[Magdalen] Fwd: The Almost Daily eMo From The Geranium Farm

[Jay Weigel]

Most of my ancestors were northerners, BUT my maternal grandmother's family
were Kentuckians and were slaveholders. A few of them fought on the losing
side. That's how it was in border states. S/O's family were southerners and
records I have found thus far show several were drafted into the
Confederate Army, one as a blacksmith. Few were wealthy enough to own many
slaves, but some seem to have had two or three, max.

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My ancestors were solidly South Carolina on both my father's paternal and
> maternal sides (although the paternal side started here in Pennsylvania,
> but had gone south long before the civil war) and Massachusetts on my
> mother's side. You can guess which ones were slaveholders.
>
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> > In a message dated 9/13/2014 12:28:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > cervus51 at gmail.com writes:
> >
> > I have  made the same peace with facts I know about my  ancestry.>>>
> >
> > My great-grandparents on my paternal grandmother's side were from
> > North Carolina and Virginia, so expect some slaveholding may apply.
> >
> > All the rest of the paternal side were northerners, and, of course, in
> the
> > 1860's my maternal side Norwegian ancestors weren't in the Civil War
> > picture at all, with immigration to the USA occurring around 1880.
> >
> > My paternal grandfather fought in the Battle of Vicksburg for the  Union.
> >
> >
> > David Strang.....with ancestral names like Streing, Burgan, Lium,
> > and Wright (repeatedly), etc., etc.
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> Christopher Hart
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