MARGARET ALICE FLEISCHER COLBORN

Margaret Alice Fleischer was born November 14, 1860 near North Topeka, Kansas. On February 26, 1881 she married Frank Clair Colborn who was born December 31, 1854, in Buffalo, New York. Margaret met Frank Colborn at her brother Will Fleischer's farm. She was riding a horse and the saddle turned with her. She was trying to fix it when Frank came along and helped her. Frank always said that she did it on purpose.

They lived near Topeka for several years and their first two children were born there, George Washington Colborn and Sarah Dollie Colborn. Then in 1884 they moved to Barber County, southeast of Medicine Lodge. Here ten more children were born to the Colborns. When they went to Barber County, Papa Frank chartered a box car and brought his horses, wagon, lumber to build a house and barn, and household goods. The train only went to Harper, Kansas so he had to haul the lumber from there. Frank was there for six weeks when he sent for Margaret Alice.

When Margaret Alice came Frank had built the barn of 1 x 12 inch boards. Whenever it rained she had to move everything and dry things out. They lived in the barn until the house was built. The ten children born in Barber County were: Ethyl Mae, William Henry, Florence Alma, Lester Harry, Nellie Alice, Daisy Ruth Eleanor, Frank Fleischer, Ernest Harold, Arthur Harvey, and Marjorie Clara Colborn.

Margaret Alice Fleischer Colborn died March 3, 1945. She belonged to the Assembly of God Church. Frank Clair Colborn died April 1, 1933. He belonged to the Church of God.

ISAIAH SMITH

Isaiah Smith was born January 22, 1757 in New York. He was a Revolutionary War soldier and body guard to General George Washington. He married Nancy Ann Williams of the Highlands, Orange County, New York. They were married May 5, 1783 at the Hudson River's edge where the William's property adjoined and ran below West Point.

In 1775, Isaiah enlisted in the 2nd Connecticut Line under Colonel Charles Webb. Isaiah, a blacksmith apprentice, replaced the master blacksmith. He enlisted in June 1775 for six months and was in the battle of the Ticonderoga, New York. He was discharged in January of 1776, then reenlisted at Stamford, Connecticut for one year. He remained in the Army until discharged in June 1784 at the Highlands, Orange County, New York. In the winter months he lodged with Washington's troops at Continental Village, Morristown, New Jersey.

Isaiah and Nancy Ann had eight children: Mahitabell, Mariah, Sebrah, Isaiah Jr., Samuel, Caten John, Robert Williams, and Hannah Jane. Isaiah died March 27, 1825 at Canadice, Ontario, New York. Nancy Ann died in 1839 at Brooklyn, Kings, New York.

DUXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS

The area now known as Duxbury, Massachusetts was inhabited by people as early as 12,000 to 9,000 B.C. By the time European settlers arrived here, the region was inhabited by the Wampanoags, who called this place Mattakeesett, meaning "place of many fish."

In 1620, the English settlers known as the Pilgrims established their colony in Plymouth. Per the terms of their contract with financial backers in London, they were required to live together in a tight community for seven years. At the end of that term in 1627, land along the coast was alloted to settlers for farming. Thus, the coastline from Plymouth to Marshfield was parceled out, and many settlers began moving away from Plymouth.

At first, those who settled in Duxbury came to work their new farms just in the warmer months and returned to Plymouth during the winter. It was not long, however, before they began to build homes on their land, and soon requested permission from the colony to be set off as a separate community with their own church. Duxbury was incorporated in 1637.

Some of the most influential men in the colony received grants in Duxbury and became its first leaders. Captain Myles Standish, the military leader of the colony, lived in the Nook. Elder William Brewster was, for many years, the religious leader of the colony. John Alden was another important settler. His house, now a museum on Alden Street, was the site of many important meetings of the colony's leaders. The graves of some of Duxbury's first settlers can be found in the Old Burying Ground on Chestnut Street, next to the site of the original meetinghouse. (John Alden was my tenth great grandfather).

THE CHIPPEWA FUR FARM

Clarence Day and his mother Edith Day established a fur farm on their property in Clam Lake, Wisconsin. They fenced a large swampy area on their land for the raising of muskrats. Pens were also built for the raising of fox, mink, and chinchilla rabbits. They called the farm, The Chippewa Fur Farm.

In the 1930's fur coats were very popular for women but also for men. Fur stolls, collars, and trims were also in style. Mink oil also was used in some medicinal products and cosmetics, as well as to treat, preserve, and waterproof leather.

