an ancestor a week
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James Kirker McCartney
My grandmother and I had always wondered about her great-uncle James Kirker McCartney. In the family Bible, his name is written simply as “Kirkir.” I’ve only found him listed in one US Federal Census, the 1870, and in that document he’s called James. Because we had a studio portrait of Kirker, passed down from his…
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Clinton G Wilson, Civil War Veteran
Clinton G Wilson was one of the first ancestors I researched with the help of my grandmother. She had some letters from one of his daughters, so she was able to give me some guidance. Wilson enlisted on August 12, 1862 at Camp Butler near Clear Lake in Sangamon County, Illinois. His family recalled :…
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The Williams family migrates to Washington
In the last half of the nineteenth century, several members of the Williams family migrated across the Mississippi and west all the way to Washington Territory. Most of their extended family would stay in Illinois and Tennessee, involved with the Baptist Church and their communities there, but these siblings were looking for something else in…
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Lawrence Hawkins
Today’s post has very little original research material, and is instead a compilation of the information I have about Lawrence Hawkins, who was the grandfather of Stella McLaughlin, mother of Ray Hurd and June Hurd Juvet. Since much of the information came from his brother, I found it very compelling. [I received pdf files of…
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Betty Gaines and her sisters
Elizabeth Wilhelmina Gaines was born in 1876 in Wilson County, Kansas. She and her sisters were born about two years apart beginning in 1872. Their mother was a German immigrant, and her grandson LeRoy Morgan remembered her being quite religious, proud and strict. The girls’ father and both grandfathers were ministers, so it would seem…
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Mary Ada Bothwell
(Mary) Ada Bothwell was my great-grandmother Violet Elizabeth Myers’s first cousin. Ada’s mother, Mary C. Myers, was sister to Violet’s father, Alfred Palmer Myers. Their parents were Jacob Myers and Eleanor Gorham. Jacob was born Jacob Miars, but switched to using the more common spelling sometime in the 1860s. Mary was born in Ohio, and…
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Jesse Leon Hurd
https://ancestoraweek.com/jesse-leon-hurd/ This week’s post was pretty long. I ended up making it into its own page. Follow the link to read more about Jesse Hurd and view his photos of World War I France.
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Samuel Wilson
Samuel Wilson and his family lived in Augusta County Virginia, in an area which later became Pendleton County, West Virginia. Samuel wrote a will in Augusta County on 22 August of 1774, and it was proved in court in November 1774. This leads many researchers to conclude that he was the Captain Samuel Wilson who…
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Jane Beardwood
Jane Beardwood was born in Lancashire, England in 1838. Her father had been a weaver, but by 1851, his wife had died and the census lists him as a laborer at a paint works. He still had 7 children living at home. The family ended up emigrating to Philadelphia on the ship Tuscarora in 1856.…
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Eliza McHenry
Eliza McHenry came from Buffalo, New York to Indiana sometime around 1854, when she married John McCartney. She seems to have travelled without family. She was 18, he was 25. Both had Irish parents, but hers were Catholic and his were Protestant. He may have just been invalided out of the British Army due to…
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