What's New (past 90 days)

13 Nov 2019 - Martha Lenora Hill (1874-1920), wife of my 2^nd great-granduncle Charles Gideon Oglesby

I merged Lenora Hill, daughter of William J. Hill & Catherine Smith, into Martha Lenora Hill, wife of my 2^nd great-granduncle Charles Gideon Oglesby (1869-____).

8 Nov 2019 - Elizabeth Mitchell (1835)-1900), my 2^nd great-grandmother, 2^nd great-greataunt

I was looking over Ancestry.com's Through Lines and examined one which had 32 DNA matches. This made my 2^nd great-grandmother Elizabeth George to be the daughter of Stith Mitchell and sister of his son my 2^nd great-grandfather James M. Mitchell. Also, the surname 'George' was from a Find-A-Grave memorial and that memorial no longer shows Elizabeth George to be the wife of my 2^nd great-grandfather Samuel Oglesby. Further, the death certificate (a far more reliable source than Find-A-Grave) for Elizabeth's son George Oglesby has her as "Elizabeth Mitchell". So I merged Elizabeth Mitchell daughter of Stith Mitchell into the record for Elizabeth Mitchell wife of Samuel Oglesby and changed her preferred name to 'Elizabeth Mitchell'.

This makes my gread-grandparents Felix T. Oglesby and Minervia Cotton 1^st cousins.

28 Oct 2019 - Cited pages 1-77 of Records of The Vineyard Wests and Branches of The Family, 598 individuals.

30 Sep 2019 - Francis West of Duxbury (1606-1692) my 8^th great-grandfather

Cited Francis West of Duxbury, Mass. and some of his descendants by Edward E. Cornwall (Boston, Massachusetts: Boston Historic Genealogical Society, 1906) pages 1-14, complete, 739 descendants adding probably 730 of them.

22 Sep 2019 Import

20 Sep 2019 - The Scroope Genealogy & Lighthouse Guide

I discovered The Scroope Genealogy & Lighthouse Guide was no longer on the world wide web but captures could be found on The Wayback Machine so I updated the links in my citations to point to the archives there.

11 Sep 2019 - The ancestry of my 5^th great-grandmother Elizabeth West (____-____)
Wife of Alexander Spotswood Cotton (1711-1764)

Looking over the tree of an Ancestry 1^st cousin DNA match I chanced across several genealogies of Francis West (1606-1692) of Martha's Vineyard. It appears this Francis West could have been the son of Francis West, Governor of Virginia but the sources I've found state that nothing definitive on this point could be found.

9 Sep 2019 - Alfred Thomas (1828-1894) husband of my ½2^nd cousin Martha Ann Hoge (1825-1913)

Filled in Alfred's parents and grandparents.

26 Aug 2019 - The wives and children of my 4^th cousin 3 times removed Thomas Hoge b. 1816 Greene County, Pennsylvania, died 1889 at Canton, Missouri.

25 Aug 2019 Import

18 Jul 2019 - Martha Batte, wife of great-granduncle William Farrar

According to The R. Bolling Batte Papers, Martha Batte who married William Farrar was the daughter of Thomas Batte & Temperance Brown. And so I have made her their daughter, and filled in some around her.

24 May 2019 - John Taylor Hoge (1846-1920), my 4^th cousin 4 times removed.

Began adding his descendants.

16 May 2019 Import

3 Jan 2019 - James William McLain (1869-1932), husband of my 1^st cousin 4 times removed Mary Jane Griffith

Merged James W. McClain, son of Zech D. Griffith & Mary Hughes, with James William McLain, husband of Mary Griffith (daughter of George Washington Griffith & Elizabeth Jane Sisk). This family was among those that migrated to Texas around 1898.

22 Dec 2018 Import

1 Dec 2018 - Nathan William McLain (1841-1925)

Began filling in the decendants of Nathan William McLain, and particularly of his sons Nathaniel Beauregard who married my 1^st cousin 4 times removed Mary Jane Griffith (daughter of Richard Green Griffith & Sarah Sewell), and Zachariah Luther who married my 2^nd cousin 3 times removed Margaret Frances Jenkins.

Nathan and his family moved to Texas around 1890 in a group with other families from Etowah & Calhoun counties in Alabama.

21 Nov 2018 - Levi Walter Jenkins (1855-1941)

Levi married my 1^st cousin 4 times removed Mary W. Griffith. Mary had 4 children and died the same year her last child was born. Then Levi married Mollie Lusk. They had 9 children, at least two of whom married cousins.

Their 1^st son John Jasper Jenkins, married my 2^nd cousin 3 times removed Sarah Angie Brown and their 1^st daughter Mattie Dora Jenkins married my 2^nd cousin 3 times removed Green Alexander Griffith.

21 Nov 2018 Import

20 Oct 2018 - Mrs. Rhoda Reeves

When searching for 'Rhoda Reeves 1830' I came across a Find-A-Grave memorial for Rhoda Shaw Reeves b. 31 Oct 1831. Find-A-Grave shows this Rhoda to be the wife of John Sanders Reeves and the mother of Emily Irene Reeves Howard. On the 1860 census the family of John Sanders Reeves, with wife Rhoda, appear between that of John's father Nathan Reeves and family and that of my 1^st cousin 5 times removed James Shaw and wife Parthena (Young). And so I have assumed James Shaw was the brother of Rhoda and that her parents were James Shaw and Rhoda Ann Farrar, which makes Rhoda Shaw my 1^st cousin 5 times removed.

21 Jul 2018 - Sir John Hoge (1850 - ____), my 11^th great-grandfather

I had Sir John Hoge as the son of Andrew Haig. The linkage was based on a FamilySearch Pedigree Resource File which was sketchy at best, Submission: MMQ5-Y93 by Suzanne Guerra. On the Facebook Hogg DNA Page discussion of 3 Jun 2018, Dwight Hogg stated there is no evidence either way of any Hoge/Haig connection. Patrick Hoge (a descendant of William Junior, 1701-1789) stated that there are no matches to his DNA by any Haigs that have tests available to compare.

This leaves the only connection from me to the Haigs through presumed Home, also an extremely dubious link.