've never understood, because I lived in fear of his frown. I can see it still, he would lower his reading glasses, look over the top of the rim, and say softly, "girl, did you hear your mother?" At such moments I was filled with unreasonable terror. "Daddy was a 'do-it-yourself' addict before the term came into being. He excelled at all her did and every spring he got a far-away gleam in his eyes which always came before the re-decorating of everything paintable. "This particular spring I was six years old and filled with the joy that only melted snow and Robbins can bring. Daddy decided to re-varnish a floor, completing the task he cautioned me not to enter that room. I tried very hard to remember but it was a worthless effort. I went out to play, and discovered some beauty of spring which I must immediately relate to Mama. Without thought or hesitation I flew through the door - Half-way across the room I remembered with perfect clarity. If fright could kill me I would have died stuck in that varnish. There was nothing to do but retreat sadly. The remainder of that black morning I brooded in the back-yard sun waiting for my sins to catch up with me. "An eternity away I was called for lunch, the damage to the floor had been repaired. During the meal the conversation was completely normal, containing no remonstrations for pea-green me. "As a child I couldn't understand why the subject was never brought up, or why no punishment was carried out. Now as a three-time mother I believe that I was forgiven because the half-way tracks indicated my innocence of deliberate wrong-doing. Today there are many times I over-look incidents that could be distorted to simulate aggression. Discipline is mellowed by that loving understanding which began to take root many, many springs ago."	SIMPSON, Ernest Loren (I1524)
552	Essex Antiquarian, Vol. 11, Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Antiquarian, 1907. Perley, Sidney , Editor images online. American Ancestors. http://www.americanancestors.org.	Source (S544)
553	Ethel Stanwood Bolton also includes Rachel, b. 14 Aug 1694 (d. 25 Nov 1695) and James, b. 6 Dec 1713 to Jonathan and Mary, but records of these births have not yet been located.	STANWOOD, Jonathan (I1866)
554	Ethel Stanwood Bolton states John's estate was given to his eldest son, with the inventory of the estate on record at the courthouse at Salem.	STANWOOD, John (I1957)
555	Ethel Stanwood Bolton states, "In 1814, Mr. Stanwood was appointed to Engine No. I, of the Gloucester Fire Department, the 'Volent.' That same year the engine-house was razed to the ground by the soldiers who were returning from the Cape. This was caused by the fact that some firemen, exempt from military duty, had jeered at the soldiers. In 1832 and 1833, he was a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners, and in 1849 was made chief...It is interesting that in 1864, in the great Gloucester fire, the house owned by Captain Richard G. Stanwood, a two-story dwelling in the rear of Nos. 167 and 169 Front Street was burned. This was supposed to have been the house of the emigrant Philip Stanwood, but absolute proof seems lacking."	STANWOOD, Capt. Richard Goss (I2094)
556	Ethel Stanwood Bolton, on page 144 of The Stanwood Family In America, states that John's wife Mary Gilley was from Milford, CT. However, the marriage record found in Eden Town Records states Mary was from Eden, Maine. Further research is required to verify the descendents attributed to John and Mary.	STANWOOD, John (I2541)
557	Event Memos from GEDCOM Import... *New [WILL] Heir, Heir, Heir, Heir, Heir, Heir, Heir, Executor, Heir, Barnstable Probate Records V, p20-21: [5:76] I Jabez Bursley of Barnstable in ye County of Barnstable, Yeoman being under weakness of body yett through Gods goodness of sound memory & Judgement Do make this my Last will & testament in manner following: First. I willingly resign my soul to God who gave it whenever he shall in his over Ruling Providence think fat to put an end to my Life in this world hoping to obtain forgiveness from him all my Sins Through the Mediatioin of his Son Jesus Christ and my body I will that it be decently buried at ye discretion of my Executor and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life, I give demise & dispose of the same in ye following manner & form: Imprimis: I order & desire that my Executors sell so much of my Lands or Meadows as will amount to sufficient to pay all my Just Debts and to give Deeds of Conveyance of the same and with the Produce to pay all my Just Debts af’d. Itm. I give and bequeath unto Hannah my dearly beloved wife the free & full use of all ye Remainder of my Real Estate (that shall remain when enough is sold to pay ye Debt as af’d) Together with all the Use and Improvement of all my Personsal Estate (Excepting ye Loomes & Tackling belonging to it during her continueing my widow. Item: I give and bequeath unto my Son Barnabas one acre and half of my Land being part of my homestead bounded and described as followeth beginning at ye Highway next my Brother Josephs and extending westerly by sd way to the first post westward after it crosses the fence on the Easterly side of the Cow yard thence extending northerly (keeping the same distance from my sd Brothers Land) until it comes four Rods and an half below sd Cow Yard, there with a sett att westerly upon a square four Rod thence Northerly Running an equal Distance from my sd Brothers Land so as to Include one acre and half in the whole To him the sd Barnabas his heirs and assigns for ever. Item. I give and bequeath to my son John Thirty pounds To be paid in manner hereafter express’d. Item. I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth my Loome and all the Tackling Belonging thereunto. Item, I give and Bequeath unto my five Daughters viz. Elizabeth, Abigail, Hannah [5:77] Joannah and Mary: To each of them Tenn Pounds to be paid in manner as hereafter express'd and to my sd five Daughters I also give all my household goods that shall be remaining at my wife's decease or marriage to be divided equaly among them or so many of them as shall then be Liveing. Item: I give and bequeath unto all my Children equaly to be divided among them all the Residue of my Personal Estate that shall be remaining at my wife's decease or Marriage excepting only the husbandry utensils which I give and bequeath unto my son Benjamin viz. what remains of them at my wife's decease as aforesd or marriage. Item. I give and bequeath unto my Son Benjamin and to his heirs and assigns for ever all my Real Estate in housing Lands or meadows whatsoever & wheresoever it is or may be found in Barnstable or elsewhere which is not in this will already disposed of or ordered to be disposed of otherwise (reserving the [unreadable] in sd estate given to my wife as above expressed) he the sd Benjamin his heirs & assigns paying unto my Son John Thirty Pounds given to him as above mentioned in money as it shall pass in Common Dealing within four years after my wife's term is ended to the estate given herein to him sd Benjamin and also paying unto each of my live Daughters above named ten pounds in like money within the same time as he sd Benjamin his heirs & assigns is to pay John as af’d. But my will & meaning is that if it so happen that any of my Daughters decease and leave no children surviving at ye time when my sd Son Benjamin is to pay them as above then that Payment to cease as to ye Deceas'd Child or Children and in case any of them decease and at time of Payment have surviving Child or Children it or they to receive instead of the deceased Parents and Benjamin's obligations good to pay in like manner. Item. My will and meaning is that if it so happen that my Son John decease Leaving no heir Lawfully begotten of his body at ye time when my Son Benjamin is to pay him ye Thirty Pounds as above mentioned Then sd Barnabas shall stand in John's stead and Receive accordingly and so in Like manner his sd Barnabas's child or Children if he decease and leave any at time of payment Lawftilly begotten as aforesd but if neither John nor Barnabas nor children of niether of them be surviving at time of Payment then the obligation on Benjamin to that Payment shall cease and furthermore my will is that if it so happen that Barnabas my Son Decease leaving no Issue of his body Lawfully begotten Then the one acre and half of Land given to him as abovesd shall accrew to John my Son and to his heirs and also if my sd Sons John and Barnabas Decease leaving no Issue of their Body's Lawfully begotten Then sd Land shall accrew to my Son Benjamin and his heirs; and if it so happen that my Son Benjamin Decease without Issue of his body Lawfully begotten then all the estate given to him as above mentioned in this will shall accrue to my son Barnabas and to his heirs & assigns forever he sd Barnabas his heirs or assigns being obliged to pay out the several sums of money to the several Children In case It falleth to him in the same manner that my Son Benjamin is to do if the Estate continues to be his. I do also hereby declare it to be my mind and will and my true Intention yt the Estate which I have in Reversion by my Late Decd Fathers Last will & testament being Land now in my Brother John's Improvement & to be mine If he decease without male heir now this Estate is [5:781] Included in the bequest made to my Son Benjamin as on the other side & always so to be understood. And I do hereby constitute and appoint my well beloved Brother John Bursley and my beloved Son Benjamin Executors to this my Last will & testament. In testimony of this Instruments being my Last will and Testament I have hereunto sett my hand and seal this fifth day of January Anno Domini 1731. Note the words (shall be remaining) Interlined between the 26th. & 27th. Lines from ye top and the words (and Barnabas) between the 8th & 9th line from ye bottom on ye other side were entered before my signing and sealing hereof as also the Rasure upon one line & 2 parts of lines was made before the Signing & Sealing hereof (on this side) Jabez Bursley (seal) Signed Sealed Published Pronounced & declared by the sd Jabez Bursley to be his Last will & testament In presence of Joseph Smith. Mary Smith. Silvanus Bourn.	BURSLEY, Jabez (I2657)
558	Event Memos from GEDCOM Import... Land Mortgage (Lot 102) $400, Know all men by these presents that I Jesse Tibbetts of New Sharon in the county of Franklin and state of Maine, Mason in consideration of four hundred & twenty dollars paid by Ephraim Tibbetts of town county and state aforesaid Esquire the receipt where of I do hereby acknowledge do hereby give Grant sell and convey unto the said Ephraim Tibbetts his heirs and assigns forever the following described tract of land situated in New Sharon in the south side of Sandy River being lot number one hundred two on plan of said town and being the same where I now reside bounded as follows to wit: beginning one hundred & sixty to the corner of said lot thence southwesterly one hundred and rods to the westerly corner of said lot thence about one hundred & twenty five rods South west on the side line of said lot to land sold to Samuel Sanders thence east ten degrees South forty five rods & eleven links to the Southerly end of said lot fence north west on the end line of said lot to the first bounds ____ there from land once occupied for public roads containing ninety seven acres more or less. To have and to hold the aforegranted premises to the said Ephraim Tibbetts his heirs and assigns to their use and behoof forever. And I do covenant with the said Ephraim Tibbetts his heirs and assigns that I am lawfully seized in fee of the aforegranted premises: That they are free of all encumbrances: that I have good right to sell and convey the same tomsaid Ephraim Tibbetts and that I will warrant and defend the same to the said Ephraim Tibbetts his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons. Provided nevertheless that if the said Jesse Tibbetts his errors executors or administrators pay to the said Ephraim Tibbetts his heirs or executors or administrators or assigns the sum of four hundred & twenty dollars as follows, viz, one hundred & twenty dollars on demand, on e hundred dollars in one year from the first day of April next, one hundred dollars in two years from the first day of April next & one hundred dollars in three years from the first day of April next & interest annually after the first day of April next, then this deeds as also ___notes bearing even date with these presents given by the said Jesse Tibet’s to the said Ephraim Tibetts to pay the same sums at the times aforesaid shall all be void otherwise shall remain in full force. In witness whereof, I the said Jesse Tibbetts have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth day of August in the year of our Lord on thousand eight hundred and thirty. Jesse Tibbetts seal Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of Samuel Goodridge Nancy Goodridge Kennebec ss. August 30th 1839. The the above named Jesse Tibbetts acknowledge the above instrument by him subscribed, to be his free act and deed, Samuel Goodridge Justice of the Peace Franklin, ss - Received Feby 13 A.D. 1840 entered and compared with the original by Samuel Baker Register	TIBBETTS, Jesse L (I800)
559	Everett's father's pension file as well as his headstone give his birth date as 12 May 1879. The 1900 census states his birth month/year of May 1879. The Minnesota Births and Christenings Index at Ancestry.com states Everet was born on 4 Jun 1879. The date of 12 May 1879, supported by three of the four sources, will be accepted as the date of birth.	DAY, Everett (I1718)
560	excused from military service, The Queen's Commissioner in the province of Overijssel explains, that John Theodore Mahieu born in Olst the May 13, 1859 residing in Amsterdam of professional tailors son of Alexis and Johanna Baars residing in Olst the last deceased in the Olst December 11, 1897 in the entry register of the municipality Olst the year 1878 for the class of the year 1879 is registered and that he subsequently has fallen to the lot No. 42, which, beyond being left summons him to have no service required., PHOTO, Y, Y	MAHIEU, Johannes Theodorus (I372)
561	Faribault Daily News	FAY, Adda Viola (I1966)
562	Farmer	WASGATT, Charles Wesley (I2225)
563	Fernald Farm Burying Ground, When the farm was sold (1921) and passed out of the possession of the Fernald family the graves were removed; some taken to the Gilley burying ground and others to Mount Height.	FERNALD, John Eben (I2283)
