Mostly Angels in the Sky

Peter Brooks¹

Family

TMG ID:50361, (1 Sep 1796 - )

Relationships:

3rd cousin 5 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
3rd cousin 8 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

John Brooks¹ B: c 1768

Mother*

Lena Van Valkenburg¹ B: 23 Sep 1772

Vital Statistics

Born: Peter Brooks was born on Thursday, 1 Sep 1796.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

1796, Peter was christened at Helderberg Reformed Church, Guilderland, Albany County, New York^G.¹
He was the son of: John Brooks and Lena Van Valkenburg.¹

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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Elizabeth Brooks¹

Family

TMG ID:50362, (30 Sep 1798 - )

Relationships:

3rd cousin 5 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
3rd cousin 8 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

John Brooks¹ B: c 1768

Mother*

Lena Van Valkenburg¹ B: 23 Sep 1772

Vital Statistics

Died at Ontario, Canada^G.¹
Born: Elizabeth Brooks was born on Sunday, 30 Sep 1798.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

1798, Elizabeth was christened at Helderberg Reformed Church, Guilderland, Albany County, New York^G.¹
She was the daughter of: John Brooks and Lena Van Valkenburg.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Thursday, 13 Nov 1817, her married name became Mrs. Van Valkenburg (née Brooks).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Thursday, 13 Nov 1817, Elizabeth, age 19 years, 1 month and 14 days, and Nicholas Van Valkenburg, age 19 years and 11 months, son of: Niklass Van Valkenburg and Neeltje Moak, were married at Saint George Protestant Episcopal Church, Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York^G, Related: 1^st cousins.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Thursday, 13 Nov 1817, Elizabeth, age 19 years, 1 month and 14 days, and Nicholas Van Valkenburg, age 19 years and 11 months, son of: Niklass Van Valkenburg and Neeltje Moak, were married at Saint George Protestant Episcopal Church, Schenectady, Schenectady County, New York^G, Related: 1^st cousins.¹

Children of: Elizabeth Brooks and Nicholas Van Valkenburg

Lohatin Allen Van Valkenburg¹ B: 1 Mar 1818
Elizabeth Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1821
Louisa Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1826
Maria Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1829
Sarah Van Valkenburg+¹ B: 1830, D: 1917
Ira Van Valkenburg+¹ B: c 1834, D: 1875
Mary Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1838
William Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1839, D: 7 Dec 1901
Margaret Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1841

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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Lena Van Valkenburg¹

Family

TMG ID:50363, (Sep 1770 - )

Relationships:

2nd cousin 6 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
2nd cousin 9 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Harme Van Valkenburg¹ B: 3 Feb 1739

Mother*

Margaret Brown¹

Vital Statistics

Sep 1770, Lena was christened at High & Low Dutch Reformed Church, Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York Colony, British American Colonies^G, Others who witnessed the ceremony: Harme Van Valkenburg and Margaret Brown.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Lena Van Valkenburg was the daughter of: Harme Van Valkenburg and Margaret Brown.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Brooks (née Van Valkenburg).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Lena and John Brooks, son of: Peter Brooks, were married.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Lena and John Brooks, son of: Peter Brooks, were married.¹

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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Sarah Brooks¹

Family

TMG ID:50364, (7 Jul 1803 - )

Relationships:

3rd cousin 5 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
3rd cousin 8 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

John Brooks¹ B: c 1768

Mother*

Lena Van Valkenburg¹ B: 23 Sep 1772

Vital Statistics

Born: Sarah Brooks was born on Thursday, 7 Jul 1803.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Sarah Brooks was the daughter of: John Brooks and Lena Van Valkenburg.¹
Sunday, 24 Jul 1803, Sarah was christened at Helderberg Reformed Church, Guilderland, Albany County, New York^G.¹

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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John Brooks¹

Family

TMG ID:50365, (4 Apr 1805 - )

Relationships:

3rd cousin 5 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
3rd cousin 8 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

John Brooks¹ B: c 1768

Mother*

Lena Van Valkenburg¹ B: 23 Sep 1772

Vital Statistics

Born: John Brooks was born on Thursday, 4 Apr 1805.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Saturday, 12 Jan 1805, John was christened at Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Middletown, Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New York^G.¹
He was the son of: John Brooks and Lena Van Valkenburg.¹

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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Cornelis Van Valkenburg¹

Family

TMG ID:50366, (22 Feb 1774 - )

Relationships:

2nd cousin 6 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
2nd cousin 9 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Johannes Van Valkenburg¹ B: 1740/41

