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The Life From The Roots blog topics have changed several times since I began this blog in 2009. I initially wrote only about the family history I had been working on for 20 years. Years later, I was into visiting gardens, historical homes, churches, libraries that had genealogical collections, historical societies, war memorials, and travel/tourism places. I also enjoy posting autographs and photos of famous people I've met or have seen.

Along with my New England roots, other areas include New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada.

Please check out the labels on the right side for topics (please note, they need work). Below the labels and pageviews is a listing of my top nine posts, according to Google. Four of them pertain to Lowell, MA. These posts change often because they are based on what people are reading.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Houses and Cemetery Plot

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center / House
Hartford, Connecticut

While on a tour of the house, I asked where she was buried. I was quite surprised to learn that she was buried just a few towns away from where I live in Massachusetts.

The following day, we went to the cemetery, and then two days later, while on a trip to Maine, my husband remembered where she lived in Brunswick, Maine, so of course we went there. That house looked unoccupied, and was in dire need of repairs (photo below).
I was there June 14, 2011, the day of Harriet's 200th Birthday Celebration. There were horse rides, music and entertainment as well as free cake available to all.
Brunswick, Maine (before renovation (above), after photos taken in October 2015)
I love the new (or repainted) shutters. Green is a better color than black.

  Room you see first if you enter the side door, by the house plaque.

Looking down from 63 Federal Street, Brunswick, Maine


Harriet Beecher Stowe house, Brunswick, ca. 1930

Phillips Academy Cemetery
Andover, Massachusetts
1811  HARRIET BEECHER STOWE  1896


UPDATE:
"BRUNSWICK  What’s now a closet in the house at 63 Federal St. was likely where Harriet Beecher Stowe let an escaped slave stay for a night in 1850, and a parlor room in the front of the home was probably one of the places she sat down to write “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” a year later." Read more from Harriet Beecher Stowe house added to Underground Railroad network From the Portland Press Herald, April 20, 2016.


Flower Photos from this trip may be seen at
FLOWERS FROM MY AREA.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Tombstone Tuesday -- CAPT. GEORGE DENISON

Stone reproduced in 1981 by the Bensons of Newport, Rhode Island.
From: By Their Markers Ye Shall Know Them: A Chronicle of the History and Restorations of Hartford's Ancient Burying Ground by William Hosley.  Above photo taken by me, Barbara Poole.
Ancient Burying Ground
Hartford, Connecticut

George Denison
Born:  About Dec. 10, 1629
Died:  Oct. 23, 1694


George was my 10th great-grandfather

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Sentimental Sunday -- Not Father, But Grandfather


I don't have a single photo of me and my father, or a new one that hasn't been shown before, so I chose to show this one with my grandfather, Clarence F. Poole. My sister and I were visiting my grandparents in Evanston, Illinois.The note on the back, written by my mother, says it all. We were once again moving.


(My mother made the coats, I got pockets and a cape on mine.)

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Founders of Hartford, Connecticut

The monument is located in the Ancient Burying Ground in Hartford, Connecticut. I took the photo a week ago. My direct ancestors, they are in green, shown below. Quite possibly I have a few more, but without the death dates, I can't be certain. Names in alphabetical order cover all four sides. Does anybody else share any of these names?






