52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 32: Sister: Margaret Rose Lancaster
This is my second year 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 have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. My maternal second great-grandaunt, Margaret “Maggie” Rose Lancaster, was the only daughter of George W. Lancaster and Martha Jane Polly. She had two older brothers, William Carl and Lonnie O., and three younger brothers, George Eldon, Reginold F., and Jesse Polly. So she grew up with only brothers until her mother’s second marriage to Noah Flood Parks. She then had two half-sisters, Daisy O. and Rosy A. Parks. Early Life Maggie was born 27 April 1880 in Rockwall County, Texas. [1] Her early life was spent in Texas and then in the late 1880s her father moved the family to Maricopa County, Arizona. [2] However, her father left the family and returned to Texas. Her oldest brother, Carl, went with him. H...