Cheryl O'Connor of Portland, Michigan, has sent me the compilation of her years of research of the O'Connor lineage of Hubbardston, Michigan. Bridget O'Connor came from County Louth, Ireland, in 1849 to escape the potato famine. Her mother, widow Julia O'Connor, and brothers and sisters, soon followed. They lived in New York state for several years before moving to the Irish farming community in Hubbardston, Michigan; in North Plains Township. My name is Jennifer Churchill and I can trace my lineage to Bridget through my mother's (Vicki Cunningham) side of the family and can trace my lineage to Bridget's brother, Richard O'Connor, through my father's (Patrick Churchill) side of the family. I will try to continue putting up photos and information of O'Connors, Churchills, Cunninghams and others in our family as I find them. Cheryl O'Connor has done a huge amount of research; the book of our family tree she recently sent me is one of the greatest gifts I have ever received! Also, I recently received a wealth of information from the other side of my family: the Slocum side. My mother's mother, Charlotte (Slocum) Cunningham, is the daughter of Wilma (Harris) Slocum and Virgil Slocum. Charlotte's brother, Richard Slocum (my great-uncle), recently gave me copies of the Slocum family tree, which I will also add to this site, along with family photographs dating from the mid-1800s. Knowing and understanding one's past and family is a very important part of self-understanding, and has been a joy for me to discover. Any information relating to our family tree is welcome; please feel free to contact me!

• Jennifer Churchill Family Tree (4 KB)
  

