Well, it’s not Saturday night, nor is it Sunday. but I haven’t forgotten about doing a Saturday Night Genealogy Fun post. So, let’s pretend, it is Saturday night and some time for some genealogy fun.
Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music): 1) What memories do you have of family sickness or death? Tell us about one or more of them and how the family dealt with it. 2) Tell us in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or on Facebook. Be sure to leave a comment with a link to your blog post on this post.
Do you remember being sick or in the hospital as a child? I was in the hospital to have my tonsils removed around age 5 and had a bad case of influenza while a kindergartner. However, my best memories are of when I got the childhood illnesses of mumps, measles and chicken pox.
Towards the end of first grade, I evidently wasn’t very careful when I used the drinking fountain because I got the mumps. The theory was that another student who had recently had the mumps passed them to me via the drinking fountain.
I remember being placed in my parents’ room and the room being kept dark. I also remember being told that the dishes and silverware I used had to be kept separate from the other dishes and silverware. I even have a vague memory of the doctor visiting me in that room. My mom’s efforts to keep me isolated from the rest of the family remind me a lot of what families are going thru today when someone gets COVID. Thanks to my mom’s efforts no one else in the family got the mumps.
I couldn’t have been released from my ‘quarantine’ very long before I got the measles. This time, I wasn’t alone. Both of my brothers also got the measles.
After recovering from the measles and being released from our confinement, the three of us came down with chicken pox. Thus, we were confined again. I remember the oatmeal baths and the constant reminders not to scratch.
So basically, I spent the entire summer between first and second grade confined to the house. And my mother spent the entire summer caring for a 7 year old, a 5 1/2 year old and a 2 year old.
When I interviewed my parents, I asked my mom about what I referred to as the ‘summer from hell’. Below is a transcription of that portion of the interview:
Me – Do you remember what must have been the summer from ‘hell’ when you had three kids with measles and chicken pox
M – well I remember it wasn’t too bad thanks to grandma and grandpa Crawford and uncle LR. Cause LR was I’ll never forget him sitting there oohing and aahing at the fireworks when you guys still had the chicken pox. Cause you couldn’t go outdoors. And you couldn’t go out and see the fireworks but we could see them from the picture window there in Dodge and he was sitting down there by that window and course Gene was gone he had gone away to school that summer
D – you remember that
Me – I don’t remember that
M – he had left a week early because you got the mumps and he had never had the mumps and how the boys escaped the mumps I’ll never know
Me – you kept me in isolation
M – ya but you know even so, they probably, they’re lucky, they got vaccine as soon as the mumps vaccine came out
Thankfully, we have now have vaccines for the mumps, measles and chicken pox. These vaccines keep children (and their parent caregivers) from going thru a summer like mine.
As adults, we have another vaccine that we can take. This one is to prevent COVID-19. Currently, young children cannot be vaccinated against COVID-19. To protect them, we need to create a circle of vaccinated people around them. So please, protect the children in your life by getting a COVID vaccine.
Even though they are evidently back in style, I can confess that I have never worn a corset. However, my grandmother wore a corset – every day. As a child, I once asked her why and she said it helped her back.
While grandma may have been wearing a corset in her later years to help her back, I doubt that is why she started wearing a corset. Like Sphinx Shapewear and corsets of today, corsets were worn to ‘shape’ the figure. A search of the Emporia, Kansas newspapers for the word corset between the years 1930 and 1950 supports the notion that a corset was a fashion ‘necessity’.
In 1939, the article “New Styles Call for Old Fashioned Corsets” promotes the need to wear a corset.
Chicago, Aug. 1 (AP) – The business of putting women back into corsets, the kind with laces and stays, came to light at the Merchandise Mart style clinic today.
There was an emphasis on bustle effects and smaller waists, posing the immediate question of how to get the smaller waist line.
“By corsets, and in some instances, of course, corsets that lace,” said Mrs. Katherine Ratto, stylist in charge of the clinic, a feature of the fall-winter wholesale apparel market.
“Hip interest,” she said is achieved by the bustle effects — bows in back, loops of material, peplum jackets or nipped-in waists.
Polk’s Emporia City Directory 1940-1941 available on Ancestry in their U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 database
However, Newman’s wasn’t the only clothing store selling corsets at the time. There are several ads in the newspapers indicating that Poole’s sold corsets. One of the most interesting ones is from the February 1942 paper discussing the rationing of rubber and the impact that had on the making of corsets.
Polk’s Emporia City Directory 1940-1941 available on Ancestry in their U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 database
In the December 1949 issue of The Emporia Weekly Gazette (Emporia, Kansas) was a short news item about the corset department at Poole’s.
Mrs. Ann Van Cleave, of Poole’s corset and lingerie department, has recieved a certificate indicating that she has recently attended and completed a prescribed training course in the fundamentals of corsetry. The course is conducted by Warner’s of Chicago.
My ‘corset’ search of the Emporia papers also turned up some interesting medical information regarding the wearing of corsets. The first article involved having monkeys wear corsets.
Wants Monkeys to Wear Corsets Two Full Years
Chicago (Oct. 11 (AP) – Dr. Andrew C. Ivy, physiologist and vice president of the University of Illinois wants 40 monkeys to wear corsets for two years in an experiment which may determne how grandma got her ulcers.
Dr. Ivy said he believes tight corsets, proposed for American women by Paris designers, help peptic ulcers. Research disclosed, he said, that women had more ulcers when they laced themselves tightly.
The experiment with the monkeys, estimated to cost $5,000 would establish, or disprove his belief, Dr. Ivy said, and he plans to go through with it as soon as he can find 40 monkeys, the tightest corsets and $5,000.
To prevent stripping, he’ll put the monkeys into plaster caste molded from the corsets. After two years Dr. Ivy will tell women what, if anything has happened to the monkeys’ insides.
Even though Dr. Ivy’s proposal sounds inhumane to us today, there may have been some truth to his hypothesis that corsets caused ulcers since he was quoted about the corset-ulcer issue in an article about the issue in the Oct. 1950 issue of The Emporia Gazette.
Ulcers Less Numerous When Women Discarded Tight Fitting Corsets
Palm Springs (AP) – Old-fashioned corsets went out of style and peptic ulcers among women declined says a medical expert.
Using the year 1900 as a turning point, Dr. Andrew C. Ivy said that before the turn of the century there were about three times as many peptic ulcer cases among women as among men.
Today, since the stiff stays and tight lacings have been tossed out the style window, the ratio is reversed.
Dr. Ivy, vice president of the University of Illinois, added in his lecture to a dental medicine seminar Monday that the beneficial effect of more comfortable foundations for the ladies was accompanied by a general change in the American way of life and increased tensions among men.
While I disagree with Dr. Ivy’s conclusion that the disappearance of the corset “increased tensions among men,” I do believe that wearing a corset every day would have been uncomfortable and may have impacted the body. One will never know whether my grandmother’s wearing of a corset helped her back or caused other medical issues. She was accustomed to it and continued to wear one even after styles changed.
However, I’m thankful that I live in a time period where I don’t have to don a corset.
Do you have copies of records that have never been transcribed? I know that I have quite a few in my files. That is one of the reasons I’m going back thru my direct line ancestors and creating narrative reports. In the process of creating those reports, I’m making sure I work on transcribing their records.
I recently started working to update the descendants of Hiram M. Currey of Peoria County, Illinois. In the process, I noticed a fact for a land dispute with an incomplete source. That source turned out to be Box 29 from the Peoria County, Illinois court records for the H. M. Curry vs Isaac Underhill case.
Unfortunately, the documents in the box do not indicate who won the court case.
Below is a transcription of those documents:
Peoria County, Illinois Court Records Box 29
H.M. Curry vs Isaac Underhill
Copy obtained by Fred Vatko (Peoria County Genealogical Society)
Quincy No 8250 Hiram M Curry Recd in letter from this [Honl] John T Stuart, dated 30 Dec 1839
Sec Comm & reply of The 2 Jany 1840
——————————————————— State Bank of [Illinois] 45 {?] 4.20 Receiver’s Office, Quincy, Illinois No. 8250 May 30 1836 Received from Hiram M Currey Of Peoria County, Illinois the sum of Forty four Dollars and twenty cents, being in full payment for the Southwest fractional Quarter of section five Township No. Ten north of the base line of Range Nine East of the 4th principal meridian, containing thirty five Acres and 36/100 of an acre at the rate of one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre $44.20 Tho Carlin receiver
Pre act 1834 Conflicting with county 7392
No. 8250 30 May 1836 I Hiram M Curry Of Peoria County, and State of Illinois do hereby apply for the purchase of the South West fractional qr of section numbered five in township numbered ten north of range numbered Nine East of the fourth principal meridian containing thirty five 36/100 acres 35.36 8.84 44.20 According to the returns of the Surveyor General, for which I have agreed with the Register to give at the rate of one dollar and twenty five cents per acre.
