Mam-ma's Southern Family

Randy Seaver's "Saturday Night Genealogy Fun" is always a blast to read and do.  Today's post is about listing your Matrilineal Lines.  This is my mother, my mother's mother, her mother's mother, etc.  When one has their mtDNA tested, this is the line that is tested and whose genes are passed down to me. Me: Lisa Suzanne Hork My mother: Lea Nell Johnston (1934-1992) My grandmother: Pansy Louise Lancaster - Living My great-grandmother: Lela Ann Loveless (1896-1951) My gg-grandmother: Eliza A. Ro(d)gers (1854-1907) I had my grandmother tested and her halpogroup is U5. My mother's father's matrilineal line is: My grandfather: Tom Johnston Jr (1912-1973) His mother: Nell Hutson (1888-1919) His grandmother: Sarah Helena Selman (1858-1916) His great-grandmother: Amanda Deborah Oldham (1822-1880) I have not had this line tested.  My mother had no brothers, so I need to have one of her male cousins do the y-DNA test. My father's mother...

     I could title this post, “On These Days,” and try to post it halfway between the 26 th of September for the anniversary of her death and the 27 th of September for the anniversary of her birth.       Sarah Helena Selman was born on 27 Sep 1858 in Cherokee County, Texas [1] , probably somewhere near Rusk [2] .  Cherokee County is in eastern Texas, two counties away from the Louisiana border.  Her parents were Greenlee Bean Selman and Amanda Deborah Oldham.  She was the youngest of the three children of Greenlee and Amanda.  Both Amanda and Greenlee had previous marriages, resulting in Sarah having four half-siblings.      She married Peter Hayden Hutson in Hood County, Texas on 11 Sep 1879. [3]   They had 8 children, seven girls and one boy.  My great-grandmother, Nell Hutson, was number 4.  Three of her daughters, Lillie Violet, Myrtle, and Winnie Oda, died before reaching adulthood....

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