I hope that everyone has had a good summer and is ready for that ‘back to school’ mode!

Along the top and bottom of each page, you will notice that there is a new link in the navigation: Images.  Right now there are only three links that are ‘live’ on the page: 1820, 1830, and sources.  I’ve decided to split it up in this way, so that I can add more records later, if needed.  As I have been adding these census images, I have also been updating the William & Rebecca page, with links that will take you to the image thumbnail of the census I am discussing.

When you are on one of the thumbnail pages (so far only 1820 and 1830) when you click the image, a new window will open showing you a larger image.  I think most browsers are pretty much the same on this: you should be able to click on the large image to get it to 100% and then be able to scroll through the image.

This side project may take me a little bit to get all caught up, so please bear with me.  I have about 75 images of census records only that only cover William and Rebecca (Oney) Corel, Jemima Corel and David McGlothlin, Mary McGlothlin, Henry H. McGlothlin, Martha Jane McGlothlin, Shadrack McGlothlin, Henry Highland and Nancy Matney, Jemima M. Corel, and Julia Ann Corel.  I also have images showing war service, newspaper articles, birth and death records, pages from books, and marriage records!  I have also gathered some of the images for the Corel by Chance families.  On the bright side, this will give me some time while I wait for my latest request for inter library loan, on the Parman family.  I think that I will also try to do some preliminary research on the children of Mary Ester Corel Puckett, so I might be able to start moving a bit quicker.  Well, except for the next week – I have jury duty!  I’m hoping I won’t be selected, so I will be able to do my research, but I may very well be stuck without a computer next week!! 

My next project will be to update Henry Highland’s page with the few details I have about daughters Margaret and Louisa.  Then I will likely create another Corels by Chance page for the Parman family, as the Parman’s are related through Cosby Jane Corel’s line (Rachel Parman is the maternal grandmother of William Justice.) and Rebecca Elizabeth Corel’s line (Rebecca is the youngest daughter of Henry Highland, she married Giles Gilbert Parman, son of George Parman and Lydia Myers.  Lydia is the sister of Willis Myers who married Julia Ann Corel.).  Rachel Parman is an aunt of George Parman and great aunt of Giles Gilbert Parman.

After showing the Parman family, I will do the page for Rebecca Elizabeth Corel that will complete the children of Henry Highland Corel and have me ready to start working on the children of Mary Ester Corel and John Puckett.

]]> http://corelcousins.com/2009/08/05/whats-new-wednesday-julia-ann-corel-page-complete/feed/ 0 http://corelcousins.com/2009/06/24/whats-new-wednesday-just-a-quickie/ http://corelcousins.com/2009/06/24/whats-new-wednesday-just-a-quickie/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:48:55 +0000 Paula http://corelcousins.com/?p=993 I’ve been working on Jemima Morris Corel – as I’ve said many times now.  Why it takes me so long to write up a page about a woman that I have seen so much written about is beyond me.  OK, maybe not so much about her, but her husband and at least one of her sons.

So I started working this morning, in hopes that I could just get it wrapped up today and that would be our What’s New for this week, but LOL (Laughing Out Loud, for those of you who may not know what LOL means), as is typical for me, I got side tracked….

Today it was just looking into a bit of history about Jemima’s husband, John Morgan Salathiel.  I can accept that he was born in 1836, but whenever there is an exact date, I try to find something to back it up.  Well, of course I didn’t, but I did find that there is no way that he was born in Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio.  At least, officially, because Ironton didn’t exist until 1851!  Ah the little things…  So, as I was looking around, I was referring to the write up on Jemima & John’s son, Thomas Sherman Salathiel in the third volume of The Standard History of Kansas and Kansans from 1918.  It has a few details about John Morgan Salathiel’s father, Morgan Salathiel, and of course, I got curious!

I’ve not been able to find the Salathiel’s in the 1840 census.  There is only one Salathiel (at least on Ancestry.com) in all of the US on the 1840 census.  I even reviewed most of the townships (probably the wrong ones) of Lawrence County, Ohio, but there was just nothing.  I did find John and his mother in Cincinnati in 1850 and then they were in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas in 1860, living next door to John’s sister.  This disproves the fact I’ve seen stated around in a few places that Jemima and John were married in 1858 or 1859.  My notes, probably taken by my Mom when she was researching while I was still in high school, shows that there was an announcement of some kind in the Lawrence Republican in November 1861 and that Jemima’s name was spelled “Correll”.  So one of the things I tried to do today was to request that my local library do an interlibrary loan of the microfilm for the Lawrence Republican.  I was also hoping that if I looked at the previous year, I might be able to find something about Rebecca Oney Corel’s death.  Well, no such luck there, either!  I cannot request the microfilm, I have to request a specific article.  GAH!  So frustrating.

