My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Here is our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings : 1)   Choose an ancestor who experienced or did something unique or memorable (such as an event, family life, trip, etc.).  2)  Share about your ancestor and his/her unique experience and how it may have affected their life in your own blog post or on your Facebook page.  Be sure to leave a link to your report in a comment on this post.  [thank you to Linda Stufflebean for suggesting this topic!] Here's mine : My great-grandaunt, Helena Mary Gleeson, was a school teacher, principal, and superintendent of schools in Anaconda, Montana. She was born on 31 October 1867 in Ontario, Canada, to John Gleeson and Margaret Tierney. [1] The family moved to Dakota Territory in 1879. By 1892, she lived in Anaconda, Deer Lodge County, Montana. She and her sister, Elizabeth, performed in Gilbert & Sull...

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. My aunts all married, so I have no maiden aunts, though one had no children. However, my grandmother, Anna Sullivan, had three aunts who never married: Elizabeth M. Gleeson, Helena M. Gleeson, and Margaret T. Gleeson. One thing these sisters had in common was they were school teachers. In 1900 in Anaconda, Montana, Helen M., Elizabeth M., and Margaret Gleeson were living together at East 5th Street. Helena was the school superintendent, while her sisters were teachers. [1] City Directories give more detail: Helena M. was principal at Bryan School, located at 4th Street at the southwest corner of Washington, and Margaret was a teacher at Prescott School, located at Park Avenue at the southwest corner of Elm, in 190...