Hacienda Circle: Tombstone Tuesday -- sometimes a sad repetition

12 April 2010

Tombstone Tuesday -- sometimes a sad repetition

When my grandmother Pi (Grace Arnold Cresap) was almost six, her mother (Ida May Rees Arnold) died. The same thing had happened to Ida May. When she was almost six, her mother (Elizabeth Rathmell Rees) had died, too. Two little girls, sad.

Ida May Rees born 24 May 1855 in Groveport, Franklin co. Ohio died 15 June 1891 in Ohio at the home of her sister. She married Charles Eber Arnold 1 Jan 1879 in Franklin co. They had five children: Eber Thomas (who died at 8 months), Charles Garfield, Elizabeth, Grace "Pi", and Clyde (who was one when he lost his mother).

Elizabeth Jane Rathmell born 11 Sept 1820 near Groveport, Franklin co, Ohio died there on 16 Feb 1860. She married Benjamin Leonard Rees. They had three daughters, Mary, Ida May, and Anna Elmyra.

Elizabeth and Ida May, mother and daughter, are both buried in Walnut Hill cemetery, Hamilton township, Franklin County, Ohio.

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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!