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2003
DatePersons       Additions and Revisions       
30 Dec. 2003:    3492    Added a Mr. Jackson, the 2nd husband of Julina (Braley) Gould, and added Charles Meyers, the husband of Clara Julia Gould, who was probably the daughter who in 1889 accompanied Julina (Braley-Gould) Jackson on a visit to Kellogg, Iowa where Julina died. All of this as found in the death notice/obituary of Julina Jackson in the Kellogg Enterprise newspaper of Kellogg, Iowa.
21 Dec. 2003:    3490     Added 3 wives of 3 sons of Jared Beecher Hitchcock & Lucy Moulton (Hubbard) Hitchcock, and added Lucena L. Hitchcock as a probable child of Charles Rollins Hitchcock & Rachel L. (Hitchcock) Hitchcock. Lucena was probably named after Lucy Lucena Jenney, Charles Hitchcock's first wife who died in 1846. All of this as found on several databases on the Scott Co., Iowa USGenWeb site.
19 Dec. 2003:    3486     Added Fidelia Hitchcock, additional child of John Colton Hitchcock and Irena (Clark) Hitchcock, and her husband Elbridge Reed, who died in the Civil War. Her death as Fidelia Reed, age 19, and the death of her sister Louisa Hitchcock, age 15, both in 1843, were reported in the same edition of The Gazette, newspaper of Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa. They are both sisters of Rachel L. Hitchcock, who was the 2nd wife of Charles R. Hitchcock (my 2nd great-granduncle), and of Clark Hitchcock, who was the first husband of Caroline Hannah Rogers, who was the 3rd wife of my great-grandfather, George Walter Deming.
5 Dec. 2003:    3484     Added vital record informaion for Silas Royce, Jr., and his wife Susanna Reed, and his second wife, Fanny Howard, whom he married after Susanna Reed died. All as taken from the book History of Jaffrey New Hampshire, Vol. II Genealogies, published by the town of Jaffrey in 1934.
22 Nov. 2003:    3483     Added John and Abigail (Cheney) Jones, parents of Keziah Jones who was the wife of Lemuel Braley in Wardsboro, Windham Co., Vermont. Information as published in the NEHGS Register, Volume 113, pages 142-3, published in April 1959.
19 Nov. 2003:    3481     Updated birth, death and burial information for George W. Dudley and Estella (Stull) Dudley, his wife, as found in the records of Crown Hill Memorial Park Cemetery, Denver, Colorado.
14 Nov. 2003:    3481     Revised to show that the marriage of Lorna Marcelle Deming and Burdette M. Berens probably ended in a divorce by about 1952, when she entered the State University of Iowa, College of Nursing as Lorna Berens.  She graduated with a BS in Nursing in the Spring of 1956, and may be the Lorna M. Berens, age 75, currently living in Yuma, Arizona.  Burdette Berens probably remarried after their divorce, and died March 22, 1971 in Kalkaska, Michigan.
13 Nov. 2003:    3481     1) Corrected the name given in the biography of J. P. Nichols for his wife's father as "N. M. Hall" to Mercer M. Hall as found in the Iowa WPA Grave Registrations of Muscatine Co. and in the 1880 census of Lincoln Twp., Johnson Co., Iowa.  2) Added N. Mercer Hall and Sophia (Means) Hall, parents of Elnora P. and Sadie/Sara Elizabeth Hall, sisters who married brothers, Joseph P. and John Clark Nichols.  As found in the 1870 census of Pleasant Valley Twp., Johnson Co., Iowa and the burial records of Oak Ridge Cemetery, West Liberty, Iowa.
11 Nov. 2003:    3479     1) Found a page 1 story in the Iowa City Press-Citizen about the fact that Ralph William Deming, son of William H. and Millicent Deming, age 15, was killed December 30, 1924 while sledding, by a hit-and-run driver.  Two suspects were taken into custody, charged with manslaughter, tried and found not guilty in March 1925.  2) Identified the maiden name of Elizabeth, the second wife of William H. Deming, as Elizabeth Miller.  This came from May & June, 1955 social items in the same newspaper; she was a sister of Mr. R. J. Miller of Iowa City.
