Alonzo Wolverton and Helen McKay

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Husband Alonzo Wolverton

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           Born: 14 Feb 1841 - Blenheim Township, Oxford County, ON
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           Died: 27 Aug 1925 - Wolverton, ON
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         Father: Enos Wolverton
         Mother: Harriet Newel Towl

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       Marriage: 1870

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Wife Helen McKay

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            AKA: Ellen M. McDonald
           Born: 1849
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           Died: 1939
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Children

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1 M Jasper Wolverton

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           Born: Cir 1871
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2 F Helen Wolverton

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           Born: 13 Nov 1873 - Blenheim Township, Oxford County, ON
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         Spouse: John Henry Brundle
           Marr: 19 Jun 1901 - Oxford County, ON

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3 F Eva Wolverton

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4 F Lenora Wolverton

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            AKA: Leonora Wolverton
           Born: 20 Jun 1876 - Blenheim Township, Oxford County, ON
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           Died: 1961
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         Spouse: William Franklin Darroch

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5 F Jennie Mae Wolverton

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            AKA: Jenny May Wolverton
           Born: 11 May 1879 - Blenheim Township, Oxford County, ON
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         Spouse: Joshua C. Herron
           Marr: 30 Jul 1903 - Grand Forks BC

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General Notes: Husband - Alonzo Wolverton

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FTM BIRT: RIN MH:IF19555

From Dr. Newton Wolverton
An intimate anecdotal biography of one of the most colorful characters in Canadian History
By A. N. WOLVERTON:

Shortly after Alfred, Jasper and Newton enlisted in Cleveland,
their brother Alonzo came over to the city to complete
a house they had been building on Franklin Street, Ohio
City, later West Cleveland (presumably in their spare time
after school). After completing the house Alonzo went to
Washington, where for a time he was employed in the
Quartermaster's Department. Then he returned to Cleveland
where he enlisted in the 20th Ohio Artillery.

He served through several campaigns in Kentucky and
Tennessee, but was captured--the last man left manning a
battery--and lay in a Southern prison for nearly a year and
a half. Finally he escaped, clothed in absolutely nothing but
an under-shirt, crawled through the rebel lines, reached the
Federal lines and eventually his own regiment. Alonzo
started with Sherman on his famous march to the sea, and
got as far as Atlanta, Georgia, where he was left with others
in garrison.

Alonzo told a story of Sherman's march to the sea which
has probably never been published. Somewhere in Tennessee,
the Federal columns, many thousand strong, encountered a
large home-made block-house, with walls fifteen inches thick
of solid green Oak and with a cellar below, where water and
food was stored. A small but very annoying patter of bullets
was traced to that block-house, but it was not considered
important enough to warrant stopping the big Federal force
or even an important detachment. One piece of Artillery
was trained on the block-house and a demand for surrender
made on the garrison. Such demand received a curt reply
of refusal. A few rounds of ammunition, at some distance,
had little or no effect on that green Oak fortress, either going
right through or being stopped by the heavy green timber.
It was very annoying, but rather than stop the progress of a
great army, a second more threatening note demanding surrender
was despatched. It received a reply:

"Corporal Thompson's compliments to General Sher-
"man with a message from the Commander-in-Chief and
"his Confederate Army of six that General Sherman and
"his army of sixty thousand can go to hell."

General Sherman is reported to have considered the retort
so much of a joke, and at the same time so brave, that he
ordered his huge army to detour out of range of that blockhouse,
and that that was one garrison of the Confederate
States of America which never did surrender.

http://www.geni.com/people/Alonzo-Wolverton/6000000008755096019

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General Notes: Wife - Helen McKay

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From Dr. Newton Wolverton
An intimate anecdotal biography of one of the most colorful characters in Canadian History
By A. N. WOLVERTON:

Helen McKay. Name given by David Macdonald as Ellen M. McDonald

http://www.geni.com/people/Helen-Wolverton/6000000008755262303:
"Sister of Elizabeth MacDonald
Half sister of Barbara Kay"

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Notes: Marriage

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From Dr. Newton Wolverton
An intimate anecdotal biography of one of the most colorful characters in Canadian History
By A. N. WOLVERTON:

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