Ancestors
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The women of my
Family are from left, beginning with my great great grandmother:
Mary Elizabeth Brummage, Mary Elizabeth Deal, Bertha Louise Nugent, Lois
Ione Weintraut, me, and Jennifer Melissa Jones.
My great
grandmother Mary Deal was born in
Shawnee lands near the
Cahokia Mounds in
Illinois.
She married
William J
Nugent on Aug 19, 1878
in Shelby
County, Indiana.
Their nine
children were:
Gertrude
Phoebe
Lilly B.
born July 1879
Ollie E.
born July 1882
Rhoda A.
was born November 24, 1884
and married
Wilson Wright August 2, 1905
*Bertha
Louise born December 5, 1886
and married
William Wright December 8, 1905
and then
many years later, Frank Weintraut
Savilla
Pearl born June 1892
James H.
March 1899
Viola G.
born October, 1894
Edna O.
was born November 15, 1895
and married
William Nave May 1, 1914

My grandmother Bertha
Louise Nugent
Summer of 1962
My grandmother Bertha Nugent Weintraut
about 76 years of age in Spencer, Indiana.
My ancestors
were Brummage,
Deal,
Driscoll,
Hall-Story,
Nugent, Weintraut and Skirvin.
They came
from many states including,
Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia,
and Cork County, Ireland.
Among
these ancestors were Shawnee, Choctaw,
Cherokee
and Wyandot American Natives and my
European ancestry of Irish,
Scottish, Prussian and Norwegian.*
*The ancestry and identity of my father was only recently discovered.
His name was Robert Skirvin and he was descended from Norwegians.*
Summer of 1999
My mother Lois and me on board the Coast Guard Cutter Eagle
in New London, Connecticut.
Finding my
ancestors has been a journey
filled with
wonder and reward. Yet,
the
discovery
of their history and individual stories
has been largely due to several outside
factors.
I owe a
tremendous debt of gratitude to the
extensive
genealogy world that now exists
on the
Internet, the
generosity of my relatives
and the
kindness of a few absolute strangers.

My Uncle Frank Weintraut, Jr.
with my
daughter Jennifer. |

My Aunt Wanda Weintraut Ballinger. |
The three children of my grandparents
Bertha Louise Nugent and Frank Weintraut, Sr.:
Lois, Wanda and Frank, Jr.
September 2012
A recent trip home to
Indiana for a family reunion provided a great opportunity
for a visit to two of the cemeteries where our ancestors are buried.
At the Deal Cemetery in
London, with Fred, Jack, Diane and me.
They are my Wright cousins,
but we all had the same grandmother,
Bertha Louise Nugent, whose
Mother was Mary Elizabeth Deal.
Zeph Deal was Mary's brother.
Next a trip to the other
side of town.
The Wrights in this picture
at the Shelbyville Cemetery are from left:
Jack, Wanda, Diane and
Fred. Walkingfox is not a Wright, he is a Mohegan.~


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