Ancestry of Wynnes Going Back to the Mayflower

July 6, 2017

I list people who are related to Olive Annie (Bender) Nasby, my mom's mom, and related to John Howland  (1593-1675), the Mayflower passenger listed after the following 13 links.  After that Mayflower information is the lineage of Mahurin, the most common name in this lineage.

1.  John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley (1607-87) bore Hope Howland (1629-83/84).

2.  Hope Howland and John Chipman (1613-1708, long life) bore Elizabeth Chipman (1647-98).

3.  Elizabeth Chipman and Hosea Joyce (1645- 1725?) bore Walter Joyce (1667/70-?).

4.  Walter Joyce and Elizabeth  Low (1668/71-?) bore Bathsheba Joyce (1693-1755).

5.  Bathsheba Joyce and Ebenezer Mahurin (1691-1755) bore Stephan Mahurin (1720-63).

6.  Stephen Mahurin and a woman whose name I can't find bore Silas Mahurin (1744-1811/20).

7.  Silas Mahurin and Sarah (1752-1815), unknown last name, bore Stephen (Steven) (1774-  1849).

8.  Stephen (Steven) Mahurin  and Sarah Meeks (1773-1849) bore William Harmon Mahurin    (1815-1914, long life).    In 1815, Stephen and Sarah bought 75 acres in Greyson County, Kentucky that their descendants own today.

9.  William Harmon Mahurin and Ann Deweese (1821-95/97) bore Stephen  Keith Mahurin      (1845-1927).

10.  Stephen Keith Mahurin and Annie Austin (1847-?) bore Ada Mahurin (1880-?)

        Military:  from October 19, 1863-October 17, 1865, Stephen was in the Sixth Iowa                         Cavalry Regiment.   The United States Civil War (1861-65) was on then.

11.  Ada Mahurin and Al Bender (?-May 8, 1945, VE Day) bore Olive Annie Bender (1906-51).

12.  Olive Annie Bender and Marvel Nasby (1903-94) bore Irene Marie Nasby (1928-80).

13.  Irene Marie Nasby and James Joseph Wynne (1919-89) bore Harold (1951-), Lorraine (1952-), Jeannette (1956-83), Michael (1961-), and Maryanne (1964-).

Now that you plowed through that, read the Mayflower passenger list below for John Howland's name.  Then note his daughter Hope and granddaughter Elizabeth in the generations listed under  his name.  There are some uncertain years but the descent is solid, I think.  No wonder we Wynnes all swim. After the generations listed below, read the Mahurin family lineage to confirm this famous link.

-Michael Wynne, July 6, 2017, Williams Lake, Canada

cmcwynne@yahoo.ca   michaeljosephwynne.blogspot.ca, where I posted this today

The Mayflower

Source: Mayflower descendants and their marriages for two generations after the landing

The Mayflower left England on September 16, 1620 with 102 passengers plus crew, and after a grueling 66 day journey, the ship dropped anchor inside the hook tip of Cape Cod (Provincetown Harbor) on November 11 (dates in Old Style, Julian Calendar).

The Mayflower originally was destined for the Hudson River, north of the 1607 Jamestown Settlement. However, the Mayflower went severely off-course as the winter approached and remained in Cape Cod Bay. During the winter the passengers remained on board the Mayflower, suffering an outbreak of a contagious disease described as a mixture of scurvy, pneumonia and tuberculosis. To establish legal order and to quell increasing strife within the ranks, the settlers wrote and signed the Mayflower Compact.

At the end of that winter, there were only 53 persons still alive [view list of dead], half of the passengers and half of the crew. In spring, they built huts ashore, and on March 21, 1621, the surviving passengers left the Mayflower.

Every living descendant of a "Mayflower" passenger, as far as known, is descended from one of the twenty-two (22) passengers named in the following list.  Applications for membership in the Society of Mayflower Descendants mush show descent from one of these men:

John Alden
Isaac Allerton
John Billington
William Bradford
William Brewster
Peter Braown
James Chilton
Francis Cooke
Edward Doty
Francis Eaton
Edward Fuller
Dr. Samuel Fuller
Stephen Hopkins
John Howland
Degory Priest
Thomas Rogers
Henry Samson
George Soule
Myles Standish
Richard Warren
William White
Edward Winslow

There were twenty-seven other Mayflower passengers from whom descent can be proved, but all of their descendants are also descended from at least one passenger named in the foregoing list.

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Ye Compacte
Signed in Ye Cabin of Ye Mayflower

Ye 11 of November

Anno Dominie 1620

In ye name of God, Amen.

We whose names are underwritten, the loyall subjects of our dread and soveraigne Lord, King James, by ye grace of God, of Great Britaine, Frand, and Yreland king, defender of ye faither, &c., haveing undertaken for ye glorie of God, and advancemente of ye Christian faith, and honour to our king and countrie, a voyage to plant ye first colonie in ye Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly and mutually in ye presense of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves togeather into a civill body politick, for our better ordering & preservation & furtherance of ye ends afordsaid; and by vertue hearof to enacte, constitute, and frame such just & equall lawes, ordinances, Acts, constitutions & offices from time to fime, as shall be thought most meete & convenient for ye generall goode of ye Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. Yn witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cap-Codd ye 11. of November, in ye year of ye raigne of our soveraigne lord, King James, of England, France, & Yreland ye eighteenth, and Scotland ye fiftie fourth, Ano: Dom. 1620

John Carver --- William Bradford

Edward Winslow --- William Brewster

Isaac Allerton --- Myles Standish

John Alden --- Samuel Fuller

Christpher Martin --- William Mullins

William White --- Richard Warren

John Howland --- Stephen Hopkins

Edward Tilley --- John Tilley

Francis Cooke --- Thomas Rogers

Thomas Tinker --- John Rigdale

Edward Fuller --- John Turner

Francis Eaton --- James Chilton

John Cracston --- John Billington

Moses Fletcher --- John Goodman

Degory Priest --- Thomas Williams

Gilbert Winslow --- Emond Margesson

Peter Brown --- Richard Britterige

George Soule --- Richard Clark

Richard Gardiner --- John Allerton

Thomas English --- Edward Doty

Edward Leifter

[Transcribed by Kim Torp from Mayflower descendents and their marriages for two generations after the landing]

THE MAYFLOWER PASSENGERS
THEIR CHILDREN AND
GRANDCHILDREN

[Note: Published 1921 under title: "The Mayflower passengers, their children and grandchildren."
So this is OLD research!. Transcribed by K. Torp for Genealogy Trails]

There were 104 passengers, including men, women, and children, of whom 24 were heads of families. Two of these left only a daughter each, who married into one of the other families, thus leaving 22 from whom descent is traced without duplication of ancestors, as follows, viz:

JOHN HOWLAND:

