[AnAmericanMother]

You may yet get a clue.

I had an elusive ancestor that I knew had come from somewhere in England and was living in South Carolina when his first wife (not my ancestor) died.

I eventually tracked him down -- he is buried in Myrtle Hill Cemetery in Rome GA - less than 50 yards from our family plot . . . the thought that he had been there all along, just quietly resting, while I was hunting all over SC, Alabama, and London for him, makes me laugh. His will was still in the vault at the Probate Court too -- and as wills go it is highly amusing to read. He was a freethinker which probably scandalized his good Baptist second wife.

I hope he thinks the whole thing's funny too.

[Grampa Dave]

Genealogy is one of my past times. I have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to locate this ancestor, who was my father's dad. My dad refused to talk about him and apparently disliked him. My Dad died in 1976, and I started my genealogy quest after he died. He was the last of the relatives. Many if not most of the lines, I have tracked back to the 1700's and some even further.