QUIZ

 

One of the features of our newsletter will be a quiz, to test your knowledge of the Olmsted Family. The answer to the quiz is elsewhere in the newsletter. Contributions for future quizzes are welcome. Answers should be documented.

 

First Quiz:

 

What is the relationship of Thankful Barnes, Jabez’s wife, to Longfellow’s Wayside Inn?

 

Answer:

 

According to “The History of Sudbury, Massachusetts, 1638-1898", by Alfred Sereno Hudson, Sudbury Press, Sudbury MA, 1898, the Red Horse Tavern on the Boston Post Road in Sudbury, that Longfellow later called the Wayside Inn, was established by David Howe. David was Thankful’s first cousin once removed, as David was the grandson of John Howe, Thankful’s great grandfather. 

 

In future issues we will trace the ancestry of  Thankful to 1535 on both her Goodenow and Bent lines.