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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Samuel David Hatton
Samuel David Hatton was born in 1749. He was my 6th great-grandfather. Samuel was born in Stony Stafford, Buckinghamshire, England to Thomas Hatton/ Heighton (B 1729 D 1797) and Hester Hall (B 1729- D 1759) my 7x great grandparents. In 1754 they lived in London, England. Hester died when he was just 9 and at……
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Desperately Seeking Sam Myers
My grandmother, Clema (Myers) Starr never really knew her father I’m told. I never talked to her about it personally, but it’s my understanding he abandoned the family when she was very young. After I joined ancestry.com and learned how to investigate such things I began researching what happened to her father, Raymond Jasper Myers.……
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From Clarissa to Clema
Clarissa Jane Wishon (DNA match confirmed) was my 4x great grandmother; she was born in Kentucky in 1830, the last of seven children for Adam and Nancy Miller Wishon (5x great grandparents). Adam was a plasterer and later a farmer. The Wishons moved to West Central Illinois shortly after her birth from Kentucky, from North……