The Mysterious Rose Etta (Poole) Von Briesen Taylor...

I am so fortunate to have a research buddy when working on my Semple line. Due to the time difference between New Zealand and New York, we are able to "tag-team" the research 24 hours a day. Lately, we have been researching James Taylor, my second cousin three times removed. His grandmother was the sister of my three times great grandfather, Peter Semple (1822-1904). James Taylor's first wife, Rose Etta (Poole) Von Briesen, has been a difficult research subject and we have several questions:

1. Where did she and her two older siblings, Noah Cornelius and Bessie Viola live in 1910?
2. Where did Rose live with her two children in 1920 after her first husband died?
3. Why was Rose in Chicago when she married James Taylor in 1921?
4. When did they divorce?
5. Did Rose marry again after 1940?
6. When and where did Rose die?
7. Where was she interred?

Here is what we know about Rose to date:

Rose (Rosa) Etta Poole was born on 9 November 1893 (or 1894) in Maryland, to William A. and Martha E. (maiden name unknown) Poole. Rose was the fourth of five children. In 1900 her family lived in Laurel, Maryland, where her father worked as a day laborer.

I suspect her parents died before 1910 or her father was deceased and her mother could no longer care for her children as I have only found two of her siblings in the 1910 census. Older sister, Susan "Susie" Mabel Poole boarded at the farm of John and Elta Stevenson in Carroll County, Maryland; and younger brother, William Ashby Poole, was enumerated as an orphan living with Adelaide Hatton on her farm on Fort Washington-Accokeek Road in Prince George's County, Maryland.

Marriage to Robert Von Briesen

On 6 October 1913 Rose Etta Poole and Robert Von Briesen, son of Oscar and Susanna (Wagner) Von Briesen, applied for a marriage license in Washington, DC. They were married in the same city the next day. He was a widower, who was 28 years older than Rose. His first wife, Roberta (Campbell) Von Brisen died seven months earlier on 9 March 1913, leaving him with ten known children ranging in age from 22 years old to 5.

Rose and Robert had two children during their marriage, both born in Baltimore, Maryland:

• Dorothy Von Briesen born 20 June 1914
• Oscar Von Briesen born 5 December 1915

Rose's husband, Robert, died on 2 November 1916 in Baltimore at the age of 51. Rose was 23 years old at the time of his death.

Robert Von Briesen (1865-1916) death notice as published in The Baltimore
Sun; courtesy of Newspapers.com

I think it is likely that after the death of Rose's husband in 1916, she moved to Chicago because her elder sister, Bessie Viola (Poole) Baugher lived there. Bessie had married Gideon Gilbert Baugher in 1911 and they were living in Chicago by 1915. I have been unable to find Rose or her children in the 1920 census. However, her ten step-children, the children of Robert and Roberta (Campbell) Von Briesen, have all be found in the 1920 census. They remained in Baltimore.

Marriage to James Taylor

On 29 October 1921 Rose married James Taylor in Cook County, Illinois. James was the son of John Taylor and Agnes Miller Morgan and had been born on 7 August 1896 at Carstairs Junction in Carstairs, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He arrived in the United States on 8 May 1920 in New York, having sailed on the White Star Line's RMS Celtic. He told immigration officials at Ellis Island his destination was Springfield, Massachusetts, where a paternal aunt, Margaret McNair (Taylor) Isbister, lived, as well as a paternal uncle, Robert Semple Taylor, the two youngest sibling's of James' father.

James Taylor filed a declaration of intention with the Naturalization Service in 1924. He and his family lived at 6319 Keeler Avenue in Chicago. He worked as a factory hand at the time and listed Rose as his wife. When his filed petition for naturalization in 1927, the family lived in Clarendon Hills, Illinois, and James worked as a factory foreman. He listed his step-children as his own children on his petition. In 1930 Rose, James, and her two children continue to live in Clarendon Hills. They owned their own home at 81 Chestnut Avenue, which was valued at $7,000.

Rose's marriage to James Taylor did not last. Sometime between 1930 and 1936, they divorced as James married again 10 May 1936.

Wedding announcement for James Taylor's
second marriage as published in the Dixon
Evening Telegraph; courtesy of Newspapers.com

Son's Death

Rose's son Oscar, who was named for his paternal grandfather, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps on 30 November 1937. He completed his basic training at Parris Island, South Carolina, and by January 1938 had been assigned to First Signal Company in Quantico, Virginia, as a student at the Radio School. He was absent without leave (AWOL) from 6:00 a.m. 28 March to 9:00 p.m. 31 March. Oscar was tried on 1 April by a disciplinary court and sentenced to 10 days of confinement in the post prison with bread and water rations, with a full ration every third day and two months loss of pay, which amounted to $12.

On 25 April 1938 Oscar Von Brisen committed suicide by a self-inflicted rifle shot to the head in Rockbridge County, Virginia. His maternal aunt, Bessie Viola (Poole) Baugher and her husband had moved to Buena Vista, which at the time was a city in Rockbridge County. Her husband, Gideon, died in 1935. I have been unable to locate Bessie in the 1940 census but perhaps Oscar had gone to visit her and that is the explanation for his place of death?

When the 1940 census was enumerated, Rose and her daughter, Dorothy, lived in Chicago. Rose did not work and Dorothy worked as a computer operator. That is the last record I have been able to find for Rose Etta (Poole) Von Briesen Taylor.

Her daughter married Pedro G. Raz, who was born in the Philippines. She died on 26 December 1976 in Chicago. Her husband died the following year.

Year in Review: Slow, But Steady Progress

This year was a year of slow but steady progress researching and writing about my family history. This blog and my research took a back seat to getting our Virginia house ready to sell. Thankfully, it sold in two days so the discomfort of keeping my home a pristine showplace was short lived!

11719 Flemish Mill Court, Oakton, Virginia.

Foyer of our Oakton home; courtesy of TTR Sotheby's International, The
Yerks Team

We are now temporary residents of upstate New York and I am learning to cope with below zero temperatures! We plan to be New Yorkers until my husband retires in late 2019. He had been commuting to work in Albany since 2012; so the move north of the Mason-Dixon Line (something I said I would never do) made sense even to me.

Before our move we held our second bi-annual Lange Cousins Reunion in Lake Park, Georgia. We are the grandchildren of Gustav and Wilhelmina (Schalin) Lange and there are 16 of us. So far most of us have managed to attend our reunions.

Assemblage of Lange first cousins; personal collection

I had promised to produce a pamphlet about the history of the Lange family. We knew a lot about the Schalin family from a book written by a distant cousin, Lucille (Effa) Fillenberg, but the Lange family was a mystery. I was able to navigate the Polish archives and learn a few things. The best gift, however, meeting by telephone the son of Grandpa Lange's youngest brother. He was able to provide so much more information and context. My brother John helped me sort through the ever-changing country borders before and after World War II and provide the context of life for civilians living in war-torn land.

Procrastinator that I am, the pamphlet was late, but it eventually got done a few weeks after the reunion.

