Lucy Woodbury

Lucy is my 3rd Great Grandmother on Miller line.  I mentioned in the prior post her husband.  One of the neat things that I found was death record on the LDS site.  She died 31 Jul 1880 at age 63 from drowning off India Wharf, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.  I will have to see if there are any newspaper articles.  Here is a photo of India Wharf.  I can get her parents name off the death certificate - William and Lucy S Woodbury from Bolton MA but I have not been able to find any records for them.

Oh well things to search for.

Pvt Jonas Bettis

Well my day has been focused on Jonas Bettis, my 3rd Great Grandfather.  The searches are very successful.  I found these great church records which my Mother In Law helped me understand.

I found him listed in both city directories and Massachusetts Census.  Each one takes a while to enter the information.

The big find was http://books.google.com/books?id=5PTZIFKHCTkC&dq=jonas%20bettis&pg=PA21#v=onepage&q=jonas%20bettis&f=false

Reminiscences of military service in the Forty-third regiment, Massachusetts ...

 By Edward H. Rogers

who served in the same company as Bettis.  

Now I wish I could find his birth records or his parents.  More searching to do.

Civil War

So Footnote.com has a few free days available.

So I searched the mysterious William Sawtell and found two documents from his disability claim.

Then I looked for other family members who might be in the Civil War (and at the same time I got a note about a person looking at my 2ns Great Grandfather Levi H. Miller.  So I updated his information and his wifes.  Then I found on the census what I think is Lucy A Bettis parents (my 3rs Great Grandfather) Jonas Bettis.  Jonas Bettis was a 9 month enlistee in the 43rd Massachusetts Regiment fighting in North Carolina.  Interesting stuff - You got to love just in time for the 150th Anniversary I found (with a reasonable degree of certainty that my 3rd Great Grandfather fought in the Civil War).