• [S5] The National Archives (United States), 11th Census of the US -- Schedules Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War (File Microcopies of Records in the National Archives: No, 121; Roll 30 (Missouri, Bunmdle 30); 1948.).
  • [S17] 1860 Douglas County Census (n.pub.).
  • [S27] Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census, database on-line, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006, (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields, 2004-2011); citing Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910, population schedules (NARA microfilm publication T624), Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives, Washington, D.C. Interim or placeholder ("lumped-source"-type) source citations for US 1790-1930 census population schedules have been adapted from source description information on Ancestry.com. Most of this census information was indeed taken from the Ancestry.com census page-images. However, in a few cases, the census information was (1) taken directly from microfilm - either at the Family History Library (Salt Lake City, UT), the Newberry Library (Chicago, IL), or at the Aiken Family History Center (using microfilm reels "rented" from the Family History Library, or (2) from on-line digital images from other providers, such as FamilySearch. For simplicity, the "accessed tags" all refer to ancertry.com. The long-term plan is to eventually replace all of these interim source citations with detailed citations based on one of the other of the two books by Elizabeth Shown Mills, Evidenceor Evidence Explained.
  • [S165] State Historical Society of Missouri and Marie Concannon, Grand Army of the Republic -- Missouri Division -- Index to Death Roles, 1882-1940: taken from the Proceedings of the Annual Encampments (1995. Obtained from "Digital Library" section of Society's web site (in 2008)).
  • [S179] Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of the Third Congressional District of New Jersey (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Biographical Publishing Company, 1896), pages 549 and 550. This book is in electronic/digital form at the following web site: (http://www.archive.org/details/biographicalport00wiley : accessed by Carl Fields, June 2010).

    The material in the book concerning Morris Slobodien (and others in the Slobodien family) has been placed at the Middlesex County, NJ Popourri section of the Middlesex County Genealogy-NJGenWeb web site by Nicki Slobodien Osborne, referencing: "Biographical Sketches Perth Amboy, New Jersey," pages 549 & 550, information provided (to Nicki Slobodien Osborne) by Philip R. Slobodien; (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njmiddle/… : accessed by Carl Fields, 17 February 2009). The transcribed extract at the Rootsweb site is slightly different from the published version. For example, Jacob Slobodien is omitted as a son of Solomon Slobodien and, in his place, Joseph Slobodien is listed twice. Carl Fields later contacted Philip R. Slobodien, who indicated his recollection is that he had initially seen this information in a newspaper clipping.
  • [S180] Nicki Slobodien Osborne, New Jersey Family Group Sheet for the Philip Slobodien Family
    , database, Friends of US GenWeb, Family Group Sheet Project, (http://www.fgs-project.com/newjersey/s/slobodien-p.txt : 18 July 2005), New Jersey Family Group Sheet for the Philip Slobodien Family, described as based on census records, death records, family records of Phillip R. Slobodien (son of Abraham Slobodien), photos and obits.
  • [S181] Nicki Slobodien Osborne, New Jersey Family Group Sheet for the Solomon Slobodien Family, database, Friends of US GenWeb, Family Group Sheet Project, (http://www.fgs-project.com/newjersey/s/slobodien-s.txt : 18 July 2005), New Jersey Family Group Sheet for the Solomon Slobodien Family, Census Records, New Jersey Biographical Sketches, Death This is based on material from: Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of the Third Congressional District of New Jersey (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Philadelphia Biographical Publishing Company, 1896), pages 549 and 550. Carl Fields is skeptical of some of the information in this family group sheet. Several names listed as children of Slobodien (born in Russia) are the same as the names of known grandchildren, born in in the United States. In addition, no records have been located indicating these listed "children" even came to the United States, but yet they seem oto have "Americanized" names (examples are Michael and Bessie). It seems possible that there could have been editorial glitches in the 1898 book that incorrectly placed the names of some grandchildren in an earlier generation.
  • [S212] Marriage Return -- Morris Slobodien and Sophia Freefan, unknown repository, unknown repository address.
  • [S248] Polk's Perth Amboy (Middlesex County, New Jersey) City Directory 1945 (Volume XXXVI) (545 Sixth Ave, Pittsburgh 19, PA: R. L. Polk & Co., Publishers, 1945); Perth Amboy Public Library, microfilm, 196 Jefferson Street, Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Hereinafter cited as Polk's Perth Amboy City Directory 1945.
  • [S256] Richmond's Directory of Perth Amboy 1912 (Main Office: Warburton Building, Yonkers, NY; Branch Office: 233 Main Avenue, Passic, N. J.: W. L. Richmond, Publisher, 1912); FHL microfilm 2,309,470--2,309,475. Hereinafter cited as Richmond's Directory of Perth Amboy (etc.) 1912.
  • [S259] Richmond's Directory of Perth Amboy (etc.) 1915 (Main Office: Warburton Building, Yonkers, NY; Branch Office: 233 Main Avenue, Passic, N. J.: W. L. Richmond, Publisher, 1915); FHL MICROFILM 2,309,470--2,309,475. HEREINAFTER CITED AS Richmond's Directory of Perth Amboy 1915.
  • [S261] Richmond's Directory of Perth Amboy (etc.) 1917 (Main Office: Warburton Building, Yonkers, NY; Branch Office: 233 Main Avenue, Passic, N. J.: W. L. Richmond, Publisher, 1917); FHL microfilm 2,309,470--2,309,475. Hereinafter cited as Richmond's Directory of Perth Amboy 1917.
  • [S262] Richmond's Directory of Perth Amboy (etc.) 1918 (Main Office: Warburton Building, Yonkers, NY; Branch Office: 233 Main Avenue, Passic, N. J.: W. L. Richmond, Publisher, 1918); FHL microfilm 2,309,470--2,309,475. Hereinafter cited as Richmond's Directory of Perth Amboy 1918.
  • [S281] William C. Fields, service card, Dallmeyer's Batt. Six Months Militia (Missouri, Civil War) (n.p.: Adjatent General Files (note added 12/21/2019: Carl Fields is almost certain these card-images were once on the web, but they do not seem to be there any longer)).
  • [S284] Stanley Slobodien, "Slobodien Family Group Sheets", a package of printed family group sheets prepared in the mid-1990s using a very early verison of the Family Tree Maker (FTM) computer program (with several handwritten additions, revisions, and annotations), sent to Carl Fields by the author via surface mail, October 2006. The October 2007 date represents the last date the author could have modified these sheets. The author told Carl Fields this information was largely collected via phone interviews and correspondence with family members.
  • [S305] U. S. National Archives Civil War Pension File.
  • [S313] Wand's City of Perth Amboy Directory, 1907-8 (Woodbridge NJ: Wand Directory Co., 1907); Perth Amboy Public Library, microfilm, 196 Jefferson Street, Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Hereinafter cited as Wand's City of Perth Amboy Directory, 1907-8.
  • [S439] 1920 United States Census, New Jersey, Perth Amboy (ED 35), Middlesex County, p 14B (Image 636), Household 310, Harry Goldstein; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 3 April 2006) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication T625.
  • [S508] Bureau of Land Management, "Land Patent Search," digital images, General Land Office Records, (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch : 15 June 2009) William C Fields, (Missouri, Douglas County), 1686 (Doc. No.), AR5840_,189 (Acc/Ser No), 851 (Misc Doc No). The entire file for this Homestead Land Grant was obtained from the US National Archives.
  • [S561] The "locale" of Florilla appears on the US Geological Survey (USGS) Geographical names Information System (GNIS) with ID Number 740497 at approximately (decimal) Latitude 36.976 and Longitude -92.166 (36 58 34 N, 92 09 58 W) -- since GNIS information indicates the co0rdinates are approximate, the digits to the right of the decimal point have been truncated here). The elevation is listed as 938 ft (286 m). The "locale" source is given as: "New World War Chart (a map of Missouri). Saint Louis, Missouri: Geographical Publishing Company, 1919. A three map wall chart, using the first map which is intitled 'Premier Series Map of Missouri,' copyright 1919 by the Geographical Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois. Published by Missouri Ruralist, Scale is approximately 1:750,000. 1919". [Florilla also appears on an 1895 map, which appears on the internet in varous locations (and in various forms), including at: http://www.livgenmi.com/1895/MO/County/douglas.htm : accessed by Carl Fields, 28 March 2010.] Florilla is also listed on GNIS as "Florilla Post Office (historical)" with ID Number 759935 (the location coordinates and elevation are the same for this second listing). The second listing gives the following historical information: "Florilla was a post office on Big North Fork at old Judge Johnson's place. It was named for one of his three daughters." The source information for the second listing is as follows: Ramsay Place-Name Card Collection. A collection of approximately 32,000 place names on filing cards. Three sets exits: one at USGS-GNIS in Reston, Virginia; one in the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection at the University of Missouri-Columbia; one in the State Historical Society of Missouri at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The last set was used for Phase II compilation because it was organized by counties. Names were collected by students writing theses during the period 1929 to 1945. The date on the Phase II entry refers to the year of completion of the thesis that covered a given county. SHS-MO/1933". The "date on the Phase II entry" is apparently the "1933" at the end of the citation.