8 Nov. 2003:    3479     1) Added Kirstine Ricardsdatter, a sister of Lise Richardsdatter, as found in the Baptism Records of Gran, Oppland, Norway.  2) Added Ethel Frances Townswick, wife of Marcus Herbert Emmons, as found in the Minnesota Death Index.  3) Documented additional undocumented events.
7 Nov. 2003:    3477     1) Added a previously unknown first marriage about 1907 for Alma Germaine Emmons to a man from Indiana with the surname Lymon but an unknown given name.  Also added a child of this marriage that apparently ended in divorce before the 1910 census of Emmons, Freeborn Co., Minnesota.  In that census Alma Lymon, age 24, divorced, daughter of George H. Emmons, and George C. Lymon, 2, a grandson, are living in his household.  2) Added Mabel Knutson, wife of Hamlet Chester Emmons, and probable granddaughter of Hans J. Knutson. She is also one of the listed burials in Oak Lawn Cemetery of Nunda Twp., Freeborn Co., Minnesota.
5 Nov. 2003:    3474     1) Added numerous dates of birth and death and burial locations for many of my Emmons ancestors and relations as found in the burial listings of Oak Lawn Cemetery of Nunda Twp. of Freeborn Co., Minnesota.  This listing was compiled by a current resident of that area, who has graciously shared her work with me and others.  This listing also caused me to add Nettie A. Ringstad who was the wife of Victor Emmons a first cousin of my grandmother, who was discovered in this listing.  2) Deleted one child of Alfred Blaisdell and Grace P. Emmons, probably added in error.
3 Nov. 2003:    3474     Added the seven natural children of Hans J. Knutson and Ingeborg (Larsdatter) Knutson as found in the 1880 Federal and 1885 State censuses of Norway Twp., Winnebago Co., Iowa.  This is the family that took in and raised Regina Hanson, sister of Andrew M. Hanson, after their mother died about 1881.  She is in the 1885 census, living in this family.
1 Nov. 2003:    3467     Added the parents and grandparents of Sarah Marie Sondrol, wife of Andrew M. Hanson. Andrew Hanson was a son of Lise "Anna Lisa" (Richardsdatter) Hanson, who was a half sister to Christine (Larson) Emmons (Mrs. Henry G. Emmons) who raised him after his mother died.  Parents and grandparents of Sarah Marie Sondrol were found in the 1895 Iowa State Census of Silver Lake, Worth Co., Iowa, and grandparents were found in the 1880 Federal Census also of Silver Lake, Iowa.
29 Oct. 2003:    3461     Revised information about the family of Levi Horsman/Hosman and Mary Wilson, parents of Rachel Hosman (Mrs. William Jackson).  This changes the probable location of their marriage and the locations of the births of their children, based of history of the counties of Ohio and the Federal Censuses of 1820, 1830 & 1840 for Richland and Hardin Counties of Ohio.
25 Oct. 2003:    3461     Revised data based on receipt of a copy of the original application for a Social Security Account Number (Form SS-5) made by Ruby M. (Robinson) Shoemaker on April 12, 1967.  This form, probably supported by a birth certificate, shows that she was born July 30, 1894 in Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa.  This birth date is years earlier than indicated by her age in censuses and is 14 years earlier than she reported to the Washington County Hospital, where she was a patient prior to her death May 9, 1987.  She was also found as a child living in Tipton, in the Iowa State Census of 1895, age 1, and the Federal Census of 1900, age 6.
22 Oct. 2003:    3461     Added the spouses of Leonard L. Hitchcock and Roy H. Hitchcock, and three children of Roy H. Hitchcock and his wife. As found in the 1930 censuses of Cedar Rapids, Linn Co., and Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa.
