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Voted : Somebody was in the Revolutionary War
The hubby's mother traced theirs back to the Revolutionary war. Before that, the farthest she could trace it back was France around the 1600s or before.
Mine has been traced back to the late 1780s. He was a hunter and trapper who fought in the War of 1812, then moved south and lived in Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisianna, and eventually Texas while it was still part of Mexico. He later died at the Alamo while fighting there under Bowie's command until Bowie took ill. His sons and grandsons fought at San Jacinto and then the Civil War. There's also a famous outlaw on that side of the family.
My mother can trace her's back to before the Civil War. Later, her grandfather was a moonshine runner during prohibition. There's a few outlaws on that side of the family too that spung up after the Civil War.
Voted : And I know something about a great grandparent or two
The farthest back I've bothered to go is my paternal great-grandfather and maternal great-grandmother, and I know precious little of either. I was querying my paternal grandfather and maternal grandmother on the matter when they both passed away.
Voted : Somebody was in the Revolutionary War
A great grandfather and a great great grandfather in the Civil War (one Union and one Confederate). A couple of other relatives in that war (one was killed in it). One great great grandfather came over from Ireland in the 1850s. One great grandmother was a full blooded Cherokee Indian. We had one ancestor, a man named Samuel Parish, who was a Tory during the Revolutionary War (he took off to the Bahamas after the war and died there). A great uncle died from gas during WW1. Another great uncle died during the Spanish influenza epidemic in 1918. James Fenimore Cooper, the guy who wrote "Last of the Mohicans", is distantly related (can't remember exactly, but I think his grandfather was my 6 or 7 greats grandfather's brother). Grumpy_Person, your mother's grandfather might have known one of my uncles. My uncle Luke made moonshine during prohibition.
Voted : Somebody was in the Civil War
One of them fought in West Virginia during the Civil War, one was an indentured servant from Norway. I don't know much about the rest.
On my fathers side, only Great Grandfather, he has a little bit of every nationality on the planet I do believe, I tried tracing once and got lost in the Bronx, love was in the air with his ancestors, mostly without marriage, which makes it's hard to find too much in public records. On my mother's side, we traced many generations, all but my grandparents and mother stayed in Ireland and they kept good records.
Voted : I can go way way back..!
On my grandmother's side of the family, I have traced my roots back to York, Maine in 1697, when one ancestor was killed by Indians in the "Raid on York" and his wife and children were taken captive and led into Canada.
In my direct line, I have ancestors who fought in the American Revolution, and I've been able to acquire the discharge papers for the ancestor who fought in the War of 1812. This same ancestor moved his family from Vermont to New York during the summer of 1816, which was called "The year without a summer" because of the cold weather and snow they had that summer. The crops failed and prices for food and such skyrocketed.
Grumpy_Person, your mother's grandfather might have known one of my uncles. My uncle Luke made moonshine during prohibition.
by Lemmingstraggler
They could have known each other. Many of them knew each other and kept in touch as a means of sharing the best routes and hideouts for their business. Back then, many of them had to work together to survive and make money. My mother's grandfather even had the opportunity to meet up with Bonnie and Clyde when they passed theri his area during one of his runs. They were stuck in the mud and he helped pull them out. They gave him a sawed-off shotgun in return. Thinking that was more than plenty for pulling them out of the mudd, he gave them a jug of moonshine in exchange.
RWS, we think that's one of the reason why my ancestor came south after the 1812 war. As I said, he was a hunter and trapper, which pretty much assured that he didn't have to depend on the outside world and their markets for survival. He'd settle in an area and when it became too populated for his tastes, he'd move on to another place. We've yet to find out who is wife was though. She could have died on the trail for all we know. At times, birth and death records were hard to come by in certain places during those times. When someone died on the trail, many times they just stopped and buried them on the side of the road.
Voted : And I know something about a great grandparent or two
My great grandfather on my father's side. That is the farthest back I know. Dad told me my great grandfather stood 6'6" and had red hair, just like my Dad and his father. My great grandfather built railroads.
My great grandmother was a landowner and her daughter, my grandmother, was a dressmaker to royalty. She made exquisite ballgowns possibly for coronations or other state functions, but I'm not sure. Dad said she would lay the fabric out, look at the person, and cut the fabric without measuring the patron. The gowns were perfect every time.
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