    Florilla (which was apparently a small community) was on land owned (at least initially) by Aaron Francis Johnson. Carl Fields has inferred/concluded: (1) the name "old Judge Johnson" refers to Aaron Francis Johnson; (2) the term "old Judge" was used from the viewpoint of when the source document (the thesis) was generated (1933 -- Johnson was a Douglas County Presiding Judge in 1890-92; he was not yet a judge at the time the Florilla post office was established in 1879); and (3) is Florilla is indeed the name of a daughter (rather than, say, a sister or niece, or other relative), she might have been a daughter who was born and died in the 1860s and 1870s, without having ever been recorded in a US census. His three known daughters, who appear in various source documents and who survived to adulthood, are: Lovy Jane Johnson (born October 1867); Sarah Clementine Johnson (born 1 Feb 1871); and Easter Elizabeth Johnson (born c 1872). The 1900 census indicates 7 children had been born to his wife, Alabeth Wood, and six of these were living at the time of the 1900 census. That seventh birth could be a daughter Florilla, who died in childhood.
  • [S572] Secretary of the Interior (Compiled and Printed Under the Direction of the Secretary of the Interior), Official Register of the United States, Containing a List of Officers and Employees in the Civil, Military, and Naval Service on the First of July, 1881, Volume II, the Post-Office Department and the Postal Service (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1881); accessed via Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 24 March 2010).

    The widely varying values listed for compensation for small-town postmasters suggest their compensation might have been based on some percentage of the value of the income of the post office, rather than a salary. It is unclear what one-year time period the listed annual compensation covers. Browsing through the volume indicates the compensation for the postmaster of Mountain Grove MO (Eli Hayes) was $130.36, no postmasters were listed for Cabool MO or for Topaz MO, and the compensation for the postmaster of Beamville PA (David Martin) was $46.93. [Searching for this book was suggested to Carl Fields by a magazine article appearing in early 2010 (Claire Prechtel-Kluskens, "Myron E. Foster, Postmaster: A case Study in using original records," NGS Magazine, Volume 36, Number 1, January-March 2010). This article pointed out the existence of many kinds of records that might mention post offices and postmasters from this era. Most of these exist (at the time the article was published) at only the US National Archives in Washington DC (or in the DC area), not on microfilm or on the internet. Searching through various records of this type at the National Archives might be an interesting and useful future exercise.]
  • [S584] Barbara DeVore, "Names and Places", Journal of the Historical and Genealogical Society of Douglas County Missouri , this journal does not employ volumes or numbers (December 1991) (published by the Douglas County Historical and Genealogical Society, Incorporated) . The authorship of this article is complex. The credited author is Moses Johnson. However, portions of the article are internally credited to his youngest son, Alfred Lee Johnson. In addition, the article seems to include a short excerpt from an unknown third writer (and the sections credited to Moses and Alfred Lee may have been edited this third writer -- or by a fourth person). Portions of the article deal with Moses Johnson, but are written in the third person. The article contains a typographical error for the year of death of Moses Johnson; he died in 1924, not 1942, which is the date listed in the article. Hereinafter cited as "Names and Places". A second version of this material appears in OZAR'KIN (Volume X, Number 1, Spring 1988 -- this journal is published by the Ozarks Genealogical Society). The title of the OZAR'KIN version of the article is "Pioneer Settlers in Early Douglas County, A History written by Moses Johnson," Submitted (and edited and annotated) by Judy Johnson Erickson. This OZAR'KIN article contains additional material by Judy Johnson Erickson.
  • [S585] "Douglas County Post Offices from the U. S. Postal Archives", Journal of the Historical and Genealogical Society of Douglas County Missouri , this journal does not employ volumes or numbers (December 1988) (published by the Douglas County Historical and Genealogical Society, Incorporated).
  • [S631] Ezak Mehaloff, U. S. Citizenship and Imigration Records (USCIS) Genealogy Program (Historical Records), Alien Registration Form (AR-2), obtained by Freedom of Information Act/Privacy Act request (submitted August 2008), A-4749874, (18 November 1940); U. S. Department of Homeland Security, P. O. Box 648010, Lee's Summit, Missouri.

