John Russell’s Family

My great*6 grandfather, John Russell, was the first-born child of my Russell immigrant ancestor, Robert Russell. He was born in 1756 in Bedford, Westchester, NY. He married in 1774, had 8 children by his first wife, Abigail. Then when she died in 1798, he married again a few months later and had 7 more children from his second wife, Anna.

Although John was illiterate, he did leave behind a will detailing who his heirs would be. Here is a transcript of that will and how each of his wives/children are noted.

[John Russell will]

 

·       First wife – Abigail Isham (1754-1798) – deceased so not listed

o   Caleb Ebenezer (1775-1830) – “residence unknown” (see below)

o   John Jr (1776-1860) – living in Tompkins County (see below)

o   William (1778-1846) – living in Fishkill, Dutchess County

o   Isaac (1780-abt 1840) – living in Tompkins County (see below)

o   Elizabeth [Smalley] (1783-1819) – deceased (see below)

o   Phebe [Wixon] (1788-1857) – believed to be living in Castile, Genesee County with husband John Wixon

o   Robert W (1790-1888) – living in Kent

o   Abigail (1794-1863) – living in Carmel

·       Second wife – Anna Wixon (1769-1848) – widowed living in Kent

o   Lee (1800-1888) – living in Kent

o   Abijah (1801-1881) – living in Kent

o   David (1803-1858) – living in Kent

o   Margaret [Barrett] (1805-1834) – believed to be living in Tioga County with husband Holmes Barrett

o   Sophiah [Robinson] (1809-1847) – living in Kent with husband Adonijah Robinson

o   Naomi [Ganong] (1812-1885) – living in Carmel with husband Jesse Ganong

o   Levi (1813-1896) – living in Kent

 

Notes on Elizabeth

She had passed away in 1819 and her husband Isaac has also passed away in 1812. Thus, their children, John’s grandchildren, were all listed as heirs as follows:

·       Isaac Smalley (1801-1885) – living in Kent

·       Abbey [Cole] (1802-1868) – living in Michigan Territory with husband Levi Cole

·       Zachariah Smalley (1804-1864) – living in Kent

·       John Smalley (1806-1891) – living in Michigan Territory

·       Freeman Smalley (1808-1891) – living in Kent

·       Mary “Polly” [Townsend] (1810-1878) – living in Kent with husband Stephen Townsend

·       James Smalley (1812-1867) – living in Philadelphia

Notes on Ebenezer

Listed in the will as Ebenezer, Caleb Ebenezer was the oldest child of John and Abigail. In the 1800 census he was living just a few houses away from his parents, but shortly thereafter he and his wife, Parmea, moved to the extreme NE corner of Dutchess County in the small town of Dover – about a 30-mile trek. They apparently never came back even to visit. Caleb had passed away three years before John, but the rest of the family was apparently not aware of it.

There is not a lot of documentation regarding Caleb Ebenezer being the Ebenezer listed in John’s will. I mentioned this in an earlier blog Finding Caleb Russell's Family. But in addition, there is now a lot of DNA evidence that connects me through Caleb to other of John’s children (see below notes on DNA Matching).

Notes on John Jr

John’s will notes that John Jr is in Tompkins County, NY. But research showed there were two men with the name John Russell there at that time.

One (whom I’ll refer to as John1) was born about 1783 (based on age in census records), was married to Martha who was 5 years older than he. He lived in Hector along Seneca Lake. He had a couple of children, including a son, Joel. In the 1850 and 1860 census he was living with Joel who by then had moved a bit north to Lodi in Seneca County (note that prior to 1817, Hector was part of Seneca County. In 1817 Tompkins County was created and Hector was part of it until 1854 when it became part of the new Schulyer County. So county name changes also figure in here a little). Martha passed away between 1850 and 1860 and John1 between 1860 and 1870 as he is no longer found in census records. Of interest is that in the 1860 census, both John1 and Joel were declared as having been born in Putnam County (which is where John’s family was located).

The other one (whom I’ll call John2) was born about 1776 and lived in Newfield, about 30 miles away from Hector and close to Ithaca, NY. His wife, Elizabeth, was 10 years younger than he. They had a large family, including a son Jacob and a daughter Esther. In the 1850 census, John2 and Elizabeth are still in Newfield and Jacob (age 18) is the only child at home. In the 1860 census, Jacob has gotten married and moved to Elgin, IL, and taken his aging parents (then 84 and 74) with him. John2 and Elizabeth’s daughter, Esther, had gotten married in 1847 and she and her husband had also moved to Elgin – in the 1860 census Esther and Jacob were only a few pages apart.