20 Oct. 2003:    3456     Added the parents and known siblings of James G. Bane, second husband of Mildred Hitchcock. Parents of James G. Bane were Elizabeth Alice Tyrrell and her second husband Clark B. Bane. Her first husband was John C. J. Logan who died in 1895 about 3 years after their marriage. John C. J. Logan was a half brother of Minnetta (Logan) Hitchcock, Mildred Hitchcock's mother. Therefore, I also added Sarah Ellen Keever, who was the mother of John C. J. Logan as the first wife of William Coffee Logan. All as found in the Iowa Cemetery Records for Scott Co., and several censuses of Scott Co., Iowa, and Clear Creek Co., Colorado, and some other sources.
19 Oct. 2003:    3449     Added an unknown man from North Carolina, who was the first husband of Mildred Hitchcock, and two children from that marriage whom she took with her as step children of her second husband, James G. Bane. This as found from information contained in the Iowa Cemetery Records for Scott Co., Iowa, and 1920 and 1930 Federal censuses of Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa, and Idaho Springs, Clear Creek Co., Colorado.
15 Oct. 2003:    3446     Added two children of Walter L. Mackey and Rosetta Nichols who died in infancy, as found from the 1900 and 1910 censuses of Springdale Twp., Cedar Co., Iowa. Also added the birth months of those persons in the 1900 census.
12 Oct. 2003:    3444     1) Revised the ancestry of Elnathan Gregory to make him the son of Samuel Gregory and his second wife, Rachel Taylor, rather than a son of Samuel's first wife, as I had previously. Also added portions of three generations of ancestors of Rachel Taylor.  2) Added some details and a few more persons to one generation of ancestors of David Gaylord, husband of Wanda Lucile Deming, as found in well documented WorldConnect databases.
10 Oct. 2003:    3432     1) Added portions of five generations of ancestors of David Gaylord, husband of Wanda Lucile Deming, to show that he is another descendant of the same progenitor as the Gaylords in the update of 3 October 2003. This as found primarily in on line databases of the Gaylord Family Organization and personal knowledge of David and Paul Gaylord.  2) Added Paul Gaylord, living brother of David Gaylord, and 3 half siblings of David and Paul, per information provided by Paul.
4 Oct. 2003:    3404     Added Daniel Bristol, Jr. who was the first husband of Elizabeth (unknown surname). After the death of Daniel Bristol, Jr., about 1745, Elizabeth (--?--) Bristol married Thomas Brooks, II. This addition exposed Henry Bristol and Lydia Brown (grandparents of Daniel Bristol, Jr., Desire Bristol and Esther Bristol) as common ancestors (7th great-grandparents) of both of my parents. I had not been previously aware of that relationship.
3 Oct. 2003:    3403     Added portions of five additional generations of ancestors of Flavilla/Flavella Brooks, maternal grandmother of George Walter Deming. These as found primarily in on line databases of the Gaylord Family Organization and Genealogies of the Brooks Families of New England, both well documented with primary sources.
30 Sep. 2003:    3364     Added portions of two generations of ancestors, and five siblings, of Flavilla/Flavella Brooks, maternal grandmother of George Walter Deming. As found primarily in the History of Cheshire, Connecticut from 1694 to 1840, by Joseph P. Beach, an Ancestry.com online database.
27 Sep. 2003:    3355     Inserted one additional generation and added portions of two more generations of ancestors of Mary Beecher, wife of Abel Parmelee and mother of Lydia Parmelee, who was the wife of David Hitchcock. This revised ancestry of Mary Beecher is now consistent with those Beecher researchers who believe that there were two Joseph Beechers, a son, born about 1647, and a grandson, born 1670, of Isaac Beecher.
22 Sep. 2003:    3349     1) Discovered proof that Able Parmelee/Parmalee was alive until at least 1759 and was the father of the two daughters born after 1740 to Mary Beecher, his wife. In the Colonial Connecticut Records, 1636-1776, Abel Parmele is identified in October 1759 as remaining with the New Haven Society when the White Haven Society was created from the original New Haven Society. Some sources indicate that he died in 1740, but that is not the case. His daughter Lydia Parmelee married Patriot David Hitchcock in 1769 and they are ancestors to about 230 persons in this database.  2) Added Keziah Hall as the wife of Nehemiah Royce, who was a grandson of Robert Royce and a nephew of Samuel Royce, as taken from the database of Michael E. Dobson. This Nehemiah Royce and his wife had a son Nehemiah Royce who married Rhoda Royce, she was his second cousin, once removed, and a descendant of Samuel Royce.
