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From: doug/lorna rankin <>
Subject: Re: [SEARS] gggGrandfather Chauncey Sears - Cape Cod Sears's
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:24:53 -0500
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Ray and Susan et al

This has been a fun trip and also difficult journey. My wife is the g-
grand daughter of Richard Warren Sears of Sears and Roebuck [sold out
in 1908 or so - no money left!!!! ] I have photos- tin types- of
his mother and father, James Warren Sears and Eliza Burton as well as
James' father and mother Richard Sears and Susan Gilbert. I pick
them up in Dryden NY 1820. I have assumed from records that Richard
was a soldier in the war of 1812. The siblings of James are Celia,
Serena Macomber, John Colby. Given these names I can only assume
which line they come from but cannot quite prove it.
It is/ Is it? possible that Richard was married previously to Sarah
-- and is the child of Sarah Bumpas and Richard Sears???

The Irony in this story may be that after R.W. Sears died his widow,
Anna Lydia Meckstroth Sears moved from Chicago to Brookline MA.
Here she built a chateau for $10M +/- thinking that a once common,
midwestern girl could enjoy the status of, being a Sears of MA. She
may have been a Sears of MA since her marriage.

Ray, your site is a wonderful source and nicely organized. Kudos,
cousin-in law.

doug rankin
On Feb 13, 2007, at 9:35 PM, Susan Sears wrote:

> Hello Ray,
>
> I know that I am a descendant of Richard Sears. But I have know idea
> about how to begin to trace the lineage but I am interested. My
> family ended up in western Massachusetts but I find it confusing as
> to how to link my past to the earlier Searses that I know that we are
> related to. I can give you my info as documented.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Susan Sears
> On Feb 13, 2007, at 8:15 PM, Ray wrote:
>
>> Hello Sears Family,
>>
>> I responded to Dale with what I know of his ancestry. Are there
>> other Cape
>> Cod Sears descendants out there who will collaborate with us? We
>> have
>> 22,000 descendants of Richard Sears now recorded.
>>
>> You are all welcome to go to my "Members Only" page on the Sears
>> Website-
>> you are automatically members by participating in this maillist.
>> http://www.searsr.com/member/member1.asp
>>
>> I have a bunch of my newsletters, etc out there.
>>
>> I have tried to diagram about 60 different Sears family lineages at:
>>
>> http://www.searsr.com/searstrees.htm
>>
>> and of course we would love to get some more Sears men to
>> contribute to the
>> Y Chromosome DNA project
>> http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/s/sears/
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> L. Ray Sears, III
>> Richard, Paul, Paul, Edmund, Elkanah, William, Elkanah, Leslie, Les
>> Jr, me.
>> (I have four other lines to Richard too)
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [mailto:sears-
>> ] On
>> Behalf Of Dale Working
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 11:25 AM
>> To:
>> Subject: [SEARS] gggGrandfather Chauncey Sears
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My gggGrandfather Chauncey Sears, 1787-1797, came to Michigan
>> with his
>> son, Horace Sears in 1842. Horace, 1819-1912, was married to Maria
>> Jane
>> Warner. Horace's son, William Sears, 1857-1912, was my
>> gGrandfather, and
>> his son, Percy, 1889-1952, was my grandfather. My mother was Lydia
>> Elizabeth Sears, 1918-2001.
>>
>>
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