The orchard

Source: Kent Archives. Deed dated 26 March 1835.

I am continuing to go through the documents sent by the Kent Archives on my 5th-great-grandfather Samuel Oyler. As with yesterday's 1000 year lease, the document above shows a deed from the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty to Samuel, for six acres and a property called the House on the Hill in Cranbrook, Kent. The six acres (actually one 3.5 acre field and a separate 2.5 acre field adjoining the house) were used by Samuel for an orchard of fruit trees. Samuel had negotiated the lease on the land from several area clergy, including William Clark. A whole copy of the deed is below:

Source: Kent Archives.

Source: British Museum. Etching by Francis Haden. Cranbrook, 1863.

The 1000 Year Lease

A second document in the set provided by the Kent Archives shows that Samuel Oyler was assigned a 1000 year lease for a garden, stable, barn and orchard in Cranbrook, Kent. This was connected to the other document I shared yesterday transferring land to Samuel Oyler from the estate of William Clark.

Source: Kent Archives. 6 April 1834.

Source: Kent Archives. Assignment of lease.

Source: Kent Archives. Signature page.

Signature of Samuel Oyler

Source: Kent Archives. Signature on document from 6 April 1834.

Yesterday the Kent Archives sent me a set of documents on my 5th-great-grandfather Samuel Oyler. The signature above comes from a release on a plot of land in Cranbrook, Kent on 6 April 1834.

Source: Kent Archives.

According to the documents, Samuel had rights to a property with a garden in a town called Saint Davids Bridge in Cranbrook, Kent. From the Kent Photo Archive, Samuel may have seen a view that looked like this:

Source: Kent Photo Archive. Saint Davids Bridge.

There is more to sort through on these documents, which shed light on Samuel's descendants in Kent.

Happy 4th

Source: Library of Congress. 4th of July over DC. 2008.

New find on Uriah Lamon

While digging around on Newspapers.com I found an obituary I had missed for my 2nd-great-grandfather, Uriah Allen Lamon. I had not thought to look in Iowa, so this was a surprise.

Quad-City Times, 20 June 1945.

According to the obituary, Uriah had moved to the Royal Neighbor home in Davenport, Iowa in January 1943. This was less than three years after the date of the letter he wrote in May 1940 to the daughter of his niece, Daisy Lamon. It appears the Royal Neighbor home was an assisted living facility. Davenport is right across the river from Rock Island, Illinois, about 110 miles from Fort Branch, Indiana and 100 miles from Indianapolis, Indiana. It is not clear to me why he would have gone to Davenport but maybe other family was in the area. It is also odd that the clipping does not mention his other son George, who was living in Huntingburg, Indiana at the time.

The obituary says he was born in Tennessee, but I know this is incorrect, he was born in Harrison County, Indiana. It does provide a birth date (9 June 1854), which I did not have before. Just like the article mentions, I found a Findagrave entry for a Uriah Allen Lamon buried in Fairmount Cemetery in Davenport, Iowa. A photo of the headstone is below:

Source: Findagrave.

This shows that headstone for him and wife Anna Smith Lamon in Clark Cemetery in Gibson County, Indiana is not where he was actually buried.