Any idea which DNA family he belongs to? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of OrinWells Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WELLS] Samuel Israel Wells from NY to AR Hmm. Samuel Israel Wells b: Shelburne, MA 17 May 1792. Dartmouth 1814. Apparently he studied law under Daniel Webster, was quite bright and graduated first in his class. He practiced and taught law in Salisbury, NH. Son of Israel Wells & Lucy Lyon. Married Lucy Kellogg 30 Jan 1824, moved to Windham, Maine 1836. Had five children. Died in Portland, Maine in 1846 or 1847 At first I thought this was clearly not the same guy. But I think one of these is in error. He can't have died in Portland, Maine AND have "removed to Alabama". But he also apparently was not "of New York". But then I found another reference ("History of Salisbury" that says he did indeed go to Alabama after going first to Windham. where he taught school. His wife Lucy apparently wrote Sunday School books. This may explain the departure to Alabama. "His overfondness of the wine glass led him to leave his wife and children, and they soon lost track of him.". She died in Portland 16 Oct 1844, maybe he didn't. Other references I found show he was a highly respected attorney and many have been identified as having studied law with or under him. Children: Jackson Wells 10 Jul 1825 m: Kate Bruckner in Lafayette, LA - 2 children he was a druggist. Spencer Wells 17 Feb 1827 d: Portland 25 May 1881. Reportedly became insane from studying after graduating from Bowdoin College. Lucy May Wells 3 Jun 1829 d: Partland 28 Mar 1863 Walter Wells 17 Nov 1830 m: Mary Sturdivant 25 Dec 1876 Portland, d Portland 21 Apr 1881 - graduate of Bowdoin College James Wells 2 Sep 1832 d: Salisbury 28 Jan 1835 Samuel I. Wells 16 Sep 1833 d: Franklin, MA 30 Jan 1838 At 06:01 PM 10/25/2009, LadyBonita \(USA\) wrote: >It only mentioned that he moved to AR. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Judie Dunkle >Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 5:37 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [WELLS] Samuel Israel Wells from NY to AR > > > Do you have a list of his children? Judie > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "LadyBonita (USA)" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 11:08 AM > Subject: [WELLS] Samuel Israel Wells from NY to AR > > > > Poking around NEHGS site, I found a reference that only indicated that >in > > 1814 it was reported that Samuel Israel Wells of NY moved to Arkansas. >He > > is not in my database (at least with his middle name) so thought I would > > pass it on. > > > > > > > > Bonita > > \\\|/// > > \\ ~ ~ // > > ( @ @ ) > > ----oOOo-(_)-oOOo---- Just Looking for clues ... > > > > Lady Bonita > > Arizona, USA > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > > Virus Database (VPS): 091023-0, 10/23/2009 > > Tested on: 10/24/2009 10:08:41 AM > > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. > > http://www.avast.com > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] 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 >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in >the subject and the body of the message > > > >--- >avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. >Virus Database (VPS): 091025-0, 10/25/2009 >Tested on: 10/25/2009 7:01:01 PM >avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. >http://www.avast.com > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message Orin R. Wells Wells Family Research Association P. O. Box 5427 Kent, Washington 98064-5427 <[email protected]> http://www.wells.org Subscribe to the "Wells-L" list on RootsWeb ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 091025-0, 10/25/2009 Tested on: 10/26/2009 8:42:41 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com

Hmm. Samuel Israel Wells b: Shelburne, MA 17 May 1792. Dartmouth 1814. Apparently he studied law under Daniel Webster, was quite bright and graduated first in his class. He practiced and taught law in Salisbury, NH. Son of Israel Wells & Lucy Lyon. Married Lucy Kellogg 30 Jan 1824, moved to Windham, Maine 1836. Had five children. Died in Portland, Maine in 1846 or 1847 At first I thought this was clearly not the same guy. But I think one of these is in error. He can't have died in Portland, Maine AND have "removed to Alabama". But he also apparently was not "of New York". But then I found another reference ("History of Salisbury" that says he did indeed go to Alabama after going first to Windham. where he taught school. His wife Lucy apparently wrote Sunday School books. This may explain the departure to Alabama. "His overfondness of the wine glass led him to leave his wife and children, and they soon lost track of him.". She died in Portland 16 Oct 1844, maybe he didn't. Other references I found show he was a highly respected attorney and many have been identified as having studied law with or under him. Children: Jackson Wells 10 Jul 1825 m: Kate Bruckner in Lafayette, LA - 2 children he was a druggist. Spencer Wells 17 Feb 1827 d: Portland 25 May 1881. Reportedly became insane from studying after graduating from Bowdoin College. Lucy May Wells 3 Jun 1829 d: Partland 28 Mar 1863 Walter Wells 17 Nov 1830 m: Mary Sturdivant 25 Dec 1876 Portland, d Portland 21 Apr 1881 - graduate of Bowdoin College James Wells 2 Sep 1832 d: Salisbury 28 Jan 1835 Samuel I. Wells 16 Sep 1833 d: Franklin, MA 30 Jan 1838 At 06:01 PM 10/25/2009, LadyBonita \(USA\) wrote: >It only mentioned that he moved to AR. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Judie Dunkle >Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 5:37 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [WELLS] Samuel Israel Wells from NY to AR > > > Do you have a list of his children? Judie > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "LadyBonita (USA)" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 11:08 AM > Subject: [WELLS] Samuel Israel Wells from NY to AR > > > > Poking around NEHGS site, I found a reference that only indicated that >in > > 1814 it was reported that Samuel Israel Wells of NY moved to Arkansas. >He > > is not in my database (at least with his middle name) so thought I would > > pass it on. > > > > > > > > Bonita > > \\\|/// > > \\ ~ ~ // > > ( @ @ ) > > ----oOOo-(_)-oOOo---- Just Looking for clues ... > > > > Lady Bonita > > Arizona, USA > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > > Virus Database (VPS): 091023-0, 10/23/2009 > > Tested on: 10/24/2009 10:08:41 AM > > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. > > http://www.avast.com > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] 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 >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in >the subject and the body of the message > > > >--- >avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. >Virus Database (VPS): 091025-0, 10/25/2009 >Tested on: 10/25/2009 7:01:01 PM >avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. >http://www.avast.com > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message Orin R. Wells Wells Family Research Association P. O. Box 5427 Kent, Washington 98064-5427 <[email protected]> http://www.wells.org Subscribe to the "Wells-L" list on RootsWeb

It only mentioned that he moved to AR. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Judie Dunkle Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 5:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WELLS] Samuel Israel Wells from NY to AR Do you have a list of his children? Judie ----- Original Message ----- From: "LadyBonita (USA)" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 11:08 AM Subject: [WELLS] Samuel Israel Wells from NY to AR > Poking around NEHGS site, I found a reference that only indicated that in > 1814 it was reported that Samuel Israel Wells of NY moved to Arkansas. He > is not in my database (at least with his middle name) so thought I would > pass it on. > > > > Bonita > \\\|/// > \\ ~ ~ // > ( @ @ ) > ----oOOo-(_)-oOOo---- Just Looking for clues ... > > Lady Bonita > Arizona, USA > > > > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 091023-0, 10/23/2009 > Tested on: 10/24/2009 10:08:41 AM > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 091025-0, 10/25/2009 Tested on: 10/25/2009 7:01:01 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com

Do you have a list of his children? Judie ----- Original Message ----- From: "LadyBonita (USA)" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 11:08 AM Subject: [WELLS] Samuel Israel Wells from NY to AR > Poking around NEHGS site, I found a reference that only indicated that in > 1814 it was reported that Samuel Israel Wells of NY moved to Arkansas. He > is not in my database (at least with his middle name) so thought I would > pass it on. > > > > Bonita > \\\|/// > \\ ~ ~ // > ( @ @ ) > ----oOOo-(_)-oOOo---- Just Looking for clues ... > > Lady Bonita > Arizona, USA > > > > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 091023-0, 10/23/2009 > Tested on: 10/24/2009 10:08:41 AM > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: colleensuncoast Surnames: COX , WELLS Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5223/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Looking for a relative a young boy was adopted aged approx. 5-6 years. His parents surname was Cox he was born in Brisbane Queensland early 1920's. His adoptive parents surname was Wells and they lived in Sydney N.S.W. Keen to find him or his family. 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.

