Hellstrom Genealogy
My Family Genealogy Expanding Across The Nation
Richard Hellstrom
Paternal Predicted DNA G-M210
Maternal DNA U5b1b1g1a
Donald Eugene Hellstrom
Born 1929 -1968
Lexington, Kentucky
DONALD E. HELLSTROM
June 23, 1929
May 31, 1968
Don joined our firm August 19, 1957, as a Soils Engineer on a 30 mile section. of I-75 from Vasper to Jellico, Tennessee, and showed unusual ability and the desire to perform the most difficult assignments.
Although assigned to the Highway Division where he was in charge of soils work on more than $130 million of major highway projects, he served as our representative as consultant to the New York Racing Association and the Jockey Club of Peru in connection with the reconstruction and improvements of their racing strips and courses, and performed the necessary Soils Engineering work for the Sanitary and Architectural Divisions.
His ability as a Soils Engineer was recognized by the various state and governmental organizations with whom he worked. He was responsible for the development of the technical information when our firm was asked by the Kentucky Department of Highways to study highway embankment stability on various interstate and toll roads.
Don was affectionately known as the "Mad Swede," and had the admiration and love of all who knew him. He was dedicated to his work and family. All of us miss him, and the position which he occupied will be hard to fill.
W. T. Welch
Richard Eric Hellstrom
Born 1925 - 2018
Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, USA
Genealogy Letter
From: To: "Dick Hellstrom" "Richard G Hellstrom"
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 11:27 PM
Dear Richard,
First off your dad and all of us that I have known are double L Hellstroms. Moral cowards can look up their own gynecology and can be Henstroms or single hockey stickers. I don't care. Just don't make Doonkerbotsons out of us. Being run out of Sweden and Scotland, both, for horse thieving is a singular honor and is something to be displayed on your heraldic shield with no small degree of pride.
Close up the Civil War records on your Hellstrom antecedents. All of the information I have precludes their having been in that War. These are direct relatives I am talking about and since my Grandfather, Franz [Frank Edaward] Hellstrom was born on 3/19/1863 at Hagstena, Sweden he was probably too young to be a good drummer boy. G'pa died on 2/5/21 in South Orange, NJ. He was chopping down a large tree in the front yard of his new house when the tree fell the wrong way and crushed him. He was buried in South Orange, NJ. Grandpa remarried, when I don't know and I'm not certain of her name, however I believe it to have been a Mrs. Anna Westerdale and I think it was the house he had built for them that had the pecan tree in the yard.
Franz married Mary [Myra Kaisera] Johnson who was born in Dallsland, Sweden in August of 1865. She died in May 1900 and is buried in Hanover, NJ. They married about 1890 in East Orange, NJ: Uncle Everet was born 9/6/91 [Valesburg, NJ], Aunt Edith I don't know about other than she was next, married Henry Albach and had a daughter named Marie who married Edward Guerin and they had no children. Uncle Dick came next but I don't know the year. I do know that he died sometime in 1926 in Arizona where he and his bride, Marie, had gone on their honeymoon/moved to a climate where he might recover from TB.
Eric Harry was born 10/23/95 and died in October 1932. I'm not certain, but I think it might have been in Nutley, NJ. Aunt Ellen came, probably at, or about the time that her mother died - 5/1/00. Your mom knew Aunt Ellen and her husband, Uncle Clarence, well. Some time after the kids were all assembled they moved to upstate New York and were farmers. I have pictures of this era and they indicate the farm was substantial.
Eric was a Navy Chief Petty Officer, Uncle Everet was in the US Army as was Uncle Dick and Aunt Ellen was a US Army Nurse during World War One.
3/21/2001
I'm worn out! The Hugenschmidt side did make the Civil War Grandpa John, my Great Grandfather was in Captain Benjamin Ruh's Company of can't make out the number of the Regiment of Ohio Infantry. He was discharged in June of 1866 at Nashville, Tenn.and walked from there back to Cincinnati. He was probably 34 years old at that time. There's the Civil War portion of your ancestry.. My Grandfather John Wittfelt was in the Indian chasing business, US Army, and served in the Dakotas, Wyoming and Montana. I have a great picture of him in uniform, taken in Cheyenne. There were Hugenschmidts and/or Wittfelts in the Spanish American War and in World War one. Hellstroms made WW1, WW2, and the Korean Conflict before we all disappeared. There are still Hugenschmidts and some Wittfelts in the Southeast somewhere. Maybe this will save you a little search time, or send you on a different track. I am being removed from the list.
