Daniel Edwards Messinger married Eliza Carter Nichols on October 31, 1848. They lived in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, before becoming members of Adin Ballou’s “Hopedale Community” (the dale of hope) in 1852. Their placement in the Messinger line and their connection to Uxbridge and Hopedale are documented in The Descendants of Henry Messinger of Boston, 1637 (privatelyContinue reading “Taft / Messinger Lineage”
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John Hodges Wadhams
The compilation of these genealogies are combined to a single pedigree It is maintained in Family Echo – once the link is open, the family tree will branch vertically and horizontally depending on the ancestor selected. John Marsh Wadhams II: (5/7/1811 – 10/10/1896) [See Hibbard, The History of the Town of Goshen, 1897:245-247] m. 1837Continue reading “John Hodges Wadhams”
Robert Ruark
We come to know characters in books far better than we can people in our own lives because characters are immutable, crystalline in their structured captivity. I stole that thought from Milan Kundera – there is likely something similar in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. My mother sent me a book my father had wantedContinue reading “Robert Ruark”
