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In May 2017, my daughter-in-law, Michele Norton Mattoon, and I added a research trip to our attendance at the National Genealogical Society Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. Saturday, May 6,   we visited the library of the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort.  When we drove into town, we were startled by the large security presence on every street corner.   What could be going on?   Was there some kind  1 of national emergency? We didn’t know that Derby Day is a holiday in Kentucky, and we learned later   that the Governor of Kentucky throws a party for the citizens on Derby Day.   Being a Kentucky holiday, admission to the Historical Society Museum and Library were free.   We had not yet learned much about setting research goals, but I had a list of my Kentucky ancestors and we started looking for information about any of them.   Beginners luck! Michele found a microfilm document signed by   Annice Van Hook Jones, ...

  PIONEER CHALLENGES My Great Grandmother, Olea Larsen, overcame challenges in her life that I cannot even begin to imagine myself doing. The first one that I know of was giving birth in steerage on the Brig Atalanta on 19 July 1865. Andrew A.P. Larsen, his wife Olea (Ollie on the Passenger List), and their children Albertine, age 4, and Carl Rudolph, age 11 months, set sail from Christiania (now Oslo), Norway on 7 May 1865 with 114 other adults and 46 other children. 1 Caroline Emelia Larsen was born "at sea" on 19 July. The ship arrived in Québec, Que. on 25 July with now 49 children. Caroline was not listed on the Passenger List, so perhaps other children were born on that voyage as well. It was not unusual for women to give birth on the emigrant ships. Most emigrants sailed in "steerage", between decks. A passenger on the Atalanta in 1871` told...

The name Jerusha is first mentioned in 2 Kings 15:33 In the Old Testament.   Translated from the ancient Hebrew it means “possession” or “possessed”.   Jerusha was the wife of Uzziah and the mother of King Jotham of Judah. [1] I admit that I skimmed over that name in reading the Bible, but I took notice when I encountered the name in several generations of my husband’s family tree. The first instance I have documented is Jerusha Ann Dening (or Dining) born abt. 1807 in Ireland or England.   She married George Hicinbothem sometime before 1836.   Their daughter Martha was born in 1839.   Martha married John Prentiss Mattoon, a neighbor in Clackamas County, Oregon, in 1858 [2] , and their daughter Anna Jerusha Mattoon was born in 1859. Did Martha know her grandmother? Anna Jerusha Mattoon was educated in Portland, Oregon and returned to Yakima, Washington to teach school and music lessons, and serv...