Dick 3/21/2001
John Hugenschmidt
Cincinnati, Ohio
2nd Great Grandfather
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH OHIO INFANTRY.
This was one of the last German regiments raised in Ohio. Although other enterprises of the same kind were in the field before his, Lieutenant TAFEL succeeded in recruiting and organizing, within a few weeks, eight companies, with an aggregate of seven hundred and thirty men.
On the fourth day of September, 1862, orders came for the regiment to move to Covington, to be ready to repel the forces of Kirby SMITH, then threatening Cincinnati.
Here a little skirmish with the enemy gave the men an introduction to their future work. The Austrian rifles with which they were armed proved nearly useless, the regiment was shifted from place to place, and left incomplete as to number.
It remained in the field as a battalion. At this time MORGAN, the raider, was disturbing Kentucky, and the regiment participated in several expeditions against him. At Bowling Green, on the fourth of November, it came under the command of General ROSECRANS.
The Thirty-ninth brigade, in which the One Hundred and Sixth now belonged, moved to Glasgow, Kentucky, where some successful skirmishing followed, as also on the succeeding march to Hartsville. At this point Colonel SCOTT, who had been commanding the brigade, was exchanged for a much inferior officer. Under this commander the disgraceful affair at Hartsville took place, December 7, 1862.
One company only, absent as escort to the provision train at Gallatin, escaped captivity. After five days' of detention, the prisoners were paroled and sent to General ROSECRANS at Nashville.
This general, after receiving a full report from Lieutenant Colonel TAFEL of the affair, expressed his entire satisfaction with the conduct of the regiment and its commander on that occasion. On the twelfth day of January, 1863, the regiment was declared exchanged, and was ordered to
Camp Dennison, to re-organize. It soon moved on to Frankfort, Kentucky, to relieve the One Hundred and Third Ohio. Owen county was at that time infested with guerilla bands, and Lieutenant Colonel TAFEL determined to stop their depredations.
Several desperate characters were soon after captured, their bands dispersed, and the regiment, for the bravery and excellent conduct of officers and men, won praise from the citizens of the city and the authorities of the State. Receiving orders for Nashville, the regiment arrived at that city May 4, 1863, and was soon after put to guard the railroad from that city to the borders of Kentucky.
So galling did the rigorous rule of this regiment become to the guerillas, that their leader, Captain HARPER, offered a reward for the head of its commander. On the fourth of May, 1864, the regiment moved to Bridgeport, and formed part of the garrison. It was October,
1864, before the regiment was recruited to its maximum strength. During the impetuous raid of General HOOD, the One Hundred and Sixth held on to its posts along the Nashville& Chattanooga railroad, although for four weeks
completely cut off from all communication with the main army at Nashville. It remained in camp in Alabama, performing valuable service until June, 1865, when it was ordered to Nashville for muster-out, which event was consummated June 29.
John James Jones
3rd Great Grandfather
Pike Indiana Genealogy
John James Jones served in the 58th Indiana during the Civil War.
The evening after the Battle of Missionary Ridge, the chaplain went to the hospital to check on the regiments dead and wounded. Our John James Jones was named as one who was injured during the 58th March up Missionary Ridge, from Company I.
Despite being 44 years old, he was allowed to re-enlist as a Veteran Volunteer. From what I understand, not everyone was offered this status, because it also came with a cash bonus & a month furlough to go home
He served with his son James Harvey Jones in the same unit. . They are listed as James Jones Sr. and James Jones Jr.. John Noe fought in this unit as well.
Joel Traylor
Born 1744 - 1810
Lunenburg, Virginia
Individual:
1) census: 1790 Spartanburg Co. SC 96 dist. Apr 15 1791 p.86
(32-3-03sl.); 1800 Spartanburg Dist. SC p.203B (01201-00101-03)
2) 27 Oct 1746 Henrico Co. VA Deeds rec. 1 Apr 1747 #250 William
TRAYLOR of Dale Parish to Joel TRAYLOR (of same), son of William TRAYLOR,
Jr., for 5£ 317 ac. granted to William by patent of 13 Oct 1737 bounded
by Richard EPPES, Richard KENNON, Edward TRAYLOR, Peter WORSHAM, & John
HAMMON. Wit.: Thomas (N) NEAL, Joseph BLANKENSHIP, & William WATKINS.
