Volume 5, Issue 2 Summer 2000

Careys of Wisconsin The End of the Line… Deed Historic Land For the George Lewis Cary Line

State Park by Shayne Henderson

by Rear Admiral (Ret.) James J. Carey Carey/Cary Reunion …The George Lewis Cary line, that

Descendants of William Carey of October 28-29, 2000 is… the line of two George Lewis County Mayo, Ireland, have reached Carys, in fact! agreement with the State of Holiday Inn, Ocean City, MD Wisconsin Department of Natural George Lewis Cary was the youngest th Resources to transfer ownership of son and 14 child of Lewis Cary their historic Observatory Hill (born October 23, 1742), who was a property in Waushara County, WI, descendant of John Cary and for use as a state park. Observatory Elizabeth Godfrey. The Cary line of Hill is one of highest points of land [the first] George Lewis Cary, born in Wisconsin, and, according to State June 30, 1799, included his only son, of Wisconsin naturalists and Henry Halsey Cary, and Henry’s son geologists, contains both flora and [the second] George Lewis Cary fauna not found elsewhere in the (born November 4, 1874). Finally, state or nation. In addition, the the use of the Cary surname in this geologic structure has been evaluated line will end with the current as one of the oldest natural rock generation as a result of all female outcroppings on Planet Earth. descendants.

George Lewis Cary However, these three ladies are William Carey left County Mayo, 1799 - 1867 Ireland in 1829, as a 19 year-old determined to preserve this line as emigrant, bound for New York and long as possible! The three the New World called America. He [widowed] daughters, and only settled in Coeymans, NY, 15 miles Index children, of [the second] George south of Albany, where he ultimately Lewis Cary and Mary Parnelia An Intercepted Letter 4 [Spitzer] Cary, were born in married Margaret Kilroy from County Cavan. They had five Births, Deaths, Marriages 9 Marseilles Township, Wyandot children, Patrick b. 1833, Robert b. County, Ohio. They are: Ruthanna Carey/Cary Family Officers 2 1835, Richard b. 1839, James Joseph [Cary] Haffer born in 1906 and now b. 1844, and Anna b. 1847. In 1854, Careys of Wisconsin 1 of Columbus, Ohio; Claribel (“Claire”) [Cary] Henderson born they decided to move as pioneers to Dear Family and Friends 2 Wisconsin, settling in a small town in 1911 and now of Athens, Georgia; Distinguished by Virtue 6 and Sarah “Evelyn” [Cary] of Aurora [since renamed Auroraville] in Waushara County, End of the Line 1 Westervelt born in 1917 and now of where they homesteaded as early Kenton, Ohio. Ruthanna, Claribel, From the Editor 3 settlers and farmers on what turned and Evelyn have breezed right into out to be bog land barely suitable for From the Past…Revisited Again 3 the new millennium and are still going strong. As all three of these growing crops. While it may have Membership Form 12 looked like the bog lands of County Cary girls are in excellent health and Query Page 7 still able to travel and live Mayo, the horses would get mired in mud up to their stomachs when they Reunion Registration Form 11 independently, they each seem bound tried to till it. to reach the age of 100…at least! All Revisted…Once Again 8

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Carey/Cary Family Dear Family and Friends, President: E. Niel Carey 10214 Blandford Way First, I need to correct a serious error in my article, "End Ellicott City, MD 21042 (410) 465-6994 of the Century Reunion: 1999", in the last newsletter. In E-mail: [email protected] the article, I omitted reference to Jean Messick of Fax/phone: (410) 461-5574 California as having attended our last reunion. Given

Vice-President: Richard Carey Jean's generous contribution to our organization, and her 503 Cabot Drive very active and enthusiastic participation in our reunion Hockessin, DE 19707 activities, this error was especially grievous to me, and I (302) 239-9844 E-mail: [email protected] hope this message will help, to a degree, correct a very unfortunate error. Secretary: Margaret C. Sherkey 5411 Sussex Lane Sarasota, FL 33583-3355 At our last reunion, we discussed ideas that we might use (941) 924-7941 to help preserve our family heritage and history, E-mail: [email protected] including the increasing wealth of information that we Treasurer: Helen Simmons Carey are gathering about family burial sites. Many of our 10214 Blandford Way Ellicott City, MD 21042-5803 members and others, including Charles Donovan, (410) 465-6994 Cynthia Carey, and Jim Trader, have continued to E-mail: [email protected] provide us information about the location of Delaware Fax/phone: (410) 461-5574 and Maryland cemeteries and the gravesites of Car(e)y family descendants. If you would be willing to help organize and compile this information, please contact me. Carey/Cary Family News

