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Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society P.O The Livermore Roots Tracer ISSN 0736-802X The Livermore Roots Tracer Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society P.O. Box 901, Livermore, California 94551-0901 http://l-ags.org & http://twitter.com/lagsociety Volume 37 February 2017 Number 1 Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society Vol. 37 No. 1, February 2017 2 The Livermore Roots Tracer Membership Report January 9, 2017 New Member Information Leah Larkin Thanks to the generosity of the following L-AGS members: Patrons Dick & Jean Lerche, Madelon Palma, Kay Speaks, Duncan Tanner & one anonymous patron Benefactors Kristina Ahuja, Annette Breingan, Marilyn A. Cutting, Barbara Hemphill, Linda Driver & Walt Crawford, Richard & Wanda Finn, James & Rae Hooks, Arnold & Nancy Koslow, Cindy McKenna, Patricia Moore, Bill & Marlene Silver, Peggy Weber & Bob Whitlock Total L-AGS Members as of January 9, 2017: 88 Memberships and 75 Members tion: Contact TV-TMG Chair (Kay Speaks) tvtmg.chair@L- Meeting News AGS.org; TV-TMG Forum [email protected] General Meetings — are held on the second Monday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at Congregation Beth Emek, 3400 Neva- Pleasanton Genealogy Center — is jointly supported by L- da Court, Pleasanton. Map: http://www.L-AGS.org/maps/Pls AGS, the Friends of the Pleasanton Library, and the -BethEmek.html Pleasanton Public Library. A L-AGS docent is available from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Pleasanton Public Li- The L-AGS Writing Group — Meets monthly in Liver- brary 400 Old Bernal Avenue Pleasanton, California. Or by more. The encouragement to write your ancestors’ stories appointment, e-mail: [email protected]. and your own comes from this enthusiastic group. To join the email list, please send a note to mailto:[email protected] Livermore Family History Center — Several L-AGS with “Add me to the Writing Group list” in the subject line. members, both LDS and non-LDS, volunteer as docents at the Livermore FHC. They are available to assist you in your Let’s Talk Genealogy — Meets monthly in Livermore. To genealogy research. The FHC has several subscription re- join the email list, please send a note to mailto:changes@L- search sites not readily available elsewhere and is open Mon- AGS.org with “Add me to the Let’s Talk Genealogy list” in days 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday evenings 6 the subject line. p.m. – 9 p.m. and Saturday 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. If the parking in The Master Genealogist Group — usually meets on the front of the building is full, there is a large parking lot in the third Saturday of the month, from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Loca- rear of the building. Map. L-AGS Leadership for 2017 President [email protected] Tom Mathews First VP and Program Chair [email protected] Kay Speaks Second VP & Membership Chair [email protected] George Fulton Corresponding Secretary Susan Davis Recording Secretary Leora Frise Business Manager [email protected] Duncan Tanner Contents John Joseph Ryan-and what I learned from the National Archives ......................................... 10 Membership and Meeting News .......................2 In Memoriam ................................................. 13 L-AGS Leadership for 2017 ............................2 G.R.O.W. ....................................................... 14 President’s Message from Tom Mathews .......3 Did you STOP your research at the 1850 census? Pension File Solves a Mystery .........................4 What resources are available beyond the 1850 New Member Introduction: Caroline Chavez ..8 census? ........................................................... 15 New at the Pleasanton Genealogy Library ..... 9 Future General Meetings .............................. 16 Vol. 37 No. 1, February 2017 Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society The Livermore Roots Tracer 3 President’s Message I haven’t always been interested in genealogy but I did grow up hearing lots of stories. I heard of the original Thomas Matthews, the son of the coachman of Sir Robert Ross, who eloped with the daughter of his father’s boss. The story goes that when they wanted to leave Ireland and emi- grate to America he lacked the funds until he happened to find a wallet in the road with enough mon- ey to secure passage for his family to New Orleans and up the Mississippi to southern Illinois. Once in America he learned who had lost the wallet and, through hard work and honest toil, sent the money back to its rightful owner. I heard that a Scottish tutor changed the spelling of our name to ‘Mathews’ because using two ‘t’s was a waste of ink. I’d heard that my grandfather, Charles Willard Mathews, Sr., was so cheap that he overinflated the back tires of his car so that it was always driving downhill, thus saving gas. I heard that I was descended from at least ten Mayflower passengers. I heard that