Further information on the Reed Sanders connections

My cousin has sent me some more detail on the family stories around Benjamin Franklin Reed and Sarah Wheeler Sanders.

• Sarah divorced B.F. Reed because he was fooling around with other women.  The story has it that he was fooling around with a lady spiritualist, so Sarah divorced him and then she followed him out to New York State, where she made them get married.
• Later in life, B.F. became a missionary to the Native Americans in the south
• When he was old and sick, his son David (Reed) Sanders brought him back to western Massachusetts, where he died.
• David (Reed) Sanders changed his name because he was formally adopted by his uncle David Sanders (wife: Lilly Lawrence). The family is buried in Williamsburg because they owned a very profitable mill in Haydensville.  The mill, which may have produced brass fittings, was so profitable that they had a New York City office.  
• Everything happened in 1864 so the women decided to move to Northampton:
• David Sanders (husband of Amy) died
• Lucy's husband, Asahal Sanderson of Hatfield, MA died
• David Albert Sanders died
• According to family memories, Lucy Sanderson participated in the underground railroad.  Since the other people in Whately that participated in the Underground Railroad were heads of the Congregational Church, and her father David Sanders, was a deacon, this would make sense.
• She was a Mt. Holyoke graduate.

Biography of Sarah Wheeler Sanders(1823-1919)-W7

Thinks are a bit confusing with the Reed-Sanders line.  There was some sort of scandal as will become more clear with the biographies.  I am Starting with Sarah Wheeler Sanders as I think this will help so the implications of the scandal.

Sarah Wheeler Sanders(1823-1919)-W7
Birth: April 6th, 1823 in Whately, MA
Father: David Sanderson(1791-1863)
Mother: Amy Wheeler(1793-1874)

Married: Married Married Benjamin Franklin Reed(1819-UNKN) on February 26th, 1845 in Whately, MA

Children:
Jane Caroline Reed(1846-1936)
Lucy Amy Reed(1848-1918)
Mary W Reed(1850-1852)
Albert David Sanders(1852-1947)

Death:  February 13th, 1919 in Northampton, MA

Sarah Wheeler Sanders was born on April 6th, 1823 to David Sanderson and Amy Wheeler in Whately, MA.  She was the youngest of four children.  The family went by various versions of their surname, including Sanders, Saunders, and Sanderson.  Her father was a mill owner and she lived with her family through 1840.
She married Benjamin Franklin Reed on February 26th, 1845 in Whately, MA.  They were married in the Congregational Church by Jonathan Judd.   Benjamin moved into her parents house and there are mill records showing that Benjamin purchased supplies off of David Sanders.  Their first daughter, Jane Caroline, was born on February 12th, 1846 and their second, Lucy Amy Reed was born on February 5th, 1848.  The 1850 census shows Sarah, Benjamin, and Jane all living with Sarah's parents and sister, Lucy.  There is no listing for Lucy Amy.

They had another girl in 1850, Mary W..  I suspect the W stood for Wheeler but have no proof.  She died on November 3rd, 1852.  Their last child, Albert David was born on October 17th, 1852.  The 1855 State census has the family still living with Sarah's parents and sister.  The family has an Irish maid named Mary Grace, age 24.  Once again, there is no listing for Lucy Amy.

Sarah is still living with her parents, sister, husband and children in 1860.  There is still no record of Lucy Amy.  They have a 22 year old maid from England named Sarah Barrett living with them.  Sometime after this, her husband vanished.  The last record we have of him is a civil war draft registration showing that he is in New York in 1863.

Her father, David Sanderson, dies on June 1st, 1863. In 1864, Sarah is dismissed from the 2nd Church in Whately.  It may be that this has to do with her move to Northampton, or the church may have been disbanded.    By 1865, the family has moved to Northampton and Sarah is living with her mother, sister, Jane and Albert.  They have a different servant, Ellen Sullivan, from Ireland.  At this point, Sarah is listed as being a widow and this is status remains in the records until the 1900 census.  She joins the Edward's Church on February 25th, 1866.


The family is still together in 1870.  They have a 19 year old servant, Maggie Shannon, from Ireland.  The family seems to be reasonably well off.  Sarah's personal income is listed as $2000 and her sister's is $5000.  Lucy also has a Real Estate income of $7000 and therefore likely owns the house.  Ablert has turned 18 and has changed his last name to Sanders from Reed.  In the 1873 city index, Sarah is living at 17 West Street.  She continued living at this house until 1883. On March 13th, 1874, Sarah's mother Amy passed away.  In 1874, her son married and moved to Easthampton, and in 1879, her daughter Jane married and moved out of the house.

