Going through DeLong Files

It's sometimes helpful to go through old files and to just get in touch with writers that haven't been reached for a while. I'm going through the DeLong files right now, which compromises three full loose-leaf notebooks.

I've always been intrigued by our Canadian DeLong family. I have an E-Mail from 2004 from "D.M.". I know that the "D" stands for Doreen, and I know that Doreen is from the DeLong family. I hope to get her home address and send the next Prairie Roots newsletter to her.

Doreen writes..."Andrew is buried beside his wife Edna (on the North side of her) in the North Battleford Municipal Cemetery. There is no marker for him. There is a gravestone for Edna. The lettering is very faded." Andrew is the brother of ggrandmother, Catherine Elizabeth (Libby) DeLong Daugherty, wife of George Daugherty. Andrew and his wife, Edna Draper returned to Canada from S.D. Andrew is the grandfather of Loren DeLong, whom I keep in touch and have mentioned in this blogsite.

Continued..."Any dates re: Peter, Jr. (Libby's father) or others are in the bible record and in my grandfather's recollections as told to my mom. These items and a picture of Susan Powell DeLong (Catherine's mother), were found in my mother's things after she passed away in 1996 (Catherine Pratt). Clarence DeLong's wife, Betty DeLong (Charbonneau) has also passed away, but I have no birth and death dates regarding her with me." Betty DeLong has been mentioned by the family of Clarence McGirr & Marilyn McNeil Hershly. Clarence's mother, Mabel Daugherty McGirr, visited this family at one time in Canada. Getting back to Loren, Clarence and Betty were his mother and father.

"North Battleford is on one of the main routes to Alaska. If you are going through, be sure to let us know." D.M.

Andrew was born in Whitby, Ontario in 1871. In 1880 he left for Michigan and South Dakota. Andrew then went to Oregon and returned to S.D. He also went to Virginia and after spending a few months there, returned to Canada. There, he and Edna married (1905), in NOrth Battleford, Sask. Evidently Edna and Andrew met each other when Andrew helped Edna's family across a bolder during a severe rain storm. Edna has roots in Phillips, WI, northeast of where I live. They had three children: Clarence, Carl William, and George Henry.

There are several instances of people in this family moving to the US and then back to Canada. It's incredible that these journeys were so numerous. We are talking about long, long distances.

Another day of Peppers

I've decided to spend today becoming more acqainted with the generation of Peppers that my 2nd great grandmother, Martha Pepper Daugherty belonged to. I've printed off a copy of yesterday's blog to keep some of these people straight. Many Pepper or Peppers family members had huge numbers of children.

Henry & Hiram were brothers of Martha. They had small families..I've got them both with daughters named Lillie - one a Lillie E. and one a Lillie D. Another brother was John. He died in Kansas City Mo. after a long life. He and Mary Ellen Prettyman had 8 children, one being Irvin that I wrote about earlier this winter.

Then comes Martha, married to William Henry Daugherty, of whom I've developed a great deal of respect for. I shared her obituary earlier this month. According to family members, William was "a scalawag. He was a gambler and probably a womanizer. Great Grandma D. kicked him out and ordered the kids, 'Don't you bury him beside me.' or something to that effect. I've heard a version with her using stronger language than that. Martha is buried alone in the Wessington Cemetery. They had a large family...William John, Hattie, George Henry (my ggrandfather), Edward, Fred R., Emma & Richard. Helen McNeil stated that there were 10 children, so I'm assuming that there were babies that dyed at birth.

Another brother of Martha was Jacob. He married Alice Tuttle. The Tuttle name is also mentioned in the Bartholomew family. They had a daughter Louella A. Pepper. I've been in communication with the granddaughter of Louella, who married Martha's son Edward (first cousins). After Louella's mother died, Jacob married Mary Wiggins and they had Maude Pepper. Mary had two children from a previous marriage.

Walter Scott Peppers was another of Martha's brothers. They had two daughters. Not much information is known of the rest of Martha's siblings.

Now a bit about Martha's aunt Mary Catherine who married a Dawson. She had a son, John Dawson and had three children. Then there was Louisa Jane Dawson. There were four "Knour" children. James Edward Dawson had five children, Charles Wesley Dawson had one. Martha B. Dawson, had 6 children.

As to Martha's uncle Daniel Peppers, he had a daughter Nancy who married Daniel Gray and they had three children.

Martha's aunt Christina Magdelena Peppers married a Hamson. Her son William Allen Hamson had two children.

Margaret Pepper, another aunt of Martha's, married a Brown. Her son John had four children and her daughter Mary Brown (married name, Graves), had 9 children. Another son of Margaret, William H., married Elizabeth F. Pepper, daughter of Jacob Pepper and Naomi Francis (again, first cousins). There were five children born to them. Another son of Margaret was Jacob Brown. He had 6 children.

