Birth: Jul. 9, 1860 Jefferson County, Indiana, USA
Death: Apr. 3, 1920 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA
Her death cert. lists her as Mrs. R. A.Jamieson, she m 27 Apr 1887 Jefferson County Indiana, James T. Jamison, daughter of John E. Voiles and Keziah Christie, she was born in 1860 according to the census her death info gives birth as July 9 1856, she had a sister Lucinda Voiles, who was b 25 Dec 1856 Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana and died 31 Dec 1931 Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky Texas, Deaths (New Index, New Images), 1890-1976 Name: R A Jamieson Event: Death Event Date: 03 Apr 1920 Event Place: Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United StatesGender: Female Marital Status: Widowed Birth Date: 09 Jul 1856 Birthplace: , Indiana Father's Name: Voiles Mother's Name: Certificate Number: 13244 Film Number: 2073751 Digital Folder Number: 005145875 Image Number: 03352 Family links: Parents: John Ellis Voiles (1825 - 1900) Keziah Christie Voiles (1830 - 1882)
Burial: Grove Hill Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas, USA
Created by: Juanita Arnold Record added: Jun 12, 2008 Find A Grave Memorial# 27518191
[] From The Blew Hills by Mrs. Rawson- "The wel-known common of aNew England town generally centered that town, surrounded by itsoldest and finest dwellings, and was actually common land for all.Originally the Common was a common pasture land for stock which couldnot be turned loose in the forests for fear of wild animals; aprotected area for man and beast alike, wlled in by houses and barnsagainst prowling beasts just as wagon trains to the west circledthemselves at night against a possible Indian attack. In Scotch Plainsthe "Commons"-notice the plural- were of quite different nature, beingfor more than two hundred years nothing but pasture land with a fewhouses encroaching now and then along the edges; they did not form thecenter of the village but lay some half-mile to the northwest. Asfar as is known our friend Robert Fullerton, 1684, was the first whiteowner of these Commons, with possibly a bit belonging to Peter Sonmanson the western limit and a slice for the Alexanders on the eastern.The next name with which they are assoiated is that of Swem or Swan,one Amos Swan, who not only kept a tavern on the upper end but dealtin thoroughbred horses as well. Amos had a brother, Jedidiah, and bothof them married daughters of Recompence Stanbery II. Jedidiah was aman of some means and importance in the village life and a captai inthe Revolutionary War, but although more outstanding than Amos in hisday, his day was shorter, for he died childless while Amos gave fivechildren to the world to carry on after his day was over. Propinquitydid its work in this family as in so many others on the plains andelsewhere, and three of Amos' daughters married into well knownpioneer families of Darby, Miller and Osborn. What more natural, whenthe same setting sun shone in their nearby windows ans the samemoonlight stirred their neighboring breasts? Amos' son Samuel, becamethe owner of much of the Commons, and in 1816 they were still in hisname. The original Amos had an outstanding modern businesscharacteristic, for he believed in advertising, something which mostof his generation fought shy of except when they wanted to find arunaway slave, or had lost a pocketbook on the highway. In 1778, Amoswas running his ads in The New York Gazetteer and Weekly Mercury,published sometimes in Newark and sometimes in New York City. Readersof these advertisments soon became familiar with his famous stallion,TRAVELLER, always in capitals, who was most thoroughly described, andwe are glad that Amos was as thorough in telling just where jis tavernstood. Today a tiny and ancient cottage stands on this very spot, acottage believed to have been the Swan home-since one extra room couldturn a private home into a tavern, until the law of seven featherbedsto each publick house became a legal demand and nuisance. The lateowner of the cottage, old Mr. Yoerg, who had been head gardener at theColes estate, had it for life use from his old employer, J. AckermanColes, and put his grat skill to work on these tiny grounds beneaththe Blew Mountains, with velvet lawn, unusual shrubs, rustic bridgeover silver brook, and masses of flowers. As we shall see, AmosSwan's advertisiments make certain the site of the farm and cottage.On the Springfield Road, a stone's throw away, his neighbor DennisCole's farmhouse stood, "a half mile" from the village center, withAmos's tavern on the same arc although within the Commons green. As weknew the old place it was marked by