By 1887, Sarah moved to 59 West Street with her sister.  Her daughter Jane's family moved into 19 West street.  The 1900 census, shows her living with her sister in the 59 West Street house.  they have a boarder, Amy S. Lane, who is a teacher.  Sarah is listed as being divorced.  Sarah's sister, Lucy, dies in 1910 and Sarah move's in with her daughter Jane at 67 West Street.




Sarah died on February 13th, 1919 in Northampton, MA and is buried at the High Street Cemetery in Haydenville, MA.



Here we move from facts to family story.  The story has it that Benjamin Franklin Reed left Sarah and ran off with a spiritualist.  Eventually he came back and Sarah made him divorce her and make an honest woman out of the spiritualist.    There seems to be some support in the records for this.  Benjamin is know to have gone to New York by 1863 and we loos tract of him.  The records show Sarah listed as a widow after that until 1900, when she is shown as being divorced.  I haven't been able to find the 1880 census record for her.  So, maybe she thought Benjamin was dead after 1863 and found out he was still alive and divorced him by 1890.  It would be worthwhile to find the divorce records  to see if they can tell use more.  David Albert changing his surname to Sanders in 1870 could also be a clue to this scandal or it could be something to do with the money in the Sanders line of the family. There is also a story of a person showing up at the door as another child of Benjamin's and Sarah refusing to meet them. This could mean there is another branch of the Reed family out there but there is no evidence of this.

This whole branch is complicated, so I will likely do separate posts looking into Lucy S. Lucy Amy and David Albert to see if I can glean anymore pieces to the puzzle.

Sources:

• 1830 United States Federal Census: 1830; Census Place: Whately, Franklin, Massachusetts; Series: M19; Roll: 62; Page: 122; Family History Library Film: 0337920
• 1840 United States Federal Census: Year: 1840; Census Place: Whately, Franklin, Massachusetts; Page: 156; Family History Library Film: 0014677
• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988: Name Sarah W Sanders, Event Type Marriage, Birth Date abt 1823, Marriage Date 26 Feb 1845, Marriage Place Whately, Massachusetts, Marriage Age 22, Father Name David Sanders, Mother Name Amy Sanders, Spouse Name Benjn F Reed, Spouse Marriage Age 25, Spouse Father Name Simeon Reed, Spouse Mother Name Miranda Reed
• 1850 United States Federal Census: Database online. Year: 1850; Census Place: Whately, Franklin, Massachusetts; Roll: M432_316; Page: 68A; Image: . Record for Sarah W Reed
• Massachusetts, State Census, 1855: Name Sarah W Reed, Gender Female, Birth Year abt 1823, Birth Place Massachusetts, Residence Whately, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA, Enumeration Year 1855, Age 32, Household Number 220, Reel Number 10, Volume Number 14
• 1860 United States Federal Census: Database online. Year: 1860; Census Place: Whately, Franklin, Massachusetts; Roll: ; Page: 226; Image: 230. Record for Sarah W Reed
• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988: Name Sarah W Sanders, Event Type Miscellaneous, Residence Date 6 Mar 1864, Residence Place Whately, Massachusetts
• Massachusetts, State Census, 1865: Name Sarah W Reed, Gender Female, Marital Status Widowed, Birth Year abt 1823, Birth Place Massachusetts, Residence Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA, Enumeration Year 1865, Age 42, Household Number 1064, Reel Number 14, Volume Number 17
• 1870 United States Federal Census: Year: 1870; Census Place: Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; Roll: M593_621; Page: 398B; Image: 341; Family History Library Film: 552120
• U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918: Collection Number: G&M_3; Roll Number: 3
• 1900 United States Federal Census: Database online. Year: 1900; Census Place: Northampton Ward 2, Hampshire, Massachusetts; Roll: T623_31077_4113839; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 0631; FHL microfilm: 1240654. Record for Sarah W Reed
• 1910 United States Federal Census: Database online. Year: 1910; Census Place: Northampton Ward 2, Hampshire, Massachusetts; Roll: T624_593; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0698; Image: ; FHL microfilm: 1374606., Record for Sarah W Reed
• Massachusetts, Death Index, 1901-1980: Name Sarah W Reed, Death Date 1919, Death Place Northampton, Massachusetts, USA, Volume Number 81, Page number 289, Index Volume Number 72, Reference Number F63.M363 v.721919 - Northampton - 289 81
• U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current: Name Sarah Wheeler Reed, Maiden Name Sanders, Birth Date 6 Apr 1823, Birth Place Whately, Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States of America. Death Date 13 Feb 1919, Death Place United States of America, Cemetery High Street Cemetery, Burial or Cremation Place Haydenville, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States of America, Has Bio?Y Children Mary W Reed, URL https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70323611