12 Sep. 2003:    3348     Added Hannah Morgan as the wife of Nehemiah Royce, who was a son of Robert Royce and a brother of Samuel Royce, as found in on line Vital Records of New London, Connecticut, from Barbour. Also cited that source as documentation for a few other facts.
5 Sep. 2003:    3347     Added, modified or confirmed dates and locations of death for 10 individuals as found in the Illinois Statewide Death Index, 1916-1950, database of the State of Illinois.
30 Aug. 2003:    3347     Revised information on emigration of Bessie Lee (Knox) Robinson and her two sons to Canada in 1929, and their movements in Canada. Based on the Registration of Death of William Robinson, I had originally thought that the family emigrated first to New Denver, British Columbia (See update of 13 Aug. 2003). However, a recent letter from Jack L. Robinson indicates that his father's family emigrated first to Hanna, Alberta, and that Bessie Robinson and her two sons moved to Nelson, British Columbia in October 1935 and then to New Denver in 1937. In addition this new information revised the approximate dates and locations of the ending of the marriage of Fred A. Robinson and Bessie Lee Knox and her 3rd marriage to Louis M. Johnson.
24 Aug. 2003:    3347     1) Replaced the "Ten Children" of Milton B. Hitchcock and Mary Posy Maddox with the names and information about all ten of those children and seven of their spouses. Information extracted from primarily Descendants of John Hitchcock an unpublished manuscript by Merle Vern (Hitchcock) Cox, a granddaughter of Milton B. and Mary Posy Hitchcock.  2) Corrected the spelling of the maiden name of Mary (Scoggins) Hitchcock, author of Descendants of Matthias Hitchcock another unpublished manuscript that is one of my sources. Mary Scoggins is the wife of Robert Lee Hitchcock, a grandson of Milton B. and Mary Posy Hitchcock. I had mistakenly spelled her maiden name as Scroggins.
22 Aug. 2003:    3330     1) Added Helen E. (--?--) Webb, widow of William A. Webb, who was the second wife of Louis Milton Johnson, step father of Jack L. Robinson.  2) Deleted four additional individuals that I failed to delete (on 5 Mar. 2003) in connection with the update of 24 Jan. 2003, #3.
13 Aug. 2003:    3333     Updated information on the family of Bessie Lee Knox and her 2nd and 3rd husbands, Fred A. Robinson and Louis Milton Johnson, based on information found in the British Columbia Registration of the Death of her son William Robinson, born February 26, 1925 in California, USA, and died June 17, 1939 in British Columbia, Canada.
9 Aug. 2003:    3333     1) Added the given names of Louis Milton Johnson, 3rd husband of Bessie Lee Knox and step father to Jack L. and William Robinson. Also added the death and burial information for him and Bessie Lee (Knox-Ensminger-Robinson) Johnson. All as found in the on line British Columbia Cemetery Finding Aid and the Vernon & District Family History Society on line cemetery inscriptions for the Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada, area cemeteries.  2) Changed the date of the first marriage of Bessie Lee Knox to I. Earl Ensminger from April 22, 1904, as originally reported, to April 22, 1906, as verified by the Marriage Records of McMinn County, Tennessee.  3) Added Alice (--?--) Brailey, wife of Dr. Allen Gilbert Brailey, Sr., and mother of Dr. Allen Gilbert Brailey, Jr., who was a first cousin of Harold Edwin Brailey, Jr., who wrote my father in 1943 about Brailey/Braley genealogy prior to the Braley Genealogy book. The name of Dr. Brailey's wife was found in the record of his death in the Connecticut Death Index for 1949-2001.
3 Aug. 2003:    3332     1) Added several spouses of six children of Guy Ross Benight and his wife Harriet (May) Benight. Also deleted four of their grandchildren, who were not descendants of William Jackson and Rachel (Hosman) Jackson, by their daughter Mary Elizabeth (Jackson) Benight (Mrs. Samuel M. Benight).