I, Samuel Alexander, Register of the Land Office at Quincy, Illinois, do hereby certify that the quarter section above described, contains 35 36 acres, as mentioned; and that the price agreed upon is $1.25 per acre Re Act 1834 [?]icting 7392 Saml Alexander, Register
[CUMBERLAND COUNTY}
State of illinois Peoria County
I Thomas Phillips County Surveyor within & for the aforesaid county; do hereby state on oath, that I surveyed in the year 1837 fractional section #5 10 North Range 9 East of the 4th principal meridian; and that no part of the south west fractional quarter of the fractional section aforesaid bore any appearance of ever having been enclosed or cultivated. The cultivation by which it appears Hiram M Currey proved a right of presumption to the said fractional quarter; was on the adjoining patented quarter. The nearest part of the said cultivation does not come within fourteen chains, of the fractional quarter claimed by Curry. deponent further states that certificate signed by himself and forwarded to the commissioner of the general land office certifying that “Curry’s improvements were on said fraction aforesaid; was an imposition practised on said deponent by one Charles Balla[ne] of Peoria, Ills; and that said deponent signed the same without fully understanding the contents of said certificate; said deponent further states from the best of his knowledge & belief the above plat of said fractional qtr claimed by Curry is a correct on; given under my hand this twenty fourth day of May in the year
One thousand eight hundred & thirty Eight [?] Phillips CSPC
Subscribed and sworn to before me William Mitchell Clerk of the County Commissioners Court within and For the County of Peoria and State of Illinois this 26 day of May AD 1838. Given under my hand and seal of said Court of Peoria this 26 day of May AD 1838 William Mitchell Clerk
Survey & Affidavit of Thos Philipps County Surveyor Peoria Cy Ill. Relative to Twp 5 10N 9E
In relation to Hiram M Curry’s claim to sd qr section G.S.O. Fifled by King & Wilson 9th Jun 1838 C.S.P.
Rec’d June 1838
Surveyor’s Office Peoria County State of Illinois
I Thomas Phillips sur- veyor of said county do hereby certify that I have surveyed section no five in township ten North of the base line and range nine east of the fourth principal meridian according to the original field notes a copy of which I have procured from the surveyor general’ office at St. Louis and find by accurate measurement that the East and West line run- ning through the middle of said sec- tion runs through the field said to have been cultivated by Hiram M. Curry in the year 1833 dividing it in such a manner as to throw a part of said cultivation on the South West fractional quarter and the reside which is much the larger portion on the north West fraction quarter of said section given from under my hand at my office this 26 Day of November 1836 Thomas Phillips SPC
State of Illinois Peoria County
I William Mitchell Clerk of the County Commissioners Court within & for said County,do hereby certify that Thomas Phillips Esqr is the County Surveyor within and for the County of Peoria aforesaid (duly commissioned & qualified) that his commission was dated on the 12th day of August A.D. 1835 and will expire in August 1839 — as it appears to me of record in my office and that his signature following certificate is genuine in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court at Peoria this 15th day of May AD 1838 William Mitchell Clerk
I Charles Ballan[ce] upon oath do state that the above certificte of Thomas Phillips was signed by him in my presence C Ballance
Subscribed & sworn to before me This 15 day of May AD 1838 William Mitchell Clk County Commissioners Court Peoria County Ills
State of Illinois Peoria County I Linus Scovil of lawful age being girst duly sworn depose and say that I am the justice of the peace of said county before whom the witnesses were sworn who established Hiram M. Curry’s right of re-emption to the South West fractional quarter of Section No 5 in Township 10 North of the base line and Range No 9 East of the 4th principal meridian when James Cannon and Har- ris Whittaker were afterwords brought before me by Isaac Underhill to recount upon oath the statements they had formerly made I at first refused to swear them to said last mentioned affidavits on ac count of its apparently involving them in perjury and I inquired of them their motive for so great in- consistency. They informed me that Isaac Underhill and Jefferson Taliaferro (who had [floated] on said Curry’s claim) informed them that they (said Under- hill & Taliaferro) had had said land surveyed and had ascertained that no part of the field which said Curry had cultivated in 1833 was on said tract of land and therefore as said Curry had [during] said was cultivated nowhere else they were guilty of perjury in swearing he had cultivated a part of said tract during said year and that said Underhill and Taliaferro had threated to persecute them for perjury unless they wold recant upon oath the statements aforesaid respecting said Curry’s pre-emption. I further state that I am well acquainted with all the parties and the premises in dispute that said Curry is a poor man who to my certain knowledge has lived upon the land in dispute ever since some time in the year 1832 until a few months past his family has
Been absent (as is said) upon a visit to distant relatives That I called to see said Curry some time the fall of 1833 and found him sowing a crop of wheat and had at the time a crop of corn and pumkins grown The field he was cultivating was always understood to be the fraction of section 5 township 10 North of range 9 East partly on the NW qr and partly on the SW qr but having [nev] er surveyed it can not say possibly where an East & west line would run but have no dougt that the house and part of the field are on the SW frac- tional quarter Said Witnesses are vry young and could I presume be easily frightened or per- suaded to make such recantation without any criminal intention I was at the time said Curry settled on said land living in said neighborhood and have ever since lived there Given from under my hand this 28th day of January 1837. Linus Scovill (seal)
State of Illinois Peoria County
This day personally appeared Before me William Mitchell A notary Public of said County Linus Scovill personally known to me to be the identical person who subscribed and swore to the foregoing instrument of [[writing] and deposed that the statements therein made are just and true according to the best of his knowledge & beliefs I also certify that the said Linus Scovill is a man of integrity & credibility and that his statements on oath may be relied on Given under my hand and seal notarized at Peoria this 28th January AD 1837 William Mitchell
I Alexander [Forsh] being of lawful age and first duly sworn testify that sometime in the summer of the year 1836 in the town of Peoria I heard a conver- sation between Isaac Underhill and another indi- vidual respecting his speculations at Rome on the Illinois River in which said Underhill boasted of having defeated the pre-emption of a settler in that neighborhood by procurring his witnesses to swear that their affidavits by which they established the pre-emp- tion were not true In that part of the conversation which was in my hearing he stated distinctly that he had paid one of said witnesses to with William M. E. Bogar- dus the sum of two hundred dollars or four hundred dollars (I am not certain which) to procure him to go before a justice of the peace and recant upon oath his former affidavit My impression is that he did not give the name of the person whose pre-emp- tion he had endeavored to destroy but he described it as being a fraction and otherwise so spoke of it as to have no doubt that it was the pre-emption of Hiram M. Curry to which he alluded and further this affiant [soweth] not Alex H Fash
State of Illinois Peoria County I William Martin a justice of the peace in and for said county do hereby certify that on the ninth day of November A D 1837 person all appeared before me Alexander H [Forsh] and was by me sworn to the truth of the foregoing affidavit given under my hand the date aforesaid W Martin J P
State of Illinois Peoria County
I, William Mitchell, Clerk of the County Commissioners’ Court for said county, do hereby certify that William Martin, Esquire, whose name appears to the foregoing certificate, was, on the day of the date thereof, an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, as it appears to me of record in my office; and that, as such, full faith and credit are due to all his official acts. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said court, at Peoria this Seventh day of December 1839 William Mitchell Clerk
I Charles Ballomce do solemnly swear that shortly after Isaac Underhill had filed the affidavits of William M C [Bojordne] and others in the land office to defeat H. M. Curry’s right of pre-emption to a tract of land adjoining Rome in the county of Peoria Ill that said Curry state to me that said Bogardus had ackn- owledged to him that said Underhill had bribed him for the sum of four hundred dollars to swear to an affi davit contradicting his former affidavit which he [had] given to establish said Curry’s pre-emption that supposing if said statement was true it was not susceptible of proof I paid little attention to it until about two months ago said Curry in- formed me he could prove said charge by Alexander H. [Forsh] part not having an opportunity to take his affidavit then and his residence being several miles from here I had not a convenient opportunity to take it until November 9th last past and it was not then forwarded to the general land office because I wished to procure furthere testimony especially the testimony of Luther sears who was an associate of said Underhill and who I understood from Forst knew all about it On this day I called on said Sears who stated that he heard said [Bocardus] and Underhill bargain- ing about said affidavit Underhill offered a price to Bocardus if he would upon oath recant his former affidavit Bocardus refused to do it for the price offered but agreed to do it for a large price after a number offers were made and refused a sum was agreed upon and
