George (Piser) Ratner
First son of Abe and Rose Ratner whose intermarriage to Emma Paeglow caused a family rift
Ratner descendants reunion in East Quogue
Not everyone could attend. But Curt Decker, grandson of Pyser, updated us about his branch in a phone call.
Talking about our generations
FHM’s generational scale sets an arbitrary Zero Generation of between 1880 and 1920
Celestia Bradley
Daughter of Patty Smith Bradley Sweat. Wife of Mansel Wicks.
Patty Smith's 1846 letter home found tucked into an Ancestry user's old family album
In 2014, an Ancestry user researching the Wicks family line posted the transcript and an analysis of an 1846 letter found tucked inside an old family album. The user Beth Ann Rivers, a geologist and family historian living in New Zealand, knew all about the Wicks history but the letter was filled with many other names she didn't recognize.
Ralph Lovejoy Meeker
Journalist for the New York Herald who exposed corruption in the Ulysses Grant administration.
Josephine Meeker
Daughter of Nathan Meeker who wrote and lectured about her experiences in the Meeker massacre. She later worked for elected officials in Colorado and Washington, D.C.
Nathan Cook Meeker
Social reformer sent to Colorado by Horace Greeley was the victim of an Indian uprising. He was married to Harriet Smith Stetson's aunt, Arvilla Delight Smith.