    Name: Ezak Mehaloff; Address: 287 Smith Street, Perth Amboy, Middlesex, NJ; born 17 November 1871, Sinferopil, Ukraine, Russia; Citizen of Russia; Male, widowed, white, 5 ft 5 in, 165 lbs, brown hair, brown eyes. Arrived in US at Hoboken, New Jersey, February 27, 1906 aboard S. S. Breslow, Bremen Line, as a passenger, lived in US 34 years, permanent resident; usual occupation: storekeeper; current occupation: storekeeper (self employed); business address: 292 Smith Street, Perth Amboy NJ, food store (in food business for last 18 years); Military service: Russian army (1893-1897); Applied for US ciitizenship: approximately 1907 (first papers, but he has lost track of them since that time); Other relatives in US: 3 children.
  • [S773] Carrie Wilson Cemetery Marker, Blue Springs Cemetery, Newark, Independence County, Arkansas; Carl Fields, read July 2000 (and on other dates).

    Additional information is available (and may have been used on this webs site) in a survey of this cemetery (and others in Independence County, Arkansas) for burials up to some point in the 1970s. This information is documented in: Chalman E. Green and Mae Chinn Green, Cemetery Records of Independence County Arkansas (314 Vine Street, Newport AR 72112: Morgan Books, 1980).

    A survey of this cemetery (and many ohters in Independence County) is also available at: Cindy Treadway, Blue Springs Cemetery Survey, database, Arkansas, Independence County, Newark, Blue Springs Cemetery, US GenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project (http://www.usgwarchives.net), (http://files.usgwarchives.net/ar/independence/cemeteries/… : accessed by Carl Fields October 2013), dated 28 July 2000 (which may represent the approximate date of the most recent burial recorded in the data base). Cindy Treadway is person who provided the information for this particular cemetery, and for several others in eastern Independence County. Some of the information on this web site might be drawn from the Green and Green book listed above.

    The two sources have different formats. In the Green and Green book, the grave markers are listed in gravesite order. In the Treadway database, the cemetery is divided into several secions (primarily based on the interior roads) and grave markers are listed in alphabetical order for each section.

  • [S774] Albert Wilson Cemetery Marker, Blue Springs Cemetery, Newark, Independence County, Arkansas; Carl Fields, read July 2000 (and on other dates).
  • [S815] "California Death Index, 1940-1997 ," database Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 19 Sep 2012), Freda G Goff, 7 Dec 1968, Sacramento County; based on "California Death Index, 1940-1997," State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics, Sacramento.
  • [S855] Livingston County (Tax Assessor), Kentucky, Tax books 1831, 1833, 1836-1838, 1840-1857. Information for John Jarman appears in the records in this microfilm reel for the years 1835-36, 1837-38, 1840-44, 1846, , 1848-57 (this is the John Jarman born around 1809). William Fields appears for the years 1841-45. A James Fields appears for a few years, as do several members of the Sills family (Sills was the maiden name of John Jarman's wife Lucy). The tax information in the years these people appear is in tabular form, with each line or row in the table representing one taxpayer. The column headings for the earlier years (primarily in the 1830s) are handwritten and difficult to decipher. For later years (starting in the 1840s), a printed form was used, with the column headings printed. The types of information recorded changed a few times during the years of interest. However, typical information was the number of acres that were taxed, the number of "polls" (apparently free white males over age 21), the numbers of slaves, horses and mares, and cattle, and information concerning the values of these things.
  • [S857] Robert Spector (lead author), Perth Amboy's Jewish Community: History, Memories, Tribute (Friends of Perth Amboy Jewish History, Inc., produced by Documentary Media, Seattle, Washington, 2012). Additional authors: Marilyn Millet Goldberg, Jane Sanders Leal, and Mona Shangold. Foreward by Alan Cheuse. Edited by Daniel D. Chazin and Janet Bernstein Rabinowitch. ISBN 978-1-933245-29-4. Printed in Canada. e-mail address.
  • [S903] Vicki Baldwin, Mount Ararat Cemetery (Topaz, Douglas County, Missouri), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 May 2013), Henry William Wood, Memorial No. 5933872. Memorial page includes some family information and a photo of his grave marker. The name on the marker appears to be given as only Henry Wood (no middle name).
  • [S906] Mary Jo Freeman, Mount Ararat Cemetery (Topaz, Douglas County, Missouri), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 3 May 2013), William Henry Wood, Memorial No. 46405786. Memorial page includes some family information.
  • [S984] Bureau of Land Management, "Land Patent Search," digital images, General Land Office Records, (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch : 3 June 2013) Aaron F Johnson, (Missouri, Douglas County), 1736 (Doc. No.), AR5840_,239 (Acc/Ser No), 851 (Misc Doc No). The entire file for this Homestead Land Grant was obtained from the US National Archives.
  • [S985] Bureau of Land Management, "Land Patent Search," database and digital images, General Land Office Records, (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch : 3 Jun 2013) William C Fields, (Missouri, Osage County), 24776 (Doc. No.), MO1050_.357 (Acc/Ser No), 851 (Misc Doc No).
  • [S1065] Sonia (Segal) Goldstein grave marker, Congregation Shari Tephalo/Congregation Beth Mordecai/Hebrew Progressive Cemeteries, Florida Grove Road, Perth Amboy, New Jersey; read by Carl Fields, approx 2006.