a great rustic arched gatewaywhich started us off on our climb to the tower. In 1775 Amos Swan wasknown through his advertisiments as a "tavern keep" at "his plantationon the Scotch Plains a short half-mile from the Meeting House on theroad leading to Springfield," where he dispersed run and grog andnight's lodgings. By 1778 his advertisiments showed a new side lineand his famous stallion TRAVELLER was introduced to the public. Atthis date Traveller was "rising eight years old and will cover theensuing season at the plantation of Amos Swan on the Scotch Plains. ..Traveller is of full size 15 hands and a half high, well set to hisheights, his colour is a dark claret, and very beautiful. He sprangfrom the best blood of Great Britain; his pedigree is the same as TrueBriton, they being brothers. His carriage, beauty, behaviour and spirtmake him the eual if not superior to any horse within this state. Heis to cover at ten Dollars a mare and a Dollar to the groom, the moneyto be paid at the time of covering or before if required. Good pasturewill be provided for Mares at Half a Dollar per week." Two yearslater Amos was bringing another favorite to the attention of newspaperreaders unfer the sign of "To cover". Young PASTIME was a moreexpensive luxury,or perhaps American prices were going up, for he wasavailable at $20.00, the money to be paid at the stable door, "He issix years old this grass. Certified in his qualifications byJ.Ridout." All this on our old playground among the red cows. TheSwan Tavern- This was not just a high-sounding, artistic name toattract the public but the fmily name of those two brothers, Jedidiahand Amos, who had to be sure, arrived under the name of Swem but inthe New World had become Swans. Amos, like the other taverners, mayhave feathered his nest by being ready for business at the outbreak ofthe war but he seems not to have been as monied as Jedidiah, theFinancier.Amos' tavern stood almost within shouting distance of ourback garden and we trod his land for years without knowing of him orhis stallions, but how we did love his tiny cottage under thehillside, and its singing broo! It looks as though Amos took lifeeasy, or else his horse-breeding interfered with his taverning, forwhen a man lets a bill run unpaid for six years and at the end of thattime is still trusting his client, he would seem to have been at leastnot a grasping soul. The bill which he sent to David Squier was longin years although it added up to very small potatoes: 1775 AprilTo Sundry 4.11 1777 July To Rum & Lodging 3.91781 January For Grog 1.0______9.8 Interest on above6.11 _______16.7 Shillings, notdollars Above from The Blew Hills also.
[] From The Blew Hills by Mrs. Rawson- "The wel-known common of aNew England town generally centered that town, surrounded by itsoldest and finest dwellings, and was actually common land for all.Originally the Common was a common pasture land for stock which couldnot be turned loose in the forests for fear of wild animals; aprotected area for man and beast alike, wlled in by houses and barnsagainst prowling beasts just as wagon trains to the west circledthemselves at night against a possible Indian attack. In Scotch Plainsthe "Commons"-notice the plural- were of quite different nature, beingfor more than two hundred years nothing but pasture land with a fewhouses encroaching now and then along the edges; they did not form thecenter of the village but lay some half-mile to the northwest. Asfar as is known our friend Robert Fullerton, 1684, was the first whiteowner of these Commons, with possibly a bit belonging to Peter Sonmanson the western limit and a slice for the Alexanders on the eastern.The next name with which they are assoiated is that of Swem or Swan,one Amos Swan, who not only kept a tavern on the upper end but dealtin thoroughbred horses as well. Amos had a brother, Jedidiah, and bothof them married daughters of Recompence Stanbery II. Jedidiah was aman of some means and importance in the village life and a captai inthe Revolutionary War, but although more outstanding than Amos in hisday, his day was shorter, for he died childless while Amos gave fivechildren to the world to carry on after his day was over. Propinquitydid its work in this family as in so many others on the plains andelsewhere, and three of Amos' daughters married into well knownpioneer families of Darby, Miller and Osborn. What more natural, whenthe same setting sun shone in their nearby windows ans the samemoonlight stirred their neighboring breasts? Amos' son Samuel, becamethe owner of much of the Commons, and in 1816 they were still in hisname. The original Amos had an outstanding modern