the affidavit was made out and sworn to by said Bocardus, and the price paid by said Underhill, as he understood from them both, but what was the amount paid said Sears, could not recollect. After said matter was arranged said Sears stated that said Underhill explained the transaction to him and told him that it was Hiram M. Curry’s pre- emption claim near Rome that said affidavit was taken to defeat. Said Underhill explained his having to give so high a price for this affidavit to be that in addition to the reluctance of the witness to contradict himself he was interested in Curry’s claim, and it was necessary to give him more then his interest amounted to to get him to swear against Curry said Seas who seemed to know all about the said transaction stated that he had ‘no doubt there was perjury in the business.” I then asked him if he would give an affidavit stating these fact, to which he answere- ed that being a friend of Mr.Underhills he would not give any statement on oath on the subject, unless required in a court of justice and in this case he would swear to the facts as declared to me and related above and further this affi ant [south] not Charles Balland Subsribe and sworn to before me this 7th day of December AD 1839. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the County Commissioners Court of Peoria County, Sate of Illinois this day & year last aforesaid william Mitchell Clk
State of Illinois Peoria County
Clerks Office County Commissioners [County] William Mitchell clerk of said Court do hereby certify that Linus Scovill Esqr whose name appears written to the within certificate was at this time the same was made an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified as affiant of record in my office and that as such full faith and credit an [act of rights] ought to be given to [?] his official acts given under my hand and seal said Court at Peoria this 25th day of May AD 1836 William Mithcell Clk Co Commr PC
8250 Cancelled Quincy
Money ordered to be re- funded by the Secretary of the Treasurey — See letter to the Regt & Recv dated 11th April 1845
Cancelled
Money ordered to be refunded see letter to R & R 3d Oct 1838
See letter from Honr John t Stuart enclosing live affidavits herewith filed — & letter dated 30th Dec 1839 – & Commr reply of 2 Jany 1840 – also letter to R&R of same date
We James Cannon and Harris Wittaker do solemnly swear that Hiram M curry is not entitled to a preemption to the South West fractional qtr of Sec No 5 10 N 9 East for which he has our evidence to his preemption papers being date 19th March AD 1836, we were at together unacquainted with the boundarys of said fractional qr until a recent survey of the same and hereby swear that said Curry never cultivated any part thereof to our knowlege as set forth in said preemption papers James Cannon his Harris Wittaker Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of May 1836 Linus Scoville Justice of the Peace
I William M C Bogardus hereby make oath that Hiram M Curry is not entitled to a presentation to the SW fractional qr of Sec no 5 10 North 9 East for which he has my affadavit concerning I do not want the Register to receive said affadavit as there is a mistake inthe same and further that I swear that the section lines do not come within three or four rods of teh fence where he states that he cultivated the same, and further one of the [whitnesses] is Curry’s own son, and the other is under age [W M ? Bogandus]
State of Illinois Peoria County I Lewis Bigelow, an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Peoria, hereby certify that on the 23d day of May AD 1836 the above named William M. C. Bogar dens personally appeared before me and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed
Lewis Bigelow, J. Peace
State of Illinois Peoria County Clerks Office County Commissioners Court William Mitchell Clerk of said Court I hereby certify that Lewis Bigelow Esqr whose name appears to the foregoing certificate was at the time the same was mad an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county regularly commissioned and qualified as appoint of record in my office and as such full faith and credit are[and ? rights] [?] given to are his official acts. In Tes- timony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said County at Peoria this twenty fifth day of May A.D. 1836 William Mitchell Clk
Cancelled Certificate 8250 and proof belonging thereto
Certificate Cancelled See letter to R & R 3d Oct 1838 also letter from the Hon John T stuart dated 30 Oct 183[7] & Commr reply of 2d Jany 1840 & letter of same date to R & R
Charles Ballance of Peoria of lawful age deposes and says in addition to his foregoing that he has been acquainted with Hiram M Curry since early in 1832 That in the latter part said year this deponent and said Curry were two of the Commissioners appointed by the County of Peoria to locate a road towards Knoxville to pass on the North line of the above described tract that this deponent was then in the house of said Curry and has frequently been on the premises same and states of his own knowl- edge that said Curry has ever since resided on said land with his family neither has he ever heard of his having had any othe rhome during said time nor has he heard of any other person having a claim to said land unti the last week C Ballance Subscribed & Sworn to before me on this 30th day of May 1836. J H [Racton] J. P.
Sworn to and subscribed before me on this 19th day of March 1836 Linus Scovill J P
We do swear that the subscribing witnesses to the within preemption proof are persons of respectability and their oath entitled to credit William, Fletcher, Thompson Linus Scoville junr Swortn to and subscribed before me on this 26th day of March 1836 Linus scovill JP
I do hereby certify that the above named wienesses are persons of respectability and their oath entitled to credit Linus Scovill J P
State of Illinois Peoria County To wit: William Mitchell clerk of the county Commissioners Court for said county do certify that Linus Scovill Esqr whose name appears to the foregoing certificates was on the day of the date therof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, dully commissioned and qualified [seal covering ] to me of record in my office and that as such [seal covering] and credit are due & are his official acts In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Peoria this 21st day of may 1836 William Mitchell, Clk
I do solemnly swear that I was in actual occupancy of and raised a crop on the South west fractional qr of sec 5 town 10 north of range 9 East of the 4th principal meridian in the year 1833 and that I was in actual possession and occupancy of the same at the passage of the law on the 19th of June 1834 and am still in possession and I hereby apply to enter the same by preemption agreably to the Act of Congress in that care made and provided Hiram M Currey Sworn to and subscribed before me on this 19th day of March 1836 Linus Scovill JP
We do solemnly swear that Hiram m Currey was in actual occupancy of and raised a crop on the South west fractional qr of Sec 5 in Town 10 North of Range 9 East of the 4th principal Meridian in the year 1833 and that he was in actual occupancy of the same on the 19th of June 1834 and still is in possession and that we are not interested directly or indirectly in his obtaining a preemption Silas Allen Hames Camon Harris (his mark) Whitaker
To the Honorable Thomas Ford Judge of the Peoria Circuit Court in Chancery sitting humbly complaining showeth unto your Honor your [or tor] Hiram M. Curry that heretofore to wit in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty [twp] your orator found the south West fractional quarter of section no. five Township ten North of the base line and Range nine East of the fourth principal meridian vacant and unoccupied land belonging to the government of the United States of America and your orator being desirous of obtaining a home in this part of the country and aid land having not then been proclaimed for sale took possession thereof with the intention of making thereon a preman- nent home and paying for the same when it should be offered for sale by the government Your orator fur- there showeth unto our Honor that he cultivated a portion of said fractional section of land in and during the year AD one thousand eight hundred thirty-three and had a dwelling house thereon which he was living with his family on the nineteenth of June A D 1834 and was consequently entitled to enter a right of pre-emp tion thereto under the laws of Congress of said last and was thereby entitled to buy said tract at one dollar and twen- ty five cents per acre at any time before the nineteenth day of June A D 1836 And your orator well hoped that he would be permitted the peaceable enjoyment of his [family] home made in those early times amidst privations and dangers But now so it is may it Please your Honor one Isaac Underhill who is hereby made a defendant to this bill sometime the second day of April in the year A D 1836 went to the land office at Quincey Illinois and fraudently represented said tract of land to the Register of said land office as government land on which no right of pre-emption
existed and entered said land by means of a floating right obtained under said pre-emption law in the name of one Charles Hayes who is hereby prayed to be made a defendant to this bill And afterwards to wit in or about the second day of My Ad 1836 the said Underhill presured said Hayes to make an assignment of said tract of land to one Jefferson Taliaferro who is also prayed to be made a defendant to this bill Your orator further shares that in the month of April AD 1836 said Underhill surveyed said tract into town lots and had a plat thereof made and recorded in the recorders office of said county under the name of ‘Taliaferro’s Additon Rome’ and on the fifteenth of said month obtained from said Taliferro a deed to a portion thereof but whether the whole legal title that said Taliaferro obtained or may [cu] supposed to have obtained from said Hayes has been conveyed to said Underhill your orator does not know And your orator showeth unto your honor that said Underhill further to embarrass and defraud your orator sold divers portions of said tract of land to divers persons whose names are at present unknown to your orator but whose names when ascertained your orator prays may [?] have and they made defendants hereunto Your orator further showeth unto your honor that your orator during the existence of said pre-emption land to wit on the day of June AD 1836 procured all the neces- sary proofs to be filed in said land office to establish a right of pre-emption in your orator to said tract of land whereupon said register and Receiver decided that your orator was entitled to said land notwithstanding the