• Alex Robertson (7 KB)
  Mid-1800s. Alex is the father of Margaret Robertson, who married Levius Thomas Churchill. Their son, Hugh Gordon Churchill, married Sarah McLeod. Their son, Levius Thomas Churchill, married Lucille O'Connor in 1940. Their son, Patrick Thomas Churchill, born Dec. 26, 1951, is my father.
• Churchill Family, circa 1900 (16 KB)
  This is my Great-Grandpa Hugh Churchill's family: his mother Margaret Robertson Churchill, his father Levius Thomas Churchill, his sisters Jennifer and Gertrude Churchill, and Grandpa Hugh is standing next to his father. Hugh Churchill is my grandfather, Levius Thomas Churchill's, dad. L. Thomas is my dad, Patrick Churchill's, father.
• Anna Wood and Martin Wood (8 KB)
  Anna Wood is the sister of Laura Wood. Laura, b. Dec. 6, 1852, married Harley Bradley Slocum in 1938. Harley is the father of Matthew Henry Slocum, who married Lucy Staub. M.H. and Lucy are Virgil's parents.
• Eva Harris (18 KB)
  Eva Harris is my great-grandmother Wilma Slocum's mother.
• Laura Wood Slocum (8 KB)
  Virgil's grandmother. Laura was born Dec. 6, 1852 and died May 27, 1929. She married Harley Bradley Slocum in 1874.
• Jennifer's cat (27 KB)
  This is my cat, Charlie, sitting on the porch at my old Victorian house in Murphy, North Carolina.
• Henry Van Buren Slocum (7 KB)
  This is my great-grandfather, Virgil Slocum's, great-grandfather; born May 18, 1820. Died- ?
• M.H. Slocum, 1890 (15 KB)
  M.H. is Virgil's dad. He looks like a gangster in this 1890 picture.
• Grandma Charlotte visiting New York (17 KB)
  1960s.
• Hugh and Sarah Churchill (8 KB)
  This is my great-grandfather Hugh Churchill and his wife, my great-grandmother Sarah Churchill. Her maiden name is McLeod.
• Jennifer's Mom and Dad at prom, 1969-70 (12 KB)
  Vicki Ann Cunningham and Patrick Thomas Churchill
• Yosemite Valley, 1998 (27 KB)
  I lived here for 2 years; Yosemite National Park, California. Bridal Veil Falls is on the right. I lived about 3 miles from Bridal Veil.
• Charlotte & Larry Cunningham's Kids (11 KB)
  Vicki, Darrell, Curt, Marty and Michelle
• Jennifer and Vicki, 1973 (10 KB)
  This is me, Jennifer Churchill, at age 2 in Carson City, Michigan with my mother, Vicki Cunningham (married name, Churchill, at the time this photo was taken).
• M.H. Slocum (13 KB)
  Standing with John Wescott in Hubbardston, Michigan.
• Wilma Harris and Stanley (13 KB)
  Grandma as a little girl with her brother Stanley.
• Vicki Cunningham's Confirmation (10 KB)
  June 1967.
• Yosemite (19 KB)
  This is me in 1998, when I lived in Yosemite National Park, California.
• Wilma as a little girl (20 KB)
  Wilma Harris (Slocum) with her grandmother.
• Vicki Cunningham (6 KB)
  Cute teen picture.
• Jesse Wood (6 KB)
  This is my great-great-great-great-grandfather on my Grandma Charlotte's great-grandmother's side.
• Charlotte and Wilma (18 KB)
  Working at a church function.
• Darrell, Marty & Vicki Cunningham (13 KB)
  1960s.
• Lucile (Staub) Slocum (11 KB)
  This is my great-great-grandmother Lucy Slocum; maiden name is Staub. She was Virgil Slocum's mother.
• Willard Harris (16 KB)
  Wilma Harris (Slocum)'s father.
• Dick & Millie Slocum (21 KB)
  Before they were married; waiting at the bus stop.
• Grandpa Slocum in 1964 (13 KB)
  Virgil Slocum.
• Dick, Lucy and Charlotte (9 KB)
  My great-uncle Dick Slocum, my great-great-grandmother Lucy Slocum and my grandma Charlotte.
• Virgil and Wilma Slocum (11 KB)
  1970.
• Grandpa Virgil and Uncle Dick, 1928 (15 KB)
  Virgil and his son, Dick.
• Homecoming Princess (13 KB)
  So glamorous! Here's me, Homecoming Princess, in Carson City, Michigan, 1986, on the 9th grade float, going down Main Street.
• McLeod Family, circa 1900 (12 KB)
  This is my great-grandmother Sarah Churchill's family; her maiden name was McLeod. Her father is Angus McLeod; mother is Sarah (McAllister) McLeod. Great-grandma Sarah is sitting on her dad's knee. Also pictured are her siblings: Archie, Katherine (became a Stewart), John on mother's knee.
• Rhandi Michelle Riley (9 KB)
  This is my sister, Rhandi, born in 1979. Same mother: Vicki Cunningham. Rhandi's father is Kevin Leonard Riley.
• Eva Harris (9 KB)
  Eva is Grandma Wilma Slocum's mother.
• Levius Thomas Churchill and brother Gordon (18 KB)
  This is my grandfather Levius Thomas Churchill as a baby; this is my father, Patrick Thomas Churchill's, dad.
• Eva at Crystal Lake in 1899 (14 KB)
  Great-great-grandma Eva Harris (Wilma's mother) at Crystal Lake; she is second from the left.
• Vernal Falls (34 KB)
  My favorite waterfall in Yosemite National Park.
• Grandpa Churchill's stationery (20 KB)
  This is a page from my grandfather Levius Thomas Churchill's stationery from his auto repair business he owned in Carson City, Michigan, in the 1950s.
• Father Fox (4 KB)
  St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Hubbardston, Michigan. Fr. Fox married or buried most of my Irish relatives.
• Terry Shiels and M.H. Slocum (27 KB)
  Terry Shiels, left, was the original owner of Shiels' Tavern in Hubbardston, Michigan; with my Great-Great-Grandpa M.H. Slocum (Virgil's dad).
• Vicki's baby picture (7 KB)
  This is my mother, Vicki Ann Cunningham, as a baby in the 1950s.
• Jennifer's First Communion (10 KB)
  St. Mary's Catholic Church, May 1979. Me on the left, my best friend Karmen Datema on the right.
• Slocum patriarchs (34 KB)
  Back row: Harley Bradley Slocum and Lewis Slocum. Front row: Bill Slocum and George Slocum.
• Virgil Slocum's baby picture (16 KB)
  This is my great-grandfather Virgil Slocum as a baby; Virgil is my grandmother Charlotte Cunningham's father.
• Wilma Slocum (10 KB)
  This is my favorite picture of Grandma Slocum. She looks like she's in a Monet painting.
• Shelly at prom (8 KB)
  My aunt Michelle Cunningham at her senior prom, Waverly High School, Lansing, Mich.
• Wilma Slocum and son, Dick (7 KB)
  This is my great-grandmother Wilma (Harris) Slocum with her son, Dick Slocum, in 1927; Dick is my great-uncle, and the one who gave me all of these great photographs.
• Larry Cunningham's K of C card (14 KB)
  This is my Grandpa Larry's Knights of Columbus membership card from 1968, the year that he died in a car accident. The card is dated January; grandpa died in April.
• Old homestead (40 KB)
  The Harris residence, where Great-Grandma Wilma Slocum grew up, and my Great-Uncle Dick was born. It was 3 miles east of Hubbardston, Michigan. On the left is Wilma's Grandpa and then her Grandma Harris, and her Aunt Ella.
• Wilma and Virgil (5 KB)
  This is my great-grandmother Wilma Harris and great-grandfather Virgil Slocum in 1925, before they were married.
• Harley Bradley Slocum (9 KB)
  This is my great-grandfather Virgil's great-grandfather. Harley was born Feb. 8, 1851 and died Sept. 20, 1938.
• Birth certificate (43 KB)
  Jennifer Churchill.
• Charlotte Ann Slocum (10 KB)
  This is my grandmother Charlotte in Hubbardston, Michigan. She was born in 1933 and married Robert Lawrence Cunningham. She had five children: Darrell, Vicki, Marty, Curt and Michelle. Vicki is my mother.
• Hubbardston Flour Mill (22 KB)
  Lee Middlebrook (M.H.'s brother-in-law) and M.H. Slocum (right) in the late 1890s working at the flour mill owned by the Slocum family. M.H. is Virgil's dad.
• School picture (7 KB)
  Vicki Ann Cunningham
• Aaron and Jennifer Churchill (49 KB)
  Aaron is my brother. This is late 1970s or early 1980s. Photo by Kevin Riley.
• Charlotte's children (11 KB)
  Vicki, Darrell and Marty Cunningham
• Rhandi Riley and her father (26 KB)
  My sister Rhandi as a li'l tot in the early 1980s with her dad, Kevin Riley.
• Senior picture (8 KB)
  Vicki Ann Cunningham
• Vicki and Darrell Cunningham (12 KB)
  Christmas 1960s.

Jennifer Anne Churchill
7375 O'Brien Rd.
Hubbardston, MI 48845
United States
989-981-6173
jchurchill@lansing.gannett.com

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