52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 48: Second To Last: Reginold F. Lancaster
I am working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow . I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails Into the Past . I’m looking forward to writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. This week’s challenge is to write about something that was second to last. I thought I’d pick someone from a large family that I haven’t written about before. Reginold F. “Reggie” Lancaster was the next to the last child of George Wilson Lancaster and Martha Jane Polly. He was born 21 Jul 1887 in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona Territory. [1] He had one younger brother, Jesse, and four older siblings, William Carl, Lonnie O, Margaret Rose, and George Eldon. [2] When he was five years old, his parents divorced. [3] His father had been gone a year, having moved back to Texas. A year later, his mother married Noah F. Parks, who had been working on the ranch. [4] Later, two...
