Posted by LT

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	14 Sep 1818 New York, USA
Death	9 Sep 1898 (aged 79) (she died on my birthday!)
Burial	Liberty Prairie Cemetery Pickett, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, USA

Her Family Members

Spouse

Lorenzo A Thrall

1811–1902

Children

John Henry Thrall

1845–1923
Viola Angeline Thrall Young

1857–1936

GRANDFATHER??

Augustus S. Clemons

Born 19 Aug 1790 in New York State

Ancestors

Son of Samuel Pettibone Clemons and [mother unknown]

Brother of Sally Clemons

Husband of Mary Ann (Martin) Clemons — married 21 Apr 1816 in Rome, Oneida, New York, United States

Descendants

Father of Tamar Ann (Clemons) Batchelder, Lovina Samantha (Clemons) Campbell, Cornelia Clemons, Anna Mary Clemons, Chesterfield Clemons, Salleeann (Clemons) Kuhn, Willis Clemons, Patience Jane Clemons, Jackson Cornelius Clemons, Fanny Clemons, Roxanna Rhoda Clemons and Telemachus Clemons

He died 13 Aug 1854 in Sparta, Livingston, New York, United States

1860 Census RANSOM (R) Clemens, Angelo, Monroe, WI 44 abt 1816 NY Male HANNAH (H) Clemens, Angelo, Monroe, WI 40 abt 1820 New Hampshire Female

kids

Lucius Clemens, Angelo, Monroe, WI 8, abt 1852 WI Male Cornelia Clemens, Angelo, Monroe, WI 6, abt 1854 WI Female Harriet Clemens, Angelo, Monroe, WI 3, abt 1857 WI Female

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.

The first time I went to Illinois, I saw Lona's photo and I saw myself - exact same eyebrow shape. I was stunned - I never looked like anyone. As an adoptee, this is HUGE!