Sharing ancestors, one person at a time. Genealogy and history.
I was perusing the musings of other family bloggers and came across one post on Chiddicks Family Tree by Paul Chiddicks about the “Sixteen Challenge”. This challenge is to name all 16 of your 2x great-grandparents. When I started out on this little blog project several years ago, I tried to write about each ancestor from youngest to … Continue reading Thankful for Ideas – Rhoades 2x greats
While validating some of Calista Emery’s dates and places, I finally made some progress on William W. Emery/Emory, and Hannah Merrifield; the parents of Calista and Carrie Emory Gage. I was musing about the timing of William’s probate filed in 1864. I never did nail down an exact death date and place, I had just … Continue reading William W. Emery – More Questions than Answers
Since I realized after my last post that Emory was also in our X-match gene pool, I took a little detour and gave the Tucker conundrum a rest. This is another line that has always bothered me concerning why we have no hits to Emory cousins. Sure, Caroline (Carrie) Emory Gage only had one known sister, therefore … Continue reading Calista Emory – Rule Breaker
Carrie Emory was the mother of Edward Gage and the wife of Sumner Gage. We are at that stage on the Aleck line where there are few public records to be found on women in history. While many of our maternal ancestors are elusive, there are still places where they hide. I am ever searching … Continue reading Carrie Emery
As mentioned in Edward Gage's post, he did not speak much about his parents to his grandchildren (our grand-parents), but he must have told his children something because they knew enough to name his parents in his obituary and his place of birth as New Hampshire. So, I looked in New Hampshire. The record of … Continue reading Sumner Gage
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