I am starting a book! I have always wanted to write a book, and today I have taken the first steps to do that. Well, technically my research has been the first step, but today I took a step closer to making my dream, of being an author, a reality. I purchased software/ an application that will help me to print family reports, check facts and gather statistics and charts for the book. I am very excited! Also, I am a bit overwhelmed with the inconsistencies in my tree. I have been doing genealogical research for over 20 years, and expect some inconsistencies with the way I entered information- but not this many! ha.
I have decided to focus on Cornelius Bond's family and his descendants for my book. He was married twice. At this stage I am not sure what information I will include on his first wife, yet. I am very excited to learn more about Hannah Frances Englar Bond, his second wife, and my Great Great Great Grandmother. I am not going to give myself timelines. I feel it would stress me out too much. I am instead going to focus on the research and the people. I will try to devote certain days to certain individuals. Cornelius fathered 19 children (that I have found, unsure if there were miscarriages or early deaths) and there is therefore a lot of information to double check and research. I want to try to find birth records (might not be any), death records (more likely a reality), marriage records (not everyone married though), newspaper clippings (records are not digitized), church records (unknown what church they went to at this time), and land records (Red Level is identified as the farm Hannah lived on). So much to do! I better stop gabbing here and get to it!
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In my online search for possible causes of the Grimes family deaths in 1862-1863 (5 children under 10), I found an article titled "The Most Dangerous Epidemics in U.S. History (http://www.healthline.com/health/worst-disease-outbreakshistory#overview1). Based on this preliminary information I am going to look into Cholera (which came in three waves, between 1832 and 1866) and Scarlet fever (which also came in waves, but started in 1858) further.
I need to look at newspapers of the time (unsure of what was around) and see if there are any articles on this devastating tragedy. Also, death records of the time and area. They say that no parent should have to bury their child. I do not have any children of my own, but imagine that it would tear one's heart to shreds. Which is why, when I came across this excerpt from Names in Stone my heart strings were tugged, to say the least. It is a listing of a family plot in a cemetery in Ladiesburg, MD. If you are a genealogist, this looks like a pretty typical family burial site, at first. When you look at the death dates and then ages that follow, it is anything but. Wilson Grimes lost 5 of his young children, in a matter of months. How did these parents handle those months from September 1862 to April 1863? What were the children thinking and feeling?
James (11 months 7 days old) September 9, 1862 John (5 years 3 months 25 days old) November 16, 1862 Amanda (10 years 1 month 5 days old) May 4, 1863 Samuel (7 years 11 months 24 days old) May 11, 1863 Nancy (4 years 1 month 19 days old) April 5, 1863 Did little James (not even a year old) come down with something in September? He was the first to go, on the 9th of September, 1862. A little over a month later John dies, on the 16th of November. Things appear to be quiet for a little while, until spring. Amanda passes on May 4th and Samuel is gone on the 11th of May. Little Nancy appears to be the last to die so young, on April 5th. How ever did the family overcome the death of their babies? I can't fathom it. I need to research this more and look carefully at papers in the area. What happened? Was it a an accident or a large outbreak of disease? Did the community suffer similarly or was this tragedy confined to the Grimes family? So many questions. So much sadness. In my last post about my GGG grandmother's birthday party, I noticed that the paper called her land "Red Level". Red Level is noted as being near Johnsville which means it is either in Carroll county or Frederick. Yesterday I went to the HSCC and the Westminster Library and tried to look up the land tract. I didn't find anything that seemed to fit in Carroll county. This morning my partner's phone beeped at 3 am and woke me up. I tried but couldn't go back to sleep so I got out of bed and decided to do a little blind digging online. I found a land plat called Red Level in Frederick County through MD Land Rec. I have no idea what the reference means, unfortunately, right now. Funny thing is that I'm not entirely sure how I found it, too. I am super tired at this point, and need to take a nap (now that my partner is up and moving about, ha). I hope to go down to Frederick later and use the newfound info to find the actual land that my GGG grandmother once lived on.
The Bond family threw their mother a birthday party near Johnsville, MD on 28 Oct 1923 or 1924. Below is a clipping from the News about the party. In Italy [Bond] Grimes' photo album I found some pictures from the event. They are below, and I apologize in advance for the poor quality of them. The entire album is very fragile. The images below are pictures I took from the album. It is my hope to restore the album and then scan the images at a higher quality. Here is a list I made of the people named in the article: Hannah Englar Bond (birthday girl), Joshua Grossnickle, Harvey H Bond (Italy's father), Italy Bond Grimes (& Welker Sterling Grimes, John Howard Grimes, Fred Victor Grimes, Gloria Irene Grimes), Howard Bond (Italy’s brother), Virginia M McCreary Bond (wife of Howard), Roy Bond, Mary Ellen Bond Burall (& Edward Burall), Alma Bond, Edwin Bond, Sarah Berton Bond Crouse (& Lola Crouse, Esther Crouse, Dorothy Crouse), Oscar Grimes, wife of Oscar Grimes, Rebecca Bond, May Bond, I R Bond, Frank Wood, Belle (& Louise Wood, Belle Wood), Mrs. Mollie Van Dusen, Annie Lucretia Bond Neighbors (& Mary Neighbors), Mrs Carrie Green (& Douglas Green). (Two days later...) I figured out who Joshua Grossnickle is! To be honest, it was sort of bothering me that I didn't know who he was, as he wasn't attached to my family tree. He married Hannah and Cornelius's daughter Laura A Bond. She passed away in 1915. I think it's cool that he went to this party for his former mother-in-law almost 10 years after his wife passed away.
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