The Chippewa Fur Farm was not a success. Several factors contributed to the failure. The climate was too cold, other animal predators killed off the fenced in animals, and distance from the large populated area were all factors in the demise. After the roaring twenties the popularity of fur products began to decline. Another important factor in the failure was that Clarence and his family loved animals and disliked killing them for the market.

In a letter from Clam Lake written by Annie Winifred Allen in 1933 she states that she went fishing for fox food. She writes "as fast as we baited the hook we had a fish". Apparently this was one source of food for them.

Parts of the fence still remain as a reminder of that period. An interesting endeavor for a city family with a great sounding idea.

TAGHMON, WEXFORD, IRELAND

Taghmon, Wexford, Ireland was the home of our Donnelly ancestors. We have only traced them to the 1700's but Taghmon was established long before then.

Taghmon is a very ancient parish some miles west of Wexford. It was founded in the year 597 AD. This makes it one of the oldest places of uninterrupted human habitation in Ireland. The sites of the Church of Ireland, the Monichaun Field, and the Castle represent ancient beginnings of Taghmon village.

In the year 597, Taghmon was quite different than today. The Irish language was spoken everywhere in Wexford and the place that we now know as Taghmon was called "Achad Liathdrom". This can be loosely translated as 'the grey field on the ridge'. The area was ruled by a chieftain named Dimma Mac Hugh. In 597, the monk named Fintan came and asked Dimma to grant him some land to build a monastery. This the chieftain did and Fintan, with a few of his followers, built his monastery in 599 in the area that is now known as 'the Monichaun'. Fintan marked out the site by four crosses made of timber. A university was later added, which at its peak catered for up to 230 students. Among the subjects taught were Scriptures, Astronomy, Languages, and Mathematics. The school developed a wide reputation and the sons of chieftains and princes attended as well as many from England and Continental Europe.

The place became known as Teach Munna, 'the House of Munna', which was later shortened to Taghmon. Finton laboured for over thirty years in Taghmon. He was there for twenty-four years when he contracted leprosy. This disease was relatively common in Ireland in the medieval period. Fintan died on 21 October 636 A.D. The monastery died out sometime towards the end of the 12th century partly as a result of the Viking raids.

THE ALLEN FAMILY

The earliest records we have of our Allen family in England take us to Shropshire, England. Shropshire is one of England's largest but least populated counties. It is bisected by the River Severn. Some medieval market towns are still there. Here John Allen, my third great grandfather, was born about 1783 in the area of Shifnal, Shropshire, England. He married Frances and they had a son Thomas. Thomas Allen was born May 28, 1809 in Shifnal, Shropshire, England. He was christened there on June 1, 1809.

Shifnal was probably settled by the Saxons in the middle of the 7th century. In the later Saxon period Shifnal, or Idsall as it was then known, was an important ecclesiastical centre; its church had priests who traveled round to the people of Kemberton, Sheriffhales, Ryton, Sutton Maddock, Stirchley and Dawley before they had churches of their own. The present large and beautiful church was built in the late 12th century on the site of this Saxon church and was added to in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries.

The Domesday book of 1086 shows that Shifnal was a relatively prosperous and well-populated community. In 1245 the lord of the manor, exploited this prosperity and obtained a market charter from Henry III. He added to the original settlement of Idsall along Church Street and around the church by laying out a long market street now called Broadway, Bradford Street and Park Street. This market street became known as Shifnal.

In the second half of the 16th century Shifnal was the scene for an early technological venture when a blast furnace was established near the manor house. But Shifnall's real prosperity came at the end of the 18th century when it catered to the coaches and their passengers on the road from London to Shrewsbury and the Irish mail coaches on their way to Holyhead. In the early 19th century as many as eighteen coaches a day stopped in Shifnal to change horses and pick up and set down passengers.

BAR AND BAUMAN FAMILY

Hans Bar was born in 1545 at Hausen, Zurich, Switzerland. He was an Anabaptist who lived at Ober Ratlisberg, Zurich. He died there before 1614. About 1568 he married Kathrine Huber who was born 1545 at Albis. She died there on April 22, 1622 . Hausen is a town about four miles northwest of Hirzel and located on the lower west slopes of the Albis Mountains. It is located on the northern side of the present day city of Zurich.

