Tuttle Family

James Marvin Ellis, born June 30, 1842, sparked the foundation of Ellsworth. Although Ellis did not receive a sufficient education as a child, at the age of thirty-two he both cultivated one hundred sixty acres of farmland and managed a general store. (History 759) Not only did Ellis publicly exert himself, but his private life prospered as well. Ellis and his wife, Mary A. Beaty, brought forth seven children to the local population: Marvin U., Hester J., Elliot E., Thomas G., Joseph A., and Lotta A. (Ellis 1). In addition to agriculture, family, and merchandising, he also served as the town’s original postmaster (History 760). This holds importance because a post office provided a town’s first official identification (Kreitzer 65). Ellis’ societal involvement ventured much further than the town of Ellsworth, though.

As the 1870s progressed the Vankoughnetts and kin formed a hardy and tight knit community surrounding Otter Lake. Slowly the land was cleared and the farms started looking like farms and the young township started taking shape. There were two events however, that would significantly affect how the future would unravel for all the

Prior to World War II, Robert and Bessie’s close relatives literally meant family that lived nearby, most of whom were kin to Bessie. The only relatives of Robert’s that resided in or near Bradley was his brother and business partner, Harry and his wife, Flossie. In addition to Bessie’s parents, Merritt and Mary Kirby, other members of her close extended family were Bessie’s sister and brother-in-law, Pearl and John Madden, her brother and sister-in-law, Emmett and Nellie Kirby, and numerous nephews and nieces. Particularly significant among these relatives was their niece,

In April, 1809, Benjamin Tappan, Jr. sold lots 55, 56, and 57 to the county commissioners for the purpose of a courthouse and jail (Gregory, 34). Benjamin’s brothers, William and John, were contracted to build them. The

The builder of this seventeen room Greek revival mansion was Stephen S. Speakman. In the early 1840s, the elderly Speakman fell in love with a much younger woman, Sarah Bush, whose father owned a slave-holding plantation in Kentucky. Upon asking her hand in marriage, his bride-to-be refused to marry him unless he built her a southern plantation-style mansion. In 1845, with the use of his father-in-law’s slaves, Speakman erected his mansion on a five hundred acre plot next to Loughery Creek with every brick baked on site (Historical Marker Project).

Deborah Sampson didn’t have such a great childhood. She was born on December 17, 1760, and was the oldest of 6 siblings. She lived in a very poor family and her father never returned from a trip to sea. After, her mother was unable to care for her kids that when they became older she divided them into different homes. Deborah was soon taken by an 80 year old woman named Mrs.Thatcher that lived in Middleborough. Mrs. Thatcher was

A small parcel of land, part of the original property belonging to the Yountville Veterans’ Home, remained on the east side of State Road 29. The Veteran’s Home expressed an interest in providing the deed to this parcel of land to the Town of Yountville as long as the land was for use by the community and not sold for profit. The Town desired to create a park that was welcoming and connected the entrances to the Town of Yountville and the Veterans’ Home because they were

as the Ise’s homestead a claim in Osborne County, Kansas. The book is told from the point of view of

BEING the same premises conveyed to the Grantors herein by deed of Mo Wells, et al., dated May 3, 1964, and recorded in the Lackawanna County Recorder of Deeds in Deed Book 810 Page 233.

Times were difficult in Habersham County. The skyrocketing prices of fuel and food were threatening to bankrupt the Johnson family’s small farm, which was no match for the multi-million-dollar mega-farms that had been popping up all over the southeast. Joseph, the family patriarch, was especially troubled by the farm’s

Part I of A Sand County Almanac is devoted to the details of a single piece of land: Leopold’s 120-acre farmed-out farmstead in central Wisconsin, abandoned as a farm years before because of the poor soil from which the "sand

BEING the same premises conveyed to the Grantors herein by deed of Mo Wells, et al., dated May 3, 1964, and recorded in the Lackawanna County Recorder of Deeds in Deed Book 810 Page 233.

Scott, John Anthony and Robert Alan Scott. John Brown of Harper’s Ferry. Facts On File Publications 1988.

Everyone loves a good mystery, especially one that no one can solve. It gives one satisfaction to imagine that they can decipher it and become a hero, and it’s even more intriguing when it has lasted a few years. Some missing cases have even lasted several decades, but none have persisted as long as a case of a certain lost colony. Originating on an island off the coast of North Carolina in 1585, the mystery of The Lost Colonists of Roanoke Island has remained for over 400 years (History), and it continues to baffle historians, investigators, and archeologists alike.

impact on the town and the crops that grow in it. Old man Warner is the oldest in