29 July 2003:    3330     1) Added the known spouses of the children of Elmer Judson Failor and Lucy Maria (Braley) Failor, as provided by a living descendant of this family.  2) Added a third child, with uncertain given name that looks like Barry, a daughter of Charles A. Isaacs and Henrietta (Emmons) Isaacs, born about 1912, as found in the 1920 Census of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa.  3) Added the date of the first marriage, and the location of the first and second marriages of Bessie Lee Knox to (1) I. Earl Ensminger on April 22, 1904, and (2) Fred Amos Robinson on June 17, 1913, both in McMinn County, Tennessee. As found in the records of McMinn County.
22 July 2003:    3325     1) Added about 18 persons who are descendants and spouses of descendants of Fred Amos Robinson (son of Charles Robinson and Elizabeth Flanders) and his wife Bessie Lee Knox, and her parents. All as found primarily in information contributed by Jack L. Robinson, son of Fred and Bessie Lee (Knox) Robinson, now living in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.  2) Added portions of two more generations of ancestors of Samuel Failor, father of Elmer Judson and Harlan Justin Failor, as extracted from several biographies found on the Jasper County, Iowa, GenWeb Site.
20 July 2003:    3304     1) Added Andrew Failor and Elizabeth Moyer, parents of Samuel Failor, and added Elhanan Spencer Winslow and Elmina Kingsley, parents of Lucy Elmina Winslow; they are the grandparents of Elmer J. and Harlen J. Failor, who married daughters of Carlton Braley. This information is taken from Records of Morgan Funeral Home, Newton, Iowa, and the biography of Horace Spencer Winslow from Men of Vermont, 1894. Also added the surnames only of the parents of Mary Josephine Bennett, 3rd wife of Frank Titus Braley, to distinguish her from Laura E. Bennett, wife of Fred Alonzo Braley. This as found in the California Death Index entry for Mary Josephine Braley.  2) Added Helen Mary Winslow, wife of William Anson Whitcomb, Jr. and another daughter of Elhanan Spencer Winslow and Elmina Kingsley. This as found in the biography of Samuel Failor from Past and Present of Jasper County Iowa, 1912.
18 July 2003:    3297     1) Added Maude A. (--?--) Flanders, wife of Clifford Warren Flanders, and added their five known children (grandchildren of Warren H. Flanders) and one additional grandson of Warren H. Flanders.  2) Added Mildred Flanders, born 1896, as an out-of-wedlock daughter of Annie L. Flanders, daughter of Warren H. Flanders. Detached Eugene C. Flanders as a son of Warren H. Flanders and attached him as an out-of-wedlock son of Annie L. Flanders, born December 28, 1898. All of this as extracted from the 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930 Censuses of Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont and the SSDI entry for Eugene Flanders, born December 28 1898, and died in March 1965 in New Hampshire.
22 June 2003:    3289     1) Added portions of three generations of ancestors of Frank Goodhue Maple to his Goodhue great-grandfather who is also the Goodhue great-grandfather of his wife and second cousin, Amanda Bird Goodhue. This information was discovered in the 1880 censuses of Iowa and the 1850 census of Grafton County, New Hampshire. Also documented the death in 1923 of Amanda Bird (Goodhue) Maple as found in the records of the Morgan Funeral Home, Newton, Iowa.
14 June 2003:    3284     1) Added Kerry W. and Eileen E. Wohlust, parents of Lani Glenn Wohlust, first wife of William H. Braley. Information as found in a September 2002 article from the Racine, Wisconsin, Journal Times.  2) Added two children of Benjamin Flanders and Mariah Brown, who were born after their son John Flanders, born September 27, 1752, and added Ebenezer Sargent, who was the second husband of Phoebe (Colburn) Flanders, the widow of John Flanders. Also added dates and other information as found in The Flanders Family: From Europe To America, 2nd ed., by Edith Flanders Dunbar (dec.) and Dr. Charles M. Flanders, 2000. Also added information extracted from an essay, The History of Joseph Dean Flanders, written by Mary Louise (Flanders) Mattix (Mrs. A. W. Mattix) who was a daughter of Joseph Dean and Mary Etta (Bixby) Flanders, and a granddaughter of Benjamin and Rhoda (Dean) Flanders.
