The scent of chopped onions.
Mama pointing the kitchen knife at me across the island. Fram afar thankfully, she poked it pointedly three or four times. "You didn't sell our name to some Mormons so they could perform some kind of rites on them did you?"
"NO WAY, and in fact, I've been drifting away from using their database."
It was Baxter's book about Germanic ancestors that made Mama's porcupine prickers perk more so than the humidity today. To me, family names being "sealed together for eternity" sounds like Skull and Bones stuff. Murky brackish water. I prefer chlorine pools myself.
I'd just done a lap in some freeze-framed ancestry.com and connected my "Gee" to patriarch Samuel Candy. This was thrilling because just this morning my own trapsing around in the digitalized records had shown me:
US CENSUS 1850, Town of Buckeye. That's up in Stephenson County, Illinois. It gives us Samuel and Polly Candy (ages 27 0r 29 and 33), Catharine (12), Sophia (10), John (7), and Mary E (2). Also a farmer living with them, named George Emerisk.
Of particular interest to us was the fact that only little Mary E. was born in Illinois and the rest of them in PA.
We were, of course, strained by the amount of "Kennedy" up there in Illinois and made some preliminary tries at easily sorting possible Candy-to-Kennedys from the Kennedys-to-Candys. There's not a Candee in sight up there at that time. Nor is there an obvious answer for easily plugging Samuel into the Baldwin Candee Genealogy. This was complicated by the fact that there are many, many in Baldwin's book. And the two time periods we were interested in mostly being mid-progress from territory to state.
To find this information from D. Harrison was as good as sniffing Grandma Pearl's Hymnbook for it's powder and perfume telling of another time.
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Descendents of Samuel Candy and Mary Magdalena Emerich
D. Harrison (View posts) Posted: 6 Jul 2006 10:20AM
Classification: Query
Surnames: Candy, Emerick, Hartzel, Bloom, DeWild
Betsy, thanks for the challenge. I started off only knowing the history of their oldest daughter (my grandmother's great grandmother) and found the trail of both of the other daughters and possibly some mention of the only son, John. Mary Magdalena died in 1851 leaving Samuel with young children: Catherine, age 13; Sophia, age 11; John, age 9; and Mary Elizabeth, age 3. Ultimately, the children were fostered out to relatives & neighbors with the 1860 Census showing Sophia listed as a servant in the home of her uncle, David Emmerich, in Stephenson Co, IL and Mary Elizabeth listed in the home of Fred Susenburgh in Stephenson Co, IL. Catherine has already married John Hartzel and they are listed as residing in Rock Grove, Stephenson Co, IL. However, I can find no mention of the son John in the census records of this time. Samuel is likewise listed as a farm laborer in another household: Robert Shaw of Buckeye, Stephenson Co, IL.
Samuel Candy b. September 06, 1815 Walker, Centre Co, PA(son of Jacob Candy & Catherine Ann Snyder)
married Mary Magdalena Emerich b. January 13, 1818 Walker, Centre Co, PA (dau of John Emerick & Elizabeth Dunkle)
on December 21, 1837 in Walker, Centre Co, PA
Children:
Catherine Ann Candy b. April 18, 1838
Sophia Candy b. September 1840
John Candy b. 1842-1843
Mary Elizabeth Candy b. August 23, 1848
Catherine Ann Candy married John Hartzel (b. September 02, 1834 PA) before 1858 most likely in PA.
Children:
Alice Lovina Hartzel b. April 26, 1858 PA
Sarah J. Hartzel b. 1864 IL
John E. Hartzel b. July 28, 1866 IL
Ida Mary Hartzel b. Abt. 1861 IL
John Hartzel died May 18, 1897 (most likely Bennet, NE)
Catherine Ann Candy Hartzel died August 04, 1921in Pasadena, CA. Both are buried in the Bennet Cemetery, Bennet, NE.
Sophia Candy married David H. Bloom (b November 1838 PA) on 11 July 1861 in Green Co, WI (Wisconsin pre-1907 Marriage Records)
Children:
George E. Bloom b. July 1877 KS
(Sophia and David moved to Jewell Co, KS by 1900 Census and on to Jefferson Co, NE by 1910 Census where they lived with their son George and his wife Dora LNU). From Census records, David and Sophia both died between 1920-1930 in Jefferson Co, NE.
