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     Sharon Lou Tippett was born on 22 December 1949 at MI, USA. Public records. She married Jerry Donald Smith, son of Leo J. Smith and Ethel Marie Umlor, on 20 September 1969. Sharon Lou Tippett died on 15 November 2020 at Harbor Springs, Emmet County, MI, USA, at age 70.

     Josephine Titus was born on 23 December 1840 at Hydetown, Crawford County, PA, USA. She married George Orrin Jones, son of Orrin Dates Jones and Sally Hotchkin, on 25 December 1859 at Tryonville, Crawford County, PA, USA. Josephine Titus married Edmund Frederick Squire on 15 June 1874 at Erie, Erie County, NY, USA. Josephine Titus died on 29 September 1893 at Spartansburg, Crawford County, PA, USA, at age 52. She was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery, at Spartansburg, Crawford County, PA, USA.

     Daughter of James Titus and Agnes Nancy Gilson.

     Theo Tjerandsen was born on 13 April 1911 at Seattle, King County, WA, USA. He married Dorothy Cooper James, daughter of Bennett Thomas James and Hazel Bushnell Hotchkin. Theo Tjerandsen died on 28 October 1945 at Seattle, King County, WA, at age 34.

     Shaaw (Kate) Tlaa was born in 1857 at British Columbia, Canada. She married George Washington Carmack, son of August Perry Carmack and Hannah L. Stiles, in 1887 at Canada. Shaaw (Kate) Tlaa died on 29 March 1920 at Carcross, Yukon Territory, Canada. She was buried at Carcross Cemetery, at Carcross, Yukon Census Div., Youkon, Canada.

     SHAAW TLÁA (Kate Carmack)

SHAAW TLÁA (Kate Carmack), Tagish; b. c. 1862 in the vicinity of what is now Bennett Lake, YT./B.C., daughter of Kaachgaawáa, the head of the Tlingit crow clan, and Gus’dutéen, a member of the Tagish wolf clan; m. Kult’ús, and they had one daughter; m. secondly in 1887 George Washington Carmack, and they had one daughter; d. 29 March 1920 in Carcross, Y.T.

Shaaw Tláa, her parents, and her seven sisters and brothers lived in a Tagish village near the present site of Carcross. When she was a young woman, she was married briefly to a Tlingit man named Kult’ús, in a conventional alliance (he was her mother’s brother’s son). Both her husband and her infant daughter died of influenza in Alaska in the early 1880s and Shaaw Tláa returned to her village. Here in 1888 she began living with George Washington Carmack, an American who had formed a packing, hunting, and prospecting partnership the previous year with her brother Skookum Jim [Keish] and her nephew Dawson Charlie [Káa Goox*]. Kate’s union with George served to reinforce the alliance between her male relatives and Carmack.

In the summer of 1889 Kate and George Carmack travelled up the Yukon River to prospect in the Forty Mile region. For the next six years, while George prospected, trapped, and traded along the lower Yukon River, Kate contributed to the meagre family economy by making winter clothing which she sold to other miners. At Fort Selkirk in 1893 their daughter, Graphie Grace Carmack, was born.

In late July 1896 Skookum Jim, Dawson Charlie, and another nephew, Koolseen (Patsy Henderson), came looking for the couple, whom they had not seen for several years. They found Kate with her husband and young daughter fishing for salmon at the junction of the Klondike and Yukon rivers. After catching up on family news and helping with the salmon catch, Jim and Charlie set off with George into the Klondike basin to prospect. In mid August, a few miles from the fish camp, they discovered gold on Rabbit (Bonanza) Creek. Within a year, the find had sparked the Klondike gold-rush, which brought tens of thousands of gold seekers to the Yukon and began permanent non-native settlement.

During the winter of 1896–97, although they knew they would soon be rich, Kate and her family had no money. The men spent the winter sinking shafts in the bedrock, while Kate sewed furs into mittens and moccasins and baked bread to sell to other miners, an enterprise that often took in more gold than the men’s mining. Over the next four years, however, the family’s claims produced close to a million dollars of gold dust, and Kate no longer sewed or baked for others.

