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    The Wallace-White Family: Images, Letters, and Legacies
    The Wallace-White Family: Images, Letters, and Legacies
    The Wallace-White Family: Images, Letters, and Legacies
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    The Wallace-White Family: Images, Letters, and Legacies

    By Richard L. White

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    In The Wallace-White Family: Images, Letters, and Legacies, Richard White takes an innovative approach to connecting with his 16 great-great grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, and 4 grandparents plus one. Using black-and-white photos from the 1860s to the 2020s, White uses brief biographies as springboards for letters to his ancestors. He asks his great-great grandparents, Alexander McRobbie and Wilhelm Christian Sauer, why they left their native Scotland and Germany in the 1850s and what it was like to settle in their adopted communities of Milford, New Hampshire and Brooklyn, New York. The answers to Whites’ questions about his relatives’ lives, their decisions and motivations, their triumphs and sorrows, are lost in time and in the distant past. But the very act of posing the questions and imagining their answers gives White a profound sense of engaging in conversation with his ancestors. He feels closer to them than ever before--and this is the hope he shares with his readers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateFeb 22, 2023
    ISBN9781669867975
    The Wallace-White Family: Images, Letters, and Legacies

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      The Wallace-White Family - Richard L. White

      Copyright © 2023 by Richard L. White.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      Rev. date: 02/22/2023

      Xlibris

      844-714-8691

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      Contents

      Dedication

      Introduction

      PART I: PILGRIMS AND REVOLUTIONARY WAR HEROES

      Chapter 1: Pilgrims (1620-1627)

      Chapter 2: Revolutionary War Heroes (1775-1783)

      PART II: WALLACE FAMILY

      Chapter 3: Great-Great Grandparents (Wallace-Maynard Line)

      Chapter 4: Great-Great Grandparents (Dolson-DuBois Line)

      Chapter 5: Great-Great Grandparents (Robbie-Welch Line)

      Chapter 6: Great-Great-Grandparents (Sauer-Goetz Line)

      Chapter 7: Great Grandparents (Wallace-Dolson Line)

      Chapter 8: Great-Grandparents (Robbie-Sauer Line)

      Chapter 9: Grandparents (Wallace-Robbie Line)

      PART III: WHITE FAMILY

      Chapter 10: Great-Great Grandparents (White-Oliver Line)

      Chapter 11: Great-Great Grandparents (Bliss-Wright Line)

      Chapter 12: Great-Great Grandparents (Lupton-McChesney Line)

      Chapter 13: Great-Great Grandparents (Wilkins-Cottrell Line)

      Chapter 14: Great-Grandparents (White-Bliss Line)

      Chapter 15: Great-Grandparents (Lupton-Wilkins Line)

      Chapter 16: Grandparents (White-Lupton Line)

      PART IV: WALLACE-WHITE FAMILY: THE

      NEXT GENERATIONS

      Chapter 17: Parents (White-Wallace Line)

      Chapter 18: Lup and Jean’s Children and Grandchildren

      Afterword

      Appendix

      Captions

      Wallace And White Gravesites

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to all those relatives who have come before me. I am here because of them. This book is also dedicated to my dear wife, Kerstin, and my dear children, Janine, Lisa, and Windy, who are the next generation.

      Introduction

      The inspiration for this book was an unlikely source. A few weeks ago, my wife, Kerstin, was perusing a rack of discarded books at the Exeter, New Hampshire Public Library, and brought home Lois Lowry’s memoir, Looking Back, first published in 1998 and revised in 2016. When they were teenagers, our girls read several of Lowry’s novels for young adults. Indeed, our middle daughter, Lisa, considers Number the Stars, a story about saving a Jewish family in Denmark in World War II, one of her favorite novels. But I had never read one of Lowry’s books until I began reading Looking Back. It includes 48 short chapters, each consisting of a photo of Lois or her family members spanning many years, and brief descriptive narratives of the people, places, and happenings depicted in the photos.

      Since childhood, I have always been interested in family history. In the late 1990s, I created a detailed digital genealogy with help from our oldest daughter, Janine, and in 2007 published our family history, Journey through the Centuries: A History of the Wallace and White Families. It contained over 240 pages of text, 30 plus pages of appendices, and 20 black and white photos.

      I wasn’t thinking about creating another family history, but Lois Lowry’s memoir got me thinking: should I assemble a family history modeled on her story with short biographies and 50 or more photos? I decided to pursue my idea. As I began working on brief summaries of the lives of my 16 great-great grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, and four grandparents plus one, questions began to arise. I also pondered the lives and courage of the 11 family members who boarded the Mayflower in September 1620 and arrived at the Massachusetts coast 66 days later at the beginning of a cold, devastating winter. What would I ask them if I could write them a letter or even sit down with them for a conversation? I marveled about the stories of two of my great-great grandparents, Alexander McRobbie, born in Scotland in 1826, and Wilhelm Christian Sauer, born in Germany 10 years later. I knew their stories well. They and their wives, Jane and Anna, were immigrants, who came to America in the 1850s from their native countries, undoubtedly seeking a better life for themselves and their families. Tragically, Alexander died at Gettysburg in 1862; Wilhelm, who worked as a cigar packer, lived for 65 years in Brooklyn until 1919 and was the father of my Great-Grandma Robbie, whom I remember. But questions about their lives, their decisions and motivations, their triumphs and sorrows, suddenly welled up in my consciousness. I started asking them questions, knowing that their answers are lost in time and in the distant past. But the very act of posing the questions and imagining their answers gave me such a profound sense of engaging in conversation with them. I felt closer to them than ever before.

      This book has enabled me to get in touch with this feeling and, I hope, pass it along to you.

      March 2023

      Newmarket, New Hampshire

      Part I

      PILGRIMS AND

      REVOLUTIONARY

      WAR HEROES

      Chapter 1

      PILGRIMS (1620-1627)

      Twelve of the 102 people who boarded the Mayflower and sailed to the New World in the fall of 1620 were family members. They represented four families: the Standishes (Myles and Rose), the Hopkins (Stephen and Elizabeth and their four children, Constance, William, and Giles, and baby Oceanus, born en route), the Aldens (John), and the Mullins (William, his wife, his son, and his daughter Priscilla).

      The first winter on the mainland, in the small settlement that became Plymouth, was devastating. The bitterly cold weather, disease, and malnutrition took the

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