HomeMy WebLinkAboutGraham Family Time lineYear Event 1793 James Graham. James and Ann. Graham were listed as Sarah’s parents father in an article The Minneapolis Journal. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1901. 1802 Ann Graham Born
(mother)
1818 Samuel V. Graham Born (Brother)
1821 James Tuttle Graham Born (brother)
1821 Ann Elizabeth Graham Born (sister)
1824 Charles Graham Born (brother)
1827 Jacob V. Graham Born (brother)
1830 Sarah A. Graham Born – Does A. stand for Anne as article footnoted calls her Anne not Sarah. August 19, Ithaca 1840 Theodore Graham Born Enfield, Tompkins County, NY (brother)
1849 Alice Palmer, Sarah A. daughter born 1850 Federal Census, Town of Enfield, NY – James (Farmer - 54 abt 1796) and Ann Graham (48 abt 1802) living in Enfield Hayts Road House
– Farm (value of property owned 100). This house was shown on the north side of Hayts Road approx. middle between Sheffield and Vandorn Roads. Theodore (10 abt 1840) and John Graham
(7 abt 1843) Compared the Census with the 1853 Tompkins County Map. Names on the map same as the area in the census. Griffin, Smith, Tucker, Smith, Colegrove, etc.
James not listed in Agriculture census of 1850 - 1870 1843 John Graham Born (brother)
1849 Alice Palmer, Sarah A. daughter born 1850 Sarah and Abel Palmer living in Richford, Tioga County NY
1852 Isabel Palmer Sarah A. Daughter Born 1855 Abel Palmer dies Sarah A. husband (1830 – 1855) 1860 James T. Graham, (brother) was in Barclay Black Hawk, Iowa, Cedar Falls with
wife Marcia Graham (23 yrs) and Ellen Gates (17). Why was he there?
1860 Federal Census in the Town of Enfield Sarah’s brothers Theodore, age 20, Day Laborer and John, age 17 was listed in the census with father James Graham (age 67) Farm Laborer
and Ann Graham, 58 years.
Isabel Palmer, Sarah A. Daughter 8 years old listed with the Graham Family. The Farm was listed in the same area as the 1853 map except on the south side of the road and a B.U. Griffin
was listed in the house the Grahams lived in during the 1850 census.
1860 David Colegrove, neighbor, had a Margaret Graham age 17 years, listed with his family in the 1860 census.
1862 September 16 (page 3) Sarah A., Volunteer Army Nurse Civil War left Ithaca with solider of 109th who had returned with main who was killed.
1862 September – Laurel Station Maryland (page 3)
Writes of 2 daughters (page 3) 1862 September – arrived Baltimore Maryland (page 4)
On board cars (train) again (page 4) 1862 September – 10 am arriving Bladensburg, Maryland delivers “home” boxes to 109th NY Vol. (page 5) 1862 Went with Captain Knettles to
Beltsville Maryland . 3 story wooden house being used as hospital. No beds or blankets. (page 6) 1862 Found room (boarding house) to stay in next door to hospital. (page 7) 1862 Returned
to Co. G. stayed with Union family named Boughnot. Met with a Mrs. Youngs, cousin of Mrs. Southworth's, the authoress, who is a nurse. (page 7) 1862 Left boarding house bad conditions,
stayed with other nurses. (page 8) 1862 Surgeons, Drs. Hunt, Johnson and French (page 9) 1862 October
Attack of pleurisy (inflammation of the lungs recovered)
Described food (page 9) 1862 Chaplin, brings clothing from Binghamton, fruit from “Sanitary” Washington; butter from Owego (page 10) 1862 2 deaths from Co. G (page 11) 1862 November
(Thanksgiving) (page 12) 1862 Our pies Colman and I made, cooks Stillman, West, Quick, Georgie. Made biscuits. Received box from home. Used cotton handkerchiefs from Binghamton Ladies
for table napkins. (page 13) Adjutant Hopkins ; Col. Ireland 137th NYV ate dinner with them. Nursing, washing clothes, mending. (page 14) 1863 January
