GENAEOLOGY

Dan writes to the newsletter and includes some very interesting Genaeology information . . .  Really, there is a lot and tends to me on overload (that’s when things start falling off of my plate! . . . maybe another senior moment otherwise known as mental pause!) and is overwhelming!  However, it IS very interesting . . .

After talking at length with Aunt Florence,  she regrettably has to give up her participation in the genealogy search for our family primarily because of her blindness.  She will include a letter of endorsement for Dan to continue with this project as he has the enthusiasm and the energy to devote to this monumental endeavor.  Yes, Dan, you have Aunt Florence’s blessing to continue in her place, however, not everyone in the family has the same enthusiasm and energy to devote to this project . . . so I would ask that you be sensitive to those who do not respond, for whatever reason.  Thx,  Connie

Hi, Connie well it seems that I have missed the May 1 deadline “sorry”, I guess this is my lead in to dear family and friends, so here is my installment for our next newsletter.  This first part of my note to all of you is simply an explanation of my project dedicated to all of my cousins, aunts, and uncles through the newsletter.  As you know I have been working very hard on aunt Florence’s address book which is for the most part something from us for those coming along after we are all gone from this good earth.  This way we will have left something for them to know about our lives and us.  One of the things that so impressed me about all the hard work done by Aunt Florence is the extent she went to gather information on two of the lines to the family the King and Fromherz lines.  However as you and I both know there are all the men and women who married into the line.  Naturally they have lives too but it is disappointing that they seem to have been expected to drop their heritage and become absorbed into our individual families.  I think that it is a shame that this has happened so as I gather new addresses and current email contacts I have been asking for information on the little things that make up our lives.  I created a template that is the same for everyone.  I will post or mail it in the newsletter with the hope that you will all email me with updated information.  One of the things that is new is asking for the maternal and paternal parents and grandparents of your spouses.  While I was investigating my own line of heritage I discovered how little we knew of my grandmother’s families.  While I have a long way to go I have found a lot of information that gives us clues to why we do some of the things that we do smart or dumb it’s all good.

For instance I discovered that my mother has a half brother who is the department head of American Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park, Maryland.  He wasn’t too thrilled to learn of her either I might add.  So I am getting to know all my new cousins her nieces and a nephew.  I traced her father back to the Pennoyer family who bequeathed a large sum of money to Harvard University as a scholarship for members of the family that is still operating and giving out grants to attend there.  Bye the bye they fought on the side of the Crown in the Revolution and had been living at Rye in Westchester County, New York for many generations as had the King family.  So now I at least have two grandfathers.  My curiosity has me working on Winifred Smith’s pedigree.  As we often wondered why it was so important to do Irish things on her birthday.  It turns out that her father is the son of Irish Immigrants, go figure.  David Smith had married Margaret Young and together they had several children with the names Frances, Jane, Samuel Fair, and Sarah.  Margaret Young’s mother is Margaret Fair Young.  She was born 1792 in Ireland and came to the United States with her family where she was living next door to the Smith family with her daughter Mrs. Sarah Barr.  The information came as listed in the US Census for East Chester Township Mount Vernon Postal District for 1870.  That is about as far back as I can go with one stunning fact “They were Episcopalian Methodists” and probably came from Northern Ireland.  The family is interred at St. Paul’s Churchyard on Columbia Avenue in Mount Vernon, New York where my grandmother was born and raised.

While some of you knew Winifred Smith’s mother.  My first great grandmother Cynthia Ann Wood Smith as she came to Oregon in 1948 but died in June 1949.  I haven’t found anyone who ever talked about her in much detail so most probably didn’t know that she was 5 years older than her four siblings.  In 1880 she was 16 her brother James W. was 11, Julia E. was 8, Robert C. was 6, and Agnes was 2.  I am still trying to locate them although I have found where the parents were interred from information that my Nana put in her mother’s obituary.  James A. and Anna (LEWIS) WOOD are buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Terrytown, New York made famous as the setting for the books by Washington Irving in the Tales and Legends of Sleepyhollow.  With a few more discoveries I will be ready to travel back there to have a look for myself.  I have yet to find any more on either the Wood or the Lewis families with the exception that Anna’s mother was Mrs. Cynthia Lewis born in Virginia in 1807 as were her parents but I have not discovered her maiden name.  Anna Lewis was born in 1844 in Connecticut and James A. Wood was born in New York.  Cynthia Ann was born in New York City but was moved to Mount Vernon where her father was the baggage master at the train station.