So which John is the son of the John back in Putnam County? Joel said that John1 was from there, but a birth year of 1783 is a point against him as that is not only the same year as John’s daughter Elizabeth, but it would have made John1 the 4^th son. Being given the same name as the father is usually not done past the 3^rd son. Also, two of my DNA connections (see below) have a fairly well documented family tree back to Esther, including a consistent migration path from NY to IL, then to KS which is where Esther is buried and where my DNA connections were born. Thus, my DNA connection supports John2 being the needed John Jr in the family.

So, despite the Putnam County listed in John1’s census record, I believe that John2 is the son or John – both because of the fit of the birth year and the relatively consistent tree associated with my DNA connections.

Notes on Isaac

Information on Isaac Russell in Tompkins County, NY is scant. He appears in the 1820 in Covert, Seneca County, then in the 1830 and 1840 census in Hector, Tompkins County. He and his wife appear to have four children. Isaac is 60 years old in the 1840 census and appears to have died before the 1850 census. But as the only individual with that name in the county, there is no reason to doubt that he is the son of John named in John’s will.

Notes on DNA Matching

One of the newer benefits of having your DNA in ancestry.com and linked to your tree is that they will find other people’s DNA that has common segments with yours, and who thus could be relatives of yours, and who also have trees that intersect with yours. So, this gives a sort of confirmation that your tree and theirs are both valid and it can also help you find paths in your tree where you might be having difficulty doing research. This DNA matching is valid back about 6-7 generations as above that the shared segments get too small to be meaningful.

That was certainly true in this case. In addition to 9 matches through Caleb and his descendants, I have a dozen DNA matches to other children of John Russell. This is not only confirmation that the relationship between John and Caleb is correct, but helped to identify the proper John Jr as outlined in the notes above on him. 11 of these 12 matches are as follows: 2 to John Jr, 1 to William, 2 to Elizabeth, 4 to Phebe, and 2 to Robert W.

This leaves one other that I have still not resolved. It purports to be through another Ebenezer Russell who is not the Caleb Ebenezer in my ancestral tree. I have looked at ancestral trees that reference this other Ebenezer and he has been assigned a variety of birth years between 1778-1781 and died in 1821-1831 perhaps in Hartford CT or Steuben NY. In contrast the trees for Caleb Ebenezer all have consistent dates of birth and death.

I tend to trust my research and having so many DNA matches to other children of John Russell backs that up. But this unresolved DNA match is still an outstanding issue to be resolved at a future date.

Wolcott History – Dead and Buried

This year is the 225^th year of the incorporation of Wolcott and the 290^th year since John Alcox and his wife settled in the Spindle Hill area of what was then known as Farmingbury. There have been many people born in the town, but everyone eventually dies and needs to be buried somewhere (unless they are cremated). So, where are all those early Farmingbury/Wolcott residents buried?

According to Orcutt’s History of Wolcott, in 1760 the settlers in the area first petitioned the General Assembly to make them a “Distinct Society”. This was rejected by the First Society of Waterbury, and it was not until the fall of 1770 that a petition was granted. However, a meeting of the First Society in Waterbury did establish a cemetery in 1764 (the Edgewood Cemetery). In 1772, a committee was appointed by the nascent Evangelical Society of Farmingbury to “fix a place or places for burying grounds” and in 1776 three gravediggers were appointed (indicating the existence of three graveyards). These three graveyards were the Pike’s Hill Burying Ground (*1), the South East Burying Ground (*2) and the center cemetery (now called the Edgewood Cemetery) near the Congregational Church. In the 1805, a new graveyard, the Northeast Burying Ground (*3), was built just down the path from the Pike’s Hill Burying Ground. The latter was then discontinued and all but a few gravestones from there moved to the Northeast Burying Ground. Around the same time, a new cemetery was begun in the Woodtick area.

