Occasionally I run across photos of alleged Mayflower descendants on Findagrave. Because that site relies on the kindness of strangers, you have to go on the word of said strangers for provenance, or proof tracing that photo back to its source. I do not know if the person has correctly identified the person in the grave as being the same as the person in the photo. Furthermore, I do not have the right to republish these on my web site. However, I can put the links here and you can judge for yourself and contact the person who posted the photos for more information.
Collins, Mary Ann (1843-1922) of the Collins Corner Road Collinses in North Dartmouth. Before you get excited, the Collinses themselves were not Mayflower descendants but one of them married into the Malachi White family, they being neighbors. My dad was named for one of her grandsons, a third cousin of my grandfather on the Collins side. If you follow this link, there is a picture of Mary Ann and a son. She married into the Faunce family and there should be other Mayflower lines there, too. Mary Ann's mother, Mary H. White, has a paternal line through Malachi, then Peregrine, but the latter's parentage is unknown. However, you can still join the Mayflower Society as a descendant on her maternal grandmother's line, as follows: Mary H. (White) Collins, Content (Crapo) White, Peter Crapo, John, Penelope (White) Crapo, Samuel White, Resolved, William and Susanna, the last 3 all Mayflower passengers.
Crapo (pro. Cray-poe), Joseph [George] (1806-1888); some of his children: Clarissa Danforth Crapo (1828-1911), Jonathan Collins Crapo (1830-1911), Leonidas Leonard Crapo (1838-1929), Lorenzo Snow Crapo (1852-1886); a grandchild by Clarissa: Jeremiah Franklin Davenport (1853-1931); grandchildren by Jonathan: Harriet Ruth Crapo (1860-1928), Charles Collins Crapo (1862-1950), James Andrew Crapo (1865-1948), Emily Frances Crapo (1866-1944), Mary Collins Crapo (1868-1951), John Burnham Crapo (1871-1948), Joseph Kimball Crapo (1872-1955), George Albert Smith Crapo (1876-1916), Jeannette Lawrence Crapo (1877-1971), Daniel Herbert Crapo (1879-1964), Catherine Elnora Crapo (1882-1944); grandchildren by Leonidas Leonard: Mary Alice Crapo (1868-1931), Carrie Louisa Crapo (1872-1967), Sarah Hannah Crapo (1878-1928), Lorenzo Snow Crapo (1880-1962), Jessie Crapo (1895-1983); and a grandchild via Prince Albert Crapo (1841-1927, no photo): Marie Edla Crapo (1874-1959). Some great-grandchildren are listed on those pages.
I find no records of the paterfamilias Joseph Crapo having a middle name or nickname, "George," thus the brackets. His wife was Mary Hicks Collins (1809-1888). Given that they named a child Jonathan Collins Crapo, her father was likely one of several sons of the original Jonathan Collins of Freetown & Dartmouth (1737- ca 1791.) (See his DAR GRS listing.) That makes her a relative of mine, as Jonathan and his brother Richard were both straight-line ancestors. There is no known Mayflower blood in that line, though I have been unable to trace that Collins family (there were many Collinses in New England circa 1700) beyond their father, the original Richard Collins, "boatman," who married Sarah Dodson of Freetown.
Gen. 8 Joseph Crapo and his descendants are all of the William White Mayflower clan as follows: Charles Crapo, Peter Crapo (b 1743), John Crapo, Penelope (White) Crapo (who married the original French immigrant, Peter Crapo/Crepeau), Samuel White, Resolved White, William White of the Mayflower.
Cushman, Abiel Washman "Wash" - per findagrave.com b ME 1839, d CA 1908, but lived in CO in between and his Civil War service was with a CO unit. He is likely an Allerton and Cooke descendant. I am posting this link in honor of All Souls Day, to encourage people to research the "souls" in their family and share their old photos here. Firefox is acting up tonight so I cannot verify this lineage at this moment. If it later proves false I will remove it.
Cushman, Alfred - maybe he was a relative of Abiel because he also live in CO and served in a CO unit in the Civil War. He lived 1837-1927 and the somewhat overexposed image online I will guess was taken in the 1890s. This is also an All Souls Day posting and will be researched later.
Cushman, Andrew Rusk - another Civil War veteran, he was born in ON and wound up in MO. A transcript of what is reportedly an obituary on his memorial page specifically mentions his direct line to Mary (Allerton) Cushman of the Mayflower. I will verify that at some point; in the meantime, Happy All Souls Day.
Cushman, Austin Sprague - also a Civil War veteran, Austin (1827-1907) is buried in Mayflower Cemetery in Duxbury, MA. He's got to be a descendant of Thomas Cusham! I will verify this later. Meanwhile, Happy All Souls Day.