Now for the template to gather information I have copied the information from your grandfather and our first great grandfather.  Simply copy the part that relates to your family change what needs to be changed and mail it back to me at:

FIRST GENERATION

THE CHILDREN WERE BORN AT HAPPY VALLEY, HARNEY COUNTY, OREGON, WILBUR, WASHINGTON AND BENTON COUNTY, OREGON

MATERNAL PARENTS

ABRAHAM LINCOLN KING Born at Wren, Benton County, Oregon date of birth is given as 13 November 1860 – Died at Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon 6 September 1924 - Cause of death Prostate Cancer – Interred at (no records given as of 8 April 2004) Did find Abe King on the 1891 Military Duty Roster for Lincoln County.  It shows Abe King, age 30, resident of Grand Coulee, farmer.  "Abe King" is also listed on the 1894 roster, age 33, resident of Grand Coulee, farmer[i].  1892 Census for Lincoln County, Washington see the following footnotes and endnotes.  [ii] [iii] [iv] [v].

And

CLARA MARGARET ELISABETH (PRIBBERNOW) BUSSE Born at Brandenburg Prussia date of birth is given as 15 February 1868 – Died at Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon date of death is given as 9 February 1948 – Cause of death is not given as of 8 April 2004 – Interred at (no records given as of 8 April 2004)

They were married at Happy Valley (near Diamond), Harney County, Oregon on 29 February 1888

by H.M. Horton justice of the peace.  The witness for the couple was Lucy Ann King Kiger and her husband.

Source: Mr. & Mrs. Abe King’s Bible Altemus Edition.  The Holy Bible containing the old and new Testaments translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised; embracing every passage of scripture in the largest editions with complete concordance and psalms.  Published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:  Henry Artemus, 1892.  Other sources include the death and original obituary notices and records given by Dr. David Trask, Medford, Jackson County, Oregon King family historian.

THE PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS OF THE ABOVE COUPLE’S CHILDREN LISTED BELOW ARE:

SOLOMON KING (Son of Nahum Amos and Serepta (Howe – Norton) King) Born on the little Darby Creek at New Canaan Township, Madison County, Ohio date of birth is given as 26 February 1833 – Died at the home of his son Abraham Lincoln King, Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon date is given as 13 March 1913 – Where interned Odd Fellows Cemetery, Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon – cause of death is given by the coroner as Apoplexy (a type of stroke that effects the base of the skull).

And

ANNIE MARIAH ALLEN (Daughter of John and Annie (Bangs) Allen Jr.)  Born at Enfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts date of birth is given as 26 March 1823 – Died at her hilltop home off King’s Blvd. Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon date of death is given as 30 September 1905 – Where interred Odd Fellows Cemetery, Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon.  Cause of death is given in her obituary as chronic valvular disease of the heart and years duration.

She married first Steven King on 25 December 1843 in Carroll County, Missouri (Son of Nahum Amos and Serepta (Howe – Norton) King) Serepta is the daughter of James Alexander Norton and Dulanny Howe.  Dulanny is the daughter of John Howe and Chloe Rowlson.  He was born at the family home on the little Darby Creek in Phelps Township (name changed to New Canaan Township in 1826) Madison County, Ohio date of birth is given as - died at his Wren, Benton County, Oregon Territory home date of death is given as 26 November 1852 – Where interred is not exactly known however it is known to have been located on his home property a DLC at Wren, Benton County, Oregon Territory.

