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No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 23:53:58 -0400 From: "Ohio USGenWeb Archives File Manager" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <177101c24021$91ac93e0$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Fw: Lucas county Obit: Pearl M. Spaulding Recktenwald Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is a forwarded message. Please reply to "ALL" or the person/email listed below. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 11:14 PM Subject: Lucas county Ohio Obit Pearl M. Spaulding Recktenwald - died Feb. 12, 1915 MRS. PEARL M. RECTENWAL, wife of ANDREW RECTENWAL (RECKTENWALD) died at her home here last Fri. from heart trouble. She had been a life long resident of Maumee where she was born. She was 54 years old at the time of her death. The deceased was a daughter of JOHN and ELIZABETH SPAULDING. In 1881 she was united in marriage to ANDREW RECTENWAL. To this union were born ten children, eight of whom survive, together with her husband. They are Charles W. of Kalamazoo, Mich., Clyde G. of Spencerville, Ind., MRS. JESSIE THOMPSON of Buck Creek, Ind., and MRS. MABEL KUGLER, CARMEN, PEARL, BEATRICE and VIVIAN, all of Maumee. She also leaves four grandchildren. Funeral services were held at the family residence Tues. afternoon and the body placed in the mausoleum in Ft. Meigs cemetery. Submitted by Maryvance Thompson Phelps E-mail mvtphelps@aol.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 8/2/02 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 23:54:52 -0400 From: "Ohio USGenWeb Archives File Manager" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <177901c24021$b257eb80$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Fw: Lucas County Obit: Cecil Fay Rectenwal Van Rensselaer 1914 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 11:34 PM Subject: Lucas County Ohio obit Cecil Fay Rectenwal Van Rensselaer - died Mar. 3, 1914 MRS. CECIL FAY VAN RENSSELAER, wife of JOHN S. VAN RENSSELAER, passed away at the family residence on West Wayne St. Tues. evening, following the death of an infant son born Mon. MRS. VAN RENSSELAER was the daughter of ANDREW RECTENWAL and wife of this place and was the fifth of a family of nine children, hers being the first death in the family. She was 23 yrs. old at the time of her death, having been born and reared in Maumee. Her marriage to JOHN VAN RENSSELAER, a childhood friend and schoolmate, occurred Nov. 27, 1912. She was a member of the Episcopal church which she joined at the age of thirteen, and a member of the local order of the Eastern Star. Besides her husband, she leaves a father and mother, two brothers, C. W. RECTENWAL of Kalamazoo, Mich., CLYDE G. RECTENWAL of Spencerville, Ind., and six sisters, MRS. JESSIE THOMPSON of Buck Creek, Ind., MABEL, CARMEN, PEARL, BEATRICE and VIVIAN RECTENWAL, all of Maumee. Her circle of acquaintances was wide and the bereavement of the husband and relatives is one that will be deeply felt throughout the community. By her sunny spirit and ever cheerful disposition, MRS. VAN RENSSELAER had won a place in the hearts of all who made her acquaintance. Funeral services for mother and child will be held at the M.E. church this afternoon at two o'clock, REV. E.D. COOKE officiating. Both bodies will be interred in the same vault at the mausoleum at Ft. Meigs cemetery. Submitted by Maryvance Thompson Phelps E-mail mvtphelps@aol.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 8/2/02 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 00:25:43 -0400 From: "Ohio USGenWeb Archives File Manager" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <184301c24026$08903a80$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Fw: An Account in a Ledger; Know your Ohio Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit File Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E. Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 July 31, 2002 ********************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio The Kelley Family Records The Simon Perkin Records at WRHS. And Then They Went West by Darlene E. Kelley ********************************************** >From Moses Cleaveland Ledger-- "To a day spent with Perkins -- 2.00" Moses Cleaveland, Erie Company Expense account of 1799. It was very stormy that March day, but a short thick set man with a broad face, rather dark, or brown complexion, journeyed from his home in Canterbury to Norwich, Connecticut, on business with the newly formed Erie Company. Some of his acquaintances said this man looked like an Indian, and they called him OL' Molock; others, of course, addressed Moses Cleaveland by his Connecticut Militia title of General. But it was said fondly by his friends that " he was capable of going through thick or thin in the business in which he was engaged." Cleaveland's pressing business that stormy day was the employment of an agent to handle the exploration, survey, and sale of the western lands of the Erie Company. Cleaveland, Daniel Lathrop Coit, and Joseph Perkins held as Trustees of this Company more than 125,000 acres of Connecticuts Western Reserve Lands that had been drawn by the nineteen members of the Erie Company through their investment in the Connecticut Land Company, a coalition of companies formed in 1795 to purchase the property from the State of Connecticut. The members of the Erie Company wanted an agent on their land early that summer to meet the many buyers who were expected. A Company meeting had, in fact been " warned " for April 2, to settle his instructions; so it was urgent that an agent now be employed by the three