564	Fernald Farm Burying Ground, When the farm was sold (1921) and passed out of the possession of the Fernald family the graves were removed; some taken to the Gilley burying ground and others to Mount Height.	WASGATT, Sophronia (I2476)
565	Ferry Crossing, “1802 - Nathaniel Tibbetts established a ferry crossing about a mile above the village. It was, for a few years, the only way to cross the Sandy River (besides fording).”	TIBBETTS, Rev Nathaniel (I1596)
566	Files of Lauren Rogers Mahieu. Privately held by Tommy Fehn, Mississippi.	Source (S19)
567	Finger amputated, Bert Stanwood was hurt quite seriously last Tuesday. He was pulling out some straw in the rear of the separator when the carrier caught his hand, crushing it so severely that the little finger had to be amputated. It is thought that he will be all right in a short time.	STANWOOD, Bert Jerome (I868)
568	First Church of Berwick, Maine	Family: Thomas WASGATT / Margaret DAVIS (F823)
569	Fish Hawk Cemetery	BARLOW, Leon Frances (I2127)
570	Floodwood Boy Leaves For France; Visits Old Home, Added 31 Mar 2011, MISC 093, Halstead Bursley has sailed again for France after a brief furlough spent with relatives and friends at his home in Floodwood, Minn. He is a fireman on the Gunboat Columbia, which has made several trips with convoys and recently tied up at an eastern drydock for boiler repairs. Bursley enlisted at Spokane, Wash., Dec. 6. His older brother, Harry enlisted in the engineering crops (sic) April 20 and left last week for Jefferson Barracks, Mo. J.M. Bursley, father of the boys served in the Fourth Minnesota Infantry for threre years and six months and marched "with Sherman to the sea." Their greatgrandfather, Benjamin Bursley distinguished himself in the Civil war.	BURSLEY, Halstead Dunn (I1542)
571	Floodwood, March 26 - David Stanwood, a resident of this place, had a narrow escape from drowning yesterday while crossing the ice on the St. Louis river a few miles south of here. Mr. Stanwood crossed the St. Louis in the morning while on his way to work, in safety, but on return took a boat and pushed it ahead of him while crossing. When at about the middle the ice fell away beneath him and the boat released itself from his grasp. After struggling he succeeded in catching the boat and paddled to shore, no worse off except for a drenching.	STANWOOD, David C (I1080)
572	Floral Park Cemetery	STANWOOD, Phyllis (I1009)
573	Florence Evelyn George, 101, Princeton, died on Saturday, August 13, 2011 at the Elim Care & Rehab Center, Princeton, MN. Florence E. Keeler was born on July 20, 1910 in Santiago Township, Sherburne County, MN, daughter of Ira and Violet (Orrock) Keeler. She grew up in Santiago and went to District 21 School. She was united in marriage with John Garrett George on October 15, 1927 at Elk River, MN. They farmed in Santiago, Glendorado and Blue Hill Townships, retiring from farming on November 30, 1967 and moved to Princeton. She was a member of Bethany Lutheran Church in Princeton, the Ladies Aid, and Ruth Circle. She enjoyed playing cards, going out to eat, coupon refunding, selling Avon and spending time with family and friends. She is survived by a son: Allen George of Aurora, Colorado; a daughter-in-law: Ann George of Billings, Montana; sons-in-law: Douglas Sanford of Princeton, Alvin Jones of Elk River, and Walter Nielsen of Big Lake; 23 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren and 77 great great-grandchildren; a brother: Clairmont Keeler of Princeton. She was preceded in death by her husband: John on August 11, 1985; her parents: Ira & Violet Keeler; three sons: Gordon George, Kenneth George and Marvin George; four daughters: Ruth Sanford, Irene Jones, Helen Nielsen, and Vivian George; brothers: Edgar, Albert, Harold & Carold Keeler; sisters: Jeannette Harshman & Myrtle MacDonald; grandchildren: Caroline Sproessig & Larry George; great-grandchildren: Jeremy George & Christopher George. Visitation: 5 to 8 PM, Thursday, August 18th at the Williams Dingmann Family Funeral Home, Princeton and for one hour before services on Friday at the church. Funeral: 11 AM, Friday, August 19th at Bethany Lutheran Church, Princeton, MN. Burial: Our Savior’s Lutheran Cemetery, Santiago, MN. (Williams Dingmann Family Funeral Home, Princeton, MN)	KEELER, Florence Evelyn (I906)
574	For many of the families listed on this census, there appears to be missing a male of the appropriate age. Such is the case with Benjamin, who would have been 44 years of age in 1810. Males Under 10: 1 10-15: 0 16-25: 1 26-44: 0 45 and over: 0 Females Under 10: 0 10-15: 0 16-25: 0 26-44: 1 45 and over: 0	STANWOOD, Benjamin Bradstreet (I1493)
575	For many of the families listed on this census, there appears to be missing a male of the appropriate age. Such is the case with Thomas, who would have been about 36 years of age in 1810. Males Under 10: 2 10-15: 1 16-25: 3 26-44: 1 45 and over: 0 Females Under 10: 2 10-15: 3 16-25: 2 26-44: 1 45 and over: 0	WASGATT, Thomas (I746)
576	For many of the families listed on this census, there appears to be missing a male of the appropriate age. Such is the case with Thomas, who would have been about 55 years of age in 1810. Males Under 10: 0 10-15: 1 16-25: 3 26-44: 0 45 and over: 0 Females Under 10: 0 10-15: 1 16-25: 0 26-44: 0 45 and over: 1	WASGATT, Thomas (I1362)
577	Forest Hill Cemetery	CORSON, Jonas (I348)
578	Former Princeton Resident Dies-Word was received yesterday afternoon that A.J. Stanwood, a former resident of Princeton, passed away at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, in the Deaconess' hospital in Minneapolis. He was 74 years of age and his death was due to pneumonia.-Mr. Stanwood was well known to the older generation in Princeton, where he had made his home for many years. He was a member of the G.A.R. and his former comrades will be grieved to hear of his death. One by one the old veterans are slipping away and each death now makes a big gap in their ranks.-Mr. Stanwood is survived by six children, Melvin, Ben, Bert, Mrs. H.E. Cravens of Minneapolis, Mrs. Susie Simpson and Mrs. John Cameron. His death will be greatly regretted by all his former friends in Princeton who extend their sympathy to the members of the family.	STANWOOD, Albert Jerome (I2622)
579	Francelia's birth on the 1900 census was listed as April 1848, consistent with her ages on 1850, 1870 and 1880 censuses. However, on the record of death, Francelia's birthdate was listed as 13 April 1864, clearly incorrect as she would have been three years old at the time of her marriage.	GARLAND, Francelia (I187)
580	Francis Day to Nathaniel Day	DAY, Nathaniel (I336)
581	Frank and his wife Gertrude lived in Minneapolis in the 1920s. He died about 1940 in St. Paul. His cousin Goldie recalled that Gertrude, blind from a surgical procedure, was the one to find him, deceased at home.	SIMPSON, Frank G (I261)
582	Fraser, Luella Hutchins (Painted Post, New York) to "David R. Day". Letter. 17 February 1989. Privately held by David R. Day. 2016.	Source (S533)
583	Free males above 21 - 1 Slaves - 5 Horses - 10 Cattle - 13	BUFORD, Henry (I809)
584	Free Methodist Church	Family: Josiah MCKENZIE / Mary UPHOUSE (F64)
585	Free white males, above 16 - 1 Free white males, under 16 - 2 Free white females - 4	DAY, John (I1447)
586	Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1 Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 3 Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1 Number of Household Members Under 16: 1 Number of Household Members Over 25: 2 Number of Household Members: 6	DAY, John (I1447)
587	Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 2 Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 3 Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1 Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 8 Free White Persons - Under 16: 1 Free White Persons - Over 25: 7 Total Free White Persons: 8	DAY, John (I1447)
588	Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 70 thru 79: 1 Free White Persons - Under 20: 1 Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 3 Total Free White Persons: 5 Total - All Persons: 5	DAY, Sarah (I306)
589	Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1 Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1 Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19:1 Free White Persons - Males - 70 thru 79:1 Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19:1 Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69:1 Persons Employed in Agriculture: 2	WALTER, Frederick Baltzer (I1405)
590	Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1 Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44 : 1 Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1 Number of Household Members Under 16: 1 Number of Household Members Over 25: 1 Number of Household Members: 3	DAY, John (I952)
591	Free Will Baptist Society, "In 1827, nevertheless, only a step in time beyond the pioneers’ life-and-death struggle for subsistence in a hostile environment - and only four years after its organization as a town- Milo’s voters authorized the expenditure of $300, a large sum to them then, 'To support the preaching of the gospel.’ “That same year, twelve of the old settlers united in organizing the town’s first religious group - the Free Will Baptist Society.“Communications must have been poor, in those days, between the east and the west sides of the town, for no names of the west side residents - no Sargents, or Emerys, Tompson, Lees, Whiddens, or Shipleys - showed up on that 1827 list of members. “That first group of twelve, as it was set down in the ‘Milo and Brownville Register,’ in 1905, included Moses Snow, Stephen Snow, Benjamin Boobar, Sr., Rufus Johnson, Aaron Day, James White, Jr., Nancy Snow, Fannie Snow, Sarah Roe, Abigail Johnson, Eliza Heath, and Mary Stevens."	DAY, Aaron (I1759)
592	Free-Will Baptist Church, Saturday, August 5th, 1854: "Sister Caroline W. Stanwood and Fanny Shaw were received as candidates for baptism, and were baptized by Rev. Samuel M. Hagget, and received the right hand of fellowship.",	WHITE, Caroline E (I2219)
593	From Betty's obituary: "Member of St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Rockwood Fire Co. Auxiliary, and Rockwood Senior Citizens. Graduate of Hammond's Beauty School of Johnstown."	TRIMPEY, Betty (I78)
594	From Garland's Find-A-Grave memorial page: Garland's first husband was James Emerson Dorff. They were married in Ohio. They had five children - three boys and two girls. Husband #2 was Robert Farish they had no children. Garland played the piano and in 1941 turned professional. Garland played Dixieland, blues and swing and even country. Garland loved playing piano and singing."	BAKER, Garland B (I1400)
595	From Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families: John Bursley, 2d, only son of John, was eight years of age when his father died. He inherited the mansion house taken down in 1827, and two-sixths of his father's estate. The right of his sisters it appears that he bought, for at his death in 1726, he owned all the lands that were his father's. He married twice; first, Elizabeth, daughter of Lieutenant John Howland, Dec. 1673, who was the mother of his ten children. His second wife was also named Elizabeth; but her maiden name does not appear on record. "He was a farmer, industrious and enterprising, and died leaving a large estate. The old mansion house he bequeathed to his son Joseph." Event Memos from GEDCOM Import... *New [WILL] [4:326] In the name of God Amen this eighteenth day of July Anno Domini 1726 I John Bursley of the Town and County of Barnstable being very sick and weak of body but of perfect mind and memory blessed be God for it, therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body & knowing I must dye do make and ordain this my Last [4:327] will and testament, that is to say principally & first of all I give and recomend my soul into the hands of God that gave it and my body to the earth to be buried in Christian and decent manner at the discretion of my Executors hereafter mentioned and as touching such worldly Estate, I give and demise & dispose of the same In the following manner & form. Item, I give to my dear & loving wife Elizabeth In Line of her Dower the western room In my dwelling house with the Leanto & the use of the seller under the sd room, wth Liberty to egress & regress too & from thence and also the use of such beding and utensils within doors as she may think suitable and necessary for her during the time of her natural Life and ye use of two of my Cows to be kept for her by my son Joseph winter & summer also necessary fier woodCutt drawn & sett for her at the door by my sd son & one third of all the grain & flax yt my sd son Joseph shall annually raise of the Land hereafter given him in this my will, and one third part of the wool of my sheep & one third part of the mutton that may be ye produce of my sd sheep & liberty to keep a swine for her own use to be taken out of mine, And that at my sd wives decease the Estate that remains to be equally divided among my daughters, her wearing clothes excepted. Itm. I give my son John Bursley all that my upland & swamp to the southward of the highway or kings road bounded Northerly thereon and Easterly by the Line leading into the woods, southerly to ye extent of sd Land, and westerly by the Land of Joseph Smith, And also I give him my two peices of salt marsh the one being about two acres and half and is in partnership with Nathl Crocker and the other peice in partnership with Joseph Blossom it being a two acre right, as also the priviledge of the dock which he is now digging with his brother and half an acre of my meadow on ye Eastward side of sd Dock for his use with necessary egress and regress & also all my right in the lott in the woods In partnership wth Joseph Bodfish jur. I also give him six shares in the thirteenth wood lot in the wood Iotts all which above mentioned Pcells of upland wood Iotts and Marsh I give to my sd son John his heirs for ever as also I give to my sd son John the one half of my peice of upland and a bitt of Marsh lying at the Northerly end of my neck as it is now fenced in dureing the term of his natural Life and in case he should have a male heir of his body begotten yt lives to Inherit then to him & to his heirs assigns for ever but otherwise then to return to my son Jabez Bursley and his heirs for ever after the expiration of ye Life of my sd son John. Item, I give and bequeath