Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Randy and Stan with Their Maternal Grandparents in 1947 -- Post 817 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

I can't help it, I can't do a wordless post! This is one of my favorite and most priceless family photographs:

The people in this screen capture from a home movie are (from the left):

* Emily Kemp (Auble) Carringer (1899-1977), my maternal grandmother.

* Stanley Richmond Seaver (1946-living), my brother (Held by Emily)

* Georgianna (Kemp) Auble (1868-1952), my great-grandmother

* Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976), my maternal grandfather

* Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living), moi.

This home movie was taken in 1947, perhaps on Stan's first birthday in September or my 4th birthday in October. I think this is in the Carringer gardens on the south end of the block in San Diego (bounded by 30th, Hawthorn, Fern and Ivy streets) looking south.

This is the only image I have found to date of me with my great-grandmother, Georgianna (Kemp) Auble. She was so animated in the movie!

You can watch the home movie on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYNfG4hFYEU&t=1s

This home movie is a part of my family history. I received it from my mother in 1988 when I started my genealogy research, and digitized it in 2019 using the FOREVER service. I restored, enhanced and colorized the photo using the MyHeritage photo tools, but it is still very fuzzy.

=============================================

The URL for this post is:

Copyright (c) 2024, Randall J. Seaver

I moderate all comments and they may not appear immediately - please write only one comment.

Please comment on this post on the website by clicking the URL above and then the "Comments" link at the bottom of each post. Share it on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest using the icons below. Or contact me by email at randy.seaver@gmail.com.

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Memories - What We Did On Our 1999 Scandinavian Vacation - Part 3

I have found more of my memoirs that I wrote after some of our summer vacations, and many of them included genealogy highlights. So I'm going to share these memories in a series of posts. Maybe I'll even find some photos to illustrate the posts.

Mia and Anne were our foreign exchange students from Finland in 1994. We had a marvelous time getting to know them and enjoying their company. Our daughter Tami had a car and they were able to go all over San Diego (and we all went to Los Angeles one time) and enjoy a three-week summer vacation. Mia's family in Tornio, and Anne's family in Kuopio, invited us to come visit them, so we did in the summer of 1999. By this time, Mia and Anne were in college. After visiting our Finnish families, we flew off to Norway to sightsee, see one of Linda's ancestral towns, and meet some of her distant relatives.

I wrote Memories - What We Did On Our 1999 Scandinavian Vacation - Part 2 last week. Here is Part 3.

=====================================

What We Did On Our 1999 Scandinavian Vacation

(29 July to 17 August 1999) - Part 3

OSLO, NORWAY

We arrived at the new Gardermoen Airport outside Oslo around 11 a.m. We took the bus into the city, then a taxi to the Hotel Munch, which was just north of the central city. The room here was about the same size as the room in Stockholm. We gathered the maps and brochures at the hotel, then took off for the harbor area on the trolley. The bus stop was about 200 yards from the hotel, and was only another 200 yards from the central area near the National Theatre and Oslo University. We took a harbor tour to get some background.

In the evening, we met three genealogists from Oslo at a restaurant (I arranged it on the RootsWeb Norway Genealogy mailing list). We talked to Ole Kjolseth, Elin Galtung Lihaug and Odd Braathun about our trip, Linda’s Norway ancestry, and Oslo sightseeing over a pleasant dinner. They helped me with place names and advised Linda on troll books. Ole helped me with a genealogy mystery in Voss. We then took some pictures, walked around the central area, said goodbye to our new friends, and did some shopping before returning to the hotel.

On Thursday, we took the bus to the Bygdøy peninsula, where we visited the Norway Folk Museum and the Viking Ship museum. The Folk Museum is an outdoor museum with old buildings with docents to explain the lifestyles and customs. We stopped at the stave church, the Voss and Sogndal areas, and the two cooking huts where we sampled lefse and other Norwegian goodies. At the Viking ship museum, we saw the remnants of the ancient ships recovered from the Oslo fjord. We then walked to the pier at Dronningen and took the water taxi to Bygdøynes, where we visited the Kon-Tiki Museum, the Fram ship Museum and the Sjofarts Museum which houses the Roald Amundsen display and ship Gjøa. These places were interesting and educational. We returned to the harbor area, after an ice cream at the boat slip, on the water taxi. We had dinner in the downtown area, did some shopping, and went back to the hotel and packed.

