Genevieve Mary Fish Vaundell- Today February 21, 2016 a post on Ticonderoga Historical Society Face Book Page.

Today February 21, 2016 a post on Ticonderoga Historical Society Face Book Page.

Here is the link to the Ticonderoga Historical Society website---

http://ticonderogahistoricalsociety.org/ticonderogas-old-roads/#comment-6283

from their Museum collection

[1]Here in Ticonderoga we may say with truth that we are still using one of America's oldest roads. The carry from Lake George to the navigable water below the lower falls was used from a time to which the memory of man runneth not as a highway for the north and south travel thru the wilderness.  Much of our village street known as The Portage follows this ancient path. 

This article brought up wonderful memories of my Mom (Genevieve Fish Vaundell) who lived in Ticonderoga as a young girl until her Mom Emma Georgiana (Howe ) Fish Ash, age 47 died in 1928 when Genevieve was 13 yrs. old. 

Words like "the Portage", “Weedsville School”, paper mill”, “Alexandria”, “Hague”, “Chilson Hill”, and many more: brought memories of my mom talking about her early childhood The happiest and  best years of her life growing up in Ticonderoga, New York according to her.

I can remember when our family visited there in the summer my Mom always saying she was "going back home."  My mom passed away 4 yrs. ago at the age of 97. Thanks to the Ticonderoga Historical Society, Arthur Carr,  and mom for the memories.

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[1] This paper was researched and written by Arthur Carr.  It was read at a meeting of the Ticonderoga Historical Society on February 5, 1962. 

George F. Howe, Minnie Miola Howe/ Emma Georgiana Howe, Susan Ellen Howe

The above is taken from my Legacy Family Tree genealogy software program. Hopefully it will help explain why I needed the records from the Ticonderoga Town clerk's office.
George Howe's first daughter Minnie Miola Howe with his first wife Emma Sartwell is my biological great-grandmother.
Emma Georgianna Howe, his 2nd child is my mom's (adopted mother) in my mom's words "real mother". I will write more about her another time.
Susan Ellen Howe, his 3rd child is the marriage and obituary from previous post (May 20) was the record I sent away for.

The records have arrived-

1. was it worth the money
2. will I be doing a genealogy happy dance or will it just be another bump in the road of this genealogist's hunt to track down the family history.

Yes I am jumping up and down right out of my shoes!

The following is the Transcription of the marriage record:
For genealogical purposes only
A certified transcript from the register of marriages in the town clerks of Ticonderoga county of Essex state of New York date of marriage 03-08-1900, husband Harry Hall, residence Ticonderoga, date of birth N/A, occupation laborer, husband's birthplace Ticonderoga, NY, father's name  Charles Hall, mother's maiden name Fanny Gorman, first marriage, wife Susan Ellen Howe, residence Ticonderoga, NY, date of birth N/A, birthplace Bridport, VT, father's name George Howe, mother's maiden name Ida Sartwell, first marriage, name of person and official position solomnizing marriage Orville Phillips, place of marriage Ticonderoga, NY, when registered  March 14, 1900 number 43.
This is the marriage record of the 3rd child of my great grandfather.

The following is the Transcription of the other marriage record I sent for:
For genealogical purposes only
A Certified Transcript from the Register of Marriages in the Town Clerks of Ticonderoga, NY, County of Essex, state of New York, date of marriage 11-24-1915Robert Anderson residence Ticonderoga NY, date of birth N/A, occupation Carpenter, husband's birthplace Peru NY, father's name Carrol Anderson, mother's maiden name Ruth Brooks, 1st marriage, wife name Clara Hall, residence Ticonderoga, NY, date of birth N/A, occupation housekeeping, wife's birthplace Ticonderoga, NY, father's name Harry Hall, mother's maiden name Susie Howe, first marriage, person and official position solomnizing marriage D. F. Blackmere, place of marriage Crown Point, NY, registered 11/24 /1915, number 339.
This is the marriage of Clara Hall, Harry and Susan Ellen's daughter which I will tie in when I write more about my mom's mother Emma Georgianna Howe the second child of George F Howe. One of the most important persons in the Howe genealogy family history story.

