SHE NEVER MET HER MOTHER - Mary Worthington Myatt Duncan

Mary Worthington Myatt (1832-1926) 

My 3rd Cousin 3X Removed

Elisha Duncan (1822 - 1893)

Husband of Mary Worthington Myatt

Mary was born on March 27, 1832 in 

Pocahontas, Bond County, Illinois - 

She was the daughter of 
Alexander and Mary W. (Chisenhall) Myatt.

Mary's mother died giving birth to Mary. 

She was their sixth child.

(In the 1800s, a woman had a one in eight chance of dying in childbirth during her lifetime.)


Her father, Judge Alexander Myatt, was born in Tennessee in 1802, and was of Welsh ancestry.  Alexander Myatt settled in Illinois, and for years was 

County Judge of Bond County in Colorado. (More on Alexander … sometime!)

Little is known about Mary's Mother, Mary Chisenhall.  Her grave marker cannot be found - it is thought that she is buried in McKendree Chapel Cemetery in Keyesport Landing, Bond County, Illinois. She was born in Dickson County, Tennessee and was the daughter of Alexander and Sally 'Polly' (Watson) Chisenhall.  

In 1831, Alexander and Mary Chisenhall (with their 5 children) moved from Tennessee to Illinois - locating in Beaver Creek Township, bond County, Illinois. This trip had to be so hard on the family - especially a pregnant woman in the 1800s.  So sad. 

Mary married Elisha Duncan 
(born September 13, 1822) 
on August 9, 1849 (age of 17) in 
Greenville, Bond County, Illinois. 
He was 10 years older than Mary.

Elisha Duncan had already made his first trip across the plains in 1850 to get to California's gold rush, a year after he and Mary were married. The trip took him six months to get there with his ox team.  Two years later Elisha returned to the Illinois home and in 1860 again felt the urge to go west.  After spending about six months in Colorado, he returned to Illinois for his family and made a permanent move. With her husband, and their children, they went to Colorado in 1861 and after about a year later bought a ranch seven miles East of Longmont, Illinois.  Elisha was one of the representative pioneers of Colorado and was closely identified with the founding of Weld and Boulder Counties. He aided in the establishment of schools and churches, the construction of roads, the instituting of local law and order, of protection against the Indians, and was one of the earliest mining operators and ranchmen in Boulder and St. Vrain.  

Their children were:

Margaret Jane Duncan 1853-1913

Robert Alexander Duncan  1855-1942

John Thomas Duncan 1857-1950

Edward C. Duncan  1863-1896

Guy Dale Duncan  1866-1950

James D. Duncan  1872-1893

      

MaryWorthington Myatt Duncan is seated on the right.

Sources state that in this photo are 
John Duncan (son of Mary), his wife Belle Smith, 

and one of their children.

The home above looks as if it might be a 'Sears' Home.

1908-1914 ad

MOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETERY

LONGMONT - BOULDER COUNTY, COLORADO

MARY'S OBITUARY STATED, "Mrs. Duncan saw strenuous times with the Indians, butcame safely thru all experiences, and saw her children 

educated in the state University."

(Longmont Genealogical Society - M. Lindblom)

(Obituary is from the Longmont Ledger, Ledger Publishing Company, 

Friday, February 26, 1926, Page 5)

Alexander Myatt (1802 - 1861) 2nd cousin 4X removed

father of Mary Worthington Myatt

Wylie Myatt (1777 - 1865) 1st cousin 5X removed

father of Alexander Myatt

Matthew W Myatt SR (1747 - 1817) 4th Great Grand Uncle

father of Wylie Myatt

John Myatt SR (1726 - 1801) GGGGG grandfather

father of Matthew W Myatt SR

Nimrod MYATT (1768 - 1845) GGGG grandfather

son of John Myatt SR

Alfred Myatt (1819 - 1879) GGG grandfather

son of Nimrod MYATT

George Washington Myatt (1842 - 1911) GG grandfather

son of Alfred Myatt

Nancy E Myatt (1870 - 1896) my great-grandmother

daughter of George Washington Myatt

Dovie Mary Martin (1894 - 1933) my grandmother

daughter of Nancy E Myatt

Ernest Haywood Allison (1921 - 2000) my father

son of Dovie Mary Martin

Anna Faye Allison-Burgess

Great On-Line Sites … 

PIONEER MUSEUM IN COLORADO @ http://vimeo.com/104447637

 The Longmont Museum and Cultural Center’s permanent exhibit 

of Longmont’s evolution – from its prehistoric roots through to its 

reputation as a technology center today.  

