Grandma's Granny's Family Album

 Rushton, Thomas R. 10 (son of Isaac 9, grandson of Jeremiah 8, ggrandson of John R. 7) married 1st Mary B. Rushton 10.  Married 2nd Hannah Susan West 10 (dau of Pheby Scholfield 9, granddau of Hannah Ward 8, ggranddau of Elizabeth Flintoff 7) tenth generation Mary B. & Thomas had no children. Susan & Thomas's 5 oldest children:  Sarah Paulina, Abigail Thima, Catherine Jane, Stephen Elijah, and Isaac Levi Rushton Susan & Thomas's 6 youngest children:  Victor Olonzo, Aaron Scholfield, Phoebe Esther, Martha Letitia, Christena Matilda aka Cristyann, and Arminia E. Rushton See Rushton and Spence Pedigree Charts See Rushton Family - Ester Brown & Isaac Rushton Descendant Chart See Spence Family - Phoebe Rushton & William Spence Descendant Chart

 Rushton, Isaac 9   (son of Jeremiah 8, grandson of John R. 7) and wife Ester Brown 9 (dau of Sarah Harrison 8, granddau of Sarah Lovell 7) ninth generation Ester & Isaac's 4 oldest children: Thomas R., Hannah, Christanna, and James Harrison Rushton Ester & Isaac's middle 4 children:  Sarah, Elijah, Simon Collis, and Jasper F. Rushton Ester & Isaac's youngest 3 children:  Stephen R., Samuel Peter, and Isaac Rushton Junior. See Rushton and Spence Pedigree Charts See Rushton Family - Sarah Hall & Jeremiah Rushton Descendant Chart See Rushton Family - Susan West & Thomas R. Rushton Descendant Chart

  Rushton, Jeremiah 8   (son of John 7 ) and wife Sarah Hall 8 eighth generation Sarah & Jeremiah's oldest 4 children:  Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and John Rushton John again, then Sarah & Jeremiah's youngest 4 children:  Elizabeth, Sarah, Jeremiah, and Peter Rushton See Rushton and Spence Pedigree Charts  See Rushton Family - Mary Coon & John R. Rushton Descendant Chart  See Rushton Family - Ester Brown & Isaac Rushton Descendant Chart

 Rushton, John R. 7   and wife Mary Coon 7   ( dau of Susanna Mathews 6 and Hanness Coon 6 ) seventh generation 5 of Mary & John's children:  Easter, Mary, Peter, John, and Jeremiah Rushton.  I don't know birth dates or birth order for Easter, Mary, and Peter. Jeremiah again and then 3 of Mary & John's children:  Sarah, Elizabeth, and Samuel Rushton.  I don't know birth dates or order for Sarah and Elizabeth. See Rushton and Spence Pedigree Charts  See Coon Family - Susanna Mathews & Hanness Coon Descendant Chart See Rushton Family - Sarah Hall & Jeremiah Rushton Descendant Chart

Coon, Hanness 6 , and wife Susanna Mathews 6 sixth generation We have speculation on their parents but no proof. Susanna & Hanness's known children:  Jacob, possibly William, Mary, and Jeremiah Coon.  I don't know the birth dates of Jacob, William, and Jeremiah See Rushton and Spence Pedigree Charts See Mary Coon and John R Rushton Descendant Chart  

 This one is easier, I promise. Rockley is a place on Pugwash Road next to Roslin in Cumberland County.  Here several Rushton families had their land, and I am still trying to figure out who, where, when, and why.  It is down the road from the Rushton Family Cemetery (see Rushton Family Cemetery post, see Rushton Pedigree Chart). You will remember that Grannie Phoebe was born here in Roslin and lived with her parents Susan West Rushton and Thomas Rushton.  Across the road, I think, lived Thomas's brother Jasper, his wife Mary, and their two sons, Peter and Albion.  Peter was blind, but he was in charge of the household.  My mother recalled that he moved about like a sighted person, cooking, cleaning, washing, and doing other chores.  You would not be able to tell that he was blind. Their son Albion was nicknamed Tuner.  He married his first cousin Jane from across the road (Phoebe's sister).  Aunt Connie shuddered at how emotionally abusive Tuner was to Jane.  The phrase "

 This summer we toured Hillside Cemetery, taking pictures of every grave we could find with one of these names.  Let's see if we can figure out who they are.  See post on Spences in Hillside Cemetery for only Spences.  See post on Spences in Springhill for a description of their lives.  See Spence Pedigree Chart, Rushton Pedigree Chart. Remember our patriarch in Springhill, John William Spence?  This is his sister, Mary Ellen Spence, and her husband Joseph Rector.  For some reason they have 2 gravestones. Here is Joseph & Mary Ellen's daughter, Margaret Matilda Rector Spence Whitewood.  On this side, you can see her 2nd husband, John William Whitewood, and her daughter, Ina Pearl Spence McAloney.  This baby stone is for their daughter Mary Mitilda Whitewood, who died age 6 months, and the other is their daughter Winnifred Whitewood Brown, only 20.   Of course, John William Whitewood is a Spence too, since he is the son of Ellen R. Spence Whitewood, daughter of our Patriar

  Our Patriarch in Springhill, John William Spence.  With the youngest of their 6 sons, Uncle Ains. Our Matriarch in Springhill, Ann Almira Pettigrew Spence.  She called herself Elmira. (see Spence Pedigree Chart) Murdock is the 5th son of our Matriarch & Patriarch, Elmira & John William Spence Uncle Murd & Aunt Hattie with their 3 babies John William and Elmira only had 1 daughter, Ellen.  This hard-to-read headstone has Ellen with her 2nd husband, George F. Rector, and their son, Aubrey Rector. George F. Rector 1878 - blank Ellen R. his wife 1868 - 1938 John W. & Elmira's 2nd son, Uncle Palmer and his wife Aunt Maggie.  I don't see their grave, but this is their son David Harold (Earl) Spence and his wife Violet Maud. This is Uncle Palmer & Aunt Maggie's daughter Hazel Spence with her husband Richard Rector.  Richard is the son of Samuel and Annie Rector. John & Elmira's 3rd son, Bill and his wife Phoebe (spelled wrong on the stone) ( Grampa &a

  Prince Edward Island scenery So my cousin Debbie and I headed to PEI for 2 days of wandering the Island and seeing if any Wests turn up.  (see July 26 2022 post ) . The PEI Genealogy Facebook page members helpfully told us to start in the Archives, where a Master Name Index has catalogued  every single name  in  every single record ever written  in PEI.  And, just like in Kings County, there was only  one mention  of a Levi West.  (see Nov. 27 2020  post) ( see Presbury-Mayflower, West, and Spence Pedigree Charts) It was in the August 1831 edition of the Island Gazette. While Debbie looked up Maxims, I went to the microfilm viewer hoping for a juicy story full of characters, like a blizzard rescue or a court trial.  Instead, flap, whir, whish, I got ....wait for it....someone looking for Levi West and unable to find him! Literally.  It was a July 8 list of people who had letters waiting for them in the post office of the capital, Charlottetown.  If the addressees didn't pick u