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Mark, Charles, Warren, John, Sebastian, Conrad

A Master Sgt in the US Air Force this family member's wedding announcement in the Star Tribune indicated he was planning to attend Montana State College in Bozeman

From Middle High German, topographic name for someone who lived by land cleared by fire

Married to Polly Ann Wood, this ancestor named Joshua was 2nd Cousin to the well known "Greatest Showman"

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Charles, Charles, Casper, Carl

These 3 brothers from Minnesota all served during World War II

English (chiefly Yorkshire): topographic name for someone who lived in a clearing in woodland

These two brothers married sisters, daughters of the wealthy owner of the Fall Creek Mill in Ithaca, NY whose 1823 will gave them their land in Hector, NY where they cleared forest and traded “ashes” for “grapes” root stock and started a vineyard.

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Barbara, Cyril, Thomas, Julius, Edward

A Corporal in the Ulster Co, NY Militia under Capt William Cross, this ancestor served in the Revolutionary War and can be used to gain access to the DAR

Irish (Munster and Connacht) reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Gráda 'descendant of Gráda', a byname meaning 'noble'

Married to Samuel Butler, she has a very unique and comical "occupational" surname

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Steven, Harry, Gilbert, Herman, Charles, Johann

Serving in the Niagara Frontier under Lt. Col. John McMahon's New York Militia, this ancestor is found on the rosters for the War of 1812

From an Old English byname which was applied to a thickset or plump person.

An Ojibwe (Chippewa) Indian was born in 1790 in Minnesota and lived in LaPointe, WI. Her name Awaynesha Owaneshan loosely translates to this

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Susannah, Julius, Carl, Conrad

Volunteered as a Civil War substitute to Company G, Michigan 23rd Infantry Regiment on 6 Sep 1864. Mustered out on 08 May 1865 at Saint Louis, MO.

French from the Germanic personal name Waldo (from waldan 'to govern'

Her second husband was Alexander Denniston Burrow, the 1st cousin of her fist husband. She married again after Alexander died in the Seattle area to Henry Stoddard and she died in 1905 and is buried in Tacoms Washington.