This page details the history of the Misclevitz family and related families through a detailed ancestry of Dale Laverne Misclevitz and Carol “Dolly” Ann Barr.

Tree: Ancestors of Dale Laverne Misclevitz

Joseph C Misclevitz (1893-1978)

Joseph C Misclevitz was born about 1893 in Chicago. (Records have 3 distinct birth dates for him: 24 November 1893 per his WWI draft record, 14 November 1892 in his WWII draft record, and 16 November 1892 in his Social Security Administration record.) His parents were Frank Misclevitz and Veloma Polovky. Not much else is known about them, although census records for Joseph indicate they were both born in Poland.

The first record that mentions him is his WWI draft form, in which he states that he was ineligible for the draft because he was missing parts of three fingers on his left hand. He was living in Seneca, Nebraska at that time, and would already have been married with two children (Willis and Wynona, aka “Willie and Winnie”–born in 1915 and 1916).

From the birth years of those children, Joseph must have married his wife Lula Mary Beason before about 1915. Lula was born 31 July 1898, the daughter of Elza Albertus Beason (1870-1955) and Winona Estelle Crawford (1875-1962). She would have been about 17 when their first son Willis was born.

In the 1920 census, they were living in Seneca, Nebraska with Willis (1915) and Wynona (1916), and Joseph was working as a farm laborer.

By 1930, they were living at 1612 Spruce Street in Boulder. Colorado with additional children Frank (1926) and Laurene (1928). If they had any children in the decade between 1916 and 1926, they did not survive. Joseph was working as a barber, his wife Lula was working as a presser at a laundry, and their son Willis (age 15) was working as a messenger at a telegraph office. Also in 1930, he is listed as a barber at another address, 504 Hapgood Street.

In 1932, he was living at 1700 Spruce Street and working as a barber.

In 1838 he lived at 806 Maxwell Avenue.

In the 1940 census, Joseph and Lula were living with their daughter Laurene at 719 Walnut Street, with Joseph still a barber and Lula a laundry presser.

In 1941, Joseph registered for the WWII draft. He again mentioned the three missing fingers on his left hand, as well as a sear on his right cheek. His address was 1914 Broadway (which is a parking lot today).

Joseph continued to live at 1914 Broadway working as a barber into 1949.

In 1950, Joseph was living at 1723 Marine Street in Boulder with his wife, his son Willis, his daughter-in-law Eleanor, and his grandson Dale. He was still a barber, Lula was still a laundry presser, and Willis was a manager at a wholesale grocery company. Willis and his family moved out by 1953. Joseph continued to live at that address and work as a barber through at least 1959.

By 1974, still living at 1723 Marine Street, Joseph was retired. He continued to live there until his death in May 1978. His wife Lula died in November 1985.

Willis Joseph Misclevitz (1915-1999)

Willis Joseph Misclevitz was born 27 March 1915 in Seneca, Nebraska. His parents were Joseph C Misclevitz (1893-1978), a son of Polish immigrants, and Lula M Beason (1898-1985).

In the 1920 census, he was living in Seneca with his parents and younger sister Winnie (Wynona). His father was a farm laborer.

By 1930, he was living at 1612 Spruce Street in Boulder, Colorado with his parents and three siblings (Wynona, Frank, and Lauriene). The building no longer exists, with the property now a hotel called the Bradley Boulder Inn (built 1994). His father worked as a barber, his mother was a pressman at a laundry, and Willis himself, age 15, was working as a messenger boy at a telegraph office.

Also in 1930, in a city directory, his home address was listed as 504 Hapgood Street, and his profession was (as in the other 1930 record) “messenger.”

In 1935, Willis apparently lived in Los Angeles.

Before 1938 Willis married Eleanor Ann McAfee. Eleanor was born 18 November 1914 in Iowa. Her parents were Gifford Emerson Mcafee (1868–1930) and Abbie C Lovejoy (1875–1955).

Willis and Eleanor’s only child was Dale, born in 1938.

In 1940, his family was living at 1557 9th Street in Boulder, Colorado. Willis was working as a truck driver for a mercantile company.

He registered for the WWII draft that year (although at the address 1240 4th Ave in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, with a different birth date, but with the same wife and employer), but there’s no indication whether he actually served.

In 1945, Willis was living in Denver at 2537 Grove Street and working as a manager for the Morey Mercantile Company.

In 1949, the city directory for Boulder has Willis living at “El Vado Camp” at the same time his father was living at his barbershop at 1914 Broadway (which is now a parking lot). He was still a manager for Morey Mercantile.

By 1950, he, his wife, and his son Dale were living with his parents Joseph and Lula Misclevitz at 1723 Marine Street in Boulder, Colorado. Willis was working as a manager at a wholesale grocery company (possibly the same one he’d been working at for the previous decade). His parents were still working as a barber and presser as they had been 20 years before.

He was still living at that address in 1951.

By 1953, Willis had moved his family to Fresno, California. His phone number is listed in the local directory that year, and by 1955 he was living at 335 Brown Avenue in Fresno, working as a salesman for Ford Motor Sales while his wife Eleanor was a saleswoman at Gottschalk & Co.

By 1958 he was at 3881 N Sequoia Drive, still a salesman for Ford while Eleanor was a saleswoman at Gottschalk’s. They still lived at that address in 1960, with Willis working as a Ford salesman. But Eleanor was no longer working at Gottschalk’s.

Their son Dale graduated from Fresno State College in 1960 and had joined the US Navy by the following year, where he was stationed in San Diego. A news article in January 1962 about Dale’s service indicates that Willis and Eleanor were living at 353 West Swain in Stockton, California.

By 1964, Willis and Eleanor were living at 6422 Alexandria Place in Stockton, and Willis was listed as retired (at age 49).

His wife Eleanor died 15 January 1973 in Fresno. Willis began receiving Social Security benefits on 10 March 1977 at the age of 62. By 1986 he was living in Yuma, Arizona at 1208 S 10th Ave. He was still living there when he died on 16 July 1999.

Dale Laverne Misclevitz (1938-2002)

Dale Laverne Misclevitz was born 20 August 1938 in Boulder, Colorado. His parents were Willis J Misclevitz (1915-1999) and Eleanor Ann McAfee (1914-1973).