Poking around NEHGS site, I found a reference that only indicated that in 1814 it was reported that Samuel Israel Wells of NY moved to Arkansas. He is not in my database (at least with his middle name) so thought I would pass it on. Bonita \\\|/// \\ ~ ~ // ( @ @ ) ----oOOo-(_)-oOOo---- Just Looking for clues ... Lady Bonita Arizona, USA --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 091023-0, 10/23/2009 Tested on: 10/24/2009 10:08:41 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com

The merge database DOES have Theodore Backus Wells and his father Thomas Potter Wells. It does seem unusual that this book was off from both, but I guess it was another person's research ... so who knows unless first person sources are found. Bonita -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of OrinWells Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WELLS] Theodore Baker Wells of Rhode Island This could be from either of the two primary Wells famlies in Rhode Island as both had descendents in Kingston about this time. I have a Theodore Backus Wells b: 1840 son of Thomas Potter Wells and Sarah Elizabeth Clarke. He had a brother named Thomas Clarke Wells who is the one who wrote a number of letters in the 1850s-1860s that have been placed on-line from the Kansas Historical Society. I wonder if this is the same family with a mispelling in one or the other account? I don't have anything on Theodore Backus Wells to help us here. Yes, I think this is the same Theodore. I found something here about him: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kfaella1&id=I00342 At 09:07 PM 10/23/2009, LadyBonita \(USA\) wrote: >I found this and it is not in my database so thought someone might know/need >them: >Spelman genealogy: the English ancestry and American descendants of Richard >... > By Fannie Cooley Williams Barbour >576 MARY AUGUSTA' JOHNSON (Parsons', Statira' Spelman, Eber', Thomas', >Richard1) was born in Coleraine, Mass., 7 May, 1845, ar)d married in Beloit, >Wis., 10 May, 1864, Theodore Baker Wells, born in Kingston, R. I., 2 >February, 1840, son of Thomas C. Wells. They have resided in Chicago ever >since their marriage, and Mrs. Wells has taken an active part in the social >and philanthropic affairs of that city. She served as Treasurer on the Board >of the Juvenile Court Committee when that was first organized. That and the >Home of the Juvenile Court were the first Juvenile Court organizations in >this country, the work having now spread to almost every State in the Union. >The results of this work in Chicago have been very satisfactory. >Child: >i Edgar Sherman Wells, b. Beloit, Wis., 8 Dec., 1873; d. Chicago, I Jan., >1890. > >http://books.google.com/books?pg=RA1-PA394&dq=statira%20wells%20oswego&id=i l >VVAAAAMAAJ&output=text > > > >Bonita > \\\|/// > \\ ~ ~ // > ( @ @ ) > ----oOOo-(_)-oOOo---- Just Looking for clues ... > >Lady Bonita >Arizona, USA > > > > > >--- >avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. >Virus Database (VPS): 091023-0, 10/23/2009 >Tested on: 10/23/2009 9:07:51 PM >avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. >http://www.avast.com > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message Orin R. Wells Wells Family Research Association P. O. Box 5427 Kent, Washington 98064-5427 <[email protected]> http://www.wells.org Subscribe to the "Wells-L" list on RootsWeb ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 091023-0, 10/23/2009 Tested on: 10/24/2009 10:06:47 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com

This could be from either of the two primary Wells famlies in Rhode Island as both had descendents in Kingston about this time. I have a Theodore Backus Wells b: 1840 son of Thomas Potter Wells and Sarah Elizabeth Clarke. He had a brother named Thomas Clarke Wells who is the one who wrote a number of letters in the 1850s-1860s that have been placed on-line from the Kansas Historical Society. I wonder if this is the same family with a mispelling in one or the other account? I don't have anything on Theodore Backus Wells to help us here. Yes, I think this is the same Theodore. I found something here about him: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kfaella1&id=I00342 At 09:07 PM 10/23/2009, LadyBonita \(USA\) wrote: >I found this and it is not in my database so thought someone might know/need >them: >Spelman genealogy: the English ancestry and American descendants of Richard >... > By Fannie Cooley Williams Barbour >576 MARY AUGUSTA' JOHNSON (Parsons', Statira' Spelman, Eber', Thomas', >Richard1) was born in Coleraine, Mass., 7 May, 1845, ar)d married in Beloit, >Wis., 10 May, 1864, Theodore Baker Wells, born in Kingston, R. I., 2 >February, 1840, son of Thomas C. Wells. They have resided in Chicago ever >since their marriage, and Mrs. Wells has taken an active part in the social >and philanthropic affairs of that city. She served as Treasurer on the Board >of the Juvenile Court Committee when that was first organized. That and the >Home of the Juvenile Court were the first Juvenile Court organizations in >this country, the work having now spread to almost every State in the Union. >The results of this work in Chicago have been very satisfactory. >Child: >i Edgar Sherman Wells, b. Beloit, Wis., 8 Dec., 1873; d. Chicago, I Jan., >1890. > >http://books.google.com/books?pg=RA1-PA394&dq=statira%20wells%20oswego&id=il >VVAAAAMAAJ&output=text > > > >Bonita > \\\|/// > \\ ~ ~ // > ( @ @ ) > ----oOOo-(_)-oOOo---- Just Looking for clues ... > >Lady Bonita >Arizona, USA > > > > > >--- >avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. >Virus Database (VPS): 091023-0, 10/23/2009 >Tested on: 10/23/2009 9:07:51 PM >avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. >http://www.avast.com > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message Orin R. Wells Wells Family Research Association P. O. Box 5427 Kent, Washington 98064-5427 <[email protected]> http://www.wells.org Subscribe to the "Wells-L" list on RootsWeb

I found this and it is not in my database so thought someone might know/need them: Spelman genealogy: the English ancestry and American descendants of Richard ... By Fannie Cooley Williams Barbour 576 MARY AUGUSTA' JOHNSON (Parsons', Statira' Spelman, Eber', Thomas', Richard1) was born in Coleraine, Mass., 7 May, 1845, ar)d married in Beloit, Wis., 10 May, 1864, Theodore Baker Wells, born in Kingston, R. I., 2 February, 1840, son of Thomas C. Wells. They have resided in Chicago ever since their marriage, and Mrs. Wells has taken an active part in the social and philanthropic affairs of that city. She served as Treasurer on the Board of the Juvenile Court Committee when that was first organized. That and the Home of the Juvenile Court were the first Juvenile Court organizations in this country, the work having now spread to almost every State in the Union. The results of this work in Chicago have been very satisfactory. Child: i Edgar Sherman Wells, b. Beloit, Wis., 8 Dec., 1873; d. Chicago, I Jan., 1890. http://books.google.com/books?pg=RA1-PA394&dq=statira%20wells%20oswego&id=il VVAAAAMAAJ&output=text Bonita \\\|/// \\ ~ ~ // ( @ @ ) ----oOOo-(_)-oOOo---- Just Looking for clues ... Lady Bonita Arizona, USA --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 091023-0, 10/23/2009 Tested on: 10/23/2009 9:07:51 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: t42RoseHill Surnames: WELLS Classification: cemetery Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5221/mb.ashx Message Board Post: WELLS Eva Louise 1899-1956 I photographed this gravestone in the (Shannon) Rose Hill Cemetery, Tarrant Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 208,145 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com . If you know more about this person please reply here,instead of contacting me because this is most likely not my family. 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.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CrystalSharp35 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5219.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you for the reply. I'll check out the names and compare to my family. Thanks again. Crystal 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.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: lange8846 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5219.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: In Gwyn Cemetery @ Cruso Haywood County, North Carolina there is a family of Sharps: Lee, Dollie, J.R., S. E. Mamie, David, Annie, William, Ada, Allen, Mark, E.W., Edna, John and Bonnie. The dates on the graves range 1822-1962. What I found interesting is there is at the bottom of the cemetery listing: Robert Burton Wells--no date and a O. Wells 1869-1947. Possible families intermarrying in the same area. Not my family at present. I'm still looking for mine. 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.

