Category: Woodruff
Catherine Woodruff married James Longwell connecting the Woodruff branch to the Longwell branch of my family tree
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US Presidents in my Family Tree
By connecting your family tree to the giant family tree on Family Search . com you can see how you’re related to all sorts of famous people from history. Some of the connections are iffy, but I found several that seem likely, including more than 2 dozen US presidents: Twenty one are via the Starr…… Read more
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Riverside Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut
Hidden away atop a hill surrounded by the bustling of trains and automobile traffic sits Riverside Cemetery in Middletown, Connecticut. And in this hidden 17th century burial ground lies many of the town’s first settlers, including many related directly or indirectly to me. There’s no sidewalk or parking lot for the cemetery and it’s surrounded…… Read more
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Webster Holden Starr
William Holden, my 2x great grandfather was born in 1858 in Ridgeway, New York to Charles and Deborah Cramer Holden, my 3x great grandparents. Charles ran an Inn in Schenectady with Deborah and his brother Aaron. He served in the civil war at the age of 42 with the NY 90th Regiment and then by…… Read more