As we left the hotel early on Friday 13 August, Linda fell down three steps in the hotel lobby and injured her lower legs - bruises and swelling, but no fractures. We spent most of that day on the train to Voss. The train made many stops, including one at the top of the Norwegian mountains at Finse, where it was cold with snow on the ground.

VOSS, NORWAY

We got off the train in Voss, which is a small town (about 5,000 inhabitants) beside the Vangs Vatnet (lake) with snow capped mountain ranges circling the valley, with many streams, rivers, and small lakes feeding into the major lake. We had a bite to eat at the train station café, and then took a taxi to the Rondo Sport Hotell, which was on the east side of the river, about a kilometer from the center of Voss. The owner of the hotel was very helpful and gracious.

After checking into the hotel, Randy walked into town and checked out the information center, the graveyards, the bookstores, and the library. He found the Voss genealogy mystery in a genealogy book at the library, with the help of Ole Kjolseth’s note, and also got on the Internet at the information center.

We called Bjorg Liland that night, on the advice of Jeri Walker, another Norway researcher who had visited Voss and met Bjorg in 1998. She had her son visiting, and asked us to call her back later. When we did, she offered to drive us around the Vangs Vatnet and out to the Liland farm on Saturday.

Saturday came, and Bjorg arrived about 11 a.m., and we started on our tour around the lake in the rain. We stopped at the Gjelle ("yell-leh") farm on the south side of the lake with the "postcard" view of Voss. Gjelle happens to be one of Linda's ancestral farms, and can be seen from the north side of the lake since it is fairly high on the hillside and has a distinctive yellow farm house.

We drove slowly along the lake and passed through a number of other ancestral farms like Glimme, Midtun and Eimstad. We got to Liland farm at the west end of the lake. Bjorg had arranged a meeting with Inge Liland (age 90, who had the Voss bygdebok, and was sharp as a tack!) and her daughter Guri Liland. Bjorg is a 4th cousin-in-law of Guri's. We did not go to the working farm, since the workers were away, but went to the new house next to the working farm - it was a beautiful home! We had a very pleasant visit with them including a lunch.

I got out the Voss ancestry list and Inge looked carefully through the Liland section of the bygdebok. She could not find a direct tie to the ancestry list, which was not surprising. I offered my conclusion that Ivar Torgerson (brother of Sjur Torgerson) married Kari Larsdatter of Liland farm, and that the extended family adopted the Leland name in America. She seemed to accept that, and noted that there were always farm workers who were not part of the direct family. I elicited some genealogy information from her about the Liland family history after the bygdebok entries to try to understand the line better. When Inge read further in the ancestry list, she got excited when she saw mention of some of the other farms and we concluded that Linda was probably a distant cousin to Inge and the Liland farm people after all. We took some pictures with the "cousins" and thanked them for their hospitality.

Then we stopped next door to what used to be the Liland Hotel, and talked to Alf Ringheim, Bjorg's former brother-in-law. The hotel is now an apartment building, filled to the brim with Kosovo refugee families. He showed us around the public parts of the hotel and his own apartment. Alf had a genealogy chart that showed his ancestry back to Roman times.

We left Alf and drove along the north side of the lake through central Voss and up to the Mølstertunet Museum, which is composed of 15 buildings from the 19th century. Mølster is another of the ancestral farms, where Sjur Torgerson lived at the time he married in 1850. A docent explained each room of the main farm house, the clothing, the food, the working farm. There was also a museum with farm artifacts and cultural history of the Voss area. Fascinating stuff!

After all of that, we took Bjorg out to dinner that night at the Park Hotel. She invited us over to her apartment the next night for dessert. What a beautiful, spirited, and knowledgable woman. We parted with hugs and kisses, and promises to send her pictures of our time together.

We also had a short meeting at the hotel with Svein Ulvund, who has a great Voss web site with digital pictures of Voss farms and sights. He knew where all the farms were!

The next day we took a great tour out of Voss - Norway in a Nutshell. This is highly recommended! Our tour went by bus to Vik, up through Vossestrand and the Myrkdalen valley, past snow capped mountains and rushing waters. Then we caught an express fjord boat to Balestrand and Vangsnes, and transferred in mid-fjord to a ferry boat to Gudvangen. The fjord arm into Gudvangen is spectacular, with mountains plunging into the fjord, and small farms lying at the base of cliffs and streams. After a short bus trip through a long tunnel to Flåm, we caught the Flåm railway to Myrdal. This 20 km trip rises over 800 meters, through the Flåm valley and past several spectacular waterfalls. The trip concluded with a short train trip from Myrdal down to Voss.