With wealth came a lifestyle completely unfamiliar to Kate and her Tagish relatives, and difficulties arose. Her relationship with Carmack, having survived 12 lean years, could not withstand the pressures. Alcohol became a problem for her, the marriage failed, and in 1900 George met and married a Dawson prostitute, leaving Kate almost penniless in California. She made several attempts at legal action against him, but tiring of the slowness of non-native justice, she abandoned the suits and returned to live with the Tagish people at Carcross in July 1901. There is no record of any financial settlement from Carmack.

Skookum Jim, who had also severed his ties with Carmack, built Kate a cabin near his own house at Carcross. Her daughter spent several years with her, attending the mission and residential schools at Carcross and Whitehorse run by Bishop William Carpenter Bompas*, before moving permanently to Seattle, Wash. Kate lived out her life in relative obscurity, sewing items for tourists and nursing Jim through his final sickness. She succumbed to an influenza epidemic in 1920.

     Barbara Fay Tlacil was born on 28 November 1929 at Los Angeles County, CA, USA.¹ She was the daughter of Frank Tlacil and Ethel Jennings. She married Howard Roger Hotchkin at Los Angeles County, CA, on 1 July 1950. Calif Marriage Index 1949- 1959. Barbara Fay Tlacil and Howard Roger Hotchkin were divorced in November 1970 at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA, USA.² Barbara Fay Tlacil died on 6 August 2008 at Van Nuys, Los Angeles County, CA, USA, at age 78.³

     Barbara's marriage is known from their marriage and divorce records in California files.

     Frank Tlacil was born on 3 November 1894 at Romania. US Nationlization Records 1795- 1992.^1,2 He married Ethel Jennings at CA, USA. Frank Tlacil died on 4 September 1969 at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA, USA, at age 74.^1,2

     Charles W. Todd was born on 1 September 1842 at Spring Arbor, Jackson County, MI, USA.^1,2,3 He was the son of William Todd and Marietta French. Charles W. Todd died on 1 June 1913 at Grand Rapids, Kent County, MI, USA, at age 70.^2,3 He was buried at Spring Arbor Cemetery, at Spring Arbor, Jackson County, MI, USA.

     Frances Pamela Todd was born on 9 January 1843 at Rodman, Jefferson County, NY, USA.¹ She married John Fletcher Moffett, son of Charles Denny Moffett and Emily Hayman Knollin, in 1868 at Jefferson County, NY, USA. Frances Pamela Todd died on 6 March 1909 at Watertown, Jefferson County, NY, USA, at age 66.¹ She was buried at Brookside Cemetery, at Watertown, Jefferson County, NY, USA.

     Harriet Murvin Todd was born on 16 August 1839 at Spring Arbor, Jackson County, MI, USA. Cemetery records say 22 aug 1839.^1,2 She was the daughter of William Todd and Marietta French. She married George Washington Chapel at MI, USA, on 1 February 1860.³ Harriet Murvin Todd died on 3 June 1915 at Spring Arbor, Jackson County, MI, at age 75.^3,2 She was buried at Chapel Cemetery, at Sandstone, Jackson County, MI, USA.

     Middle name from death certificate.

     Lewis R. Todd was born on 28 June 1836 at Spring Arbor, Jackson County, MI, USA.¹ He was the son of William Todd and Marietta French. Lewis R. Todd died in 1914 at Spring Arbor, Jackson County, MI. He was buried at Spring Arbor Cemetery, at Spring Arbor, Jackson County, MI, USA.

     She married Shaun Patrick Bentley at Gatlinburg, Sevier County, TN, USA, on 19 April 1997. Information by Alice Edwards Bentley. Penny Todd and Shaun Patrick Bentley were divorced after 2000 at Cobb County, GA, USA.