Hans and Kathrine Bar had the following children: Hans, Barbara*, Oswald, Osli, Verena, Lorenz, Anna, Andrew, Katharina, and Hans Jacob.

Barbara Bar, our ancestor, was born in 1572 at Hausen, Zurich, Switzerland. In 1596 she married Leonhart Bauman in Switzerland. She died about 1668 (aged 96) in Hausen. Leonhart Bauman was born November 1568 in Horgen, Canton Zurich, Switzerland. He was the son of Langhaus Bauman and Trini Habersaat. He died before 1646. He was Anabaptist. In 1634 he lived at Hatten, Hirzel and in 1640 at Clus, Hirzel.

Leonhart and Barbara Bauman had five children: Daniel*, Barbeli, Anna, Elisabetha, and Hans Rudolph, all born in Horgen. Bauman is sometimes spelled Bowman or Buman.

In Hans Bar's day this area of northern Switzerland probably spoke German and were greatly influenced by the Germans. At that time Switzerland was not considered a strong military power. They had no standing army as such. Each valley was somewhat isolated and was very independent. Each region or canton spoke the language of the country they joined or traded with and generally left each other alone. There was not a significant Swiss language. They generally spoke German, Italian, French or Austrian depending on their geographic location.

Hans Bar was my ninth great grandfather.

BOWMAN, BAUMAN, or BUMAN in SWITZERLAND

Ulie Julius Bauman was born in Zimmerberg (small mountain), Switzerland in 1369. He lived there in Canton Zurich until his death in 1425. He married about 1384 and had a son Hans

Hans Bauman (Buman) was born about 1395 in Zimmerberg. He inherited a farm and paid taxes from 1409 to 1420 when he died.

Peter Bauman (Buman) was born in 1420 in Zimmerberg, Switzerland. He paid taxes from 1455-1501. He married Greta Widmer in 1446. He had at least four children: Anna, Heini, Triny, and Uly Widmer.

Uly Widmer Buman was born in 1449 in Zimmerberg. He moved to Rennimattle, but later returned to Zimmerberg. He married Margaretha Franz in 1469. They had at least two children: Hans and Margaret.

Hans Buman was born in 1470. He resided in Luttermoss and Wyenbach. He paid taxes from 1491 to 1555. He married Verena Lehman.

Gross Hans (Big John) Lehman Buman was born in 1505 in Switzerland. He paid taxes at Wuriback, Switzerland from 1527 to 1559. We have record of three children: Hans Buman (1535), Uly Buman (1538), and Cleinhans (Little John)Buman.

Cleinhans (Little John) Buman was born in 1540 possibly Kuhwile, Switzerland. He married Margaret Suter in 1562. Cleinhans died in 1606 in Kuhweile (cow pasture). Cleinhans and Margaret had six children: Adelheit, Hans, Margaret, Junghans "Young John". Hartman, and Kungolt.

Junghans "Young John" Buman was born November 26, 1570 in Ober Durrenmoos, Hirzel, Horgenberg, Switzerland. He married Elsbeth Russerin. Junghans died in Durrenmoos February 26, 1620. Junghans and Elsbeth Buman had thirteen children: Heinrich (1589), Margaret (1591), Martin (1594), Hans (1596), Annali (1598), Oswald (1600), *Balthasar (1602), Elsbeth (1604), Marx (1607), Verena (1610), Margaret (1612), Hans Heinrich (1615), and Rudolf (1619).

Thanks to the wonderful tax records kept by the governments we were able to trace back to our fifteenth great grandfather.

JOHN ALDEN-THE MAYFLOWER

John Alden appears to have originated from an Alden family residing in Harwich, Essex, England, that was related by marriage to the Mayflower's master Christopher Jones. He was about 21 years old when he was hired to be the cooper, or barrel-maker, for the Mayflower's voyage to America. He was given the option to stay in America, or return to England; he decided to stay.

At Plymouth, John quickly rose up from his common seaman status to a prominent member of the colony. About 1623, he married Priscilla, the orphaned daughter of William and Alice Mullins. They had their first child, Elizabeth, around 1624, and would have nine more children over the next twenty years: John, Joseph, Priscilla, Jonathan, Sarah, Ruth, Mary, Rebecca, and David. John Alden was one of the earliest freemen in the Colony, and was elected an assistant to the governor and Plymouth Court as early as 1631, and was regularly re-elected throughout the 1630s. He also became involved in administering the trading activities of the Colony on the Kennebec River . In 1634 he witnessed a trading dispute escalate into a double killing, as Moses Talbot of Plymouth Colony was shot at point-blank range by trespasser John Hocking, who was then shot and killed when other Plymouth men returned fire. John Alden was held in custody by the neighboring Massachusetts Bay Colony for a few days while the two colonies debated who had jurisdiction to investigate the murders. Myles Standish eventually came to the Bay Colony to provide Plymouth's answer in the matter.