to my son Jabez Bursley the peice or parcell of Land on which his dwelling house now stands being twenty acres more or less, bounded southerly by the high way westerly by the Land of Joseph Smith as the brook runs & northerly by the Marsh, and taking in the other half of my peice of Land Inclosed as above mentioned the half of which is given to my son John and is bounded Easterly as the fence now stands & runs down to the spring near a cross fence and then with a set off westward two rods and then upon the same Corse, northerly to the Inclosuer above mentioned. I also give him the one half on my marsh adjoyning to the highway northerly extending to a cross [4:328] fence I also give him one peice of marsh of five acres be it more or less adjoyning to the upland westerly otherwaies incompassed by the Creek called Boat Cove Creek as also my ten shares in the tenth wood Lott and half my Lott of the Late Common Land. Item, I give & bequeath unto my son Joseph Bursley all ye rest of my upland bounded on the highway both above & below it with the housing thereon excepting the use of part of my dwelling house dureing the Life of my abovesd wife, as before expressed and the use of my western Chamber to my Daughters while any of them live single, as also all the rest of marsh not above disposed of & my wood lot being the twelveth in number & all the rest of my Land both wood land & planting Land in the Township of Barnstable & Sandwich, I give equally to be divided between my two sons Jabez and Joseph. And further my will is that since I have given my sd son Joseph a preferable portion to my other sons that he should be kind to his Mother in Law and provide for her & not let her want anything that may be needfull and comfortable as for food Clothing & tendance for her in her old age If what I have given her in ys my will be not sufficient for her. Item, I give and bequeath to my five daughters Mary, Joannah, Abigail, Elizabeth and Temperance fourty pounds apeice wch makes two hundred pounds, my son Joseph to pay the one half and my two other sons fifty pounds apeice to be paid within two years after my decease, all the rest of my Psonal Estate I give In equal proportion among my sd five daughters they to receive it all at my decease except wt I have given the use of to my wife during the time of her natural Life. Item, My will is also that my daughter Temperance being weakly I further order that my son Joseph pay her ten pounds over and above what I have already given her & that she have some liberty In the house with her Mother In Law & further my will is that the sheep be not divided to ye daughters until my wifes decease. Lastly I nominate and appoint my two sons John and Joseph to be Executors to this my Last will & testament. In testimony whereof I the sd John Bursley have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written & do hereby publish pronounce and declare this and no other to be my last will & testament In presence of John Bursley. (seal) his mark Joseph Blosom. Thomas Phinney. Samuel Anible Tartius. August 29th 1726. Then Joseph Blosom made oath that he saw John Bursley Late of Barnstable now deceased sign seal and heard him declear the within written to be his last will and testament and that he sett his hand as witness with Samuel Anible Tartius and Thomas Phinney at the same time & that the said John Bursley deceased was of sound mind and disposeing memory in his best apprehention at the same time.Sworn Coram, John Otis, Judge of Probate. [4:329] Barnstable ss. August 30th 1726.Then Thomas Phinney who sett too his hand as a witness to the within written made oath before John Otis Esqr Judge of Probate that he saw the within named John Bursley sign seal & heard him declear the within Instrument to be his Last will & testament and that he was of sound mind when he so did.Attest, Nat& Otis, Regtr. For as much as I Joseph Bursley being informed by the scribe that wrote the within written will that the peice of Marsh given to John Bursley In Pnership with Joseph Blossom called a Two acre right, being two acres and half and yt ye whole peice is Intended. I the said Joseph Bursley do for my self and my heirs comply & acknowledge yt it shall ever hereafter be so understood and have therefore hereunto sett my hand & seal this 26th. day of August 1726. Joseph Bursley. (seal) John Fuller.Nathl Otis. Barnstable ss. On the day & year above written the said Joseph Bursley Psonally appeared before me the subscriber Judge of Probate for sd County & acknowledged the above written to be his act & deed.John Otis.Barnstable ss. John Otis Emir Comissionated by his Excellency the Govemour & Council of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay In New England to be Judge of the Probate of wills & for granting Letters of Administration &c.xxxKnow ye, that upon the day of the date hereof before me at Barnstable In the County aforesd he will of John Bursley Late of Barnstable deceased, to these presents annexed was proved approved and allowed who having while he lived and at ye time of his death goods chattels Rights or credits In the County aforesd: and the probate of sd will & power of comitting administration &c.x x xAnd his will in any manner concerning is freely comitted unto John Bursley and Joseph Bursley sons of sd deceased Executors In the same will named &c. x x x And to exhibit the same Into the Registry of the Court of Probate for the County aforesaid, at, of before the [4:330] tenth day of Sepbr next ensuing: and also to render a plain and true accompt of your sd Administration upon oath when called thereunto. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the sd Court of Probate Dated at Barnstable the 30th. day of August Anno Domini 1726. John Otis. A true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the goods & chattels of Mr John Bursley Late of Barnstable deceased as prised by us the subscriber being thereunto appointed sworn and authorized this 27th. day of August 1726. To purse and appariel. 26=14=10 To a bed & furniture In the Lower Room. 14=05=00 To a bed & beding to it. 09=18=00 To a Chase bed a Rug, blankit and Coverlead. 05=05=00 To bed and Table linin. 05=17=00 To yam flax tow & a bit of Cloth. 03=13=00 To wooll & osted 0343=00 To brass & Iron kittles pans and skillets. 08=13=00 To tramills, Tongs, slice box Iron sword & powder horn. 01=06=00 To pewter, earthen ware and glass bottles. 02=17=00 To Chists, Tables, spining wheels and Chains. 04=05=00 To barrills, Tubbs, pails, baskets sives & other small things. 02=19=00 To saddle, pillion & Chees press. 03=06=00 To meat tallow & Soap. 01=17=00 To hogsets Corn, bags & meal. 03=10=00 To butter, Cheese & books. 06=06=00 To the English Corne In the barn. 08=17=00 To hay of all sorts. 07=00=00 To Cad wheel & Irons, Chains, yoak and plow Irons, Cart rope & boards. 08=05=00 To harrow Teeth & Mollases and Tobacco. 00=190 To a mear & half a Colt 14=00=00 To 2 oxen 4 Cowes & one stear. 37=00=00 To one Cow one stear & 4 Calves. 16=00=00 To 2 swine and 30 sheep. 13=15=00 To 3 three year old Cattle. 13=10=00 To 3 two year old Cattle & 4 year and advantage. 17=00=00 To Indian Come upon the ground. 12=10=00 To the upland below the road and the marsh adjoyning. 1900=00=00 To the upland & meadow above the road to the Eastward of the lane with the house. 240=00=00 To the Land above the road westward of the Lane. 400=00=00 To a five acre right of Marsh. 12040=00 To the 12th. wood Lott. 45=00=00 To 16 shears In the wood Lotts. I7=000 To one planting Lott of upland. 60=00=00 To a part of a Lott In the second division In partnership with Joseph Bodfish jur. 18=00=00 In a peice of Land taken up in the Last division. 30=00=00 [4:331] To one Lot and part of another In ye Last division. 40=00=00 To the shears at Sandy Neck. 05=00=00 To his Land in Sandwich. 10=00=00 To one pair of Sheap shears 3/: 0=03=00 To an Interest in the horse house 16th. part about 01=00=00 To half a pew. 03=10=003137=13=10 Joseph Hinckly. John Baker. Samuel Chipman. August 29th. 1726. Then John Bursley & Joseph Bursley Executors to the last will and testament of their honored Father John Bursley deceased made oath to the truth of the above written Inventory so far as they knew and that if anything further that is material of the Estate of the sd deceased shall come to their knowlidge that they will also bring it to this Inventory.Sworn before me John Otis,Judge of Probate.(seal) Barnstable ss. John Otis Esqr Comissionated by his Excellency the Gouvemour & Council of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay In New England To be Judge of the Probate of wills and for granting Letters of Administration &c.	BURSLEY, John (I377)
596	From Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families: He "had three children. Two died in infancy, and the other, Experience, married Benjamin Lothrop. He inherited the southwesterly part of the old farm on which he resided. He was captain of a vessel employed in the whale fishery."	BURSLEY, John (I1498)
597	From his military records we learn about Martin's physical characteristics: "Height, 5 feet 9 inches; complexion, light; color of eyes, Blue; color of hair, light..." His occupation was "farmer."	SIMPSON, Martin Ransom (I1804)
598	From History of Franklin and Grand Isle counties, Vermont (Lewis Cass Aldrich), pages 492-493, we find a brief biographical sketch of William Sisco, who resided in Fairfield: "William Sisco was one of the first settlers on the east side of the pond. He lived on the farm now occupied by the Asa Hammond family. He served during the entire war of the Revolution. As showing some of the privations to which these early settlers were subjected, it is related that he had been known to go to Swanton, a distance of fifteen miles, work for a bushel of potatoes, and then bring them home on his back" Event Memos from GEDCOM Import... Warnings Out Charlestown Town Records, Vol. 2, 1753 - 1798, pp. 114 - 115 --------------------------------------------------------------------- (86) (Province of N. Hampshire) To Lemuel Hastings Constable of Charlestown & Province aforesd. Greeting - (seal) In his Majesties Name you are hereby Required forthwith agreeable to ye Directions of ye Law to warn the following Persons to departout of this Town where they now Reside to ye Hurt & Damage of sd. Town as it may be where they are not Inhabitants. Viz. Eleazer Sisca & Phebe his wife, William Brother to ye said Eleazar, Samuel, Sarah, Mary, Elisabeth and Comfort Children to ye said Eleazar & Phebe, who Came to Reside here in ye Month of November Last past from Providence in ye Colony of Rhode Island where they last Lived. Hereof Fail not, & make Due Return of this warrant & your Doings theirin toSome of the Selectmen of Charlestown aforsd. by the Second Day of Feby. Next. Given Under our Hands & Seal this 6th Day of Jany. in Seventh year of his Majesties Reign 1767. Wm. Heywood } Select Men Silvanus Hastings } of Charlestown Charlestown New hampshire Jany. 30th 1767 Pursuantto this warrant I have this Day warned Eleazer Sisco & Phebe his wife, & all ye Persons there in Named to Depart out of this town agreable as I am Required and Directed in said warrant. Lemuel Hastings } Constable of Charlestown Charlestown NH Town Records Vol. 2, 1753 - 1798, pp. 150 - 152 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... meet at ye House of Abel Walker in said Town on Friday the 9th of this Instant at 2 O'Clock in the after Noon then ??? their when met to Consider Vote and act on ye following articles, Viz. First, to Chose aModerator 2ndly To Receive and Pass Town Acts and Raise money to pay ye Same 3rdly To see if ye Inhabitants will Remit Nathl Harrimans Meeting House Rate, as Assest in Timothy Putnam's Rate Bill 4thly To see if the Inhabitants will Consider Timothy Putnam on Account of Silus Whitcomb and William Sisco whowent of before said Putnam had Oppertunity to Collect their Meeting House Rates 5thly To see if the Inhabitants will make Capt. Aaron Brown any Consideration on acct. of a Mistake made with him in Settling with the Committe. 6thlyTo See if the Inhabitants will Free Janice Nutting Willard from Paying Rates to ye Minister in ye town for ye futer Hereof Part and make Due Return of this warrant and your Doings theirin to Some of the Select men at or before the Time of said meeting - Given Under our Hands and Seal this Second Day of Decemberin the Ninth year of his Majesties Reign, 1767 Wm. Haywood } Simon Sartwell } Selectmen Elijah Grout } Province of New Hampshire} In Obedience to this Warrant Cha---- of all ye within Named Persons to Assemble and meet agreable to ye Tenor of this warrant by Posting a Coppy agreable to a Vote of ye Town for that Purpose Charlestown Decr. ye 9th 1768. Timothy Putnam, Constable At a Legal Town meeting of the Freeholders (114) and Other Inhabitants of Charlestown, being Duely met at the House of Abel Walker in said Town onFriday ye 9th Day of Decemr. 1768, at two o'Clock in the After Noon Voted First, that Capt. Simon Stevens be the Moderator for this meeting Voted on ye2nd Article, that Wm. Heywood be Allowed the Sum of three Pounds two Shillingsfor Services Done ye Town ye year past. Voted To Abel Walker ye Sum of NineShillings. Voted To Peter Page twelve Shillings Voted To James Farnsworth twelve Shillings Voted To Simeon Olcott Six Shillings Voted To Simon Sartwell Seven Shillings and Eleven Pence Voted To Silvanus Hastings Eighteen Shillings Voted on ye 3rd Article That the Town will Remit Nathl. Harrimans Meeting House Rate as Assest in Timothy Putnams Rate Bill Voted on ye 4th Article ThatSilas Whitman and Wm. Sisco be Discharged from their Meeting House Rate as Assest in Timothy Putnams Rate Bill. Voted, That ye Sisxth Article be Passed Over The Moderator Dismist the Meeting	SISCO, William (I661)
599	From Miles' obituary, which appeared in the Daily American: "He was a veteran of World War II. Owner and operator of Trimpey's Apple Orchard, Berlin RD 4. Life member of Disableld American Veterans of Meyersdale. Also life member of the Military Purple Heart. Member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 654; American Legion Post 445, Berlin; Last Mans Club and St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Rockwood."	TRIMPEY, Miles R (I1742)
600	From the book, Commemorative biographical record of Tolland and Windham counties, Connecticut (p. 356) we learn that James Day “owned some 3,300 acres of land in Killingly, and was the founder of the village of Dayville.”	DAY, James (I2664)