When he was born, and as of the 1940 census, he lived with his parents at 1557 9th Street in Boulder. His father Willis was working as a truck driver.

By 1950, Dale and his parents were living with his grandparents Joseph and Lula Misclevitz at 1723 Marine Street. Joseph Misclevitz was a barber, Lula was a presser at a cleaning plant, and Willis was a manager at a wholesale grocery company.

By 1955, the family was living in Fresno, California. Dale graduated from Fresno High School about 1956. In 1958, Dale was a student at Fresno State College and lived at 3881 North Sequoia Drive. (Judging by the suburban appearance of the house, he was probably still living with his parents.)

Dale was an accomplished swimmer in college, competing in the butterfly and setting national records.

On 12 May 1961, Dale started his service in the US Navy. By 1962 he was serving as an ensign aboard the USS Ticonderoga out of San Diego.

Dale married Carol Ann “Dolly” Barr on 30 November 1963 in San Diego. They had five children, all still living.

In 1966, Dale was listed in the San Diego city directory living at 2240 Bolinas Street.

Military service

Dale was in the US Navy for 10 years until 30 June 1971 throughout the Vietnam War era.

Dale was likely present when the USS Ticonderoga was involved (supporting the USS Maddox) in the Gulf of Tonkin incident on 2 August 1964. (This was the only actual confrontation during the incident; a second supposed attack two days later that was used to justify the US retaliation never occurred.) The Ticonderoga was involved in the retaliation on 5 August.

The Ticonderoga was also the ship that in December 1965 lost an A-4 Skyhawk, its pilot, and a one-megaton B43 nuclear bomb 80 miles off Japan. This incident was made public in 1981.

Dale was awarded a Bronze Star (p. 57) for meritorious service (with the combat distinguishing device) from 14 June 1965 to 8 May 1966. He worked with his Vietnamese counterpart on patrols in the Mekong Delta to counter enemy infiltration by sea.

Ticonderoga supported several military campaigns in Vietnam, including the US response to the Tet Offensive in 1968.

Dale ended his service in 1971 at the rank of lieutenant commander, having served as executive officer on the USS Ticonderoga.

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After leaving the navy, Dale entered the master’s program at the Graduate Theological Seminary in Berkeley California.

Dale’s family moved to Aberdeen, Washington in 1972, where he was Director of Education for St. Mary’s Catholic Church.

In 1976, his family moved to Longview, Washington. Dale was Director of Education at St. Rose and later Director of Catholic Charities. He also worked as a social worker at the state Department of Social & Health Services starting in 1984. The family later established a home in nearby Kelso, Washington

His wife Dolly died in 1994. Dale died January 12, 2002 in Kelso.

Ancestors of Eleanor Ann McAfee

Eleanor Ann McAfee was the wife of Willis Joseph Misclevitz (1915-1999), and grandmother of the eldest living generation of the Misclevitz family.

This account details her paternal ancestors and the wives of the people in that line, as well as (separately) the descent from her colonial ancestor Hatevil Nutter, a common ancestor with the more recent generations of the Weller family via Alma Cordelia Nutter (1849-1929), the wife of Mirza Weller (1840–1919).

Gilbert McAfee (1775-1814)

Gilbert McAfee was born about 1775 in Ireland. Before 1804 he emigrated to the United States and settled in Pennsylvania. A list of pre-1800 residents of Washington County, Pennsylvania includes a laborer named Gilbert McAfee living in Chartiers township. Gilbert is also listed in 1798 tax records for Chartiers township. Other records suggest Gilbert emigrated from Ireland to Washington County later, in 1804.

He had at least one son, Francis (b. c. 1795) who was named in land grant records in 1819 and 1821. His wife’s name and the existence and names of any other children are unknown. His activities prior to 1814, and his origins and ancestry in Ireland, are unknown. It’s unknown if he emigrated with other family members.

On 6 May 1814 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Gilbert enlisted in the 22nd (infantry) Regiment under Captain Foulk for service in the War of 1812. He reported to duty on 31 May at Fort Fayette under Lieutenant J.R. Guys. On June 16, his unit was ordered to Buffalo, New York, which was expecting a British attack (which never came). While in Buffalo, on 20 September 1814, he died of an unspecified disease.

After the war, as thanks for his service land was granted to “Francis McAfee, son and the other heirs at law of Gilbert McAfee…(deceased).” One record mentioning this land grant is dated 25 November 1819. Another, specifying the specific land granted (in Cleburne, Arkansas), is dated 1 October 1821.

Francis McAfee (c. 1795-1835)

Francis McAfee was listed in the 1820 US census (enumerated 7 August) living in Nottingham in Washington County, Pennsylvania apparently with his wife and no children. (The household had one male 16-25 and one female 16-25.)

Trees on Ancestry identify his wife as Anna Ames (1800-1875, daughter of Jabez Joshua Ames (1767-1841) and Elizabeth Smith (1768-1850)) and indicate their marriage occurred on 16 March 1820, but I have not found any supporting records.

Francis McAfee is also shown heading a household in Center, Guernsey County, Ohio in the 1830 census with his wife and six children under 10. Later records indicate these children were John (1821), Dorsey (1822), Eleanor (1823), Thomas (1825), Margaret (1827), and Gifford (1829).

Francis supposedly died in 1835 but no supporting records have been found. His wife Anna McAfee appears in the 1840 census as head of household (and thus a widow) in Oxford, Guernsey County, Ohio with 6 children under 20 and one son age 20-29 (probably John, who might have only been 19, but reporting of ages in records of this period was inexact). From other records, we know her youngest son was Archibald (1833). Some trees also show a daughter Ann.

The origins of Francis are unclear, but there are some clues. Congress passed a law granting land to veterans and their families after the War of 1812. One such record from 1819 granted land to Francis McAfee, son of Irish immigrant Gilbert McAfee (who died of disease during the war in September 1814 serving under Captain Foulk of the 22nd Regiment). That land grant was recorded in Washington County, Pennsylvania, where Francis was living in 1820 with his new wife. A second document shows a land grant to a Francis McAfee son of Gilbert for service in the War of 1812 in the 22nd Regiment, granted in 1921 for land in Cleburne, Arkansas. These are likely two stages in the same land grant, as the first mentions Washington County, Pennsylvania and notes the land is in “Arks” but does not specifically describe the land, whereas the later record specifies the exact location.

