PULSIFER Lovina (Vina)

Notes:

English and Indian

Occupation: housewife

Residences:
Hopkinton, St. Lawrence Co., New York 1860 Census
Mendon, Clayton Co., Iowa (McGregor post office) 1970 Census
Black Hammer, Houston Co., Minnesota. 1880 Census. Dressmaker
age 20, single, living with her brother Marshall.

Vina Lived at 761 East 7th St., St. Paul, MN before she died. It was said that she lived in Minnesota for 65 years (1874).

References:
Listing for Tamson Pulsifer 1890-1891, a boarder living at 553 Forest in St. Paul. House of daughter Vina and son-in-law George Smith.


The Pulsifer and Nichols families seem to have been in the United States since the founding of the country. They are both English names and the family names keep popping up in the Main, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Vermont, upper New York State, and even parts of Canada bordering New England. Add the English family name of Purdy and we have a very long, intertwined history between all of these family groups. There were Nichols, Purdys, and Pulsifers that helped found the new country. They fought in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War. As the families grew they intermarried and had large families generation after generation. They continued moving west as the new United States was created and seemed to follow the southern edges of the Great Lakes moving into Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota. After the Civil War there were many families with these names on both sides of the upper Mississippi. Some of them continued westward until they came to the Pacific Ocean. They were farmers, carpenters, and many of them worked for the railroad. The railroad was the reason for the George Smith family ending up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and bulding the house at 848 East 3rd Street.

Crown Point, Essex county, New York is were the family data for Lovina starts. Crown Point is located on the west bank of Lake Champlain and across the lake is West Bridgeport Vermont. Much of the town is located in Adirondack State Park and was formed in 1780. In the first U.S. census done in 1790 Vermont had 18 Nichols headed families, Massachusetts has 13 Nichols headed families. The Pulsifers came more out of New York.

The 1840 Census for Crown Point, Essex Co., New York gives us the following information. Only free white males or female heads of households were listed by name. The rest of the information is group and age listings.

1840
Ansel Pulsifer (between 20-30 years). We know from later census data he was born in 1819, so he was 21.
Wife (between 20-30 years) Tamson Nichols born 1819 in Vermont from later census data, age 21.

On the line above the Ansel Pulsifer data was a listing for the household of Aaron Nichols. Because of the location I believe that this was the father of Tamson. He was born between 1780 and 1790. His household listed one female between 80-90, one 30-40 (his wife), and one between 10-15, one male 50-60 (him) and one between 15-20. Aaron Nichols was listed on the tax roles both in 1818 and 1835.

I believe that Ansels father may have been Amos Pulsifer. His name appeared on the 1830 census for Crown Point. The guessing of the fathers names are only speculations and nothing more, as the research for this would have to be done in older archives.

1850
Henry Albert, b. 1842, Crown Point, N.Y.
Marshall Prentis, b. 1844, Stockholm, St. Lawrence, N.Y.
Emergene, b 1848, Hopkinton, St. Lawrence Co., N.Y.
Amanda, b 1850, Hopkinton, St. Laurence Co., N.Y.

Birth:
1864?
Hopkinton, NY located in upper NY state bordering the state of Vermont.

Died:
Died in Mounds Park Hospital or Northern Pacific Hospital, St. Paul, MN at age 74
Died of a heart attack
Buried September 12, 1939 in Union Cemetery
Block 22
Lot 333
State file #025932 1939 MN

Lovina married SMITH George H. on 17 Apr 1888 in Courthouse Ramsey Co., St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN. George (son of SMITH Thomas and HOLMES Sarah Ann) was born on 17 May 1864 in Headingly, Yorkshire England; died on 05 Jun 1934 in Union Cemetery, Woodbury, Washington Co., MN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. SMITH Hazel was born on 19 Oct 1889 in St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN; died on 14 Nov 1978 in Clackamas Co., Oregon ?.
2. SMITH Harold Purdy was born on 06 Sep 1891 in St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN; died on 20 Jun 1957 in Ramsey Co., MN.
3. SMITH Warren LeRoy (Roy) was born on 11 Feb 1894 in St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN; died on 19 Nov 1953 in Ramsey Co., MN.

