Perhaps mystery is too strong a word, but I’m trying to figure out why/how my grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Murdock, went from her home in Crown Point New York out to Ohio in 1880 and subsequently married my grandfather, Charles Dana Miller.
Charles had been a widower since his young wife had died in 1869 leaving him with 2 young children. Charles lived and worked in Mount Vernon, Knox County. He was a member of a large family, being the 9th child of James Miller and Sarah Warner. James and Sarah had migrated from Vermont to Mount Vernon Ohio earlier in the 1800’s. Crown Point New York borders Vermont and it is possible that the Crown Point Murdock family would know some of the Miller family who had migrated West. Family contacts or friends.
What I am postulating is that my grandmother as a 17 year old girl heard word that my 42 year old widowed grandfather wanted a housekeeper or a tutor for his teenage children. Up to that point possibly the children had been looked after by members of Charles’ extended family or by his deceased wife’s family.
So I am consulting the U.S. Census records for the years 1870 and 1880 to see if I can find any trace of the children Charles Dion Miller and Lucy Jewett Miller.
here’s my big chart 24″ x 36″, 9 generations starting with me and then read from left to right, my parents and then my grandparents
Dad’s childhood home Buena Vista Hill Newark Ohio
This is the house where my grandparents lived. I’m told it’s still there.
What better thing to do than to examine your friend’s Pokemon card collection?
And then the bus was sighted and there was a scramble to form a line
An orderly procession onto the bus.
Goodbye – the 3 Pokemon enthusiasts are sitting all together there in the front seat.
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