Another Revolutionary War Ancestor

Daniel Wiggins Applegate
1768–1826
BIRTH 1768 • Albany County, New York, USA
DEATH 11 FEBRUARY 1826 • Saint Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA

Based on the Applegate Genealogy Web Site, Daniel got married in Fayette Co., KY in 1790. He had a 50 acre farm in Franklin Co., KY until 1797. He then was in Carroll Co.,KY in 1802.

Daniel and his family moved to Henry County, KY about 1808 as there is a record that he was fined 15 shillings and detained 3 hours in jail on February 4, 1808 for cursing in the Henry County, Kentucky Court. On September 30, 1821, he was given permission by the Henry County, Kentucky court to keep a tavern in his house for one year. The following year he moved his family to St. Louis, Missouri.

Daniel Applegate was born in New Jersey in 1768. Although he was only a very young boy during the Revolutionary period, he served as a fifer and drummer under Capt. Ballard and Col. Shrove. He also received the rank of private, presumably at the very close of the war as he would have only been 17 or 18 when the conflict ended.

After the war he married Rachel Lindsay, and they had 5 children. The family lived in Virginia for a number of years and then moved to Shelby County, Kentucky. Finally they came to Missouri in 1822, being one of the earliest pioneer families in St. Clair County. Daniel’s sons, Jesse, Charles, and Lisbon later migrated to Oregon.

Daniel Applegate did receive a pension from New Jersey for his war service. Although most of his time in Missouri was spent in St. Clair County, he died in 1826 at St. Louis, Missouri at age 58 and was buried there.

Married:

Rachael Lindsey
1769–1816
BIRTH 10 JUN 1769 • Lindsay Station, Kty
DEATH 1816 • St Louis, Missouri

and with an unknown wife had a son:

Charles Applegate
1806–1879
BIRTH 24 JAN 1806 • New Castle, Henry, Kentucky, United States
DEATH 9 AUG 1879 • Yoncalla, Douglas, Oregon, United States

Married:

Melinda Miller
1812–1888
BIRTH 31 MAR 1812 • Claiborne, Tennessee, USA
DEATH 29 JANUARY 1888 • Yoncalla, Douglas County, Oregon, USA

Daughter of Charles and Melinda:

Susan Applegate
1831–1907
BIRTH 25 MAY 1831 • Cole, Missouri, United States
DEATH 30 DEC 1907 • Yoncalla, Douglas, Oregon, United States

Married:

Robert Smith
1822–1888
BIRTH 18 FEB 1822 • Allegheny, Virginia, USA
DEATH 5 MAY 1888 • Yoncalla, Douglas, Oregon

Son of Susan and Robert:

Robert Franklin Smith
1857–1929
BIRTH 3 APRIL 1857 • Umpqua, Douglas, Oregon, USA
DEATH 21 APR 1929 • Spokane, Spokane, Washington, USA

Married:

Annie Irene Byrd
1866–1935
BIRTH 04 JAN 1866 • Seattle, King, Washington
DEATH 23 FEB 1935 • Coquille, Coos, Oregon

Daugher of Robert and Annie:

Ruth M Smith
1890–1975
BIRTH 10 JUNE 1890 • Whitman County, Washington, USA
DEATH 18 FEBRUARY 1975 • Beaverton, Washington County, Oregon, USA

Married:

Joseph Eugene Axtell
1889–1945
BIRTH 04 MAY 1889 • Celina, Mercer County, Ohio, USA
DEATH 28 JUN 1945 • Coquille, Coos County, Oregon, United States of America

Daughter or Joseph and Ruth:

Jane Elizabeth Axtell
1920–1995
BIRTH 3 FEB 1920 • Lewiston, Idaho
DEATH 17 JUN 1995 • Hillsboro, Washington, Oregon

Married:

Richard Manning Wallace
1914–1995
BIRTH 28 MAY 1914 • Seattle, King, Washington, USA
DEATH 18 MAR 1995 • Beaverton, Washington, Oregon, USA

Son: Robert J. Wallace
Daughter: Susan E. Arney

Update: Creating home assistant interface to alexa playlists

I stumbled upon https://github.com/custom-components/alexa_media_player/wiki#what-this-is which gave me the information I needed to directly control my echo device, instead of having one echo command via voice another.

Read my post https://robertjwallace.com/creating-home-assistant-interface-to-alexa-playlists/ for background.

The difference between what I was doing in that post and what I am doing now is in the scripts.yaml file. The code to directly control my echo is:

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Controlling a tuya smart plug from the command line

Background

I have a hybrid home automation system that includes some old X10 devices, Philips hue devices, wemo devices, and tp-link devices. Part of the system is some software that emulates a Philips hue bridge (ha-bridge) that lets me control devices by running linux programs and scripts. This lets me use old X10 radio frequency controllers and motion detectors in my home automation. So far this has worked great.

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Adding links to web pages in Home Assistant

I have been playing around with Home Assistant for just a little while now, and while I am impressed with what it does, I find the documentation and the examples to be less than helpful. One thing I wanted to do was simply add a “card” of web links to the UI. Since the Home Assistant interface (Lovelace) is web based you would think that this would be easy.

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Home automation, part 2

This is an update to https://robertjwallace.com/home-automation-smart-home/.

I am finally beginning to move from the X10 system to a more modern system, despite the cost. My existing system is an hybrid of Philips Hue and X10. To integrate the X10 with Alexa I use the X10 CM19 transceiver with the mochad linux driver, and ha-bridge, a Philips Hue emulator. This allowed me to use Alexa to control the X10 system.

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I am a cat lover

I have to admit that I am a cat lover. I can tolerate dogs, some I even like. But cats have my heart. One thing I enjoyed when I was traveling was seeing and taking photographs of cats.

Word games for Scrabble training

I enjoy word games like Scrabble and decided to write a couple of games that I could use both for the pleasure of playing, and also as training aids for playing Scrabble and other word games.

Anagram game

The first I wrote is an anagram finding game, simply called wordgame. It shows seven “tiles” any you try to find all of the anagrams.

Anagram game

Word finder game

The other game I wrote is a “word finder“. It can be played on mobile (phone) or desktop devices.