Thursday, April 24, 2014

MEN AT THE FRONT OF THE FOOD LINE: Gathering of Kin

Sunday Dinner At Papa and Mama Ashburn's House

Sunday Dinner was today's 'lunch' time, and the evening meal was Supper - not Dinner.

1955
(I'm fairly positive this was around 1955 - Don looks to be around one - and he is a year older than me. So I wasn't at this particular event, but I was soon after!)

Esker and Fannie Ashburn

Maternal Grandparents

Papa is on the left and Mama Ashburn is close behind him
with glasses (holding my first cousin Don).

PRICELESS

(My Official Name For This Photo)

Sunday afternoons were usually spent at the home of my Maternal Grandparents - (Esker and Fannie Herren Ashburn). They lived off the Cookeville Boat Dock Road in Baxter, Tennessee - on the Austin Bottom Road.

Mercy what fun! Playing, piling into the backs of trucks to go to the lake, and of course the Southern thing called … EATING!

Grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins - what a wonderful childhood I had. I wish I could go back for just one Sunday afternoon…yes, tears.

I see my Daddy and Mama's precious faces in this photo.

Oh, the love at that kitchen table!

My cousin and I were discussing the fact that
the men in the picture were first in line at
the food table - first to be served.
However, I found it interesting that I had never
really thought about it - it just 'was' that way.
…and you know…
it worked just fine.

And we know for sure that Southerners know their food!
Thought this was an interesting quote from
John Egerton who writes for Southern Food:

“Within the South itself, no other form of cultural expression, not even music,is as distinctly characteristic of the region as the spreading of a feast of native food and drink
before a gathering of kin and friends. For as long as there has been a South, and people who think
of themselves as Southerners, food has been central to the region’s image, its personality, and its character.”

Things never changed for me as far as my Daddy was concerned. He always came
first (in any situation), and he knew that he did. He came first because he
deserved it and I loved making him feel and know that he was my first love.
He always introduced me as 'his baby' - right up until the day he died (so I was his 46-year-old baby).
Still am - but now I'm his 59-year-old baby.

Amazing days of a long ago childhood that will
never be forgotten and…

Oh, the Southern Table!

Saturday, April 19, 2014

EASTER SUNDAY 1961 ~ Ozion Freewill Baptist Church

THIS I BELIEVE
Whether made from sticks or stones, houses of worship have long been a part of how we (and our families) understand and perceive faith. Church buildings are representations where we are strengthened by preaching and sacrament. However, when we go out the church door into the world - I believe that is the real church. That is when our "Hearts and Minds" connect and we live out our faith. It's not the building. It's not the location.
THIS I BELIEVE...

EASTER SUNDAY 1961
Ozion Freewill Baptist Church - Baxter, Tennessee

I love this picture - many of my cousins are in it!
We were all dressed up and ready for the 'Egg Hunt'.
Where am I? Second Row - third from the right!

The Churches pictured here were
'Home' Churches for some of my ancestral families.

Hepzibah Baptist Church 1880

Gambrell Family ~ Alabama

Holy Trinity Church - (Old Swedes)

Lerchenzeiller Family ~ Delaware

Old Hope Church Moravian

Elrod Family ~ North Carolina

Original Church of Ireland

Gracey Family ~ Banbridge, Ireland

St. Michael's Church

Cardwell Family ~ Lancashire, England

Sunday, April 13, 2014

"Light From On High Shines Upon The Darkness"

Johann 'John' Wilhelm Lerchenzeiler

b. 1670 Germany d. after 1720 / 1746? Delaware

7th GREAT Grandfather

Johann "John" William Lerchenzeiler (1670 - 1746)

is your 7th great grandfather

Maria Magdalena Lerchenzeiler (1685 - 1721)

daughter of Johann "John" William Lerchenzeiler

Christopher Elrod Sr (1721 - 1785)

son of Maria Magdalena Lerchenzeiler

Christopher Elrod (1757 - 1827)

son of Christopher Elrod Sr

James Elrod (1780 - 1850)

son of Christopher Elrod

Parzetta E Elrod (1841 - 1917)

daughter of James Elrod

Alexander Martin (1865 - 1925)

son of Parzetta E Elrond

Dovie Mary Martin (1894 - 1933)

daughter of Alexander Martin

Ernest Haywood Allison (1921 - 2000)

