Rosemary Nunnally contributed the following: Martin Flaherty expected to defeat Tom Connelly in Boston; Mrs. M.T. Thomas and daughter of Providence visiting William A. Ashworth; P.J. Hoar, attorney-at-law, has moved his office; John P. Boyers to be grand marshal of Foresters parade; Women's Rights Club held a supper and entertainment at G.A.R. hall; Miss Myrtie Robinson had 15th birthday party. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/1894/JUL.html#3 John McManus and Annie Kelleher tried for adultery; Joseph Jambord pleaded not guilty to embezzling a wagon from Michael Welch; Susan Smith, Patrick Shea, and William Ferguson, sent to jail. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/1894/AUG.html#25 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/index.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PARKS, EMERY, CARLSON, HOLLAND, MARTIN, FLOYD, RODENHISER, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AFB.2ACE/1769 Message Board Post: James William Marsden PARKS, 1858 - 1924, Architect & Surveyor. Son, also James, married Amy CARLSON. Is there anyone researching and/or descended from this family ??

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1762.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi John Have you any more info on Alexander Mciver as i found a Alexander Mcivor note the spelling and i have him born 1901 4th jul death sept, 1980 last Residence XX800 Europe last benefit SSN 141- 05- 3894 issued New-Jersey. And the last Residence was the US Embassy London 1951 could this be the same person? Cheers Hugh.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1762.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi John Well done thanks for that info all the best. Cheers Hugh.

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AFB.2ACE/1768 Message Board Post: Can someone please do an obituary lookup for me? I am looking for Patrick Edwin BARRETT d. 5 Mar 1956 in Everett, MA. Thanks, Dave

From website: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=5495 The Free Lance October 1900 Location: Hollister Description: Births, Marriages, & Deaths, etc.- Weekly Publication Died -- DANKS -- at Hollister, Oct. 10, Joseph Carrier DANKS, a native of Massachusetts, aged 84 years. Death of J.C. DANKS -- a great shock to his many friends as it was not generally known that he was ill, an aggravated case of erysipelas. The funeral took place from his late residence yesterday afternoon, the services being conducted by Rev. J.W. BRYANT. The remains were interred in the IOOF cemetery. [from 26 Oct issue -- The will of the late J.C. DANKS, filed for probate bequeaths to his wife, Caroline S. DANKS, the 5ac homestead on Powell St. during her life time. At the death of said Caroline S. DANKS said property is to be divided as follows: ½ to his daughter, Elizabeth K. BOYLE, and ½ to his grand-children, Alice E. WEIR, Anna and Edith DANKS, share and share alike…] ==========================================

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AFB.2ACE/1762.1 Message Board Post: 1901 birth in Medford on 12 Jan for Alexander Cameron McIver, son of George Letham and Mary Simpson Bremmer. Parents reside in Medford. George is a carpenter. Both parents born in Scotland.

[HERITAGE QUEST ONLINE] A Memorial and biographical history of the coast counties of central California : illustrated : containing a history of this important section of the Pacific coast from the earliest period of its discovery to the present time, together with glimpses of its auspicious future, illustrations and full-page portraits of some of its eminent men, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers, and prominent citizens of to-day Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1893, 459 pgs. Pages 392. & 393. (MONTEREY, SAN BENITO SANTA CRUZ) J. A. STEINBECK a well known citizen of Hollister, is a native of Germany, having been born there November 27, 1832. He learned the cabinet-makers trade in his native country, and at the age of 17, with an older brother and sister, emigrated to Palestine, and he remained for eight years in the old city of Jerusalem, where he worked at his trade and acted as an interpreter of English, German and Arabic languages. In this far off land, June 1, 1856, our subject was married to ALMIRA, a daughter of WALTER A. DICKSON, at that time an independent missionary. In 1858, MR. and MRS. STEINBECK went to Massachusetts, which was the native place of the latter, she having been born in that state in the town of Grafton. (Note: error should be Groton) Soon after their arrival they went to Florida and located at St. Augustine. When the late war broke out our subject was pressed into service and served in the Confederate army for one year. He was taken prisoner, but paroled and joined his young wife and two children who had made her way to her Northern home. He remained in Massachusetts for ten years, engaged at his trade in a piano factory, and then came in November, 1872, to California and located in Hollister, where he has since lived. MR. and MRS. STEINBECK have had five sons namely: CHARLES, agent for the Southern Pacific Company, at Templeton. This son was born at Joppa, Palestine, April 27, 1857. The next child, HERBERT E., is an employee of the Central Milling Company, of Hollister, and he was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, August 6, 1859. ERNEST, the third, represents the interests of the Central Milling Company at King City, and was born in Massachusetts in 1862. (note: ERNEST was JOHN ERNST, b. April 20, 1862 Florida) WILHELM is the superintendent of the Victor Mills of Hollister, and was born in Massachusetts, February 4, 1865. HARRY, the youngest, is at Santa Margarita, and was born at Fitchburg, Massachusetts October 5, 1857. Our subject is regarded as a man of sound principals and good business judgment, a character that he has transmitted to his sons. He lives in one of the finest villas in the city of Hollister. =======================================================

