Family History by Tamerson Carlisle Binns, 1960. Part 3

Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.

Amanuensis Monday, hosted by John Newmark at Transylvanian Dutch.

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The original of this document contains information about living people which I have removed. I prefer to transcribe items as I find them but in this case I felt the need to correct certain items and have therefor taken the liberty of highlighting in red information I believe to be incorrect. I have highlighted in blue items that I have reason to question. My corrections or questions appear [in brackets].

Because this was transcribed line by line the word wrap may make it difficult to read online. Also due to online formatting I have replaced ditto marks with the word they indicated.

I would be happy to share the original with other descendants. This is Part 2 of 3.

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Family History, typed by Tamerson Carlisle Binns and sent to her niece, Vivian Carlisle LaValle, with a letter dated Oct. 13, 1960.

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Thomas Carlisle born in Scotland and reared in one of the shires in England.[A clue? This is the only place I have seen this information.]
I do not know what the relationship was but think he must have been the father
of Daniel Carlisle [Daniel Carlisle 1738-1794] given below.

Daniel Carlisle born in West Moreland County, New Hampshire in 1767 died
was married to Zipporah Wheeler born 1772, died 1821. [Other family papers say 1831.] Their children were
1. Daniel Carlisle born 1797
2. Betsy Carlisle born 1800.
3. Mahalia [Mahala]Carlisle born 1802.
4. Relief Carlisle born 1803.
5. Charlotte Carlisle born 1805.
6. Elvira [or Elvina] Carlisle born 1807.
7. Clarissa Carlisle born 1810.
8. Fanny Carlisle born 1811.

Isaac Ashley Carlisle (my father) always said on the irish side his great,
great grandfather Carlisle was High Sheriff and a Tory in the Revolution. [I think this would refer to Ashley's great grandfather, Daniel Carlisle 1738-1794 who was a Constable and a Captain in the Revolution.]

Daniel Carlisle and Hannah Lewis Glover (his 2nd wife, sister of his first wife)
were married in 1852 and had 1 child, Arabelle born in 1857. Arabelle was mar-
ried to Walter Osborn and had Arabelle, Leah, Charlotte and Carlisle.
Daniel Carlisle with his first wife wife Louisa Lambert Glover ran an inn in New
York State. Before 1940 [sic] they moved to Edwardsburg, Mich. and ran a hotel
there and Mary and Ashley were born there. Then they moved to a farm at LaGrang
where Fannie was born. Later he with his 2nd wife moved to Buchanan on a farm
south of town where Arabelle was born in 1857. Then they moved to Buchanan on
2nd St. (now Dewey Ave.) where their house was burned with part of the town.
They then bot the Main St. house in 1863 where Daniel died in 1872. Hannah
died in 1906 at Arabelle's in Council Bluffs, Iowa and was brot to Buchanan
for burial in Oak Ridge Cemetery.
Lillie Dale Warren born 1866 died 1885 of Gallopping Consumption. She was rais-
ed but not adopted by Hannah and is buried on the family Carlisle lot in Oak
Ridge Cemetery.

Binns, Tamerson Carlisle. (Buchanan, Michigan) to “Dear Vivian” [Vivian Carlisle LaValle]. Letter. 13 October 1960. Digital Image 4 of 4. Privately held by Apple, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Orlando, Florida. 2011.
[Carlisle Family, Box #1, Genealogical Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan. 2008.]

What was I Doing?

Happy New Year!

With no company today, no kids to babysit, no snow to move and no housework that can't wait I slept late and then decided to read email.

In my email I saw that I had many comments to respond to. A couple were in reference to my resolutions post and I clicked on the link to Western Michigan University, dreaming with anticipation. I did a quick search to find the Tamerson Binns collection, however I searched for Carlisle this time and it appears they may also have copies of the letters from the Bentley Library in Ann Arbor! Do they have the diaries too!? That led to more poking around and I forgot about responding to comments.

WMU is also supposed to have some family or civil war photographs so I went looking for them too. Didn't find them but I started looking at the Civil War diaries that they do have and then at the photos they have. Another link sent me to.......

Seeking Modern Michigan where they have all kinds of good stuff. Found a newspaper collection (need to send link to Miriam!) and then started poking around the cemetery records for Oakridge in Buchanan. In looking for a family member I notice a record for someone with the first name Garnet.

Hey, there's a Garnet in my tree! Did I ever find what I needed on him? What was his name? He married one of the Osborn girls...oh yah, Hoback, Garnet Hoback. So I looked him up and sure enough I was missing some information for him and his wife, Leah P Osborn Mellin Hoback. Found the census records I was missing and the Polk County Missouri Historical Society where I can order there obituaries. Also found a link to there burial in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery. Should add them to Find-a-Grave and request a photo.........

