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Thanks to my four sons,Jerry ,Johnny, Denny, and Damon and their school projects in family trees,and Myrtle Ellender Thurber's ( my mother) research -and to Eliza Bebo whose sad tale of never knowing her family name urged me to begin to put together a family record of maternal and paternal lines as well as I could.Eliza Bebo was born on April 15,1858 to Irish parents who immigrated to Ontario,Canada during the terrible years following the potato famine.She was born in Toronto- and her parents joined a wagon train in the spring of 1859 -to the newly opened to homesteaders state of Minnesota.The train started from Quebec and was to end in Waverly,Mn. Enroute,dysentry struck the travelers,and Eliza's father was the first to die. Her mother was ill and made arrangements for a young French-Canadian couple to raise her as thei own in exchange for their belongings. She was never told her parents name or her own. Eliza married an older man named Michael Prody .They had nine children and she was a happy woman. This was my incentive. While I have not found that link, we now have knowledge of many ancestors thanks to Gen Forum,Ancestry.com,and Florence Thurber Gargaro,Steven Mielke,and Rob Raiter,and Richard Leon Herrick.The information available to ones on line is tremendous.
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