orator was entitled ——————— said entry made by said Underhill as aforesaid and your orator thereupon bought said land of said Register and Receiver pursuant to the provisions of said pre- emption law and received the usual duplicate receipt showing that fact which duplicate is herewith shown to the court and prayed to be taken as a part of this bill Your orator further showeth unto your Honor that after said last mentioned entry or purchase was made said Underhill procured and sent tot he commissioners of the general land office, certain affidavits tending to prove that if the line between the North and South halves of said section was properly surveyed the cultivation would fall on the north half whereas his house was on the South half to rebut which your orator procured and sent to the commissioner of the General land office an official certificate of the county surveyor of Peoria county certifying that he had run said line bounding to the original field notes and a portion of said cultivation was on the tract in controversy on the reception of which said commissioner adjudged your orators evidence conclusive but for form’s sake sent back the surveyors certificate with a request that the county seal might be attached to[document] the official [hamiter] of said surveyor whereupon your orator [pro-] [red]said sent to be attached this to with the certificate of said clerk that of the official character of said surveyor and all that said commissioners required being complied with your orator rested cont[ent] and well hopes the question was settled forever but to your orators utter as- tonishment and dismay some months afterwards he received a letter from Samuel [Leech] Commissioner of the said land office at Quincy enclosing a copy of a letter which it was stated that the claim of your orator was adjudged bad and the claim of said Underhill who held under said Haye’s as aforesaid adjudged good and that it was filed away for a patent to issue in due course
And afterwards to with on the twenty first day of January AD one thousand eight hundred and forty a patent was made out in due form granting said land absolutely from the United States to said Charles’ Hayes
But if your orator charges the legal title to said land is in said Hayes and has not passed so said Taliaferro Underhill& many of their [minders] for your orator charges that said assignment is not such an instrument as can pass the legal title in said premises All of which outings and doings of the said under Hayes, Taliaferro and their confederate are contrary to equity and good [measure] and tend to the many injury and impoverishment of your orator whereupon you as much as your orator is without relief under the [strict] ness of the common laws but is re[trevable] in a court of equity only where matters of this
sort are properly cognizable and relievable therefore May it please your honor to grant unto your orator the People’s most gracious writ of summons to be directed to the said Isaac Underhill, Charles Hayes and Jefferson Taliaferro thereby commanding them and each of them at a certain day and under a certain point therein to be lim[it] personally to be and appear before your Honor in this Honora ble court and then and there the said Hayes’ or his corporate oath and the said Underhill and Taliaferro without full true [?] perfect answers make to all and singular the premises And may the said Hayes be required to answer on oath afore- said particularly whether he was entitled to a floating right to any land under the pre-emption law aforesaid and if he was what facts [earsted] to entitle him thereto and more particularly whether he lived on government land or on land that had long before been granted to or private indi- vidiual on the nineteenth day of June A D 1834 And whether the South West fractional quarter of section five in Township ten North of the base line and Range nine East of the fourth principal meridian was entered by him or by another in his name without his consent and whether he has since conveyed the same away to any other person or persons. If he h[ears] to whom he has conveyed And may the said Underhill and Taliafero parties only state without oath as aforesaid what title they jointly or severally have in said premises what parts they have sold to each other or to others at what time and to whom sold and for what price And may said Hays, Underhill and Taliferro be compelled to execute and deliver to your orator a good and sufficient deed of conveyance conveying to your orator all the right title and interest which they or either of them has in said premises with [increments] of warranty warranting said premises to your orator against the acts of the said Hays Underhill and Talia- fero by them sincerely done and [committed] and against all persons claiming by through or under the person thus warranting and further may they stand to abid and perform such further orders direction and [direct] therein as to your honor shall sum [mut] And may it please your Honor to grant unto your orator such other and further relief as equity any justice shall require and to your Honor shall seem mut and your orator as in duty bound will ever pray Hiram M. Curry Pr C. Bullance [solicitor]
Hiram M Curry vs Isaac Underhill et al Bill in Equity
Filed July 7th AD 1840 William Mitchell
In this case the clerk will issue summons to the county of Peoria against Isaac Underhill to the county of Tazewell against Jefferson Taliferro and to the county of McDonough against Charles Hayes C. Ballance sol. for compt
The summon of Isaac Underhill to the bill in chancery filed by one Hiram M Curry in the Circuit Court for Peoria County against himself Charles Hays and Jeferson Taliaferro. This respondent admits that the South West fractional quarter of section five T 10 N (E belonged to the government of the United States in AD 1832, but he says it is [not true] complainant cultivated any portion of this tract of land in the year AD 1833 nor at any time since as the respondent is informed and verily believes. This respondent further says that he never did represent tot he Register of the land office at Quincy that no preemption rights existed to said tract of land though had such representation been [noodes] to want have been justified by the facts He admits that said Taliaferro purchased a floating claim of said Hays and entered the said tract of land in April 1836. Hays then assigned the certificate of entry to said Taliaferro who conveyed all his right and interests in the land to this person and by deed. He also admists that he laid off the town of Rome on a portion of the said tract of land and has since sold some of the lots to different individuals. This respondens also admits that the com- plainant by misrepresenting the situation of the land impose and some individuals so far as to indue them to attempt to prove a right of presumption in said Curry and this respondent thinks it not impossible that Register and Receiver of the land office unsuspecting of a fraud and no [caus?]
evidence being before them might have per- mitted to complainant to enter the land. This respondent also admits to the time that soon after the land it [sacmoured] that Curry had been permitted to enter the land, to purchase the affidavits of several persons acquainted with the facts (among them were the witnesses who proved Curry preemption) in which affidavits it was stated that Curry never had cultivated the aforesaid tract of land This respondent also admits that one Charles Ballance who was then acting as the attorney for the complainant by misrepre- senting to the county surveyor the course of the lines indused him to give the certificate mentioned in the bill, then the said Ballance was enabled the to induce the county surveyor more easily to believe these false statements, as he had been [coerced] by surveyor himself was at time [prevailing] This respondent also says that the said county surveyor soon after he had given the certificate to the said Ballance, discovered the [imposetion] that had been practiced and him, and having surveyed the land accurately according [to the] field notes, gave this respondent a certificate stating the above parts and was no appearance of them said having been any cultivation on the said tract of land. This respondent sent the aforesaid testimony to the commissioner of the General Land office and he thinks [?] the complainent ought not to have been surprised, should have issued to Hays after this fraud had been thus fully brought tot he know- ledge of the land officers. This respondent admits that he sold several of the towns lots laid off on said land but when & to whom he cannot now answer with precision having no mem
orandum of the sales. He thinks he sold the most of them in AD 1836 and supposes that the owners names may be found in the reco ders office, as acceptable to the complainant as to this respondent he has forgotten to whom the lots were sold, and could only ascertain them by searching the said records. This respondent further answers and says that he denies that the said complainant ever had a right or preemption to the said South west fraction quarter And the respondent having this fully answered [froze] that he may be dismissed with his costs. Isaac Underhill
[?] known to befor [?] 8 day of August 1840 William Mitchell
Deposition of George C McFaddon of the County of Peoria and State of Illinois taken on the fifth and sixth days of October AD 1840 between the hours of 10 in the morning and five in evening of the said Hays in the office of William Mitchell Clerk of the Circuit Court within the said county to be used in evidence in a cause pending in the Circuit Court of said County with Chancery [bids] thereof wherein Hiram M Curry is complainant and Isaac Underhill, Jeferson Taliaferro and Charles Hays are defendants on behalf of the said defendants the said George C McFadden doth depose Hays, in answer to the following interrogations
1st Have you surveyed the South West qr Section five Township 10 North Range 9 East of the [4] Meridian
Ans: He Has
2ns: State whether there is any appearance of cultivation on said quarter
Ans: Witness was requested to examine as to whether the said quarter had been cultivated and was not able to discover that there had been anything like cultivation upon it
3rd Had there been any cultivation upon it in the year 1833 would have perceived the evidence of it
Ans: should think there might
4th Is there any appearance of cultivation in the vicinity of this quarter?
Ans: witness refers to a map which is marked A and made a part of this deposition, the place on said map marked “orchard cultivated ground” and the place marked “old cultivated ground called the Taliferro place” appeared to have been cultivated and they are the only places in the vicinity of said quarter which have been cultivated
5th Are you the County surveyor of Peoria county and is the said map is a correct survey of said ground
Ans: witness is the county surveyor of Peoria County and the map and survey is correct
Cross Examination by the complainant 1st What is the description of the said quarter section and the adjacent ground?
Ans: Prairie
2nd: Are any of ancient corners of said section remaining
Ans: None that he could find
3rd: How did you ascertain the true position of the line through the middle of said frac section?
