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From: "Melissa Young" <>
Subject: Re: [MDSTMARY] Rhodes/Cissell question
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 14:33:40 -0500
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I am always glad to address this issue. There are two men that are
commonly confused as one man. I believe it was Sr. Donnelly who got
this confused and the error has been republished many times. My hunch
is that the two men are related, but I do not know to what degree.

I know a lot about the one who married Elizabeth Mattingly, because
they are my 4th great grandparents. This man was named Ethelbert
Cissell (no Augustine) and he lived his whole life in St. Mary's
County. He and Elizabeth had one child, a daughter, who married George
Morgan. I can provide proof through census records and public records
that he never moved to Kentucky, he was a Justice of the Peace in SMC,
and was not married to Harriett Rhodes. He is buried at St. Francis
Xavier in St. Mary's County. His parents were John Cissell and
Henrietta Knott.

I am not an expert on Augustine Ethelbert Cissell, nor is he in my
database, but I do recall that he migrated from St. Mary's County to
Kentucky, was married to Harriett Rhodes, and had one son, Augustine
C. Cissell. The stmarysfamilies.com website on the migration from
Maryland page has been partially corrected. but still lists Augustine
C. Cissell's parents as Augustine Cissell and Elizabeth Mattingly,
instead of Augustine Cissell and Harriett Rhodes. The same website
says that Augustine Cissell's parents are John Baptiste Cissell and
Rebecca Unknown.

To Linda Reno: if you read this would you correct the website? Thanks!

Melissa Morgan Young


> As long as Jerry mentioned a Cissell in his message on
> Johnsons/Medleys/Rhodes - I'll ask this one.
>
> Who exactly is the Harriet Rhodes who is married to Augustine
> Cissell?
> His first wife was Elizabeth Mattingly.
>
> Jackie
>


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