Mother*

Elizabeth Feek¹ B: 23 May 1740

Vital Statistics

Died at Ontario, Canada^G.¹
Born: Cornelis Van Valkenburg was born on Tuesday, 22 Feb 1774.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Cornelis Van Valkenburg was the son of: Johannes Van Valkenburg and Elizabeth Feek.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Sunday, 22 Feb 1801, Cornelis, age 27 years, and Louisa Davis, age 22 years, daughter of: Thaddeus Davis and Deborah Hall, were married at Helderberg Reformed Church, Guilderland, Albany County, New York^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Sunday, 22 Feb 1801, Cornelis, age 27 years, and Louisa Davis, age 22 years, daughter of: Thaddeus Davis and Deborah Hall, were married at Helderberg Reformed Church, Guilderland, Albany County, New York^G.¹

Children of: Cornelis Van Valkenburg and Louisa Davis

John Van Valkenburg+¹ B: 1801
Ira Van Valkenburg+¹ B: c 1802, D: 27 Mar 1875
Betsy Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1804
Loyal Van Valkenburg+¹ B: c 1805
Hiram Van Valkenburg+¹ B: 1807, D: 1 Jul 1880
Thaddeus Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1808, D: 23 Sep 1891
Deborah Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1810
Lavina Van Valkenburg¹ B: 20 Nov 1812, D: 28 Jun 1888
Margaret Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1814
Joseph Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1816
Noah Van Valkenburg+¹ B: c 1818, D: b 1880
Sarah Van Valkenburg+¹ B: 20 Dec 1819, D: 25 Apr 1878
Cornelius Van Valkenburg+¹ B: c 1823
Lucinda Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1826
Louise Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1828

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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Louisa Davis¹

Family

TMG ID:50367, (22 Feb 1779 - 19 Nov 1874)

Father*

Thaddeus Davis¹

Mother*

Deborah Hall¹

Vital Statistics

Born: Louisa Davis was born on Monday, 22 Feb 1779, at New York^G.¹
Died on Thursday, 19 Nov 1874 at Norwich, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada^G, at age 95 years, 8 months and 28 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Louisa Davis was the daughter of: Thaddeus Davis and Deborah Hall.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Sunday, 22 Feb 1801, her married name became Mrs. Van Valkenburg (née Davis).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Sunday, 22 Feb 1801, Louisa, age 22 years, and Cornelis Van Valkenburg, age 27 years, son of: Johannes Van Valkenburg and Elizabeth Feek, were married at Helderberg Reformed Church, Guilderland, Albany County, New York^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Sunday, 22 Feb 1801, Louisa, age 22 years, and Cornelis Van Valkenburg, age 27 years, son of: Johannes Van Valkenburg and Elizabeth Feek, were married at Helderberg Reformed Church, Guilderland, Albany County, New York^G.¹

Children of: Louisa Davis and Cornelis Van Valkenburg

John Van Valkenburg+¹ B: 1801
Ira Van Valkenburg+¹ B: c 1802, D: 27 Mar 1875
Betsy Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1804
Loyal Van Valkenburg+¹ B: c 1805
Hiram Van Valkenburg+¹ B: 1807, D: 1 Jul 1880
Thaddeus Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1808, D: 23 Sep 1891
Deborah Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1810
Lavina Van Valkenburg¹ B: 20 Nov 1812, D: 28 Jun 1888
Margaret Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1814
Joseph Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1816
Noah Van Valkenburg+¹ B: c 1818, D: b 1880
Sarah Van Valkenburg+¹ B: 20 Dec 1819, D: 25 Apr 1878
Cornelius Van Valkenburg+¹ B: c 1823
Lucinda Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1826
Louise Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1828

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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Thaddeus Davis¹

Family

TMG ID:50368

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Thaddeus and Deborah Hall were married.

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Thaddeus and Deborah Hall were married.

Child of: Thaddeus Davis and Deborah Hall

Louisa Davis+¹ B: 22 Feb 1779, D: 19 Nov 1874

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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Deborah Hall¹

Family

TMG ID:50369

Alias(es)

Name-Married: her married name became Mrs. Davis (née Hall).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Deborah and Thaddeus Davis were married.

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Deborah and Thaddeus Davis were married.

