I have started this as more of a hobby and it has turned into a quest for knowledge. A quest to find my biological grandfather as well as others that I have yet to uncover. I am currently seeking information on these following surnames: Admire/Erdmayer, Blackwell, Breshears/Brashears, Chilton, Elwood, Glore, Hill, Jones, Moss, Ransdell, Robertson, Smith, Steptoe, Thomas, Talley, and Wilson. As well as my husbands side which I am just starting on but I have these surnames to go on: Cozad, Forbes, Goldizen, O'Keefe, Shaw (adopted side), Trickett, and Wolfe.
The story on my biological grandfather, Roy Breshears/Brashears, who is of the most interest to me and most mysterious at this time. He met my grandmother at Wadworth Veterans Hospital in Leavenworth Kansas. (Now called Dwight D. Eisenhower Veterans Medical Center) As the story goes, they met while he was a patient of the hospital and fell in love. They were to be married, my grandmother conceived my mother and one afternoon Roy was to go downtown for something and return later that day. He never returned. Later my grandmother heard that Roy had tried to jump a train to get back to his home (where ever that was) and he was killed in the process.
This is more difficult then looking for a needle in a haystack, simply because I do not know a thing about Roy. Roy could be his middle name even, which makes this looking for the eye of the needle in the haystack. My only proof positive information on Roy is that he was a patient in the Wadsworth Veterans Hospital in about mid 1951.
My husbands line, Goldizen, Is an interesting one also. There is an indian princess on the Forbes side, which I have yet to locate, but there are many stories that are of this princess.
The oldest ancestor I have been able to locate on the Goldizen side is Private Johann Phillip Goldeiss/Gouldizen/Goldizen. He was a "Hessian" Mercenary for service in North America which was sent to the continent to hire additional armies. Johann sailed to American in 1777 as a member of Major von Reitzenstein's company of the Ansbach Regiment which is an indication that he may have been a career soldier. He served briefly in the garrisons at Staten Island and on Manhattan. He then sailed up the Hudson River as a part of a force sent to relieve pressure on General John Burgoyne, who surrendered before the relief arrived. Johann was a member of a small detachment attacked by the Americans on August 27, 1778 and seems to have conducted himself well. He was taken as a Prisoner of war in October 1781 and in captivity, these troops were marched first to Winchester, Virginia, and then to Frederick, Maryland. When the war ended these men marched back to New York from which they were to embark for Europe. Hoxever, Private Johann, possibly because he was unable to advance his military career, opted to desert the ranks a few days before his scheduled departure....
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• My Family Mystery (2498 KB)
  My search is very broad, and I am searching for, but not limited to: Admire/Erdmayer, Blackwell, Breshears/Brashears, Chilton, Elwood, Glore, Hill, Jones, Moss, Ransdell, Robertson, Smith, Steptoe, Thomas, Talley, and Wilson. As well as my husbands side which I am just starting on but I have these surnames to go on: Cozad, Forbes, Goldizen, O'Keefe, Shaw (adopted side), Trickett, and Wolfe.

Teresa M (Admire) Shaw
tmarieshaw@aol.com

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