On Monday, we packed our bags, checked out, took a taxi and stored the bags at the train station. We then took the cable car lift (over 800 meters high) up the mountain overlooking Voss and had lunch at the small restaurant there. In the winter time, Voss is a ski resort. The view was fantastic, and the fish and chips were excellent (and cheap)! I went again to the Voss library and found more genealogy research data. I also bought the Vossestrand Ættebok and several topographical maps with Voss area farm names. We walked around the town a bit, and waited for the train to Bergen.

BERGEN, NORWAY

We took the train to Bergen (where Linda's ancestors sailed from in the 1850s) on Monday evening, and stayed at the Hotel Park Pension, which was up a hill south of the main part of town. It was the nicest hotel we stayed in, but we had to use taxis because of Linda's leg injuries. Dinner that night was a snack in the hotel dining room.

On Tuesday, we took a taxi down to the harbor area and walked through the market place, visited the Bryggen Museum (with artifacts and history of Bergen), and then took the tram to the top of Fløyen hill, overlooking the town. We had lunch, then waited out a rain shower under our umbrella near the marketplace, and then took the water taxi to the aquarium. We returned to the central area, did some shopping and had dinner at the Lido restaurant before returning to the hotel.

We packed on Wednesday, checked out of the hotel, and took a taxi to the bus/train station to store the bags. Linda did some shopping, and Randy found an Internet connection at the Bergen library nearby. We took the bus to the airport and flew out of Bergen back to Arlanda Airport near Stockholm that night. We stayed at the Good Morning Hotel and had dinner there.

We took a hotel bus to the airport on Thursday, August 19, and returned to San Diego through Chicago, tired but happy we had such a wonderful vacation.

I have many more photographs from the entire trip, but can only post so many.

==============================================

The URL for this post is: https://www.geneamusings.com/2024/04/memories-what-we-did-on-our-1999_01580087700.html

Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 17 to 23 April 2024

Welcome to Genealogy News Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon for the past week, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news items that came across our desktop since the last issue.

1) News Articles:

* Ready, set, scan: National Archives to digitize 500M records by 2026

* Steve Rockwood at RootsTech 2024—Legos and the Importance of Remembering

* [MyHeritage] Celebrate the Heroes in Your Family This Anzac Day

* [MyHeritage] Explore the Depths of Naval History in Stunning Interactive Detail

* Database Collection of Death Information Not Public Record

* California lawmaker unveils 'Genealogy Office' to decide who's REALLY descended from slaves and wins reparations payouts

2) DNA News Stories

* A mom found a jawbone in her son’s rock collection. 22 years later, genealogy researchers ID’d the remains of a US Marine

* Genealogy IDs Woman Found in Shallow Grave in 1985

* ‘Mission Fatherhood Succeeded’: German Man Finds U.S. Family After 65 Years of Searching

3) Book/Magazine Notices and Reviews:

* ‘Getting Organized’ subject of new genealogy book

4) New or Updated Digital Record Collections:

* Added and Updated Ancestry.com Record Collections - Week of 13 to 19 April 2024

* Added and Updated FamilySearch.org Record Collections - Week of 13 to 19 April 2024

* Findmypast Friday: An Abundance of New Oxfordshire Baptisms, Marriages and Burials

* More Kerry records added to RootsIreland

* More collections added to FamilySearch Labs

* 28,780 Free United States Online Cemetery and Burial Records

5) Did you miss the last post in this series? See Genealogy News Bytes - Week of 10 to 16 April 2024.

==============================================

The URL for this post is: https://www.geneamusings.com/2024/04/genealogy-news-bytes-week-of-17-to-23.html

Seavers in the News -- Death Notice of Clayton F. Seaver (1927-1978) of Holbrook, Massachusetts

Here is this week's edition of "Seavers in the News" - a weekly feature from the historical newspapers about persons with the surname Seaver that are interesting, useful, mysterious, fun, macabre, or add information to my family tree database.

