Friend of Friends Friday: Bryant Slaves

Nashville Union and American, 16 January 1858, page 3

Sale of Negroes

By virtue of a decree of the County Court of Davidson county, rendered in the case of Lorenzo Bryant and others, heirs of Sherod Bryant, dec'd, exparte, I will offer for sale at the court house in Nashville on Saturday January 16th 1858, the following, negroes to wit: Louisa, about 32 years of age; Watson her child, 3 years of age; Leander, 8 years of age; Prissa, 9 years of age.

TERMS  – ½ cash, and the balance on a credit of 6 months, notes, with good security required. Said negroes are sold for distribution among the heirs of John Bryant dec'd.

                                                                                    F R  CHEATHAM,
                                                                                    Clerk & Master.
ec d16 –lawids prs fee $5

Those Places Thursday: 68 Ferncroft Park, Ramsey, New Jersey

In 1974, my maternal grandparents John and Margaret (Schneider) Boe sold their house in Ridgewood, Bergen County, New Jersey and moved to the Ferncroft Park apartments in Ramsey, Bergen County, New Jersey. Some of the best moments of my childhood were spent at 68 Ferncroft Park. I was very close to my Grandma Boe, and I saw her frequently. Our large extended family got together much more often when I was growing up. The apartment had a spare bedroom, so there was room for family to stay there. There was a fold-out couch as well. My Grandpa Boe died in 1977, but Grandma Boe lived at Ferncroft Park until she died in 1986. The building eventually became a co-op, but she opted to keep renting her unit.

Many relatives gathered together in front of 68 Ferncroft Park in 1980

 Grandma Boe with four of her five children (my youngest uncle is not pictured)

 My cousin and me with my mother, grandmother, and aunts

Grandma Boe in her apartment at 68 Ferncroft Park

My aunt and cousin's two cats, April and Chammy, always came with them when they visited. Chammy is pictured here on my grandmother's piano. The family often gathered around the piano and sang while Grandma Boe played. Those were fun times!

Wedding Wednesday: Mildred Jestes and Marion Webb Elliott

On Thanksgiving Eve in 1936, Mildred Jestes from Sorento, Bond County, Illinois married Marion Webb Elliott from Wood River, Madison County, Illinois. The couple married at the Presbyterian Church in Wood River. The groom was the nephew of Louise Elliott, the third wife of my great-grandfather Henry Brown Gatlin. He was also my 6th cousin twice removed. Louise (my 5th cousin three times removed as well as my step-great-grandmother) was a distant cousin of my great-grandmother Anna Gertrude Tarkington, Henry Brown Gatlin's second wife. I don't think the two women knew that they were related. They may not even have known each other.

Alton Evening Telegraph, 27 November 1936, page 6

Henry and Louise attended the couple's wedding. It is interesting that they were referred to as "Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Gatlin of Chicago." Although their residence was accurate, their marital status was probably not. When Louise filled out her Social Security application on 1 December 1936, she stated that her name was Louise Elliott Francis. If they married legally, they probably did it later.

Tombstone Tuesday: Sunshine Gatlin

Sunshine, my orange and white tabby girl, was born on 15 July 1990. The person who brought her to the Bergen County Animal Shelter in Teterboro, Bergen County, New Jersey was from Weehawken, Hudson County, New Jersey, so perhaps Weehawken was Sunshine's birthplace. I adopted Sunshine on 12 September 1990, four days after she had been brought to the shelter. She was the first cat that was ever all mine. She was like the feline version of me.

We had more than twenty years together. Sadly, she developed chronic renal failure. She survived for more than twenty-one months after her diagnosis, but the day came when she was too weak to fight any more. She passed away at Montville Animal Hospital in Towaco, Morris County, New Jersey on 13 November 2010.

Sunshine is buried in Abbey Glen Pet Memorial Park in Lafayette, Sussex County, New Jersey, in Section 15, Hillside, Row D, Block 8, Lot B.

The pet cemetery has a Gift of Love Memorial plaque. I added Sunshine's name and dates to it. I also added my cats Velvet and Ember, whose ashes were scattered on the grounds of the cemetery. I added Ember and Sunshine to the plaque at the same time, so Ember's name is above Sunshine's. I had added Velvet's name years earlier, but Sunshine's name ended up next to Velvet's name, one row over. My three girls are all together just like they were in life.

Mappy Monday: Guggisberg, Canton Bern, Switzerland

Karte Gemeinde Guggisberg 2007. [Map of Municipality Guggisberg.] By Tschubby (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5-2.0-1.0)]. Available from Wikimedia Commons.

