I have several Elon Carmans in my family tree.

Elon (1792)
Elon Joseph (1840)
Joseph Elon (1872)
Joseph Elon (1891)
Joseph Elon (1901)
Joseph Elon (1914)

There is also an Elon Carman who lived in and around Philadelphia that I knew must be related, but I couldn’t find any definitive evidence of the relationship beyond DNA matches with some of his descendants.

Yesterday, I found his baptismal record. » Continue reading “Connecting the Elons”

Kaighn Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church Baptisms, 1911-12.
Camden, New Jersey

Orville Wilson Garrison, baptism. Click to see full page.

Orville Wilson Garrison, Infant

Date of Birth: Sept 20, 1907

Residence: 919 S. Fifth

Date of Baptism: June 9, 1912

[The sponsors, method, minister, place and notes seem all to be blank for him. Orville is below the last line on the left side of the page and that space is blank on the right.]

Original Source Citation:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Kaighn Avenue Methodist Episcopal, Camden, NJ, Orville Wilson Garrison; digital images, Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Historic Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2451 : accessed 13 September 2012)

Sophia Levens baptism (1867)
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Ashland, Schuylkill Co., Pennsylvania

Baptized: 1867 Oct 6
Name: Sophia
Born: Nov 31st 1866
Parents: James & Margaret Levans

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Original Source Citation:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), North Parish Episcopal Church Records, Ashland, 1867, p90, Sophia Levans; digital images, Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Historic Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2451 : accessed 17 December 2013).

Nicholas Conrad Baptism (1868)
St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Parents: Nicolaus Conrad and Catharine
Child: Nicolaus Conrad
Born: 26th Feb 1867
Baptized: 3rd Aug 1868

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Original Source Citation:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), St. James Evangelical Lutheran Church 1868, unnumbered page, Nicolaus Conrad; digital images, Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Historic Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2451 : accessed 17 December 2013).

Edward Charles Conrad Baptism, 1906

Full Name: Edward Charles Conrad
No. 1097
Sponsors: Robert Ellis & Elizabeth Ellis
Parents: Nicholas & Sophia
Birth Date: Aug 5, 1905
Birth Place: 2158 Monmouth
Baptism Date: Feb 11th, 1906
Baptism Place: St. John’s Church
Officiating Minister: Jno. P. Bagley

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Original source citation:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Philadelphia: Episcopal: St. John’s Episcopal Church, image 304, p.96, Edward Charles Conrad, Baptisms; digital images, Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Historic Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 (http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2451 : accessed 26 July 2013).