My ancestor report is on Mary Goble. She was born on June 2, 1843, her parent names were William and Harriet Goble. Mary wasn't from the United States, she was from England. She was Mormon and had been baptized at the age of twelve. This essay is on how she got here, her living conditions, and what I think about it.
Mary's birth was in Brighton, Sussex, England. Mary was baptized on November 5, 1845. The following March and April, the church started talking about going to the United States and living in Utah. On May 19, 1856 the Mormons set out for Utah, they had to be sure to pack everything they needed and they knew it would be hard. She traveled across the ocean on a ship and there had to have been about nine hundred people on board.
When Mary was a couple of days into the journey, there was a large shark that kept following the vessel. One day it got one of the Saints and then he was buried at sea. The people on board never saw the shark again after that. Six weeks later the ship landed in Boston, took a train to Iowa City, Iowa, where they got new clothes and started fo...
Mary Eugenia Surratt, née Jenkins, was born to Samuel Isaac Jenkins and his wife near Waterloo, Maryland. After her father died when she was young, her mother and older siblings kept the family and the farm together. After attending a Catholic girls’ school for a few years, she met and married John Surratt at age fifteen. They had three children: Isaac, John, and Anna. After a fire at their first farm, John Surratt Sr. began jumping from occupation to occupation. Surratt worked briefly in Virginia as a railroad contractor before he was able to purchase land in Maryland and eventually establish a store and tavern that became known as Surrattsville. However, the family’s fina...
“Tracing a single Native American family from the 1780’s through the 1920’s posed a number of challenges,” for Claudio Saunt, author of Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family. (pg. 217) A family tree is comprised of genealogical data that has many branches that take form by twisting, turning, and attempting to accurately represent descendants from the oldest to the youngest. “The Grayson family of the Creek Nation traces its origins to the late 1700’s, when Robert Grierson, a Scotsman, and Sinnugee, a Creek woman, settled down together in what is now north-central Alabama. Today, their descendants number in the thousands and have scores of surnames.” (pg. 3)
Nathaniel Philbrick tells the story of the Pilgrims, beginning with them breaking away from the Church of England, emigrating to Holland, and eventually to America on the Mayflower. He talks about the relationship they had with the "Strangers" or nonbelievers that accompanied them on their adventure. He tells stories about disease, death, deception, and depression. I had never thought about it, but you know some of those people had to be suffering from depression. He tells of joys but mostly of hardships and as he describes some of the first meetings with the Native Americans. His description of the first Thanksgiving is not the same as the pictures I have seen all of my life.
But nearly as soon as Marion's dreams of sailing became reality, the reality became a nightmare. On the voyage home, a whale rammed the schooner, ripping the seams and sending water into the hold. Before the schooner went down, the captain, al...
After those heartbreaking years of deaths, Simeon heard of the mormons and became very interested. He named his son Mosiah after the Book of Mormon and it’s people was born on February 19, 1837. The same day, his twin Anariah was born that day but died a few hours after birth. Betsy, who was a healthy child was born March 22,1838. At the time, Simeon’s brother James came to Simeon’s home as a missionary of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. He preached them and Simeon and his wife was baptized by him on April 15,1839. But that wasn’t enough for Simeon. He wanted to see the prophet Joseph in person, and maybe even offer his services to the church. In June 1840, he set off to Nauvoo on foot which was a 500 mile trip. There he saw the prophet Joseph Smith. Simeon was set ap...
In this reflective piece I am going to answer the questions “why is it important to know the beliefs and tradition of those who came before us?” And “what could happen if we ignore the past?” I am going to answer these questions using the following passages Freedom Walkers, Jo Ann Robinson and I am a Native North American. I am also going to talk about how if we don't study the past, we can miss a big turning point in our lives.
Dana, the main character in Octavia Spencer’s graphic novel, Kindred, is not complicit in the sexual exploitation of black women. Rather, she was burdened with a precarious dilemma in which she was forced to choose between risking her own life by asserting what little influence she had over Rufus to protect Alice, or risking the disruption of her family lineage which would ultimately dissolving her existence. Forced to choose between two unfavorable options, Dana selects the lesser of the two evils. Her decision appeared to be deceitful because of the circumstances, however, to preserve her family genealogy, both Rufus and Alice needed to remain alive.