Martha's uncle, Jacob, also had a daughter Martha J. This is a bit confusing. "She appears to have been a jolly soul." This Martha married Jacob Ritenour and they had three children. Another daughter of Jacob was Margaret. she married a James Harris and then John Short. There are four children in that family. Elizabeth F. Pepper was also a daughter of Jacob. As was mentioned above, she married her first cousin William H. Brown. Anna America Pepper was another daughter in this family. She married Austin Shawcross. They had 5 children. Jacob's son John W. Pepper had a son Roy. Jacob's next daughter was Delia Sydna. There is some confusion as to Delia's name and marriages. She did marry Mathias Misner and they had 3 children. One more child of Jacob's was Honora Alice. She married Joseph Shawcross and they had 4 children. I'll come back to her at another time.

The picture is of Martha's uncle Jacob Pepper.

Whew! That's a lot of cousins. It's good to review them and become familiar with last names that are connected to our family.

Starting with Jacob Pepper

Let's see...it's been awhile since I've looked at my files on Jacob Pepper. I owe much of my information to James Shawcross. Jacob is my 5th ggrandfather. The names "Pepper" and "Peppers" are used throughout our history. Reminder: Martha Pepper married William Henry Daugherty.

Don't know where or when Jacob Pepper was born. The family could be of German descent. A child of Jacob was Frederick Peppers, born 1762 in PA. Jacob died in 1847 in Richmond, Ross, Ohio.

Frederick married Deborah Gisburt, 1798 in Frederick, MD. Deborah was born in 1779 and died in 1856. She was buried in Union Cemetery, Warren County, Indiana. I just checked my map and Warren County is on the western border of Indiana, about half way down, just west of Layfayette. I need to find out where Union Cemetery is. Frederick died in 1847 in Richmond, Ross, Ohio. He was a farmer and moved to Ross County, Ohio, in 1819.

Frederick and Deborah had 10 children. Our ancestor, John Pepper was the third from the oldest and was born in 1800 in Maryland. In fact when checking things out, all children, except the youngest (Susannah) was born in Maryland. I'd love to find out more about the other children.

I know nothing about John's oldest brother David. His sister, Charolette married Asa Mounts. I believe that there is quite a bit of information concerning Asa. John married Rebecca Goodon. Rebecca was born in 1803 and died 1860 in Iowa. John died two years before her death, in Tazewell, Illinois. Tazewell county is just beneath Peoria. John and Rebecca had 11 children; including my 2nd ggrandmother, Martha.

It looks like John and Rebecca's oldest son, Daniel Frederick , died when 6 months old. Henry Wilson Peppers lived a long life, Hiram Johnson Peppers also enjoyed old age, Anderson Peppers, died at 19, then there was Margaret H. Peppers, next came John Peppers, next came Martha, then Jacob, next George Washington Pepper, than Mary Ann Pepper and lastly Walter Scott Peppers. I'm not realy sure but I think that Martha is the only sibling to have lived in South Dakota.

John and Charolette's sibling, Mary Catherine Pepper was also buried in Union Cemetery, Warren County, Indiana. She had 16 children by Edward Dawson. Edward died at the age of 50 and Mary Catherine married Parrot Smith. All of her children had the Dawson last name. Generally speaking these 16 children were born in Ross county, Ohio or Indiana.

The brother of the above, Daniel, eventually died in Illinois. He and his wife Serena O'Neal had three children.

A sister of the above, Christina Magdalena pepper, married James Hamson and they had 8 children. It looks like Christina and James lived in Illinois, Tazewell County.

Another sibling of OUR Martha's father, John, was Margaret pepper. She married John Brown and they had 10 children.

I'm not sure about Henry, who was born before Margaret, but I have quite a bit of information on Jacob Pepper. It is Jacob that Thomas Shawcrosse is descended from. I'll cover him a bit more later.

The last child of Frederick Peppers and Deborah Gisburt is Susaanah. She was born in 1818 in Ross County, Ohio. She married William Deegan and they had three children. Susannah died in Iroquois County, Illinois. Checking my Atlas, that particular county is located straight east of Peoria, close to the Indiana Border. I still need to visualize each family's migration to the Dakotas. `

Blogging "Enke"

It's rather fun to do some internet searching on a particular name and see what happens. I did this for a few days and just searched "Enke". Keep in mind that Enke was the last name of my second great grandmother, Lydia. She married William White Wilson.

I did find the blog of my 4th cousin 2x removed: Erich Enke, familiar to me in family communications. He and his wife are proud parents of a lovely little girl. You can visit Erich at enkefamilyblogspot.com.

There are several variations of the name...Enck, Enk, Enckler, Encke, Enke, Encking, Enkings, etc. The origin is German and was first found in Salzburg, where this family name became a "prominent contributor to the development of the district from ancient times."