I --- Desire, d. Dec. 13, 1683; m. 1643, John Gorham d. Feb. 5, 1676, and had,

1. DESIRE, b. April 2, 1644; m. John Hawes.

2. TEMPERANCE, b. May 5, 1646; m. 1st, Edward Sturgis, m. 2nd, Thomas Baxter.

3. ELIZABETH, b. April 2, 1648; m. Joseph Hallett.

4. JAMES, b. April 28, 1650; m. Hannah Huckins.

5. JOHN, b. Feb. 20, 1652; m. Mary Otis.

6. JOSEPH, b. Feb. 16, 1654; m. Sarah Sturgis.

7. JABEZ, b. Aug. 3, 1656; m. Hannah (Sturgis) Gray.

8. MERCY, b. Jan. 20, 1658; m. George Denison.

9. LYDIA, b. Nov. 16, 1661; m. John Thacher.

10. HANNAH, b. Nov. 28, 1663; m. Joseph Whelden.

11. SHUBAEL, b. Oct. 21, 1667; m. Puella Hussey.

II --- John, m. Dec. 26, 1651, Mary Lee, and had,

12. MARY, b. 1653; m. John Allyn.

13. ELIZABETH, b. May 17,1655; m. John Bursley.

14. ISAAC, b. Nov. 25, 1659; m. Ann Taylor.

15. HANNAH, b. May 15, 1661; m. Jonathan Crocker.

16. MERCY, b. Jan. 21, 1663; m. Joseph Hamlin.

17. LYDIA, b. Jan. 9, 1665; m. Joseph Jenkins.

18. EXPERIENCE, b. July 28, 1668.

19. ANNE, b. Sept. 9, 1670; m. Joseph Crocker.

20. SHUBAEL, b. Sept. 30, 1672; m. Mercy Blossom.

21. JOHN, b. Dec. 31, 1674; m. 1st, Abigail Crocker, m. 2nd, Mary Crocker.

III --- Jabez, d. between May 14,1708 and Feb. 21, 1712; m. Bethiah Thacher, d. Dec. 19, 1725, and had,

22. JABEZ, b. Nov. 15, 1669; m. Patience Stafford.

23. JOHN, b. Jan. 15, 1673; d. y.

24. BETHIAH, b. June 3, 1674; d. 1676.

25. JOSIAH, b. Aug. 6, 1676; m. Yetmercy Shove.

26. JOHN, b. July 26, 1679; prob. d. unmarried.

27. JUDAH, b. May 7, 1683; d. y.

28. SETH, b. Jan 5, 1685; d. y.

29. SAMUEL, b. May 16, 1686; m. 1st, Abigail Cary, m. 2nd, prob. Mrs. Rachel Allen.

30. EXPERIENCE, b. May 19, 1687; d. y.

31. JOSEPH, b. Oct. 14, 1692; m. Bathsheba Cary.

32. ELIZABETH, b. --- ; m. Nathan Townsend.

IV --- Hope, d. Jan. 8,1683; m. 1646 John Chipman, b. about 1614, d. April 7, 1708, and had,

33. ELIZABETH, b. June 24,1647; m. Hosea Joyce.

34. HOPE, b. Aug. 31, 1652; m. 1st, John Huckins, m. 2nd, Jonathan Cobb.

35. LYDIA, b. Dec. 25, 1654; m. John Sargent.

36. JOHN, b. March 2, 1657; d. y.

37. HANNAH, b. Jan. 14, 1659; m. Thomas Huckins.

38. SAMUEL, b. April 15, 1661; m. Sarah Cobb.

39. RUTH, b. Dec. 31, 1662; m. Eleazer Crocker.

40. BETHIAH, b. July 1, 1666; m. Shubael Dimock.

41. MERCY, b. Feb. 6, 1668; m. Nathan Skiff.

42. JOHN, b. March 3, 1671; m. 1st, Mary Skiff, m. 2nd, Elizabeth (Handley) Russell, m. 3rd, Hannah Hoxie.

43. DESIRE, b. Feb. 26, 1674; m. Melatiah Bourne.

V --- Lydia, m. James Brown, d. Oct. 29, 1710, and had,

44. JAMES, b. May 4, 1655; m. Margaret Denison.

45. DOROTHY, b. Aug. 29, 1666; m. Joseph Kent.

46. JABEZ, b. July 9, 1668; m. Jane ---

VI --- Ruth, m. Nov. 17, 1664, Thomas Cushman, b. Sept. 16,1637, d. Aug. 23, 1726, and had,

47. ROBERT, b. Oct. 4, 1665; m. 1st, Persis --- , m. 2nd, Prudence Sherman.

48. DESIRE, b. 1668; prob. m. Samuel Kent.

VII --- Hannah, m. July 6, 1661, Jonathan Bosworth, and had,

49. MERCY, b. May 30, 1662.

50. HANNAH, b. Nov. 5, 1663; m. Nathaniel Jenks.

51. JONATHAN, b. Dec. 24, 1666; d. 1673.

52. DAVID, b. Sept. 15, 1670; m. Mary Sturtevant.

53. ELIZABETH, b. June 6, 1665; d. 1676.

54. JOHN, b. April 6,1671; m. Elizabeth Toogood.

55. JABEZ, b. Feb. 14, 1673.

56. ICHABOD, b. March 18,1676; m. Sarah Stacy.

57. JONATHAN, b. Sept. 22,1680; m. Sarah Rounds.

VIII --- Joseph, m. Dec. 7, 1664, Elizabeth Southworth, and had,

58. LYDIA, b. --- , 1665; m. Jeremiah Thomas.

59. ELIZABETH, b. --- ;m. 1st, Isaac Hamlin, m. 2nd, Timothy Cannon.

60. MARY, b. --- ; m. George Conant.

61. THOMAS, b. --- ; m. Joanna Cole.

62. JAMES, b. --- ; m. Mary Lothrop.

63. NATHANIEL, b. --- ; m. 1st, Martha Cole, m. 2nd, Abigail (Churchill) Billington.

64. SARAH, b. 1687.

65. BENJAMIN, b. 1689; d. y.

66. JOSEPH, b. ; d. y.

IX --- Isaac, d. March 9, 1724; m. Elizabeth Vaughn, b. 1652, d. Oct. 29, 1727, and had,

67. SETH, b. Nov. 28, 1677; m. Elizabeth Delano.

68. ISAAC, b. March 6, 1679; m. Sarah Thomas.

69. PRISCILLA, b. Aug. 22,1681; m. Peter Bennett.

70. ELIZABETH, b. Dec. 2, 1682; d. y.

71. NATHAN, b. Jan. 17, 1687; m. Frances Coombs.

72. JAEL, b. Oct. 13, 1688; m. Nathaniel Southworth.

73. SUSANNAH, b. Oct. 14, 1690; m. Ephrahn Wood.

74. HANNAH, b. Oct. 16, 1694; m. John Tinkham.

Link Between the Mayflower and the Mahurins

Mayflower passenger John Howland had several children.  The fourth, noted in boldface type above, was Hope.  Just below that it says that Hope and John Chipman had a daughter, Elizabeth.  Elizabeth Chipman married Hosea Joyce.  That is how far the Mayflower line goes, to grandchildren of passengers.

The Mormon-run website ancestry.com showed me, for free, that Elizabeth and Hosea bore Bathsheba.  Bathsheba  married Ebenezer Mahurin, our ancestor.  Ebenezer's dad Hugh came from  the British Isles.  I think he was a Scottish colonist sent to Ireland.    The link between Elizabeth and Ebenezer is below.  

Elizabeth CHIPMAN Ancestral File	birth: 24 June 1647 Plymouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts christening: 18 August 1650 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts death: 10 November 1698 Prob, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts burial: February 1712 Prob, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts marriage: 1667 Plymouth, Suffolk, Massachussets	father: John CHIPMAN mother: Hope HOWLAND spouse: Josea JOYCE;Hosea JOYCE children: Mary JOYCE, Samuel JOYCE, Mehitable JOYCE, Dorothy JOYCE, Thomas JOYCE, Hosea JOYCE, Martha JOYCE, Walter JOYCE, Lydia JOYCE
Walter JOYCE Ancestral File	birth: about 1670 Of Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts marriage: about 1690 , , Massachusetts	father: Hosea JOYCE mother: Elizabeth CHIPMAN spouse: Elizabeth/;Elizabeth (MRS) JOYCE children: Elizabeth JOYCE, Thomas JOYCE, Mary JOYCE, Abigail JOYCE, Seth JOYCE, Bathsheba JOYCE, Lucretious JOYCE
Bathsheba Joyce International Genealogical Index (IGI)	birth: 17 January 1693 Marshfield, Plymouth, Maine death: about 1755	father: Walter Joyce mother: Elizabeth Mrs. Joyce
Bathsheba Joyce International Genealogical Index (IGI)	birth: 17 January 1693 Marshfield, Plymouth, Maine death: about 1755	spouse: Ebenezer Mahurin child: Stephen Mahurin

I thought it was special to have a link to someone on the Mayflower, until I read that more than 35 million people have such a link.  I still think we are special.  Below is the line of decent from Hugh Mahurin to the me, Michael Wynne, and to my family's next generation.  Boldface type shows our direct ancestors.

