Manatee Genealogical Society
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http://www.colket.org/genealogy/MGS/
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Currie Colket – Mystery of Confederate Currency
Karen Dwyer – John J. Schmidt, Civil War Soldier
Jim Reger – Family Photo Album and Postcard Album
Jean Morris – Letter of Introduction, Report Cards, Loom
Elda Boyer – Family Dolls
Ted Riech – Stories of Copper Smithing
Doreen Colket – Perrault Family Photograph Circa 1910
Vivian Bernard – Family Cross and Journal
Diane Pelc – Necklace, Autograph Book, Family Ledger
Peggy Slocum – Family Bible
Frenette Brown – Family Trunk
Currie Colket – Pelot Bottles and Photographs
Mystery of Confederate Currency
Who is the Pelot who signed for the Registrar????
Actually a Number of Questions
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Who is Pelot – Related to me?
What is the Initial? – L.?, S.?, other?
Why signing for the Registrar?
Was my Pelot living in Richmond?
How much signed? What’s a Dollar Worth?
First, Look and feel of a Confederate Bill
Vignette
Series
Hand dated
8th May 1862
Hand numbered
Serial Number
Hand signed for Registrar Hand signed for Treasurer
(acknowledged the debt) (acknowledged money for Treasury
1861 - Will pay $100 to Bearer at interest of 2 cents per day Six months after
Ratification of a Treaty of Peace between the Confederate States and the
United States
1864 – Two Years after the Ratification of a Treaty of Peace between the
Confederate States and the United States
Who Was ?. Pelot?
First Looked at Possible Men
Jonas (immigrated to South Carolina in 1734)
Blue are Possible Men as are sons
Red are Dead
Black shows descent lines
~1687-1754
John Francis
~1720-1774
James (Land Grant Florida 1793)
John
~1742-1776
James
Richard
~1775-1840
Joseph Richard
~1809
-1881
+3
~1811
-1864
+5 (1)
Charles
~1744-1824
William
Samuel
~1763-1809
Joseph
Charles
~1782-1823
~1782-1830
William Joseph
Eugene Stephen Benjamin
~1813
-1876
~1813
-1875
+1
John Cooper James
~1812
~1809
-1841
-1879
+3, one of which was
Dr. John Crews Pelot
~1814
-1900
+1
Charles
~1819
-1873
~1818
-1870
+3
~1790-1833
~1823
-1883?
~1791-1863
~1824
-1876
~1797
-1841
Francis
~1828
-1905
~1833
-1907
Joseph
John
James Thomas Postell
~1833
-1888
~1835
-1864
Still no help??? Besides, none of these were in Richmond?
What’s a Dollar Worth??? - 1
http://aspenhistory.org/jfshop.html “To convert 1860 prices to today's prices, multiply the 1860 price by $ 17.43 ”
• About $20 today, if one compares
purchasing power of similar commodities
– Based on General Store prices of Salt
Pork, Powder Shot, Coffee, Sugar, Tea,
peppermints, Tobacco, Raisins, Flour,
Spices, Beans, Potatoes, Prunes, Cheese,
Gloves, Hats, and Chaps
– Not fair comparison – Market is very different
What’s a Dollar Worth??? - 2
• Prices circa 1861
– $4 for a head of cattle
– 25¢ for a pig
– 75¢ for a pair of shoes
– $10 for a rifled gun
– 75¢ for a sword
– 50¢ for 18 plates
What’s a Dollar Worth??? - 3
• Daily salary was about $1 a day
$1 per day = approximately $300 per annum
This is about $60,000 per annum today
• $1 in 1861 can be regarded as the equivalent of
$200 today.
• Hence the $20 Confederate Note is worth the
equivalent of $4,000 in 1860 spending money
Confederate government enticed engravers to be
smuggled in from England for $20 in gold/week
~ $200,000 per year
The Business of Civil War: Military Mobilization and the State, 1861-1865
By Mark R. Wilson (written in 2005)
In the Beginning -1
• Provisional government of CSA formed at Montgomery,
Alabama on 8 February 1861
• Secretary of Treasurer was C. G. Memminger
• March 1861 authorized $2,000,000 in Treasury notes in
denominations not less than $50. Interest was at 3.65%
• Payable in 1 year - Not used as currency
• Authorized borrowing $15,000,000 in gold @ 8%
• Monies used for arms, ammunition, and supplies.
