Wow, Congrats Debbie!!!
Tina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Debbie Barrett" <mrsgrinnin(a)comcast.net>
To: <WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 1:39 PM
Subject: [WIGEN-L] Success Story!!!!!!!!!!!
Just had to share this with fellow genealogists, my family
doesn't
understand :(!
After several years of searching for my gr.gr.grandfather, William Henry
Johnson, I had a stroke of luck. I received a piece of family lore that
said his name may not have been Johnson to begin with, but Pool. I
still had no luck finding a William Pool in Bureau County, IL in 1860
when his son Frank was born (May 1860 in Wheatland Co., IL according to
his marriage license in 1880). But the other day I decided to try a
search for Frank Pool, and guess what, up popped the family of Henry
Pool in Wheatland Bureau Co., IL in 1860 with son Frank, age 2
months!!!!! Along with that was mother, Arminda and sister Sarah A.
Jackpot!!!! They were living with Daniel Reed DeMaranville and his
wife, Amanda, so on a hunch I started looking for this couple and found
a distant cousin out there.
After a couple of emails and some more census digging, I found that
Arminda is indeed this couples daughter, William Henry was born Pool not
Johnson and that Arminda didn't die young as all had assumed when
William remarried in Pennsylvania. Turns out he was a deserter from the
Civil War (93rd IL Infantry, Co. E). He apparently returned home and,
for whatever reason, took the kids, left his wife, changed his name and
moved back to McKean Co., PA where he remarried in 1867 (would love to
have been a fly on the wall when that hit the fan)! Arminda remarried
in 1867 herself in IL and went on to have 6 more children.
The moral of the story is, never give up!!!!! The DeMaranville line has
been well documented over the years and goes back to Louis DeMaranville
and his wife Susanna Crapo. Susanna is a descendant of William White
who landed with the other pilgrims in Plymouth, MA on the Mayflower!!
They can run, but they can't hide!
Debbie Barrett
Coordinator
Pierce County WIGenWeb Project
www.rootsweb.com/~wipierce/
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