Descendants of Hugh Mahurin

Generation No. 1

     1.Hugh¹ Mahurin was born 1665 in Northern Ireland or Scotland, and died May 09, 1718 in Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts.He married Mary (Campbell?).She was born Abt. 1667 in Northern Ireland, and died Abt. 1719 in Bridgewater, Bristol Co., Massachusetts.
Notes for Hugh Mahurin:
[By: Francis H. Huron]
Hugh Mahurin was granted land at Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1692/93, and died there, May 1718. His children and grandchildren intermarried with several other early families of Bristol and Plymouth counties. Among his descendants at least eleven were soldiers in the American Revolution; many were genuine pioneers on the frontiers of northern New England, New Jersey, and southern and middle-western states as the colonial population expanded.
     
Children of Hugh Mahurin and Mary (Campbell?) are:

+	2	i.		Ebenezer2 Mahurin, born 1691 in Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; died November 1755 in Pequannock, Morris Co., New Jersey.
+	3	ii.		Jonathan Mahurin, born 1693 in Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; died 1757 in Bridgewater, Bristol Co., Massachusetts.
	4	iii.		Mary Mahurin, born 1695 in Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts.She married William Bassett February 19, 1718/19 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; born 1667 in Bridgewater, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; died April 13, 1734 in Bridgewater, Bristol Co., Massachusetts.
	5	iv.		Bethsheba Mahurin, born 1696 in Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; died January 1747/48.She married Solomon Snow April 08, 1724 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts; born April 09, 1698.
+	6	v.		Hugh Mahurin, born Abt. 1699 in Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; died January 21, 1784 in Bridgewater, Bristol Co., Massachusetts.
+	7	vi.		Benjamin Mahurin, born Abt. 1702 in Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; died Abt. January 21, 1761 in Bridgewater, Bristol Co., Massachusetts.
+	8	vii.		Hannah Mahurin, born 1704 in Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; died December 14, 1754 in Raynham, Bristol Co., Massachusetts.
+	9	viii.		Elizabeth Mahurin, born 1708 in Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; died December 16, 1776 in Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey.

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Descendants of Hugh Mahurin

Generation No. 2

     2.Ebenezer² Mahurin (Hugh¹) was born 1691 in Taunton, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, and died November 1755 in Pequannock, Morris Co., New Jersey.He married Bathsheba Joyce December 12, 1718 in Marshfield, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, daughter of Walter Joyce and Elizabeth Low.She was born January 17, 1692/93 in Marshfield, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, and died Aft. 1755 in Morris Co., New Jersey.
More About Bathsheba Joyce:
Individual Note:: Bathsheba was a decendent of John Howland, a passenger on the Mayflower.  See "Link Between the Mahurins and the Mayflower," after the Mahurin line, below.
     
Children of Ebenezer Mahurin and Bathsheba Joyce are:

+	10	i.		Stephen3 Mahurin, born November 09, 1720 in Raynham, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; died Aft. 1763.
+	11	ii.		Mary Mahurin, born March 27, 1727 in Raynham, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; died Abt. 1770 in Morris Co., New Jersey.
+	12	iii.		Seth Mahurin, born November 11, 1729 in Raynham, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; died October 08, 1815 in Hamilton, Ohio.
	13	iv.		Betty Mahurin, born March 1730/31 in Raynham, Bristol Co., Massachusetts.
	14	v.		Othniel Mahurin, born Abt. 1733 in Morris Co., New Jersey; died November 09, 1757 in New Jersey.

Descendants of Hugh Mahurin

Generation No. 3

     10.Stephen³ Mahurin (Ebenezer², Hugh¹) was born November 09, 1720 in Raynham, Bristol Co., Massachusetts, and died Aft. 1763.
     
Children of Stephen Mahurin are:

+	47	i.		Ebenezer4 Mahurin, born February 27, 1742/43 in Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey; died 1787 in Wilkes Co., North Carolina.
+	48	ii.		Silas Mahurin, born September 15, 1744 in Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey; died Bet. 1811 - 1820 in Grayson Co., Kentucky.
	49	iii.		Bethshua Mahurin, born Bef. November 30, 1746 in Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey.
				More About Bethshua Mahurin: Christening: November 30, 1746, Presbyterian Church, Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey

+	50	iv.		Samuel Mahurin, born Bef. July 31, 1748 in Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey; died Abt. May 1814 in Shelby Co., Ky..
	51	v.		Lucretia Mahurin, born Bef. May 20, 1750 in Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey.

More About Lucretia Mahurin: Christening: May 20, 1750, Presbyterian Church, Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey

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Phebe Mahurin, born Bef. June 13, 1752 in Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey.

More About Phebe Mahurin: Christening: June 13, 1752, Presbyterian Church, Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey

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Priscilla Mahurin, born Bef. January 05, 1755 in Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey.

More About Priscilla Mahurin: Christening: January 05, 1755, Presbyterian Church, Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey

Descendants of Hugh Mahurin

Generation No. 4

 48.Silas⁴ Mahurin (Stephen³, Ebenezer², Hugh¹) was born September 15, 1744 in Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey, and died Bet. 1811 - 1820 in Grayson Co., Kentucky.He married Sarah (Unknown).She was born August 31, 1752 in Virginia, and died April 05, 1815.
More About Silas Mahurin:
Christening: October 14, 1744, Presbyterian Church, Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey
     
Children of Silas Mahurin and Sarah (Unknown) are:

+	146	i.		Stephen (Steven)5 Mahurin, SR., born May 21, 1774 in Virginia; died February 08, 1849 in Grayson Co., Kentucky.
	147	ii.		Mary Mahurin, born Abt. 1779 in Shelby Co., Kentucky.She married John Dillon April 15, 1798 in Shelby Co., Kentucky; born Abt. 1773 in Shelby Co., Kentucky.
	148	iii.		Phebe Mahurin, born Abt. 1788 in Virginia.She married Isaac Herrill September 23, 1806 in Shelby Co., Kentucky; born Bef. 1782.
+	149	iv.		Samuel Mahurin, born August 15, 1789 in Fayette Co., Kentucky.
	150	v.		Sarah Mahurin, born Abt. 1790.She married Fielding Snyder March 12, 1808 in Hardin Co., Ky..
	151	vi.		Patience Mahurin, born Abt. 1793 in Virginia.She married Joel Cogswell March 19, 1811 in Shelby Co., Kentucky; born Bef. 1786.
	152	vii.		Rhody Mahurin, born Abt. 1774; died Aft. 1791 in Ky..She married George Coonrod in Woodford, Ky.; died Bef. 1850 in Greene, Illinois.