Ludwig-Lange Family History

The Slave Name Roll Project turned two in February and was discovered when it was mentioned in an education video produced by Ancestry.com.

As a result, the project became more than one person can handle and I'm hoping to share some exciting news about the project in a few weeks. It's been very rewarding to watch this worthwhile endeavor grow.

Slave Name Roll Project

I was also interviewed for an article which appeared in the New Haven Independent, "She's Preserving Vets' Names for the Digital Age," which describes Heather Wilkinson Rojo's Honor Roll Project. Pete and I love to contribute to this volunteer effort as it gets us out exploring the countryside -- no matter the weather! I encourage everyone with a smart phone and transportation to think about contributing as well.

Honor Roll Project

Perhaps the most exciting thing that happened this year was a "gift" received just after Christmas. A comment on my recent post, DNA Discoveries: Jewell Progress, referred me to a comment on Find A Grave and to a Virginia Chancery Court case, which was a goldmine of helpful information. There will be a post about the details in a few days, but the net result was I learned the maiden name of Catherine B. Jewell's mother, her mother's siblings, and maternal grandparents. Catherine B. Jewell was my great great grandmother. So I was able to learn the name of a three times great grandmother and a four times great grandfather. I had no expectation of being able to push my Jennings pedigree chart back in time as it is a line that has been researched for decades by a very able group of genealogists.

The DNA Discoveries: Jewell Progress post will be republished on 16 January in the RootsFinder blog for the "How I Solved It" series.

John Ronald Miller (1915-1952): The Uncle Most of Us Don't Remember

John Ronald Miller, who went by Ronald, was Aunt Ruth's first husband. He died before my younger Lange first cousins and me were born or were old enough to remember. According to Mom, he was born in Britain; never knew who his father was; and was raised by an aunt who had a bit of money but who died of cancer when he was young. As he cared for her in the final stages of her life, he became addicted to the morphine her doctor's prescribed to manage pain. Eventually after a 12-year marriage to Aunt Ruth, he committed suicide.

Not long ago, I looked at the information I had collected about Uncle Ronald (it seems weird to call him that), and realized there were a lot of gaps in the paper trail. So I went digging.

John Ronald Miller (1915-1952*); personal collection

Ronald was born on 16 September 1915 in Grimsby, England, also known as Great Grimsby, a large seaport on the Humber estuary close to where it joins the North Sea west of Leeds. Britain makes birth records available to genealogists and family historians after 100 years. I should be able to find the registration of his birth, but I have not. I am left wondering if John Ronald Miller was his birth name or one assigned to him later.

On 22 March 1930, 14-year-old Ronald boarded the Cunard Line's RMS Antonia along with thirty other boys from the National Children's Home (NCS), which had been established in 1869 by a Methodist minister. By the time Ronald lived at the NCS, the organization operated a number of homes across England, including one in Leeds, which may have been where Ronald lived. There was always pressure on the NCS to find homes for the children in its care so their would be space available for new arrivals and emigration played an important role in achieving that end. Many of the NCS administrators believed the children would have the opportunity for a better future in Canada. Ronald arrived in Halifax on 31 March 1930. He indicated to immigration officials, his foster father was Sidney Rogers of Grimsby and he had been a student in the UK but intended to work on a farm in Canada.

On 27 July 1932 Ronald joined the British Merchant Navy in London. A few days later he signed on to merchant ship Esperance Bay in Southampton. He indicated it was his first ship and previous to that he fished for work.  Ronald served as a deck boy.

Merchant ship Esperance Bay; courtesy of State of Victoria Archive

By 1939 Ronald lived in Montreal and worked as a sales manager. On 6 November he arrived in Burlington, Vermont, by plane. He told immigration officials he intended to reside permanently in the U.S. and his destination was New Orleans where he would visit a friend. Interestingly, the building listed as friend's address is now known as the Maritime Building.

Ronald married Ruth Hedwig Lange on 16 September 1940 in Washington, DC. She was the daughter of Gustav Lange and Wilhelmina Schalin. She was born in Winnipeg in 1916 but had been raised on a farm in Prince George's County, Maryland. At the time of their marriage, Ruth worked in a bakery in Washington. Surpringly, neither Ronald or Ruth were listed in the 1940 census, which was enumerated earlier in the year. A month after their marriage Ronald registered for the Army draft. He was a Canadian citizen, as was Aunt Ruth, and they lived in an apartment in a row house at 1201 C Street, NE.

1201 C Street, NE, Washington, DC; courtesy Google Maps

Ronald worked for the Standard Drug Company, which had been established in 1919 in Richmond by two pharmacists. Stores were later opened throughout Maryland and Virginia and the chain thrived for decades before it was purchased in 1993 by the company now known as CVS. The remainder of the records I have for Ronald are border crossings returning from trips to Canada in 1943 and 1945. He and Ruth continued to live at 1201 C Street, NE, during that time.

Mom said Ronald and Ruth would move around the country frequently so that he could obtain prescriptions for morphine. When a doctor discussed a detoxification clinic, it was time to move. They were in Pelham, New York, when a doctor convinced Ronald to be institutionalized in order to withdrawal from morphine. However, after a few days, he called Ruth and begged for her to get him released. She did after seeing his terrible physical deterioration. According to Mom, Ronald committed suicide in 1952 in Pelham, New York, a few days later. The New York death index for that time period is available and I have found one record that could be Ronald's but have been unable to verify it. If it is for "my" Ronald Miller, he died in 1956 in Poughkeepsie.

Ruth (Lange) and J. Ronald Miller in happier times; personal collection

Ruth married Robert Riffle Meek in a 1960 civil ceremony in Stamford, Connecticut. He was a divorcee with one adult son and worked as a real estate broker. Soon after their marriage they moved to DeLand, Florida, and purchased an apartment complex, which they managed for several years.

I can't help but think after spending several days researching and learning more about Aunt Ruth's first husband that his life began with hardship which continued through much of his childhood. Even though his adult life seemed normal to most casual onlookers, his demon's conquered him in the end.

