MY FAMILY ROADSHOW

Mary Worthington Myatt (1832-1926)  My 3rd Cousin 3X Removed Elisha Duncan   (1822 - 1893) Husband of Mary Worthington Myatt Mary was born on March 27, 1832 in  Pocahontas,  Bond County, Illinois -  She was the daughter of  Alexander and Mary W. (Chisenhall) Myatt. Mary's mother died giving birth to Mary.  She was their sixth child. (In the 1800s, a woman had a one in eight chance of dying in childbirth during her lifetime.) Her father, Judge Alexander Myatt, was born in Tennessee in 1802, and was of  Welsh ancestry.  Alexander Myatt settled in Illinois, and for years was  County Judge of Bond County in Colorado. (More on Alexander … sometime!) Little is known about Mary's Mother, Mary Chisenhall.  Her grave marker cannot be found - it is thought that she is buried in McKendree Chapel Cemetery in Keyesport Landing, Bond County, Illinois. She was born in Dickson County, Tennessee and was the daughter of Alexander and Sa

LIFE IN THE PAST LANE December 11, 2014 Reflection...   This is the 60th post to  'Life In The Past Lane' for 2014 My research has led me to... 4,635 people 2,027 photos 361 stories 2,627 records 275 comments The categorizing, cross-referencing,  and linking, etc… is no longer a hobby, but a way of life. Researching 'dead people' (that's what my daughter calls it)  is... exhausting therapeutic intriguing celebrating puzzling reflecting mysterious inquiring exploring and on and on and on. Biographies, births, baptisms, and books - Bridges, cemeteries, and rivers. Charts, sources, kinship, and databases - Family Bibles, diaries, and letters. Goggling, folklore, photos, and ports - Wars, Wikis, and timelines. Networking, traveling, ships, and prisons - Traditions, queries and guidelines. Below are a few of my favorite photos...

ROBERT  NEAL  DALTON 2nd Cousin 1X Removed The loss of a child would have to be the most devastating experience a parent could ever face.   A piece of yourself…lost… Futures…forever changed… alton Robert was born on August 23, 1931, and was the only child of Charles Herman and Minnie Bertha Austin.      Minnie A Austin Dalton (1900 - 1992)    Charles Herman Dalton (1895 - 1946) This 'young' man died on December 20, 1952, at the age of 21 in a military plane crash at Larson Air Force Base in Grant, Washington. A large number of Air Force comrades from Korea and the Northwestern U.S. Air Force bases were headed home for the holidays through a program known as Operation Sleigh Ride.   The passengers' names had been drawn by 'lot number' for the 'special' privilege. MILITARY CRASH STOLE CHRISTMAS IN 1952 By Amy Davis Herald-Citizen, Cookeville, TN Sunday, 23 December 2012, front page & pg. 2 http://www.ajlambert

DOROTHY JONES  My 9th Great Grandmother Birth   1672   in Denbigh, Wales Death August 30,  1755   in Philadelphia, PA Buried Gloria Dei Burial Ground, Philadelphia, PA Dorothy was born in Wales.  She was the third of four children of Ellis and Jane Jones, who were Quakers  from either Flint, or Denbigh, Wales, and came to America to escape religious persecution.  Dorothy came to America with her family on the ship "Submission" in the autumn of 1682.  This is a ship from the same era as The Submission;                                                        however,  The Submission was older and smaller than this one. The ship's log had Dorothy's age as 10 years.  _____________________________________ The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine,  Volume 1, Issue 1 - has a true copy of Submission's Log. It l ists the ship as having 49 heads and 37 passengers.  After studying the log, it appears that the additional '12' head c