    There are three adjacent Jewish cemeteries at this location, some of which have had more than one name during their history (so the current name may not correspond to the name on, say, an older death certificate and burial record). The three cemeteries have separate gates and exterior wall designs (for the walls facing Florida Grove Road), but once inside a gate, there are (as of 2013) no internal barriers separating one cemetery from the others. Thus, in some cases, it is unclear which of the three cemeteries a specific grave "belongs" to. The three cemeteries appear to be inside the current (2013) city limits of Perth Amboy. However, they are probably close to a city limit and may be in an adjacent municipality. It is likely they were outside the Perth Amboy city limits (possibly in Woodbridge Township) at the time of the earliest burials. Also, the street name (Florida Grove Road in 2013) may have been different in a earlier era (e.g., circa1920s). The southwest corner of the cluster of three adjacent cemeteries is at the northwest corner of the intersection of Florida Grove Road and Bingle Street.

    At least one of these three cemeteries (Congregation Shari Tephalo Cemetery) is maintained by Friends for Preservation of Middlesex County Jewish Cemeteries, Inc.; P. O. Box 306; Moorestown, NJ 08057; phone: 856-222-1418; (http://www.friendsofjewishcemeteries.org : accessed 25 July 2013). This organization was formed around 2005 and focuses on maintaining landscaping, etc. They probably have access to few, if any, burial records.
  • [S1104] The burning of the Douglas County, Missouri courthouse is described briefly in: (http://extension.missouri.edu/p/UED6033 : accessed 29 May 2013).
  • [S1129] Mondo Times, database (of media outlets), (http://www.mondotimes.com/1/world/us/25/7884/22855 : accessed 22 Aug 2013).
  • [S1137] Ron and Cindy Dunfee, Fairview Cemetery (Ann, Douglas County, Missouri), database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 22 Aug 2013), Cynthia Catherine (Elliott) Stillwell, Memorial No. 19782082. The web site contains a photograph of her and one of her grave marker. The marriage to William Fields is not mentioned on the grave marker.
  • [S1190] "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 14 Sept 2013), manifest, Bremen, 24 Feb 1906, manifest page 72, Lines 24-31), Ester, and Chais) Michalowski (Mehaloff) Family (Faund Freidl Lesbon Lida Theador) and Kohlonan Family (Schino; based on National Archives microfilm publications M237 and T715; this information is from NARA T715 microfilm roll 667.

    The actual names listed on the manifest (based on the readings of the Ancestry.com transcribers) are: Faund, Freide, Leibon, Lesbon, and Theador Michalowski and Schino, Ester, and Chais Kohlonan. The Michalowski family is listed at the end of Image 152 of 609. The Kohlonan family is listed at the beginning of Image 150 of 609. Images 152 and 150 are two sequential passenger listings (Image 151 is the reverse side of Image 150 and does not contain any passeger names -- it's a printed form).

    There were two lines for passengers remaining on the sheet shown in Image 152 following "Theador Michalowski". It appears that the shipping company clerk begain writing information for "Schino Kolhonan" in the line following "Theodore", but later crossed it out. Then, information for a different indiviudal (perhaps an individual traveling alone) was added to "use up" the last remaining space on that page. Then, the information for the "Kolhonan" family was placed on a new sheet (Image 150).

    The presumed sequence of events might have been done in order to save effort in documenting the "Kohlonan" family, since ditto marks could be used in many of the columns for members of the same family. It could be that the clerk did not initially realize there were three members in the "Kohlonan" family (and thus there was not enough space for all of them at the bottom on Image 152) at the time the (later crossed-out) entry in the next-to-last-line entry on Image 152 was started. This presumed sequence of events implies the passenger list sheets were microfilmed in reverse order to the sequence in which they were initially written (at least for Images 150 and 152). A factor that argues against the presumed sequence described above is that some of the crossed-out informaiton for (the presumed) "Schino" on Image 152 differs from the "final" infoormation on Image 150.

    Carl Fields had initially wondered if perhaps the person following "Theador" on Image 152 was the husband of "Schino". He is noticeably missing from this passenger list. It is unknown if she was widowed before or after the family came to the US. Adding to this confusion is that she is listed as Married (now Widowed) on Image 152 (but the heading on the "Married/Single" column on this form suggests that only those two choices are expected; "Widowed" is not clearly an acceptable entry.


    This essay-type portion of this citation that follows contains information about the immigration to the United States of members of the Mehaloff, Koltunoff, Segal, and Golosoff families. This note is based on an e-mail the author (Carl Fields) sent to various family members in 2010. The title/subject (and date) of that e-mail was "Mehaloff and Koltunoff Families -- Ellis Island Ship Manifest Immigration Records (also mentions Slobodien, Segal, Golosoff, Ziegelneitsky, Goldstein, and other family names)" (6/11/2010 2:14 PM).

    Several changes have been made to the original e-mail to convert it into this note. The information on the Moses Segal and Nathan Golosoff families is in Item 12, near of this note.

    There is some speculation and guesswork in what follows. I've tried to make clear what is guesswork and what is based on written records.


    1. I have located the ship manifest records for when the Mehaloff family first came to the US in 1906 (or, more precisely, it's the family whose surname eventually became Mehaloff). Some members of the Koltunoff family were also on this ship. Mrs. Mehaloff and Mrs. Koltunoff were sisters. I'm about 99.5% sure the people listed on this manifest are who I am claiming they are. (My understanding of family oral history and folklore is that Mr. Koltunoff apparently died shortly after the family came to the US (or maybe earlier) -- he was probably not on this ship. His widow (if he did indeed die in the early 1900s) married a man named Harry Goldstein in the US. One daughter, Dorothy Goldstein, was born in the US to this second marriage (she is not on this manifest, of course).)

    Koltunoff was sometimes spelled Koltinoff (and perhaps other ways) after the family came to the US. I think it may have been Mark Twain who said something like: when person knows only one way to spell a word, that's a sign of someone who isn't very creative.

    This message contains several names that are difficult for me -- and the spell checker does not help at all. I double-checked spellings, but I would not be surprised if an error or two is still around.