Alden, and several other families, including the Standish family, founded the town of Duxbury in the 1630's and took up residence there. Alden served as Duxbury's deputy to the Plymouth Court throughout the 1640's and served on several committees, including the Committee on Kennebec Trade, and sat on several Councils of War. He also served as colony treasurer. In the 1650's, he build a house in Duxbury which still stands today. By the 1660's, Alden's frequent public service, combined with his large family of wife, and ten children, began to cause his estate to lanquish, so the Plymouth Court provided him a number of land grants and cash grants to better provide for his family. Throughout the 1670's, Alden began distributing his land holdings to his surviving sons. He died September 12, 1687 at the age of 89, one of the last surviving Mayflower passengers.

JONAS QUICK

Jonas Quick, son of John Quick and Sarah Davis, was born in June of 1785 in Orange County, New York. He married Ann Smith, daughter of Isaiah Smith and Ann Williams.

Jonas served in the War of 1812. He was a private, served as a teamster in Captain Leonard Hardenburg's Company, New York Militia. He entered service at Orange County, New York August 18, 1814 for a term of three months until November 22, 1814 when the company was mustered for honourable discharge at West Point.

Jonas Quick had six daughters and two sons: John P. Quick was born in 1811. He married Lucinda Peabody. Hannah Jane Quick was born in 1814. She married Alvah Peabody. Clarissa Ann Quick was born in 1816. She married Crayton Douglas Eldred. Timarath S. Quick was born in 1818. She married Sylvester Robinson. Matilda H. Quick was born in 1821. She married James A. Cornell. Alganetta Quick was born in 1823. She married George Beardley. Henrietta Quick was born in 1825. She married Garrett Mott.

Jonas died in February of 1864 in Canadice, Ontario, New York. His tombstone is in the Canadice Corners Cemetery.

GEORGE BRIGHT-FRANCES BOWMAN

George Bright was born December 12, 1784, on his father Peter Bright's farm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. He died Tuesday, September 6, 1864 in Hocking County, Ohio. His father Peter Bright was married to Susanna and was the son of Peter Brecht and Mary Elizabeth. (Name changed from Brecht to Bright when they came to the United States).

Frances Bowman Bright, daughter of Jacob Bowman and Catherine Wein (Wine) was born February 27, 1787 in Rockingham County, Virginia. She died July 19, 1876 in Hocking County, Ohio. After the death of Frances' father, Jacob Bowman, the court appointed John Markle (who had married Frances' half sister Solome Steele) to be her guardian. Casper Huffard, who had married Frances' half sister Catherine Steele, provided bond. Both of these families were living nearby in Rockingham County at the time.

Frances Bowman did not wait to come of age before she married. George Bright and Frances Bowman were married September 20, 1803/04 in Rockingham County, Virginia. Frances was a sister to Reverend Benjamin and Joseph Bowman on Linville Creek, Rockingham County, Virginia. Peter Bright was assigned as guardian at the wedding.

After some time, The Brights, Markels, and Huffards moved to Fairfield County, Ohio. George Bright and Frances Bowman had fifteen children in Ohio: Elizabeth, John, Jeremiah, Joshua, George Washington, Catherine, Lucinda*, Joseph L., Elijah, John G., Benjamin D., Saryann, Peter, Frances, and Simeon. There may have been other children who died as babies.

KANSAS LYNCHING FOR MURDER OF FLEISCHER

                                  OUR FAMILY LAND IN JACKSON COUNTY, KANSAS

Since many of our family lived in Kansas at this period of time I thought it would be interesting to see how justice was handed out in the late 1800's.

Henry Sanderson, the young farmer, who attempted to murder his sweetheart, Myrtle Fleischer, near Mayetta, Kansas, Sunday afternoon, instead wounded Mrs. John Fleischer, her aunt, who was at her side. The aunt died at 2 o'clock the next morning. Henry was lynched during the early hours of the morning by a mob from Mayetta.

