What a heritage was "woven" for the descendants in your family.. I wonder
what the "tale" will be when we discover my husband's Grandfather's
secrecy..The man just fell out of the sky and into South Dakota... We have
the death certificate but can't find any information from Macon, MI.. where
it says he came from to settle in SD. But that doesn't necessarily mean
that he was born there.. We do know that he received letters from Ironwood,
MI. We have found a family there in Ironwood, and one in Bessemer... but
don't seem to be able to connect anything, YET. On a census that was found
recently for 1920 in Charles Mix County, SD.., it said that his father was
born in NY and mother born in MI... Now my husband's cousin and I are trying
to track the men from NY that moved to MI.... there's more than you think,,,
then to put all those families together? Whew, It is more than a week's
work.
Now I am going to track your family to see if I can find a person born
7/11/1894 by the name of George Morris Canfield.. We shall see, and thanks
for sharing your information, as I have wondered who the John C. was.. not
ever seeing the name Cromack before....
Thanks ever so much for your time.
It is much appreciated...PJ Canfield
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott / Diane Canfield" <scanfie(a)open.org>
To: <CANFIELD-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 7:06 AM
Subject: [CANFIELD] John Cromack Canfield
Prairie rose:
John Cromack Canfield (son of Almon Stores Canfield and Nancy Polly
Cromack)
was born August 13, 1837, one of eight siblings. He was born in
Plattsburg,
New York. I was told by my family that he arrived from England as a
stow-away just in time to join the Union Army and fight in the Civil War,
where he was wounded. When I sent proof of his birth in New York to my
oldest known living relatives, Uncle Bob and Aunt Beth in Granton,
Wisconsin, it was very difficult for them to accept. What about the
family
legend about the stow-away?
Sometime later, when I acquired a copy of Almon's obituary, it included
this
information about Almon's father-in-law, John's other
grandfather:
"Mr. Cromac, an Englishman from England whose passage to this country was
somewhat remarkable. Being a woolen manufacturer, the particular art of
making cloth in his native country was a secret and no person once
entering
an apprenticeship, was under the existing laws allowed to leave that
country. Having a strong desire and determination to see the new world
and
land of the free, he managed to get himself boarded up in a cask, and
was
shipped as merchandise on board of a sailing vessel. Arriving safely, he
opened a woolen works on the Connecticut River in Massachusetts where he
successfully carried on this business for many years. He was in the habit
of going out through the country and selling his wares, and on one of
those
trips he was supposed to have been murdered, being last seen in
company
with
one Taggart, entering a piece of woods."
So the family legend was correct, but it was credited to the wrong
grandfather. I rushed this information to Aunt Beth. Uncle Bob had died.
Scott Canfield
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