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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Freeman Leroy “Lee” Kelly
Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of Christopher’s great grandfather, Freeman Leroy “Lee” Kelly. Lee and his twin brother John Brice was born 13 January, 1889 in Keokuk, Iowa to Lorenzo and Alice (Harmon) Kelly. Their firstborn son had died in infancy. The twins had an older sister, Emma, and a younger sister,……
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The Origins of Kate Frank
I posted a bio of Kate Frank last November that turns out to be wrong. The Kate Frank from Kirchenberg I found was not the same Kate Frank that was my 3x grandmother. I have now DNA confirmed she was the daughter of Christian George Frank and Christine Katharina Hofstetter from Adelshofen, Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.……
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Phoebe Catherine “Katie” Sansom
136 years ago today, March 4, 1890, Chris’s great grandma, Katie Sansom Kelly was born in Clark County Missouri. She was the second daughter of William Henry Sansom and Ellen Lenore (Rose) Sansom. Her father was a blacksmith/wood worker/wagon maker in Kahoka first, then Keokuk later. She married Lee Kelly in Keokuk in 1910. Lee……