The Prescott daily news., 1909-12-18
HUNTING FC2 ANCESTORS
Companion Building

Eve been looking up my arces -"r5' s id Loretta with sigh of sat isfaction. And I've made an outline Of all the grandparents. see?"
 She unfolded a large sheet of wrap. pirg paper on the library table as she spoke.
 of course," she said, its only a mere skeleton"
 ''Indeed!' said her brother, with interest. It's what is known as 6 .amiiy skeleton, 1 suppose?"
 Il was little troubled at this place" went on Loretta, pointing, be 'ause Tryphena, here. Ei@rried smith, as you see. The young man at ~Ee library was very nice and brought ne great pile of Smith genealogies, ut l got so dizzy reading them tLat !,.et could not find my ancestor. ,tayed so late that l had to stand up Ill the way home on the car. It's per ,ectly appalling to see how many per sons of one name came over to Amer ,ca in those early days"
 They must have had to engage .tatcrooms six months ahead" sa.. CT brother. But look here Why mt this line of ancestors carricd out?"
 They lived in Newark" said Loret- ta, proudly, and the British army burned all the records there."
 Wasn't that lucisy!' cried her brother. They probably felt they were doing good oeed in saving the descendants trouble Now We can sit back and say we are descended from Hired the Great, though, of course, Ne cant prove it because those tiend- ish redcOats burned all the records. If ,hey had only been more thorough lhey would have spared you a lot of work"
 Another place bothered me-" said Loretta, ignoring her brothers at tempts at humomr. was here, where Odatus."
 She probably died"
 "Deodatus was a man, of course. 1 have sense enough to know that he died, since he was born in 1887. What want to know is whether he was born in Newark or in England"
 Il shouldn't think that would mat ter. Isn't it sufficient to know be was born somewhere?"
 Don't be foolish," said Loretta, SC verely. "I should think you'd take some interest in your family. It's only decent"
 Well, of course. if you look at it that way" said her brother, "I cer- tainly am interested It's only that can't see they did anything very re- markable They were just born and got married and died, one after the other Anybody could do as well as that, it seems to me. Doubtless good many did better"
 But the others didn't belong to uS!"
 No, thank goodness! We have our hands fpll as it is.''
 Il don't care that they did" said Loretta, with enthusiasm. I'm inter- ested in their very names. See how odd they were-Israhiah, Mehetable, Caleb, Ebenezer. Deborah, Thad- deus"
 Yes" interrupted her brother, "and here's Moses and Aaron, too And, well, l declare! Here's Adam! I didn't know you'd been able to go back as far as that! Where's Ever"
 The very dates are interesting to me" declared Loretta, unheeding. See how beautifully they all fit in,"
 This one particularly" said her brother. You see, this fellow, Joab, was married in 1645 and was horn in 1690. Wonderful, isn't it?'
 ''I must have mixed those," said Loretta, hastily. I'll change it. This Jonathan is the one who fought in the revolution. Isn't that splendid?"
 Great" said her brother, after a moments careful examination of the chart. He was prodigy as well as a patriot see he was a colonel at the early age of ten.'
 What" cried Loretta. "Tll have to ask the young man at the library about that It was his fault, 1 think. He must have brought me the wrong book"
 Probably he thought you wouldn't notice little thing like that" said her brother. Tt might be, however, that the dates slipped his mind, though librarian has so little to do that he has no business being so care less about such important matters"
 Here's one of our ancestors who