64 thoughts on “52 Ancestors Challenge 2015: Week 8 Recap”

1. Donna February 26, 2015 at 8:07 am

   My ancestor JAN POLACEK (1759-1812) for the week had his name on the contract to buy a town (Zelów, Poland) and is one of the “founding fathers”
   https://pastprologue.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/week-8-jan-polacek-1759-1812/

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2. Lynda February 26, 2015 at 8:34 am

   IDA MARIE LICHTISNN 1891-1975
   A nurse during World War I who found love while serving as an Army nurse.

   http://timelinesandstories.blogspot.com/2015/02/52-ancestors-week-8-good-deeds-ida.html

   Thanks Amy for the mention today!

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3. onlyarethusa February 26, 2015 at 8:35 am

   Oxley, McDowell, and Ricketts: DNA and Genealogy; A cousin says we’re not related, DNA says we are.

   http://lemon-knapp.org/wp/?p=757

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4. msgenealogyuk February 26, 2015 at 8:46 am

   Matthew Brawley 1876-1937. A good man

   https://msgenealogyuk.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/matthew-brawley-1877-1937-52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-8/

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5. Elizabeth H. February 26, 2015 at 8:46 am

   HULL, Betsey / Elizabeth (1780-1858), daughter of a Connecticut Loyalist, spent her life in rural Nova Scotia where her father had obtained a land grant. http://frommainetokentucky.blogspot.com/2015/02/elizabeth-betsey-hull-52-ancestors-8.html

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6. Karen February 26, 2015 at 8:50 am

   BIESCHKE, Willi (1922-1942)

   I wouldn’t have known him if my aunt hadn’t mentioned him, but I learned more about him by accident. A tribute to Willi and a big Thank You to two married couples for their good deeds! Thank you for reading:

   http://vorfahrensucher.de/willi/

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7. Amy Kelly February 26, 2015 at 8:57 am

   Capt. John CHAMBERS (1742-1802) – My paternal 6th great-grandfather, Revolutionary War soldier and POW, and the patriot upon which my acceptance into DAR was based. He certainly did a good deed. And, because of him, I experienced the good deeds of others, including the distant kindness of my great-great grandmother and the generosity and helpfulness of two DAR members who were complete strangers. – http://shaketree.blogspot.com/2015/02/captain-john-chambers-52-ancestors-in.html

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8. Brenna G. February 26, 2015 at 9:08 am

   A good deed doesn’t always have a happy ending.

   GOWDY — “Gowdy’s Good Deed” on Green Family Archives

   http://greenfamilyarchives.blogspot.com/2015/02/52-ancestors-2015-8-gowdys-good-deed.html

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9. Beth Gatlin February 26, 2015 at 9:41 am

   RUSSELL – Sobrina Russell
   http://so-many-ancestors.blogspot.com/2015/02/52-ancestors-week-8-good-deeds-sobrina.html

   I found my 4th-great-grandmother through two deeds from 1858 and 1888, and the generosity of the researcher who sent them to me.

   Thanks for mentioning my post, Amy!

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10. Dana Leeds, The Enthusiastic Genealogist February 26, 2015 at 9:54 am

    Adam Close & his wife, Catharine, had to depend on their only son during the last 5 years of Adam’s life as he suffered from consumption or tuberculosis. During the last 3 years of his life, he was confined to his bed. And, his son went off to fight in the Civil War.

    http://theenthusiasticgenealogist.blogspot.com/2015/02/adam-close-dependent-on-only-son-8-of.html

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11. Sue February 26, 2015 at 10:06 am

    Good Deeds…I focused on the good deeds that other genealogists and family members have done for me through-out my searching…

    http://suesresearch.blogspot.com/2015/02/good-deeds-52-ancestors-8.html

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12. kessara February 26, 2015 at 10:24 am

    Trefethen, Henry – The ultimate good deed of duty cost him his life.

    https://kessgen.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/52-ancestors-2015-8-henry-trefethen-warrior/

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13. Karen Ramon February 26, 2015 at 10:27 am

    James T Serviss of Montgomery county New York-http://wp.me/p5z5tj-23

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    1. Karen Ramon February 26, 2015 at 10:29 am

       Oops my link didn’t work, hopefully it will now:

       http://wp.me/p5z5tj-23

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14. Schalene Dagutis February 26, 2015 at 11:05 am

    Rev. David Rice was a Presbyterian minister in Virginia, who was forced out to the state for his anti-slavery views. He became revered by many in Kentucky.

