The topic for Week 6 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks writing challenge was 'Same Name.' I thought I might write about my 2nd great-grandfather's name, Daniel until I found Eleanor Ferris who was my 5th great-grandmother.
Eleanor Ferris was my 5th great-grandmother. She was born about 1763 and died 4 May 1842. I'm sure she had a large family with a ton of children like many women back then but I can only account for two of them.
Eleanor's son, Charles, was my 4th great-grandfather who was born in 1800 and died 30 Dec 1851. He is buried in Anning Smith Cemetery, the same cemetery as his parents. Charles had a son named Ferris who I am guessing was named after Eleanor. I've come across many ancestors whose first name was the maiden name of a parent or grandparent. Charles had another son named William who was my 3rd great-grandfather. William named one of his sons Ferris and his youngest daughter was named Elnora. William's son, Daniel was my 2nd great-grandfather. Daniel was one of 13 children but he and his wife had only three children. Their middle child was named Eleanor. Daniel's oldest child, Samuel, was my great-grandfather. He and my great-grandmother had five children. The first born child was my grandmother, Eleanor, born in 1917.
Eleanor Ferris, my 5th great-grandmother, is smiling down from Heaven seeing her name being passed down through the generations for almost half a century, from her birth in approximately 1763 to my grandmother, Eleanor's birth in 1917.
Rest In Peace Eleanor
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