Reflection - December 11, 2014

LIFE IN THE PAST LANE

December 11, 2014

Reflection... 

This is the 60th post to 
'Life In The Past Lane' for 2014

My research has led me to...

4,635 people

2,027 photos

361 stories

2,627 records

275 comments

The categorizing, cross-referencing, 
and linking, etc…

is no longer a hobby, but a way of life.

Researching 'dead people' (that's what my daughter calls it) is...

exhausting

therapeutic

intriguing

celebrating

puzzling

reflecting

mysterious

inquiring

exploring

and on and on and on.

Biographies, births, baptisms, and books -

Bridges, cemeteries, and rivers.

Charts, sources, kinship, and databases -

Family Bibles, diaries, and letters.

Goggling, folklore, photos, and ports -

Wars, Wikis, and timelines.

Networking, traveling, ships, and prisons -

Traditions, queries and guidelines.


Below are a few of my favorite photos...

… let the 

'dead people' stories 

continue.

CHRISTMAS STOLEN FROM PUTNAM COUNTY FAMILIES IN 1952

ROBERT 
NEAL 
DALTON

2nd Cousin 1X Removed

The loss of a child would have to be the 

most devastating experience a parent could ever face.  
A piece of yourself…lost…
Futures…forever changed…

Robert was born on August 23, 1931, and was the only child of Charles Herman Dalton and Minnie Bertha Austin.  

  Minnie A Austin Dalton (1900 - 1992)
  Charles Herman Dalton (1895 - 1946)

This 'young' man died on December 20, 1952, at the 

age of 21 in a military plane crash at 

Larson Air Force Base in 

Grant, Washington.

A large number of Air Force comrades from Korea and the Northwestern U.S. Air Force bases were headed home for the holidays through a program known as Operation Sleigh Ride.  

The passengers' names had been drawn by 'lot number' 

for the 'special' privilege.

MILITARY CRASH STOLE CHRISTMAS IN 1952
By Amy Davis
Herald-Citizen, Cookeville, TN Sunday, 23 December 2012, front page & pg. 2 http://www.ajlambert.com 

The entire article above is ONLINE... it will hurt your heart.
I could never, nor would I try, to 'summarize' the story. 
The heartache that these families experienced is beyond 

anything that I can imagine or attempt to write about. 

December 20, 1952
115 Passengers and Crew
5 Young Men from Putnam County, Tennessee, aboard.


Sources for the following article - 'Going Home'
“92 Die In Plane Smash Near Moses Lake Base,”Spokane Daily Chronicle, December 20, 1952, p. A-1; “Home Front -- Globemaster Crash, Larson Air Field,”Korean War Educator website accessed October 31, 2007 (http://koreanwar- educator.org/topics/airplane_crashes/globemaster_larson/p_globemaster.htm). 

Going Home
Most of the passengers were Air Force personnel from Korea or Northwest bases, catching a ride home for Christmas in a program called Operation Sleighride. The plane, a C-124 Globemaster, was enroute to Kelly Air Force Base near San Antonio.
According to eyewitness reports, the plane made a sharp left turn immediately after takeoff, causing the left wing tip to hit the ground. The plane then broke up and caught fire, just north of the runway. Some of the 121 passengers escaped by running out of the rear of the plane. But most of the people in the cavernous main passenger compartment and cockpit were caught in the wreckage and fire. Rescue teams worked for hours to look for survivors and recover bodies. At first the death toll was thought to be 92; that number was later reduced to 87.
A subsequent investigation showed that the crash was caused by “locked”controls at takeoff, but whether this was pilot error or mechanical malfunction is still in dispute. It was, at the time, the worst disaster in aviation history. It was, however, surpassed only six months later when another Air Force transport crashed near Tokyo, killing 129. That, too, involved a C-124.