Moved to Laurel, Maryland; traveled by train with Mrs. Bennett. Hospital building “old Store” (page 15) see article with picture 1863 Dr. Johnson ; Surgeon Hunt leaves Dr. Churchill
from Owego comes ” (page 16) 1863 March
Dr. French left to go to Annapolis Junction; sick Sarah’s brother typhoid fever (page 17) 1863 Nurses – Jacobs, Gager, Robertson, Stevens (page 19) 1863 Talked about people who use
to visit Washington; remembering the Smithsonian Institute. (page 21) 1863 April
Remembering Cayuga Lake as a child (page 22) 1863 Visit by Col. Tracey and Lt. Co. Catlin (page 24) 1863 Visited different companies with Ira Gager (page 25) 1863 SPRING
Mention of battle at Fredericksburg (page 26) 1863 SUMMER, EARLY
Lee approaching railroad where Regiment is. (page 26) 1863 General Lee at Sandy Springs; Troops at Annapolis Junction came to Laurel to join regiment. (page 26) 1863 Nothing happening;
Lee thru Maryland into Pennsylvania (page 28) 1863 Gettysburg Report; Lee army goes back to Virginia; people from north visit battle field taking “relics” at Gettysburg (page 29) 1863 We
to Annapolis Junction to hospital; Dr. Wheeler in charge there. (page 30) 1863 Soldiers capture pig to eat. (page 32) 1863 AUGUST
Private A.M. West dies (page 33) 1863 SEPTEMBER
From home 1 year; left on train to go home for few days. (page 33) 1863 Hospital to move to Falls Church, Virginia; returns to Laurel gone for 13 days; (page 34) 1863 NOVEMBER
Regiment splits moves to Mason’s Island across Georgetown and Falls Church, Virginia; Dr. French; Major Morell, paymaster Reg. 109th; train trip to Virginia. (page 35) 1863 Went to
Falls Church, Virginia; home which bordered Cayuga Lake. (page 36) 1863 Taken the hurried pepped at home and children; stayed with union family Mrs. Chapel. (page 37) 1863 Company
broke up; g – Bladensburg; B & I Falls Church, others at Mason Island; Captain Gordon’s wife. (page 38) 1863 “Molasses Lick” Dr. French and Sarah attend given by Lt. Waterford’s wife;
Mrs. Major Morell; Private Close. (page 39) 1863 Dr. French; Falls Church 3 months; hospital to move; youngest brother sick lung disease stays to take care of him; Private Haywood
helps; They stay at Mrs. Chapel’s; Dr. Woodbury; Haywood sick 40 1863 Recovery of brother and Haywood; hospital moved to Alexandria; goes to Mason Island Hospital; Nurse Squire Gager
dies of small pox; slept intently. 41 1863 Mason’s Island – Small Pox; Private John Vail 42 1864 APRIL
New Barracks built; Miss Dix 43 1864 Regiment leaves to join Burnside 9th Corps; Lt. Barton died; Spotsylvania Court House 44 26 Sick men 45 Private Talman; Dr. French 46 To see
Miss Dix; comments on women; Train “cars” Hyattsville, MD; Mrs. A. E. Youngs; letter from Reg. Sgt. Kresgee Pioneer Corps. 47 MAY
Go to Fredericksburg 12th of May “Lizzie Baker” to Belle Plain (boat) 48 Miss Dix; arrived Belle Plain 13th; Mrs. Spencer NY Relief; go to Fredericksburg; Miss Robertson Calvary Corp. 49
Fredericksburg; Belle Plain; Surgeon Dalton 50 Report to the home of “Washington” cherry tree home; NY relief from hard tack and coffee 51 Col. Tracy ill; 109th Fred Bills mortally
wounded 53 Assignment 2nd Div. 9 corp. Dr. Snow; Presbyterian church hospital Fredericksburg? 54 Description of dying and burying; Planter’s Hotel 3rd Div. Corp. Hospital 109th part
of 55 Fredericksburg Miss Robertson; Private Vanvaulkenburg 58 Private Silas, Phezonias, Charles Godley 59 Our regiment Co F. Sgt. Starkey 60 From Washington lost truck and clothing 61 Lewis
taken from grave yard Mason’s Island to native town; Sanitary Commission; Fredericksburg; rations did not arrive hunger 62 Organ in church hospital; Miss Gilson 64 Hospital 2nd Div.
