Joseph Boyce Andrus History

I haven’t documented much of the work that I have done this past week.  I have been going through my records of the descendants of Lysander Gee to update the missing Individual Ordinances.  I have found a few ordinances that need to be completed.  I will wait until I have gone through all the 9 pages and then compile a list to share with members of the family.

Emma Maude Gee (my grandfather Gee's sister) was married to Joseph Boyce Andrus.  I found a history written by Betty June High, as told to her by her mother Thelma Maude Andrus High, a daughter of Joseph Boyce Andrus and Emma Maude Gee Andrus.  I felt that it was appropriate to put this in Family Tree.  In order to do this, I first put it in the Lysander Gee website and then made a link in the sources in Family Tree to the document on the Lysander Gee website.

The PIN for Joseph is: KWZX-2SB.

I also taught the Sunday school class how to print from Family Tree. Next week I will teach how to reserve ordinances in Family Tree.

The work progresses.

  

Dealing with Multiple Marriages

John Dodds Telford is shown as having multiple wives.

“The many wives of John Dodds Telford”

Charlot Angeline Baker, Dolly Ann Coultrin, Maria Coltrino, Emeline Seely Baker, Sarah Ann Barker, Deborah Elizabeth Walker, Hannah Richmon, Nancy Coltrin, Clara W Tilbetts , Anna Walker,  Georgia Bradley Curry,  Lucinda Sproat Rosanna Tebbets, Thankful Cotton  Marinda Colton  and Caroline Colton.

I wrote this in the notes on John’s record in my database.

“The history that I have of John Dodds Telford lists only his wife Sarah Matilda Coltrin. He was not married to any of these other women while they were living. All were sealed to him posthumously. There have been disputes placed on these marriages, but they fall into the same category as the sealings of the Cotton girls to Brigham Heber Telford and Erastus Rowe Gee. We will have to wait for the millennium to get the parties involved to come to an agreement. From NFS Support is this explanation: 'For this period of time, this was not an unusual practice. We have records of men in the early church sealing as many as 200 women to them. It was from their point of view to provide the blessings of exaltation to those persons.'”

I removed the marriage relationship to the following women.

Georgia Bradley Curry

Maria Coltrino

Dolly Ann Coultrin

Hannah Richmon

Deborah Elizabeth Walker

Sarah Ann Barker

Emeline Seely Baker

Rosanna Tebbets

Marinda Colton

Thankful Cotton

Caroline Colton

Charlot Angeline Baker

Lucinda Sproat

Anna Walker

Nancy Coltrin

These women still show up in the sealings to spouse information in the Family Tree data, but are not visible to non-members of the church.

I added a death date and place to John Dodds Telford’s Record in Family Tree to replace deceased.

The next record that I addressed was that of Brigham Heber Telford.

He had two wives sealed to him posthumously.

Thankful Cotton and Hanna Cotton

These were removed in a similar manner

Now Brigham Heber Telford has only one wife Emma Gee, Lysander’s daughter.

More Homework or the John Dodds Telford Saga

On the post with the problems that I had with the Watch feature, I had a duplicate set of parents for John Dodds Telford.  I had e-mailed the contributor twice and gotten no response.  Now was the time for action.  I was going to clean up the record.  I sent the following e-mail and then separated out the offending record.
The record is now correct,

John Dodds Telford

E-mail address:joyce252 @yahoo.com
Last e-mail

John Dodds Telford 9KX4-Y2B Has an incorrect birthplace, North Carolina and incorrect parents, John Telford and Mrs Jane Telford.  No spouse listed.  The death data and place and burial place are that of the John Dodds Telford who was born in Upper Canada and whose parents came from Ireland, John and Jane Telford.  

I have separated this record from the other 84 records.