you are welcome.  good luck.   ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 8:48:40 PM Subject: Re: [WELLS] HIT A BRICK WALL & CONFUSED!!!!!!! Evelyn Wells This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CrystalSharp35 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5219.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Thank you for the reply. I'll check out the names and compare to my family. Thanks again. Crystal 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. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: CrystalSharp35 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/5219/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I'm desperately trying to find my great grandmother's parents. Her name is Evelyn Wells. She was born 1898 in North Carolina. She died 1973 in Virginia. She married Robert Bascomb Sharp. He was bornm 1893 in North Carolina. He died 1959 in Virginia. Their children are:Beverly,Thurva,Harris,Robert(my grandfather) and Donald. I'm confused because on the 1920 Census it says Evelyn's parents are born in North Carolina. But on the 1930 Census it says her father was Born in Massachusetts. Does anyone know this family and have the right information? Please help!!!!!! Thank you in advance. Crystal 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.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: catspointofview1 Surnames: wells, torrance, bayless Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.wells/3222.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: i am doing research for my friend whose father was alexander t. wells born 1909 and mother cecelia. his parents were alex. and jeanette torrance. email me at: [email protected] and we can compare notes and possibley put you in touch with her. j.c. 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.

Villenova, Chautauqua County, New York. Ron -------------------------------------------------- From: "Rosemarie Novak" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 1:27 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WELLS] Mary Fletcher (Frances) Wells (c1835-1893) > > What part of NY was she from? > > > 'Good friends are like stars.........You don't always see them, but you > know they're always there'. > 'Remember yesterday, dream about tomorrow, but live today'. > Please Visit my eBay Website: http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/windfallmoon > > I am NOW Cancer FREE thanks to GOD & XanGo! > Fight CANCER! Get HEALTHY! Click Here to see How! > http://jameswhitecountry.com/XANGO.html > > > > > > > > EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD > Join me > > >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:46:07 -0500 >> Subject: Re: [WELLS] Mary Fletcher (Frances) Wells (c1835-1893) >> >> I don't think she was Catholic. All her siblings were Methodists. The >> A.M.A. >> was Protestant based abolitionist group. Its leaders were chiefly >> Congregationalist and Presbyterian, both black and white. The association >> became most closely aligned with the Congregational Christian Churches. >> >> Ron >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Rosemarie Novak" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 10:53 PM >> To: <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [WELLS] Mary Fletcher (Frances) Wells (c1835-1893) >> >> > >> > Mary Frances. Was she actually Catholic? >> > >> > >> > 'Good friends are like stars.........You don't always see them, but you >> > know they're always there'. >> > 'Remember yesterday, dream about tomorrow, but live today'. >> > Please Visit my eBay Website: >> > http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/windfallmoon >> > >> > I am NOW Cancer FREE thanks to GOD & XanGo! >> > Fight CANCER! Get HEALTHY! Click Here to see How! >> > http://jameswhitecountry.com/XANGO.html >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD >> > Join me >> > >> > >> >> From: [email protected] >> >> To: [email protected] >> >> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:00:48 -0500 >> >> Subject: [WELLS] Mary Fletcher (Frances) Wells (c1835-1893) >> >> >> >> Mary F. Wells was my 3rd great aunt. Charlotte Fulton has been seeking >> >> information on her and her adopted son George Wells for a book she is >> >> writing on the Trinity School. Mary was born in New York and moved >> >> South >> >> during the Civil War working as a nurse. She was one of the >> >> co-founders >> >> of Trinity School in Athens, AL for freedman in 1865. Below is an >> >> article >> >> written by Charlotte Fulton describing her research so far: >> >> >> >> Published September 26, 2009 06:49 pm - My months-long search for a >> >> photo >> >> of Mary Frances Wells paid off this week when an archivist in Ann >> >> Arbor, >> >> Mich., located online an 1893 book with a biography and picture of the >> >> woman who founded Trinity School in Athens in 1865. >> >> >> >> Long-sought photo discovered of Trinity School founder >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Editor's Note: Charlotte Fulton, a local historian and former feature >> >> writer for The News Courier, is in the midst of research for a book >> >> she >> >> is writing on Trinity High School. The book will be published in >> >> conjunction with a project to preserve historic Trinity School and >> >> create >> >> a museum. That project is headed by Athens-Limestone Community >> >> Association. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> By Charlotte Fulton >> >> >> >> For The News Courier >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> My months-long search for a photo of Mary Frances Wells paid off this >> >> week when an archivist in Ann Arbor, Mich., located online an 1893 >> >> book >> >> with a biography and picture of the woman who founded Trinity School >> >> in >> >> Athens in 1865. >> >> >> >> Former students of Trinity and those familiar with local history know >> >> about the heroic missionary who came South during the Civil War to >> >> care >> >> for wounded soldiers and stayed to teach freedmen. But it is unlikely >> >> that any one of them has seen her likeness. Prior to this week, the >> >> only >> >> indication I have had that an image of Wells ever existed was in a >> >> 1913 >> >> letter written by Louise Allyn, a later Trinity principal, saying that >> >> a >> >> portrait of Miss Wells had burned in the fire that had just destroyed >> >> Trinity School. >> >> >> >> Since January I have made hundreds of e-mail and telephone contacts to >> >> places like Amistad Research Center in New Orleans; Mt. Holyoke >> >> College >> >> in Massachusetts and other older schools for women in the East; >> >> Chautauqua Institute in New York; Fisk University and other schools >> >> connected with the American Missionary Association, which for most of >> >> Trinity's history was its sole sponsor; and dozens of historical and >> >> genealogical societies. >> >> >> >> Information about Wells' teaching career abounded, but about her early >> >> life - nada. And photos? Zilch. >> >> >> >> In the research process I became a sleuth, reading letters and other >> >> documents for clues to be followed: a friend's name, where Wells spent >> >> her summers, the mention of a sister. The trail that led to Brian >> >> Williams, the archivist who located Wells' photo, began when I read a >> >> letter Wells wrote to AMA officials, saying she belonged to the >> >> Presbyterian Church in Valparaiso, Ind. When I called First >> >> Presbyterian >> >> in that city, the church membership chairman located records where >> >> Wells >> >> had transferred her membership to the Presbyterian Church in Ann >> >> Arbor, >> >> Mich. >> >> >> >> I went online to the Web site for First Presbyterian Church in Ann >> >> Arbor >> >> and looked over the church staff to guess who might be most receptive >> >> to >> >> my request. I chose an associate pastor named Melissa (May) Rogers >> >> who, >> >> ironically, turned out to be a young woman I had met and interviewed >> >> when >> >> she was serving First Presbyterian of Athens as an intern. And it was >> >> when she turned me over to church member Brian Williams, that I hit >> >> pay >> >> dirt. In short order, Williams responded with information about burial >> >> records, and then with an internet link to the book, "A Woman of the >> >> Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied By >> >> Portraits of Leading American Women in all Walks of Life," edited by >> >> Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore. >> >> >> >> Written during Wells' lifetime and published in the year she died of >> >> consumption at her retirement home in Chautauqua, the biography solves >> >> one mystery and presents another. >> >> >> >> American Missionary Association literature consistently lists Wells as >> >> a >> >> graduate of Mt. Holyoke, but there is no record of her ever having >> >> attended that school, nor has a thorough search of other women's >> >> schools >> >> uncovered her. According to her biography in "A Woman of the Century," >> >> Wells prepared to enter Michigan University, but because females were >> >> not >> >> accepted as students at the time, she took the course of study >> >> privately. >> >> >> >> The mystery posed by the biography is this: The woman Athens has >> >> always >> >> known as Mary Frances Wells is listed as Mary Fletcher Wells, both in >> >> the >> >> biography and in cemetery records from her interment in Ann Arbor. >> >> >> >> But that's a mystery for another day. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Here is what the biography that Charlotte found says: >> >> >> >> She was a philanthropist and educator, and was born in Villenova, >> >> Chautauqua County, New York. Her father Roderic McIntosh (sic.) Wells, >> >> was of Scotch origin. She began to teach at fourteen years of age, >> >> still >> >> pursuing her studies. She taught successfully in high schools and >> >> seminaries in Indiana, and for several years was associate editor of >> >> the >> >> "Indiana School Journal." Failing health obliged her to rest. >> >> >> >> When the Civil War broke out, she received the news with much >> >> seriousness. She saw as if by inspiration, that the war was to >> >> emancipate >> >> the slave, that the liberated slave must have teachers, and she must >> >> be >> >> one of those teachers. During the war she received a letter from >> >> Abraham >> >> Lincoln, asking her to take charge of a contraband school near >> >> Washington. Her health was then insufficient, and she was obliged to >> >> decline. A few months later there came another call, to which she >> >> responded, and for nearly two years, in the hospital in Louisville, >> >> Kentucky, she watched beside the sick and dying soldiers. >> >> >> >> With the close of the war came a renewal of the call to teach the >> >> freedmen, and she went to Athens, Alabama. She was cordially welcomed >> >> by >> >> Chaplain and Mrs. Anderson, and she had for assistants Mrs. Anderson >> >> and >> >> Mr. Starkweather, a Wisconsin soldier. At the hour appointed for >> >> opening, >> >> there came in multitude, three-hundred strong. Miss Wells remained at >> >> the >> >> head of Trinity School twenty-seven years. >> >> >> >> >From the crude beginning in 1865 has been developed a flourishing >> >> >institution, with boarding, industrial and normal departments, >> >> >sending >> >> >out every year many teachers, who do efficient work among their >> >> >people. >> >> >From that school, under the American Missionary Society, have grown a >> >> >church and many auxiliary societies. Failing health has made rest and >> >> >change imperative, and she is now living in her summer home in >> >> >Chautauqua, where in 1878, she was among the first to join the >> >> >Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. She was graduated in the >> >> >class of 1882. She traveled with the Fisk Jubilee Singers the first >> >> >four >> >> >months of their introduction to the public. >> >> >> >> A book on the Fitch Jubilee singers (Dark Midnight when I Rise) gives >> >> some more insight into her character: >> >> >> >> "Wells was the principal of the Trinity School and one of the very few >> >> women the American Missionary Association (A.M.A.) entrusted with a >> >> superintendency. A graduate of Mount Holyoke, which was second only to >> >> Oberlin in providing missionaries for the A.M.A., Wells was a former >> >> Civil War nurse and Michigan schoolteacher who had been disowned by >> >> her >> >> wealthy family for working among the freedman (This is not true since >> >> the >> >> Wells were not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination nor did they >> >> disown her. My great-grandmother, her great niece, wrote of wishing to >> >> visit the school that Mary Wells helped found. In 1870 one of her >> >> nieces >> >> was living with her in Athens.) She became a member of the black >> >> community of Athens and was almost legendarily brave. One night as she >> >> was correcting papers, Klansmen surrounded her school and, taking aim >> >> at >> >> the glow of her lamp through a tattered quilt she hung every night in >> >> her >> >> door, shot at her. But "she calmly continued her writing, [and] d! >> > id! >> >> not put out the lamp." For years afterward, "the colored people kept >> >> the >> >> door through which there was shooting' until the building was burned >> >> down >> >> by the Klan. >> >> >> >> Anyone have additional information on her? It has been some time since >> >> I >> >> worked on Roderick Wells family. I believe he is descended from Thomas >> >> and Frances (Albright) Wells. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Ron Carlton >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> >> [email protected] 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 >> > [email protected] 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 >> [email protected] 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

What part of NY was she from? 'Good friends are like stars.........You don't always see them, but you know they're always there'. 'Remember yesterday, dream about tomorrow, but live today'. Please Visit my eBay Website: http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/windfallmoon I am NOW Cancer FREE thanks to GOD & XanGo! Fight CANCER! Get HEALTHY! Click Here to see How! http://jameswhitecountry.com/XANGO.html EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:46:07 -0500 > Subject: Re: [WELLS] Mary Fletcher (Frances) Wells (c1835-1893) > > I don't think she was Catholic. All her siblings were Methodists. The A.M.A. > was Protestant based abolitionist group. Its leaders were chiefly > Congregationalist and Presbyterian, both black and white. The association > became most closely aligned with the Congregational Christian Churches. > > Ron > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Rosemarie Novak" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 10:53 PM > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WELLS] Mary Fletcher (Frances) Wells (c1835-1893) > > > > > Mary Frances. Was she actually Catholic? > > > > > > 'Good friends are like stars.........You don't always see them, but you > > know they're always there'. > > 'Remember yesterday, dream about tomorrow, but live today'. > > Please Visit my eBay Website: http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/windfallmoon > > > > I am NOW Cancer FREE thanks to GOD & XanGo! > > Fight CANCER! Get HEALTHY! Click Here to see How! > > http://jameswhitecountry.com/XANGO.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD > > Join me > > > > > >> From: [email protected] > >> To: [email protected] > >> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:00:48 -0500 > >> Subject: [WELLS] Mary Fletcher (Frances) Wells (c1835-1893) > >> > >> Mary F. Wells was my 3rd great aunt. Charlotte Fulton has been seeking > >> information on her and her adopted son George Wells for a book she is > >> writing on the Trinity School. Mary was born in New York and moved South > >> during the Civil War working as a nurse. She was one of the co-founders > >> of Trinity School in Athens, AL for freedman in 1865. Below is an article > >> written by Charlotte Fulton describing her research so far: > >> > >> Published September 26, 2009 06:49 pm - My months-long search for a photo > >> of Mary Frances Wells paid off this week when an archivist in Ann Arbor, > >> Mich., located online an 1893 book with a biography and picture of the > >> woman who founded Trinity School in Athens in 1865. > >> > >> Long-sought photo discovered of Trinity School founder > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Editor's Note: Charlotte Fulton, a local historian and former feature > >> writer for The News Courier, is in the midst of research for a book she > >> is writing on Trinity High School. The book will be published in > >> conjunction with a project to preserve historic Trinity School and create > >> a museum. That project is headed by Athens-Limestone Community > >> Association. > >> > >> > >> > >> By Charlotte Fulton > >> > >> For The News Courier > >> > >> > >> > >> My months-long search for a photo of Mary Frances Wells paid off this > >> week when an archivist in Ann Arbor, Mich., located online an 1893 book > >> with a biography and picture of the woman who founded Trinity School in > >> Athens in 1865. > >> > >> Former students of Trinity and those familiar with local