9 Corp.; Priv. Barber and Loomis 65 Provost Marshall; Dr. Hays 66 3 weeks city Fredericksburg evacuated; left at night for Washington 68 Private Barber and Loomis die; Mrs. Youngs 70 Report
to White House Landing; Mrs. Strouse traveled on river took Lizzie Baker; Geesborough 71 Description of knitting socks for soliders by wife 72 Description of sewing; coarse hospital
shirt; tiny pillows stuffed with hops and soft moss to use lay wounded “limbs” 73 Women – nurses talking about 74 Sick sent home to hospital soldiers were sent 75 Colored soldiers
wounded; 13 year old injured and sick 76 Captain Williams sick, died; Lt. Barton lst officer killed Spotsylvania Court House 77 Men prisoners horrors of Andersonville and Belle Isle 78 1867 April
6 – Sarah A. married to David Young
1869 Ann Graham (mother) died in July listed in the mortality listing from the 1870 Federal Census Town of Enfield NY
1870 Federal Census US Enfield, NY – Samuel V. Graham (brother) (52 – 1818 NY); Ann E. Graham (51-1819 NJ); Henry A. Graham (26 – 1844 NY); George L. Graham (19 – 1851 NY); William
T. Graham (16 – 1854 NY); Isabella G. Graham (13 – 1857 NY); James C. Graham (Father) (76 – 1764 NY) father to Samuel V. 1871 James C. Graham, (Father, dies, October 29, Old Barclay
Cemetery, Dunkerton, Black Hawk, Iowa Assuming living with son James T. Graham. 1883 A.J. Graham, Carpenter and builder, brother to “Aunt Becky” in Denver is well known throughout
the city
1895 Samuel V. Graham, brother to Sarah, dies May 8, 1895 1900 Picture of Nationally-known Civil War nurse Sarah "Aunt Becky" Young with husband David in front of their residence
at 927 12th Street, Des Moines, Iowa. ca1900. http://www.flickr.com/photos/shsi-library/7450372842/meta/in/photostream
1901 Sarah was founder of sanitary commission (see 1902) the New York organization later became the New York Sanitary Commission. Both James and Ann Graham of Ithaca were listed as
parents in this 1901 article. Along with an Aunt Ruth Graham who was a nurse from the war of 1812. Her father told her stories of his sister (Ruth)
1902 Article calls Sarah “Anne Graham” Besides being an Army nurse she was founder of two State sanitary associations one in New York and other in Iowa. The first has its beginning
Ithaca, N.Y. when she was a girl at the outbreak of the civil War. The latter was organized in Des Moines at the beginning of the Spanish American War. She married David Young, a carpenter
and a solider who had fought for the English in Canada during the Fenian outbreak. Sarah had nursed him during the struggle and fell in love with him.
1905 March 28, Ann Eliza Graham dies. Mr Henry Graham for the burial of his mother Ann Eliza Graham 1908 Sarah A. Dies at Des Moines Iowa (April 6, 1908) Woodland Cemetery in Des
Moines, Iowa in Block 17 - Lot 134
1908 Picture of Aunt Becky Memorial Button
The Minneapolis Journal. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, October 26, 1901, Library of Congress. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Birth date 1850 Federal Census US Enfield, NY Tompkins County
December 9, 1902. The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco, Calif. 1895-1913.) Library of Congress. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Rootsweb.com
New York, Town Clerks' Registers of Men Who Served in the Civil War, ca 1861-1865. Ancestry.com
Iowa State News - 1908
Find-A-Grave.com; Ancestry.com Iowa Cemetery Listings
Seneca Lake NY 1883 – The National Tribune Washington DC August 23, 1883. Library of Congress. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Day Book in the possession of Hilda Hubbell that her father William Jones had kept on the burials that he made. Copied on May 6th 1990 by M. Clyde Hubbell, son of Hilda Hubbell. Copy
in Town of Enfield Historian Collection, Enfield Town Hall, Enfield, Tompkins County, NY.
The Minneapolis Journal. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, October 26, 1901, Library of Congress. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
December 9, 1902. The San Francisco Call. (San Francisco, Calif. 1895-1913.) Library of Congress. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
Day Book in the possession of Hilda Hubbell that her father William Jones had kept on the burials that he made. Copied on May 6th 1990 by M. Clyde Hubbell, son of Hilda Hubbell. Copy
in Town of Enfield Historian Collection, Enfield Town Hall, Enfield, Tompkins County, NY.
Picture of actual headstone - http://www.iowacivilwarmonuments.com/cgi-bin/gaarddetails.pl?1248728661~2; Word document Iowa Civil War Monument of website and pictures.
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