This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Truchanovytch Surnames: Sisson Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.sisson/396/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Looking for the George H. Sisson who lived in New York City from about 1888 onward. He owned one or more crystal skulls. I suspect he is the one born in Michigan, mining engineer in Arizona, then a land developer in Baja California. I am looking for documentation and a death date, etc. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Hello everyone. I have an Ann Sisson married to Joseph Robinson on 20th December, 1825 at Hemsworth near Wakefield, Yorkshire, England. (IGI record M007312). These were some of my Great Great Grandparents. Their daughter, Joanne married John Rhodes and their eldest daughter was Ann Sissons Rhodes. >From the 1851 Census, I have that she was born at Fenton in 1807, but I have been unable to find her parents or any other informatiion about her. Can anyone on this list help? I have details of two other Sisson marriages which may be of her siblings, but again, no other details. William Sisson married Ann Witton, 12th Nov. 1822, and Ruth Sisson married William Palframan, 27th Sept. 1821, both also at Hemsworth. Many thanks in advance for any assistance, regards, Pam (Rhodes)

Dear Cousins and Friends, I have heard from Sara J. Lyon of Olympia, Washington. Sara says, "Nancy Bruce CRILLY, a 2nd cousin of my husband, and Gary Ward both attended and enjoyed The Gathering very much." Sara also pointed out a mistake I made in the notes I took at the Gathering, and I want to correct it. She notes that I wrote that "Gary [Ward]'s great-great grandfather was Otis Sisson, of Lockport, Illinois." Sara gave me the correct descent: "Gary's great-grandfather was *HOLDER SISSON* of Lockport - not Otis." Gary's descent from Holder Sisson leads through George Washington Sisson, George A. Sisson, and Lorraine Sisson to Gary Ward. Sara's husband, Robert Jay Lyon is also "descended from Holder through a daughter, Harriet Ellen Sisson." If anyone notices other corrections or clarifications I can make to the Gathering notes, please let me know. I will gladly set the record straight. It is really good to get this kind of feedback on the notes. This was a first for the Gatherings; no notes have ever been taken before, and I am glad that we have begun what I hope will become tradition. Yours, David Arne Sisson

Sorry about this. I sent a draft of the corrections to Sue's presentation. Here is the one I meant to send. DAS Susan Ashley Blake: Carol Sisson Regehr introduced Susan as a second cousin once removed of David Arne Sisson. His grandfather and her great grandfather were brothers. Susan related how David and Carol wrote her about 18 months ago, about the possibility that Robert Sisson of Virginia came from Horncastle, Lincolnshire, and Richard Sisson of Rhode Island from Sutton-cum-Lound, Nottinghamshire. Horncastle and Sutton-cum-Lound are about 70 miles apart . Susan did some research in parish registers. They were kept by the state-established Church of England, beginning in 1538, recording baptisms, marriages, and burials. At various times there were charges to have names entered in registers, so some names were never recorded. Quakers and Jews were the first people whose marriages were recognized as legal even when performed outside the Church of England. Quaker beliefs and practices did not become common until after both Richard and Robert had come to America. Susan has found many Sisson entries in the registers of both Horncastle and Sutton-cum-Lound, but none that definitively establishes connections to Richard or Robert. There are 40 villages within five miles of Sutton-cum-Lound, and their parish records should all be searched. Very few are available online. Early parish registers are in 16^th -century script which is very difficult to read. In the early years, most parish registers were transcribed for their bishops, and the Mormon indexes are based on those transcripts. They can be seen online at http://tinyurl.com/5dwv89. (This address is easier to reach than by clicking through the http://FamilySearch.org <http://familysearch.org/> site.). To find out where parish records are now located, contact www.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Susan noted that the highest concentration of religious dissenters occurred in the Sisson areas of eastern England, and especially in “the heartland of Mayflower origins.” Despite modern belief, the Pilgrims were mostly willing to conform to church and king. Susan found some ships' lists of emigrants/immigrants to America. They needed to be attending a Church of England parish, to recognize the supremacy of the king, and owe no taxes. She also found two censuses of Virginia Company immigrants alive & dead, listed according to where they were living.

Dear Cousins and Friends, You've seen the notes I took at the 2008 Sisson Gathering. I inadvertently made mistakes in my cousin Susan Blake's section. Here it is again, this time with the corrections. Sorry, Sue! David Arne Sisson Susan Ashley Blake: Carol Sisson Regehr introduced Susan as a second cousin once removed of David Arne Sisson. His grandfather and her great grandfather were brothers. Susan related how David and Carol wrote her about 18 months ago, about the possibility that Robert Sisson of Virginia came from Horncastle, Lincolnshire, and Richard Sisson of Rhode Island from Sutton-cum-Lound, Nottinghamshire. Horncastle and Sutton-cum-Lound are about 70 miles apart . Susan did some research in parish registers. They were kept by the state-established Church of England, beginning in 1538, recording baptisms, marriages, and burials. At various times there were charges to have names entered in registers, so some names were never recorded. (But Quaker beliefs and practices did not become common until after both Richard and Robert had come to America.) Susan has found many Sisson entries in the registers of both Horncastle and Sutton-cum-Lound, but none that definitively establishes connections to Richard or Robert. There are 40 villages within five miles of Sutton-cum-Lound, and their parish records should all be searched. Very few are available online. Early parish registers are in 16^th -century script which is very difficult to read. In the early years, most parish registers were transcribed for their bishops, and the Mormon indexes are based on those transcripts. They can be seen online at http://tinyurl.com/5dwv89. (This address is easier to reach than by clicking through the http://FamilySearch.org <http://familysearch.org/> site.). To find out where parish records are now located, contact www.nationalarchives.gov.uk Susan noted that the highest concentration of religious dissenters occurred in the Sisson areas of eastern England, and especially in “the heartland of Mayflower origins.” Despite modern belief, the Pilgrims were mostly willing to conform to church and king. Susan found some ships' lists of emigrants/immigrants to America. They needed to be attending a Church of England parish, to recognize the supremacy of the king, and owe no taxes. She also found two censuses of Virginia Company immigrants alive & dead, listed according to where they were living.

Hi David, My husband and I visited Mark Twain's home in CT. some years ago....a very interesting tour.? What was so cool was that nearby there was an intersection of Sisson Ave. and Sherman Ave.? My husband descends from both of these RI families.? Regards,? Joan Richard > George > Richard > George > Peleg > Richard > James > George > Charles > Warren > Natalie Sisson Fitzsimmons > Michael K. Fitzsimmons (and me, Joan). -----Original Message----- From: sisson-request@rootsweb.com To: sisson@rootsweb.com Sent: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 3:01 am Subject: SISSON Digest, Vol 3, Issue 65 Today's Topics: 1. Sisson Avenue, Hartford, CT (David A Sisson) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:29:10 -0400 From: David A Sisson <dsisson2@rochester.rr.com> Subject: [SISSON] Sisson Avenue, Hartford, CT To: Sisson List <SISSON-L@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <487B7ED6.8070709@rochester.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hello Everyone, I subscribe to "Google alerts" for the Sisson name. Here is one from today's alert. But first, note the directions quoted here from the article, directions to Mark Twain's house in Hartford, Connecticut: "To get to Mark Twain House in Hartford, take Exit 46 off Interstate Highway I-84 towards Sisson Avenue. At the traffic lights, turn right onto *Sisson Avenue* and proceed four blocks. At the second set of traffic lights on Sisson, turn right onto Farmington Avenue and proceed three blocks to the National Historic Site of Twain House. It takes only 10 minutes from the Interstate and there is free parking and a restaurant on the grounds. Visitors should check on seasonal opening hours as the site is closed on Tuesdays in the off-season, January through March and on some public holidays." For a photo of the house and the article itself, see http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/escapade/article/351236 David Arne Sisson Now here is the article: The 19-room home Mark Twain lived in is intriguing in its own right Fred Donnelly For the Telegraph-Journal There is a house on Farmington Avenue in the city of Hartford in the state of Connecticut many claim as the birthplace of the modern American novel. From 1874 to 1891, Mark Twain lived in the 19-room mansion and wrote his most famous works. Now restored to its appearance of 1881 when its interiors were designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, it and the adjacent museum are open to the public. Marilyn Donnelly Mark Twain wrote his most famous works in this innovative 19-room mansion in Hartford, Co nn., This is where Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Langhorne Clemens) wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and many other novels like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889). Admission (adults $13 U.S.) is by tour only. In the lavishly furnished house the upper floor billiard room is most impressive because at a desk in the corner is where Twain did his writing. Architecturally, the house is a curiosity of innovative features and, indeed, I had difficulty finding any room in it with a simple rectangular shape. The tour guides are knowledgeable about both the literary heritage and the domestic lifestyle of the then most famous American writer. The family anecdotes recounted by the interpreters help to make the site kid-friendly. The Hartford home life of this creative genius of American literature sounds amusing today. There were dinners with 12 or more guests several times a week, amateur theatrical productions put on by his children and a continual household tension caused by the clever tricks of his Afro-American servant and friend, George. One of George's tasks was to cover for Twain when he didn't want to receive visitors. To meet the requirements of Victorian American politeness, the author went outside on the upper floor balcony and signaled George who had to say "He just stepped out." The social evenings at Farmington Avenue often went on till 4 a.m. with Twain playing billiards with his male pals in a cigar smoke-filled room. After many drinks, games and recounted tales, the guests flopped in an adjacent bedroom rather than go home. Meanwhile, Mark (Sam when at home) went to join the already retired Mrs. Clemens in the master bedroom. Ah! the poor wife of the great author. To get to Mark Twain House in Hartford, take Exit 46 off Interstate Highway I-84 towards Sisson Avenue. At the traffic lights, turn right onto Sisson Avenue and proceed four blocks. At the second set of traffic lights on Sisson, turn right onto Farmington Avenue and proceed three blocks to the National Historic Site of Twain House. It takes only 10 minutes from the Interstate and there is free parking and a restaurant on the grounds. Visitors should check on seasonal opening hours as the site is closed on Tuesdays in the off-season, January through March and on some public holidays. The museum is also well worth a look for its Tiffany displays. Also, check out the Paige typesetter. The latter was a crackpot invention Twain thought would revolutionize the printing industry. It didn't and he lost a fortune. To pay his debts he had to go on lecture tours to earn the money to stave off his creditors. Next door is another literary landmark. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), lived at 77 Forest Street. Her famous book was a powerful anti-slavery influence in the years before the American Civil War of the early 1860s. Less elaborate then the Twain House, her Victorian mansion is worth a visit. From our perspective today the Twain House is a reminder of an important literary context. The famous works about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer in the pre-Civil War American South along the Mississippi River were written as reminiscences many years later in this New England town. By contrast Twain's time-travelling tale about the modern Connecticut Yankee who goes back to the middle ages has a clear Hartford dimension. In the story the hero knows how to make firearms and employs his mechanical skills in his various medieval adventures. Twain picked up his background weapons information from workers at the Colt arms manufactory in Hartford. The factory is still there although temporarily closed to the public while it is in the process of restoration. A visit to Mark Twain House in Hartford is a most rewarding experience. /Fred Donnelly teaches at UNBSJ./ ------------------------------ To contact the SISSON list administrator, send an email to SISSON-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the SISSON mailing list, send an em ail to SISSON@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SISSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of SISSON Digest, Vol 3, Issue 65 *************************************

Hello Everyone, I subscribe to "Google alerts" for the Sisson name. Here is one from today's alert. But first, note the directions quoted here from the article, directions to Mark Twain's house in Hartford, Connecticut: "To get to Mark Twain House in Hartford, take Exit 46 off Interstate Highway I-84 towards Sisson Avenue. At the traffic lights, turn right onto *Sisson Avenue* and proceed four blocks. At the second set of traffic lights on Sisson, turn right onto Farmington Avenue and proceed three blocks to the National Historic Site of Twain House. It takes only 10 minutes from the Interstate and there is free parking and a restaurant on the grounds. Visitors should check on seasonal opening hours as the site is closed on Tuesdays in the off-season, January through March and on some public holidays." For a photo of the house and the article itself, see http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/escapade/article/351236 David Arne Sisson Now here is the article: The 19-room home Mark Twain lived in is intriguing in its own right Fred Donnelly For the Telegraph-Journal There is a house on Farmington Avenue in the city of Hartford in the state of Connecticut many claim as the birthplace of the modern American novel. From 1874 to 1891, Mark Twain lived in the 19-room mansion and wrote his most famous works. Now restored to its appearance of 1881 when its interiors were designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, it and the adjacent museum are open to the public. Marilyn Donnelly Mark Twain wrote his most famous works in this innovative 19-room mansion in Hartford, Conn., This is where Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Langhorne Clemens) wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) and many other novels like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889). Admission (adults $13 U.S.) is by tour only. In the lavishly furnished house the upper floor billiard room is most impressive because at a desk in the corner is where Twain did his writing. Architecturally, the house is a curiosity of innovative features and, indeed, I had difficulty finding any room in it with a simple rectangular shape. The tour guides are knowledgeable about both the literary heritage and the domestic lifestyle of the then most famous American writer. The family anecdotes recounted by the interpreters help to make the site kid-friendly. The Hartford home life of this creative genius of American literature sounds amusing today. There were dinners with 12 or more guests several times a week, amateur theatrical productions put on by his children and a continual household tension caused by the clever tricks of his Afro-American servant and friend, George. One of George's tasks was to cover for Twain when he didn't want to receive visitors. To meet the requirements of Victorian American politeness, the author went outside on the upper floor balcony and signaled George who had to say "He just stepped out." The social evenings at Farmington Avenue often went on till 4 a.m. with Twain playing billiards with his male pals in a cigar smoke-filled room. After many drinks, games and recounted tales, the guests flopped in an adjacent bedroom rather than go home. Meanwhile, Mark (Sam when at home) went to join the already retired Mrs. Clemens in the master bedroom. Ah! the poor wife of the great author. To get to Mark Twain House in Hartford, take Exit 46 off Interstate Highway I-84 towards Sisson Avenue. At the traffic lights, turn right onto Sisson Avenue and proceed four blocks. At the second set of traffic lights on Sisson, turn right onto Farmington Avenue and proceed three blocks to the National Historic Site of Twain House. It takes only 10 minutes from the Interstate and there is free parking and a restaurant on the grounds. Visitors should check on seasonal opening hours as the site is closed on Tuesdays in the off-season, January through March and on some public holidays. The museum is also well worth a look for its Tiffany displays. Also, check out the Paige typesetter. The latter was a crackpot invention Twain thought would revolutionize the printing industry. It didn't and he lost a fortune. To pay his debts he had to go on lecture tours to earn the money to stave off his creditors. Next door is another literary landmark. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), lived at 77 Forest Street. Her famous book was a powerful anti-slavery influence in the years before the American Civil War of the early 1860s. Less elaborate then the Twain House, her Victorian mansion is worth a visit. From our perspective today the Twain House is a reminder of an important literary context. The famous works about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer in the pre-Civil War American South along the Mississippi River were written as reminiscences many years later in this New England town. By contrast Twain's time-travelling tale about the modern Connecticut Yankee who goes back to the middle ages has a clear Hartford dimension. In the story the hero knows how to make firearms and employs his mechanical skills in his various medieval adventures. Twain picked up his background weapons information from workers at the Colt arms manufactory in Hartford. The factory is still there although temporarily closed to the public while it is in the process of restoration. A visit to Mark Twain House in Hartford is a most rewarding experience. /Fred Donnelly teaches at UNBSJ./

Sharon, It has been long time since we communicated. It has also been a long time since I worked on my Sisson line. What you have written here is very interesting. I had missed a couple of generations, since I had Stanley as Frances' father, but without any dates. I would like to make the corrections and wonder if you can tell me the sources for what you have provided. I recently discovered that Harry Lee Sisson (1865-1921), my grandfather, had a brother, Otto (1875-1915), who lived in Cincinnati. Otto had a daughter, Mary, 1901- ?, but I haven't been able to go any further. I'm leaving for a two week vacation on 7/16, so I may be slow getting back to you. Ed Mason (mother: Marguerite Sisson 1899-1984) On 7/2/08 9:28 AM, "Sharon Miller" <shamiller3@verizon.net> wrote: > Hi, Jimmy. > > The Sisson Gathering was great, as are all of them. The next one is set for > Denver (no details yet), and you may be able to attend then. > > Thanks to a mailing from Barbara Austin, I have the information on the > Gowers/Gores. The name did change over the years. > > We don't have a birth date of death date for Anne Gower/Gore, bur the family > tree goes: > > 1. Francis Gower m Mary B. > > 2. Francis Gower (1657-1691) m. Anne Clarke, d of Henry & Joanne Clarke > > 3. Stanley Gower (1679-1736) m. Sarah Jackson, d of Daniel Jackson > > 4. John Gower/Gore ( -1762) m ? > > 5. Anne Gore/Gower m. Bryan Sisson > > 4. Frances Gower m. William Sisson > > Frances was Anne's aunt. > > Rachel was married to Francis Gower and John Branham before she married > Bryan. > > Sharon Sisson Miller > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <SISSON42@aol.com> > To: <SISSON@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 7:49 PM > Subject: [SISSON] GOWER > > >> Hi all, >> Hope those of you who could make the SISSON Gathering are enjoying your >> time >> together. Wish I could be there and meet some of the knowledgeable people >> in >> our SISSON families. >> >> Which brings me to my questions. Who were parents of Ann GOWER b: abt 1700 >> VA, wife of Bryan SISSON b: by 20 Feb 1696 ? >> Also Bryan SISSON' second marriage was to Rachel (WEBB?) GOWER BRANHAM. >> Rachel was widow 1st of Francis GOWER, who died abt Sep 1726, and widow >> 2nd of >> John BRANHAM or BRAMHAM, who died abt 1761. >> >> Bryan's brother, William SISSON Jr. or II married Frances GOWER on 31 >> August >> 1727. Who were Frances GOWER's parents, and were Ann and Frances possibly >> sisters? >> >> Thanks for your help. Jimmy M. Sisson in TN _sisson42@aol.com_ >> (mailto:sisson42@aol.com) >> >> >> >> **************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for >> fuel-efficient used cars. >> (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007) >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SISSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SISSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message

