Joyce is my late father’s cousin. I was looking for possible connections on relatively obscure lines and found one ThruLine that Joyce has:
Joyce and nallen are potentially 6th cousins. Joseph Trafton was from Dighton, Massachusetts.
Joseph Trafton was married to Zipporah Talbot.
Joyce and nallen
I will create a floating tree for nallen and hopefully connect it later to my existing tree. nallen’s grandfather’s mother is listed on his death record:
This gets us back to Trafton.
Leila’s father appears to be a brick layer in 1860:
He was born about 1821 in Virginia. I just need to get from Walter back to Charles G Trafton who is in my tree.
I don’t mind borrowing from this source:
Findagrave.com has additional information:
Here is Camdem, NC:
Here is the final link:
I connected nallen to my tree:
Here we see a tale of two Traftons. Rebecca marries Benjamin Luther and remains in the Dighton area. Charles Gardner Trafton moves South to North Carolina.
A Small Trafton DNA/Genealogy Tree
Summary and Conclusions
- I assume that Joseph Trafton and Zipporah Talbot had a small family.
- This Blog was one of my easier ones. My job was to see if nallen and Joyce matched by genealogy as well as by DNA.
- It is not clear why Charles Gardner moved South. Perhaps he was offered land for his service in the military during the Revolution.
- The fact that Charles moved out of Massachusetts early on makes it more likely that this an accurate match between DNA and genealogy.