Ans: witness commenced about a mile and a half in the township line between ten North Eight & Nine [fall] and run North to the center of section six north west side then run East one mile to the quarter section corner between five & six, then to [prove ther] that was right run South to the river, thirty one chains then run from same corner North to the corner of section five & six on township line
the corner of Section five & six on township line
then run East 33 chains & 6 links to the Illinois river, which comes out within a few [links] of the field with distance and that witness judges was about right
4th Is the bank of the River where the three lines as laid down on the map strike it, a sudden cliff or a gradual slope?
Ans: A gradual slope, a little rough on the start but gradual afterwards
5th Do the lines as you have surveyed them terminate at high or low water mark?
Ans: The North line would terminate at high water [nexth] with the field [in the] distances, the other two lines are about average distance between high & low water marks
6th By what field notes did you survey this tract
Ans: by the field notes which witness purchased from Captain Phillips the former County surveyor, and witness has no doubts they are true copies of the original notes as they have always agreed with his surveys
7th Have you any personal knowledge that they were copied from the original field notes?
Ans: Has not
8th In running the lines of said quarter how much did you allow for the variation of the compass?
Ans: Seven degrees & twenty minutes
9th If a mistake was made in the degree of variation how much wold it make in missing a [field]
Ans: One chain and forty links
10th Is any part of the fence remaining on the South side of the piece marked on the map “old cultivated ground”?
Ans: thinks not
11th How far does the North line of said fractional quarter run south of where cultivation appears to have been as marked on the plat?
Ans: From fifty to seventy five links
By the defendants
Was the corner you started from, the one established by the United States?
Ans: Witness supposed it was, on the township line containing that quarter
What is the true varratin of the compass
Ans: seven degrees & twenty minutes
By the complainant
How did you ascertain the true variation of eh compass?
Ans: By running on different lines and making the variation to follow said lines witness has been surveying in Peoria County more or less for four years, and has been county surveyor about a year G. C. McFadden
State of Illinois Peoria County I William Mitchell Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for said county do hereby certify that George C McFadden was by me sworn to testify the truths, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, as a witness in the above entitled cause, and that foregoing deposition by him submitted was taken as the time and place aforesaid and reduced to writing by me Given under my hand and seal of said Court at Peoria this 6th day of [December] AD 1840 William Mitchell Clerk
Fees for taking Dep 1.87
Hiram M. Curry vs Underhill
Deposition of E McFaden Hays et al
A survey of teh S.W. quarter of Section5 Township 10 N R 9 E of teh 4th Prl Meredian (For Isaac Underhill) Beginning at a part of sstone set for 1/4 secton corner between sections 5 7 6 thence East 20 chains to the bank of the Illinois river, thence S 30 [W] two chains thence S 30 degrees E three chaines, thens S 56 degrees W four chains and fifty links, thence S 30 degrees W eight chains, thens S 34 degrees W twelve chains, thens S 41 degrees W nine chanes (the corner described in the field notes is destroyed) thence North thirty one chains to the place of beginnings, containg 31 83/100 acres of land, surveyed according tot he original field notes, July 22nd 1840 Variation 7 degrees 20 minutes G. C. McFadden CSPC
A Survey of the S.W. Qr of Sect. 5 T10 N R 9 E pr Isaac Underhill
When entering details about an acestor’s life, do you use a ‘member’ fact? I do – sometimes. But if I were grading myself on the use of this fact, I would probably give myself a ‘D’. Since I do use the fact, I don’t deserve an ‘F’. However, my usage is very inconsistent.
For example, my grandmother, Winnie Currey Crawford was a member of the Old-Timers club in Dodge City. Growing up, I remember her talking about either hosting or attending Old-Timers meetings. I’ve even written a blog post about the Old-Timers club. Grandma was also a member of the East Side Bible class. However, my grandmother does not have a ‘member’ fact for either of these organizations.
I admit that I’m a bit lazy with the use of this fact. I think another issue I have with this fact is the process of assigning a date. I don’t know when my grandmother joined these organizations. Thus, I don’t have a ‘beginning’ date. Her participation was also over a span of years.
In preparing for this post, I also discovered that, at times, I don’t provide enough information when entering the fact. If the description field is left blank, then the sentence created for the fact is meaningless.
Member Fact – Missing Description Info – Meaningless Sentence
This also impacts a ‘Fact List’ report. Without the details that should be in the description, the report just gives the place. The ‘fact list’ report is under the ‘Lists’ section of reports in RootsMagic 7.
Creating a fact list report for the member fact is relatively simple. I just selected the member fact and then generated the report.
Fact List Report – Selecting Member Fact
This produced an 8 page report. Below is a sample of that report showing both facts with sufficient information along with facts that do not have enough information.
Member Fact List Report – Highlighted entries are missing information in the Description field
Since I am previewing RootsMagic 8, I decided to see how this works in RM8. Instead of going to the ‘Reports’ menu at the top of RM7, I need to use the ‘Publish’ menu down the left side of RM8.
Based on my limited experience in RM8, I believe the Publish screen shows 4 of the reports I’ve recently used. Since the Fact List report does not show, I need to click on ‘All Reports and Charts’.
RM8 Publish Menu
That opens a screen showing all of the available reports. From here, I selected Fact List.
List of available reports -RM8
Instead of opening a separate window for the report options, they appear on the left side of the screen. Again, I need to select the fact type, ‘member’. Clicking on the > to the right of the ‘birth’ fact type opens a window where I can scroll down to locate the Member fact.
Selecting type of fact – RM8
Clicking OK on the window changes the ‘fact type’ in the settings for the report to Member. I then removed the check mark from Print Private Facts and from Print Preparer Info.
Settings Screen Fact List Report
Once the settings are configured to my wishes, I click the Generate report button at the bottom of the column. This report appears in the large space to the right of the report settings.
Fact List Report RM8
When I look at the same area of the report as in RM7 (Washington Marion Crawford, etc.), the major difference is that every other member fact is highlighted blue.
RM8 Fact List Report Example
Magic didn’t happen in RM8. I’m still missing the description information for William Clay Craford’s member facts. I’m not sure whether the highlighting affected the spacing or whether a different font and font size was used, but the report is 13 pages long in RM8 compared to the 8 pages in RM7.
This experiment with the Member Fact list report
Revealed my laziness in entering this type of fact
Revealed member facts that are missing descriptive details
Helped me realize that the process of creating reports in RootsMagic 8 is similar to that in RM7. It just looks different.
Have you ever counted the number of bridges you cross as you travel from one community to another? In today’s society, I know that I take those bridges for granted and am guessing that you may do likewise.
However, when one is on the south side of a river (stream or creek) and need to get to the other side, those bridges become important. That was very true for my husband and I when he interviewed for a teaching job at Nemaha Valley High School. We were students at Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia, Kansas and the interview was in Seneca, Kansas. Between Emporia and Seneca is one of the major rivers in Kansas – the Kansas River.
We had looked at the maps and figured out a route to get from Emporia to Seneca. Since he was a ‘poor’ college student, he wasn’t interested in taking the turnpike from Emporia to Topeka and then going to Seneca. Ruling out that route, he elected to take the most direct route going thru Maple Hill to Saint Marys and then north to Seneca.
Reaching Maple Hill, we discovered that the bridge across the Kansas River was closed for construction. Thus, a search of the map began for another bridge to get us from the South side of the river to the North side. We ended up going thru Paxico. Fortunately, we were able to locate a pay phone and call ahead to warn the superintendent that we would be late due to our issue with the bridge.
My Crawford relatives were greatly impacted by this need for a bridge when they migrated to Dodge City. The majority of their land holdings were on the South side of the Arkansas River while the Santa Fe trail, railroad and business district were all on the North side of the river.
By the time James H. Crawford and his family arrived in Dodge City, the Dodge City Bridge Company had erected a toll bridge across the river. Tolls to cross the bridge were $1.50 for a team and wagon, $2.00 for a four to six horse team and $.25 for men on horseback (or pedestrians). [Toll information from the article, “John T. Riney: the First Toll Keeper” by Kathie Bell for the Dodge City Daily Globe. A clipping of the article was shared in the Facebook group, Growing Up in Dodge City.]
Dodge City Daily Globe. 1 Jan 1878, page 7
Being entrepreneurs, the Crawford family established a Branding Corral one mile south of the river. They also purchased and refurbished the South Side Hotel. Both of these businesses would have attracted cattlemen and other travelers coming to Dodge City from Texas.
Branding Corral
The undersigned has a large and convenient corral for the branding of through Texas cattle, one mile south of the Arkansas river bridge. Apply at the residence south end of river bridge, or at my place of business inthe city.
J.H. Crawford
Dodge City Times, July 24, 1884
The South Side Hotel
Has been repaired, refitted and refurnished, and is now opened to the traveling public. Everything home-like and pleasant.
A good Feed Stable and large Horse Pasture in connection.
Prices reasonable. No drinks sold on the premises.