Delano, Warren IV (son of Capt. Warren Delano and Catherine Robbins Lyman of Fairhaven, MA) and uncle of FDR, he is said to have been a Generation 8 Allerton and Generation 10 Warren. There is a photo of him and his sister Sara at nara.gov, (apparently) misidentified as Warren III. According to the findagrave writeup, which is based on the inscriptions on the Delano family tomb at Fairhaven, Warren III was an older brother who died as an infant.
Gifford, William Thomas (son of poultry farmer L. Gifford). He would be a Cooke, Doty, Alden-Mullins, Brewster, and Warren on his father's side plus a Brewster and Warren again and a Rogers on his mother's side.
Gifford, Cynthia (Mrs. Ezra Thompson) would be a Gen 7 Cooke via grandfather Adam Gifford, a Generation 5 descendant via grandfather Adam Wright.
Gifford, Eli M. would be a Gen 8 Cooke via Adam Wright also. He served in the 3rd MA Heavy Artillery, as did distant cousins Lorenzo Gifford and L. Gifford (also Cooke descendants), so you may be able to find more pictures of him at the LOC site. Look for corporal insignia. The one on findagrave was cropped from a larger uncredited photo someone put on ancestry.com. He is holding what looks to be a cat on his lap and is sitting next to (presumably) his wife outdoors somewhere.
Higgins, Orrin Thrall, was a Gen 9 & 10 Hopkins descendants on a paternal line. Findagrave has his picture and some biographical info and you can read more about the family under his son Frank's writeup in the Hopkins section.
Jayne, Mary DeWitt (Mrs. Jonathan Lounsbury/Lounsberry) link should be a Generation 8 Soule descendant via her mother, a Stephens of NY. (See Eliphalet Stephens in the Soule Pink Book.) In this photo she is likely in her 50s.
Mitchell, Harriet Newell and her children, Dr. Eliphalet Nott Wright, Rev. Frank Hall Wright, Mary (Wright) Wallace), Anna (Wright) Ludlow, Katherine (Wright) Morris, and James Brookes Wright are supposedly all Brewster and Doty descendants. Harriet was from Dayton, OH and went to Oklahoma, where she met Allen Wright, a Choctaw who was twice head of his tribe (originally from MS but now in Atoka Co, OK.) I do not find her or her alleged parents or grandparents in the 2-vol Brewster genealogy so do not know if it is true or what the lineage would be. If I can find out, I will post any public domain pictures I can find. Findagrave shows 3 other children who lived to adulthood but has no photos. The children named above all have findagrave photos.
Remington, Albert (1856-1901) on findagrave has a very old-fashioned looking photo but I don't know the source and cannot find a picture of him or his children or father elsewhere. He lived his entire life in Marquette Co, MI, working as a teamster in the iron mining and/or related industries. His obituary is on genealogybank.com and presumably other newspaper web sites as he was killed on the job, struck in the chest by the bar to which the horse's traces were attached, known as a whiffletree. Findagrave missed his wife and 4 of his 5 children and familysearch.org has misidentified a child named Ray as his, but Ray Conway was on the line above the actual Remington child (children) born 3 July 1884, twins Arthur and Emily. The latter is probably the "Emma" noted on Albert's findagrave memorial. Albert was both a Doty and a descendant of the Native Americans of Martha's Vineyard. (See R. Andrew Pierce, "Joseph Daggett of Martha's Vineyard, his Native American Wife, and Their Descendants," in NEHGR (2007) 161: 5-21 on NEHGS, which corrects the misidentifications made by Charles Banks in his 3-volume work on the Vineyard and brings the line to the mid 1700s in Bristol and Plymouth Counties.) Albert's Gen 8 Doty line run through his father as follows: Edmond R. Remington, Rebecca (Doty) Remington, Jerahmeel/Jerathmiel Doty, Edward, Ellis, Joseph, Edward of the Mayflower. His Gen 8 Native American line runs through Jerahmeel/Jerathmiel's wife, Sarah (Look) Doty of Rockester (Adam, Samuel, Ellis (Doggett) Look, unnamed first wife of Joseph Doggett of Tisbury.)
Thomas, Lucy - A descendant of Peter Browne via her mother Rebecca Tinkham, she is one of my ancestors as well. You can see her husband Ephraim Thompson Jr., by following his link below. I cannot vouch for the authenticity of this photo but if you are a descendant perhaps you can. Lucy lived 1772-1848 and like Ephraim was born in Plymouth Co and died in Bristol Co, MA.