Descendants of Hugh Mahurin

Generation No. 5

146.Stephen (Steven)⁵ Mahurin, SR. (Silas⁴, Stephen³, Ebenezer², Hugh¹) was born May 21, 1774 in Virginia, and died February 08, 1849 in Grayson Co., Kentucky.He married Sarah Meeks October 28, 1799 in Shelby Co., Kentucky, daughter of Suddith Meeks.She was born May 15, 1773 in Grayson Co., Kentucky, and died August 10, 1849 in Grayson Co., Kentucky.
Notes for Stephen (Steven) Mahurin, SR.:
Stephen bought 75 acres in Grayson Co., Ky., in 1815, part of the farm which is still owned by and lived on by direct descendants.
More About Stephen (Steven) Mahurin, SR.:
Blessing: Abt. 1785
Burial: Mahurin Cemetery, Tousey, Grayson Co., Kentucky
More About Sarah Meeks:
Burial: Mahurin Cemetery, Tousey, Grayson Co., Kentucky
     
Children of Stephen Mahurin and Sarah Meeks are:

	352	i.		Elizabeth6 Mahurin, born November 23, 1800 in Shelby Co., Kentucky.
+	353	ii.		Sarah Mahurin, born December 12, 1802 in Shelby, Hardin Co., Kentucky; died August 18, 1849 in Orderville, Kane Co., Utah.
	354	iii.		Phebe Mahurin, born July 15, 1804 in Hardin Co., Kentucky.She married Male Fraim; born Bef. 1800.
+	355	iv.		Silas Mahurin, born December 31, 1805 in Hardin Co., Kentucky; died 1844 in Linn Co., Missouri.
+	356	v.		Priddy Frederick Mahurin, born March 09, 1808 in Hardin Co., Kentucky; died Abt. 1855 in Savoy, Fannin Co., Texas.
	357	vi.		Condace Mahurin, born December 25, 1809 in Hardin Co., Kentucky.
	358	vii.		Susanna Mahurin, born Abt. 1811 in Grayson Co., Kentucky.
+	359	viii.		Stephen Mahurin Jr., born August 28, 1813 in Grayson Co., Kentucky; died January 12, 1873 in Grayson Co., Kentucky.
+	360	ix.		William Harmon Mahurin, born January 28, 1815 in Grayson Co., Kentucky; died April 19, 1914 in Boge, Grayson Co., Kentucky.
	361	x.		Abigail Mahurin, born December 29, 1817 in Pine Knob, Grayson Co., Kentucky.

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Descendants of Hugh Mahurin:  Generation No. 6

360.William Harmon⁶ Mahurin (Stephen (Steven)⁵, Silas⁴, Stephen³, Ebenezer², Hugh¹) was born January 28, 1815 in Grayson Co., Kentucky, and died April 19, 1914 in Boge, Grayson Co., Kentucky.He married Ann Deweese Abt. 1842, daughter of Edward Dewees and Ruth Herrald.She was born July 16, 1821 in Grayson Co., Kentucky, and died Bet. 1895 - 1897 in Graham, Kansas.
     
Children of William Mahurin and Ann Deweese are:

	817	i.		Martha Jane7 Mahurin, born February 12, 1841 in Grayson Co., Kentucky; died July 1904.She married John Orr in Linn Co., Missouri; born Bef. 1837 in Grayson Co., Kentucky.
	818	ii.		Edward Deweese Mahurin, born January 03, 1842 in Grayson Co., Kentucky; died July 24, 1934.
	819	iii.		Ruth Elizabeth Mahurin, born October 17, 1844 in Grayson Co., Kentucky; died in Altoona, Kansas.She married Andy Wilson in Linn Co., Missouri; born Bef. 1840 in Grayson Co., Kentucky.
+	820	iv.		Stephen Keith Mahurin, born March 14, 1845 in Grayson Co., Kentucky; died April 20, 1927 in White Bird, Idaho.
	821	v.		Sarah Thomas Mahurin, born July 06, 1848 in Grayson Co., Kentucky.She married Silas Renfrow.
	822	vi.		Julian Tilford Mahurin, born May 26, 1850 in Grayson Co., Kentucky.She married Robert Maxwell; died 1922 in Altoona, Willson Co., Kansas.
	823	vii.		Artimisia Mahurin, born May 19, 1853 in Grayson Co., Kentucky; died November 05, 1928 in Havre, Hill Co., Montana.She married Joseph M. Swinney 1872.
				More About Artimisia Mahurin: Burial: Hill Co., Montana

More About Joseph M. Swinney: Burial: Hill Co., Montana

	824	viii.		Fredrick Osmus Mahurin, born February 14, 1856 in Brown, Illinois.
	825	ix.		Amanda Mary Mahurin, born August 29, 1858 in Brown, Illinois; died June 06, 1859 in Linn Co.,.

Descendants of Hugh Mahurin:  Generation No. 7

820.Stephen Keith⁷ Mahurin (William Harmon⁶, Stephen (Steven)⁵, Silas⁴, Stephen³, Ebenezer², Hugh¹) was born March 14, 1845 in Grayson Co., Kentucky, and died April 20, 1927 in White Bird, Idaho.He married Annie L. Austin August 17, 1869 in Henry Co., Missouri, daughter of Obadiah Austin and Jane Clark.She was born April 15, 1847.
More About Stephen Keith Mahurin:
Military service: Bet. October 19, 1863 - October 17, 1865, Civil War, Co. G, 6th Iowa Cavalry Regt.
     
Children of Stephen Mahurin and Annie Austin are:

+	1590	i.		Sterling Price8 Mahurin, born August 11, 1871 in Henry Co., Missouri.
	1591	ii.		Violet Mahurin, born September 03, 1873; died October 05, 1873.
+	1592	iii.		Stephen Lee Mahurin, born October 22, 1874 in Windsor, Henry Co., Missouri; died January 29, 1955.
	1593	iv.		James William Mahurin, born April 04, 1876; died November 08, 1876.
+	1594	v.		Thomas Clark Mahurin, born June 12, 1878 in Henry Co., Missouri; died November 24, 1961 in Lewiston, Idaho.
+	1595	vi.		Ada Mahurin, born May 18, 1880 in Henry Co., Missouri.
	1596	vii.		Daniel West Mahurin, born October 18, 1884.He married Flossie Daly November 13, 1910.

Descendants of Hugh Mahurin:  Generation No. 8

1595.Ada⁸ Mahurin (Stephen Keith⁷, William Harmon⁶, Stephen (Steven)⁵, Silas⁴, Stephen³, Ebenezer², Hugh¹) was born May 18, 1880 in Henry Co., Missouri.She married Al Bender November 29, 1900 in Mt. Idaho, Idaho.He died May 08, 1945.
     
Children of Ada Mahurin and Al Bender are:

+	2662	i.		Alice Ruth9 Bender, born December 22, 1901 in White Bird, Idaho.
	2663	ii.		Pearl Iva Bender, born December 25, 1902 in White Bird, Idaho; died January 14, 1903 in White Bird, Idaho.
+	2664	iii.		Nellie Frances Bender, born July 11, 1905 in White Bird, Idaho.
+	2665	iv.		Olive Annie Bender, born November 11, 1906 in White Bird, Idaho.

Descendants of Hugh Mahurin:  Generation No. 9

2665.Olive Annie⁹ Bender (Ada⁸ Mahurin, Stephen Keith⁷, William Harmon⁶, Stephen (Steven)⁵, Silas⁴, Stephen³, Ebenezer², Hugh¹) was born November 11, 1906 in White Bird, Idaho.She married Marvel Raymond Nasby 1928.   Marvel was born June 16, 1903 (a year to the day before  Bloomsday, the one-day setting of Irish writer James Joyce's novel Ulysses) in Chilicothe, Illinois, Marvel used to say.  Marvel had Norwegian ancestors, including Sever, his dad, I think.  Olive and Marvel migrated from the United States to Canada as children, with their families.  Olive died on February 18, 1951, in Edson, Alberta (AB), Canada.  Marvel died on January 10, 1994 in Edson. 
     
