More interesting Hagan ancestors - part 2

Interesting/famous/immigrant Hagan ancestors - 2

I have two different online genealogical websites:

1  1)  One is my toast.net website that I have to program and upload myself.  I haven't updated it in years;

2  2)  The other is hosted by rootsweb/ancestry.  I upload my genealogy database and it is put in a format that's easy to navigate.  The advantage to using this system is that ALL my data is here - not just what I purposely wrote up and recapped. 

So that being said, as a way of presenting my information, here are several interesting hagan/crego ancestors:

Some more interesting Hagan ancestors

1)  Asahel Bacus Parker, Baptist Circuit Rider.  Moved with family from New York, then into Ohio, where he met his wife.  Then on to Indiana, then into St. Joseph County, Michigan.   His wife died in 1861 and he in 1862 in a carriage accident. 

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https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hagmon86&id=I139

2) Cephas and Cyrus Parker, twin sons of Asahel Bacus Parker and Hepsey Ann Johnson.  Our written family history had stated that they fought against each other in the civil war.  After much research and collaborating with other researchers, we have determined that they both, in fact, fought in the Civil War for the Union Army.  Cephas stayed in Cass County Michigan for the rest of his life.  But for some reason, Cyrus ended up in Tennessee and married there.  In fact, his widow applied for a pension, based on his union service.

https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hagmon86&id=I142

 3)Daniel H. Johnson.  Father of Hepsey Ann Johnson, who married Asahel Bacus Parker.  Daniel.  He married Anna North in Connecticut and moved to Ohio.  In fact, they were settlers into Ohio around 1809.  Ohio had just become a state in 1803.  Daniel fought in the War of 1812.  A published local history by his granddaughter states that while Daniel was off at war, his wife, Anna, slept with a pitchfork at the head of the bed to protect their family from the Indians.

https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hagmon86&id=I107

Hagan ancestors that I know about, but haven't done a lot of original research:

*  Caleb Johnson.  Father of Daniel H. Johnson.  Born in 1745 in Middlesex County, Connecticut.  Served in the Revolutionary War in the Connecticut line for 2 years.

Richmond family

I found something interesting today. I was working on the family of Lemuel & Lydia (Richmond) Hammond. I know that she's a Richmond, however, had not had much luck finding her parents or family. Living with Lemuel and Lydia in 1860 were twins Arabella and Isabella Richmond. I assume that they are related somehow to Lydia.

Today I found the 1850 census listing for Arabella and Isabella. They are listed as living with Austin and Malina Richmond (who I assume are their parents) along with the rest of the children. Twins born exactly in 1848 with names Arabella and Isabella must be pretty rare, so I am pretty sure this is their family. What is even more convincing is that Arabella married Cephas Parker and they named one of their children Bela, which is one of the sons of Austin and Malina.

What's more interesting is that Arabella and Cephas named their first son Lemuel and their first daughter Lydia, which I can only assume was done in honor of Lemuel & Lydia Hammond. Perhaps they had taken in the girls after their parents had died and raised them.

source documents added

Today I added original source documents to my website for the family of Asahel & Hepsey Ann (Johnson) Parker. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Parker,Asahel/parker,asahel.htm

Reformed Church

While setting up my google alerts, I happened to run across the "Historical Directory of the Reformed Church in America". http://images.rca.org/docs/archives/hdchurches.pdf

It was from the early days 1628-1992s. It has the town where the church is/was located, the names of the pastors and years they pastored, year of organization and year dropped. There are no lists of members of the church.

What's interesting is it listed the church in Mottville, Constantine and Portage Michigan. On page 106, it talks about the Reformed Church in Mottville, Michigan. It lists the pastor from 1863-1864 as J.W. Beardslee. This is the same pastor that performed the marriage ceremony of Cephas and Arabell Parker (according to his pension records).

cyrus parker

Spoke with Eileen K today. She said that she has the complete pension file for Cyrus Parker, too. She said that she also has the military records for Cyrus (which I don't). A couple things about Cyrus that she told me:
1) Cyrus married Nellie Ballou in 1863 in Branch County Michigan. She spoke further with the library and they found a Nellie Parker in an asslyum in Kalamazoo. Was that an insane assylum or perhaps a TB assylum?
2) Witnesses to Cyrus' pension reodcrds were John & Mary Porter. They had a daughter Sarah/Sallie Porter who married James Bradford Parker (grandson of Cyrus).
3) Cyrus was a prisoner of war
4) Cyrus was part of Sherman's march through Georgia

cephas parker civil war pension records

Today I received by UPS a 2 pound package with the civil war pension records of Cephas Parker. There are 150 pages in the package and they are very legible. What's really interesting is that the National Archives had written to me a month or so ago and told me that the records could not be found. I wonder if someone had gone back and was reviewing all the "could not be located" records.

cyrus parker civil war pension records

Today I received by mail a large package with the civil war pension records of Cyrus Parker. There are 49 pages in the package and they are very legible. What's really interesting is that the National Archives had written to me a month or so ago and told me that the records could not be found. I wonder if someone had gone back and was reviewing all the "could not be located" records.