Having gone down the rabbit hole that is ancestry.com over the last year I have accumulated a mountain of information about those that came before me. This is where all that information will be shared.
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Henry Hank Perry
Hank “Henry” Perry was born on June 20, 1883, in Barton, Iowa to David and Margaret Cyphers Perry. David was a farmer, believed to be born in New York, but we don’t have his parent’s names so there’s no record. He married Betsey Camp in Wisconsin in 1857 and farmed there while raising 7 children……
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Marilyn Carroll
Today, July 15th, is the anniversary of the day the sister of my Grandpa Carroll, Marilyn Carroll, died in 2006. As far as I know my grandpa Carroll never knew he had a sister. He always insisted had no interest in speaking to or about his biological father, Patrick Carroll, who abandoned his mother when……
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July 24/ July 25th Noakes family history
July 24, 1825 is the birthday of my 3x great grandfather, William Noakes. William was the father of Almeda Noakes who married my 2x great grandfather Emory Starr in 1892 in Warren County, Illinois. July 25th is the date in 1789 when his granduncles Ben and William Noakes were killed and grand aunt Elizabeth Noakes……