An Epitaph to Remember

One of the more interesting characters that I have come across in my genealogy research is Adamson Tannehill.  According to my genealogy program, he is my 1^st cousin, 6 times removed.  Adamson  was born to John Tannehill and Rachel Adamson on 23 May 1750 in Frederick Co., MD.  He married Agnes Morgan b. 1750 and they had no children.  Adamson died on 23 Dec 1820 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., PA.  He left no descendants, but he did live an interesting life.

Adamson lived most of his life in the Pittsburgh, PA area.  He joined the Continental Army in 1776 and quickly moved up the ranks.  He ended up acting as one of General George Washington’s most trusted Lieutenant’s.  It is said that General Washington gave a ring to his sister to remember him to the family.  There is more information about him and his military service on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamson_Tannehill .  You can even find copies of his handwriting in George Washington’s papers that have been digitized online. 

Adamson led a full life both during his military service and afterwards.  He ended his career as a Brigadier General in the military.  He worked as Justice of the Peace, served on the board of Directors for the Bank of Pennsylvania and returned to military service as a Major General during the War of 1812.  During his time as Justice of the Peace, he was accused of a crime that was later overturned; Adamson believed his reputation had been attacked.  He was elected to the 13^th Congress of the United States but failed to win reelection in 1814.

All this is quite interesting…but in James B. Tannehill’s book on the Tannehill family (Genealogical History of the Tannahills, Tannehills and Taneyhills) he quotes an epitaph that has disappeared from memory and his gravestone.  When he died in 1820 he left this in his will:

In the name of God, amen.  I, Adam Tannehill of Grove Hill, Allegheny County, Pa., do make and declare this instrument of writing, which is written by myself when in a full and correct state of mind, and each page signed with my signature, to be my last will and testament.  From the course of nature added to the belief that I am to die, and unwilling to give those who survive me the least possible trouble respecting my worldly affairs, I only desire that my body should be buried in a decent manner at my allotted graveyard at Grove Hill; that all my just debts be paid by my wife, which are few, and the expenses that may accrue at my burial.  After this is completed, it is my will that my wife, Agnes M. Tannehill, shall inherit all my estate, real and personal and mixed.  in making my will, I do not calculate on pleasing every expectant; my great and principal object is to please myself.  I have but little to give, or it would be attended with the greater difficulty in mincing it among all who might expect a little of the little.  In a former will I had directed two busts to be executed and placed in the Court House in Pittsburgh to two of the most unprincipled scoundrels who ever appeared before a court of justice, one of them A. Tannehill is dead in reality and the other is dead to all feelings of moral principle.  I now decline a continuation and direct it to be applied to a tombstone and epitaph for myself as directed,

Adamson Tannehill was born the 23rd of May, 1750. He served his country as an officer during the American Revolution with the confidence of his superiors, and honor to himself but, in the year 1798, his character was assailed unjustly by the slanders of unprincipled men and the violence of party.

He left this world with a hope for the better,

Farewell vain world, I'e seen enough of thee

And am now careless of what thou sayeth of me;

Thy smiles I court not nor thy powers do fear.

My cares are past, my head lies quiet here.

What faults you find in me, take care to show,

And look at home, enough there's to be done;

False swearing and vile slander can't reach me here---

Of each, when living, I had my shared

Adamson Tannehill

I always wanted to see a copy of this epitaph…This was a man who carried a grudge to the very end and directed that the accusation be placed on his gravestone.  He was originally buried at the First Presbyterian Church but was later moved in the Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh in 1849.  I have no idea if his original gravestone had the epitaph, but I had hopes.  When friend searched out his gravestone for me, I was disappointed to see that the epitaph was not there.  If you are interested in looking at a photo go to http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=12760636 and you can see the picture of the actual stone

Uncle Ronald

Dad and I made a visit the other day to Grouse Flats in Wallowa Co., OR.  To get there from Lewiston – you travel to Clarkston then Asotin and then up the Asotin grade.  At that point you are on the top of what is called the Anatone Flats.  You then travel down the aptly named Rattlesnake grade and travel along a two lane road towards the tiny town of Troy, OR.  All the while keeping a close watch on cascading rocks from the hillside…once you reach Troy, you turn at the sign pointing towards Bartlett.  This takes you up yet another winding gravel road and you finally reach the turn off that leads you to the Bartlett Union Cemetery – up on top of Grouse Flats.

