My Grandmothers
👆2023: My niece Tracy Chappelle found POLLY - Mary Pauline Lawrence (Shawanaga-Anishinabe) married to Jesse Bland, a captive in the French Indian War.
I am making a list of my grandmothers - Matilda is one of them. If you are related to her, you are related to me... (email me if you are...tracelara@pm.me)
LIST: (partial, not complete)
Elizabeth Goode (1609- )
Angeline Coburn (Thrall) (1818-1898) *
Deborah Gunn (1640-1693)
Ida Alice Sedgwick (1852- )
Cornelia Clemons (1854-) **
Hannah Clemons, New Hampshire (1820- )
Rebecca Ayers (Thrall) (1788-1845)
Eleanor Knox (1754 - 1835)
Elizabeth Congdon (I'm still searching dates but there are Congdons who are Pequot/Narragansett/Wampanoag)
Matilda C Stephens (1824-1885)
Olive Carter (1855-Unknown)
Sarah A. Sparks might be a victim of the TVA looting graves
I love each and every one of them...
* MY MOTHER'S SIDE👇
Angeline Coburn Thrall
Birth |
New York, USA
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Death | 9 Sep 1898 (aged 79) (she died on my birthday!) |
Burial | Pickett, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, USA |
Her Family Members
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Lorenzo A Thrall
1811–1902
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John Henry Thrall
1845–1923
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Viola Angeline Thrall Young
1857–1936
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MY FATHER's SIDE
Back in 2009, I worked with Paul Burke to find out about my birthfather's grandmother who my family called Granny. Granny is actually Mary Francis Morris - but her own mother died in childbirth - so Mary was raised by her kin Susan E and Willis Watson, from Indiana. Susan is an enrolled Cherokee from Tennessee, same location as my great-grandparents Henderson and Olly Carter. Susan E Watson is Susan Ward, enrolled Cherokee from TN, with a parent from North Carolina. Susan Watson died in Decatur, Illinois, not far from Pana, IL where my father Earl was raised. Susan signed the marriage license in 1892 for my great-grandparents, as Mary's mother.
I was told this by my relatives that Mary 👆smoked a corncob pipe! And she was a mid-wife. She always wore braids - like me - and she kept Indian-head nickles to give to her grandkids. Inside her shirt, she kept a medicine pouch.
James and Mary had 5 kids: Bessie, Earl, Lilly, Loanie and Thomas. Lona Dell (Loanie) was my grandmother.
Below are my grandparents: Hiram Bland and his wife Lona Dell.
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my dad's headstone, I visited again in 2022 |
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