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Author: t42IOOF_DenCoTX
Surnames: CHURCH
Classification: cemetery
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CHURCH Jane EDWARDS 1885 1982
I photographed this gravestone in the I O O F Cemetery, Section S, Denton, Denton Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records.
This is one of the 195,326 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com If you know more about this person please reply here.
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Author: srl65
Surnames: Church
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I own a mantle (woman's cape) that bears the following label: George Church Mantle maker Chatham. I suspect that the George Church named on the label is the George Church born in Chatham 1839. Is Susanrussell69 able to confirm whether this may be the case? If Susanrussell69 would like more information about the mantle I would be happy to provide it.
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Author: okcows
Surnames: Church, Delerga
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There is a Henry Church, aged 21 born in New York, listed on the 1850 Stark Co., Il census. I beleive this Henry is a brother to my husband's gggrandfather Thomas D Church also born in NY and died in Stark Co. They would be children of Norman and Rebecca (Delerga) Church. I have more info on parents, but nothing further back.
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Author: MichaelClark905
Surnames: Church
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David R Church 4 June 1921 - 5 August 1998. WWII Vet. Letter to him signed by President Harry Truman. Mr. Church was a warrant officer and apparently lived in Ohio.
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Author: djg769
Surnames: Boyd
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AUGUSTUS M. CHURCH.-This much respected pioneer of Alameda County, whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Allen's Hill, town of Richmond, Ontario County, New York, June 19, 1816, arid is the eldest surviving son of Lovett and Sally (Boyd) Church. Having resided in his birthplace until 1831, in that year our subject launched forth to face the world, and first found employment in a hardware store in Canandaigua. A twelvemonth later he entered the post-office as clerk, and the year after took charge of that office in Lockport, Niagara County, New York. In 1834 he entered the bank of L. A. Spaulding in that place, where he remained two years. We next find him in the Canal Collector's office of Judge McKane, and in the winter of 1837-38 he proceeded to Chicago to take charge of and sell out a stock of goods for the Bank of Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, which completing, he proceeded to -Ottawa, and was there interested in the construction of the Illinois' and Michigan Canal, as!
well as in mercantile operations. In 1839 he moved to Berrien County, Michigan, where in May, he was joined .in matrimony to Miss Ellen Cronkhite, a native of the State of New York, and that fall proceeded to Dubuque, Iowa, and embarked in a mercantile business in Bellevue, on the Mississippi, twenty-five miles below the first-named city. At this period the district was infested by a gang of horse-thieves and counterfeiters with a man named Brown as their leader, who were perpetrating their rascally actions and apparently without opposition. This defiance of law and order, however, the well-disposed citizens could not brook, therefore, on the morning of April r, 1840, a meeting of the inhabitants of the town and county was convened, when it was determined to resort to extreme measures to deliver them from the depredations of this pestiferous crew. Brown and his gang fortified themselves, but were captured after considerable resistance by about a hundred citizens, who forth!
with sent them out of 'the district down the mighty Father of Waters o
n a raft. In these events Mr. Church took a prominent part, and afterwards, returning to Berrien County, opened a hotel in Whitmanville, Cass County, which he conducted for two years. In 1842 he transferred his habitation to St. Joseph, where, he combined trading with hotel-keeping until 1844-45, when he removed to Saint Mary's Rapids, and managed a hotel there for eighteen months. In 1847 he returned to St. Joseph and resumed his former business and there resided until the ever-memorable year of 1849. Now, the slogan of gold was making itself heard from the shores of the Pacific to those of the Atlantic Ocean. Every one's eyes were turned to the metal-producing rivers and gorges of the Sierra Nevada. Parties, both large and small, were being made up to cross the unknown waste which lay between them and the terra incognita of California, our subject was not to be behind-hand. Resigning the position of Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Berrien County, he in company with!
those two respected citizens of Alameda County, Lucien B. and Socrates Huff, L. C. Wittenmyer, the present able County Clerk of Contra Costa, A. P. Pinney and James M. Morton, both of whom are . now deceased, left his home in the month of March, and started to cross the plains with three mule-teams. August 13,1849, they arrived at Bear River and called a halt for short a time to rest, when they proceeded to the mines on the Yuba and Deer Creek. In October Mr. Church and his comrades moved to the north fork of the Yuba, and mined for a time at Goodyear and Michigan Bars; while, during this month, three of the party proceeded to the point where now stands the town of Downieville, Sierra County. Here Mr. Church's friends found the river low, set to work mining, and in the incredibly short space of six hours took out five hundred dollars' worth of gold. With elated spirits they returned to their companions then located on Goodyear's Bar, and with such prospects ahead the whole!