Thanks, David! Wish my sisters (4 of them), father and I could have joined you - attended a nephew's wedding in San Diego during the same weekend. My father is Thomas Sylvester Sisson and our line is as follows: 1) Richard; 2) George; 3) Thomas; 4) Giles; 5) John; 6) Benjamin; 7) John Crandall; 8) Zachary Taylor; 9) John Joseph; 10) Minor Scott; 11) Thomas Sylvester; 12) ME - Elizabeth (Libby) Ann (Sisson) Nash. We will be able to make the Denver trip in two years - my son and his family live in Denver - what a treat! What a great Sisson Gathering you had - I really appreciate your dedication, and that of many others, that make these gatherings possible. Blessings to all! Libby Sisson Nash ----- Original Message ----- From: "David A Sisson" <dsisson2@rochester.rr.com> To: "Sisson List" <SISSON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 4:47 PM Subject: [SISSON] Notes from the 2008 Gathering > 2008 Sisson Gathering > Notes taken by David Arne Sisson > > This is our 8^th Gathering, held this time in Springfield, Illinois. We > are a Sisson Gathering, not a reunion. We report on serious research, > and have fun too. We were reminded of the Sisson website at > _http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dasisson/_ > > Presentations: > > Joan Sisson: > > Joan's father recorded the story of his life on audio cassette tapes. > Joan transcribed them, and Dave suggested that she turn it into a book. > It became "A Life in Each Decade of the 20^th Century." The book is > available from Xlibris http://www2.xlibris.com/. They print books on > demand. Many of us have memories or research that should be made > available to others, and Xlibris's service is an economical way. Others > recording their family histories can put those the written notes in a > binder as a computer file on a CD. They don't have to go to the expense > of publishing a book. > > Joan and Dave will donate a copy of their book "Descendants of Richard > and Mary Sisson" to a library of your choice if you will pay $4 for > postage. Joan added that she can send both the original "big book" of > the of New England, and the supplemental update of the book for $5 > postage. The book/s will be sent by media mail. > > Wayne Sisson: > > Wayne told of a Sisson man he met. He had come to the USA from Russia. > After the 2006 Gathering Wayne stopped in Ithaca, NY, to visit a third > cousin once removed, Robert Wehe, a descendant of Wilson Crandall Sisson. > > Malcolm Sissons: > > Malcolm is from Alberta, Canada. He has researched the question: Does > the Sisson or Sissons surname have a French origin? He concluded that a > French connection is as much myth as fact. > > He found several names and places that seemed to point to a French > origin: the Suessiones (a Celtic tribe), a man named Guy de Soissons in > Coventry, England; and the Comtes de Soissons, France. He related some > of the history of French Huguenots (Protestants) in England. > > Malcolm told of his descent from _two_ Sissons ancestors, his > grandparents, Herb and Lissa. Each was born a Sissons. (Note the final > "S"). Herb's grandfather William came from Horncastle, England, and > Lissa's grandfather Thomas came from Sutton-cum-Lound, England. Malcolm > thinks William's father might have come from Sutton-cum-Lound also. > > These clues from Malcolm's ancestry may be clues to the origins of the > English ancestors of Richard or Robert or Thomas Sisson, immigrants to > 17th-century Rhode Island and Virginia. Malcolm discussed the French > Huguenot families with variations on the Sisson name, Soissons among > others, but he has come to the conclusion that the name is probably an > English one, not a French. > > > > Carol Sisson Regehr: > > Carol showed a map with the English counties of Cumberland, > Westmoreland, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, the counties > with the highest 19th-century concentrations of Sisson/s families. Then > showing a map of North America, Carol indicated how families with > Sisson-variation names migrated from New England and Virginia to the > Midwest and South and eventually dispersed across the USA and > Canada. She > pointed out that in modern phone books of the USA, Canada, and Britain, > the variations of the name have different proportions. In the USA, the > name is spelled Sisson by 98% and Sissons by 2%. In Canada, however, 65% > spell it Sisson and 35% spell it Sissons. In the UK, it is a 50/50 > distribution! We wonder whether this spelling is a clue to our origins. > > Susan Ashley Blake: > > Carol Sisson Regehr introduced Susan as a second cousin once removed of > David Arne Sisson. His grandfather and her great grandfather were > brothers. > > Susan related how David and Carol wrote her about 18 months ago, about > the possibility that Robert Sisson of Virginia came from Horncastle, > Lincolnshire, and Richard Sisson of Rhode Island came from > Sutton-cum-Lound, Nottinghamshire. Horncastle and Sutton-cum-Lound are > about 50 miles apart (according to MapQuest for the United Kingdom at > http://www.mapquest.co.uk/. Use postal codes DN22 8PP for Retford, near > Sutton-cum-Lound which doesn't seem to have a code, and LN9 5AD for > Horncastle).** > > Susan did some research in parish registers. They were kept by the > state-established Church of England, beginning in 1538, recording > baptisms, marriages, and burials. There was a one-shilling charge to > have names entered in registers, so many names were never recorded, and > Quakers boycotted the registers. (But Quaker beliefs and practices did > not become common until after both Richard and Robert had come to > America.) > > Susan has found many Sisson entries in the registers of both Horncastle > and Sutton-cum-Lound, but none that definitively establishes either > Richard's or Robert's English connections. > > There are 40 villages within five miles of Sutton-cum-Lound, and their > parish records should all be searched. Very few are available online. > Early parish registers are in 16^th -century script which is very > difficult to read. In the early years, many parish register were > transcribed for their bishops, and the Mormon indexes are based on those > transcripts. They can be seen online at http://tinyurl.com/5dwv89. (This > address is easier to reach than by clicking through the > http://FamilySearch.org <http://familysearch.org/> site.) > > Susan noted that the highest concentration of religious dissenters > occurred in the Sisson areas of eastern England, and especially in "the > heartland of Mayflower origins." Despite modern belief, the Pilgrims > were mostly willing to conform to church and king. > > Virginia Company emigrants/immigrants are listed with their Virginia > home places. They needed to be attending a Church of England parish, to > recognize the supremacy of the king, and owe no taxes. > > Tammie Sisson Higginbotham: > > May Sisson represented Bath, Illinois, in an historical pageant in > Bath, England, in 1909. Tammie displayed many pictures and documents of > the event. > > > Carol Sisson Regehr: > > There is a Sisson connection with Abraham Lincoln. Pages 59-62 of the > book "Lincoln's Melancholy" by Joshua Wolf Shenk (Houghton Mifflin, > 2005), relates how Dr. Daniel Drake, founder of a medical journal, was > himself subject to spells of "Melancholy." Dr Drake's wife, Harriet > Sisson (1787-1825), a 4^th generation descendant of Richard and Mary, > fell into a "mental depression" when her sister Caroline burned to death > in 1828. Mental depression was then considered a "medical problem," but > the various natural remedies Dr. Drake tried for his wife's condition > did not work. Later, in the 1840s, Abraham Lincoln, then an Illinois > state senator from Springfield, wrote Dr. Drake about his own history of > depression. Carol wonders whether they ever met, or if they only > corresponded. The letters between them have been lost. > > Albert Sisson: > > Albert spoke of his Civil War connection, Francis M. "Frank" Sisson > (1842-1921) (descended from Richard, through George, Thomas, John, and > Alanson, to Frank). When Lincoln called for 300,000 troops for three > years' service in the Civil War (comparable today to three million > troops for Iraq) the draft affected nearly every family, including > Frank's. When Lincoln appointed General Grant as head all Union land > forces, Grant's "hammer" was the Second Corps of the Army of the > Potomac, Uncle Frank's Corps. > > Frank served from 1862 to 1865, spent five months in hospital from April > to September 1863, and was wounded at Reams Station in August 1864. He > saw action from Washington to Richmond and a little south by rail. > Albert related much of what Frank would have seen and heard, and > touched, tasted, and smelled, most of it horrifying. > > Frank was promoted corporal just before his discharge and had a > corporal's pension after he returned home in July 1865. He married, had > two children, and adopted one. He owned a dry goods store in Wells > Bridge, New York; was postmaster there for two years; taught Sunday > School in the Baptist Church; sold the store to his son and moved to > Unadilla, NY; where he had a business with Fred Joyce. Frank helped > build the Sisson & Bundy Block in Unadilla, and had a store there. He > died in 1921 and was buried in the Sand Hill Cemetery, Unadilla > > > > Carol Sisson Regehr: > > An Update on DNA Project > > Carol reminded us that the Y-chromosome (usually) travels with the > surname. When the Sisson DNA Project was begun, we hoped it would help > us find out if all Sisson/s families are related and whether we could > use it to find our ancestry and cousins in England. By 2004 it was clear > that the Richard, Robert, and Thomas lineages are unrelated. The Thomas > line matches a man from Penrith, England. Carol wonders if the Penrith > man can trace his ancestry back to a common ancestor with Thomas? > > As things stand now, we know that six Thomas descendants know their > lines back to the immigrant, and 35 participants descend from Richard > (or one of Richard's ancestors). > > In 2008 Malcolm Sissons was found to match the Robert group of Virginia. > Malcolm knows his ancestry back to the Sissons immigrant, but the > immigrant isn't Robert. Malcolm descends from an ancestor who was also > an ancestor of Robert. Malcolm also descends in a female line from the > Richard group, or rather from an ancestor of both Malcolm and Richard. > > Carol has drafted an article for /New England Ancestors /(a publication > of the New England Historic