     Rufina was born at Spring Arbor, Jackson County, MI, USA, on 11 September 1845. Age 25 at the 1870 census.. She was the daughter of William Todd and Marietta French. She married Edwin Andy (Edward) Hotchkin at Grass Lake, Jackson County, MI, USA, on 8 December 1864. Rufina U. (Rue) Todd appeared on the census of 1880 at Jackson, Jackson County, MI, USA. The census lists the family as: Edward Hotchkin, self, age 41, enginer (Mill), born in NY, parents borni in NY; Rufina, wife, age 35, born in MI, parents born in NY; son, Willie E., age 14, born in Mi; dsu, Blanche, age 8, born in MI.. Rufina was divorced from Edwin Andy (Edward) Hotchkin at MI, USA, after 1880. Rufina U. (Rue) Todd died on 9 December 1884 at Spring Arbor, Jackson County, MI, at age 39. The 1894 Michigan State census shows Edwin a widower..¹ She was buried at Spring Arbor Cemetery, at Spring Arbor, Jackson County, MI, USA. Listed under surname of Todd in Cemetery records..

     William Todd was born on 9 December 1807 at Jefferson, Schoharie County, NY, USA.¹ He married Marietta French at Washtenaw County, MI, USA, on 6 September 1835.¹ William Todd appeared on the census of 1880 at Spring Arbor, Jackson County, MI, USA. The census lists the family as: William Todd, 72, farmer, born NY, parents born CT; wife Marietta, 62, norn NY, parents born NJ; grandson Charles Hotchkin, 10, at school, born MI, father born NY, mother born MI.. He died on 2 March 1882 at Spring Arbor, Jackson County, MI, at age 74.² He was buried at Spring Arbor Cemetery, at Spring Arbor, Jackson County, MI, USA.

     William Todd came to Washtenaw Co., MI in 1832 and to Spring Arbor in 1836. He was an early land owner in the area and owned several hundred acres west of Spring Arbor in Section 20.

     Rebecca Adeline Tom was buried at Jacksboro City Cemetery, at Jacksboro, Campbell County, TN, USA. She was born on 25 May 1839 at TN, USA. She married Joseph C. Miller, son of Christopher Miller and Aurelia Shields Hotchkiss, on 29 December 1853 at Washington County, TX, USA.¹ Rebecca Adeline Tom died on 14 May 1880 at Jacksboro, Campbell County, TN, USA, at age 40.

     Daughter of Joseph Tom and Elinor Whiteside.

     Edward Otto Tomasek was born on 19 December 1915 at Berwyn, Cook County, IL, USA.¹ He married Naomi H. Kerwin, daughter of Wilfred Roy Kerwin and Marian K. Hotchkin, circa 1938 at Cook County, IL, USA. Edward Otto Tomasek died on 28 October 2008 at Montgomery, Kendall County, MI, USA, at age 92. He was buried at Chapel Hill Gardens West, at Oakbrook Terrace, DuPage County, IL, USA.

     Loretta Tombs was born in 1808 at GA, USA. She married Benjamin Washington Sayre on 12 November 1824 at Lincoln County, GA, USA. Loretta Tombs died in 1844 at Lincoln County, GA.

     David Tompkins was born in 1839 at Colchester, Delaware County, NY, USA. Age 11 at the 1850 census.² He was the son of Enoch Tompkins and Mary Slack.¹ David Tompkins married Ann Elizabeth York on 31 January 1861 at Greenfield, Saratoga County, NY, USA.³ David Tompkins died in 1889 at Sullivan County, NY, USA. He was buried at Woodbourne Reformed Cemetery, at Woodbourne, Sullivan County, NY, USA.

     Enoch Tompkins was born on 21 July 1796 at NY, USA. Age 66 at the 1860 census, age 64 at the 1850 census. He married Mary Slack at NY circa 1830. Enoch Tompkins died on 16 June 1864 at Sullivan County, NY, USA, at age 67. He was buried at Woodbourne Reformed Cemetery, at Woodbourne, Sullivan County, NY, USA.

     Frances (Fanny) May Tompkins was born in 1831 at Bovina Center, Delaware County, NY, USA. She was the daughter of Enoch Tompkins and Mary Slack. She married Joshua Francis (James) Hotchkin at Sullivan County, NY, USA, in 1868. Frances (Fanny) May Tompkins died on 13 August 1897 at Bradley, Sullivan County, NY, USA. She was buried at Woodbourne Reformed Cemetery, at Woodbourne, Sullivan County, NY, USA.

