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Volume 105, No. 4, December 2017 The National Genealogical Society presents . FaFacesces of ofAmer Americaica On the Cover: MARIE ROSALIE FINANCE (1871–1952) LUCY SALOME LUTZ (1900–1993) Rosalie kept many secrets. She hoped to leave them in Alsace when she risked everything to come to the United States in 1906. The youngest child of Jean Baptiste and Salome (Kuntz) Finance, a weaver and a tailor, Rosalie lost her father at nine, and her mother at fifteen. Selling cloth at the Thannenkirch market, she caught the eye of Alphonse Lutz, three years her senior. Mandatory military service soon swept him up. In 1893 he returned home on leave to claim paternity of Rosalie’s newborn son. When his service ended, Alphonse came back and the two married. Two more sons and, in 1900, a daughter, Lucy, completed their family. More than thirty years earlier, Alphonse’s father had returned from military service to claim paternity of his son and marry Alphonse’s mother. Two generations of this family despised their country’s military. The view from Thannenkirch, across the Alsace plain, was clear as gathering clouds of the Great War, rumbled. Its excruciatingly slow build-up gave Alsatians time to plan to depart. Rosalie was in charge of saving for the move, but Alphonse’s younger brother Victor, landless and single because of it, was the first to go. In America, Victor sent back disturbing news. To leave Alsace men had to have already completed military service; minor sons had to promise to return to serve, their family putting up security in the form of land. Alphonse kept one of his fields and recalculated his departure. Victor’s other news was worse, however. Alsatian obstacles notwithstanding, the American requirements were more daunting. At Ellis Island every newcomer received a thorough physical. Beneath her lifetime of high- necked collars Rosalie hid a goiter; what if they reached America just to have Rosalie refused entry? Victor held out hope; Boston was famous for little or no attention to physicals, he said. Try the port of Boston. Boston welcomed them. Lawrence, Massachusetts, provided mill work for skilled weavers, and the family flourished. Secrets remained hidden until 1943, when more than forty family members celebrated the eldest son’s fiftieth birthday. The next year the same family celebrated Rosalie and Alphonse’s golden wedding anniversary. Those old enough to count also knew better than to speak about this with ardent Catholic Rosalie. Rosalie had no regrets. Her three sons escaped a devastating war where neighbors were gassed. Her only grandson of age to fight in the next war came home safely from the Pacific theater. Her daughter and granddaughters learned exquisite tailoring and handwork techniques brought from the old country. Only Lucy ever returned to Thannenkirch where the field was long gone. Credits: Documentation of Rosalie’s life is in the care of the photograph’s owner, Melinde Lutz Byrne, FASG; [email protected], who grew up hearing stories of how Alphonse smelled of snuff and Rosalie cooked fdumfties and roladin, and bequeathed to her sons hair that never turned grey. This brief description is the result of decades of research assisted by Linda MacDonald in Colmar records and George Freeman Sanborn Jr., with French translations. National Genealogical Society Quarterly Promoting Genealogical Scholarship Since 1912 VOLUME 105 NUMBER 4 DECEMBER 2017 FEATURE ARTICLES Charlotte ([—?—]) Fasse Graue of the Principality of Lippe, and the States of Iowa and Missouri Pamela Stone Eagleson, CG 245 In Atlanta, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Elsewhere: One Paul Richard Stockton or More? William M. Litchman, PhD 251 Susan Gliddon of Bridgerule, Devon, England; and Summit County, Ohio: One Person or Two? Jan M. Joyce, DBA 261 Tracking a French Canadian through Francophone and Anglophone Communities: A Case Study in Language Interference George L. Findlen, PhD, CG, CGL 273 Three Wives for Andrew Parsons (1761–1849) of Massachusetts, Vermont, and Connecticut Joan A. Hunter, CG 287 EDITORS’ CORNER Ride the Right Horse to the Rodeo 243 ADMINISTRATION 244 REVIEWS 296 ANNUAL TABLE OF CONTENTS 311 COMMUNICATIONS 315 ANNUAL INDEX 317 © Copyright 2017. National Genealogical Society; Arlington, Virginia (ISSN 0027–934X). Established in 1912, the NGS Quarterly is sent quarterly to all members of the society and to libraries by subscription. Periodicals postage is paid at Arlington, Virginia, and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to NGS; 6400 Arlington Boulevard, Suite 810; Falls Church, VA 22042-2138. REVIEWS Bates and Leland. French Santee: A Huguenot Settlement in Colonial South Carolina. By Janis Walker Gilmore 296 Jones. Mastering Genealogical Documentation. By James W Petty, AG 296 Griffeth. The Stranger in My Genes: A Memoir. By Tracy Neely 297 Garrett-Nelson. A Guide to Researching African-American Ancestors in Laurens County, South Carolina, and Selected Finding Aids. By Wevonneda Minis 298 Mills. Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace. By Julie Michutka 299 Hollier. Hollier Ancestry of Southern Louisiana. By Christophe Landry, PhD 299 Ullman. Descendants of Anthony Smith of Waterbury, Connecticut. By Joan A. Hunter, CG 300 The Memoir Roundtable. Memoir Your Way: Tell Your Story through Writing, Recipes, Quilts, Graphic Novels, and More. By Cari A. Taplin, CG 301 Mills and Brossette. Tips & Quips for the Family Historian. By Kathy Gunter Sullivan, CG 302 Miller. Philatelic Genealogy: Old Envelopes, Letters, and Postcards as Genealogical Sources. By Dave Strausfeld 302 Noble and Marsh. Patriots in Georgia Revolutionary War Engagements, 1776–1782. By Yvonne Mashburn Schmidt, CG 303 Thornton. Research in Mississippi. By Kim Richardson 304 Gates. Southern Planters: The Gates, Bryan, Davis and Related Families of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, 1650–2000. By Mary Wiley Campbell, CG 305 Millward. Finding Charity’s Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland. By Michael Hait, CG 306 Pierce and Segel. Wampanoag Families of Martha’s Vineyard: The Wampanoag Genealogical History of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. By Cheryll Toney Holley 306 Condron. Managing the Digital You: Where and How to Keep and Organize Your Digital Life. By Jordan Jones 308 Smith. Organize Your Genealogy: Strategies and Solutions for Every Researcher. By Harold Henderson, CG 309 Goodwin. New York City Municipal Archives: An Authorized Guide for Family Historians. By Judith A. Herbert, CG 309 Hinds Jr. “They were thick as fleas:” Five Generations of Jones and Allied Kin Descended from Ambrose Jones (1756–1833) in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and the Pacific Northwest, 1750s–the 20th Century. By Yolanda Campbell Lifter 310 EDITORS’ CORNER Ride the Right Horse to the Rodeo “Always remember the asymptote.” — Hunt Baldwin and John Coveny, The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of (Longmire, season 5, episode 10: Nexflix, air date 23 September 2016), minute 53. "est friends since grade school, fic- to his single identity. Author Pamela tional characters Walt Longmire and Eagleson makes sense of four different Henry Standing Bear are on asymp- surnames belonging to one woman by totes—paths that approach but never uncovering the rules that gave her the meet. Each man brings a unique back- last names of her biological father, her ground to his view of facts. Neither biological mother, her maternal grand- can reconcile without changing the father, and her adoptive father. equation. Walt is Anglo and Henry is Events out of context lose mean- Cheyenne. They live in the same place ing and can be unrecognizable. Every but see it differently. genealogical case has context. This Researchers start with embedded issue’s authors understand it, not as it social, cultural, and educational assump- pertains to themselves, but as it looked tions that can prevent them from reach- and felt to the participants. How did ing a genealogical answer. Sometimes the world look to a pensioner losing his the revelation of cultural context or monthly check in his old age? How did historical events illuminates the cor- a man who lived to fly react to knowing rect conclusion. In this issue author he would never get a chance if people Joan Hunter demonstrates the identity knew his age? What cultural clues did a of a pensioner and explains his pattern woman’s four surnames trigger in her of marriages and land sales in the light contemporaries? of changing requirements for military Walt and Henry see an owl. To Walt, pensions. the owl’s blinking at him in full daylight Author William Litchman follows a is either the sign of a sick animal or an man who strives to be lost, to be a suit- admonition to be thoughtful or wise. ably aged suitor to two much younger To Henry it means impending death. wives, and to qualify as a pilot when the Each case’s context makes the differ- military said he was too old. The ratio- ence. The owl can be a helpful spirit nales and a timeline that never overlaps (Middle Eastern), a symbol of wealth prove the identity. Author Jan Joyce and wisdom (Greek), a bearer of secrets shows that women who lived more than (Aboriginal Australian), or a shapeshifter a thousand miles distant were one and (medieval Europe). Knowing what con- the same, in part by predicting where text meant to someone can highlight the she should be and finding her gone. answer to a research question. Author George Findlen takes sounds —Melinde Lutz Byrne and and cultures, illness and distance, and Thomas W. Jones follows an otherwise untraceable man NGSQ, December 2017 NGS Quarterly National Genealogical Society Academic Affiliation3 "oston /niversity National Genealogical Society Center for Professional Education 6400 Arlington Boulevard 755 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite B18 Suite 810 Boston, MA 02215 Falls Church, VA 22042-2318 Editors: 2016–2018 Board Melinde Lutz Byrne, FASG (New Hampshire) President: Thomas W.