She married second at (no records given as of 30 May 1983 see Aunt Florence’s Root’s and Branches of the Adolf Fromherz family) date of marriage is given as 20 November 1853.

Source of death, original obituary and interment records given by Dr. David Trask, Medford, Jackson County, Oregon King family historian.

THE MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS OF THE ABOVE COUPLE’S CHILDREN WHO ARE LISTED BELOW ARE:

ALBERT BUSSE (Son of ? and ? (?) Busse no records given as of 30 May 1983) Born at Brandenburg, Prussia - Died at Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon – date of death is given as – Where interned.  Cause of death is not given.

And BERTHA PRIBBERNOW (Daughter of? and ? (?) Busse no records given as of 30 May 1983) Born at Brandenburg, Prussia date of birth is given as  – date of death is given as - Where interned Montana.  Cause of death is not given.

They were married at Brandenburg, date of marriage is given as.

CHILDREN OF THIS COUPLE ARE:

BERTHA ANNA KING Born at Happy Valley (near Diamond), Harney County, Oregon date of birth is given as 20 February 1889 – Died on Wednesday 7 January 1987 at Lincoln City, Lincoln County, Oregon.  After leaving Corvallis where she had been a long time resident she lived with her brother Charles William and Gladys (Rassmusen) King.  Their home was at Lincoln City, Lincoln County, Oregon until her health deteriorated and she then lived at Evergreen Care Center (a local Nursing Home in Lincoln City, Oregon). – She was never married and has no known children.  It is known that a young man had gone “Sweet” on her and had written a letter to Clara her mother asking for permission to court her daughter.  Clara promptly refused his request saying that Bertha’s health was to fragile to allow her the opportunity to bear children.  Bertha found the letter many years later and had always wondered why the gentleman had quietly gone his own way.  Her family came to the conclusion that Clara only wanted companionship on her later years as the real reason for the refusal to give her daughter permission to marry.  Cause of death was not given in her official obituary in the Corvallis Gazette – Times published at Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon on Thursday 8 January 1987 Page B2 Column 2 and reprinted in the same publication Saturday 10 January 1987 on page B5 Columns 1 and 2 a reasonable facsimile of that publication follows) – Funeral Services held at the First Presbyterian Church, Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon on Tuesday 13 January, 1987 with DeMoss – Durdan Garden Chapel handling the funeral arrangements – Interred on Tuesday 13, January 1987 at The Odd Fellows Cemetery, Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon.

Karen May Gerding Raskin remembers of things that will make you smile: Aunt Bertha and Grandma Lucy Fromherz ate molasses and canned milk never together of course.  That was always a wonder to me at the time.  I always wondered why not have fresh milk?  Funny what kids think, isn't it?  (editor’s note: neither of these sisters had refrigerators in their homes through all the years that he knew them in Corvallis and Shaw.

PRINTED OBITUARY PROVIDED BY THE KING FAMILY HISTORIAN David M. Trask 691 Murphy Road, Medford, Oregon 97504-4311:: Corvallis Gazette – Times published at Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon on Thursday 8 January 1987 Page B2 Column 2.

Bertha King: Bertha Anna King, 98, a former Corvallis resident, died Wednesday at Evergreen Care Center in Lincoln City.  DeMoss – Durdan Chapel will announce arrangements.

PRINTED OBITUARY PROVIDED BY THE KING FAMILY HISTORIAN David M. Trask 691 Murphy Road, Medford, Oregon 97504-4311: Corvallis Gazette – Times published at Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon on Saturday 10 January 1987 on page B5 Columns 1 and 2.