    2. The two families (Mehaloff and Kultunoff) came over on a ship named S. S. Breslau (on the handwritten manifest it looks to me like there may be an umlaut over the "u" in Breslau). It sailed from Bremen Germany on 10 Feb 1906 and arrived in New York on 24 Feb 1906 ("sailed" is printed on the manifest, but it was, of course, a steamship).


    3. At least two separate on-line sources exist for this manifest: Ancestry.com (a paid-subscription website) and the Ellis Island Foundation (http://www.ellisisland.org -- a free website, but their image of the manifest is almost unreadable; perhaps to encourage people to purchase paper copies of the manifest from them). The Ellis Island Foundation data base can also be searched from the Stephen P. Morse website (http://www.stevemorse.org -- not to be confused with the website for Steve Morse, a rock musician). Each of these organizations (Ancestry.com and The Ellis Island Foundation) has separately transcribed some of the information on passenger manifests into searchable databases. Prior to finding the records for these families, I had not realized Ancestry.com had done a separate transcription (rather than purchasing rights to the Ellis Island transcription).

    While websites are stressed in the previous paragraph, the passenger manifest information originally came from microfilm records held by the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and (so far as I know) can still be accessed in that format (for free) in Washington DC (and probably at regional NARA branches; it's quite likely that several libraries around the country also have copies of the microfilm).


    4. The Mehaloff family is entered on the manifest under the name Michalowski (that's the family name or surname on both transcriptions). (In most of what follows, I'm generally going to use the transcriptions (where transcribed information is available) rather than try to read the names on the images of the handwritten manifests (there is at least one exception). My personal reading of the handwritten manifest is used for information on the images that has not been transcribed by these agencies. This not-transcribed information includes items such as occupations and the amount of money the family came with.)

    For the Mehaloff (Michalowski) family, the lines given below provide the following information for each person: (1) forename by which they were most commonly known in the US; (2) forename in the Ellis Island transcription; (3) forename in the Ancestry.com transcription; (4) sex; and (5) age at time of entry (1906).

    Ezra Josna Faund M 33
    Freidal Freide Freide F 29
    Lucy Leibon Lesbon F 3
    Lillian Lida Lida F 2
    Teddy Theodor Theador M 5 months

    I used the name Ezra above, although he may have also been known by a one or two other forenames later in his life.

    This note uses the "US" versions of the names (including surnames) in most places.


    5. The female members of the Koltunoff family who came on the Breslau were listed on the manifest under the surname Kolhanans in the Ellis Island transcription. The surname is transcribed as Kolhonan by Ancestry.com. The three individual female members of the family who traveled on that ship are listed as follows (using the same convention described above in Item 4).

    Sonia Scheine Schino F 35
    Ester Ester Ester F 10
    Annie Chaie Chais F 4


    6. In the above two families, Freidal and Sonia were sisters. Their parents (and two brothers, one additional sister, and some other relatives) came over on a different ship about a week later. The second ship is discussed near the end of this message.


    7. For each of the individuals listed above (arriving on the Breslau), the nationality is listed as Russia, "Race or People" is listed as Hebrew, and last permanent residence is listed as Berjansk (except the last residence for the three members of the Koltunoff/Kolhanans/Kolhonana family who traveled on the Breslau is transcribed as "Bergansk" on the Ellis Island data base -- the last residences do not seem to be among the transcribed information on the Ancestry.com database -- a more modern spelling is Berdjansk; it's on the Sea of Azov, in what is now southern Ukraine). The final destination is listed as "P. Amboy" for the Mehaloffs and "Perth? Amboy" for the Koltunoffs (the question mark means the word is very difficult to make out). The Mehaloffs state they do not have a ticket to their final destination, but the Koltunoffs state they do. They all state they have never been in the US before.

    Ezra's occupation is listed as a locksmith. No occupation is listed for any of the others. Ezra Mehaloff was a grocer on Smith Street in Perth Amboy for many years, up until at least the mid-1940s.

    A column on the manifest form is labeled "Whether in possession of $50, and, if less, how much?" (some individuals having less than $50 appear to have been admitted to the country). Based on the label, I would expect this column to contain only numbers less than $50 (with the word "Yes" for those with $50 or more). However, all entries in the column appear to be numbers. For the Mehaloff family, the initial number entered is $100 but a second entry was also made (in a different hand, with the notation "c" next to it, perhaps meaning the immigration officer at the port of entry checked - or perhaps the 'c" is an abbreviation for circa). The second entry is $200. For the Koltunoffs, the number is $100 (again with a "c" written next to it). Perhaps the $50 value applied to an individual and there were larger thresholds for families of various sizes. I would suspect that some people with more than $50 (or whatever might be the threshold for a family) did not reveal the total amount of funds in their possession. It's unclear how the listings on the manifest were supposed to treat any non-US currency.

    For a question about whether they are going to join a relative or friend, and, if so, provide name and address, the following is given for each family: Josef Slobodien, 127 Smith Street, Perth Amboy NJ. According to the Sanborn Street maps, 127 Smith Street is the old-numbering-system address for a building that later became 143 Smith Street (after the street numbering system changed). 143 Smith Street was the address of the Slobodien Shoe store up until (I believe) the 1940s (the store seems to have moved a few street numbers westward around the 1940s or 1950s). I'm guessing Josef Slobodien lived in an apartment above the shoe store in 1906. His first name is more commonly spelled "Joseph" in US records. An essay-type endnote dealing with Sanborn maps of Perth Amboy, New Jersey is on this web site in conjunction with a narrative concerning Morris Slobodien.

    My understanding is that Joseph Slobodien was an uncle (by marriage) to Freidal and Sonia (Joseph's wife Fannie was their aunt). However, both Freidal and Sonia stated on the manifest that he was their brother. The relationships to him for the others (Ezra and the various children) were stated consistent with these brother-sister relationships. I suspect there may have been some kind of informal "training" for people coming over, which stressed it was easier to enter the US if the person you were joining was a fairly close relation (and/or a relationship not difficult to explain; this is now sometimes called the KISS -- Keep It Simple Stupid -- Principle). The related families who came to the US about a week later also listed Joseph Slobodien -- and they also fudged (or simplified) their relationship to him slightly. (It has occurred to me that the "old country" culture might not have distinguished between "uncle" and "brother" (or between "brother" and "brother-in-law") relationships in the manner I am accustomed to in the US. However, what little information I have been able to gather suggests this is not the case. I've heard that Russian (and/or possibly other Slavic languages) actually have more specific words than we do for certain relationships (for example, they may have words for, say, uncle that distinguish whether it is an uncle by blood or by marriage - or an uncle on the parental or maternal side - but I don't have a reliable source for this information).)

