tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36573675668780210542024-03-14T05:55:50.548-04:00Letters from HomeStories about people. Many come from genealogy research, but not all of them. Good stories are good stories. Old days, present times, a view to the future - all of it is fair game.Suess Geiselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862819487164596987noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657367566878021054.post-21582448164627963842022-02-06T20:19:00.129-05:002022-02-07T11:12:37.783-05:00<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">JOHANN WAIZMANN / JOHN WAITZMAN: </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">from Iron Miner to prosperous Beer Brewer</span></b></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEis_yo4O-13TjqGJJYGj99AowRIqDlCU_UkWazf0Ov3g1xUEF0xfiLRkQg5ptBztIF5cxlhSvvwvIJbD8BmDSj2omO2TR_bWnNHqXMEMyiYa17xfswVs52ihJJ5j9EeaOzitMiYZV_lgqn1p8pMIa_8zm_N7WIbZPaMymrzPH452ScZTzjXLVnPuZdD" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2072" data-original-width="1472" height="746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEis_yo4O-13TjqGJJYGj99AowRIqDlCU_UkWazf0Ov3g1xUEF0xfiLRkQg5ptBztIF5cxlhSvvwvIJbD8BmDSj2omO2TR_bWnNHqXMEMyiYa17xfswVs52ihJJ5j9EeaOzitMiYZV_lgqn1p8pMIa_8zm_N7WIbZPaMymrzPH452ScZTzjXLVnPuZdD=w532-h746" width="532" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">John Waitzman and his wife Katherine (nee Franz) in front of their house on Baltimore St. </span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Great grandfather Johann Waizmann / John Waitzman held the job title of "Engineer" for the Nick Thomas Brewery of Dayton Oh . The family story is that he was the "Brewmaster." Maybe it means the same thing? </span><p></p><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">In any case, it seems that he did pretty well; he hired a number of relatives and in-laws to work there. His home had one of the first flush toilets in the neighborhood; actually they plumbed the outhouse, and it was transformed into "the outhouse that flushed." He could afford the gold for his dental work; prominent gold teeth was considered a sign of wealth in those days.
That's pretty good for a German immigrant who arrived in 1880, and had reached this level of success before the turn of the 20th century. His success - plus at least one documented return trip to Germany and back - must have influenced the other family members in Germany who ultimately came here.</span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Prior to landing this job at the brewery, he did odd jobs as a day laborer. Relying on his knowledge (and probably physical brawn) as a iron miner in Wasseralfingen (near Aalen) Germany, he worked at local Dayton iron foundries. One story is that he worked for Kramer Brothers Foundry, but that doesn't add up, as the KB Foundry dates back to 1895 when John had already been well-established at the Brewery.
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</span>We saw similar planters on display d<span style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">uring our 2009 visit to Germany.</span><br style="color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;" /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div></span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="450" height="664" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNGtmJdV5V__zTJYCp9bgEiCHYzdtUBzdN6W1eR7SJyl9Kkr3T7-MJcwxG5WyqjT49eSF8z8kllnYFxncWHFGgbVOcTusWf_iO3iWSB3JT5tZdVZG5SHT7n3xzIj4Eea36EONRxv6FFLoicKZsDni_m9m_wt3kBZDQ4if5X3x7Oc_u8U-pupf7L6fI=w499-h664" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="499" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Old pre-Prohibition Nick Thomas beer bottle.