This week's entry is from the The Boston [Mass.] Globe newspaper dated Monday, 17 April 1978, page 36, Column 7:

The transcription of the article is:

"SEAVER -- In Holbrook, formerly of Dorchester, April 16, Clayton F., devoted husband of Marilyn (Smith) Seaver, of 46 Roseway, loving father of Clayton F. Seaver, Jr. of Dorchester, Edward McNeil and Robert McNeil and Wayne McNeil of Holbrook, Brye McNeil USAF, Geraldine Ragusa of Brockton, Patricia MacQueen of South Boston, Tammy McNeil of Holbrook. Loving son of Mary (Amirault) Seaver of Dorchester, brother of Donald of Fla., Warren and Robert of Quincy, Allan, Paul and Carlton of Dorchester, Pauline Cox of Conn., Joan Delashaw of Sharon, Madeline Glennon of Fla. Also survived by 8 grandchildren. Reposing at the Cartwright Funeral Home, 69 South Franklin St., HOLBROOK. Funeral Tuesday at 9:14, followed by a Funeral Mass in St. Joseph's Church at 10 a.m. Relatives and friends respectfully invited to attend. Calling hours Monday 7-9 p.m."

The source citation is:

"Seaver," The Boston [Mass.] Globe newspaper, Monday, 17 April 1978, page 36, column 7, Clayton F. Seaver death notice, imaged, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 22 April 2024).

This obituary provides the decedent's name, residence, death day and place, wife's name, children names, mother's name, siblings names, and services, but not his age, birth date or place, marriage information, work history or associations.

Clayton Frederick Seaver (1927-1978) was born 7 April 1927 in Quincy, Massachusetts, the son of Allen Linwood and Mary Elizabeth (Amirault) Seaver. He died 16 April 1978 in Holbrook, Massachusetts. Clayton married (1) Winifred Emily Sutton (1923-1979) in April 1945 in Bilston, Staffordshire, England. They had three children:

* Geraldine Winfred Seaver (1945-2006), married Joseph T. Ragusa (1944-2008)

* Clayton Frederick Seaver, Jr. (1946-2003), maried Delcie Vivian Taylor (1948-????).

* Patricia J. Seaver (1946-1996), married (1) MacQueen, (2) 1996 Edward L. Geary.

Clayton Frederick Seaver married (2) Marilyn (Smith) McNeil (1936-????). They had no children together.

Clayton Frederick Seaver (1927-1978) is probably related to me, but I don't have a known parent for his 2nd great-grandfather Joseph T. Seaver (1805-????) who married Betsey T. Davis in 1830 in Taunton, Massachusetts.

There are over 10,000 Seaver "stories" in my family tree - and this is one of them. Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and sometimes a person's death notice names many relatives but has no usual obituary information. I am glad that I can honor Clayton Frederick Seaver today.

You never know when a descendant or relative will find this blog post and learn something about their ancestors or relatives, or will provide more information about them to me.

=============================================

Disclosure: I have a paid subscription to Newspapers.com and have used it extensively to find articles about my ancestral and one-name families.

The URL for this post is: https://www.geneamusings.com/2024/04/seavers-in-news-obituary-of-clayton-f.html

Please note that all comments are moderated, and may not appear immediately.

Monday, April 22, 2024

MyHeritage Offers Free Access to Australia & New Zealand Records For Anzac Day

I received this information from Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage today:

====================================

I’m excited to share that in honor of Anzac Day, all 130 million historical records from Australia and New Zealand on MyHeritage will be free to access from April 23–28, 2024.

Over the past year, we've expanded our collection to include a vast array of historical newspapers. This new collection comprises over 24 million pages from 1,705 newspaper titles, covering every state and territory in Australia. We also host many essential military collections, including the esteemed Anzac Memorial records and the comprehensive Australian World War II Nominal Roll, 1939–1945. These resources, among others available on MyHeritage, can illuminate Australian and New Zealander relatives' military service and contribute to a richer understanding of their lives.

You can read more on our blog.

======================================

Disclosure: I receive a complimentary subscription to MyHeritage, and have received other material consideration in past years. I uploaded my autosomal DNA raw data to their DNA product. This does not affect my objective analysis of MyHeritage products. I am a subscriber to Family Tree Webinars and love it.

The URL for this post is: https://www.geneamusings.com/2024/04/myheritage-offers-free-access-to.html

Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 21 April 2024

Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week.

