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Where did I come from?

AlabamaJack

AlabamaJack

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I have been interested in my ancestors for quite some time now and it seems the older I get, the more interested I get...

This thread is probably more applicable for the people in the US but anyone that has stories of their ancestors are welcome to post....

I was born Rocky Creek, Mississippi...an old farming community about 30 miles northwest of Mobile, Alabama. A couple of weeks ago I made a trip back to the old homeplace and visited the cemetary where my father is buried and where I will eventually be buried...

I will be in good company IMO...my great great great grandfather was Charles Pickney Eubanks (1802-1878). He had 14 children: 9 boys and 5 girls. One of the boys died at age 14 in 1855 before the civil war. Two were ages 9 and 11 when the civil war started. My great great grandfather and 5 of his brothers fought in the "War of Northern Aggression". They served in the Alabama Light Artillery and the Alabama Infantry. 3 were taken prisoner of war after the fall of Vicksburg but all came home safely.

It's story time...anyone have any civil war stories to share
 
No real stories AJ but I have been doing genealogy for about 11 years off and on. I have a fairly big tree on Ancestry.com
 
Pop Leslie's dad was Percy, thus the Scot name. My other 3 grandparents were Hungarian's. My great grandmother on my mother's side was named Timar and came over from Budapest in the 1920's I believe. Mom's dad's name was Greer and came from Tennessee but was Hungarian also. Trail gets blurry before that.

Hopefully noone will waste time or money burying me and keeping a plot. Cremate me and dust me off in the Gulf of Mexico. I'd like to sleep wit 'da fishes.
 
My fathers side comes from the Ellis's of New York. The earliest I have been able to trace is Samuel Ellis, born in Rhode Island in 1775. My Great Grandfather, Dewitt Clinton Ellis, 1842-1927, was a baptist minister. He started a family in Page Iowa, but for some unknown reason he left and traveled west in a covered wagon over the Oregon Trail, following the Snake River. Some of the details are murky, he may have set some churches up during his travels, but I have no proof of this. He did settle down in Seattle and Port Townsend Wa. where he married Lottie Bell Walters Munroe, 1873-1952. (he kinda robbed the cradle, eh?) In Port Townsend Dewitt established The First Baptist Church, that still holds services today. My Grandfather and namesake, Walter Clinton Ellis, 1904-1967, worked for the naval detachment of The US Army Corps of Engineers. In 1938-1942 he was the captain of the Naval Dredge USS Hellgate. Stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, he dredged around the coral reefs of Midway Island before the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941. On that day he was laid up at the Naval Hospital at Pearl with a broken leg. My dad, 13 years old at the time, lived in Honolulu and remembers that day very clearly. Him and his sister were waiting for the Sunday school bus when a man in a car pulled up and told them to get back home. The Island was under attack by planes and there were things getting blown up down at the harbor. The house he lived in was in the south west side of the city, near Diamond Head. They could see all the black smoke rising from the Northwest where Pearl Harbor was located. Later that morning, a Japanese bomber flew over his neighborhood, dropping a bomb in the street 1/4 mile down the road. Shortly after the attack, my Grandmother took my dad and sister back to Seattle to live with my Great Grandmother Lottie Bell, until my Grandfather could get a house built in West Seattle. In 1957, my Grandfather moved to Lapush Wa, where he ran a fishing charter called The Pied Piper and built a resort called The Ellis's Resort. After his untimely death due to a life long smoking habit in 1967, it was sold and renamed 3-Rivers Resort, and is still operating today with cabins, a R-V area and campground, a store and restaurant. The Link to resort web page

My Mothers side is a even longer, more convoluted story, we won't go there............. :lol:
 
I want to be taxidermied....and either put on permanent display in the livingroom, or brought out of the closet for family holiday dinners.
 
Being adopted, I had to do a "reverse engineering genealogy" to find my birth family and find my ethnic identity. I am Native American and Russian Jewish. Maybe one day I'll make some frybread with matzoh meal. :lol:
 
Well I can trace a lot back to the 1500's but one of the more memorable ancestor's was Guillaume Hubert. While he was from Tours, France he was a planter in St. Domange aka Haiti. During the slave rebellions of the early 1800's his faithful servant Lupalu and others hid him in a cave until he could escape. They all went with him to New Orleans. His wife, whom he sent back to France on his ships, were overcome by the British, but the captain allowed her to keep all her possessions since he found masonic papers belonging to Guillaume. He did take the ship and everything else though.

