Grace Ricks

Notes:

The Ricks name is a married name; she was the widow of William Ricks

Grace married Andrew Newcomb about 1663 in Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts. Andrew was born about 1618 in Probably England; died about 1686 in Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Andrew Newcomb was residing at the Isles of Shoals (near Portsmouth, New Hampshire) as early as July 1666.

Family/Spouse: Anna Bayes. Anna was born about 1658 in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; died about 1731 in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Selectman, Sealer of weights and measures (1712); Representative of Edgartown to the General Court (legislature) of Mass in Boston (1721)

Notes:

Bio p 29

Salem Co later Cumberland Co

Family/Spouse: Joyce Butler. Joyce was born about 1683 in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Joseph Newcomb removed with his parents to Salem, Cumberland Co, New Jersey in 1732; he lived in Down township, near the line of Fairfield and head of Newport Creek, at a place called "New England town". He was a mille by occupation. Hew was an officer in the War of the Revolution and following his return to civil life was justiced of the peace. On 4 May 1766, he with his son, Bayes, was admitted to the church. On 13 May 1781 he was admitted to full communion in the church.

Joseph married Meriba Bateman about 1740. Meriba was born on 14 Feb 1720/21; died after 16 Feb 1765. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Abigail (wife of Joseph Newcomb) [?]. Abigail and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ethan Newcomb was a farmer. He was a hero in the War of the Revolution, volunteering at the age of sixteen in the militia service, and serving at various periods, nearly two years. He served one tour of ten months, and another of two months in the company...under his uncle, Gen. Silas Newcomb, guarding the banks of the Delaware River. He received no compensation from the state for his services in the Revolution but had his share of prize money in capturing a boat. He was a pensioner under Act of Congress, 1832. Ethan and his wife Mille resided at Down until 1808 when they removed to Brookfield, Trumbull Co, Ohio.

Ethan married Amelia Summers about 1784. Amelia died on 7 May 1837 in Brookfield, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mr. Ethan Newcomb was a joiner and farmer; came to Brookfield, Ohio, with his parents in 1808; served in War of 1812; removed to Cheney's Grove, Illinois, in 1828, where he died.

Found in Find A Grave
Ethan Newcomb, Jr
Birth: Mar. 7, 1783
Death: Jan. 9, 1869Note: Born Cumberland Co, New Jersey to Ethan Newcomb Sr, & Amelia Summers Married Mary (Marsh) Woods 2/7/1814 Champaign Co, Ohio Burial: Cheney Grove Township Cemetery, Saybrook, McLean County, Illinois, USA Created by: Tim Schenk, Record added: Jun 24, 2010, Find A Grave Memorial# 54065973

Ethan married Mary Marsh-Woods before 1814 in Probably Illinois. Mary was born on 26 Mar 1788; died on 22 Aug 1852 in Probably Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Res. Saybrook, McLean Co, Ill.

Joseph married Eliza J. Devore on 2 Feb 1843 in Probably Illinois. Eliza (daughter of Nicholas Devore and Mary (wife of Nicholas Devore) [?]) was born on 16 Jun 1823 in Owen Co, Indiana; died on 19 Feb 1891 in Probably Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ethan married Laura Emma Jordan on 19 Jan 1876 in Gibson City, Ford Co, Illinois. Laura was born in 1860 in Gibson City, Ford Co, Illinois; died in Saybrook, Mclean Co, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mr. Newcomb went to Montana in 1907 and followed civil engineering there and in the state of Washington until 1910. He returned to Idaho where he became a horticulturist and later was appointed deputy state horticulturist inspector in 1911 by Gov. Hawley of Idaho. In 1913 he resigned his position to enter the U.S. Office of Irrigation Investigation, Boise, Idaho.
There is a large discrepancy between the SSDI birth date of 27 Mar 1887 and the Andrew Newcomb genealogy birthdate of 22 Feb 1887