The number of gravesites in each of these cemeteries and the oldest and newest graves are (based on findagrave.com, noting that there are some erroneous entries on that website):

·       Pike’s Hill – 9, 1776-1791 (entries for 1891 and 1856 are erroneous)

·       Northeast – 103, 1796-1929 (those before 1805 having been relocated here)

·       South East – 63, 1772-1867 (entries for 1712, 1731, 1736, 1929 are erroneous)

·       Woodtick – 971, 1801-still active (entries for 1754, 1784 erroneous)

·       Edgewood – 1666, 1769-still active

[Grave of Heman Hall, oldest gravestone in Wolcott]

 

In my former blogs about the first three of these cemeteries, I have done a detailed analysis of each of the graves, who is buried there, and the relationships between the individuals. This was relatively easy with such small cemeteries. But because the latter two are so much larger, I’d like to just provide a brief overview.

Woodtick Cemetery

Since there are nearly 1000 graves here and this is still an active cemetery, I’d like to focus just on the earlier graves, i.e., those which date before 1900. There are 173 of these (171 when discounting the two erroneous entries from 1754 and 1784). It’s obvious when scanning all these, that certain families account for the vast majority of these early graves. Beginning with the largest number from one family, these are:

·       19 – Todd (note that there are 19 others in the East Farms Cemetery)

·       16 – Upson (note that there are also 25 members of the Upson family in the Edgewood Cemetery 11 others in South East Burying Ground, and 1 in the East Farms Cemetery)

·       14 – Frisbie, Hall (13 more Hall members in the Edgewood Cemetery, 6 in East Farms Cemetery)

·       12 – Welton (5 more in Edgewood Cemetery)

·       8 – Higgins

·       7 – Downes/Downs, Nichols (10 more Downs members in Allentown Cemetery)

·       6 – Doolittle

·       5 – Garthwait, Wakelee

·       4 – Finch, Hough (7 more Hough family in Edgewood Cemetery)

Edgewood Cemetery

Again, focusing on graves from before 1900, we can reduce the 1666 to a more manageable number of “just” 433. But, there are some even larger families represented here:

·       45 – Alcott/Alcox (7 others in Pike’s Hill and Northeast Burying Ground, 3 in Allentown Cemetery)

·       27 – Hotchkiss (2 others in Northeast Burying Ground)

·       25 – Upson

·       20 – Norton (2 others in Northeast Burying Ground)

·       19 – Minor

·       18 – Plumb (6 others in Northeast Burying Ground)

·       16 – Bronson (8 others in Northeast Burying Ground)

·       15 – Tuttle (10 others in Allentown Cemetery)

·       13 – Hall

·       12 – Harrison

·       10 – Thomas (6 others in Allentown Cemetery)

·       9 – Carter

·       8 – Atkins, Pritchard

·       7 – Beach, Hopkins, Hough, Moulthrop

·       6 – Bartholomew, Bradley, Kenea, Merrill, Scarritt, Twitchel

·       5 – Bailey, Beecher, Horton, Johnson, Pardee, Sperry, Welton

·       4 – Butler, Pierpont (most of Pierpont family in East Farms Cemetery)

Other Cemeteries

We should not leave this subject without covering a few other places where area residents are buried.

One of these is the East Farms Cemetery off of East Main Street in the “East Farms” area of Waterbury. Since this cemetery is near the southern end of Pierpont Road, many of the early residents of the southern end of Wolcott were buried there as it was closer than the Edgewood Cemetery and also closer than the Woodtick Cemetery when it opened in the early 1800s. A few families dominate this small cemetery of 163 gravesites, the oldest being from 1789 and the newest from 1906 (with one new one from 1954) (one from 1738 in findagrave.com is erroneous).

·       41 – Pierpont

·       21 – Austin

·       19 – Todd

·       17 – Frost

·       9 – Mix

·       6 – Hall

Another cemetery with a close proximity to Wolcott is the Allentown Cemetery on Allentown Road in Plymouth. There are 125 graves here, dated from 1825-1968, with the following Wolcott families represented.

·       12 – Allen

·       10 – Downs, Tuttle

·       6 – Bassett, Lane, Thomas

·       5 – Andrews, Parmeley

·       3 – Alcott

The final location is that there are two memorials in the Saint Maria Goretti Church Memorial Garden. Both of these are fairly recent.

Summary

As can be seen above, there are some families with many family members buried in these Wolcott cemeteries. All names listed are for the last name at death, so married women are buried under their married names and the frequent intermarrying of these families may obscure the number of lineal descendants. But the families with the largest numbers are:

·       55 – Alcox/Alcott (John Alcox had 12 children and 67 grandchildren!)