history know > >> about the heroic missionary who came South during the Civil War to care > >> for wounded soldiers and stayed to teach freedmen. But it is unlikely > >> that any one of them has seen her likeness. Prior to this week, the only > >> indication I have had that an image of Wells ever existed was in a 1913 > >> letter written by Louise Allyn, a later Trinity principal, saying that a > >> portrait of Miss Wells had burned in the fire that had just destroyed > >> Trinity School. > >> > >> Since January I have made hundreds of e-mail and telephone contacts to > >> places like Amistad Research Center in New Orleans; Mt. Holyoke College > >> in Massachusetts and other older schools for women in the East; > >> Chautauqua Institute in New York; Fisk University and other schools > >> connected with the American Missionary Association, which for most of > >> Trinity's history was its sole sponsor; and dozens of historical and > >> genealogical societies. > >> > >> Information about Wells' teaching career abounded, but about her early > >> life - nada. And photos? Zilch. > >> > >> In the research process I became a sleuth, reading letters and other > >> documents for clues to be followed: a friend's name, where Wells spent > >> her summers, the mention of a sister. The trail that led to Brian > >> Williams, the archivist who located Wells' photo, began when I read a > >> letter Wells wrote to AMA officials, saying she belonged to the > >> Presbyterian Church in Valparaiso, Ind. When I called First Presbyterian > >> in that city, the church membership chairman located records where Wells > >> had transferred her membership to the Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor, > >> Mich. > >> > >> I went online to the Web site for First Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor > >> and looked over the church staff to guess who might be most receptive to > >> my request. I chose an associate pastor named Melissa (May) Rogers who, > >> ironically, turned out to be a young woman I had met and interviewed when > >> she was serving First Presbyterian of Athens as an intern. And it was > >> when she turned me over to church member Brian Williams, that I hit pay > >> dirt. In short order, Williams responded with information about burial > >> records, and then with an internet link to the book, "A Woman of the > >> Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied By > >> Portraits of Leading American Women in all Walks of Life," edited by > >> Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore. > >> > >> Written during Wells' lifetime and published in the year she died of > >> consumption at her retirement home in Chautauqua, the biography solves > >> one mystery and presents another. > >> > >> American Missionary Association literature consistently lists Wells as a > >> graduate of Mt. Holyoke, but there is no record of her ever having > >> attended that school, nor has a thorough search of other women's schools > >> uncovered her. According to her biography in "A Woman of the Century," > >> Wells prepared to enter Michigan University, but because females were not > >> accepted as students at the time, she took the course of study privately. > >> > >> The mystery posed by the biography is this: The woman Athens has always > >> known as Mary Frances Wells is listed as Mary Fletcher Wells, both in the > >> biography and in cemetery records from her interment in Ann Arbor. > >> > >> But that's a mystery for another day. > >> > >> > >> > >> Here is what the biography that Charlotte found says: > >> > >> She was a philanthropist and educator, and was born in Villenova, > >> Chautauqua County, New York. Her father Roderic McIntosh (sic.) Wells, > >> was of Scotch origin. She began to teach at fourteen years of age, still > >> pursuing her studies. She taught successfully in high schools and > >> seminaries in Indiana, and for several years was associate editor of the > >> "Indiana School Journal." Failing health obliged her to rest. > >> > >> When the Civil War broke out, she received the news with much > >> seriousness. She saw as if by inspiration, that the war was to emancipate > >> the slave, that the liberated slave must have teachers, and she must be > >> one of those teachers. During the war she received a letter from Abraham > >> Lincoln, asking her to take charge of a contraband school near > >> Washington. Her health was then insufficient, and she was obliged to > >> decline. A few months later there came another call, to which she > >> responded, and for nearly two years, in the hospital in Louisville, > >> Kentucky, she watched beside the sick and dying soldiers. > >> > >> With the close of the war came a renewal of the call to teach the > >> freedmen, and she went to Athens, Alabama. She was cordially welcomed by > >> Chaplain and Mrs. Anderson, and she had for assistants Mrs. Anderson and > >> Mr. Starkweather, a Wisconsin soldier. At the hour appointed for opening, > >> there came in multitude, three-hundred strong. Miss Wells remained at the > >> head of Trinity School twenty-seven years. > >> > >> >From the crude beginning in 1865 has been developed a flourishing > >> >institution, with boarding, industrial and normal departments, sending > >> >out every year many teachers, who do efficient work among their people. > >> >From that school, under the American Missionary Society, have grown a > >> >church and many auxiliary societies. Failing health has made rest and > >> >change imperative, and she is now living in her summer home in > >> >Chautauqua, where in 1878, she was among the first to join the > >> >Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. She was graduated in the > >> >class of 1882. She traveled with the Fisk Jubilee Singers the first four > >> >months of their introduction to the public. > >> > >> A book on the Fitch Jubilee singers (Dark Midnight when I Rise) gives > >> some more insight into her character: > >> > >> "Wells was the principal of the Trinity School and one of the very few > >> women the American Missionary Association (A.M.A.) entrusted with a > >> superintendency. A graduate of Mount Holyoke, which was second only to > >> Oberlin in providing missionaries for the A.M.A., Wells was a former > >> Civil War nurse and Michigan schoolteacher who had been disowned by her > >> wealthy family for working among the freedman (This is not true since the > >> Wells were not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination nor did they > >> disown her. My great-grandmother, her great niece, wrote of wishing to > >> visit the school that Mary Wells helped found. In 1870 one of her nieces > >> was living with her in Athens.) She became a member of the black > >> community of Athens and was almost legendarily brave. One night as she > >> was correcting papers, Klansmen surrounded her school and, taking aim at > >> the glow of her lamp through a tattered quilt she hung every night in her > >> door, shot at her. But "she calmly continued her writing, [and] d! > > id! > >> not put out the lamp." For years afterward, "the colored people kept the > >> door through which there was shooting' until the building was burned down > >> by the Klan. > >> > >> Anyone have additional information on her? It has been some time since I > >> worked on Roderick Wells family. I believe he is descended from Thomas > >> and Frances (Albright) Wells. > >> > >> > >> > >> Ron Carlton > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> [email protected] 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 > > [email protected]om 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 [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I don't think she was Catholic. All her siblings were Methodists. The A.M.A. was Protestant based abolitionist group. Its leaders were chiefly Congregationalist and Presbyterian, both black and white. The association became most closely aligned with the Congregational Christian Churches. Ron -------------------------------------------------- From: "Rosemarie Novak" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 10:53 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WELLS] Mary Fletcher (Frances) Wells (c1835-1893) > > Mary Frances. Was she actually Catholic? > > > 'Good friends are like stars.........You don't always see them, but you > know they're always there'. > 'Remember yesterday, dream about tomorrow, but live today'. > Please Visit my eBay Website: http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/windfallmoon > > I am NOW Cancer FREE thanks to GOD & XanGo! > Fight CANCER! Get HEALTHY! Click Here to see How! > http://jameswhitecountry.com/XANGO.html > > > > > > > > EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD > Join