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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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……
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Webster Holden Starr
William Holden, my 2x great grandfather was born in 1858 in Ridgeway, New York to Charles and Deborah Cramer Holden, my 3x great grandparents. Charles ran an Inn in Schenectady with Deborah and his brother Aaron. He served in the civil war at the age of 42 with the NY 90th Regiment and then by……