Susan Ellen Howe, Harry Hall - Why important to review your notes

Candy tuft 2015 taken by Genevieve De Haan

I have heard it many times from many different speakers. It is very important to go over your past notes in your research. But I was quite surprised the other day when I was going through research notes that my sister and I had done in a previous research trip to Ticonderoga New York a couple years ago. We had gone  to the Ticonderoga  Historical Society in the historic Hancock house at 6 Moses Circle, Ticonderoga, N.Y. 12883  http://ticonderogahistoricalsociety.org/
Judy was taking notes on the index of the Ticonderoga Sentinel newspapers. Going over her notes last week I found the following:

         George Howe c Hall, Mrs. Susie
         file 1874-1919 HIK-KYl
         died at Chilson December 24, 1917 age 33 wife of 
         Harry Hall, dau. of Mr. and Mrs. George Howes of 
         Ticonderoga Surv. husband, six children, parents + 
          two sisters

If you are like me you are just in "overload" when you come back from a research trip trying to digest all the wonderful things you have discovered. So looking back, I guess I did not have my "thinking cap" on so just went over our notes and then filed everything away in their proper files to look over at a later date. Boy oh boy was I ever surprised about the above information I have been sitting on for quite a some time now, so when I looked over it "bells and whistles" went off in my head and I immediately went to the following website http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/ to search the newspaper for Susie's (Susan Ellen) obituary and then the announcement of her marriage.
Her marriage is in the Ticonderoga sentinel. (Ticonderoga, Essex County, N.Y.) 188?-1982, March 15, 1900, Page 7, Image 7 - NYS Historic Newspapers.

             Transcription Chilson - Harry Hall and 
                                      Miss Susie Howe, 
                                      were united in marriage by 
                                      Orville Phillips last Thursday evening.

Her obituary http://bit.ly/1cLAR6J
Ticonderoga sentinel. (Ticonderoga, Essex County, N.Y.) 188?-1982, January 03, 1918, Page 6, Image 6 - NYS Historic Newspapers.

I believe that I'm on to something very important here. So I e-mailed the Ticonderoga Town Clerk's office to see if they had a marriage record for Harry Hall and Susie Howe.
Also on a hunch, after e-mailing and talking to the Crown Point's Town Clerk I asked the Ticonderoga Town Clerk's office to see if they had the marriage record for a Robert Anderson and a Clara Hall (I will explain why later). After many e-mails back and forth trying to make sure it was my family. They said that I needed to sent them $22.00/each for a genealogical purposes only Certified Transcript and a copy of my Driver's License.

Before spending any money I wanted to be quite sure that I had the right family, so I checked the entire 1900 US Federal Census of the Town of Ticonderoga. There were 63 pages that I went through one by one and I could only find one Howe family listed in the Town of Ticonderoga, so I felt that it was a pretty safe assumption it would be money well spent.
Ancestry.com. Year: 1900; Census Place: Ticonderoga, Essex, New York; Roll: 1035; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 0052; FHL microfilm: 1241035

I promptly sent them a check for $44.00 and held my breath that it would be my families record. Because in New York you are not allowed to know or see what is on the record before you pay for it. I will let you know my results next week as they arrived today.

Before I Continue on My Quest for the Nolan Ancestors

WRITE IT DOWN

For me, I think it is very helpful to gather all my research and start composing the information into a story. Once I do that I am able to see where I am missing important clues to create a genealogical sketch that other people can follow and make sense of.

