The Coming Together Volume One: Prior Generations Genealogy/Family History of Some Thayer/Page/Keyes/Castner Families
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The Coming Together Volume One: Prior Generations Genealogy/family history of some Thayer/Page/Keyes/Castner families Thirty-Third Anniversary Edition Copyright 1982, 2016 Charles W. Paige Writing Contents Dust-Covered Treasures.................................................................................................................. 1 The Story of Sarah M. (Keyes) Page Cline..................................................................................... 5 Obituary....................................................................................................................................... 8 Elegy ......................................................................................................................................... 10 Harvey Olmstead Cline and Nell Swan .................................................................................... 10 Hannah (Francis) Keyes Fletcher.............................................................................................. 16 Rev. Orlando Keyes Joins the War of 1861, a.k.a. the Civil War ................................................ 19 Some History of the 12th Michigan Infantry ............................................................................ 20 Prior to Privates Keyes and Powers Joining its Ranks ......................................................... 20 After Privates Keyes and Powers Joined its Ranks .............................................................. 21 Surgeon’s Certificate ........................................................................................................ 22 War-Widow Keyes.................................................................................................................... 25 Children of Rev. Orlando and Lucinda (Shook) Keyes ............................................................ 26 Sarah’s Brother Lyman......................................................................................................... 27 Sarah’s Brother Wilbur a.k.a. “Web” ................................................................................... 30 History of the Keyes Family Farm............................................................................................ 32 Some Descendants of Orlando’s Grandfather Henry Keys....................................................... 36 Families of William Henry Page and Chloe Thayer................................................................... 107 Family of Chloe Thayer and James Robinson of Wayne Co., NY ......................................... 107 Family of William and Martha Sanders Page of England and Wayne Co., NY..................... 126 Family of William Henry Page and Chloe (Thayer) Robinson of New York and Michigan . 174 Deep History of the Page Family............................................................................................ 176 The Great Page Estate......................................................................................................... 176 The Mysterious “Page Millions” .................................................................................... 177 Genetic Evidence ................................................................................................................ 179 Discovering Riley P. Page: His Families and Brother William................................................. 183 In Search of Riley.................................................................................................................... 183 The Life of Riley................................................................................................................. 187 The Shoemaker ................................................................................................................... 190 Emma’s Family after Riley’s Passing................................................................................. 200 Family of Riley’s Daughter Carrie Bell Page ......................................................................... 204 Family of Riley’s Son George Hudson Page .......................................................................... 213 Families of Riley’s Son Charles Orlando Page....................................................................... 217 Pictures of Margaret, Howard and Marshal Page ............................................................... 233 Margaret Frances “Peggy” Page and Fred Elden Foster..................................................... 233 Descendants of Fred Elden Foster .................................................................................. 240 Family of Riley’s Brother William H. Page, Jr....................................................................... 247 Most of Our Haybarger Cousins Today are Subjects of Queen Elizabeth II of England ... 287 “Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown” (Wm Shakespeare) ................................. 294 Internet Places for Additional Information about Homesteading and Early Life in Canada ............................................................................................. 294 iii Some Page Family Bible Records and Pictures ...................................................................... 296 Provenance and Odyssey of a Page Family Bible .............................................................. 296 The Odyssey Begins ....................................................................................................... 296 Climax Township, Kalamazoo County, Michigan ......................................................... 296 Climax to Oneida, Knox County, Illinois ....................................................................... 296 Illinois to Wisconsin ....................................................................................................... 297 The Bible and Albums Return to the Pa(i)ge Family ..................................................... 298 California to Minnesota .................................................................................................. 299 Page Family Bible Records................................................................................................. 300 Page Family Pictures........................................................................................................... 302 Jay D. Page & Co., Inc. Monogram Liquor Bottle ............................................................. 312 Ebenezer Page and the War Between the States ..................................................................... 313 Pre-Civil War...................................................................................................................... 313 Civil War............................................................................................................................. 313 From Company “B” Descriptive Book of the 9th Heavy Artillery New York Regarding Ebenezer Page ............................................................................................... 313 From “Appears on Returns” Document Plus.................................................................. 314 Post-Civil War .................................................................................................................... 320 The Forgotten High Priest of Nature and Emperor of the World —Edward Postlethwayt Page................................................................................................ 322 Discovering Our Thayer Family History .................................................................................... 337 Chloe Thayer’s Family............................................................................................................ 338 Chloe Thayer’s Ancestors....................................................................................................... 340 Descendants of Brother Thomas T(h)ayer.......................................................................... 340 Descendants of Brother Richard T(h)ayer II ...................................................................... 342 Joel and Levi Thayer and the Mormon Connection................................................................ 344 Information from Distant Cousin Mildred (Thayer) Struck—1911-1997 .............................. 347 Addendum #1 with Mildred’s family legend...................................................................... 347 Addendum #2 with some old newspaper clipping excerpts................................................ 348 Mildred’s Death .................................................................................................................. 349 Some Thayer Pictures Mildred had Sent ............................................................................ 350 Our Castner Family..................................................................................................................... 355 Castners of New Jersey and New York................................................................................... 355 Henry Welter in the Revolutionary War ................................................................................. 357 The Potter Fortune and the Universal Friend.......................................................................... 360 A Friend of Mankind .......................................................................................................... 360 Utopia Lost.......................................................................................................................... 362 Ovid Township, Clinton County, Michigan...........................................................................