Genealogical Society) about the Sisson DNA > Project, partly to amaze readers with Malcolm's descent from two Sisson > lines! > > > > Tom Sisson, on Lieutenant Paul Sisson: > > Paul was B29 co-pilot in the Second World War. Carol Regehr is Paul's > niece. Paul's mission was to help fire-bomb the main islands of Japan, > especially within a ten-mile radius of Tokyo. His plane was shot down on > Paul's thirty-fifth mission. He and the crew baled out. Their Japanese > captors charged them with high crimes. A day after the official > surrender of Japan, Paul and the crew were executed and thrown in a mass > grave. Paul's remains were discovered by an American follow-up crew and > returned and reburied at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He was awarded the > Distinguished Flying Cross, but he actually received only two lesser > medals. Carol wrote Congressman Jim Ryan who arranged for the DFC to be > awarded posthumously. > > > > All who have served in the military were asked to stand as a reminder of > what many Sisson men and women have given to our county. > > > > Gary Ward: > > Gary's great-great grandfather was Otis Sisson, of Lockport, Illinois. > He was buried in a family cemetery which fell into disrepair and was > prey to grave robbers. The cemetery was half a mile off the road, but in > 1998 a road was proposed which would cut the top off the cemetery hill. > The family was asked to help with the removal of the burials. The work > demanded blasting and use of a back hoe, but when a stain in the earth > came in sight, such extreme measures stopped and the remains were > exhumed. Otis' remains were laid out on a table in an old restaurant > nearby. Gary saw buttons, Otis' broken wrist and false teeth, and coffin > handles and shards of wood. > > > The 2010 Gathering: > > All former Gatherings have been in the East or Midwest, but except for a > Gathering in Kansas City, Missouri, not west of the Mississippi. A > consensus was reached for a western meeting in 2010. We heard of a > Sisson Reunion held in the same years as our Gathering, in Alberta, > Canada, and remembered another in Unadilla, NY. > > We decided to meet in 2010 in Denver. Two couples volunteered to help > coordinate the gathering there, and their planning has already begun. > > Some thought was also given to a 2012 Gathering in London! We could > organize a tour, rather than going separately, or alternatively, we > could send a subgroup from the 2010 Gathering, and tour English > genealogical sites in 2011. More discussion of this possibility will > take place at the 2010 Gathering. > > > David Martin presented a certificate of appreciation and a hanging > basket of flowers to this year's hosts, Donna and Marcus "Marc" Sisson. > Donna expressed her high appreciation of many members of her family who > helped. > > Jane Frazier of the Havana (Illinois) Public Library, spoke after dinner > on "Sisson Connections in Springfield, Illinois." She is a native of > nearby Havana, Illinois, and descends from a Revolutionary War soldier. > She likes to look for ancestors, hers or others'. Marc Sisson's ancestor > Marcus Lafayette Sisson came to Illinois in the middle of the 18^th > century. The family was easy to research, making use of cemetery and > census records and atlases. Jane presented many records relating to > Marc's ancestry: census records; property, marriage, birth, military, > mortician, and probate records, obituaries and biographies from county > histories. Jane advised: Don't stay wedded to name spellings and always > question census records. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SISSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Libby,      I have been wanting to meet someone from your line. My William Benjamin was Zachary Taylor Sisson Senior's brother. Larry L. Sisson ----- Original Message ---- From: Libby Nash <lantulsa@cox.net> To: David A Sisson <dsisson2@rochester.rr.com>; Sisson List <SISSON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 5, 2008 8:42:43 PM Subject: Re: [SISSON] Notes from the 2008 Gathering Thanks, David!  Wish my sisters (4 of them), father  and I could have joined you - attended a nephew's wedding in San Diego during the same weekend. My father is Thomas Sylvester Sisson and our line is as follows: 1) Richard; 2) George; 3) Thomas; 4) Giles; 5) John; 6) Benjamin; 7) John Crandall; 8) Zachary Taylor; 9) John Joseph; 10) Minor Scott; 11) Thomas Sylvester; 12) ME - Elizabeth (Libby) Ann (Sisson) Nash. We will be able to make the Denver trip in two years - my son and his family live in Denver - what a treat!  What a great Sisson Gathering you had - I really appreciate your dedication, and that of many others, that make these gatherings possible. Blessings to all! Libby Sisson Nash ----- Original Message ----- From: "David A Sisson" <dsisson2@rochester.rr.com> To: "Sisson List" <SISSON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 4:47 PM Subject: [SISSON] Notes from the 2008 Gathering > 2008 Sisson Gathering > Notes taken by David Arne Sisson > > This is our 8^th Gathering, held this time in Springfield, Illinois. We > are a Sisson Gathering, not a reunion. We report on serious research, > and have fun too. We were reminded of the Sisson website at > _http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dasisson/_ > > Presentations: > > Joan Sisson: > > Joan's father recorded the story of his life on audio cassette tapes. > Joan transcribed them, and Dave suggested that she turn it into a book. > It became "A Life in Each Decade of the 20^th Century." The book is > available from Xlibris http://www2.xlibris.com/. They print books on > demand. Many of us have memories or research that should be made > available to others, and Xlibris's service is an economical way. Others > recording their family histories can put those the written notes in a > binder as a computer file on a CD. They don't have to go to the expense > of publishing a book. > > Joan and Dave will donate a copy of their book "Descendants of Richard > and Mary Sisson" to a library of your choice if you will pay $4 for > postage. Joan added that she can send both the original "big book" of > the of New England, and the supplemental update of the book for $5 > postage. The book/s will be sent by media mail. > > Wayne Sisson: > > Wayne told of a Sisson man he met. He had come to the USA from Russia. > After the 2006 Gathering Wayne stopped in Ithaca, NY, to visit a third > cousin once removed, Robert Wehe, a descendant of Wilson Crandall Sisson. > > Malcolm Sissons: > > Malcolm is from Alberta, Canada. He has researched the question: Does > the Sisson or Sissons surname have a French origin? He concluded that a > French connection is as much myth as fact. > > He found several names and places that seemed to point to a French > origin: the Suessiones (a Celtic tribe), a man named Guy de Soissons in > Coventry, England; and the Comtes de Soissons, France. He related some > of the history of French Huguenots (Protestants) in England. > > Malcolm told of his descent from _two_ Sissons ancestors, his > grandparents, Herb and Lissa. Each was born a Sissons. (Note the final > "S"). Herb's grandfather William came from Horncastle, England, and > Lissa's grandfather Thomas came from Sutton-cum-Lound, England. Malcolm > thinks William's father might have come from Sutton-cum-Lound also. > > These clues from Malcolm's ancestry may be clues to the origins of the > English ancestors of Richard or Robert or Thomas Sisson, immigrants to > 17th-century Rhode Island and Virginia. Malcolm discussed the French > Huguenot families with variations on the Sisson name, Soissons among > others, but he has come to the conclusion that the name is probably an > English one, not a French. > > > > Carol Sisson Regehr: > > Carol showed a map with the English counties of Cumberland, > Westmoreland, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, the counties > with the highest 19th-century concentrations of Sisson/s families. Then > showing a map of North America, Carol indicated how families with > Sisson-variation names migrated from New England and Virginia to the > Midwest and South and eventually dispersed across the USA and > Canada.                                                        She > pointed out that in modern phone books of the USA, Canada, and Britain, > the variations of the name have different proportions. In the USA, the > name is spelled Sisson by 98% and Sissons by 2%. In Canada, however, 65% > spell it Sisson and 35% spell it Sissons. In the UK, it is a 50/50 > distribution! We wonder whether this spelling is a clue to our origins. > > Susan Ashley Blake: > > Carol Sisson Regehr introduced Susan as a second cousin once removed of > David Arne Sisson. His grandfather and her great grandfather were > brothers. > > Susan related how David and Carol wrote her about 18 months ago, about > the possibility that Robert Sisson of Virginia came from Horncastle, > Lincolnshire, and Richard Sisson of Rhode Island came from > Sutton-cum-Lound, Nottinghamshire. Horncastle and Sutton-cum-Lound are > about 50 miles apart (according to MapQuest for the United Kingdom at > http://www.mapquest.co.uk/. Use postal codes DN22 8PP for Retford, near > Sutton-cum-Lound which doesn't seem to have a code, and LN9 5AD for > Horncastle).** > > Susan did some research in parish registers. They were kept by the > state-established Church of England, beginning in 1538, recording > baptisms, marriages, and burials. There was a one-shilling charge to > have names entered in registers, so many names were never recorded, and > Quakers boycotted the registers. (But Quaker beliefs and practices did > not become common until after both Richard and Robert had come to > America.) > > Susan has found many Sisson entries in the registers of both Horncastle > and Sutton-cum-Lound, but none that definitively establishes either > Richard's or Robert's English connections. > > There are 40 villages within five miles of Sutton-cum-Lound, and their > parish records should all be searched. Very few are available online. > Early parish registers are in 16^th -century script which is very > difficult to read. In the early years, many parish register were > transcribed for their bishops, and the Mormon indexes are based on those > transcripts. They can be seen online at http://tinyurl.com/5dwv89. (This > address is easier to reach than by clicking through the > http://FamilySearch.org <http://familysearch.org/> site.) > > Susan noted that the highest concentration of religious dissenters > occurred in the Sisson areas of eastern England, and especially in "the > heartland of Mayflower origins." Despite modern belief, the Pilgrims > were mostly willing to conform to church and king. > > Virginia Company emigrants/immigrants are listed with their Virginia > home places. They needed to be attending a Church of England parish, to > recognize the supremacy of the king, and owe no taxes. > > Tammie Sisson Higginbotham: > >    May Sisson represented Bath, Illinois, in an historical pageant in > Bath, England, in 1909. Tammie displayed many pictures and documents of > the event. > > > Carol Sisson Regehr: > > There is a Sisson connection with Abraham Lincoln. Pages 59-62 of the > book "Lincoln's Melancholy" by Joshua Wolf Shenk (Houghton Mifflin, > 2005), relates how Dr. Daniel Drake, founder of a medical journal, was > himself subject to spells of "Melancholy." Dr Drake's wife, Harriet > Sisson (1787-1825), a 4^th generation descendant of Richard and Mary, > fell into a "mental depression" when her sister Caroline burned to death > in 1828. Mental depression was then considered a "medical problem," but > the various natural remedies Dr. Drake tried for his wife's condition > did not work. Later, in the 1840s, Abraham Lincoln, then an Illinois > state senator from Springfield, wrote Dr. Drake about his own history of > depression. Carol wonders whether they ever met, or if they only > corresponded. The letters between them have been lost. > > Albert Sisson: > > Albert spoke of his Civil War connection, Francis M. "Frank" Sisson > (1842-1921) (descended from Richard, through George, Thomas, John, and > Alanson, to Frank). When Lincoln called for 300,000 troops for three > years' service in the Civil War (comparable today to three million > troops for Iraq) the draft affected nearly every family, including > Frank's. When Lincoln appointed General Grant as head all Union land > forces, Grant's "hammer" was the Second Corps of the Army of the > Potomac, Uncle Frank's Corps. > > Frank served from 1862 to 1865, spent five months in hospital from April > to September 1863, and was wounded at Reams Station in August 1864. He > saw action from Washington to Richmond and a little south by rail. > Albert related much of what Frank would have seen and heard, and > touched, tasted, and smelled, most of it horrifying. > > Frank was promoted corporal just before his discharge and had a > corporal's pension after he returned home in July 1865. He married, had > two children, and adopted one. He owned a dry goods store in Wells > Bridge, New York; was postmaster there for two years; taught Sunday > School in the Baptist Church; sold the store to his son and moved to > Unadilla, NY; where he had a business with Fred Joyce. Frank helped > build the Sisson & Bundy Block in Unadilla, and had a store there. He > died in 1921 and was buried in the Sand Hill Cemetery, Unadilla > > > > Carol Sisson Regehr: > > An Update on DNA Project > > Carol reminded us that the Y-chromosome (usually) travels with the > surname. When the Sisson DNA Project was begun, we hoped it would help > us find out if all Sisson/s families are related and whether we could > use it to find our ancestry and cousins in England. By 2004 it was clear > that the Richard, Robert, and Thomas lineages are unrelated. The Thomas > line matches a man from Penrith, England. Carol wonders if the Penrith > man can trace his ancestry back to a common ancestor with Thomas? > > As things stand now, we know that six Thomas descendants know their > lines back to the immigrant, and 35 participants descend from Richard > (or one of Richard's ancestors). > > In 2008 Malcolm Sissons was found to match the Robert group of Virginia. > Malcolm knows his ancestry back to the Sissons immigrant, but the > immigrant isn't Robert. Malcolm descends from an ancestor who was also > an ancestor of Robert. Malcolm also descends in a female line from the > Richard group, or rather from an ancestor of both Malcolm and Richard. > > Carol has drafted an article for /New England Ancestors /(a publication > of the New England Historic Genealogical Society) about the Sisson DNA > Project, partly to amaze readers with Malcolm's descent from two Sisson > lines! > > > > Tom Sisson, on Lieutenant Paul Sisson: > > Paul was B29 co-pilot in the Second World War. Carol Regehr is Paul's > niece. Paul's mission was to help fire-bomb the main islands of Japan, > especially within a ten-mile radius of Tokyo. His plane was shot down on > Paul's thirty-fifth mission. He and the crew baled out. Their Japanese > captors charged them with high crimes. A day after the official > surrender of Japan, Paul and the crew were executed and thrown in a mass > grave. Paul's remains were discovered by an American follow-up crew and > returned and reburied at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He was awarded the > Distinguished Flying Cross, but he actually received only two lesser > medals. Carol wrote Congressman Jim Ryan who arranged for the DFC to be > awarded posthumously. > > > > All who have served in the military were asked to stand as a reminder of > what many Sisson men and women have given to our county. > > > > Gary Ward: > > Gary's great-great grandfather was Otis Sisson, of Lockport, Illinois. > He was buried in a family cemetery which fell into disrepair and was > prey to grave robbers. The cemetery was half a mile off the road, but in > 1998 a road was proposed which would cut the top off the cemetery hill. > The family was asked to help with the removal of the burials. The work > demanded blasting and use of a back hoe, but when a stain in the earth > came in sight, such extreme measures stopped and the remains were > exhumed. Otis' remains were laid out on a table in an old restaurant > nearby. Gary saw buttons, Otis' broken wrist and false teeth, and coffin > handles and shards of wood. > > > The 2010 Gathering: > > All former Gatherings have been in the East or Midwest, but except for a > Gathering in Kansas City, Missouri, not west of the Mississippi. A > consensus was reached for a western meeting in 2010. We heard of a > Sisson Reunion held in the same years as our Gathering, in Alberta, > Canada, and remembered another in Unadilla, NY. > > We decided to meet in 2010 in Denver. Two couples volunteered to help > coordinate the gathering there, and their planning has already begun. > > Some thought was also given to a 2012 Gathering in London! We could > organize a tour, rather than going separately, or alternatively, we > could send a subgroup from the 2010 Gathering, and tour English > genealogical sites in 2011. More discussion of this possibility will > take place at the 2010 Gathering. > > > David Martin presented a certificate of appreciation and a hanging > basket of flowers to this year's hosts, Donna and Marcus "Marc" Sisson. > Donna expressed her high appreciation of many members of her family who > helped. > > Jane Frazier of the Havana (Illinois) Public Library, spoke after dinner > on "Sisson Connections in Springfield, Illinois." She is a native of > nearby Havana, Illinois, and  descends from a Revolutionary War soldier. > She likes to look for ancestors, hers or others'. Marc Sisson's ancestor > Marcus Lafayette Sisson came to Illinois in the middle of the 18^th > century. The family was easy to research, making use of cemetery and > census records and atlases. Jane presented many records relating to > Marc's ancestry: census records; property, marriage, birth, military, > mortician, and probate records, obituaries and biographies from county > histories. Jane advised: Don't stay wedded to name spellings and always > question census records. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SISSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SISSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Very nice review David. Larry L. Sisson ----- Original Message ---- From: David A Sisson <dsisson2@rochester.rr.com> To: Sisson List <SISSON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 5, 2008 4:47:41 PM Subject: [SISSON] Notes from the 2008 Gathering 2008 Sisson Gathering Notes taken by David Arne Sisson This is our 8^th Gathering, held this time in Springfield, Illinois. We are a Sisson Gathering, not a reunion. We report on serious research, and have fun too. We were reminded of the Sisson website at _http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dasisson/_ Presentations: Joan Sisson: Joan's father recorded the story of his life on audio cassette tapes. Joan transcribed them, and Dave suggested that she turn it into a book. It became "A Life in Each Decade of the 20^th Century." The book is available from Xlibris http://www2.xlibris.com/. They print books on demand. Many of us have memories or research that should be made available to others, and Xlibris's service is an economical way. Others recording their family histories can put those the written notes in a binder as a computer file on a CD. They don't have to go to the expense of publishing a book. Joan and Dave will donate a copy of their book "Descendants of Richard and Mary Sisson" to a library of your choice if you will pay $4 for postage. Joan added that she can send both the original "big book" of the of New England, and the supplemental update of the book for $5 postage. The book/s will be sent by media mail. Wayne Sisson: Wayne told of a Sisson man he met. He had come to the USA from Russia. After the 2006 Gathering Wayne stopped in Ithaca, NY, to visit a third cousin once removed, Robert Wehe, a descendant of Wilson Crandall Sisson. Malcolm Sissons: Malcolm is from Alberta, Canada. He has researched the question: Does the Sisson or Sissons surname have a French origin? He concluded that a French connection is as much myth as fact. He found several names and places that seemed to point to a French origin: the Suessiones (a Celtic tribe), a man named Guy de Soissons in Coventry, England; and the Comtes de Soissons, France. He related some of the history of French Huguenots (Protestants) in England. Malcolm told of his descent from _two_ Sissons ancestors, his grandparents, Herb and Lissa. Each was born a Sissons. (Note the final "S"). Herb's grandfather William came from Horncastle, England, and Lissa's grandfather Thomas came from Sutton-cum-Lound, England. Malcolm thinks William's father might have come from Sutton-cum-Lound also. These clues from Malcolm's ancestry may be clues to the origins of the English ancestors of Richard or Robert or Thomas Sisson, immigrants to 17th-century Rhode Island and Virginia. Malcolm discussed the French Huguenot families with variations on the Sisson name, Soissons among others, but he has come to the conclusion that the name is probably an English one, not a French. Carol Sisson Regehr: Carol showed a map with the English counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, the counties with the highest 19th-century concentrations of Sisson/s families. Then showing a map of North America, Carol indicated how families with Sisson-variation names migrated from New England and Virginia to the Midwest and South and eventually dispersed across the USA and Canada.                                                        