    Rev. David Rice (1733-1816)
    Apostle of Kentucky
    http://tangledrootsandtrees.blogspot.com/2015/02/52-ancestors-8-apostle-of-kentucky.html

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15. Joanne Barnard February 26, 2015 at 11:32 am

    My 8th great grandmother Ellen (or Eleanor) Newton was among the earliest of my ancestors to have land in America.
    http://victoriajosfamilystories.blogspot.ca/2015/02/ellen-newton-plymouth-landowner-1625-52.html

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16. Cheryl Biermann Hartley February 26, 2015 at 12:31 pm

    HEMESATH

    I chose to write about the good deeds of a researcher from Germany who helped me in an extraordinary way with my paternal 3x great-grandmother. This shows how fruitful it can be to use specialized Facebook groups for your research.

    Maria Elisabeth Hemesath – 52 Ancestors 2015 #8
    http://wp.me/p4ioO6-aH

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17. Lesli M February 26, 2015 at 12:47 pm

    I’m on my paternal side of the tree for this week. MOORE, Franklin Wheeler (1852 – 1919), my 2nd great grandfather that moved from Alabama to Lavaca Co, TX to Bexar Co, TX. He’s hiding in the Lavaca County Deeds…I just know it! http://bit.ly/1JNku8r

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18. Jen February 26, 2015 at 12:51 pm

    A newbie to property research, I followed the life of the house built by my 2nd great grandmother’s brother: August Sendzikowski in my entry “The House that August Built” – http://bit.ly/1DuKVtf

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    1. Patti Di Loreto February 26, 2015 at 2:10 pm

       Very interesting blog entry – you’ve inspired me to do some house research on a couple of houses in my family!

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       1. Jen March 3, 2015 at 3:41 pm

          Thank you! Good luck!

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19. Cara Jensen, historical researcher February 26, 2015 at 1:26 pm

    Thanks for the mention and for reading!

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20. Patti Di Loreto February 26, 2015 at 2:07 pm

    BYRD, LONGINO, YOUNG, ELLIOTT (Hopkins Co, TX) For the “Good Deeds” theme on my Pinterest version of “52 Ancestors” – I highlighted my Great Grand Uncle & Aunt, Stephen B. and Mary Edna (YOUNG) LONGINO. When my Great Grandmother, Emma Elizabeth (YOUNG) BYRD passed away from TB in 1907, they took in my paternal grandmother (Edna Earl [BYRD] ELLIOTT), then 9 years old, to help out her grieving father.

    https://www.pinterest.com/pattidi/52-ancestors-on-pinterest/

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    1. Patti February 26, 2015 at 10:09 pm

       P.S. And thank you for the mention Amy!

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21. Claudia Boorman February 26, 2015 at 2:17 pm

    COMPTON, Harry Childeroy – my 4G grandfather was the “proprietor” of a large amount of land in Prince Edward Island in the early 1800s. He also tried to ensure that his Acadian tenants had continued access to their burying ground on his property. But where was that cemetery located exactly?

    http://boormanfamily.weebly.com/blog/harry-childeroy-compton-1759-1839-8-52-ancestors

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22. Dawn February 26, 2015 at 2:46 pm

    Catherine Pillard/Pillat – Filles du Roi ou Amerindienne?

    https://adventuresatdawn.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/catherine-pillardpillatle-plat-filles-du-roi-or-amerindienne-ancestor-8-52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-2015/

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    1. robertajestes March 6, 2015 at 6:45 pm

       You might be interested in this article:)

       http://dna-explained.com/2015/03/05/haplogroup-a4-unpeeled-european-jewish-asian-and-native-american/

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       1. Dawn March 6, 2015 at 10:43 pm

          Thanks.

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23. labwriter February 26, 2015 at 3:18 pm

    Hannah Stone Campbell, my 3x great grandmother, c.1800-c.1870. I’m hoping that land records will be the key to finding out what happened to Hannah.

    https://roordawrite.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/52-ancestors-8-of-52-hannah-stone-campbell-c-1800-c-1870/

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24. K. Eklund February 26, 2015 at 3:30 pm

    George Baxter Everitt, 1803-1874

    https://wilsongenealogy.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/8-george-baxter-everitt/

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25. Kerryn Taylor February 26, 2015 at 3:57 pm

    My subject for week 8 is the good deeds of my late mum, Joan Oster
    http://ancestorchaser.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/52-ancestors-week-8-good-deeds-joan.html

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26. terstriep February 26, 2015 at 4:16 pm

    My subject for Good Deed was an ancestor who gave up a part of her life to raise her siblings.

    terstriep.wordpress.com

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27. Cathy Meder-Dempsey February 26, 2015 at 4:44 pm

    Sunday was National Day of the Resistance (Nationalen Dag vun der Resistenz) in Luxembourg, as a tribute I featured a granddaughter of Nicolas and Maria PEFFER-MERTES in the introduction to this week’s ancestral couple blogpost. What good deeds did she perform?

