Lewis Burwell Puller
Lt. Gen. Lewis Burwell Puller, known as Chesty, is the most decorated US Marine ever. Included in his medals were five Navy Crosses, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star,…
Crossroads
Peter Teeple's son Pellum tells an anecdote in The Aylmer Express article of December 7, 1933 about the Mabee and Teeple families (see Part 1). In 1825 he went with…
Mabee and Teeple Families
Below is a story about the Mabee and Teeple UEL families of southwestern Ontario. Peter Teeple was the son-in-law of Frederick Mabee and Lavinia Pelham. The author, W. B. Waterbury,…
Mabee Family Tree 2
Additional Generations and Notes on Tree Below are notes giving additional details and/or the children of specific individuals in my Mabee family tree. As I explained on the main tree,…
Heavrin McDonald
Ernest Heavrin McDonald, 24 Oct 1884 to 04 Nov 1885 Curdsville, Daviess County, Kentucky. Buried McCain Cemetery, Curdsville. Fifth child of Hiram Columbus and Sarah Clementine (Brogan) McDonald. Sarah wrote…
McDonald Family Tree Notes
Notes for McDonald Family Tree Notes with MS are by Marjorie Smock Stewart, original creator of this tree. Those with DS are by me. 1. Notes for Joseph Hiram McDonald:…
Seven Brothers
Seventy years ago, in 1954, seven brothers lived quietly on their family farm near Port Stanley in Elgin County. They shared it with their three sisters. None of them ever…
Fingal Cemetery, Fingal, Elgin County ON Google Maps
Burwell UEL Marker, Fingal
In my clippings file is this St. Thomas Times-Journal article from 2007. It is about a marker in the Fingal Cemetery honouring the Burwell UEL family of Elgin County. UEL…
Smock Family Tree 2
My late mother-in-law, Marji Smock Stewart, did this genealogy of the Smock family. I have added to it, and it has become too large to put on one page. So…
Family Trees
Family Trees~ Some of the family trees (listed below) are large, so may take some time to load. Anger Mabee McConkey Burwell Lymburner Stewart (KY) Brown (KY) Smock (KY) McDonald…
Lymburner Reunion 1936
A reader sent a photo of a Lymburner Family Reunion in 1936. Thanks so very much, Linda. In the detail above, you see the oldest person present. She is #104,…
Finding the Rivers
"Climbing the Hills and Finding the Rivers" is a manuscript by Marji Smock Stewart and husband Bill Stewart. Their life stories, written for their family.
Farm Aerials
My Anger grandparents and aunts and uncles had large aerial photographs of their properties hanging in their living rooms. Always pride of place. I loved them. We didn’t have one,…
Christmas Song
Eighty years ago my grandfather, Charles Hercules Burwell, wrote this Christmas song. My mother said that, in November 1941, she spent the evening before her wedding getting her dad's copy…
Hugh Love, St. Stephen NB
From the obituary of Hugh Love, born 24 January 1859 and died 25 June 1936 in St. Stephen, Charlotte County, New Brunswick: St. Stephen lost one of its best known…
Mrs. Elizabeth Keckley
Mrs. Elizabeth Keckley was fashion stylist to the stars of Washington DC in the mid-1800s. As dressmaker and companion of Mary Todd Lincoln, she worked in the White House during…
After the farm
Final part of Marji Smock Stewart's Finding the Rivers. The years on the farm (1960-1969), the academic years (1968-1982), seven years in Henderson (1985-1992, then ten years moving from place…
Ohio County Farm
By Marji Smock Stewart, from Climbing the Hills and Finding the Rivers. This continues her story on from Just the Three of Us. The weather New Year's day in 1960…
Just The Three Of Us
By Marji Smock Stewart, from Climbing the Hills and Finding the Rivers. This continues her story on from 35 Cent Grilled Cheese. I kept working well into my pregnancy. At…
John C. Mabee Stakes
The John C. Mabee Stakes is a 9 furlong Grade II turf race for fillies and mares at the Del Mar track in San Diego County, California. John C. Mabee…
In The Army Now
Bill Stewart received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Minnesota on December 18, 1941 (See Pt. 2). That was 11 days after Pearl Harbor was bombed.…
Kentucky to Minnesota
My grandmother Amanda Chappell Stewart died 06 December 1923. She was born on 03 October 1859; thus she lived 64 years. She lived in Ohio County approximately eight miles from…
Brown Family Tree
Roswell R Brown Family 1897. Bill Stewart wrote names on the back, from L-R. I have added reference numbers from the tree. Some dates don't match, so either the date…
Pellville, Kentucky
Written by Bill Stewart, my late father-in-law. It's in a life history that he and his wife Marji Smock Stewart wrote. Her part is called Finding the Rivers. His is…
Stewart Family Tree
Robert Stewart and son Bill with trout they caught in July 1957. Grandparents, parents and grandson camping in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. Ninety-two trout were caught and eaten…
Sam Anger, Fiddler
Sam Anger was "the best durn fiddle player in seventeen counties." That's what an ad for Winger's Crescent Park Entertainers called him. He worked as a blacksmith in Ridgeway, just…
Lum and Sarah McDonald
