Just want to share a link to an article I wrote this past
week about my ancestor, Rebecca Elsing Mudge Greensmith, on Yahoo! Voices. Given
the 700 word limit, I wasn't able to go into too much detail about how my 10th
great grandmother suffered while in the custody of her accusers, but I hope to
write a more descriptive account for my forthcoming genealogical memoir. In the
meantime, please read and enjoy:
She was a beautiful, young Irish maid, working in a wealthy English household. Her employer’s oldest son fell in love with her. When he announced intentions to marry her, his parents said they would disown him. He married her anyway. Then, bride and groom ran away to live happily ever after. “Her name was Mary Cordial,” my maternal grandmother Marilyn Matilda Dietz told me, that distinct glimmer of pleasure in her eyes—the one she always had when she retold this story. “And you are her legacy.”
This blog is a resource for those who want to--have to--find out more about who they came from.
This blog is a resource for those who want to--have to--find out more about who they came from.

It is always great when you find more than a name. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the GeneaBloggers family. Hope you find the association fruitful; I sure do. I have found it most stimulating, especially some of the Daily Themes.
ReplyDeleteMay you keep sharing your ancestor stories!
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ReplyDeleteRegards, Jim
Genealogy Blog at Hidden Genealogy Nuggets
Amazing story! Welcome to Geneabloggers.
ReplyDeleteKathryn
http://kathrynsquest.blogspot.com/
It is fascinating, the stories we come across and discover when we delve deeply into the family trees. Pirates, gypsies and highway men are in ours.
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Theresa (Tangled Trees)
It's one thing to know these things happened, but quite another to know it happened to people in your family.
ReplyDeleteI haven't gotten too into genealogy, but one of my great grandfathers was a rum runner and a piano player for Jimmy Durante. Sounds great, except for the ex-wife who was left to raise 3 sons during the depression.
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