Re: I KNOW A....Sumsion from Colerne
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Re: I KNOW A....
Irene Dredge 2/16/01
Irene,
It sounds like we're cousins.Daniel Sumsion is my ggg grandfather.Nellie was, I believe, my g grandfather's sister.Daniel and Eleanor, as you point out, came to Utah in 1849 -- actually, that's when they left England.It took them a while to get here.Daniel and Eleanor arrived in Springville, Utah in 1852.Last fall we had a 150 year reunion.So far as I am aware, all of the Sumsions that come out of Utah trace back to Daniel and Eleanor.In fact, I have yet to hear of a Sumsion in the United States that does not descend from them, though I suppose there could be.
There are several in our family here in Utah that are avid genealogists.I don't know whether any of them has definitively solved the Samuel riddle, but I'm confident they would be happy to share with you whatever they may know.In approximately 1980 we had a book published that traces all of Daniel's descendants through that year.It's a great treasure.