By Marji Smock Stewart, Finding the Rivers. The conclusion of her mother's parents Lum and Sarah (Brogan) McDonald's story. My grandfather Lum owned a small farm near Curdsville KY and…
English Channel 1944
William Stewart, a US Army Air Force Captain in World War II, tells about his flight across the English Channel on December 15, 1944. Enemy planes were a risk, yes,…
Sarah Brogan McDonald
By Marji Smock Stewart in Finding the Rivers. This is the maternal side of her family history, centring on Sarah Brogan. My grandmother was Sarah Clementine Brogan McDonald. She was…
McDonald Family Tree
Daughters of Hiram Columbus "Lum" and Sarah (Brogan) McDonald, about 1910 in Daviess County, Kentucky. From left, front: Lattie Baird, Clara "Doll" Humphrey. Back: Celeste "Luss" (later Steele), Elizabeth (later…
35 Cent Grilled Cheese
Part VII, Finding the Rivers, Marji Stewart: Grilled cheese fortunes Our trip out west in 1946 was a real honeymoon. We were gone a month or longer and made some…
1945 A Year to Remember
Part VI, Finding the Rivers, Marji Smock Stewart: 1945 My final year of high school (1944-1945) was at Owensboro Senior High. It was not especially outstanding. I felt older than…
River Pilot, Air Pilot
Part V, Finding the rivers, Marji Smock Stewart: River Pilot, Air Pilot Let me explain a bit about working on the river. The crew had to stay on 24 hours…
Smocks on the Ohio River
Part IV, Finding the rivers, Marji Smock Stewart: Back to the Ohio River We left Texas in the summer of 1938, heading back to the river. We must have looked…
Smocks in Gladewater TX
Part III, Finding the Rivers, by Marji Smock Stewart: Gladewater TX In 1936 we moved to East Texas, to Gladewater where oil had been discovered. Uncle Ben [McDonald] and his…
Smocks at Bagnell Dam
Part II, Finding the Rivers, by Marji Smock Stewart: Bagnell Dam MO I regret that I did not ask Daddy to tell me about taking the Sarah Mac to Missouri.…
Monroe Smock, Kentucky
Dr. Marji Smock Stewart, my late mother-in-law, wrote her family story for her son and grandsons. She called it "Finding the Rivers." She shared it with other family members too…
Smock Family Tree
My late mother-in-law, Marji Smock Stewart, did the work on this genealogy of the Smock family from Kentucky. That's her in the photo above, age 9 in 1936. The wedding…
Murel Anger, Mail Carrier
In 1972 my mother wrote this Dorchester Signpost article about her mother-in-law's retirement from rural mail delivery. Mom was the weekly's Belmont reporter. She put it in her scrapbook with…
Lymburner DNA Project
Guest post by Gordon Revey Hello fellow Lymburners! I am reaching out to people in my known Lymburner family and others that fall under John Jay Lymburner. He was the…
Harness Racing Mabees
Looking into a branch of the Mabee family led me to harness racing in Tillsonburg during the early decades of the 1900s. Three names stood out: Jack M. Climie, Charles…
Bush Pilot Red Lymburner
Googling a Lymburner ancestor recently, I noticed Red Lymburner in the search results. Bush pilot, Antarctica and Mount Lymburner. So I read more. His full name was James Harold Lymburner,…
DNA Tests
I first saw DNA tests at London Ont's Pawlooza dog festival, in 2010 I think. They were tests to find out what breeds were in the genetic structure of any…
P. L. Robertson
Red Robbie, green Robbie. If you know what that means, you're a Canadian. Or a connoisseur of screws and screwdrivers. The Robertson screw and screwdriver, with square socket heads, the…
Eden Line
My grandmother wrote this short history of the Burwell family on Eden Line in Bayham Township, Elgin County, Ontario. My guess is she wrote it about 1966. I came across…
Frederick Anger, Welland or Wisconsin
The History of the County of Welland, Ontario: Its past and present 1887 James E. Anger, publisher and proprietor of the Niagara Falls Review, and Rev. William H. Anger, principal…
Goderich Postcards
My grandmother's parents, Matthias and Emily Lymburner, lived for a few years in Goderich, Ontario. These are postcards sent from their early days there in 1911. General View of Goderich…
Maria Burwell Johnson 1835-1938
Aunt Maria (pronounced Mariah) Burwell Johnson was my grandfather's aunt. Born near Fingal and died near Eden, she homesteaded in Michigan during the Civil War and later had a fruit…
Newspaper Clippings
My mother kept a lot of newspaper clippings, and pasted them in scrapbooks. These ones date from the 1940s on. They are about family and our towns as well as…
Dad’s Homemade Tow Truck
My brother asked if there were pictures of Dad's tow truck in Mom's photo albums. We only found one, with Bing the service station dog inside. My brother told me…
William Anger and Emma Nie
(William Anger and Emma Nie 1958, text below) Their Wedding 70 Years Ago Two lifelong residents of this district will be celebrating the 70th anniversary of their wedding day this…
James Burwell UEL
Confused by many men centuries ago named Samuel, Adam, John and James Burwell in my database, I gave up trying to sort them out. I then picked up my mother's…
Earls of Grantham