Today would have been Georgeanna Orr's 103rd birthday

Today would have been my wife's Grandmother's 103rd birthday, here is what I know about her:

• Biography

Catherine Wright Grandia's World War II experiences

My daughter is studying World War II and I've been reading the book "Code Girls" by Liza Mundy.  This has finally gotten me to post the story of my Aunt Kate's World War II experiences. She wrote this up and sent it to my Mother ten-ish years ago.  Here it is:




During my senior year in college The Navy approached Smith and I believe also many other colleges, but especially women’s colleges, requesting volunteers for a special secret program. Those who registered as interested were given a correspondence course to complete during the summer months. It was a course in cryptography. Another graduating senior who registered was Nancy Smith, from Eathampton. We studied the material together (there was no prohibition on that as far as we knew) and eventually went to Washington together as Civil Service employees. I think we were paid $160 a month. The Navy had arranged temporary housing for us in what I think had been a boarding school. We were given a bed in a large room with probably eight or ten other girls - a bed, a dresser, and closet space. There was a good dormitory type large bathroom, several showers, sinks, etc. and an adequate kitchen available to all of us. What we paid for it I don’t remember. It was meant to be temporary, and girls would get together to rent a house or apartment as a group to make the rent affordable. However, many of the girls came from wealthy homes and their families were subsidizing them. Nancy and I were on our own, but we eventually found an apartment wa could afford together, but it was only one-bedroom. It was on Irving Street, in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood.



As Civil Service, we were doing pretty routine office work - filing intercepted messages as they came in after they had first been checked by analysts, retrieving them if there was a sudden demand from the analysts for the traffic from a particular day or time, keeping records, stuff like that.  In October Nancy was ordered to Officer Candidate School at Smith. In December I was. There was one at Mt. Holyoke, too, and several other places also. It was a cold winter, with a lot of snow. We were housed in the dorms, and ate our meals at Hotel Northampton, a half mile or so from the campus. We marched down there in formation on often slippery streets. We were taught the military alphabet and military terminology, Naval etiquette, other stricter rules of Naval behavior, military airplane and ship identification, and probably something else more or less useful. Then we were commissioned and sent back to Washington.





From the first time we set foot in the Navy building (and even before, actually) we were regularly warned that we must not discuss what we were doing with anyone at any time. We would be hanged, drawn, and quartered if we did, or something equally fearsome.

Nancy got back before I did, of course, and before I got back the office we had been working in had moved from the old Navy Department buildings near the Mall to the campus of what had been the Mt. Vernon School for Girls - a very prestigious private school - on Nebraska Avenue out near the Maryland line. I don’t know where the school went, or if they ever got their campus back. All our transportation in Washington was by streetcar or bus. The new location was quite a bit farther for us to go, but the streetcar line was just a half block away, there was just one transfer to a bus, and both ran very frequently.



The establishment was now officially titled the Naval Communications Annex. Anybody in Washington who cares can always find out where you work and get a pretty good idea of what goes on there in a general way, and I feel sure that most people realized that “Communications” was a euphemism for “Intelligence.” Nancy was assigned the Japanese section.  When I got back, I was sent to the section working on German U-Boat codes.

The Germans had developed a coding machine called the Enigma. It had rotating wheels which scrambled the text - an “a” might come out as a “G” or an “I” when it was typed into the machine. I believe the machine in our office - supposedly the one used throughout the submarine fleet - has three rotating wheels and one stationary one. There was a code book of course on every boat, which had the instructions for each day - which of the rotating wheels to use (there were extras) and the letter setting to start the message. If we had that information, we could read the German radio traffic to its U-Boats and between the boats on the machine we had. I have seen the German coding system called “Ultra” also, but I’m not really sure what that means. I think “Enigma” was the name for the machine.

The Germans had other versions of the machine for other operations, but we were only concerned with the U-Boats. The Polish had started working on the Enigma codes before the war actually began and had recovered some wheel wirings. The French had actually captured a machine - or so I was told.  All that was before I came to the office.  Our job was to try to break the daily codes as fast as possible in order to keep track of the prowling U-Boats and sink them if we could. That is, we were to find the daily settings.