If you have any questions, you may contact me at this e-mail address: Laurence.gee@gmail.com

Or by phone at 801-936-0803


First e-mail
Dear Joyce,
joyce252 @yahoo.com
My wife was looking in the local newspaper at the obituaries today and there was a woman whose maiden name was Telford. She brought it to my attention. I usually go on New Family Search to see if she was related to me. She was a descendant of Robert Telford, the brother of my ancestor John Dodds Telford.
I noted that his mother Jane Telford had + by her name indicating that she had two spouses. I knew that this was not the case so I investigated and found that she had another husband, John Telford born in North Carolina.
Both John and Jane Telford, who were cousins, were born in Ireland and came to Canada and then to Kirtland, Missouri and Nauvoo and then to Utah and settled in Cache County.
John Dodds Telford was their son.
I separated the records as follows:
Mrs Jane Telford 9KX4-YLM
born 1812 Johnstown – Elizabethtown , Bladen, North Carolina, United States.
Married to
John Telford Person identifier: 9KX4-Y21
With a son
John Dodds Telford
born 12 March 1812 Johnstown – Elizabethtown , Bladen, North Carolina, United States.
9KX4-Y2B
Parents Listed as John and Jane Telford as above.
This is the only child listed for John and Mrs, John Telford. You are listed as the only contributor. And there are no duplicate records.

Second e-mail
John Dodds Telford Person identifier: KWJX-YCR two sets of parents.  The one set is incorrect.

John Dodds Telford’s parents were born in Ireland not in North Carolina.  They were first cousins and eloped to Scotland to get married.  They later emigrated to Canada.
He has 85 combined records.
Record number 9KX4-Y2B is the only incorrect record. The record was contributed by

joyce252 @yahoo.com

I will try and contact her before I separate out the record.

Family Search Watch

Each week I get an e-mail from Family Search on any activity on the records that I have put a watch on.  I have placed a watch on some of the records that I have been working on. In the past I have found that very helpful, because some patrons combine records that should not be combined or enter changes that may or may not be correct.  I do not know why I feel I need to be the guardian of the records, but I guess that I have a desire that everything should be correct even if I am wrong.

This week I got another e-mail.  Usually it is 4 or 5 changes, but this week there were 53 changes.  The majority were changes by Family Search with minor changes such as correcting names and spellings and places of birth or death.  It was somewhat time consuming to go through all 53 records, but it was worth it because I found the following records that need attention.  I even found two individuals who need ordinance work.  I made a list, so that if my computer crashes I will have the information on a website, or as the present terminology would have it, on the Cloud.( A fancy term for web based backup.)

NFS Cleanup needed.

Abigail Hill Person identifier: LHLM-PJB her many husbands

Sophia Mack Person identifier: LHZX-ZLY where does this information come from?

Ebenezar Mack Person identifier: LZV8-YBJ multiple spouses and duplicate parents.

John Dodds Telford Person identifier: KWJX-YCR two sets of parents.  The one set is incorrect.

Sarah Maria Sayles Person identifier: KWJP-HQJ 7 sets of parents 3 extra spouses.

Find Grave marker for Graham Coltrin Person identifier: KWJP-HCC supposedly buried in the Centerville Cemetery.  His name was on On Find a Grave, but no photo of the headstone. Needs research

William Jasper Kerr Person identifier: KWJP-CSM has three wives, one unknown with a child John Campbell Kerr.  Needs research.

Solomon Gee Jr. Person identifier: LZPP-GVP has two spouses.  Look and see if the spouses need to be combined.

August Bernard LCRZ-8TW and wife Gertrude LCRZ-DSD need temple ordinances done and daughter Alice LCRJ-THR needs to be sealed, but she only died recently.

Sara Gee (Sarah) Person identifier: 2736-R71 has two sets of parents.  Solomon Gee and both his wives.  This needs to be corrected.

Susannah Moody Person identifier: LHZ8-FJ5 has two sets of parents.  This needs research and correction.

Betty Catherine Bruce Person identifier: 2MGH-H5K needs a definite date of death and place of death. I will have to look in my database.

William Gee Person identifier: LZJG-NS1 has an extra spouse that doesn’t belong.  I have written the person that placed that record, but he has so far not taken action.

Elam Luddington Person identifier: K24C-FH6 has three sets of parents. This needs research.

Edward Gee Person identifier: LC1Y-J1N has two children that need ordinances.

Martha Bingham Person identifier: LZD7-W9P needs to be combined with Mrs Solomon Gee Jr. MQRC-26F Her birth date is listed as 1694.

Deborah Gee Person identifier: KNSS-KG3 has one record with gender unknown.

This will take some time to do.  As I complete each item on the list, it will appear in my next watch e-mail entitled “Weekly FamilySearch changes for things you are watching” with me as the contributor.