     Fanny was born 1831 or 1834, in Bovina Center or Kortright, Delaware Co., NY according to Bible records. The 1880 census found Fanny living with her husband, J. Francis in Neversink, Sullivan Co., NY along with her daughter Frankie and J. Francis's grandson Frank W. Her Will dated 30 August 1895 was witnessed by W. W. Smith and Elmer R. Grant. The Will gives her age as 64, and named Frank W. Hodgkin her grandson; however, he was actually the son of her stepson Nathan. Her Will also names her Heidt grandchildren, Pluma, Wille, Harry, and Leon.

     Jane Tompkins was born in 1834 at NY, USA. Age 16 at the 1850 census. She was the daughter of Enoch Tompkins and Mary Slack. Jane Tompkins died on 3 May 1894 at Neversink, Sullivan County, NY, USA.

     Mercy S. Tompkins was born in 1842 at Paris, Oneida County, NY, USA. She married Charles L. Chapman, son of Willard A. Chapman and Martha (Patty) Stone, on 25 December 1860 at Paris Hill, Oneida County, NY, USA. Mercy S. Tompkins died in 1923 at Clayville, Oneida County, NY, USA. She was buried at Sauquoit Valley Cemetery, at Clayville, Oneida County, NY, USA.

     Daughter of Joshua P. Tompkins and Angeline Pierce.

     Polly A Tompkins was born in 1841 at NY, USA. Age 9 at the 1850 census. She was the daughter of Enoch Tompkins and Mary Slack. Polly A Tompkins died on 28 November 1870.

     Sara Jane Tompkins was born on 17 September 1932 at Niagara County, NY, USA. She married Harry Lawrence Nickerson Sr. at NY, USA, on 22 October 1949. Sara Jane Tompkins died on 22 May 1984 at Binghamton, Broome County, NY, USA, at age 51.

     Sarah Tompkins was born on 14 April 1763 at Little Compton, Newport County, RI, USA. She married Nathaniel Brownell, son of George Brownell Jr. and Sarah Bailey, on 25 March 1790 at Little Compton, Newport County, RI. Sarah Tompkins died on 24 March 1856 at Little Compton, Newport County, RI, at age 92. She was buried at Old Commons Burial Grounds, at Little Compton, Newport County, RI, USA.

     Daughter of Michael and Sarah Tompkins.

     James Francis Toolan was born on 25 November 1894 at New York City, New York County, NY, USA.¹ He married Marion Cecilia Hotchkin, daughter of Robert B. Hotchkin and Catherine Cunningham, on 11 February 1920 at Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, USA. James Francis Toolan died on 21 February 1938 at Bronx County, NY, USA, at age 43. NY, NY Death Index 1862- 1948 gives a death date of 2 Feb 1938 in Bronx Co where SS Index says 21 Feb..¹ He was buried at Calvary Cemetery, at Woodside, Queens County, NY, USA.

     Lucilla Josephine Torrence was born on 26 October 1904 at Sturgis, Meade County, SD, USA.¹ She married Roy Leslie Speakman, son of Alonzo Lou Speakman and Leona Mae Davis, on 18 April 1926 at Sturgis, Meade County, SD. Lucilla Josephine Torrence died on 16 July 1987 at Rapid City, Pennington County, SD, USA, at age 82.¹ She was buried at Black Hills National Cemetery, at Sturgis, Meade County, SD, USA.

     She married Carlos Singleterry at TX, USA, circa 1963.

     Pamela Maria Tosi married Robert Clifton Hodgkins Jr., son of Robert Clifton Hodgkins Sr. and Margaret Merry McConnell, on 18 May 1974 at MA, USA.

     Rebecca was born at Orange, Orange County, NY, USA, on 12 July 1764. She married Gerrit (Garret) Van Benschoten at NY, USA, in 1784. Rebecca Totten died on 12 July 1834 at NY at age 70.

     Moses Tottingham was born in 1791 at MA, USA. Age 69 at the 1860 census. He married Olive Bigelow at MA. Moses Tottingham died on 2 January 1867 at Ashburnham, Worcester County, MA, USA.¹