one ancestor accidentally suffocated her baby while trying to keep it from crying during an Indian attack. I heard of Duncan Campbell, the youngest son of the Duke of Argyll, who being deprived of a title, came to America and joined in the fight for independence. I heard of the young Bates sisters who used a penny whistle and drum to fool an attacking British shore party into thinking Yankee troops were coming to spoil their surprise attack. I heard stories of my great-grandfather Cunningham who declined a suggestion by a neighbor to go into business making farm machinery. The neighbor’s name was John Deere. More than any of the others, though, I heard of Ann Vessey, lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria who had the misfortune of having three husbands die by drowning, and twice barely escaped the same fate herself. I heard of her last husband, Harvey Annis, who fought at Shiloh, then became an officer commanding a company of the 50th U.S. Colored Troop. When he fell ill towards the end of the war, Ann and their youngest daughter, Belle, came down to Vicksburg to tend to him and escort him home. They boarded the riverboat Sultana which was severely overloaded with recently released Un- ion prisoners from the Andersonville prison camp. Just north of Memphis, one of the boilers on the Sultana exploded sparking a catastrophic fire that killed over 2,000 passengers and crew. Anna sur- vived by using a cabin door as a raft but Harvey and Belle were lost and never found. When my dad passed away in 1996 the family gathered together at his house, sharing memories and pouring over old photo albums. Often someone would wonder as to the identity of a person in a pic- ture and the answer was always ‘Dad would know.’ It was at this gathering, mere hours after saying our final farewell to my last surviving parent, that I realized I had lost an opportunity to ask them any questions about their lives or their parents. From this get-together grew a determination to learn all that I could about my parents’ families and to never miss an opportunity to pick someone’s brain about what they know. I have learned much in the subsequent years. Much of what I thought I knew has turned out to be, well, fanciful. Any suggestions of royal lineage appear to be the creation of someone with the mis- guided desire to believe that they were somebody special. I don’t mind this, though, for in my search for dukes and princes I have found many real people with real stories. They are all special and they all deserve to be remembered. Keep Hunting Tom Mathews The Livermore Roots Tracer The Roots Tracer Staff The Roots Tracer is the quarterly publication of Editor .......................................... Patrick Lofft the Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society. Contributors ........................ Richard Lerche, The mission statement of the Roots Tracer is: Caroline Chavez, Shannon Ryan, Kay Speaks “Instruct. Inspire. Inform.” Web Editor .............................. Craig Mullins Compositor ................................ Andi Winters We encourage members to submit articles for Printing and Distribution ............................... publication. Material can be e-mailed to: .................................... Sue Davis, Jean Lerche [email protected] or mailed to L-AGS, P.O. Box 901, Livermore, CA 94551- G.R.O.W. Columnist ................... Kay Speaks 0901. Want ghostwriting help? Just ask! Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society Vol. 37 No. 1, February 2017 4 The Livermore Roots Tracer Pension File Solves a Mystery By Dick Lerche Have you ever spent much time investigating the remains a mystery. The following list summarizes origin of given names in your family history? I the most probable sources for the names of the never did. That changed during the review of the eight children of GGG Grandfather Robert Wash- 200 plus images from the Civil War pension file ington Ogg. of my GG Grandfather John Shannon Davenport Benjamin Hance Ogg: Named after his maternal Ogg that Patrick Lofft and his sister, Sheila, gra- Grandfather Benjamin Hance. ciously photographed during their research at the National Archives in Washington D. C. during Alexander W Ogg: Named after his paternal December 2015. A couple of names in the file Grandfather Alexander Ogg and his uncle Alex- caught my attention and inspired me to review the ander Washington Ogg. naming of John S. D. Ogg’s siblings and the nam- ing of his children including my G Grandfather Robert Washington Ogg (1815 - 1890): Inherited Aaron Wilson Ogg. Surprisingly, the names for the name of his father Robert Washington Ogg ten of the dozen siblings in the two generations of (1775 – 1837). Ogg children could be traced to earlier ancestors. Elizabeth Susan Ogg: Named with the first names The two exceptions were my direct line relatives, of her maternal and paternal Grandmothers – John S. D. Ogg and Aaron Wilson Ogg! Elizabeth Dorsey Hance and Susan (unknown maiden name) Ogg.
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