My great grandmother made the trip from TN in 1910 in a far less comfortable conveyance (train then a wagon) and in much worse weather (November) by herself and with a baby at 16 years old.  Her husband picked her up at Troy, OR and took her up that winding grade towards Bartlett and her new home on Grouse Flats.  It was a ramshackle shack that was located on a homestead near her husband’s brother’s place.  By the time she was 20 years old, she had another child and was pregnant with her third.  When the time came to give birth, she sent her husband to his brother’s house to bring him to their home.  Pop Friddle must have taken the children with him…because I doubt that he left them with his wife struggling to give birth and probably felt it best to leave them with another adult.  Mom Friddle lay on that bed going through childbirth when she realized that they might not make it back in time.  As my mother related the story to me…she asked her “What did you do?”  Mom Friddle replied “I got myself up and sat in the rocking chair and put my legs on the arms of the chair.  When the time came, I delivered the baby and tried to clean myself up as best I could.”  When Pop Friddle arrived back at the house with his brother…Mom Friddle lay on the bed with baby boy still attached to her with his umbilical cord. 

Taken near the Bartlett Cemetery looking towards the Snake River country.

It must have been a happy time for them…those few short months that they had their two boys and their daughter, but then the baby got sick.  Today we don’t think of diarrhea as a particularly dangerous situation – but to a young child, it can be deadly.  He had what was called Dysentery and the most dangerous part of the disease was the severe dehydration especially for a young child.  Mom and Pop Friddle even sent their young 5 year old son a few miles away to get some goat milk to see if they could get some fluid in their baby’s tiny body.  Their son, Ronald, died a few days short of his four month birthday.  Mom always thought that Ronald was buried at the Pomeroy City Cemetery in Pomeroy, WA.   I think that Mom Friddle probably told her that Ronald was buried in the local cemetery and Mom might have assumed that it was  at Pomeroy.  While checking the cemetery – we came up empty. Then I found a book that had burials of Wallowa Co., OR, Asotin Co., WA and Garfield Co., OR.  It was in that book that we found a listing for Ronald Friddles with the birthdate of 27 Jun 1914 and death of 24 Sep 1914 at the Bartlett Union Cemetery.  He was buried near his uncle Albert at the same cemetery.  When we made our first trip up to Grouse Flats we found Uncle Albert’s grave but was unable to find Ronald’s grave.  From cemetery records, we know that he was buried in Lot 55, Grave 2.  I’m sure some small marker was place there when he died, but nothing remains to mark his grave. 

Friddle family - taken about 1918.
Left to Right - Capitola, David Carl  aka Pop Friddle, Jack, Sophia aka Mom Friddle

Today nothing remains of Mom and Pop Friddle and their children except their descendants.  Uncle Claude died last August and Uncle Jack died back in 1987 and my grandmother died in 1985.  We have plans to place a marker where baby Ronald is buried and perhaps memorialize his two brothers whose ashes are scattered nearby.  The three Friddle brothers who were never together in life share a memorial to their life!

A Unusual Benajah

One of the more common names in Pennington research in the Ashe Co., NC region is the name of Benajah.  I have three of them in my database that I am relatively sure of.  The first was born about 1720 and may the progenitor of all of the Ashe Co., NC Penningtons or at the very least the brother of the progenitor.    The next one is a son of Micajah Pennington and Rachel Jones and is born 15 Jun 1782.  The last trace of him is a legal document concerning his father’s estate in 1813 in Barren Co., KY. The third Benajah stands almost alone.  He is most assuredly connected with the other Ashe Co., NC Penningtons because of the genetic testing that has been done…but how he fits in the puzzle is an ongoing mystery.