Children of Olive Bender and Marvel Nasby, the first two born in Cessford, AB, Canada, before the 1930s drought drove many people from the plains, the rest in Edson, AB, Canada, about 300 miles to the northwest, are:

	3836	i.		Irene Marie10 Nasby, born 9 August, 1928 (d 1980).
	3837	ii.		Dorothy Ada Nasby, born 1929.
	3838	iii.		William Raymond Nasby, born 1930 (d. 1986).
	3839	iv.		Margaret Fay Nasby, born 1933 (d 2015).
	3840	v.		Floyd Russell Nasby, born 1936 (d 1992). Descendants of Hugh Mahurin:  Generation No. 10 On January 5, 1950, Irene married James Joseph Wynne in Edson, AB, Canada.  He went by Joe.  Joe was born on September 30, 1919, in Quesnel, British Columbia (BC), Canada, of Harold Joseph Wynne and Mary Ann (Irvine) Wynne.  Harold, known as Harry, was born in or near Sherbrooke, Quebec (QC), Canada, in 1882 of Joseph and Mary.   They were born in 1850s Ireland.   Mary was born in Enniskillen, Ireland on November 11, 1879.  Harry died in 1943 in Edmonton, AB, Mary in 1960 in Edson, AB, Irene on July 7, 1980 in Edmonton, AB. and Joe on September 29, 1989 in Edson, AB.  Joe's sister, Eleanor Mary Margaret Wynne, "Nellie," (b Kamloops, BC, 1924, d Edmonton, AB 1985), neither married nor had children. Military:  In 1916, a doctor refused Harry for war service.  "Your heart is bad.  You'll be lucky to live six months," the doctor said. Harry lived until 1943. Military:  In 1940, Joe enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in Victoria, Canada.  He was a Stoker, Second Class in the North Atlantic Ocean during World War Two.  He traveled on corvettes, motor torpedo boats, and destroyers, escorting troop and supply ships across the ocean to England and Scotland.  Some supplies continued to Archangel and Murmansk, in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), Canada's and England's wartime ally.  Joe's name is on a plaque in St. Joseph's Catholic High School in Edmonton, Canada, commemorating students who went to the war.  By the time of his enlistment, Joe was working for the Alberta Provincial Government in Edmonton.  His name is on a plaque in the Legislature in Edmonton, commemorating civil servants who went to the war.  The Royal Canadian Legion, Joe Wynne Branch 51, in Edson, Alberta is named to honor Joe. Children of Irene Marie Nasby and James Joseph Wynne, all born in Edson, AB, are Harold James, born 1951 Lorraine Marie, born 1952 Jeannette Louise, (1956-83) Michael Joseph, born 1961 Maryanne Simone, born 1964 Note:  Maryanne Simone acquired Irish Republican citizenship and an Irish passport in 2013, by proving descent from our dad's Irish-born mother, Mary Ann Irvine.  The Irish Republic grants citizenship to children and grandchildren of citizens.  Mary Ann was born in 1879 in what was then a British colony, in a part that still is.   The Irish Republic calls Maryanne Irish, not British.  Centuries after Hugh Mahurin left Ireland, there is another Irish descendant. Decendants of Hugh Mahurin: Generation No 11 Child of Harold Wynne and Joanna Burns (b May 5,1951, Bedford, England-January 10, 2017 Edmonton, Canada), married December 21, 1971: Cynthia Alison Wynne, born  April 29, 1974, Vegreville, AB Child of Jeannette Wynne and Larry Farris (b. near Pierceland, Saskatchewan, 1947, d. 199?), married September 22, 1973: Kevin Joseph Farris (adopted out as child, surname became Woollard), born March 31, 1975, Edson, AB.  Kevin's middle name is the same as that of four generations of people before him:  Michael Joseph Wynne, James Joseph Wynne, Harry Joseph Wynne, all born in Canada, and Joseph Wynne, born in Ireland Child of JeannetteFarris and Ray Sanderson  (b.  AB, 194?-): Stephanie Marie Sanderson (adopted out as infant), born July 18, 1979, Grande Prairie, AB Child of Michael Wynne and Carla Alphonse (b Williams Lake, BC, 1963-), married May 1, 1993: Chelsea Marie Wynne, born December 24, 1992, Williams Lake, BC The note that Bathsheba was a descendant of a Mayflower passenger made me look for that link.  Bathsheba (1692/3-1755) married Ebenezer Mahurin, of the second Mahurin generation, above.  Bathsheba's ancestor was Mayflower passenger John Howland.  The text above misspells that as "descendent."  It also says that Marvel died in 1951.  Marvel died in 1994.  Olive died in 1951.  Despite this and other mistakes, I think the information reliably links Olive Bender, my mom's mom, to Bathsheba, the descendant of Mayflower passenger John Howland.  What made me research this was Dorothy Ada (Nasby) Balderson, my aunt, above.  During our annual Christmas phone conversation in December, 2014,  Dorothy said she had Mahurin ancestors.  She mentioned Ron Mahurin of Idaho (b 1945, I found out), who visited Dorothy's Beiseker, Alberta-area farm a few years ago.  Ron gave Dorothy ancestry notes.  This phone call started me searching  -Michael Wynne, Williams Lake, BC, Canada, July 5, 2017

Whale Meat Anniversary

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

I ate whale meat, canned, 35 years ago this week, on April 17, 1982.  It was chewier and oilier than beef.

The Ottawa patriation party that featured this delicacy also offered back bacon and Molson's beer.  All three were Canadian items then, but Molson's is now owned by foreigners, whale meat is rarer, and bacon has cancer links.  At age 20, fresh off my bicycle, I did not worry about such things.

I had just ridden from Parliament Hill in Ottawa to the house where I rented a second-floor, 6 x 8-foot room during the winter I finished a Bachelor of Arts degree in English at Carleton University.  My landlord, the law professor and judge Richard David Abbott, a cousin of Stephen Leacock, had rented me the room for $68 per month.  "It's the same size as a cell in the Kingston Penitentiary," said Abbott, who was from Kingston, and studied at Harvard University.  Perhaps he was telling me to avoid a life of crime.

Why had I ridden to Parliament Hill that morning, in light rain?

Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau signed the patriated Canadian constitution that day, at a table in front of the parliament buildings.  I stood a couple hundred metres away, kittycorner from the table, beside my bike, at the edge of the crowd that covered the hill to watch the event.

Then I rode about three kilometres south to Abbott's house, where he threw a party to celebrate the day.   I don't think he was related to John Abbott, an 1890s Canadian prime minister; I think he would have told me, and I don't recall him mentioning it.

The beer, bacon, whale meat, and other party items for a few of Abbott's friends, and for us three boarders, were nice surprises that cool spring day.  It was the only meal he offered us, who otherwise ate in the residence cafeteria at Carleton University, across Bronson Avenue from the house, the closest I ever lived to a university I attended. 

Before moving out that month, the other boarders, one studying architecture, the other studying social sciences, each gave his photo to Abbott, as I did, to put in the large frame of small photos of young men who had boarded in his house since the late-1960s. 

When I visited Abbott in August, 1987, he did not have a room for me, and I rented a room in a house across the street to start graduate studies in English.  He showed me the frame, with my photo still in it, among more than 30 photos.  He was over 60 then and I'm sure he's long dead now, but my memory of his April 17, 1982 patriation party endures.

