Family Ties

The other day I was talking to Evan about family history. I showed him a picture of my second great grand aunt, Jane Murphy.

She looks Indian.

I think so too! It proves a theory I have about why I have hit a brick wall concerning how to connect her grandmother to the Field family from Virginia that...






Do we have anybody famous in the family?

Well, see here? This older lady, is Laura Onstott...she is my great great grandmother, and her father's brother was Henry Onstott, and he owned a cooper shop in New Salem, Illinois...you know, where Lincoln studied. They were friends...I've told you this. And that is her daughter, Aunt Maude. The chest in the front room was hers, and so is the white pitcher...

Oh! And the Field family, which would be cousins or uncles to Jane Murphy, her grandmother was Jane Field...well Joseph and Ruebin Field went along with Lewis and Clark! Isn't that exciting?




I pause to take a breath and he jumps in

I mean like was anybody on the Titanic?

Uh, no.

Well, did anybody at least travel on any of the White Star Line ships?

Let me get back to you on that.