The Lange Family Farm

Grandma and Grandpa Lange purchased 193-1/2 acres of land from Susie G. Dyson and Frank Dyson, her husband for $3,500. The deed was signed on 16 December 1919. The legal description of the land was as follows:

"...that lot of ground situate, lying and being in Brandywine District, of Prince George's County aforesaid, known as Vineyard Brook's Choice, or by which ever name or names it may be known, and described as follows; that is to say: Beginning for the same at a small Gum tree on the north side of Wilsons Mill Race said tree being the southwest boundary of Mrs. Mary C. Townsend land and running thence with the north side of said Mill Race south forty-six and one-half degrees west ten and four-fifths perches to a large Poplar tree south fifty-one and one-fifth degrees west thirty and one-half perches south sixty-one degrees wet five and two-thirds perches north eighty-six degrees west twenty-one perches south seventy-two degrees west seventeen and one-half degrees west eleven and on-half perches south one and one-half degrees west and one-fifth perches to a Gum tree on south side of said Race then up Mattaponi Branch south eighty-four and one-fourth degrees west eleven and two-fifths perches south sixty-six and one-half degrees west six perches to a Sycamore tree south sixty-two and one-half degrees west five perches north eighty-five and one-half degrees west twenty-eight perches; thence leaving said branch north fifty-two and one-half degrees west thirty and two-fifths perches to Mattaponi Branch and up (note at fourteen and two-thirds perches is large Persimmon tree in the line) said branch north thirty-nine and one-half degrees west fifteen perches north forty-three and one-half degrees west five and one-half perches north thirty-five degrees west eight perches north sixteen degrees west three perches north twenty-three and one-half degrees west four perches north fifteen degrees west and one-half perches north fifty-one degrees west four perches north five and one-half degrees west eleven perches north forty-three and one-half degrees west fourteen perches south seventy-nine degrees west eight perches, north fifty-eight and one-half degrees west five and one-half perches south sixty-one degrees west nine and one-third perches north sixty degrees west twelve and one-half perches north eighty-eight and one-half degrees west five and one-half perches south sixty-eight degrees west nine perches to a Sycamore and Gum tree leaving said Branch north forty and three-fourths degrees west twelve perches north fifty-four and one-half degrees east fifty-one perches to the ninth line Vinyard [sic] and with said line reversely south eighty degrees east twenty-six perches north twenty-five degrees east sixty perches to the first line of "Brook's Lot" and "Widows Trouble" north forty-seven and three fourths degrees east nineteen perches north twenty-three and three-fourths degrees fifteen perches north forty-eight and three-fourths degrees east fifty-two perches (note at twenty perches Gate and Private Road) north sixty-four and one-fourth degrees west nine perches north fifty-one and one-half degrees east twelve perches north sixty-two and one-half degrees east forty-nine perches to the northwest boundary of Mrs. Mary C. Townsend line and then with her lands reversely south seventeen and one-half degrees east fifty-one and four-fifths perches south sixty-two degrees west eleven and nine-twenty-fifths perches to an Ash tree and then down a small branch south twenty-two and one-half degrees east ten perches south six and one-half degrees east sixteen perches south eighteen degrees west six perches south eleven and one-fourth degrees east sixteen perches to the mouth of the Quarter Spring Branch, then south sixty-two perches to a Cedar tree on south side of a ravine south forty-five and one-half degrees east seventy-one and twenty-two-fifths perches to a Walnut tree on the north side of Mattaponi Branch south fifty-eight and three-fourths degrees east five and two-thirds perches to the beginning; containing one hundred and ninety-three and one-half acres more or less according to a survey of same made by W. I. Latimer, Surveyor of Prince George's County in August 1880.

The legal description makes me long for the Cadastral method of land descriptions! You have to wonder if all the gum, sycamore, persimmon, walnut and ash trees are still standing. And I wonder what the history is behind the parcel of land known as "Widows Trouble."

The land passed to Susie G. Dyson through the will of Laura S. Huntt in1913. Laura S. Hunt inherited the land from James Eli Huntt in 1892, who purchased it from Lemuel F. Lusby in 1890. In 1878 the land had been owned by William Holliday Early, a prominent land owner in the district. The community of the same name developed as a small crossroads village at the convergence of an old stage coach road (now Rt. 301) and old Indian Head Road. William H. Early had a store, post office, and blacksmith shop just west of the village. The establishment of the Popes Creek Line of the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad in the 1870s brought new development to the area, including a hotel.

Locatioln of Grandma and Grandpa's farm on the 1878 Hopkins map;
courtesy of the Maryland State Archives

In 1929 Grandma and Grandpa Lange sold 10 acres of land to Thomas J. Shumate. The legal description was as follows:

Part of a tract of ground in Brandywine District, Prince George's County, Maryland, it being part of the "Vinyard [sic] Farm." Beginning at a point on the east side of the road leading into the farm at a distance 16 feet from the end of 330 feet from the beginning of the thirty-fifth line of the whole tract, and running along said east side of said road South 1 degree 15' East 660 feet, thence North 88 degrees 45' East 660 feet to a stake near the quarter spring branch, thence North 1 degree 15' West 660 feet to a stake, thence South 88 degrees 45' West 660 feet to the place of beginning, containing ten (10) acres, according to a survey made by Millard Thorne, Surveyor, August 25, 1929.

The same parcel of land was sold back to Grandma and Grandpa Lange by Glenn and Mary P. Efort on 18 December 1951 per the deed and the settlement sheet indicated the purchase price was $5,700 plus $67.85 in settlement fees.

In a life sketch about her parents which appeared in Our Schalin Family, 1770-2003, Mom wrote:

"They bought the farm in Maryland where six more children were born to them. They worked hard cutting pulpwood to pay for the farm and build a new home. They raised tobacco for one year (a big money crop) but because of religious beliefs did not pursue that further. Instead, they started a poultry business and also kept horses, cows and pigs. Gustav began an egg route in Washington, District of Columbia, delivering eggs to some of the U.S. Senators in the Senate Office Building.

Ruth, Arnold, and Walter Lange, c1920, the three children not born on the
farm; personal collection

Minnie's life was busy and she worked hard raising nine children and working side-by-side with Gustav on the farm. They had no electricity or running water. Although there was always time to play with her children -- tag, hide and seek, and ball games, even putting on boxing gloves to spare with one son! She had a gift for story telling. When she worked with the children, cutting and husking corn, fixing the road, hoeing the garden, planting potatoes, bringing in the hay, feeding the chickens, or whatever, she would tell them a story and magically the work was done.

Meal times were the best part of the day, although presenting a real challenge for her. She relied on the big garden and fruit trees to put a meal on the table. These were noisy but cheerful times."

Tribute to his parents carved by their son, Arthur James
Lange; personal collection

Mom was their last child who lived at home, which she did for nearly ten years after graduating from high school. She married in November 1957. Three sons built houses on the farm and raised their families there. Grandma died in 1960 and Grandpa in 1963.

Christmas, 1952; personal collection

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Grandpa Lange's Life in Winnipeg and Michigan
Grandpa Lange's Trip from Essen to Winnipeg
Grandpa Lange's Life in Essen

Nicola Walter (c1720-1804), the Immigrant

At our first Lange Cousins reunion held in June 2015, my Aunt Katherine asked me to look into her father's Walter family as she did not know much about him. I was able to trace this family back to the original immigrant, Nicola Walter, who was born about 1720 in what is now the Rheinland-Pfalz region of Germany. I also learned two descendants had written a book entitled Nicola Walter and His Descendants. A terrific Ancestry.com member sent me an electronic copy of the book, but it is also available on microfilm from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

Here is the story of Nicola Walter's life from the aforementioned book.