The timing and location suggests (though is by no means certain) that this is the same Francis McAfee, and that proceeds from the sale of this land might have helped him as he was starting his family.

Census records after 1850 for the children of Francis say that he was born in Ireland, although some Ancestry trees have him born in West Bethlehem in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Some records suggest Gilbert McAfee, the son of Francis who is named in the land grant, immigrated to Washington County in 1804. Others show that there was a man named Gilbert McAfee living there prior to 1800. But it seems likely that Francis was either born in Ireland say by 1795-1800 and emigrated with his father, or was born in Washington County in the few short years after Gilbert’s arrival from Ireland.

Note that there is also a war record for a Francis McAfee for the War of 1812 as a private in Captain Miller’s company of Pennsylvania Volunteers. If Francis was born in 1795 or so (or even a bit earlier) this could be him, especially if he lied about his age to enlist. But if he was born more like 1800 it must be another Francis McAfee. Note that the Gilbert McAfee in the land grant enlisted in 1814 at age 39 so was born about 1775. Teenage parents did occur but most marriages were at age 21 or later. So assuming Gilbert was his father, he could not have been born much earlier than 1795 or 1796. That would make Francis 18 or 19 if he enlisted in 1814. 1795 also is the earlier bound if the reported age range in the 1820 census is correct. So the chronology based on all of these sources is tight, but workable.

Thomas McAfee (1825-1892)

Thomas McAfee was born about 1825 in Washington County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Francis McAfee (c. 1795 -1835) and Anna Ames (1800-1875). After 1827 and before 1829, his family (by 1830 consisting of his parents and 5 siblings all under 10 years of age) moved to Center in Guernsey County, Ohio.

His father Francis died in 1835 in Guernsey County when Thomas was only 10 years old.

In 1940, Thomas’ mother Anna (and thus Thomas) was living as head of household in Oxford, Guernsey County, Ohio with 7 children (one more having been born after 1830).

Thomas married Nancy Margaret Masters on 23 November 1846 in Washington County, Ohio. Nancy was born about 1828, probably in Guernsey County, Ohio. She was the daughter of Joseph Masters (1802-1870) and Sarah Cary (b. c. 1800) who were married in 1824 in Guernsey County.

Their children were Joseph (c. 1846 or 1847), Thomas (1850), Sarah (1854), Margaret (1857), June (1859), Mary (1860), Nancy (1861), Ruth Anna (1864), and Parren (1868).

In 1850, Thomas and Nancy and their first son Joseph were living in Bethel, Monroe County, Ohio. By 1860 they (including children Joseph, Thomas, Sarah, Margaret, and June) were living in Liberty township, Washington County, Ohio.

In September 1864, his son Joseph joined the Union Army in the Ohio 179th Infantry Regiment, Company F. His son Thomas was too young to enlist. Thomas himself decided to enlist in the same company as his son Joseph; he mustered 2 March 1865* in Ohio and served for 4 months. The unit saw no significant action during that period, and he mustered out 25 July 1865, a month after Joseph. However, his service did entitle him to a pension.

* (Note that the 1890 census record recorded Thomas mustering 2 March 1864 – if this is true rather than the 1865 found in other records, he joined several months before his son Joseph, rather than the other way around, and would have been on duty for the Battle of Nashville. However, the unit did not see combat but was on garrison duty.)

His wife Nancy died 11 August 1869.

As of the census in July and August 1870, Thomas’ older children had moved out and Thomas was living with his younger children Mary, Nancy, Ruth, and Parren. He had employed Emaline Givens (age 28) as a housekeeper. Later that year, on 1 September 1870, Thomas and Emaline were married.

Thomas and Emaline had five children: Alzora (1870), Daniel (1872), Susan (1873), Archie (1875), and Ida (1877).

Thomas and Emeline lived in Liberty in 1880 with children from both of Thomas’ marriages (Mary, Nancy, Ruth, Parn, Alzora, Daniel, Susan, Archie, and Ida).

Thomas was recorded in the June 1890 US Census Veterans’ Schedules (some of the few records from that census to have survived). It shows him living in Liberty close to veterans Thomas Masters (possibly a brother-in-law), Joseph Master (possibly his father-in-law) and John Law and notes his service during the war. It also notes that he had ongoing issues with a hernia and diarrhea associated with his service (note that 80 members of his unit died of disease and several fellow veterans in Liberty had similar ailments).

Thomas died 23 March 1892 in Liberty. His wife Emaline died in 1923 in Brown County, Ohio.

Joseph F McAfee (1846-1909)

Joseph F McAfee was born in Guernsey County, Ohio sometime between 1846 and 1849 (1846 is more likely given his Civil War service in 1864). His parents were Thomas McAfee (1825-1892) and Nancy Margaret Masters (1828-1869).

Joseph was listed in the 1850 census (estimated age 2) living on a farm with his parents in Bethel, Monroe County, Ohio.

By 1960, Joseph was living with his parents and younger siblings Thomas, Sarah, Margaret, and Jane in Liberty township, Washington County, Ohio. He had four more sisters born in the 1860s.

On 29 September 1864, Joseph mustered for Company F of the Ohio 179th Infantry Regiment for the Union Army. His unit mostly performed post and garrison duty in Nashville, Tennessee. It was associated with the Battle of Nashville on December 15-16, 1864, but apparently did not see combat. 80 men died while serving in the unit, all to disease. He mustered out 17 June 1865.

On 7 December 1867, Joseph married Hannah Phoebe Ables in Washington County, Ohio. Phoebe was born 11 January 1849 in Lebanon, Ohio, the daughter of John Ables (1808-1888) and Mary Ann Bevard (Duncan) (1805-1880). She seems to have lived in Liberty township in Washington County until marrying.