J.H. Crawford
Dodge City Times, July 2, 1885
Crossing the river was an almost daily task for J. H. Crawford and his family since he ran Crawford Grocers in Dodge City.
The need to connect those settlers on the south side of the river with the commerce district on the north side was behind the ‘Free Bridge’ movement.
Free Bridge
There is nothing that would assist business in Dodge City and the improvement of Ford county so materially as a free bridge across the Arkansas river. Complaint reaches us every day in the week from the numerous settlers who are locating on the south side of the river. It looks to them like an outrage to be compelled to pay a dollar for bridge toll whenever they wish to visit the city or haul a load to the settlements. The business men of Dodge City should make some effort in this direction, as it is creating a prejudice in the minds of the settlers against the town. A dollar is a small sum in the eyes of many western people, but tot hose who are just from the east where dollars are not picked up so easily it is different, and they will go a good ways around rather than pay a dollar. If Spearville or Cimarron should build a bridge we would lose a very large trade. It should be the duty of the county officers, whose salaries have been increased to a very handsome pile, to spend a little time looking up this matter, knowing it to be for the benefit of their constituents, and notify the people through the Globe just what steps are necessary to be take in order to build a bridge or purchase the old one.
The Dodge City Globe (Dodge City, Kansas) 25 March 1879, page 3.
In April of 1885, an agreement between the township board and the Dodge City Bridge Company was reached for the purchase of the existing bridge.
At a meeting of the Township Board the bridge bond question was the all absorbing topic before that body. As was reported in our last issue, the bridge bonds were issued on the 18th inst., and all that now remained was to get the bridge company to accept of the same as per agreement, which we regret to say the bridge company, through its president, R. M. Wright, refused todo, unless certain further concessions were made on the part of the board, to-wit: That on account of certain expenditures on the the part of the bridge company, incurred in investigating the validity of the bonds and in subduing the opposition of the Santa Fe railroad company on the issuance of the same, he proposed to accept the $6,00 in bond for the bridge and would give possession to the same on or before July 1st, 1885, the township to have the interest on said bonds from time of issuance to time of turning property over tot he township, the bridge company entering into a bond of $10,000 with G. M. Hoover as surety, for the faithful performance of the contract so entered into with the township board. The board after consulting with a large number of tax-paying citizens, and finding a majority of the opinion that the proposition should be accepted as the best that could be done, accordingly delivered the bonds to the bridge company. So the question is settled. Before the great Fourth of July, with its spirit of Freedom, rolls around, the bridge will be free and those passing over independent of toll. The bridge is insured, and the policy will be assigned to the township.
The Dodge City Globe (Dodge City, Kansas) 28 April 1885, page 4
Thus, the toll bridge was no more and the South Dodge was connected to the main business district by a free bridge.
Have you visited cemeteries in search of a grave? Did a family member help you find the gravesite?
Each memorial day, my mom would load us kids up in the car along with cut flowers from the garden to meet my grandparents at the cemetery to decorate graves. Thus, I grew up knowing where the Crawford family plot was in the Dodge City cemetery.
However, I did not remember where all of the other family graves were, including my great grandfather and 2nd great grandparents. I learned where those gravesites were when my grandmother took me on a ‘family plot’ tour of the cemetery. Thanks to her guidance, I can walk to most of those family plots.
When I’ve gone to other cemeteries looking for graves, I’ve sometimes walked the entire cemetery before locating the stone. In larger cemeteries, I’ve been able to visit the office and get a general location for the stone. Even when armed with that information, I’ve haven’t been able to walk right up to the stone.
That’s where GPS technology can be very helpful. While on a Memorial Day cemetery visit to locate graves of collateral relatives in Kansas city, I was very thankful for that technology. We were looking for a grave in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens in Kansas City, Kansas and the office was overwhelmed. Thus, I was pleasantly surprised to discover the entire cemetery on BillionGraves. Using the BillionGraves app, we were able to drive to the section and then I was able to walk to the grave.
I had a similar experience while visiting the Olathe Memorial Cemetery in Olathe, Kansas. I can generally locate the stone of my great grandmother, Winnie Currey (Curry) who is buried there. During a visit to the cemetery a couple of years ago, we discovered that they had GPSed the entire cemetery and made it searchable on their website.
Since Find a Grave is the go-to source for many people looking for burial information, I was curious about the ability to add GPS coordinates to a record on Find a Grave. If using a GPS enabled device such as a smart phone, then adding those coordinates appears to be fairly simple. Pictured below are the directions from the Find a Grave site.
Curious as to what that looks like on the app, I checked the Find a Grave record for a collateral relative who is buried in the Dodge City cemetery. His record already has a tombstone picture. Thus, I can’t take a photo and quickly add it to the record. However, while using the app (and not the web site), there is a handy little button to Add GPS.
So, my plans for this memorial day weekend is to work on getting this GPS data out there by making sure a photo has been uploaded to BillionGraves and either adding a photo or adding the GPS coordinates to Find a Grave. Won’t you join me in this endeavor?
I know I’m going to date myself, but I remember the joy of finding Everton’s Genealogical Helper in our mailbox. I would pour through each issue looking for an ad that might connect me with a genealogical cousin. Finding such an ad would cause me to compose a letter with a pedigree chart or family group sheet attached and send it off with a SASE (Self Addressed Stamped Envelope). I would then wait for a reply. Sometimes, I would be the person posting such an ad. Again I would anxiously await any replies to my ad. [See article: Pre-Internet Cousin Bait}
Thru time, mailing lists, surname lists and message boards replaced the ads in the Helper. Even though those resources may still exist, I rarely use them. Browsing Anestry’s message boards and seeing fewer and fewer messages posted and many with no replies, it is obvious that others are not using this resource either.
So, what is being done to connect with cousins. My husband has successfully used Facebook groups for his ancestors to connect with living cousins. Even though I have befriended a lot of cousins on FB, I have not had the success that my husband has had. That is likely due to the fact that he is very active in his groups and tends to ignore anything and everything else on Facebook while I’m not very active in my family groups.
Instead of Facebook, I’ve been concentrating on this blog. I’ve shared photos, ancestral biographies, lists of descendants, sources and analysis of local records in my various blog posts.
In terms of sharing my genealogical data, I concentrate on my Ancestry tree, Heartland Genealogy. I am also adding sources and memories to the FamilySearch tree. Since I’m using RootsMagic 7 for my genealogical research, I also have a free site thru RootsMagic for my data.
Another way in which I try to connect with cousins is thru DNA. My Ancestry tree is connected to the four DNA tests I manage on Ancestry. To help make connections with DNA cousins, I am researching descendants of my 2nd and 3rd great grandparents. By doing this research, I’m hoping to provide a connection between my tree and a DNA match’s tree.
In order to connect with cousins who may have tested their DNA on a different site, I have transferred my Ancestry DNA to GedMatch, MyHeritage and FamilyTree DNA. Thanks to the use of GedCom, I have transferred my genealogical data to these sites. Thus, I have a tree connected to DNA on MyHeritage, GedMatch, and FamilyTreeDNA.
Thanks to my brother agreeing to do a yDNA test, his results are part of the CRAWFORD yDNA project. This project has a fantastic administrator and an associated Facebook group. I am also participating in the GedMatch project for Germanna descendants. Both of these projects are helping me connect to DNA cousins with ties back to the 1700s.
So cousin, if you find a connection to your research in my research posted on my tree or in my blog or via my DNA results, please contact me. I can be friended on Facebook as Marcia Crawford Philbrick, messaged in Ancestry or reached via email using mcphilbrick at gmail dot com as my address.
This week’s #52Ancestors writing prompt is ‘Crime and Punishment’. When I think about looking for criminal acts in my tree, my first thoughts go to murderers, gun slingers or bank robbers. Since I don’t know of any ties to those types of criminals, I immediately thought of my ancestor who was accused of a ‘white collar’ crime, embezzlement.
Curious as to whether his profile was the only one where the ‘Criminal’ tag was used, I decided to print a “Fact List” report for the ‘Criminal’ tag.
That report pulled up two people: James H. Crawford and Hiram Mirick Currey.
James H. Crawford was the victim of a crime. However, Hiram Mirick Currey was accused of what amounted to embezzlement.
At the time of this accusation, Hiram Mirick Currey was serving as the treasurer of Ohio. The state of Ohio was in a battle with the federal government over states’ rights – over the right of the state to keep national banks out of the state.
In 1819, Ohio passed a law implementing a tax on the National Bank. In September, 1819, Ralph Osborn, the state auditor authorized the seizure of $100,000 from the Chillicothe branch of the United States.
