The result of all this is that there are things that I have done that I haven\u2019t shared yet. They are small things, but they matter in keeping track of where I am in the research and why I\u2019m going one way or the other. So I\u2019ll make a quick pass through on where I\u2019m at.<\/p>\n
Once I was sure that I had found Samuel Whittle, I continued searching for him through my favorite newspaper subscription sites of GenealogyBank<\/a> and NewspaperArchives<\/a>. I searched for him under all the combinations of names that I could think of and through combinations of words. I also searched for news of his fall by utilizing the keywords \u201cwindow fall Allegheny City\u201d and all the location combinations such as Baltimore, Maryland, Towson, etc. in case an article might have said something like \u201cBaltimore man falls from window\u201d. I found no other stories about the fall.<\/p>\n After I established his tree on Ancestry, I began searching that site for things other than census and military records. The first thing I checked was the Family Tree tab to see if there might be a tree for Samuel or for any of the other names I had at that point. There are a lot of Whittles, but with my limited name list I had no direct connections.<\/p>\n I also checked the often overlooked Community section. I entered the keyword search \u201cSamuel Whittle Maryland\u201d and found one thread where he was directly mentioned. In fact that particular thread listed his wife as Georgeanna Hible. It also mentioned a 1916 death date for Samuel\u2019s brother Charles Nicholas. I replied to the thread with a request to share information and now it\u2019s wait and see.<\/p>\n I bounced onto Rootsweb<\/a> and searched the World Family Tree Project with no real luck. I checked for Samuel, Georgeanna Hible, Charles, Maggie S. and Clara M. I searched for a Whittle with a spouse of Eliza and found nothing with enough information to work with.<\/p>\n It was at this point that I recalled there was a Kate Higle listed on the 1870 census in the same household. Perhaps it was Georgeanna Higle, not Hible. I searched Ancestry and found an 1850 Census (indexed as Hegle) with sisters Catherine, age 8, and Georgeana, age 5.1<\/sup> The household consists of: A check on the Family Tree page of Ancestry is no help, however, on the Community pages there is a thread that discusses the Higle family. In the thread there is a reference to an obituary for Leah (Shealey) Higle from the Baltimore County Advocate and Advertiser giving her death date as 20 Oct 1859, and listing her as the widow of Joseph Higle, and the daughter of \u201cthe late George Shealey of this place\u201d.<\/p>\n 1. 1850 U.S. census, Baltimore, Maryland, population schedule, Baltimore, p. 11(stamped) 21 (handwritten), dwelling 120, family 126, Georgeanna Higle; digital image, Ancestry (http:\/\/www.Ancestry.com : accessed 11 Oct 2008); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M432, roll 279.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Govanstown Cemetery Project The Whittle Plot I have a few loose ends out there that I should tell you about. The hard part of writing this blog is keeping up with telling you about where my search goes. I may write about a census search on a certain day and the Footnote search on another … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[79,150],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-bits","tag-higle","tag-whittle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tJoseph Hegle 42, M, Laborer, Md
\n\tLeah , 45, F, Pa
\n\tMargaret 16, F, Md
\n\tSophia, 14, F, Md
\n\tJosephine, 10, F, Md
\n\tCatharine, 8, F, Md
\n\tGeorgeana, 5, F. Mc
\n\tJohn Umpshire, 38, M, Laborer, Pa
\n\tEdward Smith, 28, M, Laborer, Md<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.findyourdead.com\/wp\/wp-content\/themes\/antique\/img\/divider.gif\")
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