Thompson, Ephraim (Jr. - also Tomson or Thomson) - my Cooke & Browne ancestor, though he looks in this picture as though he was not sure he actually wanted to be. My line runs through son Alvah, whose photo is not online, but you can see Ephraim's half sister, Mary (Thompson) Winch and her descendants on findagrave.com by following her link and the Winch links, below. You can see his wife, Lucy Thomas by following her link, above. Ephraim Jr. was born in Plymouth Co 1771 and died in Bristol Co, MA in 1854. I have no idea where this picture came from and cannot vouch for its authenticity but if you are a Thompson, perhaps you will recognize him.
Thompson, Ezra, husband of Cynthia Gifford and son of Isaac Thompson, would have been a Billington, Brown, and Cooke. According to his findagrave writeup he was born in 1792.
Thompson, Isaac, father of Cynthia Gifford's husband Ezra, was a Billington, Brown, and Cooke descendant. He was born and buried in Middleborough, Plymouth Co, according to the writeup and his Gen. 6 birth is recorded in the Peter Brown silver book. He and his son Ezra Thompson do share a resemblance.
Thompson, Mary (1797-1870) born in Marlow, Cheshire Co, NH married John Winch, also supposedly of Cheshire Co., and they moved to Canadice, Ontario Co., NY. One of her sons (Lorenzo) and three of Lorenzo's children posed for pictures which you can see by following the Winch links to findagrave.com, below. Mary is a Cooke, possibly twice, and a Browne twice. She was the half sister of my ancestor Ephraim Tomson/Thomson/Thompson Jr. (above) who remained in MA when his father and the second wife, Mary Washburn, moved to NH.
Warren, Josiah (b. 1798 Boston), a Generation 8 Warren descendant via father Josiah and grandfather Josiah, who is in the Warren silver book, v 2.
Winch, Lorenzo (1827-1902), and 3 of Lorenzo's children Emma J., Wilbur E. (2 photos, 1880 & 1930), and John T., are all on findagrave.com courtesy of various individuals who posted photos from publication or supplied by the Canadice, NY historian. The Winches lived in Canadice, Ontario Co, NY. They are descendants of Francis Cooke and Peter Browne, thanks to Amasa and Lorenzo's mother, Mary Thompson, also on findagrave. (See above.) I believe the Cooke line is double and I know that the Browne line is. My lines run through Mary's half brother, Ephraim Thomson Jr., who did not move to Cheshire Co., NH with his father Ephraim and the second wife Mary Washburn.
Collins, Mary Ann (1843-1922) of the Collins Corner Road Collinses in North Dartmouth. Before you get excited, the Collinses themselves were not Mayflower descendants but one of them married into the Malachi White family, they being neighbors. My dad was named for one of her grandsons, a third cousin of my grandfather on the Collins side. If you follow this link, there is a picture of Mary Ann and a son. She married into the Faunce family and there should be other Mayflower lines there, too. Mary Ann's mother, Mary H. White, has a paternal line through Malachi, then Peregrine, but the latter's parentage is unknown. However, you can still join the Mayflower Society as a descendant on her maternal grandmother's line, as follows: Mary H. (White) Collins, Content (Crapo) White, Peter Crapo, John, Penelope (White) Crapo, Samuel White, Resolved, William and Susanna, the last 3 all Mayflower passengers.
Crapo (pro. Cray-poe), Joseph [George] (1806-1888); some of his children: Clarissa Danforth Crapo (1828-1911), Jonathan Collins Crapo (1830-1911), Leonidas Leonard Crapo (1838-1929), Lorenzo Snow Crapo (1852-1886); a grandchild by Clarissa: Jeremiah Franklin Davenport (1853-1931); grandchildren by Jonathan: Harriet Ruth Crapo (1860-1928), Charles Collins Crapo (1862-1950), James Andrew Crapo (1865-1948), Emily Frances Crapo (1866-1944), Mary Collins Crapo (1868-1951), John Burnham Crapo (1871-1948), Joseph Kimball Crapo (1872-1955), George Albert Smith Crapo (1876-1916), Jeannette Lawrence Crapo (1877-1971), Daniel Herbert Crapo (1879-1964), Catherine Elnora Crapo (1882-1944); grandchildren by Leonidas Leonard: Mary Alice Crapo (1868-1931), Carrie Louisa Crapo (1872-1967), Sarah Hannah Crapo (1878-1928), Lorenzo Snow Crapo (1880-1962), Jessie Crapo (1895-1983); and a grandchild via Prince Albert Crapo (1841-1927, no photo): Marie Edla Crapo (1874-1959). Some great-grandchildren are listed on those pages.
