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Ignorant destruction

A friend of my sister who lived near my family in Old Tappan, Bergen County, New Jersey, later lived with her own family on 5 Mangin Road in South Blooming Grove, Orange County, New York. She bought the well-kept house … Weiterlesen

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Gratitude to Mussolini

Olga was the wife of the architect William Rutherford Mead, a cousin of my paternal grandmother. Olga, a daughter of Mor Kilenyi, was born in Mezőkövesd, Hungary I have no idea how they met, but they married in Budapest in … Weiterlesen

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18. Bezirk, Wien

Rudolfine Maria Zutterkirch (1885 – 1944), meine Cousine vierten Grades, wurde nach ihrem Vater, einem Zimmerpolier aus Berlichingen im Königreich Württemberg, benannt. Sie war das einzige Kind ihrer Mutter, Theresia Eibensteiner (1856 – 1888). Nach deren frühen Tod an „Beinfraß“ … Weiterlesen

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A Mourning Piece

This painting on velvet, ‚a mourning piece‘ was painted by Elizabeth Stearns, age 14, in the fall of 1827 at a ’select school for girls‘ kept by a Miss Swift in Fairfax, Vt., about 12 miles from St Albans. Painting … Weiterlesen

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Adams Hollis Twitchell in Alaska

By coincidence I learned of Lance Twitchell, a „native American activist“ whose work involves reviving the Tlingit language in Alaska. The surname Twitchell attracted my interest. As it turns out, he is a distant cousin of mine through a common … Weiterlesen

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250 years Wires

A quarter of a millennium ago John Wires was born a British citizen on November 27, 1771 in Worcester County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. It would be another five years until the American War of Independence broke out. He is the … Weiterlesen

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Firing in

„Forget past sorrows,This world is yours so bright and gay,Sing and dream about tomorrow,Treasures are waiting with every new day.“ A poem reflects the driving force for Wilhelm Alexander’s chosen career as a struggling artist. After much personal and professional … Weiterlesen

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The Shepard family connections

My familial connection to the Shepard family is through my paternal grandmother Helen Mead. Joanna Elizabeth Mead (1842-1914), a first cousin of mine (four generations removed), was born 1842 in Brattleboro, Vermont. She married Augustus „Gus“ Shepard Sr. (1836-1913), a … Weiterlesen

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A Showgirl You Should Know: Faith Bacon “the World’s Most Beautiful”

Faith Bacon, 6th cousin of my grandpa, E. Stanley Wires. Our earliest common ancestors are Henry Wallbridge and his wife, Anna Amos. She is also, like me, a descendant of William Brewster, of Plymouth fame. Faith Bacon was born in … Weiterlesen

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Fitch of Milford, Massachusetts

My great, great grandmother, Cassandra Eastman (Morrill) Fitch, died of „insanity“ 20 days after her husband, George Washington Fitch, on New Year’s Eve, 1878, in Milford, Massachusetts. George died of apoplexy (a stroke).

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