Doris' post on Interesting Maternal Grandmothers.
Jennie Miller Samsel's grandmother, Magdalene Smith Switzer, has an interesting story. Her first child, Abram, is born when she is 14 and almost 6 years before she marries Peter Grant Switzer. This seems correct: on a later census Abram' age calculates to an 1815 birth date and he has a grandfather Abraham Switzer. Children were often named after another family member. His father, Peter Grant Switzer is surely named after his mother Elizabeth Grant. On the 1850 census, Magdalene is the mother of 15 children, she is 49 years old, living with her husband Peter, 8 children plus her married daughter, Elizabeth and husband. We find two daughters that are married to two Miller brothers so that connection is close. Peter Switzer is my 3rd great grandfather; Jacob Miller is my 3rd great grandfather and these two men have children that marry.
Jennie Miller Samsel's grandmother, Magdalene Smith Switzer, has an interesting story. Her first child, Abram, is born when she is 14 and almost 6 years before she marries Peter Grant Switzer. This seems correct: on a later census Abram' age calculates to an 1815 birth date and he has a grandfather Abraham Switzer. Children were often named after another family member. His father, Peter Grant Switzer is surely named after his mother Elizabeth Grant. On the 1850 census, Magdalene is the mother of 15 children, she is 49 years old, living with her husband Peter, 8 children plus her married daughter, Elizabeth and husband. We find two daughters that are married to two Miller brothers so that connection is close. Peter Switzer is my 3rd great grandfather; Jacob Miller is my 3rd great grandfather and these two men have children that marry.
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Interesting, funny responses over at our siblings' text messaging but those comments will soon disappear. That's yoo bad for the following generations. If they were posted here they could hear our lively sibling reactions.
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