APRIL, 1926   Volume 4   LINCOLN, NEBR   Number 2

 

 

   The Record is issued quarterly on the first of January, April, July and October. Terms: two dollars a year in advance. Subscriptions should be sent to Mrs. C. C. Waldo, treasurer, 826 South Fourteenth Street, Lincoln, Nebraska.

   The Nebraska Genealogical Society was organized to further genealogical investigation. The object of the society is to collect genealogical material and to make it available to all who desire to pursue the search for family history. These records are not for today but for tomorrow and for the tomorrows of the future when these records, if not preserved, will be lost to our succeeding generations. Edmund Burke says, "Those only deserve to be remembered who treasure up the history of their ancestry," and Lord Macauley says, "They who take no pride in worthy achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants."

   Membership in the Nebraska Genealogical Society is open to those who are interested in genealogical research. The dues of the society are two dollars a year. This includes a subscription to The Record and two genealogical charts, one of which is to be filled out and returned to the society for permanent record. For those who are especially interested in the work a sustaining membership has been established at a cost of five dollars a year and a life membership at fifty dollars.

   Mrs. Allen will be missed in many walks of life on account of her varied activities. She was a past regent of Omaha Chapter, D. A. R., a past president and a charter member of the Omaha Woman's Club, a member of the Colonial Dames, Daughters of Founders and Patriots, and the Society for New England Women. She was interested in the Y. W. C. A., the Child Saving Institute, Camp Brewster and other philanthropic institutions.

   While regent of the Omaha Chapter, D. A. R., she took personal charge of the chapter's work for Red Cross, with the result that a large amount of army and Red Cross supplies as well as money was donated. She was the "mother" to a war orphan whom she supported.

   Mrs. Allen was noted for her private charities, the extent of which will never be known, for she worked so quietly and so unostentatiously. She gave assistance to many women and girls when help was most needed.

   The Amanda Barker Devin Chapter, D. A. R., was founded by Mrs. Allen in honor of her mother, at McConnellsville, Ohio. She was interested in building up a genealogical library for its use. She also copied and compiled the genealogy of the four-hundred and forty-four women of the Omaha

   Mrs. Allen was a great reader and regarded as a historian of ability. She had personally provided markers for several historic spots in Nebraska and was planning to provide some place in which to preserve historical relics of the state.

   In addition to all this, she had many business interests that demanded her attention, her husband having died several years ago.

   Mrs. Allen was a descendant of Thomas Baker, through whose services she proved her eligibility to the Colonial Dames. The line of descent is as follows:

   THOMAS¹ BAKER of Southampton, Suffolk county, New York, married April 29, 1686, Ann Topping, daughter of Thomas Topping and Hannah White; who was born June 22, 1666, at Easthampton, Long Island. They had a son Samuel Baker.

   SAMUEL² BAKER, son of Thomas Baker and Ann Topping, was born April 5, 1702, married October 18, 1721, Mercy Skillint (Schillinger), daughter of Jacob Skillinx. They had a daughter Esther.

   ESTHER³ BAKER, daughter of Samuel Baker and Mercy Skillint, was born July 23, 1727, at Easthampton, Long Island, died October 31, 1814, at Branford, Connecticut, married April 12, 1744, at Branford, Samuel Barker, born February 9, 1715-6, son of Daniel Barker and Keziah. They had a son Major Samuel Still Augustus.

   MAJOR SAMUEL STILL AUGUSTUS⁴ BARKER, son of Samuel Barker and Esther Baker, was born October 19, 1756, at Branford, Connecticut, died November 19, 1819, at La Grange [Beekman], New York, married 1786, Mariah Delavan. They had a son Dr. Samuel Augustus.

   DR. SAMUEL AUGUSTUS⁵ BARKER, son of Major Samuel

   AMANDA⁶ BARKER, daughter of Dr. Samuel Augustus Barker and Eliza Brooks Shugart, was born December 26, 1822, at McConnellsville, Ohio, died January 9, 1911, at Long Beach, California, married at McConnellsville, November 17, 1847, William Davis Devin. He was born March 17, 1821, at Waterford, Washington County, Ohio, and died January 2, 1866, at Cincinnati, Ohio. Their daughter Bertha was born September 17, 1857, at North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio, married September 17, 1885, at North Bend, Edgar H. Allen. Mrs. Allen died January 24, 1926, at Omaha, Nebraska.

   MERRILL, MERLE, MERRELL. Huguenot French Merle, and from the family of Merle of Place de Dombes, France. The family originally was domiciled in the Province of Aisne, France, where the name is perpetuated by the village of Merle. The family was knighted both in France and England. The French signification of the name is a blackbird. Jeremiah, John and NATHANIEL came to Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1635-6.

   NATHANIEL¹ MERRILL, born in Salisbury, England, married Susanna Wileston (widow Susanna married secondly Stephen Jordan). Nathaniel Merrill died March 16, 1654. Nathaniel Merrill and Susanna Wileston had seven children.

   DANIEL² MERRILL (Nathaniel¹) was born August 20, 1642, in Newbury, Massachusetts, married first, May 14, 1667, Sarah² Clough, born January 28, 1646, in Salisbury, Massachusetts, daughter of John¹ Clough and his wife Elizabeth, who came to America in the Elizabeth in 1635. Sarah was their