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This book is a primer for how to blend family stories, old photos, and new letters to ancestors to create innovative connections with past family members.
In The Wallace-White Family: Images, Letters, and Legacies, Richard White takes an innovative approach to connecting with his 16 great-great grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, and 4 grandparents plus one. Using black-and-white photos from the 1860s to the 2020s, White uses brief biographies as springboards for letters to his ancestors. He asks his great-great grandparents, Alexander McRobbie and Wilhelm Christian Sauer, why they left their native Scotland and Germany in the 1850s and what it was like to settle in their adopted communities of Milford, New Hampshire and Brooklyn, New York. The answers to Whites’ questions about his relatives’ lives, their decisions and motivations, their triumphs and sorrows, are lost in time and in the distant past. But the very act of posing the questions and imagining their answers gives White a profound sense of engaging in conversation with his ancestors. He feels closer to them than ever before--and this is the hope he shares with his readers.

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Vie de famille

Relations familiales

Biography

Family

Autobiography

History

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Publié par	Xlibris US
Date de parution	22 février 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669867975
Langue	English
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The Wallace-White Family: Images, Letters, and Legacies

Richard L. White

Copyright © 2023 by Richard L. White.
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978-1-6698-6796-8

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Rev. date: 02/22/2023

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Contents
Dedication
Introduction
PART I: PILGRIMS AND REVOLUTIONARY WAR HEROES
Chapter 1: Pilgrims (1620-1627)
Chapter 2: Revolutionary War Heroes (1775-1783)
PART II: WALLACE FAMILY
Chapter 3: Great-Great Grandparents (Wallace-Maynard Line)
Chapter 4: Great-Great Grandparents (Dolson-DuBois Line)
Chapter 5: Great-Great Grandparents (Robbie-Welch Line)
Chapter 6: Great-Great-Grandparents (Sauer-Goetz Line)
Chapter 7: Great Grandparents (Wallace-Dolson Line)
Chapter 8: Great-Grandparents (Robbie-Sauer Line)
Chapter 9: Grandparents (Wallace-Robbie Line)
PART III: WHITE FAMILY
Chapter 10: Great-Great Grandparents (White-Oliver Line)
Chapter 11: Great-Great Grandparents (Bliss-Wright Line)
Chapter 12: Great-Great Grandparents (Lupton-McChesney Line)
Chapter 13: Great-Great Grandparents (Wilkins-Cottrell Line)
Chapter 14: Great-Grandparents (White-Bliss Line)
Chapter 15: Great-Grandparents (Lupton-Wilkins Line)
Chapter 16: Grandparents (White-Lupton Line)
PART IV: WALLACE-WHITE FAMILY: THE NEXT GENERATIONS
Chapter 17: Parents (White-Wallace Line)
Chapter 18: Lup and Jean’s Children and Grandchildren
Afterword
Appendix
Captions
Wallace And White Gravesites
Dedication
This book is dedicated to all those relatives who have come before me. I am here because of them. This book is also dedicated to my dear wife, Kerstin, and my dear children, Janine, Lisa, and Windy, who are the next generation.
Introduction
The inspiration for this book was an unlikely source. A few weeks ago, my wife, Kerstin, was perusing a rack of discarded books at the Exeter, New Hampshire Public Library, and brought home Lois Lowry’s memoir, Looking Back , first published in 1998 and revised in 2016. When they were teenagers, our girls read several of Lowry’s novels for young adults. Indeed, our middle daughter, Lisa, considers Number the Stars, a story about saving a Jewish family in Denmark in World War II, one of her favorite novels. But I had never read one of Lowry’s books until I began reading Looking Back . It includes 48 short chapters, each consisting of a photo of Lois or her family members spanning many years, and brief descriptive narratives of the people, places, and happenings depicted in the photos.
Since childhood, I have always been interested in family history. In the late 1990s, I created a detailed digital genealogy with help from our oldest daughter, Janine, and in 2007 published our family history, Journey through the Centuries: A History of the Wallace and White Families. It contained over 240 pages of text, 30 plus pages of appendices, and 20 black and white photos.
