Saturday, May 26, 2007

Has anyone ever heard of blended families?

As most of you know, I work on Genealogy, from time to time, I've uncovered some interesting stories about blended families in the Kersey ancestry. This particular storey is about my Grandfather John Anderson Kersey, he was born in 1861, and in 1890 he was married, he and his wife had two daughters, sometime between 1893 and 1900 his wife died, John was left with two daughters to raise. Fortunately John lived close to his Dad and and stepmother (another blended family) they helped John raise his daughters, Some time in 1901, John Married his second wife, my grandmother, Martha Rowena Griffin, she just happened to be the first cousin, of John's first wife. They were blessed with three children, my dad and two more sisters, (now that is blending). Just to make this a little shorter, the (blended) Kersey family that you all are connected to one way or another, was very close. It reminds me of how difficult it was to live in these past times, you had to rely on family, with that being said, think about how easy it is for us to touch one another. Encourage your brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, and pray for them when they need it, you will be blessed just for raising them up to the Father.

2 comments:

babykerseylovesyou said...

Have you seen any linkage between our family and the other Paducah Kersey family? Since Joyce passed away recently I've had several people asking me about our lineage. Just wondering if you had discovered anything in the midst of all of your work.

Jonroy said...

That is a difficult one to answer, I'm not sure that there is a link, but to say we aren't related may not be true either. Bob's family (his Dad was from Florida)the Kerseys on our side as far back as middle 1700's are in South Carolina. It would probably be farther back than that to make a connection, unfortunately I haven't placed a Kersey in Europe yet, I have other lines in England such as the Sliders, but no luck on the Kerseys. I do know this there wasn't very many Kerseys that made the trip over before 1750, maybe as few as 20 so the odds are slim but possible we have a connection. Hope I didn't muddy that up too much.