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Re: just surfin

2002-08-09 09:10:35Z

I'll be coming out with my dad, Lewis, for the one next month.

Re: this is great!

MRILYNMCCONNELL44 — 2002-04-13 04:38:25Z

Hi Tami
I suspect the Charles Unsbee you are looking for is the same Charles Unsbee that we are researching... I have some information on the family for you if you care to email me at bratcatii@aol.com
Hope to hear from you soon.... Marilyn

Re: Hi cousin!

2001-10-06 17:35:58Z

Randy,

Hi! My name is Tami Hankins and Carl Stanley Unsbee was my gr-grandfather.(step) I think. I have been corresponding with tavia and Marilyn trying to figure out for sure. If you could help in this matter it would be great. My great grandmother's name was Sarah Elizabeth Henderson Hankins Unsbee. She married Carl S. Unsbee born August 5th 1889. If any of this jives with your Carl Unsbee could you let me know? You can e-mail me at ess@rconnect.com.

Re: this is great!

2001-10-04 23:37:12Z

Yes--Marilyn is wonderful. Let me see what I can dig up and put together for you. I'll e-mail it to the address you gave me in your last message. Don't despair if it takes a little while. I have just gone back to school and I have all that "school stuff" to do in addition to the regular family stuff.

I'll get back with you ASAP. Take care and keep digging for family info. It always seems to surface in places where you least expect it.

Tavia

Re: this is great!

2001-10-03 21:59:09Z

Tavia,
Thank you so much for responding! Actually I found out after I posted that about Charles that it was actually charles' son Carl Stanley that is my stepgr-gr grandfather. I have been corresponding with marilyn about this and she is a wonderful help I would love to receive any info you have. you can contact me at ess@rconnect.com I have not had much luck with searching family links due to nobody remembering anything. would appreciate anything!!!!!
thanks a ton Tami

Re: this is great!

2001-10-03 21:09:04Z

I love it when this happens! Your Charles Unsbee is definitely my Charles Unsbee (my great-great grandfather). He was from Sangamon County, Ill. I still live in the area and his grave is very near my home in a country cemetery. I know that he re-married after my great-great grandother died; was you grandma Unsbee's name Helen by any chance? I seem to recall that name and maybe Osburn as her family name. does any of this ring a bell? I think she may be buried with him if I remember correctly.

If you want more family info I'll be happy to share what I know about the Unsbees. They have been in this country since before 1776 but I'm still working on their origins before that. I think they were probably from the north of England.

Re: this is great!

2001-09-11 20:44:54Z

Hi! Never done this before but messages caught my eye while trying to find something about my family. My gr-gr-step grandfathers name was charles unsbee. Not sure if same one as your charles because my family has no clue as to their history. My father doesn't even know his grandmothers name because they always called her g-ma unsbee. He thinks they were married in decatur, ill or sangamon co. ill not really sure. Thanks for your time!

cousins

bracat2 — 2001-06-22 11:28:17Z

just ck'd out Unsbee board. i am another cuz living in Los Vegas. Lewis and Marty are here as Lewis called, Tom (husband/buddy) spoke breifly with him. email me Tav I can't seem to get thru on the address - when you have time, you too, Randy..

unsbee

bracat2 — 2001-06-22 11:28:17Z

hi i joined ancestory. will send you info if i have your email address. researching Davis family.

just surfin

2001-04-09 19:47:16Z

just surfin..really enjoy the family reunions

this is great!

2000-11-11 14:27:01Z

I was at that reunion! My father is Richard Unsbee. Your dad and my grandfather (Paul)are cousins. I think your parents are delightful! I always look forward to seeing them at the reunion. It would be wonderful if you and your family could come some time.

I have been working on the family tree for a couple of years. I have us traced back to the 1850s here in Sangamon County, but have so far not had any luck connecting us to the Unglesbys out in Maryland and Ohio (there are tons of them there). I call people in those areas when I go there for my job, but so far no one has kept very good records on the family. I have copies of documents from the late 1700s from a William Unglesby who petitioned for a military pension from the U.S. government for work he did as a military artificer in pre-revolutionary Indian skirmishes in the Ohio territory. I do not know what relation he is to us but I firmly believe that he is related since the name is so unusual. I will keep trying, though. My hope is to get info together and get copies to all our family members eventually. Unglesby appears in the Domesday Book (the first census in Great Britain - dated around 1067) as a place name. I can't seem to find anything further on that.

Anyway, we are a colorful family if the Unsbees I know are any indicator! Brilliant, you know, and quite wonderful (and I say that without any prejudice of course!)

Let's keep in touch and I'll let you know if I find out anything else. In the meantime, consider coming to the reunion!

Hi cousin!

2000-11-10 09:33:23Z

Lewis Unsbee is my father and still lives in La Grange, Il. with my mother, Marjorie Burt Unsbee. My brother, John, just moved from La Grange to Las Vegas. Lewis' father was Carl Unsbee and I guess his father was Charles.

I remember years ago trying to find Charles' name at the Illinois memorial at Vicksburg where he fought with the 3rd Illinois Cavalry but to no avail. Later, we found he was listed not under Unsbee but Hilman.

From what little checking I've done online it looks like Charles Unsbee was married twice:
To Catharine Agnes Lake on 9/10/1868 and after she died to Delora Helen Osborn on 12/6/1871. I'm assuming I'm decended from the second marriage, as I don't believe there were children from the first.

I guess my parents went to a reunion several years back and had a great time and were able to pick up more family info. At some point I'd like to gather it all together for my kids.

I moved from Illinois to Colorado in 1979, then to San Jose, Calif. in 1988 and then to Gresham, Or (outside Portland) in 1991 where we are today.

charles unsbee

2000-11-10 09:24:20Z

Hello Randy! We are cousins then because I believe that he was my great-great-grandfather as well. Hillman was his stepfather's name. Poffenberger was his mother's maiden name. I found her grave a few years back near Rochester, Illinois. Are you in Illinois? Are you related to Louis Unsbee?

correction

2000-11-09 11:14:43Z

I meant to say he had enlisted under Hilman during the Civil War, which may have been his mother's maiden name.

Unsbee

2000-11-09 11:13:08Z

My great grandfather was Charles Unsbee, previously Charles Hilman, who I think is also an unglesby/unklesby. He may be the one who changed the name to Unsbee after the Civil War. (He had enlisted under Unsbee in the Ill. Cavalry)

unsbee and davis

2000-10-02 06:58:36Z

Hi! i'm so glad that you are looking into the Davis's. I imgine there is quite a lot on them. Let me know if I can get you anything from the Sangamon Valley archives here. It was so good to see you guys at the reunion. Dad was just saying yesterday how much he enjoyed it. I'm at toadbug58@yahoo.com.
Love, Tavia

unglesby/unklesby

2000-09-02 17:50:06Z

I am looking for information about the Unglesby family (later changed to Unsbee) which can link my gr-gr-gr grandfather Adam Unglesby from Sangamon County Illinois with his ancestors. He married Sarah Puffenbarger in 1840.