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Ernest "Bob" Simpson was adored by his daughter, Goldie, the only surviving child from his third marriage to Susan Belle (Stanwood) Clark. Goldie was only 17 years of age when her father died in 1939, but she recalled many facts and details of his life, which were passed down to her granddaughter and recorded in notes taken in 1991. The following history of Ernest's life comes from these notes as well as details learned through research into the Simpson family.

Ernest had two wives prior to his marriage to my great grandmother; he told Goldie that he divorced one of these wives as he came home to find her in the act of adultery. Goldie only knew of her eldest siblings - Clarence, Jessie and Horace, but never met them. It was a surprise when genealogical research uncovered her father's second marriage to Maggie Hoag and their six children, Margaret, George, Mamie, Frank, Edna, and Dorothy the youngest two who were just a toddlers when Ernest and Maggie divorced, likely about 1915-1916.

Ernest had written the address of his eldest son, Clarence, on an envelope, so it assumed he continued to have contact with his son. His nickname for Horace was "Happy," and he severed contact with his daughter, Jessie Pearl, who was later known to her immediate family as "Deloise." It's unknown what caused the family rift, nor why he apparently did not have contact with (nor discuss) the children from his second marriage. In January 1916, Ernest penned a poem, and wrote "Passing the Nite away":

As I sit here To Nite, Sad and Dreaming
While Memories, Cum back to Me
I just have to stop And Wonder
If theres any wone, Thinking of Me...

I would be just so glad, If only I had
A card or a Telephone Call
Just sumthing to take, my mind off from This
And Know I've a Frend, after All

If Only I had, a Frend like This
Just Sum Wone, who understood Me
I know I could make a Much better Fight
And Oh how, Happy Ide Be...

If Bob is Your Frend, Just Remember
That he is your Friend, All the Time
Wiling to share all your Troubles
And redy to give, His last Dime

Its Off time I've been, without Money
But I never Robed, any wons Till
For I've always Tried, to be Honest
That won, Gleme of Sun Shine Still

I wonce had a home and happy
The futcher looked cheerful and bright
But how quickly the shadows can gather
I was robed of that home in a night

It certainly seems likely Ernest is reflecting on his wife's infidelity, and the wound was still quite raw.

Ernest and Susan married January 12, 1918, having met at a funeral in 1917. It is likely this was the funeral of Ernest's brother, O. Fred Simpson, who was married to Susan's aunt, Flora (Stanwood) Howe. Fred died July 18, 1917. On August 6, 1917, Ernest wrote a poem entitled, "Facts," obviously written about his new love, Susan:

As I site here to nite, Sad and Lonely
As memories cum back to me
It makes me stop and wonder
If thers anyone thinking of me

Our strole to the bridge in the evening
And Guys back porch at nite
Whare we sat in the dark not a bad thing you know
For Lidie had turned off the light

As we sat ther unbinding the hours or time
Wraped up in each other just love blind
And mother up stairs spent a sleepless nite
The stars they had faided twas broad day light

Now if to nite was an other such nite
With Guys back porch and Lide dark lights
And Mother in dreamland with out a care
I would give all I have got sweetheart to be there

But what is the use of wishing my dear
When your over ther and I am over here
And Guys back steps he can take them in
For I don't think we will need them again

One week and a day the times flying fast
At a depotless platform I kissed you last
The rest of the bunch and my sister was thare
But you got the last kiss so why should we care

Now little woman you know this is true
I am just riting out my thoughts to you
Its an offul quere thing how love is made
So cum love me up for I am not afraid

Composed and Ritten by Bob Simpson
One rainy nite at Lakefield Minn Aug 6 - 1917

One other poem written by Bob that same night:

Twas just a little smile
Just a little look
Just a little hand
Laid upon my coat

Just a little flutter
From eyelash I could see
Just one word of comfort
And the world had changed for me.