Trustees. May 22, 1795, was the first time Simon Perkins had left home to travel for new countries. He was then a hardy twenty three year old who liked an outdoor life and exercise of riding on horseback. Leaving his families farm home in Lisbon, Connecticut to meet with Cleaveland, he knew his knowledge of surveying and record keeping which he carefully recorded in a small leatherbound book, he could carry in his pocket, would survive his journey. He was apparently self taught, and he had learned his experience during the three summers of his youth in New York learning how to make out land contracts, record deeds, collect debts and taxes for his relatives and friends. He soon learned their were difficulties involved in landowning; but he was convinced, as many men of that period, that land was a good investment.He was even willing to gamble on this convction, and he accepted land as part payment for his services. Besides Cleaveland, Daniel Lathrop Coit. was Treasurer-Trustee of the Company. He lived with his wife and five children in a large white gambel-roofed house in Norwich. He was forty three, a financially successful importer of drugs; and he had combined with his brother-in-law Joseph Howland and two friends, Elias and John Morgan. to invest $ 81,863 in the Western Reserve Lands. Like Cleaveland, Coit was optimistic about the future of the western country. He had pooled in the Erie Company, in fact, over 29,000 acres of his land. A beak-nosed man with a receding hairline, Coit had a gentle sense of humor and a great amount of patience with the short comings of others. He would need both humor and patience when Cleaveland and other proprieors caviled over Company affairs or divisions of, as he called it, " the promised land. " Now the third Trustee was Joseph Perkins, who was a cousin to Simon and a Brigade-Major in the Twentieth Regiment of Connecticut's Militia. The Major, uniformed in his blue coat and buff trousers, usually inspected his Regiment when it held its festive drills in front of his house on Norwich's Town Plain. The Major's occupation was that of a general store owner and a merchant-shareholder with his uncle, Andrew Perkins. They often engaged Captains Joseph Kelly and Thomas in vessels engaged in the West Indies trade. Lumber, provisions, and livestock were exported by the Andrew and Joseph Perkins Company from the wharf in that part of Norwich called Chelsea Landing; rum, molasses, sugar, wine, coffee, cotten, tobacco, indigo, and salt were brought back in the ship " Patty " operated by the above Captains and their crew from the West Indies, to be sold by the Perkins Company at its store near the Landing. Daniel Coit and The Major knew of Simon's experience as a land agent; and knowing that he came from an old and highly respected family, convinced Moses Cleaveland of Simons ability, judgement and integrity. Simon Perkins was descended from John Perkins who, according to family records, arrived in America with Roger Williams in 1631. Descendants of John Perkins had first settled in Norwich and then purchased , in 1695, a nearby thousand acre point of land between the Quinebaugh and Shetucket river. Here, partly because the difficulty of crossing the Shetucket to attend meetings in Norwich but also because of their opposition to the revivalism at one time encouraged by the Congressional Church, the Perkins family founded a separate congregation, called the Newent Society. Some members of the family, like the Major, eventually returned to Norwich to live and conduct business. Simon's branch of the family had stayed on the point that the townspeople called " Perkins Crotch " and that became part of the village of Lisbon. And so it was decided that Simon should spend March 29 with Cleaveland to discuss the Erie Company affairs. Now Cleaveland, a Yale graduate and attorney, was to draw up the Company's agreement and furnish instructions to their newly found agent. As a result of his own 1796 surveying trip as General Agent for the Connecticut Land Company, Cleaveland could give Simon first hand information about conditions on the Reserve. Since he was a Director of the Connecticut Land Company as well as a Trustee of the Erie Company, he could in addition, acquaint Simon with the history of the property and the problems involved in its sale and settlement. So thus the entry was recorded in General Moses Cleavelands Ledger-- " To a day spent with Perkins --- 2.00 March 29." **************************************************************************** ****************** --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 8/3/02 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 00:29:56 -0400 From: "Ohio USGenWeb Archives File Manager" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <185301c24026$98483880$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Fw: Simon Perkins, Surveying Book, 1795. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit File Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Darlene E.Kelley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00026.html#0006374 August 2, 2002. ********************************************** Historical Collections of Ohio The Kelley Family Records The Simon Perkins Records at WRHS container # 72. And Then They Went West by Darlene E. Kelley ********************************************** Simon Perkins, Surveying Book, 1795. " July 4, 1798-- Arrived at the mouth of Conneott." It was a illustrious and successful group that gathered at the Norwich Court House on April 2 at one o'clock for the first " warned " meeting of the Erie Company. The business at Chelsea Landing expanded. Some town grants, had come to an end and business in Norwich was booming. Chelsea Landing became a focal point in merchant trades and many ships were used in the shipping business. Some of this group that had gathered -- The Major ( Joseph Perkins ), Colonel Christopher Leffingwell, Joseph Howland, Joseph Williams, and Lynde McCurdy, had been associated during the Revolution in a short lived organization that seized and sold for charitable purposes all the smuggled British goods they could discover. Colonel Leffingwell, a dignified looking man, had also distinquished himself during the Revolution for his service as a member of the Committee of Correspondence and for his bravery as Captain of a light infantry troop which had gone to the defense of neighboring New London. He was well established in Norwich in building a paper mill, a chocolate mill, and a highly successful stocking weaving factory, with a yearly production of twelve to fifteen hundred pairs of worsted, cotten, linen, and silk stockings.[ The Norwich Jubilee-- " Historical Discourse, " by Daniel Coit Gilman.] WRHS. Joseph Howland and Joseph Williams were equally successful in the shipping business. Howland owned, with some of his relatives, the ship " Charlotte" which had been built at Chelsea Landing much earlier, and a fleet of brigs, schooners, and sloops which carried livestock and other cargo to the West Indies, which became so well known that in 1801 and 1802, the warring British and French would seek contacts with him to supply their forces in the West Indies. [ Francis Manwaring Calkins " History of Norwich, Conn.] Joseph Williams was the principal owner of six trading vessels, one of which the " Snow" was made at Chelsea Landing and Joseph Kelly's son Joseph was killed on in a ship board explosion near the Barbadoes and buried there. Williams vessels were primarily engaged in the West Indies trade, but his sloop " Prosperity " carried on a profitble trade with the northern ports of South America. Several others in this group were like the Major, sucessful merchants; from Lynde McCurdy one could buy fine broadcloths, laces, and even Indian, Damascus and Persian silks; from John Kinsman, brother-in-law to Simon and Representative in the Connecticut General Assembly, one could buy a hat made in Kinsman's own shop. Among the illustrious of the group there was , in addition to Zephaniah Swift, Senator Uriah Tracy. Tracy owned a store in Norwich with Joseph Coit, also a member of the Erie Company. and was an attorney, a former member of Connecticut's General Assembly, and a congressional associate of Hamilton, Ames, and Adams. And there was also Samuel Huntingham Jr, the adopted son, nephew, and namesake of the late Samuel Huntington who had signed the Declaration of Independence and for more than ten years had been the Governor of Connecticut. The junior Huntington had been educated at Darmouth and Yale, had traveled in Europe, and was in 1798 an attorney in Norwich with offices in the Courthouse. With his background and education he had a sucessful political career in Connecticut. Asahel and Jabez Adams, Penuel Cheney, Erastus and Thomas Huntington, Daniel Lathop, and William Wheeler Williams completed the membership of the Erie Company. As might be expected, the nineteen proprietors were very demanding in their instructions to Simon Perkins. According to the documents drawn up by Cleaveland, Simon was to be on the land in July and continue there three months and longer if the business of the Company should require, employing his time in selling, surveying, laying out and exploring. The Company agreed to pay Simon, two dollars per day and his necessary expenses for supplies, provisions, a horse,and men hired or employed in the services of the Company. But Simon, on his part, agreed to purchase one thousand acres of the lands in the said Reserve at a price of $ 1.50 for the first 240 acres and $ 1.00 per acre thereafter. The land was to be selcted in two tracts within specified townships and he was to settle on one of the said tracts of the said land, or in his room to have settled thereon a family, and also another family on the other tract within one year, and build on each tract a good log or frame house and clear and sow with English grain six acres the first year, on the first mentioned tract. If there be good mill seats on either of the tracts he selected, Simon was also to build in one year a sawmill and in two years a gristmill. The option Simon had, relevant to this land, was that he need not contract for more acreage the first summer than the amount of his wages. If the selling, surveying, laying out, exploring, settling, and building duties were not enough, Simon was also instructed to find William Wheeler Williams, one of the Erie Company proprietors who had decided to settle on the Reserve and would precede Simon there. Because the Company was anxious to promote settlement, they had agreed that Williams might take in one parcel the nearly 1,300 acres to which his investment entitled him and to thus sever his connection with the Company. On his part Williams had agreed to take three men on the land to build a log house, and clear as much land and get in the ground from twenty to forty acres of wheat. In the summer following ( 1799 ) he was to build a gristmill and a sawmill, in the township of his choosing. When Simon found Williams, he was to measure off the land he had chosen and see to it that he was fulfilling his Erie Company agreement. The terms of sale Simon was to follow were as demanding as his duties, considering the shortage of money in the country and the physical difficulties involved in settling a new land. He was restricted from selling any land at