Hi Nettye, Yes, it's me! Charlotte

I got a message last Friday that the files I wanted from NARA were in the mail. The man got my check last Tuesday, copied 2 seperate files for me, mailed them Friday, and I got them today! And the clues those "greats" left---Isaac was really Isaiah, Hester was Ester, Canton was Youngstown, he did drown in the Potomac but it was in April, 1862 (not July 4) when 2 steamers collided. I'm going to read for a while. I've "got" to read about my ggg-grandfather Isaiah Trump and my hubby's gg-grandfather Hardy Ellis!!!!!! (No---I'm not excited. Really I'm not! <LOL>) Sandy Ellis

Okay, my ggg-grandfather Isaiah Trump was on the West Point when it collided with the George Peabody near Ragged Point on the Potomac---13 Aug 1862. (Does anyone know if the bodies were recovered and given a proper burial? Is there some monument to the 73 people who lost their lives? Any information would be greatly appreciated!) Isaiah Trump married "Esther Reitzel" on 14 Dec 1856---she is refered to as "Hester" on everything except the marriage certificate. Their daughter, Clara "Ann" is my gg-grandmother that married Theodore Baxter Hayes. (The name on her tombstone says "Clara Alice"---mother's affidavit says "Clara Ann".) Clara was 4 years old and Michael was 14 months old when their mother applied for the $8 monthly pension. (They probably didn't know any more about their father than I now know.) Now, to read the Hardy Ellis file----there isn't a lot of information but I now know that he married Martha Dennis Trotter in Montgomery County---in 1815. "Dennis" is apparently a middle name. Martha stated neither had been married before. Sandy Ellis