I have seen a photograph of the monument with SAMUELETTE CAROLINE (DICKSON) DANKS' data on it but cannot read it. She is in the 1930 census so is not in the wonderful book beautifully transcribed by JANICE FARNSWORTH. Wondering if anyone has a more recent transcription of people buried in the cemetery? 1930 United States Federal Census Record Name: Caroline S Danks Age: 83 Estimated birth year: abt 1847 Birthplace: Massachusetts Relation to head-of-house: Head Race: White Hollister, San Benito, California HOUSEHOLD: DANKS, CAROLINE S head age 83 WIDOW b. MA parents b. MA occ: none STEINBECK, EDWARD nephew age 72 WIDOWER b. Palestine father b. Germany mother b. MA occ: none (b. abt. 1858) PARK, SARAH niece age 74 WIDOW b. Palestine father b. Germany mother b. MA occ: none SALLIE, LYDIA MAE roomer WIDOW b. CA father b. OH mother b. CA occ: Practical Nurse ==============================================

Some of the full transcriptions I have at my web pages on Groton, Massachusetts. All are free to download including two books I have transcribed involving Groton, Mass. The following excerpt is from "Groton Historical Series" by Dr. Samuel Abbott Green Vol I. 1887, and is entitled "Reminiscences of Groton" by William Amory - Boston, May 19, 1883. William Amory was the brother in law of Wm. Hickling Prescott. _Reminiscences of Groton_ (http://tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/amory.txt) (29 kb) added 6/14/05 _Old Taverns & Stage Coaches _ (http://tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/oldtav.txt) (32 kb) uploaded 12/27/05 "The Geography of Groton - Rivers, Ponds, Hills, Meadows, Brooks & Roads. Source: An Historical Sketch of Groton, Massachusetts 1655-1890 by Dr. Samuel A. Green, Groton, 1894 _Groton_ (http://tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/groton.txt) (38.2kb) added 9/19/03 Some Marriages and Births at Groton, MA Part 1 of 18 Parts Source: History of Groton (MA) by Caleb Butler 1848 _Vitals_ (http://tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/vitals.txt) (137 kb) added 1/27/05 Source: "An Historical Sketch of Groton, Massachusetts l655 - l890 by Dr. Samuel A. Green pub. Groton, l894 - Selected Excerpts on Indians _Indian Attacks_ (http://tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/indian.txt) (71 kb) addeded 8/1/05 _Epitaphs from the Old Burial Ground_ (http://tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/epgrot.doc) , Groton, MA Full book - downloadable And of course there is the History of Charlestown, N.H. - the Old Fort No. 4 founded by the 3 Farnsworth brothers of Groton and settled by families of Groton in 1740 - covering the French & Indian Wars - which the frontier forts were built to protect the towns in Massachusetts from the trepidations of the French & Indian attacks The following file is a zip file of the book, "History of Charlestown, N.H., the Old No. 4," by Rev. Henry H. Saunderson, printed at Claremont, N.H. 1876. _History of Charlestown, N.H._ (http://tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/fort.zip) (535 kb) uploaded 7/16/04 God Bless America History & Genealogy Freely Shared Janice Farnsworth _http://tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/janice.htm_ (http://tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/janice.htm) and Toni Feeney _http://www.tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/page7.htm_ (http://www.tfeeney.esmartbiz.com/page7.htm)

