Elizabeth
Stories set here
mabel poem
To Uncle Charlie and Aunt Elizabeth
For Uncle Charley and Aunt Elizabeth — the mill-stream childhood they blessed, and the sorrow of parting she never dreamed of.
mabel poem
Poems by Mabel Plaskett
A small gathering of Mabel's verse, opening with her poem for Mary Kirwan.
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1791 Ohio River Indian Attack
On the Ohio River in 1791, the flatboat carrying William Plaskett's family came under attack.
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Uncle Charley Sans - The Goatee Man
Uncle Charley Sans: French goatee, iron sinews, and a thirst that was its own legend.
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The Ancestry of Sarah Barnes Plaskett
Acadian exiles, a cousin who signed the Declaration, and a Mayflower speculation — the deep roots of the family's iron matriarch.
The people of Elizabeth
Everyone the family archive records in the story of this place. Descendants: if one of these is yours, we’d love to hear from you.
- James A. Barnes 1784–1872
- Leonard Barnes 1800–1820
- Samuel Lucas 1560–1650
- Sarah I. Plaskett 1837–1881
- Sarah May Barnes Plaskett 1827–1923
- William Barnes 1800–1820
- William Plaskett 1812–
Born, lived, or died at Elizabeth
- Richard Dennis Norris 1775–1835 · died here
- Sarah Jarir Gootee 1805–1857 · died here
- William Everett Eade 1872–1947 · born here