Saturday, February 9, 2013

One of Those Wonderful Genealogy Moments!

The Genealogical Society of Marion County held its Feb. meeting at the Irvington Library. Our speaker was Bruce Oakley [Oakley-Hammond Funeral Home in Irvinton], who gave a superb and informative talk on funeral home records.

Early in his presentation, Bruce mentioned his early Marion Co. heritage through Lydia Faucett and Wilson McCalment in 1823/4. The Faucetts and McCalments  were pioneers in both Marion and Hendicks Counties. Lydia's parents were John Faucett and Eve Fry of Virginia.

Lydia's older brother, Joseph was MY ancestor. He had married Rebecca N. Hurin/Huron [Mahurin] in Warren Co., OH before the family relocated to central Indiana.

Who'd have thought that the speaker would turn out to be a 4th cousin?!

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