1Census, Federal - 1860 - JoDaviess Co., Illinois, Rice twsp, Ancestry p. 12 of 16.
2Mathew White Estate Papers, Original on file Jo Daviess County, Illinois, Copy in Personal Files of Dianne Z. Stevens. "Matthew White Estate Papers
State of Illinois Jo Daviess County In the County Court of said county sitting on a court of Probate 15th September Term AD 1862
Henry C. Park Ad,ministrator of the estate of Matthew White deceased
Application to sell real estate for the payment of debts
MaryAnn White, Samuel White, James White, Matilda White, Sarah White, Eliza Jane White, & Mary White, widow & heirs at law of Matthew White deceased
To the Hon. Matthew Nearoin Judge of the County Court of said county in Probate,
Your petitioner Henry C. Park administrator of the estate of Matthew White deceased respectfully shows That Matthew White late of said county departed this life on or aobut the sixth day of September AD 1861 intestate.
That letters of administration upon an estate of the said Matthew White deceased were granted by this court to your petitioner under date the 17th September AD 1861 and that your petitioner has filed in this court his Bond with good and sufficient security for the true & faithful performance of his duties in the administration of said estate as by the statute in such cases made provided is required. All of which matters and things will more fully appear by reference to the record of this in the office of the County Clerk of said county. And your petitioner would further show that the above named Mary Ann White one of said defendants is the widow of the said Matthew White deceased & is entitled to Dower in the land hereinafter described & the above named Samuel White, James White, Matilda White, Sarah White, Eliza Jane White, & Mary White are the children and heirs at law of the said Matthew White deceased and the only heirs at law. Matthew White an infant heir of the said Matthew White deceased having died intestate in the county of Jo Daviess and the state of Illinois a few weeks prior to this application & the other defendant heirs being his heirs and only heirs at law of the said infant Matthew White & that no administration has been taken upon his estate.
That Matilda White and Eliza Jane White are under eighteen years of age and that Sarah White is over eighteen years of age and all the other defendants are over twenty-one years of age. That Samuel White and James White are not now resident in this state and that Sarah White is now residing in the county of Carroll in this state and that all the other defendants are residents of the County of Jo Daviess, Illinois.
And your petitioner would further show that all the personal property of the estate of Matthew White deceased
his intestate has been exhausted in the payment of debts & that the debts now due from said estate amount to the sum of $399.68. That the net proceeds of a sale of real estate under decree of this court after paying costs & expenses of petition sale and the widows dower is the sum of $149.01 which deducted from the sum of the debts now due leaves a balance due from said estate of the sum of $250.67 for the payment of which it will be necessary to sell lands of said estate.
And your petitioner shows that Matthew White deceased has intestate died seized of the following lands to wit,
The west half of the northeast quarter of section twenty six in township twentyseven north of range one east of the fourth Principal meridian which land your petitioner prays may be sold for the payment of debts.
And your petitioner to that end prays that the said Mary Ann White, Samuel White, James White, Matilda White, Sarah White, Eliza Jane White, & Mary White be made defendants here & that summons ______ & ____ & that Publication of notice be made unto Samuel White & James White & that summons to Sarah White be directed to the Sheriff of Carroll County to execute & that on coming in of said defendants Guardian ad litum be appointed unto Matilda White and Eliza Jane White minor defendants & that those freeholders be appointed companions to ___________ Dower to the widow Mary Ann in said land & that an order of sale of said land be entered in the Land Court for the payment of debts paid intestate ______ Petitioner as a duly bound will soon pray _____
AS Cummings
_____ ________ Petition
State of Illinois
Jo Daviess County
This day came before me Henry C. Park the Petitioner in the above Petition ________ ____ ____ ________ _______ ________ & _________ as follows, That the statements in said petition are true in substance and in fact, sworn _______________ before me this 28th day of August 1862.
Richard Seal, clk Henry C. Park
Note: Document dated March 1864 indicate the land was sold to Martin Donohue for $364.00." There are 10 documents dated from Sep 1861 to Mar 1864.