Mary Elizabeth Candy is believed to have moved to Jewell Co, KS to stay with Sophia where she met her future husband, Albert DeWild (b abt 1853 Holland) who worked as a harness maker in Jewell Co, KS in the 1880 Census. The DeWild family had first settled in Pella, Marion Co, IA area as seen in the 1860 Census. Albert and Mary who married on May 11, 1880 in Jewell, Jewell Co, KS moved back to IA and eventually settled in Des Moines, Polk Co, IA (1910 Census).
Children:
Ida Bell DeWild b. 1883 IA
Albert DeWild died in 1918 (most likely in IA) while Mary Elizabeth died on March 26, 1921 in Marengo, Iowa Co, IA where she is buried in the municipal cemetary. The 1920 Census finds Mary in the home of her daughter Ida Bell.
Regarding John Candy, I have nothing conclusive to offer. He disappears off the Census record for years, but interestingly, a John Candy with the right birth year shows up again on the 1910 Census in the home of Albert T. Achor (b. 1857 OH) in Lagoon, Pawnee, OK where he is listed as a "brother". This may be the foster home that John was sent to, but I have no information regarding a connection between the Candy's or Emmerich's and the Achor's of OH. Any help further elucidating the identity of this John Candy or what happened to John Candy the Son of Samuel Candy would be very appreciated. Thanks.
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I was exhilarated to have found the records cited as somewhat missing on
Gee John. He'd married Sarah Maurer and they'd removed to Iowa. And
I'd been soaking up History of Stephenson County (1880), poolside, for more on Gee John's parents' generation...the more settled of the two.
After hand copying the data as neatly as possible into my notebooks in about as long as it takes to semi-dry-by-air a bathing suit in the sun, I dove back in and made way for a Candy shore where I'd never been.
Wanna see pictures of Gee John's father Samuel's brother????
Click here to investigate: Catherine Emrich married Levi Candy in Centre County, Pennsylvania on March 11, 1841
Meanwhile we're looking over a fraktur found at the same site; "A fraktur was an ornamental keepsake certificate cherished by the Pennsylvania
Dutch. Some were hand painted, others were templates that were "mass" produced and completed
with personal details at the time of the birth, baptism or marriage. (For further information about frakturs, see Finding Pennsylvania Duth Families via
Frankturs, Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Ancestry, March/April 2005.)
It's beautiful.
Levi Candy in Tilden's History of Stephenson County, Illinois
Dakota Township
"Farmer, Sec. 1; P.O. Rock Grove; born in Centre Co., Penn., Dec. 20, 1812; removed to Stephenson Co., Ill., in 1864; has a farm of 120 acres at his home location, with 10 acres of timber-land in Rock Grove Township; his farm is under good cultivation, and his home surroundings decidedly pleasant. His religious preferences are with the German Reformed Church; his political affiliations, with the Democratic party. He was married in March, 1837, to Miss Catharine Emrich, a native of the same neighborhood in Centre Co., Penn.; their children are Ann Maria, now Mrs. George Long, of Rock Grove; Sarah, now Mrs. Uruah Swartz, of Rock Grove, and John A." (page 771).
On the Census of 1850 John A. is not even a year old in the household in Walker Township, Centre, PA. Levi and Catharine are 36 and 31; Ann is eight and Elizabeth, four.
John A. Candy on the Census of 1880 is a farmer in Dakota Township, Stephenson County, Illinois; son to head of household Levi Candy. By the 1930 Census John A. is widowed and an even eighty years old. It's six years later when we see the "A." stands for Andrew. On his death record information we also learn that John A. was a brayman by that time. His Illinois had become "Freeport," and his Pennsylvania "Snyderstown." His mother had been Catharine Emerisk married to Levi Candy and he'd married a Catharine as well.
"Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," index FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NQ7J-H2H: accessed 04 JUNE 2013), Catharine Candy in entry for John Andrew Candy, 24 MAR 1936.
Polly was most likely Mary Magdalena Emerich (born 13 JAN 1818; her parents were John Emerick and Elizabeth Dunkle; she married Samuel Candy on the 21st of December 1837 in Walker, Centre County, Pennsylvania). But she died in the year after the 1850 Census of the Town of Buck Eye.
'Jacob's Pale Blue Limestones' by Lara Lynn Lane, for more on the ancestral family of Jacob and Catharine Ann (Snyder) Candy.