13 June 2003:    3279     1) Added two spouses and four children of the daughters of William Harry Braley, my brother, and his first wife, Lani Glenn Wohlust, as reported to me by my brother.
7 June 2003:    3273     1) Changed the second wife of Daniel Graves from Lydia (or Lois) Stevens to Lydia (or Lois) Stannard as found in the Killingworth, Middlesex Co., Connecticut, Vital Records from Barbour. Also added the death information for Lydia (Stannard) Graves, widow of Daniel Graves, as found in the NEHGS Cemetery Transcriptions of Union Cem., Killingworth, Middlesex Co., CT, where she is buried. Detached Lois Graves as a child of Daniel and Lydia Stannard in this file, although I believe that she was their daughter and she is still shown as a daughter of this couple in the file “Probable Anc. of Lois Graves”.
4 June 2003:    3273     1) Added Hannah Parmelee the first wife of Daniel Graves, born 1714/15, and portions of two generations of her ancestors to John Parmelee, Jr. and his first wife, Rebecca Parmelee. Also added Daniel Graves, born 1744, a son of Hannah Parmelee and Daniel Graves, and his wife, Lois Loveland, who were probably guardians of Lois Graves (Mrs. Silas Royce), the probable daughter of Daniel Graves, born 1714/15, and his second wife, Lydia Lois Stevens.  2) Added 2 more daughters of Jack and Iris Robinson, as mentioned in Christmas cards sent to my sister by Jack Robinson in the past.  3) Added parents and an unnamed first spouse of Nancy Carol Londeree, second wife of William Harry Braley, as found in a Family Tree Maker Genealogy Site: User Home Page of Ben R. Londeree.
23 May 2003:    3257     1) Added Ida M. Kimball wife of Fred A. Hitchcock as indicated on his gravestone and found in the Iowa WPA Grave Registrations as buried in same lot of Oakdale Cem., Davenport Iowa. Also found their family in the 1920 U.S. Census of Davenport, Iowa.
21 May 2003:    3256     1) Added Mary E. Hearn wife of Coleman Hubbard Hitchcock as indicated on his gravestone and found recorded in Iowa Marriages, 1851-1900, for Scott County. Also found their family in the 1880 U.S. Census of Stuart, Guthrie/Adair Co., Iowa.
18 May 2003:    3255     1) Added Iris (--?--) Robinson, wife of Jack Robinson in 1982, who attended a Robinson picnic/reunion of the grandchildren of Charles & Elizabeth Robinson, and was photographed there in 1982 with the other grandchildren and their living spouses. Also added Vanessa Robinson, a daughter of Jack and Iris Robinson, who attended but was not in the photograph.  2) Added three grandchildren of George and Maryette (Dickinson) Robinson, and the probable spouses of two of those grandchildren as found in the Horner-Robinson data base and as taken from various censuses of 1920 and 1930.
11 May 2003:    3248     1) Added the spouses of a sibling and a daughter of Lura E. Frizell, wife of Charles Strong Deming, as provided by a researcher of this line.
6 May 2003:    3246     1) Added numerous sources for facts not previously documented with sources.  2) Added parents of Sarah Baldwin who was the second wife of Samuel Royce, and the step mother to his children by his first wife, Hannah Churchill. The parents of Sarah Baldwin were John Baldwin and his second wife, Mary Bruen, as per several documented WorldConnect databases.
30 Apr. 2003:    3243     1) Deleted death information for Ethel M. (Braley) Smith that proved to be incorrect. SSDI listing for Ethel M. Smith, with the same birth date as Ethel M. (Braley) Smith, proved to be for an Ethel Nash Smith, from copy of SS-5 for SS# 461-40-1984.  2) Deleted Hannah Tisdale and her parents, because she has been proven to not be the first wife of Roger(2) Braley. See update for 30 Oct. 2001.  3) Added two more children to the Walter and Rozetta Mackey family, parents of Florence Lucile Mackey (Mrs. Kenneth A. Deming); as found in the 1910 census of Springdale Twp., Cedar Co., Iowa.
