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Stewart was the second child and oldest son of Samuel Crawford Pancake and Catharine Darling.  From all we have read and found, Stewart appears to have been a fine man.   At the age of nineteen he enlisted in the army and served from Coshocton County, Ohio for the Union in The Civil War.   His uncle […]

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Frank Chance was certainly a well-known baseball player and coach of the Chicago Cubs and other major league teams.  Our interest in him is not about baseball but is in his marriage and connection to our family history.  Frank was born in Fresno, California.  He married Edythe Lillian Pancake, who was the daughter of Stewart […]

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Carl Darling Pancake was the son of Stewart Megge Pancake and Priscilla Jane Freeland.  His middle name is for his paternal grandmother’s line.  She was Catharine Darling who married Samuel Crawford Pancake.   He was born in Blandinsville, Illinois and died in California.  He had one sibling, a sister, Edythe Lillian Pancake Chance, wife of […]