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On my paternal side I am researching the ancestors of George James Morgan, Sr. (my father); Boniar Stewart Morgan & Clara Louise Reynolds; James Thomas Morgan & Margaret Viola Knighton; Alexander Knighton & Sarah Irvine/Erwin Butts. On my maternal side I am researching the ancestors of & Ruth Mary Chesney (my mother); Edward Kent Chesney & Alwilda Mize; William Edward Chesney & Ruth Ann Evans; Kent Mitchell Chesney & Hanna Price; Robert Hubbard Duboise & Abia Courtright; Henry Mize & Sarah Ann Duboise. I have a great deal of information on my Chesney, Mize, Duboise, and Evans' lines as well as Morgan and Knighton. Other prominent names in my maternal research are Fordyce, Garard & Schooley.
I was among the first to ever list the Knighton and Chesney lines on Rootsweb (it seemed like no one had ever heard of this unique names). I found Gene Allred through a fellow researcher who answered my Knighton query on the old Everton site and received from him one of his earliest sets of floppies containing all his research on the Knighton line up to that time. It's been exciting to see how much these two names are now being researched online and the wealth of information that has been developed. I "own" the Chesney list on Rootsweb.
I also, as a native Kansan and a United Methodist clergy woman, "own" the Kansas Methodism site on the Kansas Heritage site now with its own domain and housed on my nephew's servers. The Kansas Heritage site is an outstanding resource for anyone searching for all things Kansan.
My Kansas Methodism site has helped me get in touch more closely with my mother's ancestors who were early day "Free Staters", migrating from the "Land of Lincoln" to the area around Leavenworth, KS in the 1860's. From there they spread out around Kansas - Topeka, Johnson County, Ft. Scott, Russell and Rooks County, to name a few places. I was born in Hutchinson, Reno County, KS.
My religious affiliation has helped me enormously to research and document the work of early day Methodists in KS, as well, (of which my mother's ancestors were active participants) and at present I am working to compile and put online information about the early Kansas Methodist missionaries and their wives and the native peoples among whom they labored.
Anyone with any interest in my family research or my Kansas Methodism work is free to contact me.
See the Morgan-Knighton Kith 'n Kin blog for research relating to these families and related lines www.morganvirtualreunion.com/blog
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