Benajah Pennington was born 18 Aug 1770 probably in Grayson Co., VA (a neighboring county to Ashe Co., NC).  He died in Stockton City, Cedar Co., MO on 12 Oct 1855.  Benajah married Matilda Emery Hembree on 26 Jul 1814 in Roane Co., TN.  Matilda was a widow with a young son.  Benajah is a unique figure to me because he took a different geographic trek during his lifetime.  He is married in Roane Co., TN in 1814.  That is quite some distance from his birthplace in Grayson Co.  VA.  He has no other recorded wife and would be 44 years old at his first marriage.  Benajah is in Morgan Co., TN in 1830 and in Jackson Co., AL in 1840 and also in 1850.  At the time of his death on 12 Oct 1855 he is in Stockton City, Cedar Co., MO.  The locations of Roane Co., TN, Jackson Co., AL, Marion Co., TN, Ripley, Butler and Cedar Co., MO show up in the locations of all eight of his children…but I have a hard time finding any true logic as to why he made so many moves in his lifetime.  This alone makes Benajah unusual.  The intervening years from his birth to his marriage are also a curiosity for me.  I do find a record of a Benajah Pennington listed as being a private in the War of 1812 and listed as a member of the Rangers, United States Volunteers. 

Benajah and Matilda were the parents of the following children:

• Joel Harrison Pennington b. 13 May 1815 TN d. 24 Jun 1897 Jackson Co., Al m. Hannah Caroline Hembree on 7 Feb 1839 (she was his first cousin)
• Sarah S. Pennington b. abt 1817 TN d. abt 1892 MO m. abt 1834 William Griffin Blake, Sr
• Isaac Washington Pennington b. 14 Oct 1819 TN d. 5 Mar 1908 Butler Co., MO m1 abt 1836 Martha Patsy Ryburn m2 24 Dec 1871 Nancy Williams m3 11 April 1875 Nancy Caroline Rogers   (I have 22 children listed for him with his three wives)
• John Barton Pennington b. 25 Apr 1820 Blue Springs, Roane Co., TN d. 4 Oct 1910 Fresno, Fresno Co., CA m1 7 Apr 1841 Sarah Elizabeth Hembree (his first cousin) m 2 25 Feb 1853 Elizabeth Jane Sportsman m3 26 May 1875 Margaret J. Fisher
• Andrew Jackson Monroe Pennington b. 30 Oct 1824 Jackson Co., AL d. 11 Feb 1863 Winchester, Franklin Co., TN m. abt 1846 Roseda Elizabeth Tankersley
• Newton Pennington b. abt 1825 TN d. abt 1875 TN m. abt 1847 Elizabeth
• William Jordan Pennington b. Aug 1826 Marion Co., TN d. abt 1911 Ripley Co., MO m1 abt 1847 Nancy Clark m. 10 Jan 1858 Camilla Carmeline Wyatt

You can find a photo of Benajah’s gravesite at Find a Grave.com.  Benajah and his descendants are considered to be part of the Pennington Research Association’s Group 7 which was originally the descendants of Micajah Pennington. This assignment to Group 7 by members past was probably because of the similarity in the known age at the time to the Benajah, son of Micajah.  Through diligent research by Gene Pennington, the actual date of his birth and death are now known.  He is actually 12 years older than Micajah’s son – so the original assumption certainly doesn’t work.  The best proof we have that Benajah is related to the rest of the Ashe Co., NC Penningtons is based on DNA.  We all hope to sometime put together the pieces of these early Penningtons with documentation rather than theories.  However, among the Ashe Co., NC Pennington group, Benajah stands alone.   He seemed to take a unique trek through Tennessee, Alabama and Missouri.  His wife, Matilda, outlived him by 23 years and she is buried near him at the same cemetery that Benajah is buried in.  I would still like to know what happened in those intervening 44 years between his birth and marriage.  One never knows when another clue might appear…which is one of the fun and frustrating aspects of genealogy research.

