Ok, this one is making me angry. I'll set the scene: I was searching for an ancestor to write about for Amy Johnson Crow's "Namesake" prompt this month, and I eventually decided that it had to be someone on the Merrill side of my family tree. I mean, there's my great-great-grandmother, Celestia Melvina, who was [...]
Betsy Maria (Penfield) Cook Last month, I shared a letter penned by Betsy Maria (Penfield) Cook to her son, Arthur, during the American Civil War; in it, she worries about Arthur's safety and laments the death of her son, Wesley, only a few months before. It's an emotional and touching letter (one of my favorite lines [...]
Of all of the lines in my family tree, the line I've written about the least is the Getman's. I was lucky enough to know two of my great-grandparents, and one of them was a Getman: Marie was born on May 10, 1921 in Buffalo, New York, and she studied at St. Joseph's College in [...]
Luther Baker was a strong man, and it seems as though he was always destined to be; after all, Strong was in his name. Luther Strong Baker was born on March 22, 1840 in Allegany County, New York to Daniel Baker and Abigail Strong, the sixth of fifteen children. He's described in multiple sources as [...]
This week's 52 Ancestors prompt is "Dear Diary," but I've only inherited one diary over the years. I wrote about it a few months ago, too: the diary belonged to Maude (Merrill) Hammond in 1948, and she penned a few lines each day about the weather or her shopping trips for the entire year. It's [...]
Applegate Genealogy 
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