I'v hit a Brick wall in my RI Genealogy.. can any one help me?
Hello;
I'm a member on Ancestry and I go over once in a while to Family search(dot)org to search. I got past a few bricks in one side of my family searching that way. But Have I found a wall I can't seem to get past. Can any one help me or give me some direction?
I'm searching for :
SYMON MITCHELL (Simon)
B approx 1801 to 1808... Family stories have him
D 01 MAR 1869as being born on the Block
(Block Island aka-New
Shoreham RI)
Death date is off a head stone in East Greenwich Cemetery.
***It does Not state "In Memory of" on the stone.
So he must be interred there.
Have been to EG town hall... no death record there. Did find a couple of land evidence records. Where the land he owned in E.G. were transferred to his 2 sons and another giving his wife "Margaret" a life lease on the property.
Also, a deed for the burial plot in the EG Cemetery, that he bought with a Silas Mitchell.(31 Dec 1891 in E.G. If Silas is buried in the lot, his resting place is un marked.) I does not state the relationship between the two men.(brothers? Uncle and nephew? cousins?)
Found death record of his first wife Nancy R Mitchell.( 15 Sep 1853 in EG. She died of child bed fever
Went to the Archives... No Birth or death record for Simon there, either.
On Ancestry I found Simon in the 1830, 1840 Fed Census on the Block... In the 1850 Fed Census I find Simon in EG.
I went over to the town hall on the Block and New Port historical society and couldn't find any birth record for him. They both go by Arnold s books... and really have a slight attitude when you want to go thru the birth records volumes. ( Hello.... why go by those volumes as Gospel as to what records you have or not??? That man made some mistakes transcribing the info he put into print.)
I did also find a few Land evidence records on the block that were interesting. One has Simon and Nancy purchasing a lot with a "Hezekiah" Mitchell. Again it does not state a relation between the two.
I am beside myself trying to find Simon's birth, marriage and death records.
Any other Ideas where to look???
Thanks
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