Strawberries in June

I had the perfect great grandmother.  She was kind, gentle, attentive, and understanding with a sweet serenity about her.  In some ways Grandma Florence is a difficult person to describe.  Some might think kind and gentle might describe a weak person…but there was nothing weak about my great grandmother.  I used to say that she had an iron fist in a silken glove.

Florence Christine Shawver was born 14 Jun 1897 in Decatur, NE to George Christian Shawver and Rebecca Jane “Frankie” Pitsenbarger.   Grandma Florence got her teaching license when she was 17 and taught school for three years when she married Ora Silas Gage in 1917.  She continued teaching one more year until her oldest son was born.  Grandma Florence and Granddad Gage had 10 children from 1918 to 1939 including 4 daughters and 6 sons.  Grandma lost her youngest son in a drowning accident when he was eight and her youngest daughter to cancer when she was 55.  She withstood the loss of a grandson and great grandson and the loss of her husband of 73 ½ years just a few short months before her own death.  Through it all she maintained her faith in God and in her family as well.  I was visiting her that last June before she died the next year.  I’ll never forget the experience of that intimate birthday celebration.

My brother and his wife brought their 18 month old daughter down to meet her great great grandparents.  I saw my Great Grandparents through the eyes of an adult taking a great amount of joy interacting with this young child.  Granddad held her in his lap and tickled and teased her and Grandma listened to her intently as she tried to tell her something showing the patience and gentleness of a lifetime of enjoying her grandchildren.  I joined my brother and his family at the coast for a few days and came back to spend that last birthday with my great grandmother.  I remember sitting in the living room the night before as five of her children joined my great grandparents as they watched their favorite program on TV…Jeopardy.  A free for all ensued with everyone shouting out the answers.  I decided to join in and my great grandmother turned to me at the commercial - smiled at me and informed me that I was good at this.  The next day we gathered for a simple meal celebrating my great grandmother’s 93^rd birthday.

Grandma Florence's last birthday - June 14, 1990

Grandma Florence hadn’t been feeling that well…she had had a bruised rib and was having problem breathing because of the pain.  Granddad Gage was undergoing at home dialysis since his kidneys were no longer functioning well.  However, none of that mattered to either one of them if they had their family there…they were happy.  As we ate the meal that had been prepared by my grandmother and her sister, I noticed that Granddad Gage wasn’t eating all that much.  However, when it was time for dessert, Granddad wanted the biggest helping.  It was a dessert that we had often in my family – angel food cake with strawberries and whipped cream.    At that last birthday it was explained to me that for every year that they had been married – Granddad Gage had always found strawberries for Grandma’s birthday.  For their entire married life – through the 10 children, hard times, and little money – they had always had strawberries for Grandma’s birthday.  This simple dessert of strawberries and cake had a special meaning that I had never known about.    As we finished our meals, I remember taking a picture of my great grandparents that will always stay in my memory.  They sat side by side both smiling with my grandfather’s arm around her shoulders.  It was the last time I saw them together before my great grandfather died the next December.  Yet I think that it will always be the way I remember them best – together, smiling and enjoying their family.

Gage & Gaige

There are five Gage lines that have been recorded.  I don’t know if we will ever know is they are connected or if it will always be a mystery.  The first Gage in my line is that of William Montgomery Gage of Freetown, MA.   William married Hannah Davis in about 1823 and they were the parents of 10 children.  They had nice Quaker names like Remembrance, Sylvester and Joseph.   There has always been a curiosity about the descendants of Joseph Gage, my 6^th great grandfather and William Montgomery Gage’s 4^th son. 