http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/steinbeck_studies/v015/15.1perry.html Excerpt: They were preceded by another son, Philip Doddridge Dickson, who had gone there in July 1842 with his young wife, Susan, in order to teach the local inhabitants the basic principles of American farming. Philip Dickson became ill and died on 25 April 1853 (Richardson 7), and his wife decided to return to New England. She sailed to Boston and on her arrival there on October 21, she heard that her husband's family had left the city ten days earlier on their way to the country she had just left (Chamberlain 195-98). ==================================== Trying to find out if SUSAN MASON, dau of AARON, is the wife of PHILIP DICKSON. Knowing that PHILIP's widow's name was SUSAN, I checked for a SUSAN in the 1860 census and found one in Groton. The only one of the right age to have been married to PHILP. SEE items below: ====================================== 1850 United States Federal Census Record Name: Susan M Mason Age: 20 Estimated birth year: abt 1830 Birth place: Massachusetts Gender: Female Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts HOUSEHOLD: MASON, AARON age 50 occ: Carriage Maker b. NH MASON, SIBIL age 50 b. MA MASON, SUSAN M age 20 b. MA MASON, ELLEN A age 17 b. MA MASON, MARTHA M age 14 b. MA MASON, JOSEPH C age 13 b. NH =================================== 1860 United States Federal Census Record Name: Susan Dixon Age: 30 Birth Year: abt 1830 Birthplace: Massachusetts Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Gender: Female Post Office: Shirley Household: Aaron Mason 60 Martha Mason 59 Susan Dixon 30 ============================== FTM CD#220 MA VITAL RECORDS DICKSON, PHILIP DODDRIDGE Event Type: Birth Event Date: 31-MAR-1827 Town of Record: Groton County of Record: Middlesex Comment: /S WALTER, JR. AND SARAH ==================================== 1850 United States Federal Census Record Name: Sarah Dixson Age: 50 Estimated birth year: abt 1800 Birth place: Massachusetts Gender: Female Home in 1850 Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts HOUSEHOLD: DIXSON, WALTER age 51 occ: Carpenter b. MA v-$1,300 (all in family b. MA) DIXSON, SARAH age 50 DIXSON, SARAH A age 24 DIXSON, PHILIP O age 23 occ: Farmer DIXSON, ALMIRA A age 21 DIXSON, MARY E age 17 DIXSON, HENRY A age 12 DIXSON, SAMUELTTE age 3 =============================================

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Green, Samuel A. [HERITAGE BOOKS ONLINE] Epitaphs from the old burying ground in Groton, Massachussetts : with notes and an appendix Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1878, 296 pgs. Page 219. GROTON EPITAPHS 1860 (A Monument) (West side) WALTER DICKSON Died January 21, 1860 AEt. 61. A Missionary in Palestine for five years. (North side) FRED W. STEINBECK Killed by Arabs in Jaffa, Palestine Jan. 12, 1858, AEt. 36. MARY E. his wife, dau. of WALTER & SARAH DICKSON, died Dec. 10, 1867, AEt. 34 WALTER DICKSON was the son of WALTER and ANNA (TUFTS) DICKSON, and was born March 15, 1799, at Groton. His father removed to this town from Menotomy, since West Cambridge, and now Arlington. WALTER, the son, was a farmer unti October 1853, when he left Groton, to work as an independent missionary in Palestine. In January 1858, MR. DICKSON's house in Jaffa was attacked by Arabs, and he himself severly wounded; his son-in-law, STEINBECK, was killed at the same time. He came back to this country in the following September. ===============================================