• Tried tax of ½ cent per pound of cotton but did not yield
sufficient revenue due to blockade.
Resulting in First Issue
In the Beginning -2
• 9 March 1861 Notes issued in denominations of
$50, $100, $500, and $1,000.
• These were worth approximately $10,000,
$20,000, $100,000, and $200,000 in today’s $.
• Goal was to raise money
• Primarily purchased by large banks & big planters
• Notes were NOT intended for use as currency
• Three Sources of money (1861-1865):
– Taxation (~ 8%), Borrowing (32%), Printing (60%)
Financial Acts of the CSA
Government => Issues
1st Issue – 9 March1861 $2,000,000
Montgomery Issue – National Bank Note Company, New York
(South had no engravers; NBNC viewed this as a business)
Printed in New York and smuggled South
Reused existing vignettes, used in the South & the North
Plates seized by Federal Government, so South went elsewhere
Richmond Issue – Southern Bank Note Company
Ft. Sumter – 12 April 1861
Had to import needed supplies from Europe
Had to Hire European Engravers @ $20 in gold/week
2nd Issue - 25 July (16 May) 1861 $20,000,000
3rd Issue - 2 September 1861 $150,000,000
4th Issue - 17 April 1862 $215,000,000
5th Issue - 2 December 1862 $500,000,000
6th Issue - 6 April 1863
Yes, we had Pelots
7th Issue - 17 February 1864 – Operations moved to Columbia, SC in South Carolina
* Capital moved from Montgomery to Richmond on 24
May 1861, after Virginia succeeded from the Union.
1st Issue 1861 $1,000 Note
• Issued under the March 9, 1861 (1st Act) Montgomery
• Possesses penned signatures of Alex B. Clitherall as
Register and E. C. Elmore as Treasurer of the
Confederate government
• 607 specimens issued, only 112 specimens known today
• Sold for $67 in 1943; $675 in 1957 and between $60,000
and $80,000 in 2001. Most valuable note today.
1861 $1,000 Note Obverse
Redeemed 1862
1st Issue 1861 $100 Richmond
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Engraved by Southern Bank Note Company, New Orleans (was American Bank Note
Company of New Orleans)
Railroad train rounding bend, Justice at Left, Minerva to Right
Possesses penned signatures of Robert Tyler (son of John Tyler) as Register and E.
C. Elmore as Treasurer of the Confederate government
Paper Currency of Southern States - 1
• Alabama – 1 January 1863 - 5¢, 10¢, 25¢, $1, $5, $50, $100
• Arkansas – 28 May 1861 – $1, $2, $3, $5, $10 + Written
Denomination
• Florida – 10 October 1861 - 10¢, 25¢, 50¢, $1, $2, $3, $5,
$10, $20, $50, $100
• Georgia – 5 December 1861 - 5¢, 10¢, 15¢, 20¢, 25¢, 50¢,
75¢, $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500
• Indian Territory
Cherokee Nation – June 1862 - 25¢, 50¢, $1, $2, $5
Choctaw Nation – 1863 - 50¢, $1, $2.50, $5
• Louisiana – 24 January 1862 - 25¢, 50¢, $1, $2, $3, $5,
$20, $50, $100
• Mississippi – 24 January 1861 – 25¢, 50¢, $1, $2, $2.50, $3,
$5, $10, $20, $50, $100
Paper Currency of Southern States - 2
• Missouri – 1 January 1862 - $1, $2, $3, $4, $4.50,
$5, $10, $20, $50, $100
• North Carolina – 11 May 1861 - 5¢, 10¢, 20¢, 25¢,
50¢, 75¢, $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100
• South Carolina – None – But Bank of the State of
South Carolina issued 50¢ notes
• Tennessee – State authorized currency, but none
issued – Union forces were in area of engravers
• Texas - $1, $2.50, $3, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 +
Written Denomination
• Virginia – $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500
1864
• 17 February 1864 bill passed:
– Notes smaller than $5.00 convertible into bonds and receivable at par until 1
July 1864, then taxed out of existence
– Issue of New Notes – old notes less than $100 could be exchanged for new
notes at the rate of $3.00 old for $2.00 new
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$426,000,000 were so exchanged at $3.00 old for $2.00 new
Currency was unmanageable
Even the $100 notes continued to circulate after they were outlawed
Gold started at $17 to $23 for $1 declined to $40 for $1
Old notes and new notes continued to circulate side by side, were equally
discredited, and continued to depreciate together
– Credit of the Confederate government was shattered
– Mr. Memminger resigned his office in midsummer 1864 – He was succeeded
by George A. Trenholm of Charleston
1865
• January 1865:
– Gold now $53 for $1
– Trenholm said: “Apprehension of ultimate repudiation crept like an
all-pervading poison into the minds of the people and greatly
circumscribed and diminished the purchasing power of the notes”
– Proposed to reverse the policy of repudiation – Bill passed by house,
but failed in the Senate
– Nothing to do but make fresh issues of the notes - $80,000,000
authorized in March 1865 – passed over the President’s veto
– Schemes to raise taxes never materialized
– Financially the Confederacy had collapsed
If military events had not brought the Confederacy to an end in April 1865,
It would have collapsed about that time anyway. It would have been
Impossible to supply the Army in the field with food, clothing, and arms.
