[Mozley Migrations and Memories by Harold Henderson CG for sale at lulu.com]

Table of Contents

Introduction. 1

Leaving Home. 3

Family Overview.. 5

The Pre-Emigrant Generation

Chapter 1. Richard^A Mozley–Mary Marshall Family.. 9

Map 1: Mozley–Harrison Migration, June–August 1833, Collingham to Erie. . . 12

 

First Generation

         (1785-1870, presidents Washington to Grant)

Chapter 2. Henry¹ Mozley–Susanna Pilley Family. 13

Map 2: Townships of Erie County, Pennsylvania  ....................................................................... 21

Chapter 3. Alissomon¹ Mozley–Joseph Harrison Family. 23

Second Generation

(1816–1906, presidents Madison to T. Roosevelt)

Chapter 4. Ann² Mozley–William McLean Long Family. 27

Genealogical  Puzzle #1: Who’s the Father?. 30

Chapter 5. Elizabeth² Mozley–James Thomas–Albert Wood Family.. 31

Genealogical Puzzle #2: Capt. James Thomas in Wisconsin. 34

Genealogical Puzzle #3: A.W. Wood.. 41

Story #1: Borrowing the Baby. 52

            Tree 1: Three Mozley/Wood/Thomas/Allen Families ……….53

Chapter 6. Thomas² Mozley–Elizabeth Van Natta Family.. 55

Map 3: Green Lake, Fond du Lac, and Milwaukee Counties in Southeast Wisconsin. 62

Chapter 7.  Edward² Mozley–Laura Lyons–Amelia M. Warren–Mabel Van Natta Family ……………. 65

Story #2: “Pull Away, for Your Life!”. 71

Chapter 8. Susanna Pilley² Mozley–Henry Stoughton Drake Family.. 73

Genealogical Puzzle #4: Henry’s Mother. 75

Chapter 9. Henry Ebenezer² Mozley–Georgiana Douglass Family.. 85

Genealogical Puzzle #5:   Could There Be Two Georgiana Pelkeys?. 89

Story #3: Capt. Pelkey’s Life and Death on the Great Lakes. 91

Chapter 10. Richard² Mozley Family.. 95

Chapter 11. William² Harrison–Martha Thorp Family.. 99

Chapter 12. Mary² Harrison Family.. 103

Chapter 13. Elizabeth² Harrison–Ephraim H. Abell–Edward S. Abell Family. 105

Genealogical Puzzle #6:  Are You Abel?. 109

Chapter 14. Thomas² Harrison–Joanna D. [–?–] Family.. 111

Chapter 15. George² Harrison–Mary [–?–] Family.. 115

Third Generation

(1846–1963, presidents Polk to Kennedy)