1) Hosted and moderated the Chula Vista Genealogical Society (CVGS) DNA Interest Group Meeting on Zoom on Wednesday. Reported on new 23andMe aplogroup assignments, AutoLineage by Genetic Affairs, MyHeritageDNA collaboration, WATO+ tool, SDGS DNA group, and the AncestryDNA match table maker.

2) Watched several Family Tree Webinars - 10 Ways AI Can Help You Find Your Elusive Ancestors by Lisa Alzo; Artificial Intelligence & Family History: An introduction by Andrew Redfern; 7 Tips for Using AI as Your Genealogy Assistant by Dana Leeds.

3) Transcribed the 1891 Will of Abby Seaver (1816-1891) of Carbondale, Illinois for the Amanuensis Monday theme.

4) Wrote a genealogical sketch for my great-grandaunt Hannah Rebecca (Richmond) (Smith) Hoyle (1858-1907) of Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts for 52 Relatives theme.

5) The latest "Memories" blog post was What We Did On Our 1999 Scandinavian Vacation - Part 2.

6) My famous cousin this past week was 9th cousin 1x Removed John Denver (1943-1997), Famous Singer and Songwriter.

7) Celebrated Genea-Musings 18th blogiversary with the usual comments and statistics in Today is Genea-Musings 18th Blogiversary! Celebrate with Me!!!

8) AncestryDNA now has 45,753 DNA matches (up 47 from 14 April) with 1942 "close" matches for me today, with 2 new ThruLines. I added Notes to23 new Matches, and added the lines of 1 matches to my family tree. MyHeritageDNA now has 12,469 DNA matches (up 33 from 14 April) for me. Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.

9) Occasionally matched RootsMagic 9 profiles to FamilySearch Family Tree. I have matched 51,093 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 81).

10) Used Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and source citations to my RootsMagic profiles. I now have 72,731 persons in my RootsMagic family tree (up 78), and 146,810 source citations (up 37). Resolved 253 Ancestry Hints. TreeShared 185new and updated profiles with my Ancestry tree. My Ancestry Member Tree has Ancestry Record Hints with 116,889 to be resolved, but I work on them several times a week.

11) Wrote 17 Genea-Musings blog posts last week (Sunday through Saturday), of which 1 was a press release. The most viewed post last week was Memories - What We Did On Our 1999 Scandinavian Vacation - Part 2 with over 157 views. Genea-Musings had about 37,500 page views last week and over 122,000 for the past month.

12) Real life: I visited Linda every day at the skilled nursing/memory care facility and we played Uno. Went grocery shopping on Monday and Friday. Had my MOHS operation on Tuesday to remove the skin cancer on my scalp. Sent in the income taxes and hope my refunds come soon. Continued reading Jeffrey Deaver's The Watchmaker's Hand. My Padres went 3-3 this week and are 12-12 on the season.

=============================================

The URL for this post is: https://www.geneamusings.com/2024/04/genealogy-pot-pourri-week-ending-21.html

Amanuensis Monday -- 1891 Will of Abby Seaver (1816-1891) of Carbondale, Illinois

This week's document for transcription is the 1891 will of Abby Seaver (1816-1891) of Carbondale, Jackson County, Illinois in the Jackson County, Illinois probate case files.

* Jackson County, Illinois Probate Court Records, Probate Case Files, No. 2155-2181, Case 2175, image 1389 of 1998:

* Jackson County, Illinois Probate Court Records, Probate Case Files, No. 2155-2181, Case 2175, image 1390 of 1998:

* Jackson County, Illinois Probate Court Records, Probate Case Files, No. 2155-2181, Case 2175, image 1391 of 1998:

The transcription of this document is:

The Last Will and Testament

Of Abby Seaver of the

City of Carbondale in the County

of Jackson and State of Illinois made and

published the 17th day of September in the year

of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninty One.

In the Name of God Amen:

I, Abby Seaver of the City

of Carbondale in the County of Jackson

and State of Illinois of the age of 75 years,

and being of sound mind and memory, do hereby make, publish

and declare this my Last Will and Testament, in manner following,

that is to say:

First -- it is my will that my funeral expenses and all my just debts be fully paid.

Second -- I give and bequeath to my beloved

daughter Mary A. Stewart all

of my personal property and

money which I may have

at the time of my death.

