Footnotes and sources; along with some credits.
CREDITS
Due credit for enormous assistance in the foregoing to Dale Berger for much of the Monroe county church information and to Jeffrey L. Thomas for his great website about the Avondale Mine Disaster.
Footnotes and sources:
Sorry the footnote numbers do not seem to show up in the text. If I could remove and repost with them I would do so...
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1 1850 census, microfilm roll #798, Monroe Co., PA, Hamilton Twp., house #109
2 Bethlehem Daily Times/Globe-Times, Bethlehem, PA, Feb, 3, 1880
http://206.245.141.13/scripts/as_web.exe?18671890.ask+D+4289... February 3, 1880 PAGE 1:6 Sudden Death
3 Bethlehem Daily Times/Globe-Times, Bethlehem, PA, Feb, 3, 1880, February 21, 1885, Page 1:6; text provided at the end of this document.
4 Swiss Fenner Family Lines, Fenner, Henry, The Fenner Family Tree, Swiss Fenners, .pdf, 14 Oct 2003. Fenner, Chris, ed. The Fenner Family. 4th ed. 8 April 2005.
www.fennerfamily.com Shortend his name to Henry and used that most of his life. He helped lay out Fennersville, which is the modern day Sciota PA, changed after 1870 to prevent confusion with a similar named Tannersville.
5 "ARO (1980) Recollections of the Childhood of Agnes Ruth," Agnes Ruth Oliver, Typescript, 3 Pages, 28 Nov 1980.
6 "Affidavit of Edward C. Hope," Edward C. /Hope/, Accompany Passport Application 290634, 12 MAY 1923.
7 Corrigary, James M, The Great Disaster at Avondale Colliery,
http://www.thomasgenweb.com/avondale_report5.html Web site by Jeffrey L. Thomas
jltbalt1@comcast.net Images of the report may be found at the Mine Safety and Health Administration Library in Denver, Colorado, and provides fascinating eyewitness accounts of the accident and its aftermath, and testimony from the official inquest.
http://www.msha.gov/District/Dist_01/Reports/Avondale/letter... 8 Mary A. age 27 born 1827 in PA; the census taker's mistakes with this family are many. The census of 1860 however resolves the contradiction showing her to be aged 37, thus born ca 1823.
9 Plumb, Henry Blackman, History of Hanover Township and Wyoming Valley including Sugar Notch, Ashley and Nanticocke boroughs and also a History of Wyoming Valley, in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Robert Baur, Printer and Stationer, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1885 - 498 pp., FHL 1000563 Item 2 COX Collection Tucson AZ pp. 474-475. Note the generation numbers he used are different.
10 Plumb, Henry Blackman, op. Cit.
11 "ARO(i) Genealogy Research," Agnes Rita /Ruth/Genealogy Charts and Notes made by her concerning her aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins including many contemporaries.
12 "1850 Census, US."
13 Obituary of Peter Rumage." Wilkes-Barre Record, Jan 12, 1894.
14 "1850 Census, US."
15 Those shown as siblings are in fact his children, as shall be demonstrated.
16 Obituary, Wilkes-Barre Record, Jan 12, 1894:
17 A distant cousin who knew the family recalled the name as "George" Mead but the obituary says Nathaniel, and despite its many errors, census records shows a nearby Nathaniel Mead with wife Mary but no George Meade anywhere.
18 "ARO(i) Genealogy Research," Agnes Rita /Ruth/Genealogy Charts and Notes made by her concerning her aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins including many contemporaries.
19 Minnich is the usual spelling
20 due to the many errors showing the poor quality of this record entry Plumb's 1814 is retained.
21 Church records of St. James Lutheran Church, Newport Center (Nanticoke), 7/12/1846; FHL 1312467 Item 5 This has not been verified by the author, who presumes the Clementon entry indicates an error in reading or transcribing the original record.