A newspaper account of the March 1872 mining activities of David Lyman Blacker and his partner John Keating in Radersburg, Montana.
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Quartz Mining at Radersburg.
Keating & Blacker are vigorously at work taking out quartz from the Keating and Ohio lodes. They have nearly 4,000 tons of fine ore on the dump, which will average about $16 per ton. Their mill has been idle since last fall, but it has been thoroughly repaired and will commence crushing in about two weeks.
For the past few weeks, I’ve been hard at work researching my father’s Swedish roots, primarily through the website ArkivDigital.
I really cannot say enough good stuff about this website. Provided you have a location with which to begin your research, the records are amazing. I had heard that Swedish records were some of the best in the genealogy world – and believe me, they are. Earlier this year I also spent some time researching this database and since then, I have identified and downloaded 70 or so records, all relating to my Swedish great grandparents and their ancestors.
Armed with all the new information I’ve obtained, I was able to do additional searching in Ancestry. And a few weeks ago, I noticed there were some Ancestry users from Sweden who had some of the same people in their tree that I have in mine. I contacted several of them – and finally located a Swedish cousin (svenska kusin)!!
My “new” cousin and I have determined that our great great grandfathers Äkers Lars Andersson (1827-1913)1 and Erik Andersson (1837-1919) were brothers.2 They were the sons of Östbors Goth Lars Larsson (1764-1834) and Östbors Margreta Larsdotter (1767-1807). Lars and Margreta had nine children total.
I will share more detailed information later, along with source information. But for now, I wanted to share my excitement over discovering a “new” cousin!
And just one more fun fact before I close this post. Through her research, my cousin learned that Lars was a boat or ship maker in Hudiksvall. In fact, she told me, he was “some kind of boss”.
And she also said that the boats he made were “most certainly” wooden.
Hmmm, I thought. Wooden boat. Why does that sound so familiar?
And then I remembered this photo of my great grandfather, Lars’ son Anders (“Andrew”) Dalin.
And now we know where “Grampa Dalin” learned to make a wooden boat.
. . . my great great grandmother Margaret R. “Rebecca” (Loury) Blacker died in Macomb, McDonough County, Illinois. She died of “old age” and was buried on September 16th in Oakwood Cemetery in Block 2, Lot 50.
I know this information based on the record above, which was obtained from Oakwood Cemetery.1
Here’s what else I learned:
Lots and lots of new information! Sounds great, right? Wrong!
Armed with all this new information, I have searched and searched the names of Rebecca‘s siblings and the children I had never heard of and have come up with – absolutely nothing! And I really am surprised by that outcome. Especially since I have maiden names for several of the daughters (i.e., Goudy, Mental and Stone).
One thing I have learned over the years, however, is that I have to be patient. I know my efforts and this “great new information” will result in some good stuff one of these days.
In the meantime, since I’m unable to visit the cemetery where Rebecca was buried, I was able to capture some interesting images using Google Earth and Google Maps.
And I can also share this wonderful photo of her grave stone, provided by a descendant of Rebecca‘s daughter Elizabeth (Blacker) Pearce.2
So ever onward. And here’s hoping for some “good stuff” in the near future!
Two days ago – August 30th – was the 168th wedding anniversary of my great great grandparents Catherine Tyler and John Buchenau.
Unfortunately, I do not have a picture of John but I do have this picture of Catherine.
John and Catherine were married on August 30, 1848, in Ottawa, La Salle County, Illinois. I remember the day – way back in 1981 – when their marriage record came in the mail. I was beyond excited! (The family mystery is discussed below the images and transcriptions.)
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John and Catherine went on to have six children, including my great grandmother Ada Cordelia (Buchenau) Blacker – born in 1853 in St. Joseph, Missouri.
By 1865, the family was living in Kansas.
In 1871, Ada married my great grandfather David Lyman Blacker and moved with him to the Montana Territory.
And here’s where the mystery comes in.
Catherine never returned to Kansas to rejoin her husband – not even for a visit.
Hmmm . . .