Joseph Gage was born 3 May 1734 in Freetown, Bristol Co., MA and died 23 May 1811 in Duanesburg, Schenectady Co., NY.  He married Mary Jane Huddleston on 13 Sep 1756 in Tiverton, Newport Co., RI.  Mary Jane Huddleston was born on 14 May 1738 in Dartmouth, Bristol Co., MA and d. 27 Jan 1814 in Duanesburg, Schenectady Co., NY.  She was the daughter of Isaac Huddleston and Elinor Mortimer.  (She had two sisters who also married Gage brothers.  Mercy married William Montgomery Gage, Jr. and Cloe married Thomas Gage) Joseph and Mary Jane must have left Massachusetts fairly soon after their marriage because their second child is born in Burlington, Otsego Co., NY and they are living in Duanesburg by 1764 when their fourth child was born, which is where they spent the rest of their lives.  Joseph and Mary Jane’s children were:

• Mortimer M. Gaige b. 9 Sep 1757 Dartmouth, Bristol Co., MA d. 18 Dec 1804 Duanesburg, Schenectady Co., NY m1. 9 Sep 1782 Catherine Vail
• Philip Gaige b. 14 Nov 1759 Burlington, Otsego Co., Ny d. 1818 Otsego Co., NY m. Elizabeth
• Benjamin Gaige b. 19 Apr 1762 Nine Partners, Dutchess Co., NY d. 1 Dec 1831  Duanesburg, Schenectady Co., NY m. abt 1780 Deliverance “Dilla” Hoag
• Moses Gaige b. 11 Jun 1764 Duanesburg, Schenectady Co., NY d. 23 Sep 1830 m1. 24 Feb 1786 Hannah Macomber m2. 4 Dec 1817 Sybil Hoag
• Simeon Gage b. 17 Jan 1767 Duanesburg, Schenectady Co., NY d. 1804 Duanesburg, Schenectady Co., NY m. Feb 1786 Mary Macomber
• Isaag Gaige b. 12 Aug 1769 Duanesburg, Schenectady Co., NY d. 2 Aug 1864 Duanesburg, Schenectady Co., NY m1. 13 Nov 1788 Lydia Soule m2. Abt 1797 Amelia Adams m3. 25 Nov 1818 Anna Bradbury
• William Gage b. 20 Aug 1770 Duanesburg, Schenectady Co., NY d. 18 Jan 1865 Knox, Albany Co., NY m. abt 1790 Ruth Macomber
• David Gage b. 26 Aug 1774 Duanesburg, Schenectady Co., NY d. 16 Jan 1868 Farmington, Ontario Co., NY m. abt 1795 Cornelia Scott
• Joseph Gage b. 3 Mar 1777 Duanesburg, Schenectady Co., NY d. 26 Mar 1858 Silver Lake, Susquehanna Co., PA m1. abt 1795 Elizabeth Briggs m2. Abt 1802 Lydia Thompson
• Mercy Gage b. 19 Aug 1779 Duanesburg, Schenectady Co., NY m. Benjamin Macomber

(All four Macombers were the children of John Macomber and Mary Brownell Davol)

The curiosity for me is this….of these sons of Joseph and Mary Jane – some of them have changed the spelling of their name from Gage to Gaige.  I got most of my Gage information from a man named Rev. Walker Miller Gage who wrote a Gage genealogy that my great grandparents got in the late 1960’s.  He had the theory that these older sons of Joseph Gage were loyalists who changed the name in protest.  The earliest birth date for these Gage sons was 1757 which would have put them fairly young when the Revolutionary War started.  They were a Quaker family which makes me wonder if that might have been a reason they disagreed with the war.  Unfortunately, I have nothing to verify the theory of Rev. Gage…although he probably came the closest to talking to those who knew.  I haven’t seen any of the other Gage lines show this unique spelling either.  So….if you are looking at the Gage surname, try checking out if your relative can be found with the Gaige spelling.  

Edy Pennington Eastrage

Depending on whatever theory that you believe in…Edy Pennington is most likely the oldest child of Levi Pennington and Elizabeth Henson.   I am fairly confident that Levi Pennington and Elizabeth Henson had at least 12 children and possibly as many as 14.  I am descended from one of the youngest daughters, Elizabeth, but I have always been interested in Edy Pennington.

