Just an update

Posted on October 17, 2012 by English Lass Comments Off

Why is it that when you think everything is finally going to “calm down” so that you can get back to “regular life”, everything goes sideways?  All my good intentions of updating on a more regular basis seem to have gone wonky.  Unfortunately, real life has a tendency to do that.

Because of this, I haven’t been updating like I wanted to, and in fact, I haven’t even looked at genealogy for several months.  Then, within the last week, a death within the older generation.  Of course, this forced me to open the genealogy.  So, I have been tinkering around with it again.  Once I become more immersed, I will have a good update to post.

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Brick Wall – James/John Cubbage who was he?

Posted on August 5, 2012 by English Lass Comments Off

James/John Cubbage is one of my many brick walls.  He seems to be more perplexing than my others, though, as I have more snippets about him which just don’t seem to add up.

Take for instance, this note which my great aunt had in her papers.  It simply states, “John Cubbage (Cabbage), 2-24-1758 (which I presume was his birth), died 12-1874, Pvt. VA.

Now, I seriously doubt that John lived to be 116 years old, so I question whether the 1874 is in fact, 1814, or 1784.  As it notes he was a private for Virginia, I again presume that was during the Revolutionary War.  Okay, so far so good.

Then there is the will of Zachariah Bunch in 1793, Clark County, Kentucky, which lists his daughter, Mourning Bunch, and grandson, James Cubbage by name, but does not list a spouse for Mourning.  If James/John died in 1784, this would make sense that he would not be listed.  To add to the plausibility of this timeline, Mourning married Peter Myers in 1791 in Mercer County, Kentucky.  Ok, this all looks good.

Then it starts to go sideways again, as James Cubbage, son of Mourning (Bunch) Cubbage Myers, was born in approximately 1785.  According to the 1860 census (the last before his death), he was 74 years old.  Sigh.  To make matters worse, or to confuse things more, I am not sure which, there is speculation that James/John the elder (our brick wall person) was a member of the Cubbage family that was prevalent in Delaware at the time.  It is thought that for whatever reason, perhaps he was disowned.

A search through the Revolutionary records available at Fold3.com only yielded 1 hit for John (and/or James) Cubbage.  A John Cubbage was a witness to sworn statement by Thomas Gilmore to the Continental Congress on June 15, 1776.  No record of John Cubbage in the Virginia records.  Another dead end.

 

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Hiccups & Hackers

Posted on July 30, 2012 by English Lass Comments Off

There will be a few hiccups over the next few days as I transition the blog over to it’s own domain.  The new location will be www.englishlassblog.com

The driving force to move this came when this blog was hacked about a week ago by unknown person(s).  As it is an offshoot of my genealogy website, both were taken offline by my hosting company, which would be expected.  At the time I was none too happy.  I decided that was the push I needed to finally move it – now if it is hacked (heaven forbid), it will be the only one to go down, not both.

I am in the process of moving all my posts over, and should be done by the end of the week.  I am not certain if those of you who have registered will have to re-register or not.  If so, I am deeply apologetic.

I hope you will stick with me as I make this transition.

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Comings and Goings

Posted on June 24, 2012 by English Lass Comments Off

As I write this post, one of my best friends is packing up her house so that she can move this week to be closer to her family.  This made me start to think about the sometimes (surprisingly) transitory nature of our ancestors.  My friend and her husband moved away from family to come here because of his job.  Now they are returning.  How often did my ancestors move for a job or to find work, only to return “home” months or years later?

I didn’t have to look too hard in my tree to find some of those ancestors.  My own father moved around often as a member of the military.  My grandfather was guilty of doing that too, but what about those back a little further, when we don’t think of transportation and moving as being that “easy” or “simple”?

For example, I have a great-great aunt, Eliza Richardson Sellers Draney, who was born in 1843 in Harrison County, Indiana, and moved with her parents and siblings to Warren County, Illinois before 1855.  In 1862 she married Thomas Sellers in Knox County, Illinois.  After his death (or their divorce-records are conflicting) sometime before 1870, she was back in Warren County.  Then in 1882, she married John B. Draney in Warren County, and lived there after his death in 1893.  By 1910, she was living in Clearfield, Taylor County, Iowa.  As of 1919, she had moved further west from Iowa about halfway across Nebraska, to North Platte.  At the time of her death in 1922, she was living in Kansas City, Missouri.  Her final journey was to come home to be buried in Alexis, Illinois.

I can’t begin to imagine what the trip for the family was like from Indiana to Illinois in that time period.  I have not done enough research on their possible route to know if they travelled by train, wagon, possibly via water.  I would guess that her move to Clearfield was probably done by train, as was the rest of her moving around, but I don’t know.

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