signed William (X) TRAYLOR - no dower release
3) 26 Dec 1760 Lunenburg Co. VA deed bk.10 p.81 - John WEATHERFORD to
Joel TRAYLOR (TRALER), both of Lunenburg Co. VA, for 16£ 100 ac. in
Lunenburg Co. on Meheerin R. bounded by William TRALER, DARDEN's line,
ADKESON's line, Ridge path & along old line to William TRALER's line.
signed: John WEATHERFORD wit.: John WILLIAMS; William MOORE, & Phil
(+) JOHNSON rec. 14 Feb 1765
4) 1764 Tithe list St. James Parish Lunenburg Co. VA - 1 tithe [*
Mecklenburg Co. VA split off from Lunenbrug Co. 1764-65*]
5) 8 May 1769 Mecklenburg Co. VA deed bk.2 p.209 Joel TRAYLOR of
Meckelenburg Co. VA to Robert FLOYD of Lunenburg Co. VA for 30£ 100 ac.
in Meckelenburg Co. near Saffold Ford and bounded by William TRALER ,
ATKINSON's corner, the Rig Path, LIGHTFOOT, & TEREY. Witnesses: Anthony
STREET; Edward COLLEY; William ______. rec. 8 May 1769
6) 12 Jan 1771 Mecklenburg Co. Va Deed bk.2 p.552 Alexander MORRISON to
Joel TRAYLOR of Mecklenburg Co. VA for 25£, 100 ac. in Mecklenburg Co.
near the Meherrin River bounded by TRAYLOR, TERREY, ATKINSON, & the ridge
path. signed: Alexander (his X mark) MORRISON witnesses: John
WILLIAMS; William (his X mark) TRAYLOR; Mary (her X mark) TRAYLOR. rec.
11 Mar 1771
7) 14 May 1777 signed petition in Mecklenburg Co. VA???
8) 13 Sep 1784 Meckelenburg Co. VA Deed bk.6 p.396 Joel and Katherine
Traylor to David Wells (age 53) 100ac.
9) 2 Nov 1785 Spartanburg Dist. SC Joel TAYLOR was witness to deed of
Jeremiah NESBIT to Henry MORGAN
10) 20 Mar 1787 Spartanburg Dist. SC Thomas HIGHTOWER to Joel TRAYLOR
for 25£10S, sterling, land on N. fork of Tyger River (p.72-73)
11) 23 Aug 1787 Spartanburg Dist. SC Mason Cox SMITHSON of Greenville
Co. to Joel TRAYLOR for 10S. 237 ac. on N. fork of Tyger River
bordering Thomas HIGHTOWER Witnessess: David GOODLETT & Isham FOSTER
(p.73-74) 20 Mar 1787
12) 24 Aug 1787 Spartanburg Dist. SC Mason Cox SMITHSON of Greenville
Co. to Joel TRAYLOR for 50£ 10S, 237 ac., land granted 6 Mar 1786, on
N. fork of Tyger River above the mouth of Cub Branch, bordering on Thomas
HIGHTOWER. Witnessess: David GOODLETT & Isham FOSTER (p.74-75)
13) 1802 Spartanburg Dist. SC Joel TRAYLOR to Mason SHUMATE for 50£ 131
ac. on N. side of N. Fork of Tyger River. Part of a grant to Mason Cox
SHUMATE who sold to Joel TRAYLOR. signed: Joel (his X mark) TRAYLOR
14) 1809 Spartanburg Dist. SC Daniel TIMMONS of Greenville Dist. to
John BOMAR of Spartanburg for $100 100 ac. on Cub Branch bordering
Edward BOMAR and widow TRAYLOR wit.: Jesse TRAYLOR & Joel TRAYLOR
signed: Thomas G. TRAYLOR
15) 1809 Spartanburg Dist. SC Daniel TIMMONS of Greenville Dist. to
John BOMAR of Spartanburg for $105 100 ac. on Cub Branch bordering
Edward BOMAR on the east and Joel TRAYLOR to the north Wit.: Elisha
BOMAR & Edward Elisha BOMAR (?? DUPLICATE OF ABOVE ENTRY???)