Some of the first settlers of this family name were Jacob Enck, who arrived in 1743; as did Hans Peter Enck in 1751; Johann Jacob Enck in 1764; and Henrich Enckler who came to Philadelphia in 1863. I haven't checked to see if there are any family connects with these people.

There was an Elizabeth Edith Enke, b. 1929, who changed her name to Edie Adams!

The name Enke is the 30,645th most common name in the US. There were 718 in the last US census. You can see a listing of every one of them if you search the right place.

I have found the following occupations among my web searching...mountaineer, professor, tennis player, soccer player, filmaker, lawyer, musician, speed skater, chemist, writer, quarterback, artist, wheel manufacturer, designer, guitar maker, soccer coach, film gossip, basketball coach, physician, animal activist, feminist activist, and poker player.

The name Enke can mean "widow".
In the Urban Dictionary, Enke is "a smooth talkin white boy who loves to toke on the ganja plant."

There is an Enke cemetery in Missouri, a golf course in Arizona, and an online art gallery.

When searching www.findagrave.com, I came up with a possibility of the burial site of Lydia's mother and father in Uniontown Cemetery, Uniontown, Knox County, Illinois. I need to continue to further look into this and to touch base with the few Enke's that I'm sure we're related to.

Remembering Irene Carrington Daugherty

I've been wanting to put more of Aunt Beulah Daugherty Goehring's writings in my newsletter,Prairie Roots, but haven't always had the space. Looking through my Carrington books, I came across this lovely writing Buelah did of her mother, my grandmother, Irene Carrington Daugherty. It's interesting that I don't have a middle name for gram. I've not seen a birth certificate for her. I'll add that to my "to do" list. I'm just taking snippets here and there of Beulah's document.

"My mother (Irene Carrington) grew up on a farm north of Wessington (SD) that was the site of her parent's homestead. My mother told stories of going to Stratton school in the horse and buggy. School was in session only a few months of the year, and the farm children were to work the other months - this was more essential than schooling! She often told of coming home from school and unharnessing the horse when it was so cold their fingers would almost freeze handling the harness. Note: It might be interesting to search for this school, or the site on my next trip to SD.

My mother always loved school and her happiest memories seeemed were associated with it. She always encouraged her children to read, and many evenings at home were spent reading aloud. My mother, Helen, whole-hearted agrees with this.

My parents had a big family to raise during the depression years which were quite a struggle. In spite of the drought, grasshoppers and all of the elements against the SD farmer, we always had the necessities of life. My mother always put her family first. If there was a need for a new dress for the "speaking contest" or "county chorus", somehow we always had one, but Mom went without so we would look nice. She sewed all our dresses until we were old enough to buy our own. I remember so many that she made when I was little, because I loved them so much. Even after all these many years, I can describe the style and color of them.

Mom saw to it that we got our start in Christian Education by attending Tipton Sunday School. She taught several years herself and we seldom missed a sunday. In the summer we would hitch up our Shetland Pony to the buggy and go to Bible school. We always made it without too many incidents, except when it rained, the wheels would enlarge to twice their size with the gumbo of the roads.

Mom taught us to love nature, as her father had taught her. Beware of the person who would destroy a bird's nest or any other of God's creatures! In the summer we would lie out on the grass at night and watch the stars. If we were lucky, we would see a comet zoom across the sky, or maybe catch a firefly. The quiet serenity of a hot summer evening, with no care in the world has a more stabilizing effect than the violence and crime on tv that the modern children of today are exposed to."

Maybe it's a day for remembering small happenings in our lives and the people that affected us daily.

Today's photo is of Irene Carrington Daugherty.

More about William Bartholomew ( 1602-1680)

I've decided to continue the story of William Bartholomew, ancestor of Mary Montgomery Bartholomew Carrington, my second great grandmother...again, from information provided to my grandmother, Irene Carrington, from her cousin,a Robert Bartholomew. I've no knowledge of him except he was living in New York State and apparently never married.

"William Barthlomew was of good parentage. He enjoyed unusual educational advantages and probably received a practical business training in his father's store. Leaving the paternal roof, (in Burford, Oxfordshire) we find him before the age of 30 in London, married, keeping house and probably in some mercantile employment. London at that time put up with & encouraged vulgarity, vice and crime. This young man chose his company from a persecuted but devoutly religious sect, showing a strong and noble character. Surrounded by oppression, perhaps disowned by his father, it is not strange that such a spirit should wish to breathe a freer air, brave the dreaded ocean and join the Puritan settlers in the wilds of America.

The facts given show the high standard he maintained in his adopted home. William had a disregard of his personal interests and instead devoted much of his life to the service of the colony. The colonists needed such a men, and the many and conspicuous trusts placed in his hands show that he was faithful to them. At times he must have been a successful merchant as numerous land transactions and other evidences indicate. He died at the home of his only daughter. His wife Anne died in Charlestown, Jan. 29, 1682."

