Juggling the Georges.
Being Candy has meant some broad Candy research. At one point we were convinced that our George Candy was the son of Caius and Eliza. But alas, we waded through the records and got on the right trail in our hunt. Our George was actually the son of John Candy and Sarah Maurer. They were all up in Illinois before they moved to Iowa.
Nonetheless we think it's important to help keep things sorted out in the family tree so we're keeping the Monroe juncture up in our web cluster.
In our journey to learn more about George H. Candy, we had a major breakthrough when we came to learn that his "H" stands for Hitchcock--the maiden name of his mother Eliza.
This was, in fact, before we found Baldwin's genealogy. We'd spent months looking through census records and compiling a picture of our Way-Backs or distant ancestors as best we could on our own and without any experience at this sort of thing. So finding an official genealogy work confirmed that we were on the right track in most instances and in some places we’d gotten confused. Caius, for example, had both a son and a brother named George. And his brother George had married an Eliza, just like Caius. Without comparing our pieces of the puzzle coming into view to already-done work we were having a harder time focusing and placing each detail exactly where it needed to be.
And, of course, we wanted to do our websites in a unique way and not just repeat the same basic information over and over.
We were pouring over Census readings and our notebooks and expanding the search for family information to more general searches online when we found something that made the research come to life.
A letter sent in reply to this:
The following notice appeared in the papers of Fulton, N.Y.--
June 18, 1881 - As it is fifty years since the organization of the First Congregational Society of Volney, and the commencement of public worship on Bristol Hill, and the great revival, it has been decided to have a semi-centennial service at their church on the first Sunday July, 1881, sermon by Rev. Henry Kendall, D.D., of New York. After the sermon there will be a re-union, in which we expect to hear by word or by letter from many of the worshipers of past days. The good old tunes of fifty years ago will be sung. Come and meet with us once more.
That letter,
________________________________
WHITEFORD, MONROE CO., MICH., June 27th, 1881
To the Brethren and Sisters in the Lord, who are worshipers in the meeting house on Bristol Hill, town of Volney, Greeting:
Brother Jacob Kendall has informed me that you have decided to hold a memorial or semi-centennial meeting on the first Sabbath of July 1881, and requested me to be represented by person or letter. More than fifty years ago by His grace I was led to see myself a sinner, lost, and to believe in Jesus as my Saviour. Fifty years ago, I was a member of the church there, and joined with many who are gone to their rest in the worship and praise of God. I also at that time was a member of the Temperance society in that place and have kept the pledge, and I am now in favor of State prohibition. In the fall of '33, I left your State for the west, since which time I have been a resident of Ohio or Michigan.
I am now 69 years of age, and by the grace of God that bringeth salvation, teaching us that "denying ungodliness, worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously in this present world," I have been kept, and more and more do I admire that grace.
Hoping that you all abound therein, I must say dear friends farewell.
CAIUS MARIUS CANDEE
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I found an interesting record of a George Candy, 4 years old in the Minor Civil Division of Whiteford, Michigan.
The Minor Civil Division is a term used by the US Census Bureau to designate the primary governmental or administrative divisions of a county.
This is way back in the 1860 Census and I found the record at family search. It's on microfilm with NARA, the actual record, and that's #M653 (which is the 8th Census of US, 1860) and possibly on roll #554 which is (I think) "the roll" for the counties in Michigan of Marquette, Schoolcraft, Mason, Osceola, Mecosta, and Monroe).
This has more to do with Eliza Hitchcock Candee and Caius Candee (I believe). But it may help us place the George mentioned in in the Candee Genealogy. The year the four year old child was born was +/-1856 which was two years after Eliza and Caius got married.
I'm not wildly imagining some connection here, just putting out some information of curiosity as I go along.
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Census Records give us Caius and Eliza with two children, then maybe more.
One of those is Mary C.