1Rae Hurlburt, interview, 22 Apr 2006.
1Rae Hurlburt, interview, 22 Apr 2006.
1Jason Pamplin, interview, 22 Apr 2006. Interviewed by Dianne Z. Stevens.
2Social Security Death Index.
3Social Security Death Index.
1Jason Pamplin, interview, 22 Apr 2006. Interviewed by Dianne Z. Stevens.
1Sophia Nicklas Driskill, Nicklas Family History, copied & dispersed by the author, Yukon, OK 6/18/1986, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. The book consists of 18 pages of genealogy tracing the descendants of John George Nicklas (1806 - 1884) and
Anna Katherine Betsch (1809 - 1889) plus one page containing acknowledgements and miscellaneous information, and 2 pages about the Nicklas family crest.2Social Security Death Index.
3Social Security Death Index.
1Sophia Nicklas Driskill, Nicklas Family History, copied & dispersed by the author, Yukon, OK 6/18/1986, p.5, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. The book consists of 18 pages of genealogy tracing the descendants of John George Nicklas (1806 - 1884) and
Anna Katherine Betsch (1809 - 1889) plus one page containing acknowledgements and miscellaneous information, and 2 pages about the Nicklas family crest.2Social Security Death Index.
3Social Security Death Index.
1Sophia Nicklas Driskill, Nicklas Family History, copied & dispersed by the author, Yukon, OK 6/18/1986, p.5, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. The book consists of 18 pages of genealogy tracing the descendants of John George Nicklas (1806 - 1884) and
Anna Katherine Betsch (1809 - 1889) plus one page containing acknowledgements and miscellaneous information, and 2 pages about the Nicklas family crest.2Social Security Death Index.
3Social Security Death Index.
1Sophia Nicklas Driskill, Nicklas Family History, copied & dispersed by the author, Yukon, OK 6/18/1986, p.7, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. The book consists of 18 pages of genealogy tracing the descendants of John George Nicklas (1806 - 1884) and
Anna Katherine Betsch (1809 - 1889) plus one page containing acknowledgements and miscellaneous information, and 2 pages about the Nicklas family crest.
1Sophia Nicklas Driskill, Nicklas Family History, copied & dispersed by the author, Yukon, OK 6/18/1986, p. 17, Personal files of Dianne Z. Stevens, 1301 Reetz Road, Madison, WI 53711. The book consists of 18 pages of genealogy tracing the descendants of John George Nicklas (1806 - 1884) and
Anna Katherine Betsch (1809 - 1889) plus one page containing acknowledgements and miscellaneous information, and 2 pages about the Nicklas family crest.
1Louise Bedrosian, Email 24 Mar 2007.
2Obituary, unknown newspaper. "LOUISE BEDROSIAN- Louise Bedrosian of Burlington died peacefully Sunday, January 13 at Fletcher Allen Hospital after a long illness. She was 70. Louise was born January 18, 1937 to parents Benoni and Vivian Griffin (Dodge) of Sudbury VT. The oldest of four siblings, Louise grew up on her father's Rutland County farm and attended Castleton State Teachers
College after graduating from high school in 1955. After college, Louise began a storied career as an educator that culminated in nearly thirty years of teaching children to read at Wheeler and Barnes elementary schools in Burlington. A voracious reader herself, Louise especially enjoyed books about unexplained phenomena, mysteries of the universe, science
fiction and fantasy. Louise was a dollhouse and miniature enthusiast, an observer of politics and generous supporter of many good causes and charities. In later years Louise researched and wrote a series of books detailing the history and genealogy of her family in New England. In 2007 she joined the Vermont Society of Mayflower Descendants, having documented her direct relation to the English Pilgrim Thomas Rogers who landed at Plymouth MA in 1620. Louise is survived by her husband of 36 years Grischa Bedrosian; her three sons Greg, Haik and Aram Bedrosian; her grandchildren Crystal, Zoe,
Tigran and Emiliana Bedrosian; and her three bothers Benoni Jr. and Tom Griffin of Sudbury VT and Allyn Griffin of Brandon VT. Louise was a kind and generous spirit who touched the lives of everyone she met. She was dearly loved by her family and many friends and will be greatly missed. A graveside service will be held on Friday, January 18, 2008 at 12:00pm