So, I went back to looking for more on John’s parents.  All the census records say that they were from Wales.  Why is it that everything has to be so difficult and so much more expensive when looking for stuff in the UK?  I could access all these neat, free digital copies from the Wales Library, but I have to sign up for a reader ticket in person, have two forms of ID, and have a Wales postcode! 

So, I broke down and started looking at the other options.  I think that if I can ever get organized enough, I may try out Origins for their 72 hour subscription.  But, I will have to be much more prepared than I am right now (I would want to do some McGee research, too!), and I’d need to make sure I wouldn’t have to work for the 72 hours, plus probably the 48 hours after, and I would need lots of coffee!  If I’m going to do a short subscription like that, I want to make sure I get my money’s worth! 

So, my quickie is a bit longer, because I rambled, but basically, I still got nothing!  I’m still searching and researching and life is still a bit hectic, but I am working.  I think that I might just go with the basic facts that I have on Jemima and just write it up and be done with it.  I hate being stuck on one person for so long.  But, I have found yet another descendant of Jemima & John’s in my searching.  I sent a message through Ancestry.com – it looks like she had just started and hadn’t found anything beyond her grandfather, Charles Salathiel.  She knew he was born in Independence, but thought it was Independence, Missouri.  So, hopefully I will hear from her soon!

I’ve gotta wrap this up – I may have already missed the cut off time for those who get this emailed and it may be a What’s New Thursday for them!!

Hope everyone is having a GREAT summer and those of you in the Midwest are staying cool!

Ever since I had first read Agnes’ manuscript, I have had a difficult time resolving one section, which you can see below.  My difficulty has come from the fact that I have lived most of my life in the Kansas City area, and although I do not know the entire area, as my Dad had spent many years as a delivery driver in Kansas City, I was raised to have a basic understanding of where things are located in the city and how to get around the metro without much problem.  Here is what Agnes had to say about the family moving to Kansas City:

In the 1850’s Henry Corel, my mother’s father, and brothers and families, their stock etc. came to Kansas. They came from Virginia by flatboat down the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missouri Rivers. Their boat foundered and they unloaded at Wyandotte and drove by schooner to Westport, Missouri using ox teams. Mama was seven years old. Kansas City was not started then. They began a homestead on the Little Blue, now Kansas City’s famous Cliff Drive.

Honestly, I do not think I have ever been to Cliff Drive, but I did know that it was near Downtown and ran along the Missouri River, not the Little Blue River.  Additionally, Henry and his family are found in Washington Township, Jackson County, Missouri on the 1850 census¹.  I had no idea where Washington Township was, so before digging into this, I thought perhaps Washington Twp was just a bit east of present day Downtown, perhaps in the area now simply called “Northeast”.  The Little Blue River runs from near Grandview, south of Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, north to the Missouri River just west of the town of Sibley, Missouri².

My first search was to determine just where Washington Township was located in Jackson County, Missouri.  To my surprise, Washington Township is in the southwest corner of the county.  This completely rules out that the family lived near Cliff Drive, but then I became curious to try to figure out just where they may have lived.

The official description of Washington Township when it was organized on February 9, 1836 was:

Commencing at Cummins Mill on Big Blue so as to include said Mill, thence running due west to the boundary line, thence south with said boundary to the corner of Van Buren county (now Cass), thence east with said county line to a point opposite the head of Little Cedar Fork of Little Blue, thence down said Cedar Fork until it intersects the main fork of Little Blue, thence in a straight direction to the beginning³.

I never could find anything on Cummins Mill, so I was quite grateful for this simpler description:

The southern and western boundaries were then about the same as now, but the eastern boundary ran north and south near the present site of Lee’s Summit, and the northern boundary ran east and was through the junction of Cedar Fork with Little Blue³.

