Hacienda Circle: Tombstone Tuesday -- my grandmother's grandmother

15 February 2010

Tombstone Tuesday -- my grandmother's grandmother

Walnut Hill cemetery, Hamilton Township, Franklin Co., Ohio
Elizabeth Jane (Rathmell) Rees, born 11 Sept 1829 near Groveport, Franklin Co., Ohio, the daughter of Thomas Rathmell and Mary Smith. She married Benjamin Leonard Rees on 14 April 1853 in Franklin Co.
They had three daughters--one, Ida May Rees married Charles Eber Arnold -- my grandmother Grace (Arnold) Cresap's parents. So...Elizabeth was my grandmother Pi's grandmother. Elizabeth died at age 30 leaving three small girls who were eventually raised by a loved stepmother, Sarah (Glick) Rees, who had six children with Benjamin L. Rees. Below is a picture of Ida May Rees with three of her half sibs.

front left, Ida May Rees (Pi's mother-b. 24 May 1855)); right, Florence (unknown); rear left are three of Ida May's half sisters, Alice, Grace, and Edith Rees; Ohio -- tintype -- c.?

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Note to Gilberts

All the ancestors posted on this blog belong to us all. Hacienda Circle lives. It is a place of our present with Jack & Roxanne there now, and it is a window into our past.

We are true American mutts -- a mixture from England, France, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, and Germany.

Our DNA will, no doubt, reveal more counties of origin. I'll be adding information about this as I gather and understand it. but we already have two 37 marker matches (one with a Frank M. Cresap -- no surprise there!).

1. Thank you, Jack, for doing our Gilbert DNA.

2. Thank you, Karen (Cresap) Bach, for having your late father, Andrew Bruce Cresap, Jr., do our Cresap DNA.

3. Thank you, Maurice Walton, for doing our Walton DNA (via Granwilla's maternal grandfather, James Walton's line).

4. I did our mitochondrial DNA back through Mom, Pi, and our direct female line back. This line is also included in a family finder project at https://www.familytreedna.com/. This works by comparing our autosomal DNA to that of other people who have taken the test through FamilyTree. Our relationship with a match is calculated based on sharing linked segments of DNA. Although any two people from the same population may have some of their DNA in common, as a matching segment of DNA becomes longer and we share more segments, it becomes more likely that the sharing is due to a recent common ancestor than a chance match. Thus far we have five people who we are probably 4th cousins with, but we haven't figured out the exact connection.

Happy ancestoring!