Joseph and Phoebe’s children were Gifford Emerson (1868), William Ulysis (1870), and John Watson (1872). Joseph and Phoebe were estranged early in their marriage. By the 1870 census, Phoebe was living with her sons Gifford and William without Joseph. They must have reconciled enough for son John to be born a couple years later, but by the 1880 census Phoebe and her younger two sons were living with her father John Ables in Jackson, Ohio and her eldest son Gifford was working as a farmhand for another family across town. Phoebe would later move with her son Gifford to Iowa (where she listed herself as a “widow” in the 1900 census even though Joseph was still living), and then died in 1912 in Richland, Wisconsin where her son William’s family lived. Phoebe was buried in Sylvan Cemetery in Richland, Wisconsin, the same cemetery as her son William and daughter-in-law Altah Mae.

Joseph remarried (reportedly via a verbal contract) about 1884 to Sarah J Murphy, the widow of Irish immigrant Patrick McCarthy (1842-1883), who had died of pneumonia leaving his widow and three children without means of support. Joseph and Sarah are listed in the 1885 Colorado state census living in Boulder with her daughters Millie (1879) and Myrtle (1883) from her previous marriage. Sarah’s son Robert (1881) was not living with her, even though he was only 4 years old. Robert was living with his maternal grandmother as of the 1900 census, so it’s possible he lived with her as early as 1885.

Joseph and Sarah had one son, Walter G McAfee (1893). Joseph appears to have left Sarah and her children shortly thereafter, because Sarah remarried to James Wooley (b. 1848), an English immigrant, later in 1893, and had a daughter Savannah born September 1894 (and two later children). Sarah’s daughter Millie had at some point moved in with relatives from Sarah’s maternal family (with the surname Key, which she began using). The 1890 census record has not survived, so this period is especially unclear.

In the 1900 census, Joseph is listed as head of household in a home in Erie, Colorado consisting mostly of the family of his brother Thomas, including Thomas’ wife Adaline and their children Ellen, John, and George. The household also had two live-in laborers including Robert McCarthy, Joseph’s stepson, who was working as a farmhand. Joseph was listed as “widowed” even though both of his wives were still living.

Joseph died in April 1909 and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Erie, Colorado. His ex-wife Sarah would be buried in the same cemetery 5 years later alongside her later husband James Wooley, who died in 1910.

Gifford Emerson McAfee (1868–1930)

Gifford Emerson McAfee was born 24 March 1868 in Cambridge, Guernsey County, Ohio. His parents were Joseph F McAfee (1846–1909) and Hannah Phoebe Ables (1849–1912).

By 1870, he was living with his mother and infant brother William in Liberty township, Washington County, Ohio (served by the post office in Marietta). His father was not listed in the census record, so his parents might have been estranged.

By 1880, Gifford was 12 and working as a farm laborer in the home of John Ringer, a schoolteacher in Jackson, Guernsey County, Ohio. His mother and two younger brothers William and John were living with his maternal grandfather John Abels, a minister, across town in Jackson.

His parents were eventually divorced as his father was remarried by 1885 and living in Colorado with his new wife and two step-children.

On 14 February 1888, Gifford married Clemmie Arabella Bastion in Richland Center, Wisconsin. Clemmie was born 9 March 1870 in Wisconsin to Francis Bastion (1841-1889) and Margaret Reed Barden (1846-1899). Their children were Floyd Kenneth (1888), Keith Cleston (1890), and Letha (1892).

By 1895, Gifford was living in Cedar township, in Mitchell County, Iowa. His wife Clemmie died there in 1897. In the 1900 census, Gifford is living in Cedar, Iowa with his mother Phoebe, his three children, and a live-in farm laborer.

Gifford’s daughter Letha died in 1901 at the age of 9.

On 29 October, 1901, Gifford married Abbie C Lovejoy (the maternal ancestor in this line) in Minneapolis. Abbie was born 13 June 1875, probably in Minnesota. Her parents were Elbridge Gerry Lovejoy (b. 1833) and Caroline L Hall (1834-1900). Abbie was a descendant of colonial ancestor Hatevil Nutter, whose descent is shown later on this page.

Gifford and Abbie’s children were Ruby Arvilla (1903), Helen (1905), Irene (1907), and Eleanor Ann (1914).

In 1910, Gifford and Abbie were living with their three elder daughters and two hired farmhands in Lime Creek, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa. By 1915, they were living in Portland township (Mason City post office), also in Cerro Gordo County.

By 1920, the family was living at a farm in Valmont, Boulder County, Colorado. Gifford and Abbie were listed in the 1928 city directory for Boulder, Colorado, living at 1112 1st Avenue (an address that no longer exists).

Gifford died 7 April 1930 in Boulder, Colorado. His wife Abbie continued to live at 1112 1st Avenue and died in Boulder in 1955.

Descent from Elder Hatevil Nutter

The Misclevitz family in some branches has ancestry in the United States going back to colonial times. One of those branches descends from a 17th-century minister named Hatevil (“pronounced “hate-evil”) Nutter down to Abbie Lovejoy (1875-1955), and through her marriage to Gifford Emerson McAfee (1868-1930) all of the later McAfees and associated families including all Misclevitz relatives descended from Willis Joseph Misclevitz (1915-1999).

Elder Nutter is also a direct ancestor of the Weller relatives that descend from Mirza Weller (1840-1919) and his wife Alma Cordelia Nutter (1849-1929).

Descent to Dale Misclevitz

Hatevil Nutter (1603-1675)

Elizabeth Nutter (1646-1674)

Elizabeth Leighton (1674-1756)

Richard Pinkham (1698-1778)

Samuel Pinkham (1740-1780)

Samuel Pinkham (1768-1838)

Betsy Pinkham (1795-1860)

Elbridge G. Lovejoy (b. 1833)

Abbie Lovejoy (1875-1955)

Eleanor Ann McAfee (1914-1973)

Dale Misclevitz (1938-2002)

Descent to Lloyd Weller

Hatevil Nutter (1603-1675)

Anthony Nutter (1630-1686)

John Nutter (1663-1719)

James Nutter (1691-1758)

James Nutter (1732-1792)

Nathaniel Nutter (1760-1849)

Thomas Daniel Nutter (1787-1851)

John Millan Nutter (1816-1895)

Alma Cordelia Nutter (1849-1929)

Charles Mirza Weller (1869-1948)

Lloyd Alton Weller (1918-1967)

Hatevil Nutter (1603-1675)

Hatevil Nutter was born about 1603 in England. The approximate year is based upon his statement in his will of 1674 that he was about 71 years of age. His origins and ancestry are unknown.