By Jim Kershner, November 02, 2007 

"The plane sat on the tarmac for 45 minutes, then just before dawn at 6:27 am, it traveled at full throttle down the long 13,500 foot runway. The large aircraft lifted from the runway, climbed to 100 feet and banked left sharply. Within two minutes of takeoff, the plane began to lose altitude and came down with its left wing striking the ground sending the aircraft into a cartwheel across the snow-laden field at the end of the airstrip. The tanks ruptured and the wreckage became a fiery inferno.  There were 82 airmen and 5 crewmen killed in the crash, 29 airmen survived along with 2 crewmen. Many of the survivors were seated in the tail section of the plane. The victims were rushed to the base hospital which was about four miles from the crash. Some of the injured needed as much as 12 pints of blood. By 9:00 am, 81 donors had given blood and 48 pints of whole blood and 100 units of plasma were sent to the base hospital. By noon, more doctors and nurses as well as volunteers had gone to the hospital to care for the injured.

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Unlike World War II and Vietnam, the Korean War did not get much media attention in the United States. The most famous representation of the war in popular culture is the television series “M*A*S*H,” which was set in a field hospital in South Korea.
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I found the following information and felt the same way...

"Perhaps you’ve never heard of this, 

but you should know about it."

Source: http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=90261 for the following article…..

"Perhaps you’ve never heard of this, but you should know about it. One of the worst air disasters occurred on this date 60 years ago. We lost 87 servicemen that day. I was visiting my mom and dad in Washington State this past weekend when I learned about this disaster. I took the picture above which is the newly erected memorial to our lost and injured servicemen of that fateful morning. They were just trying to go home to their families for Christmas.

One of the world’s worst air disasters occurred in December of 1952 and involved veterans who were stationed stateside and veterans returning home from the Korean War and Far East Command. At that time, the Air Force had a program called “Operation Sleigh Ride”, which brought servicemen home in time for the holidays. The lucky passengers’ names were drawn by lot number. This particular flight was scheduled for Texas and points east. The accident took place at 6:27 a.m. on December 20. There were 105 passengers and 10 crew members. Eighty-two passengers and 5 crew members were killed when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff.

The accident took place at Larson Air Field. The base was geographically located five miles northwest of the city of Moses Lake, Washington, fourteen miles southwest of Ephrata, Washington, and seventeen miles south of Soap Lake, Washington. Larson AFB closed in June of 1966. The plane took off from the runway, climbed to about 100 feet, started to turn left, and then plunged back to earth. The plane shattered into pieces of metal in a fiery crash."

PARENTS OF ROBERT NEAL
Minnie (Austin) Dalton 
Born: 3 February 1900, Smithville, DeKalb Co., TN 
Died: 17 July 1992, Nashville, Davidson Co., TN
Daughter of Ammon Wylie Austin (1861- 1946) & Minnie Sherman Medlen (1865-1951)
Charles Herman Dalton 
Born: 23 May 1895, Baxter, Putnam Co., TN
Died: 7 August 1946, Nashville, Davidson Co., TN
Son of James Buchanan Dalton (1857-1926) & Sarah Myatt (1874-1950)

The following information was found at http://www.ajlambert.com

"Minnie sewed beautifully, was a resourceful cook and had the greenest thumb in the county. Her lawn and flowers were always the prettiest in the neighborhood. Eventually she became interested in wildflowers and enjoyed many excursions to find and transplant wildflowers - which always thrived without ever wilting. Tragedy was no stranger to Minnie. She lost her husband and her father in the same month. Five years later, her son Robert was killed in a military plane crash. Another son, Bill, died suddenly. Minnie became seriously ill in 1980. She lived with her daughter in Tullahoma, TN until her death in 1992. Through-out all difficulties, her self- determination and positive attitude have been an inspiration to all who knew her."

Robert Neal Dalton (1931 - 1952)

2nd cousin 1x removed

Charles Herman Dalton (1895 - 1946)

father of Robert Neal Dalton

Sally Myett (1874 - 1950)

mother of Charles Herman Dalton

George Washington Myatt (1842 - 1911)

father of Sally Myett

Nancy E Myatt (1870 - 1896)

daughter of George Washington Myatt

Dovie Mary Martin (1894 - 1933)

daughter of Nancy E Myatt

Ernest Haywood Allison (1921 - 2000)

son of Dovie Mary Martin

Anna Faye Allison

Daughter of Ernest Haywood Allison

Robert's Grave at Boiling Springs Cemetery - Putnam County, TN

*Read more about the History of Putnam Co., TN and it’s people at:
http://www.ajlambert.com 

DOROTHY JONES ~ A Woman Of SPIRIT And INDEPENDENCE

DOROTHY JONES

 My 9th Great Grandmother

Birth 1672 in Denbigh, Wales

Death August 30, 1755 in Philadelphia, PA

Buried Gloria Dei Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA

Dorothy was born in Wales.  She was the third of four children of Ellis and Jane Jones, who were Quakers  from either Flint, or Denbigh, Wales, and came to America to escape religious persecution.  Dorothy came to America with her family on the ship "Submission" in the autumn of 1682. 

