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Hi everyone
We talk about documenting our sources, so I thought I would share this website with anyone who needs documentation on some of their closer-up generations. You can download the forms that you need to order copies of birth, death, marriage, and divorce certificates from each state:
http://vitalrec/index/html
My Chronisters are all in PA, and PA has death certificates for people who died in PA from as far back as 1906. That is how I found the father of my Sarah Chronister. Sarah lived to be old, but her tombstone only had the death year on it. When I found a distant cousin who had a full death date for my Sarah, I was then able to download the form and order Sarah's death certificate, which named her parents.
Pennsylvania charges $3.00 for a copy of a death certificate, and you can get all sorts of information off of it, including cause of death, birthplace, spouse's name, parents' names (if the informant knew the parents names), the name of the funeral home who handled the arrangements, place of interment, and more.
Different states have different fees, and some have limited records due to fire. This website tells you what's available for each state, and how much it costs. I would recommend obtaining all death certificates that are available for your family.
Peggy Reeves
Burtonsville, MD
Debbie, If this Adam is the father of James Adam Chronister, father of
William Joseph Chroniser, father of William S. Chronister, father of
Cassie Chronister Reed, mother of Thomas L. Reed, then I believe my
husband is in his line. And you are trying to find out if his first
name was Mathias? Wasn't his father Adam Chronister Sr.?
I think James Adam Chronister was the father of William Joseph
Chronister because he was found in the 1860 Jackson Co., Arkansas Census
J.A. Chronister 31 Farmer Missouri
Nancy Chronister 20 Mississippi
William Chronister 11 Missouri
Then he married Nancy Chronister and they had Mary Elizabeth and Islom
L. Chronister
Mary Lou
On Saturday, November 29, 2003, at 05:00 AM,
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> Debra, Which Adam are you talking about?
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> Mary Lou Reed
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> On Friday, November 28, 2003, at 08:09 AM,
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>> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:43:53 -0600
>> From: "Debra C. Blackard" <debrablackard(a)centurytel.net>
>> To: CHRONISTER-L(a)rootsweb.com
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>> Subject: [CHRONISTER] Hanah, widow of Adam Cronister
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>> Dear Listers,
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>> Does anyone have a death date for Hanah Skaggs Cronister, widow of
>> Adam?
>>
>> The last date I have for her is 11 Nov 1857 when she made her
>> declaration for lands entered, Certificate No. 27403, in Madison Co.,
>> MO. Does anyone have a census reading for 1860?
>>
>> Debra Blackard
>
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> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:54:04 -0600
> From: "Debra C. Blackard" <debrablackard(a)centurytel.net>
> To: CHRONISTER-L(a)rootsweb.com
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> Subject: [CHRONISTER] Adam Chronister, b. c1765-70
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> Mary Lou, I'm talking about the elder Adam, son of the elder Mathias
> Chronister of Lincoln Co., NC.
>
> Adam, b. c 1765 - 70 (based on the 1810 Rutherford Co., TN census,)
> presumed
> to have died sometime after 1840. Hanah Cronister entered lands in
> Madison
> Co., MO in 1857. Has anyone on the list tracked this land to see if
> she sold
> it as a single person?
>
> Another question: Elizabeth Skaggs gave testimony that Hannah had
> improved
> her land claim and was a resident of said claim. Is it safe to assume
> that
> Elizabeth is Hannah's daughter by the previous marriage? Elizabeth
> entered
> lands adjoining that of Hannah's.
>
> Deb
Mary Lou, I'm talking about the elder Adam, son of the elder Mathias
Chronister of Lincoln Co., NC.
Adam, b. c 1765 - 70 (based on the 1810 Rutherford Co., TN census,) presumed
to have died sometime after 1840. Hanah Cronister entered lands in Madison
Co., MO in 1857. Has anyone on the list tracked this land to see if she sold
it as a single person?
Another question: Elizabeth Skaggs gave testimony that Hannah had improved
her land claim and was a resident of said claim. Is it safe to assume that
Elizabeth is Hannah's daughter by the previous marriage? Elizabeth entered
lands adjoining that of Hannah's.
