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Reeder T. Slack is our Grandfather

Dear Sisters, Today I found the father of Elizabeth Slack, thanks to my belief for the last few years and Google.com scanning the worlds books resulted in a real family find. I think I told you all before I was pretty sure that her father was Reeder T. Slack. He was born about 1805 in NJ. He lived in Warren county and Hunterdon county in his lifetime. He was married twice. His first wife ,(only known to me by her cemetery stone as Rosanna H.)is the Mother of Elizabeth and her sister Anna Maria Slack or Ann M. Slack and two younger brothers that died before adulthood. She I believe died around the age of 35. She is buried in the same cemetery as the others. Both sisters Elizabeth and Ann Marie were close owing to the fact that they lived close together all their lives and she and Marie’s husband and infant are buried in the family plot in a New Jersey cemetery, I forget which one. I have that data in my family tree file but I am using windows 7 and I don’t have my family tree software loaded now.

The other things I found on Google:

  • He belonged to the Freemason Lodge in Belvidere and he was a Master Freemason. I found two records, 1867 and 1871.
  • He was a mason by trade.
  • He served on the Belvidere town council in 1851 and couple more years. I have that information in a pdf.
  • He was a trustee in the Frenchtown M. E. church in 1868.

His marriage to his 2nd wife: Hunterdon Democrat Newspaper on web http://njsuttonfamily.org

Oct 29, 1845, Vol VIII, No. 10 (374)

Married

On the 10th ult., by the Rev. Manning Force, Mr. Reder T. Slack, of Belvidere, to Mrs. Deliah Chandler, of Bethlehem.

——-my note: Delilah Chandler was a widow, her maiden name was Dilts.  ——–

The story of his death:

Hunderdon Democrat Newspaper on web http://njsuttonfamily.org

Jul 28, 1874, Vol. XXXVI, No. 49, Whole No. 1920

Sudden Death

Last Friday evening in Frenchtown, occurred a sudden death. Reeder T. Slack residing in Frenchtown, a mason by trade, was employed at Ringoes. On Friday morning last, he complained of felling unwell and desired to return to his home, and was accompanied by a young man as an escort. They left the depot in Frenchtown, upon the arrival of the 6 o’clock evening train and in crossing the street, Mr. Slack remarked to his companion, “There is the Foundry” and fell immediately dead in the street.

As to the new confirming information it is in the photos slack-emery01 to slack-emery06. These are 6 pages from an 800 page pdf.


Sylvanus D. Slack is married to Reeder and Deliah’s daughter, Emma Francis. You will have to read this a few times to get it. All we care about is the family confirmation.

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7 responses to “Reeder T. Slack is our Grandfather”

  1. Becky Avatar
    Becky

    Pretty cool, Debbie. I have family tree maker on my computer, but I dont have time to put it in now, but I will. Thanks for weeding out the info from the longer documents!

  2. Maisy Avatar
    Maisy

    I found it interesting the information on the newpapers, how things were worded, very nice. Also I searched “Sylvanus Slack & on the last two links given in the search January 1870 page and January 1879 page Sylvanus D. Slack was married and died respectively. Weird in how I read them. Not that it was wierd, just presented to me that way. (Interesting, cool name, drew me in)

    Then I started looking at another page (had some Slack names on it) and found the stories there so worthy of attention.
    Probably every page is interesting, but I found this one so very interesting, having nothing to do with family info: http://njsuttonfamily.org/Newspaper/jan1886.htm –the first few stories under January 5, 1886, Forty-Eighth Volume, No. 21 at the very top of the page. Two paragraphs are about 2 different accidents involving deaths, very sad, then these events with titles: Sad Suicide; A Sudden Death; Wedded at the Side of the Dead. I just find them hauntingly beautiful, if that makes any sense to y’all.

  3. Maisy Avatar
    Maisy

    Have y’all read >> this << ?

    Page 458 of “Reports of cases decided in the Court of Chancery, the Prerogative Court”

  4. Debbie Avatar
    Debbie

    Did you read my whole post and read those 6 pages I uploaded as picture files you can print? That was my only proof of Reeder Stack as the father of Elizabeth and Ann Marie Slack. I guess I didn’t make my post clear enough. I tried to bold that line but when Writer posted it, it lost that feature..

    Look in the picture gallery for the pages Slack-v-Emery01-Slack-v-Emery06.jpg from the 800 page pdf.

    So, what did you make of the case?

  5. Maisy Avatar
    Maisy

    OK, No, I didn’t see they were uploaded I had a half thought that maybe that was the case but I didn’t look and it didn’t “click” since there was nothing to “click” … FWIW. Thanks.

    I attached them to the blog post & inserted them as thumbnails so we will have an easier time getting to them. 🙂

  6. Maisy Avatar
    Maisy

    I have Family Tree Maker version 11 on my Desktop XP computer. It’s not so useful to me being there. I need to get something newer. What do you recommend Debbie? Win 7 Pro 64.

  7. Debbie Avatar
    Debbie

    Thank you Marysue for putting the pages as thumbnail pics. I am quite new to all of this as you know.

    I am thinking of our sister Sharon and how she needs to register here so she can see what we are talking about. She is interested in the family history because she has a family tree on ancestry.com. I started putting up mine on ancestry.com last week and that has made me start digging for information again.

    As to a version of Family Tree Maker for Win 7 64 bit I haven’t tried to install my old versions. Ancestry.com bought Family Tree Maker a few years ago and they link it with their site so you almost feel like you have to pay for the membership. I have never paid them for membership because I buy older software that has a free year with the program. When you register they ask for a credit card that they will auto charge for a year when the free year is up. I have to write a note on my bill page for the month it will be over so I can unregister before that date.

    The newer highest cost versions of Family Tree Maker only give 6 months free. Get the basic version. It is cheap and that is all you really need if you are not going to join the ancestry site. I think you can go to the site and search but you are limited to what results you can see.

    They say that you can print nice charts and other stuff. Basically you are only going to put in your data and note the source information. It is so easy to do that online at their site because they alert you to sources for most individuals. But I have found that you have to do your own searching and browsing the census forms because the indexing has flaws so the old way of browsing the census still has to be done sometimes. A case is Reeder Slack. I found him on the census for 1840 and 1830 a few years ago but no search comes up with his name. For those years, only the head of family is named I don’t believe the indexing is as solid as the census of 1850 and on up. Solomon Dresser only appears in the 1810 census of Philadelphia but never came up in a search, but now his name comes up correctly.

    While I still have my free membership I need to save the census and other source information and upload it to this site. Can you create folders for files to help keep them organized?

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