16) 1809 - file #1958 Spartanburg probate records - only available at SC
Dept. of Archives & History Columbia SC
17) 12 Nov 1810 Spartanburg Dist. SC Deed bk. O p. 208 - Jesse TRAYLOR,
Robert FOSTER, Robert WOOD, Richard TRAYLOR, Thomas G. TRAYLOR & Polly
TRAYLOR to William TRAYLOR, all of Spartanburg, for $300 120 ac on N.
side of N. Tygar River , joining Crawford Mill tract near Cub branch;
part of tract formerly of Joel TRAYLOR, decd. wit.: Edward BOMAR,
Stephen POWELL & Ludy CAUTHORN signed: Jesse TRAYLOR, Thomas G.
TRAYLOR, Joel TRAYLOR, Polley (X) TRAYLOR, Richard (X) TRAYLOR, Robert
WOOD & Robert FOSTER oath of Edward BOMAR to John CHAPMAN witnessed 11
Oct 1814 rec. 6 Feb 1815
Title: Spartanburg Dist. SC Wills
Media: Book
Page: Bk.A p.1
Text: box 28 pkg
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Life Summary of Joel Traylor - Copied From Family Search
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LZ2P-9LW/joel-traylor-sr.-1744-1810
When Joel Traylor Sr. was born in 1744, in Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, William Traylor Jr., was 36 and his mother, Mary Dodd Williams, was 30. He had at least 6 sons and 3 daughters with Catherine Jarmin. He died on 8 January 1810, in Spartanburg, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 66.
The Life Summary of Richard
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KJ4K-8F4/richard-traylor-1763-1834
When Richard Traylor was born in 1763, in Lunenburg, Virginia, United States, his father, Joel Traylor Sr., was 19 and his mother, Catherine Foster, was 24. He married Sarah Ann Mead on 14 February 1830, in Pike, Indiana, United States. He lived in Spartanburg, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States in 1800 and Jefferson Township, Pike, Indiana, United States in 1830. He died in 1834, in Pike, Indiana, United States, at the age of 71
ThruLines® uses Ancestry® trees to suggest that Melba Hellstrom may be related to 65 DNA matches through Joel Traylor.
Thomas Jefferson
3rd U.S. President
3rd Cousin 8x Removed
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743[a] – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.[13] Among the Committee of Five charged by the Second Continental Congress with authoring the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was the Declaration's primary author, writing it between June 11 and June 28, 1776, at a three-story residence at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia.[14] Following the American-
-Revolutionary War and prior to becoming the nation's third president in 1801, Jefferson was the first United States secretary of state under George Washington and then the nation's second vice president under John Adams.
Source - Wikipedia
Thomas and Richard are third cousins 8 times removed
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and Richard Hellstrom are both descendants of Elizabeth (Ryland) Randolph (1621-1669).
1. Thomas is the son of Jane (Randolph) Jefferson (1720-1776) [confident]
2. Jane is the daughter of Isham Randolph (1685-1742) [confident]
3. Isham is the son of William Randolph (bef.1650-1711) [confident]
4. William is the son of Elizabeth (Ryland) Randolph (1621-1669) [confident]
This makes Elizabeth the second great grandmother of Thomas.
1. Richard is the son of [private mother] DNA confirmed
2. [Private] is the daughter of Virgil Jones [confident]
3. Virgil is the son of Cordelia May Jones (1878-1961) [confident]
4. Cordelia is the daughter of Syrena Elizabeth Willis (abt.1858-abt.1930) [confident]
5. Syrena is the daughter of Mary (Hays) Willis (1837-1876) [confident]
6. Mary is the daughter of Mary Polly (Traylor) Hays (abt.1804-abt.1882) [confident]
7. Mary is the daughter of Richard Traylor (abt.1763-1834) [confident]
8. Richard is the son of Joel Traylor Sr. (1730-1809) [confident]
9. Joel is the son of William M. Traylor Jr. (1708-abt.1762) [confident]
10. William is the son of William Traylor (abt.1674-1753) [confident]
11. William is the son of Margaret (Randolph) Traylor (1657-1726) [confident]
12. Margaret is the daughter of Elizabeth (Ryland) Randolph (1621-1669) [confident]
This makes Elizabeth the tenth great grandmother of Richard.
George Anderson
Born 1687 in Ulster, Ire.
