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Note for: Ruth Elizabeth Cross, 31 MAR 1901 - 18 FEB 1985
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Event: Type: Fact 1
Place: Buried Casper Wy
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Note for: John Wallace, 1755 - 13 AUG 1828
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Event: Type: Fact 1
Place: Came to America in 1797
Individual Note: Came with wife from Ireland in 1797
John Wallace born in Ireland 1755 crossed the ocean 1797 died near Wheeling W. Va. Aug 13, 1828
Margaret Elliot Wallace (wife of John) born in Ireland 1761 died near Wheeling Aug 5, 1828
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Note for: Mary Wallace, 1802 - AUG 1875
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Individual Note: Came to the United States from Ireland in 1797 with parents
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Note for: Henry Orcinus Fritts, 08 APR 1841 - 27 FEB 1917
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Event: Type: Fact 1
Place: Orcinus written " Oren" in some accounts
Individual Note: [From "The Descendants of William Fritz", "The Descendants of William Brown" and spoken accounts of my Father Raymond Oren Fritts Sr)
Henry Oren Fritts Sr (My Grandfather) was born in 1841on the family farm at Lansingville NY. He grew up on this farm and served in the Civil war in the Union Army. Later, he and his younger sister Elmina Adell Fritts traveled with the Brown family by covered wagon from the Lansingville area of New York to an area near Peoria Illinois in 1869. The Covered Wagon was owned by William Wilson Brown, father of Clinton Dewit Brown & Flora Amelia Brown. It appears from the records that other members of the original New York Fritts clan also moved to this area during these years and Henry's Parents are recorded as dying at Dunlap in 1868 of Typhoid fever. William Brown settled at Peoria and Henry and Flora were recorded married at Peoria Illinois Sept 29, 1871. Henry and his bride then moved to a farm at Dunlap Illinois (sometime between 1871 and 1873) where their first 8 children were born. Clinton Brown, Flora Brown's older brother, then married Elmina Fritts, Henry's younger sister. This marriage is recorded at Dunlap Illinois in 1873. In 1889 Henry and Flora along with their 8 children moved to a farm between Sterling and Cook Nebraska where my father Raymond Oren Sr and his sister Bertha were born. My father grew up on this farm. After the Children had all left home and he could no longer farm, Henry and his wife Flora moved near Lincoln, Nebraska close to where Henry Fritts Jr lived (My Uncle). Henry Sr died at Lincoln on Feb 27, 1917 of Stomach Cancer. I remember my dad telling of going to see his father shortly before his death. Henry Sr wanted dad to go buy some beer for him which dad did. Flora normally would not allow alcohol in the Fritts home but in this case she came and thanked dad after Henry's death for doing this for his dad. It is remarkable to me that I had a Grandfather who fought in the Civil War. It is now over 130 years since this time and I have include here a lesser known speech made for thanksgiving during that period by our greatest president.
Proclamation 1863
At is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of god; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the 24 Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord. We know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world. May we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be a punishment inflicted upon us for presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self -sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the god that made us. It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father Who dwelleth in the heavens. - Abraham Lincoln
Death Note: Died of cancer of the stomach