Hi Joyce

The attached file is an excel spreadsheet of the Jerald Family from the information complied by my Mom, Lorena Jerald Penno, and my cousin, Lorita Smith  Spidel.  Mom spent a couple of years in the 80’s trying to compile family data.  She is connected to the Howe and Shaw families in town with more distant connections to the Clarks.  The stuff she has includes more than I’ve put on the spreadsheet as well as lots of pictures and newspaper clippings.

I noted in going through your web site last night that there is a spelling error on the cemetery listing for the Jeralds.  It shows 2 “r”s (Jerrald).  The listings include her parents and grandparents and her Uncle Frank.  I was also surprised not to find them listed in the Richmond Township census data.  They bought the farm from the Bingham Estate in 1834.  Mom’s records indicated that they lived in town for a while when the farm house burned until a new one was  built.  We had sales slips from the lumber yard for purchase of some of the materials for the house.  My parents bought it from my Grand parents in 1949 (I think) and sold it to the Bensons in 1956.

I loved the thing in your web site about the Halloween windows.  They were fun.  One other thing I loved in the 50s were the Christmas Friday nights.  The merchants gave tickets with the sale of merchandise.  Then every Friday night (after the stores closed) they had a drawing.  A flatbed was pulled up on South Main in front of the old diner.  Bill Taylor was always the master of ceremony.  They played Christmas Carols over loud speakers and the whole town gathered.  I never hear “The First Noel” without being transported to a snowy Friday night in Mansfield.

Thanks for a couple of fun days of memories.

Helen PENNO Herd
 

Generation	Name		Birth	Death	Spouse	Birth	Death
1	Michael Fitzjerald
2	William Fitzjerald		1772	4/24/1848	? Hayden
3	William Jerald		1797	1883	Mabel Leach
		Harriet
		Mary
	Thomas		5/16/1799	10/2/1885	Matilda Wildon (Canfield)	12/26/1802	2/12/1885
	Warner		No info
4	Anna		4/18/1832	6/17/1873	David S. Husted
	Daniel C		4/7/1833	2/6/1909	Ester L Childs	1835	1917
	William Benjamin		12/9/1834	3/11/1914	Elvira Howe	9/21/1846	1/18/1815
	Thomas Jr.		9/12/1837	8/18/1838
	Sarah Matilda		3/22/1839		1 George Morley
					2 G. A. Longwell
	Samuel		8/7/1842	7/28/1862
5	Mary Levenda		3/3/1867		Grant Lewis
	George Walter		8/3/1868	5/8/1869
	Laura Amber		12/9/1870	4/2/1871
	Alice Lodemia		3/19/1873		Andrew Nelson
	Maggie Emma		11/18/1875	8/6/1909	Almond B. Crippen
	Ada Helena		7/4/1878	Feb-48	Carl. G. McConnell
	Charles Thomas		8/17/1880	2/4/1948	Ethel Grover Shaw	6/10/1903.	7/15/1855
	Frank Daniel		6/14/1883		Janet Zacharias	33/23/1910
6	Marian		5/6/1904	7/31/1958	Ross O. Smith	10/19/1900	6/16/19?
	Alice Elvira		3/23/1906	9/16/1985	Vernon B. Smith	12/10/1903	11/28/1986
	Dorris Louise		2/10/1911	6/14/2001	Neal Bush	6/13/1907	2/2/1994
	Edna Lorena		10/22/1913	12/30/2004	Geore L. Penno	5/13/1902	4/7/1961
	Charles Shaw		5/17/1915	2/17/2000	Thelma Roache	5/16/1914	11/16/1997
	Federoa Ethel		12/4/1918		Kenneth L. Weeks	12/4/1915	8/24/1994
7	Jerry Ann		7/11/1940
	Helen Althea		2/26/1942		Alan L. Herd	2/11/1945
		David Alan	7/6/1972
		Peter Andrew	5/5/1974
	George Charles		11/28/1948		1 Barbara Anderson
					2 Catherine Kiernan
		Michael Saturn	12/26/1972		Wendy Willet
		Payton Marie	12/19/2000
		Angela Saturn	1/31/1981
	Linda Lou		10/6/1952		Eugene H. Mosher	3/31/1954
		Katrina Naline	5/5/1978		Jonathon Howe
		Jerilyn Rose	5/5/1978		Joshua Mulholland	3/1/1977
		Kierstan Ann	3/1/1999
		Brennin Hugh	2/25/2005
	Peter Edward		3/6/1954		Margaret Susal Beisel	2/28/1956

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Last Updated on 4/10/2008
By Joyce M. Tice