in Willow Brook Cemetery, Sudbury, VT. Visiting hours will be held on Wednesday, January 16, from 11:00am to 1:00pm at the Ready Funeral & Cremation Service North Chapel, 934 North Ave. Burlington. Visiting hours will also be held at the Miller & Ketchum Funeral Home, 26 Franklin St., Brandon, VT on Friday, from 10:30am to 11:30am. To send online condolences to the family please visit www.readyfuneral.com. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Louise's memory may be made to the National Education Assosication. 1201 16th St., NW, Washington DC 20036-3290." receivedfrom Haik Bedrosian 14 Jan 2008.3Bev McConnell, Martindale Family History, 1759 - Present, Bev McConnell, 16808 91 St., Edmonton AB Canada T5Z 1W6, p. 502. "THOMAS & LUCY MARTINDALE
Our travel in time takes us back to meet our forefathers, Thomas and Lucy Martindale. Thomas Martindale was born about 1759 as he was eighty-four at the time of his death in 1843. Lucy (maiden name unknown but due to the fact that two of their children bear the name Bennet, it is a good possibility that her maiden name was Bennet.) was born about 1772 in New York. Lucy was seventy-nine at the time of her death in 1851. These two lovely people met, married and the rest is our family history.
We are not sure where Thomas or Lucy were born. Although it is interesting to note that on the US Census for the town of Weston, Clark County, Wisconsin for Samuel Martindale it lists his Father's place of birth as England and his Mother's place of birth as New York.
Thomas was enumerated as a single person in Wellsburgh, Clinton, New York in 1790. He married rather late in life, as he was about thirty-one when he married Lucy who was quite a bit younger (approximately twelve or thirteen years). On the 1800 Census Thomas is enumerated in Crown Point, Essex, New York with five children. Therefore, Lucy and Thomas Martindale probably married shortly after the 1790 Census was enumerated. There were three boys and two girls in the family at the time. In 1810 Thomas and Lucy were living in Ticonderoga, Essex, New York and had three boys and six girls.
Thomas and family moved to Orwell, Vermont in late 1813 or early 1814. Orwell land records show the purchase of land in February 1814 by Thomas Martindale of Ticonderoga, Essex, New York from Clark Sanford. Thomas purchased an estimated thirty-five acres of land, part of Lot No. 187 for One Hundred and Five Dollars. That December the family was given a "Warning Out".
The following is taken From Orwell Land Records - Vol 6, Pg. 307
"'State of Vermont ' Rutland County, to the Sheriff of Constable of Orwell you are hereby commanded to notify and warn David Hubbard his wife and family Samuel Field his wife and family Thomas Martindall his wife and family Richard Hunter his wife and family Henry Bliss his wife and family Sylvester Field and his wife Levi Davis his wife and family all Residing in Orwell to Depart this town forthwith Hereof fail not, but of this precept, and your doings thereon make due return according to law.
Dated at Orwell this 27th day of December A.D. 1814.
Orwell December 31st 1814 1 thus served this: Precept on the within named David Hubbard wife and family Richard Hunter wife and family Sylvester Field his wife and family Levi Davis his wife and family by leaving a true copy of the precept in the hands of each of their wives and on the same day on Samuel Field his wife and family Henry Bliss his wife and family by leaving a true copy of this precept in their hands with this my return hereon thereon enclosed.
Attest David Cook Constable
(It isn't known if the constable couldn't find Thomas and family to serve the Warning Out or if they proved they could support themselves at that time.)
Fees 12 miles travel $0.72
Six Copys $1.02
$1.74
Received to Record Jany 10th 1815
Attest ? Smith, Town Clerk"
On April 16, 1817 the following was published in the Rutland Weekly Herald "Delinquent property taxpayers list for year 1816 according to an Act of Congress. Gives acreage and bounds. Lands to sold at Benson at John Kellogg's office, he is deputy collector.