These and others of Ernest's many poems were saved by Goldie, and are now in the possession of her granddaughter.

Shortly after Ernest and Susan married, they moved to Rock Rapids, Iowa, and later to Havana (near Owatonna), Steele County, Minnesota, where Goldie was born in 1921. They owned a farm there in Owatonna, and sold it about 1924. They used part of the profits from the sale of the farm to purchase a car, which is believed to be the Ford Model T which Ernest was very proud of. They went and visited relatives in Iowa and then went on to South Dakota to visit Ernest's brother Frank Simpson and his wife Emma. Sometime after this, Ernest and family moved to Iowa, possibly Rock Rapids, where they owned a hotel and restaurant. It is unclear when or how long they operated the business, but it was during Goldie's early childhood. They sold the business when the cook killed his wife and then himself in the kitchen of the restaurant.

Also during the early '20s, Ernest temporarily resumed horse racing, which he had done during the time prior to his marriage to Susan. He was also a painter and hung wall paper, and it was likely this occupation that had allowed him to work in trade for a phonograph, which he gave his to his daughter Goldie when she was about 6 or 7 years of age. She gave the phonograph to cousin Grover Elphick when she married and moved to California about 1940.

In 1961 Goldie wrote of her father, "Daddy was a vigorous Paladin sort of man. He was much older than Mama, and his past was colored with numerous tales, many of which I am sure were not told to me. An ordinary deck of playing cards came to life under his fingers. To see him shuffle and deal was a lesson in not playing cards with a stranger. He often remarked that he preferred a fine horse or dog to most people any day. His horses were a constant source of fascination to a very small me. I loved the smell of stables, and the velvet softness of a horse's nose. Daddy bred, trained, and drove many superior harness horses. I was crammed with information regarding trotters, pacers and ever "mudders", (which are not colt's mothers), also I recall he would shudder and speak disgustedly of 'stump suckers'. I wonder if such a beast was troubled with emotional insecurity.

"My daddy had a temper that was as black and sudden as a Mid-Western storm. He once soundly beat a farmer that was forcing tired, under-fed horses. There is no true way to describe the complexities of his nature, with all his masculine sternness there was an old-world courtliness toward the gentle sex. He completely, worshiped my mother, and I was bathed in the same sunshine, perhaps because I was hers, yet bearing the blackness of his eyes and hair. Daddy was Welsh.

"As I grew as a skinny little weed I often did many things which I knew were forbidden and not to be tolerated. But they were things I wanted to do so badly that the punishment would be minor compared to the fun of the moment. There was the time I went over the brick garden wall at twilight to join the games of the neighboring children. I didn't ask permission or - horror of horrors, answer, when my name was called with increasing emotion. As always, my little bloomers ended up around my knees, I was placed across Mama's lap and calmly and thoroughly paddled. It was always thus, Daddy never lifted a finger toward me in anger.

"This reluctance to punish I've never understood, because I lived in fear of his frown. I can see it still, he would lower his reading glasses, look over the top of the rim, and say softly, "girl, did you hear your mother?" At such moments I was filled with unreasonable terror.

"Daddy was a 'do-it-yourself' addict before the term came into being. He excelled at all her did and every spring he got a far-away gleam in his eyes which always came before the re-decorating of everything paintable.

"This particular spring I was six years old and filled with the joy that only melted snow and Robbins can bring. Daddy decided to re-varnish a floor, completing the task he cautioned me not to enter that room. I tried very hard to remember but it was a worthless effort. I went out to play, and discovered some beauty of spring which I must immediately relate to Mama. Without thought or hesitation I flew through the door - Half-way across the room I remembered with perfect clarity. If fright could kill me I would have died stuck in that varnish. There was nothing to do but retreat sadly. The remainder of that black morning I brooded in the back-yard sun waiting for my sins to catch up with me.

"An eternity away I was called for lunch, the damage to the floor had been repaired. During the meal the conversation was completely normal, containing no remonstrations for pea-green me.

"As a child I couldn't understand why the subject was never brought up, or why no punishment was carried out. Now as a three-time mother I believe that I was forgiven because the half-way tracks indicated my innocence of deliberate wrong-doing. Today there are many times I over-look incidents that could be distorted to simulate aggression. Discipline is mellowed by that loving understanding which began to take root many, many springs ago."

SIMPSON, Ernest Loren (I1524)

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Essex Antiquarian, Vol. 11, Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Antiquarian, 1907. Perley, Sidney , Editor images online. American Ancestors. http://www.americanancestors.org.

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Ethel Stanwood Bolton also includes Rachel, b. 14 Aug 1694 (d. 25 Nov 1695) and James, b. 6 Dec 1713 to Jonathan and Mary, but records of these births have not yet been located.

STANWOOD, Jonathan (I1866)

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Ethel Stanwood Bolton states John's estate was given to his eldest son, with the inventory of the estate on record at the courthouse at Salem.

STANWOOD, John (I1957)

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Ethel Stanwood Bolton states, "In 1814, Mr. Stanwood was appointed to Engine No. I, of the Gloucester Fire Department, the 'Volent.' That same year the engine-house was razed to the ground by the soldiers who were returning from the Cape. This was caused by the fact that some firemen, exempt from military duty, had jeered at the soldiers. In 1832 and 1833, he was a member of the Board of Fire Commissioners, and in 1849 was made chief...It is interesting that in 1864, in the great Gloucester fire, the house owned by Captain Richard G. Stanwood, a two-story dwelling in the rear of Nos. 167 and 169 Front Street was burned. This was supposed to have been the house of the emigrant Philip Stanwood, but absolute proof seems lacking."

STANWOOD, Capt. Richard Goss (I2094)

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Ethel Stanwood Bolton, on page 144 of The Stanwood Family In America, states that John's wife Mary Gilley was from Milford, CT. However, the marriage record found in Eden Town Records states Mary was from Eden, Maine. Further research is required to verify the descendents attributed to John and Mary.

STANWOOD, John (I2541)

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Event Memos from GEDCOM Import...

*New [WILL]
Heir, Heir, Heir, Heir, Heir, Heir, Heir, Executor, Heir, Barnstable Probate Records V, p20-21:
[5:76] I Jabez Bursley of Barnstable in ye County of Barnstable, Yeoman being under weakness of body yett through Gods goodness of sound memory & Judgement Do make this my Last will & testament in manner following:
First. I willingly resign my soul to God who gave it whenever he shall in his over Ruling Providence think fat to put an end to my Life in this world hoping to obtain forgiveness from him all my Sins Through the Mediatioin of his Son Jesus Christ and my body I will that it be decently buried at ye discretion of my Executor and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it
hath pleased God to bless me in this Life, I give demise & dispose of the same in ye following manner & form:
Imprimis: I order & desire that my Executors sell so much of my Lands or Meadows as will amount to sufficient to pay all my Just Debts and to give Deeds of Conveyance of the same and with the Produce to pay all my Just Debts af’d.
Itm. I give and bequeath unto Hannah my dearly beloved wife the free & full use of all ye Remainder of my Real Estate (that shall remain when enough is sold to pay ye Debt as af’d) Together with all the Use and Improvement of all my Personsal Estate (Excepting ye Loomes & Tackling belonging to it during her continueing my widow.
Item: I give and bequeath unto my Son Barnabas one acre and half of my Land being part of my homestead bounded and described as followeth beginning at ye Highway next my Brother Josephs and extending westerly by sd way to the first post westward after it crosses the fence on the Easterly side of the Cow yard thence extending northerly (keeping the same distance from my sd Brothers Land) until it comes four Rods and an half below sd Cow Yard, there with a sett att westerly upon a square four Rod thence Northerly Running an equal Distance from my sd Brothers Land so as to Include one acre and half in the whole To him the sd Barnabas his heirs and assigns for ever.
Item. I give and bequeath to my son John Thirty pounds To be paid in manner hereafter express’d.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth my Loome and all the Tackling Belonging thereunto.
Item, I give and Bequeath unto my five Daughters viz. Elizabeth, Abigail, Hannah [5:77] Joannah and Mary: To each of them Tenn Pounds to be paid in manner as hereafter express'd and to my sd five Daughters I also give all my household goods that shall be remaining at my wife's decease or marriage to be divided equaly among them or so many of them as shall then be Liveing.
Item: I give and bequeath unto all my Children equaly to be divided among them all the Residue of my Personal Estate that shall be remaining at my wife's decease or Marriage excepting only the husbandry utensils which I give and bequeath unto my son Benjamin viz. what remains of them at my wife's decease as aforesd or marriage.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Son Benjamin and to his heirs and assigns for ever all my Real Estate in housing Lands or meadows whatsoever & wheresoever it is or may be found in Barnstable or elsewhere which is not in this will already disposed of or ordered to be disposed of otherwise (reserving the [unreadable] in sd estate given to my wife as above expressed) he the sd Benjamin his heirs & assigns paying unto my Son John Thirty Pounds given to him as above mentioned in money as it shall pass in Common Dealing within four years after my wife's term is ended to the estate given herein to him sd Benjamin and also paying unto each of my live Daughters above named ten pounds in like money within the same time as he sd Benjamin his heirs & assigns is to pay John as af’d. But my will & meaning is that if it so happen that any of my Daughters decease and leave no children surviving at ye time when my sd Son Benjamin is to pay them as above then that Payment to cease as to ye Deceas'd Child or Children and in case any of them decease and at time of Payment have surviving Child or Children it or they to receive instead of the deceased Parents and Benjamin's obligations good to pay in like manner.
Item. My will and meaning is that if it so happen that my Son John decease Leaving no heir Lawfully begotten of his body at ye time when my Son Benjamin is to pay him ye Thirty Pounds as above mentioned Then sd Barnabas shall stand in John's stead and Receive accordingly and so in Like manner his sd Barnabas's child or Children if he decease and leave any at time of payment Lawftilly begotten as aforesd but if neither John nor Barnabas nor children of niether of them be surviving at time of Payment then the obligation on Benjamin to that Payment shall cease and furthermore my will is that if it so happen that Barnabas my Son Decease leaving no Issue of his body Lawfully begotten Then the one acre and half of Land given to him as abovesd shall accrew to John my Son and to his heirs and also if my sd Sons John and Barnabas Decease leaving no Issue of their Body's Lawfully begotten Then sd Land shall accrew to my Son Benjamin and his heirs; and if it so happen that my Son Benjamin Decease without Issue of his body Lawfully begotten then all the estate given to him as above mentioned in this will shall accrue to my son Barnabas and to his heirs & assigns forever he sd Barnabas his heirs or assigns being obliged to pay out the several sums of money to the several Children In case It falleth to him in the same manner that my Son Benjamin is to do if the Estate continues to be his. I do also hereby declare it to be my mind and will and my true Intention yt the Estate which I have in Reversion by my Late Decd Fathers Last will & testament being Land now in my Brother John's Improvement & to be mine If he decease without male heir now this Estate is [5:781] Included in the bequest made to my Son Benjamin as on the other side & always so to be understood.
And I do hereby constitute and appoint my well beloved Brother John Bursley and my beloved Son Benjamin Executors to this my Last will & testament. In testimony of this Instruments being my Last will and Testament I have hereunto sett my hand and seal this fifth day of January Anno Domini 1731.
Note the words (shall be remaining) Interlined between the 26th. & 27th. Lines from ye top and the words (and Barnabas) between the 8th & 9th line from ye bottom on ye other side were entered before my signing and sealing hereof as also the Rasure upon one line & 2 parts of lines was made before the Signing & Sealing hereof (on this side)
Jabez Bursley (seal)
Signed Sealed Published Pronounced & declared by
the sd Jabez Bursley to be his Last will & testament
In presence of Joseph Smith.
Mary Smith.
Silvanus Bourn.