Anne and William probably had four children: Mary, who married Matthew Whipple and later Jacob Greene, Joseph who resided in London, Eng. in 1693, another William, who our line is descended from, and Abigail, who I have listed as, but this doesn't correlated with the above paragraph. Our Mary Montgomery Bartholomew Carrington is the 5th ggranddaughter of William and Anne. I'll continue this line at another time.

Besides the above mentioned document, I found terrific information on The New England Colonists Web. Some information I have in front of me are The History of Oxfordshire, The Clint Eastwood Tree (yes, you read correctly...he is a relation to our family), St. Frideswide, Passenger list of the ship called Griffin, Salem, Massachusetts, The Lord Family, The Bartholomew Family, The Scudder Family, Puritanism, New England Timeline, and lots more. There is a Guestbook as well that I haven't take time to really check up on. The information on the Bartholomew family is overwhelming. I have some info on 22 different generations of this family and that includes almost 2,000 individuals.

William Bartholomew - to Boston, aboard the "Griffin"

Just to refresh: Lucius Carrington married Mary Montgomery Barthlomew (my ggrandparents)

Aunt Delores (Lori) Daugherty Johnson was the beginning of my interest in family history. She had a document written by "a Barthlomew cousin of Irene Carrington Daugherty...perhaps named Robert Barthlomew." This cousin never married, that I know of. The document is extremely interesting, however it doesn't state the name of compiler nor any of the sources. Still...it gave me a start...the only start I had. The document included four sheets of a tree chart, hand written with very small penmanship, and then several sheets of hand typed notes of all the people included in the chart. It was quite an undertaking and has become a very cherished possession of mine. Without this document, I might not have directed my interests to family history. I have three full notebooks of information and communications about the Bartholomew family. I'll gradually fill you in on this record and hopefully will spur your curiosity concerning this truly interesting family.

We start with three Bartholomews with the names of John, Robert, and Richard living in Warborough, Oxfordshire, England about 1550! John had a son John, who probably assisted in the founding of Bartholomew Chapel, Burford. Many of us (myself, daughter Elisabeth, some Johnsons,and some Goehrings) have visited this Chapel at St John's church in Burford, Oxfordshire, in the Cotswald Country in England. They were inspiring visits.

This second John had a son William (these names repeat themselves throughout generations), who was christened in Warborough, Eng., in Feb. 7, 1567. His wife was buried in a village a couple of miles from Burford. I looked for Friswede Metalfe's burial plot, but the stones were just too worn for positive identification. This William was a mercer, a dealer in silks and woolens in Burford. His name was prefixed by "Mr." showing that he held the social rank of gentleman. He and Friswede had 9 children. As I have mentioned in a previous post, the home manor is still standing and being lived in. It is a very lovely building.

The second son of William & Friswede is the branch that we are related to. William was born in 1602. There is a posibility that William was disowned from his father because of his religious faith. He was a dissenter of the Church of England...a Puritan. He was a very good friend of Anne Hutchison (check out her history, it's simply fascinating) and accompanied Rev. John Lothrop, his congregation, and Anne Hutchinson to America. It is possible that he was a member of the Presbyterian Congregation in London, and was imprisoned with them. It is easily seen why his farther disowned him. William was well educated, a student at the well-known Grammar School of Burford, and was probably a fellow student of Peter Heylin, who became Chaplain to King Charles I and afterwards sub-dean of Westminster.

We don't know when he went to London or when he married Anna Lord, but before September 1634, he had entertained the famous Mrs. Anne HUtchinson at his London home.

In September 1634, William arrived in Boston, on the ship "Griffin".
In 1635, he was made a freeman at Boston and was granted several tracts of land in Ipswitch, MA. He appeared at the General Court at Boston as a chosen representative of the inhabitants of Ipswich. He had only been in America seven months.
In 1637 - William was appointed on a special grand jury in Boston and took a prominent part in the trial of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson. I just googled Anne Hutchinson and there is an incredible amount of information on this revolutionary of religious freedom and rights for women.
In 1641 William became Town Clerk of Ipswich.
In 1645 he was appointed on a committee to report on the best manner of destroying "ye wolves, which are such revenous cruel creatures and daily vexatious to all ye inhabitants of ye colony."
In 1654, William was chosen treasurer of the county.
In 1655 he was a commissioner and was both "businesslike and an honorable man."
His grave in Phipps Street Cemetery, Charlestown, MA is in a prominent position adjoining that of John Harvard, the benefactor of Harvard College. William died in 1680 at the age of 78 years.
In later posts I'll continue sharing this interesting transcript. I hope I've whetted your curiosity about this ancestor from the Bartholomew family.