While still in England, he married his wife Anne, probably about 1629. Her maiden name might have been Ayers or Eyer. Possibly three children were born in England: Anthony (c. 1630), Abigail (c. 1632), and John (unknown).

He arrived in New Hampshire on or shortly after 1635 (possibly along with Captain Thomas Wiggin that year), buying property from Captain Wiggin in 1636/7 in Dover Neck (now the southern peninsula of Dover, New Hampshire which ends in Dover Point). Dover was the first permanent non-indigenous settlement in New Hampshire, having been explored in 1603 and settled by three families in 1623, who sold the plantation to Puritan settlers in 1633. So Hatevil was not in the first wave of Puritan settlers but still a very early resident. He eventually owned many properties in and around Dover.

He was one of the early elders of the First Parish Church of Dover, which was originally gathered before his arrival in 1633, but then gathered again in 1638 with his help. It was a Congregational (and puritan) church that had a succession of ministers throughout Hatevil’s life. (The congregation still exists today at a newer (1829) church building as the First Parish Church – Congregational – United Church of Christ.)

Hatevil owned a sawmill at Lamprey River (some 15 miles west and south of Dover Neck), and a shipyard along the Fore River (now the stretch of the Piscataqua River south of the convergence of the Cochecho and Salmon Fall Rivers along Dover Neck).

Hatevil and Anne had at least two children after their arrival in Dover: Mary (1641) and Elizabeth (1646). Their children are known from property records and a will, and it’s possible there were others who did not live long enough to be named as heirs.

Per an account on rootsweb, Hatevil served on a grand jury in 1649, was a deputy in the General Assembly at Portsmouth in 1650, a selectman in Dover in 1655, town moderator in 1659, and Justice of the Peace in 1661-2

Hatevil was very severe in his religious belief. When three Quaker women appeared in town as missionaries and were accused of making a disturbance, he enlisted the support of his son-in-law John Roberts (husband of his daughter Abigail) in his role as constable. Roberts (and a Thomas Roberts) arrested the women and had them whipped.

Hatevil made his will on 28 December 1674, specifically naming his wife Anne and living children Anthony, Mary, and Abigail. His children John and Elizabeth were not named, suggesting they died before the will was made. Elizabeth and her husband Thomas Leighton had been granted land by Hatevil in 1670. John, or a son of Anthony also named John, was granted land by Hatevil in 1668/9. The inventory of Hatevil’s estate was presented 25 June 1675 and the date of probate was 29 June 1675, suggesting he died earlier.

His wife Anne outlived him but nothing is known about her life after he died. Their burial locations are unknown.

Elizabeth Nutter (1646-1674)

Elizabeth Nutter was born about 1646 in Dover, New Hampshire, the daughter of English immigrants Hatevil (1603-1675) and Anne Nutter.

She married Thomas Leighton (b. 1642) in Dover about 1670. Thomas was the son of Thomas Leighton (1604-1672) and Joanna (possibly Silsby, d. 1704). After her marriage on 13 Feb 1670/71, her father Hatevil gave her and her husband land.

Elizabeth and Thomas had three children: Thomas (1671), John (1673), and Elizabeth (1674). Elizabeth was not named in her father’s will on 28 December 1674, suggesting that she had died by that time.

However, when her husband Thomas died intestate in 1677, there were indications she was still alive.

This summary of court estate records suggests Elizabeth was living as of 25 June 1678. But the language in her father’s will is very clear about his three living children (not including Elizabeth), so there is a discrepancy. Perhaps her brother Anthony Nutter was the petitioner on her behalf after her death as brother-in-law of Thomas Leighton and guardian of the son of Thomas Leighton (from other sources, also named Thomas). Regardless of whether she died in 1674 or after 1678, there are no records of her after that time.

Elizabeth Leighton (1674-1756)

Elizabeth Leighton was born in 1674, the only daughter and last child of Thomas Leighton (1642-1677) and Elizabeth Nutter (1646-1674).

About 1695 she married Richard Pinkham. Richard was born about 1672, the son of Richard or John Pinkham, and grandson of the original Dover immigrant Richard Pinkham (who died about 1648). (It’s possible these first two Richards are the same man, which would indicate a life of roughly 1624-1648 and three children born before age 24, which is a tight chronology.)

Elizabeth and Richard’s children were Richard, Tristam, and John (1696). Only the birth date of John is known; if he was the first son the marriage would presumably be about 1695 or maybe early 1696. If he was the third child, his parents would have been married more like 1692 (quite young at 18 and 20 respectively). The first record of the married couple was in 1699 when they were granted land by Thomas Leighton, Elizabeth’s brother.

Elizabeth died about September 1756, and her husband might have died in the next year or so.

Richard Pinkham (1698-1778)

Richard Pinkham was the son of Richard Pinkham (1672-1757) and Elizabeth Leighton (1674-1756). Find a Grave has his birth date as 5 September 1698 but no grave for him survives and no other source for this date has been found. Other sources have him born as late as 1709. He was born in Dover, New Hampshire, where the Pinkhams were early immigrants.

Before 1740 he married a woman named Abigail. Her maiden name might have been Starbird or Starbuck, with her parents Thomas and Abigail (Dam) Starbird. If this ancestry is correct, she might have been born about 1695.

Among their children was Samuel Pinkham, born in Dover by 1740 (or possibly as early as 1735).

Richard’s family later moved to Barrington, New Hampshire, about 14 miles west (and inland).

Richard’s wife Abigail died about 23 July 1766 in Barrington.

Richard died and was buried in Barrington. Some source have 1778 as the year, and others 1780, possibly confusing different Richard Pinkhams. Regardless of these dates, the man who is the father of Samuel who married Hannah Daniels and later a woman named Lois seems to be the same man who married Abigail and was the son of Richard Pinkham who married Elizabeth Leighton.

Samuel Pinkham (1740-1780)

(The following information is mostly from Martin Hollick who wrote an article in the Jan/April 2006 issue of the New Hampshire Genealogical Record about the Pinkham family.)

Samuel Pinkham was born about 1735-1740 in Dover Neck, New Hampshire. He was the son of Richard (c. 1700-c.1780) and Abigail (c. 1700-1766) Pinkham.

