Friday, January 1, 2021

New Family Discoveries 2020

John B. Kendall, the brother of Polly Kendall (Luther's mother), moved to California after the gold rush began. He appears in the census in 1860 in Nevada City as a "miner", but later served as a Justice of the Peace, working in the courthouse on Pine St.

 


Nevada City about 1856, when John may have arrived; photo by Julia Ann Rudolph (c. 1820-c. 1900).

I made some progress in reconstructing the family of Henry Stickel and his wife Eva, including tentatively identifying descendants of their son Nicholas (a Harriet Stigler married to Joseph Leander Smith) and their daughter Polly, who may have had a son John Smith who first married Margaret Slaughter (a daughter of our ancestor Frederick Slaughter and his wife Katherine Stickel, Polly's sister) and secondly married Sarah Botts. All of them are listed in the Salem Baptist Church records in Guernsey County, Ohio.

I also found that Eva may have a connection (shared DNA segments) to the family of Leaner Fry Morgan and Enoch Fry, both of of Fauquier County Virginia. Perhaps her maiden name was Fry.

Leaner Fry Morgan died June 23, 1859.

On the Slaughter side, it appears that many Slaughters from Chester County, PA ended up in Delaware County, PA, and they may be related to our Philip Slaughter and his presumed father Jacob Slaughter. Jacob left some money to his grandson, also named Jacob. Some of these Delaware county Slaughters may have been his descendants. Some of them were cordwainers like our ancestor Philip Slaughter.

Shoemaker working in the Philadelphia Almshouse during the 1870s in this illustration by Alice Barber Stephens. (Library of Congress)


Finally, we are waiting on DNA results for a descendant of Jesse Kennedy, who seems to have been related to the father of Jackson Long.

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