Editor: Helen Simmons Carey We are also in the process of assembling sets of the issues (See information above.) of the Carey/Cary Family News, to be placed in libraries

Contributing Editor: David Carey or with other organizations devoted to genealogy and 4413 Glenwood Hills Drive NE family history. Tom Summers, President of the Lower Albuquerque, NM 87111 Delaware Genealogical Society, has expressed interest in (505) 299-3979 E-mail: [email protected] having such a set, and we hope to have a prototype set assembled to present to him for placement at the Delaware Archives by the end of the summer. We are very appreciative of the leadership and high degree of

Thanks to… professionalism that Helen has provided in editing the

Carolyn Bracken, MD newsletter, and the contributions of many writers Alfred H. Carey, Jr., DE including David Carey, Dr. Clifford Carey and others. Cynthia J. Carey, DE The newsletters provide valuable information about Dorothy Carey, MD Carey/Cary heritage. Making them accessible as a Rick Carey, DE collection should serve family members and researchers. Charles Donovan, DE Please contact me if you know of a library or other for providing information for inclusion in this issue! organization which would be interested in receiving a The Editor collection of the newsletters, or if you

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would be willing to help with I hope you have the dates of page of the monograph, A RECORD OF THE CAREY & this project. the Carey/Cary Family WILSON FAMILIES IN reunion on your calendar, IRELAND – AMERICA – On a sad note, Helen Ross and that you will register as AUSTRALIA, 1994. A and Jim Carey died within soon as possible. We look thoughtful gift to our association, indeed… the past few weeks. Helen forward to seeing you! Ross attended our first Niel Carey, President The introduction begins: It is a reunion, as well as each very common practice for many people to save their old letters subsequent one. She and that were sent to them many years her husband Franklin have ago and instead of such letters been active participants in being thrown out they were kept From the Editor… possibly in the attic or just saved reunion activities and have for some personal reason or demonstrated their interest Our Carey/Cary Family is sentimental attachment tied to the in sharing family developing a data base of past. So it is for this reason that information and news. Carey/Cary/Caree burials in the the following pages of copied old state of Delaware, listed by letters are the result of my cemetery. This project was begun attempt to bring together the old Major (Ret) James (Jim) just prior to the 1999 Reunion, but letters that were written to my Carey and his wife Marian, much progress has been made since mother from her first cousin, Tom then, with information also Carey, who at that time was who died last year, had lived contributed by Charles (Don) serving in 1916 with the in Milton, DE, until they Donovan, Dover, DE, and Cynthia Australian Army in France moved to Lewes several years Carey, Harrington, DE. Initially during the first World War…. There is also a record of both the ago. We got to know Jim the emphasis was on Sussex Co. cemeteries, but the data now also Carey and Wilson families, both and Marian when we includes a significant number of of whom came from Ireland… traveled to Milton to visit the cemeteries in the other two DE County Tyrone… counties. gravesite of Governor Joseph In addition, Mr. Patterson (who

celebrated his 89th birthday in M. Carey and gather family A similar Carey/Cary burial data March 2000) continues his active information. Jim and base has been initiated for interest in family history search. Worcester and Wicomico Marian invited us to their Our Carey/Cary Family is the Counties in the state of benefactor of his efforts, for he home, took us to the Maryland, which adjoin Sussex has forwarded other information Governor's memorial in the County, Delaware. which might be useful to Car(e)y local cemetery, and researchers. Our thanks and Plans are to make this burial admiration go to Norman introduced us to his cousin, information available at the 2000 Alfred Carey, who has done Patterson! Carey/Cary Reunion, October 28- a considerable amount of 29. The Editor encourages (Editor’s Note: Contact may be made by Carey family research. We readers to send DE and/or MD writing to Mr. Patterson at 7526 Wentworth burial information for inclusion in will miss Jim and Marian Ave. So., Minneapolis, MN 55423-4143.) our data base. ______Carey and Helen Ross, but (Please use the Editor’s address on page 2.) we are grateful for having ______The Editor encourages Car(e)y descendants/researchers to submit had the opportunity to know This copy is a Gift to the Carey/Cary articles for publication in future them. issues. Family Association from Norman G. (Please contact the Editor at the address shwon

Patterson, 18 Oct. 1999. on page 2, preferably by E—mail.) Such is the inscription on the front

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The End of the Line… The George Lewis Cary Line (Continued from page 1)

have lived well, traveled extensively, and have been well provided for by their respective husbands.

