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My mother's mother's parents were Sarah Louise "Lucy" Trousdale & William Herbert "Bert" Goddard who both came to New Mexico Territory as children. He was the oldest child of a daring group of Mormon Pioneers and among of the youngest to descend the infamous Hole-in-the-Rock trek in Utah. She was born to a Cumberland Presbyterian family that migrated from East Coast colonies to Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, and Missouri, before becoming successful landowners in Ellis County, Texas. They included ministers and slaveholding farmers. Before settling out west, their roots trace back to Scotland and Ireland as well as to the Dutch founders of New York City.
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My mother's father's parents were Josephine Le Roy & Charles Windberg, Sr. Both of them used the Americanized versions of their names. Josephine was born in the parish of Santa Rosalia, within Camargo, Chihuahua, in Mexico and was baptized as Maria de la Concepcion Gabaldón Le Roy. Charles was born in the town of Magdeburg, in Gommern, Germany and was baptized as Christian Heinrich Carl Windberg. Her children told us that the Le Roy (Reyes) family came from the Alsace-Lorraine region of Germany and France. There's more to discover in German Lutheran & Mexican Catholic church records.
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My father's mother's parents were Lucy Carter Brewer and Jesse Lane Delony who were both born in the southwest corner of Arkansas. They both have deep origins in early Virginia. The Brewer branch came by way of Georgia and the Delony branch through Mississippi and Alabama. As a descendant of several profit-building slaveholders, I have numerous African American cousins with whom I share DNA. I hope these cousins will reach out directly as I am willing to look honestly at these offending late grandfathers as well as my white supremacist grandmothers who continued the falsehoods of the Lost Cause narrative.
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My father's father's parents were Fannie Jane Taaffe and Thomas Edward "Ed" Cannon who were both born in Southern Arkansas. Her Taaffe and Lemons ancestors immigrated from Ireland. Among the Arkansas farmers who gained freedom from oppressive landowners back home, many became comfortable slaveholders. Ed and Fannie Jane had many ancestors from pre-war colonial North Carolina and Virginia. Reverend Ellis Cannon who settled with siblings in Spartanburg, South Carolina was one of the few who chose to give up holding slaves. Among the Cannons there is a famous story of Nahum who married his first cousin Cynthia Wyatt. DNA evidence is helping connect her to Vincent Wyatt, Sr.
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Meet the Greats!
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These buttons link to detailed family trees branching from each of my eight grandparents. Below are some known surnames in each branch.
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• Cowsert • Cunningham • Ferguson • Gregg • Lakin • Patton • Pearce • Robinson • White (and more)
Anderson • Barber • Best• Egbert • Gossard • Hahn • Kendrick • Little • Loving • Patrick • Pettibone • Pace • Schmitt • Strickland • Taylor (and more)
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• Reyes • Gabaldón
• Cabezuela • Navarette • Cordeas in Mexico • Boudu in Alsace Lorraine • Schmidt • Meyer • Leuthold
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