·       53 – Upson

·       45 – Pierpont (but most of these are from East Farms area)

·       38 – Todd

·       33 – Hall

·       29 – Hotchkiss

·       25 – Tuttle

With families this large, it’s no wonder that I can find genealogical connections from each of them to myself – as would anyone with ties back to pre-1900 Wolcott.

Wandering through any of the Wolcott cemeteries is like taking a stroll through history.

Notes

*1 - https://ramblinrussells.blogspot.com/2015/07/wolcott-history-pikes-hill-cemetery.html

*2 - https://ramblinrussells.blogspot.com/2015/07/wolcott-history-south-east-burying.html

*3 - https://ramblinrussells.blogspot.com/2015/07/wolcott-history-northeast-burying-ground.html

 

Finding the Truth about the Slater Family

The Letter

In my recent blog about teachers in early Wolcott (*1), I had noted that in 1900 one of these teachers was “Grace R Butler, 20, boarding with Andrew J Slater family”. A few weeks later, I received a letter in the mail from James Hazard which said, in addition to several other things,

“The Slaters are my great-grandparents. Their daughter, Sara E., married Wilfred Pierpont. Do you have any information about where in town they lived, what the Slaters did for work, etc. The present town clerk sent me information about the marriage license but that is all she could dig up.”

Initially I just looked up the census records for 1900 which I had quoted. I noted that Andrew Slater was the entry right next to David Frisbie.

[1900 census]

 

To verify, I also looked at the census records before and after this period. In 1870, Andrew was living in Southington, and in 1910 he was living in Waterbury with his son and family. In 1880 he was also next door to David Frisbie. This was significant as David Frisbie spent his whole life in Wolcott and his house appeared on the 1868 map of the town. Thus, both the Frisbie and Slater families were part of that section of town called “Woodtick”.

[1868 map]

 

I sent the above to James, noting that Andrew was a farmer and his son, Joseph, was a carpenter. I also found the supplement to the 1880 census which gave further details about the number of acres that Andrew had on his farm and what they were used for.

But there was something that bothered me about the 1900 census records. There are three columns which are supposed to record the birth place of the individual, the birth place of their father, and the birth place of their mother. For Andrew, the places listed were New York, New York, and “Wolcott”. Note that for everyone else, these place names are states, so the word “Connecticut” appears all over the records. The word “Wolcott” seemed out of place! And I wondered why it was there. Some further investigation was in order!

Investigation into Andrew

According to the 1900 census, Andrew was born in October 1840. He and his wife, Lucy had 4 children, only 2 of whom were living. (Obviously, that would have to be their son Joseph who was living with them, as well as Sarah who was mentioned in the letter to me. (Note that the spelling as Sarah is consistent with both the Pierpont genealogies as well as is how Andrew spelled the name in his will.) So, I looked in the census records for the period 1840-1910 to see if there were any other clues. I was able to piece together a timeline of Andrew’s life – and I uncovered a number of errors in the census records as well.

The Truth – Andrew was born in Greene County, NY in October 1830. He married Lucy Robbins in 1856. She had been born in NY in 1839. Their children, all born in CT, were William (1858, died sometime before 1900), Sarah (1862), Laura (1866, died in 1868), and Joseph (1869). (The fact that Sarah and Joseph were the living children of Andrew and Lucy is also confirmed by Andrew’s will which was written in 1911 (two years before he died). In it he leaves $300 to his daughter, Mrs. Sarah E Pierpont, wife of Wilfred Pierpont, and the rest to his wife, Lucy Ann Slater. He then appoints his son, Joseph W Slater, as the recipient of his estate (after he and Lucy pass away) as long as he cares for both he and Lucy as long as they live and provides for their proper burial.)

The Errors:

·       1840 census – see “A final note” below

·       1850 census – none, age 20, living with father Orrin (48), his wife Esther (49), and siblings Joel (22), Louisa (17), and Sarah (14). All born in NY.

·       1855 NY census – none, age 24, living with father Orrin (52), his wife Esther (55), and sibling Sarah (18). [Note that errors of a year or so in age are common in census records and so this is not flagged as a problem]

·       1860 census – unable to locate the family

·       1870 census – none, living in Southington, with William (12), Sarah (8), and baby Joseph (10 months).