While future bearers of the Cary name--and what an illustrious name it is and has been--will have to descend from other progeny of old Lewis (or previous ancestors)… perhaps no entire George Lewis Cary II group of siblings has ever lived -- or ever will ever--as long as the hearty and determined daughters of George Lewis Cary of Wyandot County, Ohio!

[Editor's Note: A salute to Ruthanna, Claire, and Evelyn from the Carey/Cary Family! And our thanks to Shayne Henderson, Claire's daughter-in- law, for sharing this delightful "The Cary Girls": Top left and story with our readers. Shayne's shortest, is Claribel, age 88; top address is P. O. Box 789, right is Sarah Evelyn, age 82; and Gatlinburg, TN 37738. E-mail: seated is Ruthanna, age 93. [email protected].] Henry Halsey Cary

An Intercepted Letter: From Carol Kinney Grimes to the Carey/Cary Family Reunion

…Because we are so interested in delightful. "How I regret we did not become genealogy, I thought it would be interested in this work 25 years appropriate to send along a letter I Florence mentions in reference to ago” which would have made it just transcribed that touches the genealogy research: “…in fifty or 1887. Imagine the family members heart of the reason you are all one hundred years a family without who would have been alive at that gathered today. The original letter foundation will be at a time who actually knew relatives was found in an old trunk in the disadvantage...”. It is now 87 years born in the 1700’s… attic of my grandparents’ home in since Florence wrote to Abby and Massachusetts (Carey and we all know full well how correct October 1999, Weaverville, NC Charlotte Kinney), along with she was in that statement. We are several hundred other letters and fortunate that our ancestors worked Thanks, Carol, for sharing this letter artifacts. The letter itself is a bit hard to collect this information. disjointed in spots, and the errors And, that in a time before the with our Family, as well ae your other in grammar and spelling must be Internet and computers! Florence genealogical treasures ! winked at for the content is mentions in another paragraph: HSC

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My Interesting and Exciting Search for the Carey Family: Gracehill, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, answer. I then called Adrian Grout. and Prescott County, Ontario, Cananda This kind elderly gentlemen informed Part I me that he was a great grandson of by Tom Beggs Orson. The other two were his cousins. His cousin Robert lives on and works the farm that Orson and I began looking into my ancestry to fight on the side of the North, or Ann M. Dixon Grout purchased in four years ago. At that time I was enlisted as mercenaries. On the 1860 (now 2200 acres of soy beans). age 50 and had lost all of my Internet I was lucky enough to The farm is on the National Historic ancestors and immediate senior come across a list that focused on Register. A year later I attended the relatives other than my mother, Eva the Civil War. I inquired with my annual Grout family reunion and met Marion Turner Beggs. My father, information and was directed to the many wonderful distant relatives. Franklyn Lathwell Beggs, had been National Archives and Records killed in an automobile accident Administration (NARA) site. Before attending the Grout reunion, I when I was 22; thus I knew little of There I filled out what little established contact with a few Grout his ancestry. I knew little more of information I had and submitted it. descendants in the area. After sharing my mother’s but began inquiring. About two months later I received a the Carey connection information with Martha Carey Beggs was my large package of information in the Carole Jolly Ushman Kapke, she father’s grandmother, so my 80- mail detailing my great grand uncle reported to me that she had come year-old mother had no information Orson Grout and his plight as a across Carey graves in the Croswell at all about the Carey line, nor member of the Michigan Infantry. Cemetery and provided me with the about the Beggs line for that He was captured at the Battle of names. The graves were immediately matter. Chickamauga and died of small adjacent to the Grout graves, but since pox in the Confederate Prison in Carole was not aware of the Carey In 1996 when my father’s eldest Danville, VA. The NARA connection she never thought that they sister passed away, I was contacted documents revealed that Orson had had anything to do with her family. by my father’s brother’s eldest son enlisted in Lexington, Michigan, a They turned out to be William Henry who had been appointed executor small town on the Lake Huron Dixon Carey, a step-brother of Ann M. of her estate. That began the ball shore just north of Port Huron. Dixon Grout. rolling. Very much in passing he mentioned that he had a In all my sophistication as a genealogy researcher (a market Feeling flush with success in my handwritten document that had telephone approach to research, I been put together by our researcher by profession), I got on the telephone and called picked up the trusty telephone and grandfather’s older brother around again called Michigan information. 1945. Our grandfather died in information in Lexington. I thought that Grout was a unique This time I was searching for a 1940, and his brother died in 1947. William Henry Grout on the The notes had information about enough name that some descendants might still be in that supposition that there might be a the Beggs family and the Carey descendant by that name. I received family. Robert Beggs had married area, although 140 years later. I was very fortunate to get a kind and three listings in southern Michigan, Martha Carey in Hawkesbury, two in the Detroit area and one in Prescott Co., Ontario, Canada helpful operator on the line, who derived quite a bit of enjoyment out central south Michigan. I reached one (CN), c. 1853. The notes were very of the Detroit numbers and got a lady incomplete but provided enough of my searching. I explained that I was looking for listings for Grout with a strong English accent. They hints to get started. were first generation immigrants and in the area, but did not know if they were still in the area. She asked, were related to the other William One note suggested that a step- Henry Carey in the Detroit area, but sister of my great-grandmother “When were they last in the area that you know of?”. I responded, probably not to us. I then called the Martha Carey Beggs, was married William Henry Carey in Ortonville. to Orson Grout who died in the “In 1863.” She broke into gales of laughter and proceeded to relay the He turned out to be William Henry Dixon Civil War. Since the family was Carey IV, great great grandson of the Canadian it was peculiar as to why story to her colleagues. I could William Carey buried in Croswell. He that would have happened, hear all of this going on in the knew nothing of the Grouts and they knew although I have since learned that background. She came up with nothing of Bill. Bill attended the many Canadians either volunteered three Grout listings in the area. I (Continued on page 8 ) called Robert Grout, but got no