That happened when I started working on my first article “George F. Howe of Bridport, Vermont, Ticonderoga, NY, and Worcester, Massachusetts” that I entered in the MASSOG Writing Contest in 2010. I didn’t win, but my goal was to get my article published, which was accomplished in the “MASSOG”,[1] Summer issue, 2011. That whole experience was quite humbling, with some highs and lows, but I wouldn’t trade the experience for the anything. From the very start of going to the classes with some of the other participants, learning the basics of how to write an article, sharing our articles with each other, and thinking how much better the other people articles were; then submitting my work I learnt so much. All of the participants were very helpful in critiquing each other’s articles, thus making it a worthwhile learning experience. 

When the MASSOG Editorial Board accepted my article for publication that is when the real work began.  They are extremely professional and taught me the proper way to cite my facts. I really learned a lot from them. My hat goes off to all of them for doing a great job as dedicated volunteer s. They were extremely patient. Thanks to all of you.

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[1] Genealogical Journal for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts published 3 times a year, Massachusetts Society of Genealogists, Inc.

Copies of their Birth Records

Here is a copy of the birth record of a John Sorell, Jr. from the Vermont Vital Records 1760-1954 found on FamilySearch.org              Hinesburgh TWP, Chittenden Co., Vermont

Copy of Birth Certificate for Minnie Miola Howe's birth certificate on file at the Bridport, Addison, Co., Vermont,           vol 2, p. 11

 It reads Minnie Miola Howe born Nov 12,1878, father George Howe born in Bridport, Carpenter, mother Emma Sartwell Howe, born Ticonderoga, NY.

Minnie Miola Howe was born in Bridport, Addison County, Vermont on 12 November 1978[1] the child of George Howe, a carpenter, born in Bridport, Vermont according to her birth certificate and Emma Sartwell born in Ticonderoga, New York. Emma was probably the “Emily,” age 10 in the 1860 census of Ticonderoga, among seven children of Darwin and Ellen Sartwell.[2] Her parents were most likely married in 1877 0r 1878, probably in Ticonderoga or Crown Point, Essex County, New York. Emma died in Bridport on 18 December 1878 of obthsis pulmonalis at the age 26 years 9 months and 18 days old, probably as a complication of childbirth.[3]

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[1] Birth Record, Bridport, Vt. Town Clerk, 2:11, copy in the author’s possession; Yoder, Update, 1:170

[2] In 1860 at Ticonderoga, Essex Co., N.Y., Darwin and Ellen Sartwell both age 39, with seven children including Emily, age 10. Yoder, Update, 1:170  says she is the daughter of Darwin and Mary (St. John) Sartwell.

[3] Vermont State Vital Records, born in Ticonderoga, daughter of Darwin and Mary (St. John) Sartwell.

Marriage Certificate

The Marriage certificate reads as follows:

John Sorell of Monckton, Vermont and Minnie M. Howe of Monckton, Vermont were united in the bonds of MARRIAGE at Crown Point, Essex Co., New York on the thirteenth day of October in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-four comfortably to the ordinance of God and the Laws of the State.[1]

According to the Town Books at the Crown Point town clerk’s office-John Sorell’s parents are listed as Mary LaRose and John Sorell and he is 28 years of age.  The only birth record that I could find for a John Sorell born to parents with the above names was born 5 Oct 1862 in Hinesburg, Vermont, [2] which would have made him 32 years old at the time of their marriage.

Minnie M. Howe is listed as age 17, and parents are Ida Sartwell and John Howe.[3] 

Minnie Miola Howe was born in Bridport, Vermont 12 Nov 1878, [4] which would have make her just shy of her 16^th birthday. It would appear that they both lied about their age. It was apparently very common in those days to marry young girls to much older established men.

At the moment I can’t prove anything to determine whether this is the John Sorell that married my great grandmother, Minnie. It is a possibility as Monckton, Vermont is not far from Hinesburg or Bridport and they are all in Addison County, Vermont.

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[1] Copy in my possession

[2] Vital Records, Hinesburg, Addison Co., Vt. Book 1, p. 29

[3] Vital Records, Crown Point, Essex Co., N.Y. marriage record in my possession

[4] Vital Records, Bridport, Addison Co., VT. Birth records, p. 7