She pointed out that in modern phone books of the USA, Canada, and Britain, the variations of the name have different proportions. In the USA, the name is spelled Sisson by 98% and Sissons by 2%. In Canada, however, 65% spell it Sisson and 35% spell it Sissons. In the UK, it is a 50/50 distribution! We wonder whether this spelling is a clue to our origins. Susan Ashley Blake: Carol Sisson Regehr introduced Susan as a second cousin once removed of David Arne Sisson. His grandfather and her great grandfather were brothers. Susan related how David and Carol wrote her about 18 months ago, about the possibility that Robert Sisson of Virginia came from Horncastle, Lincolnshire, and Richard Sisson of Rhode Island came from Sutton-cum-Lound, Nottinghamshire. Horncastle and Sutton-cum-Lound are about 50 miles apart (according to MapQuest for the United Kingdom at http://www.mapquest.co.uk/. Use postal codes DN22 8PP for Retford, near Sutton-cum-Lound which doesn't seem to have a code, and LN9 5AD for Horncastle).** Susan did some research in parish registers. They were kept by the state-established Church of England, beginning in 1538, recording  baptisms, marriages, and burials. There was a one-shilling charge to have names entered in registers, so many names were never recorded, and Quakers boycotted the registers. (But Quaker beliefs and practices did not become common until after both Richard and Robert had come to America.) Susan has found many Sisson entries in the registers of both Horncastle and Sutton-cum-Lound, but none that definitively establishes either Richard's or Robert's English connections. There are 40 villages within five miles of Sutton-cum-Lound, and their parish records should all be searched. Very few are available online. Early parish registers are in 16^th -century script which is very difficult to read. In the early years, many parish register were transcribed for their bishops, and the Mormon indexes are based on those transcripts. They can be seen online at http://tinyurl.com/5dwv89. (This address is easier to reach than by clicking through the http://FamilySearch.org <http://familysearch.org/> site.) Susan noted that the highest concentration of religious dissenters occurred in the Sisson areas of eastern England, and especially in "the heartland of Mayflower origins." Despite modern belief, the Pilgrims were mostly willing to conform to church and king. Virginia Company emigrants/immigrants are listed with their Virginia home places. They needed to be attending a Church of England parish, to recognize the supremacy of the king, and owe no taxes. Tammie Sisson Higginbotham:     May Sisson represented Bath, Illinois, in an historical pageant in Bath, England, in 1909. Tammie displayed many pictures and documents of the event. Carol Sisson Regehr: There is a Sisson connection with Abraham Lincoln. Pages 59-62 of the book "Lincoln's Melancholy" by Joshua Wolf Shenk (Houghton Mifflin, 2005), relates how Dr. Daniel Drake, founder of a medical journal, was himself subject to spells of "Melancholy." Dr Drake's wife, Harriet Sisson (1787-1825), a 4^th generation descendant of Richard and Mary, fell into a "mental depression" when her sister Caroline burned to death in 1828. Mental depression was then considered a "medical problem," but the various natural remedies Dr. Drake tried for his wife's condition did not work. Later, in the 1840s, Abraham Lincoln, then an Illinois state senator from Springfield, wrote Dr. Drake about his own history of depression. Carol wonders whether they ever met, or if they only corresponded. The letters between them have been lost. Albert Sisson: Albert spoke of his Civil War connection, Francis M. "Frank" Sisson (1842-1921) (descended from Richard, through George, Thomas, John, and Alanson, to Frank). When Lincoln called for 300,000 troops for three years' service in the Civil War (comparable today to three million troops for Iraq) the draft affected nearly every family, including Frank's. When Lincoln appointed General Grant as head all Union land forces, Grant's "hammer" was the Second Corps of the Army of the Potomac, Uncle Frank's Corps. Frank served from 1862 to 1865, spent five months in hospital from April to September 1863, and was wounded at Reams Station in August 1864. He saw action from Washington to Richmond and a little south by rail. Albert related much of what Frank would have seen and heard, and touched, tasted, and smelled, most of it horrifying. Frank was promoted corporal just before his discharge and had a corporal's pension after he returned home in July 1865. He married, had two children, and adopted one. He owned a dry goods store in Wells Bridge, New York; was postmaster there for two years; taught Sunday School in the Baptist Church; sold the store to his son and moved to Unadilla, NY; where he had a business with Fred Joyce. Frank helped build the Sisson & Bundy Block in Unadilla, and had a store there. He died in 1921 and was buried in the Sand Hill Cemetery, Unadilla Carol Sisson Regehr: An Update on DNA Project Carol reminded us that the Y-chromosome (usually) travels with the surname. When the Sisson DNA Project was begun, we hoped it would help us find out if all Sisson/s families are related and whether we could use it to find our ancestry and cousins in England. By 2004 it was clear that the Richard, Robert, and Thomas lineages are unrelated. The Thomas line matches a man from Penrith, England. Carol wonders if the Penrith man can trace his ancestry back to a common ancestor with Thomas? As things stand now, we know that six Thomas descendants know their lines back to the immigrant, and 35 participants descend from Richard (or one of Richard's ancestors). In 2008 Malcolm Sissons was found to match the Robert group of Virginia. Malcolm knows his ancestry back to the Sissons immigrant, but the immigrant isn't Robert. Malcolm descends from an ancestor who was also an ancestor of Robert. Malcolm also descends in a female line from the Richard group, or rather from an ancestor of both Malcolm and Richard. Carol has drafted an article for /New England Ancestors /(a publication of the New England Historic Genealogical Society) about the Sisson DNA Project, partly to amaze readers with Malcolm's descent from two Sisson lines! Tom Sisson, on Lieutenant Paul Sisson: Paul was B29 co-pilot in the Second World War. Carol Regehr is Paul's niece. Paul's mission was to help fire-bomb the main islands of Japan, especially within a ten-mile radius of Tokyo. His plane was shot down on Paul's thirty-fifth mission. He and the crew baled out. Their Japanese captors charged them with high crimes. A day after the official surrender of Japan, Paul and the crew were executed and thrown in a mass grave. Paul's remains were discovered by an American follow-up crew and returned and reburied at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, but he actually received only two lesser medals. Carol wrote Congressman Jim Ryan who arranged for the DFC to be awarded posthumously. All who have served in the military were asked to stand as a reminder of what many Sisson men and women have given to our county. Gary Ward: Gary's great-great grandfather was Otis Sisson, of Lockport, Illinois. He was buried in a family cemetery which fell into disrepair and was prey to grave robbers. The cemetery was half a mile off the road, but in 1998 a road was proposed which would cut the top off the cemetery hill. The family was asked to help with the removal of the burials. The work demanded blasting and use of a back hoe, but when a stain in the earth came in sight, such extreme measures stopped and the remains were exhumed. Otis' remains were laid out on a table in an old restaurant nearby. Gary saw buttons, Otis' broken wrist and false teeth, and coffin handles and shards of wood. The 2010 Gathering: All former Gatherings have been in the East or Midwest, but except for a Gathering in Kansas City, Missouri, not west of the Mississippi. A consensus was reached for a western meeting in 2010. We heard of a Sisson Reunion held in the same years as our Gathering, in Alberta, Canada, and remembered another in Unadilla, NY. We decided to meet in 2010 in Denver. Two couples volunteered to help coordinate the gathering there, and their planning has already begun. Some thought was also given to a 2012 Gathering in London! We could organize a tour, rather than going separately, or alternatively, we could send a subgroup from the 2010 Gathering, and tour English genealogical sites in 2011. More discussion of this possibility will take place at the 2010 Gathering. David Martin presented a certificate of appreciation and a hanging basket of flowers to this year's hosts, Donna and Marcus "Marc" Sisson. Donna expressed her high appreciation of many members of her family who helped. Jane Frazier of the Havana (Illinois) Public Library, spoke after dinner on "Sisson Connections in Springfield, Illinois." She is a native of nearby Havana, Illinois, and  descends from a Revolutionary War soldier. She likes to look for ancestors, hers or others'. Marc Sisson's ancestor Marcus Lafayette Sisson came to Illinois in the middle of the 18^th century. The family was easy to research, making use of cemetery and census records and atlases. Jane presented many records relating to Marc's ancestry: census records; property, marriage, birth, military, mortician, and probate records, obituaries and biographies from county histories. Jane advised: Don't stay wedded to name spellings and always question census records. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SISSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

