Digging Up Our Family Tree

Hi everyone, I've been on holidays and haven't had time to post anything but now I'm ready. The answer to the burning question of where Caspar fits into our family tree is....I'm not sure.There are lots of theories in ancestry.com and from other researchers but there isn't any proof. I'm attaching a quick family tree starting with Gramma (Margaret Bethel Jerry) and ending with William Titchworth. The family members as and their spouses are proven, at least as far as William. Most of the information originally came from Gramma talking and then I found documents to prove it. However the siblings and parents of William Titchworth are not proven.  I still have to figure out how to put charts on a blog but since pictures are better than a written list I'm going with this. Anyway the only proof I have of how Caspar is related is from an undated, unsigned letter from San Francisco. In this pencil written letter to cousin Phoebe (Field nee Titchworth) is is a...

Hi everyone, here's the information on Caspar's children.     Someone asked me about the death of Caspar’s first wife, Julia Canfield.  I cannot find any information on her death. It is assumed she died prior to Caspar’s second marriage in 1897. It would appear that Laura was quite young when her mom died. As I mentioned, Caspar had 2 children, a boy, Charles C. and a girl, Laura Louise. In one and only one source Charles middle name, Canfield, is mentioned. Whether that is correct or not I’m uncertain.   Charles   Charles followed in his father’s footsteps and became a tug master in Santa Clara, California. He married Annabel Pate about July 14, 1900. I say about because took out the marriage license on the 14 th but I can’t find out the exact date of his marriage. Annabel was born in the same place in Michigan as Caspar so perhaps the families knew each other already. Charles and Annabel had only one child, Nile Catherine, who was born May 18, 190...