Interrupted by a phone call from my sister-in-law, I was reminded that yesterday, I invited several members of my husband's family to work on their tree with me at Ancestry.com and three of the ten (so far) said yes. I figure strike while the iron is hot, so I should be uploading the information, documents and pictures I have to said tree. So I get back to that and I'm adding items I had long ago transcribed from Syracuse papers.

Of course I can't just copy and paste them, I have to read them! And of course reading them leads to questions that I must find the answers to now, while I'm thinking about it!! With his family it is often easier and more rewarding to search by address rather than try and figure out surname spelling variations.

So..... I had this blurb from the newspaper:

The Syracuse Herald, Wed, Feb 4, 1920, pg 6

Town Talk

Frank Barsuch Reported Missing ---
Frank Barsuch, 28, of 2308 Lodi street, is reported missing by his wife. Mrs. Barsuch says that the last time that she saw her husband was Thursday, when he left her in Salina street.

Was Frank ever found!? Enquiring minds want to know so I started a search for the Lodi St address. The first hit I got was from 1940 but being me, I clicked on it anyway, and right there near the top of the page in the delinquent taxes list were Roskopt, Andrew and Margaret at 1o9 Delong Ave and Klotz, Mary at 141 Delong Ave. My father-in-law lived at 108 Delong and both Roskoff and Klotz are names associated with the Grabowski family.

So I opened up my data base of family addresses and they're not there. I have no idea how they fit into the family puzzle so I add them and record the date of the paper.

Found a listing for the birth of a child for Frank Barsuch in July of 1920 so he must of turned up. Oh, wait, there were two men named Frank Barsuch in Syracuse at that time and very close in age. I guess I'll work on untagling them this afternoon!

I hope I find some focus this year!

Hannah Lewis Glover Carlisle

Hannah was the youngest of twelve children born to David and Tamesin (Hall) Glover. She was born in the town of Phelps, Ontario Co, NY on April 22, 1823. I have been able to find very little on the family’s time in Phelps other than they had borrowed money from one of Tamesin’s brothers, which they were unable to repay.

I really know nothing about her childhood or what she did as a young adult. Sometime between 1850 and 1852 her sister Louisa died leaving a husband and seven children. On July 11, 1852 Hannah married her brother-in-law, Daniel Carlisle who was 25 years older than her. She went from being an aunt to being a step-mother. She and Daniel had a farm south of Buchanan, Berrien Co, MI. A daughter, Arabella, was born there in 1857.

In Oct 1861 her two surviving stepsons joined the 2^nd Michigan Calvary and so did she. A record of her service is found in History of Berrien and Van Buren counties, Michigan. With ... biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers. Philadelphia, D. W. Ensign & Co., 1880.

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Services of a Buchanan Lady in the War of the Rebellion

Mrs. Hannah L. Carlisle was born in Phelps, N.Y., in 1823. The family moved to Orleans
Co, N.Y., when she was four years old. In 1850 she came to Cassopolis, and in
1852 married Daniel Carlisle, and in 1854 removed to near Buchanan on a farm.
Upon the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion she was strongly impelled to
offer her services as nurse, and upon the organization of the 2d Michigan
Cavalry she left her home and family and went with the regiment, Nov. 14, 1861, to St. Louis. After reaching the city
she was assigned to the regimental hospital, where she remained until the
regiment was transferred to Fort Donelson, in February 1862, when she
returned home. On the night of July 14,
1862, she received a telegram from the Sanitary Commission in Chicago, asking her to report for
duty the next day. She did so, and was met by a gentleman at the train, and
reported at the Massasoit House. Orders were soon received to report at Post
Hospital No. 1, Columbus, Ky., under the charge of Dr. Ransom , of Roscoe, Ill.,
and Gen. Quimby, in charge of Fort Halleck. Mrs. Carlisle remained at this
hospital until the close of the war, when she entered the Freedman's Department
as superintendent and teacher, and reminded in that connection one year, and
returned to the duties of home July 3,
1866. Mrs. Carlisle is now living in Buchanan.

What the article does not tell is that Arabella was only four at the time she left. From notes written by W. W. Osborn, husband of Arabella I learned that just before being assigned to the hospital in Columbus she had charge of a Hospital boat for a few weeks and as the boat was old and leaky she worked in water to her knees for ten days or more. Her daughter, Arabella, was with her at Columbus for two years and was in the hospital with her mother when the Confederates bombarded the city, her mother having refused to leave the sick and wounded in her charge, when advised to leave on account of the danger of capture by the Confederates. She received a nurse’s pension in her later years.’