I also spent quite a bit of time looking at the neighbors of Henry Highland Corel.  I looked up land patent purchases and reviewed old plat maps of Jackson County.  None of the Corel family members purchased a land patent in Missouri.  In order to determine a more precise location for Henry Corel and his family, I looked to their neighbors.  The family listed before Henry Corel was that of Edward Gray.  When he died, Edward Gray lived two and a half miles northwest of Hickman’s Mill⁵.  Just after Henry Corel in the 1850 census was Alexander Majors and family.  In 1856 Alexander Majors built a house that is still standing today at 8201 State Line Road, Kansas City, Missouri.

This map is an estimation of the area of Washington Township.  The green line across the bottom is the county line for Jackson and Cass counties. The purple line on the left is the state line for Kansas and Missouri.  The purple line across the top is connecting to the fork of the Little Blue River and Little Cedar Creek.  The dark blue line on the right leads from the start of Little Cedar Creek down to the county line.   The light blue line above the dark blue line is the outline of Little Cedar Creek.  The yellow house in the upper left corner is where Alexander Majors’ house still stands today.  The purple push pin shows the location of the New Santa Fe Cemetery, and the green house in the center is the approximate location of the original site of Hickman’s Mill.  The green outlined area is about two and a half miles from Hickman’s Mill, which would be about where Edward Gray lived at the time of his death in 1869.  The red outlined area is where I would estimate that Henry Highland Corel lived, if his family did live near the Little Blue River, which is what the blue line is showing.  If you click on the map, you will be taken to this map on Google, which has all of these annotations, as well as an outline of Cliff Drive, which is about 10 miles north of Washington Township, plus you can look around the area a bit more.  I would have included the outline of Cliff Drive here, but then the map would have been so small, it would have been difficult to understand.

So, essentially, I have accomplished nothing in this past week, except that I have learned quite a bit more about the history of Kansas City, and I have deduced that there is no way that Henry Highland Corel lived near Kansas City’s Cliff Drive.  Hopefully now I will be able to focus on Henry’s daughter, Jemima!

Another issue has been my inability to concentrate much as well.  I have gotten some emails from my husband’s line and some new photos of his great grandparents!  It is so very exciting to be able to give this to my husband, who didn’t even know the names of his grandparents when I started researching!

Since I haven’t been able to get much up on the website in general, I will be participating in this month’s Smile for the Camera, so be looking for that post this week!

I’m moving a bit slowly, and for that I apologize.  I seem to have that common genealogist attention deficit disorder!  (For those of you who don’t know, the truly funny part is that I do have ADD and even with meds, staying on track when researching is next to impossible!)  I start out with the very best of intentions, then something will catch my eye that will have me looking at other lines and not the one I need to be working on!  At least I am still getting some things done tho, right?    I just looked back and I am proud to say that since the 20th of January (when I returned to working on this site) through this week, there has only been one week where I did not make a blog post.  Several weeks I’ve had more than one post, so I guess that it is good that I’m at least sticking to it!

I’ve been gathering information on the Salathiel line, which is the line of Henry Highland’s third child, Jemima Morris Corel who married John Morgan Salathiel.  I have found some recent obituaries from this line, as well, through Jemima and John’s son Charles who moved to Oklahoma.  I have tried to reach out to one descendant from this line, but have not yet heard back anything.  This descendant didn’t have anything further back than Charles’ son Clarence.  Perhaps he was a bit overwhelmed by how much I was able to offer!

Well, that is all that is going on this week.  I hope that everyone is enjoying the first week of June!

This has me at the end of the children of Jemima Corel & David McGlothlin, since I still haven’t found anything on their son, John beyond the 1860 census.  I haven’t received dates and all from our newly found cousin on this line, so I am going to wait on doing the grandchildren of Jemima and move on to Henry Highland’s children.  I have done some preliminary research on this line, and aside from Jemima Morris Corel, I think this line will make me want to pull out hair, as well! 

Over the holiday weekend I spent some time with Mom and Grandma and got some scans of more photos.  I had a great time and learned more about my family’s history!

I know this isn’t much for What’s New, but it’s all I have!  Researching the 45th Kentucky Infantry was very time consuming.  There isn’t a lot out there on this regiment.