Samuel was married about 1760. Possibly he was first married to Hannah Daniels, and then later to a woman named Lois, although it’s possible he was married to one wife named Lois Daniels. The Daniels name is likely because two of his children married Daniels spouses who were described as cousins. His children, whether from one or two marriages, were Abigail (1760), Sarah (1762), Elizabeth (1765), Samuel (1768), Richard (1770), and Lois (1776).

His children were all born in Madbury, about 8-9 miles from Dover Neck. Samuel was identified as “Samuel Pinkham of Madbury” in lawsuits in 1759 and 1768. Possibly his wife was from Madbury originally.

On 8 December 1766, Samuel was deeded land by Richard Pinkham (presumably his father) in Dover and adjacent Durham (20 acres in the former and 10 in the latter) for £100 (the transaction was not officially recorded until 1770).

Samuel died about 28 January 1780 in Madbury, and was buried in nearby Barrington near his father and other family members. This date was later transcribed (partially in error, with the year 1790) from his gravestone, but the stone is no longer legible.

His wife Lois died in Madbury 16 October 1825.

Samuel Pinkham (1768-1838)

Samuel Pinkham was born 1 September 1768 in Madbury, New Hampshire. His father was Richard Pinkham (1735-1780).

In November 1789 in Madbury he married Sarah (Sally) Chesley. Sally was born 20 November 1770, the daughter of Joseph Chesley (b. 1740) and Sarah Drew (1742-1827).

The newlywed couple were recorded in the first US census in 1790, living in Madbury.

By 1800 they were living in Lee, New Hampshire (about 7 miles southwest of Madbury). The household included 7 children under 10 (3 sons and 4 daughters), one male and one female each 16-25, and an older woman (over 45).

By 1810, the family had moved to Industry, Maine. In that year’s census, their home had 11 people including Samuel and Sally, 7 children under 16, and 2 children (one son and one daughter) 16-25.

By 1820, still in Industry, they were living with 10 children, 6 under 16, and 4 between 16-25.

From other sources, they had 14 children overall. Nine (Love, Sarah, James, Elizabeth (Betsy), Winborn, Abigail, Mary (Polly), Wright Hale, and Hannah) were born in Lee, and five (Lois, Nahum, Curtis, Harriet, and Lovina) in Industry.

By 1830 they had moved to Starks, Maine and their family consisted of 8 people including Samuel and Sally, 3 children 20-49, and 3 children under 20.

Samuel’s wife Sarah (Sally) died in February 1838. He died later that year, on 4 December 1838.

Betsy Pinkham (1795-1860)

Elizabeth (Betsy) Pinkham was born 1 June 1795 in Industry, Maine. Her parents were Samuel Pinkham (1768-1838) and Sarah Chesley (1770-1838).

She married before 1817 William Lovejoy. William was born 12 April 1793 in Industry. His parents were Thomas Lovejoy (1766-1817) and Nancy Burgess (1769-1854).

In 1840, the family was recorded living at “Range 5 Township 4” in Aroostook County, Maine with her husband and 8 children (all under age 20). 1 male under 5, 1 female under 5, 2 females 5-9, 1 male 10-14, 1 male 15-19, 2 females 15-19.

In 1850, the family was living in Crystal Plantation with 6 children including William (1822), Albion Keith Paris (1827), Caroline (1829), Elbridge (1831), Sarah Ann (1833), and Nancy (1840), with a live-in farm laborer John Fullen (age 19).

From other records, we know they also had the daughters Clementine (1817), Lovina (1820), Elizabeth (1823), Elmira (1828), and Fannie (birth year unclear) who had all marired and moved out prior to 1850.

Before 1860, William and Betsy moved west to Minnesota with some of their children (including William, Albion, Elbridge, Sarah, and Nancy). William died prior to the census on 18 January 1860; some secondary sources say he died of pneumonia only 4 days before his wife, who also died of pneumonia. If so, the census occurred between their deaths. Betsy was living on 18 January 1860 with her son Elbridge and daughters Sarah and Nancy and likely died shortly thereafter.

Elbridge G. Lovejoy (b. c. 1833)

Elbridge Gerry Lovejoy was born about 1831-1833 in Maine (possibly in Bangor), the third-youngest of 11 children of William Lovejoy (1793-1860) and Betsy Pinkham (1795-1860).

In 1850, he is listed living and working on a farm with his parents and five of his siblings (4 sisters and a brother) in Crystal plantation, Aroostok, Maine.

(Note that there was a different and older Elbridge G. Lovejoy who lived in Piscataquis, Maine in 1840 and 1850. That other man was head of household in 1840, when this Elbridge was only 7-9 years old. Possibly that man was an uncle or cousin given the relatively unusual given name.)

On 31 October 1855, he married Caroline Hall in Crystal, Maine.

Before 1960, Elbridge moved west to Minnesota with his wife, parents, two brothers (William and Albion), and two sisters (Sarah and Nancy). His other siblings (all sisters who were married) remained behind in Maine.

Before January 1860, his father died, and his mother Betsy moved in with him and his sisters Sarah and Nancy in St Anthony, Minnesota (now suburban Minneapolis). They were all recorded in the census of 18 January. Elbridge was working as a “lumberman.” Betsy died shortly thereafter. His sister Nancy then moved back to Maine, marrying and older widower and then remarrying and having children after her first husband died. His sister Sarah married in 1861.

For whatever reason, Elbridge and his wife did not have children (at least any that survived to be recorded) until 1862, when they had twins (Hattie and Harry) born in Minneapolis. They later had a son Edward (aka Edwin) (1870) and a daughter Abbie (1875).

Elbridge registered for the Civil War draft in 1863. There’s no record that he served, but if so that could explain some of the gap in children between the twins and Edward.

By 1870, Elbridge and his wife Caroline were living in Hastings, Dakota County, Minnesota (southeast of Minneapolis on the Mississippi River near the border with Wisconsin) with their three children Hattie, Harry, and Eddie. Elbridge was working in a sawmill.

By 1880 the family was living on a farm in Thomaston, Minnesota, in Wadena County, with everyone in the family but 4-year old Abbie working on the farm.