BURSLEY, Jabez (I2657)

558

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Land
Mortgage (Lot 102) $400, Know all men by these presents that I Jesse Tibbetts of New Sharon in the county of Franklin and state of Maine, Mason in consideration of four hundred & twenty dollars paid by Ephraim Tibbetts of town county and state aforesaid Esquire the receipt where of I do hereby acknowledge do hereby give Grant sell and convey unto the said Ephraim Tibbetts his heirs and assigns forever the following described tract of land situated in New Sharon in the south side of Sandy River being lot number one hundred two on plan of said town and being the same where I now reside bounded as follows to wit: beginning one hundred & sixty to the corner of said lot thence southwesterly one hundred and rods to the westerly corner of said lot thence about one hundred & twenty five rods South west on the side line of said lot to land sold to Samuel Sanders thence east ten degrees South forty five rods & eleven links to the Southerly end of said lot fence north west on the end line of said lot to the first bounds ____ there from land once occupied for public roads containing ninety seven acres more or less.
To have and to hold the aforegranted premises to the said Ephraim Tibbetts his heirs and assigns to their use and behoof forever. And I do covenant with the said Ephraim Tibbetts his heirs and assigns that I am lawfully seized in fee of the aforegranted premises: That they are free of all encumbrances: that I have good right to sell and convey the same tomsaid Ephraim Tibbetts and that I will warrant and defend the same to the said Ephraim Tibbetts his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims and demands of all persons.
Provided nevertheless that if the said Jesse Tibbetts his errors executors or administrators pay to the said Ephraim Tibbetts his heirs or executors or administrators or assigns the sum of four hundred & twenty dollars as follows, viz, one hundred & twenty dollars on demand, on e hundred dollars in one year from the first day of April next, one hundred dollars in two years from the first day of
April next & one hundred dollars in three years from the first day of April next & interest annually after the first day of April next, then this deeds as also ___notes bearing even date with these presents given by the said Jesse Tibet’s to the said Ephraim Tibetts to pay the same sums at the times aforesaid shall all be void otherwise shall remain in full force.
In witness whereof, I the said Jesse Tibbetts have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirteenth day of August in the year of our Lord on thousand eight hundred and thirty.
Jesse Tibbetts seal
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of
Samuel Goodridge
Nancy Goodridge
Kennebec ss. August 30th 1839. The the above named Jesse Tibbetts acknowledge the above instrument by him subscribed, to be his free act and deed,
Samuel Goodridge Justice of the Peace
Franklin, ss - Received Feby 13 A.D. 1840 entered and compared with the original by Samuel Baker Register

TIBBETTS, Jesse L (I800)

559

Everett's father's pension file as well as his headstone give his birth date as 12 May 1879. The 1900 census states his birth month/year of May 1879. The Minnesota Births and Christenings Index at Ancestry.com states Everet was born on 4 Jun 1879. The date of 12 May 1879, supported by three of the four sources, will be accepted as the date of birth.

DAY, Everett (I1718)

560

excused from military service,

The Queen's Commissioner in the province of Overijssel
explains,
that John Theodore Mahieu
born in Olst
the May 13, 1859
residing in Amsterdam
of professional tailors
son of Alexis
and Johanna Baars
residing in Olst
the last deceased in the Olst December 11, 1897
in the entry register of the municipality Olst
the year 1878 for the class of the year 1879 is registered and that he subsequently has fallen to the lot No. 42, which, beyond being left summons him to have no service required., PHOTO, Y, Y

MAHIEU, Johannes Theodorus (I372)

561

Faribault Daily News

FAY, Adda Viola (I1966)

562

Farmer

WASGATT, Charles Wesley (I2225)

563

Fernald Farm Burying Ground, When the farm was sold (1921) and passed out of the possession of the Fernald family the graves were removed; some taken to the Gilley burying ground and others to Mount Height.

FERNALD, John Eben (I2283)

564

WASGATT, Sophronia (I2476)

565

Ferry Crossing, “1802 - Nathaniel Tibbetts established a ferry crossing about a mile above the village. It was, for a few years, the only way to cross the Sandy River (besides fording).”

TIBBETTS, Rev Nathaniel (I1596)

566

Files of Lauren Rogers Mahieu. Privately held by Tommy Fehn, Mississippi.

Source (S19)

567

Finger amputated, Bert Stanwood was hurt quite seriously last Tuesday. He was pulling out some straw in the rear of the separator when the carrier caught his hand, crushing it so severely that the little finger had to be amputated. It is thought that he will be all right in a short time.

STANWOOD, Bert Jerome (I868)

568

First Church of Berwick, Maine

Family: Thomas WASGATT / Margaret DAVIS (F823)

569

Fish Hawk Cemetery

BARLOW, Leon Frances (I2127)

570

Floodwood Boy Leaves For France; Visits Old Home, Added 31 Mar 2011, MISC 093, Halstead Bursley has sailed again for France after a brief furlough spent with relatives and friends at his home in Floodwood, Minn. He is a fireman on the Gunboat Columbia, which has made several trips with convoys and recently tied up at an eastern drydock for boiler repairs.
Bursley enlisted at Spokane, Wash., Dec. 6. His older brother, Harry enlisted in the engineering crops (sic) April 20 and left last week for Jefferson Barracks, Mo. J.M. Bursley, father of the boys served in the Fourth Minnesota Infantry for threre years and six months and marched "with Sherman to the sea." Their greatgrandfather, Benjamin Bursley distinguished himself in the Civil war.

BURSLEY, Halstead Dunn (I1542)

571

Floodwood, March 26 - David Stanwood, a resident of this place, had a narrow escape from drowning yesterday while crossing the ice on the St. Louis river a few miles south of here.

Mr. Stanwood crossed the St. Louis in the morning while on his way to work, in safety, but on return took a boat and pushed it ahead of him while crossing. When at about the middle the ice fell away beneath him and the boat released itself from his grasp. After struggling he succeeded in catching the boat and paddled to shore, no worse off except for a drenching.

STANWOOD, David C (I1080)

572

Floral Park Cemetery

STANWOOD, Phyllis (I1009)

573

Florence Evelyn George, 101, Princeton, died on Saturday, August 13, 2011 at the Elim Care & Rehab Center, Princeton, MN.
Florence E. Keeler was born on July 20, 1910 in Santiago Township, Sherburne County, MN, daughter of Ira and Violet (Orrock) Keeler. She grew up in Santiago and went to District 21 School. She was united in marriage with John Garrett George on October 15, 1927 at Elk River, MN. They farmed in Santiago, Glendorado and Blue Hill Townships, retiring from farming on November 30, 1967 and moved to Princeton.
She was a member of Bethany Lutheran Church in Princeton, the Ladies Aid, and Ruth Circle. She enjoyed playing cards, going out to eat, coupon refunding, selling Avon and spending time with family and friends.
She is survived by a son: Allen George of Aurora, Colorado; a daughter-in-law: Ann George of Billings, Montana; sons-in-law: Douglas Sanford of Princeton, Alvin Jones of Elk River, and Walter Nielsen of Big Lake; 23 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren and 77 great great-grandchildren; a brother: Clairmont Keeler of Princeton.
She was preceded in death by her husband: John on August 11, 1985; her parents: Ira & Violet Keeler; three sons: Gordon George, Kenneth George and Marvin George; four daughters: Ruth Sanford, Irene Jones, Helen Nielsen, and Vivian George; brothers: Edgar, Albert, Harold & Carold Keeler; sisters: Jeannette Harshman & Myrtle MacDonald; grandchildren: Caroline Sproessig & Larry George; great-grandchildren: Jeremy George & Christopher George.
Visitation: 5 to 8 PM, Thursday, August 18th at the Williams Dingmann Family Funeral Home, Princeton and for one hour before services on Friday at the church.
Funeral: 11 AM, Friday, August 19th at Bethany Lutheran Church, Princeton, MN.
Burial: Our Savior’s Lutheran Cemetery, Santiago, MN.
(Williams Dingmann Family Funeral Home, Princeton, MN)

KEELER, Florence Evelyn (I906)

574

For many of the families listed on this census, there appears to be missing a male of the appropriate age. Such is the case with Benjamin, who would have been 44 years of age in 1810.
Males
Under 10: 1
10-15: 0
16-25: 1
26-44: 0
45 and over: 0
Females
Under 10: 0
10-15: 0
16-25: 0
26-44: 1
45 and over: 0

STANWOOD, Benjamin Bradstreet (I1493)

575

For many of the families listed on this census, there appears to be missing a male of the appropriate age. Such is the case with Thomas, who would have been about 36 years of age in 1810.
Males
Under 10: 2
10-15: 1
16-25: 3
26-44: 1
45 and over: 0
Females
Under 10: 2
10-15: 3
16-25: 2
26-44: 1
45 and over: 0

WASGATT, Thomas (I746)

576

For many of the families listed on this census, there appears to be missing a male of the appropriate age. Such is the case with Thomas, who would have been about 55 years of age in 1810.
Males
Under 10: 0
10-15: 1
16-25: 3
26-44: 0
45 and over: 0
Females
Under 10: 0
10-15: 1
16-25: 0
26-44: 0
45 and over: 1

WASGATT, Thomas (I1362)

577

Forest Hill Cemetery

CORSON, Jonas (I348)

578

Former Princeton Resident Dies-Word was received yesterday afternoon that A.J. Stanwood, a former resident of Princeton, passed away at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, in the Deaconess' hospital in Minneapolis. He was 74 years of age and his death was due to pneumonia.-Mr. Stanwood was well known to the older generation in Princeton, where he had made his home for many years. He was a member of the G.A.R. and his former comrades will be grieved to hear of his death. One by one the old veterans are slipping away and each death now makes a big gap in their ranks.-Mr. Stanwood is survived by six children, Melvin, Ben, Bert, Mrs. H.E. Cravens of Minneapolis, Mrs. Susie Simpson and Mrs. John Cameron. His death will be greatly regretted by all his former friends in Princeton who extend their sympathy to the members of the family.