Edy was born about 1815 likely around the Little Laurel region of Ashe Co., NC.  Her parents probably either married the year she was born or just before.  It would have put her mother at the age of 16 and her father at the age of 21.  Edy marries a Nathan Estrage in about 1835.  He was likely a close neighbor.  Nathan was the son of Henry Eastridge and Elizabeth Floyd.  I’ve never spent a lot of time looking at Nathan’s ancestry but I have spent a bit of time trying to figure out if the name is supposed to be Eastrage, Eastridge, or Estrage.  I’m still not sure of the spelling but I have gone with the spelling of Eastrage because that is what I have found in census records.

Edy and Nathan had children right away after the marriage and had at least six children.  According to the estate record of Levi Pennington, we actually have a pretty good rundown of the children.

• Elizabeth was born abt 1836 in Ashe Co., NC and d. bef 1865. She was married to Radford Davidson on 17 Jan 1852 also in Ashe Co., NC.  Elizabeth died before 1865 and her husband died before 1870.  I’ve had limited luck tracing their children any further.  I only have limited information on the children and a death date on one of them. 
• William Harrison was born 2 Jan 1840 in Ashe Co., NC and d. 6 May 1925 Ashe Co., NC.  He was married to either Mary Dishman or Davis.  They had 9 children spent their lives in the area.
• Catherine was born Jun 1842 and d. 8 Nov 1915.  She married Charles A. Warren on 3 May 1869 and they had three children.
• Nancy was born about 1845 in Ashe Co., NC and d. bet 1876-1880.  She was married to John H. Shepherd and had six children. 
• Edia was born about 1848 in Ashe Co., NC and d. Feb 1880.  She was married to Alvin Columbus Lou Allen.  (Alvin’s brother Calvin, was married to Edia’s 1^st cousin, Tishia Pennington)  I have very little on their two daughters, although I suspect on the little bits of information that I do have that the family might have ended up in Johnson Co., TN
• Hiley was born about May 1850 in Ashe Co., NC, married Wiley Elbert Vanover on 18 Aug 1882 in Johnson Co., TN and they are next found in the 1900 IL census with three children.

It is obvious that Edy named at least one of her daughters after her sister Hiley and possible that she named another one after Elizabeth…but I think it more likely that she was named after Nathan’s mother.  Every one of these families is due more research because there is always new information that seems to come to light and sometimes new ways to search.   However, Edy seemed to leave her mark.  She stayed her entire life in Laurel Twp., Ashe Co., NC and sadly preceded both her parents in death.  Her husband never remarried as far as I can tell and stayed in the Laurel Twp., Ashe Co., NC.  Their burial location is unknown but they are probably buried in a family cemetery nearby.  

"Coffin Maker" in New England

Mom and I agreed that Kenelm would have been a dandy name to keep in the family.  After all, neither one of us ever knew a Kenelm while we were growing up and before we saw the name on a family tree, we had never heard of the name.  Kenelm’s older brother was famous for being the third governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and arriving on the Mayflower in 1620 and beings the third signer of the Mayflower Compact.  Kenelm to leave England for the New World until and held the dubious title to those of us in the modern world as coffin maker.

Kenelm was the third son of Edward Winslow and his wife Magdalene Ollyver.  He was born in Droitwich, Worcester, England on 29 Apr 1599 as the fourth of eight children.   Both of his parents were dead by 1620 and of the eight children in his family, two daughters died very young, a sister and brother remained in England and brothers Edward, John, Kenelm and Josiah lived out their lives in the America. Edward lived in Plymouth, John settled in Boston, Josiah in Marshfield and Kenelm became one of the founders of Assonet, MA or Freetown, MA as it is known today.  There must not have been much left for the brothers in England and the opportunities in the New World must have been irresistible.  We learn in history that many of the earliest immigrants came to America in search of religious freedom.  I’m sure that this was a main component for most, but after those first few colonies were established, I’m sure word got back about the opportunity for land and so called riches that were available for any willing to take the risk.  England is a small island with a generation of sons looking for these new opportunities.  By the time, Kenelm and his brother Josiah arrived in 1629, there was already a thriving English community on American soil.