    A standard question on these manifests asks about "joining someone." The question does not explicitly use the term "sponsor." I've heard the word "sponsor" several times with respect to immigration (including in the late 1970s, when someone I knew helped a former South Vietnamese army officer come to the US -- they had become friends when both attended a training program for junior officers in the US in the 1960s). However, I'm not sure how sponsorship worked, or when or how it came into the immigration process. Even if Joseph Slobodien was not a "sponsor" in an official sense, it's quite possible he provided funds and/or other support.


    8. The heading at the top of the manifest pages indicates both the Mehaloffs and Koltunoffs traveled to the US as second class passengers (Item 11, below, lists how many passengers of each class the Breslau carried -- it apparently carried no first class passengers).

    I have heard or read someplace (perhaps during a brief tour of Ellis Island several years ago) that first and second class passengers were normally not processed thru Ellis Island. Only third class (or steerage) passengers were processed there (after being taken there by ferry from the New York docks. I suspect only a portion of the New York port docks were at Manhattan in 1906; there might also have been docks at or near Brooklyn, Hoboken, and/or Jersey City (an about-1940 Alien Registration form for Ezra Mehaloff suggests he first disembarked in the US at docks in or near Hoboken, New Jersey). The first and second class passengers were supposedly processed at (or near) the dock where the ship was berthed. I'm not sure what the situation was in early 1906. I would think it might actually be easier to get to Perth Amboy if one started from Ellis Island, rather than from (say) docks on the Hudson River side of Manhattan Island. On the other hand, after about 2 weeks on the Atlantic Ocean (in winter), perhaps one would like to get away from water as soon as possible.

    Even though many first and second class passengers from this era may not have actually passed through Ellis Island, their immigration records are still in the "Ellis Island" data at the various web sites. Perhaps a more accurate name for this data is "Port of New York Immigration Data".


    9. The page numbers on the Breslau manifest are confusing. The handwritten numbers on the pages indicate the Mehaloffs are listed near the bottom of page 3, while the Koltunoffs are listed at the very top of page 4. However, numbers stamped on the pages, show the Mehaloffs on page 72, with the Koltunoffs on page 71 (looks like the pages were changed from their original order before they were filed - or perhaps when they were microfilmed). The Ellis Island database seems to capture the stamped page numbers -- the ones in the 70s (but the Ellis Island database indicates a second set of page numbers that are in the 500s; these might be something like the page numbering for all manifests for passengers on ships arriving in the port for that day).

    The pages are also reversed (relative to the handwritten page numbers) in the Ancestry.com images. The Mehaloffs are on an image numbered 4 of 58, while the Koltunoffs are on an image numbered 3 of 58.


    10. The person who seems to be missing from these families is, of course, the (first) husband of Sonia Koltunoff. I have not found any definite record of when he came to the US. I have found an entry for a Samuel Koltunoff in (if I recall correctly) the 1910 Perth Amboy city directory (as operator of a dry goods store -- I imagine the information for the city directory dated 1910 may have been collected some time in 1909). So there is some evidence her husband eventually came to the US (but I'm not 100% certain, it could have been a situation something like she opened the dry goods store and named it after her late husband as a tribute -- or his name could have been employed for some other reason). In the 1910 census, she is listed as having been married to Harry Goldstein for a year.

    The 1906 ship manifest lists her marital status as "M" (Married). However, the label for this question appears to give only two choices (Married or Single), and I did not see anyone on the manifest who is listed as a widow or widower (on the few pages I examined). There is an odd annotation (in a different handwriting from most of the writing on the page) in the block indicating her marital status. I can't read that annotation, but it doesn't look like "widow". There is also an annotation that I cannot read in her block in the column concerning the relationship to Joseph Slobodien. However, since her information is on the first line on this sheet of the manifest, it could be these annotations do not pertain specifically to her, but rather to the column itself (which contains information for all 30 people listed on that page of the manifest). The manifest indicates she paid for her own ticket.

    There is an entry immediately following Teddy Mehaloff on the manifest for a person whose name the Ellis Island database transcribes as Seteme Koltanowo, age 35, apparently a male, apparently from Berjansk, occupation listed as "none," purchased his own ticket, and possessed $20 (the word "apparently" is used to indicate what appears to be a "ditto mark" in Seteme's row in these columns, apparently indicating the intent to carry down the same information listed for Teddy Mehaloff). However, on the handwritten manifest, this name is crossed off (with a horizontal line), which probably means he was not on board the ship when it sailed (if it is not a duplicate entry, see the next paragraph). I'm pretty sure I've seen other passenger manifests that used a different notation (not a simple lineout) for someone who arrived, but was not admitted to the US. The entry for this person in the column for the question concerning whether the person is going to join relatives or friends contains a word that is unclear, but it may be "No".

    This Seteme Koltanowo entry might be for Sonia's husband (who, if it is for him, seems to have not traveled on the ship for some reason, since his name was crossed off). This entry is on Line 29, for a page that can hold 30 entries. Alternately, it could be that Line 29 is actually the beginning of an entry for Sonia, but, when they realized she had two children (and there was not room for the entire family on the page), they may have crossed out that entry in the manifest and started a new entry for her and her daughters at the top of the next page.

    This crossed-off "mystery" person seems to also have been included in the Ancestry.com database, with the name transcribed there as Scherie Hallanan.

    I did a search to check if her husband could have been on the ship as a third class (steerage) passenger. I did not see any names that looked like credible candidates.