STANWOOD, Albert Jerome (I2622)

579

Francelia's birth on the 1900 census was listed as April 1848, consistent with her ages on 1850, 1870 and 1880 censuses. However, on the record of death, Francelia's birthdate was listed as 13 April 1864, clearly incorrect as she would have been three years old at the time of her marriage.

GARLAND, Francelia (I187)

580

Francis Day to Nathaniel Day

DAY, Nathaniel (I336)

581

Frank and his wife Gertrude lived in Minneapolis in the 1920s. He died about 1940 in St. Paul. His cousin Goldie recalled that Gertrude, blind from a surgical procedure, was the one to find him, deceased at home.

SIMPSON, Frank G (I261)

582

Fraser, Luella Hutchins (Painted Post, New York) to "David R. Day". Letter. 17 February 1989. Privately held by David R. Day. 2016.

Source (S533)

583

Free males above 21 - 1
Slaves - 5
Horses - 10
Cattle - 13

BUFORD, Henry (I809)

584

Free Methodist Church

Family: Josiah MCKENZIE / Mary UPHOUSE (F64)

585

Free white males, above 16 - 1
Free white males, under 16 - 2
Free white females - 4

DAY, John (I1447)

586

Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 3
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 1
Number of Household Members Over 25: 2
Number of Household Members: 6

DAY, John (I1447)

587

Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 3
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 1
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 8
Free White Persons - Under 16: 1
Free White Persons - Over 25: 7
Total Free White Persons: 8

DAY, John (I1447)

588

Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 70 thru 79: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 1
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 3
Total Free White Persons: 5
Total - All Persons: 5

DAY, Sarah (I306)

589

Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19:1
Free White Persons - Males - 70 thru 79:1
Free White Persons - Females - 15 thru 19:1
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69:1
Persons Employed in Agriculture: 2

WALTER, Frederick Baltzer (I1405)

590

Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44 : 1
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
Number of Household Members Under 16: 1
Number of Household Members Over 25: 1
Number of Household Members: 3

DAY, John (I952)

591

Free Will Baptist Society, "In 1827, nevertheless, only a step in time beyond the pioneers’ life-and-death struggle for subsistence in a hostile environment - and only four years after its organization as a town- Milo’s voters authorized the expenditure of $300, a large sum to them then, 'To support the preaching of the gospel.’

“That same year, twelve of the old settlers united in organizing the town’s first religious group - the Free Will Baptist Society.“Communications must have been poor, in those days, between the east and the west sides of the town, for no names of the west side residents - no Sargents, or Emerys, Tompson, Lees, Whiddens, or Shipleys - showed up on that 1827 list of members.

“That first group of twelve, as it was set down in the ‘Milo and Brownville Register,’ in 1905, included Moses Snow, Stephen Snow, Benjamin Boobar, Sr., Rufus Johnson, Aaron Day, James White, Jr., Nancy Snow, Fannie Snow, Sarah Roe, Abigail Johnson, Eliza Heath, and Mary Stevens."

DAY, Aaron (I1759)

592

Free-Will Baptist Church, Saturday, August 5th, 1854: "Sister Caroline W. Stanwood and Fanny Shaw were received as candidates for baptism, and were baptized by Rev. Samuel M. Hagget, and received the right hand of fellowship.",

WHITE, Caroline E (I2219)

593

From Betty's obituary: "Member of St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Rockwood Fire Co. Auxiliary, and Rockwood Senior Citizens. Graduate of Hammond's Beauty School of Johnstown."

TRIMPEY, Betty (I78)

594

From Garland's Find-A-Grave memorial page:

Garland's first husband was James Emerson Dorff. They were married in Ohio. They had five children - three boys and two girls. Husband #2 was Robert Farish they had no children. Garland played the piano and in 1941 turned professional. Garland played Dixieland, blues and swing and even country. Garland loved playing piano and singing."

BAKER, Garland B (I1400)

595

From Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families:
John Bursley, 2d, only son of John, was eight years of age when his father died. He inherited the mansion house taken down in 1827, and two-sixths of his father's estate. The right of his sisters it appears that he bought, for at his death in 1726, he owned all the lands that were his father's. He married twice; first, Elizabeth, daughter of Lieutenant John Howland, Dec. 1673, who was the mother of his ten children. His second wife was also named Elizabeth; but her maiden name does not appear on record.
"He was a farmer, industrious and enterprising, and died leaving a large estate. The old mansion house he bequeathed to his son Joseph."

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*New [WILL]
[4:326] In the name of God Amen this eighteenth day of July Anno Domini 1726 I John Bursley of the Town and County of Barnstable being very sick and weak of body but of perfect mind and memory blessed be God for it, therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body & knowing I must dye do make and ordain this my Last [4:327] will and testament, that is to say principally & first of all I give and recomend my soul into the hands of God that gave it and my body to the earth to be buried in Christian and decent manner at the discretion of my Executors hereafter mentioned and as touching such worldly Estate, I give and demise & dispose of the same In the following manner & form.
Item, I give to my dear & loving wife Elizabeth In Line of her Dower the western room In my dwelling house with the Leanto & the use of the seller under the sd room, wth Liberty to egress & regress too & from thence and also the use of such beding and utensils within doors as she may think suitable and necessary for her during the time of her natural Life and ye use of two of my Cows to be kept for her by my son Joseph winter & summer also necessary fier woodCutt drawn & sett for her at the door by my sd son & one third of all the grain & flax yt my sd son Joseph shall annually raise of the Land hereafter given him in this my will, and one third part of the wool of my sheep & one third part of the mutton that may be ye produce of my sd sheep & liberty to keep a swine for her own use to be taken out of mine, And that at my sd wives decease the Estate that remains to be equally divided among my daughters, her wearing clothes excepted.
Itm. I give my son John Bursley all that my upland & swamp to the southward of the highway or kings road bounded Northerly thereon and Easterly by the Line leading into the woods, southerly to ye extent of sd Land, and westerly by the Land of Joseph Smith, And also I give him my two peices of salt marsh the one being about two acres and half and is in partnership with Nathl Crocker and the other peice in partnership with Joseph Blossom it being a two acre right, as also the priviledge of the dock which he is now digging with his brother and half an acre of my meadow on ye Eastward side of sd Dock for his use with necessary egress and regress & also all my right in the lott in the woods In partnership wth Joseph Bodfish jur. I also give him six shares in the thirteenth wood lot in the wood Iotts all which above mentioned Pcells of upland wood Iotts and Marsh I give to my sd son John his heirs for ever as also I give to my sd son John the one half of my peice of upland and a bitt of Marsh lying at the Northerly end of my neck as it is now fenced in dureing the term of his natural Life and in case he should have a male heir of his body begotten yt lives to Inherit then to him & to his heirs assigns for ever but otherwise then to return to my son Jabez Bursley and his heirs for ever after the expiration of ye Life of my sd son John.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son Jabez Bursley the peice or parcell of Land on which his dwelling house now stands being twenty acres more or less, bounded southerly by the high way westerly by the Land of Joseph Smith as the brook runs & northerly by the Marsh, and taking in the other half of my peice of Land Inclosed as above mentioned the half of which is given to my son John and is bounded Easterly as the fence now stands & runs down to the spring near a cross fence and then with a set off westward two rods and then upon the same Corse, northerly to the Inclosuer above mentioned. I also give him the one half on my marsh adjoyning to the highway northerly extending to a cross [4:328] fence I also give him one peice of marsh of five acres be it more or less adjoyning to the upland westerly otherwaies incompassed by the Creek called Boat Cove Creek as also my ten shares in the tenth wood Lott and half my Lott of the Late Common Land.
Item, I give & bequeath unto my son Joseph Bursley all ye rest of my upland bounded on the highway both above & below it with the housing thereon excepting the use of part of my dwelling house dureing the Life of my abovesd wife, as before expressed and the use of my western Chamber to my Daughters while any of them live single, as also all the rest of marsh not above disposed of & my wood lot being the twelveth in number & all the rest of my Land both wood land & planting Land in the Township of Barnstable & Sandwich, I give equally to be divided between my two sons Jabez and Joseph. And further my will is that since I have given my sd son Joseph a preferable portion to my other sons that he should be kind to his Mother in Law and provide for her & not let her want anything that may be needfull and comfortable as for food Clothing & tendance for her in her old age If what I have given her in ys my will be not sufficient for her.
Item, I give and bequeath to my five daughters Mary, Joannah, Abigail, Elizabeth and Temperance fourty pounds apeice wch makes two hundred pounds, my son Joseph to pay the one half and my two other sons fifty pounds apeice to be paid within two years after my decease, all the rest of my Psonal Estate I give In equal proportion among my sd five daughters they to receive it all at my decease except wt I have given the use of to my wife during the time of her natural Life.
Item, My will is also that my daughter Temperance being weakly I further order that my son Joseph pay her ten pounds over and above what I have already given her & that she have some liberty In the house with her Mother In Law & further my will is that the sheep be not divided to ye daughters until my wifes decease.
Lastly I nominate and appoint my two sons John and Joseph to be Executors to this my Last will & testament. In testimony whereof I the sd John Bursley have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written & do hereby publish pronounce and declare this and no other to be my last will & testament In presence of
John Bursley. (seal)
his mark
Joseph Blosom.
Thomas Phinney.
Samuel Anible Tartius.
August 29th 1726. Then Joseph Blosom made oath that he saw John Bursley Late of Barnstable now deceased sign seal and heard him declear the within written to be his last will and testament and that he sett his hand as witness with Samuel Anible Tartius and Thomas Phinney at the same time & that the said John Bursley deceased was of sound mind and disposeing memory in his best apprehention at the same time.Sworn Coram, John Otis, Judge of Probate.
[4:329] Barnstable ss. August 30th 1726.Then Thomas Phinney who sett too his hand as a witness to the within written made oath before John Otis Esqr Judge of Probate that he saw the within named John Bursley sign seal & heard him declear the within Instrument to be his Last will & testament and that he was of sound mind when he so did.Attest, Nat& Otis, Regtr. For as much as I Joseph Bursley being informed by the scribe that wrote the within written will that the peice of Marsh given to John Bursley In Pnership with Joseph Blossom called a Two acre right, being two acres and half and yt ye whole peice is Intended. I the said Joseph Bursley do for my self and my heirs comply & acknowledge yt it shall ever hereafter be so understood and have therefore hereunto sett my hand & seal this 26th. day of August 1726.
Joseph Bursley. (seal)
John Fuller.Nathl Otis.
Barnstable ss. On the day & year above written the said Joseph Bursley Psonally appeared before me the subscriber Judge of Probate for sd County & acknowledged the above written to be his act & deed.John Otis.Barnstable ss. John Otis Emir Comissionated by his Excellency the Govemour & Council of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay In New England to be Judge of the Probate of wills & for granting Letters of Administration &c.xxxKnow ye, that upon the day of the date hereof before me at Barnstable In the County aforesd he will of John Bursley Late of Barnstable deceased, to these presents annexed was proved approved and allowed who having while he lived and at ye time of his death goods chattels Rights or credits In the County aforesd: and the probate of sd will & power of comitting administration &c.x x xAnd his will in any manner concerning is freely comitted unto John Bursley and Joseph Bursley sons of sd deceased Executors In the same will named &c.
x x x
And to exhibit the same Into the Registry of the Court of Probate for the County aforesaid, at, of before the [4:330] tenth day of Sepbr next ensuing: and also to render a plain and true accompt of your sd Administration upon oath when called thereunto. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the sd Court of Probate Dated at Barnstable the 30th. day of August Anno Domini 1726.
John Otis.
A true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the goods & chattels of Mr John Bursley Late of Barnstable deceased as prised by us the subscriber being thereunto appointed sworn and authorized this 27th. day of August 1726.
To purse and appariel. 26=14=10
To a bed & furniture In the Lower Room. 14=05=00
To a bed & beding to it. 09=18=00
To a Chase bed a Rug, blankit and Coverlead. 05=05=00
To bed and Table linin. 05=17=00
To yam flax tow & a bit of Cloth. 03=13=00
To wooll & osted 0343=00
To brass & Iron kittles pans and skillets. 08=13=00
To tramills, Tongs, slice box Iron sword & powder horn. 01=06=00
To pewter, earthen ware and glass bottles. 02=17=00
To Chists, Tables, spining wheels and Chains. 04=05=00
To barrills, Tubbs, pails, baskets sives &
other small things. 02=19=00
To saddle, pillion & Chees press. 03=06=00
To meat tallow & Soap. 01=17=00
To hogsets Corn, bags & meal. 03=10=00
To butter, Cheese & books. 06=06=00
To the English Corne In the barn. 08=17=00
To hay of all sorts. 07=00=00
To Cad wheel & Irons, Chains, yoak and plow Irons,
Cart rope & boards. 08=05=00
To harrow Teeth & Mollases and Tobacco. 00=190
To a mear & half a Colt 14=00=00
To 2 oxen 4 Cowes & one stear. 37=00=00
To one Cow one stear & 4 Calves. 16=00=00
To 2 swine and 30 sheep. 13=15=00
To 3 three year old Cattle. 13=10=00
To 3 two year old Cattle & 4 year and advantage. 17=00=00
To Indian Come upon the ground. 12=10=00
To the upland below the road and the marsh adjoyning. 1900=00=00
To the upland & meadow above the road to the Eastward
of the lane with the house. 240=00=00
To the Land above the road westward of the Lane. 400=00=00
To a five acre right of Marsh. 12040=00
To the 12th. wood Lott. 45=00=00
To 16 shears In the wood Lotts. I7=000
To one planting Lott of upland. 60=00=00
To a part of a Lott In the second division In partnership
with Joseph Bodfish jur. 18=00=00
In a peice of Land taken up in the Last division. 30=00=00
[4:331]
To one Lot and part of another In ye Last division. 40=00=00
To the shears at Sandy Neck. 05=00=00
To his Land in Sandwich. 10=00=00
To one pair of Sheap shears 3/: 0=03=00
To an Interest in the horse house 16th. part about 01=00=00
To half a pew. 03=10=003137=13=10
Joseph Hinckly.
John Baker.
Samuel Chipman.
August 29th. 1726. Then John Bursley & Joseph Bursley Executors to the last will and testament of their honored Father John Bursley deceased made oath to the truth of the above written Inventory so far as they knew and that if anything further that is material of the Estate of the sd deceased shall come to their knowlidge that they will also bring it to this Inventory.Sworn before me John Otis,Judge of Probate.(seal) Barnstable ss. John Otis Esqr Comissionated by his Excellency the Gouvemour & Council of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay In New England To be Judge of the Probate of wills and for granting Letters of Administration &c.