According to the article, Osborn vs Bank of the United States, $120,000 was seized from the Chillicothe branch. These funds were were distributed as follows:
$20,000 returned to the National Bank since it was above the amount required to pay the tax
$2,000 was used to pay the men who ‘seized’ the tax
$98,000 turned over to the Ohio State Treasurer
According to an article in the 26 November 1819 issue of The Ohio Repository (Canton, Ohio) a detailed list of the funds deposited in the Franklin Bank of Columbus.
$78,150 in notes of the Bank of the United States payable at their office of discount and deposit in Chillicothe
$2,090 in notes of the bank of the United States payable at their office in Philadelphia
$3,830 in gold coin
$16,000 in silver current coin of the U.S.
These funds totaled $100,070.
We give the following very extraordinary proceeding to the publick without comment.
The president, directors and company of the Franklin Bank of Columbus, John Kerr the president thereof in his official and individual capacity, William Nen cashier of said bank also in his official and private capacity and all other officers and servants of said bank, are hereby notified that the money and notes there lately deposited by Hiram Mirick Currey, as treasurer of Ohio, or in his individual capacity amounting to the sum of $100,070, to wit: 00 $78,150 in notes of the Bank of the United States payable at their office of discount and deposit in Chillicothe; $2090, in notes of the bank of the United States, payable at their office in Philadelphia; $3,830, in gold coin and $16,000 in silver current coin of the U.S. Belong to the president, directors and co. of the bank of the U.S. and were taken by force from the officers or their office of discount and deposit at Chillicothe in whose custody they have been placed by a certain John L. Harper, and by him transported to Columbus and deposited with the above named Hiram Mirrick Currey, either as treasurer of state or in his individual capacity, on or about the 17th day of Sept. last in violation of the annexed injunction issued by the7th circuit court of the U.S. for the Ohio district at their last Sept. session: And ye are hereby required and commanded to deliver over to Nathan Thompson, the treasure above described amounting to the sum of $100,070, who is hereby authorized to receive and receipt the same. And in case the same be not immediately paid over, ye are hereby further notified that proceedings at law will be immediately commenced against all of the as above described to compel the payment thereof with damages and costs.
WM. CREIGHTON, jr. Pres.
A.G. Claypool, Cash, Office Dis. and Deposit Bank of the U.S. at Chillicothe. Nov. 12, 1819
The Ohio Repository (Canton, Ohio) 26 November 1819. Available on Ancestry.com
In December, 1820, Hiram Currey was accused of owing the State of Ohio $11,111.
Whereas, it appears, by the report of the auditor of state, made to the present general assembly, that Hiram M. Curry, the late treasurer, stands indebted to the state in the sum of $11,111.
The Ohio Repository (Canton, Ohio). 28 Dec 1820. Available on Ancestry.com
In 1822, the Ohio legislature passed a resolution where Hiram Currey would turn over land to pay off the debt.
Mr. Parish moved a resolution, to authorize the present treasurer to receive from Hiram M. Currey, and his trustee, a conveyance for the real estate of said Currey. Also, to release the securities to the second bond given by said Currey, as treasurer, from the liability, upon payment of the costs of suits now pending against them. Also, to direct the suites against said Currey, and the securities to the first bond giver by said Currey as treasurer of state to be prosecuted to final judgment, &c. Which resolution was laid on table for consideration.
Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Ohio: being the First Session of the Twentieth General Assembly (Columbus, Ohio: Office of the Columbus Gazette, 1821), p. 284viewed online December 2017.
This fight between the state of Ohio and the National Bank resulted in a court case titled, Osborn vs Bank of the United States, that went all the way to the Supreme Court.
Trying to track down Hiram Mirick Currey and the details of this case has been a challenge for quite some time. There are still records to be found, but below is what I have compiled to date.
Hiram Mirick Currey
Myrack Curry was listed with 1 white male in the household in Tyrone Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in 1783.2
He was listed on the tax rolls as Mira Hiram Curry in 1786 in Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States.3–4
In 1790, Hiram was a preacher in the Elkhorn Conference of the Baptist Church in Mays Lick, Mason, Kentucky, United States.5
Miriach Curry was listed on the 1790 Fayette County, Pennsylvania census with 1 free white male and 4 free white females in the household.6–7
He resided between 1792 and 1794 in Mays Lick, Mason, Kentucky, United States and was a Baptist preacher and teacher at the first school in Mays Lick.8
He was listed on tax rolls as Hiram Curry with 1 horse and 7 cattle in 1792 in Mason, Kentucky, United States.9–10
In 1792 Hiram was an admitted as candidate for ministry in Mays Lick, Mason, Kentucky, United States.5
He was listed on the tax rolls owning 200 acres on Stone Lick watercourse of Bull Creek of John Craig’s survey in 1793 in Mason, Kentucky, United States.11
He was witness to to the will of Benjamin Thraikill on 27 Mar 1793 in Mason, Kentucky, United States.12
Hiram was messenger, along with Cornelius Drake, to Elkhorn Baptist Association meeting representing Mays Lick church reporting 9 received by letter, 1 dismissed, 58 members in South Elkhorn, Fayette, Kentucky, United States.13
In 1794, he was a teacher in Mays Lick, Mason, Kentucky, United States.14
He was listed on tax rolls as Hiramirick Curry with 2 white males over 21, with 1 horse and 7 cattle and also listed as Hiram Cury with 100 acres of 2nd rate land on the Johnson watercourse in 1795 in Mason, Kentucky, United States.15–17
Hiram was listed on tax rolls as M. Hiram Currey with 100 acres 2nd rate land on the Locust watercouse, 1 male over 21, 2 horses and 4 cattle in 1796 in Mason, Kentucky, United States.18–19
He was listed on the tax rolls as Hiram Mirem Currey with 200 acres of 2nd rate land on Ball Creek Watercourse with 1 male over 21 and 2 horses in 1797 in Mason, Kentucky, United States.20–21
He was messenger to Elkhorn Baptist Association meeting along with J. Singleton for Stone Lick Church reporting 42 baptised, 9 received by letter, 3 dismissed and 76 members in Clear Creek, Kentucky.13,22
Hiram was listed on tax rolls between 1799 and 1801 in Mason, Kentucky, United States.23
He was listed on the tax rolls as Hiram M Curry with 200 acres on Stone Lick Bull Creek with 1 male over 21, 1 male over 16 and 1 horse in 1799 in Mason, Kentucky, United States.24
He was listed on the tax rolls as Hiram M Curry with 150 acres 3rd rate land on the Stone Lick Watercourse and 1 male over 21 in 1800 in Mason, Kentucky, United States.25–28
Hiram sold land being 50 acres of land on Stone Lick Creek that was part of the survey granted to John Craig by patent to James Luston on 30 Dec 1800 in Mason, Kentucky, United States.29–30
He baptized Elder John Gutridge in the Ohio River three miles above Maysville in 1801 in Mason, Kentucky, United States.31
He was listed on the tax rolls as Hiram M Curry with 100 acres of 3rd rate land on the Bull Creek Watercourse with 1 male over 21 on 13 May 1801 in Mason, Kentucky, United States.32
Hiram was mentioned in minutes of meeting of Bracken Association of Baptists held on 19 Sep 1801 in Kentucky, United States.33
He performed marriage of Aquilla Denham and Harriet Thompson on 26 Jun 1804 in Adams, Ohio, United States.34
He performed marriage of Phebe Cary and Alexander Reed on 4 Jun 1805 in Franklin, Ohio, United States.35
Hiram was listed on tax rolls in 1806 in Champaign, Ohio, United States.36–37
He was on the list of voters in 1806 in Salem Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States.38
He performed marriage of Thomas Morris to Margaret Dawson on 29 Jun 1806 in Champaign, Ohio, United States.39
Hiram was listed on tax roles as Mirach H. Curry in 1807 in Champaign, Ohio, United States.36,40–41
He preached at the courthouse on 8 Jan 1807 in Ohio, United States.42
He preached a sermon after the Masonic oration after 22 Jun 1807 in Ohio, United States.43
Hiram held the office of state senator between 1808 and 1811 representing in Champaign, Ohio, United States.44
He performed marriage of John Ross to Margaret Price in 1808 in Champaign, Ohio, United States.39
He performed marriage of George Hunter and Ruth Fitch in 1808 in Urbana Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States.35,39
Hiram was appointed W. M. on a warrant empowering the lodge to hold meetings in Urbana and Springfield alternately in 1809 in Urbana, Champaign, Ohio, United States.45
He was appointed trustee of Miami University on 9 Feb 1809 in Ohio, United States.46–47
On 17 Feb 1809, he was a member board of trustees of Miami University in Ohio, United States.48
Hiram officiated at marriage of Mr. George Hunter and Miss Ruth Fitch on 20 Apr 1809 in Champaign, Ohio, United States.49
He performed marriage of Wm H. Fyffe to Maxamilla Petty on 27 Sep 1809 in Champaign, Ohio, United States.39
He performed marriage of John Thompson to Polly Frankerberger on 20 Nov 1809 in Champaign, Ohio, United States.50