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the family's loyalty to lost causes, Careys/Carys: Distinguished by Virtue perhaps because he was usually by David Carey well ahead of his times. He abandoned his successful law The Cary/Carey family has not Falkland, was appointed by King practice in 1844 to devote his pr oduced any famous kings, Charles I to lead his loyal members energies to the Temperance presidents, or dictators, but has of Parliament while the majority of movement, seventy-six years produced its share of notable public members opposed the king's rule. before the Constitution was servants. Most have performed When the majority rebelled and amended to enforce Prohibition their duties very successfully; Civil War erupted, Charles of alcoholic beverages. As a however, as Fairfax Harrison has appointed Sir Lucius to lead his Republican Congressman in said: "As a family they are quite loyal army in battles against the 1867-1869, he spoke and voted remarkable for iterated loyalty to rebels led by Oliver Cromwell. Sir against the party bosses efforts to lost causes: they devoted Lucius, who was known as the impeach President Johnson and to themselves to the fatal fortunes of wisest, bravest man in England was punish and despoil the Southern Richard II, Henry VI, Charles I, killed and his army defeated at the States. It cost him the party's and the Stewart Pretenders, and, Battle of Newbury in 1644. In support and his Congressional transplanted to Virginia, to that 1649, Charles I was beheaded, and seat in the next election. ideal of a self-governing Cromwell governed the However, a town in North homogeneous commonwealth Commonwealth of England for the Carolina appreciated his efforts, which was to fall before triumphant next eleven years. Today, the changed its name to Cary, and Democracy." He might have added statue of Sir Lucius is one of only invited him to retire there. that elsewhere they have put the eleven in the hall entrance to After the national economy welfare of the nation and its people Parliament House. crashed in depression in the Panic before the ambitions of their own of 1873 due to an inflated stock political party bosses. They truly Cary/Carey forefathers who market, Samuel Fenton Cary lived up to the family motto migrated to America held less helped found the National "Distinguished by Virtue", exalted, but important, public Greenback Party to promote the regardless of the cost. offices in the colonies. In 1656, John Cary, the Plymouth Pilgrim, elimination of the gold standard In 1386, Sir John Cary was was town constable of Bridgewater, and the issuance of currency as appointed as Chief Baron of the Massachusetts. In 1657, he was needed by the economy. The Exchequer by Richard II, the elected town clerk, a post he held latter policy was finally adopted nineteen year old King of England. until his death in 1669. after the 1929 crash, and the gold While in his teens, Richard had standard was abandoned in first led, then betrayed, a peasants' In 1660-1665, Col. Miles Cary, the 1972 by President Nixon. revolt against the nobles, led a Virginia Immigrant, served as a When the National Greenback futile expedition into Scotland, Burgess in the Assembly, as Party held its national convention threatened to invade France, and Escheator General for the Colony, in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1875, increased taxes manyfold to finance and as Collector of Tobacco Duties it nominated Samuel Fenton Cary his adventures. Sir John loyally for James River. In 1667, he was as its Vice-Presidential candidate. supported the king until the barons mortally wounded during the Dutch One of the delegates and founders forced Richard to resign in 1399. raid on Hampton Roads. Miles' of the party from adjacent The new king, Henry IV, great-grandson, Archibald Cary, Hamilton County was ex-county confiscated Sir John's estates for was President of the Virginia commissioner Stephen Carey, his loyalty to Richard and banished Assembly at the time of the another promoter of lost causes him to Ireland for life. American Revolution. who was ahead of his time. Family members who served in the In 1471, Sir William Cary, who These are but a few of the remained loyal to King Henry VI in U.S. Congress include Senators Robert Davis Carey and Joseph Maull Carey of many members of the the War of the Roses, was captured Wyoming, Congressman John Carey of Cary/Carey family in public at the Battle of Tewkesbury and Ohio, and Congressman Samuel Fenton service then and now. beheaded by the army of Edward Cary of Ohio. VI. Henry VI lost the war, his Editor’s Note: WY Governor Jos. crown, and his head, too, in another Samuel Fenton Cary exemplified Maull Carey (1845-1924), lost cause. the family's loyalty to lost causes, “Legislator, Leader, Legend”, was Samuel Fenton Cary exemplified featured in Vol.3, Issue 2. In 1641, Sir Lucius Cary, Lord