Although nominally in Sheriff George N. Hoss' hands, Sanderson was under the guard of one man in a backroom of Nate Horr's restaurant. This was for two reasons: during Sanderson's attempt to escape immediately after shooting Mrs. Fleischer, he started to extract some shells from his Winchester, and one accidentally exploded, shattering his right arm. Again there had been a jail delivery a few nights before, and the prison was not considered safe.

About 2 o'clock this morning, Nate Horr, keeper of the restaurant, alone on night duty, was surprised by two men armed with revolvers, who demanded Sanderson. At the same moment men burst in the back door of the restaurant with drawn revolvers. The single guard was simply paralyzed with fear and made no resistance. Sanderson was lying in bed asleep, but was awakened by the noise. Without a protest Sanderson arose and partially dressed.

The mob with Sanderson marched to Bonner Creek (Rock Island Railroad Bridge), tied rope around his neck, and fastened the other end to a beam. They then gave him a kick and with a few convulsive jerks Sanderson was dead. His neck was disjointed by the fall of 12 feet, and death must have come almost instantly. The mob then quietly dispersed. The body was cut down by Sheriff Hoss about 5 o'clock in the morning and taken to a local undertaking establishment. None of the mob are known by the officials? The Sheriff, was warned that a mob would be in the city during the night, but no precautions to protect the prisoner were taken.

Myrtle was my grandmother's younger sister. The murdered girl was the wife of John Fleischer, my great great uncle. Sanderson was also distantly related to us. The story was written up in many newspaper including The New York Times and the Deseret News.

CHOLERA EPIDEMIC in OHIO

                                           HOCKING COUNTY, OHIO IN THE FALL

In 1839-1840 a cholera epidemic spread over parts of Ohio. Hocking County was in this area. Many of our George Bright family died. In the Bright Cemetery in Hocking County are Jeremiah N. Bright d. December 23, 1839, age 33. Joshua Bright d. Jan. 6, 1840, age 32. Benjamin Bowman Bright d. December 30, 1839, age 29 and Francis Bright d.December 7, 1839, age 12. Besides these siblings there are two babies Daniel and Elizabeth who died in the 1838-1840 period as well as several spouses and inlaws.

Cholera first appeared in the United States in 1832. European immigrants apparently brought the disease with them to America. Cleveland residents were the first people in Ohio to contract the illness. Migrants or businessmen who traveled across Lake Erie probably brought the disease. Cholera also reached Ohio's interior. Canals provided a relatively stagnant source of water that allowed cholera to fester. While canals, railroads, and steamboats benefited Ohioans economically, these modes of transportation also brought disease.

WILLIAM SANDERSON

William Sanderson was born December 5, 1845 in Logan, Hocking County, Ohio. William was a private in Company I, 114th Regiment, Ohio Infantry in the Civil War. He lost a leg during one of the battles. He came to Kansas with his father in 1868-1870. He married Nellie May Putnam September 30, 1886. They had two children: Maud Ellen and Floyd Elmer. Nellie died 20 March 1891. Will's second marrage was to Anna F. McCreary. They were married 25 May 1893. They had five children: Mary L., George William, Nellie Frances, Alice L., and Frank James.

Despite his injuries in the Civil War, William lived to be 77 years old. He died 17 July 1922 near Holton, Kansas. His second wife Anna McCreary Sanderson died in 1912. He left a posterity of seven children and many grandchildren.

ERASTUS DAY, JR.

Erastus Day, Jr., son of Erastus and Lucy Willard Day, was born October 15, 1808 at Otsego County, New York. He settled with his parents in Grenadier Island in the St. Lawrence River in 1812. He returned to Lima, New York in 1822 and remained there until December 1825, when he left Lima for Michigan, in company with Addison Chamberlin, Sylvania Taft, and a young physician who located in Rochester. The trip was made overland through Canada on a sleigh, via Detroit, to a point two miles northwet of Romeo: the steams and rivers were frozen, so that the incidents of spring or fall travel were not experienced; the party took possession of a log shanty, built the year previous by Captain Gad Chamberlin and his son, who visited the place in 1824. There they made their winter's home, played cards for the privilege of cooking johnny-cake, and so amused themselves until springtime, when they began to prepare for the coming of their families. Mr. Day, Sr. and his family arrived in June 1826, and lived for two months in the shanty erected by the Chamberlins.

(Notice McKay Shurtz peeking out from tombstone of Erastus' first wife Catherine)