"Nicola (Nicholas) Walter, with whom this history begins, was born in the Rhine Valley (Palatinate) area of Germany in about 1720. There he grew to manhood, married and began raising a family. Probably as a result of the almost complete devastation of his homeland by the Thirty Years War and the subsequent economic hardships, he decided to migrate to America. In the spring of 1751, he took passage on the ship 'Patience,' Hugh Steele, Master, at Rotterdam, Holland, together with his wife Margaret and four young sons. From Rotterdam the Patience proceeded to the port of Philadelphia, via Cowes, England, arriving after a voyage of about four months on September 9, 1751.

Advertisement for the ship Patience; image courtesy of Google

The family located originally, in the area of Goshenhoppen (now Balley), Berks County, Pennsylvania, in what was then a small German Catholic community (62 men and 55 women). The name Walter appeared a number of times in the early records of St. Paul's Church or Goshenhoppen Chapel as it was commonly known (now the Church of the Most Blessed Sacrament), which dates from 1741.

About 1758 Nicola moved his family to the rapidly growing town of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The records of the period list his occupation as a 'taylor.' Nicola apparently found some measure of prosperity in Lancaster, for in 1763 he purchased a lot on King Street and in 1766 added to his land holdings by purchasing an adjoining lot. Sometime during this period (1764-1767), Nicola's wife Margaret died.

In about 1779 Nicola, his family now grown and having remarried moved with his second wife, Rosanna, to McSherrys Town, Heidelberg Township, York County, Pennsylvania, where he purchased a five acre lot (lot #6) on the north side of Main Street and built a house. McSherrys Town, at that time, was populated by many of the German immigrant families who had originally settled at Goshenhoppen. Nicola lived in McSherrys Town for the remainder of his life and taught school there, probably in the church school associated with Conewago Chapel, now the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He died on September 21, 1804 and was buried in the church graveyard.

In 1850 Conewago Chapel was enlarged in the direction of the oldest section of the graveyard. Rather than disturb the graves of those who had been laid to rest at the rear of the church in the early part of the century, the church addition was built directly over many of the older tombs. as a result, Nicola Walter, our forebearer, rests in eternal peace under the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, McSherrys Town, Pennsylvania.

Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; photograph by Find A Grave volunteer
Maggie Mac

Nicola's children[1]:

1. Nicholas Walter, Jr. born about 1744, died 30 November 1816 in Baltimore, Maryland; married 1) Mary Eva Kuhn and 2) Anna Maria Weber
2. Joseph Walter about born 1746, died 1790; married Christina
3. Peter Walter born about 1748, died 10 October 1830 in Frederick County, Maryland; married Margaret
4. John Walter born about 1750, murdered 21 August 1771 one mile from Elkridge, Maryland; married Elizabeth (Aunt Katherine's three times great grandfather)
5. Maryann Walter born about 1752, date of death unknown; married Peter Will, Jr. 
6. Lewis Walter born about 1764

It is possible he is also the father of Margaret, Magdalen, and James Walter."

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[1] I have added death information and spouses from my family tree.

Aunt Katherine's Father: Millard Aloysius Walter

Millard Aloysius Walter was born about 1900 in the City of Baltimore to William Gunza and Mary "Effie" Christina (Knott) Walter. I believe he was born after 11 June 1900 as he was not listed with his parents on that census. His parents had been married three years and his mother had not yet had children when the 1900 census was enumerated. He was their only known child. The family lived at 824 West Pratt Street and his father worked as a cigar maker, an industry in which he would continue working the remainder of his life.

824 West Pratt Street is about 10 blocks west of the Baltimore Basin, what we now call the Inner Harbor. On Sunday, 7 February 1904, a fire was spotted just northeast of where the Walter family lived. It raged out of control for two days, destroying nearly the entire business district, before over 1,200 fireman from several states extinguished it. In its aftermath 35,000 people were left unemployed and caused $150,000,000 million in damages (1904 dollars, which would equate to $3.84 billion today).

Great Baltimore fire aftermath; photograph courtesy of the Library of Congress

In 1910 the family continued to live in Baltimore at 874 Columbia Avenue, which was the home of Millard's paternal grandparents, so perhaps the family had been displaced by the fire. Millard's family moved to Washington, DC, sometime during the 1910s. They lived at 820 C Street, SE. Millard's father owned a cigar shop and continued to make cigars. Millard was 21 years old when the census was enumerated and worked as a manager at a newspaper. He had completed the 8th grade before he no longer went to school.

The next year Millard lived at 1612 A Street, NE, and worked as the circulation manager for The Bulletin. He married Alva Rae Carroll, daughter of Charles Wilkerson and Emma (Barnes) Carroll during this period. On 24 June 1924 they had a daughter, Mary Emma, at the A Street address.  The tiny infant died the next day.

The family moved around a bit in Prince George's County and lived in Cottage City and Colmar Manor, before settling permanently in Clinton. During this period, Millard continued working as the circulation manager for United Publications Company, the likely owner of The Bulletin..

The family lived in Prince George's County in 1940. Millard continued working as a circulation manager for a newspaper. Millard owned his own home, which was valued at $6,000.

Millard Aloysius Walter, Sr., died in 1976. He was interred at Trinity Memorial Gardens in Waldorf, Maryland.

Honor Roll: Frederick County, Maryland -- Memorial Park, Korean War Veterans Memorial

Frederick County, Maryland, was formed in 1748 from parts of Baltimore and Prince George's counties. Its northern border is the Pennsylvania-Maryland state line. No one can definitively say for whom the county was named but the most likely candidates are Frederick, Prince of Wales, or Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore. The county seat is Frederick, a town laid out in 1745 by land speculator Daniel Dulaney.

Memorial Park in downtown Frederick is bounded by West Second and North Bentz streets, Carroll Parkway and College Avenue. The park is home to several war memorials, including one for the Korean Conflict. The memorial includes the names of all the county men and women who served in that hostile action. Their names are inscribed on both the front and back of the memorial.

Korean War Veterans Memorial, Memorial Park, Frederick, Maryland;
personal collection

KOREAN WAR VETERANS MEMORIAL
June 25, 1950 -- January 31, 1955

Killed in Action
George W. Ambrose
Sterling L. Ambrose
Charles Austin Brandenburg
Paul Kenneth Carty
Manville Eugene Dagenhart
Jacob Augustus Ely
Raymond Randolph Flair
Edward Ray Fisher
Samuel Oliver Frye
Albert Eugene Green
Raymond Louis Kemp, Jr.
Irvin E. Lanehart
Harvey Elmer Mathew Luby
Harold Edward Lugenbeel
Albert Lee Miss
Ira Victor Miss, Jr.
Norman Lawrence Reid
Charles Clark Roberts
Paul James Sewell
Clyde Jacob Smith
Virgil Lee Stambaugh
Norman Richard Thompson, Jr.
Robert Campbell Thomas, Jr.
Joseph Hayes Trail
Jack Dempsey Wallace
Victor Lorentz Wills