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Note: Carey/Cary Family members may submit queries for QUERY PAGE: Carey/Cary inclusion in future newsletters. (Non-members, space available.) 1) Seeking information about the HOWARD CAREY lived in ancestry of my grandfather, Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., OH; his (2) WILLIAM HIRAM CARY BENJAMIN THOMAS CAREY, brother EDWARD CAREY was (b. 3/29/1805 in Attleboro, MA), born in Gowran, Kilkenny, Ireland, there at least by 1857 and died in who first married LYDIA in 1868. He was married to ELIZA Hamilton Co. in 1883. Also, the DANIELS LOVELL (1810-1853); HARVEY in 1887 in Dromtarriffe, 1850 OH Census lists a WILSON 7 children were born. In 1854 he County Cork, Ireland; he lived in CAREY, whose 1887 death info married Mrs. Harriet B. White (nee Banteer Parish of Clonmeen, County cites that he was born in PA, with Barber) of Cork, where he was a constable. parents Joseph and Elizabeth They came to Ottawa, Ontario, Carey. It seems that Barnabas Cary may Canada shortly after their marriage. be related to John Cary of Would like to establish contact with Bridgewater, MA, but that is as yet His parents were THOMAS CAREY another researcher of this family. unproved. Would like to share (also a policemen) and SUSAN [From: Carolyn England, 661 S.E. D information with other researchers LAWLESS, who also had a another St., Madras, Or 97741-1640. E-mail: of Barnabas Cary and his family. child, HARRIET CAREY, b. ca. 1865. [email protected]]