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is my wedding ring. When Marie and I became engaged, we wanted a unique, custom design of our own. When set out to find someone to make them, we first asked an artist couple from our church. The husband once ran a highly-regarded studio, and suggested one of his former students to us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">His name was Howard DuFour. We went to visit him in New Carlisle, Ohio. New Carlisle is a charming old town, where its history is carefully guarded. Howard’s home was a distinctive 19<sup>th</sup> century white wood frame house. Howard himself was a delight, an older gentleman, a keen mind, and full of engaging stories. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">He then invited us inside to see his work area. We entered the living room, and walked upstairs, through his and his wife’s bedroom to a small attached sunroom. He had a worktable pressed against the wall, looking out the window. This was his shop. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">On August 12, 1978, Marie and I were wed, we exchanged those rings, each of us committed to wear them for the rest of our lives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">This was not a good fit to everyday life. If I shook my hand a certain way, the ring would fly off. Increasingly, I would decide to remove the ring. When working on the car, or cutting the grass, I would hang them on a cup hook behind the mirror-case in the bathroom. I’d often leave the sliding panel a little open. Marie would see that ring hanging on a hook instead of on my finger. When I showered, the ring would hang on it – if dropped, the tub drain in our old place was large enough to swallow it. If I would go out camping or backpacking, the ring would stay home because I wouldn’t want to drop it somewhere in the deep woods. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Whatever my reasons for doing this, it was our first year of marriage, and this ring business evolved into a touchy issue. Finally, one week-end at home, my wife looked at my naked hands and confronted me with: “Why aren’t you wearing your wedding ring?” Then I was reminded by my wife on an important perspective. The ring was meant to be worn all the time. She was right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In response, I wrapped some white medical bandaging tape onto the ring to make the opening narrower. That did the trick. I stopped removing the ring, and it wasn't much of an issue anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">In May, 1979, on Mother’s Day, Marie first suspected she was pregnant. It was true! We thought through a number of names and had settled on two: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Then one Summer day, Marie was unhappy and upset. “Gray, I’ve lost my ring!” She had looked at her hand, and realized it was gone. She had no idea how it was lost. We scoured the house in all the usual places: among the seat cushions, the trash cans, behind furniture, in dishes and kitchen utensils – anyplace one would imagine a loose ring might somehow fly or fall from a person’s hand. We found nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DUFOUR, Howard R. 94, of New Carlisle, Ohio passed away Sunday December 13, 2009. He was born January 10, 1915 in Connersville, Indiana the son of the late Lawrence & Fern (Bush) DuFour. He worked on the Manhattan Project in Chicago and was instrumental in developing the Atomic Bomb. He also authored a book with Peter Unit on Charles E. Taylor the (Wright Brothers Mechanician). Building the 1903 Wright Flyer for Wright State University was a lifelong dream fulfilled for Howard. In the years following the building of the flyer, Howard continued to amaze everyone with his energy, ability with tools, and love of life. He and his dedicated group of volunteers built three Wright gliders after the 1903 flyer. He also found time to travel around the country teaching people about Charlie Taylor, a man who possessed qualities that he loved best and had himself: curiosity, ingenuity, and an inventive spirit. Howard DuFour never met a stranger. He greeted everyone with a hug and became their friend after the first hello. He was a member and High Priest at the Church of Latter Day Saints, Huber Heights, OH. He was a retired master machinist from Monsanto and created the DuFour Machine Shop at Wright State University. He is survived by a son, Larry (Karen) DuFour of North Carolina; daughter, Jenny (Chuck) Clevell of New Carlisle; grandchildren, Lorrie DuFour, Kevin & Jason Dufour, Kurt Hodge & Ami Holbrook; six great grandchildren; and great great grandchildren; and many friends. In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by his wives, Opal Marie & Ruth Elizabeth. Howard's wish was for a graveside service only which will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday December 17, 2009 at New Carlisle Cemetery. Arrangements by the TROSTEL, CHAPMAN, DUNBAR & FRALEY FUNERAL HOME, New Carlisle, Ohio, 11545 Musselman Rd.. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the Wright State University Archives. Expressions of sympathy may be sent to</span><a href="http://www.trostelchapman.com/" target="_new"><span style="color: #0d5e96; font-size: 10pt;">www.trostelchapman.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1) placing absolute trust in impeccable sources, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">4) processing information (like old European political geography) through the lens of our own modern times. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Silly and engaging humor like that continues through the generations of my family. His grandson (my Dad, Charlie) glued a dime onto a hatpin, and wore it, and called it his "dime-on-pin."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>III. IDENTITIES</b></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Uh, which Dorothea Koeberlein do you mean? Our 2nd Great Grandma? Her niece? Her sister-in-law? </b></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">From the above family clues, we find this match from the LDS website <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">born: Philomena SUTTER <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Ta da! After lengthy, pains-taking research. A much better fit! Perfect? </i>At least for now, I consider this correct!</span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Now let's talk about the "Geography of Europe" We'll also stop discussing morals.