There are 3 pictures in the bible of persons with the last name of Bertie, and like the Hillikers, someone wrote the names on their portraits but these people are not mentioned in any of the handwritten births/marriages/death entries. There is no hint of the Berties' relationship to the Reese family.
I have now, with certainty, traced Samuel Reese Sr. and his family back to 1840 to a farm in the town of Warren, Herkimer County, New York, several years before they departed their native New York state to go to Wisconsin. Adam Reese has 3 brothers and 3 sisters. As we saw in yesterday's post, one of his younger sisters, Lucretia b. 1830, will eventually marry Adam’s friend, William C. Hilliker. Now I’ve discovered that another of Adam's younger sisters, Matilda b. 1834, will marry in Wisconsin a man from Scotland, David Smith Bertie. I’ve located their burials on Find a Grave and attached their photos from the bible. David Bertie has a an elaborate headstone. It appears that he is buried with their 5 year old son Everett, who died years earlier. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Bertie&GSiman=1&GScid=88628&GRid=8352345&
David Bertie and Matilda have a daughter Rosine Bertie b. 1854 in Beaver Dam, Dodge, Wisconsin.
Get this. Rosine grows up and marries a Eugene Anderson. They have a son and move to Seattle, Washington. Rosine lives a long life and passes away in Seattle in 1947.
But let's don't jump to conclusions. We haven't traced the bible's path yet. There are other possibilities for it getting to the west coast.
I have to go to my real job. Stay tuned.
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