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| suegill Researcher Quote | Reply | This message was updated on 11/15/2005 11:48:44 PM by suegill | Heanor and the Abraham Lincoln Assassination posted on: 11/15/2005 11:45:43 PM Benjamin Earnshaw Left Heanor about 1814 with his father, John Earnshaw, reportedly to visit relatives in U.S.A. John died either aboard ship or shortly after landing near Annapolis, Maryland, leaving Benjamin to fend for himself in a strange land. Benjamin subsequently married Elizabeth Joyce in Ann Arundel County, Maryland, where they and their family remained for many years. In the 1850 census several children were at home although John and William with their respective families were listed in their own households. In about 1854/55 Benjamin and Elizabeth moved to Wetzel County, West Virginia, and purchased a farm there about 1856, which is still owned by decendants of their youngest son Benjamin. Daughters Georgianna and Mary Ann, along with their husbands also moved around the same time and descendants of all three still live in the vicinity of Earnshaw (named by the family) none of them carry the family name. The Earnshaw men all relocated to other areas, several to Baltimore, Maryland, including William and James. Williams descendants are later found in Pennsylvania but do not bear the Earnshaw name. John, having married Margery Beall Brown, remained in Maryland where he farmed and raised his family. He died about 1883. His sons however, moved to Washington D.C. where Basil Benjamin Earnshaw founded B.B. Earnshaw & Son, Wholesale Grocers, located in South East Washington. There are no descendant, his two children having had no issue. John Thomas Earnshaw and Richard Jackson Earnshaw married sisters, Georgie Belle and Alice Herold. The Herold girls were the younger sisters of David Herold who was hung for his part in the assassination plot and for helping John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincolnshire, to escape from Washington, leading him through the swamps of Southeren Maryland and across the Potomac River and into Virginia where they were surrounded by soldiers. Booth being shot and killed and David Herold captured. Booth had organized a group of co-conspirators that included Mary Surratt (the first women executed in the USA), Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, and David Herold. All four were executed on the same gallows at the Washington Penitentiary on 6 July 1865. Hope you found this interesting. Many thanks to Carol Hassig of West Virginia who provided some of this information. Sue |
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replied on: 11/17/2005 9:25:12 PM Sue, Well done, a much better effort than I could have made. For those who want to know more, information and pictures on David Edgar Herold are readily available on the internet. These include pictures of the execution together with somewhat gory accounts of it. All the conspiritors were buried at Washington Arsenal, the coffins having been thoughfully left by the scaffold where they could see them as they were brought to execution. David Herold's body was subsequently removed several years later and reburied in the Washington Congressional Cemetery. |
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