</i></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1) <u>Mimbach, Saarland</u> (CORRECT ANSWER - YES, it is) 49° 13' 60 N , 7° 16' 0 E</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2) <u>Mimbach, Bavaria/Bayern</u> 49° 31' 0" N, 11° 52' 0" E (this was <u>deceptively incorrect</u>, as the above Mimbach, Saarland was part of Bavaria at the time of my GGGM, and showed up as "Bavaria" in legal documents. In other words, it was indeed Mimbach, Bavaria at the time, the town by that name is still there today, but a map of today's Bavaria no longer includes this region.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">3) <u>Mimbach, Rheinland-Pfalz</u> near Wattweiler 49°14'0"N / 7°19'0"E<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Example #2 My GGGF is from <b>Pfannenstiel, Germany</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Where is that? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1) Pfannenstiel, Bavaria/Bayern; <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2) Pfannenstiel, but not found in Google Maps nor Via Michelin and now actually called Fachsenfeld. (CORRECT ANSWER - it's not on the map, but the locals will sometimes use the old Pfannenstiel name for this present-day neighborhood in the larger city of Aalen, Baden-Wuerttemmberg,)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>VI. SPELLING</b></span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , serif;">MINNIE from Minneapolis, Wilhelmenia, Philomena, Phillipina</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , serif;">PHILOMENA from Minnie from Phillipina<u1:p></u1:p> (same person)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , serif;">WALTER from Valentine, Valtin</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , serif;">JOHN from Johann, Johannes</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , serif;">JOSEPH from Johann-Josef (Josef as middle name).</span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Spelling convention from French to German (HUSSON into HUSSONG)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Translation from French to German(<span class="shorttext"><span style="background-color: white;">MEUNIER</span></span> <span class="shorttext"><span style="background-color: white;">into GOE</span></span>LTZER </span></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Conscious decision to differentiate legally from other family member (HENN into HENNE) </span></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Typed transcriptions of difficult handwriting (FRANZ into FRANY; HUSSONG into HURFONG; HAUENSTEIN into HANENSTEIN) - <i>this is so common</i></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mispronunced and then spelled wrong (GEISEL into GEASEL) </span></span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">WAITZMAN - a Jewish Eastern European name associated with Ukraine, Russia, Poland</span></span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>V. GENEALOGISTS ARE VERY CIVILIZED PEOPLE (hee hee)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The Personalities of Genealogists. With this, you have been warned. </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">People rightly take a strong sense of ownership in their work, so not every researcher will be glad to be informed of your corrections or even your questions. The reality of life is that there are all sorts of personalities in this world. In your pursuit of genealogy, you will find one of each. We are all really nice people most of the time.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><b></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;">You might prefer to steer clear of the on-line "agglomerators". These are people who do not actually research their data. Nor do they vet the sources. Instead, they are focused on amassing a really, really huge interconnected genfile. They hungrily link into family trees regardless of the blood-relationship to themselves.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"> An in-law of an in-law is fair game, as they help connect different trees together. <i>"Resistance is futile; you will be assimilated."</i> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>VI. THESE ARE THE ROCKS THAT WE LIFT TO LOOK </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>There is no substitute to gum-shoeing. </b>You are more than just a compiler of work that others have done. So you will go to courthouses, cemeteries, churches and visit old distant living cousins. You will do primary research that no one else will do. Why? Because you are a detective, and that is what detectives do. This is honorable.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Web Research Spots that I like </b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Genealogy Blog sites - these folks are writing, not just compiling. Much of it as at a level of sophistication that causes me to look in awe. Will I ever be worthy? </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">LDS Family Search - free/ </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">LDS Pilot Project - free. I love the Mormons.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Southwest German Emigration site (for Baden-Wuerttemberg) - free (a good fit for me!)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Geneanet.com (French / German) free (another good fit for me)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">it is highly populated with beastly, error-laden trees that been put together by beginners, (they DO make it so easy for you to get started) </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">they will try to charge you for information that can be found elsewhere for free. </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">they have tried to sell me info that I (me! mysef!) had compiled and posted on their sites. Arrrrgh!</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">On the BIG upside, it's a great place to connect with other researchers. My cousin from the Arizona-Mexico border visited with us in Dayton recently with her family. Our wonderful friendship blossomed from meeting at a website like this.</span></div>
