Frederic Pease Decendants
Monday, March 22, 2004
Upcoming book: Pease Family from Great Baddow, England
Rick explains how he numbers his Pease's.
For the main subject of this book, The Pease Family from Great Baddow, England, I’ve gone to a numbering system different from those used in Pease books published. It is called the Henry System. The immigrant ancestor, is usually the first person to arrive in America, and he receives a whole integer (1). Each descendant of the second generation would have two digits, (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc.). The third generation in direct line from 1 would be 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, etc. This follows through for each generation. If the first child of each generation had at least one child, the seventh generation’s 1st child would be 1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Another example, the 4th child of the 9th child of the immigrant 1 would be 1.9.4, and his 8th child would be 1.9.4.8. I’ve seen this system used in other genealogy books, and I like the fact that if another child is discovered in a family, it is easier to add that person and any descendants of that individual.
Sunday, March 21, 2004
Famous Relatives: Levi Dolsen and Father Gabriel Richard
According to one of Marjoirie Hewitt PEASE King's (my grandmother) stories, that Leviticus Euphrates Dolsen (Her Great Grandfather) posed for statue of Father Gabriel Richard. Check out the link for Detroit New's article about Father Gabriel Richard.. Which one is Levi?
Thank you Peter Hartz for preserving her stories by writing them down for generations.... Perhaps we should put them on the blog?
Sunday, March 14, 2004
Famous Relative: Elisha Pease
From Rick in Taunton:
Elisha and Frederick are 5th cousins
1.2.1.1.3.1.4.2 Elisha Marshall, son of Lorain Thompson (John Chauncey, John, John, John, John, Robert) and Sarah (Marshall) Pease; b. Jan 05, 1812 in Enfield, CT; d. Aug 26, 1883 in Lampasas Springs, TX; m. Nov 12, 1850 in Windsor, CT, Lucinda Christina Niles; b. Jun 23, 1813. She was the daughter of Richard Niles; b. Feb 23, 1785 in Windsor; d. Jun 19, 1836, and Christina Griswold; b. May 23, 1784 in Windsor; d. Apr 26, 1879. Richard and Christina were married May 07, 1810.
After attending Westfield Academy in Westfield, MA, Elisha M. Pease worked in a country store, and in the post office at Hartford, CT. In 1834, he spent time in other New England states, and in November of that year, New Orleans, Louisiana. The following year, he was in Texas, settling at Bastrop, then called Mona, where he studied law with Don Carlos Barrett. That same year he was elected secretary of the Committee of Safety of Mona. He was in the first battle of the Texas Revolution at Gonzales, with Colonel Robert M. Coleman’s Company.
In November of 1835, Pease was elected secretary of the General Council, and attended the convention of 1836. During the summer of 1836, he was the chief clerk of the Navy, and later the secretary of the treasury department. After Texas was admitted to the Union in November, he was appointed clerk of the judicial committee of the House of Representatives. He declined an offer from Sam Houston to become the postmaster general in order to continue his study of law, and was admitted to the bar in Apr 1837. For a time, Elisha M. Pease was district attorney, and represented Brazoria County in the First and Second Legislatures. As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, he originated the probate laws of 1848.
After serving as a senator from 1849 to 1850, he was sworn in as a democratic governor on Dec 21, 1853, defeating Whig candidate, T. P. Ochiltree by a vote of 11, 601 to 8, 141. In 1855, Pease defeated a Know Nothing Party candidate, David C. Dickenson, by 4,000 votes. During his gubernatorial tenure, railroad construction increased, 2 million dollars was raised for a state University, a new capital and an institution for the physically impaired were built. When Elisha M. Pease began his official term as governor of Texas, the state tax was twenty cents on one hundred dollars. After his second term expired, the tax was fifteen cents on one hundred dollars, and the state was entirely free of debt. He was a Unionist, and so was elected in 1866, as Vice President of the Philadelphia Convention of Southern Loyalists.
In 1867, General William T. Sherman appointed Mister Pease as provisional governor. In 1872, Elisha Pease represented Texas in the Liberal Republican Convention at Cincinnati that nominated Horace Greeley for the 1874 presidency. President Rutherford Hayes offered Pease a collectorship position for the port of Galveston, which he accepted as his last public office. When he retired to private life, Elisha became the vice president of the National Bank of Austin. He died while visiting a health spa in Lampasas. His papers are on deposit in the Austin Texas State Library. Children of Elisha Marshall and Lucinda Christiana (Niles) Pease, 2 born in Brazoria, TX:
1.2.1.1.3.1.4.2.1 Carrie Augusta b. Jun 12, 1851 d. 1882
1.2.1.1.3.1.4.2.2 Julia Maria b. Mar 14, 1853 d. Jan 19, 1918 Austin, TX
1.2.1.1.3.1.4.2.3 Annie Marshall b. Sep 28, 1854
Friday, March 12, 2004
Frederic's sheet Music in the Library of Congress
Check out the music Frederic wrote... I don't play well enough to find out if I like it. Do you? Its a hundred and fifty years old!
Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Ypsilanti, 20th Century
Maria Davis, EMU library archivist, wrote " the James Mann book on
Ypsilanti, 20th Century. On page 42 it has a picture of Pease Auditorium on the inside and the outside in the book. That is it for the book."
Sunday, March 07, 2004
Send a Pease Postcard
Eastern Michigan University now has Frederic Pease Auditorium ecards! Look for a different one that shows the pipe organ.
Saturday, March 06, 2004
Free Genealogy Software to Download
I have our genealogy on a PAF program. It is the program that the LDS church uses and they now provide it free online. Its wonderful. Try it.
Join Frederic Pease Blog
Thanks to Bart I have made connections way back along Frederick's mother's line (Ruth Crocker).
I have now invited descendants to join my Fred Pease blog. Of the original family we have email addresses for descendants of: Ruth, Marshall and Max. How exciting to find live cousins for a change, not just those in Highland Cemetery, Ypsilanti, Washtenaw, Michigan.