Chapter 16. William Kinney³ Long–Marchia H. Markworth Family. 117

Chapter 17. Susanna³ Thomas Family.. 125

Chapter 18. George Orlando³ Wood–Caroline Elvira Plumb Family. 129

Chapter 19. Melvern R.³ Wood–Emily “Emma” E. Raymond Family.. 137

Chapter 20 Alfred Edward³ Wood Family.. 151

Chapter 21. Sarah Jane³ Mozley–Benjamin Blackmon Family.. 153

Story #4: “Equivalent to the Loss of a Hand or Foot”. 159

Chapter 22. Julia Anna³ Mozley–Frederick Rauselier England Family.. 161

Story #5: “Out of Place and Embarrassed”?. 169

Chapter 23. Harriet Newell³ Mozley–Samuel Mills Scholes Family. 171

Story #6: What I Owe My Father. 183

Chapter 24. William James³ Mozley–Alida Collins Hamilton Family. 185

Chapter 25. Henry Fremont³ Mozley–Eliza Root Family. 193

Chapter 26. Anna Elizabeth³ Mozley–John C. Boddington Family. 205

Story #7: “Bonnie and Clyde” in Reverse. 221

Chapter 27. Mary Ellen³ Mozley–David Lee Family.. 223

Chapter 28. Edward Lincoln³ Mozley–Laura Winegar Family.. 237

Chapter 29. Henry McLean³ Drake–Emma E. Strong Family.. 255

Tree 2: Drakes and Playters, a Tangled Web                           260

Chapter 30. Herbert Ludlow “Bert”³ Harrison–Emolyn E. Eddy Family. 261

Chapter 31. Phoebe Alissiman³ Harrison Family. 269

Chapter 32. William Henry³ Harrison–Mary Katherine Clark Family.. 271

ABBREVIATIONS. 277

APPENDIX 1. 279

APPENDIX 2. 281

APPENDIX 3. 285

ABOUT THE AUTHOR…………………………………………289

INDEX.. 291

FOUR-GENERATION MOZLEY WAYFINDING TABLE….327

Back from the undead, more or less

 After more than a year of silence I will make this a spot where folks can find notice of my recent genealogy articles and books. Earlier this year, with the help of Lisa Alzo, I published the first of what I hope will be a series of family histories. Mozley Migrations and Memories is a chronicle of the Mozley and Harrison families who emigrated from England to settle in or near Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1833. I'll post the table of contents tomorrow if this works. The book is available by way of the lulu.com bookstore. Just type "Mozley" in the search box and you should be there.

New book -- resources for major Christian denominations before 1900

Sunny Jane Morton and I have just published How To Find Your Family History in U.S. Church Records: A Genealogist's Guide, with specific resources for major Christian denominations before 1900 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2019). It includes five chapters on family history research in these records in general, and twelve more on specific denominations or groups of denominations:

Anglican/Episcopal,
Baptist,
Congregational,
Dutch Reformed/Reformed Church in America,
German Churches: Reformed and Sectarian,
Latter-Day Saint (Mormon),
Lutheran,
Mennonite and Amish,
Methodist,
Quaker (Religious Society of Friends),
Presbyterian, and
Roman Catholic.

Obviously this is not a complete book on records of all US religions from the beginning until now. In the introduction we wrote,

"To include all faiths and carry them through the 20th century would have doubled the size of the book and postponed its completion indefinitely. Recognizing that perfection is the enemy of completion, we encourage others to extend and improve upon this work. Many important faiths that have grown up in the U.S. or been brought here by immigrants are not represented in this book; their stories and records deserve to be respected, described, explained, and cataloged as well." We hope it will help genealogists at all levels.

Search engines and slavery

Historian Adam H. Domby (College of Charleston) reports that Ancestry has recently changed its search engine in ways that make it more difficult to learn about slavery from basic genealogical inquiries. "When searching for an individual’s name, Ancestry.com stopped including results from the 1850 or 1860 United States Census Slave Schedules." Some improvements have been made but reportedly the search function is still not back to what it was. Read much more here. His article appears in "Black Perspectives," the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS).  

Front-page news 101 years ago, or "we're not in Kansas any more"

FIRST AIRPLANE PASSES OVER WILLIAMSBURG

A large airplane coming from the southwest and going northeast passed over Williamsburg about 4:30 Saturday afternoon [30 November 1918]. This is the first airplane which has been near here, and people in and around the vicinity were able to get a good view of it, as it was going rather slowly. No report has been seen of it, so no one know why it was traveling over here.

(Williamsburg Star [Kansas], Thursday 5 December 1918, page 1, column 2)

First steps in analyzing stupidity

"Smart is the ability to solve hard problems, which can be done many ways. Stupid is a tendency to not comprehend easy problems." 

So writes Morgan Housel at the Collaborative Fund's blog. While the examples tend to focus on finance and economics, the lessons can be applied in many ways . . . 

For instance, one way of being stupid is "Discounting the views of people who aren’t as credentialed as you are, underestimating the special knowledge they have since they’ve experienced a world you haven’t."

Books vs. Articles

Slowly I am learning that writing a family history book is not anything like writing an extra-long article. A book is more like infinity  -- walking in a flat desert with no landmarks. The horizon stays in the same place no matter how long you walk.

On the positive side, once done, books are much roomier than articles. I can find out how relatives interacted -- how California cousins took in a Wisconsin relative whose doctor said she would die if she had to go through another winter; how my wife's 20something grandfather, on his way from Wisconsin to graduate school at Yale, stopped by to see an aunt in eastern Kansas (a sizeable detour); and some less reputable exploits. I can also find out how they didn't interact, as when a Civil War veteran died claiming he had no relatives, when he had at least two. (I count him and many like him as casualties of the war even though they lived for decades after.)

And a book has room for diversions and distractions, even though it cannot be as consistently entertaining as  Sharon Hoyt on the many marriages of Ida May Chamberlain (National Genealogical Society Quarterly 106 [September 2018]: 217-38), or John Coletta on anything.

Easy online availability of deeds, probates, and newspapers makes it easier than ever to enrich the story -- and lengthen it (1216 footnotes but who's counting?). Even so, because so few write biographical or autobiographical sketches there are still many gaps. And when the task is to render the formatting consistent over many dozens of pages, it also helps to have the smooth drone of a Cubs game in your ear.