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pimg src=http://z.about.com/d/genealogy/1/0/x/Y/Ella-1874-diary-p1big.jpg alt=Diary entry by Ella Burnham, 1874, Vermont width=200 height=150 align=right border=0 hspace=4 /Once I uncovered the name of the author of my stronga href=http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc#038;zu=http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/02/09/ellas-1874-pocket-diary.htmmysterious 1874 pocket diary/a/strong, I of course wanted to learn more about her family and, hopefully, track down a living descendant so that the diary can find a good home./p
pI began by searching for Ella Burnham in the a href=http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc#038;zu=http://pilot.familysearch.com/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordimage;c=1438024;r=639106215;role=principal1870 Vermont census/a and quickly found an Ella M. Burnham of about the right age living in the household of Loomis S. and Luthera Pierce in Calais, Washington, Vermont (not far from Barre, Vermont, listed as the place she visited her mother in 1874). Tracing the family back through marriage and census records, I discovered that Luthera was born as Luthera Nelson to Alva Nelson and Millie Ainsworth. She first married Charles Burnham and is found living with him in the a href=http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc#038;zu=http://pilot.familysearch.com/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordimage;c=1401638;r=555205603;role=principal1850 census of Woodbury, Washington, Vermont/a. According to this a href=http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc#038;zu=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/VTWASHIN/2003-05/1052334918post on the Washington Vermont message board/a hosted by RootsWeb, Charles Burnham and Luthera Nelson married on 16 Oct 1850 in Calais, Washington, Vermont. This is a bit of a conflict with the 1850 census entry which has Luthera listed with the last name of Burnham as of the June 1 census date, so I would pursue further by obtaining the original marriage record (except that this actually isn't the correct family as you'll see below). Charles apparently died prior to the 1860 census, where Luthera is a href=http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc#038;zu=http://pilot.familysearch.com/recordsearch/start.html#p=recordimage;c=1473181;r=684868539;role=principallisted as a head of household/a in Woodbury, Washington, Vermont with children Harriet, Ella and Harry. On 2 Sep 1867, Luthera married her third husband, Louis Pierce - the Loomis Pierce she's living with in 1870./p
pThis Ella M. Burnham, however, seemed just a few years too young to be my M. Ella Burnham, so I was not at all confident that I had the right family, despite the coincidence of name, age and location. Good thing, too! a href =http://genealogy.about.com/b/a/256411.htmRead more.../ap style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;padding:.5em;"a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hczu=http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/02/16/who-was-ella-burnham.htm"Who was Ella Burnham?/a originally appeared on a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hczu=http://genealogy.about.com/"About.com Genealogy/a on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 at 08:23:07./ppa href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hczu=http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/02/16/who-was-ella-burnham.htm"Permalink/a | a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hczu=http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/02/16/who-was-ella-burnham.htm#gB3"Comment/a | a href="http://genealogy.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://genealogy.about.com/b/2010/02/16/who-was-ella-burnham.htmzItl=Who was Ella Burnham?"Email this/a/p