Third I Give and devise to

my beloved daughter Mary

A. Stewart the following

described Real Estate to wit

Commencing at a point in Center

of Walnut Street in a line with

West line of Lot Five hundred and

Thirty Five in Brewsters 2nd addition

to City of Carbondale & extended

South and running thence North

wardly with West line of said

Lot 535 to the South east Corner

of Leanard Lot 338 feet more or less

Thence West parallel with Walnut

Streeet to the south West Corner of

Leanard Lot 139 1/4 feet Thence with

West line of Leanard Lot parallel

With West line of Lot 534 Brewsters

2nd Addition 338 feet More or less

to South line of Main Street Thence

with South line of Main Street

runing West 279 3/4 feet More

of less to North West Corner of

Mrs Seavers original Lot Thence

South parallel with West line

of Lots 534 & 535 - in Brewsters

2nd Addition ten and 25/100

chains to Middle of Walnut

Street & extended West Thence

east with Middle of Walnut

Street 118 feet Thence North

parallel with West line Lot 535

107 feet thence east 18 feet thence

south 16 feet Thence East 18 feet

Thence south 91 feet to Center

line of Walnut Street and

extended West and Thece

East with Center line of

said Walnut Street to begining

point situated in Jackson

County State of Illinois

and described in a Warranty

deed from Mary A Stewart

and Husband and accorded

in Book 24 of deeds as

page 455 in Jackson

County records &c

Fourth I giv& bequeath

to my beloved Son Horace

L. Seaver One dollar.

Fifth it is my Will that

my executrix shall not

be required to fill any

bond as such Executrix.

Lastly -- I hereby nominate and appoint Mary A

Stewart

to be the Executor of this my Last Will and estament, hereby revoking all former

Wills by me made.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the 17th

dauy of September in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight

Hundred and Ninty One.

Abby Seaver {seal}

The above Instrument consisting of (2) sheets, was now hee

subscribed by Abby Seaver the Testator, in the

presence of each of us; and was at the ame tiem declared by her to be

her Last Will and Testament, and we, at her request, sign our names

hereto in her presence as attesting witnesses.

George G. Stock of Carbondale Ill

Ruth Stock of Carbondale Ill

Jemima Menzies of Carbondale Ill

The source citation for this judgment is:

Jackson County Probate Court, Illinois, Abby Seaver will (images 1389-1391 of 1998), written 17 September 1891, proved 2 November 1891; imaged, "Illinois, U.S., Wills and Probates, 1772-1999," Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 April 2024); "Jackson > Probate Estate Case Files 2155-2181, Paul Suberbee -- Cc Smith,1894-1892" > Case 2175, estate file of Abby Seaver (images 1387 to 1409 of 1998); Original data is from Illinois County, District and Probate Courts filmed by FamilySearch.

This petition is a Derivative Source (because it is a court clerk's handwritten record), Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the will of Abby Seaver, deceased, of Carbondale, Illinois in the Jackson County, Illinois probate court, which defines the real estate and personal property and lists the heirs-at-law of the deceased.

Abby Carver (1816-1891) was born 26 August 1816 in Taunton, Massachusetts, the daughter of James A. and Mary (Hall) Carver. She died 6 October 1891 in Carbondale, Illinois. Abby married Nathaniel Leonard Seaver (1809-1880), the son of Nathan B. and Rebecca (Leonard) Sever, on 3 March 1839 in Taunton, Massachusetts. They had four children:

* Charles Seaver (1841-1864).

* Horace Leonard Seaver (1848-1916), married 1878 Luella Robinson (1860-1922).

* Mary A. Seaver (1850-1932), married 1887 George Stewart (1828-1892).

* Anna B. Seaver (1865-1945), married Edgar Edward Angell (1866-1936).

The will mentions daughter Mary A. (Seaver) Stewart and son Horace L. Seaver, but not daughter Anna (Seaver) Angell; Anna may have left Illinois for California before Abby's death.

Nathaniel Leonard Seaver (1809-1880) is my 5th cousin 5 times removed, with common Seaver ancestor of my 9th great-grandfather Robert Seaver (1608-1683).

=========================================

NOTE: Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday." John offers this definition for "amanuensis:"

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

Read other transcriptions of records of my ancestors at Amanuensis Monday Posts.

The URL for this post is: https://www.geneamusings.com/2024/04/amanuensis-monday-1891-will-of-abby.html

Please comment on this post on the website by clicking the URL above and then the "Comments" link at the bottom of each post. Share your comments on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest using the icons below. Or contact me by email at randy.seaver@gmail.com.

Pages