GraveObsessions
Digging up my roots!
Stories from an addicted genealogist
From Colonial New England to Minnesota, Norway to the United States..
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Ernest Loren Simpson
Ernest Loren Simpson – my grandmother’s father and my namesake (Well, his middle name at least!)
Susan Belle Stanwood
Susan (Stanwood) Clark Simpson was my grandmother’s mother, and the person whose roots I’ve spent my life searching!
Julia Christine Veland
Julia (Veland) Uphouse provides me with opportunities to research my Norwegian heritage! Her mother, Lisbet (Gravdahl),
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Susan Belle Stanwood
Click here for Susan B. Stanwood’s genealogy Susan Belle Stanwood was the young child of Albert and Lavina (Bursley) Stanwood. She was born at Santiago, Sherburne County, Minnesota 15 May 1885, and died at Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota 22 December 1946. She married her first husband, Edwin R. Clark, at Floodwood, St. Louis County, Minnesota…
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Ernest Loren Simpson
Ernest Simpson, sometimes known as “Bob” Simpson, was my grandfather’s father. She was the youngest of his children, born to his third wife, Susan Belle Stanwood. See Ernie’s family tree here.
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3820 37th Ave S – yup, that’s the place!
Lot 6. Block 6 Lawndale ad[dition] $850. John O. Veland bought this property in 1913, and the Minneapolis Morning Tribune published the transfer of real estate into his possession on the 5th of December. Prior to purchasing this lot, on 22 September 1913 John Veland, my great-great grandfather, paid $800 to the building inspector for…
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The story, the pictures and the facts!
Like many families, stories of a Native American heritage circulated. My grandmother, Goldie (Simpson) Uphouse Edwards, truly believed her father was half American Indian, but that tale turned out to be completely erroneous and false. (Oh my, I still wish I hadn’t burst my grandmother’s bubble when I learned of the unwelcome truth!) Thankfully, most…
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In memory of James W. Christopherson
People in our lives have the ability to impact us in big ways we cannot anticipate. For me, James W. Christopherson was one of those people. im embraced technology. He was a giving genealogist, sharing his research freely. And in the early 1990s, he submitted a public post to the Family History Library seeking to…
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Harriet Luzetta Day
Harriet Luzetta (Day) Freeman (1812-1887/8) was the second daughter born to Aaron and Martha (Tibbetts) Day. The sister of my 2nd great grandmother, Cynthia (Day) Bursley, Harriet had a unique perspective of the family; she was raised by her paternal uncle and aunt, Nathaniel and Sarah Day. Harriet clearly loved her aunts and uncles, and…
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Mrs. means married…..or does it?
There are challenges when we view history through the lens of modern times. Take the marriage record shown below, for example, in which “Mrs.” Sarah Greenleaf weds Benjamin Bradstreet. For years I wrongly concluded that Sarah Greenleaf was someone’s widow, having been married before. A closer look, however, reveals something different. “Mrs.,” an abbreviated form…
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Seeing double: two lines to my Mayflower ancestors!
My grandmother was proud of her New England heritage. While she didn’t know much beyond the names of her maternal grandparents, Albert Stanwood and Lavina Bursley, she had been told growing up that our ancestors came on the Mayflower. Many years later, after connecting with a Bursley cousin and documenting my descent from John Howland…
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Simeon Spencer of Truro and Provincetown, Massachusetts
Seafaring Simeon, another Revolutionary War patriot, lived on what is now known as Cape Cod. His story comes in part from Gibson’s H.M.S. Somerset. Resident of Truro Simeon Spencer resided in Truro in 1771, where he was taxed for two polls, and where his daughter, Martha, was born 4 August 1771. On 12 January 1773, the…
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Stanwood Homestead
In 1844, Benjamin Stanwood purchased Lot 25 and the eastern half of Lot 24 in Township No. 2 Indian Purchase, now known as Woodville, Penobscot County, Maine. It is here he was enumerated on the 1850 census with his family. Where was his homestead? The 1859 map of Penobscot County, Maine below shows B. Stanwood…
Lauren Rogers
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