[From: Earl Carey, RR4, 592 Townline [From: Jen Cary (after 7/24/00), Rd., Smiths Falls, Ontario Canada K7A 3) Looking for descendants of 145 State St., Windsor, VT 05089. 4S5. E-mail: becarey @ recorder.ca] THOMAS and ELIZA JANE E-mail: [email protected]] CAREY—parents of JOANNA R. 2) Researching the family of my g- CAREY (b. Sept. 11 1850; m. 5) Looking for the WILLIAM grandfather, JOSEPH HOWARD April 18, 1875 to LEVEN W. CARY family of NY / PA. CAREY, born 11/22/1826 in PHILLIPS, b. May 15, 1850). William Cary was born in 1791, Rochester, NY; died 1888, Ludlow According to a family Bible, the married PENINAH RODMAN, Co., KY. His parents are JOSEPH latter were parents of LEVEN B. and had four children: Eleazer, and ELIZABETH CAREY. Joseph PHILLIPS, b. Dec 27, 1875. Ruth, Jane and Maria, from whom I Howard Carey’s father may be am descended. Any information JOSEPH CAREY who was born The family Bible in my possession would be appreciated. I am willing 1788, Bucks Co., PA; d. 1868, son of is that of CAPT. WILLIAM R. to exchange what I have on these THOMAS and ELIZABETH CAREY--possibly the brother of folks. WILSON CAREY. JOANNA CAREY above. Would like to return Bible and old tin [From:Vicki Rorke, 2306 I have located a Rochester, NY, pictures to a direct descendant, if Summerfield Ct., Rancho Cordova, record naming a guardian to children possible. CA 95670. E-mail: [email protected]] of JOSEPH CAREY in 1828 (i.e., Joseph H., Edward, Wilson, Samuel, [From: Cynthia Carey, 2820 Park 6) Seeking possible connection and Letitia, and Rachel). Also, a Brown Rd., Harrington, DE 19952- between WILLIAM JONES, letter from the Friends in 5513. E-mail: [email protected]] born 1790 in Massachusetts, and a Buckingham, Bucks Co., PA, dated 1 CAREY, or between MARY Mar 1826, to the Rochester NY 4) Seeking identity of the parents of STEVENS/STEPHENS, born Monthly Meeting lists Joseph and my husband’s g-g-g-g-g- 1791 in Massachusetts, and a Elizabeth Carey and 5 minor children grandfather, BARNABAS CARY CAREY. Mary and William (excludes Joseph Howard, born later born ca. 1759, married PHEBE married in Boston in 1811, and that year). The 1828 Quaker Census of DANFORTH (1767-9/8/1843, thereafter three generations of members of NY Yearly Meeting, Medway, MA). They had at least 2 descendants had Carey for a middle Henrietta Twp., lists the 6 minor children. name” children, but without parents Joseph and Elizabeth Carey. (1)JOHN CARY (b. 11/11/1793, [From: Damaris Reynolds, 2928 th d. 1/4/1886, buried Parishville, NW 29 St. Corvallis, OR 97330. According to the 1850 Census my NY), who married HANNAH HALE E-mail: great-grandfather, JOSEPH (1819-1881); ten children were born. [email protected]]

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…Search for the Carey Family – Part I (Continued from page 5) Revisited…Once Again

Grout reunion and we had a great and was lucky enough to find the The winter 2000 newsletter (V5, long chat about him and the file US Moravian Church web site. Issue 1) included an additional of notes he brought with him. From it I was able to link to to update in the research of Julian their European web site, United D. Carey (1889-1955) and his While visiting the Carey and Kingdom web site, Ireland web wife, Grace Amelia McCubbin. Grout gravesites in Croswell, I site, and finally to their Gracehill A picture of his Arlington was surprised to find Thomas and web site. I was amazed to find National Cemetery marker was Ellinor West Carey buried next to myself there. I immediately sent shown on page one. (The first the Grouts and Careys. This an inquiry to the Gracehill reference to Julian D. Carey was solved a big unknown piece of Moravian Church site. Within a in V2, Issue 2; laterV4, Issue 2.) the puzzle for me. Now I knew few days I was put in touch with where the eldest generation of the Edna Cooper, the historian for the At that time his two sons, Julian Careys ended up. They obviously church. Within a few weeks she D. Carey and Alexander M. had moved to Croswell to be sent me a large envelope with Carey, had been identified. The close to their children. information about our Careys, as editor’s use of

well as a copy of the Black Tree, www.switchboard.com revealed a Also prior to attending the Grout Julian D. Carey in Schenectady, reunion, I spent time on the a hand-drawn Carey genealogy tree from more than 100 years ago. NY, and an Alexander M. Carey Internet trying to find out more in Evergreen, CO. Letters were about the Civil War and the plight I now had copious Carey written, and the one sent to of Orson Grout. It turns out that information from which to further Julian Carey resulted in a kind most prisoners in the Danville pursue my Carey ancestors. Many response from his widow, Prison died of one disease or more of the descending lines have indicating that he died in June another. On the Internet I was since been traced, primarily using 1999. She wrote that his brother able to track down the Danville more of the same unorthodox Alexander Carey had recently newspaper which referred me to approaches. It is rare that I can’t moved from CO to Salisbury, the Danville Prison Cemetery find someone by using the MD—which was the origin of committee. On the committee I telephone approach. their father, Julian D. Carey! met Lawrence McFall, a Civil War expert. He was kind enough The data on the Carey family, as The editor spoke to Mr. Carey by to go to the cemetery, find best I have been able to patch it phone—and now looks forward Orson’s grave stone, photograph together, is as follows: to an opportunity to meet him in it, and send me the pictures. The the future! Based on Mr. Carey’s Grouts were very thankful that Thomas Carey (Keary) was born new location, we have gone ‘full they now had visual proof of their 24 March 1804, possibly in circle’ in our research great-great grandfather’s demise. Lisnafillan, Co. Antrim, Northern challenge… It also turns out that Lawrence Ireland (NI), and was baptized McFall’s closest friend’s great in the Moravian Church, The Editor grandfather was the leader of the Gracehill, Co. Antrim, NI. The regiment that captured Orson Moravian Church in Gracehill has Grout. What a terribly small a handwritten document referred world! to as the “Black Tree”. The Black Tree is so-named because name as Mary). Other children of In the material that Bill Carey it is white on black, perhaps a John and Martha, according to the brought to the Grout reunion printed negative. The “Black Black Tree, include Mary Anne, there was mention that the Tree” was developed more than Eliza, James, William, Jane (married William Buick and had son John Carey’s had been members of the 100 years ago as supposed proof of lineage to a wealthy Carey James), and John. Moravian Church in Gracehill, (To be continued) Ireland. Having lived in who died without heirs.