son of Dovie Mary Martin

Anna Faye Allison-Burgess

You are the daughter of Ernest Haywood Allison

GERMANY MAP

Johann Wilhelm(William) Lerchenzeiler and his family were among the 5th party of Palatines (information about Palatines later in blog) who boarded ship in Holland between July 3rd and 10th in July, 1709. The ship sailed to London on July 15th. Mike Marshall obtained from the British Public Records Office in London a copy of the original list, given in the order they boarded ship. Most published lists are in alphabetical order. Often, friends and family members boarded together, so a list showing the order in which they boarded ship provides clues to friends/family. Lergerseiler was actually first on the following list that boarded on July 3rd. "Y" means had wife, and number following gives number of children listed. It also shows the families who boarded immediately following.

Johan Willem Lergerseiler (sp?) Y 1
Johan Dider Elroot (sp? Elrod) Y 1 (see yellow hi-light below)
Johan Brown Y 1
Anna Mary [?Brown]
John Peter Kneckern Y 1
Peter Patturf Y 5
Elias Steen Y 3
Johan Adam Leitner Y 2
Diderig Doug
Konrat Krow Y
Phillipus Heipt Y 3
Henrig Tamboer Y 1
Hans Peter Appelman Y 3
Johan Peerelman Y 3
14. Johan Krist Y 3
Johan Felten Hoost Y 4
Johan Jurg Soelst Y 1
Niklaas Roel Y 2
Hans Jacob ?Roever Y 1
Kasper Berg
Bernhardt Kreider
Johan Peter May Y 2
Johan Peter Brown Y 4
Mattys Berner Y 2
Herman Man Y 3
Johan Hes
Kristoffel Octet
Godfried ?Bracdvis
Johan Jurg Mangel
Johan Hendrik Wagenaar
Willem Wagenaar
Willem Timmerman Y 2
Hans Phillip Brounet Y 3

U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s

Updated annually, this database is an index to passengers who arrived in

United States and Canadian ports from the 1500s through the 1900s

Name:	Johan Willem Lergerseiler
Arrival Year:	1709
Arrival Place:	England or America
Family Members:	With wife & child
Source Publication Code:	3988.10
Primary Immigrant:	Ledger

"Johan Willem Lergerseiler", wife (Susanna Catharina -married 1673 Palentine,Germany) and one child, all sailed from Rotterdam (often called the Gateway to Europe) on 15 July 1709. On the same vessel was a John Dider Elrood (Elrod) and wife Maria Magdelena Lerchenzeiler (Johann 'John' Wilhelm 'William' Lerchenzeiler was the father, or possibly the brother, of John Teter's wife Maria Magdalena Lerchenzeiler). Most sources associate Johann as Maria's father.

The party arrived in England and most likely took shelter in a barn or army tent that the English provided. London was a small city with its own poverty and hunger issues. Although the English found ways to temporarily provide for the religious refugees, relocating them was a priority. The Palatines were sent to three locations- Ireland, New York, or the Carolinas. The refugees resettled to America were to produce naval stores, turpentine, tar, and pitch for the royal Navy.
The voyage to America claimed many lives. The exiles were lived in crowded quarters. Food and water were scarce and disease was rampant. The exodus continued for many years and conditions onboard got worse with each voyage. Rations of food often ran out and lice were so thick that they had to be scraped off. When the ships arrived in America, a doctor would come aboard and decide who would was healthy enough to stay and who had to return to England. If you had a furry tongue, you were not allowed to get off the ship.
The Elrods arrived in America no later than August of 1709 in the port of New York. During this time in history, the first town in North Carolina was incorporated (1706) and called Bath. From 1711-1714, the Carolina colonists were fighting the Tuscarora Indians and by 1717 Stede Bonnet, better known as Blackbeard, was raiding ships off the North Carolina Coast. Church records show the Elrods in the area of New Castle County along the Pennsylvania/Maryland border until 1721.

In 1721 a son was born to the Elrods and named Christopher. That child was the first American born Elrod ancestor. His mother, Maria Magdalena Lerchenzeiler Elrod, had eight children and died the year that Christopher was born, possibly in childbirth. She is buried at Old Swede’s Church (Holy Trinity Church) at 7th and Church Streets in Wilmington, Delaware. Johan Teter remarried the same year. His second wife was Sarah Wood and the couple had seven children. From the fifteen children of Johan Teter, the Elrod pioneers scattered far and wide.