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Robert W. Abraham
Grayson M. Abrecht
James F. Abrecht
Walter R. Abrecht, Jr.
William B. Abrecht
Edgar C. Adams
Frank R. Adams, Jr.
Sterling R. Adams
Hezekiah U. Albaugh
Carroll D. Albright
James H. Albright, Jr.
Cleon H. Alexander
Guy F. Alexander
James F. Alexander
Ned S. Ambrose
Ralph T. Ambrose
Shannon T. Ambrose
Charles H. Ambush
Wilson L. Anders
Robert L. Anderson, Jr.
Kenneth M. Angleberger
Calvin E. Ausherman
Donald W. Ausherman
Luray C. Ausherman
Kenneth N. Ayers
John D. Bagent
Glenn K. Baker, Jr.
Harry W. Baker
James R. Baker
Lee R. Baker
Edward L. Baltzell
Robert E. Baltzell
Robert R. Bare
Charles W. Barker
Kenneth A. Bartgis
William A. Baron
Franklin D. Baugher
Marth L. Baugher
Oscar H. Baugher
Emmett W. Beachley
Herman L. Beall
Irving L. Beall
Garland R. Beard
James T. Bell
Lewis T. Bell
Robert W. Bell
Charles W. Bentz
James B. Bentz
Gilbert A. Berry, Jr.
Stanley R. Biggus
Harry W. Biller, Jr.
George E. Biser
Herbert H. Biser
Walter H. Biser
Chester L. Blank
Ezra W. Blank
Herman W. Blickenstaff
Lauren S. Blickenstaff
Donald R. Blumenauer
Edward K. Blumenauer, Jr.
Edward L. Blumenauer
James A. Blumenauer
James O. Blumenauer
Roy C. Blumenauer
Homer A. Bolyard
Sherman P. Boone
Earl G. Bossard
William L. Boteler
Walter M. Bottcher
George R. Boward
Frederick J. Bower
Charles R. Bowers
Frederick A. Bowers
Grayson H. Bowers, Jr.
Martin L. Bowers, Jr.
Maurice E. Boyd
Donald L. Boyer
Gary H. Boyer
Robert D. Boyer
Leo M. Boyle
Patrick B. Boyle
David W. Bradshaw
John L. Bradshaw, Jr.
Joseph R. Bradshaw
Donald T. Brady
Ira F. Brandenburg
Jack R. Brandenburg
James O. Brandenburg
Dennis E. Brawner
Robert T. Bredden
Conley W. Brown
John T. Brown
Lorraine M. Brown
Paul R. Brown
Richard L. Brown
William H. Brown
George W. Bruchey
Kenneth N. Bruchey
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Blair G. Harrington
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Robert P. Hilton
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Norman J. Himes
Carlton E. Hoar
Charles B. Hobbs, Jr.
Donald L. Hobbs
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Robert E. Hobbs
Amos F. Hoff, Jr.
William F. Hoff
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Austin A. Holland
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James R. Horine
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Richard E. Houck
John F. Howard
Charles E. Hudson, Jr.
Carroll H. Huffer
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Robert L. Humerick
Richard C. Hutcheson
John R. Hyssong
Joseph L. Ingram
Kent R. Irish
Thomas R. Jackson
Louis C. Jacobs
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Mark P. Jeffers, Jr.
Charles H. Jewell
Clarence E. Jewell, Jr.
Martin L. Johnson
Charles B. Jones
Marlin E. Jones
Robert A. Jordan
Francis G. Joy
James R. Joy, Jr.
Charles M. Keefer
Michey M. Keeney
Kenneth W. Keilholtz
Thomas C. Keller
William N. Keller
Bernard E. Kelly
Glenn C. Kelly
James R. Kennedy
Richard L. Kennedy
James L. Kent
David J. Kerrigan
Harry B. Kester
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Max A. Keyser
William G. Keyser
Douglas C. Kidd
Gene E. Kidd
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William K. Kimmel
Charles W. King
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James A. King
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Marion F. Kline
William E. King
Gale L. Kline
Harold F. Kline
Jay D. Kline
Raymond W. Kline
Richard R. Kline
Charles E. Kline, Jr.
Allen O. Knill
George B. Kohlenberg
Earl A. Kolb, Jr.
James V. Kolb
Lawrence C. Kolb
Ernest W. Koogle
Lester C. Koogle, Jr.
Richard B. Koogle
Donald Z. Koons
Jack T. Koontz
Kenneth L. Krantz
John H. Krantz, Jr.
Carson F. Kreh
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William T. Kreh, Jr.
Phillip Kritsings
Kenneth L. Korrell
Paul W. Kuhn
Ben L. Lagarde
Charles Lake
William H. Lakin
Robert L. Lambdin
Robert A. Lambert
Robert O. Lambert
Charles W. Lamm
Ralph L. Lamm
Robert S. Lancaster
James P. Landis
Herman L. Lantz
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Samuel G. Layer
Robert L. Layman
George M. Layman, Jr.
James O. Layton, Jr.
Lester L. Leatherman
Ellis M. Leatherwood
Francis G. Lebherz
James E. Lebherz
Thomas L. Lebherz
Clifford F. H. Lee
Byron R. Lee
Charles M. Lenhart
Earl C. Lenhart
Warren T. Lenhart
William K Lenhart
Charles F. Lerch
David W. Lerch
Thomas M. Lescalleet, Jr.
Peter S. Ligocki
Roy L. Lind
Melvin L. Lindsay
Russell C. Lindsey
Fred W. Linthicum
Donald C. Linton
Kenneth L. Linton
Robert E. Linton
Roy L. Linton
Bernard A. Little, Jr.
Howard R. Lochner
Calvin L. Lockard
Richard F. Lohr
Charles L. Long
James E. Long
Ralph C. Long
Raymond A. Long
William H. Long
Robert E. Lowman
William S. Lowry, Jr.
James S. Loy
Everett E. Lucas
Raymond L. Lucas
Lloyd C. Ludy
Albert L. Luhn
Austin S. Luhn
Kenneth W. Luhn
Lester M. Luhn
Raymond L. Luhn
Arnold F. Lydard
Douglas R. Lydard
Harold L. Lydard
Glenn E. Main
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John A. Main
Millard I. Main
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Richard F. Main
Robert L. Main
Austin K. Mantz, Jr.
Robert P. Marend, Jr.
JamesG. Marrone
Robert L. Marsh
Frank R. Martin
Herbert F. Martin
Richard L. Marin
Chester H. Masser
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Lawrence L. Masser
Victor E. Masser
Clarence F. May, Jr.
Donald B. May
Nelson R. May
Norman F. May
Harrison McAlpine, Jr.
William J. McCutcheon
George H. McDonnell
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Francis G. McGill
Robert E. McIntosh
Lloyd F. McNulty
Charles D. Medinger
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Paul F. Mercer
Ralph E. Metzer
Herman I. Michael, Jr.
Claude L. Miller, Jr.
Frederick W. Miller
Herman B. Miller
Jack A. Miller
Joseph T. Miller
Richard D. Miller
Robert M. Miller
Roy B. Miller
Saul Miller
William H. B. Miller
John L. Mills, Jr.
Paul E. Mills
Charles B. Miss
William D. Miss
George L. Mobley, Jr.
Richard M. Mohler
Ronald E. Mohler
William L. Mohler
Robert K. Moler
Joshua N. Monath, Jr.
Walter L. Monath
Chester E. Moore
Preston Moore, Jr.
Charles R. Morgan
David E. Morgan
Harry J. Morgan
James D. Morgan
Richard R. Morgan
Kenneth A. Morris
Francis E. Moser
John J. Moser
Warren E. Moser
Solomon J. Moss
Paul W. Mossburg
Preston E. Mossburg, Jr.
Robert L. Motter
Joseph R. Mourdy
Herbert T. Mount
Daniel C. Mulcahey
Albert S. Mulligan, Jr.
Frank T. Murphy, Jr.
Arthur V. Myers, Jr.
Bernard S. Myers
George A. Myers
Howard G. Myers
Roger G. Myers
William A. Myers
Howard S. Nash
Elijah R. Naylor
Charles C. Neal
Jack D. Neal
George A. Nelson
Orval S. Nelson
Richard A. Newman
Glenn Nikirk
Ohla C. Nikirk
Travis F. Nikirk
Emmett J. Norris
Phyllis M. Norwell
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Howard R. Norwood
Emil R. Notnagle
Clyde W. Null, Jr.
Donald Nusbaum
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John R. Nusbaum
Richard D. Nusbaum
Roger Nusbaum
William H. Nusbaum, R.
Kenneth E. Nuse Sr.
Melvin R. Nusz
Russell E. O'Brien, Jr.
Paul R. Oden
Russell H. Oden
David B. Offutt
Frederick O. Oland
Glenn P. Oland
Raymond Oland
Richard D. Oland
Clarence R. Orndorff
Perry G. Orndorff, Jr.
Francis C. Ott
John B. Ott, Jr.
John T. Ott
Richard A. Ott
John S. Page, Jr.
Robert L. Page
Amos Palmer
Earl T. Palmer
Eugene C. Palmer
John S. Palmer
Clifton E. Payne
Thomas H. Payne, Jr.
James R. Peach
Norman P. Peach
Paul C. Peach
George C. Pearl
Emerson E. Pearrell
Owen B. Pearrell
Edgard K. Peddicord
William D. Peddicord
Dalton W. Perry
George H. Perry
Donald E. Phebus
Silas C. Phillips, Sr.
Thomas V. Pitts
George E. Plunkard
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Ivan L. Potts
Albert M. Powell, Jr.
Alton C. Powell
Robert L. Proctor
Donald S. Pryor
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Homer C. Purdham
David W. Putman
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Lester O. Putman
Lewis H. Putman
Franklin Raines
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Harold E. Reiley
Ray S. Reiley
Robert T. Remsberg
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Claude Richardson
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Earl T. Robertson
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 Carmi W. Sayler, Jr.
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Charles B. Tenly
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William L. Thompson
Lanes J. Tibbs
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Harold A. Toms
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Oliver G. Toms
Richard M. Toms
Roland A. Toms
Norman E. Toms, Jr.
Richard C. Topper
Earl F. Tracey, Jr.
Burr W. Trail
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George E. Tressler
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Robert S. Turner, Jr.
James E. Tyeryar
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Ronald R. VanSant
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Robert L. Warrenfeltz
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Charles L. Waskey
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Robert E. Whisner
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Charles E. Whitter, Jr.
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Merhl W. Wisner, Jr.
Henry A. Wivell
James N. Wivell, Jr.
Joseph D. Wivell
Robert L. Wivell
Hiram A. Wolfe
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Paul A. Wolfe
Robert N. Wolfe
Lewis F. Wood
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Orville A. Yingling
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Charles W. Young
Francis B. Young
Frank R. Young, III
Glenn E. Young, Sr.
Rawley L. Young
Thomas D. Younkins
Steven Zaharoff
Chester T. Zentz, Jr.
Frank T. Zepp, Jr.
Leidy D. Zern, Jr.
Richard A. Zern
Gary C. Zimmerman
Gene A. Zimmerman
Kenneth F. Zimmerman
Maurice C. Zimmerman
Robert B. Zimmerman
Robert M. Zimmerman
William R. Zimmerman

