Marriage Records

Laura and I found these on microfilm a while ago, but since blogger won't take pdf we couldn't post them as originally scanned. It took me a while to get around to posting them.

The first record is for Amasa J Smith and Dora Dougherty, married in Watonwan County, Minnesota, 29 February 1880 (the original record said March but this was crossed out more recently).

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The second record is for William Nelson and Sally Carley, married in Vernon, Indiana, 22 August 1839.

Thank ye the Lord

No new info today, but we did discover an amazing ancestor in our pedigree chart. Trace the Cutler line back 5 greats and you get to Christopher Cutler, whose mother was Hannah Shephard. Her grandfather Ralph Shephard was married to Thank ye the Lord, who was born 30 March 1609 in Northampton, England.
Other records indicate her name as Thanks, Thankful, etc. but her last name really was Lord. She passed the name to one of her daughters, and there are 4 generations of Thanks or Thankfuls.
Note that Thanks Lord named one of her other daughters Trial, a name that also continued for a few generations.
She died in 1693 in Massachusetts, and is buried in Old Rock Cemetery of Middlesex MA.

I am not sure how the move to America went for them. Her parents died in Connecticut, and her grandchildren were born back in England, not returning to the New World until John Cutler joined the restored church and moved his family to Utah. (He died in Salt Lake City in 1894 at age 79).
Thank ye the Lord's son Ralph Shephard (Jr.) has some potentially conflicting information: Born in Massachusetts in Nov 1659, he was christened in England 3 1/2 years later. Likewise, he supposedly died in Massachusetts in 1723, but was buried in England (just over a month later). Since his wife and children were born in England (in Stubley of Derbys), I suspect he returned from the colonies, meaning the family only spent one generation in America.

Smith Marriage Record

I am ordering microfilm number 1638096 to confirm our recorded marriage information for Amasa Jay Smith and his wife Dora/Isidor in St. James, Watonwan, MN on 29 Feb 1880. Hopefully it will also have information on her real name, her parents, and birth info.

Laura found her on someone else's family tree with rather suspect information, but listing her parents and Gerard A. Dougherty and Mary Harding, who were married in Hancock county, Illinois on July 3, 1856. They appear in 1880 in a Keen, IL census with an 18 year old daughter Deora. This could possibly be her, but not likely, since we see her in a MN census that same year already married to Amasa Jay and with a brother named Jack, who doesn't appear as a son of Gerard.

Carleys and Dolphs

Jennings County, Indiana marriage records on microfilm #1305173 confirm several marriages:

Bartholomew Carley married Salley Dolph on 22 Sept 1822.
Richard Carley married Eunice Dolph on 27 Aug 1826.
The record did not indicate ages for anyone.
I will order the next film (#1305174) to be sure, but the online index accessed through Ancestry.com also lists Sally Carley's marriage to William Nelson on 22 Aug 1839.
(I think this is correct, but the online version had mistakenly entered Bartholomew's year as 1833.)
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There were several other Carleys and Dolphs in the book, who might be helpful in establishing family connections, so they are listed here:
Polly Carley to Caleb Lucas, 19 Jan 1822
Beulah Carley to David McClay, 2 Jun 1823
Mary Dolph to Aron Bullard, 1821
Phebe Dolph to Isaac Harrington, 22 Jul 1824 (Applied)

I couldn't find any death records on ancestry for Bartholomew or Richard, but next time I should check the Jennings County website for resources: http://home.att.net/~Local_History/Jennings-Co-IN.htm
Note that in 1830 Bartholomew was living in Vernon, Geneva, or Columbia township, according to the federal census. Probably Vernon, according to OneWorldTree. (http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=13753141&fsc=no)

I also need to check out the info on familysearch for Salley's sister Eunice, who is also listed as married to a Bartholomew Carley. The only other overlap I see is a son born in 1824 named Lehman or Lyman, but they have distinct spouses. OneWorldTree on Ancestry lists her married to John Lockwood, not Bartholomew Carley.

John Sanford and Mary Jane Nelson

John and Mary Jane were married March 6, 1866 in Boone Country, Iowa.
Here is a copy of their marriage license (plus a negative version if it's easier to read.)

Sarah Dolph

The happy couple Augustus Carley and Violet Sanford both (apparently) have a grandmother named Sarah Dolph. In familysearch she is combined into one person, with the following timeline:

1806: born to Stephen Solomon and Eunice Dolph (maiden name Lindley) in New York
1823: marries Batholomew Carley in Indiana (see post about Carley marriages)
She has her children Lehman (1824), Stephen (1826), and Eunice (1823) Carley in Indiana
1840: marries William Nelson in Indiana
She has her son James (1841) Nelson in Indiana
She has her children George (1844), Sarah (1845), and Mary (1848) Nelson in Michigan
1859: dies in Boone Co., Iowa
(or 1889, according to some family trees on ancestry)

We started trying to track her down to see if she is actually the same person, married both to Bartholomew and William. Hopefully the microfilm of marriage records we ordered will help: IA marriages, including her daughter Mary to John Sanford.

We found her and William in an 1870 census from Boone, IA. Several pages later one of John Sanford's brothers was found with his wife: a closer look at the other families there should help us see who their neighbors and family were. It was the Cass township.
William and Sarah also show up in 1860 in Cass, which was then located in Lura county. Their four children were all living with them.

Next time: look for census records for the Nelsons, the Carleys, and the Sanfords. If we can find marriage records for Sarah that will be helpful as well, and a death date on Bartholomew would be nice.

Herriet Louise Cate Carley: Death

We found a death record for a Herriet L Carley on 23 Aug 1868 in the Iowa Cemetery Records. She was buried in Bowen Cemetery in Exira, Audubon, Iowa.