Author: Connie Kelly
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US Presidents in my Family Tree
By connecting your family tree to the giant family tree on Family Search . com you can see how you’re related to all sorts of famous people from history. Some of the connections are iffy, but I found several that seem likely, including more than 2 dozen US presidents: Twenty one are via the Starr…… Read more
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Happy Birthday John Howard Carroll
My maternal grandfather, John Howard Carroll was born on this date in 1915, 110 years ago December 13th. He was born in Peoria, to 18 year old Ruth Taylor. Ruth had married his father, Patrick Carroll, a soldier home on leave, but found out too late he was already married to someone else. Ruth put…… Read more
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The Franks of Kirchenkirnberg
Kate Frank, my 4x great grandmother was born one hundred and eighty years ago this November 29th, in the year 1845 in Kirchenkirnberg, what is now a neighborhood of the town of Murrhardt, in the Rems-Murr district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Her father, Gottlieb Frank was born in Kirchenkirnberg in 1802. Kirchenkirnberg was a part of…… Read more
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The Greenes of Rhode Island
My 9x great grandfather was once the Deputy Governor of Rhode Island colony, his great grandson went on to be the second governor of the state of Rhode Island, serving during the American Revolution, from 4 May 1778 to 3 May 1786. Deputy Governor John Greene was born 15 August 1620 in Salisbury County WIltshire…… Read more
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Clema Alberta Myers
My paternal grandmother died 39 years ago today, Nov 3 1986 at the age of just 62. She had fought cancer for several years prior to her death. Clema Alberta Myers Starr was the youngest child of Raymond Jasper Myers and Margaret Evelyn Thompson. Born 10 December 1923 in Danville, Illinois, her father Raymond abandoned…… Read more
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Solving the Kearney mystery, how refugees from Northern Ireland settled in the heartland of Illinois
My maternal grandfather’s grandmother was Mary Kearney. She married Patrick Carroll in La Salle, Illinois in 1866 when she was 20 years old. Her married name then, was Mary Carroll, the same as my own mother’s given name. But finding her origins has been a bit of a journey. Mary and Patrick’s son, John T…… Read more
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Emma Fogle Reynolds
I have been trying to find the origins of my 3x great grandmother, Emma Reynolds since I joined ancestry . com. My cousin had put together a tree that I copied back when I first started my tree, but after a bit of digging it became clear the parentage of Emma wasn’t set. We knew…… Read more
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Nannie Hendricks
16 October was the 150th birthday of my 2x great grandmother, Nancy Taylor Hatton Hendricks. Nancy was born in Crooked Creek (Rice Station) Estill County, Kentucky in 1875, daughter of Junie and Cynthia Hendricks Hatton. Junie was a farmer, born in Estill County. Cynthia’s only sister was named Nancy and she died at the age…… Read more
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October 9th
On this date in history my 3x great grandmother Phoebe Ann Moore was born in 1836. Phoebe was the only child of Andrew Moore and Margaret “Peggy” Jane Kleckner Moore. She was born in 1836 in Cumberland Ohio. Her obituary says her parents brought her to Western Illinois at an early age and she grew…… Read more
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The “Madman” of Cubbington, Gilmore Girls and the Battle of Long Island
My 11th great grandfather earned this moniker of “Madman” in Cubbington, England in the 1630s. Cubbington is a small village south of Birmingham on Welsh Road, an old sheep drovers’ route connecting London and Wales. Edward was the son of Thomas Greswold and Elizabeth Shuckburgh. He was christened 5 Aug 1594 in Tanworth-In-Arden, Warwickshire, England.…… Read more