Cathy
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I am kin to the Sivils, Stewarts , Nelsons, Penningtons, Ellis' & others out of south & south east MS on my father's side. We also, through the Stewarts (we're unrelated double Stewarts) have Choctaw ancestors.And one Stewart line descends from the sister of Daniel Boone & her 1st husband, John Stewart - Daniel's closest friend & hunting partner.
On mom's it would be the Woges, Travers & Degnans from Cincinnati, Dayton, Covington, KY & Mobile (Circa CW period. Either before, during or just after.) 'Woge' is German for 'wave', as in a body of water. Due to deep hostilities towards Germany during WWI, many US Germans changed either their names or their ethnicity - my family woke up one day 'decided' they were Dutch. Then, of course, WWII didn't do a thing to convince them to reconsider what they had done so it wasn't until I was well I to my 50s that Mom finally whispered - as though the FBI were listen in - the truth to me. And funny, my sister refuses to believe me.
I am kin to the Sivils, Stewarts , Nelsons, Penningtons, Ellis' & others out of south & south east MS on my father's side. We also, through the Stewarts (we're unrelated double Stewarts) have Choctaw ancestors.And one Stewart line descends from the sister of Daniel Boone & her 1st husband, John Stewart - Daniel's closest friend & hunting partner.
On mom's it would be the Woges, Travers & Degnans from Cincinnati, Dayton, Covington, KY & Mobile (Circa CW period. Either before, during or just after.) 'Woge' is German for 'wave', as in a body of water. Due to deep hostilities towards Germany during WWI, many US Germans changed either their names or their ethnicity - my family woke up one day 'decided' they were Dutch. Then, of course, WWII didn't do a thing to convince them to reconsider what they had done so it wasn't until I was well I to my 50s that Mom finally whispered - as though the FBI were listen in - the truth to me. And funny, my sister refuses to believe me.
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