I find it interesting that my
3rd great-grandmother, Lydia (Jewett) Hayes lived nearly at the same
time as my 4th great-grandmother, Nancy (Patton) Milligan who I wrote
about a few days ago. This means we can't always predict how many
generations will be within a certain number of years.
Lydia has also been very
interesting to me because of where she lived. She was born in New
Hampshire to Joseph and Huldah (Fenton) Jewett, married Seth Hayes in Ohio, moved to Indiana, then Iowa, and crossed
the plains to Oregon where she died. Within her 71 years she traveled
from coast to coast without the benefit of airplanes, trains or
automobiles.
In 2015 I used an airplane to get to the
East Coast and then traveled by motorcoach for a tour of New England.
The tour materials told me that we would visit New Hampshire, but
they didn't let me know that we would drive through the "town"
of Lisbon. I was really excited to see the type of geography where my
ancestor had been born. I wrote in my trip journal, "in a
valley, harvested fields, ponds and marshy areas."
posted 21 Feb 2017
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