I'm going to do documents now. I'm assuming you'll be able to right-click and save down to your
harddrive. If not, we'll talk about how we'll get them to the cloud for you to download. I don't have
a dropbox subscription, but google docs might work?? I'll look into that and if you have any suggestions,
let me know.
This is the original one that Mary Gossman Cockran did in November, 1954...26 years after his death.
She must have done by his handwritten notes? I do have a set that are handwritten, but I don't know.
Note: Grgrandpa Phillip didn't give an exact date of their landing in New Orleans. Other branches of
the family claim December 25, 1847. If I recall, you said you found them Nov. 10, 1847. Grgrandpa
Phillip account differs a bit with the actual documentation in places (ex: the ship name, it was the
"French chartered" ship the Vesta, if I remember correctly) And I did find a manifest for Dec. 25,
1847, but it was woefully incomplete. I can only assume they where light handed on Christmas Day.
Now, before internet, NARA ship records where horrendous to navigate (no pun intended) on microfilm.
There weren't many indexes for New Orleans either. Back in the day you had volunteers digitizing these
things by hand and manually typing into databases online. Within the last year on Family Search, I found
a decent database that could be searched. After all that....I'm going to take another look at trying to determine
an accurate date.
I also have a handwritten copy of this record.
harddrive. If not, we'll talk about how we'll get them to the cloud for you to download. I don't have
a dropbox subscription, but google docs might work?? I'll look into that and if you have any suggestions,
let me know.
This is the original one that Mary Gossman Cockran did in November, 1954...26 years after his death.
She must have done by his handwritten notes? I do have a set that are handwritten, but I don't know.
Note: Grgrandpa Phillip didn't give an exact date of their landing in New Orleans. Other branches of
the family claim December 25, 1847. If I recall, you said you found them Nov. 10, 1847. Grgrandpa
Phillip account differs a bit with the actual documentation in places (ex: the ship name, it was the
"French chartered" ship the Vesta, if I remember correctly) And I did find a manifest for Dec. 25,
1847, but it was woefully incomplete. I can only assume they where light handed on Christmas Day.
Now, before internet, NARA ship records where horrendous to navigate (no pun intended) on microfilm.
There weren't many indexes for New Orleans either. Back in the day you had volunteers digitizing these
things by hand and manually typing into databases online. Within the last year on Family Search, I found
a decent database that could be searched. After all that....I'm going to take another look at trying to determine
an accurate date.
I also have a handwritten copy of this record.
The next information is from the book: The Composite History of Jackson County Indiana 1816 to 1988
I have a copy of this book so here's the ones that are very helpful (you can also see where I wrote...sorry). (also,
I don't have that marriage photo of grgrandpa Phillip and Mary.
I do not know what this says. I think I must have found it when my mom died in 2010 in cleaning out her
house. Frankly, I was surprised to see this and had forgotten about it. Do you know anyone who could
translate? I don't.
Here's a 1968 reprint of a 1918 newspaper clipping. lol The original hoarders, but a genealogists dream.
Note the comment at the bottom about being a loyal American citizen. WWI would have been going on.
Found the Gossman School House photo. This was photocopied from a reference book at the
Indiana State Library. It was written by Edwin J. Boley, The First Documented History of Jackson County 1816 to 1976
The bottom says Indiana Centennial Photo which would date it 1916 (this year is my state's 200th anniversary)
I see Uncle Chris, my grandfather Charles. My father is probably one of the children--he would have been 3 yrs old.
This photo is the reason I think the other large group photo is church related.