party determined to locate there for the winter. The night they reach
ed the desired and long wished for haven, it commenced to rain and snow, no work could be done, they therefore left for Sacramento and passed the remainder of the winter on Rancheria Creek, cogitating on the uncertainty of things mundane. In March, 1850, Mr. Church returned to the spot which was to deliver up to him prodigious wealth, all he found was a ruin-lined stream, devoid of present or even future hope, he therefore disposed of his claim, settled his affairs, found he had eighteen hundred dollars, and determined to return to his family and home. Ere starting on his journey, however, he proceeded to Goodyear's Bar to bid adieu to his friends there, and, for safety: gave his gold-dust to a man there who kept the store, trusting to receive it the next morning before taking up the line of march. On demanding it he was told that during the night it had been stolen. Judge of his feelings when he found that thus had been swept away his entire earnings, and he was forced to r!
eturn . to his home hardly a cent better off in monetary affairs than when he had left.. It is satisfactory to know that the identity of the thief was afterwards fully established. He continued his journey homewards, however, undeterred, passed the winter of 1850 with his relatives, and in the spring of 1851, in company with Socrates Huff, of San Leandro, returned to California. In the winter of 1851-52, with some others, Mr. Church hunted in the hills situated at the back of Mission San Jose, from which expedition each of the party cleared three hundred dollars. In the spring of 1852 he located a trading-point, in partnership with Henry C. Smith, at New Haven (now Alvarado), from where he was elected to the Board of Supervisors in 1852-53, when Washington Township was a portion of Santa Clara County. While a resident of New Haven, Alameda County was created from out of portions of the counties of Contra Costa and Santa Clara, and disposing of his interest to his partner, M!
r. Church was elected the first County Clerk and Recorder of Alameda.
He was connected with these offices, as chief and two years as a deputy for nine years. In the year 1867-68 he was associated with the late lamented John W. Dwinelle as Representative from Alameda County, in the State Assembly; and in the year 1868-69, retired to his farm in Murray Township. In the last-named year he visited Healdsburg, Sonoma County, and met, in company with a daughter, such serious injuries from the upsetting of a Concord coach between that town and Calistoga, that he has been maimed and lamed for life. In the year 1870 he established himself in a mercantile business in Healdsburg, believing that that place would be the terminus of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad, but suddenly a franchise having been granted to continue the line to Cloverdale, the commercial prospects of Healdsburg went to zero, and with it the trade fostered by our subject. He lost money, paid his debts, and returned to his ranch in Murray Township, where he succeeded his for!
mer partner, Henry C. Smith, as Justice of the Peace, and held the office for four years at Livermore. In 1877 he sold his estate and took up his residence in the city of Oakland, being in 1879 elected Justice of the Peace for Oakland Township, an office he still holds with marked ability. Mr. Justice Church is among the most respected of Alameda's citizens. His integrity has never been questioned; his popularity is unbounded; while, in his official capacity, he may be said to exercise a felicitous tact in all his dealings with lawyers and litigants. He is a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows' fraternity, as well as one of the Association of California Pioneers. He married in May, 1839, Miss Ellen Cronkhite, a native of the State of New York, and has surviving a family of five children, viz.: Helen, now Mrs. Saulisbury, residing at Santa Ana, Los Angeles County, California; Sarah, now Mrs. Gill, residing near Santa Ana, Los Angeles County, California; William H., now a c!
lerk in the post-office at San Francisco; Rod. W., now residing at Liv
ermore, Alameda County, California; Lincoln S., now residing in Oakland, Alameda County, California.
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Author: akanex2
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Hi Kathy
I have just seen your post about the photograph of Charlotte Elizabeth Church (B. 1850). She was my gt gt grandfather's 2nd cousin and I have copies of some letters she wrote to my gt grandfather when she was in her seventies. My grandmother remembers her youngest son (Rev Wilfred Abbott of Killowen in Co Londonderry) well, although as far as I know all her remaining descendants live in Canada now. I am intrigued as to how you got the photo and would love to see a scan of it. Another relative has a portrait of her mother, Alicia Church (nee Bloxham), making an interesting comparison. Please contact me on my home email address kanehouse AT talktalk.net.
Regards
Andrew Kane
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