War on the Homefront

The clip was taken from the Richmond Enquirer on March 13, 1838.  I am thinking this is an update on the Patriot War.  

A Case of Mistaken Marriage

The Gazette out of Lexington, Virginia dated Thursday, February 2, 1860 has this shocking story on the front page. 

 The Lynchburg Daily Virginian has a similar account they shared on January 27, 1860 via Chicago.

I, being the curious/nosy, person I am checked the Ottawa County, Ohio marriage records for December 1859 and January, 1860 and found only five marriages (Harmon Anglebeck & Nancy Wonnell; John Schmardcheck & Anna Schroder; Henry Snider & Abigail Knight; John Stewart & Rhoda Moore; Joel Labeen & Hester Vellequett) but none of them are listed as having filed for divorce.  I let you know if I ever figure out who they are because I'm crazy curious to see what happened to them.  I can't believe somebody actually did that.  Good grief!!  

Jopp Family Bible

 While I was looking for something entirely unrelated I stumbled upon a list of family Bible's currently in possession of the Hayes Presidential Center.  On the list was Stoner and Jopp.  I called, asked some questions and received scanned copies of both!  JACKPOT!  Sadly at this time I don't know where the Stoner family fits with our Stoners but the Jopp was a home run.  Below are the pages I received.  

Unfortunately some of this is hard to read and in the true motherly fashion she listed each and every one of her babies and nothing about herself or her husband.  However from this we can see that the Bible was printed in 1813 and gifted to Mary Jopp in 1815.  At this time I believe they were still living in New York and the other records I have show them coming to Ohio in 1831.  You can also spot some fun spellings such as "Munday" and a gift being one word.  If anybody can make out the information on Luas Elbert that would be wonderful but I'm going cross eyed trying.   

Where it fits:  Due to the inscription reading "agift give to Mary Jopp by. . . " I believe this is the Bible of Mary Jopp and probably by proxy her husband Daniel.  Together they are the parents of Orin, Betsey, Isaac, Sally, Jerusha, Elbert, Luther, Miller, Eliza Jane, Wealthy Ann (spelled Welthyan in the Bible) and Hudson.  Miller Jopp married Augusta Horton and together they were the parents of Laura Etta.  Laura Etta married David Stone and was the mother of Helen Naomi Stoner.  Helen married Dale Allen and they were the parents of LaDonna, Donald, Ralph "Jim" James, Richard, Thomas, Virginia, Robert, Carol & Margaret.  

P.S. if you can tell who gifted her the Bible I'd also appreciate that.  Tim and I are betting it's a misspelling of Priest Parker.  

The Port Clinton Lighthouse

 

In January of 1831 Port Clinton, Ohio was but a baby city having only been founded in 1828 yet in the "CONGRESS" section of the Virginia Free Press & Farmers' Repository in February, 1831 they announced there had been a resolution to built a light house in Port Clinton.  Upon some minor research (okay, okay, I Googled) I discovered that this isn't the lighthouse currently standing in Port Clinton but its predecessor.   The small lighthouse currently standing was built in 1896 and while the government isn't necessarily known for its speed this is most likely in regards to the stone lighthouse built in 1833.  Like I said the government isn't known for speed but two years is better than sixty-five.  😀  The original article can be found here and more information on both light houses complete with pictures of the beautiful stone light house can be found here.

Money Goes Missing

This little gem was found in the Lynchburg Daily Virginian and was published on March 22, 1856 meaning the robbery probably took place on or about March 15, 1856.  That amount of money would be over $250,000 worth in today's money.  At some point I might need to dig through the local newspapers and see what comes of any of these cases.  

The original publication can be found here and was considered worthy of the front page.  

Cornerstone of a Courthouse

 

This clipping was in the Norfolk Landmark, Vol. 48, No. 110 published on May 16, 1899.  The entire construction period of the courthouse was from 1898 to 1901.  More information on the courthouse can be found here.  The entire edition of the Norfolk Landmark can be found here.  Grandma Allen (Joyce Johannsen Allen) always said that presidents visited frequently and it wasn't usual to see them out and about.  Now I'm curious to see if I can find any more references.  I know the Island House claims that multiple presidents have stayed there including President James Garfield, President Rutherford B. Hayes and President William Howard Taft.  They also have an extensive list of celebrities that have stayed there.  

Port Clinton Lutheran Church

As some of you might know I LOVE hunting through church records to see what goodies they have in regards to birth, marriage and death records but some also have family registers or track membership and communion recipients so you can narrow down when a family moved into the area.  They also have baptism and confirmation records that often prove helpful with the added bonus of a lot of churches took pictures of their confirmation classes.  Apparently the new church building was a big deal as this is found in the "Our Church Paper", December 4, 1895.  

   

Further source: "Our Church Paper", Volume 23, Number 51 published in New Market, Shenandoah County, Virginia.  The full edition can be found here.

State of the Tree

 I have been slowly attempting to rebuild my tree from the roots up and have been enjoying a whole new world of resources.  It is amazing how many new resources have joined the world since I first started hunting however many years ago that was.  (I refuse to admit I've been doing this for over 20 years).  That being said in my reconstruction attempts I found a whole slew of very cool Port Clinton articles on the Virginia Chronicle website as well as some interesting reads on family so hopefully over today or the next several days I'll be flooding this page with the articles I've found.  Some might be family, some might be distant family and some might be just something I found interesting but as always I will attempt to make it clear exactly where they fit and how.  I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I have enjoyed finding and sharing them!