I wasn’t thinking about creating another family history, but Lois Lowry’s memoir got me thinking: should I assemble a family history modeled on her story with short biographies and 50 or more photos? I decided to pursue my idea. As I began working on brief summaries of the lives of my 16 great-great grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, and four grandparents plus one, questions began to arise. I also pondered the lives and courage of the 11 family members who boarded the Mayflower in September 1620 and arrived at the Massachusetts coast 66 days later at the beginning of a cold, devastating winter. What would I ask them if I could write them a letter or even sit down with them for a conversation? I marveled about the stories of two of my great-great grandparents, Alexander McRobbie, born in Scotland in 1826, and Wilhelm Christian Sauer, born in Germany 10 years later. I knew their stories well. They and their wives, Jane and Anna, were immigrants, who came to America in the 1850s from their native countries, undoubtedly seeking a better life for themselves and their families. Tragically, Alexander died at Gettysburg in 1862; Wilhelm, who worked as a cigar packer, lived for 65 years in Brooklyn until 1919 and was the father of my Great-Grandma Robbie, whom I remember. But questions about their lives, their decisions and motivations, their triumphs and sorrows, suddenly welled up in my consciousness. I started asking them questions, knowing that their answers are lost in time and in the distant past. But the very act of posing the questions and imagining their answers gave me such a profound sense of engaging in conversation with them. I felt closer to them than ever before.
This book has enabled me to get in touch with this feeling and, I hope, pass it along to you.
March 2023
Newmarket, New Hampshire
Part I
PILGRIMS AND REVOLUTIONARY WAR HEROES
Chapter 1
PILGRIMS (1620-1627)
Twelve of the 102 people who boarded the Mayflower and sailed to the New World in the fall of 1620 were family members. They represented four families: the Standishes (Myles and Rose), the Hopkins (Stephen and Elizabeth and their four children, Constance, William, and Giles, and baby Oceanus, born en route), the Aldens (John), and the Mullins (William, his wife, his son, and his daughter Priscilla).
The first winter on the mainland, in the small settlement that became Plymouth, was devastating. The bitterly cold weather, disease, and malnutrition took the lives of half the people, including Rose, William, and William’s wife and son. When the Anne arrived in 1623, one of the passengers, Barbara, met and later married Myles Standish. Between 1624 and 1634, they had seven children, including Alexander, who was born in 1626.
Plimoth Plantation on the outskirts of Plymouth, Massachusetts is a recreation of the community in 1627. In August 1990, when the White family visited Myles and Barbara’s cottage, three-year-old Lisa climbed into the facsimile crib where one-year-old Alexander—her 9 th or 10 th great grandfather—lay. Lisa’s big sister, Janine, stood nearby.
Every since studying the Pilgrims in grade school and since researching their story for my book, Journey through the Centuries, I have wanted to write them letters. Here are my letters to Myles Standish, Stephen Hopkins, and John and Priscilla Alden.
Dear Pilgrim Fa mily:
Your courage, determination, and resilience in the face of danger and tragedy have few parallels in American history. What an honor it is to be descended from you.
Dear M yles,
You may be the only relative who has been commemorated with a statue, let alone a named state park. High above the town that you founded, Duxbury, there is the Myles Standish Monument and State Reservation with scenic views of Duxbury Beach and Plymouth Harbor. Atop the 116-foot granite shaft is a 14-foot statue of you. It was completed in 1898 after 26 years of construction. Nearby is the Myles Standish Burial Ground, established in 1638 and containing your gravesite along with those of your fellow pilgrims, John and Priscilla A lden.
What and who influenced you to pursue a military ca reer?
How did you deal with the death of Rose that first winter and the death of so many pe ople?
How did you manage to sur vive?
How would you describe your courtship of Barbara after her arrival in 1823?
In his long narrative poem, “The Courtship of Myles Standish, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow tells us that you were smitten with Priscilla Alden. Is this true or imag ined?
Finally, do you think the statue is a good likeness of you?
Dear Ste phen,
Please tell me your story of survival of the violent storm, 600 miles east of Bermuda, which sank the “Sea Venture” in 1609. Did you know that this was the inspiration of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” written in 1611 and published in 1623? Did you ever rea d it?
In 1615, you sailed to Jamestown, Virginia on the “Deliverance” or the” Patience.” What was the status of the colony, eight years after its founding, and what was your experi ence?
You had three children from your first wife, Constance, and six more with your second wife, Elizabeth. How did Elizabeth and you manage such a large family at such a vulnerable time?
Dear John,
You were born in 1599 and were just 21 years old when you sailed on the Mayflower. You died in 1687 at the age of 89. You were very active in the affairs of Plymouth Colony for many y ears.
What prompted you to play such a central role in the survival and development of the co lony?
To what do you attribute your long and productive life?
Priscilla, Longfellow writes in “The Courtship of Myles Standish” that Myles asked John to put in a good word for you on his behalf. To which you replied, “Why don’t you peak for yourself, John?” Is there any truth to Longfellow’s s tory?
You both will be pleased to know, as I recently found out, that John was Longfellow’s fifth or so great-grandfather. So it was not just a national historical tale, but also a family s tory.

Myles Standish Monument and State Reser