Marcella Kelly VanceProblem: Was she Marcella Kelly Vance or Marcella Vance Kelly? CFA I listed both.
4478. Aaron Conger
Aaron CongerCONFLICT: Where was this person born. CFA I lists, Piermont, NY and Pierrepont, Jefferson Co., NY. Piermont is in Rockland Co., NY. Pierrepont Manor is in Jefferson Co., NY and Pierrepont is in St. Lawrence Co., NY.
MILITARY: Aaron Conger enlisted on 13 Nov 1862 in Co. L, 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry. He was discharged on 21 Jul 1864 on account of disability.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 4 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)BIRTH-ERROR: CFA II, p. 722 points out that the date of birth was 16 Sep, not 13 Sep.
4480. Charlotte Livonia Conger
Charlotte Livonia CongerBIRTH: CFA II, p. 722 points out that she was born in, Durand, WI; rather than in NY. Page 248, lists NY.
RECOLLECTIONS:
Minneota, May the 18th 1885Dear Niece [written to Ella Lewis]
I got your last letter last friday and your other also. It is true I was not very well and you must excuse me. My health is pretty good now and I hope these few lines will find you all the same. We had snow and frost about the same time you did there. We are having find [sic] pleasant weather now. You think it must be lonely out here. It is a part of wind wears the snow all out and what is left is piled up here and there. I can not describe it so you would know much about it. Sometimes the snow blows so you cannot see where to step. We have no woods here. It is all prairie. You could stand here and see ever so many miles away and see patches of trees set out with a house by it. They look like islands in the ocean. When the grass gets grown, it looks like great meadows and grain fields then it is a beautiful place to see. I will tell you when the lonely comes. It is in a cold winters night when the ground is covered with snow and the sky looks white like the snow. It looks as though we were entirely covered with snow. There is not much fruit a growing here yet and there is no wildberries growing near enough for me to gather. We have a few strawberries and apple trees commencing to bear and currant bushes. We have black and red raspberries bushes set out and goose berry bushes. They have not had any berries on them yet. We have plenty of wild geese and ducks here in the Spring, and some in the Summer time and a Creek full of Fish. We do not have much four-footed game here. These have been frightened away.
I had quite a family of Brothers and Sisters. The oldest was a girl named Charlotte. Is dead. Married and had 2 children. Next a boy named Seneca. Was married and had 2 children. Is not living in York State with his Daughter. Is 83 years old. Is well. The next 3 were boys. Died young. Next a girl, Sarah, She was your Grandmother, your father's mother. Next, a boy named, Jonas. Was married [and] had 4 Children. Is dead. He also lived in York State. Next was Ruth. Was married. Had 4 children. Her oldest is dead. Her name was Clarrisa, then Aaron and next Sarah. Both married. The youngest is Charlotte. She married a man by the name of Adams. I am living with her.
I am your ever loving Aunt Diantha.
RELATIONSHIP: Letter writer, Miss Diantha Bancroft, sister of Ruth (Bancroft) Conger (wife of Samuel), was living with her niece, Charlotte (Conger) Adams, on 18 May 1885 when she wrote this letter to nephew Lemuel Lewis, b. 18 Sep 1840, the son of her sister, Sara [Sarah] Bancroft and brother-in-law, Lemuel Lewis. The second paragraph of the letter corrects an error in "The Conger Family of America," when she clearly states that the mother of her niece, Charlotte, was named, Ruth. Diantha's sister, Sarah Bancroft, married Lemuel Lewis.
(Source: Letter shared with Gene Lewis by Michael Cronk)
Frank Amos AdamsEDUCATION: 1 year of college
OCCUPATION: Farmer
8109. Infant Adams
SEX: Female child .
8112. Ralph Allen Adams
NEVER_MARRIED: .
4481. Dyer A. Conger
Dyer A. CongerProblem: Was he born at Danby, Rutland Co., VT or Huntington, VT? Both listed, in CFA I.
DEATH-HEALTH_HISTORY: Died of apoplexy and arterio scleriosis
Fidelia S. SweetDEATH-HEALTH_HISTORY: Died of a fracture at the base of the skull from a fall downstairs, followed by meningitis.
8116. Clinton Gershom Conger
Clinton Gershom CongerNO_ISSUE: There was no issue
RESIDENCES: Wolcott, Brattleboro and Hardwick, VT.
4486. Albert Marcus Conger
Albert Marcus CongerPARENTS: Caleb Conger and Nancy Morehouse
MILITARY-OCCUPATION: Albert Marcus Conger, 1843, was a guard at the White House after he was released from prison during the Civil War.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 39a - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
BIOGRAPHY:
Albert Marcus Conger attended Fort Edward College. One day while at home he was working in the garden. He stopped, leaned on his hoe, and decided to enlist. The records show, Albert M. Conger, Private of Co. F, 118th Inf. Regt., New York Volunteers, enlisted 11 Aug 1862; honorably discharged and mustered out 14 June 1865.He knew the pangs of hunger and thirst in the dismal swamp; the weakness of dysentary, the shelter of a snow drift; suffered from sun stroke and left on the field for dead.
On Sunday morning, May 16th, the battle of Drury's Bluff was fought. They misunderstood orders; the two flanks retreated. The Cavalry closed in around the center and he was wounded and captured. He went through many trials.
He was put in a pen with no roof, then to what they called "Castle Thunder," which was an old cellar where the wounded lay on boards with sticks in their hands to fight off the rats. Finally he was taken to Libby Prison, where he was a prisioner for three months. Libby Prison was an old tobacco warehouse. They used to soak tobacco in water to mop a space on the floor, lay down for a rest ahead of the vermin.
Smallpox broke out, and many died. Their rations were mostly small pieces of corn bread, often with whole kernels of corn in it. He often shared his with some that were ravenous for food, and said many times he had closed the eyes of boys whose last words were asking for food.
When he was released he went through the main street of Baltimore clad in an old undershirt with sleeves partly torn off, and the old under-drawers with legs torn off, one above the knee. He was never bitter. He said, "The South could not give what they did not have."
He was later a guard at the White House, and said that Mr. Lincoln used to come out often in the middle of the night. He would pace back and forth, and would stop and ask if they were getting enough food.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 14-15 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
MILITARY-DEATH:
Albert Marcus Conger was given clerical work and given the honor of making out his own discharge papers. He was offered a commission with ephalets on his shoulders. He was a promising young man for law and politics, but plans through reverses and sickness fell through. He died 13 Sep 1912 at the Soldier's Home, Leavenworth, KS and is buried there.
(Source: The Conger Family of America, Vol. I, p. 48 - Maxine Crowell Leonard)
8117. Albert Lee Conger
Albert Lee CongerPARENTS: Albert Marcus Conger and Cyrene Annabel Lee
NO_ISSUE: There was no issue.
8119. Mabel Morgan Conger
Mabel Morgan CongerPARENTS: Albert Marcus Conger and Cyrene Annabel Lee
NEVER_MARRIED:
8123. George M. Hudson
George M. HudsonSSN: Is this SSDI record for George M. Hudson?
Individual: Hudson, George
Social Security #: 305-40-9527
SS# issued in: Indiana
Birth date: Nov 29, 1890
Death date: May 1976
Residence code: Indiana
ZIP Code of last known residence: 47978
Primary location associated with this ZIP Code:
Rensselaer, Indiana
[Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1 A-L, Ed. 5, Social Security Death
Index: U.S., Date of Import: Oct 30, 2000, Internal Ref. #1.111.5.113925.191]