My Trails into the Past

I am 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’m looking forward to writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. I wrote previously about my grandfather, Tom Johnston's beard in this blog post . For this week, I'll present my great-great-grandfather, John Gleeson's beard. John Gleeson was born about 1835 probably in Ottawa, Canada. He married Margaret Tierney around 1858 in Carleton County, Ontario. They had ten children. In 1879, they moved to Dakota Territory to what is now Mitchell, South Dakota. Sometime after 1900, they moved to Portland, Oregon where he died in 1915. John with 2 children c. 1860s John, taken in Mitchell, South Dakota John wore his beard all through his life. Copyright © 2018 by Lisa Suzanne Gorrell, My Trails into the Past. All Rights Reserved.