Posts Tagged ‘Thompson’
posted by Sandy on Keepsake Photographs
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Harley Younker was born in Colorado in 1871 to Jason T. Younker and Rachel Ann Thompson. Rachel Ann was the daughter of Jane Pancake Thompson who was the daughter of William Pancake Senior and a sister to our direct ancestor Samuel Crawford Pancake. Harley is found on the “Early Student” list at Notre Dame University […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous
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Clarence Roland Gittings was born in LaHarpe, Hancock County, Illinois to James Gittings and Susannah Thompson. He was the oldest of three children born to his parents. His father had been married once before he married Charles’ mother. His parents moved from Ohio to LaHarpe in 1836. When Clarence grew to adulthood he purchased 200 […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous, Stories Within Stories
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It was the obituary for our ancestor William Pancake in 1867 that told us where he was buried. The first Methodist Church in Jefferson Township was built on this spot in Warsaw, Ohio. Our ancestors were among the founding members of the church. Soon, a graveyard was plotted and grew up around the church. By […]
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Mary Crawford was born in Columbiana County, Ohio to Samuel Crawford and Anne Bates. Although we do not know the number or names of any siblings she might have had, we know that she had at least one brother because a child with the last name of Crawford lived in the home she and William […]
posted by Sandy on Stories Within Stories
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We knew that direct ancestor William Pancake was buried where the Mohawk Methodist Church once stood because his obituary told us so. We assumed that his wife Mary Crawford was buried with him. We didn’t expect to find three grandchildren of William and Mary Pancake whose names we had never seen. Emma and Pauline were […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Sandra Gale
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Thomas James Barker was born in England to William Barker and Elizabeth Sanders. He was the sixth of ten children born to his parents. Nothing has been recorded about his childhood that we have found. In 1825, direct ancestor Thomas married Elizabeth Thompson. They became the parents of twelve children including their eighth child John […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Sandra Gale
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Elizabeth Thompson was the oldest child of four born to her parents John Thompson and Ann Odell. In 1825 she married Thomas Barker and together they became the parents of twelve children. The first five of six died as infants. Biographical sketches by Elizabeth’s children and grandchildren describe her as a kind and faithful woman. […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Sandra Gale
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John Thompson Barker was born in England to Thomas Barker and Elizabeth Thompson. He was the eighth of thirteen children which were seven girls and six boys. Five of the children died in infancy and one, a brother died at the age of twenty-seven. In 1856, at the age of 18, John and his family […]
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Rachel Ann Thompson was the daughter of Jane Pancake and William Thompson. Jane, Rachel’s mother was the daughter of William Pancake and Mary Crawford and the oldest of three children: Jane, Samuel and William Pancake. Thus, Rachel was the first cousin of our ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous and the niece of Glendora’s father Samuel […]