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Suess Geiselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862819487164596987noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657367566878021054.post-80920555975983220422011-01-17T20:20:00.001-05:002011-01-18T17:35:12.614-05:00When the Writers Block is BrokenOn the way: 1) Revealed: the true origin of the term "panhandler" 2) Discoveries in an old canal house 3) A young girl remembers the Wright Brothers.Suess Geiselhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862819487164596987noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3657367566878021054.post-32935061746002953762011-01-11T22:40:00.031-05:002012-10-18T22:50:12.304-04:00What If Your Name Is Mud?<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">This is an old story about a troubled family name and the assassination of the President. This surname is in the family of Abraham Lincoln as well as the family </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;">of my wife.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">The year was 1865. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="apple-style-span">The Civil War ended only months before. President Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated by a stage actor named <span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;">John Wilkes Booth. The killer and cohorts were captured after a massive search. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;"></span>In their grief, the </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">American <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">public</span></span> learned of <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">Dr. Samuel Mudd. Although he denied any bad intentions towards the President, he could not deny that he had met with Booth months earlier. Nor could he deny that, hours after the assassination, they had met again in his Maryland home, not far from Washington, D.C. Dr. Mudd had treated and set the broken leg of Lincoln’s assassin, allowed him and his accomplice, David Herold, to spend the night, and then sent them on their way. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">Imprisoned for life on a small island miles from nowhere, with no hope of escape, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">Dr. Samuel Mudd was gone.</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">1)<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">It was already an old expression.</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"> “His name is mud” was already an expression before Samuel Mudd was born. In an 1823 English publication, it carried the meaning of “he is a stupid, twaddling fellow.” </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">The events of 1865 had injected new meaning and intensity into the phrase, from “stupid” to “despicable.”<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(from John Badcock's (aka 'J. Bee’) Slang - A dictionary of the turf etc., 1823)</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/your-name-is-mud.html</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">3)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><b>Mudd received a Presidential pardon. </b>In 1867, a </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">yellow fever epidemic broke out in the prison colony on Fort Jefferson. Dr. Mudd was credited for saving lives of prisoners and staff, at great risk to his own. I</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">n 1869, during</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"> his last days in office, President Andrew Johnson issued a pardon for </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Mudd, and he</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> was released. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 18px;">There is a sad irony in the linking of the surname <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 18px;">Mudd</span></span></span></span> to the murder of Abraham Lincoln. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">If Samuel Mudd and Lincoln could have met under the right circumstances, Abe might have happily brought up his close friendship in Illinois with Henry Luke Mudd, a distant cousin to Dr. Mudd. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">Lincoln’s uncle was married to Henry’s aunt. Abe Lincoln and Henry Mudd were thus cousins by marriage. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 18px;">President Lincoln had offered his friend Henry Mudd a job in Washington DC, but he declined, preferring to remain in Illinois. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 18px;">source: http://www.abrahamlincolnlongninemuseum.com/map.php </span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;">I know the Mudd family as gentle, hard-working, sweet-natured, deeply religious, salt-of-the-earth type people. My wife, Marie, is a Mudd. Her grandmother was born Rose Mudd of Kansas. Her son had moved to Dayton, Ohio to work for the Mudd furniture store. The locally owned Dayton business has been gone for years; some Mudd Furniture Showrooms are found now in Kentucky. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3. A Witness to the Assassination</b> participated in </span></span>a gameshow in the 1950s. This link takes you to the video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jgGX1v4YFo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jgGX1v4YFo</a></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">John Klein was my great-great grandfather on my mother’s side. He arrived in 1872, in Dayton, Ohio from the small town of Bierbach, not far from the Saar river along the French-German border. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">On December 25, 2010, my wife’s cousin, visited for Christmas Mass. Among many things, she is a book publisher, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">historian, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">and genealogist. She has a Dayton history book in preparation, which easily led to a conversation about the rich history of the church and neighborhood. I gestured towards the former farm land where Katherine Klein once lived with her husband Martin. She wanted to know more.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">On Saturday, June 9, 2012, Dayton's Calvary Cemetery hosted a Dayton Brewing Heritage Tour in conjunction with Dayton History/Carillon Park and the Miami Valley Chapter of the Brewery Collectors Club of America. Events included food, beer (at the adjacent Carillon Park), a tour<b> </b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;">of the often luxuriant gravesites of the local Dayton Beer Brewers and a unusual opportunity to meet with people with a special interest in these families. </span></span><br />
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Dayton area). Of course, they were touched by the story of Mr..Schwind adopting my Klein family into his home and life. One of them said, "let's
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Summer, 2012 </i><br /><br /><b>2023 Update - </b>After years of mystery, the location of the Sycamore Bend of the Miami and Erie Canal has been identified as part of the encircling "moat" around the island of the former NCR Old River Park. My thanks to participants of the Facebook group "The History of the Daytonian" for answering that question. <br /><i><br />Spring, 2023</i></span></span></div>
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