This post was written as a contribution to the Honor Roll Project, which was created by Heather Wilkinson Rojo, author of Nutfield Genealogy.

The Life of Jessie Speed "Donna" (McGlashan) Monnier (1912-1990)

Jessie "Donna" Speedy McGlashan was born in 10 September 1912 in Baltimore County, Maryland, to William James Jardine McGlashan, a Scot who was born in Australia, and Mary Helen Murray Speedie, who was also Scottish. After his birth William's parents returned to Scotland and he immigrated to the U.S. on 15 November 1909 aboard the S/S California which sailed from Glasgow on 6 November. He told immigration officials his ultimate destination was Philadelphia. Mary Speedie arrived in New York City on 4 October 1910 aboard the S/S Furnessia, which sailed from Glasgow on 24 September. Mary told immigration officials her destination was Baltimore County, Maryland, to meet her friend, William McGlashan. So the couple must have known each other in Scotland. I imagine a big surprise was in store for Mary after she cleared immigration. William was waiting for her in New York City and they married on the same day Mary arrived in Manhattan!

William James Jardin McGlashan and Mary Ellen (or Helen)
Murray Speedie marriage index record; image courtesy of
Family search

When the 1920 census was enumerated Donna, her parents and older brother, William, lived on 1725 Ridgeway Avenue in Chicago. Her father worked as a carpenter for a construction company. Her mother had another daughter, Grace Murray McGlashan, later that same year. Donna's brother died on 29 October 1927 at Waukegan, Illinois, and was interred at Lake Villa Cemetery in Lake Villa, Illinois.

In 1930 Donna and her family lived in Lake Villa at a home her father owned, which was valued at $12,000. I suspect William moved his family to Lake Villa sometime before 1927 when William died. Lake Villa is about 60 miles north of Chicago. Her father still worked as a carpenter in the building industry and Donna and her mother worked as laborers in a candy factory.

Ten years later Donna was married to Elmer Austin Monnier. They lived in Chicago at 1408 North Central Avenue in an apartment Elmer rented for $20 a month. Elmer worked as a laborer on a tree trimming and removal gang and Donna worked as a power machine operator. Two children lived with them, Donald Davis (10) and Darlynn Davis (2). They were enumerated as Elmer's step-son and daughter.

1408 North Central Avenue, Chicago; image courtesy of Google Maps

Donald's social security application listed his name as Donald Rae Davis, Jr. and his parents as Donna J. McGlashan and Donald R. Davis. His date of birth was listed as 20 March 1930 and this is consistent on all his records. However, Donna was enumerated in the 1930 census on 15 April 1930. You will recall Donna lived with her parents and her marital status was listed as single. So I do not know when of if she married Donald's father. Donald died on 17 November 2000.