Confederate Money Prices in Richmond
1861 .95 cents on dollar in gold
1863 .33 cents on dollar
9 April 1865 1.6 cents on dollar
1 May 1865 $1,200 for $1 dollar gold
No longer traded after 1 May 1865
Clerks Signing for the Registrar & Treasurer
Raphael P. Thian – Register of the Confederate Debt
Signed so many notes, the Registrar & Treasurer refused to sign any more.
Issue
Authorization
Number of Clerks
Debt
Male[1]
Female
Total
Act of 9 March 1861
General Currency
3
0
3
$2,021,100.00
Act of 16 May 1861
General Currency
16
0
16
$17,347,955.00
Act of 19 August 1861
General Currency
97
35
132
$292,101,830.00
Act of 17 April 1862
$100 Notes
49
0
49
$122,960,000.00
$2 and $1 Notes
2
71
73
$5,600,000.00
General Currency
61
112
173
$138,056,000.00
$2 and $1 Notes
0
80
80
$2,347,200.00
General Currency
58
103
161
$510,832,000.00
$2 and $1 Notes
0
101
101
$3,023,520.00
Fifty Cents[2]
0
0
0
General Currency
20
181
201
$453,376,200.00
N/A
N/A
N/A
$2,243,184.00
0
0
0
Act of 13 October 1862
Act of 23 March 1863
Act of 17 February 1864
$2 and $1 Notes
Fifty Cents
Total
$912,962.50
$523,606.50
$1,551,345,558.00
Had 181 Females out of 201 Clerks sign 1864 Notes
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The notes issued under the Act of 9 March 1861 were signed by the Treasurer and Registrar and not by clerks.
[2] Fractional currency has engraved facsimile signatures of the Registrar and Treasurer.
198 Signers for the Registrar – 1
Raphael P. Thian – Register of the Confederate Debt
Abbott, Mrs. B. M.
Acosta, Mrs. Julia A.
Adams, Mrs. E. A.
Alexander, Miss H. E.
Allen, William H.
Apperson, Miss M. S.
Archer, Miss Lizzie *
Arthur, Miss L.
Bagby, Ms. P. C. *
Bailey, Miss M. W.
Barnwell, Miss H.
Bernard, Miss Fannie E.
Black, Miss M. J.
Boykin, Miss Nannie
Boykin, Robert V.
Brady, Miss M. E.
Brisbane, Miss N.
Brown, T. W. *
Bryan, Mrs. H. E.
Caldwell, W. P.
Cary, Mrs. M. F.
Clark, Miss S. *
Clarke, Miss Bettie J. *
Cocke, William Archer
Coffin, Miss Eliza M.
Connor, Miss Julia M.
Cooke, Mrs. Isabella A.
Cooke, Miss Hattie L.
Cooke, James H.
Courtney, Mrs. L.
Crouch, T. L.
Cullen, Miss M. E.
Dabney, Miss Bettie
Davies, Miss Virginia K. *
Davis, Miss Ella
De Leon, Miss Isabel
Delony, Robert J.
Devine, Miss Lizzie
De Witt, Bennet M.
Dickson, J. T.
Dixon, Mrs. M.
Doar, Miss S. A.
Dorsey, R. J.