I ate whale meat, back bacon, and Molson's beer.  I wonder what the queen and prime minister ate that day.
           

Search My Blog, and Find....What, and How?

Thursday, March 30, 2017

     You hardy few who read my blog can now search it.  I wanted to categorize by subject the 100+ entries, but I could not figure out how.  Instead, I managed to add a search box.  I tried this search box using the words "swim" and "France" and "Germany," one at a time.  Up popped related blog entries.  I don't know how a search finds all related entries or even how it finds one entry.  Try a few searches.  As one of my high school math teachers said upon giving the class several questions to work on, "Have fun with these."
     Imagine having a search function for one's memory.  Wait, we have that, or have we?  Is memory true, or reconstructed?
     "What is truth?" as Pontius Pilate asked Jesus.  Mao Tse Tung tried, and advertisers, educators, and other "engineers of the human soul," in Josef Skvorecky's words, try to reconstruct people via re-education.  After its 1861-85 civil war, the United States "reconstructed" the defeated Confederacy.     
     What search word would find this blog entry?  What would Jesus type?
     That's hard to say, because I tried various search words and got a wide variety of blog entries:  "flower," "book," and "England"  each brought up more than one blog entry.
     By contrast, the search word "Leningrad" brought up only one entry, from September, 2016.  I wrote that entry after I attended a lecture in  Manchester's downtown library.  A professor from England, who teaches in England and Russia, spoke for an hour, to a crowd of fewer than 50, about the 1941-44 German blockade of Leningrad.  That entry's few photos understate the fascinating display then at the library, in the 75th anniversary year of the start of the blockade.  In 1962, Manchester and Leningrad became sister cities.  Leningrad has since become St. Petersburg, its name for generations until the early twentieth century. 
     It seems that re-titling blog entries will not ease searching for them.  For example, the word "flower" is not in the title of the entries which that search term found, and none of the entries had a flower theme, although the word was in each entry.
     The early-twentieth century English scientist Arthur Eddington said that the universe was not only stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine.  This blog's search mechanism seems stranger than I can imagine.  I welcome insights from imaginative readers.
    
    

Videos and Books to Give

 Friday, February 24, 2017   Williams Lake, Canada

     "Chacun a son gout," "Each to his taste," the French expression says.  

     I hope that the people who get my giveaway books and video cassettes like one or more of them as much as I did, during the several years that I had most of them.  I pass them on before I pass on, which I hope is not soon.

      In 2014, when my Edmonton friend Doug turned 70, I shipped him one seventh of my videos, cassette tapes, and compact discs.  He brought most of them to his neighborhood seniors' centre and assured me that many found enthusiastic new owners.

     The video list below is about a third of my remaining videos, which I kept then because I was loath to part with them.  Now I want to spread these great stories.  I have therefore left many in the share shed by a dump 50 kilometres west of here, where they soon disappeared.  I left others in a free store 100 kilometres west, where they too disappeared. 

WILLING HANDS?

     I gave Romero, the video I have had the longest, to the Catholic school janitor, who was born and raised in El Salvador and lived there when Romero lived and died.  Maria came to Canada nine years later, after an army group killed several priests in 1989.  I gave Das Boot to a Williams Lake woman born in Munich in 1944 to a Hamburg mother.  In the Hamburg harbor in 2016, I saw a u-boat that had become a museum.   Happily, this one did not sink Dad, bur neither did one of many Royal Canadian Navy ships he was on in World War Two (WW2) sink it. 

     Today I write because I just watched, for giveaway, Montreal filmmaker Denys Arcand's Jesus of Montreal.  I wonder if he is related to WW2 Quebec fascist leader Adrien Arcand.  I will also watch his Decline of the American Empire and Incendies.  I hope to find someone, French speaking or not, interested in these subtitled, leftist films.  Perhaps I will find someone keen at the local French immersion school, where I spoke last June 24, in French and English, about St. Jean Baptiste Day.  I showed Dad's Dad's 1930s Morinville, AB ribbon and medal, perhaps worn on that day long ago.

     I write here after watching Jesus because I lived in Montreal just after its filming there, and either saw it in a theatre there or in Alberta.  I like everything about it and I hope someone else will.

RED FILM

 

     I recently watched, subtitled and home recorded, the 2000s German film Goodbye Lenin and the 1960s Italian film The Gospel According to Matthew.  I saw the first on a Williams Lake rental video and the second at a 1990-91 screening in the Concordia University film club in Montreal.  I found the latter, home-recorded on slow play, in a Kamloops thrift shop 10 or more years ago, and added the second to it when I found it on television a few years ago.  I forgot that Lenin was after Matthew, but there's a link because both Lenin and Pasolini, who made Matthew, were Communists; but Lenin is anti-communist, or at least critical of the Communist German Democratic Republic (1949-90).

NO REGRETS

   

     I will not regret discarding these videos, nor later pursue them on an internet that stores all, gems and rocks.  Instead, I will hope that someone, preferably younger than I, has the interest, and technology, to watch and enjoy them.  Have, below, the list so far, which I expect to increase until I have a mere handful of cassettes.  A proper teacher, a proper elder, seeks to pass on his knowledge.

Below this list, read about math and other books.    

Atanarjuraat (not working)  Jan 9/17

Bethune (1990 Donald Sutherland), Jan 18/17

Blue Velvet (1986), Jan 14/17 (PVR, Anaham)

Dance Me Outside (Adam Beach)  Jan 6/17

Goodbye Lenin (200?), Feb 23/17

The Gospel According to Matthew (1965), Feb/17

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 version)  Jan 6/17

Hanna, Jan 15/17 (PVR, Williams Lake)

Jesus of Montreal (1989), Feb 24/17

John A (2011), Jan 9/17

King Arthur:  His Life and Legends (library discard)  Jan 6/17

Leaving Normal (Meg Tilly)  Jan 6/17

Lonestar (1995, Elizabeth Pena (b Sep 23/59, d Oct/14 cirrhosis), Jan 16/18

Manhattan (Woody Allen; first saw it in Edmonton's Princess Theatre during my first university year, 1979-80)  Jan 6/17

Miss Congeniality (Sandra Bullock)  Jan 6/17

Mission/Stum Lake, Jan 9/17

Play It Again, Sam (Woody Allen)  Jan 6/17

Pygmalion (1938 Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller version)  Jan 6/17

Reel Injun  Jan 7/17

Riel (1979)  Jan 8/17

Roger and Me (1988), Jan 30/17

Romero (1989), longest-held video, Feb 1/17

Thunderheart (non-working)  Jan 8/17

William Shakespeare ((A and E biography, local library discard). Jan 6/17

MUSICAL INTERLUDE

     Tom Lehrer, a mathematician who sang its praises, might agree with me spreading math books around, beautiful seeds for young minds.   Have a link to his song "Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky:"

https://www.google.ca/#q=nikolai+ivanovich+lobachevsky+tom+lehrer&*

PASSING ON JOYS OF YOUTH 

    In my book room sits a stack of math books:  trigonometry, algebra, and the large calculus book I bought at age 17 in 1979 for my first-year university course, which I easily passed with a B+.  Edson high school teachers of science and math prepared many young people well for University of Alberta courses.  I next looked in that book in 2000 in Kamloops when I tutored someone, and a couple years later in Williams Lake when I tutored someone else.  Like an ageing soldier happy to have engaged the fight when young and strong, I am happy that I learned so much and did so much when young.  

     Old eyes are weaker than young eyes, I noticed awhile back when I looked at the tiny print of my two-volume Oxford English Dictionary.  My canny younger sister got it free for joining a book club. It's in the stack.

