Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- How Many Degrees of Separation

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:

1)  Find an ancestral line that stretches back to the time of the US Revolutionary War (1775-1783), about 240 years. Define your person-to-person connection (the person actually met the next person on the list) back to a historical figure from that time (doesn't have to be famous).

2) Tell us about it on your blog, in a note or comment on Facebook, or in a comment on this post.

My mother’s side of the family are the only ones who were here at the time of the American Revolution. Let’s follow up the Lancaster line from my grandmother, Pansy Louise Lancaster Johnston (Mam-ma).

She was born in 1913, and so would have known her great-grandfather, George Wilson Lancaster, who lived died in the same community in which she lived in 1919.  Pansy > George Warren > William Carl > George Wilson.

George Wilson Lancaster was born in 1839 in Missouri, so would have only known his father, Ellis Wilson Lancaster. His grandfather, Robert Lancaster died in 1840, but in Kentucky. George Wilson Lancaster > Ellis Wilson Lancaster

Ellis Lancaster was born in 1808 in Virginia and would have known his father, Robert, and possibly his grandfather, Nathaniel, who died in 1808 (as much as an infant would know their grandparent). Ellis > Robert > Nathaniel

Robert Lancaster was born 1784 and would have known his father, Nathaniel Lancaster, who did live in Virginia during the American Revolution. Robert > Nathaniel

I wonder if he had anything to do with the American Revolution and could I enter DAR using his service?  Something to check out!

Copyright © 2018 by Lisa Suzanne Gorrell, Mam-ma's Southern Family

Comments

  1. So it sounds like five degrees of separation, starting with you, to get back to the American Revolution? Did I count that right?

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