This is a ship from the same era as The Submission;                                                        however, The Submission was older and smaller than this one.

The ship's log had Dorothy's age as 10 years. 
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The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, 

Volume 1, Issue 1 - has a true copy of Submission's Log.

It lists the ship as having 49 heads and 37 passengers. 

After studying the log, it appears that the additional '12' head consisted of the 

ship's master, mate, carpenter, the cooper, servants, and apprentices. 

The above information is from a free ebook on Google.

William Penn Welcome Ship

Dorothy's husband was Richard Cantrell.  He, too, was an  immigrant to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He arrived aboard the ship "Welcome" on August 24, 1682.

Welcome ship was a square rigged vessel, 300 tons, about 150 feet long, high in the bow, and even higher in the stern.  The ship's master was Robert Greenway.
There were about 102 traveling passangers.
The voyagers’ record of William Penn ship Welcome has not survived.

Welcome ship has been among twenty two vessels that crossed the Atlantic Ocean in order to carry the very first 2,000 settlers to the Pennsylvania Colony in the years: 1681 - 1682

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Dorothy's Father was William Penn's Miller

On Pg. 64 of PMHB, VIII, 95; Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, II, 750; Chester Court Records, 238. "Also on the Submission ( arriving in 1682) was Ellis Jones, aged 45, from 'Denby or Flint' (Wales). With him came his wife Jane, aged 40, and their children Barbara 13, Dorothy 10, Isaac 4 mon., and Mary Jones 12.

They were servants of the proprietor: Ellis Jones (Dorothy's Father)  was Penn's miller. Probably for his services he was granted a warrant for a city lot (date) 17, 4mo, 1683, and acquired land in Chester Co., (PA)." ----------------------------------------------------------------------
W.W. Hinshaw's "Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy"; Philadelphia MM., p.321: Ellis Jones buried 7-16-1727.

TWO EVENTS ON THE SECOND DAY OF SAILING

Members of six families made up the majority of passengers on the ship Submission's stormy passage from Liverpool, England to Choptank, Maryland in 1682.Two events happened on the second day of the second month of this journey, according to the ship’s log, which doesn’t say if they are related.

First, Abraham Blackshaw, 10, son of Randolph Blackshaw, died. Second, the ship encountered a violent storm and didn’t have a chance to put the child’s body overboard until the storm abated. The log reports: “A great head (of) sea broke over the ship & staved the boat & took most part of it away, broke up the main hatches that were both nailed & corked & took them away that they were not seen where they went, broke the boat’s mast & hyst that were lashed in the midship, broke the gunnell head in the midship & broke the forre shet & took several things of(f) the decks & several things that were in the boat it cast betwixt decks.”

Dorothy was born in Wales and came to Pennsylvania with her parents. She was the third of four children of Ellis and Jane Jones, who were Quakers and came to America to escape religious persecution. 

Richard Cantrell was not a Quaker (he belonged to the Church of England) so he and Dorothy were married "out of meeting," as the Quaker term goes. 

The were married in 1693.

Their first child died and the Race Street Meeting House records list under Burial of Those Not Friends, "Mary, 1-6, 1695, parents Richard and Dorothy Cantrill."

The Race Street Meetinghouse is a historic and still active Quaker meetinghouse at 1515 Cherry Street at the corner of N. 15th Street in the Center City area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

“Dorothy Jones Cantrill seems to have been a young lady of considerable spirit and independence of character. She not only married the man of her choice, irrespective of her religious training, but later evidence is found of her love of gayety and society in an old history of Philadelphia, where she figured (significant and noticeable) at a masquerade ball, much to the horror of her more quiet Quaker friends. She seems to have inherited her love of society from her mother, for the name of Jane Jones appears as a witness to the marriage of a great many Quakers of her day, and the Quaker weddings were probably the principal events affording those of that sect an expression to their social instinct.”

