WauShaOcon-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Subject: > > WauShaOcon-D Digest Volume 98 : Issue 52 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [WauShaOcon-L] Too Quiet for Too L [Marsha Wilcox <mwilcox@lnd.com>] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from WauShaOcon-D, send a message to > > WauShaOcon-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: [WauShaOcon-L] Too Quiet for Too Long > Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 21:20:17 -0500 > From: Marsha Wilcox <mwilcox@lnd.com> > To: WauShaOcon-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi everybody! > > OK, my dad's research trip to the Green Bay Archdiocese Archives > resulted in some cool stuff. > > On this page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mawilcox/asliengm.htm is a > picture of my gggrandfather's gravemarker, in the Flintville cemetery. > That gave us his date of death, which we didn't have. > > We found more about our only (so far) Irish line, GARRIGAN. My > ggrandmother was Ann PORTER. Her parents were Milo PORTER & Catherine > GARRIGAN. Milo was born in Jefferson Co., NY, his parents were Asa > PORTER (b.1783 in MA) and Tabitha ? (b.1785 in NY). For awhile the > parents lived in Allegheny Co., NY. Catherine's parents were Thomas > GARRIGAN and Mary SIMON. Catherine was born in West Maid (Westmeath?), > Ireland and immigrated with her parents when she was 3 years old. > > The PORTERs (elder & younger) came to Juneau Co. (Lemonweir Twp) and > were there until after 1873. Milo served in the Civil War as a Pvt. in > Capt. Wm. Dawes Company C of the l6th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers > at Mauston, Juneau Co. on Oct. 3, 1861. He was wounded at Shiloh, and > never returned to his original family. Don't know if he got a divorce, > but a couple years later (1864), he married an Orilla Francisca MARTIN > in LaCrosse, WI and had (claimed to have) at least 3 other sons by her. > > That PORTER line looks like it might give me a colonial line! That's a > first for my direct bloodlines -- most of my people arrived here > sometime in the mid-1800's. It's also my only CW line! (so far) > > One of Catherine & Milo's children, Susan, married H.D. WHITCOMB, and > lived in Oconto Co., all her life. Any WHITCOMB researchers out there? > Looks like we're cousins! > > And did you see the Bulls game tonight? Yay Bulls! > > Happy Hunting! > Marsha Wilcox > mwilcox@lnd.com > Wilcox Web Design -- http://www.usroots.com/~wwd/wwd.html > USGenWeb County Coordinator for: > Lake Co., IL -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~illake/ > Listowner for ILLAKE-L, tracing your roots in Lake Co., IL > Oconto Co., WI -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/ > Shawano Co., WI -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~wishawan/ > Home Page -- http://mall.lnd.com/wilcox/ > My Genealogy Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mawilcox/index.htm Hey Marcia! Dawes sure was busy. My relative John Riley Hammond was in Dawes 16th too, but company E. Maybe he and Milo chatted a few times!? Did you send away for his Civil War record? May provide some interesting clues. Holly