Medal of Honor Recipent, my 6th cousin, 4 times removed, Francis Snow Hesseltine

 Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Union Army in the 13th Maine Infantry. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action on December 30, 1863. His citation reads "In command of a detachment of 100 men, conducted a reconnaissance for two days, baffling and beating back an attacking force of more than 1000 Confederate cavalry, and regained his transport without loss."

9th Cousin once removed, Lois Helen French

 

Mary Chaffee Heald - 7th Cousin once removed who had an active life.

 Mary Chaffee Heald was born in Canton, IL, 1 Aug 1895. She was married in Winnetka, IL, 6 Jun 1931, to Spencer Rehbock Heindel (b. Freeport, IL, 16 June 1893, son of Albert Jacob and Leonore Fredericka (Rehbock) Heindel). After graduating from Canton High School in 1913, Mary attended Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, from 1913 to 1916. While a student at Oberlin College, she met future author and playwright Thornton Wilder, who was dating a close friend of hers. She also dated future 1940 presidential candidate Wendell Willkie, who was briefly staying with his brother Eddie, a student at Oberlin. Her Oberlin education was interrupted by the sudden death of her mother after which she stayed home to keep house for her father. Returning to college, Mary received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Beloit College, Beloit, WI, in 1922. She later earned a Bachelor of Library Science degree from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, in 1929. After her Beloit graduation, she taught one year of high school English at Stockton, IL, also meeting her future husband in the process. She then taught two years of mechanical drawing and general mathematics at Painesville, OH, high school. Following these three years of teaching, she held library positions at Columbia University, Rutgers University, and the University of Chicago. She then married in 1931 and moved to Dixon, IL, to raise a family. After her sons were both in college, she began working again, this time as head cataloger for the Dixon Public Library, totaling twenty-one years of service, retiring at age 80 in 1976. Mary was a sixty year resident of Dixon, Ill.

Mary's great passion was family genealogy. Through her research at Chicago, Madison, Boston, New York, and Salt Lake City libraries and many trips to New England, she identified over 1000 ancestors. At the conclusion of this research, she privately published the first volume of the Heald-Chaffee Genealogy in 1976 at age 81. The second volume followed two years later in 1978. She also wrote two manuscripts containing her recollections of childhood and family as gifts for her grandchildren, both written in 1984 at age 89.
Organizations to which she belonged include P.E.O.; The National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution (qualifying for membership with ten revolutionary war ancestors); National Society Women Descendants of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company; and Pi Beta Phi social sorority. Mary's hobbies, beside genealogy, included photography; bird watching; reading historical novels, biographies, and travel books; weaving (once recognized as one of 13 state winners of the Illinois "Art is Ageless" competition in 1988); and travel. She made six trips to the British Isles, Scandinavia, Europe (including Italy and Spain), and Africa. Also traveled extensively in the U.S., including experiencing the Colorado River raft trip in 1968 at age 73.
Mary died in Mt. Lebanon, PA, 30 Dec 1995 (age 100).

Daniel Heald - Minuteman

 My 3rd Cousin, seven times removed

Daniel Heald born at Concord, Mass., married Abagail Wheeler December 25, 1760, a daughter of Thomas Wheeler of Lincoln, Mass. Daniel Heald was one of the patriot soldiers of the early colonies, who at the Concord bridge contested with King George's Red Coats the passage of the bridge, while his wife and children who had fled from their home on the approach of the Red Coats, viewed the battle from a neighboring hill. He, with his family, emigrated to Vermont about the year 1776, and settled in a small sparsely settled town, then called New Flemstead, afterwards named Chester, in Windsor County, in the southern part of Vermont. He built a frame house about 1790 that is still occupied in 2008.

9th Cousin once removed

Sylvia Louise Engdahl