    52 Ancestors: #8 The PEFFER-MERTES Family (1866-1995) by Cathy Meder-Dempsey at Opening Doors in Brick Walls

    https://openingdoorsinbrickwalls.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/52-ancestors-8-the-peffer-mertes-family-1866-1995/

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28. Janet Barrie February 26, 2015 at 5:29 pm

    George HARGREAVES, one of many, but which?
    http://tinyurl.com/ok8yugj

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29. Jeanne Ruczhak-Eckman February 26, 2015 at 7:08 pm

    One of my goals this year is to learn more about my 5x great grandmother Margaret Still. This week I researched some deeds pertaining to her!

    52 Ancestors: Tracing Margaret Still through her deeds http://www.genealogybyjeanne.blogspot.com/2015/02/52-ancestors-tracing-margaret-still.html

    Jeanne Ruczhak-Eckman
    Genealogical Gems
    http://genealogybyjeanne.blogspot.com

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30. Denise Murphy February 26, 2015 at 7:22 pm

    CHURCH, Jennie F. – no. 24 (week 8). Unfortunately, good deeds didn’t come her way. She probably died alone in an insane asylum, put there by her husband.
    http://denise-livinginthepast.blogspot.com/2015/02/52-ancestors-no-24-week-8-jennie-f.html

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31. Celia Lewis February 26, 2015 at 7:23 pm

    Thomas WHITEHOUSE from Dudley area in Worcester, 1829-1909

    http://twigsandtrees.blogspot.ca/2015/02/52-ancestors-52-themes-no-8-good-deeds.html

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32. Teresa February 26, 2015 at 7:29 pm

    My grandmother, who bought coats for her elementary school students.

    http://genealogy.dreamwidth.org/7430.html

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33. oldbonesgenealogy February 26, 2015 at 7:39 pm

    MEISBERGER – 52 Ancestors 2015 Edition: #8 – Theobald Meisberger (1837 – 1900), Good Deeds or Just Deeds? by Eileen A. Souza at Old Bones Genealogy.

    I’ve written before about my 2nd great-grandfather, Theobald Meisberger but I have not yet written about this aspect of his life. He has the distinction of being my earliest ancestor to own property. Did he do good deeds or did he just own deeds? Well, maybe both.

    http://www.oldbonesgenealogy.com/52-ancestors-2015-edition-8-theobald-meisberger-1837-1900-good-deeds-or-just-deeds/

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34. C*M*F February 26, 2015 at 8:16 pm

    BRODERICK: 52 Ancestors No. 8: Christian Brother: Bernard Broderick joined the Christian Brothers at 13 years of age and served in Africa for twenty years (1954-1974) http://moynahangenealogy.blogspot.ca/2015/02/52-ancestors-no-8-christian-brother.html

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35. patriciarohn February 26, 2015 at 8:38 pm

    WEBER: Jacob Weber (or Weaver) of Lehigh County, PA. How his good deed was rewarded through generations.
    https://patriciarohn.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/week-8-2015-jacob-weber-1792-1840-lehigh-county-pa-how-his-good-deeds-were-rewarded/

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36. Elizabeth Wilson Ballard February 26, 2015 at 9:16 pm

    This is the beginning of a write up of how I used deeds as evidence to confirm the children of my ancestors Coonrod and Barbara (RADABAUGH) COON.

    The Children of Coonrod S. and Barbara (RADABAUGH) COON or How Deeds Made Me Party Like It’s 1999
    https://digginupgraves.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/the-children-of-coonrod-s-and-barbara-radabaugh-coon-or-how-deeds-made-me-party-like-its-1999-52-ancestors-2015-8/

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37. melissawiseheart February 26, 2015 at 10:33 pm

    I wrote about an ancestor who uprooted his family and left his home in Orange County, North Carolina to help his friends, who were freed slaves, get to safety in Indiana.

    LINDLEY, Jonathan
    http://wiseheartjourney.com/2015/02/23/jonathan-lindley-52-ancestors-08/

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38. Wendy Negley February 26, 2015 at 10:46 pm

    I did my ancestor, Carolyn Avery, because she’s one of the few I found a deed for and she led me into several important and even royal lines.

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39. Hollie Ann Henke February 27, 2015 at 12:54 am

    For week 8, I wrote about Charles PHILLIS, a man who could have used a good deed: https://hollieannhenke.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/52-ancestors-8-charles-phillis-three-brothers/

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40. shelley@minkyadoo February 27, 2015 at 1:35 am

    The deed of my Great-Grandfather August C.Bough goes in two headings: He was the holder of deeds and he did great deeds.

    http://shelleyskylinejourney.com/2015/02/26/52-ancestors-8-august-c-bough-born-1866-holder-of-deeds-did-great-deeds/

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41. Maureen February 27, 2015 at 8:36 am

    DEMPSEY, William Howie – Glasgow Scotland. 5 x Military Enlistments + same home for over 40 years
    http://martinewsancestors.blogspot.com/2015/02/52ancestors-week-8-good-deeds.html