Snippets of the 1930 census for the William McGlashan family; image
courtesy of Ancestry.com

Darlynn's obituary listed her father as Elmer Monnier, but my sister-in-law's mother says she was a half-sister. She was enumerated in 1940 as Darlynn Davis. Darlynn died on 17 September 2012.

Soon after their marriage Elmer and Donna moved back to Lake Villa, Donna's home when she was single. They had two daughters.

Elmer died on 1 February 1990 in Lake Villa and Donna died on 16 November 1990 in the same city. Both were interred at Angolan Cemetery in Lake Villa.

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A big thank you to a DNA of my sister-in-law who ensured I traced the correct Mary Speedie/Speedy.

Finding Speedy -- My Sister-in-Law's Maternal Grandmother

Carroll Families of Colonial Maryland

Aunt Katherine asked me to look into her father's Walter family last year at the Lange Cousins Reunion as she didn't know much about them. I was able to trace the Walter family back to Nicola Walter (about 1720-1804), who immigrated with his wife and children from Rhineland-Palz and arrived in Philadelphia on 9 September 1751 aboard the Patience. Then Aunt Katherine and her son, my first cousin, agreed to be DNA tested so I thought I should research her mother's Carroll family so that I would have a better opportunity to identify their DNA matches.

Aunt Katherine's mother's maiden name was Carroll and her family had lived in Maryland for generations. There were several prominent men named Carroll in Maryland's Colonia-era history and I wondered if Aunt Katherine was related to one of them. But I could only get her Carroll family back to James Carroll, who was christened on 4 May 1768. His christening record listed his parents as William and Eleanor Carroll, but I have not yet found out anything about them.

Aunt Katherine's pedigree chart; courtesy of Ancestry.com

Once I hit a dead end working backwards from Aunt Katherine, I decided to learn more about the Colonial-era Carroll family. Perhaps, there would be a clue about William Carroll following that research avenue.

It turns out there were two separate, seemingly unrelated prominent Carroll families in Maryland during the Colonial-era. Both were from Ireland and one was Catholic and one was not, though I believe the original Carroll in that family was Catholic but converted so that he could more fully take part in the business and political affairs offered by the colony.

The first Carroll to arrive in Maryland was Charles Carroll "the Settler" (1661-1720). He arrived in the province on 1 October 1688 and had secured the position of Attorney General before his arrival. His second wife was Mary Darnell, the daughter of Colonel Henry Darnell, Charles Calvert's chief agent in the colony. Two of their sons became known as Charles Carroll "of Annapolis" (1702-1782) and Daniel Carroll "of Duddington" (1707-1734). Charles Carroll "of Annapolis" married Elizabeth Brooke, and their son, Charles Carroll "of Carrollton" (1737-1832) was the only signer of the Declaration of Independence who was Catholic.

The first Carroll to come to Maryland from what became the Protestant branch of the family was Dr. Charles Carroll, Jr., who was born in Ireland in 1691 and arrived in Maryland in 1715. He renounced his Roman Catholic faith upon arrival and became Anglican, settling in Annapolis where he engaged in the practice of medicine and land speculation. He married Dorothy Blake. Their eldest son became known as Charles Carroll "the Barrister (1723-1783), who was an American lawyer and statesman. The Barrister's heir was one his sister's sons, James MacCubbin, who changed his name to James Carroll (1761-1832) in order to accept his inheritance. His son, James MacCubbin Carroll (1791-1873), was a director of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Company. He also served Maryland in the U.S. Congress.

According to author Ronald Hoffman, who wrote Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782, Dr. Charles Carroll, Jr.'s brother was Keane Carroll. His grandsons were Daniel Carroll II (1730-1796), who was one of the founding fathers of country, participated in the Constitutional Convention and was a Senator from Maryland, and Archbishop John Carroll (1735-1815), a prelate in the Roman Catholic church who was the first bishop and archbishop in the United States.

I believe the two Carroll families are related in some way back in Ireland. Dr. Charles Carroll, Jr. and Charles Carroll "of Carrollton" did business together, forming the Baltimore Company Iron Works in 1731 and used the salutation "Cousin" when writing to each other. But how?

On the Hathi Trust website I found, Families of Dr. Charles Carroll and Cornet Thomas Dewey, by Douglas Carroll. The book included letters between Dr. Charles Carroll, Jr. and Sir Daniel O'Carroll dated 1748 and a series of letters between Francis O'Carroll and a Charles Carroll dated 1882-83 which discussed the genealogy of the Carroll family. Francis O'Carroll included this chart with his letter:

Snippet from page 7 of Families of Dr. Charles Carroll and
Coronet Thomas Dewey

Honestly, I don't know what to make of it. The letter in which it was contained purports the chart outlines the connection between the Carroll families. Also included on page 2 was this chart printed by Sir Bernard Burke about 1870:

Snippet of page 2 of Families of Dr. Charles Carroll and Coronet
Thomas Dewey

So I am still completely at sea. I cannot figure out how the Colonial-era Carroll families are related nor can I figure out if the father James Carroll (born in 1768) was a member of either family. But it was an interesting rabbit hole to wander through!

Married a Dental Student

Gertrude Elizabeth Walter was my Aunt Katherine's first cousin once removed. Gertrude was born on 9 March 1908 in Sanistone, West Virginia, to Harry O. and Gertrude Frances Walter. She was their third child and younger sister to Harry Maynard Walter. Her father was a cigar maker at the time of her birth. In 1910 the family lived in Green Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, and in 1920 they were back in Baltimore, Maryland, Gertrude's father's hometown. They lived at 804 Hollins Street and her father owned and operated a novelties shop.

Gertrude Elizabeth Walter married Domingo Blasini, a young dental student from Puerto Rico, likely in 1926 as their daughter Celia Gloria Blasini was born in early 1927. Domingo was a junior at the University of Baltimore School of Dentistry that year.

1928 class at the School of Dentistry; courtesy of Ancestry.com

Her husband boarded the S/S Defina in Baltimore on 17 July 1928 after graduating. He traveled with his widowed mother, brother-in-law, sister and their children back to Puerto Rico. They arrived in San Juan on 24 July 1928.

Gertrude and daughter Gloria followed a few months later. They left from New York City on 16 October 1928 aboard the S/S San Lorenzo and arrived on 22 October 1928. Their destination in Puerto Rico was Mayaguez, where her new husband had settled. The young family was enumerated together when the 1930 census was taken. They lived at 147 Calle Hostos in Mayaguez and Gertrude was listed as speaking Spanish. Her husband was a doctor or dentist.

The marriage must have been fairly short lived as Gertrude and Gloria returned to the U.S. on 28 November 1930 arriving in Baltimore aboard the S/S Barbara. Gertrude indicated to ship officials her destination was 2775 West North Street, the home of her parents. Her mother died in 1938 and her father, in 1940.

When the 1940 census was enumerated on 2 April, Gertrude and Gloria lived at 3319 Gwynn Falls Parkway with her sister Mabel and her husband, John Gibson. Gertrude worked as a clerk at a shoe company. She was also enumerated that year on 6 April with her brother, Henry Maynard Walter, who lived at 209 Crain Highway in Glen Burnie. This is not unusual as the census is taken every 10 years over a few months.

