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Your Ann Matilda Summerbell, b. abt 1839, wife of Charles DeForest Burns, was actually the daughter of Joseph Ferris Summerbell and his wife Mary (maiden name unknown). Joseph was the son of James and Mary (Ferris) Summerbell, her
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Good, I'm glad it was helpful. I would not completely discount the possibility that your AMS's mother was also named Mary Ferris. It wasn't unusual for people to marry cousins and I suspect the Ferris family was a big enough tribe in the ear
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Your posting was certainly a windfall for me, and I can't thank you enough. I see now that I mis-read AMS' father's name (as it is shown on AMS' 1911 death certificate) as James instead of Joseph. It was actually written a
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'The Ancestors of Benjamin Ferris Blakeney..' by Josephine Frost (1926) reports that Anna Matilda Summerbell was the daughter of Mary Ferris (b. 1790) and Dr James Summerbell (married 1810), and that she was the sister of Joseph, Benjamin F, Mart
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Thanks for the tip.
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Your posting was certainly a windfall for me, and I can't thank you enough. I see now that I mis-read AMS' father's name (as it is shown on AMS' 1911 death certificate) as James instead of Joseph. It was actually written a