me > > >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:00:48 -0500 >> Subject: [WELLS] Mary Fletcher (Frances) Wells (c1835-1893) >> >> Mary F. Wells was my 3rd great aunt. Charlotte Fulton has been seeking >> information on her and her adopted son George Wells for a book she is >> writing on the Trinity School. Mary was born in New York and moved South >> during the Civil War working as a nurse. She was one of the co-founders >> of Trinity School in Athens, AL for freedman in 1865. Below is an article >> written by Charlotte Fulton describing her research so far: >> >> Published September 26, 2009 06:49 pm - My months-long search for a photo >> of Mary Frances Wells paid off this week when an archivist in Ann Arbor, >> Mich., located online an 1893 book with a biography and picture of the >> woman who founded Trinity School in Athens in 1865. >> >> Long-sought photo discovered of Trinity School founder >> >> >> >> >> Editor's Note: Charlotte Fulton, a local historian and former feature >> writer for The News Courier, is in the midst of research for a book she >> is writing on Trinity High School. The book will be published in >> conjunction with a project to preserve historic Trinity School and create >> a museum. That project is headed by Athens-Limestone Community >> Association. >> >> >> >> By Charlotte Fulton >> >> For The News Courier >> >> >> >> My months-long search for a photo of Mary Frances Wells paid off this >> week when an archivist in Ann Arbor, Mich., located online an 1893 book >> with a biography and picture of the woman who founded Trinity School in >> Athens in 1865. >> >> Former students of Trinity and those familiar with local history know >> about the heroic missionary who came South during the Civil War to care >> for wounded soldiers and stayed to teach freedmen. But it is unlikely >> that any one of them has seen her likeness. Prior to this week, the only >> indication I have had that an image of Wells ever existed was in a 1913 >> letter written by Louise Allyn, a later Trinity principal, saying that a >> portrait of Miss Wells had burned in the fire that had just destroyed >> Trinity School. >> >> Since January I have made hundreds of e-mail and telephone contacts to >> places like Amistad Research Center in New Orleans; Mt. Holyoke College >> in Massachusetts and other older schools for women in the East; >> Chautauqua Institute in New York; Fisk University and other schools >> connected with the American Missionary Association, which for most of >> Trinity's history was its sole sponsor; and dozens of historical and >> genealogical societies. >> >> Information about Wells' teaching career abounded, but about her early >> life - nada. And photos? Zilch. >> >> In the research process I became a sleuth, reading letters and other >> documents for clues to be followed: a friend's name, where Wells spent >> her summers, the mention of a sister. The trail that led to Brian >> Williams, the archivist who located Wells' photo, began when I read a >> letter Wells wrote to AMA officials, saying she belonged to the >> Presbyterian Church in Valparaiso, Ind. When I called First Presbyterian >> in that city, the church membership chairman located records where Wells >> had transferred her membership to the Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor, >> Mich. >> >> I went online to the Web site for First Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor >> and looked over the church staff to guess who might be most receptive to >> my request. I chose an associate pastor named Melissa (May) Rogers who, >> ironically, turned out to be a young woman I had met and interviewed when >> she was serving First Presbyterian of Athens as an intern. And it was >> when she turned me over to church member Brian Williams, that I hit pay >> dirt. In short order, Williams responded with information about burial >> records, and then with an internet link to the book, "A Woman of the >> Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied By >> Portraits of Leading American Women in all Walks of Life," edited by >> Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore. >> >> Written during Wells' lifetime and published in the year she died of >> consumption at her retirement home in Chautauqua, the biography solves >> one mystery and presents another. >> >> American Missionary Association literature consistently lists Wells as a >> graduate of Mt. Holyoke, but there is no record of her ever having >> attended that school, nor has a thorough search of other women's schools >> uncovered her. According to her biography in "A Woman of the Century," >> Wells prepared to enter Michigan University, but because females were not >> accepted as students at the time, she took the course of study privately. >> >> The mystery posed by the biography is this: The woman Athens has always >> known as Mary Frances Wells is listed as Mary Fletcher Wells, both in the >> biography and in cemetery records from her interment in Ann Arbor. >> >> But that's a mystery for another day. >> >> >> >> Here is what the biography that Charlotte found says: >> >> She was a philanthropist and educator, and was born in Villenova, >> Chautauqua County, New York. Her father Roderic McIntosh (sic.) Wells, >> was of Scotch origin. She began to teach at fourteen years of age, still >> pursuing her studies. She taught successfully in high schools and >> seminaries in Indiana, and for several years was associate editor of the >> "Indiana School Journal." Failing health obliged her to rest. >> >> When the Civil War broke out, she received the news with much >> seriousness. She saw as if by inspiration, that the war was to emancipate >> the slave, that the liberated slave must have teachers, and she must be >> one of those teachers. During the war she received a letter from Abraham >> Lincoln, asking her to take charge of a contraband school near >> Washington. Her health was then insufficient, and she was obliged to >> decline. A few months later there came another call, to which she >> responded, and for nearly two years, in the hospital in Louisville, >> Kentucky, she watched beside the sick and dying soldiers. >> >> With the close of the war came a renewal of the call to teach the >> freedmen, and she went to Athens, Alabama. She was cordially welcomed by >> Chaplain and Mrs. Anderson, and she had for assistants Mrs. Anderson and >> Mr. Starkweather, a Wisconsin soldier. At the hour appointed for opening, >> there came in multitude, three-hundred strong. Miss Wells remained at the >> head of Trinity School twenty-seven years. >> >> >From the crude beginning in 1865 has been developed a flourishing >> >institution, with boarding, industrial and normal departments, sending >> >out every year many teachers, who do efficient work among their people. >> >From that school, under the American Missionary Society, have grown a >> >church and many auxiliary societies. Failing health has made rest and >> >change imperative, and she is now living in her summer home in >> >Chautauqua, where in 1878, she was among the first to join the >> >Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. She was graduated in the >> >class of 1882. She traveled with the Fisk Jubilee Singers the first four >> >months of their introduction to the public. >> >> A book on the Fitch Jubilee singers (Dark Midnight when I Rise) gives >> some more insight into her character: >> >> "Wells was the principal of the Trinity School and one of the very few >> women the American Missionary Association (A.M.A.) entrusted with a >> superintendency. A graduate of Mount Holyoke, which was second only to >> Oberlin in providing missionaries for the A.M.A., Wells was a former >> Civil War nurse and Michigan schoolteacher who had been disowned by her >> wealthy family for working among the freedman (This is not true since the >> Wells were not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination nor did they >> disown her. My great-grandmother, her great niece, wrote of wishing to >> visit the school that Mary Wells helped found. In 1870 one of her nieces >> was living with her in Athens.) She became a member of the black >> community of Athens and was almost legendarily brave. One night as she >> was correcting papers, Klansmen surrounded her school and, taking aim at >> the glow of her lamp through a tattered quilt she hung every night in her >> door, shot at her. But "she calmly continued her writing, [and] d! > id! >> not put out the lamp." For years afterward, "the colored people kept the >> door through which there was shooting' until the building was burned down >> by the Klan. >> >> Anyone have additional information on her? It has been some time since I >> worked on Roderick Wells family. I believe he is descended from Thomas >> and Frances (Albright) Wells. >> >> >> >> Ron Carlton >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] 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 > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Mary Frances. Was she actually Catholic? 