Bethlehem, PA, as a child, I knew On the “Black Tree” it is shown Editor’s Note: Thanks, Tom, for a that the US center for the that Thomas was the son of James fascinating article! Tom Beggs may Moravian Church was Carey and Martha Sloan (family be contacted at 2471 Nantucket Bethlehem. I got on the Internet information has her first Drive, Salt Lake City,, UT 84121. [E-mail: [email protected]]

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Births: (Copies of obituaries cited are Newark, DE, and Theresa Marie available by sending a Allaband of LA; son Ralph Carey, stamped, self-addressed Christopher Emerson McDonald: Wilmington, DE. Interment, envelope to the Editor.) Born to Kevin and Laura Carey Gracelawn Memorial Park, McDonald, Dublin/Columbus, OH, Miquadale, DE. [The News Journal, on 18 April 2000. Proud sisters, Wilmington, DE, 4/17/2000] Carey and Kathryn. Grandson of Carey, Joseph Wilson: E. Niel and He len Simmons Carey. Carey, Helen Dolan: Died 6 February 2000, Orlando, Namesake of his grandfather. Died 27 December 1996, FL, while on vacation; resided in Wilmington, DE, at age 89. Husband Georgetown/Sussex Co., DE, with his wife of 45 years, Mary Ellen Deaths: M. Paul Carey preceded her in death in 1976. A resident of Hockessin, Conaway Carey. Born 10/17/1936, Carey, Dorothy M.: DE, she was survived by sons Paul son of the late Alton J. and Delema Died 22 April 2000, Round Rock, Carey, Wilmington, and Francis M. Wilson Carey. Survived by son TX, formerly of New Castle, DE, at of Fairfax, DE; daughter Doris C. Joseph A. Carey, Georgetown. age 78. Survived by Edwin W. Roser of Hockessin. Mass at St. Interment, Harbeson Cemetery, Carey, her husband of 55 years; Thomas the Apostle Catholic Harbeson, DE. [DE State News, children Maria Oberholtzer, Round Dover, DE. 2/9/2000] Church, Wilmington; burial, private. Rock, and Mark W. Carey, New [ Hockessin Community News, Cary, Hilda Lyons: Castle. Interment, Hillside Hockessin, DE, 12/30/1996] Died 26 April 2000. Widow of Cemetery, Roslyn, PA. [The News Earl D. Cary. Interment, Parkwood Journal, Wilmington, DE, Carey, Major James Tull Carey: Cemetery, Parkville, MD. [The 4/24/2000] Died 21 May 2000, Lewes/Sussex Sun, Baltimore, MD, 4/27/2000] Co., DE, at age 89. Born in Milton, Ross, Helen Laumeister: Carey, Earl W.: DE, son of late Louis and Estella Died 13 April 2000, Died 2 July 2000, Glen Burnie, Roach Carey. Retired from US Westmoreland/Rome, NY. Born MD. Survived by wife Natalie Army in 1957 after 20 years of 3/23/1925, Frankfort, NY. Carey; children Eva Valentine, service; police chief of Milton in Survived by Franklin Ross, with Triette Ford, and Anthony Carey; early 1960’s; magistrate for the state whom she would have celebrated and five sisters. Services, Singleton of DE. Pre-deceased by his wife, her 55th anniversary on 5/12/2000; Funeral Home, followed by Marion Pollitt Carey; survived by daughter Sherry Ross Henry, cremation. [The Sun, Baltimore, daughter Marilyn Dutton, Millsboro, Berlin, MD, and son, Carl MD, 7/4/2000] DE; brother Russell Carey, Chicago. Lawrence Ross, Pembroke Pines, Interment, Harbeson Cemetery, FL. Private services and burial. Carey, F. Hazel Cook: Harbeson, DE. [The News Journal, Contributions in Helen’s memory, Died 19 July 2000, Georgetown, Wilmington, DE, 5/23/2000] American Cancer Society. [Rome DE, at age 89. Widow of J. Arthur Carey. Interment, Odd Fellows [Note: Jim was a member of the Daily Sentinel, Rome, NY, Cemetery, Milton/Sussex Co., DE. Carey/Cary Family from its formation. 4/14/2000]