Bertha A. King 20 February 1889 – 7 January 1987: Bertha Anna King, a Corvallis resident for most of her 97 years, died Wednesday in Lincoln City.  She was born in 1889 to Abe (Abraham Lincoln) and Clara Elizabeth (Clara Margaret Elizabeth Busse) King of Diamond, Ore.  The family moved to a farm just north of Corvallis shortly after her birth.  She attended schools in Benton County and graduated from Oregon Agricultural College in 1908.  Miss King worked for several years as a school teacher in a number of districts throughout the state, and later returned to Corvallis where she worked as a practical nurse.  She moved to Lincoln City to live with her brother (Charles William King).  She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, which she joined at the age of 9.  Miss King is survived by two brothers, Charles William King of Lincoln City, and Albert Warren King of Fruitland, Idaho.  Two sisters Florence (Florence Kathleen King) Bolinger of Duarte, California, and Dorothy Young (Dorothy Vivian King) of Arcata, California and numerous nieces and nephews.  Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday (13 January 1987) at the First Presbyterian Church.  Burial will be at the Odd Fellows Cemetery; Memorials may be made to the Gideons Association in care of DeMoss – Durdan Garden Chapel.

LUCY ADELIA KING Born at Grand Coulee, Lincoln County, Washington date of birth is given as 1 September 1890 – Died at Mcminnville, Yamhill County, Oregon 28 March 1964 – Married at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon 1 February 1911 – Cause of death double lung cancer – Interred at St. James Roman Catholic Church cemetery (near but not next to her husband) Mcminnville, Yamhill County, Oregon

PRINTED OBITUARY PROVIDED BY THE KING FAMILY HISTORIAN David M. Trask 691 Murphy Road, Medford, Oregon 97504-4311: The News – Register, McMinnville, Yamhill County, Oregon in the edition printed Wednesday 1 April 1964 on page 8.

Lucy A. King Fromherz 1 September 1890 – 28 March 1964: Rosary for Lucy A. Fromherz (Lucy Adelia King) 73 of Aumsville, (Shaw) Marion County, Oregon was recited the evening of 30 March 1964 in the chapel of Macy & Sons Funeral Directors 135 NE Evans Mcminnville, Oregon 97128-4616 Phone: (503) 472-6151.  A requiem High Mass was celebrated the morning of Monday 31 March, 1964 at Saint James Roman Catholic Church.  Interment followed at Saint James Cemetery on old Oregon Hwy 99 W outside of McMinnville, Oregon.  She died on Friday 28 March 1964 in a McMinnville Convalescent home after living many years at Shaw and a short time with each of her daughter’s Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Fromherz Gerding of Corvallis, Oregon and Mrs. Florence Agnes Fromherz Gross at McMinnville, Oregon.  Mrs. Fromherz was born 1 September 1890 at Wilbur near Grand Coulee, Washington.  She is the daughter of Abe (Abraham Lincoln) and Clara Busse (Clara Margaret Elizabeth Busse) King.  Her family moved to Corvallis when she was a young girl.  She attended Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis, Oregon.  She was married on 1 February 1911 to Adolf Fromherz at Saint Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon.  They resided at a homestead (DLC) near Alsea, Benton County, for a short time in 1912 in Kansas, at Belfountain, Benton County, and Kiger’s Island, Benton County.  The family moved to Crabtree near Lebanon, Linn County, Oregon in 1925.  After the children were raised she moved to Newport, Lincoln County, and then to the Salem, Marion County area before moving to a home that her son Arthur Francis Fromherz acquired for her in Shaw (an unincorporated area near Aumsville, Marion County, Oregon).  She is survived by her six sons, Charles Aloyisious and family of Lebanon, Linn County, Oregon, Albert William and family of Yakima, Yakima County, Washington, Adolf Joseph Jr. and family of Silverton, Marion County, Oregon, Walter Allen and family of Eureka, Humbolt County, California, Arthur Francis Sr. and family of Shaw, Marion County, and James Warren and family of Dayton, Yamhill County.  Three daughters Mrs. Clara Josephine (Fromherz) Reed and family of Lebanon, Linn County, Mrs. Florence Agnes (Fromherz) Gross and family of McMinnville, Yamhill County, and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth (Fromherz) Gerding and family of Corvallis, Benton County.  She was preceded in death by an infant daughter Cecilia Louise Fromherz in 1926.  She is also survived by her siblings including four brothers James Allen King of Bellingham, Washington, Arthur Solomon King of Corvallis, Benton County, Charles William King of Manhattan Beach, California, and Albert Warren King of Minadoka, Idaho.  Five sisters Miss Bertha Anna King of Corvallis, Benton County, Mrs. Clara Winifred (King) Hill of Eureka, Humbolt County, California, Mrs. Florence Kathleen (King) Bolinger of Hood River, Oregon, Mrs. Inez Elisabeth (King) Herring of Yakima, Yakima County, Washington, and Mrs. Dorothy Vivian (King) Young of Gualala, California.  She is also survived by 48 grandchildren and two first great grandchildren.  Preceding her in death was her sister Esther Arseneth King 12 January 1895 at the age of one year at Wilbur, Lincoln County, Washington. Paul Bearers for the funeral service were the oldest sons for each of her six sons.  Charles John Fromherz, Albert William Fromherz Jr., Michael Kendall Fromherz, Daniel Lewis Frommherz, Allen James Fromherz, and James Earl Fromherz.