Notes:

Occupation: Carpenter/ Farmer

After the Civil War soldiers were given land as bonus rewards for their service. Marshall was not on the family census for 1870 in Clayton Co., Iowa. I could not find him listed anywehre. In 1875 he is on the census for Black Hammer, Houston, Minnesota. Houston County is the first Minnesota County up river from Iowa. Marshall is 28 years old, married to a Claire C. who was born in Illinois in 1844, one daughter Nettie M. born in 1872 in Minnesota, One son Orville born 1874 in Minnesota. In 1880 he is still listed there with a different wife, Jane, and one more son, Melvin, born 1880. Also living with her brother and his family is Lovina. On this census she is call Vina. This is how I find her listed from now on data.

I could find no information after 1870 on Ansel Pulsifer. Tamson appears in data in 1890 living in St. Paul with her daughter Vina and son in law George Smith. Son Almonde and daughter Emergene's whereabouts are not know after 1870.

Died:
BET 1870 AND 1876

ANSEL married NICHOLS Tamson D. about 1839 in Crown Point, Essex Co., NY. Tamson (daughter of NICHOLS Aaron D.) was born in 1819 in Addison, VT; died on 04 Nov 1893 in St. Paul, Ramsey Co., MN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

After the Civil War soldiers were given land as bonus rewards for their service. Marshall was not on the family census for 1870 in Clayton Co., Iowa. I could not find him listed anywehre. In 1875 he is on the census for Black Hammer, Houston, Minnesota. Houston County is the first Minnesota County up river from Iowa. Marshall is 28 years old, married to a Claire C. who was born in Illinois in 1844, one daughter Nettie M. born in 1872 in Minnesota, One son Orville born 1874 in Minnesota. In 1880 he is still listed there with a different wife, Jane, and one more son, Melvin, born 1880. Also living with her brother and his family is Lovina. On this census she is call Vina. This is how I find her listed from now on data.

I could find on information after 1870 on Ansel Pulsifer. Tamson appears in data in 1890 living in St. Paul with her daughter Vina and son in law George Smith. Son Almonce and daughter Emergene's whereabouts are not know after 1870.

Notes:

He purchased land in Crown Point 1866. On 27
Nov. 1872, he mortgaged that property
most likely to pay his 1872 taxes. The
mortgage was recorded on 27 Aug. 1873 by
Amos at the clerk's office. According to
Spaulding's History of Crown Point, by 20
Nov. 1873, Amos was no longer living. Amos,
John Ober and a Mr. Ephriam Towner were
the only 3 men to be named on all the tax
lists for Crown Point (1818, 1835 and 1872).
John Ober was the only one surviving by
the time Mr. Spaulding wrote his short
history.

Birth:
BET 1796 AND 1797

Amos married OBER Sally on 07 Nov 1813 in Charlestown, Cheshire Co., NH. Sally (daughter of OBER Israel) was born about 1796 in prob. Charlestown, Cheshire, NH; died on 04 Feb 1849 in Crown Point, Essex Co., NY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
between 1780 - 1790

Notes:

26 Jan 1799
He sold land at Acworth; for 20 pounds, containing
15 acres and being the southwest corner of
lot 4 in the 5th range to Thomas Slader. Land
originally owned by Vryling Stodard. It is not
known how Richard came to own the land.
He prob. left his children in the care of either
his brothers, John and Gerrish, or poss.
with relatives of his deceased wife. She had
a sister, Elizabeth who mar. Amos Atwood
and were residing at Lempster, just a few miles
away.

Richard married OBER Sarah on 17 Mar 1791 in Salem, Rockingham Co., NH. Sarah (daughter of OBER Israel and PITTMAN Mary) was born on 14 Aug 1763 in Salem, Rockingham Co., NH; died about Dec 1798 in Acworth, Cheshire Co., N.H.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Family tradition says that we are part Indian. If so;
the only place one would fit, would have to be Israel's
wife.
Pictures of Jane Susan Pulsifer at Ironville
Museum (Crown Point) give the appearence
of strong Indian facial features. Descendants
from Jane's brother Lorenzo, also carry in
some of them, this strong Indian charactor-
istic. Dark hair and eyes and high cheek bones.