After the recent spate of posts about my various distant Sedgwick cousins, I finally took a little break from reading about them to make some charts showing my own direct-line Sedgwick ancestors. Above is my maternal grandfather's chart. His great-grandmother was Tryphena Sedgwick, who married Micajah Pettis. The two charts below follow her Sedgwick lineage back to the 1600s.
Joseph Sedgwick was the fourth child of Captain Samuel Sedgwick and his wife Mary Hopkins. Joseph's youngest brother Benjamin was the father of Judge Theodore Sedgwick, whose descendants are the subject of two books I recently wrote about here, In My Blood and Edie: An American Biography.
In future posts, we'll look at my Sedgwick line one generation at a time, using the materials posted at Sedgwick Genealogy Worldwide and whatever else I come up with.------------
An Important Note About Mrs. Ezekiel T. Efner:
In the first chart above, you'll see Salina Bouck, Ezekiel T. Efner's wife, in the lower right corner. But was her surname Bouck or Burch? As a beginning genealogist many years ago, I found that someone had noted Selina's surname as "Bouck or Burch." (At this point, I can't tell you where I saw that!) I tried to determine which was correct, but to no avail, and I suspect that better researchers than I have also found a brick wall here.
Richard Efnor, in his extensive research, cites William B. Efner (Efner Family - Eugene Bouton Papers): Ezekiel T. Efner "married Selina Burch February 03, 1831." I haven't seen the Bouton papers. However, I found that Bouck was a common surname in Schoharie County, New York, where Ezekiel lived. I did some searching under both names, but I found no mention of anyone who might be Ezekiel Efner's wife. Consequently, although she is listed as Salina Bouck in the pedigree chart appearing here, I do have her listed both ways in my database, until some kind of documentation comes into my hands to show which is correct.
2 comments:
I don't know if my first entry took because I did not have a Google account, but Elijah was my great, great grandfather and Tryphena his sister would have been my great, great, great aunt. I think we are 4th cousins once removed. I am Emily Sedgwick, daughter of Julius Parker Sedgwick, Jr.
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Hi Emily, I'm so happy to hear from you! I've just done my homework, i.e., entered your Sedgwick line into my database and, assuming your father is the Julius who was born in 1921, you're exactly right, we are fourth cousins, once removed. And I'm guessing we're about the same age, as my dad was also born in 1921. Let me make sure, though, that I've got your line right:
Elijah Sedgwick and Tryphena Parker, both born in 1769
Parker Sedgwick and Hepsebah Goodwin
David Ernest Sedgwick and Jennie E. Treat
Julius Parker Sedgwick (Sr.) and Emily Weeks
Julius Parker Sedgwick (Jr.)
Is that right? So that would make Elijah your great-great-great grandfather? And Tryphena Sedgwick, his daughter, your great-great-great aunt as you said. Actually I would say it the same way, but the relationship calculator in my genealogy software calls her your great-great grandaunt. Who ever says "grandaunt?" Nobody, I think! Ha!
Well, I hope I've gotten your line right anyhow, and if not, please let me know. I am depending on the old typescripts posted at Sedgwick.org for that lineage.
Oh! You wouldn't happen to have any photographs of our Elijah, would you?
Coincidentally, just before I got your comment, I was trying to tidy up one of my notebooks and came across something I'd forgotten I had--a record of Elijah's birth. In honor of our meeting, I think I'll post it in case you don't have it! Check back later today!
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