Matrilineal Monday - Rebecca (Wolf) Farver

Matrilineal Monday is another blogging prompt from Geneabloggers that encourages bloggers to discuss their female ancestors - whether it be stories about a particular female ancestor, a great find, or just resources that we use to research our female ancestors (sometimes the hardest lines to trace).  Rebecca (Wolf) Farver is, for me, one of those "elusive" female ancestors.

I actually have very, very little information on Rebecca Wolf, and what little I have is undocumented or comes through her husband, John Farver, and his page on findagrave.com.

Name:       Rebecca Wolf
Birth:        05 May 1793
Death:       1841
Marriage:  13 February 1812
Spouse:      John Farver

The only other information that I have is contained in the notes on findagrave:

"John Farver, wife, and two children Samuel and Mary Farver migrated from the vicinity of Hagerstown, MD, to near the present village of Hayesville, Ashland Co., OH. arriving there on April 29, 1817. He settled on the west half of the NE quarter of section 2." -- Record of John and Rebecca, 1786 to 1962 compiled by William Farver, 1962.

 As of this point, I have not been able to obtain a copy of the genealogy referred to in this quote, but, admittedly, it has been several years since I looked at this line and actively worked on trying to find more about Rebecca.  As I was preparing to write this post, I did a quick survey of what might be out there on the internet for Rebecca, and it still appears that there is quite little available to help me track her.  I have no doubt that Rebecca Wolf is going to be one of those lines that will involve a great deal of onsite courthouse research.

Blogging by the States - Indiana

Blogging by the States is a blog theme/challenge being run by Jim Sanders over at Hidden Genealogy Nuggets and is one of several blog challenges I have been looking at doing.  I'm coming in to Jim's challenge a little late (Indiana is Week 19) so I am going to do some doubling up over the next few
weeks to catch up.  Jim's running through the states by the order in which they became a state.

I love that I found this theme and joined the challenge on the week that features Indiana simply because it is by far the easiest for me to do since I am a born and raised Hoosier and most of my research started in Indiana.

Wordless Wednesday - Father and Son

Newton and Earl Link
date unknown

My great grandfather and grandfather:  

     Newton Henry Link - Born 22 November 1876 in Wyandot County, Ohio

                                         Died 22 March 1967 in Allen County, Indiana

      Earl Celvester Link - Born 07 April 1901 in Wyandot County, Ohio

                                         Died 05 May 1967 in Marion County, Indiana

Tombstone Tuesday - Samuel and Hannah Hill

Today's Tombstone Tuesday is for my 2nd Great Grandparents, Samuel and Hannah (McCleary) Hill

Samuel Hill:
                  Born - 04 November 1830 in Center County, Pennsylvania
                  Died - 13 March 1906 in Wyandot County, Ohio

Hannah (McCleary) Hill:
                   Born - 12 February 1835 in Richland County, Ohio
                   Died - 04 October 1908 in Wyandot County, Ohio

Tombstone for Samuel and Hannah (McCleary) Hill
Fehl Cemetery, Wyandot County, Ohio

Motivation Monday - Passion or obsession?

Have you ever been told you are obsessed with dead people?  I have -- multiple times!

I have found almost since I started doing my genealogy research two decades ago, that many friends and family see my enthusiasm for this research as some sort of "obsessive" behavior that just isn't "normal".  They may be right about the not normal part of it, but I think that "obsession" would be the wrong word to describe it.  I much prefer to call it a passion, and actually, if you understand my education, it really would be a rather normal passion.

Sentimental Sunday - Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all of our mothers, past and present!

It's been nearly seven years, but not a day goes
by that we don't think about you, Mom.

Surname Saturday - McCleary

This week's Surname Saturday is my first surname that appears to be from somewhere other than Germany or Austria.  At this point, the information that I have points to the family being either Scottish or Irish in origin.  The strongest evidence that I have is actually very ambiguous because it refers to the family as Scotch-Irish in origin!  (Talk about non-helpful!)

Surname: McCleary

Variations:  None that I have run across to this point.

Origins:  The information that I have, points to the family coming from "Probably County Antril, Northern Ireland."  Since I have not found anything that identifies a "County Antril" in northern Ireland, I am working under the hypothesis that the reference is actually to County Antrim in Northern Ireland.  From Ireland, the next information that I have points to the family being in the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania and then from there, to various locations in Ohio, but for my family, specifically Wyandot County, Ohio.

Goals/Challenges/Plan:  The McCleary family is one that I have done very little research on.  Most of my information comes from a family tree that I found online which was, unfortunately, completely undocumented and the author never responded to requests for further information.  The rest of my information comes from an article published on December 13, 1910 in The Daily Chief in Upper Sandusky, Ohio.  The article was about a McCleary family reunion that was attended by my 2nd Great Grandmother, Hannah (McCleary) Hill and held on the farm of her father, Alexander McCleary.  When I resume my active research, I have added the McCleary family to my "to do" list and I am working on a research plan to trace this family back to Ireland or Scotland.  I have already performed a quick online survey to see what may be available in the way of records, and it would appear that I may be able to make some decent progress with this family when I go back to active research.