Saturday, November 26, 2011

Surname Saturday : Maternal Line Recap

This post is a recap of Surname Saturday posts of my maternal lines.  Taking a six-generation view of my pedigree chart, these are the families that would be in my maternal line:



  • WRIGHT Madison County, IN>Brown County, OH>Pennsylvania>Middlesex Co, MA>SCT
  • HEATON Brown County, OH>Loudon County, VA>Massachusetts
  • KING Madison County, IN>Ohio>North Carolina
  • SHAW Madison County, IN>Pennsylvania
  • PIERCE Madison County, IN>Wayne County, IN>Vermont>Worchester County, MA>Middlesex County, MA>ENG
  • GROENENDYKE Fayette County, IN>Middlesex County, NJ>New Amsterdam
  • PENISTEN Madison County, IN>Pike County, OH>New Jersey
  • ALDERMAN Madison County, IN>August County, VA
  • LAMBERTSON Madison County, IN>Hamilton County, IN>Preble County, OH>Butler County, OH>Warren County, NJ
  • COOK Butler County, OH
  • BEALS Hamilton County, IN>Clinton County, OH>Jefferson County, TN>Guilford County, NC>Chester County, PA>ENG
  • POE Morgan County, IN>Chatham County, NC
  • (unknown)
  • (unknown)
  • DAVIS Owen County, IN>Monroe County, IN
  • SWAFFORD Monroe County, IN>Mississippi>Greenville County, SC>IRE



Surname Saturday – create a post in which you discuss a surname and mention its origins, its geographical location(s) and how it fits into your genealogy research. Surname Saturday is an ongoing series atGeneaBloggers.

Friday, November 25, 2011

Candidate for Township Advisory Board

Anderson Herald, Anderson, Indiana, October 27, 1954, page 13

Virgil WRIGHT, my maternal great-grandfather, was a candidate for the general election in 1954 for the job of Monroe Township, Madison County, Indiana Advisory Board.



Thursday, November 24, 2011

FindAGrave Success: Elvin Cooper LeMaster (1912-2000)

Thanks to a FindAGrave contributor, I know have a photograph of the tombstone of my paternal great-uncle, Elvin Cooper LeMaster (1912-2000) from the Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens in Columbus, Ohio.  His obituary from the Portland Commercial-Review was previously posted here.


Elvin was the youngest of the children of Luman Cooper and Barbara Isabel (WEHRLY) LeMASTER, born July 9, 1912 in Jay County, Indiana.  He married Cleo Belle HANKS in 1933 and they had 4 children.