Douglas, Miss Joan *
Douglass, Miss H. M. *
Downman, W. Y.
Dunbar, W. G.
Dutcher, S.
Eggleston, J. W.
Ellett, Temple
Ellett, Miss S. C.
Elliott, Miss L. W.
Forde, Ms. L.
Foran, Mrs. A. M.
198 Signers for the Registrar – 2
French, W. T.
Gaither, Mrs. M. S.
Garlick, Miss Elizabeth
Garrett, G. W.
Gay, Miss M.
Gibb, Miss M. A.
Gibson, J.
Gifford, Mrs. M. A.
Giles, Miss F. G. *
Gilliam, Miss M. E.
Gilman, William S.
Grayson, T. Fitzhugh
Hamilton, Miss M. E. *
Hancock, William
Harper, Mrs. M. E.
Harris, J. H.
Harvey, William L. *
Hayes, S. C.
Henderson, John E. *
Henry, Miss L.
Herbert, Mrs. H.
Heriot, Miss H. P.
Hill Jr., R.
Holt, John T.
Howell, Miss K. P.
Huard, Miss S. L.
Huger, Mrs. Caroline P.
Hughes, Mrs. S. E.
Hunt, J. H.
Hunter, Miss L. M.
Jackson, J. T.
Jarvis, Miss M. F.
Johnson, C. H.
Johnson, Mrs. M. S.
Johnson, Miss S.
Johnston, Gabriel
Johnston, Mrs. J. L.
Jones, Miss Fannie C.
Jones, Mrs. Mary *
Jones, R. S.
Keim, C. W.
Kelly, Miss Etta A. *
Kennedy, Miss A.
King, Miss R. B.
Kinney, J. M.
Kirby, Mrs. Mary B.
Kirk, Mrs. Martha A.
Lathrope, Miss M. C.
Laurens, Mrs. Eliza B.
Laval, Miss S. E.
Lyon, Miss Bella T.
Macon, Miss Lydia
Marks, Mrs. F. H.
Mason, Miss Eva *
198 Signers for the Registrar - 3
Raphael P. Thian – Register of the Confederate Debt
Massie, E. L.
Matthews, J. J.
Matthews, Miss Emily
McCarthy, Miss Jane
McGarr, Miss Jennie
McRae, Miss B.
McRae, Richard
Meade, Miss Charlotte R.
Michel, Miss L. G.
Miller, Thomas J.
Miller, W.
Mills, R. A.
Mobley, Miss M. A.
Morris, Miss M. J. *
Morrison, Miss Mary W.
Morton, Miss M. C.
Nelson, Ms. J.
Newman, Miss Ada
Norris, Mrs. L. A.
Norton, Mrs. Mary E.
Nott, William
Nulty, E.
Orr, Henry E.
Pace, Miss M. E.
Palmer, Miss Nellie *
Parry, Mrs. A. S.
Payne, Miss Betty M.
Pellet, Miss A. P. *
Pelot, Mrs. S. L.
Pendleton, Miss Emma W.
Penrifoy, Mrs. V. M.
Percival, Miss C. E.
Pleasants, Mrs. M.
Pleasants, Miss P.
Porter, Miss E. P. *
Proctor, Mrs. E. S.
Randolph, Miss S. A.
Read, Miss Emma S. *
Rhett, Mrs. F. M.
Richardson, Miss Nannie
Riggs, Myron C.
Robinson, W. R.
Rogers, Louis P.
Rothrock, William
Royster, Mrs. L. C.
Sale, John O.
Sands, Johnson
Saunders, Miss Margaret A.
Savage, Miss Parkie
Sessions, Mrs. C.
Sinton, Samuel
Slade, W. O.
Smith, E. H.
Smith, Herbert
Snead, W. T.
Synder, John O.
198 Signers for the Registrar - 4
Southall, Miss Sallie
Spottswood, Miss Lucy
Stanard, Miss E.
Stevens, Mrs. M. F.
Swords, Joseph P.
Talley, Miss Susan A.
Taylor, Charles S.
Taylor, Mrs. Miriam
Thayer, C. C.
Thomas, Miss H. C.
Tiffey, Miss Julia B.
Tinsley, S. G.
Treadwell, Mrs. J. D.
Tyler, Miss Betty W.
Upshur, Mrs. Mary E.
Veal, Miss C. C.