......... Orwell: Josiah Austin; Charles P. Allen; ; James Q. McFarland; Thomas
Martindale; Henry Moore; "
By 1820 two sons and four daughters still lived with their parents, Thomas and Lucy, in Orwell.
While the farm Thomas and Lucy lived on was sufficient to support themselves and a young family, it wasn't large enough to support the children as they grew up and married. During this time period as sons married, they had to find their own land, and that was very often done by moving west or up into Canada where there was new land. The daughters would marry and become the responsibilities of their husbands.
In 1830 only one male, probably Samuel and two females, possibly Rebecca and Jane, were living at home with Lucy and Thomas Martindale in Orwell.
The Manual of Congregational Church in Orwell, Vermont published in 1856 (held at the Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont) lists Martindales. It appears
that Samuel Martindale and Rebecca Martindale are two of the known children of
and Lucy Martindale and that Parmelia Munger, recorded as a member in 1830 would marry Benajah Martindale in 1831. Rebecca Martindale would marry Alvah Munger later on. J.
The names were recorded in the order in which they joined and since Electa Martindale and Parmelia Munger are next to each other it appears to be a reasonable conjecture that these
two soon to be sisters-in-laws joined the church together. This was the link we
needed to
connect Electa Martindale to our family.
On March 12, 1834, Thomas leased the "'Jimmy Hoar lot" of 19 acres on the south line of lot
No. 172, 3rd division for Thirty-five Dollars. On January 15, 1835, Thomas transferred all right to this lease to Nathan Woodward of Orwell for Seventy-five Dollars.
Due presumably to age Thomas transferred the farm to his son Benajah B. Martindale in October 1836. In return Benajah had to "'take care of him the said Thomas Martindale my honoured Father & my Mother Lucy Martindale the wife of the said Thomas during their and each of their natural lives and at all times furnish for them suitable and sufficient meat, drink, washing, lodging house room, and fire wood, clothing, medical aid, and assistance when necessary and in general all things necessary to them the said Thomas and Lucy as comfortable as is consistent with the age and circumstances for and during the full term of their natural lives..." This agreement lasted less than six months. On March 30, 1837,
Thomas Martindale discharged the mortgage in full and cancelled the conditions of the mortgage.
On March 30, 1837, Benajah B. Martindale transferred the land to Sam (Samuel) Martindale. There are further records of this land transaction all involving the original Thomas Martindale farm. Samuel, the youngest son, had taken over the responsibilities of his parents so that Benajah could eventually move to Erie County, New York.
In 1840 Samuel was now living on the Martindale family farm and looking after his parents, Thomas and Lucy Martindale, as agreed upon earlier.
From various land records it is noted that Thomas Martindale could not write as his mark is placed on the document instead of a signature.
Thomas died March 30, 1843 at Orwell, Rutland, Vermont. He is buried in the North Cemetery in the Town of Orwell, Vermont.
Lucy lived with her youngest son, Samuel, as per the agreement made on the transfer of the Martindale farm, until her death on April 28, 1851 at Orwell, Rutland, Vermont. Lucy is also buried in the village cemetery (North Cemetery, Orwell).
According to the various censuses and trying to put two and two together we think Thomas and Lucy Martindale had thirteen children. In subsequent chapters you will discover how each child married and carried on their own branches of the family to make the Martindales a widely spread family.".
1Louise Bedrosian, Email 24 Mar 2007.
1Elaine Scheller, Pdf file rec'd 11/12/07.
1Margrit Hamilton Lees, Greely Manual.
1Margrit Hamilton Lees, Greely Manual, p. 29.
2Yvonne Scheller. Yvonne, daughter of Mabel Braden is a granddaughter of Winnie Pierce.
3Social Security Death Index.
1Lisa Cresswell, Email of 18 May 2008.
1Shirley Nyman Harris-verbal report. From a list of 30 year old addresses received from Shirley Sep 2009.
2Lonabelle Stevens Larson Eastman, mailing rec'd 31 Oct 2012.
3Social Security Death Index.