The British had been working on the problem for some years before we got involved in the war. One of their brightest cryptanalysts, Alan Turing, had invented a machine that could run the messages through thousands of possible settings until German plain text appeared.  Of course it was more complicated than that, but that was the basic idea. With a lot of machines working at once, many more settings could be tested faster and the U-Boats could be monitored and attacked before they had done their damage. British resources were very limited by then. They had a large intelligence establishment at a place called Bletchley Park, which was where Turing worked and had his machines, but a large building had been constructed on the grounds of the Communication Annex and it was full of those machines. They were manned by enlisted women, and programmed in one of the offices in our cluster of three ground floor offices.  The programmers were across the hall from mine.  “Programming” meant that an analyst picked a message that looked like some of the plain text might be easy to guess - weather messages, for instance, were popular - and a diagram of preparing the machine to run that message against the possible plain text was prepared. The girls running the machine looked for plain German text to appear.  That is an extreme simplification.  There is a section in a book called “Codebreakers:, about Bletchley Park, that has a much more detailed explanation, in the “HUT 8” section. By the way the men who worked on the machines to keep them in good working order - they worked hard and ling - were from Rochester, NY, not Dayton, OH. They were from whatever IBM called itself then.

There was a forth office upstairs, which I entered only once as far as I can remember. In that office, there was lots of gold braid on the sleeves of distinguished looking older men, and, big maps with lots of stick pins all over the walls. These I assumed were the strategists who used information the analysts got from the messages we were reading to hunt down the U-Boats.

When a possible break appeared in any text, it was sent immediately to the office where I was assigned. We sent it on to another office with a group of more highly trained analysts for further investigation. Both the programmers and the analysts were mostly people with a very strong mathematics background. While the analysts checked it, we cleared the decks for action in the small office I was in.  If the break was valid, those of us on duty there, enlisted and officer both, would start typing out the coded messages as fast as we could. There was only the one machine and we typed fast and took turns. However, sometimes that didn’t last too long because one or two of the machines in the other building would be set up to run the traffic.  That is, they would if the break had come early enough in the day. If the next day’s traffic was already coming in, working on that might take priority on the bombes (that was what the English had named the hard-working code-breaking machines) and the two of us in my small office stayed very busy.

The small office I was in also handled incoming and outgoing teletype traffic of our own, and various types of routine work. There was usually one officer and one enlisted woman in there at once.  We worked shifts - two days 8-4, two 4-12, two 12-8, two days off.  It is a very difficult schedule to work, but it is regular Navy work schedule if round the clock work is required.  Nancy and I were seldom on a synchronized schedule., so sometimes we didn’t see much of each other. We knew quite a few of the girls who had come to Washington when we did, but it wasn’t easy to arrange much social activity together. It could get somewhat lonely at time.

I do remember very well the time that several of us - I think it was four - had managed to have lunch in downtown Washington together and were on our way to a movie when we were confronted by a large black headline - letters five inches high - WASP SUNK - Since one of the girls in the girls in the group had a fiance on the Wasp, it was a rude shock. He did make it home alright.

The odd hours also had an effect on my acquaintance with my future husband.  He was in Washington for a refresher course in Bomb Disposal and Weapons Intelligence which was held at the American University Campus, which was about a quarter of a mile further down Wisconsin Avenue  from the Annex. There were other naval schools there too, with a good many Navy men  there most of the time. I don’t remember how I happened to meet him originally, but the men from the different schools there were usually there on a temporary assignment; someone knew a girl who was stationed in the Washington area, she knew one of the girls at our place or was one of us, when that man left he introduced girls he had met to someone just arriving, - or just gave the new man some names.  We were perhaps too trusting, but the rules got bent in wartime.

Reminds me of another story. There was a girl Nancy and I know from somewhere - perhaps the original temporary housing. She wasn’t from Smith - St. Lawrence University in New York, I think, - but she had moved into a house with other girls, at least one of whom was from Smith. She had become very much involved with a man she had met, probably the way I discussed above.  He found himself in New York City for embarkation; there was some kind of glitch and the men in his group were told they would have a couple of days in New York while it was sorted out. He called, begging her to come to New York for a last goodbye. She had no money. None of her friends had enough money to let her have any. I had some traveler’s checks Dad had given me when I left home, for emergencies, and I said I would lend her enough money for her train ticket if we could get the check cashed. It was Saturday evening; we went downtown to the Willard Hotel and somehow conned the night manager to cash it for us.  The end of that story is that a couple of weeks later, during a house cleaning session, one of the girls found a letter shoved well down behind the sofa cushions addressed to this man, from his wife. The question - did he leave it there on purpose to be found later?