     Also in the stack is a reference tome about 20th century history, but I'm keeping, for now, my timeline of history book that goes back to prehistory, paradoxical as that sounds.  They came from a book club I joined more than 20 years ago here in the Cariboo.  I'll also keep, for now, my two-volume world history written by HG Wells.

     I'll haul these books in the car trunk to Kamloops next week, during our trip for my beloved spouse's medical appointment.  At Manchester University last summer I found a student lounge with many shelves crowded with giveaway books; perhaps Kamloops has such a venue.  I remember stacks and boxes of giveaway books outside professors' doors in Montreal and Ottawa, and in Edmonton's English department a table of giveaway books.  This was before the internet went public, but Kamloops, 80 000, is likelier than Williams  Lake, 8 000, to help these books spread their paper wings for new owners. 

ACCESSIBLE EDUCATION

     A 1989 encounter with a young university student on a train near Banff reminds me why I am discarding books.    I met an undergraduate English student, as I had been earlier that decade.  He worried about the financial cost of education and planned to use English as a route to law school.  I thought this demeaned English, and education generally; but the man's money worries were real.  Almost 30 years later, university has become so expensive that he would look idealistic to his like now, if they even dared to try university.   

     I have often thought of starting a study club in my little city; many people know many things that would interest many other people.  There live here people from my class, financially deterred from higher education such as I enjoyed.  This lack of access, university reverting to its traditional place for the rich, hampers progress, but it probably preserves the injustice that underpins society.

     For now, passing around a few textbooks might inspire someone who cannot buy such books new.  The local new bookstore, gamely surviving Chapters Indigo marketing tyranny, does not stock such books, anyway.  Neither does the wee bookstore attached to the local satellite campus of Thompson Rivers University, based in Kamloops. 

      If you doubt that such books interest people, I tell you that, at a local used book sale a year or two ago, someone bought several science and math books, including all the calculus books.  Isaac Newton and Karl Leibniz, co-inventors of calculus, truly created something interesting to many people in many times and places.

     My modest efforts are a mere "derivative" of their work, if you'll pardon the calculus pun.  I think popular education is "integral" to a decent society.  

          

One Day I Misplaced Ivan Denisovich

February 23, 2017   Williams Lake, Canada

     Today I misplaced Ivan Denisovich.
     I read that Alexander Solzhenitsyn novel about life in a Stalinist prison camp before 2000, when I began writing about books I read.   The only Solzhenitsyn I wrote about is The Gulag Archipelago, which I read in 2010.  That larger novel, about many prison camps, was not at the local used book sale in the mall, where I freed Ivan from a backroom box today, only to misplace him.
     Perhaps I should blame my being sick, not sick as in Cancer Ward, whose inmates suffer from counterrevolution, not congestion.  I have congestion, but I haven't been tested for counterrevolution.
That third Solzhenitsyn novel I remember reading is not in the book sale, making losing it there impossible.
     The 1965 film version of Doctor Zhivago says, near the end, that Lara's name could have been on a list that got misplaced.  Such things happened in those days.  I misplaced the Ivan book this day.
     I volunteered my time at the book sale, as Solzhenitsyn did in a Stalinist camp.  I found Ivan, a couple Hemingways, no doubt counterrevolutionary, and various other interesting books imprisoned in back room boxes.  I filled and hauled out a couple boxes of such books, but I don't remember where I shelved Ivan for sale.
     Solzhenitsyn left the Soviet Union in the 1970s for the United States, but later criticized his adoptive country more than he had his birth country.  Perhaps he would have approved of my effort against the commodification of art, particularly his art.  He's dead now.  Used book sales send no royalties to authors, alive or dead.
     If the book landed among the books about nature, or children, or the mass-market paperbacks, someone not even looking for it might buy it.
 
     "Look, Ed," Sheila might say.  "Here's a book about a day in a life.  Remember that day the camper broke down and we had to sleep in it on the highway, until your brother Bill drove up with a u-joint the next morning?  That was quite a day.  Perhaps this Ivan guy had quite a day.  He must have had, to need a whole book to describe it."

     "Look at this book, Martha, right beside the Stephanie Myers books," Mary might say to her teenage friend at the sale.  "This book only covers one day.  Myers can put months in a book.  Should we buy it.   How interesting can a single day be?"

     "Ruby, I found the book for you, in with the Danielle Steele books, of all places.  It's about a day in man's life.  He sounds like a foreigner.  You know how those foreigners are.  Remember what I told you about the young men working on the cruise ship that Paul and I were on in the Caribbean?  Those bucks pack a lot into a day, let me tell you; but I'm married, so I didn't find out.  My friend Barbara, though.....Whoa!  She walked funny for days.  This book might be about some hot foreigner."
      
     A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is out of its back room box and displayed for sale, somewhere, in the used book sale.   Twice a year, the local Rotary Club sells used books, largely the same books that rotate through the club's collection bins, scattered around this city.  The Stalinists rotated people through prison camps.  If my sickness-induced ineptitude increased the chances of the sale of just this one book, then I spent my time well.
   Ivan might not have gotten along with Hemingway, who would fit better beside Danielle Steele than among real literature.  
     
        
           

Red Klister Era

Sunday, February 12, 2017  Williams Lake, Canada

     Is ours a red klister era?
     Red klister is a ski wax for warm temperatures.  I rarely used it when I skied in adolescence in the late-1970s.  From warmest to coldest, the waxes were red, blue, green, and white; green I used the most often; not much call for cold-weather wax in this warming climate

HAROLD AND PINE TAR
   
      I have my brother Harold to thank for starting me cross-country skiing.
      When I was 14 and he worked in social services and recreation in Wildwood, he brought several pairs of skis, his spouse Joanna, my younger sister Maryanne, and I to the Edson golf course one cold winter day.  We donned ski boots, mine too small, attached them to the three-point toe bindings on skis, and learned to ski.  After skiing around on the golf course for awhile, we packed into his and Joanna's station wagon, turned the heat on full, and held one another's cold feet and hands.
     Harold got me and Maryanne boots, poles,m and wooden skis.  My Finnish Splitkein skis covered many kilometres that winter and the next, until I skied off the edge of the bank of Millar Lake and snapped the top two feet off one ski.  Those skis had cost $20.  He got me a new pair,  Norwegian like our mom's dad's ethnicity, and I used them constantly during high school, and later in the Northwest Territories.  As I type this, I listen to a compact disc of Edvard Grieg piano music by Knut Erik Jensen, who performed here a few years ago:  good Scandinavian soundtrack for this story.
     After a day of high school, or during a weekend, I, and sometimes Maryanne, would go out back door of our Edson-area acreage house, put on our skis, and ski off into the nearby boreal forest, toward the gravel pit past the dump.  The gravel pit's hills were endless enjoyment, and regular wipe-outs.
     Those wooden skis required pine tar, heated and rubbed in with a rag, and wax, rubbed in with cork.  Harold had shown us how to do this.  We would go to gas stove in the Little House, the house my dad had hauled from Spike Island to the acreage in the early-1950s for his mother, our Irish-born granny (1879-1960).  Spike Island was the Edson neighborhood of railway workers.  A few old houses stood there the last time I passed through Edson, in 2016.
     Using a 3 cm paintbrush, we would paint tar from the 250 mL can onto half the length of the ski.  A stove burner lit, its iron cover removed using the iron lifter with the heat-resistant coiled handle, we would put the tarred ski over the flame, careful not to start the tar burning.  Remove the ski, rub the tar in with a rag, and tar the other end.
     The skis tarred, wax each with wax for that day's air temperature.  Sometimes put a different color wax under the part of the ski under the boot, for grip climbing hills.  This helped even if one encountered a steep hill, requiring fish tracks, that is, splaying the toes of the skis outward to walk up duck-style, or setting the skis parallel to the hill and climbing it by walking sideways.

