On This Day - Dec 24th

On This Day...

1143 - Death: Miles Fitzwater,

1627 - Birth: Mary Stone, Hertford, Hertfordshire, England

1685 - Birth: Mary Morgan, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts

1710 - Birth: Edward Lucas, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

1714 - Death: Susannah Butler,

1778 - Alternate Death: Richard Hopwood, Valley Forge, Delaware

1836 - Birth: Charles Eugene Day, Sheffield, Lorain County, Ohio

1849 - Birth: William Payton, Crawford County, Indiana

1896 - Death: Signe Halvorsdatter Omdahl,

1903 - Birth: Harrison Fisher Durand, Yankton, South Dakota

1903 - Residence: George Harrison Durand, Yankton, South Dakota

1903 - Residence: Lillian Mabel Fisher, Yankton, South Dakota

1918 - Death: Herbert Peter Theisen,

1920 - Burial: Mary Steichen, Calvary Cemetery, Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota

1920 - Burial: Mary Steichen, Calvary Cemetery, St. Cloud, Minnesota

1937 - Death: Julia Leonandy, Stearns County, Minnesota

1980 - Death: Dennis Eugene Sikes, Winn Parish, Louisiana

A quick note...  Look at the first entry on this list.  Miles Fitzwater died in 1143.  I guess it's entirely possible, but I have zero documentation.  How this got here is that there is a faction out there that believe my Day lineage goes back through Dee and back further to Welsh aristocracy. I once followed this lineage and had entered all of it I could find into the tree.  I later decided I had much too little evidence to support it, and eliminated everyone beyond the point where I had even some shred of credible evidence, including the whole Dee and Welsh lineage.  Apparently I missed one Miles Fitzwater when I purged, as this is the only line that purported to go that far back in time.   I was tempted to remove him before posting this list, but decided to include him just for this little object lesson in avoiding wishful thinking and relying on the evidence.


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