'Good friends are like stars.........You don't always see them, but you know they're always there'. 'Remember yesterday, dream about tomorrow, but live today'. Please Visit my eBay Website: http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/windfallmoon I am NOW Cancer FREE thanks to GOD & XanGo! Fight CANCER! Get HEALTHY! Click Here to see How! http://jameswhitecountry.com/XANGO.html EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:00:48 -0500 > Subject: [WELLS] Mary Fletcher (Frances) Wells (c1835-1893) > > Mary F. Wells was my 3rd great aunt. Charlotte Fulton has been seeking information on her and her adopted son George Wells for a book she is writing on the Trinity School. Mary was born in New York and moved South during the Civil War working as a nurse. She was one of the co-founders of Trinity School in Athens, AL for freedman in 1865. Below is an article written by Charlotte Fulton describing her research so far: > > Published September 26, 2009 06:49 pm - My months-long search for a photo of Mary Frances Wells paid off this week when an archivist in Ann Arbor, Mich., located online an 1893 book with a biography and picture of the woman who founded Trinity School in Athens in 1865. > > Long-sought photo discovered of Trinity School founder > > > > > Editor's Note: Charlotte Fulton, a local historian and former feature writer for The News Courier, is in the midst of research for a book she is writing on Trinity High School. The book will be published in conjunction with a project to preserve historic Trinity School and create a museum. That project is headed by Athens-Limestone Community Association. > > > > By Charlotte Fulton > > For The News Courier > > > > My months-long search for a photo of Mary Frances Wells paid off this week when an archivist in Ann Arbor, Mich., located online an 1893 book with a biography and picture of the woman who founded Trinity School in Athens in 1865. > > Former students of Trinity and those familiar with local history know about the heroic missionary who came South during the Civil War to care for wounded soldiers and stayed to teach freedmen. But it is unlikely that any one of them has seen her likeness. Prior to this week, the only indication I have had that an image of Wells ever existed was in a 1913 letter written by Louise Allyn, a later Trinity principal, saying that a portrait of Miss Wells had burned in the fire that had just destroyed Trinity School. > > Since January I have made hundreds of e-mail and telephone contacts to places like Amistad Research Center in New Orleans; Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts and other older schools for women in the East; Chautauqua Institute in New York; Fisk University and other schools connected with the American Missionary Association, which for most of Trinity's history was its sole sponsor; and dozens of historical and genealogical societies. > > Information about Wells' teaching career abounded, but about her early life - nada. And photos? Zilch. > > In the research process I became a sleuth, reading letters and other documents for clues to be followed: a friend's name, where Wells spent her summers, the mention of a sister. The trail that led to Brian Williams, the archivist who located Wells' photo, began when I read a letter Wells wrote to AMA officials, saying she belonged to the Presbyterian Church in Valparaiso, Ind. When I called First Presbyterian in that city, the church membership chairman located records where Wells had transferred her membership to the Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor, Mich. > > I went online to the Web site for First Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor and looked over the church staff to guess who might be most receptive to my request. I chose an associate pastor named Melissa (May) Rogers who, ironically, turned out to be a young woman I had met and interviewed when she was serving First Presbyterian of Athens as an intern. And it was when she turned me over to church member Brian Williams, that I hit pay dirt. In short order, Williams responded with information about burial records, and then with an internet link to the book, "A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied By Portraits of Leading American Women in all Walks of Life," edited by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore. > > Written during Wells' lifetime and published in the year she died of consumption at her retirement home in Chautauqua, the biography solves one mystery and presents another. > > American Missionary Association literature consistently lists Wells as a graduate of Mt. Holyoke, but there is no record of her ever having attended that school, nor has a thorough search of other women's schools uncovered her. According to her biography in "A Woman of the Century," Wells prepared to enter Michigan University, but because females were not accepted as students at the time, she took the course of study privately. > > The mystery posed by the biography is this: The woman Athens has always known as Mary Frances Wells is listed as Mary Fletcher Wells, both in the biography and in cemetery records from her interment in Ann Arbor. > > But that's a mystery for another day. > > > > Here is what the biography that Charlotte found says: > > She was a philanthropist and educator, and was born in Villenova, Chautauqua County, New York. Her father Roderic McIntosh (sic.) Wells, was of Scotch origin. She began to teach at fourteen years of age, still pursuing her studies. She taught successfully in high schools and seminaries in Indiana, and for several years was associate editor of the "Indiana School Journal." Failing health obliged her to rest. > > When the Civil War broke out, she received the news with much seriousness. She saw as if by inspiration, that the war was to emancipate the slave, that the liberated slave must have teachers, and she must be one of those teachers. During the war she received a letter from Abraham Lincoln, asking her to take charge of a contraband school near Washington. Her health was then insufficient, and she was obliged to decline. A few months later there came another call, to which she responded, and for nearly two years, in the hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, she watched beside the sick and dying soldiers. > > With the close of the war came a renewal of the call to teach the freedmen, and she went to Athens, Alabama. She was cordially welcomed by Chaplain and Mrs. Anderson, and she had for assistants Mrs. Anderson and Mr. Starkweather, a Wisconsin soldier. At the hour appointed for opening, there came in multitude, three-hundred strong. Miss Wells remained at the head of Trinity School twenty-seven years. > > >From the crude beginning in 1865 has been developed a flourishing institution, with boarding, industrial and normal departments, sending out every year many teachers, who do efficient work among their people. From that school, under the American Missionary Society, have grown a church and many auxiliary societies. Failing health has made rest and change imperative, and she is now living in her summer home in Chautauqua, where in 1878, she was among the first to join the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. She was graduated in the class of 1882. She traveled with the Fisk Jubilee Singers the first four months of their introduction to the public. > > A book on the Fitch Jubilee singers (Dark Midnight when I Rise) gives some more insight into her character: > > "Wells was the principal of the Trinity School and one of the very few women the American Missionary Association (A.M.A.) entrusted with a superintendency. A graduate of Mount Holyoke, which was second only to Oberlin in providing missionaries for the A.M.A., Wells was a former Civil War nurse and Michigan schoolteacher who had been disowned by her wealthy family for working among the freedman (This is not true since the Wells were not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination nor did they disown her. My great-grandmother, her great niece, wrote of wishing to visit the school that Mary Wells helped found. In 1870 one of her nieces was living with her in Athens.) She became a member of the black community of Athens and was almost legendarily brave. One night as she was correcting papers, Klansmen surrounded her school and, taking aim at the glow of her lamp through a tattered quilt