26 Apr. 2003:    3244     1) Added Isaac Simons and Angeline (Burroughs) Simons, parents of Lula Emma Simons who was the wife of Clarence M. Robinson, one of my mother's uncles. Also added an unknown first spouse/companion of Lula Emma Simons who was the natural father of Ruby Robinson. She was apparently the adopted daughter of Clarence M. Robinson. This is as discovered in the 1920 census of Washington, Washington Co., Iowa and the 1880 census of Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa.  2) Revised the date of birth of Joseph Braley, from 16 Dec 1830 to 16 Dec 1831, and of his brother George W. Braley, from 24 Aug 1832 to 24 Aug 1833. Sources disagree on their birth dates, these dates are supported by information from the 1900 Federal Census of Kellogg, Iowa, gravestone inscriptions and the Braley Book No. 2, privately printed by the descendants of George W. Braley.
24 Apr. 2003:    3241     1) Added George and Mary DeForest, parents of Charles DeForest who is the husband of my mother's Aunt Alice Ruth Robinson (Mrs. Charles DeForest), as found in the 1880 census of Springdale, Cedar Co., Iowa. Also enhanced the information on the parents and siblings of Edna Cynthia Irwin, wife of Frank C. Robinson, who was an older brother of Alice Ruth Robinson, as found in the 1900 census of Goshen Twp., Muscatine Co., Iowa.
21 Apr. 2003:    3239     1) Changed the name of the husband of Carrie Cornelia Deming from T. P. or Thomas Porter Ritchie, as indicated in 2 historical books, to Porter F. Ritchie, as discovered in the 1900 census of Stow Twp., Summit Co., OH. Also added three more sons of this marriage as found in the 1900 and 1910 census. In 1900 they were living next door to his parents, George G. and Catherine Ritchie, who were also added. Carrie Cornelia Deming is the daughter of George Walter Deming and his first wife, Caroline Heinley.  2) Identified the unnamed daughter, born about 1838, of Peter Heinley and Katherine Geringer, as Sarah Heinley as found in the 1850 census of East Allen Twp., Northampton Co., Pennsylvania. Peter and Katherine Heinley are also the parents of Caroline Henley.  3) Added Kepford Ricker, spouse of Isabel Stuart, adopted daughter of William Hall Stuart and Alice Amanda Braley. Also added parents of Kepford Ricker and birth, marriage and death information as found in the SSDI, CADI and 1930 census of Los Angeles, California.
19 Apr. 2003:    3231     1) Added Mary Josephine Bennett the third wife of Frank Titus Braley, as found in the 1920 census of Harvey, Cook Co., Illinois and the 1930 census of Pasadena, California. Also added name, birth and death information as found in the California Death Index (CADI).  2) Added Ralph E. Park as the husband of Rilla Margaret Braley and a daughter, Margaret E. Park, as found in the 1930 & 1920 censuses of Cook Co., Illinois, and in the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) and the CADI. Rilla Margaret Braley is a daughter of Frank Titus Braley and his first wife.  3) Added Samuel and Polly May, parents of Harriet May, wife of Guy Ross Benight. Guy Benight and Harriet (May) Benight were the parents of Samuel May Benight who married Sep. 1860 Mary Elizabeth Jackson in Black Hawk Co., Iowa. She was a sister of Dell Ann Jackson (Mrs. Alson H. Braley).
10 Apr. 2003:    3226     1) Added portions of two generations of ancestors and a brother of Stanley A. Smith, first husband of Ethel Maxine Braley, my father's sister. As found in the 1920 and 1930 censuses of St. Charles, Madison Co., Iowa.  2) Added two children and spouses of all the children of Phineas Nichols and Martha Gibson, ancestors of Florence Lucile Mackey, wife of my uncle, Kenneth A. Deming. All information as found in various censuses and biographies from Muscatine Co., Iowa.  3) Added spouses of the children and spouses of John Elmer Weber, my brother-in-law, and corrected his death and burial information as taken from my wife's database.