This map shows the location of Guggisberg in Canton Bern, Switzerland.  My 3rd-great-grandfather Davidson Binkley is believed to be a descendant of Peter Binkley (also Binggeli and Binckele). Peter was born in Guggisberg in 1704.

52 Ancestors: Week 32 "32": Anna Maria Aussem

Anna Maria Aussem is one of my 32 3rd-great-grandparents. She was misidentified for years. In a letter that my maternal grandmother Margaret (Schneider) Boe wrote to my uncle, she stated that she was mostly of German descent, but had a French great-grandmother.

My aunt Joan has many family documents and photos. She lent me some to scan, including my the marriage record of my 2nd-great-grandparents Carl Joseph Schneider and Christina Nagel. A handwritten summary of the data accompanied the document.

According to the handwritten summary, my 2nd-great-grandmother Christina Nagel's mother was Anna Marie Aupin. The assumption had been made that her mother was of French ancestry because the surname Aupin seems to be French.

Although the family believed that Anna Marie's surname was Aupin, I saw something different when I looked at the original document.

My knowledge of German helped me when I looked at this document. I knew about the German letter eszett (ß). I could see how it might be confused with the letter p. Someone unfamiliar with this letter would not read it as ss. I thought it was more likely that Christina Nagel's mother's name was Anna Maria Aussem. Further research in German records showed that I was right. Anna Maria's surname was Aussem, not Aupin, and she was of German descent, not French.

Anna Maria Aussem was born on 15 October 1815 in Kendenich, Rhein-Erft, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. She was the daughter of Mathias Aussem and Theresia Erp (also given as Erles). Kendenich is now part of Hürth.

Birth registration, Anna Maria Aussem. Hürth (Rheinland). Bürgermeisterei. Zivilstandsregister. Stadtarchiv Hürth.

On 1 February 1837, Anna Maria married Wilhelm Esser, a farmer from Hürth. He was the son of Peter Esser and Margaretha Horst.

Marriage registration, Wilhelm Esser and Anna Maria Aussem. Hürth (Rheinland). Bürgermeisterei. Zivilstandsregister. Stadtarchiv Hürth.

Marriage registration, Wilhelm Esser and Anna Maria Aussem. Hürth (Rheinland). Bürgermeisterei. Zivilstandsregister. Stadtarchiv Hürth.

Wilhelm and Anna Maria's son Peter Esser was born on 10 March 1838. Wilhelm Esser died on 20 April 1839. He was only about 23 years old.

On 17 March 1845, Anna Maria gave birth to an illegitimate son, Mathias Aussem. Her son's father was my 3rd-great-grandfather Johann Nagel. Perhaps Johann and Anna Maria could not obtain permission to marry sooner. Johann may not have been financially secure enough to support a wife, stepson, and any additional children that might be born. Mathias was later known as Mathias Joseph Nagel. He took his father's surname after he was legitimized as a result of his parents' marriage.

Johann and Anna Maria married on 31 August 1848, more than three years after the birth of their son Mathias.

Marriage registration, Johann Nagel and Anna Maria Aussem. Hürth (Rheinland). Bürgermeisterei. Zivilstandsregister. Stadtarchiv Hürth.

Marriage registration, Johann Nagel and Anna Maria Aussem. Hürth (Rheinland). Bürgermeisterei. Zivilstandsregister. Stadtarchiv Hürth.

Almost a year after their marriage, on 19 August 1849, Johann and Anna Maria had a daughter, Theresia. Their next child, my 3rd-great-grandmother Christina Nagel, was born in Kendenich on 27 February 1851. Johann and Anna Maria had another daughter, Agnes, on 21 December 1855.

Anna Maria died in Kendenich on 8 September 1861.

Death registration,  Anna Maria Aussem. Hürth (Rheinland). Bürgermeisterei. Zivilstandsregister. Stadtarchiv Hürth.

Shopping Saturday: National Garage Sale Day

Garage sale sign claiming to advertise higher quality merchandise, in Texas. 17 August 2013. Photo by Pete unseth (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]. Available from Wikimedia Commons.

The second Saturday in August is National Garage Sale Day. In 2001, C. Daniel Rhodes of Hoover, Alabama came up with the idea for National Garage Sale Day and submitted it to Chase's Calendar of Events. He saw that his neighbors were having garage sales on different weekends, and he thought that it would be more convenient if they were held on the same day.

My maternal grandmother Margaret Ann (Schneider) Boe would have enjoyed this holiday. She frequently went to garage sales and liked finding bargains there. My aunts enjoyed going with her when they visited.

My cousin Jenny and her friend have a yard sale blog, Yard Sale Bloodbath.

Garage sale. Photo by en:User:Smm650. Public domain. Available from Wikimedia Commons.

References
Mark Your Calendar
National Garage Sale Day