I can help you with your genealogy...

I've decided to help others in gathering, organizing and learning about their family history.  Because of the major time commitment, I will have to charge for my time.  My beginning session will be four hours of work to organize what you already have to put it into a format that you can understand and enjoy.  Genealogy can go in many directions:  photos, documents, histories, immigration, names, dates, places...etc.  I can help you with what you have and I can do the research to help you add to what you know of you are and where you came from.  The initial session will be $100 that will include a four generation pedigree chart and the organization of what you already have.  I can also pull any information from your documents.  After the initial session, if you would like more help, we can discuss where you want to go from there.

I love learning about family history.  Although I'm not an expert, I have spent a lot of time on my own genealogy and know a thing or two about how to help you get started. 

Contact me by email: amy.graves@ymail.com if you have questions or if you are interested.

Info about Robert Ridge (the first) RIDGE

After much research...I have decided that the family story that says that Robert came home and found his wife Elizabeth meeting with LDS missionaries, beat up the missionary (William Fowler) and left for Australia, can't be all true.  Robert was convicted Mar 1843 and sent to Tazmania to serve a twenty year sentence.  William Fowler (writer of We Thank Thee o God for a Prophet) did not join the church until 1849 and served as a missionary in England from 1850-1857.  It is also told that William Fowler was Elizabeth cousin.  This i cannot prove or disprove.  Elizabeth would have been 15 years older than Fowler and while much of Fowler's ancestry is known, we only have Elizabeth's father and mother...nothing beyond.  Now it is certainly possible that Elizabeth met with Fowler while he was on his mission, but that would have been after Robert had been sent to the penal colony of Tazmania.  It isn't known if Elizabeth ever joined the church, but she did immigrate to America and died in Ohio.  Until we have more info on Elizabeth's parents and their siblings, we can't tell if Elizabeth and Fowler were cousins.  Still, it's a pretty good story, especially if you are trying to hide that Robert was arrested as the head of a band of thieves, sent to Tazmania and never seen again.

Missing people on the RIDGE/CLARK 8 Generation Fan Pedigree Chart

138 -- John Foster (abt. 1770)
139 -- Elisabeth (abt. 1774)
140 -- Robert Kemp (abt. 1777)
141 -- Susan Paynes (abt. 1775)
142 -- Robert Alcock
143 -- Anne
148 -- William Hick (1768)
149 -- Sarah Howse (4 jul 1765)
166 -- George Minns (abt. 1759)
167 -- Honor Howes (23 mar 1775)
168 -- Thomas Bond (10 jul 1756)
169 -- Mary (30 oct 1755)
170 -- Nels Truldson (14 nov 1762)
171 -- Ingar Hansdotter (11 mar 1770)
172 -- Nils Bonasson (1756)
173 -- Marna (27 apr 1753)
174 -- Hans Tykeson (31 dec 1753)
175 -- Anna (1767)
176 -- Lars Jonsson (20 aug 1764)
177 -- Hanna Assarsdotter (15 jan 1771)
178 -- Pehr Olson (20 feb 1764)
179 -- Dorothea Pehrsdotter (3 dec 1760)
186 -- Joseph Gaskell (1766)
187 -- Elizabeth Slater (3 may 1777)

DNA Testing

Anyone ever had a DNA profile done?  In my research, I've found several groups that are creating DNA pools to really prove geneology links.  I don't know, interesting thought.

Memories of Caroline Graves Denney (GRAVES)

Caroline is the daughter of Henderson and Elizabeth Graves.

by Guy C Denney:

"Aunt Caroline was an aunt by marriage to this writer and I saw much of her in her later years.  She certainly was the most loveable character I ever saw and I never saw a woman with such a streak of joviality as she.  In the midst of any kind of conversation she just had to inject a batch of foolishness.  And she kept you laughing all the time.  She certainly passed this trait on down to her children.  In her old days when she and Uncle Hal lived all alone, I spent all my leisure hours as a kid down at their house which was only a few hundred yards away from my home.  It seemed to me that she was always baking pies and it is probably needless to add that I was always eating her pies.  When the song came out a few years ago about the LIttle Old Lady passing by and dressed in her lavender and lace, I always thought immediately of Aunt Caroline for she too dressed in her lavender and lace and if a song ever exemplified a woman it surely did her."
Quote taken from Ancestry.com; File entitled Decendents on James Graves, accessed online 9 Jul 2011.

Some New (to me) Jones' Photos

Mercy Patimore Poulton

 Dennis Graves->Bonnie Joyce Jones->Leo Arthur Jones->Mercy Patimore Poulton

William Jones

 Dennis Graves->Bonnie Joyce Jones->Leo Arthur Jones->William Jones

(Scott thinks this fellow has Dennis' forehead and hair...cover his eyes and lower with your thumb and you can see it)

Nelson Wheeler Whipple, Sr.

Dennis Graves->Bonnie Joyce Jones->Mabel Whipple->Nelson Wheeler Whipple Jr.->Nelson Wheeler Whipple Sr.

Lieutenant Vincent Victor Larson

Joined the Navy in 1942, Attended Naval Communication school at Noroton Heights, Connecticut.  Stationed at Lakehurst, New Jersey & Hitchcock, Texas.  Overseas Port Lyautey, French Morocco, ETO, Tinian & Marianas Islands.  Travelled aboard the USS Trego, which sailed from Pearl Harbor and arrived 7/31/45 in APRA Harbor, Guam, Marianas Islands to visit ComAirPacSubComFwd (Communication ??? Pacific Fleet Submarine Force Commander Forward).  Discharged 12/18/1945.

Wish I had a picture of him in uniform!!!

Sources:
Utah State Archives and Records Service, Salt Lake City, Utah; Military Service Cards, ca. 1898-1975.
National Archives at College Park, College Park, Maryland, United States; Muster Rolls of US Navy Ships, Stations, and Other Naval Activities, 1/1/1939-1/1/1949.