Hiram was a member of the Ohio State Senate from the county of Champaigne.51
He was listed on the tax rolls as Hivans Curry in 1810 in Champaign, Ohio, United States.52–53
His election to the Ohio Senate was contested by Alexander McBeth during a hearing in front of the Senate.54
Hiram represented Champaign county on the board of trustees for Miami County, Ohio on 12 Jan 1811 .55
He was a member of the general assembly for the state of Ohio.56
He was listed on the poll books on 8 Oct 1811 in Champaign, Ohio, United States.57
Between 1812 and 1814 in Urbana Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States Hiram was member serving as Worthy Mason of Harmony Lodge No. 8 in Urbana, Ohio.58
He erected block house on banks of stream in 1812 in Logan, Ohio, United States.59
He was listed as trustee of Miami University on 14 Mar 1812 in Ohio, United States.60–61
Hiram was on a ballet as a Republican elector of President and Vice President.62
He held the office of member of Ohio House of Representatives between 1813 and 1814 representing Champaign, Ohio, United States.55
He taught school in old tavern stand referred to as the old George Fithian and John Enoch stand on lot No. 63 about 1816 in Champaign, Ohio, United States.63
Hiram was listed on the tax rolls owning 170 acres in 1816 in Champaign, Ohio, United States.64–65
He held the office of Representative from Champaign County, Ohio on 21 Nov 1816.66
He was listed on the tax rolls in 1817 in Champaign, Ohio, United States.67–68
Hiram was appointed state treasurer to replace W. M’Farland who resigned on 3 Jan 1817 in Ohio, United States.69–78
He welcomed President Monroe to the Capital [of Ohio] by a neat and appropriate speech in Aug 1817 in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States.79–80
He, Treasurer of Ohio, along with Ralph Osborn, Auditor and Jeremiah McLene, Secretary, oversaw improvements in state prison about 1818 in Ohio, United States.81–83
Hiram was listed on the tax rolls owning 170 acres of land on Buck Creek in 1818 in Champaign, Ohio, United States.84–85
He was listed on the tax rolls owning 170 acres in 2 parcels on Buck Creek in 1819 in Champaign, Ohio, United States.86–87
On 17 Sep 1819, he deposited $100,070 in the Franklin Bank of Columbus at Columbus Ohio. These funds were seized by John L. Harper from the Bank of the United States at Chillicothe.88
About on 19 Nov 1819 notice was served on the Auditor and Treasurer of the State of Ohio regarding the seizure of funds from the U.S. Bank in Chillicothe89–92
Hiram was named as defendant in bill of injunction signed by C. W. Byrd, District Judge of the United States, in and for the District of Ohio on 22 Nov 1819 in West Union, Ohio.92–93
He was summoned to appear in case filed by The United States of America, District of Ohio on 23 Nov 1819 in Chillicothe, Ross, Ohio, United States.92,94
He submitted report to General Assembly of the State of Ohio from office of Treasurer, State of Ohio on 6 Dec 1819 in Ohio, United States.95
Hiram along with Ralph Osborn, Auditor; and the President and Directors of the Franklin Bank of Columbus were served with a writ of injunction from the Bank of the United States for the recovery of their money on 7 Dec 1819 in Ohio, United States.92,96–100
On 21 Dec 1819 he sent letter to Thoms Rotch, Esqr to declare receipt of $5.25 toward tax on Adam Hoops land in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States.101
He held the office of treasurer of the State of Ohio on 24 Dec 1819 in Ohio, United States.102–103
About 1820 in Ohio, United States when the case (suit of attachment against Osborn & Harper) came to trial the opposing counsel agreed that an order should be issued to the State treasurer (Hiram M. Curry) that the total tax, plus interest on the specie, should be returned to the Bank. This the treasurer refused to do without a warrant. … He was thereupon placed under nominal arrest by a Federal marshal and all his property, including his keys, was attached.92,104
Hiram was listed on the tax rolls as Hiram M Curry, a non-resident, who owned 100 acres of 1st rate land on Buck Creek and 70 acres of 2nd rate land on Buck Creek in 1820 in Champaign, Ohio, United States.87,105
He resigned as treasurer of State of Ohio on 15 Feb 1820 in Ohio, United States.96,106–107
He was named in a bill concerning a memorial from H. M. Curry praying relief on 15 Feb 1820 .107
Hiram was named in a bill read for th first time on 16 Feb 1820 .107
He was named in a bill that was read for the second time on 17 Feb 1820 in Ohio, United States.107–108
He was was named in a bill that was discussed in the Ohio Senate’s committee of the whole on 18 Feb 1820 .107
Hiram was was named in a bill discussed by the Ohio Senate committee of the whole on 21 Feb 1820 in Ohio, United States.107
During a dispute with the Bank of the US an officer for the state of Ohio seized $98,000 in gold, silver and notes. This was placed in charge of the State Treasurer, Mr. H. M. Curry.92,109
He was held the office of “late” Treasurer of state before 4 Dec 1820 in Ohio, United States.110
Hiram was accused of owing the State of Ohio $11,111 under a resolution proposed by Mr. Willson and agreed to by the Ohio House of Representatives on 7 Dec 1820.96,111
He was listed on the tax rolls as Hiram M Curry, a non-resident’ owning 100 acres of 1st rate land on Bucks Creek and 70 acres of 2nd rate land on Bucks Creek in 1821 in Champaign, Ohio, United States.87,112
He was served with a writ of attachment commanding him to return into court a description of every note taken from the U.S. office of discount and deposit on 4 Jan 1821 in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States.96,113–114
Hiram was excused from jury duty on 24 Mar 1821 in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States.115–116
He was named in a memorial praying the state would receive real estate from him for the amount due the state on 27 Dec 1821 in Ohio, United States.117
Resolved by the senate and house of representatives, that a committee of members on the part of the senate, and five members on the part of the house of representatives, be appointed to take into consideration the memorial of Hiram M. Currey, and that they report thereon by bill or otherwise on 15 Jan 1822 in Ohio, United States.118
The senate have agreed to the resolution for appointing a joint committee on the memorial of Hiram M. Currey, with amendments and have appointed a committee of three members on their part on 17 Jan 1822 in Ohio, United States.118
On 18 Jan 1822, The Ohio house took up the resolution for appointing a joint committee on the memorial of Hiram M. Currey, with the amendment made by the senate thereto. in Ohio, United States.119
Resolved by the senate and house of representatives, that one member on the part of the senate, and two members on the part of the house of representatives, be added to the joint committee appointed to take into consideration the memorial of Hiram M. Currey on 22 Jan 1822,120
On 23 Jan 1822, Mr. Parish from the joint committee to whom was referred the memorial of Hiram M. Currey, made the following report – The committee to whom was referred the memorial of Hiram M. Currey, report – That they have had the same under consideration, and after taking into view the value of the property offered, with reference to the amount of defalcation, a majority of this committee are of opinion that it is inexpedient to accede to the proposals of said memorialists. They therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution– Resolved that the prayer of the memorial of Hiram M. Currey, is unreasonable and ought not to be granted. And on motion to disagree to said resolution, the question was decided in the affirmative. The yeas and nays being required by messrs. Atwater and Simons, were yeas 38, nays 26. 121
On 28 Jan 1822, Mr. Parish moved a resolution, to authorize the present treasurer to receive from Hiram M. Currey, and his trustee, a conveyance for the real estate of said Currey. Also, to release the securities to the second bond given by said Currey, as treasurer, from the liability, upon payment of the costs of suits now pending against them. Also, to direct the suites against said Currey, and the securities to the first bond giver by said Currey as treasurer of state to be prosecuted to final judgment, &c. Which resolution was laid on table for consideration.122
He was named in a resolution authorizing the Treasurer to receive real estate from Hiram M. Curry in Feb 1822 in Ohio, United States.123
In 1828 Hiram conducted services held by Universalist people in a schoolhouse in Sheffield Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States.124
He was listed as Hiram M. Curry with 1 male 70-80, 1 female under 5, 1 female 5-10, 1 female 15-20 and 1 female 30-40 in Village of Fairfield, Tippecanoe County, Indiana in 1830.125–127
In 1830, he was appointed executor of the estate of Lemuel Lane in Franklin, Ohio, United States. 128
Between 1838 and 1839 Hiram was conducted services for Universalist Church in a school house in Sheffield Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States.129–130
ENDNOTES:
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4. “County of Fayette – 1786,” Returns of Taxables, Egle William Henry, editor, Pennsylvania Archives, series 3, Vol. 22 (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives, ), p. 608.
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