{"id":603,"date":"2016-01-07T15:29:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T19:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/blog\/?p=603"},"modified":"2016-12-09T12:22:23","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:22:23","slug":"all-from-one-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"All from one Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"1955-03-15\"<\/a>

William Tracy Gould and Anne McKinne Gardiner Gould<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s hard to convey to people exactly how connected the nation was in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. \u00a0No telephone, no Internet, no wi-fi. And yet, when we begin to do research on nearly any artifact or document with a relationship to one of the students, we inevitably find that they were acquainted or related with so many others. We recently purchased a letter on e-bay written by William Tracy Gould<\/a>\u2019s sister-in-law to his wife<\/a> who was visiting Litchfield. As you may know, William Tracy Gould was the son of James Gould<\/a>, who taught at the Litchfield Law School with Tapping Reeve. Following his studies, the younger Gould moved to Georgia where he opened a law school of his own. He married Anna Gardiner<\/a> of Augusta, with whom he had three children.<\/p>\n

I began research to locate life dates of the author, Elizabeth G. Rose, and from basic searches of a few genealogy sites, was able to determine that this was Anna Gardiner\u2019s sister. Several sources indicated that Gould\u2019s wife was a widow upon their marriage, but I believe they had confused her with another Anna McKinne, and that McKinne was his wife\u2019s given middle name, as it was her mother\u2019s maiden name. According to the genealogy sites I checked, the Anna McKinne who was a widow of Joseph McKinne did not have a sister named Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

I would like to say that what happened next is unusual, but I fear it is not. I fell down the rabbit hole of the LLS social network. I happened upon an article about James Gardiner, who had the same parents listed as Elizabeth. I began to read it in the hopes of finding further genealogical information. What I found was far more interesting. James was the editor of a newspaper in Augusta. In 1861, he wrote a series of editorials endorsing Eugenius Aristides Nisbet<\/a> (LLS 1823) for the governorship of Georgia. He went on to publish a literary journal, and one of its contributors was Augustus Baldwin Longstreet<\/a> (LLS 1813). He later endorsed Horace Greeley in his bid for the Presidency. Greeley’s wife<\/a> had\u00a0 attended the Female Academy in 1827.<\/p>\n

As if that isn\u2019t enough to convince you it\u2019s a small world, it turns out that Elizabeth\u2019s husband, Arthur Gordon Rose, had been married previously to Elizabeth Wigg Barnwell whose brother, William Wigg Barnwell<\/a> attended the Litchfield Law School in 1817. Having found the information I was seeking, I stopped, though I’m sure this is only a snippet of who was on their list of friends. Now to update all of those Ledger pages!<\/p>\n

Additional Information:<\/p>\n

In addition to the Ledger pages linked to above, these are resources that helped me in my research:<\/p>\n

Find-A-Grave: Arthur Gordon Rose<\/a><\/p>\n

Yale Obituary Record<\/a><\/p>\n

Biographies of Richmond County, GA<\/a><\/p>\n

Augusta’s Other Voice: James Gardner and the Constitutionalist<\/a>
\nRussell K. Brown
\nThe Georgia Historical Quarterly<\/i>
\nVol. 85, No. 4 (WINTER 2001), pp. 592-607<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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