6 Helen Z. Papanikolas, ed., The Peoples of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Historical Society, 1976), 119.
Joseph Smith was born on December 23, 1805, in Sharon, Windsor County, Vermont, to Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack. When he was 14, Joseph Smith received a vision in answer to his prayer about which church to join (Church History). He said, "I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me […] When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other-This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!" (Joseph Smith-History 1:16-17). During his twenties, Joseph Smith suffered persecution and hardship as he translated The Book of Mormon, a set of gold plates that were given to him by the angel Moroni, using the Urim and Thummim (Church History). Early Mormons withstood oppression because they were considered commercial, political and religious threat to their neighbors (mormon.org). In January of 1844 Joseph Smith was nominated at candidate for president of the United States. Later that year, on June 27, Joseph Smith was martyred, along with his brother Hyrum Smith, at Carthage Jail. (Churc...
Her father died only six days after Mary was born, so she became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old (Haws Early Life par 1). She was crowned on the ninth of September the following year at Sterling. Mary was christened in the Parish Church of St. Michael, near the palace (“Mary, Queen of Scots” par 1). Later, when Mary turned six, she was sent to France by her
I have found my connection to my ancestors. It is neither language, nor country, nor family title. For more than three centuries, my predecessors have been striving, yearning, and devoting their lives in the hope of achieving something better for themselves and for future generations. To this day, it has not been realized. I plan to rectify that.
Although I was unable to find much information through talking to my family members I learned a lot through Internet sources. Through all my research I have gained a much greater knowledge of my families background of why and how it came to be in Louisiana. I feel like I will continue to research this even though the paper will be complete; this paper has really sparked my interest about why my family chose to migrate and where in Germany my family came from. I now feel like it important to know your family history. I was surprised to see how little my family could tell me about our history. I always assumed that they would know all of those kinds of things. I actually look forward to being able to tell them the things that I learned while doing this paper.
There are mysteries which man can only guess at, which may only ever truly be solved in part; the SS Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking is one of them. At the time it was launched in 1958, the 729-foot long, 75-foot wide freighter was the largest ship to ply the Great Lakes. Although, on November 9, 1975 the ship embarked upon what would become its final voyage. She was carrying 26,000 tons of iron ore pellets and bound for Detroit, and though the day was bright, in her path laid great turbulence. On November 10, at 1:00am, the first signs of trouble appeared, and prevailed into the afternoon. As the waves built, luck was neither with the ship nor the crew. At 7:10 PM, Captain McSorley delivered what was to be his final message "We are holding our own." Ten minutes later, the Fitzgerald could neither be raised by radio, nor detected on radar, and no distress signal was received. With that, the ship and crew of 29 men sank to the bottom of Lake Superior. Several expeditions have been mounted to the wreck and have been the subject of some controversy. There are many theories for how the Fitzgerald found itself hundreds of feet below the water; however none of them have been proven indefinitely. One possible cause of this disaster includes the ship crossing the Superior Shoal, with water as shallow as 22 feet. Additionally, the ship may have suffered a stress fracture and broke apart on the surface. Another possibility is that the ship succumbed to the forces of the Three Sisters, a Lake Superior phenomenon, consisting of massive waves. These current theories are merely conjectures, and since each holds the possibility of being true, it cannot yet be determined which one actually is.
After researching on the Cherokee tribe and Susannah Cordery’s family, I found out many interesting facts about the land my house was built on. I learned that the Cherokee tribe had a road that traveled right through where my back yard was that took them to the Chattahoochee River. This is where they would perform rituals, have meals, and sleep. I found it so intriguing that before I even existed there were Native Americans I had learned about in school, living where I lived now. People that had such a large impact in history are now just a page in a textbook and had a small portion of school’s
After reading the “Family Instructions for the Mui Lineage”, It was interesting reading that some people have instructions to the way they are supposed to live. I still believe that still happens today. Like in multiple countries, girls have to marry at such a young age or dress a certain way and have to abide by those rules. Often times it's a tradition. I found some things understandable and confusing. Some of the Instructions are somewhat similar to what my family believes; for example, “ Those who know how to keep what they have but do not study are as useless as puppets made of clay and wood”. I don’t think people should be called useless because you never know what that certain person goes through or what mentality they have and I can