2008 Sisson Gathering Notes taken by David Arne Sisson This is our 8^th Gathering, held this time in Springfield, Illinois. We are a Sisson Gathering, not a reunion. We report on serious research, and have fun too. We were reminded of the Sisson website at _http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dasisson/_ Presentations: Joan Sisson: Joan's father recorded the story of his life on audio cassette tapes. Joan transcribed them, and Dave suggested that she turn it into a book. It became "A Life in Each Decade of the 20^th Century." The book is available from Xlibris http://www2.xlibris.com/. They print books on demand. Many of us have memories or research that should be made available to others, and Xlibris's service is an economical way. Others recording their family histories can put those the written notes in a binder as a computer file on a CD. They don't have to go to the expense of publishing a book. Joan and Dave will donate a copy of their book "Descendants of Richard and Mary Sisson" to a library of your choice if you will pay $4 for postage. Joan added that she can send both the original "big book" of the of New England, and the supplemental update of the book for $5 postage. The book/s will be sent by media mail. Wayne Sisson: Wayne told of a Sisson man he met. He had come to the USA from Russia. After the 2006 Gathering Wayne stopped in Ithaca, NY, to visit a third cousin once removed, Robert Wehe, a descendant of Wilson Crandall Sisson. Malcolm Sissons: Malcolm is from Alberta, Canada. He has researched the question: Does the Sisson or Sissons surname have a French origin? He concluded that a French connection is as much myth as fact. He found several names and places that seemed to point to a French origin: the Suessiones (a Celtic tribe), a man named Guy de Soissons in Coventry, England; and the Comtes de Soissons, France. He related some of the history of French Huguenots (Protestants) in England. Malcolm told of his descent from _two_ Sissons ancestors, his grandparents, Herb and Lissa. Each was born a Sissons. (Note the final "S"). Herb's grandfather William came from Horncastle, England, and Lissa's grandfather Thomas came from Sutton-cum-Lound, England. Malcolm thinks William's father might have come from Sutton-cum-Lound also. These clues from Malcolm's ancestry may be clues to the origins of the English ancestors of Richard or Robert or Thomas Sisson, immigrants to 17th-century Rhode Island and Virginia. Malcolm discussed the French Huguenot families with variations on the Sisson name, Soissons among others, but he has come to the conclusion that the name is probably an English one, not a French. Carol Sisson Regehr: Carol showed a map with the English counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, the counties with the highest 19th-century concentrations of Sisson/s families. Then showing a map of North America, Carol indicated how families with Sisson-variation names migrated from New England and Virginia to the Midwest and South and eventually dispersed across the USA and Canada. She pointed out that in modern phone books of the USA, Canada, and Britain, the variations of the name have different proportions. In the USA, the name is spelled Sisson by 98% and Sissons by 2%. In Canada, however, 65% spell it Sisson and 35% spell it Sissons. In the UK, it is a 50/50 distribution! We wonder whether this spelling is a clue to our origins. Susan Ashley Blake: Carol Sisson Regehr introduced Susan as a second cousin once removed of David Arne Sisson. His grandfather and her great grandfather were brothers. Susan related how David and Carol wrote her about 18 months ago, about the possibility that Robert Sisson of Virginia came from Horncastle, Lincolnshire, and Richard Sisson of Rhode Island came from Sutton-cum-Lound, Nottinghamshire. Horncastle and Sutton-cum-Lound are about 50 miles apart (according to MapQuest for the United Kingdom at http://www.mapquest.co.uk/. Use postal codes DN22 8PP for Retford, near Sutton-cum-Lound which doesn't seem to have a code, and LN9 5AD for Horncastle).** Susan did some research in parish registers. They were kept by the state-established Church of England, beginning in 1538, recording baptisms, marriages, and burials. There was a one-shilling charge to have names entered in registers, so many names were never recorded, and Quakers boycotted the registers. (But Quaker beliefs and practices did not become common until after both Richard and Robert had come to America.) Susan has found many Sisson entries in the registers of both Horncastle and Sutton-cum-Lound, but none that definitively establishes either Richard's or Robert's English connections. There are 40 villages within five miles of Sutton-cum-Lound, and their parish records should all be searched. Very few are available online. Early parish registers are in 16^th -century script which is very difficult to read. In the early years, many parish register were transcribed for their bishops, and the Mormon indexes are based on those transcripts. They can be seen online at http://tinyurl.com/5dwv89. (This address is easier to reach than by clicking through the http://FamilySearch.org <http://familysearch.org/> site.) Susan noted that the highest concentration of religious dissenters occurred in the Sisson areas of eastern England, and especially in "the heartland of Mayflower origins." Despite modern belief, the Pilgrims were mostly willing to conform to church and king. Virginia Company emigrants/immigrants are listed with their Virginia home places. They needed to be attending a Church of England parish, to recognize the supremacy of the king, and owe no taxes. Tammie Sisson Higginbotham: May Sisson represented Bath, Illinois, in an historical pageant in Bath, England, in 1909. Tammie displayed many pictures and documents of the event. Carol Sisson Regehr: There is a Sisson connection with Abraham Lincoln. Pages 59-62 of the book "Lincoln's Melancholy" by Joshua Wolf Shenk (Houghton Mifflin, 2005), relates how Dr. Daniel Drake, founder of a medical journal, was himself subject to spells of "Melancholy." Dr Drake's wife, Harriet Sisson (1787-1825), a 4^th generation descendant of Richard and Mary, fell into a "mental depression" when her sister Caroline burned to death in 1828. Mental depression was then considered a "medical problem," but the various natural remedies Dr. Drake tried for his wife's condition did not work. Later, in the 1840s, Abraham Lincoln, then an Illinois state senator from Springfield, wrote Dr. Drake about his own history of depression. Carol wonders whether they ever met, or if they only corresponded. The letters between them have been lost. Albert Sisson: Albert spoke of his Civil War connection, Francis M. "Frank" Sisson (1842-1921) (descended from Richard, through George, Thomas, John, and Alanson, to Frank). When Lincoln called for 300,000 troops for three years' service in the Civil War (comparable today to three million troops for Iraq) the draft affected nearly every family, including Frank's. When Lincoln appointed General Grant as head all Union land forces, Grant's "hammer" was the Second Corps of the Army of the Potomac, Uncle Frank's Corps. Frank served from 1862 to 1865, spent five months in hospital from April to September 1863, and was wounded at Reams Station in August 1864. He saw action from Washington to Richmond and a little south by rail. Albert related much of what Frank would have seen and heard, and touched, tasted, and smelled, most of it horrifying. Frank was promoted corporal just before his discharge and had a corporal's pension after he returned home in July 1865. He married, had two children, and adopted one. He owned a dry goods store in Wells Bridge, New York; was postmaster there for two years; taught Sunday School in the Baptist Church; sold the store to his son and moved to Unadilla, NY; where he had a business with Fred Joyce. Frank helped build the Sisson & Bundy Block in Unadilla, and had a store there. He died in 1921 and was buried in the Sand Hill Cemetery, Unadilla Carol Sisson Regehr: An Update on DNA Project Carol reminded us that the Y-chromosome (usually) travels with the surname. When the Sisson DNA Project was begun, we hoped it would help us find out if all Sisson/s families are related and whether we could use it to find our ancestry and cousins in England. By 2004 it was clear that the Richard, Robert, and Thomas lineages are unrelated. The Thomas line matches a man from Penrith, England. Carol wonders if the Penrith man can trace his ancestry back to a common ancestor with Thomas? As things stand now, we know that six Thomas descendants know their lines back to the immigrant, and 35 participants descend from Richard (or one of Richard's ancestors). In 2008 Malcolm Sissons was found to match the Robert group of Virginia. Malcolm knows his ancestry back to the Sissons immigrant, but the immigrant isn't Robert. Malcolm descends from an ancestor who was also an ancestor of Robert. Malcolm also descends in a female line from the Richard group, or rather from an ancestor of both Malcolm and Richard. Carol has drafted an article for /New England Ancestors /(a publication of the New England Historic Genealogical Society) about the Sisson DNA Project, partly to amaze readers with Malcolm's descent from two Sisson lines! Tom Sisson, on Lieutenant Paul Sisson: Paul was B29 co-pilot in the Second World War. Carol Regehr is Paul's niece. Paul's mission was to help fire-bomb the main islands of Japan, especially within a ten-mile radius of Tokyo. His plane was shot down on Paul's thirty-fifth mission. He and the crew baled out. Their Japanese captors charged them with high crimes. A day after the official surrender of Japan, Paul and the crew were executed and thrown in a mass grave. Paul's remains were discovered by an American follow-up crew and returned and reburied at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, but he actually received only two lesser medals. Carol wrote Congressman Jim Ryan who arranged for the DFC to be awarded posthumously. All who have served in the military were asked to stand as a reminder of what many Sisson men and women have given to our county. Gary Ward: Gary's great-great grandfather was Otis Sisson, of Lockport, Illinois. He was buried in a family cemetery which fell into disrepair and was prey to grave robbers. The cemetery was half a mile off the road, but in 1998 a road was proposed which would cut the top off the cemetery hill. The family was asked to help with the removal of the burials. The work demanded blasting and use of a back hoe, but when a stain in the earth came in sight, such extreme measures stopped and the remains were exhumed. Otis' remains were laid out on a table in an old restaurant nearby. Gary saw buttons, Otis' broken wrist and false teeth, and coffin handles and shards of wood. The 2010 Gathering: All former Gatherings have been in the East or Midwest, but except for a Gathering in Kansas City, Missouri, not west of the Mississippi. A consensus was reached for a western meeting in 2010. We heard of a Sisson Reunion held in the same years as our Gathering, in Alberta, Canada, and remembered another in Unadilla, NY. We decided to meet in 2010 in Denver. Two couples volunteered to help coordinate the gathering there, and their planning has already begun. Some thought was also given to a 2012 Gathering in London! We could organize a tour, rather than going separately, or alternatively, we could send a subgroup from the 2010 Gathering, and tour English genealogical sites in 2011. More discussion of this possibility will take place at the 2010 Gathering. David Martin presented a certificate of appreciation and a hanging basket of flowers to this year's hosts, Donna and Marcus "Marc" Sisson. Donna expressed her high appreciation of many members of her family who helped. Jane Frazier of the Havana (Illinois) Public Library, spoke after dinner on "Sisson Connections in Springfield, Illinois." She is a native of nearby Havana, Illinois, and descends from a Revolutionary War soldier. She likes to look for ancestors, hers or others'. Marc Sisson's ancestor Marcus Lafayette Sisson came to Illinois in the middle of the 18^th century. The family was easy to research, making use of cemetery and census records and atlases. Jane presented many records relating to Marc's ancestry: census records; property, marriage, birth, military, mortician, and probate records, obituaries and biographies from county histories. Jane advised: Don't stay wedded to name spellings and always question census records.

