Genealogist for hire- The Happy and Strong States #1- November 19, 2022

17 Nov Genealogist for hire- The Happy and Strong States #1- November 19, 2022

GENEALOGIST FOR HIRE- THE HAPPIEST AND LEAST HAPPY STATES IN AMERICA!

I get Utah, being the happiest state for the reasons they mentioned above. Vermont is the chill part of the Northeast. Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska have those good old-fashioned midwestern values. Colorado and Wyoming have the “outdoorsyness” of Utah.

In the 60s you have more outdoorsy western states like Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Idaho, and Montana along with brightly-lit Nevada. More midwestern places like North Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesota. Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina bring the mid-eastern states into the rankings, along with New York the cultural icon.

In the 50s you have the less happy states like Oregon, Arizona, and New Mexico. South Dakota, Missouri, Ohio, and West Virginia round out the middle. The southeast has Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. The northeast registers Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine.

In the 40’s you have islands of dissatisfaction in Louisiana, Indiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Massachusetts.,

California is apparently the saddest state of all, the only one with a 30’s ranking. Growing up there I was surprised that with all of the sunshine, beaches, mountains, tons of fantastic scenery, Disneyland, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley, they would rank so low. Yes, you have a high cost of living, but so do New York and Hawaii. All I can guess is that the facial recognition software thinks those botox-infused smiles, are not!

GENEALOGIST FOR HIRE- AFTER BEING OUT OF OFFICE, THEY AGAIN RAN FOR PRESIDENT- ONLY GROVER CLEVELAND SUCCEEDED IN WINNING!

GENEALOGIST FOR HIRE- A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS MAN

▪ He was a Baptist Minister
▪ He was a founder of William Jewell College
▪ He was a Jamestown descendant and a descendant of a Revolutionary War soldier
▪ He graduated with honors and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgetown
▪ He later commuted back to Georgetown and received a Master of Arts
▪ He was a gifted student and a skilled orator
▪ After going to California to pan for gold and preach, he died in Hangtown Gold Camp of cholera.

GENEALOGIST FOR HIRE- THIS WAS HIS WIFE

▪ Her father broke his neck in a riding accident, and her mother was left with two young children
▪ She was raised by her grandfather a saloon-owner
▪ She attended a Catholic girl’s school
▪ Tobacco was given as a bond for her marriage
▪ They had 4 children
▪ Her second husband did not get along with her sons.
▪ He died when thrown from his horse
▪ Her third husband was a doctor. They had 4 children together.
▪ She had her right arm blown off
▪ She earned money from the fame of two of her sons

GENEALOGIST FOR HIRE- THEIR SONS JESSE AND FRANK JAMES

After Jesse’s demise, his mother gave tours of the farm where he grew up, and his gravesite
* For an extra few coins, visitors could scoop up authentic pebbles from his gravesite. She would replenish them from the stream
* She would sell old, rusted, often inoperable guns that she said belonged to Jesse before he died, which in reality she had bought second-hand, leading to a proliferation of people claiming to and sincerely believing that they owned a gun that had once belonged to Jesse James.
* You now know a bit more about Robert Sallee and Zerelda Elizabeth Cole James.

GENEALOGIST FOR HIRE- DAD SET SOME TOUGH TERMS FOR HIS SON

On July 21, 1764, at the age of 17 years, 9 months, and 14 days Henry signed an indenture bounding his oldest son George to Adam Haymaker until his 21st birthday. Adam Haymaker was the inventor of the famous Haymaker Rifle, George was bound to the gun shop on Cameron St. in Winchester, Va. In this bound George was not allowed to sell any personal items, go to any taverns, nor play cards or throw dice, nor go to racetracks, nor absent himself, nor commit fornication, without his master’s permission. (Source: Frederick Co. deeds book 10 1764-1765 pg 378)

GENEALOGIST FOR HIRE- YOUR ANCESTORS ARE WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED!

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