Organizing Family Papers, Part 2

Still going through the "Needs to go in Computer" folder. I found a letter written by Marilyn Fernholz Fitzgerald and in it she shares the address of her brother, Donald. I'll put his name in my address label file for sending Prairie Roots.

Gail Bernkopf has shared her information on the Enke family. She seems to be an excellent researcher.

There is a letter from Ed and Sharon DeLong written by someone named Rhoda. "DeLong: There is a strong family tradition that the ancestral DeLong was a Frenchman, one of the French Huguenots who, during the religious persecutions of the 16th century, sought religious freedom in Holland, and afterwards came to America. He, Aryan Fransen (Aaron the Frenchman), married Rachel Jansen Pyer, a native of Amersterdam, Holland, and they settled in a Dutch Colony up the Hudson River at Kingston. Note: These are my 7th great grandparents. The Reformed Dutch Church records indicate that they had ten children: seven girls and three boys, Frans, Jan, and Jonas. Frans, christened April 24, 2681, married Marytjen Van Schack and moved to Poughkeepsie, Duchess County, where were born "Arie" (short of Aryan, the grandfather's name) and Ann, Rachel, Niclaas, Lowrense, Jannetjen, Marytjen, Lidia and Elizabeth Catherine, Elias and Geesjen. Arie Delong (Fransen) was so called because he was the tall one. He was baptised on Feb. 4, 1705, in Poughkeepsie and married Anne Wilsey. Note: Arie was the son of Frans. Their children were Ruth, Frans, Cornelius, Martin, Jac, Lawrence, Mary Jane, and Elias. One of his sons, though maybe a grandson, it was who migrated to Ontario. The grandson would be Arie or Arra. I think the sympathy for the English may have come through Anne Wilsey, though maybe these people just did not want to fight."

I have another letter from Juanita Pesicka from Canada. Her father was Philo (Mike) Pesicka, brother to Ralph that I've written about before. Their mother was Edna Place and grandmother was Hattie Daugherty Place (Mom's great aunt). She writes, "My father (Mike) loved to play the fiddle and did almost every night for a bit right up to the last 8 years of his life." A fiddle comes up a lot on the Daugherty family tree.

I have a long letter from cousin Curt Goehring. It's a couple of years old. In the interim, they have moved to Germany.

I found an important letter from Ruth Pokorney of Grand Chute, Brown, WI. She finds my 3rd great grandfather, Stephen Hall Carrington as living in 1850, at Grand Chute along with his wife Lydia Gilbert Carrington, Mary (b. about 1830) and William (b. about 1837...all born in Connecticut. In 1870 the family is in Neshonoe, LaCrosse, WI. Lydia and Stephen are probably gone (don't know where they died), and William is now married to Mary Bartholomew from New York State and they have three children, Lucius, Lizzie, and William all born in Minnesota (don't know where). In 1880 only Mary lives in Hamilton, LaCrosse, WI. She is a widow. I don't know where William died and is buried. Lucius is with her and Lizzie, William and Thirza (born in WI). Maybe Stephen and Lydia died in Minnesota. Lots of mysteries and questions with the Carringtons.