Shirley Weihing is...
a Carman cousin who has gathered a lot of info on the Carman family tree.
She wants all Carman descendants to know that she has pictures of Anne Carman
(born 1803), Stephen Carman (born 1805), Mahala Carman (born 1807), Sidney
Carman (born 1812), and Fincette Carman (born 1814). These are all children of
Adam and Hannah (Dean) Carman. In case you have forgotten, you are a Carman
descendant if you are a descendant of Henry and Amelia (Roll) Schumacher.
The "Wahl 40"...
is shown in the Atlases and Plat Book of Sangamon County, Illinois in
1874 and again in 1894. The land holdings of many other of our kinfolk are also
shown in these books and in the 1914 book. The Sangamon County Genealogical
Society has reprinted the 1874, 1894, and 1914 books as one publication. The
price is $50 plus $5 shipping and handling. Their address is P.O. Box 1829,
Springfield, IL 62705-1829. The 40 acre farm that George Jacob Wahl Sr.
purchased in 1864 is shown on page 38 of the 1874 plat book (look at the bottom
of the center of the plat). The index has it listed for J. Watt because the
person who drew the original plat book listed it as J. Wall. Since the name was
written over a small creek or some kind of drainage ditch, the person who
created the index mistakenly picked up the name as Watt. The 1894 book on page
64 shows it being owned by G. Wall because George Jacob's son George was the
head of the household at that time. The 1914 book shows that the Wahl 40 had
become part of the land owned by Sarah Tolan. Henry Schumacher's 220 acre farm,
which he purchased from his father-in-law, Pierson Roll, is shown on page 37 of
the 1874 plat book. It is listed under H. Shoemaker in Section 11. In the 1894
book on page 63, the farm is listed under H. Schumaker and is down to 180 acres.
Enclosed is...
a template of the 1992 reunion picture with the names on the back tied to
the numbers on the front. Now, I know that you know all of your cousins in the
picture and don't really need this but since I needed it I thought I'd pass it
along. Thanks to everyone who helped me get the list straight.
If you do not have...
a copy of the 1992 picture and would like to have a Xerox color copy let
me know and I'll have one made for you. The copy would be on regular paper
instead of photography paper but the quality of the picture will be very good.
This is only the second "official" reunion picture taken by a
professional photographer. The first one was taken in 1934 and cost 50 cents per
copy.
In case you were...
wondering, all of the Cox descendants in the picture are related to all
of the Wahl descendants in the picture. Or vice versa if you want to say it that
way. The template shows the Cox-Wahl reunion relationship via our Schumacher
lineage. It also shows who belongs to who -- so to speak.
There is an irony...
involved in the reunion. The most direct relationship of the two families
is not represented and as far as I know never has been. I do not believe any of
George Jacob and Melvina Cox Wahl's descendants have ever attended the family
reunion. Let me know if I'm wrong. Their children were: Sarah, Loatta, Cora,
Louis Sylvester, James Alfred, Florence Ella, Harry Edward, and John Barry Wahl.
Of course you realize why this irony came to be so I won't repeat the obvious.
I had seen...
references to "the chair that Lincoln caned" and that it was
still around but I didn't know where it was. I saw it in October. It is now on
display in the New Salem visitor's center. The chair was owned by Caleb Carman
when he lived in New Salem. I believe Lincoln was thought to have boarded with
Caleb at some time when they both lived in New Salem. However, I have not been
able to find Caleb listed as one of the house owners of New Salem. There is a
document on display with the chair. Unfortunately, my picture of it didn't turn
out and I didn't read or write down what it said. When William Herndon wrote his
book, "Life of Lincoln", he gathered most of his materials from other
people by interviewing them or corresponding with them. He did not give credit
for any of this material. Caleb Carman was one of the people that Herndon
gathered information from for his book. I believe the letters that Caleb wrote
to Herndon are kept by the state historical society in the old state house.
Frank Matthew Moore Jr....
told me in no uncertain terms that I had made a mistake in the last issue
when I said his birthday was 3 March 1992! It was 20 March 1992. Lighten up,
Moose!
Here are the new...
additions to the family tree that I know about since the last KK issue.
Jacob Baret Zielke was born to Richard and Theresa (George Jacob Wahl, Jacob,
Hallie Ephram, Harold) Zielke on 29 May 1993 at Carbondale, IL.
Troy Allen McBurney married Tamara Joy Wahl (George Jacob Wahl, Jacob, Mildred,
Thomas, Harry) September 12, 1993 in Bloomington, IL.
John David Reilly married Susan Jean Wahl (George Jacob Wahl, Jacob, Mildred,
Thomas, Harry) October 1, 1993 in Chicago, IL.
Here is a list...
of the books that I have found which contain references to the Carman,
Roll, or Schumacher families or bits of interesting trivia. If you have found
others, I would appreciate hearing about them. You might have noticed the
absence of two family names in the above list. Except for official records such
as census records, birth certificates, death certificates, etc. and newspaper
clippings, I have found no publications which contain references to any of our
Wahl or Cox kinfolk.
"Anecdotes & Events in Long Island History",
"First Families of America",
"Marriages & Deaths from N.Y. Newspapers",
"Records of St. George's Church, Hempstead L.I.",
"10,000 Vital Records of Eastern New York 1777 - 1834",
"Abraham Lincoln; A Biography" Benjamin P. Thomas,
"The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy",
"American Ancestry",
"American Genealogical - Biographical Index",
"American Marriage Records Before 1699",
"Annual Report of the (New York) State Historian",
"The Carman Family 1631 - 1981" Carrol Carman Hall,
"Thomas Carman and Phebe Pruden Carman",
"Colonial Families of the United States of America",
"The Compendium of American Genealogy",
"Directory of Farmers and Land Owners of Sangamon County, Illinois 1887",
"Denizations, Naturalizations and Oaths of Allegiance in Colonial New York",
"Early Settlers of Sangamon County",
"Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy",
"Family Records or Genealogies of the First Settlers of Passaic Valley and Vicinity Above
Chatham" John Littell 1852,
"Genealogies of Long Island Families from The New York Genealogical & Biographical Record",
"Genealogical Data From New York Newspapers",
"Genealogical Dictionary of New England",
"Genealogical Guide to The Early Settlers of America",
"The Grieme Families of Sangamon County, Illinois",
"The Heritage of Long Island",
"History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County" John Carroll Power - published 1876,
"History of Sangamon County",
"The Human Story of Long Island",
"Index to Marriages and Deaths in the New York Herald 1835 - 1855",
"Lincoln Herald" Lincoln Memorial University summer 1980. The Antietam Battlefield
Board and its Atlas: Or The Genesis of the Carman-Cope Maps,
"Lincolniana Notes",
"Lists of Inhabitants of Colonial New York",
"Long Island Before the Revolution",
"Long Island Genealogies" published 1895,
"Menard County Illinois Marriages Vol 3 Jan 2, 1901 - Nov 10, 1932",
"Military Minutes of the Council of Appointments of the State of New York 1783 - 1821" vol I, II, III,
"New Jersey Colonial Documents",
"New Jersey Marriage Records 1665 - 1800",
"The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record",
"Past and Present of Sangamon County",
"Place Names Past & Present Sangamon County Illinois",
"Plat Book and Illustrated Atlas of Sangamon County Illinois" 1874, 1894, 1914,
"Prairie Pioneers of Illinois",
"Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut",
"Snowbirds",
"The Story - Life of Lincoln" Whipple.
