I struggle to create a post about Chris. He died Wednesday, March 13th, 2024. I have put this off for over a year. Time to reflect. He would have appreciated dying on the 13th. It would have been more appropriate had it been a Friday, but so it goes. Halloween was his true new year.Continue reading “Chris Adams”
Category Archives: Family
The Barker Surname
My Uncle Tony recalled that his grandmother, Lucy Burr Wadhams, thought of her husband, Dr. Abram Barker, as a “Johnny-come-lately,” a man without the deep historical connection to America (and Goshen specifically) of her lineage. She was not wrong. The Wadhams had been in Connecticut for generations. Abram Barker had been born in Maine asContinue reading “The Barker Surname”
Sons of the American Revolution
Joseph Eggleston was a soldier in the American Revolution who appears to have served for a total of nine days from September 6, 1781 only to be discharged on September 15, 1781. His mustering onto the roll is recorded as starting in 1774 in Rev. Samule Orcutt’s (1878) History of Torrington, Connecticut from Its FirstContinue reading “Sons of the American Revolution”