From The Cantrill-Cantrell Genealogy,  Page 5:

The will of Dorothy's mother, Jane Jones, showed 

Richard and Dorothy had four known children: 

Mary Cantrell 1694-1695

Joseph Cantrell 1695- 1753

Zebulon Cantrell 1697- 

Dorothy 1710- 

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Dorothy and Richard settled in Philadelphia, where Richard made brick from the red clay on which the entire town rested.  Their descendants would move on to the frontier communities of the Carolinas, Tennessee, Missouri, California and the Oregon Territory.

GRAND JURY PRESENTMENT

This record of Richard and Dorothy Cantrill was from a Delaware Court (then Wilmington, PA) in 1703. Proceedings as extracted by Scharf. Among the grand jury presentments.  Dorothy, wife of Richard Canterill, presented for masking in men’s clothes the day after Christmas, “walking and dancing in the house of John Simes at 9 or 10 o’clock at night.” John Simes, who gave the masquerade party, was presented for keeping a disorderly house, “a nursery of Debotch (seduce/violate) ye inhabitants and youth of this city…to ye greef of and disturance of peaceful minds and propagating ye Throne of wickedness amongst us.”
(Wearing men's clothes, staying out too late, drinking, and dancing…well, it appears that Dorothy knew how to have a darn good time!)


Gloria Dei (Old Swedes) Church Burial Ground Philadelphia, PA

Gloria Dei is a Latin term, meaning Glory to God. 

Paul, in his 1st letter to the Corinthians, wrote this: “whatever you do,

 do everything for the Glory of God.”

931 Otsego Street, Philadelphia, PA

Dorothy Jane Jones (1672 - 1755)

9th Great Grandmother

Joseph Cantrell (1695 - 1753)

son of Dorothy Jane Jones

John Miller Cantrell (1724 - 1803)  John and Joseph (below) were brothers.

son of Joseph Cantrell (1695-1753)

Isaac Cantrell (1745 - 1804)

son of John Miller Cantrell

Aaron Cantrell (1770 - 1834)

son of Isaac Cantrell

Moses Cantrell (1805 - 1873)

son of Aaron Cantrell

Jesse R Cantrell (1826 - 1899)

son of Moses Cantrell

Evaline "Babe" Cantrell (1859 - 1939)

daughter of Jesse R Cantrell

Pearl Gambrell (1881 - 1935)

daughter of Evaline "Babe" Cantrell

Fannie Pearl Herron (1906 - 1993)

daughter of Pearl Gambrell

Lorene Ashburn (1924 - 2003)

daughter of Fannie Pearl Herron

Anna Faye Allison

You are the daughter of Lorene Ashburn - (not you?)

….and this is interesting

Dorothy Jane Jones (1672 - 1755)

7th great grandmother of husband - Dennis Burgess

Joseph Cantrell (1695 - 1753)

son of Dorothy Jane Jones

Joseph Cantrell (1726 - 1804) Joseph and John (above were brother).

son of Joseph Cantrell

Rachel Cantrell (1764 - 1816)

daughter of Joseph Cantrell

Kessiah Hensley (1780 - 1850)

daughter of Rachel Cantrell

ELIZABETH RAY (1806 - 1860)

daughter of Kessiah Hensley

DAVID EDWARD L FRANKLIN (1830 - 1910)

son of ELIZABETH RAY

Martha Tennessee Franklin (1878 - 1958)

daughter of DAVID EDWARD L FRANKLIN

Carlos Odell Burgess (1915 - 1996)

son of Martha Tennessee Franklin

Dennis Lynn Burgess (1950 - )

son of Carlos Odell Burgess

Anna Faye Allison

Wiife of Dennis Lynn Burgess

View of William Penn Philadelphia - ca. 1717

William Penn Philadelphia, and for that matter Colony of Pennsylvania in the most triumphant ways, validated the resistant confidence of free people.  Through establishing Pennsylvania Colony, Penn placed a tremendously essential illustration in regards of liberties and freedoms afforded to the original immigrants and settlers to this County.  

BRAVE

CONSISTENT

INGENIOUS

  as was...

DOROTHY JONES CANTRELL

I must say, if I do say so myself, I did a top-notch, doozy of a job on this 'dead person' story.

(Yes, doozy is a real word.)

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