Child of: Deborah Hall and Thaddeus Davis

Louisa Davis+¹ B: 22 Feb 1779, D: 19 Nov 1874

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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1 Feb 2013

John Van Valkenburg¹

Family

TMG ID:50370, (1801 - )

Relationships:

3rd cousin 5 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
3rd cousin 8 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Cornelis Van Valkenburg¹ B: 22 Feb 1774

Mother*

Louisa Davis¹ B: 22 Feb 1779, D: 19 Nov 1874

Vital Statistics

Born: John Van Valkenburg was born in 1801, at Toronto Twp., Peel County, Ontario, Canada^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

John Van Valkenburg was the son of: Cornelis Van Valkenburg and Louisa Davis.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	circa 1831, John and Catherine Phoenix were married at Ontario, Canada^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

circa 1831, John and Catherine Phoenix were married at Ontario, Canada^G.¹

Children of: John Van Valkenburg and Catherine Phoenix

Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg+¹ B: 2 Apr 1833, D: 19 Feb 1922
Rachel Elizabeth Van Valkenburg+¹ B: 2 Oct 1834, D: 21 Nov 1896
Margaret Van Valkenburg+¹ B: c 1835, D: 13 May 1913
Abram Wellington Van Valkenburg+¹ B: c 1840, D: Nov 1924
Mary Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1843

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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1 Feb 2013

Catherine Phoenix¹

Family

TMG ID:50371, (c 1810 - )

Vital Statistics

Born: Catherine Phoenix was born circa 1810, at Peel County, Ontario, Canada^G.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: circa 1831, her married name became Mrs. Van Valkenburg (née Phoenix).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	circa 1831, Catherine and John Van Valkenburg, son of: Cornelis Van Valkenburg and Louisa Davis, were married at Ontario, Canada^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

circa 1831, Catherine and John Van Valkenburg, son of: Cornelis Van Valkenburg and Louisa Davis, were married at Ontario, Canada^G.¹

Children of: Catherine Phoenix and John Van Valkenburg

Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg+¹ B: 2 Apr 1833, D: 19 Feb 1922
Rachel Elizabeth Van Valkenburg+¹ B: 2 Oct 1834, D: 21 Nov 1896
Margaret Van Valkenburg+¹ B: c 1835, D: 13 May 1913
Abram Wellington Van Valkenburg+¹ B: c 1840, D: Nov 1924
Mary Van Valkenburg¹ B: c 1843

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg¹

Family

TMG ID:50372, (2 Apr 1833 - 19 Feb 1922)

Relationships:

4th cousin 4 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
4th cousin 7 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

John Van Valkenburg¹ B: 1801

Mother*

Catherine Phoenix¹ B: c 1810

Vital Statistics

Born: Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg was born on Tuesday, 2 Apr 1833, at Toronto Twp., Peel County, Ontario, Canada^G.¹
Died on Sunday, 19 Feb 1922 at Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan^G, at age 88 years, 10 months and 17 days.¹
Interred after 19 Feb 1922 at Jackson Cemetery, Courtland, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada^G.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg was the daughter of: John Van Valkenburg and Catherine Phoenix.¹

Alias(es)

Name-Married: on Thursday, 17 Mar 1853, her married name became Mrs. Reagh (née Van Valkenburg).

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Thursday, 17 Mar 1853, Amanda, age 19 years, 11 months and 15 days, and Duncan Reagh, age 26 years were married at Courtland, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Thursday, 17 Mar 1853, Amanda, age 19 years, 11 months and 15 days, and Duncan Reagh, age 26 years were married at Courtland, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada^G.¹

Children of: Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg and Duncan Reagh

Joseph Reagh¹ B: 24 Nov 1855, D: 16 Mar 1864
Catherine Reagh¹ B: 2 May 1857, D: 31 Jan 1932
John Reagh¹ B: 23 Feb 1859, D: 29 Dec 1937
Amanda Jane Reagh¹ B: 11 Jun 1861, D: 16 Oct 1947
Sarah Reagh¹ B: 2 Nov 1862, D: 13 Mar 1864
Elizabeth Reagh¹ B: 23 Jan 1865, D: 31 Jul 1927
Melissa Reagh¹ B: 9 May 1868, D: bt 23 May 1895 - 1898
Margaret Reagh¹ B: 1870, D: 4 Jul 1949
Duncan Hiram Reagh¹ B: 5 Dec 1871, D: 1958
Bertha Reagh¹ B: c 1873
Joel Reagh¹ B: 1877, D: 3 Apr 1966

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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Duncan Reagh¹

Family

TMG ID:50373, (1827 - 7 Jun 1897)

Vital Statistics

Born: Duncan Reagh was born in 1827, at Courtland, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada^G.¹
Died on Monday, 7 Jun 1897 at Courtland, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada^G, at age 70 years.¹
Interred after 7 Jun 1897 at Jackson Cemetery, Courtland, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada^G.¹

Union(s)

