My Trails into the Past

This is my third year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails into the Past. I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. This past week, while attending a genealogy class on writing up our research, I have been researching what became of Mary Davey, who married at least twice, once to a Crosby, and another to a Smith. Her death date is still unknown as well. Researching Mary has certainly been troublesome.   However, writing up the research has helped with some progress. Below is what was known before the start of the new research: Mary Davey , born 23 May 1839 and the sixth child of Thomas Davey and Mary Nicholas, came to the U.S. with her family in 1851. She was baptized at fourteen at St. Peter’s Church in Reading, Pennsylvania. [1] In 1885, her mother visited Mary Crosby in Indianapolis when she was suffering from cance...