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Amanuensis Monday, Family

Amanuensis Monday-Obituary Harry M. Cutter, 30 July 1955

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An Amanuensis is a person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

Wooster Daily Record
July 30, 1955
Page 2

Harry Cutter, 92, At Creston Home

Doylestown– Harry M. Cutter, 92, died Friday at the Shady Rest Home in Creston. He was former Barberton resident.

     Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. A. C. McCartney of Doylestown, and Mrs. John Pitz of Barberton; 13 grand-children; 30 great-grandchildren; gone [one] great-grandchild; three brothers, John of Holmesville, Finely of Wooster, and William of Millersburg.

     Funeral services will be held Monday at 2:30 p.m. DST at the Monbarren funeral home in Doylestown.

Burial will be made in Chestnut Hill cemetery.

Friends may call Sunday afternoon and evening at the funeral home.

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Harry M. Cutter was born in the midst of the civil war in the year of 1863 in Wayne Co., Ohio. He was born to Samuel J. and Christina Stucker Cutter, Samuel lived on the land that his father settled in 1821. There is where Harry could have been born.

Harry took to wife Sarah Jane Starrett daughter of Charles B. and Sarah Sterling Cutter on the 25 of October 1883. Sarah went by her middle name Jane. I find her in the 1900 and 1910 census with Harry listed as Jennie.

Harry  and Jennie had three children they are as follows:

John B. S. Cutter,came along in May of 1885 Wayne, Co., Ohio. John married Edith B., surname not known at this time.

Next  to enter the family fold is a little girl named Christina S. and she was born in Homesville, Holmes Co., Ohio on 3rd of Oct in 1889. Christina would become my great-grandmother when she married Arthur C. McCartney of Holmes Co. Ohio on 4 Jul 1908 in Prairie Township, Summit County, Ohio.

The baby of the family is Lois H. who came calling about 1898. Lois married  John Pitz about 1914. It is with Lois and John that we find Harry living with in 1930.

The Cutter name traces back to New England in the 1600’s and Starrett is either Irish or Scottish.

I found this obituary at Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, there are many obituaries contained in this repository and they are adding more. Drop in and see what you can find! The actual copy came from the Wayne County Public Library Genealogy and Local History Department.

Happy Hunting!

Genealogy, SNGF

SNGF: Ancestors Geneameme

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Tonight’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun posted by Randy Seaver over at Genea-Musings is to fill out the The Ancestors’ Geneameme posted by Geniaus Blog.

This is the list and instructions:

The Ancestors’ Geneameme

The list should be annotated in the following manner:
Things you have already done or found: bold face type
Things you would like to do or find: italicize (colour optional)
Things you haven’t done or found and don’t care to: plain type
You are encouraged to add extra comments in brackets after each item
Which of these apply to you?
  1. Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents 
  2. Can name over 50 direct ancestors
  3. Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents 
  4. Have an ancestor who was married more than three times
  5. Have an ancestor who was a bigamist
  6. Met all four of my grandparents
  7. Met one or more of my great-grandparents[they met me, but I don’t recall meeting them]
  8. Named a child after an ancestor
  9. Bear an ancestor’s given name/s [give name one grandmother, middle name another]
  10. Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland [many from England, 1 from Scotland, no Irish yet]
  11. Have an ancestor from Asia
  12. Have an ancestor from Continental Europe [Germany]
  13. Have an ancestor from Africa
  14. Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer [quite a few]
  15. Have an ancestor who had large land holdings [how large is large?]
  16. Have an ancestor who was a holy man – minister, priest, rabbi
  17. Have an ancestor who was a midwife
  18. Have an ancestor who was an author [great grandmother wrote and published a poem, my mother is published :D]
  19. Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy or Jones [Three lines of Smith]
  20. Have an ancestor with the surname Wong, Kim, Suzuki or Ng
  21. Have an ancestor with a surname beginning with X
  22. Have an ancestor with a forename beginnining with Z [great Aunt Zetta]
  23. Have an ancestor born on 25th December [Ruth Terry b. 1750, Mary Terry b. 1752, Meredith Martin b. 1851]
  24. Have an ancestor born on New Year’s Day [Bridget Winthrop b. 1529]
  25. Have blue blood in your family lines [If Winthrop counts]
  26. Have a parent who was born in a country different from my country of birth
  27. Have a grandparent who was born in a country different from my country of birth
  28. Can trace a direct family line back to the eighteenth century
  29. Can trace a direct family line back to the seventeenth century or earlier
  30. Have seen copies of the signatures of some of my great-grandparents [ I found census that 2 great grandfather enumerated]
  31. Have ancestors who signed their marriage certificate with an X
  32. Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university [Ohio State, Michigan State, Wooster there are others but I am not sure where they attended]
  33. Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence
  34. Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime
  35. Have shared an ancestor’s story online or in a magazine (Tell us where) [The now defunct AOL Golden Gate Genealogy Forum, also defunct GenealogyForum.org, my own website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mytree/Tree2.html]
  36. Have published a family history online or in print (Details please)
  37. Have visited an ancestor’s home from the 19th or earlier centuries
  38. Still have an ancestor’s home from the 19th or earlier centuries in the family
  39. Have a  family bible from the 19th Century
  40. Have a pre-19th century family bible

If any of my readers would like to do this, post a link!  It will be fun to see how much work we all have done and still need to do.