21 Mar. 2003:    3210     1) Added Esther F. <unknown> as the wife of Wayne Finley Deming and two of their children. As found in the 1930 Federal Census of Blackwell, Kay Co., Oklahama.  2) Revised the wife of Joseph Churchill to show that he married Mary <unknown> on 13 May 1674 as documented in the Vital Records of Wethersfield, CT, and that she was the mother of his children. Also included as wives the two Marys indicated by other sources; Mary Catlin, bapt. 6 May 1649, the daughter of Thomas and Mary Catlin of Hartford; Mary Tousey, unknown birth date and parents.
5 Mar. 2003:    3206     1) Added an unknown probable first wife of Giles Cromwell, who was the mother of his children born in the early 1600's, before his immigration to the colonies.  2) Added several descendants and additional spouses of spouses to the families of William Strong Deming, Mary Jane (Deming) Hill and Emily (Deming) Frazee, as found in various 1850 and 1880 Federal Censuses.  3) Deleted seven individuals that I had failed to delete in connection with the update of 24 Jan. 2003, #3.  4) Added portions of five generations of additional ancestors of Eunice Strong Fenn (Mrs. William Riley Deming) the daughter of Rev. Nathan Fenn and Eunice (Strong) Fenn, as found on the Web site of the Strong Family Association of America, and a few well documented databases containing Strong family ancestry.
23 Feb. 2003:    3189     1) Added nine individuals and additional details on others who are descendants, and parents of their spouses, of Dr. John Daniel Taylor and Laura Grace (Deming) Taylor, as found in a GEDCOM file posted by one of those living descendants.  2) Added three additional children of Loren Strong Deming and Lois (Hofer) Deming as found in the 1930 Federal Census of Ames, Iowa. These children are my second cousins.   3) Added portions of six generations of ancestors of Mary Dunham, wife of Lardner Deming, and another of my 4th great-grandmothers.
16 Feb. 2003:    3157     1) Added approximately 30 persons who are descendants, and their spouses, of Joseph Lupton by his first wife, Mercy/Mary Twining, and his second wife, Mary (Scarborough) Pickering, who was the widow of Samuel Pickering.  2) Deleted the unrecorded and unlikely first marriage of Rachel Pickering to a John Lupton prior to her 1791 marriage to William Horsman July 21, 1791 in Frederick Co., Virginia.
15 Feb. 2003:    3128     1) Added Elizabeth Moore the second wife of Charles Wesley Hosman as found in the 1880 Federal Census of Kosciusko Co., Indiana, and in the marriage index for the same county.  2) Added portions of four generations of ancestors of Maragriet Swartwout, wife of Harmanus Cole/Cool/Kool, and one of my 4th great-grandmothers. Information as found in "The Updated Swartwout Chronicles" an on line database compiled by Swartwout family researchers.  3) Revised information on the family of Milo W. Barrows and Mary (Robinson) Barrows and their children. Changed the places and dates of birth to agree as much as possible with the information found in the censuses of 1870 and 1880 of Detroit, Michigan.
06 Feb. 2003:    3109     1) Changed the birth date of Charles Robinson from 12 April 1836 to 12 April 1835 which is in agreement with his age in four censuses, his age in his will, his age at death and the date of birth carved on his gravestone. Also changed the date of birth of John Robinson, Charles' brother, to 22 January 1837 and the location of his marriage to Mary White to Grundy Co., Illinois, as found in the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index 1763-1900 and family bible.  2) Added William C. and Elise Logan, parents of Minnetta Logan (Mrs. William H. Hitchcock) as found in the 1880 Federal Census of Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa.
24 Jan. 2003:    3107     1) Added two sons of Robert Welsh, brothers of George Welsh, and an unknown Welsh family progenitor, father of Robert Welsh.  2) Deleted ancestors of the parents of Henry Lawrence, born about 1586 in England, because there are no sources that support any ancestors.  3) Revised the ancestry of Hannah Lawrence, wife of Obadiah Sawtell, making her the daughter of John Lawrence, baptised October 8, 1609. Added two wives of that John Lawrence and 12 additional children of those marriages.