In Memory of the First Settlers of Hartford

Jeremy Adams
Matthew Allyn
Francis Andrews
William Andrews
John Arnold
Andrew Bacon
John Barnard
Thomas Barnes
Robert Bartlet
John Baysey
Thomas Beal
Nathaniel Bearding
Mary Betts
John Bidwell
Richard Billing
Thomas Birchwood
William Bloomfield
Peter Blanchford
Thomas Buckley
Thomas Bliss, Sr.
Thomas Bliss, Jr.
William Blumfield
James Bridgeman
John Bronson
Richard Bronson
Thomas Bull
Thomas Bunce
Benjamin Burr
Richard Butler
William Butler
Clement Chaplin
Richard Church
John Clarke
Nicholas Clarke
William Clarke
James Cole
William Cornwell
John Crow
John Cullick
Philip Davis
Fulke Davy
Robert Day
Nicholas Desborough
Joseph Easton
Edward Elmer
Nathaniel Ely
James Ensign
Zachariah Field
Thomas Fisher
John Friend
Samuel Gardiner
Daniel Garret
William Gibbons
Richard Goodman
Ozias Goodwin
William Goodwin
Seth Grant 
George Grave
Bartholomew Greene
Samuel Greenhill
Thomas Gridley
Samuel Hale
Thomas Hale
Stephen Hart
William Hayden
John Haynes
John Higginson
William Hills
William Holton
Thomas Hooker
Edward Hopkins
John Hopkins
Thomas Hosmer
George Hubbard
Thomas Hungerford
William Hyde
Jonathan Ince
Thomas Judd
Nathaniel Kellogg
Ralph Keeler
Edward Lay
William Kelsey
William Lewis, Sr.
Richard Lord
Thomas Lord
Richard Lyman
John Marsh
Matthew Marvin
Reinold Marvin
John Maynard
John Moody
John Morris
Benjamin Munn
Thomas Munson
Joseph Mygatt
Thomas Olcott
James Olmsted
Richard Olmsted
William Pantry
William Parker
Paul Peck
William Phillips
John Pierce
Thomas Porter
Stephen Post
John Pratt
William Pratt
John Purchas (Purchase)
Nathaniel Richards
Richard Risley
Thomas Root
Nathaniel Ruscoe
William Rusco
John Sable
Thomas Scott
Thomas Selden
Richard Seymour
John Skinner
Arthur Smith
Giles Smith
Thomas Spencer
William Spencer
John Stanley
Thomas Stanley
Timothy Stanley
Thomas Stanton
Edward Stebbins
George Steele
John Steele
George Stocking
John Stone
Samuel Stone
John Talcott
Thomas Thompson
Thomas Upson
Robert Wade
William Wadsworth
Henry Wakeley
James Wakeley
Samuel Wakeman
Samuel Wakeman
Nathaniel Ward
Andrew Warner
Richard Watts
Richard Webb
John Webster
Thomas Welles
William Westley
William Westwood
John White
Samuel Whitehead
William Whiting
John Wilcock (Wilcox)
Gregory Wolterton
Thomas Woolford
George Wyllys

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

HAPPY FLAG DAY

The Flag and the Registry of Deeds for Northern Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Registry of Deeds (Great website.)
Richard P. Howe Jr., Register of Deeds

Bonney, Call, Lilley of Lowell, Massachusetts -- Tombstone Tuesday

The Lowell Cemetery, Lowell, Massachusetts

Opposite side
ARTHUR PERKINS BONNEY
BORN JULY 9, 1826
DIED MARCH 25, 1896

EMMA AUGUSTA CALL
BORN AUGUST 15, 1828
DIED SEPTEMBER 14, 1892
WIFE OF ARTHUR PERKINS BONNEY

CHARLES SUMNER LILLEY
BORN DECEMBER 13, 1851
DIED APRIL 16, 1921

CLARA BONNEY
BORN JUNE 19, 1855
DIED JULY 19, 1894
WIFE OF CHARLES SUMNER LILLEY



Note: None of these people are related to me.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Colebrook and Dixville Notch, New Hampshire Trip


Soon after our June 2011 two-day visit, and two meals there, this resort closed. I save the breakfast menu from my first trip ca. 1985, see below. We didn't get a menu like this in 2011. While we strolled around, we saw very few people inside and out (see parking lot below). This was my second trip to this place, and I hope it re-opens soon.





Dixville Notch,
In this room, the first votes are cast for the President of the United States. The below photo shows the results of the 2000 election.


  
 As you can see, there were no people around in these public rooms.
  
  
  A few hours were spent in Quebec.
  Colebrook, New Hampshire 
was lovely, and we enjoyed spending a few nights there.





 The Lupines were in season.
  

Colebrook is on the yellow line, in the middle of the map, Canada to the north, and Dixville Notch is to the right of Colebrook.

The photos below were taken in 1985 when I went with Robert. (Unfortunately, I was using the camcorder, so no photos.)




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