businesscharacteristic, for he believed in advertising, something which mostof his generation fought shy of except when they wanted to find arunaway slave, or had lost a pocketbook on the highway. In 1778, Amoswas running his ads in The New York Gazetteer and Weekly Mercury,published sometimes in Newark and sometimes in New York City. Readersof these advertisments soon became familiar with his famous stallion,TRAVELLER, always in capitals, who was most thoroughly described, andwe are glad that Amos was as thorough in telling just where jis tavernstood. Today a tiny and ancient cottage stands on this very spot, acottage believed to have been the Swan home-since one extra room couldturn a private home into a tavern, until the law of seven featherbedsto each publick house became a legal demand and nuisance. The lateowner of the cottage, old Mr. Yoerg, who had been head gardener at theColes estate, had it for life use from his old employer, J. AckermanColes, and put his grat skill to work on these tiny grounds beneaththe Blew Mountains, with velvet lawn, unusual shrubs, rustic bridgeover silver brook, and masses of flowers. As we shall see, AmosSwan's advertisiments make certain the site of the farm and cottage.On the Springfield Road, a stone's throw away, his neighbor DennisCole's farmhouse stood, "a half mile" from the village center, withAmos's tavern on the same arc although within the Commons green. As weknew the old place it was marked by a great rustic arched gatewaywhich started us off on our climb to the tower. In 1775 Amos Swan wasknown through his advertisiments as a "tavern keep" at "his plantationon the Scotch Plains a short half-mile from the Meeting House on theroad leading to Springfield," where he dispersed run and grog andnight's lodgings. By 1778 his advertisiments showed a new side lineand his famous stallion TRAVELLER was introduced to the public. Atthis date Traveller was "rising eight years old and will cover theensuing season at the plantation of Amos Swan on the Scotch Plains. ..Traveller is of full size 15 hands and a half high, well set to hisheights, his colour is a dark claret, and very beautiful. He sprangfrom the best blood of Great Britain; his pedigree is the same as TrueBriton, they being brothers. His carriage, beauty, behaviour and spirtmake him the eual if not superior to any horse within this state. Heis to cover at ten Dollars a mare and a Dollar to the groom, the moneyto be paid at the time of covering or before if required. Good pasturewill be provided for Mares at Half a Dollar per week." Two yearslater Amos was bringing another favorite to the attention of newspaperreaders unfer the sign of "To cover". Young PASTIME was a moreexpensive luxury,or perhaps American prices were going up, for he wasavailable at $20.00, the money to be paid at the stable door, "He issix years old this grass. Certified in his qualifications byJ.Ridout." All this on our old playground among the red cows. TheSwan Tavern- This was not just a high-sounding, artistic name toattract the public but the fmily name of those two brothers, Jedidiahand Amos, who had to be sure, arrived under the name of Swem but inthe New World had become Swans. Amos, like the other taverners, mayhave feathered his nest by being ready for business at the outbreak ofthe war but he seems not to have been as monied as Jedidiah, theFinancier.Amos' tavern stood almost within shouting distance of ourback garden and we trod his land for years without knowing of him orhis stallions, but how we did love his tiny cottage under thehillside, and its singing broo! It looks as though Amos took lifeeasy, or else his horse-breeding interfered with his taverning, forwhen a man lets a bill run unpaid for six years and at the end of thattime is still trusting his client, he would seem to have been at leastnot a grasping soul. The bill which he sent to David Squier was longin years although it added up to very small potatoes: 1775 AprilTo Sundry 4.11 1777 July To Rum & Lodging 3.91781 January For Grog 1.0______9.8 Interest on above6.11 _______16.7 Shillings, notdollars Above from The Blew Hills also.
Birth: Sep. 25, 1743, Scotland Death: Jul. 13, 1824 Barnet Caledonia County Vermont, USA Somers, Agnes Mrs., b. 1744a, d. 07/13/1824, in the 81 yr of her age, wife of Mr. Claud Family links: Spouse: Claud Somers (1740 - 1818) Children: Bartholomew Somers (1771 - 1859) Hugh Somers (1781 - 1852) John Somers (1785 - 1870) Note: duplicate of 23911296 to be deleted Burial: Stevens Cemetery Barnet Caledonia County Vermont, USA Maintained by: Bruce Filgate Originally Created by: Somers Family History Record added: Jan 11, 2008 Find A Grave Memorial# 23911296