Family Reunion: Tuttle
A Quick Overview of my work under this surname
This is my maternal grandmother’s family, Alberta Jane (Tuttle) Clark (1925-2017). I’ve traced them back to Samuel Tuttle - though not to the same Samuel Tuttle many of the public trees on Ancestry and FamilySearch would have you believe. There is a Rev. Samuel Tuttle who lived in Morris County, New Jersey, too, but my ancestor was not a minister. He worked in a blast furnace and had three children with his wife, Mary Elizabeth Zindle.
Rockaway, Morris County, New Jersey
Almost all of the families mentioned in this post lived in or near Rockaway at some point in their lives. They connect to my Tuttle family, so I hope to get to all of them someday.
Zindle
Mary’s grandfather was (as far as I have been able to prove) Leopold Zindle. I told his story in one of my favorite Mightier Acorns posts, “Me No Go; Me Die First” in 2014.
I love that story because it gives us some insight into the other side of the Revolution. My Callin ancestor, James, may have fought battles against Leopold’s unit, and yet, here I am two and a half centuries later - and I couldn’t exist without both of them. (Not to mention Mary and everyone in between.)
Plumsted
Samuel and Mary had one son, my 3x-great grandfather, Edmund H. Tuttle. He married Josephine Plumsted in 1870, but for the longest time, I didn’t know anything at all about her family. In 2019, I made some progress - which you can read about on her WikiTree profile.
Hart
Ed and Josie Tuttle’s middle son was John Jackson Tuttle, by 2x-great grandfather. His wife was the former Florence Hart, the only daughter of Seymour Hart and Harriet Wells. They had a dozen children, leaving me with dozens of cousins to find - but Florence’s ancestors have left me with a number of interesting mysteries and puzzles to solve before I can tell their story.
I’d love to hear from you if you have traced your ancestry to any of these families. And if you’d like to keep up with any updates, be sure to subscribe!
So, Tad, the genius of your "Our Sixteens" @Mightier Acorns has taken root and is growing. For one thing, I recognized the name Tuttle and traced it back to my own Amy Tuttle, 5th cousin four times removed to your Samuel L. Tuttle (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tuttle-4044, assuming he's the same as this guy in FamilySearch: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KN6H-F47).
I've been monitoring this 16s idea and thinking about ways @Mission: Genealogy can support it. There are obviously problems with searching on Substack for something like this given that there aren't hashtags and Genealogy isn't even a filtered topic. I've been playing with the idea of adding a Google form people could add to that would present itself as a database (out of notion) all of us could explore from a web page. Do you think that would be helpful? It might optionally include links to ones Substack handle as well as shared trees such as to Wikitree and FamilySearch, for example.
Maintaining it becomes worrisome, though setting it up is easy enough. Thoughts?
Honestly, I'm most of all looking for ways for us to collaborate as a community, it sounds like that was your motivation here as well. Standing by.