The following, which will be the first part of a multi-part posting on this blog, was published in my Potter Profiles, Volume 11, back in March 1987. It was a "chapter on the Potters written by Clayton Buell Potter, grandson of Daniel and Lydia (Hale) Potter. It was included in a hand-written book compiled in 1909 by Edward Augustus Parks, the step-son of Clayton's sister, Cassandra Potter Parks.
Page 1:
"The Potter family is a large one. They have been long in the promised land and have followed the admonition to "increase and replenish the earth."
"I'm not to tell all about all the Potters, for it would be too much to read if it wee written. If you search the records, however, you may find that the Potter family in America sprang from two brothers who left England for America about 1636, both landing in what is now known as the New England states. One remained there while the other went into the more southern colonies. Our branch if from that one who remained in the Eastern States.
"Daniel Potter and Lydia, his wife, my grandparents, lived at Granville, Washington County, New York, probably as late as 1813. They had nine children, Allen, Clarissa, David, William, Daniel, Joseph, Hannah, Silas and Achsah, and our family record shows that Joseph, the sixth child, was born at Granville. Once when stopping at Whitehall in Washington County, I called on Judge Joseph Potter, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, and in talking on the matter, his records of the family in general were the same as what I had learned of my own ancestors. He was of the same Granville stock.
"The family of Daniel Potter were pioneers, for they went far west when the virgin forest covered the western part of New York state. They settled in the town of Machias, Cattaraugus County, at what is now the foot of Lime Lake, an artificial lake made by my grandfather when he dammed the stream that was of considerable volume, flowing from immense springs and filled with speckled trout. He built a sawmill below the dam, which I believe was later carried away by a freshet breaking the dam. Grandfather and all the family were hard workers, they had to be to clear that heavy clay soil of trees, stumps, roots and stones. In logging, grandfather got one of his legs broken below his knee and had not been long recovered when a log rolled against the same leg and crushed it so badly that about six inches of the bone was lost and ever after he wore a thimble on that leg to stiffen it so that he could get about.
"Personally, I knew but little of him. I never became much acquainted with him. He was old and a broken man when I knew him and seemd quite unsocial to me. But I believe the family was credited as of good standing and sterling integrity.
TO BE CONTINUED..........................
Monday, May 23, 2016
Monday, May 16, 2016
A "Stray" Potter, 1840, Illinois
A tidbit in the St.Clair Genealogical Society QUARTERLY, Volume 39, Number 1, 2016, page 32:
Citing The Great Western (newspaper), Belleville, ILL. , 11 May 1839 (inaugural edition)
"E.G. Potter of Lebanon Illinois submitted a lengthy, precisely detailed, letter describing his successful method of building houses from Earth."
Did a quick check of the 1840 census for Lebanon, St.Clair County, IL, on Ancestry and found his brief entry:
One male, 15-19; one male, 40-49; one female 40-49.
A very brief search in the 1850 census and Illinois death records yielded nothing.
Who was E.G. Potter???
Citing The Great Western (newspaper), Belleville, ILL. , 11 May 1839 (inaugural edition)
"E.G. Potter of Lebanon Illinois submitted a lengthy, precisely detailed, letter describing his successful method of building houses from Earth."
Did a quick check of the 1840 census for Lebanon, St.Clair County, IL, on Ancestry and found his brief entry:
One male, 15-19; one male, 40-49; one female 40-49.
A very brief search in the 1850 census and Illinois death records yielded nothing.
Who was E.G. Potter???
Monday, May 2, 2016
Potters in Idaho County, Idaho
From Idaho County "News" 1886-1903, compiled by Carol Anglen, 2004, located in the Heritage Quest Research Library, Sumner, Washington.
Page 79: Warren F. Potter divorced Carrie M. Potter on 14 Jun 1895
Page 105: Mrs. Carrie M. Potter married John M. Bonner, both of Keuterville, on 15 Oct 1897.
Page 12: Died near Grangeville, Idaho, on 7 October 1887, Mary E. Potter, late of Benton Co, Arkansas; leaves a husband and three children.
Page 71: Married at Keuterville, Idaho, on 24 Sep 1894, by Rev. J.S. Rhoads, William Sidney Potter and Mrs. Mary E. Osborn. Married at the same time and place were Warren F. Potter and Carrie M. Tefft. "The contracting partices are father and son, mother and daughter, respectively."
Keuterville, Idaho, was near Cottonwood between Lewiston and Grangeville, and is now a ghost town. Click on this link for more information: http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/id/keuterville.html
Page 79: Warren F. Potter divorced Carrie M. Potter on 14 Jun 1895
Page 105: Mrs. Carrie M. Potter married John M. Bonner, both of Keuterville, on 15 Oct 1897.
Page 12: Died near Grangeville, Idaho, on 7 October 1887, Mary E. Potter, late of Benton Co, Arkansas; leaves a husband and three children.
Page 71: Married at Keuterville, Idaho, on 24 Sep 1894, by Rev. J.S. Rhoads, William Sidney Potter and Mrs. Mary E. Osborn. Married at the same time and place were Warren F. Potter and Carrie M. Tefft. "The contracting partices are father and son, mother and daughter, respectively."
Keuterville, Idaho, was near Cottonwood between Lewiston and Grangeville, and is now a ghost town. Click on this link for more information: http://www.ghosttowns.com/states/id/keuterville.html
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