Via, Miss Josephine
Zealy, Miss Anna W.
Wade, Mrs. M. F. *
Wade, William A.
Walker, Miss Kate
Waller, William
Walston, William B.
Walthall, C.
Warren, G. N.
Watkins, A. S.
Watson, Miss Virginia C.
Wells, Mrs. S. K. . *
Windle, Mrs. C. F.
Wingate, Mrs. N. E.
Winston, Meriwether
Winston, Miss E. C.
Woodward, Miss M.
Yates, Mrs. M. A.
190 Signers for the Treasurer - 1
Adams, Miss S. J.
Allen, Miss Maria
Allen, William G.
Ambler, Mrs. Jennie
Angel, Mrs. J. H.
Archer, Miss Lizzie *
Armstrong, Miss L.
Ashby, F. Westwood
Ashford, Craven
Bagby, Ms. P. C. *
Bain, R.
Baker, Miss E. A.
Balaguer, Mrs. H. M.
Baldwin, C. A.
Ball, Miss R. F.
Banks, Miss M.
Bartlett, Miss H.
Bass, N. A.
Beall, Miss E. O.
Bell, Miss E. M.
Bell: Thomas W.
Benton, Ida
Berry, B. H.
Boyd, Miss M.
Breeden, Miss Louise
Bridges, Miss V.
Bridges: Clifford C.
Briggs, Mrs. Virginia B.
Brown, T. W. *
Bunting, J.
Caldwell, Mrs. A.
Capron, Miss Annie B.
Carr, John H.
Carrington, Miss M. J.
Carrington, Miss M. J.
Carter, Mrs. L.
Christian, Mrs. M. B.
Clark, Miss S. *
Clarke, Miss Bettie J. *
Cone, Mrs. Hattie Berrien
Cooper, Miss Mary E.
Darby, Miss Mary
Dargan, Miss M. A.
Davies, Miss Virginia K. *
Dennison, Miss E. A.
Dewees, Miss M. A.
Dickins, Miss Fannie M.
Dimity, J. B. S.
Dinkins, T. Waties
Dix, John S.
Douglas, Miss Joan *
190 Signers for the Treasurer - 2
Douglass, Miss H. M. *
Dudley, Mrs. Mary E.
(Criswell’s identifies
as Harry E.)
Doyle, Walter J.
Ellery, Mrs. Julia
Fauntleroy, Miss E. H.
Faxon, J. W.
Fort, Miss H.
Fuller, Miss Sallie G.
Gale, Thomas C.
Garnett, Miss Mary W.
Garrett, Miss W. A.
Giles, Miss F. G. *
Giles, Miss N.
Gill, Miss Isabel L.
Gilliam, Robert
Gills, E. W.
Gist, Mrs. M. S.
Goddin, Edward C.
Godwin, Miss Missouri
Goodloe, Harrel H.
Goodwin, Miss Nannie
Gott, Miss Julia F.
Graham, Miss H.
Grattan, Miss Sallie G.
Gray, Albert W.
Gray, Mrs. A. E.
Green, Mrs. E. C.
Gwynn, Mrs. M.
Hamilton, Miss M. E. *
Harrison, Miss A.
Harvey, William L. *
Hatch, Thomas J.
Haynes, Miss Riché
Henderson, John E. *
Heth, Miss Kitty
Hix, A. P.
Hix, Mrs. C.
Hoge, W. T.
Holmes, Mrs. L. L.
Hooe, Philip B.
Irvine, Mrs. M. C.
Jacobs, Mrs. J. A.
Jacobs, S. B.
Jones, E. W.
Jones, John A.
Jones, John W.
Jones, Mrs. Mary *
Joplin, James C.
Keesee, Thomas O.
190 Signers for the Treasurer - 3
Kelly, Miss Etta A. *
Kepler, H.
Kingman, Miss Mary M.
Knox, Mrs. Mary S.
Korff, Miss Kate
Lambert, Miss Sally
Layne, Mrs. E. D.
Leigh, C.
Levin, L. J.
Lewis, John S.
Link, Frank H.
Logan, Miss J.
Loughborough, Mrs. M.
Loyd, Miss Georgia
Lyon, D.
Macmurdo, Miss Rosa
Marshall, Miss M. L.
Marshall, O. M.
Mason, Miss Eva *
Maurice, C. S.
