{"id":26169,"date":"2024-12-30T17:26:25","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T17:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/?p=26169"},"modified":"2024-12-30T17:26:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T17:26:25","slug":"joyces-trafton-thruline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jmhartley.com\/HBlog\/2024\/12\/30\/joyces-trafton-thruline\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyce’s Trafton ThruLine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joyce is my late father’s cousin. I was looking for possible connections on relatively obscure lines and found one ThruLine that Joyce has:<\/p>\n

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Joyce and nallen are potentially 6th cousins. Joseph Trafton was from Dighton, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

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Joseph Trafton was married to Zipporah Talbot.<\/p>\n

Joyce and nallen<\/h2>\n

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:<\/p>\n

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This gets us back to Trafton.<\/p>\n

Leila’s father appears to be a brick layer in 1860:<\/p>\n

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He was born about 1821 in Virginia. I just need to get from Walter back to Charles G Trafton who is in my tree.<\/p>\n

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I don’t mind borrowing from this source:<\/p>\n

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Findagrave.com has additional information:<\/p>\n

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Here is Camdem, NC:<\/p>\n

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Here is the final link:<\/p>\n

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I connected nallen to my tree:<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

A Small Trafton DNA\/Genealogy Tree<\/h2>\n

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Summary and Conclusions<\/h2>\n