BURSLEY, John (I377)

596

From Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families: He "had three children. Two died in infancy, and the other, Experience, married Benjamin Lothrop. He inherited the southwesterly part of the old farm on which he resided. He was captain of a vessel employed in the whale fishery."

BURSLEY, John (I1498)

597

From his military records we learn about Martin's physical characteristics: "Height, 5 feet 9 inches; complexion, light; color of eyes, Blue; color of hair, light..." His occupation was "farmer."

SIMPSON, Martin Ransom (I1804)

598

From History of Franklin and Grand Isle counties, Vermont (Lewis Cass Aldrich), pages 492-493, we find a brief biographical sketch of William Sisco, who resided in Fairfield: "William Sisco was one of the first settlers on the east side of the pond. He lived on the farm now occupied by the Asa Hammond family. He served during the entire war of the Revolution. As showing some of the privations to which these early settlers were subjected, it is related that he had been known to go to Swanton, a distance of fifteen miles, work for a bushel of potatoes, and then bring them home on his back"

Event Memos from GEDCOM Import...

Warnings Out
Charlestown Town Records, Vol. 2, 1753 - 1798, pp. 114 - 115
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(86) (Province of N. Hampshire) To Lemuel Hastings Constable of Charlestown & Province aforesd. Greeting - (seal)
In his Majesties Name you are hereby Required forthwith agreeable to ye Directions of ye Law to warn the following Persons to departout of this Town where they now Reside to ye Hurt & Damage of sd. Town as it may be where they are not Inhabitants. Viz. Eleazer Sisca & Phebe his wife, William Brother to ye said Eleazar, Samuel, Sarah, Mary, Elisabeth and Comfort Children to ye said Eleazar & Phebe, who Came to Reside here in ye Month of November Last past from Providence in ye Colony of Rhode Island where they last Lived.
Hereof Fail not, & make Due Return of this warrant & your Doings theirin toSome of the Selectmen of Charlestown aforsd. by the Second Day of Feby. Next.
Given Under our Hands & Seal this 6th Day of Jany. in Seventh year of his Majesties Reign 1767.
Wm. Heywood } Select Men
Silvanus Hastings } of Charlestown
Charlestown New hampshire Jany. 30th 1767
Pursuantto this warrant I have this Day warned Eleazer Sisco & Phebe his wife, & all ye Persons there in Named to Depart out of this town agreable as I am Required and Directed in said warrant.
Lemuel Hastings } Constable of Charlestown
Charlestown NH Town Records Vol. 2, 1753 - 1798, pp. 150 - 152
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... meet at ye House of Abel Walker in said Town on Friday the 9th of this Instant at 2 O'Clock in the after Noon then ??? their when met to Consider Vote and act on ye following articles, Viz.
First, to Chose aModerator
2ndly To Receive and Pass Town Acts and Raise money to pay ye Same
3rdly To see if ye Inhabitants will Remit Nathl Harrimans Meeting House Rate, as Assest in Timothy Putnam's Rate Bill
4thly To see if the Inhabitants will Consider Timothy Putnam on Account of Silus Whitcomb and William Sisco whowent of before said Putnam had Oppertunity to Collect their Meeting House Rates
5thly To see if the Inhabitants will make Capt. Aaron Brown any Consideration on acct. of a Mistake made with him in Settling with the Committe.
6thlyTo See if the Inhabitants will Free Janice Nutting Willard from Paying Rates to ye Minister in ye town for ye futer
Hereof Part and make Due Return of this warrant and your Doings theirin to Some of the Select men at or before the Time of said meeting - Given Under our Hands and Seal this Second Day of Decemberin the Ninth year of his Majesties Reign, 1767
Wm. Haywood }
Simon Sartwell } Selectmen
Elijah Grout }
Province of New Hampshire} In Obedience to this Warrant Cha---- of all ye within Named Persons to Assemble and meet agreable to ye Tenor of this warrant by Posting a Coppy agreable to a Vote of ye Town for that Purpose Charlestown Decr. ye 9th 1768.
Timothy Putnam, Constable
At a Legal Town meeting of the Freeholders (114) and Other Inhabitants of Charlestown, being Duely met at the House of Abel Walker in said Town onFriday ye 9th Day of Decemr. 1768, at two o'Clock in the After Noon Voted
First, that Capt. Simon Stevens be the Moderator for this meeting
Voted on ye2nd Article, that Wm. Heywood be Allowed the Sum of three Pounds two Shillingsfor Services Done ye Town ye year past.
Voted To Abel Walker ye Sum of NineShillings.
Voted To Peter Page twelve Shillings
Voted To James Farnsworth twelve Shillings
Voted To Simeon Olcott Six Shillings
Voted To Simon Sartwell Seven Shillings and Eleven Pence
Voted To Silvanus Hastings Eighteen Shillings
Voted on ye 3rd Article That the Town will Remit Nathl. Harrimans Meeting House Rate as Assest in Timothy Putnams Rate Bill
Voted on ye 4th Article ThatSilas Whitman and Wm. Sisco be Discharged from their Meeting House Rate as Assest in Timothy Putnams Rate Bill.
Voted, That ye Sisxth Article be Passed Over
The Moderator Dismist the Meeting

SISCO, William (I661)

599

From Miles' obituary, which appeared in the Daily American:

"He was a veteran of World War II. Owner and operator of Trimpey's Apple Orchard, Berlin RD 4. Life member of Disableld American Veterans of Meyersdale. Also life member of the Military Purple Heart. Member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 654; American Legion Post 445, Berlin; Last Mans Club and St. Luke's Lutheran Church, Rockwood."

TRIMPEY, Miles R (I1742)

600

From the book, Commemorative biographical record of Tolland and Windham counties, Connecticut (p. 356) we learn that James Day “owned some 3,300 acres of land in Killingly, and was the founder of the village of Dayville.”

DAY, James (I2664)

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