I’m sure that Kenelm probably enjoyed his status as being the brother of an important man in the colony.  He probably had some responsibilities that arose from his brother’s position.  I know that Kenelm was a surveyor of highways for a time and was fined for neglecting his job.  His name also appears on a few legal matters where he didn’t come out the winner.  One of the more interesting things that I read about Kenelm that he was committed to prison for “uttering opprobrious words against the church at Marshfield, saying that they were all liars.”  Kenelm ended up in jail and probably offended most of the town of Marshifield…which might explain why he moved to Assonet, MA. 

I found it rather fascinating to see Kenelm Winslow labeled as a coffin maker.  As it turns out, it meant that he was an excellent carpenter.  In fact, he was probably one of the first carpenters that had been trained in England to bring his craft to the America and train other craftsman here.  There is an interesting article online on at http://www.antiquesandfineart.com/articles/article.cfm?request=835 that talks about Kenelm Winslow.  There is supposedly some furniture that was made by Kenelm Winslow in the Metropolitan Museum of Art but as I read it, there is no proof that Kenelm was the actual carpenter. 

Kenelm married in Jun 1634 to a widow, Eleanor Newton Adams.  He and his wife had three sons and a daughter who all lived to adulthood.  Kenelm, himself lived to be 73 years old and died on 13 Sep 1672 while on a visit to Salem, Essex Co., MA.  His wife died in 1681 in Marshfield, MA.  So…thanks to the immigration of my 9^th great grandparents and their four children, there are many Winslows in America who can trace their lineage back to a coffin maker in New England.

Descendants of Kenelm WINSLOW, Esq.

Generation No. 1

1.  KENELM⁹ WINSLOW, ESQ.  (EDWARD⁸, KENELM⁷, WILLIAM⁶, THOMAS⁵, THOMAS WILLIAM⁴, WILLIAM³ WYNCELOW, JOHN² WYNSLOWE, WILLIAM¹ WYNCELOWE) was born 29 Apr 1599 in Droitwich, Worcester, England, and died 13 Sep 1672 in Salem, Essex Co., MA.    He married ELEANOR NEWTON Jun 1634 in Assonet, Freetown, MA.  She was born Jun 1598 in Hertferdshire, England, and died 05 Dec 1681 in Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA.

     

Children of KENELM WINSLOW and ELEANOR NEWTON are:

               i.   KENELM¹⁰ WINSLOW, b. 29 Apr 1635, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA; d. 11 Nov 1715, Harwich, Barnstable Co., MA; m. (1) MERCY WORDEN, 23 Sep 1667, Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA; b. Abt. 1640, Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA; d. 22 Sep 1688, Dennis, Barnstable Co., MA; m. (2) DAMARIS EAMES, Bef. 1693; d. Aft. 27 Mar 1729.

More About KENELM WINSLOW:

Burial: Nov 1715, Winslow Cemetery, Dennis, Barnstable Co., MA

Military service: King Philips War

More About MERCY WORDEN:

Burial: Sep 1688, Winslow Cemetery, Dennis, Barnstable Co., MA

              ii.   ELEANOR "ELLEN" WINSLOW, b. 1637, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA; d. 27 Aug 1676, Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA; m. SAMUEL BAKER, 29 Dec 1656, Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA; b. 02 Oct 1638; d. 14 Feb 1699, Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA.

More About ELEANOR "ELLEN" WINSLOW:

Burial: Winslow Cemetery, Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA

             iii.   NATHANIEL WINSLOW, b. Abt. 1639, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA; d. 01 Dec 1710, Freetown, Bristol Co., MA; m. FAITH MILLER, 03 Aug 1664, Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA; b. Abt. 1645, Yarmouth, Barnstable Co., MA; d. 09 Nov 1729, MA.

More About NATHANIEL WINSLOW:

Burial: Burying Hill, Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA

             iv.   JOB WINSLOW, b. 1641, Marshfield, Plymouth Co., MA; d. 14 Jul 1720, Freetown, Bristol Co., MA; m. RUTH CHASE COLE, 1673, Swansee, Bristol Co., MA; b. 15 Apr 1651, Eastham, Barnstable Co., MA; d. Aft. Jul 1720.