Wondering what the NEHGS might have on WALTER DICKSON, 111? (or, if anyone else out there is researching this DICKSON family) WALTER DICKSON took his family to Palestine in the 1850s. (Missionaries) His daughter ALMIRA ANN DICKSON, met and married JOHN A. G. STEINBECK there and they had three children born presumably in Jerusalem. Sometime around 1858, ALMIRA DICKSON's brother in law FREDERICK STEINBECK was murdered by Arab tribesman, her sister in law was raped. After that episode she and her husband and children returned to America. (see articles below) Here is the DICKSON family in the 1850 census: 1850 United States Federal Census Record Name: Sarah Dixson Age: 50 Estimated birth year: abt 1800 Birth place: Massachusetts Gender: Female Home in 1850 Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts HOUSEHOLD: DIXSON, WALTER age 51 occ: Carpenter b. MA v-$1,300 (all in family b. MA) DIXSON, SARAH age 50 DIXSON, SARAH A age 24 DIXSON, PHILIP O age 23 occ: Farmer DIXSON, ALMIRA A age 21 DIXSON, MARY E age 17 DIXSON, HENRY A age 12 DIXSON, SAMUELTTE age 3 ======================== By 1860 WALTER is missing from the census. I wonder what his date of death is and if died in Palestine or back in Groton? 1860 United States Federal Census Record Name: Sarah Dickson Age: 60 Birth Year: abt 1800 Birthplace: Massachusetts Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts Gender: Female Post Office: Harvard Household: Sarah Dickson 60 b. MA Sally Eldridge 81 b. MA Mary E Stienbeck 27 b. MA (has to be ALMIRA) (scan reads STEINBECK) Gertrude Stienbeck 4 b. Syria (scan reads STEINBECK) Joseph E Stienbeck 2 b. Syria (scan reads STEINBECK) Caroline S Dickson 13 b. MA (scan reads STEINBECK) ===================================== http://www.shalomjerusalem.com/jerusalem/jerusalem27_1858-59.html PALESTINE 1858-1859 (Believe this may refer to the murder of ALMIRA A. (DICKSON) STEINBECK's brother THEODORE) 16 Nov. 1858 INTERESTING NEWS FROM PALESTINE to the editor of the NY Tribune From the Burlington Hawk Eye Burlington IOWA LAWLESSNESS OF PALESTINE Excerpt: By the United and indefatigable efforts of the American government in Syria, the perpetrators of the diabolical murder and outrage inflicted on the family of MR. DICKSON have been arrested, except one, who is suppposed to be in Nabloos, and we may indulge the faint hope - faint only, though - partial retribution will are long be meted out by an intolerably inefficient government. The property stolen from from MR. DICKSON has, also, nearly, or quite all been recovered. The health of the Missionaries was tolerably good, and they were prosecuting their work - "The Agricultural and Industrial Mission in the Holy Land" with as satisfactory results as could reasonably be expected, in consideration of the disturbed state of the country. New York, Nov. 6 J. P. BURDICK ====================================== From website: http://www.gilroydispatch.com/lifestyles/contentview.asp?c=172937 (excerpt) The South Valley-Steinbeck connection begins with Johann Adolph Grosssteinbeck's birth in Germany in 1832. At 17, he journeyed with his brother Frederick to Palestine to manufacture olive wood souvenirs for tourists. There in 1855, Johann met Almira Dickson, the daughter of an American missionary. They married and moved to Jerusalem to start a farm. The following year, the couple had a child they named Charles. One night, Arab tribesmen attacked the Grosssteinbeck farm, killing Frederick and raping his wife Mary. The devastation of the raid made Johann decide to sail to the United States. On the arduous six-month voyage to Massachusetts, Johann took on an anglicized name -- John A. Steinbeck. The Steinbecks faced one harsh New England winter, then decided to move to Florida's much warmer clime. In St. Augustine, the family grew with the addition of two more boys: Herbert and Frankie. The Civil War began in 1861 and Almira took her three sons to safety in Massachusetts. Unfortunately, John - who was no Southern sympathizer - found himself conscripted against his will into the Confederate Army. He eventually used a ruse to get out by swapping his uniform for the suit of a dead man. John walked all the way north to Massachusetts. Upon arriving at the family home's back door, Almira answered his knocked with an astonished cry, "John Steinbeck, how you look!" The couple had three more sons: John Ernst, Wilhelm Peta and Harry Eugene. For 10 years, John worked as a mechanic making pianos in Massachusetts. Growing tired of the cold weather, in 1873 he headed west by train to find a new home for his family. On the West Coast, John learned about a new farming community being constructed in San Benito County. The town of Hollister desperately needed carpenters, and so John easily found a job. He sent a telegram back to Almira telling her to come out west to California. On Nov. 25, 1874, he met his family at Hollister's train depot. Four years later, the Steinbeck family bought a Victorian home and 10 acres bordering South and Line streets in Hollister. John started a dairy ranch there and built a successful business. Grown up, John's son Ernst settled in the Salinas Valley where in King City he met a lovely schoolteacher named Olive Hamilton. The couple married and on Feb. 27, 1902, they had a baby they named "John Steinbeck" in honor of the child's adventurous grandfather. The boy grew up to become a Noble Prize-winning writer. ==================== More on this most interesting family's history on my website: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jacquelinesr

