52 Ancestors 2020 – 23 – Wedding – Ida Louise (Falk) Gutknecht

If you are keeping track of the numbers, you may have noticed that week 22 is missing. If so, you are correct. I have skipped that week and gone on to week 23.

I did not find anyone on the aunts and uncles birthday calendar for week 23 that fit the theme “wedding” that I wanted to write about, so I picked someone from the “wedding pictures” section of the images on my website.

Charles and Ida Louise (Falk) Gutknecht

Courtesy of Richard Stewart

I have always felt sad about what I had learned about Ida Louise Falk, one of my grandaunts, a sister to my grandfather Julius Falk, the daughter of Ludwig and Anna Louise (Boehm) Falk.

Ida Louise was born 12 Apr 1871 in Pulaski Township, Iowa County, Wisconsin, near the village of Avoca. Her parents were immigrants from Prussia who arrived in the United States about 15 years earlier. They had brought her 3 half-siblings and 2 full siblings on their ocean voyage. Six more older siblings were born in Wisconsin and she had 3 younger brothers, including my grandfather.

Ida's marriage to Charles Gutknecht was 30 Aug 1888, when she would have been 17 years old. From the 1900 census, it appears that Charles would have been 28 as he was born in Mar 1860 in Germany and came to the United States as a 2 year old. As my grandfather would have been 7 years old at the time of their wedding, I wonder if he attended the wedding.

Ida and Charles had 2 daughters, Ella born about 1890 and Emma about 1892. Then the reason for my sadness was the diphtheria epidemic which struck that area in April 1894. Ida, now 23, died as well as both daughters.

52 Ancestors 2020 – 21 – Tombstone– Elizabeth (Jewett) Haseltine

Tombstone of Elizabeth (Jewett) Haseltine

Courtesy of Jack Parker, Find A Grave

Elizabeth (Jewett) Haseltine was my 8^th great-grandaunt, a older sister to my 8^th great-grandfather, Joseph Jewett. They were children of Maximilian and Ann Jewett who came to Rowley in 1639, after immigrating from England the year before. Rowley is now located in Essex County, Massachusetts. Elizabeth was born there 22 May 1650.

Elizabeth's mother died in 1667, while Elizabeth was still a teenager. The 2 oldest siblings were already married and her next sister Mary was married to David Haseltine the next year, 1668. It would be reasonable to believe that Elizabeth now had the responsibility to help care for her 5 younger siblings including Joseph. Her father remarried in 1671 to Ellen, the widow of John Boynton, so this may have lessened Elizabeth's duties around their home.

In the next year, 1672, a part of Rowley was incorporated as the town of Bradford. It was in Bradford where Elizabeth was married, at age 30, on 21 Jul 1680 to her brother-in-law Robert Haseltine, the younger brother of Mary's husband David. Robert was born in 1657, so was somewhat younger than Elizabeth.

Elizabeth and Robert had 4 children within the next 10 years, all born in Bradford: Hannah, Elizabeth, Maximilian and Dawson. They all lived to adulthood and were married. From the dates recorded it appears that Elizabeth could have attended the marriages of her two daughters in 1700 and 1706.

Elizabeth's death occurred 22 Nov 1708 and she was buried at the “Ancient Burying Ground” in Bradford. Since this happened over 300 years ago, I found it interesting that her tombstone has been photographed and it is shown on the Find A Grave website.

The inscription on her grave marker reads: “Here Lyes y Body of ElizaBeth Haseltine Who Died November y 22 1708 Aged 59 years.”

52 Ancestors 2020 – 20 – Travel – Elizabeth (Frazier) Emry

Thinking about the topic Travel, many of my ancestors and relatives tended to move fairly frequently. Of the 7 aunts and uncles on the birthday calendar for this week Elizabeth (Frazier) Emry showed a fair amount of traveling since she was born in one state, was married in another and then died in yet another state. So she was the chosen one.