8th G. Grandfather
George Anderson b. bef 1720 d. bef Apr 21 1789 Augusta, Virginia George Anderson (John, North Side, Colonial Virginia) was born Bef. 1720, and died Bef. April 21, 1789 in Augusta Co., Virginia. He married Elizabeth Bef. 1736 in Ulster, Ireland. Sources: (1) "Anderson Genealogy," by Mary Lynn Steward, 1915/1916. Cites: (a) Lyman C. Draper
Collection, letter of George Christian. (b) Virginia Land Office Records 1738-1747. (c) Augusta Co., VA Court record, Dec 1757, sworn statment of Margaret Anderson. (d) Orange Co., VA, Order Book B, p.158, 22 May 1740, statement of George Anderson. (e) Records of Augusta Stone Church, Ft. Defiance, VA, made by Rev. Joh n Craig 1740-1749. (f) Will of Margaret Anderson, Augusta Co., VA Wil 1 Book 3, p.311. (g) Will of George Anderson, Augusta Co., VA, Will B ook 7, p.144, dtd 12 Jun 1784, proved 21 Apr 1789. (2) "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extract ed from the Original Court Records of Augusta County 1745-1800," by Lyman Chalkley, (Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, 1966) Vol. 1, p.13. Vol. 3, p.184. FHL #975.591/F2s. (3) "Gleanings of Virginia History," by William Fletcher Boogher (1 965) p.308-309. FHL #975.5 H2bw. Information: Birth: (3) Believed to have been brother of John, William and James Anderson. Marriage to Elizabeth: Came with him from Ulster, Ireland. Death: Will proved 21 Apr 1789, Augusta Co., VA. (1) Bef. 1736: Brought his wife, Elizabeth, and William, Margaret, John, and Francis Anderson from Ireland to Philadelphia. Lived for a while in Lancaster Co., PA. (1) Abt. 1736-1738: Lived in East Nottingham Twp., Chester Co., PA. (1) Abt. 1738: Came to Augusta Co., VA, then part of Orange Co., VA. (3) Seven or eight heads of families who bore the name of Anderson were among the earliest settlers of Augusta Co., VA. Whether related to each other in any degree is not definitely known, but four of them, John, George, William and James, settled in the Stone Church neighborhood and are believed to have been brothers. The other Andersons
Emerine Underwood
1861-1936
2nd Great Grandmother
Christ Church Parish is located on the Chesapeake Bay, northeast of Williamsburg, Virginia. Part of Virginia's middle peninsula. Middlesex lies between the Rappahannock and Piankatank Rivers with Deltaville and StingRay Point extending out into the bay.The migration of the families in this area where made easier by the rivers. And many of them used the rivers to reach
Green,Madison and many other countries on their way to Kentucky and points west.
1 feb.1707/08 Christ Church Parish register,Christenings 1707-1708 page 49 Nathan Underwood, son of Nathan and Diana, born friday the 9th. and baptized 1 Feb.1707/08 in Christ church by Rev. Bartholomew Yates minister of the same. His sureties being Joseh Goear (Gower ) , John Gibbs and Elizabeth Murry.
Nathan Underwood Nov.18,1745 Orange County Virginia Planter,book 1 page 100 acres to Christian Claimant of Augusta County Virginia on South River of Shenandoah proved 10 Feb.1745 by all witnesses 13 Jan.1741/42. Granted to Henry Dowly 236 acres in Augusta County part of which Henry Conveyed to Nathan Underwood by deed recorded in Orange county Virginia.
1745 Deed from Nathan Underwood to Christian Clement Augusta County Virginia proven by George Anderson.
Captain James Cathey's Company of Militia. Augusta County Virginia Militia 1742 records page 25,
Nathan Underwood,George Anderson, and George Anderson Jr.
Nathan Underwood bought 100 acres from George Anderson, part of George's acres on Elk Run in Present Madison County Virginia.
In 1801 Nathan wrote a will, in which he bequeathed property to his grandson Robert Underwood, who was to take care of him. to his sons Gideon and to his son Joseph who was living in Georgia,
Nathan directed the rest of his property be sold and distributed among all of his children. The will was never probated.
Elijah Underwood and James Smoot created a committee to manage his estate, " A very aged and infirm old man who was deprived of his reason " His estate dragged through the courts for several decades. When a committee was appointed in Feb 1802. Nathan's estate was listed as 240 acres. The will he wrote in 1801 was not probated on grounds he was not competent when he wrote it.
Posted 28 Feb 2018 by Judith Finnell
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Joseph Wade
Born in 1835
3rd Great Grandfather
There are researchers who believe that Joseph is the son of Joseph Wade, Jr. and Sarah Mendenhall who were married in Montgomery County Indiana on September 14, 1823. However, there are other researchers that believe the Joseph Wade born to Joseph Wade, Jr. and Sarah Mendenhall was not this Joseph, but a Joseph Robert Wade who was born in Indiana on January 15, 1842; married Rachel Sophoronia Spaur on September 20,
1868 in Marion County, Iowa; and who died on June 26, 1922 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. I believe there is a more convincing case that Joseph Wade and Sarah Mendenhall were the parents of Joseph Wade who died in Iowa than that they were the parents of Joseph Wade who married Martha Beedle.