she hung every night in her door, shot at her. But "she calmly continued her writing, [and] did! > not put out the lamp." For years afterward, "the colored people kept the door through which there was shooting' until the building was burned down by the Klan. > > Anyone have additional information on her? It has been some time since I worked on Roderick Wells family. I believe he is descended from Thomas and Frances (Albright) Wells. > > > > Ron Carlton > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Mary F. Wells was my 3rd great aunt. Charlotte Fulton has been seeking information on her and her adopted son George Wells for a book she is writing on the Trinity School. Mary was born in New York and moved South during the Civil War working as a nurse. She was one of the co-founders of Trinity School in Athens, AL for freedman in 1865. Below is an article written by Charlotte Fulton describing her research so far: Published September 26, 2009 06:49 pm - My months-long search for a photo of Mary Frances Wells paid off this week when an archivist in Ann Arbor, Mich., located online an 1893 book with a biography and picture of the woman who founded Trinity School in Athens in 1865. Long-sought photo discovered of Trinity School founder Editor's Note: Charlotte Fulton, a local historian and former feature writer for The News Courier, is in the midst of research for a book she is writing on Trinity High School. The book will be published in conjunction with a project to preserve historic Trinity School and create a museum. That project is headed by Athens-Limestone Community Association. By Charlotte Fulton For The News Courier My months-long search for a photo of Mary Frances Wells paid off this week when an archivist in Ann Arbor, Mich., located online an 1893 book with a biography and picture of the woman who founded Trinity School in Athens in 1865. Former students of Trinity and those familiar with local history know about the heroic missionary who came South during the Civil War to care for wounded soldiers and stayed to teach freedmen. But it is unlikely that any one of them has seen her likeness. Prior to this week, the only indication I have had that an image of Wells ever existed was in a 1913 letter written by Louise Allyn, a later Trinity principal, saying that a portrait of Miss Wells had burned in the fire that had just destroyed Trinity School. Since January I have made hundreds of e-mail and telephone contacts to places like Amistad Research Center in New Orleans; Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts and other older schools for women in the East; Chautauqua Institute in New York; Fisk University and other schools connected with the American Missionary Association, which for most of Trinity's history was its sole sponsor; and dozens of historical and genealogical societies. Information about Wells' teaching career abounded, but about her early life - nada. And photos? Zilch. In the research process I became a sleuth, reading letters and other documents for clues to be followed: a friend's name, where Wells spent her summers, the mention of a sister. The trail that led to Brian Williams, the archivist who located Wells' photo, began when I read a letter Wells wrote to AMA officials, saying she belonged to the Presbyterian Church in Valparaiso, Ind. When I called First Presbyterian in that city, the church membership chairman located records where Wells had transferred her membership to the Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor, Mich. I went online to the Web site for First Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor and looked over the church staff to guess who might be most receptive to my request. I chose an associate pastor named Melissa (May) Rogers who, ironically, turned out to be a young woman I had met and interviewed when she was serving First Presbyterian of Athens as an intern. And it was when she turned me over to church member Brian Williams, that I hit pay dirt. In short order, Williams responded with information about burial records, and then with an internet link to the book, "A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied By Portraits of Leading American Women in all Walks of Life," edited by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore. Written during Wells' lifetime and published in the year she died of consumption at her retirement home in Chautauqua, the biography solves one mystery and presents another. American Missionary Association literature consistently lists Wells as a graduate of Mt. Holyoke, but there is no record of her ever having attended that school, nor has a thorough search of other women's schools uncovered her. According to her biography in "A Woman of the Century," Wells prepared to enter Michigan University, but because females were not accepted as students at the time, she took the course of study privately. The mystery posed by the biography is this: The woman Athens has always known as Mary Frances Wells is listed as Mary Fletcher Wells, both in the biography and in cemetery records from her interment in Ann Arbor. But that's a mystery for another day. Here is what the biography that Charlotte found says: She was a philanthropist and educator, and was born in Villenova, Chautauqua County, New York. Her father Roderic McIntosh (sic.) Wells, was of Scotch origin. She began to teach at fourteen years of age, still pursuing her studies. She taught successfully in high schools and seminaries in Indiana, and for several years was associate editor of the "Indiana School Journal." Failing health obliged her to rest. When the Civil War broke out, she received the news with much seriousness. She saw as if by inspiration, that the war was to emancipate the slave, that the liberated slave must have teachers, and she must be one of those teachers. During the war she received a letter from Abraham Lincoln, asking her to take charge of a contraband school near Washington. Her health was then insufficient, and she was obliged to decline. A few months later there came another call, to which she responded, and for nearly two years, in the hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, she watched beside the sick and dying soldiers. With the close of the war came a renewal of the call to teach the freedmen, and she went to Athens, Alabama. She was cordially welcomed by Chaplain and Mrs. Anderson, and she had for assistants Mrs. Anderson and Mr. Starkweather, a Wisconsin soldier. At the hour appointed for opening, there came in multitude, three-hundred strong. Miss Wells remained at the head of Trinity School twenty-seven years. >From the crude beginning in 1865 has been developed a flourishing institution, with boarding, industrial and normal departments, sending out every year many teachers, who do efficient work among their people. >From that school, under the American Missionary Society, have grown a church and many auxiliary societies. Failing health has made rest and change imperative, and she is now living in her summer home in Chautauqua, where in 1878, she was among the first to join the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. She was graduated in the class of 1882. She traveled with the Fisk Jubilee Singers the first four months of their introduction to the public. A book on the Fitch Jubilee singers (Dark Midnight when I Rise) gives some more insight into her character: "Wells was the principal of the Trinity School and one of the very few women the American Missionary Association (A.M.A.) entrusted with a superintendency. A graduate of Mount Holyoke, which was second only to Oberlin in providing missionaries for the A.M.A., Wells was a former Civil War nurse and Michigan schoolteacher who had been disowned by her wealthy family for working among the freedman (This is not true since the Wells were not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination nor did they disown her. My great-grandmother, her great niece, wrote of wishing to visit the school that Mary Wells helped found. In 1870 one of her nieces was living with her in Athens.) She became a member of the black community of Athens and was almost legendarily brave. One night as she was correcting papers, Klansmen surrounded her school and, taking aim at the glow of her lamp through a tattered quilt she hung every night in her door, shot at her. But "she calmly continued her writing, [and] did not put out the lamp." For years afterward, "the colored people kept the door through which there was shooting' until the building was burned down by the Klan. Anyone have additional information on her? It has been some time since I worked on Roderick Wells family. I believe he is descended from Thomas and Frances (Albright) Wells. Ron Carlton