The fact that he is living with a Ward family intrigued me enough to dig to find the connection between this family and William’s brother-in-law, George Washington Ward and step-brother, Jonathan Ward.  George W. and Jonathan Ward are cousins, their fathers, James Whitehead Ward and Jonathan Ward respectively, were the sons of Susannah Oney and Solomon Ward.  Ironically, George W. and Jonathan Jr. are cousins from their maternal sides as well, Lucinda Meek and Melinda Meek respectively.  The mother of Lucinda and Melinda is a Judith Hylton.  Judith’s sister Levina Hylton married Shadrack Ward, brother of Solomon Ward.  Shadrack and Levina are the parents of James Apperson Ward, who has young William McGlothlin living with his family in 1860.  To try to clear this up a bit, I made the following:

You can click on the image to see the full sized view for easier reading.  I know it’s still confusing, but this was the best I could come up with.  Be thankful I kept working on it and didn’t decide to use the first graph I made!! 

After making this find of William McGlothlin on the 1860 census, I decided to search a bit more and see if I could find anything else.  Interestingly enough, I have found that he also fought in the Civil War, alongside his brother, Shadrack, in Company F of the 45th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry³.  Although I still have not found any proof of a marriage, nor any evidence of when William may have died, I have decided to create a page for William to share the information I have found of his service during the Civil War.  That page should be up by the end of this week!

Last time I shared what was going on, I told you all that I had finished the page for James Joseph McGhee and Mary Ann Neidigh and that I would begin working on the grandchildren of William and Rebecca.  The logical place to start was with the oldest child, Jemima Corel McGlothlin.

Ever since I have started working on researching our Corel family, Jemima has been the most difficult.  She died so early that there are very few records of her.  David McGlothlin moving the family back to Kentucky kept her children from being as connected with the Corel family as the other descendants were during the late 1800s and early 1900s.  Her son, Henry H. did come back to Kansas and lived with Rebecca Oney Corel, but he had no children.  His brother Shade later came to Kansas and settled near his brother in Linn County, Kansas and Corel Cousin Bobby Dobbins Title has done tremendous research on both brothers.  Jemima’s other two sons seem to ‘fall of the face of the Earth’, which most likely means that they died fairly young and probably without any children of their own.  So, that left me with researching on Jemima’s daughters.

Mary McGlothlin appears to have died fairly young herself.  She had two young sons, but after her husband remarried, I cannot find the boys.  I then began looking into Martha Jane McGlothlin.  A while back, I had seen some posts from one descendant of Martha Jane’s, but after several attempts to contact her, I have had no luck.  So, I started my research on the children of Martha Jane once more.  Martha is easier to track than her sister, because she had married twice and she had children from both marriages.  It has been a bit tricky to track down her son from her second marriage, as apparently there were several Charlie Pack’s living in Kentucky in the early 1900s.  So, I looked back at her first marriage and her children from that union.

The Kentucky records that are on Ancestry.com are spotty.  If you are lucky enough to have the right year, you can find a wealth of information.  If you are not so lucky, good luck in finding anything!  Luckily, the two oldest children of Martha Jane were born in the right years!  Henry Jefferson and Charles Johnson Spence are two children of Martha Jane that I have been able to trace.  It became much easier once I definitely ruled out the Samuel Jefferson that some people have connected to Martha Jane McGlothlin!  With census records and a grandson who died in a good year in Kentucky, I have also been able to partially piece together a third son, David Spence.

By then turning to Google to see what else I may be able to find, I found a wonderful conversation between two descendants of Henry Jefferson Spence.  Both posted emails in their forum posts, so I quickly emailed them both, hoping that at least one email would still be a good email.  Later that night, I was so very pleased when I heard back from a newly found Corel Cousin, Jan!

Jan’s husband, Mike, is our connection to Jemima Corel.  Henry Jefferson Spence married Mary Anna Ratliff in 1884.  Any of you who have researched on the families in Tazewell County, Virginia will certainly recognize the Ratliff name.  What I find to be most amusing is that Mary Anna’s father, Robert Ratliff, is the son of Mary J. “Polly” McGlothlin and Richard Ratliff, and a grandson of none other than Judith Leathers and John McLaughlin!   This makes the descendants of Henry Jefferson Spence and Mary Anna Ratliff their own cousins – most likely, if we could only prove that David McGlothlin was a child of Judith and John.

Henry Jefferson Spence and Mary Anna Ratliff had several children, including Archie who married Ruth Scantlin.  Ruth and Archie Spence had six children of their own, including cousin Mike’s mother (who is still living!). What makes this new find even more exciting is that our newly found cousins live in Lawrence, Kansas!

I do not have exact dates and such on all of the descendants of Henry Jefferson Spence, but I am hoping to exchange GEDCOM files with Jan soon.  As soon as I do, I will email each of the Corel family genealogists so we can all update our files!