In 1944, Gertrude's daughter, Gloria, was a cadet student nurse at St. Agnes Hospital, her nursing corps card indicated Gertrude's occupation was a clerk.

St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore; courtesy of Kilduffs

Gertrude Elizabeth (Walter) Blasini died on 12 December 1974 and was interred at Mount Olivet Cemetery near her parents and brother, Henry. She never remarried although her ex-husband, Domingo Blasini, went on to marry at least two more times. He died in 1980 in Puerto Rico.

Children of Domingo and Gertrude Elizabeth (Walter) Blasini

1. Celia Gloria Blasini born 15 January 1927 in Baltimore, Maryland; trained as a cadet student nurse at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore during World War II; married Jose E. Herrera and had three children; lived in Ellicott City, Maryland; died 11 April 2015.

Author of Five Books in One Volume

William B. Walter was born on 25 March 1815 in Emmitsburg, Maryland, to John William Walter and his first wife, Catherine (Dechart) Walter. He was their third child and a half brother of Aloysius Walter, Aunt Katherine's great grandfather. He was educated at Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg.

William moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1844 at the age of 29. He married Euphemia C. Nettlehorst, daughter of Christian Carl and Helena (Schulte) Nettlehorst, on 5 March 1848. She had been born in the Kingdom of Hanover and immigrated to the U.S. shortly before her marriage. The couple had three known children.

In 1860 the family lived in Fort Wayne, where William taught school. His real estate was valued at $10,500 and his personal property at $1,500. By 1870 William was an attorney and his real estate was valued at $15,000 and his personal property at $5,000. He was a prominent citizen of Fort Wayne. In 1880 he worked as a real estate agent and his son, Charles was an attorney.

In 1894, William wrote a book entitled, Five Books in One Volume, which was published by R. C. F. Rayhouser. In it William pontificated about 5 questions:

1. The "great" school question: as intimately blended with that of Christian education, religion, and the safety of nations
2. Political questions: Loss of patriotism, our elective franchise, corrupt and unwise legislation, party strife and party spite
3. The direful liquor question: and the denominating influence of the liquor traffic as a source of corruption in political affairs as well as ruin to the bodies and souls of men
4. The great labor question: idleness and prodigality the of "hard times," economy and thrift unknown, and extravagance everywhere and in all things
5. Miscellaneous: embracing a wide range of subjects not treated under the foregoing heads.

The book contained a brief passage about William's ancestry:

"He is of German ancestry, his great great grandfather having been a Dutch Baron who emigrated to this county with Lord Baltimore and is said to have built the first house where Baltimore now stands. The old gentleman seems also to have owned lands at that place and leased them for ninety-nine years, as was the custom. There is said to be a fortune connected with these lands, but none of the heirs have avarice enough in their hearts to undertake the task of ousting the present occupants."

William B. Walter died on 15 December 1897 in Fort Wayne. He had outlived all of his children and was interred in the Catholic Cemetery in the same city. His wife died in 1903 and was interred in the same cemetery.

Children of William B. Walter and Euphemia C. Nettlehorst:

1. Elizabeth Agnes Walter born 13 February 1849 in Indiana; never married; died 2 October 1883; interred at the Catholic Cemetery in Fort Wayne.
2. Mary Josephine Walter born January 1851 in Indiana; never married; died 14 February 1868; interred at the Catholic Cemetery in Fort Wayne.
3. Charles W. Walter born 11 July 1856 in Fort Wayne; never May A. Doyle on 18 October 1882 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, one son; died 27 February 1887; interred at the Catholic Cemetery in Fort Wayne

Always a Cigar Maker

At our Lange Cousin Reunion last year, Aunt Katherine asked me to look into her father's family as she did not know much about them. Over several months, I traced her father's Walter family back to Nicola Walter who was born about 1720 in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of what is now Germany. He arrived in Philadelphia in 1751 but by 1779 had moved west to what is now Heidelberg in York County. Nicola and his wife, Rosana, had at least two sons: Nicola, Jr. and John Walter.

John Walter was murdered in 1797 one mile from Elk Ridge. He was a tailor and had served in the Revolutionary War. He left a wife and three children. One son, John William Walter, married twice, had several children, and lived in Emmitsburg, Maryland, where he owned a prosperous farm. One son by his second wife was Aloysius Walter. He was my aunt's great grandfather.

Aloysius Walter was born about 1848 on his parents farm in Emmitsburg where he grew up. At the age of 21 he married Flora Moselle Dorsey at the Moravian Church in Graceham, Maryland. They settled in Mechanicstown, which is now known as Thurmont, Maryland, where Aloysius worked as a carpenter.

Moravian Church in Graceham, Maryland, where Aloysius Walter and Flora
Mozelle Dorsey were married; courtesy of the church

By 1896 Aloysius had moved his family to Baltimore where they lived at 300 Parkin Street. Aloysius had left his carpentry work, too. He now worked as a cigar maker. His three oldest sons, Harry O., Charles J., and William Gunza Walter, were also cigar makers. By 1900 those three sons had married and moved out of their parent's home. Aloysius' next son, Ross Norman Walter, worked with him as a cigar maker.  Years later, at least two sons sold cigars in their shops in Baltimore and the District of Columbia.

Cigar making seemed an important part of the Walter family livelihood for at least two generations. I was curious to learn more about its history. Patricia Cooper's book, Once a Cigar Maker, described the work culture in cigar factories from about 1870 to 1900.

"Manufacturing itself underwent vast changes during the late nineteenth century...cigar manufacturing moved from the independent producer to pre-corporate forms (firms that were owned and managed by the same person) of large-scale factory production during these years... By the 1890s, several large companies in various cities had factories employing several hundred and a few employed over one thousand workers... Cigar making itself had for some time been confined to male craftsmen, but during the 1870s manufacturers began dividing the labor process and hiring women."

Cigar factory, 1892; courtesy of TampaPix

Likely Aloysius and his sons were not cigar craftsmen but rather factory workers responsible for a portion of the making of cigars. Aloysius died in 1911 but his sons who remained in the cigar business would have experienced the labor strife that began in 1917 and burst into public consciousness in 1919.

Cooper's book included a lovely quote by Jose Santana:

"We are really...more like a brotherhood...Once a cigar maker, always a cigar maker. That means that you may get away from the trade for a couple of years, but you always have in your mind the cigar makers. And if something go wrong when you are working somewhere else, you will go back to the cigar shop. They were so congenial one with the other that you enjoy... You are working for a couple of years out of the shop, at something else, and then for some reason you come back to the cigar shop they welcome you. No animosity or nothing like it. But what they used to say, once a cigar maker, always a cigar maker."

Since reading Mr. Santana's sentiments about the cigar craftsmen, I wondered it it had been lost during the industry's transformation to factory production. Probably so, and what a shame!