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My 4x great grandparents, Johann Christian Most (1799-1865) and Anna Margaretta Guenther (1806-1878) had two sons who enlisted into the Union Army during the Civil War. One son, Johann Christian Frederick Most (1840-1916) was wounded during the war but survived. He returned home and married, then moved on from the family home in Hagerstown, Maryland
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My grandmother remembered her grandparents– Charles F. Buehler and Mary Moritz– as a kind, happy couple who always had a silver dollar to slip into her hand when she was on her way home. She also remembered they would talk in German when they didn’t want the grandchildren to understand them. When my grandmother knew
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When Rachel Parsons Maddox Olmstead died on October 11, 1863, she was the guardian of 4 of her minor grandchildren, who had lost their parents just a few years before. The children in questions were twin boys Edward J. W. Maddox (1850-1887) and Joseph Maddox (1850-?), Rachel Julia Maddox (1854-?) and James T. Maddox (1857-1891). They
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I did some work this summer at the Historical Society of Harford County in an effort to find “nuggets”–in other words, any information that might lead to more information about the Maddox family that could illuminate their lives or lead my on a new trail. I thought I would transcribe and comment on some of
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Eliza Jane (Maddox) Scott had a talent for inserting herself into a broader historical narrative. Three unusual stories were passed down through her family concerning her brushes with history. The first (totally unproven and very questionable) assertion is that she is a great-granddaughter of General David Wooster of Revolutionary War fame. The second is that
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We received the results of my father’s 44 marker DNA test from Ancestry.com. I am sorry to say, we remain unenlightened about the origins of our “Scott” family. Probably the right person hasn’t done a DNA test yet, so here is where we stand: Our “close matches” on Ancestry are more than 15 generations ago,
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I’ve learned a few things about DNA since I last wrote. First (and most startling), Joseph Scott of Baltimore or wherever (my great-great-great grandfather) is NOT related to James Scott of Campbell County, Virginia. We differ on four out of twelve markers tested. Secondly (but most easily corrected) I really ordered the wrong test. I
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History and Science are coming together this week, so I need to skip ahead a bit, to the namesake of my blog, my great-great-great grandmother, Eliza Jane Maddox (1813-1903). There is something striking and unusual about Eliza Jane Maddox’s place in the historic record. Though supposedly a married woman, in each census she is enumerated
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Next year commemorates the Bicentennial of the War of 1812. Maryland has a long list of events planned, culminating in a reenactment of the Battle of Baltimore in 1814. The War of 1812 is often called a “forgotten war” and nationally, Baltimore’s part is most remembered for the bombing of Ft. McHenry, and Francis Scott
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Since little old ladies have been getting together and forming lineage societies, little old ladies have been creating fantastical ancestral lines for their families. In years past, no one was interested in “social history”, only “high society’s history”. If you didn’t fit in (but had enough money) your true past and that of your ancestors
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Finding Eliza Jane 