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42. pen4hire February 27, 2015 at 10:32 am

    KASER, George

    Interesting to read so many pieces about research using deeds. I am just beginning to look at my older Kaser relatives, and have not got beyond census and church records for 2x great grandfather George…but those scant records tell me about his values–church, culture, family.
    http://ancestorsinaprons.com/2015/02/52-ancestors-8-the-values-of-george-kaser/

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43. Susan February 27, 2015 at 11:52 am

    “What’s Deeds Got To Do With It” —
    https://themixthatmakesupme.wordpress.com/

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44. Anne “Viking Blood” Faulkner February 27, 2015 at 12:31 pm

    This week I wrote a very brief post about one of my toughest brick walls Anna MERRIMAN Busby. There are many people researching her – she is very elusive!

    http://ancestorarchaeology.blogspot.com/2015/02/anna-merriman-busby-whos-your-daddy-52.html

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45. Wanda February 27, 2015 at 3:56 pm

    This week’s ancestor is George Carl Focht, the husband of my great aunt Anna Arnold. I wish I had more detail to offer about him, but he’s another one who didn’t leave much of a paper trail. I hope there are others, probably his direct descendants, who know and celebrate the details of his life.
    https://tidbitsandtreasures2011.wordpress.com/2015/02/27/52-ancestors-8-george-carl-focht/

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46. Melody February 27, 2015 at 5:18 pm

    I’ve written about my grandmother who did good deeds. Though they had very little money of their own, my grandma always fed the homeless who showed up on her doorstep.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/26/scott-walker-cpac_n_6756724.html

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47. Judy Everett Ramos February 28, 2015 at 1:37 am

    EVERITT, John Fagan – Used his position in society to enact good deeds in the name of justice.
    http://www.examiner.com/article/ancestor-8-john-fagan-everitt-remembered-for-his-good-deeds

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48. Jessica Carlson February 28, 2015 at 10:54 am

    CARRICO, Josiah (1803-1871) – http://carlsonandcarricofamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2015/02/52-ancestors-2015-week-8-josiah-carrico.html

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49. putnamsisters March 1, 2015 at 1:35 pm

    PUTNAM, Joseph Fletcher
    This week I deviated from my the subject to do the story on my greatgrandfather that made the trip to California in the late 1850’s from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    https://putnamsisters.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/52-ancestors-joseph-fletcher-putnam-hiked-through-the-jungle/

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50. Nikki March 1, 2015 at 4:32 pm

    Louisa Cooper — I highlighted a cemetery lot deed.
    http://acoupleofwhiles.blogspot.com/2015/03/52-ancestors-in-2015-8-louisa-cooper.html

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51. Plc718 March 1, 2015 at 8:01 pm

    BAILEY, John & the wreck of the Angel Gabriel in the Hurricane of 1635 http://mymaineancestry.blogspot.com/2015/02/stormy-weather-52-ancestors-10.html

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52. robertajestes March 2, 2015 at 4:33 pm

    VANNOY ESTES – Elizabeth Vannoy Estes (1847-1918), Cherokee?

    http://dna-explained.com/2015/02/22/elizabeth-vannoy-estes-1847-1918-cherokee-52-ancestors-60/

    Was she, or wasn’t she?

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53. Chriss March 4, 2015 at 1:16 pm

    Totally forgot to link this.

    SEABORNE, Mabel (1889-1976) — Freemont, Ohio to Greenwich, Connecticut. Photographic Artist.

    http://curatingkin.ca/2015/02/28/Mabel-Seaborne/

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54. Patti March 5, 2015 at 10:49 am

    ANDREWS & The Texas Revolution – Brothers: Richard, Micah & Reddin – My 3rd Great Grand Uncles. Pictures, videos and info relating to the Texas Revolution in general and more specifically, the battles in which Richard and Micah fought. Several of which were “Close to Home.”

    https://www.pinterest.com/pattidi/52-ancestors-on-pinterest/

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    1. Patti March 5, 2015 at 10:56 am

       Oops! Put this on the wrong weekly recap! Sorry! I’ve now put it on the correct one.

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55. Karen Ramon March 5, 2015 at 4:36 pm

    Maria Mott- Hempstead, New York ~1840-1874, my GrGrGrandmother: http://wp.me/p5z5tj-2v

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56. Diane Tourville March 8, 2015 at 5:26 pm

    Here is my post for Week 8 about an elusive person whose life can be captured through a notary act:

    In English: http://www.huboutourvillegenealogy.com/wp/?p=816
    In French: http://www.huboutourvillegenealogy.com/wpfr/?p=607

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57. Desiree Prakash April 10, 2015 at 2:13 pm

    Here is my post about Thomas Edwards, died in a coal mining accident in Utah.
    http://gatheringbranches.blogspot.com/2015/04/52-ancestors-wk-8-thomas-edwards.html

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