Samuel K Friend Jr. was born in Cambridge Massachusetts in 1806 and he died in Gloucester Massachusetts. A life span that covered the 19th century. In 1832 he married Abigail Hinds Reed Brown Abigail lived from 1804-1894. Their son Daniel Alfred Friend was born 1843, died 1892..

My Great Great Grandfather Gilman Bryant was born in 1784 in Peacham Vermont. At some point he migrated to Ohio and in 1809 he married Elizabeth Thrift in Mt. Vernon Ohio. Elizabeth had been born in Plaistow New Hampshire. They had 7 children who reached adulthood. Gilman Bryant died in Mt. Vernon Ohio and his wife Elizabeth died in Dresden County Muskingam Ohio.

Henry W. Warner is another ancestor who lived and died in Crown Point New York. His dates are 1815-1859. In 1839 he married Harriet Anna Wilmarth, 1821-1897. She was born in Vergennes Addison County Vermont, and also died there in 1897. They had 4 children, 3 girls and a boy. The oldest child, Lucy, was my Great Grandmother.

James Murdock was born in Crown Point New York in 1810. He lived there all his life and died in 1898. He married Elizabeth Kellogg Trimble in 1831. They had numerous children, 7 of whom lived to adulthood. Elizabeth was born In the same year as James. She outlived him by one year. They had long lives, spanning almost the entire century.

What a wonderful concert we had yesterday. An hour of special music to celebrate Hannaka. It was a clarinet and an accordion. A few years I played in a Klezmer band as part of the program at Folk Life – a weekend celebration here in Seattle. That band had 8 or 9 players. I participated along with Maren who was our church choir director. This marked my one and only appearance on stage. And in hindsight it was a lot of fun.

My Great Great Grandfather James Miller was born in Dummerston Vermont in 1783, late in the 18th century, His early were spent in Dummerston and he married there in 1806. It was from Dummerston that he and his wife and. their 4 children emmigrated to Ohio in.18.14 or 1815,, approximately a 6 week journey. The young family settled in central Ohio in Licking County on the Licking River. James and Sarah’s family increased with the birth of 9 more children. My grandfather Charles Dana Miller was the 12th born in 1836.

Years ago in the late 1960’s we moved to Dublin in Ireland. We were newly married and expecting our first child. As an enthusiastic reader, I got hooked on reading about English history, in the form of the books by Jean Plaidy. Now 50 plus years later I find myself hooked on a history reading spree again. This time the author is Phillippa Gregory and I am reading about the Tudors and the Plantagenets. We are now living in Seattle, Washington, far from the British Isles, but my interest in that far Northwest corner of Europe is enduring. After all we came from there, recently and my ancestors 400 years ago.