Including:
Lieutenant Valentine COLBY (1728-1812), 6th great-grandfather, who was a "Minuteman" at Lexington.
Samuel SEVERANCE (b. 1741), 5th great-grandfather, who fought at Bunker Hill.
Captain Jacob WEBSTER (1744-1836), 5th great-grandfather, who was at Ticonderoga.
Private Thomas B. Mace (1843-1862), 3rd great-uncle, of the 2nd New Hampshire, Company K, who fought for the Union in the Civil War and who fell at Williamsburg.
Private Daniel Webster MACE (1845-1924), 3rd great-uncle and brother of Thomas, of the 50th and 59th Massachusetts Infantry, who fought for the Union in the Civil War. He was wounded and captured at Petersburg, Virginia on 19 July 1864 and spent 5 months at Andersonville prison camp before he was exchanged in November of 1864. He was discharged in May of 1865.
James Fitzgerald RYAN (1920-1995), great-uncle, who served in the Navy in the Pacific during World War II.
Joel K., my father, who served in the U.S. Army as a medic.
Lisa S., my sister, who was a linguist in the U.S. Air Force.
David K., my brother, who was a fireman in the U.S. Air Force.
Julie K., my sister, who served in the U.S. Army.
David S., my brother-in-law, who recently retired as a Major General of the U.S. Air Force.
Thank you to everyone else who serves and who has served our country. Your service and sacrifice is so greatly appreciated.
I'm amazed I didn't catch this last month. Your Daniel Webster Mace was married to Maranda B. Wilkinson in Fremont, NH in 1865. She is my distant cousin. I've been looking for information on her after her marriage. Do you know if they had more children than the William born in 1868? When did Daniel die?
ReplyDeleteHi Heather! Yes, Daniel was married to Maranda WILKINSON-- apparently they married right about the time he was discharged. I knew she was related to you, but thought you already knew about this connection-- sorry I didn't mention this to you before. I have a marriage record for them from FamilySearch-- not an original, but one of the cards filled out in the early 1900's.
ReplyDeleteI did also find (again on FS) a birth record for a James MACE born to Daniel and Maranda on 10 June 1867 in Fremont, NH-- William's older brother evidently. I see an FS marriage record for James to a Bertha M. COLLINS on 28 April 1892 in Danville.
Daniel died on 1 June 1924 in Rumford, ME-- his attending physician was his half-sister Laura Etta NOYES (nee FELLOWS, daughter of my 3x grandmother Sophronia FELLOWS and her third husband Joseph FELLOWS. He was a shoemaker.
BTW, I only recently found out about Daniel being at Andersonville, via a record on Ancestry.com.
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