"PFFF."

      In the Northwest Territories in 1986-87, I had those wooden skis, after Dad sent them by bus in early winter.  I did not tar them but I might have waxed them once or twice.  I skied mostly along trails beside the Mackenzie River in Fort Providence, where I lived from September-July to work in the Hudson's Bay Northern Store.  As I recall in Michael Wynne:  My Youth, some days the bush was so quiet that I could hear snow from trees hit the ground snow as it fell from tree branches:  "Pfff. Pfff."
     I also skied in Fort Resolution, in the Slave River Delta, when I ran that Bay for one week in late March, 1987, while the manager was in Edmonton for meetings.  The local priest had fixed wooden runners between the skis on a sled his snowmobile pulled.  He used this contraption to make ski trails, "Seven trails, numbered 1 to 7, like the seven highways in the Northwest Territories," he told me.

BOITANIO PARK

     Skiing for the first time this winter, finally, in Boitanio Park today, I remembered those days, so long ago.  My skis are fibreglass, a mid-1990s gift from my dear spouse Carla.  My old boots, which came with the wooden skis, were cracked and worn.  I skied using them and the wooden skis once or twice near Alexis Creek in 1991-92, and to teach children to ski at Alkali Lake a couple years later, using the shed full of skis and boots and poles the school had.
     I miss skiing more than I miss teaching.
     Boitanio Park, named after an Italian who settled in Williams Lake decades ago, is a  kilometre long and about a half kilometre wide, a hundred  metres down a walking path from our apartment building.  It's not skiing out the back door into the boreal, but it's what's available here, unless I want to drive 20 km north to Bull  Mountain, the local ski club's trail network, and pay to ski.
     Pay to ski?  That'll be the day, although I have downhill skied, the last time having been near Quebec City during the 1990 Christmas break from my McGill University teacher training program.  I also downhill skied at Silver Summit, near Edson, and Mount Timothy, near Williams Lake, where I cross-country skied the same day, our daughter's elementary school field trip day there.

CANADIAN COLONIALISM

     Making a wee trail network on the park today, and skiing over it a few times, I thought about colonialism and the upcoming 150th anniversary of the July 1, 1867 founding of Canada as a nation, on Indigenous land.  I had planned a trip to Ottawa for the anniversary, but knowing what I know about Canada's ongoing colonial legacy, I decided against the trip.  Once one has learned the truth, how can one revert to living the lie?
     "This land called Canada" is how the teacher of a University of Northern British Columbia First Nations history and culture course describes this land.  She's Metis and I'm her teaching assistant for this all-day Friday-Saturday course taught this month at Tl'esqox, a Tsilhqot'in community 50 km west of where I type today.
     The Tsilhqot'in never surrendered their land in battle or by treaty, although most do not go as far as many Mohawks, and deny they are Canadians.  Still, one elder said during a recent Tl'esqox meeting attended by the federal minister who oversees Indigenous people, there's little to celebrate on July 1.  He seems not to call himself Canadian.  His statement decided me against going to Ottawa, although I am not Indigenous.  Yet, once one knows Canada's sorry colonial history, continuing today via its Indian Act, among other unjust laws and practices, can one celebrate in good conscience?  I cannot.  Today's skiing made me wonder if I should help organize a critical celebration here on July 1.  Perhaps this elder has some ideas.
     Confederation in s 1867 was a deal made by white men of property to better exploit other settlers on stolen land.  Perhaps it helped prevent the United States from annexing Canada, a worry then, and still; but that was more scare tactic than real threat:  the U.S. could have annexed a British colony or a British dominion with equal ease.  See how much Canada has fallen under U.S. sway since 1867.

RED KLISTER RESISTANCE

     Resistance rises against colonialism, against capitalism around the world, including on Indigenous and, which the Americas, Australia, Africa, and much of Asia are.  These were rich places when European colonizers stole them; Europeans had battled for land for centuries before they left Europe. These places were not paradises; they had inequality and the wars is spawns.  Under colonialism, the descendants of the pre-contact people became poorer, many died, many collaborated, many resisted.  That history, the true history of Canada, is worth noting, and some of it is even worth celebrating.
     Resistance to colonialism sticks around, like red klister wax sticks to skis.
     To those who say, "It's over.  Get over it," I say that it continues, learn it, and  join the resistance, which begins inside each person.  You need not block pipelines or mines or retrieve Indigenous children stolen by the foster care system, or help prevent more Indigenous women disappearing while bringing to account those who made many disappear in the past and others who make many disappear today.  You need not inveigh against the systemic racism underlies all these injustices, and others.  
Instead, you need to learn the real history of this land called Canada.  This will help you understand why residential school survivors drink, why young people kill themselves, why a lack of trust and respect exists between Indigenous and settler people, and why some on each side strive to make a better land for us all. Join this red klister resistance to lies, and stick to the truth.

LAND, BEAUTIFUL LAND

     It's about land, at bottom.  It always has been about land.  I skied over settler-colonial land today, and decades ago, before knowledge of settler colonialism liberated me, as honesty and truth always liberate.  This ongoing liberation is joyful, as surely as skiing was joyful on this beautiful day, on this beautiful land.        

Groundhog Bottle and Can Deposit

Thursday, February 2, 2017  

     This overcast Groundhog Day, no overcast groundhog fled from its shadow hereabouts, which means that winter is over. 
     Today, I did not flee from 1066 pop and beer cans and bottles, as William the Conqueror did not flee from King Harold's army inEngland in 1066 A.D..  Instead, yesterday, our car hauled several bags containing 706 containers from Anaham to Williams Lake, where I sold the containers this morning to the local bottle depot for $41.99.  Today, helpful in-laws brought in the 360 containers that did not fit in the car yesterday, and I sold them for $23.42; the containers, not the in-laws.
     Pop cans, bottles, and tetra packs 1L or less pay $0.05, bigger than 1L pay $0.20, and beer cans and bottles pay $0.07; hence the uneven dollar totals.  Canada has had no penny, no $0.01 coin for a few years, the action of a centsless government, so the $41.99 rounds to $42.00.  Think of the 2 1/5 and 3s 10d of English money before decimalization there.
     Think of the day, decades ago, when a boyhood friend and I found in the neighborhood dump, washed, and brought to the bottle depot about 200 pop bottles, for $0.02 each, mere weeks before the bounty rose to $0.05.  The gopher bounty was $0.05 then, I recall from counting gopher tails before selling them to my uncle, who sold them to the provincial agriculture department. 
     Timing is everything in gleaning, as I know whenever I go to the local Salvation Army Thrift Shop's free food table and luck into bell peppers, tomatoes, or other earthly bounty from that other-worldly place.
     The Salvation Army's world headquarters is in London, England.  Last year I saw the church's impressive office building there. 
     William the Conqueror might have cleaned up after himself when he invaded, but the "green and pleasant land" I found in England was rotten with discarded drink containers.  The English pay no deposit, nor get none back for empties, which litter streets and parks.
     By contrast, Neugraben, a Hamburg suburb I spent August, 2016 in, courtesy of my generous sister, had a container-eating machine in a grocery store.  Feed it your empty, and it give you 0.25 Euros. 
     Perhaps discarded drink containers impeded German efforts to overrun England during World War Two.  Could a drink-container wall along the Canada-United States border keep the peace between these two countries?  Ask your local groundhog.