MY FAMILY ROADSHOW

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