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Charollet Walls Tucker; Mother to Carolina Quinner
Fredrick Marshal Holbrook;
Grandma's storyabt 1968 or 1969 , Zion Lake Co As a young girl somewhere between the age of 8 and 9 I remember going to my great grandmothers house with one of my Little House on the Prairie Books and sitting down to read my G Grandmother was telling me that we were related to the author of that book. As a child this did not mean a hill of beans to me then in my late 30's when I realized I was losing my mother to terminal Cancer and realizing I knew nothing of my family or my roots and feeling so alone I set out on this thing that I now know as Genealogy and I am consumed with it. Oh how I wish I would have listened to G Grandmas story???? 30 years later I found out that my gg grandmother was Laura Ingalls Wilder's Aunt Lottie that she was so fond of.
Barbara Allen parks remembers her gg grandmother Charollet (Lottie) . also Laura's , Aunt Lottie.
Moore -- Ingalls -- Ancestry
Step father to Carolina Quinner
.By Barbara Allen Parks
Website by Ruthanne BuchananThehouseofruthanne
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Albert E F Mumm Married to - Pearl Moore -Daughter Dorothy Mumm
Henry Moore-Charollet Holbrook- Dorothy Mumm
Barbara Allen Parks Mother Gloria Ann Smith
Barbara Allen Parks.
The ship, Ma's father perished on in 1845, was the schooner Ocean, which was built in 1836. According to the database at Dave Swayze's Great Lakes History Homepage (great source!) the Ocean was "found on her beam ends 2 miles off shore after a heavy storm. She appeared to have capsized and all her crew lost." Among the 6 victims were the Captain Alexander McGregor and Laura's Grandfather, who was not only 2nd mate but also the Captain's brother-in-law.
I don't remember if the vessel's name is mentioned in one of the LIW-biographies I've read so far. The accident is mentioned in the book "History of the Great Lakes" by J.B. Mansfield (published in 1889), but unfortunately Laura's grandfather is incorrectly named J. Quinn.
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Just found another great source for information on the schooner Ocean: The website Maritime History Of The Great Lakes offers transcriptions of newspaper clippings in which the accident is mentioned. (Use the "Search site"-button, not the "Newspaper Transcription"-button)
Here are two of the newspaper articles:
Quote:The schooner OCEAN, of Mackinac, was visited this morning by the steamer CHAMPION, about 6 miles north of St. Joseph, and 2 miles from shore. She is a complete wreck having lost her boat and davits, carried away her mainmast, her sails torn into rags, hatches off, and lumber in the hold. There were no persons on board, and it is supposed that the crew were all lost. She had the appearance of having been capsized and righted again. - Detroit Adv. Nov.10.
(Daily National Pilot, Buffalo, November 13, 1845)
Quote:In the loss of the Schooner OCEAN, four of our citizens have passed from time to eternity. Just before the OCEAN sailed from this port, Capt. McGregor came to our office, subscribed for our paper, and with boyancy of health and spirits good humeredly contrasted the varied and exciting life of a sailor with the monotony of a printer's existence, and his hearty laugh and jovial voice still ring in our ears. He has left a wife and 1 child. The Mate, Mr. Russel, has also left a wife and child.
The second mate, Quiner, has left a wife and 5 or 6 children to mourn his loss. The cabin boy, an Irish lad, has left a mouther who was partially dependent upon him for support.
We hope the tears of widows and orphans will incite goverment to some action in favor of our Lake harbors. - Milwaukee Gazette.
(Daily National Pilot, Buffalo, November 22, 1845)
A transcription of the above mentioned book "History of the Great Lakes" by J.B. Mansfield can be read there, too. (Use the "Historical Documents"-button) The loss of the Ocean is mentioned in Vol.1, chapter 36, year 1845.
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Lake Diaster - Loss Of the Schooner Ocean. Carolina Quiner Pa J Quiner died 1845 as part of doomed crew.
Frontier Girl explains the true facts of that ill faited day in 1845
aboard a schooner ship simulaiar to this photo.
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