This was, in fact, before we found Baldwin's genealogy. We'd spent months looking through census records and compiling a picture of our Way-Backs or distant ancestors as best we could on our own and without any experience at this sort of thing. So finding an official genealogy work confirmed that we were on the right track in most instances and in some places we’d gotten confused. Caius, for example, had both a son and a brother named George. And his brother George had married an Eliza, just like Caius. Without comparing our pieces of the puzzle coming into view to already-done work we were having a harder time focusing and placing each detail exactly where it needed to be.
And, of course, we wanted to do our websites in a unique way and not just repeat the same basic information over and over.
We were pouring over Census readings and our notebooks and expanding the search for family information to more general searches online when we found something that made the research come to life.
A letter sent in reply to this:
The following notice appeared in the papers of Fulton, N.Y.--
June 18, 1881 - As it is fifty years since the organization of the First Congregational Society of Volney, and the commencement of public worship on Bristol Hill, and the great revival, it has been decided to have a semi-centennial service at their church on the first Sunday July, 1881, sermon by Rev. Henry Kendall, D.D., of New York. After the sermon there will be a re-union, in which we expect to hear by word or by letter from many of the worshipers of past days. The good old tunes of fifty years ago will be sung. Come and meet with us once more.
That letter,
________________________________
WHITEFORD, MONROE CO., MICH., June 27th, 1881
To the Brethren and Sisters in the Lord, who are worshipers in the meeting house on Bristol Hill, town of Volney, Greeting:
Brother Jacob Kendall has informed me that you have decided to hold a memorial or semi-centennial meeting on the first Sabbath of July 1881, and requested me to be represented by person or letter. More than fifty years ago by His grace I was led to see myself a sinner, lost, and to believe in Jesus as my Saviour. Fifty years ago, I was a member of the church there, and joined with many who are gone to their rest in the worship and praise of God. I also at that time was a member of the Temperance society in that place and have kept the pledge, and I am now in favor of State prohibition. In the fall of '33, I left your State for the west, since which time I have been a resident of Ohio or Michigan.
I am now 69 years of age, and by the grace of God that bringeth salvation, teaching us that "denying ungodliness, worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously in this present world," I have been kept, and more and more do I admire that grace.
Hoping that you all abound therein, I must say dear friends farewell.
CAIUS MARIUS CANDEE
________________________________
I found an interesting record of a George Candy, 4 years old in the Minor Civil Division of Whiteford, Michigan.
The Minor Civil Division is a term used by the US Census Bureau to designate the primary governmental or administrative divisions of a county.
This is way back in the 1860 Census and I found the record at family search. It's on microfilm with NARA, the actual record, and that's #M653 (which is the 8th Census of US, 1860) and possibly on roll #554 which is (I think) "the roll" for the counties in Michigan of Marquette, Schoolcraft, Mason, Osceola, Mecosta, and Monroe).
This has more to do with Eliza Hitchcock Candee and Caius Candee (I believe). But it may help us place the George mentioned in in the Candee Genealogy. The year the four year old child was born was +/-1856 which was two years after Eliza and Caius got married.
I'm not wildly imagining some connection here, just putting out some information of curiosity as I go along.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Census Records give us Caius and Eliza with two children, then maybe more.
One of those is Mary C.
But when we follow Mary C. some more we find ourselves going out to Oklahoma. Mary's in her seventies by then and unfortunately we find ourselves finding Mary C. dying and being sent back to Toledo.
We'll get to all that in this blog space.
As posted on F.A.G. (that's Find-A-Grave for those of you unfamiliar with the acronym). Attached to the memorial #s 30744553 and 3146400 respectively. As is, of course, it is impossible to know where these relics came from.
We're making effort to be in touch with "pastsearcher" or "blumokitty" who either set up or added to the memorial online. To find out where these lovely images came from.
And to correct the erroneous information that Eliza and Caius who were married had thirteen children. Actually Caius' parents (Asa and Mary McAlpine Candee) had thirteen children.
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