Family Grove

By Pricilla Boswell

[Michael Drew is my great-great-great-great-great grandfather. He is the father of Margaret Drew Blackburn Bell, who was the mother of Judge William Blackburn and my great-great-great grandmother, Mary Ann Blackburn.]

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This Family Grove site can perhaps be a bit confusing since we have a very complex family history between John and myself. John’s mother’s side includes surnames: Meyer, Goeckle, Sage, and Shauffellen. John’s father’s surnames are Castellucci and Barilla.

My adoptive maternal side’s surnames are Silverstien, Silver, Mortensen, and Carr. My adoptive paternal side includes surnames: Fuller, Arnold, Carlson, Bowen, Glass, Phillips, Stevens, Talbot, Warner, Willmarth, Wise, Worthington, and Wright.

My birth paternal surnames include: Henke, Doran, and Leonard. While my birth maternal surnames are: Anderson, Blackburn, Bond, Drew, Ellis, Foster, Fridley, Hennig, Hiltz, Jones, Keim, Lincoln, Morgan, Naas/Nauss, Ochesenbein, Redden, Rulofson, Salyer, Trachsel, Tubbs, Weeks, Weidner, Woolf, Yoder, and Zaugg.

This is no means an exhaustive list of surnames. We will be adding surnames as we go along.

 

Descendants of Heinrich Woolf
By Priscilla A. Boswell
[The following is the ancestry of my great-great-great-great grandmother Margaret Drew Blackburn Bell, who was the daughter of Michael Drew and Elizabeth Woolf. Margaret Drew Blackburn Bell was the mother of Judge William Blackburn and my great-great-great grandmother, Mary Ann Blackburn]

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This is the story of my husband, John’s great-grandmother, Louise Marie Geockel (pronounced Gaggle).

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 Maggie was the daughter of Mary Ann Blackburn and James Morgan. She was the sister of Salome Morgan and neice of Judge William Blackburn. That would make her my great-great-grandaunt. Margaret was born July 17, 1835 or 36 in Springfield, Clark County, Ohio.

On March 28, 1854 she married Thomas Jefferson  Weeks. Thomas J. Weeks was born Dec 22, 1829 in Wayne, Kennebec County, ME, the son of Thomas and Sarah (HARMON) WEEKS.

He came to CA at age 20 in 1849, sailing from Boston on the ship, New Jersey, bound around Cape Horn for the Golden Gate. Upon his arrival in Santa Cruz , he bought a cabin from a schooner with an associate, lived in it on the beach. Raised potatoes on land leased from Judge Blackburn. In 1852, Thomas Weeks was growing potatoes with his brother, Braddock B. Weeks.

Thomas J. Weeks had three brothers, Braddock B. (b. 1812) and Bartlett V. Weeks of Pecadero, and George Weeks who lived in the East.

Thomas and Margaret had three children: Clara (Mrs. Frank STEARNS, Los Gatos, who was a SP conductor), Albion (Allie, Alfred, or Albert P) of Santa Cruz, and Horace, who died at age 8. 

Thomas Jefferson Weeks passed away in Santa Cruz on December 18, 1905 (one source has him dying on April 18, 1905)  at his home on Walnut Avenue aged 75. Thomas was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Santa Cruz. The Thomas J. Weeks  information was submitted by Gertrude B. Lincoln of Santa Cruz. Margaret Morgan-Weeks died on June 16, 1918 at the age of 81.

From her obit:
“After services had been held at the home on California Street by Rev. Irving Bristol, pastor of the First Methodist church, all that was mortal of Mrs. Margaret M. Weeks was tenderly laid away yesterday in the Odd Fellows cemetery. The pallbearers were W.S. Moore, C.D. Hinkle, A.H. Foster, Frank Mattison, Charles P. Clark, and W.W. Clark, all old friends of the family. Many beautiful floral offerings covered the grave. The funeral was private in accordance with the wish of the deceased. ” June 1918

 

 

Fidelitas In Adversis – Faithful In Adversity My dearest dad, Harold Fuller, Fuller ancestors came from England. Specifically, they come from Redenhall, in Southern Norfolk via Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Ohio, Iowa, and Illinois.My dearest dad, Harold Fuller, Fuller ancestors came from England. Specifically, they come from Redenhall, in Southern Norfolk via Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Ohio, Iowa, and Illinois.Harold Fuller is the son of Henry Lee Fuller who was born November 24, 1900 in Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa. Henry Lee Fuller died in June 1966, in Baldwin Park, California and was buried in Rose Hills Cemetery. My dad’s mother, Greta Kristina Carlson was born in 1899 from outside of Stockholm, Sweden.

My dearest dad, Harold Fuller, Fuller ancestors came from England. Specifically, they come from Redenhall, in Southern Norfolk via Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Ohio, Iowa, and Illinois.Harold Fuller is the son of Henry Lee Fuller who was born November 24, 1900 in Centerville, Appanoose County, Iowa. Henry Lee Fuller died in June 1966, in Baldwin Park, California and was buried in Rose Hills Cemetery. My dad’s mother, Greta Kristina Carlson was born in 1899 from outside of Stockholm, Sweden. (more…)

James Morgan is my great-great-great grandfather. James Morgan was born about 1808-1809 in Virginia. His marriage certificate to Mary Ann Blackburn has him born about 1810 in Berkeley County, Virginia. We believe that he was the son of Benjamin Morgan and Ann Ellis (m. July 18, 1783, Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland). On October 7, 1830, James Morgan married Mary Ann Blackburn in Clark County, Ohio.
On November 15, 1831, they had their eldest son, Joseph William Morgan (b. November 15, 1831, d. October 20, 1863) in Virginia. From the 1850 Census from Henderson County, Illinois, there is a Jacob Morgan, born August 20, 1833 and died September 12, 1845 before they made the trip overland to Santa Cruz.
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