Elizabeth & Travis Emry

Courtesy of Stan Galloway

Elizabeth was my 3^rd great-grandaunt, the sister of my 3^rd great-grandmother, Sarah (Frazier) Hockett. Elizabeth was the child of Francis Frazier and Elizabeth Stanley, born 15 May 1795 in Randolph County, North Carolina. I have already written about her youngest brother, Francis Henry Frazier, and posted it 15 Mar 2020 on my blog. He was born after 1800 so does not appear on the 1800 census. But it is probable that Elizabeth was one of the females under 10 in the household of Francis Frazer in neighboring Guilford County, North Carolina.

It was in 1810 that the Frazier family moved to Highland County, Ohio. Ohio does not have a 1810 census available so we can't verify this by the census. But the Quaker Fairfield Monthly Meeting recorded that the Fraziers were received from the Center Monthly Meeting in North Carolina. It was in December of 1812 when the Clear Creek Monthly Meeting in Clinton County, Ohio, was set off from Fairfield Meeting.

Elizabeth with her mother and sisters Ann & Susannah were received on certificate at New Garden Monthly Meeting in Wayne County, Indiana on 22 Mar 1817 from Clear Creek Monthly Meeting.

Not only did Elizabeth travel to different places, her name traveled also. Naturally her name changed from Frazier to Adcock when she married Travis Adcock 27 Aug 1818, at New Garden Meeting House. Travis had been married previously. He had married 7 Dec 1814 to Susannah Moorman, who died in childbirth 22 Jul 1816. It was 21 Sep 1816 when Travis was received on request at the New Garden Monthly Meeting. His land was in Randolph County near the border with Wayne County. He and Elizabeth were listed on the 1820 census in Wayne Township, Randolph County, with their oldest child, Susannah. The patent on 160 acres was granted in June 1821, after their next child James was born in February. Travis and Elizabeth were charter members of the Cherry Grove Monthly Meeting in Randolph County, which had been set off from New Garden in 1821.

Before the 1830 census 4 more children were born, Rachel, Sarah, Gideon and Archelaus. Since the census shows only a total of 5 children it is likely that Gideon, who was born in 1826, had died before the time of the census. There were 3 more children born in the early 1830s, Thomas, David and Rebecca. Then the 1834-35 session of the Indiana Legislature made a change in Elizabeth's name. The Cherry Grove minutes 8 Aug 1835 noted “the name of Travis Adcock & Elizabeth his wife & their children Susanna, James, Rachel, Sarah, Archeleus, Thomas Frazier, David & Rebecca all residence[sic] of Randolph County be and they are hereby changed and the said Travis and Elizabeth shall be known by the name of Travis and Elizabeth Emery and their said children.” It was a little less than 3 years later when Travis requested a transfer of membership for his family to Vermillion Monthly Meeting in Illinois. This was actually the method used by the group of Quakers who were moving from Indiana to Iowa Territory. So it was the Travis Emery family, later changed to Emry, who were charter members of Salem Monthly Meeting in Henry County, the first Quaker Monthly Meeting west of the Mississippi River. The land patent issued to Travis Emry for 243.26 acres of land in Henry County was dated 1 Dec 1841. The map shows it was located about half way between Mt. Pleasant and Salem.

The year before Iowa became a state in 1846, Elizabeth and her family traveled again, transferring from Salem Monthly Meeting to Pleasant Plain Monthly Meeting in Jefferson County, Iowa. Travis received land patents in Jefferson County: 40 acres in 1847, 80 acres and 40 acres in 1848, for a total of 160 acres.

Elizabeth's traveling days seem to be over after she arrived in Jefferson County. She can be found on the 1850 census at age 55 in Penn township with her husband (indexed by Ancestry.com as Fravais Emery) and the 4 younger children. Her son James was living next door with his family, so she would have been able to visit those 4 grandchildren quite frequently. By 1860 she and Travis are “empty-nesters” but their youngest son David and his family are next door. Elizabeth was widowed 31 Jan 1866 when Travis died and was buried at the Walnut Creek Friends Cemetery in Penn Township there in Jefferson County. In 1870, at age 75, she was living with her son David and his wife and 8 children. It was the next year when Elizabeth died on 23 Jul 1871 and was buried in the same cemetery as her husband.

I have enjoyed following the travels of Elizabeth and her family from North Carolina to Ohio, then Indiana and finally to Iowa, with her name as Frazier, then Adcock and ending as Emry