Deb
Debra, Which Adam are you talking about?
Mary Lou Reed
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> From: "Debra C. Blackard" <debrablackard(a)centurytel.net>
> To: CHRONISTER-L(a)rootsweb.com
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> Subject: [CHRONISTER] Hanah, widow of Adam Cronister
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> Dear Listers,
>
> Does anyone have a death date for Hanah Skaggs Cronister, widow of
> Adam?
>
> The last date I have for her is 11 Nov 1857 when she made her
> declaration for lands entered, Certificate No. 27403, in Madison Co.,
> MO. Does anyone have a census reading for 1860?
>
> Debra Blackard
Dear Listers,
Does anyone have a death date for Hanah Skaggs Cronister, widow of Adam?
The last date I have for her is 11 Nov 1857 when she made her declaration for lands entered, Certificate No. 27403, in Madison Co., MO. Does anyone have a census reading for 1860?
Debra Blackard
If you just can't wait for my Aunt Darlene to return from her fun in the sun to share Elza Chronister's Civil War memoirs, you can view the text of "Reminiscences of Army Life", here: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~c1debbi/Chronister/Elza.htm
Debbi Mullins
----- Original Message -----
From: Darlene Casteel
To: CHRONISTER-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: [CHRONISTER] Discussion Topics
Debra --
My husband's gr-grandfather, Elza Chronister, wrote his Civil War memoirs
"Reminiscenses of Army Life", published in 1908 at Eagle Grove, IA. As far
as I know, the only "original" is housed in the library at Duke University.
We obtained a copy through our local library. It is a rather lenghthy
document covering his 4 years of service in the Union Army. I don't have it
with me (I'm enjoying the sun of Arizona), but will be glad to share some or
all of his story after I return home in about April if listers are
interested.
Darlene Casteel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Debra C. Blackard" <debrablackard(a)centurytel.net>
To: <CHRONISTER-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 6:27 PM
Subject: [CHRONISTER] Discussion Topics
Although this list has little traffic at the present, I believe that we can
help each other with research problem areas if we share our research
techniques, locations of sources of information, even our goof-ups that
allowed us to learn from our mistakes.
Would list members be interested in posting abstracts of Chronister Civil
War soldiers' files to the list? By state and county? I am particularly
interested in any narrative accounts of the Civil War passed down to
descendants.
Debra Blackard
Chronister List Manager
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This is not my Chronister, but he's somebody's. I had looked at his file, not knowing who he was. I copied this one little item from it, because I enjoy these first-person accounts. This one was especially interesting to me, because my daughter and I have hiked and biked along the C&O Canal towpath, exactly in the place where this Chronister was on duty and took sick.
Also, I remember that there was somebody on this list who was trying to find Chronisters who lived in a place called "Warrior's Mark". I can't remember who that was. Anyway, this fellow might be yours--he lived there all of his life.
"On or about September 1861, at Camp Tenaly [Tenleytown section of D.C.--the subway has a stop there now] the claimant, Jacob Chronister, was down with fever about six weeks and I believe it was caused by exposure on picket, as he took sick right after being on picket at Great Falls in a great storm of rain and wind which lasted the whole night, and on returning to camp the tents was blown down and no shelter of any kind to be had, and the claimant never seemed to be very stout after that as he often complained of pain in the head and after had to be excused from duty on that account. I know his condition after his first sickness, as I was first Sergeant of Company I from October 1, 1862 until discharged, and had to make all details and report all sick, but I can't remember dates, places, or different times, as it happened so long ago.
I wrote the above myself and was not aided or prompted."
[signed] John B. McKean
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 19th day of January, 1899, at Blanchard in the County of Center, State of Pennsylvania. [Magistrate's signature]
(from the Civil War pension file of Jacob Chronister, Company I, 34th Pennsylvania Infantry)
Peggy Reeves
Burtonsville, MD
Debra, this sounds great!
I really love hearing the "war stories", too. I was not a good history
student in school, but history is very meaningful now that I can put my own
family in the battle theater.