·       1880 census – living in Wolcott, age 50, with wife Lucy (41), William (21), Sarah (17), and Joseph (10). But Andrew and Lucy shown as being born in CT, as well as their parents born in CT.

·       1890 census – results lost in fire, so not available.

·       1900 census – Andrew’s year of birth listed incorrectly as 1840 instead 1830, and age incorrect as 50 (a year younger than Lucy), when he was 9 years older. Andrew’s mother listed as born in Wolcott – the inconsistency that started this investigation and rationale to be investigated below.

·       1910 census – living in Waterbury with son Joseph and family. Andrew now age 79, Lucy age 71, properly from NY. But Joseph has parents listed as born in CT – apparently an error caused by census taker recording him on the last line on one page and the rest of the family on the following page. Number of children of Lucy (4 total, 2 living) is correct.

Thus, we have errors of place as well as of age in the above. These types of errors are relatively common. But the inconsistency of the “Wolcott” place of birth is still to be addressed.

Investigation into Andrew’s Parents

As noted above, in those census records where Andrew is living with his parents (1850, 1855), they are listed as Orrin and Esther. But the census records from those years do not record actual relationships, so they can only be inferred. Also, wives are only recorded with the last name of their husband and so tracing a maiden name can be difficult. So, let’s see what we can find out about this family.

I started out by looking to see what other researchers had recorded about this family. This is NOT because I accept those family trees as being totally factual, but by looking at what supporting data is linked to those trees I can validate the information in them and possibly find sources that I may have overlooked. Here is a synopsis of what I found:

·       Father – Orrin Hall Slater, born in 1802, died in 1889

·       First wife – Polly Almira Curtis, born in 1805, variously listed as having died on June 5, 1827 or 1837

·       Second wife – Ester/Esther Batchford Stevens, born in 1799, died in 1875

·       Child – Joel C Slater, born 5 May 1826 or 1828, died in 1909

·       Child – Andrew Jackson Slater, born 1830, died 1913

·       Child – Louisa Maria Slater, born 1833, died 1903

·       Child – Sarah Slater, born 1836, died 1922

·       Child – Catharine Slater, born 1848

So, where did this information come from? In the 1850 and 1855 census records above, we can see Orrin, Esther, and the oldest four children. So that accounts for those family members. But we do not know whether Esther is the mother or the step-mother of these children. The fifth child, Catharine, is found only in the 1865 NY census where she is listed together with Orrin and Esther. So, our questions are around (1) Orrin’s first wife, (2) when she died, (3) why the confusion about Joel’s birth year, (4) when Orrin married his second wife, (5) who are the parents of each of the children, and (6) why Catharine only occurs in that one census with a gap between her and the other siblings. Let’s address these in turn…

Orrin’s first wife: Polly shows up in two places, both pretty significant ones. First, Joel died in Michigan and his death certificate list his parents as Or[r]in Slater (born in NY), and Pol[l]y Curtis (born in NY). Second, there is a gravestone in the Round Top Cemetery in Greene County, NY which lists “Orrin Slater, born Oct 28, 1802, died Apr 4, 1889” and “Polly Curtis, his wife, born Aug 20, 1805, died June 5, 1827”. There is an inscription on the top of the square stone “Father & Mother”. The findagrave.com entry for this plot also lists a son of Joel.

Polly’s death date: This seems to have come directly from the gravestone for Orrin and Polly and normally that would be pretty conclusive. But the stone is not one of white stone such as one would typically find in 1827, rather it’s a pink granite of the type used much later. In addition, the inscription on the top indicates that it would have been made by one of the children of Orrin after Orrin’s death, not by Orrin when his wife died so young. I surmise that Polly originally died in 1837 and was buried originally under an older gravestone. When Orrin finally died over fifty years later, one of his children, probably Joel, ordered that Orrin be buried with his first wife (hence the “Father & Mother” on the top), but the stone from 1837 stone had either aged so much that it was difficult to read, or the handwriting of Joel’s instruction to the stonemason was misinterpreted. At any rate, the year of Polly’s death was NOT 1827 as so many ancestral trees indicate.

