Tombstone Tuesday - John & Minerva Adamson and family

I know I talk a lot about Find A Grave and how wonderful people in the genealogy community really can be.  But really they are AWESOME!!!

I have had some requests up for a few years for my 3x Great Grandparents John & Minerva Adamson and two of their children Emily & Mulford Adamson. 

I also have been in contact with a "cousin" from Minerva's line that was trying also to get more information on Minerva.  He even stopped by the Townline Cemetery located in Rathbone, Steuben, New York, to see if he could locate their headstones for me.  He was unable to find them.  And I had sadly thought their headstones must have fallen down at some point. 

Needless to say, I was so excited to check my email last Friday to find that someone had fulfilled all four requests!!!

I met a fellow genealogists through the GenerousGenealogist website and have been working with her since last March on my Adamson-Yost line.  She has been amazing in helping me locate records that I don't have access to being so far away. 

She sent me an email and told me that she had had time to run by that specific cemetery and seen my requests and was happy to help.  She found the headstone's that we had previously thought were not there.

Photo's courtesy: Shawna Neff 

Emily age 11 & Mulford age 15 are my 2nd Great Grand Aunt & Uncle 

Aren't they so beautiful!!! Thank you Shawna!! Your kindness will not be forgotten!!

There is some of the most giving and amazing people in this community!! And I love it!!

Someday I will go and visit my Grandparents....dreams do come true...I have faith and a very understanding and loving husband ;)

Mystery Monday: John Adamson 1793 PA

One of the hardest parts of being sick...well besides the intense pain....was not being able to work on my genealogy.  But guess what...I am back baby! The only thing that will keep me from getting back to work is all the family time I have been spending with my little family this summer.  We have had such a good summer so far but it's time for me to get to work. :)

Today I just want to talk a little about my brickwall on the Adamson side John Adamson b. abt 1795 PA, USA d. (poss) 1865 Steuben Co., NY, USA.  John is my 3x Great Grandfather, my direct paternal line. John married Minerva Mulford sometime before 1835, as their oldest son John Adamson Jr. was born in May 1836 (my 2x Great Grandfather).  They went on to have another son Mulford Adamson and three daughters Emily, Louisa, and Edith.

I have not found much on my John Sr., other than those little facts.  The 1850 & 1860 US Federal Census' have him living in Thurston, Steuben, New York.  The 1850 Cesus has him being born in 1817 PA, but the 1860 Census says 1793 PA.  I think the 1850 Census is a transcription error though because if you look at the actual census it is very hard to read the age for John.  There is a cemetery index for the Cameron Mills or Townline Cemetery listed on Painted Hills Genealogy Society website, which lists a John Adamson being born in 1793 and passing in 1865.  I have a photo request for a headstone on his find a grave memorial.  Someday I hope that there will be someone available to find John's headstone and also the rest of his family that are buried there. Or better yet, that I would be able to go and see it for myself (hint hint hubby). ;)

I have found some mention of John Adamson Jr., adventures in business in Steuben County which reference that his father settled the "river below" around 1845.  But no mention of his family or where in Pennsylvania he might have been born. 

Someday......

I will find my  family...yes it is the wish of every genealogist!!!