In the 1850 census of Marion County,Iowa a Joseph Wade is listed as a ten-year-old boy who was born in Indiana. The head of the household is Absolem Wade, aged 25, who was also born in Indiana. It would appear that Absolem Wade is an older brother of Joseph Wade. Also, in the household is a Sarah Wade, aged 45, birthplace unknown (presumably this would be Sarah Mendenhall Wade). Other apparent children of Sarah Wade are Jesse Wade (aged 20, born in Indiana); Morgan Wade (aged 18, born in Indiana); and Sarah Wade (aged 16, born in Indiana). There is also a Margaret Wade (aged 17, born in Indiana), who could either be another sister of Absolem Wade or his wife.
In the 1860 census of Marion County, Iowa Joseph Wade (aged 20) is enumerated in the household of Sarah Wade (aged 51, born in Tennessee). Jesse Wade (aged 29) is also enumerated here. Absolem and Morgan both died in 1862 during the Civil War. Morgan was a raider who was killing Union soldiers throughout Missouri. He was murdered by vigilantes when he returned home to Bellefontaine, Mahaska, Iowa on 1 August 1862. Three days later, his brother Absolem, a Union soldier, was killed in Missouri. In the 1870 census of Marion County Iowa Sarah Wade is aged 63 and born in Tennessee. Jesse Wade is aged 39 and an invalid from Indiana. Joseph Wade is aged 29 from Indiana. There is no record of Jesse Wade after the 1870 census.
A good argument for Sarah Mendenhall being the mother of the Joseph Wade who died in Iowa on 26 June 1922 is that his eldest brother was named Absalom Wade; and Sarah Mendenhall's father was named Absalom Mendenhall. Another argument for it is that Sarah Mendenhall was born in Granger County, Tennessee and the Sarah Wade who moved to lowa is consistently listed as having been born in Tennessee.
Sarah (Wade) Stroud, wife of Alexander Stroud, was born on 1 September 1834 in Indiana and died on 17 August 1917 in Hillsdale, Mills County, Iowa. She is the younger Sarah Wade that is enumerated in the household of Absolem Wade in the 1850 census of
Marion County lowa. If Mills County lowa has a death certificate for her (online death certificates in lowa begin in 1920) that list her parents, then those parents would be the parents of the Joseph Wade who married Rachel Spaur (Joseph Wade and Sarah Mendenhall would be expected). It should be noted that in 1900 and 1910 Sarah did not know where her father was born (except in the United States), but she knew that her mother was born in Tennessee. Joseph R. Wade died on 26 June 1922 at Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The death certificate says that he was born on January 15, 1842 in Indiana. His father's name is given as Joseph Wade of Tennessee and his mother's name is unknown. He is buried in Fairview Cemetery in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Comes now Joseph Wade with his petition properly verified, and represents to this court that his is a son and heir at law of Sarah Wade, who died intestate on or about June 8, 1883, having at the time of her death property in this state, the same being certain real estate in Marion County, lowa the sale of which is necessary to the payment of the debts of said decedent and asks the court to appoint Alvin Goodspeed having filed herein his bond conditioned for the faithful performance of his duty and being in the total sum of five hundred dollars properly signed by himself as principal and Virgil Roberts as surety approves the said bond, and the said Alvin Goodspeed is hereby duly appointed qualified and commissioned as such administrators
Notice of this appointment to be given by posting four notices, one at the Court House door at Knoxville and three in the immediate neighborhood of the last residence of the deceased.
S.P. Ayres appointed guardian ad litem for Emola Wade, Martha Wade, Jesse Wade, William Wade, George Wade and Margaret Wade.
Defendants: Joseph Wade, Sarah Wade, Sarah Stroud, Alice Huskelman, Jesse Wade, William Wade, Geroge Wade, Margaret Wade.