    We can speculate about several possible reasons why Sonia's husband may have, at perhaps the last minute, backed out of going to the United States with the rest of his family (if that is, indeed, the scenario that left these traces on this "paper trail"). Possible reasons include illness, personal disagreements, difficulty with a passport or other papers, etc. With respect to illness, I have read someplace that shipping lines would sometimes prohibit an ill passenger from boarding the ship in Europe if they judged that US immigration officials would not allow the person to enter the United States due to illness (or it person might be disqualified from entering the US for some other reason). If a prospective immigrant was not allowed to enter, the shipping company bore the financial responsibility for a return passage to Europe. Everything in this paragraph is speculation, of course. I have no knowledge or conclusions as to the actual story.

    I looked at the other names on these two manifest pages -- and also at the entries on a few other pages. There were several other Russian Jews on the Breslau, but I did not spot anyone else from Berdjansk or anyone else going to Perth Amboy. Thus I suspect there were no other family members (or friends or associates) traveling with them on the Breslau.


    11. The Breslau had an interesting later history. The two paragraphs that follow came from the internet (these two paragraphs are on Ancestry.com, and may also appear a few other places on the internet).

    "Built by Bremer Vulkan Shipbuilders, Vegesack, Germany, 1901. 7,524 gross tons; 429 (bp) feet long; 54 feet wide. Steam quadruple expansion engines, twin screw. Service speed 13 knots. 1,720 passengers (60 second class, 1,660 third class).

    Built for North German Lloyd, German flag, in 1901 and named Breslau. Bremerhaven-New York and Bremerhaven-Baltimore service. Interned in the United States 1914-17. Seized by US Government, in 1917 and renamed USS Bridgeport. Transport service. Transferred to United States Navy, American flag, in 1943 and renamed USS Larkspor. Hospital ship service. Renamed USS Bridgeport in 1946. Scrapped in 1948."

    "Larkspor" is a typo on the web page I copied this from. The real name was Larkspur. I presume it was seized when the US entered World War I in 1917.

    Ancestry.com has a picture of the Breslau (a drawing or engraving perhaps) from its German passenger ship days, but that picture is not very clear.

    There are several photos of the ship on the following web site: http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/03/0310.htm The photos at this web site were taken after the US took possession of the ship. The first one (taken in 1917) is probably the best (and probably the closest to what the ship looked like in 1906). Text I saw someplace indicated the ship was modified for US government and Navy use, but I suspect most of the early modifications were internal (except perhaps for the exterior paint). One of the other photos on the web site (taken in 1945, when it was a hospital ship) was taken at Bremerhaven (the port the Mehaloffs and Koltunoffs sailed from). The caption for this 1945 photo says the ship was on a "repatriation" voyage when the photo was taken. Repatriation could mean bringing US servicemen back to the US, but it might also refer to returning German POWs (held in camps in the US) to their home country, or both.


    12. As mentioned earlier, other family members arrived in the US about a week later. They came on the S S Chemnitz, which sailed from Bremen on 17 Feb 1906 and arrived in New York on 3 March 1906, also as second class passengers.

    I think most of the people who are descended from this second set of relatives have already seen this information on the Ellis Island web site (or maybe at Ellis Island -- this Chemnitz information is much easier to locate than the Mehaloff and Koltunoff material -- at least, that was the case for me). Because of this, I'm not going to go over the stuff on the second arrival in the same level of detail. However, for completeness, I will give the forenames and ages of the people, in same format they are listed in Items 4 and 5, above, and perhaps just a bit of additional information.

    The family members who arrived on 3 March 1906 had two different surnames. Family members with one of these surnames were later known by the surname Segal in the US. Their name in the old country is perhaps most commonly spelled Ziegelneitsky in documents written in English (or sometimes Ziegelneitski and, probably, other ways too). They used this old country name during the trip to the US. The Ellis Island database transcribes this surname as Ziegelnicky. The Ancestry.com database transcribes this old-country surname as Ziegeluicky.

    Members of this family who arrived in the US on 3 Mar 1906 were:

    Moshe Moses Moses M 55
    Reisel Reisa Ressa F 55
    Harry Jesekiel Fesckiel M 26
    Henna Hene Hene F 20
    Constant Jechusial Fechusial M 18

    The other family who arrived was known as Golosoff in the US. Their surname is transcribed as Golossoff on both the Ellis Island and Ancestry.com databases. The Golosoffs are listed immediately following the Ziegelneitskys on the manifest of the S. S. Chemnitz. Members of this family were:

    Nathan Nissan Nassan M 27
    Nuna Necham Nechan F 23
    Jeanette Sina Sina F 3 months

    Harry, Constant, and Nuna (sometimes known as Anna) were siblings of Sonia and Freidal. Moshe and Riesel were their parents. Henna was the wife of Harry. Nathan was the husband of Nuna. From my examination of the handwritten manifest, I would transcribe "Sina" (daughter of Nathan and Nuna, and my mother) as really being "Gina" (this is based partly on the handwritten name and partly on my knowledge that she was often called Jenny later in the US).

    Two other sons of Moshe and Riesel came to the US some years later. They both spelled the Americanized surname as Siegel. One of these later arrivals was Isadore Siegel, who practiced medicine in Perth Amboy for many years (many decades actually).

    The Ellis Island transcription lists the last permanent residence of the Segals as Bezdjansk. However, the last permanent residence of the Golosoffs is listed as Alexandrowsk. Several towns in what is now Ukraine have (or had) that name or very similar names. One of them is now known as Zaporozhia, on the Dnieper River (and roughly 100 miles roughly north of Berdjansk). It is now a very large city.

    I've been told the name Ziegelneitsky is derived from a word for "brickmaker" (which may give a clue to the occupation of some long-ago ancestor -- or it could have a biblical connotation). I suspect this is a Yiddish name, since (as I understand it) the word for "brick" in Yiddish is phonetically something very much like "ziegel." I know Yiddish shares words with some other languages, such as German and Russian (and perhaps Polish and others). The name could, therefore, exist in (or be from) one of these other languages. I believe the German word for "bricklayer" may sound a bit like Ziegelneitsky, but my German is quite rusty.
  • [S1463] "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1866-1938 ," indexed database, Family Search (http://www.familysearch.org : 27 Mar 2015), entry for Joseph Gumenik and Sadie Golosoff, 14 Feb 1937, Manhattan, New York, New York (FHL Microfilm: 2022280, Ref ID: 20871); based information from New York Municipal Archives. Information is from five separate boroughs. Time period varies by borough: New York City (Manhattan) 1795-1949, Bronx 1898-1948, Brooklyn 1847-1949, Queens 1898-1949, and Richmond (Staten Island) 1890-1949.
  • [S1505] "Mrs. Roy M. Craig" (obituary), page 1, Newark (Arkansas) Journal, 22 Mar 1923, (Volume 22, Number 49); microfilm, Independence County Library.