Mayo, Miss Martha T.
McCants, Miss S.
McCully, Mrs. Eliza M.
McGowan, Miss O. R.
Miller, Miss Alice M.
Minor, Mrs. Lucy C.
Moise, Mrs. H. L.
Moore, Miss H.
Morris, Miss C. S.
Morris, M. J. *
Mumford, Miss C. C.
Neill, Miss Sophia
Nelson, Miss Kate
Nethers, J.
Newton, Miss M.
Nicholas, Miss Mary S.
Ott, John
Overton, Mrs. Rebecca
Palmer, Miss Nellie *
Patton, Anthony
Payne, R. M.
Pellet, Miss A. P. *
Points, Miss Adele
Porter, Miss E. P. *
Quarles, Mrs. Mary L.
Read, Miss Emma S. *
Reaves, Miss M. C.
Rind, Miss Virginia M.
Ringgold, Mrs. Mary
Sanxay, Miss Sophia G.
Savage, Miss M. L.
190 Signers for the Treasurer - 4
Scott, Miss S.
Selden, Miss Maria
Semple, Miss Nannie
Shaver, Miss Sally F.
Shook, H. C.
Sieker, Miss Emma
(Criswell’s identifies
as Sleker)
Simons, Miss S. R.
(Criswell’s identifies
as Simmons.)
Sims, Miss L.
Skinner, Miss C.
Smalley, Mrs. W. L.
(Criswell’s identifies
as Smallye)
Sommers, Mrs. M.
Sparnick, Henry
Stalnaker, Miss C.
Stanard, Miss Virginia M.
Starke, Miss H.
Stocker, Miss F.
Stuart, Miss A. S.
Tennent, John C.
Tighe, R. H. L.
Todd, William R.
Tompkins, James H.
Trescot, Miss E. C.
Tyler, Miss V. M.
Wade, Mrs. M. F. *
Walford, T. D.
Waller, Mrs. M. C.
Waties, Mrs. Fannie
Watkins, Mrs. Hortense
Watts, A. S.
Weisiger, F. C.
Wells, Mrs. S. K. *
West, A.
White, Miss C. P.
White, William H.
Williams, Hampton C.
Willis, Miss Elvira
Wilson, Mrs. Josephine
Wise, Miss S.
Wray, Mrs. Fannie
Young, M. M.
Epilog
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Mrs. S L Pelot signed for a total of $514,020 of the known Confederate
Notes, representing ~ .1 % of all the money raised by the 17 February 1864
Act and .033 % of the total money raised by the Confederacy to fund the
Confederate government and wage the Civil War.
The exact identify of the signer was a mystery for a long time. The signer is
identified as a Mrs. S. L. Pelot in the Register of the Confederate Debt.
Every note she had signed had her signature appearing as “L Pelot.” There
were no known Pelots during the time frame of the Civil War having these
initials.
Approximately one year after the mystery was posted to the web, a Mr.
Michael McNeil contacted me identifying his great-great-great grandmother
as the signer of the Confederate Notes. He has accumulated a collection of
notes with representatives from most series to study the signature.
Apparently Sarah Pelot signed the notes with an “L” as she went by her
middle name of “Liz” for Elizabeth. He noted that Sarah never crossed the
trailing “T” in “Pelot”. Apparently this was a common custom and his
grandmother, Flora Nelle Pelot, adopted the practice as well. After the Civil
War, Sarah Elizabeth Pelot left South Carolina for Kentucky and taught
penmanship in the 1870s to support herself
During her brief stint as a signer in 1864, she signed over 30,400 known
notes
Mystery Solved
Jonas (immigrated to South Carolina in 1734)
3-4 Female Pelots with
S. As initial. Also some Elizas.
None with L.
~1687-1754
John Francis
~1720-1774
John
James
~1742-1776
James
Richard
~1775-1840
William
Joseph Richard
~1809
-1881
+3
~1811
-1864
Sherman
+5(1)
Charles
~1744-1824
Samuel
~1763-1809
Joseph
Charles
~1782-1823
~1782-1830
William Joseph
Eugene Stephen Benjamin
~1813
-1876
~1813
-1875
+1
John Cooper James
~1812
~1809
-1841
-1879
+3, one of which was
Dr. John Crews Pelot
~1814
-1900
+1
Charles
~1819
-1873
~1818
-1870
+3
~1790-1833
~1823
-1883?