Guillaume was one of the founders of the 1st masonic lodge in New Orleans, was its secretary and one of its members was Dominique Yeux, Jean Lafitte's 2nd in command.

The British burned his second plantation down during the Battle of New Orleans. After that, he opened a green house on St. Charles Ave.

When his oldest son came to New Orleans he was taken aback by Lupalu, for he'd never seen a black man before. Guillaume told him to give Lupala the same respect he gave him as he had 3x's saved his life.
 
as far back as I have traced my ancestry...somewhere between 1630 and 1635 on my mothers side (eubanks) to Vigrinia and to England then it gets pretty fuzzy...on my fathers side I can trace back to plymouth colony when my gggggggggg however many grandfather Rev. Thomas Walley came to the colony and was head of the church there in 1663....
 
i had ancestors who signed the declaration of independence but i dont seem to be rich or famouse like george bush who also had ancestors who did so :(
 
Wow, so glad I am not the only one chasing the puzzles of genealogy. On mother's side Neil Murray came from New Herbrides in 1785 when my gggggrandfather was an infant. They settled by what is now Argyle, NY. John grew up, married a Scotish woman, Amy Naper, from NH. John taught school in Ashtabula, OH where the Naper brothers made ships to sail the Great Lakes. One of those was the Telegraph. Naper/Murray families went to found Naperville, IL in 1831. Add to this mix James Penrose Johnson from PA who married John Murray's daughter, Cordelia after he built the Murray house at Naperville. ( Finally have found JP's siblings, parents and grandparents just last month) JP left his 5 yr old son in 1850( his wife had died along with an infant) with the Murray grandparents. JP died in CA. His son Byron eventually made his way to Woodbury county, IA. His first wife died leaving 4 children. Byron married Paulina Ross in 1876. The Ross clan came to IA from PA thru IL. Way too many Ross details..Rebecca married 3 times, always named John, lost several children to diptheria, one girl on the day she was supposed to get married. Husband and son both in Civil War, hubby died of consumption in Lostant, IL a few months before their youngest son was born. Her older sons checked out Woodbury county IA, went back a year later to get mom and rest of family. That woman went thru a lot, would have loved to meet her. Paulina Ross was my gggrandmother. Byron and Paulina had 6 kids so Byron fathered 10 in all. I know a lot on my mom's side so far. Combination of Irish, Scotch, German, Pennsylvania Dutch. In my generation we add Mexican as my birth dad was born in El Paso, TX. Baptism certificate was in Mexico but I can't remember the town, only seen it once. Town started with a Chirhua? I did not meet him until I was 24 and he has since passed away so it's more difficult to track down the info I need. His mother's maiden name was Loera and his father's name was Pareja. Most of the families of those names on ancestry are looking for relatives in other countries. No big money in the tree except Robert Murray who was a judge in IL and knew Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln. As one Naper kin put it in her comments, one of the brothers sold all the silver and wasted the money!!! Genealogy is a constant hunt. You never know when some odd fact will lead you to something useful. It may take years but the result is so worth it. Believe me our ancestors had some awesome adventures and MOVED a lot in some cases, not so different from our times.
 
Guerilla Chef said:
Being adopted, I had to do a "reverse engineering genealogy" to find my birth family and find my ethnic identity. I am Native American and Russian Jewish. Maybe one day I'll make some frybread with matzoh meal. :lol:
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Your not alone GC -
I have only recently became curious of my lineage. I have spent years loathing and self pitty and have more or less come to terms of my adoption. In CT the adoption records are sealed up to the year '69 I was born in '68. I would need to start a whole process including a private investigator just to find out if bio's would even want to see me and one could block the other.

My adoption parents are great people, but I always felt that I am missing something.

My bio father is/was German my bio mother is/was French and Austrian. I know she was one of the oldest of 11 in a town that I live near to and often get asked if I forgot something at stores. :beer:

I would love to know more about my ancestry, maybe it would lend some insight to who the hell I am.
 
That is one of the sad parts of adoptions, so many prevented from, knowing who their parents were by stupid laws that lock information away. I hope you find what you are seeking. The reverse search I am not too familiar with but sounds awesome!!
 
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