More Genaeology Stuff from Dan . . .

Merry Christmas 2003 to all of you!  I learned earlier this year that Aunt Florence will not be updating the annual family address book.  So with my extensive interest in genealogy of both the King and Fromherz ancestors I have taken on the task.  I am also contributing extensive time to typing the old family newsletters so that they can be placed in the archives of our "Fromthehart newsletters".  Historically this will give anyone coming after us in the future generations a birds eye view of who we are and what we did.  I decided that for prosperity and the future I want to include with the address book the churches where important events have taken place along with the parents and grandparents of each of your spouses.  I have already sent some of you requests for information with the attachment to these email messages a copy of your individual families.  I will send each of you who request it a full copy of the family as it now stands if you send me information that I need for your portion.  At the present time the address book with all 184 pages and counting is still growing.  However its updates for information on churches and places is mainly on hold.  As of December 1, 2003 I have only received updates from Rita Jo, her brother Louis Martin, and my sister  Jane Marie.  How about it cousins this is not an easy task I used the latest address book from Aunt Florence, old family newsletters and the Roots book for the Rothenburgers and Bauers in Kansas.  The Roots book is 20 years old and the newest address book that I had to use was dated November 2000.

While I wait I have turned my attention to trying to prove who the mother of our fourth great grandfather Amos Nahum King actually is. This man if any of you are interested will get you membership in the "Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution".  As you may know for
many years genealogist's have listed her as Mary Andrews daughter of Captain Nathaniel and Mary (Higginson) Andrews.  However because this Mary (Andrews) King in question died in 1759 and she did not have children named Amos Nahum, Sarah, Jonathan, or Stephen.  Further because Sarah was born in late 1759 after that Mary (Andrews) King had died plus she was not living at the time of the births for the younger children named Jonathan and Stephen I have deduced that Mary Andrews was actually married to William King the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Marsh) King (Samuel is the son of our seventh great grandparents John and Elizabeth (Goldthwaite) King of Salem, Essex County, and Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts.  Our William is the son of Jonathan Sr. and Sarah (Cooke) King.  Note that William and his unnamed wife named two of their middle children for William's parents Jonathan and Sarah (Cooke) King .  So proof lies in the fact that this Jonathan Sr. is the brother to Samuel and also the son of John and Elizabeth (Goldthwaite) King.  Anyway we have no proof that our William's first known wife Hannah Mitchell and mother of the first two children born after their marriage in 1740 named Hannah (King) Upton who married Timothy Upton in New Salem and William Jr. King who were born in 1741 and 1743 respectively.  Anyway the only thing that even gives us the hint that William Sr. may have married second is the difference in years for the four children born after 1756.   We are looking at thirteen years difference in the two sets of children.  Our only clue to this demise is finding the cemetery and grave of the true Mrs. William King Sr. possibly in Shutesbury where William had gone to live after leaving the home of Amos and Abigail (King) Foster in New Salem in 1761.  We know that Stephen King was born in Shutesbury after that date.  Further Stephen is not a name used previously by the King family.  While William, John, Samuel, and Jonathan are used by every member of the families both in Massachusetts and on Long Island, New York.  William their father returned to New
Salem as a widower some years later.  I am hoping to find their mother's grave and name in one of the many cemeteries located in the Shutesbury area with the possibility that William Sr. who died in 1781 was returned to rest beside her at his passing.  Wish me luck in this project.  I have included this bit of history just to show all of you how important
it will be in a hundred years or so to name the important places where events in this huge family have taken place including the burial places, marriage churches, and the hospitals where you were born and the counties too.