Elbridge’s wife Caroline died on 17 April 1900 in Minneapolis. Less than two months later, as of the 1900 census on 1 June 1900, Elbridge was living at 413 8th Street in Minneapolis. He was listed as married rather than widowed. Elbridge was apparently retired, his profession listed as “leisure.” His adult children Harry, Hattie (now McCurdy), Edwin, and Abbie were living with him, along with a couple in their 50s (Mr. and Mrs. John Williams) as lodgers. Harry, Hattie, and Edwin were all listed as married but none of their spouses were recorded living at the same address.

They might just have been having a family gathering for the summer or in the wake of their mother’s death, because Hattie was separately recorded living in Floyd township in Iowa with her husband and two children on 12 June. Edward was separately recorded on 11 June living with his wife Emma as boarders in a home in St Anthony, Minnesota. Harry was separately recorded with his wife Cora and children on a farm in Logan Center, Grand Forks County, North Dakota on 19 June.

Elbridge apparently moved back to North Dakota with his son Harry. Elbridge died in Rugh township, Nelson County, North Dakota on 5 March 1910. His name was mistakenly written “Alfred” on his death certificate, but it names his parents and enough other information to identify him. His son Harry was living in Rugh as of the May 1910 US Census just two months later.

Abbie Lovejoy (1875-1955)

Abbie Lovejoy was born 13 June 1875 in Minnesota, possibly in Hastings in Dakota County. Her parents were Elbridge Lovejoy (1831-1910) and Caroline Hall (1832-1900), who were natives of Maine and had moved to Minnesota about 1860.

By 1880, her family was living at a farm in Thomaston, Minnesota. She was still living at home in 1900 at age 25 when her mother Caroline died and the family was living in Minneapolis.

On 26 October 1901, Abbie married Gifford Emerson McAfee in Minneapolis. Gifford, detailed earlier on this page, was born in 1868 to Joseph F McAfee (1846–1909) and Hannah Phoebe Ables (1849–1912).

Their children were Ruby Arvilla (1903), Helen (1905), Irene (1907), and Eleanor Ann (1914).

In 1910, Gifford and Abbie were living with their three elder daughters and two hired farmhands in Lime Creek, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa. By 1915, they were living in Portland township (Mason City post office), also in Cerro Gordo County.

By 1920, the family was living at a farm in Valmont, Boulder County, Colorado. Gifford and Abbie were listed in the 1928 city directory for Boulder, Colorado, living at 1112 1st Avenue (an address that no longer exists).

Gifford died 7 April 1930 in Boulder, Colorado. Abbie continued to live at 1112 1st Avenue and died in Boulder in 1955.

Eleanor Ann McAfee (1914-1973)

Eleanor Ann McAfee was born 18 November 1914 in Iowa. Her parents were Gifford Emerson Mcafee (1868–1930) and Abbie C Lovejoy (1875–1955). Her family was recorded in the 1915 Iowa state census 4 months after she was born living in Portland in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa.

By 1920, Eleanor’s family was living in Valmont, Boulder County, Colorado. By 1930 they were in Boulder, Colorado, and in 1935 they lived in Denver.

Before 1938 Eleanor married Willis Misclevitz. Willis was the son of Joseph C Misclevitz (1893–1978) and Lula Mary Beason (1898–1985).

Willis and Eleanor’s only child was Dale, born in 1938. His life is described in detail earlier on this page.

Eleanor and Willis continued to live in Boulder through 1951. By 1955 they had moved to Fresno, California.

Their son Dale joined the US Navy in 1961 and moved to San Diego. By 1964, Eleanor and Willis were living in Stockton, California, but at some point later they moved back to Fresno.

Eleanor died in Fresno on 15 January 1973.

Barr family

Carol Ann “Dolly” Barr was the wife of Dale Misclevitz and mother to the eldest living generation of the Misclevitz family. Her family line is described below, though as they were recent immigrants from Poland, not much is known about her ancestry.

Tree: Ancestors of Dolly Barr

Teofil (Theodore) Barski (1867-1945)

Teofil Barski was born about 1867 in Galicia in the Austrian Empire. His parents were Kazimer Barski (b. c. 1840) and Anna Krol (b. 1842). His father’s precise origins (or anything except his name) are unknown. His mother’s family was from Młyńczyska, Tarnów, Limanowa, and other places near Kraków.

He left Galicia and came to the United States. The record has not been found and the date is unclear, and it is not known if he came with his parents. There is a 21 May 1889 arrival record in New York City of a Teofil Barski immigrating from Russia (which controlled portions of Galicia at the time). That Teofil Barski traveled alone in steerage.

On 26 June 1893, Teophil married Catharina Kroll in Cuyahoga County, Ohio (probably in Cleveland). Catharina was born 5 December 1874. Her parents and ancestry are unknown, except that she was listed in various records as having been born in Austria (1900 census), Galicia (1910 census), Russia (1920 census), or Poland (1930-1950 censuses and her death certificate). Probably she was born in Galicia, which was part of the Austrian Empire until after World War I (1918) and had a large Polish-speaking population. Parts of it at various times were under Russian control and half of historical Galicia is now in Poland (with the other half in Ukraine). It’s possible she could have been a cousin of Teofil’s of some degree, as her maiden name is similar to the name of Teophil’s mother Anna Krol.

Their children were Henry (1894), Julia (1897), Helen (1900), Otto (1902), Edward (1904), and Caroline (Carrie) Grace (1907).

In 1897, Teofil naturalized as a US citizen.

In 1898, he was listed as working at a saloon on Jennings Avenue at the corner of Denison. (The current location has no buildings and is on a wooded lot that has since grown up as a buffer between the neighborhood to the west and the industrial area to the east.)

In 1900, he was recorded as T. O. Barski living on Bell Line Avenue (a road that no longer exists, but see the map below) in Cleveland with his wife and three eldest children, and a boarder from Russia. His profession was “salonist” meaning that he worked at a saloon, which could sometimes refer to a barbershop but also to something more like its modern meaning as a bar or tavern. Probably it was the same saloon recorded in 1898.