Now on this 13th day of November 1884, it being the 4th day of the November term 1884 of this court this cause came on for final hearing and it appearing from the evidence that the defendants Emalle Wade, Martha Wade, Jesse Wade, William Wade, George Wade
and Margaret Wade are and at the time of the commencement of this action were of full age. The order of this court heretofore made appointing S.P. Ayres Guardian ad litem for said defendants is hereby set aside and revoked, and the court having examined the pleadings and notices finds that each of said defendants have been duly and legally served with sufficient notice of the pendency of this action and are now legally within the jurisdiction of this court.
And it further appears to the court that the plaintiff is the duly qualified administrator of one Sarah Wade deceased and that the defendants are her only heirs at law. That the said Sarah Wade died seized in fee simple of the South East quarter of the South West quarter of Section Thirty Two in Township Seventy Five North of Range Eighteen (18) West of the 5th P.M. That there are debts and claims against said Estate and that no personal property has come into the hands of the administrator out of which said claims can be paid. It is therefore ordered adjudged and decreed that the plaintiff administrator as aforesaid be and he is hereby ordered authorized and empowered to sell and convey said real estate for the purpose of paying said debts and claims at public or private sale as may be most beneficial to the interests of said Estate after the same shall have been appraised according to law. If at public sale on the same notice that is required in Sheriff Sales of real estate on execution and if at favorable sale at not less than the appraised value thereof. It is further ordered that before making any sale of said premises the plaintiff executes a good and sufficient bond in the sum of two thousand dollars conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties in the premises.
For hearing and approval it being the Report of sale in the words and figures following to wit: "The undersigned Alvin Goodspeed Administrator of the Estate of Sarah J. Wade deceased reports that in pursual with an order of this court made at the November Term 1883 therefore, and after giving due notice thereof as required by law, he did on the 28th day of February 1885 sell at public sale at the North
Martha A. C. Beedle
Born 30 March ,1830
3rd Great Grandmother
Another Source: Page 11, Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution Buried in Indiana, 1980.
Martha Beedle married Joseph Wade on March 23rd 1855 in Fountain, Indiana, United States.
Jennette Booe
Great Grandmother
Fountain, Indiana
The Booe Family History Philip Jacob Buhe was born in what is now the German state of Baden in about the year 1683. For centuries Western Germany had been the scene of great political and religious turmoil.
In the mid-1730’s Philip decided to follow the example of thousands of Protestant refugees who had been fleeing their homeland since the latter part of the seventeenth century.
Philip was living in or near the village of Weisenstein (now part of Pforzheim) in early 1738 when he applied for permission to emigrate to Pennsylvania. Wisenstein was situated on the Enz River on the northern edge of the Black Forest.
At the time of his emigration Philip’s real property amounted to a value of 229 Florins and 10 Kreuger of which he had to pay 22 Florins and 30 Kreuger to the authorities as an emigration tax.
Philip set out on his journey with his three sons, Johan George, Christopher* and Philip Jr. Accompanying them were Philip’s daughter, Catharina, and her husband, Melchior Huthmacher. The names of other women or any children who might have made the trip with them are not known.
Their first destination was Rotterdam which was reached by sailing down the Rhine. This part of the journey often took six weeks to complete because of the many customs houses which interrupted the voyage and detained the travelers. Upon reaching Rotterdam there was another delay of five or six weeks. As a result of these delays many of the emigrants were practically destitute by the time they were ready to leave Holland. At last they boarded an English ship called the Fox under the command of Captain Charles Ware. The Fox was a type of two-masted sailing vessel common in the 18th century.
They now sailed north to Plymouth, England where there was another delay as they cleared customs and waited for favorable winds. Then began their long voyage to America. Even with the best conditions this leg of the journey would take seven weeks. It was a voyage marked by hardship and suffering.
Gottliev Mittelberger who made a similar journey twelve years later noted that the passengers were crowded aboard “like herring.” They lacked adequate food and water and the ship was ravaged by dysentery, scurvy, typhoid and smallpox.
Children were the hardest hit. Thirty-two children died aboard Mittelberger’s ship. The specific conditions on the Fox are not known, but of the seventy-six passengers who completed the voyage only six were under the age of sixteen.
In October the Fox sailed up the Delaware River and into the harbor at Philadelphia. The ship was inspected for health conditions by Dr. Thomas Graeme and was then cleared to drop anchor.
Some Americans distrusted the loyalties of the German immigrants and required them to swear an oath of allegiance to their new king. On October 12, 1738 Philip and his twenty-five year old son Christopher were led in a procession with fellow passengers to the Philadelphia Courthouse two blocks from the harbor. Him and Philip Jr. were ill aboard the ship and did not go.