Lewis married Helen Alice Prisk on 19 Jun 1912 in Nampa, Canyon Co, Idaho. Helen (daughter of Philip Paul Prisk and Linda Thompson) was born on 29 Aug 1889 in Elkhorn, Walworth Co, Wisconsin; died on 7 Mar 1956 in Boise, Ada Co, Idaho. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Eleanor Newcomb was born 30 Nov 1915 in Melba, Canyon County, Idaho to Lewis Elmer Newcomb and Helen Prisk Newcomb. She was not given a middle name at birth but she used Norma as a middle name the rest of her life and her name appears as "Eleanor Norma Newcomb" on her marriage certificate. Thus this makes it somewhat official that she had a middle name. She attended Glendale Grade School and Melba High School graduating in 1934. She then enrolled that same year in the College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho, and attended for one school year. In 1935 she transferred to the University of Colorado (CU) in Boulder for the semester beginning in the fall of 1935 where she pledged and joined the Chi Omega sorority. Her first date at CU was with her eventual husband, Robert M. Cooley. She continued with her studies in journalism for another school year (1936-37). She also became a member of the Greek, women's, professional journalistic society, Theta Sigma Phi. Shortly after her second year at CU she returned home to Melba, Idaho, with Robert Miller Cooley to whom she was married 1 July 1937. They returned to Colorado that same year where they lived for one year in an apartment in Bob's parent's home in Akron until mid 1938 whereupon they moved to a house on Railroad Avenue and present-day Date Street (one block east of state highway 63). Later they bought the Crutchfield house on present-day Custer Street directly west of his brother, Coyne Cooley. In 1943 her husband joined the war effort but after a brief stint in the United States Army, he was discharged for health reasons and, upon his return home he was requested to take the position of Chief of the Rationing Board in Greeley, Colorado. They rented their Custer Street home to Nelson and Maude Sears (the parents of Coyne's wife, Margaret Sears Cooley) and moved to Greeley. After a short stay in Greeley, they moved to Limon, Colo., to help his brother, Dale, publish the Limon Leader. They were there until June 1945 when they moved to Nampa, Idaho. In January 1946 they bought the Mountain Home News in Mountain Home, Idaho. Eleanor worked at the newspaper writing local and society items, doing occasional reporting assignments, and bookkeeping. While in Mountain Home she was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary and a member of Daughters of the Nile the female side of the Shriners (of which her father, L.E. Newcomb, was a member). Because of her husband's worsening arthritic condition in 1953 they elected to move to the drier climate of Arizona. They resided in Tempe in rented quarters from November 1953 to September 1954 while they had a new home built in west Phoenix on Mulberry Drive. While they lived in Phoenix, Eleanor did housekeeping and, in the summer, helped with job printing chores for the Glendale High School district where her husband taught school. In July of 1963 the family moved to Reedley in the central valley of California where her husband became Director of Public Information at Reedley College. Just a year later in July of 1964 they moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, where Bob had accepted the position of Chairman of the Journalism Department and Director of Public Information at Northern Arizona University. Eleanor was society editor for the Flagstaff Daily Sun for several months. She joined Sigma Delta Chi, a professional journalism society. She also worked in the admissions office of NAU and was appointed editor of the Pine, the alumni magazine of Northern Arizona University. Upon the retirement of her husband in 1976 they moved back to Idaho where they settled in the relatively new Indian Lake subdivision just south of Boise. Eleanor was a member of the Episcopal Church of Boise and a member of the Boise Bishop Rowe Guild, a social and community organization of the Episcopal Church. Eleanor N. Cooley, 92, of Canon City, Colo., formerly of Mountain Home, died Sunday, July 13, 2008, at the Legacy Center in Canon City. Graveside services were held July 18 at Cloverdale Cemetery in Boise. The Rev. Luther Pitz of the All Saints Episcopal Church officiated. Arrangements were under the direction of Summers Funeral Home, Boise Chapel. - Mountain Home News, Mountain Home Idaho, July 13th 2008

Eleanor married Robert Miller Cooley on 28 Jun 1937 in Melba, Canyon Co, Idaho. Robert (son of Robert Berton Cooley and Carrie Louella Miller) was born on 20 Sep 1914 in Otis, Washington Co, Colorado; died on 4 Nov 1992 in Rawlins, Carbon Co, Wyoming; was buried on 7 Nov 1992 in Cloverdale Memorial Park, Boise, Ada Co, Idaho. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]