Mary T's Family Tree

Welcome to MY Family History web site

Featuring tidbits for the ancestors and descendants of my grandparents

MISSION STATEMENT: To share genealogical information in the hopes of making other members of my family as obsessed with the lives of our ancestors as I have become.

So, if you'd like to know a little bit more about your Aller, Apgar, Berry, Carpenter, Crowley, Doherty, Donnelly, Dwire, Greene, Hann, Hoffman, McFadden, Morrissey, Jordon, Strouble, or Sweeney ancestors (just to name a few of my ancestors), you have come to the right place.

Carpenter / Crowley Histories
Family Photos
Family Records

Additional Histories
Families of friends and others used in researching my family

Some day my time will come ...
(sung to the tune of "Someday My Prince Will Come" from Disney's Snow White)

And Again, I need to apologize for my neglect. Between work, parenting and my trustee responsibilities for the Apgar Family Association, I still have had no time to work on my own family tree.

Anyway, I do forsee that I will have time for my family research in the not too distant future, at least sometime this decade. Just as soon as I deploy an update to the Apgar website along the new features I started working on over 4 years ago like store front, membership application . . . You get the drift. Long story short, I'll do updates when I can.

Ancestor of the Month:

Ancestor of the Month -- Hall of Fame

Leon A. Carpenter, Jr.

Jun 1915 -
Jun 1963

Although his life was short, dying just after his 48th birthday, he left quite a legacy for his family and his descendants.

A well-respected newspaper man.

The 1st Rugters graduate in the family, at least to the best of my knowledge, making myself a third-generation alumni.

And a love of sports, which he shared with his children by taking them to their very first Rutgers's football game at the tender age of six. Such a momentus occasion that it warrented, not one, but two articles in the local paper: "Tommy and Muffy Go Collegiate" and "Why Didn't It Count, Daddy?"

While tracking Rutgers football is mostly a past-time for those Rutgers alumni that remain in New Jersey, the Scarlett Knights' fabulous 2006 season has certainly piqued the interest of a much broader audience. And while the score of their final game against West Virginia was not what we hoped, it was still a great game; one for which I am still hoarse from cheering them on at home as I watched the game on TV.

Had it not been for my grandfather’s attendance at Rutgers and sustained interest in Rutgers football, I have to wonder if I still would have attended and if not, I certainly wouldn’t still be following the Scarlet Knights. So while I didn’t really know my grandfather, being only a few years old when he died, I can certainly acknowledge his contribution to my life, and that of my father, who also went to Rutgers and has been a regular at Rutger's home football games for over 60 years now.

September 2015 Update: Four years have passed and now both my nephew and my son have graduated from Rutgers. Our family legacy there continues.

May we live in peace without weeping.

May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing.

And may our love fill the world, angel wings tenderly beating.