Happy Hunting!

Friday Family History On This Day, Genealogy

Friday Family History/ Enos McCartney (182yrs) 14 Oct 1829

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Enos McCartney is the son of my fourth great-grandparents Isaiah and Lettice Hudders McCartney. Enos is the second youngest of twelve children. I believe he was born in Holmes CO., Ohio. His birthdate is 14 October 1829.

I received from the Holmes Co. Library a copy of a Common Pleas case that was between his brother Samuel (administrator of his father’s will) and his mother Lettice,it contains 11 of the 12 children of which he is one (stated that he was a minor) in the summons and proceedings. If I read the case right, there was outstanding debit that had to be paid so they needed to sell part of the farm land, and Lettice was petitioning for Dower rights. The proceeding occurred between 1850 and 1851. In the end I believe they sold about 10 acres. I am wondering what legal age was in the 1850’. If Enos was born in 1829 he would have been around 21. Yet he was listed as a minor in one of the documents.

Back to reading

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Friday Family History On This Day, Genealogy

Family Friday History October 7-Eliza Jane Elswick 116 yrs old

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On this day in 1895, Eliza Jane Elswick was born to Henry and Susannah Hampton Elswick. She was born in the midst of autumn in the mountain country of Kentucky. They called home Hartley, Pike County, Kentucky. Eliza married Joseph Burke the son of  James Martin and Susana Hampton Burke on 27 November 1919 in Pike Co., Kentucky.

Joseph and Eliza had five children, the last two being a set of female twins. Eliza and one of the twins died shortly after child-birth. The second twin is my mother in law.

The Susannah and Susana are second cousins, and it is this Hampton ancestry that I connect to my husband through the Jackson family. Soooo we are actually cousins more than once, but who is counting !

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Genealogy, Ramblings, Tuesday Tip

“Everything is on Ancestry” or is it?

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I am the new kid on the block when it comes to the blogging world and I am trying to figure out this new tool. Having said that I am not new to the genealogy world, which doesn’t mean I know everything and I don’t expect to every know everything!

I spent 10 yrs hosting and chatting with other genealogists in the Golden Gates Genealogy Forum on AOL. I hosted in General Chat and in the Beginners Chat. When Ancestry first hit the bandwidths there was so much excitement! Prior to that time there was a lot of information  found in such places as Rootsweb, USGenweb and personal home pages of folks doing and posting their genealogy work. Yet one still had to work hard at even researching on the internet to find much of anything. It’s amazing how much there is now compared to then, but I digress. When Ancestry opened its doors, we had to battle with those who would send beginners to Ancestry and tell them that they would find their whole tree there! YIKES! I was even told before getting my computer and internet … the Internet had all of my family! NOT!

A colleague of mine that hosted with me, came across this yet again just the other day while she was hosting another chat, a new person came in asking how to start their genealogy and another person piped in, get an account with Ancestry and you will find your whole family! Now granted Ancestry has a prolific amount of information, it still does not have all of your family and to tell you the truth neither does the internet.

There will still be ancestors the either refuse being found or that you will have to do your work the old-fashioned way and visit cemeteries, libraries, court houses etc.
I suspect I may never prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that John McCartney was  the father of Isaiah (Isaih) McCartney, I do know that I am most likely going to have to take a trip to Columbia  Co. PA and area to get them attached or dispatched 😀
The folks that are collaborating to find out who Robert Jackson’s ancestors where may never find that out either. There are just somethings that have not passed the test of time and are lost and will not be  found, no matter how abundant the information is on the internet.

So to the beginners out there, Ancestry and all the other resources out there are wonderful and have tons of information, your family will not all be found by following the little green leaves and it will all not be found on the internet. One more bit of information, if you find your family online especially in sites that host sharing trees, or on personal websites make sure you document and research for yourself. There is still a lot of miss information out there and wrong connections. One still needs to do their home work.

For those of you seasoned genealogist, don’t just send the newbies packing for Ancesty please honestly answer their question and find out what they mean by how do I begin? Show them the ropes befriend them and guide them along. I believe doing this will set the beginner in right stead to understand what they are really facing.

My hats off to all those out there that do strive to make a difference in the world of genealogy.

Happy Hunting!