My Great-Grandparents both immigrated to the United States from Hungary. According to immigration records, Martin Hevezi arrived in the U.S. in 1906 at the age of 28. He first settled in The Miner’s Village in Cornwall, Pennsylvania, about 80 miles west of Philadelphia. He worked as an iron mill laborer. At the time, many immigrants…
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The Heavins- Our Scottish Roots and how Indiana became HOME.
The beginning of my family history journey started with this. The Migration of The Heavin Familes. – written by my Great-Grandmother Elizabeth Matthews Gillespie. I had received a copy of what Elizabeth wrote from my cousin Debbie along with some other information that she kept about her family and it sparked a big interest for me to learn…
Charles Gillespie v. The People
On December 20, 1900, the Illinois supreme court upheld the ruling of the Vermilion County Court in the case of Gillespie v. Gibbons. Charles Gillespie (my 3rd great-grandfather) was a contractor in Danville, Illinois and employed Reuben Gibbons, a carpenter. While he was employed, Gibbons joined a legal labor union, Local Union No.269. As soon…
The Branstetters.
My 3rd great grandparents on my maternal grandmother’s side were Elcanah Branstetter and Marena Montgomery. They were married on December 3, 1874 in St. James, Missouri, where they were both born and raised. Together, they had 10 children, Norah, Edna, Dorsey “Doss” , Zaddie (my 2nd great-grandmother), James, Thomas, Mary, Morris, Myrtle, and William. Elcanah…
Genealogy By Definition
ge·ne·al·o·gy ˌjēnēˈäləjē,ˌjēnēˈaləjē noun a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor. “combing through the birth records and genealogies” the study and tracing of lines of descent or development. a plant’s or animal’s line of evolutionary development from earlier forms.
My Story & Theirs 