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THE ELUSIVE ANCESTOR
BY MERRELL KENWORTHY
I WENT SEARCHING FOR AN ANCESTOR, I CANNOT FIND HIM STILL
HE MOVED AROUND FROM PLACE TO PLACE AND DID NOT LEAVE A WILL
HE MARRIED WHERE A COURTHOUSE BURNED. HE MENDED ALL HIS FENCES.
AND AVOIDED ANY MAN WHO CAME TO TAKE THE US CENSUS
HE ALWAYS KEPT HIS LUGGAGE PACKED, THIS MAN WHO HAD NO FAME
AND EVERY 20 YEARS OR SO, THIS RASCAL CHANGED HIS NAME
HIS PARENTS CAME FROM EUROPE. THEY SHOULD BE ON A LIST
OF PASSENGERS TO THE USA, BUT SOMEHOW THEY GOT MISSED
AND NO ONE ELSE IN THIS WHOLE WORLD IS SEARCHING FOR THIS MAN.
SO, I PLAY GENEASOLITAIRE TO FIND HIM IF I CAN.
I'M TOLD HE'S BURIED IN A PLOT, WITH TOMBSTONES HE WAS BLESSED;
BUT WEATHER TOOK ENGRAVING, AND SOME VANDALS TOOK THE REST.
HE DIED BEFORE THE COUNTY CLERK DECIDED TO KEEP RECORDS.
NO FAMILY BIBLE HAS EMERGED, IN SPITE OF ALL MY EFFORTS,
TO TOP IF OFF, THIS ANCESTOR, WHO CAUSED ME MANY GROANS,
JUST TO GIVE ME ONE MORE PAIN BETHROTHED A GIRL NAMED JONES
DENIS DOHERTY B 1814 MARRIED UNKNOWN
PHILIP DOHERTY B 1836 MARRIED ROSE DEMMCEY B 1837 MARRIED 6/17/1861 IN COLERAINE DERRY IRELAND. FOUND PHILIP AND ROSE DOCHERTY LIVING AT 27 HOPETON ST INVERKIP RENFREWSHIRE SCOTLAND IN 1881 ON CENSUS. IT IS BELIEVED THAT PHILIP AND ROSE HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN
DANIEL, BRIDGET, JAMES PHILIP OR PHILIP JAMES OR POSSIBLY BOTH AND NEIL JOSEPH MY GRANDFATHER.
NEIL JOSEPH CAME TO AMERICA IT IS BELIEVED IN 1882, ABOARD THE SSDEVONIA, WHICH TO DATE I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO DOCUMENT.
IT IS BELIEVED HE CAME WITH BROTHER JAMES AND POSSIBLY HIS FATHER PHILIP, IT IS BELIEVED JAMES AND PHILIP RETURNED TO SCOTLAND
NEIL JOSEPH DOUGHERTY WORKED A WHILE IN NUTLEY NEW JERSEY BEFORE MOVING TO CHICAGO ILLINOIS, IT IS BELIEVED HE WENT TO CHICAGO BECAUSE OF THE WORLD FAIR AND THE STONE MASON EXHIBIT THERE. WHILE IN CHICAGO HE MET AND MARRIED A NURSE LILLIAN MAE JONES (MY GRANDMOTHER)
Rose M Dougherty b 1/5/1893 , d 1893, 2074 Wentworth Ave., Chicago, Cook Cty Illinois
George Phillip Dougherty b 3/9/1894 Chicago, Cook Cty, Illinois, d 6/1974 Scranton Pa
Ethel Mae Dougherty b 2/10/1896 Lansing Michigan, d 2/7/1985 Scranton, Pa
Neil Joseph Dougherty II b 2/24/1898 L'Anse Michigan ,d 7/30/1989 Linden New Jersey
Maude Harriet Dougherty b 10/25/1899 L'Anse Michigan, d 6/8/1990 Taylor Pa
William Houghton Dougherty b 9/15/1902 L'Anse Michigan, d 5/16/1976 Clark, New Jersey
Walter James Dougherty b 7/22/1903 L'Anse Michigan, d 5/13/1993 Edison, New Jersey
Russell Ellsworth Dougherty b 8/18/1905 L'Anse, Michigan, d 9/4/1991 Bethlehem, Pa
Charles Gilbert Dougherty b 12/15/1907 L'Anse Michigan, d 9/6/1974 Reading Pa
Emery Franklin Ernest Dougherty b 3/15/1910 L'Anse Michigan, d 10/7/1988 Scranton Pa
Robert Dougherty B 1917 Scranton Pa, d 1917 Scranton, Pa
Millard Filmore Dougherty b Private Scranton, Pa
Thank you Keith Stanley for the beautiful pictures
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