I have one family with the names Thankful, Comfort, then Margaret, Mary ect.... I wonder what our generation will be thought of when they wonder where some of our names came from? People these days are picking some pretty strange ones, IMO. Derby ----- Original Message ----- From: "bhroser" <bhroser@midmaine.com> To: <> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [MaBarnstable] Re: Eben Smith Ward family > Does anyone think it strange that the name "Thankful' plus the use of a > middle name does not fit in with the rest of her siblings names? > > Rosalie in Bar Harbor, Me. > God Bless America > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Kew" <David.Kew@verizon.net> > To: <MABARNST-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 9:48 AM > Subject: [MaBarnstable] Re: Eben Smith Ward family > > >> Bobbie Hall quickly proved that 19th century newspapers were no more >> likely to get a story right than 21st century ones: so Eben Ward was >> killed by his son-in-law Samuel Rich, not Samuel Fish. >> The children of Ebenezer and Phebe (Briggs) Ward, all born in Wellfleet: >> Ebenener, 7 Oct 1825 - >> William, 29 Apr 1827 - >> Louisa, 26 Mar 1829 - 23 Jul 1837 >> Thankful Kennedy, 2 Feb 1833 - >> The children of Elisha 3d and Mary (Cole) Rich, all born in Wellfleet: >> Samuel Smith, 15 Aug 1832 - >> Elisha Merriam, 4 Oct 1835 - 23 May 1903 >> Mary Young, 5 Sept 1836 - >> Betsey Lewis, 19 Aug 1839 - >> Samuel Smith Rich married Thankful Kennedy Ward on 13 May 1858 in >> Wellfleet. >> Thankful Ward married Leatus Lincoln (c 1810 - 9 Oct 1870), 2nd marriages >> for both, on 17 Jun 1863 in Wellfeet. The marriage record uses her birth >> name rather than Rich, and I expect that indicates she divorced Samuel. >> All information here is from Wellfleet town records on CD, except Elisha >> Merriam Rich's death date, from the Pleasant Hill & Oak Dale cemetery >> (Wellfleet) transcription book. (The 1857 and 1858 Wellfleet Marriages >> are relatively difficult to find and read. They were recorded at the back >> of a Death record section, crosssing out and overwriting the printed >> column headings, in poor penmanship.) >> >> >> ==== MABARNST Mailing List ==== >> For helpful information on how to use this list more effectively, as well >> as links to other helpful related information, click on: >> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/MA/barnstable.html >> >> >> > > > > ==== MABARNST Mailing List ==== > For helpful information on how to use this list more effectively, as well > as links to other helpful related information, click on: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/MA/barnstable.html > > >