[DE State News, Dover, DE, Niel and I were referred to him in 1977, [Note: Helen and Franklin, charter 7/20/2000] early in ourCarey research efforts, and members of the Carey/Cary Family, we benefited from his cordial response. attended every reunion of the Carey, Gloria Edwards: He believed that his Carey heritage was association since 1994. They have Irish, although undocumented beyond Died 14 April 2000, Marshallton, been enthusiastic supporters of the about three previous generations in DE ; DE, at age 67. Survived by organization and have developed a his family information is on file. The daughters Mildred Presley-Hayes, close relationship with other ] reunion“regulars’. Helen will be New Castle, DE, Bobbie Steele, Editor missed. The Editor ]

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Careys Deed Land for The official dedication of the new Wisconsin State Park park is scheduled for Saturday, (Continued from page 1) August 12, 2000, on top of Observatory Hill [a stout climb, Struggling to make a go of as I recall, even when a young farming, they noticed that every man in good physical condition]. summer the local Indians Many of the descendents of [Winnebago Tribe, Mascoutin Robert Emmett Carey and Sept] would appear to harvest Cathryn Anita Carey Donohue what they thought were "bitter will be present, along with senior red berries" and which they later officials of the State of Wisconsin discovered were wild cranberries. and the Department of Natural The Careys soon discovered there Resources. The ceremonies will was a market for this fruit and feature the establishment of an began growing cranberries for James Joseph Carey official State of Wisconsin plaque harvesting, something for which 1841-1910 commemorating the involvement their land was ideally suited. By of William Carey, the immigrant the mid-1880's, William Carey pioneer, and his sons and their and two of his sons, Richard and descendants, and the unique role James Joseph, were the largest that the Carey Family played in cranberry growers in the nation. the history of Observatory Hill Profits for one year were in and its being made available for excess of $250,000, a tidy sum in all the citizens of America to those days, and the summer enjoy, into perpetuity. harvest included 2500 "harvest employees" from all over the [Editor's Note: Many thanks to Jim for area. sharing his family heritage and for his on-going support of our Carey/Cary Having succeeded in one "unique Family organization.

land purchase", the Careys began Contact: RADM Jim Carey, P. O. Box investing in other such unique 10096, Alexandria, VA 22310-0096. (E-mail: [email protected])] lands, one being an area called Mary Alice Ryan Observatory Hill near Montello in 1857-1906 Waushara County. I recall talking to one of my uncles, C. approached by a representative Thankful Taylor, Wife of James Carey, b. 1885, who from the State of Wisconsin, who owned this property much of his Benjamin Cary… had tried unsuccessfully in earlier life, who related the story that his years to buy this property for use father, James Joseph Carey, had The editor has been advised by as a unique State Park. It turns told him about the suspected Jay Cary, Norwich, VT, out that the renowned naturalist valuable precious mineral [[email protected]] that John Muir at one time lived near deposits on this geologic “Thankful Taylor of Yarmouth, Observatory Hill and had camped structure. He had grandiose plans Massachusetts and Bristol, Rhode and hiked there as a boy and to one day make his fortune on Island, Wife of Benjamin Cary" young man. He later wrote about this property, plans that never has been published in The it in his books. (Muir Woods, the came to fruition. When he died, American Genealogist, April giant redwoods park near San the property passed along to his 2000 (Vol. 75, p. 94). Jay Francisco, is named for John indicates that his article identifies brothers and sisters. Eventually, Muir.) In any event, with the now the property came to be owned by the previously unknown ancestry wide geographic locations of the the descendents of Robert of Thankful Taylor Cary (1717- family and the rapidly expanding 1790), the wife of Benjamin Cary Emmett Carey of Berlin, WI [my partial ownership through father], and the descendants of (1706->1790). descendancy, it was decided that Cathryn Anita Carey Donohue, the time was right to arrange with Congrats, Jay, and thanks for my father's sister. the State of Wisconsin to transfer sending the reference! Observatory Hill to them for use as a About a year ago the family was State Park for all to enjoy. HSC