~1791-1863
~1833
-1907
John
~1797
-1841
Francis
~1828
-1905
m. Sarah Joseph
James Thomas Postell
~1835
~1833
Elizabeth
~1824
-1864
-1888
-1876
Robinson
Wife of Stephen Pelot
Listed in Confederate Records as S. L. Pelot
Questions????
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Karen Dwyer
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Karen Dwyer
John J. Schmidt
Civil War
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Jim Reger - 0
1. Emma Roth Photographic Album Hettie Zeller's Mother
2. Priscilla Meck Fraktur Birth Certificate, March 5 1843 Emma Roth's Mother
Lancaster County PA
3. Hettie Zeller (Coughenour) Post Card Album Jim Reger's Grandmother
4. Post Card Collection, Sample Page
5. Wright Brothers Post Cards (Most Valuable Cards)
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Jim Reger - 1
1. Emma Roth Photographic Album Hettie Zeller's Mother
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Jim Reger - 2
Priscilla Meck Fraktur Birth Certificate, March 5 1843 Emma Roth's Mother Lancaster County PA
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Jim Reger - 3
Hettie Zeller (Coughenour) Post Card Album Jim Reger's Grandmother
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Post Card Collection, Sample Page
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Jim Reger - 5
Wright Brothers Post Cards (Most Valuable Cards)
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Jean Morris
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Basel Canton Certificate of Residence A. Maria Keller
Don’t Look in the Family Cookbook Look in the Family Cookbook
Addie Sensanbaugher Report Cards
Family Loom
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Jean Morris
Basel Canton
Certificate of Residence
A. Maria Keller
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The Canton of the Province of Basel (Switzerland)
Certificate of Residence
Notice: This is valid only for the wife and children.
(Bernard Weber died before this document was issued to the widow)
We the undersigned the officers of the community of Rotherfluh
of the District of Sissach in the Canton of the Provincer of Basel
That the bearer of this document BERNHARD WEBER property owner
was born in the year 1829 was a citizen of our community and we will always recognize him as
such, as well as his wife A. MARIA born KELLER
to be citizens of our community.
By virtue of this, we give the definite assurance that the above said citizen
and his wife and all of their offspring from this lawfully recognized marriage
are free at any time and under all circumstances admission to our community.
In right of which this Certificate was underwritten, sealed and executed
according to custom and form here.
Given in Rotherfluh 17 September 1873.
In the name of the principality by. Boh. WEBER (a relative?)
Note: Bernhard Weber’s daughter Rosalie is my maternal grandmother.
Rosalie emigrated with her mother A. Maria nee Keller Weber. Our family
has the trunks in which she brought her possessions and the clothing of her
4 children, Otto, John, Rosalie and Frieda Weber.
Jean S. Morris
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Jean Morris
Don’t Look in the
Family Cookbook
Look in the Family
Cookbook.
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Addie Sensanbaugher
1910 – 1911 Report Card
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Addie Sensanbaugher
1911 – 1912 Report Card
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Addie Sensanbaugher
1912 – 1913 Report Card
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Elda Boyer
Dolls
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Addie
Sensanbaugher
Dolls
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Ted Reich
Father's small hand-made copper pieces
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Ted Reich - 1
Waldemar Reich
Lodz, Russia 1894
Coppersmith
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Ted Reich - 2
Waldemar Reich
Bremen, Germany 1912
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Ellis Island Memorial Railing, $100
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Waldemar Reich
Schenectady, New York
Plumbing trade
American Turnverine
Married 1927
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Ted Reich - 4
Waldemar Reich
TOR 1934
Bradenton 1962
Sunny Shores Mobile Home Park, Cortez Road
Hooksett, New Hampshire 1975
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Doreen Colket
1. Perrault Genealogy from Genealogical Society
2. Perrault Gloucester, Ottawa Circa 1910
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Doreen Colket - 1
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Doreen Colket
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Doreen Colket - 3
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Currie Colket
1. Pelot Bottles
2. Pelot Photographs
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Currie Colket
Alton Illinois PELOT'S Soda Beverages Bottling Company Since 1911
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Joseph Alma Pelot’s Pictures Circa 1850-1870
Pointless Genealogical
Photograph??