BACKGROUND

The Palatine emigrants came to England at the encouragement of the British Government whose intent it was to

resettle them in the colony of New York for the purpose of producing naval stores.

The first ship to arrive in New York was the Lyon, which landed June 13, 1710. The last ship arrived August 2,

1710. Although no evidence firmly establishes it, it is assumed that the Elrod and Lerchenzeiler families were

among the Palatines who came over in 1710. Some of the emigrants were resettled on a tract of land known as

Livingston Manor about 90 miles north of New York City. A large number, some 350, remained in NYC. The

available evidence is that the Elrod and Lerchenzeiler families probably remained in New York City, later

migrating to the area of New Castle County, Pennsylvania (later Delaware).

The first record of the Elrod’s in America appears in the communion records of Holy Trinity

(Old Swedes) Lutheran Church in New Castle County on May 16, 1714, where they are

recorded as having communion with the Lerchenzeiler’s. The Old Swede church records

show the presence of the Elrod’s in New Castle up through early 1721. Sometime in late

1720 or early 1721, Johan and his family moved to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, as his

son, Christopher Elrod, is recorded in the church books there as having been born on

January 29, 1721. (http://elrodfamilyhistory.blogspot.com)

Holy Trinity Church, known as Old Swedes. At 7th and Church Sts., Wilmington, Delaware.

Built 1698, graveyard goes back to 1630s. Claims to be the oldest church in America

operating as originally built. Built near Fort Christina, first Swedish settlement in America.

Now part of Trinity Parish, Wilmington (Episcopal).

On the NRHP: National Register of Historic Places since October 15, 1966.

Iron letters on the east wall of the church dating from 1698, spelling

in Latin "LUX-L.I. TENEBR ORIENS- EX ALTO" which translates to

"Light from on high shines in the darkness"

The communicant records of of Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Church in New Castle County, Delaware have been transcribed by Courtland B. and Ruth L. Springer in "Delaware History," published by the Historical Society of Delaware, Old Town Hall

(Wilmington DE, 1952-53), Vol. 5.

This book is a free ebook on Google Books

and was published in 1890.

On Page 253

Burials Old Swedes Church 1719

"Johan Wilhelm Lergerzeiler's wife Susanna buried July 14"

On Page 258

Records of Marriages 1720

"Johan Wilhelm Lerchenzeiler and widow Margareta Van de ver, married Apri 19."

Sketch by G. Tengberg - Holy Trinity Church (Old Swedes) in Wilmington, Delaware.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Beautiful Viola Mildred Deweese

Viola Mildred Deweese

3rd cousin 2x Removed

Finding documents which authenticate research is inspiring and simply pulls it all together. Today's post is a find that I just happened upon after a distant cousin reached out to me after seeing my BLOG … just a new path… same family…

and on it goes… let's begin...

Viola Mildred Deweese

INDIAN TERRITORY ~ Oklahoma
This part of my family was either born and raised, moved, or forced to move to this part of our Country known as Indian Territory from the mid-late 1800s through early 1900.

Viola Mildred Deweese (I read in one document that she preferred to be called Mildred) was born on November 16, 1912,in Miami, Oklahoma - (Miami was a town in Indian Territory and named after the Miami Tribe). She was the daughter of Truman L. Deweese and Annie B. Deweese.

In an Indian Census Roll - Quapaw Indian Agency - April 1, 1932~

Annie Deweese Daugherty (Mildred's Mother) and

Sylvester & Truman (Mildred's brothers) are listed as

Eastern Shawnee with Degree of Blood being 3/4 for Annie

and 3/8 Mildred and her two brothers.

Tribe:	Eastern Shawnee, Miami, Ottawa, Peoria, Quapaw, Seneca, And Wyandot
Reservation:	Eastern Shawnee
Agency:	Quapaw Indian
State:	Oklahoma

~HOWEVER~

Mildred's Mother - Annie Deweese Daughtry - is listed as

Full Blooded Cherokee in the

CHEROKEE ROLL, INDIANS BY BLOOD

(just another 'fun' avenue to travel)

Annie Daugherty (Mother of Viola Mildred) -Listed as full-blooded Cherokee

Jennie Daugherty? Not sure who she is at this point...

Indian Territory is listed as residency for Viola's Family and Ancestors

for many, many years. Indian Territory, also known as the Indian Territories and the Indian Country, was land within the United States of America

reserved for the forced re-settlement of Native Americans.