If there is interest in this subject, I would be happy to post the
Chronister names from the Civil War indexes at the National Archives. There
are quite a few of them, and I can do it by state if you'd like.
My g-grandmother, Sarah M. Chronister, was my Civil War era ancestor. Two
of her half-brothers fought in the Civil War. The oldest stayed in for
three years and fought heroicly, participating in several battles and being
wounded several times.
This is a first-person account of a scene from the Battle of Cold Harbor, as
told by soldier Josiah Lehn, who was a comrade of Dixon Chronister,
half-brother of Sarah. Dixon received pension for his injury, based on his
comrade's description of his battle injury:
"On the eleventh day of June 1864 our Regiment, the 18th [Pennsylvania]
Cavalry was deployed as skirmishers near Old Church in the state of Virginia
when quite a number of men were either killed or wounded. Myself and Dixon
Chronister were ordered by lieutenant, afterwards Captain, George W. Neiman
of Company E 18th PA Cavalry to hand our carbines to him and help two other
comrades carry a man off the field. We took hold and walked about a rod or
two when we were both hit at the same time, Dixon Chronister in the hip and
I through the right forearm. Two other men were then ordered to take our
place and the man we were carrying was left on the field as he was about
dead. Then Dixon Chronister was placed on the blanket and carried to the
rear, not being able to walk." --[signed] Josiah Lehn
Signed and sworn to before me this 14th day of April 1890 [clerk of court
signature]
(From the Civil War pension file of Dixon O. Chronister, Company E, 18th PA
Cavalry and Company H, 7th Veteran Reserve Corp.)
Peggy Reeves
Burtonsville, MD
Debra --
My husband's gr-grandfather, Elza Chronister, wrote his Civil War memoirs
"Reminiscenses of Army Life", published in 1908 at Eagle Grove, IA. As far
as I know, the only "original" is housed in the library at Duke University.
We obtained a copy through our local library. It is a rather lenghthy
document covering his 4 years of service in the Union Army. I don't have it
with me (I'm enjoying the sun of Arizona), but will be glad to share some or
all of his story after I return home in about April if listers are
interested.
Darlene Casteel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Debra C. Blackard" <debrablackard(a)centurytel.net>
To: <CHRONISTER-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 6:27 PM
Subject: [CHRONISTER] Discussion Topics
Although this list has little traffic at the present, I believe that we can
help each other with research problem areas if we share our research
techniques, locations of sources of information, even our goof-ups that
allowed us to learn from our mistakes.
Would list members be interested in posting abstracts of Chronister Civil
War soldiers' files to the list? By state and county? I am particularly
interested in any narrative accounts of the Civil War passed down to
descendants.
Debra Blackard
Chronister List Manager
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> All messages posted to the Chronister Ancestry Message Board are gatewayed
to the Chronister mailing list at Rootweb.
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go to:
> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237
>
>
Although this list has little traffic at the present, I believe that we can help each other with research problem areas if we share our research techniques, locations of sources of information, even our goof-ups that allowed us to learn from our mistakes.
Would list members be interested in posting abstracts of Chronister Civil War soldiers' files to the list? By state and county? I am particularly interested in any narrative accounts of the Civil War passed down to descendants.
One story in my line (James A. Chronister, pvt., 2nd AR Inf Vol USA, born Cape Girardeau Co., MO, 1821, died Johnson Co., AR, 1864) involved a unit of local Confederate Conscripters coming into the home of James' family after he and the eldest sons had gone into the hills with other allied family members to avoid being pressed into Confederate service. They believed that the younger members of the family would be safe from the local partisan rangers. A local Rebel leader named Newton came into the home where Winnie Chronister confronted them. She told Newton that her sons were just boys. Newton went to the bed where the younger Chronister males were sleeping and ran his hand over the chin of Henry, aged 13. Newton said, "Why this one is a man. Feel his beard." No one has ever reported what Winnie said to the conscription officer to keep him from taking her son.
Debra Blackard
Chronister List Manager