Below is the lineage of the Earls of Grantham. The family name is Crawley, and their home is Downton Abbey in Yorkshire. It is a fictional family in a television…
Visits to the Grandparents
“Minnie and Charlie’s daughter must be visiting. I saw that strange girl of hers, and the dog’s gone.” Now, over forty years later, that’s what I imagine people on Pine…
Burwells in US & Canada
There is a Burwell family in southwestern Ontario and one in Virginia. No one is sure if they're related. I wonder if the link might be through Burwells in Connecticut.…
VE Day 70th
May 8th 1945, VE Day marked the end of one part of World War II. Victory in Europe. War with Japan continued until two atomic bombs were dropped in July.…
Burwell Bible
I have never seen the Bible that belonged to my great-grandparents Hercules and Ada Ann Burwell. But I know what was written in it, thanks to their daughter-in-law, and my…
Burwell Photos
See Burwell family tree here. Ada and Ruby, daughters of Charles and Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell, in London 1944. Wow! C. H. Burwell Cement Products on corner of Tillson Ave. and…
Anger Photos
See Anger Family Tree. A great-grandson of Lydia Alice Anger (1866-1943) and William Henry Sherk (1862-1897) sent me these four photos of their family. Thanks! Lydia Anger in 1889 at…
Lymburner Photos
Click for Lymburner Family Tree. Ada and Ruby, daughters of Charles and Minnie (Lymburner) Burwell, in London 1944. Wow! C. H. Burwell Cement Products on corner of Tillson Ave. and Pine…
Mabee Photos
Mabee Family Tree McConkey Family Tree Four daughters of Leonard Alexander McConkey and Eliza Harrison. The relatives it came from are not quite sure who is…
The Uncles’ Great War
An uncle and two great-uncles are my touchstones for the First World War. The one I knew best was Charles Scanlon, husband of my mother's older sister Ada. He was 20…
Battle of Ridgeway
Today marks a bizarre incident in Canadian history. Irish-Americans invaded Canada, planning to hold it hostage as leverage to end British rule in Ireland. My family's farmhouse was smack-dab in…
G. Frederick Anger UEL
In colonial times Georg Frederick Anger, a native of Germany, lived on the Susquehannah River in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. During the American Revolution he joined Butler’s Rangers at Fort Niagara.…
McConkey Family Tree
I was told by my aunts that this photo is Emma Jane McConkey's father's mother in the 1830s. That would be Andrew's wife Lorana. She would have been in her…
Austin Anger, a story
My cousin Lynda Sykes wrote this story about our grandfather Austin Anger. She and her mother had dug out some old family pictures. Among them was the one here of…
That Good Night
I have always loved Dylan Thomas’ exhortation to his dying father: Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Yes, I thought,…
Poems by C. H. Burwell
It took a year but I have my grandfather’s poems in pdf format. If you would like to print it out, click here and download the file links on the…
C. H. Burwell Poems
Each link below goes to a pdf of pages of my grandfather's poetry book, 3rd edition, published 1974. C. H. Burwell: Poems 1974 ed. 3 PDF format - new as…
Mabee Graves
These are the gravestones of Nancy Mabee Ostrander and her family at Jackson Cemetery near Courtland, Ontario. Len Fluhrer, a London local history writer, sent me the photos. He took…
Anger by name…
Years ago, I was in a public library in Los Angeles and found reference books on family histories. I looked up my family name, Anger. It said the name came…
United Empire Rebels
A couple weeks ago, I posted the family tree of the Mabees, my paternal grandmother’s people. It’s the family I knew least about, other than there are a lot of…
Mabee Family Tree
William Pinckney and Mary (Sinclair) Mabee, seated in middle, with their nine children. It commemorates the wedding of a daughter, seated at right beside her new husband. He holds their…
Mabee’s Corners
My cousin Lynda Sykes wrote this about her visit to Mabee's Corners many years ago, after reading about my ‘sighting’ of the road sign for it. She graciously gave me…
Remembering
Every Remembrance Day, I am remembering my father. George Anger was a WWII veteran. In December of 1942 he went overseas and he returned home in October 1945. He was…
Anger Family Tree
Austin and Murel (Mabee) Anger, my grandparents, outside their home near Union, Elgin County, Ontario June 1943. Grandma wrote on the back, "Dad and I ready to go to city".…
Lymburner Family Tree
The family of Matthias Lymburner at Midland, Ontario July 1, 1929. Seated, parents Matthias Lymburner (age 64), Mary Emily (Vaughan) Lymburner (age 65). Standing, Otto Lymburner (age 32), Countess Lymburner…
Ada Norton Burwell and family 1910
Burwell Family Tree
Burwell family, Dec. 26th 1910. Back row, from left, brothers Silas, Wilson, Peter and Fred. Middle row, from left, Silas' wife Alice (Kennedy), brother Charles and wife Minnie May (Lymburner),…
Genealogy
Family Trees~ Some of the family trees (listed below) are large, so may take some time to load. Anger Mabee McConkey Burwell Lymburner Stewart (KY) Brown (KY) Smock (KY) McDonald…