She joined the M. E. Church at the age of sixteen and donated in membership until her death. She was a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Woman's Relief Corp., and took a very prominent part in Temperance, Religious and Grand Army of the Republic Work, and was well known in these circles in Buchanan, MI., Deadwood, SD., Council Bluffs and Sioux City, Iowa.

The family donated several of her diaries and letters to The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. They are between her and other members of the family written between Aug 17, 1862 and Apr. 7, 1866 during her civil war service. They are mostly from the Post Hospital at Columbus, KY. She expresses her dislike of Copperheads and Secessionists, tells of troop movements on the river, raids on guerilla bands, the destruction of Secessionist's homes, hospital life, food and a Thanksgiving dinner, the celebration at the fall of Vicksburg, and the capture of Jefferson Davis. During the time that she was in charge of a Columbus, KY school for the American Freeman's Aid Commission, and she tells of the clashes between military and civil officers, the plight of the Negroes, and the rough treatment accorded them. I have looked into obtaining these records, but the cost is prohibitive. Due to the number of pages they will not photocopy them. Maybe at some time in the future I will be able to visit the library and read her thoughts for myself.

This originally appeared at The Apple Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree on 25 January 2006. Since I originally wrote this I have retieved her letters from the University of Michigan and they will begin appearing here later this year. She also kept diaries in her later years and I hope to retrieve them in April and begin transcribing them also.

Anna Camfield Carlisle, 5 May 1890

Buchanan Mich.
May 5th, 1890

Dear Ashley your letter came this evening. yes Orville brought the money all right and I wrote you a long letter last Tuesday evening telling you what I had done with ot. I paid Helmick and Mrs. Voorhees and paid up all the grocery bill and got 50 pounds of flour from the mill, and some groceries that we needed, and cloth for Frank and Daniel pants

Today I have taken up the sitting room carpet and Orville whitewashed and then we went to town and got the paper and tomorrow he is going to put it on. he said he was having chills when the came

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but has got over them now and was weighed and finds that he weighs more than he ever did before he went and got some cowslip greens saturday and I thought prehaps you would be home so I kept them for sunday so you would have them we had greens and soup for dinner if the soup was made with watter. Had a letter from your Mother saturday. she is weaving 30 yards of carpet for Aunt Corbin. Bell has a son born April 18 all doing well (William Carlisle Osborn) I told you in the other letter that Hallie had writen that Werter had bought a half interest in a mill. Arlie is going to learn the millers trade. I also wrote you that Mr Boyle had brought us another load of wood and wanted you to do his work the first week in June and if you could not I was to write

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and let him know so he could get some body else. what shall I tell him. Sim was up to see you sunday said prehaps he would go to the Bend this week. I hear that Mr Barman is dead with the same disease that Hat Glover died with. I sent you the paper I suppose you saw in it that Orin Montigan house was burned he is drawing material to build another.

I will write a postal to Parminter.

Now Ashley if you have much of a cold dont stay and get more but come home and stay until you get over it. I think you can afford to come home when the pay day comes any way. I looked for you last saturday. Mr Brant always asks about you when he comes for his bread. Mrs Walters has left her husband and gone to Hills corners. Nell Turner is home again.

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Annie Miller Kelley has a daughter

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Mr Voorhees is working in Niles. goes over with his horse so as to get there at 7 oclock in the morning and starts home about 5 oclock at night. Orville gave Frank a lesson in drawing sunday drew a picture of the old school house worked at it most of the day. Our potatoes are commimg up also the peas, beets, radishes and lettice. your Mother sent Frank a lot more flower seeds he has planted some of them.

It is half past nine, the rest have all gone to ed, all are well.

Good Night.
A Carlisle

I hope you will get this

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Shal I make you some new over shirts or have you bought some.

Aunt Corbin was been Rheuhamah Glover Smith Corbin, sister of Ashely's mother. She lived in Orleans County, NY.

The Belle mentioned was Ashley's half sister, Arabella Carlisle Osborn, who was married to Walter Wilson Osborn. William Carlisle Osborn was their fourth and last child, born 18 April 1890 in Sioux City, IA.

Ashley's sister, Mary Elizabeth Carlisle was married to Werter Rynearson. Their daughter was Hallie. In 1890 they were living in Kansas, either Rooks or Phillips county.

There were Glover's in Buchanan that I have not been able to connect to my mine of Glover's. I wonder if Hat was from that line?

The rest are neighbors that I don't have further information on at this time.

For more see:
Camfield Family Letters
Descendants of Sarah Ann Wisner
Michael Camfield


Carlisle, Sarah Camfield. (Buchanan, MI) to “Dear Ashley”
[Isaac Ashley Carlisle]. Letter. 5 May 1890. Digital Images 1-4.
Privately held by Apple, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,]
Snowville, New York. 2009.
[Carlisle Family, Box #1, Correspondence, 1890,
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan. 2008.]