I just relocated the vital records of Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts  that lists with the source and page numbers of and for the eight children born to John and Elizabeth (Goldthwaite) King all born in Salem and the death of their only child in Salem who was named Thomas.  Thomas is the name of Elizabeth Goldthwaite's father Thomas Goldthwaite.

I am presently toying with the idea of adding a straight line ancestry down from William and Dorothy (?) Kinge whom we believe is not Dorothy Haynes but is in fact actually Dorothy Dible.  This is based on the number of years between the marriage of the Kinge/Haynes on February 17, 1616/1617 at the abbey church to St. Mary in the county of Dorset and the birth of their first daughter Mary in 1623.  I located with the help of an original researcher another marriage on January 17, 1621/1622 at St. John the Baptist Parish Church at Yeovil, Somerset, England for Kinge/Dible as previously stated Mary was born about 14 months later but we have not found where the five children were born in England between 1623 and 1633.  I am looking for the christening of those children as infants since this is tradition based on the christening of the three children (Mehitable, John, and Deliverance) as infants in Salem MA.  The church parishes were the main place to find documentation before the industrial revolution in Europe.

I will also be searching for the records of birth for a previously unknown child born to William and Dorothy Kinge in 1631 since they show their five children were born 2 years apart named Mary in 1623, Kathryn in 1625, William Jr. in 1627, Hannah in 1629 then the jump to Samuel in 1633.  You see the skip of 4 years here so if they had a child he/she could have been in 1631 and if they didn't have a child in that year why did they wait four years for Samuel the last child born in England?  I can understand the skip from 1633 with Samuel to Mehitable born in the colonies in October 1636 as they prepared to come to America.  Our seventh great grandfather John was born in November 1638 and the youngest Deliverance was born in 1641.

I have over 7,000 names for just the King families descendants and nearly this many for the early Frommherz families in Germany.

Your cousin Daniel

Bye the Bye here is your official King genealogy that is proven and will gain you membership in the "Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution"  Just replace your name with mine, then replace or add your father or mother and if necessary your grandfather or grandmother.  We also have the ancestry of our second great grandmother Annie Mariah (Allen) King wife of Solomon King who has three generations proven to have served in the Revolution but that is another story.

  Daniel David Lewis Frommherz (11)(January 8, 1947) - (living)
  son of Arthur Francis Fromherz (10)(March 23, 1923) - (living)
  son of Lucy Adelia King (9)(September 1, 1890) - (April 28, 1964)
  daughter of Abraham Lincoln King (8)(November 13, 1860) - (1925)
  son of Solomon King (7)(February 26, 1833) - (March 13, 1913)
  son of Nahum Amos King (6)(July 25, 1783) - (1856)
  son of Amos Nahum King (5)(1756) - (1839) (Revolutionary War Veteran)
  son of William King Sr. (4)(1710) - (1781)
  son of Jonathan King Sr. (3)(1664) - (1717)
  son of John King Sr. (2)(September 1, 1638) - (after 1714 before
  December 18, 1718)
  son of William Kinge Sr. (1) (arrived Abigail which left Weymouth
England 20 March 1635/1636) - (December 1650)  (Probate of his estate
approved in February 1650/1651 by his son William Jr. and widow Dorothy)