From The Middlesex Observer, 11 January 1823 - DIED: In Lexington, Abby Smith; in Bradford, N. H. Hon. John Orr; in Franklin, Sarah Emmons; in Framingham, Col. Ebenezer M. Ballard, Mrs. Sarah Coolidge; in Woburn, Samuel William Baldwin; in Newton, Thomas Pettee; in Acton, a child of Luke Hayward; at Groton Mrs. Ruthy W. Lewis. ORDAINED: At Belchertown, Rev. N. C. Saxton; at Hancock, N. H., Rev. Archibald Burgess. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/1823/JAN.html#11 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/index.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

From the Middlesex Observer, 15 March 1823 - DIED: In Pensacola, Mr. Thomas Twist, formerly of East-Sudbury; in Marlborough, William Barnes. MARRIED: In Medford, Mr. John Richardson to Miss Sally Shed; In Ashby, Dr. Hiram C. Haynes aged 27 years to Widow Esther Carver aged 65 years. see http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/1823/MAR.html#15 for details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/index.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

HAYWARD, ? "child of Luke Hayward"; 3; Acton MA; Middlesex Observer (Concord MA); 1823-1-11; dja NOYES, Joseph; 44; Acton MA; Middlesex Observer (Concord MA); 1823-1-11; dja HOSMER, Jonathan; 88; Acton MA; Middlesex Observer (Concord MA); 1822-7-20; dja HOSMER, ? "wid of Samuel" ( ); 90; Acton MA; Middlesex Observer (Concord MA); 1822-7-20; dja GALLAGHER, Daniel; ; Acton MA; Lowell Sun; 1904-3-15; dja The Middlesex Observer is available on microfilm at the Concord Free Public Library. See http://www.concordnet.org/library/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/index.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACE/1767 Message Board Post: Found this old book with Middlesex families in it that might help someone in their research.They have many names listed on the page that are in the book. I looked in their store where they have many old family histories with many different surnames. Ebay item number 5674135363 Hope that helps someone, Jamie

Rosemary Nunnally contributed this from The Lowell Sun, 24 October 1893 - Soldier's Home at Chelsea admitted the following veterans from Lowell: George W. Ballou, 30th Mass. Regt.; Orlando H. Langley, 7th N.H. Regt.; Charles H. Lowell, 3rd Mass. H.A.; William Neville; 3rd Mass. Battery; Albert C. Woodworth, 2nd Mass. Cavalry. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/1893/OCT.html#24 for details of these and other stories. The Pollard Memorial Library in Lowell has an extensive collection of newspapers on microfilm as well as indexes to births, deaths and marriage notices. See http://www.pollardml.org/ for information. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Middlesex County Massachusetts Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.rootsweb.com/~mamidnws/index.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -