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Record for Mary Brong (65) facts
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Tasch Family Tree - Jennifer Westendarp
George Ardery 1807-
BIRTH 17 FEB 1807 • New York USA
DEATH Unknown
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Article in Potter Enterprise August 2012
August 2012 , Potter County, Pennsylvania
By Jeannette Buck:
William Ardrey was born in March of 1773 and his wife Mary was born just a few months before him in August of 1772. They came into the world just as the anger and rebellion that would explode in to the American Revolution was coming to a boil. For reasons unknown, they left their families in southwestern Pennsylvania and went to live in what would become Yates County, NY. where they raised a large family.
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Then, with their family half-grown, they pulled up stakes again and leaving some of the older children behind, William and Mary Ardrey came to Potter County.
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Their daughter Susannah or Susan, married William Morley and I can claim her as my great-great grandmother. Otherwise, I would know nothing about them. For me, the fascination is in the dates.
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Mary Brong Ardrey was probably the daughter of Peter Brong and was of Dutch descent. The Ardreys were of Scotch-Irish origin and had settled in the area near what is now Chambersburg, Pennsylvania long enough ago that at times, they had to seek protection from some angry Native Americans.
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Mary Ardrey raised at least eight children; she was twice completely uprooted from her established homes and family and lived several months into her 100th year.
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She grew up as the Revolution was being fought; she was a wife and mother during the War of 1812 and lived to see the country nearly split in two during the Civil War. If the dates on this paper are correct, she was still bearing children in her early 50s.
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She left a daughter and a son, both grown and married, in New York when she came to Potter County. It appears that she never saw either of them again. Her daughter Sarah, or Sally, married a man by the name of Carter and she went west with him and disappeared into the wilderness.
She left behind an illegitimate daughter for Mary to raise. Two more of Mary’s children, Jim, who had married Olive Daniels and Margaret whose husband was a farmer and sometimes preacher named Silas Bowker left for Michigan during the Civil War. There were a few letters over the years, which have been preserved and have a home up there on my shelf, but Mary never saw her children or their families again.
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Mary’s final years were spent with her daughter Susannah Ardrey Morley, who was widowed just a few years after her husband returned from the Civil War. Their struggle just to keep food on the table is family legend. And, here I am, 240 years after Mary’s birth, wondering about her and marveling at the stamina that kept her going. I’m proud to claim her as an ancestor.
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Clearing those shelves is going to be a very slow process at this rate. However, I’m willing to bet the back forty that it will never be boring
ratsnewgadded this on 10 Oct 2012 Carolfoasiaoriginally submitted this to Wardrop Family Tree on 4 Sep 2012
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Record for Mary Brong (65) facts
20210929GHLn- reviewed. Not JMBuck but TASCH-
Tasch Family Tree - Jennifer Westendarp
George Ardery 1807-
BIRTH 17 FEB 1807 • New York USA
DEATH Unknown
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/15915128/person/430965539/facts?ssrc=&_ga=2.109392781.965775129.1632893885-946057299.1611861059
- [S986] This Week, by J.M.Buck, family split, Ardreys in Michigan.
Maggie Bowker Baird
From: Jeannette Buck [mailto:skyscribbler@zitomedia.net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:53 PM
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Subject: this week
Everyone knows I am a confirmed genealogy nut. My fascination with family history began, I believe, at the supper table when I was in grade school.
“There was a new kid in school today,” one of us would say over Mom’s chicken and biscuits. “His name was ------”. And Dad or Gram or Mom would look up with a grin.
“He’s some of your relation!” And off they would go for the rest of the meal, outlining and sorting out just how that new kid fit in to our family tree.
I’m still at it, after all these years. I have pictures and stories and scrapbooks and “stuff” overflowing the shelves in the room I used to call my nest. They are sorted to some degree, but I usually have to hunt for a while if I am looking for a particular item.
Computers, with their ability to connect us with anyone, anywhere, anytime have made the whole thing more fun- and in some ways, more complicated.
Several years ago I became cyber-acquainted with a lady named Julie who lives in Michigan and is a very distant cousin. My great-great grandmother Susan Ardrey Morley stayed in Potter County while her sister, Peggy Ardrey Bowker, moved to Michigan with her husband and family approximately 160 years ago. I descend from Susan and Julie descends from Peggy.
I have letters that were written from the Michigan relatives to my Pennsylvania family dated as far back as 1858. The letters were few and far between and although the hope of seeing each other one more time this side of Heaven was expressed in each one, it never happened.
Recently, Julie and I have been communicating again via the social network, sharing pictures and bits of information we have collected over the years. Peggy Bowker and her husband Silas had four children, the youngest of whom was Maggie. Maggie wrote to her Pennsylvania aunts now and then, sounding much like a young girl of the present day. In a letter, dated January 6, 1861; before Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated; before Fort Sumter was attacked and the Civil War began, Maggie explained that the family had moved to a different house for the time being because “the Baptist Church wanted Father to preach to them and it is a good place for him to get all the carpenter work he wants.” Her mother was very homesick, she confided, and “It would be a great consolation to us to receive a letter real often from our relatives out there.”
In September of 1862 Maggie added a letter to the one her father had written. “The war news appears to be all the excitement at the present time,” she wrote. “We have but a very few able-bodied men left in this place and they would be Secessionist if they durst show their colors.”
By April of 1863 her brother Noah had joined the United States Service and was recovering from rheumatism in a convalescent camp in Tennessee. He had become, she wrote, much “stronger in favor of the Union.” She confided that she was corresponding with a Soldier Boy who “is a particular friend of mine.”
The last letter from Miss Maggie, dated June, 1863 is short and sweet. She was clearly annoyed that she had not received any reply to her previous letter and she promised to “wait before writing again until I do.”
Maggie Bowker would marry her “special Soldier Boy” whose name was Matthew Baird. According to her father’s letters, she lost three children of her own but adopted a boy of whom she was very fond. Sadly, Maggie Bowker Baird died at the age of 34.
Fast forward to the present time. My friend Julie recently stumbled upon a blog containing the diary and letters of one Matthew Baird, Civil War veteran and husband of Maggie Bowker Baird of Michigan. And “much to my surprise,” Julie e-mailed, “the site also has a picture of Maggie!”
I know there are many who will never understand, but for those who do, this is exactly what makes the searches worth while. A picture is always worth at least a thousand words.
Maybe you didn’t hear from your relatives from the east as much as you wanted to, Maggie Bowker Baird. But some of us are still here and we still love you.
Maggie Bowker Baird
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Several years ago I became cyber-acquainted with a lady named Julie who lives in Michigan and is a very distant cousin. My great-great grandmother Susan Ardrey Morley stayed in Potter County while her sister, Peggy… |
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Record for David Bowker (16) facts
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BOWKER
David A.
1837 - 1911
David Bowker
BIRTH Apr 1837 Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH 11 Apr 1911 (aged 73-74)
BURIAL Riverside Cemetery
Hastings, Barry County, Michigan, USA
MEMORIAL ID 21689257 ·
PHOTOS 2
FLOWERS 3
Family Members
Parents Silas Bowker 1808-1888
Margaret Ardrey Bowker 1815-1876
Spouse Nancy Jane Moore Bowker 1829-1910
Siblings Susan Jane Bowker Russell 1833-1886
Noah J Bowker 1835-1900
Margaret Bowker Baird 1840-1875
Silas Bowker 1848-1850
Gravesite Details age: 73 yrs
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David Bowker
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David Bowker
BIRTH Apr 1837 Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH 11 Apr 1911 (aged 73-74)
BURIAL Riverside Cemetery
Hastings, Barry County, Michigan, USA
MEMORIAL ID 21689257 ·
PHOTOS 2
FLOWERS 3
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David Bowker
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BOWKER
David A.
1837 - 1911
David Bowker
BIRTH Apr 1837 Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH 11 Apr 1911 (aged 73-74)
BURIAL Riverside Cemetery
Hastings, Barry County, Michigan, USA
MEMORIAL ID 21689257 ·
PHOTOS 2
FLOWERS 3
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Noah J Bowker 1835-1900
BIRTH 1 MAY 1835 • Allegany County, New York
DEATH 3 JUL 1900 • Croton, Newaygo County, Michigan
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Noah J Bowker 1835-1900
BIRTH 1 MAY 1835 • Allegany County, New York
DEATH 3 JUL 1900 • Croton, Newaygo County, Michigan
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