At the Courthouse they swore to “be true and faithful to King George the second and do sincerely and truly Profess Testify & Declare that I do from my heart abhor, detest & renounce as impious & heretical that wicked Doctrine & Position that Princes Excommunicated or deprived by the Pope. . . may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever. And I do declare that no foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Power Jurisdiction Superiority Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within the Realm of Great Britain or Dominions thereunto belonging.”
The immigrants were then taken back to the ship. Now they were to pay for their passage, something most of the immigrants could not do. Most were sold for specific periods of time as indentured to pay off the fare. The fate of Philip Buhe and his family in this regard is not known. They remained in Pennsylvania, however, to become part of the Pennsylvania Dutch society.
Christopher was an exception. In the 1750’s he joined a great migration to the south, setting off along the Great Wagon Road, so called because the principal means of transportation was the Conestoga wagon, a recent Pennsylvania Dutch invention. The road ran from Philadelphia through Lancaster and York to Winchester, then down the Shenandoah Valley and through the Blue Ridge ending finally at the Yadkin River in North Carolina. It was just north of the forks of the Yadkin in Rowan County** that Christopher settled.
He was among the first of what was to be a sizable German community in the area. HE was married by this time with several children including Christopher Jr. The written record of his presence in Rowan County is a notation in the Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Court for 1756 “Stoffle Booe vs Jacob Falkner. Appeal to Superior Court.” Here, too, is the earliest use of the later spelling of the family name. This change may be attributable to the fact that among his neighbors were Squire Boone and his family, one of the most prominent families in the county.
The similarity in the spelling of the names is probably more than coincidental (Squire’s son Daniel would soon become the most illustrious of the Boone clan).
In July, 1757 Christopher purchased 440 acres on Elisha’s Creek from John and Magdelen Peasinger for “twenty-two pounds, ten shillings Virginia money.” This was land originally belonging to Lord Granville who owned much of what became North Carolina.
The German community in Rowan County grew up around nearby Dutchman’s Creek and became known as the Heidelberg Settlement. It was a wild, untamed country at that time, the settlers having to carry torches at night to keep wolves away.
The center of community life was Heidelberg Evangelical Lutheran Church, a log building better known as the Dutch Meeting House. According to James Wall’s History of Davie County, Christopher was a leader in the Church.
On September 22, 1767 he traveled to Salisbury, the county seat, where he appeared in the court of His Majesty’s Assistant Judge, Edmund Fanning, Esq. to become a naturalized British citizen. He swore to the following oath “I do believe in my conscience that there is not any transubstantiation in the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper or in the elements of bread and wine at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsoever, etc.”
He and Christopher, Jr. appeared in court two years later as witnesses in the trespass case of The King vs Jacob Falkner, Jr. (perhaps the Jacob Falkner of his 1756 lawsuit).
In the early 1770’s the Booe’s were visited by the Moravian missionary George Soelle. His diary refers to Christopher and his wife as “old people” and he mentions that Christopher had a brother who was a member of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia. He also visited another brother, Heinrich, who lived near Dutchman’s Creek.
This Heinrich may have been too young to be mentioned on the passenger list of the Fox in 1738 or he may have been the Heinrich who arrived from the Palatinate ten years later aboard the ship Judith.
The Heidelberg Church baptismal records show six children born to Christopher, Jr. and his wife Margetha *** between 1766 and 1778. The eldest son was Joseph, born September 7, 1771. He was eleven years old when his grandfather died. The settlement of Christopher’s estate was administered in 1783 by his daughter Margaret Neal.
Joseph and his brothers and sisters grew up in the forks of Yadkin, he and his brother Benjamin eventually owning land on Elisha’s Creek.
In the early 1800’s Joseph married Rachel Harwood. The Harwood’s lived a few miles east of the Booe Homestead. Benjamin also married a Harwood, Sarah. Later Joseph and Rachel moved several miles north and for a time lived near Salem, North Carolina.
Several children were born to them during this period. In 1807 Joseph and Rachel moved west with Benjamin and Sarah. They settled for about five years in Greenup County, Kentucky then moved to Boone County. In December 1813 they moved again, this time north to Fayette County, Indiana where they located on farms west of the west fork of the White River.
Benjamin and Sarah spent the remainder of their lives there but in 1826 Joseph and Rachel moved west again, this time to Fountain County on the western border of Indiana. They settled as farmers on Scotts Prairie and there they died, Rachel in 1845 and Joseph five years later.