I find no records of the paterfamilias Joseph Crapo having a middle name or nickname, "George," thus the brackets. His wife was Mary Hicks Collins (1809-1888). Given that they named a child Jonathan Collins Crapo, her father was likely one of several sons of the original Jonathan Collins of Freetown & Dartmouth (1737- ca 1791.) (See his DAR GRS listing.) That makes her a relative of mine, as Jonathan and his brother Richard were both straight-line ancestors. There is no known Mayflower blood in that line, though I have been unable to trace that Collins family (there were many Collinses in New England circa 1700) beyond their father, the original Richard Collins, "boatman," who married Sarah Dodson of Freetown.
Gen. 8 Joseph Crapo and his descendants are all of the William White Mayflower clan as follows: Charles Crapo, Peter Crapo (b 1743), John Crapo, Penelope (White) Crapo (who married the original French immigrant, Peter Crapo/Crepeau), Samuel White, Resolved White, William White of the Mayflower.
Cushman, Abiel Washman "Wash" - per findagrave.com b ME 1839, d CA 1908, but lived in CO in between and his Civil War service was with a CO unit. He is likely an Allerton and Cooke descendant. I am posting this link in honor of All Souls Day, to encourage people to research the "souls" in their family and share their old photos here. Firefox is acting up tonight so I cannot verify this lineage at this moment. If it later proves false I will remove it.
Cushman, Alfred - maybe he was a relative of Abiel because he also live in CO and served in a CO unit in the Civil War. He lived 1837-1927 and the somewhat overexposed image online I will guess was taken in the 1890s. This is also an All Souls Day posting and will be researched later.
Cushman, Andrew Rusk - another Civil War veteran, he was born in ON and wound up in MO. A transcript of what is reportedly an obituary on his memorial page specifically mentions his direct line to Mary (Allerton) Cushman of the Mayflower. I will verify that at some point; in the meantime, Happy All Souls Day.
Cushman, Austin Sprague - also a Civil War veteran, Austin (1827-1907) is buried in Mayflower Cemetery in Duxbury, MA. He's got to be a descendant of Thomas Cusham! I will verify this later. Meanwhile, Happy All Souls Day.
Delano, Warren IV (son of Capt. Warren Delano and Catherine Robbins Lyman of Fairhaven, MA) and uncle of FDR, he is said to have been a Generation 8 Allerton and Generation 10 Warren. There is a photo of him and his sister Sara at nara.gov, (apparently) misidentified as Warren III. According to the findagrave writeup, which is based on the inscriptions on the Delano family tomb at Fairhaven, Warren III was an older brother who died as an infant.
Gifford, William Thomas (son of poultry farmer L. Gifford). He would be a Cooke, Doty, Alden-Mullins, Brewster, and Warren on his father's side plus a Brewster and Warren again and a Rogers on his mother's side.
Gifford, Cynthia (Mrs. Ezra Thompson) would be a Gen 7 Cooke via grandfather Adam Gifford, a Generation 5 descendant via grandfather Adam Wright.
Gifford, Eli M. would be a Gen 8 Cooke via Adam Wright also. He served in the 3rd MA Heavy Artillery, as did distant cousins Lorenzo Gifford and L. Gifford (also Cooke descendants), so you may be able to find more pictures of him at the LOC site. Look for corporal insignia. The one on findagrave was cropped from a larger uncredited photo someone put on ancestry.com. He is holding what looks to be a cat on his lap and is sitting next to (presumably) his wife outdoors somewhere.
Higgins, Orrin Thrall, was a Gen 9 & 10 Hopkins descendants on a paternal line. Findagrave has his picture and some biographical info and you can read more about the family under his son Frank's writeup in the Hopkins section.
Jayne, Mary DeWitt (Mrs. Jonathan Lounsbury/Lounsberry) link should be a Generation 8 Soule descendant via her mother, a Stephens of NY. (See Eliphalet Stephens in the Soule Pink Book.) In this photo she is likely in her 50s.
Mitchell, Harriet Newell and her children, Dr. Eliphalet Nott Wright, Rev. Frank Hall Wright, Mary (Wright) Wallace), Anna (Wright) Ludlow, Katherine (Wright) Morris, and James Brookes Wright are supposedly all Brewster and Doty descendants. Harriet was from Dayton, OH and went to Oklahoma, where she met Allen Wright, a Choctaw who was twice head of his tribe (originally from MS but now in Atoka Co, OK.) I do not find her or her alleged parents or grandparents in the 2-vol Brewster genealogy so do not know if it is true or what the lineage would be. If I can find out, I will post any public domain pictures I can find. Findagrave shows 3 other children who lived to adulthood but has no photos. The children named above all have findagrave photos.
