Places to Go, People to See: Westward Ho!

This is a continuation of my genealogy world tour.  From New England, my family traveled westward by way of Ohio (western end of the Connecticut reserve), to Minnesota, Michigan, Dakota Territory and Wyoming, Indiana, Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma.  All of these places are connected to my mother's maternal and paternal sides - my dad's folks tended to stay in New England or migrate south to Virginia.

OHIO

Copley

LDS directory of church leaders and members
josephsmithpapers.org

• Joseph Bucklin & Lucinda Hopkins Bosworth - farmer, millwright, LDS church high priest; elected one of the first constables.  1819 - (July 15) Citizens of Copley Township met and elected the first officers to govern the newly created area.

Firelands

• Land given as restitution for Connecticut property burned by the British
• John and Clarissa Olcott (1st wife) Dillingham
• John m. Hannah Hickok near present-day Cleveland

Western end of the Connecticut reserve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firelands#/media/File:Western_Reserve_Including_the_Fire_Lands_1826.jpg

Perry Lake - Jotham Chester and Hila Bradley Judd resided 1840-1850.  Jotham

Middleburg - 1st settler Jared Hickcox, 4th great grandfather on my mother's paternal side (daughter Hannah married John Dillingham - see Liberty, Indiana) - memorial at Hepburn cemetery in Hickcox Park.

INDIANA

Liberty Township

• Dillingham Settlement founded in 1837 - John and Hannah Dillingham, original settlers
• Anna Dillingham, teacher, 1st school at Dillingham home
• Calvin Crofford m. Anna Dillingham (widow of Daniel Lyons)
• Olcott Dillingham's home & burial ground (John Dillingham grave)

Jackson Township

• Calvin Crofford, original settler

Valparaiso

• Horace Calvin Crofford born in 1846

ILLINOIS

Chicago

• Mercy Hospital - Sisters of Mercy
• AMBU Engineering Institute - Horace C. Crofford Jr.
• Sisters of Mercy WWI Veterans Dispensary  In 1921, the Sisters of Mercy took over a World War I Veterans’ Dispensary to offer medical and surgical services to the poor. During the depression, the Mercy Free Dispensary served the jobless until the national economic tragedy forced it to close down. Yet in 1938, the dispensary opened again, providing needed health care services to tens of thousands.

Waukegan

• Horace and Teresa Crofford - 640 Mill CT and 2000 W. Washington Street 
• Horace C (Sonny) & Virginia Maude Crofford born at St. Theresa's Hospital
• Spaulding Elementary School
• Ada's residence - 214 314 S Sheridan rd

St Theresa's Hospital, Waukegan

Littleton, Hancock Co.

• Joseph & Lucinda Bosworth, eleven children moved from Copley, Ohio
• Orlando M. and Eliza Applegate Bosworth , daughter Eva Louise Bosworth
• Eva Louise m. Augustus D. Allen

MICHIGAN

Detroit area

• Andrew Hall recruited by the army 1862
• Andrew reunited with his family here after he returned from the war
• Jackson Furnace - Andrew worked as a watchman

Marquette

• Andrew Hall did maintenance work on trains

Ontonagon

• Minnesota Mine - Andrew Hall was present at the discovery of the largest single mass of copper ever taken from the ground.  He also saw the tools and remains of ancient miners in the area mines (speculation is that these miners came up from Mexico in ancient Mayan times).

DAKOTA TERRITORY

Fargo

• 1st frame home built by Andrew Hall
• Red River Valley
• Grasshopper Plague 1874
• Andrew Hall built a store and another frame building in nearby Brainerd

Fort Lincoln

• Ada was teaching school when Custer left for Little Big Horn
• Ada was friends with Elizabeth Custer
• Andrew Hall and family traveled the Overland Trail with the army from Fort Lincoln to the Black Hills. Two fellow travelers were killed and scalped by Indians on the way. 

Black Hills

• Horace C. Crofford came from Lincoln, Nebraska, to search for gold; quartz miner 1880
• Andrew Hall ranch on the Cheyenne River at Bear Butte Creek near present-day Sturgis
• Fleur de Lys horse ranch - Percherons and Arabians
• Horace m. Ada Hall, 1891
• Horace, Custer County commissioner
• son, Horace C. Crofford born 1894 at Buffalo Gap
• Lame Johnny Creek - Horace Sr. killed cattle rancher John Taylor over grazing land, 6 mi. N of Buffalo Gap
• Messiah Craze - Wounded Knee massacre

WYOMING

Newcastle 

• Andrew Hall signed over his ranch to daughter Ada.  
• Horace and Ada raised their family on the ranch.  
• Ada ran a boardinghouse.  
• Andrew and Miriam Olivia buried at Greenwood Cemetery.
• Barnum Brown, paleontologist - discovery site of T. Rex on Crofford ranch.

NEBRASKA

Lincoln

• Oregon Trail
• Calvin Crofford received 154 acres of land through the Homestead Act, 1864
• Grasshopper Plague 1874

MISSOURI

Rochester

• Calvin & Anna Crofford and family resided here for a year or less, abt 1860..

Polk, Dade County

• Horace C. Crofford moved to Polk from the Black Hills in 1916 and died that same year
• burial at Humansville Cemetery

KANSAS

Wichita

• Augustus, Eva, and Ethelyn Allen, Eliza Applegate moved here by 1900.
• A.D. Allen Real Estate, 121 E. Douglas Ave.
• Bureau of Immigration, Douglas Ave.

TEXAS

Paris

• Teresa (nee Ethelyn) Allen lived at St. Patrick's Academy run by Sisters of Mercy, CA 1900
• 1st Catholic School in Paris, next to church - 238 Clarksville St., site of 1st St. Joseph Hospital (now a parking lot).  Note: Fire destroyed much of Paris in 1916.
• Teresa graduated from Paris Sanitarium Training School for Nurses, 1919, 7th graduating class with friend Maud Marshall
• Evergreen Cemetery, burial site of Mother Teresa Muldoon

San Antonio

• Sisters of Mercy moved from Paris after St. Joseph's Infirmary closed, CA 1912.

OKLAHOMA

Oklahoma City

• Teresa Allen lived in a boardinghouse on 11th Street in 1920, with friend & fellow boarder, Maud Marshall.  (a hospital and nursing school are nearby)

Woodward

• Eva Allen resided in a mental hospital at Old Fort Supply from about 1908-1911.
• Fort Supply cemetery for hospital inmates - see Eva's gravestone.