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10 July 2021

Probate Announcement for Samuel Day (1861)

From The Monroe Sentinel (Monroe, Wisconsin), July 10, 1861, Wednesday, Page 2 --

County Court of Green County in Probate.
In the matter of the estate of
Samuel Day, deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that James Hickman has filed an application in this court praying that letters of administration of said estate be granted him and that said application will be heard before the County Judge on Monday the 5th day of August, A.D. 1861 at 10 o'clock A.M. of said day at the probate office in Monroe, said County.
Dated July 3d, A.D. 1861.
D. Dunwiddie
County Judge

Samuel Day (1784-1861) was my 3xg-grandfather.

17 June 2014

Tombstone Tuesday: The Damaged Stone of Samuel Day (1784-1866)

From the Mackford Union Cemetery, Green Lake county, Wisconsin.

Samuel Day was my 3xg-grandfather on my father's maternal side.

Copyright © 2014 by Kevin W. Walker

14 June 2014

In 1935 Wisconsin County Locates Grave of Little Drummer Boy from War of 1812: Jacob Chesley (1799-1880)

As published in Marshfield News-Herald, Marshfield, Wood County, Wisconsin, August 2, 1935 --

Locate Grave of 1812 Vet at Colby:

Deceased Town of Hull Resident was Drummer Boy in Conflict

Marathon county's first war veteran's grave has been located as a result of the emergency relief administration's project for the registration of all veterans' graves. The grave is located at the Colby cemetery, which is in Clark county, and is the grave of Jacob Chesley, a resident of the town of Hull, Marathon county, until his death, January 25, 1880.
Chesely was 12 years of age when he enlisted as a drummer boy with United States forces in the Indian war of 1812 in New York state. Little of his war experience is known today by his granddaughter, Mrs. George Dickenson, who still resides in the home where Chesley had lived with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Cramer.
Mrs. Cramer previous to her marriage was Wealtha Chesley, a daughter of this veteran of the war of 1812. Other children included J. P. Chesley of Stevens Point, who was a Civil war veteran, and Hiram Chesley, who died in Oregon and who at one time had a homestead in section 1 of the town of Hull. Mrs. Dickenson has a brother, Alfred Cramer, at Santa Monica, Cal., and numerous other descendants of Jacob Chesley live in Iowa.
Jacob Chesley left New York state in his early manhood for Illinois and became a widower early in life. He lived at Stevens Point before coming to the town of Hull. He was a farmer by occupation.

03 April 2014

Letta Agnes (Walker) Clarke (1857-1947)

Gravemarker for my great-aunt Letta Clarke, older sister to my g-grandfather Henry Martin Walker, Jr. She lived her last several years in Greenwood, Illinois, relatively near the Wisconsin border. When she died, she was buried in the Clarke family plot in the Walworth Cemetery, across the border in Walworth, Wisconsin. Apparently her husband William S. Clarke (1823-1903), a widower thirty-four years her senior, was a part of large family migration of Seventh Day Adventists who came from the east coast and settled in Walworth. More research on that later.

I messed with the resolution some in the hopes you can see the "Letta A." on the top. My son and I placed the small stones on the marker to show it had been visited.