Ancestors of Rev. Clarence Philo England & Nettie Martha Smith

Today I received a letter from Arthur England Howie who turned 90 years old on July 30, 2010.  He thanked me for sending him the newspaper article on the author George Allan England and said that he and his wife Jeanette are in the process of down-sizing over 50 years of genealogy collection that includes photos and other memories.  He sent me a letter he kept from Arthur Emerson England and a genealogy of the Smith family.  There are 10 pages in all.  I hope by down-sizing I am to take it that he is passing on these treasures to one of his children.

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General Robert Edward Lee (1807 - 1870)

In search of my ancestor Robert Edward Lee.
This story has been past down through generations that we are related to Gen. Lee.  It has only been 200 years since his birth, however the link has been very difficult for me to make.  So that I am not recreating the wheel, if anyone has already made the link to our family through Dorothy Ann Lee please take the time to comment to let me know and help me out.  I have made a few trips to the library and I am sure I will make a few more.  Here is a story I found on another blog out there that I found interesting.

Robert E. Lee was born Jan. 19, 1807, at Stratford Plantation on the Northern Neck of Virginia and was the seventh child of Revolutionary War hero Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee. He attended West Point and never received a demerit. By all accounts enormously handsome, tall, charismatic and humble, he had a long and illustrious career in the U.S. Army. In 1861, as Southern states contemplated secession, Lee privately ridiculed the idea. Still, when he was offered command of the Union Army, he turned it down once Virginia -- his "country" -- seceded.

During the Civil War, Lee's troops were often vastly outnumbered but managed to win or fight to a stalemate for years. Once the war ended, Lee resisted calls to continue the fight in the hills as a guerrilla and instead encouraged his soldiers to go home and begin rebuilding the nation. He retired to what was then Washington College, where he set about innovating the offerings, including the first classes in the country in business and journalism.

In other countries, leaders of failed civil rebellions are often reviled. But a strange thing happened to Lee after he died. He became beloved by many. Over the years, he has been praised by the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had a picture of Lee hanging in his office.

Northerners, seizing on Lee's early ambivalence about the war, his gentlemanly sense of honor and duty, and his distaste of slavery -- he once wrote that it was a "moral and political evil" -- embraced the Confederate general as a way to foster reconciliation, said John Coski, a historian at the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond. In 1901, he was one of only 29 Americans inducted into New York University's Hall of Fame. Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the lyrics for the Battle Hymn of the Republic, composed a poem in Lee's honor.

At the same time, his former generals wrote of him as so perfect and his cause so noble that Lee became fixed as the tragic hero of a romantic "Lost Cause" and that cause became synonymous with white Southern identity.

"There's an old saw in the South of a little girl asking, 'Mommy, is Robert E. Lee from the Old Testament or the New?' " Coski said. "Lee has been so praised and distorted that they made him more than human, and in so doing, made him less than human. He's a complex figure. If we want to understand history in its complexity, we have to understand Robert E. Lee."

Like many military hero's there are many families out there pointing their family genealogy toward Robert Edward Lee.  Here is a link to Robert the Bruce of Scotland who was able to make his link.

Woman Suffrage "Iron Jawed Angels"

The post below are not my own words they came from an email sent to me by my mother for this up-coming election week.  While in college at the University of California, Davis, while working on my degree in Sociology I had many great professors lecture on woman suffrage and this part of our history. 

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1865-1925) served as President of the United States (1913-1921).  He was a Democrat.  He graduated from the College of New Jersey which is today Princeton.  He died three years after leaving the White House.  Why am I explaining all of this?  No, I have not recently linked our family to this president, however I am close to linking to Lincoln so stay tuned on that.  I find it interesting that history shows we have not come that far.   The Democrat party and the media is creating witch hysteria over Republican candidate for the special 2010 Delaware election for Senate, Christine O' Donnell.  Politicians losing sight that they represent everyone in their district.  

So my word here today is to urge everyone to get out and vote for some politician they feel represents the people, all the people!
 
A TRUE STORY EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW!

This is the story of our Mothers and Grandmothers who lived only 90 years ago. 

 

 

 Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.

 The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote.

 (Lucy Burns)They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.


 And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'

 (Dora Lewis)
They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cell mate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

 Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote. For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms.

 (Alice Paul)
 When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press. 

  
  Mrs Pauline Adams in the prison garb she wore while serving a 60 day sentence. 

 
Miss Edith Ainge, of Jamestown, New York  

 

  (Berthe Arnold, CSU graduate)

 
 Conferring over ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution at  National Woman's Party headquarters, Jackson Place , Washington , D.C. 

 Left to right: Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, Anita Pollitzer,  Alice Paul, Florence Boeckel,  Mabel Vernon (standing, right)) 

In the current HBO movie "Iron Jawed Angels" It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy.

 The doctor admonished the men: 'Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.'

 
  Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk , Conn.   Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for carrying banner, 'Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.'