Event	Details/Notes
Marriage	Thursday, 17 Mar 1853, Duncan, age 26 years, and Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg, age 19 years, 11 months and 15 days, daughter of: John Van Valkenburg and Catherine Phoenix, were married at Courtland, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada^G.¹

Event

Details/Notes

Marriage

Thursday, 17 Mar 1853, Duncan, age 26 years, and Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg, age 19 years, 11 months and 15 days, daughter of: John Van Valkenburg and Catherine Phoenix, were married at Courtland, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada^G.¹

Children of: Duncan Reagh and Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg

Joseph Reagh¹ B: 24 Nov 1855, D: 16 Mar 1864
Catherine Reagh¹ B: 2 May 1857, D: 31 Jan 1932
John Reagh¹ B: 23 Feb 1859, D: 29 Dec 1937
Amanda Jane Reagh¹ B: 11 Jun 1861, D: 16 Oct 1947
Sarah Reagh¹ B: 2 Nov 1862, D: 13 Mar 1864
Elizabeth Reagh¹ B: 23 Jan 1865, D: 31 Jul 1927
Melissa Reagh¹ B: 9 May 1868, D: bt 23 May 1895 - 1898
Margaret Reagh¹ B: 1870, D: 4 Jul 1949
Duncan Hiram Reagh¹ B: 5 Dec 1871, D: 1958
Bertha Reagh¹ B: c 1873
Joel Reagh¹ B: 1877, D: 3 Apr 1966

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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Joseph Reagh¹

Family

TMG ID:50374, (24 Nov 1855 - 16 Mar 1864)

Relationships:

5th cousin 3 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
5th cousin 6 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Duncan Reagh¹ B: 1827, D: 7 Jun 1897

Mother*

Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg¹ B: 2 Apr 1833, D: 19 Feb 1922

Vital Statistics

Born: Joseph Reagh was born on Saturday, 24 Nov 1855, at Courtland, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada^G.¹
Died on Wednesday, 16 Mar 1864 at Courtland, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada^G, at age 8 years, 3 months and 21 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Joseph Reagh was the son of: Duncan Reagh and Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg.¹

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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Catherine Reagh¹

Family

TMG ID:50375, (2 May 1857 - 31 Jan 1932)

Relationships:

5th cousin 3 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
5th cousin 6 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Duncan Reagh¹ B: 1827, D: 7 Jun 1897

Mother*

Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg¹ B: 2 Apr 1833, D: 19 Feb 1922

Vital Statistics

Born: Catherine Reagh was born on Saturday, 2 May 1857, at Courtland, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada^G.¹
Died on Sunday, 31 Jan 1932 at Tillsonburg, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada^G, at age 74 years, 8 months and 29 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Catherine Reagh was the daughter of: Duncan Reagh and Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg.¹

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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John Reagh¹

Family

TMG ID:50376, (23 Feb 1859 - 29 Dec 1937)

Relationships:

5th cousin 3 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
5th cousin 6 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Duncan Reagh¹ B: 1827, D: 7 Jun 1897

Mother*

Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg¹ B: 2 Apr 1833, D: 19 Feb 1922

Vital Statistics

Born: John Reagh was born on Wednesday, 23 Feb 1859, at Courtland, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada^G.¹
Died on Wednesday, 29 Dec 1937 at Lander, British Columbia, Canada^G, at age 78 years, 10 months and 6 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

John Reagh was the son of: Duncan Reagh and Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg.¹

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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Amanda Jane Reagh¹

Family

TMG ID:50377, (11 Jun 1861 - 16 Oct 1947)

Relationships:

5th cousin 3 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
5th cousin 6 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Duncan Reagh¹ B: 1827, D: 7 Jun 1897

Mother*

Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg¹ B: 2 Apr 1833, D: 19 Feb 1922

Vital Statistics

Born: Amanda Jane Reagh was born on Tuesday, 11 Jun 1861, at Courtland, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada^G.¹
Died on Thursday, 16 Oct 1947 at age 86 years, 4 months and 5 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Amanda Jane Reagh was the daughter of: Duncan Reagh and Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg.¹

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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Sarah Reagh¹

Family

TMG ID:50378, (2 Nov 1862 - 13 Mar 1864)

Relationships:

5th cousin 3 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
5th cousin 6 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Duncan Reagh¹ B: 1827, D: 7 Jun 1897

Mother*

Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg¹ B: 2 Apr 1833, D: 19 Feb 1922

Vital Statistics

Born: Sarah Reagh was born on Sunday, 2 Nov 1862, at Courtland, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada^G.¹
Died on Sunday, 13 Mar 1864 at Courtland, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada^G, at age 1 year, 4 months and 11 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Sarah Reagh was the daughter of: Duncan Reagh and Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg.¹