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These were sent to me by Barbara R. Marsh. Barbara Austin notified me of my error, and I thank her. Sharon Sisson Miller ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Miller" <Shamiller3@verizon.net> To: <SISSON42@aol.com>; <SISSON@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 12:28 PM Subject: Re: [SISSON] GOWER > Hi, Jimmy. > > The Sisson Gathering was great, as are all of them. The next one is set > for > Denver (no details yet), and you may be able to attend then. > > Thanks to a mailing from Barbara Austin, I have the information on the > Gowers/Gores. The name did change over the years.

Hi, Jimmy. The Sisson Gathering was great, as are all of them. The next one is set for Denver (no details yet), and you may be able to attend then. Thanks to a mailing from Barbara Austin, I have the information on the Gowers/Gores. The name did change over the years. We don't have a birth date of death date for Anne Gower/Gore, bur the family tree goes: 1. Francis Gower m Mary B. 2. Francis Gower (1657-1691) m. Anne Clarke, d of Henry & Joanne Clarke 3. Stanley Gower (1679-1736) m. Sarah Jackson, d of Daniel Jackson 4. John Gower/Gore ( -1762) m ? 5. Anne Gore/Gower m. Bryan Sisson 4. Frances Gower m. William Sisson Frances was Anne's aunt. Rachel was married to Francis Gower and John Branham before she married Bryan. Sharon Sisson Miller ----- Original Message ----- From: <SISSON42@aol.com> To: <SISSON@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 7:49 PM Subject: [SISSON] GOWER > Hi all, > Hope those of you who could make the SISSON Gathering are enjoying your > time > together. Wish I could be there and meet some of the knowledgeable people > in > our SISSON families. > > Which brings me to my questions. Who were parents of Ann GOWER b: abt 1700 > VA, wife of Bryan SISSON b: by 20 Feb 1696 ? > Also Bryan SISSON' second marriage was to Rachel (WEBB?) GOWER BRANHAM. > Rachel was widow 1st of Francis GOWER, who died abt Sep 1726, and widow > 2nd of > John BRANHAM or BRAMHAM, who died abt 1761. > > Bryan's brother, William SISSON Jr. or II married Frances GOWER on 31 > August > 1727. Who were Frances GOWER's parents, and were Ann and Frances possibly > sisters? > > Thanks for your help. Jimmy M. Sisson in TN _sisson42@aol.com_ > (mailto:sisson42@aol.com) > > > > **************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for > fuel-efficient used cars. > (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SISSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi all, Hope those of you who could make the SISSON Gathering are enjoying your time together. Wish I could be there and meet some of the knowledgeable people in our SISSON families. Which brings me to my questions. Who were parents of Ann GOWER b: abt 1700 VA, wife of Bryan SISSON b: by 20 Feb 1696 ? Also Bryan SISSON' second marriage was to Rachel (WEBB?) GOWER BRANHAM. Rachel was widow 1st of Francis GOWER, who died abt Sep 1726, and widow 2nd of John BRANHAM or BRAMHAM, who died abt 1761. Bryan's brother, William SISSON Jr. or II married Frances GOWER on 31 August 1727. Who were Frances GOWER's parents, and were Ann and Frances possibly sisters? Thanks for your help. Jimmy M. Sisson in TN _sisson42@aol.com_ (mailto:sisson42@aol.com) **************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars. (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007)

It's less than a month now until the Sisson gathering, which takes place June 26-28, 2008, in Springfield, Illinois. This gathering is for anyone interested in researching their Sisson/Sissons lines, whether recent or distant. For more information about the hotel arrangements and the program, please go to: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dasisson/gathering2008.htm This page includes a link to the pdf registration form, which can be printed, filled out, and mailed as instructed on the form. The registration form should be submitted by June 9, 2008, in order to have a count for meals. Hotel reservations need to be made by each participant individually. Even if you can't come for the entire time, please come Saturday, June 28, if you can, as most of the group activities will take place that day. Bring your stories and interesting artifacts to share, and your questions and research puzzles. Hope to see you there! Carol Sisson Regehr Sisson-L list mom -- cregehr@yahoo.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ecnelson1 Surnames: Sisson Rouse Galigager Coats Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.sisson/393/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I am searching for the parents of a Mary Ann Sisson b. abt 1815 in New York, who married Reynolds Rouse a shoemaker of Friendship, Allegany Co., in New York about 1837, and moved to Mc Henry Co., Illinois before the 1840 Census. They had children: Warren J. b. Friendship Allegany Co., New York , Rhoda M. b. Friendship Allegany Co., New York, Sarah M., James R., Burton A., Charles, and Henry. Sarah married Orrin R. Sisson of Allegany Co., New York son of William L. Sisson & Sally Coats. And they moved back to Friendship Allegany Co. NY between 1866 & 1869. Reynolds died in 1869. Mary Ann married 16 Nov 1874 in Mc Henry Co. IL to John R. Galagher, who must have died or left her before the 1880 census. In 1880 she is in West Point, Cuming Co., Nebraska listed as Mary GALIGAGER GMother F W Widow 65y b. NY NY NY, in the home of Burton Rouse. Reynolds Rouse & Mary Ann Sisson were my 3ed Great Grandparents. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Posted at the Boston Herald site: http://www.heraldnews.com/obituaries/x2118743944/OBITUARIES-05-22-08 Noticed by my sister-in-law who lives in Boston. *GateHouse News Service* Posted May 21, 2008 @ 11:42 PM Last update May 22, 2008 @ 10:20 AM *Jacqueline H. Sisson* Jacqueline Hamel Sisson, 86, of Tiverton, RI, died peacefully and surrounded by family, following a brief illness. Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend, she devoted her life to her home and family. She is survived by her husband of 64 years, J. Roger Sisson, with whom she shared a full and enviable life. Together, they enjoyed countless Sunday drives and family gatherings. The loving mother of seven children, she leaves Jay Sisson and wife, Marisa Quinn of Jamestown, Rl; Rick Sisson and wife, Donna of Portsmouth, Rl; Jacqueline Roppolo and husband Frank of Bridgewater, MA; Gregory Sisson of Belmont, MA; and Lincoln Sisson and wife Joanne of Warren, RI. Two daughters, Paula Sisson and Christine Sisson-Settino, predeceased her. She will be remembered with great affection by her grandchildren: Aura Sisson-Castro of Jacksonville, Florida; Sarah Sisson of New York, NY; Rachel and Julia Sisson of Portsmouth, Rl; Laura and Gregory Settino of Hingham, MA; Christine Sisson of Nantucket, MA; Alexia, Ryan and Mia Sisson of Warren, RI; Katelin and Grahm Sisson of New York, NY. Born in Fall River Massachusetts, Jackie was the oldest of three of children born to Aurore Charest-Hamel and Wilfred Hamel. She leaves her sister and closest friend, Madeline Hamel, of Westport, MA; her brother, Wilfred "Sunny" Hamel, of Sebastian, FL; and numerous nieces and nephews. After graduating from Durfee High School, she married and raised 7 children. She was a "special needs teacher" aide in the Fall River School system. She was also a long time tour guide for the Preservation Society of Newport, Rl. She also volunteered at the St. Anne's Hospital Gift Shop in Fall River. She enjoyed cooking, gardening, browsing in antique shops and traveling. Known for her ageless beauty and elegance, she will be remembered for her warmth, generosity, good humor and independent spirit. She enjoyed spending time with her family at Horseneck Beach in Westport MA, for all of the summers of her life. There will be a Memorial Mass on Saturday, May 24th, 2008, at 11:00am, at St. Barnabas Church, on East Main Road in Portsmouth. RI. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Visiting Nurse Services of Newport County, 1184 East Main Road, Portsmouth, RI 02871. Information and directions available at www.memorialfuneralhome.com <http://www.memorialfuneralhome.com>