    Microfilm images from issues published between approximately mid-1922 to mid-1923 were examined by Carl Fields at the Independence County library around June 13, 2015. Items relating to individuals and families covered in this database were photographed. The reason Carl was examining these particular issues was that they included issues from 1923. Carl was interested in finding an obiturary for Alma Childress (whose married surname was Craig). He knew (from a grave marker) that she died in 1923, but probably did not previously know her actual date of death. Digital mages (from photgraphs) are retained in Carl Fields electronic/digital files (TMG Version 9.05 Exhibits Folder). As this is written (24 Aug 2015), Carl hopes to return to the Independence County Library some future time to examine micrfilm images of additional issues of this newspaper.
  • [S1527] Missouri Secretary of State, "Missouri State Library/Missouri State Archives/State Historical Society of Missouri," digital index, Missouri Digital Heritage, Missouri Judicial Records Historical Database, (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/records/archives/archivesdb/… : accessed by Carl Fields, Jan 2016), A F Johnson, (1894). This seems to be a database that provides file locations in the state archives. Digital images may be available for some counties, but (as this is written in Jan 2016), not yet for Douglas County. The database provides only a brief, terse description of each case.

  • [S1563] "Missouri Volunteer Forces in the Civil War with Federal Service (Union)," database, Missouri Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS), 1998, (http://home.usmo.com/~momollus/MOVOLFED.HTM. This is a portion of multi-level web site containing information about various Missouri military units that served in the United States Civil War. Apparently, most or all of the information comes from Volume V.III of the 1908 edition of A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, by Frederick H. Dyer. The structure of the Missouri military organization is immensely confusing, bewildering really. For example, at various times during the Civil War the state seems to have had at least nine different volunteer infantry units designated "Third Regiment". Some of the information is questionable. For example, the web site (and presumably) Dyer's book from which the information is derived, indicates Dallmeyer's regiment was mustered out in February 1862, but documentation indicates some family members in that regiment were mustered out in January. It is of course, possible these two things are consistent, if, for example, individuals were mustered out over a period of a few weeks, with the final ones leaving in February. The term "with Federal Service" in the title of this data base (web site) may be somewhat misleading. It apparently is to indicate that these units were on the "Union side". However, apparently not all of the units were considered to have been "in Federal Service" to the degree that they were entitled to a pension from the federal government when the various large-scale veterans pension programs began around 1890. This was especially the case for the various types of militia units.

    (Note: On 12/17/2019, it was noticed that the url for this organization seems to have changed to: (http://suvcw.org/mollus.mo.htm)).
  • [S1662] "New Jersey, Marriage Index, 1901-1914," database with digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 14 Nov 2016), Harry Goldstein (to Sonia Koltunoff), 1909, New Jersey (13 396); based on Marriage Indexes, New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, New Jersey. The digital images are printouts of computer-generated indexes, with one line per marriage (two of more lines in cases where two surnames are listed for an individual or where alternative spelling exist for names).

  • [S1830] 1900 United States Census, Oregon, Willamette (ED 110), Lane County, 5B, Household 90, William C Fields; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 26 Feb 2020) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication T623, Reel 1241248, Sheet 5B, Line 53.
  • [S1865] "Mirriah", Find A Grave Web Site, database (with some images), Jim Tipton (and others), Find A Grave, (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 27 Mar 2020), Henry A Stillwell, Memorial No. 19782116. Provides unsourced information about family members: Parents: John Stillwell and Rebecca Kirkland; Spouse: Cynthia Catherine Elliott (1833-1911); and Children: Zipha Brunetta Stillwell Hull (1852-1888) and Samuel Ross Stillwell (1857-1940).

  • [S1869] 1860 United States Census, Tennessee, population schedule, District 8, Monroe County, 244 (stamped) and109 (handwritten), Dwelling 792 Household 813, Henry A Stillwell; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 6 Apr 2020) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication M653, NARA Roll # unknown (FHL 805265), Image 9 of 12.
  • [S1871] 1880 United States Census, Missouri, population schedule, Boone (ED 142), Wright County, page 534B (printed?) and 34 (written), Household 308, Taletha Stillwell; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 26 Mar2020) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication T9, Roll 741 (FLH ??????), image ???. The preceding household (Household 2 and Dwelling 2, beginning on Line 28 of the same page), belonged to his brother, Willis Chelf, and his family. The census taker for this district for this 1880 census seemed to begin renumbering households and dwellings with the nuimber "1" each day.
  • [S1872] 1870 United States Census, Missouri, population schedule, Hartville, Wright County, p 460 (stamped) and 54 (handwritten), Household 463 Dwelling 463, Telethia Stillwell (transcribed as Sturvell by Ancestry); digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 26 Mar 2020) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication M593, Roll 826, overall page 460A, image ???, FHL film 552325.
  • [S1873] 1910 US Census, Missouri, Mountain Grove (Ward 4, ED 140), Wright County, 5A, Dwelling 210 Household 218, Cynthia (forename variously transcribed as Celenta and Colenta) Fields; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed by Carl Fields 26 Mar 2020) , based on NARA Microfilm Publication T624 (Roll 828, ED 140, FHL Film No. 1374841).
  • [S1876] "Tennessee Marriage Records, 1780-2002," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : 27 Mar 2020), entry for Henry Stillwell and Catheine Elliott, 7 Jan 1852, Monroe County; based on Tennessee State Marriages, microfilm, Tennessee State Library and Archives, probably Knoxville TN. Document difficult to read due to ink fadethrough from opposite of page. It could be that a license was issed on January 7th and the marriage was not performed until January 18th. Prior to finding the Tennesse Marriage Record in early-2020, this database (compiled by Carl C Fields) had a November1851 date for this marriage. The source for that November 1851 date is unclear.