Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Three Things About an Ancestor

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:

It's Saturday Night again -

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings:

1) What are three things about one of your ancestors that you have learned doing genealogy research?  

Here’s mine:

1) Lela Ann Loveless was born on 2 April 1896 in East Fork Township of Faulkner County, Arkansas as the youngest child of Ebenezer Loveless and Eliza A. Rodgers.

2) She was just eleven years old when her mother died in 1907.

3) She married George Warren Lancaster on 15 December 1912 when she was sixteen years old. Her brother William Hutson Loveless married George’s younger sister, Josephine Hazel Lancaster on 24 November 1915.

Bonus: Their children were double cousins, and my grandmother, Pansy Lancaster, was very close to her double cousin, Dorothy Loveless.

Lela Ann is my maternal great-grandmother.

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Comments

  1. Janice M. SellersJuly 16, 2023 at 1:06 AM

    So young! How old was she when they had their first child?

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  2. Linda StufflebeanJuly 16, 2023 at 11:45 AM

    She was a pretty lady. I love her eyes and her lacy blouse looks beautiful.

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