Welcome To Pilgrims and Pioneers!

After many years of researching my family geneaology I have been lucky enough to discover actual information about my relatives that lived in the Pilgrim Era and the Pioneer Era- while many people also have realtives from those eras- many do not know their names or where they lived- actually seeing the proof in print makes you much more aware of who they really were.
After discovering these relatives it of course made me curious to learn more about the eras that they lived in and what their lives were like as, the history I learned in grade school had long since been forgotten.
I decided to start this blog for others who are also interested in these eras.
Some of the information here will be actual facts about my realtives and some will be information about the eras in general that I have found on the web.
I hope you will enjoy traveling back in time with me!

Monday, August 27, 2012

I am thrilled!!


My 3rd great grandmother and her descendents has been the subject of many hours of research many times coming up empty handed- but last night I found this treasure. Cora Aber was my ggg grandmother Anna Dickerson Jones Aber Underhill's grand daughter- she married a half blood Chickasaw Indian named Henry McLish. This is a photo of their son Glenn. He was born in 1902 so I am guessing that this was around 1910. Photo from the archives of the Oklahoma Historical Society.

Thursday, August 16, 2012

The Woes of Tracking Kate Appleby Lane


Kate Appleby Lane was the wife of my first cousin 3x's removed Charles Otto Lane. She was born In Texas in 1885. Charles died in 1921 at the age of 36. I wondered what had happened to his wife and children after that. They had four children together - one died at the age of two.
When I found Kate on Ancestry the only other thing I could find after Charles died was her death as Kate Long in Californis in 1974.
I resorted to using Google. I found a personal website that said she had three husbands- Long- Sims- Lane. I mistakenly thought that was the order of her marriages but was stumped as to why she would have taken the name of Long back before she died.
I also learned that she had a daughter by the last name of Sims. I searched Ancestry again to no avail.
I then turned to Family Search. org and at last figured out the rest of her life. Charles Lane ended up being her first husband, Sims her second husband with whom she had a daughter. The marriage does not seem to have lasted long and there are no clues as to why it ended.
She then married a man by the last name of Long and had a son. At sometime they moved from Oklahoma to California. I am glad to have unraveled the nystery of this pioneer woman that led a very full life.

Prairie Wild Morning Glory

Prairie  Wild Morning Glory

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Prairie Phlox

Prairie Sundrops

Prairie Sundrops

The Famous Rock!

The Famous Rock!
Plymouth Rock dated 1620

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