Hadsell Family History

I was at my grandparents’ house the other day, and found out some more information on my great-great-grandfather, Sidney Forward Hadsell: SIDNEY F. HADSELL. A well-known educator and business man of Fresno county, Sidney F. Hadsell is a worthy representative, born in Calhoun county, Mich. July 13, 1843, a son of Martin and Susan (Forward) Hadsell. The former, a native of Connecticut, went to New York, thence to Ohio, and finally, in 1837, located in Michigan near Battle Creek, where…

In the continuing saga of my scanning old family photos with my grandfather, John Hadsell, I present my great-great-grandfather, Sidney Forward Hadsell. All I know about him is that he was born in Michigan and served in the Union Army. He was discharged around the age of 20 due to a medical condition. He later came to California, and had my great-grandfather (Dan Hadsell) later in his life, in 1882. He also attended the Panama Exposition in San Diego in…

So my maternal (read: Berkeley) grandparents and I are working on a family history project to digitize a whole mess of family archives (photos, cassette tapes, letters, military certificates) that they have, some of which go as far back as the late 19th century. This is one of my favorites. It depicts my grandparents in 1943, dressed up and on their way to a Southern Ball in San Francisco. My grandfather (John Hadsell) and grandmother (Virginia Hadsell) got stuck on…