The 52 Ancestors theme for week 48 was “Next to Last” Two of my 3rd great-grandparents on my paternal grandfather’s side, Jasper Green and Angelina Frazier had eleven children together before Angelina died sometime between 1852 and 1860. Their 10th – next to last – child was Sarah Ann Green, called Sadie or Sadie Ann….
One month ago I wrote about the Rev. Solomon Gleason Barber who raised my 2nd Great-Grandfather, his nephew, as his own son. Since this week’s 52 Ancestors theme is about farming, this post belongs to the younger Solomon. Many of my American ancestors either farmed as a profession or lived on small family farms while…
The week’s theme is “Non-Population Schedules.” My 2nd great-grandfather, Solomon Gleason Barber is supposed to have been born in 1843 in Vermont to Timothy and Ann (nee Benson) Barber. I have yet to find any supporting documentation for his or any of his sibling’s birthplaces and dates other than a Barber genealogy written in 1913…
I’m still catching up from my move, so this and the next post will be short. The 22nd theme was “So Far Away.” I thought of an ancestor on my father’s side whose details still need some fleshing out. I wonder where her grave was located; close to family or far away from where her…