Remington, Albert (1856-1901) on findagrave has a very old-fashioned looking photo but I don't know the source and cannot find a picture of him or his children or father elsewhere. He lived his entire life in Marquette Co, MI, working as a teamster in the iron mining and/or related industries. His obituary is on genealogybank.com and presumably other newspaper web sites as he was killed on the job, struck in the chest by the bar to which the horse's traces were attached, known as a whiffletree. Findagrave missed his wife and 4 of his 5 children and familysearch.org has misidentified a child named Ray as his, but Ray Conway was on the line above the actual Remington child (children) born 3 July 1884, twins Arthur and Emily. The latter is probably the "Emma" noted on Albert's findagrave memorial. Albert was both a Doty and a descendant of the Native Americans of Martha's Vineyard. (See R. Andrew Pierce, "Joseph Daggett of Martha's Vineyard, his Native American Wife, and Their Descendants," in NEHGR (2007) 161: 5-21 on NEHGS, which corrects the misidentifications made by Charles Banks in his 3-volume work on the Vineyard and brings the line to the mid 1700s in Bristol and Plymouth Counties.) Albert's Gen 8 Doty line run through his father as follows: Edmond R. Remington, Rebecca (Doty) Remington, Jerahmeel/Jerathmiel Doty, Edward, Ellis, Joseph, Edward of the Mayflower. His Gen 8 Native American line runs through Jerahmeel/Jerathmiel's wife, Sarah (Look) Doty of Rockester (Adam, Samuel, Ellis (Doggett) Look, unnamed first wife of Joseph Doggett of Tisbury.)
Thomas, Lucy - A descendant of Peter Browne via her mother Rebecca Tinkham, she is one of my ancestors as well. You can see her husband Ephraim Thompson Jr., by following his link below. I cannot vouch for the authenticity of this photo but if you are a descendant perhaps you can. Lucy lived 1772-1848 and like Ephraim was born in Plymouth Co and died in Bristol Co, MA.
Thompson, Ephraim (Jr. - also Tomson or Thomson) - my Cooke & Browne ancestor, though he looks in this picture as though he was not sure he actually wanted to be. My line runs through son Alvah, whose photo is not online, but you can see Ephraim's half sister, Mary (Thompson) Winch and her descendants on findagrave.com by following her link and the Winch links, below. You can see his wife, Lucy Thomas by following her link, above. Ephraim Jr. was born in Plymouth Co 1771 and died in Bristol Co, MA in 1854. I have no idea where this picture came from and cannot vouch for its authenticity but if you are a Thompson, perhaps you will recognize him.
Thompson, Ezra, husband of Cynthia Gifford and son of Isaac Thompson, would have been a Billington, Brown, and Cooke. According to his findagrave writeup he was born in 1792.
Thompson, Isaac, father of Cynthia Gifford's husband Ezra, was a Billington, Brown, and Cooke descendant. He was born and buried in Middleborough, Plymouth Co, according to the writeup and his Gen. 6 birth is recorded in the Peter Brown silver book. He and his son Ezra Thompson do share a resemblance.
Thompson, Mary (1797-1870) born in Marlow, Cheshire Co, NH married John Winch, also supposedly of Cheshire Co., and they moved to Canadice, Ontario Co., NY. One of her sons (Lorenzo) and three of Lorenzo's children posed for pictures which you can see by following the Winch links to findagrave.com, below. Mary is a Cooke, possibly twice, and a Browne twice. She was the half sister of my ancestor Ephraim Tomson/Thomson/Thompson Jr. (above) who remained in MA when his father and the second wife, Mary Washburn, moved to NH.
Warren, Josiah (b. 1798 Boston), a Generation 8 Warren descendant via father Josiah and grandfather Josiah, who is in the Warren silver book, v 2.
Winch, Lorenzo (1827-1902), and 3 of Lorenzo's children Emma J., Wilbur E. (2 photos, 1880 & 1930), and John T., are all on findagrave.com courtesy of various individuals who posted photos from publication or supplied by the Canadice, NY historian. The Winches lived in Canadice, Ontario Co, NY. They are descendants of Francis Cooke and Peter Browne, thanks to Amasa and Lorenzo's mother, Mary Thompson, also on findagrave. (See above.) I believe the Cooke line is double and I know that the Browne line is. My lines run through Mary's half brother, Ephraim Thomson Jr., who did not move to Cheshire Co., NH with his father Ephraim and the second wife Mary Washburn.