less than a $1 per acre, and he was to secure five to ten percent of the purchase money or a note on interest at the time of sale. The balance of payment were to be due in three years, with interest compounded at six percent, due annually. In addition he was to do settling duties, not less than those for which he was conditioned. The insurrountable conditions of the proprietors requests of the Company and the stipulations that Simon could give purchasers were upon the fulfillment of the terms of purchase, a deed that would only " so far a warranty as to warrant all the title that the State of Connecticut had to the land." Since the title of Connecticut was by no means warrented, protential settlers would soon prove wary of purcashing land in the Reserve, and would turn elsewhere for settlement. Simon had to be optimistic about the future of the western country, and the protential value of of the Western Reserve lands when he signed on April 14, as to the terms imposed by the Erie Company. To leave his comfortable home to go into wild, unexplored and lawless country, became a challenge, that only he could endure. He never could turn down a good challenge. Finally on April 19, with the best wishes of Cleaveland, the Major, and Daniel Coit for his "prosperity, health, and return," Simon left home for the "New Connecticut." His way first took him first to the Connecticut Land Company's office in the Hartford Courthouse where on April 24, he copied from Ephrain Root's notes the division the Company had established for Township 8, Range 7, which was then called Canton and would later be called Claridon. This township was owned jointly by Daniel Coit, Uriel Holmes, Nathaniel Patch, and Martin Smith. The division of the township would be disputed by Holmes, who would claim that his share was mostly worthless swamp and his equalizing land without value. Simon's attempt to settle this dispute so that the land could be brought into market would be the first of many long and bitter land disputes he would handle during his years on the Reserve. >From Hartford, Simon proceeded to Oswego, New York, where he employed James Pumpelly, Rueben Forgason, and Daniel McQuigg to assist him in surveying the Erie Company lands. Here too he bought a supply of kettles, pans, and tin cups for himself and his men and arranged to have their provisions of flour, pork,and wheat shipped from Oswego to the Reserve, via Oswego to Niagara, where every item had to be unloaded and carried by land around the falls, and thence to Presque Isle. On June 21, Simon proceeded with his surveyors, according to Elisha Whittlesey's account of the journey " through the wilderness of Western New York to Buffalo, where they obtained a batteau with which they coasted up Lake Erie." Finally, on July 4,1798, Simon and his party " arrived at the mouth of Conneott." *********************************************** Note ** It was exactly two years before that Moses Cleaveland's party of fifty men. women and children took possession of the Connecticut Reserve by encamping at this same creek. In commemoration of the beginning of the settlement of the " good and promised land, which in time may raise her head amongst the most enlightened & improved States," Cleaveland's party christened the spot Port Independence and "fired a Federal Salute of 15 rounds & then the 16th in honor of the New Connecticut. " No such celebration marked Simon's arrival in 1799, but it was neverless an important day, as Simon would influence the settlement and development of the Western Reserve." [Col Elisha Whittlesey.] *********************************************** --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 8/3/02 ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 04:31:34 -0400 From: "Ohio USGenWeb Archives File Manager" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <1b5b01c24048$5a09a640$0300a8c0@local.net> Subject: [OH-FOOT] Fw: Obit - Martha Jane Jordan Bollinger, Miami Co., OH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marvel" To: Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 11:43 AM Subject: Obit - Martha Jane Jordan Bollinger, Miami Co., OH Please post. The Emporia Gazette, Emporia (Lyon Co.) KS, Jan. 4, 1923 MRS. MARTHA BOLLINGER DEAD. Mrs. Martha J. Bollinger died this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J.E. Crawford* (sic), six miles northeast of Emporia. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the First Methodist church. Rev. Mr. McVey, of Neosho Rapids, will conduct the services. *Daughter was Mrs. J. E. CARPENTER, not Crawford The Emporia Gazette, Emporia KS, Jan. 6, 1923 FUNERAL OF MRS. BOLLINGER. Funeral services for Mrs. MARTHA J. BOLLINGER, who died Thursday, were held yesterday afternoon at the Methodist church. Rev. Mr. McVEY, of Neosho Rapids, conducted the services. Interment was in the Neosho Rapids Cemetery. The pallbearers were: HARRY BOLLINGER, CHARLES BOLLINGER, ROY CARPENTER, FRANK CARPENTER, HERBERT BOLLINGER, and COLVIN COWEN (sic). Mrs. Bollinger’s maiden name was MARTHA JANE JORDON (sic). She was born at Miami, Ohio, August 4, 1842, and was married to EPHRIAM BOLLINGER in 1865. Mrs. Bollinger is survived by six children; *Miss(sic) Ora E. Bollinger, W.F. Bollinger, and J.L. Bollinger, of Neosho Rapids; Mrs. Mary L. Carpenter and Mrs. Cora Cowen, of Emporia; and Mrs. Ella M. Alman, of Los Angeles, Calif. Twenty-one grandchildren also survive. *Ora E. Bollinger (son) Thanks, Marvel Bollinger Delahaye mbollinger@eatel.net --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 8/3/02 -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V02 Issue #165 *******************************************