Real Time

So I thought I'd post this link to an article about living relative (it's not all about the past), whom I've never met. Daryl is a 1rst cousin once removed. My Mothers cousin, she remembers him well growing up. He sounds like quite the adrenaline junky, and per my mom has been since boyhood :P

On a different note, we are beginning to wonder if there may be a genetic link to Parkinsons in that side of my family. There are lots of interesting things that have come up in this journey.

http://www.adn.com/2009/02/07/683375/an-alaska-life-lived-large.html

Family Ties

Well Hello! After a very long break for an eventful summer and fall, it's good to be back working on this project and to have some exciting things to share. This is definitely an ongoing process and you never know whats going to happen.

Over Christmas I chatted with my mother a bit about her family, and got some cousins info recorded in my tree for her side. I also checked back in with her brother, who is very kindly trying to connect with a branch of the family I have no connections with at all.

But I think the most exciting breakthrough occurred when I started searching my paternal grandmother Elsie's family again. Its not such a big world after all.

So I came across some mention of our family Beise, in a google search, on a rootsweb message board, from 10 years ago! Honestly I don't know how I missed them before but that's another story. Anyway I went ahead, took a shot in the dark, and answered the posts and sent off an e-mail as well..... within an hour she answered back! This has been awesome. First check out the pics of my GG-Grandparents


My Paternal Grandmothers Maternal Grandpa, Carl Beise, is above and her Grandmother, Wilhemina Pattis Beise, and aunt Ida Pattis Beise, are to the right. Its funny on first glimpse I was very happy to receive these pictures but they aren't the greatest quality. Then I sent them to my oldest brother and he said hey! That looks like me. Looking again I really can see him in my GG-Grandpa. Now watch, he was talking bout my GG-Grandma and her daughter-in-law (and niece actually). Pictures are like that I think.

So Marilyn, the distant cousin I ran into online, has been researching for quite some time and was able to use LDS resources to track down the little town in what was once Pomerania and is now Poland, our shared family, Carl and Wilhemina (pictured) came from, and she was able to study them as far back as they were available. I think I blogged about the class I took on this process. I actually hadn't gotten to this yet. They came across in 1892 with 4 children (according to Marylin they lost a little girl on the way), so only 3 made it to adulthood. We lucked out really, that the records were even on microfilm to study, and I have now ordered them to view myself. But it gets even better. She went over to Poland and to the village, and amazingly the church survived WWII. She sent pics of this as well.





I in turn have been able to share with her census information I've found on Ancestry.com that she didn't have. It's been great exchanging information with someone so enthusiastic... and closer to the sources, she was alive when Wilhemina passed. She has also inspired me to get over to the local Family Search Library and order those records and search for my Great Grandpa Fred Matthies church records from Germany/Pomerania. I have determined the village, but I am unfortunately not having any luck, so far, finding them in the LDS microfilms. It may be that the records aren't available at all, but I am inspired to go on :)

Our Revolutionary War Captian

Short note tonight. GGG Grandfather Smith Bradshaw married a woman named Elizabeth Chrisman. Elizabeth was the Granddaughter of Captian George Chrisman of the Rockingham County Militia in the Revolutionary War. Pretty cool.

would love to visit this homestead some day

http://www.georgechrismanhouse.com/index.html

Hopkins Family

The Bradshaw line has a rich history. I have told you about Great Great Grandpa Thomas Bradshaw, and haven't even gotten into his father Smith Bradshaw. But they both married women of interesting lineages on their own. Thomas married Nancy Catherine Hopkins in 1865. I came across a book written in 1905 about our Hopkins line. I am slowly doing what I can to verify the information in it. It is called A chapter in Hopkins Genealogy 1735 - 1905. It tells the tale of the Scotch-Irish (I have the feeling our actual Campbell line is Scotch Irish as well) pg2. This is the tale of 3 brothers, John, William and Archibald, in Colonial America, settling new land, dealing with all the hardships and effort.

Here are some transcribed pages from the will of Archibald (our direct ancestor). I find it quite interesting.

p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6

Archibald had 5 children with his wife Jennet Love Hopkins, one of whom was a son Ephriam.
Ephriam had 7 children with his wife Nancy Shanklin Hopkins, one of whom was a son Archibald (this is a popular name in this family).
Archibald had 6 children with his wife Ruth Gordon including a daughter Sarah Ann,
Sarah Ann had 8 children with her husband Archibald Hopkins (a cousin) one of whom was Nancy Catherine whom married Thomas Bradshaw.

Pictures

I've been trying to get some pics together. Here are some fun ones I've got so far.

I start with this one, my parents wedding :)



Here is one at my parents wedding reception. it's great because it's got both of their parents in it as well. They look mahvelous



Here is a great pic of my mothers parents, Ole and Mildred Lund, looking suave in Panama



Here is a pic at my Grandma Charles and Elsie Campbell's 50th Wedding Anniversary. This includes their children Marian, Glenn, my dad Jerry, Virgil and Virginia.



Some more pics from my moms side....

my uncle Dick harvesting on the Lund homestead



My Mothers Maternal Grandfather Carl Hendriksen



My Mothers Paternal Grandparents Olaf and Lina



more to come

Marion Campbell Homesteading Records

Tonight I wanted to post the homesteading records I received for my Great Grandpa Marion Campbell in Blaine MT.

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Judge Thomas Bradshaw

Thomas Bradshaw is my paternal Grandpa's maternal Grandpa. Got that ;) Thomas was born in Lewis County Mo. in 1843 to Smith Bradshaw and Elizabeth Chrisman Bradshaw. To elaborate on his connection, his daughter, Annie, married Marion Campbell, and their son was my Grandpa Charlie.

Cencus records would indicate Smith Bradshaw was farming in MO in the years Thomas grew up. He and Elizabeth had 11 children. Thomas was one of the youngest if not the youngest. When the civil war broke out, Thomas joined the Confederacy. He would have been only 18 years old.

I had heard we had a confederate in our family, and my cousin confirmed he was the one, so I started digging. The whole thing makes me kinda sad really, for all involved. I have very strong feelings about the confederacy and then the first records I found on Ancestry.com were POW records. The Confederates didn't keep alot of records, especially not the outfit he was part of I'd imagine. Let me elaborate. The POW records list his unit as Porters, in Marion County, MO. Now I feel pretty comfortable associating our Thomas with this regiment as Joseph C Porter , was actually Thomas' cousin. Porter was tasked with recruitment and bushwacking in Northern Mo where he lived. So it makes alot of sense. The records are less than perfect but it looks like Thomas was captured Oct 10, 1862 and looks to have been in custody till June of 1863, spending time in Gratiot Street Prison and Alton Prison, neither of which I would wish on anyone.

I don't really know what happened to him during the rest of the war. I do know he met and married Nancy Catherine Hopkins in Rockingham County Va (I have requested those records), in Oct 1865. They moved back to Mo. Together they had 8 children, 5 of whom survived to adulthood. They farmed. Later in life he became a Judge. He passed in 1910.

I am attaching a copy of a civil war POW record, his obituary, and his death certificate