In 1910, he was listed as Theo Barski living at 3762 Jennings Avenue, the same location as the saloon he worked at in 1898, with his profession listed as a “merchant” owner of a saloon. He lived there with his wife and all six of his children. He continued to be listed in city directories as a saloon owner at this location at least through 1923. In 1916, his son Henry is listed at the same address as working in real estate.

The 1920 census lists him as Theodore Barski. All six children were still living at home, with Henry working as a helper at an auto factory, his daughters Julia and Helen working as operators at a suit factory, and his younger children still in school.

In 1922, a Henry Barski (possibly his son) was listed as the owner of a retail tea shop, and his son Otto owned a different saloon nearby at 1409 Denison.

By the 1930 census, he was listed as Theo Barski (retired) living with his wife at the house of their daughter Helen and her husband Michael Rutkowski and their two children at 4850 E 106 Street (currently 4850 Edgepark Drive) in the Garfield Heights neighborhood. His son-in-law was the secretary at a savings and loan company. Later, his son Edward briefly lived at the same address, which he listed as his home in 1939 on his marriage license.

In the 1940 census, he was listed as Tiofil, still living with his wife at the home of his daughter and son-in-law.

Teofil died (listed as Theodore on the death certificate) on 21 July 1945 at St. Alexis Hospital in Cleveland. His wife Catherine died at Marymount Hospital in 1951.

Edward Richard Barr (Barski) (1904-1994)

Edward Richard Barski was born 29 October 1904 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was the son of Teofil (Theodore) Barski (1867-1945) and Catherine Kroll (1874-1951), Polish-speaking immigrants from Galicia in the Austrian Empire who arrived separately about 1890 and married in the United States.

In 1910, he was living with his parents and five siblings in Cleveland at 3762 Jennings Road (there are no houses remaining in that area, which is near a steelyard). His father was running a saloon and the bartender of the saloon was boarding in their home, suggesting they might have been living at the address of the establishment. (Often at this time, a “saloon” referred to a business more like a barbershop than a tavern, but this one had a bartender.) Most of their neighbors were Polish-speaking immigrants or children of immigrants from Russian or Austrian controlled areas of Galicia or nearby regions.

In 1920, Edward was still living with his parents and siblings at the same address, with his father still the proprietor of a saloon. His older siblings Henry, Julia, and Helen were working factory jobs.

No other records have been found for Edward until 14 September 1939, when he married Irene Kuchinski in Cuyahoga County. At the time of their marriage, Edward was living at 4850 Edgepark Drive in Garfield Heights (apparently with his sister, brother-in-law, and parents), and Irene was living at 4212 East 112th Street in Cleveland.

Irene was born 24 October 1917 in Ohio. Her parents were Felix Kucinski (1892-1974) and Julia Wisniewska (1894-1970). Felix was a Polish immigrant born in Mroczno, and Julia was the child of Polish immigrants born in Cleveland. Felix was a baker.

By 1940, Irene and Edward were living at 4285 East 131st Street in Cleveland. Edward was the proprietor of a restaurant.

Edward and Irene’s children were Carol Ann (later “Dolly”) (1941), Paul (1943), and Julianne (1946).

By 1947 Edward’s family had moved to San Diego, California and they were living at 4681 Adair. Edward was the manager of Aurex Hearing Aid Company. They were still living at that address in 1950, with Edward listed as the proprietor of a retail hearing aid company and his wife doing the office work for the company.

There are no more record of Edward until his death in San Diego on 17 January 1994. He was listed with Irene in the phone book for Del Mar, California in 1996, even though he had passed. Irene died 3 August 2004 and was buried with Edward in El Camino Memorial Park in San Diego.

Tree: Krol Ancestors

Thomas Krol (1753-1843)

Thomas Krol was born about 1753 in Swidnik, Poland (although the sources for that information are unclear, and his age at death suggests he was born about 1747). His parents are unknown.

He is recorded as the father of several children with Teresia Kuzar. Teresia was born about 1772 based on her age at death. Her parents and ancestry are unknown, and their marriage record has not been found. Their children were Blasius (1793), Antonius (1795), Sebastianus (1797), Elisabeth (1799), Marianna (1) (1801), Constantia (1804), Andreas (1806), Bartholomeus (1808), and Marianna (2) (1811). So it appears that Teresia was about 20 when she married, and 21-39 for the births of her children. Thomas might have been as old as 46 when his first child with Teresia was born and 64 when his last child was born. He was also old enough to have an earlier wife and children, but so far none have been found.

Teresia died 24 February 1821 at the age of 48. Thomas was perhaps 74 at the time, although maybe younger. He continued to live for many years, and died August 27 1843 at the reported age of 96.

Bartholomeus Krol (1808-1877)

Bartholomous Krol was born 14 August 1808 in Młyńczyska, Kraków, Poland (then in Galicia). His parents were Thomas Krol (1753-1843) and Teresia Kuzar (c. 1772-1821).

On 23 October 1833, Bartholomeus married Thecla (whose last name was either Gadek or Zaryba, and whose father was Antonius). Thecla was born as early as 1814, though possibly baptized in 1816. Her mother might have been Agatha Bobak (b. 1797).

Bartholomeus and Thecla likely had multiple children, but the only recorded baptism is for Anna, who was born 25 October 1842. Thecla died from pregnancy-related complications on 3 November 1842.

Bartholomeus married Anna Stefanski on 30 Jan 1843 in Młyńczyska. Their children included Martinus (1845), Margaritha (1847), Marianna (1849), Josephus (1852), and Joanes (1858). They were all baptized in Młyńczyska.

The death record for Bartholomeus has not been found. Some Ancestry trees state that he died before 1877, but without underlying sources.

Anna Krol (b. 1842)

Anna Krol was born 25 October 1842 in Młyńczyska, Kraków, Poland. Młyńczyska was part of Galicia at the time, which was itself part of the Austrian Empire. Her parents were Bartholomeus Krol (1808-1877) and Thecla Gadek (or Zaryba) (c. 1814-1842). Her mother died 8 days after she was born due to post-partum health problems. Her father remarried early the next year and she had at least 5 half-siblings. She likely had older siblings as well, although no records have been found.

Before 1867, she married Kazimer Barski. His baptism record and their marriage record have not been found, but it is likely he was born in the same region. They had at least one child, Teofil (1867), who later emigrated to the United States.