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Tombstone Tuesday: James Smith and Amy Cleveland
From the Beverly (Mass.) Central Cemetery.
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Oct 20, 2009 8:01:00 AM
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Madness Monday: Mary Chamberlain Wallis 1814-1866, Wife of Luther Hale Pinkham
There's only so many brick walls that drive us crazy. At this point, I'm going to alter my take on this particularly genealogical meme and present some genealogical proof summaries of ancestors. I will present the preponderance of the evidence to show how I've connected people where such evidence is less than certain. My first example will be Mary Chamberlain Wallis, my great-great-great-grandmother. Mary married at New Durham, N.H., on 27 April 1840, as his second wife, Luther Hale Pinkham 1815-1873, son of Jonathan and Alice (Runnels) Pinkham. His ancestry is covered in my article: The Pinkhams of Strafford County,...
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In 1993 I wrote my first genealogical article correcting mistakes in the three-volume Cleveland Genealogy. In that article I wrote: The Rev. Nathan5 (Benjamin4-3, Aaron2) Cleveland married Diademia Dextor (sic) of Liverpool, Nova Scotia on 10 November 1799 according to CG no. 410, pp. 252-3. Her birth date is given as 10 October 1777, but no parentage for her is given in the CG. However, in The Genealogy of the Dexter Family in America; Descendants of Thomas Dexter (William A. Worden & Robert L. Dexter, Worcester, 1905), pp. 44-5, an entry was made for Ariedana Dexter, daughter of Ebenezer and...
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