Joel’s birth year: Joel’s year of birth appears almost universally as 1828 – in census records, in his death certificate, on his gravestone, etc. So why do so many trees have 1826 instead? I believe that this mistake is directly tied to the mistake in Polly’s death date. If one is building a tree in ancestry.com there are many consistency checks made. The parents are entered first, then the children. If one put 1827 as Polly’s year of death, then tried to enter a birth year of 1828 for Joel, the user gets a message that this must be a mistake since a child cannot be born after the mother is dead. But Polly is clearly the mother, as indicated on Joel’s death certificate. So, to eliminate the error, someone changed the date to 1826 and this got propagated to other later trees.

Orrin’s second marriage: Orrin is clearly married to Esther by 1850, but how long have they been married? The answer can be found in the 1855 NY census which contains a column labeled “Years resident in this city or town”. As a lifelong resident, Orrin is listed as age 52 and having lived in Cairo, NY for his entire life (52 years). Esther, on the other had is listed as having been born in CT and only having lived in Cairo for 6 years. Thus, Orrin and Esther only married in late 1848 or early 1849.

Who are the parents: Having answered the prior questions on Polly’s death date (1837) and Orrin’s re-marriage (1848/9), it is now apparent that the parents of Joel, Andrew, Louisa, and Sarah are Orrin and Polly since they were all born in the period 1828-1836 before Polly died. Thus, in the 1850 and 1855 census records, Esther is a step-mother, not the birth mother of those four children. Another indication of this is that in the 1865 NY census, both Orrin and Esther are listed as having been married twice. Thus, Esther was either widowed (the most likely) or divorced when she and Orrin married in 1848/9.

Catharine: Catharine only appears in the 1865 NY census where she was 17. If she were a child of Orrin and Esther, then she should have also been in the 1855 NY census with an age of 7. That would also be unlikely, since that would have placed her birth before Esther moved to NY from CT. Despite her being listed with a last name of Slater, I can find no other records listing her. I conclude that she is NOT a sibling of the other Slater children, but possibly a grandchild from one of Esther’s other children who is staying with them for a time. And her actual last name may not be Slater, but something else, but was presumed by the census taker. (Note that I have run across this situation in the past with NY ancestors of my own.) But since Catharine is not pertinent to our story, I’m not going to take the time to investigate further.

A final note – in the process of doing this investigation, I located Orrin and family in the 1840 census. This census only lists the head of household and tick marks for each family member. The tick marks for Orrin include [Free White] Male age 5-9 (Andrew, then almost 10), Male age 10-14 (Joel, then 12), Male age 30-39 (Orrin, age 38), Female under 5 (Sarah, age 4), Female age 5-9 (Louisa, age 7), and Female 20-29. Since Orrin’s first wife, Polly, died in 1837 at age 32, this is not Polly. And since he didn’t remarry until 1848/9, it’s not his second wife Esther who would be 41. So, who is this woman about 10 years younger than Orrin who is living with them? I have no ready answer and there are no other indications in any other records who this might be!

Investigating Prior Generations

Having confirmed that Andrew’s mother was Polly Curtis Slater, it is much easier to follow the trail back a few more generations to see where the “Wolcott” name comes from in the errant 1900 census records.

Polly’s father was Joel Curtis (hence her first child being named after his grandfather). He was born in 1786 in CT. Joel’s parents were Abel Curtis[s] (1741-1828) and Anna Alcott (1751-1821). But I have written about them before. As I noted in a blog about the Alcott/Alcox family (*2), John Alcox and his wife, who settled in Wolcott [Farmingbury] in 1731, had 12 children, the youngest daughter being Anna – “Anna (1751-1822), married Abel Curtiss from Wallingford, 1 child, buried in Edgewood Cemetery”.

Thus, we finally get back to the roots of Andrew Slater and the cryptic note of his birth mother being born in “Wolcott”. Perhaps when the census taker talked to Andrew’s wife on that fateful day in 1900 (the wife was most often the one who answered the door when the census taker arrived as the men would be out working), she said to him, “Andrew’s father was born in NY, but his mother’s family was one of the original settlers of Wolcott” and the census taker noted the sense of that response as “Wolcott”. At any rate, it was not a coincidence that Andrew moved to Wolcott back in the 1870s – that was the town of his mother’s roots and he thus had a number of relatives still living in the area.

Notes:

*1 - https://ramblinrussells.blogspot.com/2020/12/wolcott-history-census-records-schools.html

*2 - https://ramblinrussells.blogspot.com/2015/04/wolcott-history-alcox-family.html