Anyway, Bill called me, we had a couple fo dates, we got on well and I liked him.  But then I heard nothing from him for a couple of weeks at least - probably longer. Then on very pretty day in the early fall I was walking down Wisconsin Avenue and I saw him driving back toward Wisconsin Avenue to the University.  Shortly after I got home, he called.  He said he tried to call several times, but never got an answer.(?). Which was possible, with the shifts we were working. From then on, we saw each other pretty regularly. He was assigned to new construction, the Oklahoma City, after the refresher course. He was sent to Newport to work with training the new crew for the ship, and when she was almost ready he came back to Philadelphia where she was being built. I went to her Commissioning.  We decided to get married before the ship left.  We were married, as you remember, on March 24, and the ship left for the Pacific Theater early in April 1945.

The U-505 happened early in 1945. Early in 1944 we were breaking the daily codes pretty regularly.  Sometime in the fall we got hold of a U-Boat daily code book, and then of course we were reading it regularly as it came in, and the Germans realized we were reading it.  I don’t know how we got that code book - theft was always a very viable option in that business, and the U-Boat base was at Bordeaux on the Bay of Biscay.  The French underground was very active. Anyway, the Germans decided to issue new code books - or try to. Just keeping the U-Boats decently supplied was getting harder and harder. They got the books to some boats, and not others, and or analysts soon figured out who had it and who didn’t. The strategists hatched a plot to ambush a boat and get the new book - that is, force the sub to the surface, not sink it, and board it. Not easy, because U-Boat orders were to scuttle the boat, not surface, in that kind of desperate situation. And all hands go down with her.

Our analysts were very well-acquainted with the U-Boat captains by now - their wives’ names, how many children, what they liked for breakfast, general temperament, etc. The choose one they didn’t think would scuttle immediately, but would give his crew time to get off. They sent Admiral Gallery’s Task force after her, it worked, and we had the code book.  The other story I mentioned to you was the man who was sent to pick up all our newly-acquired properties. He was a relatively young Reserve Lieutenant in his late twenties maybe, probably a teacher of Math at a high school or small university somewhere. He was given a sidearm to wear on his journey - a huge gun to keep with him at all times. He looked like he had never so much as handled any gun in his life, and he was more than a little afraid of it. Well, he had a couple of fine strong enlisted men to take care of him.  They brought the code books back safely.  I believe that nobody died (I’d have to check that for sure) and the captain did not go down with his boat.


The U-Boats had lost the fight before that happened.  Getting supplied, or getting orders from headquarters, was becoming impossible.  The couldn’t get back to port safely.  And of course the European phase of the war ended May 15. We had nothing left to do. We worked on some other Enigma codes, broke one diplomatic one that had never been broken. Then they started re-assigning us to other divisions, were we did essentially nothing. At least I don’t remember anything in particular about that time. In the fall I was placed on indefinite leave while the powers that be decided how many of us they might like to keep.  If we wanted to stay we were supposed to say so at the time.  I didn’t. I was ordered back to Washington in January. There I was given an honorable discharge and transferred to Naval Reserve.

Descendants of Asa Wright and Harriet Mills Clark

• Asa Wright(1818-1883)-W4 married Harriet Mills Clark(1822-1894)-W5
• Francis Clark Wright(1849-1850)
• David Joy Wright(1851-1908)-W2 married Jane Caroline Reed(1846-1936)-W3
• Edward Nims Wright(1884-1947)
• David Sanders Wright(1887-1967)-W1 married Florence Edna Smith(1892-1937)-S1
• Catherine Sanders Wright(1920-2017) married William Leonard Grandia(1912-2005)
• David Joy Wright(1922-1991) married Rita Mary McFarland(Unkn-2015)
• Charles Merrick Wright(1924-2008) married Living
• Living married Hope Gilson(1929-2012)
• Florence Caroline Wright(1930-2016)-W0 married Robert Ervin Putnam(1927-2011)-P0
• Charles Blake Wright(1855-1939)

Biography of Harriet Mills Clark(1822-1894)-W5

Harriet Mills Clark(1822-1894)-W5
Birth: December 17th, 1822 in Northampton, MA
Father: James Clarke(1780-1848)
Mother: Anna Frances Warren(1781-1830)
Married: Married Asa Wright(1818-1883) on October 21st, 1845 in Northampton, MA
Children:
Francis Clark Wright(1849-1850)
David Joy Wright(1851-1908)
Charles Blake Wright(1855-1939)

Death:  August 25th, 1894 in Northampton, MA

Harriet Mills Clark was born on December 17th, 1822 to James Clarke and Anna Francis Warren in Northampton, MA.  She was the 3rd of 3 children, but there was a 14 year gap between her older brother's birth and her's.  I don't have any information to explain the gap, but feel there would be an interesting story here.  Her mother passed away in 1830.

Harriet expressed her intentions to marry Asa Wright on September 29th, 1845 and married him on October 21st, 1845 in Northampton, MA.  Her father died soon after in 1848.

Harriet and Asa's first child, Francis Clark Wright, was born on April 15th, 1849 in Williamsburg, MA and died almost a year later on April 8th, 1850.  The 1850 census shows Asa living with Harriet in Northampton and working as a farmer.

Their second son, David Joy Wright was born on February 9th, 1851 in Northampton, MA. Their youngest child, Charles Black Wright was born on June 27th, 1855 in Northampton, MA and the 1860 census shows the family living together and Asa still working as a farmer. The 1865 Massachusetts census has Asa living with his wife and youngest son.  There is no sign of David Joy.

The family is all together again in 1870.  Asa is still working as a farmer.  His personal estate is worth $5000 and his real estate is $3000.  This 1873 Land ownership map shows where they was living at the time.  I believe the property would have been located at what is now the corner of Laurel St and Grove St. The 1880 census lists Asa living with Harriet, son David and David's wife, Jane Caroline Reed.  He is now a farmer for the Northampton Lunatic Hospital.  There is a possibility that he is living at the farmhouse on hospital property at what is now Village Hill Road and West Street.

By 1880, Asa was still working as a farmer, but living at 19 West St. with Harriet, their son and daughter-in-law.  Asa died on May 11th, 1882 of an epileptic coma in Northampton, MA. Sometime after Asa's death, Harriet moved to 67 West St.  She died on August 25th, 1894 of a Strangulated Hernia.  She is buried in Bridge Street Cemetery.

Sources:

• Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988: Name Mr Asa Wright, Event Type Marriage, Marriage Date 29 Sep 1845, Marriage Place Northampton, Massachusetts, Spouse Name Harriet Clark
• 1850 United States Federal Census: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; Roll: M432_320; Page: 136A; Image: 273
• Massachusetts, State Census, 1855: Name Asa Wright, Gender Male, Birth Year abt 1820, Birth Place Massachusetts, Residence , Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA, Enumeration Year 1855, Age 35, Household Number 863, Reel Number 13, Volume Number 18
• 1860 United States Federal Census: Year: 1860; Census Place: Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; Roll: M653_505; Page: 886; Image: 892; Family History Library Film: 803505
• Massachusetts, State Census, 1865: Name Asa Wright, Gender Male, Marital Status Married, Birth Year abt 1819, Birth Place Massachusetts, Residence Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA, Enumeration Year 1865, Age46, Household Number 1041, Reel Number 14, Volume Number,17
• 1870 United States Federal Census: Year: 1870; Census Place: Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; Roll: M593_621; Page: 390A; Image: 42503; Family History Library Film: 552120
• U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918: Owner's Name Asa Wright, State Massachusetts, County Hampshire, Town Northampton, Year 1873
• 1880 United States Federal Census: Database online. Year: 1880; Census Place: Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; Roll: 538; Family History Film: 1254538; Page: 447C; Enumeration District: 347; Image: 0105.
• Massachusetts, Death Records, 1841-1915, Name Harriet M Clark Wright Gender Female Age 71 Birth Date abt 1823 Birth Place Northampton Death Date 25 Aug 1894 Death Place Northampton, Massachusetts, USA Father James Clark Mother Frances Warren Wills and Probates Harriet M Clark Wright - 1894
• U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current: Name Harriet M Wright Maiden Name Clark Birth Date 17 Dec 1822 Birth Place Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States of America Death Date 25 Aug 1894 Death Place United States of America Cemetery Bridge Street Cemetery Burial or Cremation Place Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States of America Has Bio? N Spouse Asa Wright Children Francis Clark Wright URLhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88043959

I got distracted with life and missed some dates.

So here are the birthdays that happened in November, December and January:

My 2nd Great Grandfather, James Connolly would have turned 181 on December 25th. Here is the information I have on him:

• Biography
• Descendants

My 2nd Great Grandfather, Peter Weatherby would have turned 183 on January 12th.  Here is the information I have on him:

• Biography
• Descendants