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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Elizabeth Reagh¹

Family

TMG ID:50379, (23 Jan 1865 - 31 Jul 1927)

Relationships:

5th cousin 3 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
5th cousin 6 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Duncan Reagh¹ B: 1827, D: 7 Jun 1897

Mother*

Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg¹ B: 2 Apr 1833, D: 19 Feb 1922

Vital Statistics

Born: Elizabeth Reagh was born on Monday, 23 Jan 1865, at Courtland, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada^G.¹
Died on Sunday, 31 Jul 1927 at Hawkestone, Ontario, Canada^G, at age 62 years, 6 months and 8 days.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Elizabeth Reagh was the daughter of: Duncan Reagh and Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg.¹

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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Melissa Reagh¹

Family

TMG ID:50380, (9 May 1868 - bt 23 May 1895 - 1898)

Relationships:

5th cousin 3 times removed of Elsie Dora Lewis
5th cousin 6 times removed of Descendant Wagner

Father*

Duncan Reagh¹ B: 1827, D: 7 Jun 1897

Mother*

Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg¹ B: 2 Apr 1833, D: 19 Feb 1922

Vital Statistics

Born: Melissa Reagh was born on Saturday, 9 May 1868, at Courtland, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada^G.¹
Died between 23 May 1895 and 1898.¹

Obituary & Other Vital Info

Melissa Reagh was the daughter of: Duncan Reagh and Amanda Jane Van Valkenburg.¹

Citations

[S589] National Association of the Van Valkenburg(h) Family, online <http://tinyurl.com/p6hd6h6>. Hereinafter cited as Internet - Van Valkenburg Assoc.

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I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
— Will Rogers
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'
— Will Rogers
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
— Will Rogers
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
— Will Rogers
I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
— Will Rogers
I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.
— Will Rogers
I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.
— Will Rogers
If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.
— Will Rogers
If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.
— Will Rogers
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
— Will Rogers
If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.
— Will Rogers
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
— Will Rogers
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
— Will Rogers
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
— Will Rogers
If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
— Will Rogers
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
— Will Rogers
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
— Will Rogers
In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
— Will Rogers
Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
— Will Rogers
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
— Will Rogers
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
— Will Rogers
It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.
— Will Rogers
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
— Will Rogers
Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
— Will Rogers
Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.
— Will Rogers
Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier 'n puttin' it back in.
— Will Rogers
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
— Will Rogers
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
— Will Rogers
Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.
— Will Rogers
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
— Will Rogers
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
— Will Rogers
Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.
— Will Rogers
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
— Will Rogers
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
— Will Rogers
One Ad is worth more to a paper than forty Editorials.
— Will Rogers
One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
— Will Rogers
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.
— Will Rogers
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
— Will Rogers
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
— Will Rogers
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
— Will Rogers
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
— Will Rogers
Politics is applesauce.
— Will Rogers
Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.
— Will Rogers
So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
— Will Rogers
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
— Will Rogers
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
— Will Rogers
The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
— Will Rogers
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
— Will Rogers
The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.
— Will Rogers
The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
— Will Rogers
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
— Will Rogers
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.
— Will Rogers
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'
— Will Rogers
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
— Will Rogers
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
— Will Rogers
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
— Will Rogers
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
— Will Rogers
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
— Will Rogers
The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.
— Will Rogers
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
— Will Rogers
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got.
— Will Rogers
The United States never lost a war or won a conference.
— Will Rogers
The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.
— Will Rogers
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
— Will Rogers
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
— Will Rogers
There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
— Will Rogers
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
— Will Rogers
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
— Will Rogers
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
— Will Rogers
Things ain't what they used to be and never were.
— Will Rogers
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
— Will Rogers
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
— Will Rogers
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
— Will Rogers
We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.
— Will Rogers
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
— Will Rogers
We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
— Will Rogers
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
— Will Rogers
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
— Will Rogers
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
— Will Rogers
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
— Will Rogers
When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.
— Will Rogers
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
— Will Rogers
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
— Will Rogers
Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
— Will Rogers
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
— Will Rogers
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
— Will Rogers
Every person you will pass on the street today is going to die. Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
— Sam Harris
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do one thing every day that scares you.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do one thing every day that scares you.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Never allow a person to tell you 'no' who doesn't have the power to say 'yes.'
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Work is always an antidote to depression.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do …
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It's your life-but only if you make it so.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Courage is exhilarating.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
— Eleanor Roosevelt
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The giving of love is an education in itself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
All of life is a constant education.
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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