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 [...]
This week's family photo...
Two brothers--Wesley and Arthur Cook of Decorah, Iowa--enlisted in the Union Army in the U.S. Civil War on October 25, 1861 at the ages of 21 and 19, respectively. Both Wesley and Arthur were mustered into Company H of the 9th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment and were ordered to proceed to Franklin, Missouri with their [...]
Charles Martel in Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum, 1553 A few years ago, my Great Aunt sent me hundreds of copies of her own family history books, and it's taken me all this time to read through everything (and even then, I'm sure there are records I haven't looked at close enough and details I've probably missed). [...]
Betsy Maria Penfield, my 4th great-grandmother, was born on December 29, 1809 in Connecticut to William Penfield and Betsy Lydia Blish. Her father was a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church--as well as a shoemaker by trade--and she joined the church herself at the age of 16 in Rome, New York. Betsy married Joseph [...]
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