I do not think that I have looked at Luther.<\/p>\n
My Luther Genealogy<\/h2>\n
My great-grandmother Annie Snell was the daughter of a Bradford and a Snell. Luther is on the Snell side. Benjamin Luther and Rebecca Trafton were my 5th great-grandparents. They lived in Dighton, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n I’ll start with my own:<\/p>\n ThurLines think that I match up with Lynn via Lynn’s ancestor Polly Luther. Polly is in white which means that she is already in my Tree. However, it seems as Polly may have married a Simmons:<\/p>\n A few of my siblings have the same ThruLine with Lynn.<\/p>\n Because my father’s cousin Joyce is a generation back, she should have more Luther ThruLines and she does:<\/p>\n Joyce even has a ThruLine going back a generation:<\/p>\n I checked on my father’s other 1st cousin Maury’s ThruLines, but he doesn’t show any on the Luther side.<\/p>\n I’ll start on the oldest ThruLine. DVanderzell’s Tree matches the ThruLine conclusions:<\/p>\n The tree above has Susannah and the ThruLine has Sukey which I take to be the same person.<\/p>\n I’ll start a quick tree to check DVanderzell’s Tree. Winston was born in Taunton, MA. From Winston’s birth record, his father was from Dighton, MA:<\/p>\n The family soon moved to Montclair, NJ:<\/p>\n Here is the previous generation in Dighton, MA:<\/p>\n So far, the tree is checking out:<\/p>\n I am now looking for Jonathan Hathaway:<\/p>\n The family was in Dighton in 1850:<\/p>\n From Jonathan’s death record, we see his mother is Susan:<\/p>\n At this point, I may want to attack the question from both ends. By that, I mean from the Jonathan end as well as the Sarah Luther side. I do have that Sarah married in 1773. I could go out on a limb and guess that she may have been born around 1753.<\/p>\n One reference to Susannah had this:<\/p>\n Here is the record for Sukey Talbot:<\/p>\n So there are two Jonathan Hathaways.<\/p>\n The female connections are more difficult due to the name changes. I have this record from Dighton:<\/p>\n That means that all I am missing is a birth record for Susannah or Sukey Talbot. Here is the missing link:<\/p>\n Here Joyce and DVanerzell show as 6th cousins which agrees with the Ancestry ThruLines.<\/p>\n Pat has a good tree, but the line diverges at Polly Sartwell:<\/p>\n Pat has her mother as Martha Goodenough. In addition, in my own tree, I have that Sally Luther married James Spooner. I am tempted to pull the plug on Pat for now.<\/p>\n RW’s tree diverges before Gardner Luther II:<\/p>\n Here are the Dighton records:<\/p>\n I am trying to figure out how to interpret this. It appears that Gardner Luther in my tree married a Nancy Horton in 1803. He then dies in 1825. Then there is a second Gardner Luther in Dighton. He dies in 1809. I am guessing that he is the son of the other Gardner and that this Gardner was born in 1807 and died in 1809. Then there appears to be a question as to whether the first Gardner Luther married a Nancy Horton or a Nancy Kelton.<\/p>\n I am now cutting corners to save time:<\/p>\n This Gardner is interesting because his parents were Gardner and Nancy Luther. He dies in 1875 on November 6, so would be born around 1809. Also this:<\/p>\n All this leads to the possibility that the ThruLine could be right.<\/p>\n I’ll start a quick tree for RW:<\/p>\n RW’s mother’s birth record was amended, so is not yet available. I’ll have to assume that RW knew who his grandparents were. Here is RW’s 15 year old grandfather in 1900 in Swansea:<\/p>\n At this point, I am checking into Elizabeth from the above Census.<\/p>\n Here is a 1907 North Attleborough Marriage record for William giving his mother’s name as Elizabeth Willmarth:<\/p>\n Here is a good hint. In 1880, Elizabeth was listed as the granddaughter of a Luther:<\/p>\n I got this 1906 Swansea marriage from RW’s tree:<\/p>\n I’ll just take it on face value. My tree is following RW’s so far:<\/p>\n Here is Mary’s marriage record:<\/p>\n Turns out Clement was quite a bit older than Mary and this was her second marriage.<\/p>\n Here two Luthers married.<\/p>\n Here is the family in 1850 in Swansea:<\/p>\n This could be Mary’s first marriage:<\/p>\n Here is the family in 1855:<\/p>\n This proves that the marriage between Mary Luther and Josiah Tucker above was correct.<\/p>\n Gardner dies in 1886 in Swansea and gives the names of Gardner and Mary Luther for his parents who are both said to have been born in Swansea:<\/p>\n Now we have come full circle, however, I had Gardner Sr. marrying a Nancy, so the death record could be wrong?<\/p>\n I have shown a connection from this Gardner to the elder Gardner and that the younger Gardner lived in Swansea most of his life.<\/p>\n I gave the chart some color so it wouldn’t just be boring gray. RWU shows as a 5th cousin once removed to Joyce. This is also what the ThruLine suggested, so it checks out. The only thing I didn’t check into was who was the Charlotte Luther who married Gardner Luther?<\/p>\n Now we are back to Lynn:<\/p>\n The maternal side of Lynn’s tree agrees with the ThruLine – going back to our common ancestors:<\/p>\n All I need to do now is to build a parallel tree to Lynn’s to see if it checks out. This tree is starting out in Arkansas. I am having a little trouble finding Leatrice. I would think that she would be easy to find, but sometimes with a different name, the name is miss-spelled. Here is the 1930 Census:<\/p>\n I found this in the hints on the ThruLines. Leatrice is here transcribed as Leatrei. In addition, the last name is transcribed as Tolbert. The father was a school instructor and his family was from Mississippi.<\/p>\n Here is Marcus in 1900 in Mississippi:<\/p>\n Marcus’ father was a farmer (I don’t show but he was on the previous page). His father was from Massachusetts. Bingo.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The transcriber gives the father’s first name as Allen which I can now see. The mother is Telisia or something similar. I have seen that name before.<\/p>\n The Census records help me quickly build a parallel tree for Lynn:<\/p>\n Here is Allen with his family in 1850:<\/p>\n I don’t know much about Mississippi, but Marshall County where they lived is not too far from Memphis:<\/p>\n I am guessing Ephraim moved South before marrying as his wife was from Tennessee.<\/p>\n We are trying to figure out if Ephraim’s mother was Polly Luther. This record from Dighton is helpful:<\/p>\n Next, I just have to figure out if Marcy is the same as Polly. She is:<\/p>\n I assume that I got the name Polly from a genealogy book. It is confusing and I should put her name back to Mary. My understandiing is that Molly is a nickname for Mary which sometimes was changed to Polly.<\/p>\n Here is the new and improved Luther Tree:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2023-12-04-17_17_45-Horizontal-Tree-View-Ancestry.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nLuther ThruLines<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nJoyce’s Luther ThruLines<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nJoyce and DVanderzell<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nSukey Talbot to Sarah Luther<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nA First Luther DNA\/Genealogy Tree<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nJoyce and Pat (Sally Luther Line)<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nJoyce and RWU12 (Gardner Luther)<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nJoyce and Lynn (Polly Luther Line)<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nTalbot to Luther?<\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nLast Tree Update – for Now<\/h2>\n